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Bye provides Red Raiders with opportunity to recover, refocus.

Column: Christine Ford is American patriot, shouldn’t be let down.

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City Council relinquishes Coliseum back to Tech

Goin’ Band hosts halftime wedding

By AKHILA REDDY L a Vida Editor

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TOP: Texas Tech alumni Kelsey Hohnstein and Andrew Reinhart share their first dance together after their wedding ceremony to “At Last!” by Etta James in the middle of the field at Jones AT&T Stadium Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018. BOTTOM: The couple holds hands while exchanging vows during the ceremony. The Goin’ Band from Raiderland alumni got married during the band’s halftime show at the Tech football game against West Virgina Saturday. As part of the show, Raider Red walked Hohnstein down the aisle.

In an action-packed game day between Texas Tech and West Virginia, there are few events that can distract from the game. However, on Saturday, a halftime show wedding, complete with Raider Red escorting the bride, stole the spotlight.

The idea of performing a wedding as a Goin’ Band halftime show had always been a possibility, Eric Allen, the director of the Goin’ Band and associate professor of music, said.

“I always well thought, ‘If I’m ever working with a terrific college marching band I’d love to do a wedding on the field at halftime.’ So, this was just a great opportunity to do that,” Allen said.

The couple tying the knot, alumni Andrew Reinhart and Kelsey

Hohnstein, were both members of Goin’ band, Will Pyle, drum major and senior music education and music performance major from San Antonio, said.

Pyle has known Reinhart since he was a freshman and Reinhart was a senior, he said, since they both play the saxophone. Reinhart and Hohnstein were together at the time.

“Especially since they had such a close relationship with the Goin’ Band and Texas Tech, I think they felt it would be special to share it with the whole crowd,” Pyle said.

While the couple was obviously integral to the show, Allen said the main focus of the show for the band was on the concept of a wedding itself.

After a Lubbock City Council vote approval, the Lubbock Municipal Coliseum and the land it sits on officially goes back to Texas Tech on Monday.

The vote was approved during a City Council meeting on Thursday, Sept. 27. This follows the decision made by Lubbock voters in May to abandon the coliseum.

Tech President Lawrence Schovanec said after the May vote that Tech will honor the upcoming event obligations the coliseum has planned through 2019 such as the ABC Pro Rodeo.

After the planned commitments and events end in 2019, Tech plans to demolish the building. There are currently no definite plans on what will take the place of the building, but a new residence hall, a new parking lot and a dining hall for student athletes are all options mentioned by Schovanec.

The university feels the area lends itself to a wide range of athletic oriented projects to take the building’s spot. @MattSetzekornDT

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Tech competes in Nuttycombe Invitational

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Red Raiders achieve second 3-0 start in Big 12 play in program history

By NOAH MICIOTTO Sports Editor

The Texas Tech volleyball team has set remarkable milestones throughout the 17 games played thus far. Despite being a rather young squad composed of 14 underclassmen and only three juniors and three seniors, this season the Red Raiders are only five wins away from matching last season’s total of 19.

Tech started its season strong with an 11-2 record in exhibition matches, but the Red Raiders seemed to have flipped a switch as they entered the heart of their schedule. Prior to beginning conference play, Tech coach Tony Graystone made it known that his team was playing with a purpose.

“I know the urgency is going to kick in, and we get to put our attention on some teams we’re more familiar with that have a little bit more of a personal feeling for us, teams that we’re wanting to get after,” Graystone said, according to Tech Athletics.

to Tech Athletics. Hill has carried over her sophomore season success and already racked up 200 kills as a junior, with 10 of the year’s total coming during Tech’s Big 12 Conference opener.

The Texas Tech men’s and women’s cross-country teams competed in the Nuttycombe Invitational hosted by the University of Wisconsin Friday, Sept. 28 in Madison, Wisconsin.

The women’s team ran the course first and placed 33rd overall, according to Tech Athletics.

Once again, the first Red Raider to cross the finish line was sophomore Lauren Offerman, who finished with a personal record at 21.55.6.

Two more of Tech’s women earned personal records in this meet. Freshman Sesilia Dala clocked a new best time of 22.13.6, and junior Bret Leigh Nance followed closely behind at 22.40.8, for her new personal record, according to Tech Athletics.

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The Texas Tech volleyball team celebrates after scoring a point against Iowa State Friday, Sept. 28, 2018, in the United Supermarkets Arena. The Red Raiders defeated the Cyclones, 3-1, to stay undefeated in conference play.

Tech wasted no time before proving Graystone’s statement to be true. On Sept. 19, the Red Raiders carried their five-game winning streak to Waco and topped then No. 19 Baylor, 3-1.

There are a few Red Raiders that pose potential threats to op-

posing teams, but one of the most dangerous is junior outside hitter Emily Hill. The native of Denton transferred from Mississippi State after her freshman year, according to Tech Athletics.

Last season, Hill ended with a team high 416 kills, according

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Arianna Lopez, left, and Binta Ka run together as a group at the Texas Tech Open Friday, Sept.

14 2018, at the former Chaparral Ridge Golf Course. The women’s team placed 33rd and the men came in at 32nd.

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Experts provide insight on energy alternatives

By ADÁN RUBIO Staff Writer

Using renewable resources to produce energy has impacted places around the world.

For Lubbock and surrounding areas, the use of alternative energy is continuing to grow and impact local communities.

Whether it be sunlight or wind, the use of renewable resources in Texas is continuing to spread.

Depending on the location, the impact of alternative energy may differ regarding the capacity and how the energy is used.

Matt Saldaña, instructor of wind energy at the Texas Tech National Wind Institute, said small-scale and largescale uses of alternative energy can been seen in Texas.

“We’re seeing large-scale windfarms still being a big piece of the puzzle,” Saldaña said regarding how companies utilize renewable energy within big cities. “In Austin, there are neighborhoods that are almost solely powered just by solar panels on the homes.”

Regardless of the smallscale of solar energy comp a r e d t o w i n d e n e r g y, Saldaña said both forms

are utilized in West Texas. Placing solar panels around local wind farms is one way he said different types of alternative energy are being used together.

“The industry is kind of diversifying,” he said regarding the use of alternative energy in West Texas.

“We’re seeing a greater push towards renewables. As we have more players in this energy game, we’ll see those prices go down.”

The cost of renewable energy and technology, such as solar panels and wind turbines, is one aspect that is always considered when determining the best source of power.

With the choice of natural gas versus renewable resources, cost has some impact on which form of energy is more appropriate for the area.

“Everything that we try to do in terms of comparing costs, we try to do it on what’s called Levelized Cost of Energy,” Saldaña said.

“We do that, so we can make comparisons on natural gas, wind power, solar power.”

Whether it be construction costs or capital costs, Saldaña said the LCOE considers

every expense involved in energy generation. Based off the LCOE, he said wind energy is ranked behind natural gas as one of the cheapest energy sources, while solar is still expensive due to the costs of solar panel construction.

Costs will always have an impact on the use of alternative energy in West Texas. For some companies or places, renewable energy sources may not be appropriate at the moment.

Regardless of the feasibility of alternative energy, research is still being conducted to understand how renewable resources can be used to their full potential.

Group NIRE, a renewable energy development company in Lubbock, works with researchers to help them develop and test their technology aimed at improving alternative energy generation.

Destiny Rosales, director of project development for Group NIRE, said the company works with national labs, universities and private companies to “deploy their prototype technology.”

“You plug and play,” Rosales said. “You plug your facility, you plug your device

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Students, families and Texas Tech Football fans swarmed Jones AT&T Stadium during Family Weekend for the football game against West Virginia on Saturday, Sept. 29. Family Weekend included events for students and their families to experience being a Red Raider together.

into an actual live grid, we put you behind the meter, so you’re able to use your device as you would in a real-world environment.”

The Global Laboratory for Energy Asset Management and Manufacturing is a local project that supports Tech research at the Group NIRE field site at the Reese Technology Center.

GLEAMM is a company Rosales said provides the necessary support for Tech researchers to conduct tests for alternative energy projects.

“All of our equipment here is tied into the local South Plains Electric distribution system,” she said. “The goal with GLEAMM is basically to tie in various assets behind the meters, so we can see how they interact in a microgrid setting.”

The testing conducted at Group NIRE, whether it be Tech’s or other companies’ research, allows for advancements within the field of renewable energy research.

Charging and storing batteries with solar energy is an example of Tech research Rosales said utilizes the facilities at Group NIRE. Getting this type of research to the distribu-

tion level is one way she said could present how batteries can be used to store renewable energy.

“We just want to provide that space for manufactures to come test your battery,” Rosales said. “Come test your solar equipment or come test your wind turbine.”

This type of research is aimed at improving the generation of alternative energy for local areas.

With the progress made through renewable energy research in Lubbock, technology advancements are continuing to occur within the field of alternative energy.

Chris Pattison, instructor and graduate advisor at the National Wind Institute, said a lot of improvements are being made to the structure and efficiency of energy technology.

“The actual panels are getting better,” Pattison said regarding the low costs and improved functions of solar technology. “The same for wind.”

Faster installation, lower costs and overall efficiency are just some of the improvements Pattison said are made to solar and

wind technology.

In addition to technological advancements, Pattison said renewable resources have some advantages over other resources.

“Our traditional sources are natural gas and coal.

They require vast amounts of water on top of fuel,” he said.

“Any renewable system, wind or solar, does not require fuel, nor does it require water.”

The use of renewable resources to provide energy can be significant for Lubbock and other places in the world.

The benefits of nonrenewable and renewable resources are aspects of alternative energy that are considered when figuring out what power source is best for a community.

The progress of alternative energy is something Rosales said she hopes will continue to benefit communities.

“I really hope that we can further figure out how to get this energy and make it useful at the distribution level,” she said. “I think that’s where it’s going. Being able to produce your power basically in your backyard, across the street or locally, there’s a lot less losses.” @AdanRubioDT

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Over 800 dead in Indonesia quake and tsunami PALU, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers struggled Sunday to reach victims in several large coastal towns in Indonesia that were hit by an earthquake and tsunami, and authorities feared that the toll of more than 800 confirmed dead would rise.

With the area largely cut off by damaged roads and downed communications lines, military and commercial aircraft were delivering some aid and supplies to the hard-hit city of Palu on the island of Sulawesi, and others in the region.

But there was a desperate need for heavy equipment to reach possible survivors buried in collapsed buildings, including an eight-story hotel in Palu where voices were heard in the rubble. A 25-year-old woman was found alive during the evening in the ruins of the Roa-Roa Hotel, according to the National Search and Rescue Agency, which released photos of the her lying on a stretcher covered in a blanket.

At least 832 people were confirmed killed by the quake and tsunami that struck Friday evening, Indonesia’s disaster agency said, with

nearly all of those from Palu.

The regencies of Donggala, Sigi and Parigi Moutong — with a combined population of 1.2 million — had yet to be fully assessed.

“The death toll is believed to be still increasing, since many bodies were still under the wreckage, while many have not been reached,” said disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho.

Bodies covered in blue and yellow tarps lined the streets of Palu, and officials said they were digging a mass grave for at least 300 of the dead.

It was not immediately known when the burial would take place, but “this must be done as soon as possible for health and religious reasons,” said Willem Rampangilei, head of the National Disaster Mitigation Agency. Most of Palu’s residents are Muslim.

The cries from beneath the Roa-Roa Hotel, which appeared to have toppled over with its walls splintered like pickup sticks, went silent by Sunday afternoon. Officials had estimated about 50 people could be inside.

“We are trying our best.

Time is so important here to save people,” said Muhammad Syaugi, head of the national search and rescue team. “Heavy equipment is on the way.”

Metro TV showed about a dozen rescuers in orange jumpsuits climbing over debris with a stretcher carrying the body of a victim from the modest business hotel.

Other rescuers worked to free a 15-year-old girl trapped under concrete in her house in Palu after it collapsed on her family during the magnitude 7.5 earthquake that spawned a tsunami.

Unable to move her legs under the rubble, Nurul Istikharah was trapped beside her dead mother and niece.

Rescuers also tried to control water from a leaking pipe, fearing she would drown.

Istikharah was unconscious during part of the effort to free her, but rescuers kept talking to her to try to keep her awake. Others offered her food and water.

Indonesian President J o k o “ J o k o w i ” Wi d o d o toured Palu on Sunday and said rescuers were having difficulty reaching victims because of a shortage of heavy equipment.

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White House not ‘micromanaging’ Kavanaugh probe WASHINGTON (AP) — Senior Trump administration officials insisted Sunday that the White House is not “micromanaging” a new FBI background check of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and that senators are dictating the parameters of the investigation.

President Donald Trump initially opposed such an investigation in the face of sexual misconduct claims against Kavanaugh, but the president and Senate Republican leaders agreed to an inquiry after GOP Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona made clear he would not vote to confirm Kavanaugh without one.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said White House counsel Don McGahn, who is shepherding Kavanaugh’s nomination, “has allowed the Senate to dictate what these terms look like, and what the scope of the investigation is.”

Counselor Kellyanne Conway said the investigation will be “limited in scope” and “will not be a fishing expedition.

The FBI is not tasked to do that.”

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Drunk driving carries life-changing consequences

By HAILEY WALTER Staff Writer

October marks eight years since the 2010 drunk driving accident on Marsha Sharp Freeway that left one person dead and two injured.

Jeena Roberts, a 21-yearold petroleum engineering major at Texas Tech at the time, was driving while intoxicated. Driving between 80-90 mph, she rear-ended another vehicle, killing one passenger and injuring two others.

She now sits behind bars with two prison sentences; one for 15 years and the other for eight.

Despite the outcomes of drunk driving, people still choose to drink and drive, Sergeant Timothy Seeley with the Lubbock Police Department said.

“Driving while intoxicated is a problem nationwide,”

Seeley said. “This crime is often times more prevalent in cities or towns that are home to major universities.”

The sergeant of LPD’s traffic unit said in Lubbock there were 249 alcohol-related collisions in 2016 and 348 in 2017. Over the past year, there have been 438 driving while intoxicated arrests, 41 being a DWI by a minor, he said.

Seeley said driving while intoxicated is not only the consumption of alcohol. Illegal narcotics, prescription medications or any substance that impairs a person’s normal physical and mental functions is illegal while behind the wheel, he said.

According to the Texas Department of Transportation, 22 percent of drunk drivers are ages 21-25.

“Once you get a DWI, chances of you getting a job

goes down,” Seeley said. “No insurance company wants to carry someone who’s drinking and driving.”

Seeley said drinking and driving can have life altering consequences, even beyond legal and financial ones.

As a law enforcement organization, he said there is no way to keep a person from making the decision to drink and drive.

However, they work with schools and organizations such as Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Lubbock Victims Assistance and other groups to educate citizens on the dangers of driving while intoxicated.

Seeley said paying for an Uber or taxi is a small price to pay compared to the thousands of dollars one might have to pay for an attorney if one chooses to drink and drive.

“People have to make a plan whether it be taxi, Uber or a sober friend,” Seeley said.

That is the advice Tech’s Risk Intervention and Safety Education program gives as well, Elena SánchezFreeman said.

Sánchez-Freeman works for RISE and is a safety and wellness specialist.

“Make a plan before you go,” she said. “Have a designated driver and make sure your phone is charged so you can do these things.”

Freeman said drinking and driving is a risk that not only effects the driver, but others around them.

“Drinking and driving is not a decision for one person,” she said. “It has the potential to affect everyone else on the road negatively.”

Sánchez-Freeman said being responsible for the injury or death of another

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person can be a life-changing consequence.

The RISE offices makes efforts to educate students about the risks of drinking and driving. RISE partnered with the TxDOT to host Plan While You Can, an event aimed to educate students on the importance of planning before drinking.

Tech offers rides home for its students with the program Safe Ride. The program has recently improved, Micheal Gunn director of the Student Government Association, said.

“We contracted with the transportation department and have a series of small buses and vans,” Gunn said.

“If you’re on campus and need home or even need a ride to campus, between 6:30 p.m. and 2:45 a.m. call the 742-RIDE number and it’ll take you. All free.”

According to the Student Government Association website, the only requirement is students must have their Tech IDs. Gunn said if the ride is off campus and does not involve the university, there is a flat fee of $5.

“Eventually you’ll be able to use Safe Ride without calling the phone number, it’ll be an app on your phone,” Gunn said.

He said students often do not use Safe Ride due to the misconception that individuals could get in trouble since it is a school program.

“Drivers only want to identify you to make sure you’re a student, no other information is taken,” Gunn said.

To learn more about the dangers of drunk driving and how to be safe, visit https://www.txdot.gov/. @DailyToreador

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Commuter West construction causes frustration Las Vegas looks ahead a

By NATASSIA HENRY year after mass shooting Staff Writer

Students who have purchased parking passes for Commuter West are finding parking difficult this semester.

That is because a big portion of Commuter West is blocked off due to extended construction.

The construction on the KTTZ-TV radio tower has been in progress since summer, and Stacy Stockard, media relations coordinator for Transportation and Parking Services, said the construction was originally expected to be done before the start of the school year.

“The original deadline was to be finished and out of commuter west by the time classes started,” Stockard said. “Once they were working on the tower, they found some additional issues that required more time.”

Stockard said the construction on the tower is mandated by the Federal Communications Commission. The reason behind the construction is due to it needing a new transmitter and antenna, Paul Hunton, general manager of Texas Tech Pubic Media, said.

The last 500 students who purchased a Commuter West parking pass were given temporary Commuter

Satellite parking passes.

Commuter Satellite is located off Texas Tech Parkway and 10th Street.

According to the TTU TPS website, a Commuter West parking pass costs $139, whereas a Commuter Satellite parking pass costs $42. Commuter West permit holders who have been displaced are paying $21, half the satellite rate, for the fall semester.

“They are paying the satellite rate for the fall since that’s where they are for a good portion of the semester and for there being an inconvenience,” Stockard said. “Everything will return to normal for the spring.”

Construction is expected to be completed in mid-October, Stockard said, but nothing is set in stone yet. Once there is a set date, students will be emailed.

Students who have a valid Tech permit can park in any commuter lot after 2:30 p.m., and after 5:30 p.m., students can park anywhere including teacher lots. Stockard said students should be cognizant of the reserved parking spots for professors.

“At 5:30, when the employee lots open, with any valid permit, you can park in those lots too,” she said. “We

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Construction is ongoing on the KTTZ-TV tower in the Texas Tech Commuter West parking lot. Part of the parking lot has been fenced off to public parking due to the construction. tell our permit holders just keep an eye out for some 24hour spaces tucked in there.”

Bree Jackson, a journalism major from Dallas, said she does not park in Commuter West because the spaces were sold out, so she

had to purchase a permit for Commuter Satellite.

“If I thought I was going to get a Commuter West parking pass but I didn’t, I would be pretty upset,” Jackson said. @DailyToreador

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Trump on Kim: Tough talk ... ‘and then we fell in love’ WHEELING, W. Va. (AP) — President Donald Trump told a cheering crowd at a campaign rally that there was once tough talk “back and forth” between him and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “and then we fell in love.”

Trump said at the Saturday night rally in West Virginia: “He wrote me beautiful letters and they’re great letters. We fell in love.”

He joked about criticism he would get from the news media for making a comment some would consider “unpresidential” and for being so positive about the North Korean leader.

“Why has President Trump given up so much?” Trump said in his mock “news anchor” voice.

“I didn’t give up anything.”

He noted that Kim is interested in a second meeting after their initial meeting in Sin-

gapore in June was hailed by Trump as a big step toward denuclearization of North Korea.

But denuclearization negotiations have stalled.

More than three months after the June summit in Singapore, North Korea’s top diplomat Ri Yong Ho told world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly Saturday that the North doesn’t see a “corresponding response” from the

U.S. to North Korea’s early disarmament moves. Instead, he noted, the U.S. is continuing sanctions aimed at keeping up pressure.

Trump took a much more optimistic view in his rally speech.

“We’re doing great with North Korea,” he said. “We were going to war with North Korea. Millions of people would have been killed. Now we have this great relationship.”

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A small bouquet of dried flowers was wedged inside the padlock on Gate 5 of the killing ground that was the Route 91 Harvest Festival one recent day, the only visible reminder that it was the site of the worst mass shooting in modern American history.

A peek inside the chainlink fence, covered in green sheeting to keep out prying eyes, revealed a sprawling patch of asphalt and little else. Towering above were the gold windows of the Mandalay Bay, where a gambler spent the last minutes of his life in room 32-135 taking the lives of 58 others in a meticulously planned slaughter.

Around Las Vegas, there are scattered remembrances of the horrors of that night a year ago.

Almost every week, there’s another court-ordered release of police bodycamera videos that provide flashbacks to the night the gunman turned the fun of the glittering Las Vegas Strip into a nightmare of death and despair. And lawsuits by MGM Resorts International to force survivors to give up their right to sue the casino company that owns Mandalay Bay

opened fresh wounds over the summer.

But the “Vegas Strong” T-shirts and car stickers have largely been put away.

The original handmade white crosses for each victim have long since been taken away from the “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign to eventually reside in a museum in neighboring Henderson, though some new ones were brought in for the anniversary.

There has been no closure, at least officially. Authorities say they will likely never be able to determine what it was that turned a high-limit video poker player into a mass murderer.

But in a city that has always looked ahead relentlessly, there’s not a lot of time devoted to reflection.

Even while pausing to remember the victims on the anniversary of the shooting, Las Vegas moves forward.

“A lot of the feeling among people is more, ‘Let’s move on,’” said Pauline Ng Lee, a community activist and chairwoman of the Nevada Republican Men’s Club. “We don’t have a lot of long traditions here. You can see it with buildings. Casinos come up, casinos get knocked down. People tend to look forward, not back.”

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Eyewitness testimonies present problems R ecently supreme court justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh and a woman named Christine Blasey Ford, who is accusing Kavanaugh of attempting to rape her 36 years ago, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Ford did not bring any new evidence into the fold regarding her accusation, and simply retold her story under oath. Kavanaugh submitted a calendar about the year in question to show he hadn’t attended a party like the one Ford described and mainly focused on repeating the line that all the people that were

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Drew Welty is a senior psychology major from Dallas.

supposedly there, according to Ford, have all denied memory of such an event.

Both individuals gave what I thought were heart felt testimonies. Ford did not appear to be lying and seemed credible. Kavanaugh was fighting back tears throughout the entire process as well as becoming very angry at times, because under his view, he is being smeared based on a false accusation. Despite this, Kavanaugh made it clear multiple times that he felt no ill will toward Ford.

So, where does this leave us? It leaves us with an unspecific, unsupported and denied allegation. It leaves us in a he said she said scenario where a man’s reputation and livelihood are on the line.

Fundamentally, it leaves us in a situation where we have to rely completely on eyewitness testimony from almost four

decades ago, and that is something I am not willing to do.

When I first began my degree in psychology, one of the first things I began to learn about was the unreliability of eyewitness testimony. It’s something that is quickly taught to psychology students when learning about memory for a couple of reasons. The first of which is that there have been a lot of people put behind bars based on faulty eyewitness testimony.

According to the Innocence Project, an organization that attempts to exonerate wrongfully convicted individuals by use of DNA evidence, 70 percent of the people that have been exonerated through the use of DNA evidence were convicted based on eyewitness misidentification.

This fact is not surprising at all to me given what I learned in my studies about the topic.

In my psychology classes we would watch eyewitness tests where people would witness a simulated crime, and then just a few minutes later would swear on their lives that the person caught by the police was

the perpetrator when it was a completely different person.

Given what I know about eyewitness testimony, I was shocked to hear the following exchange between Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Ford, who has a Ph.D. in educational psychology.

“How are you so sure that is was [Brett Kavanaugh]?”

Ford replied, “The same way that I’m sure that I’m talking to you right now, just basic memory functions. And also, just the level of epinephrine and norepinephrine in the brain that sort of, you know, encodes. That neurotransmitter encodes memories into the hippocampus, so the trauma related experience is kind of locked there, where as other details kind of drift.” She later said this could, “absolutely not,” be a case of mistaken identity.

First, I am going to be blunt about this, and keep in mind I am attempting to give this woman the benefit of the doubt. Ford is either uneducated on memory, or she is lying and using her psychology background to manipulate

the way people view her testimony. I am not sure if there is any in between in this case.

This is because memory is incredibly unreliable, and it’s even more unreliable during traumatic events. For her to claim its impossible that she can be mistaken means she is uneducated, arrogant, lying or some combination of those things.

And just so you aren’t taking my word for it, here is a quote from Dr. James Hopper who studies the neurobiology of sexual assault and the reasons memory is so poor during them.

“But in states of high stress, fear or terror like combat and sexual assault, the prefrontal cortex is impaired – sometimes even effectively shut down – by a surge of stress chemicals.

Most of us have probably had the experience of being suddenly confronted by an emergency, one that demands some kind of clear thinking, and finding that precisely when we need our brain to work at its best, it seems to become bogged down and unresponsive. When the executive center of our brain goes offline, we are less

able to willfully control what we pay attention to, less able to make sense of what we are experiencing, and therefore less able to recall our experience in an orderly way.”

If you want to read the full article written about this it is called, “Why Rape and Trauma Survivors Have Fragmented and Incomplete Memories.”

Overall, my point here is not to say that Ford wasn’t assaulted. I think that she probably was. I just felt the need to dispel the idea in people’s minds that because she dropped the names of a few neurotransmitters and mentioned the hippocampus that she couldn’t possibly be remembering incorrectly.

If this statement hadn’t been made I would be much more convinced of Ford’s reliability as a witness, but given that she made a claim that isn’t supported by what we know about memory, I have a really difficult time shaking the idea that there is manipulation going on. Of course, this is all speculation, but I can’t shake it. @DailyToreador

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Christine Ford is American patriot, shouldn’t be let down

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hristine Blasey Ford could have lived her life like the many American women in our society who have been sexually assaulted continue to do.

Bearing the weight of what was done to her alone, without justice to the person who committed the assault, with searing details of a memory that forever altered her life.

Like many women, Ford described this weight as being too afraid and ashamed to tell anyone the details of her assault. She feared the trouble she would get in confessing to her parents that at 15, she went to a house without parents present and was drinking with boys. She feared not being believed, she feared being blamed for putting herself at that house with those boys. She coped with the situation like many women in our society have been forced to do, by minimizing it as best she could, telling herself she was lucky she had not been raped, that she was lucky just to have survived.

She bore the weight of sexual assault trauma the structure of our society has forced women to do for too long. A weight too many women bear and continue to bear even in the light of the #MeToo movement. It’s the weight of boys will be boys. The weight of the way she was dressed, how much she had to drink. The

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weight of putting herself in a bad situation. The weight of it would ruin his life. The weight of not being believed and the weight of being blamed. The weight of a woman choosing just to survive as best she can without fearing she will lose more of her life, her community and herself just by seeking justice for her assault.

What Ford had to bear is what I’ve come to learn as the weight of men, our culture, the way we are raised to view women, the way we are raised to view ourselves. The weight of the flaws of men. The collective lack of self-awareness of what it is to be raised as a man in our society the men in our country find themselves in, a self-awareness I myself have only begun to understand. A culture of men that speak about women as objects their status and power should reward them with, conquests to be proudly shown as success to other men. The Renate Alumni of America.

How can we deny a culture of American men 36 years ago that still rings true today?

The groups, the fraternities of men that shape our beliefs and serve as stepping stones

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to the men who will lead our country. Beliefs like honor, integrity and truth written directly in our codes of men we show publicly with pride.

The private beliefs, the traditions and values that even if our best morals reject, we end up being complicit or a part of.

These are the college fraternity parties women warn each other of beforehand for their too strong alcoholic punch, where women without this knowledge lay vulnerable to assault. It is the groups of men sharing nude photos and videos of sexual acts of women they’ve been with in a private Facebook group. It is two men at a small party 36 years ago, laughing in a room while they attempt to sexually assault a woman. The men who do these things with the knowledge that they would protect each other, protect themselves and their culture of men. Knowing that she would not be believed 36 years ago as many in our country don’t believe her today. Knowing society would justify their past as part of growing up as a man, would justify what they did as part of the culture or would hopefully just disbelieve anything they did 36 years ago because of who they are today.

It is a society of American men protecting a flawed male culture we’ve just started to deeply question with the #MeToo movement. That the flaws of men in this culture

we’ve turned a blind eye to should stop becoming the weight, the trauma of fear of not being believed or being blamed for a sexual assault we’ve forced women in our society to bear. It is the weight our mothers had to bear, our wives, and the weight our daughters will continue to bear if we continue ignoring the things we’ve done in the past and continue to raise men in a culture that so thoroughly wrongs women.

It is a weight the #MeToo movement and women around the country are rejecting, and one that is forcing us to look at male culture more critically.

It is a weight challenged by the bravery and courage of Ford who has everything to lose from standing up against it; her privacy, her life, her career; and she does so not for herself but for her love of this country, her belief that it was her civic duty to make sure our country looked critical at the candidate we would put on our highest and most important court. It is a bravery that has within the few days already inspired women around the country to speak out against their own experiences, to reject the weight they’ve had to carry for so long. History will look back on her as the American patriot we needed most in our country at this time.

All this American patriot asks is that we look past the toxic partisanship clouding

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her very real accusation. That we look to honor, integrity and justice as what’s best for our country rather than party loyalty. That we take her accusations seriously, that we look to the two other women’s accusations, the witnesses with conflicting claims to Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s accounts, that we seek the truth in evidence and do our best to make sure we do not elect someone who rejects the honor, integrity and justice our country needs in the Supreme Court. That we fairly look at the evidence of a man’s credibility of character against her own, against the other women, the other classmates, the character of the man’s closest friend. That we do so with the self-awareness of what male culture is and has been.

The trauma associated with sexual assault, the need for us to change ourselves, challenge our beliefs and reconcile with what we have done to-do what is best for this country.

It’s simply our duty not to let her down or ignore her claims for our own selfish political interests. Not to let her down as our country did 27 years ago to Anita Hill. It’s our duty to look critically at ourselves, at our culture, our leaders and make sure our country does not continue to let down this American patriot and women time and again. @DailyToreador

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Gordana Lazic brings culture to communications

By RILEY GOLDEN Staff Writer

Gordana Lazic is a professor in the communication studies program at Texas Tech, and according to her students and colleagues, she brings a lot of culture and insight into the college that people would never be exposed to without her.

“I grew up in Belgrade, Serbia, which is a tiny eastern European country. It used to be a little bit bigger with a little bit better standing in terms of geo-politics, it used to be a part of a bigger entity, Yugoslavia.

But during the 90s that entity fell apart,” Lazic said.

Lazic lived there until she was 29 years old and went on to get a Master’s degree at the University of Belgrade. Afterwards, she moved to the United States and got her Masters at the University of Colorado Denver, Ph.D at the University of Denver and has been in Lubbock ever since, she said.

Lazic didn’t begin her education with communication studies but after taking a class, she decided she wanted to learn more. Lazic has a background in literary criticism, so she thought psychology or sociology would make sense to study until she realized how broad of a field communication studies could be.

“One could easily make an argument that in communication studies you can really study anything. As long as you can make an argument that it is about human communication, and that shouldn’t be difficult because everything is about hu-

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After the ceremony, a reception was performed where the couple had their first dance to ‘At Last!’ by Etta James.

“Our spirit teams are involved, our cheerleaders, our pom squad, saddle tramps and of course Raider Red as well,” Allen said. “So, it’s a full-on Red Raider wedding.”

The show was a success, Jessica Calvit, drum major and senior music education major from Gladewater, said.

It was the largest crowd she had seen at halftime, she said. It seemed like people

man communication in one way or the other,” Lazic said.

She is particularly interested in what she calls rhetoric of resistance, as well as intercultural communications and how that pertains to resistance.

“I’m interested in how people topple the regimes, how they overthrow regimes and so I study social movements or rhetoric of social movements,” Lazic said. “I’m particularly interested in that, because when I was a student at the Belgrade University, one of the most important student movements, or youth movements, actually happened during that time and I was a part of that.”

Lazic said that the movement is largely credited with overthrowing the political regime in Serbia, and it became a template for how to do that across the world. Many countries in the Middle East have even invited the leaders of the Serbian movement to teach them how to resist non-violently.

“In addition to that, I’m also interested in intercultural communication, particularly as it pertains to notions of resistance, and in that sense, I’m interested in the area of the Balkans,” Lazic said. “I’m interested in how the Kosovo myth, that has been a part of the Balkans, and especially Serbian ways of socialization for centuries. What is the role of that myth in a contemporary moment when Kosovo is trying to get absolute independence from the entity that it was a part of for centuries?”

Using her knowledge and interests, Lazic teaches several

classes, her favorite being a graduate level intercultural communications class.

“Critical intercultural communication is my favorite class to teach. Because I really aspire to teach students in all my classes, regardless of what the topic is, how to critically assess themselves and their relationship with others and everything that happens in the interim. In the classes that I teach, I like to have students understand that the practices and behaviors that we engage in are all constituted in communication,” Lazic said.

This leads into interpersonal communications, which is not Lazic’s area of study, but she realizes that to assess intercultural communications, one must first understand communication on the personal level.

“Interpersonal communication is not necessarily my area of study,” Lazic said. “But I believe that when students, or people, when they can understand, when they can nourish and cultivate critical thinking, that it is important for their personal lives as well, so they can be better communicators in these sorts of formations and therefore they can lead more meaningful lives.”

Lazic understands that as a professor, it is her job to facilitate learning for her students, and while she may not enjoy standing in front of large groups of people, she does enjoy sharing her knowledge with students, and learning what she can from them.

“I have this internal dialectical tension between wanting to do this and not really wanting

to be this exposed,” Lazic said.

“But at the same time, what prevails for me is my mantra that I am here to facilitate, and I’m here to help predominantly young people learn how to think, learn how to see things that are beneath appearances, and be able to unpack and understand really what animates their decisions and the decisions of those around them.”

Lazic’s students learn these things from her, and they appreciate the effort she puts into teaching them and learning from them.

“Dr. Lazic is extremely interactive and personable. On the first day of class I was telling her what my interests are, and she was just super excited about what I was doing. Not only is she inspiring, but she’s also inspired by us and she lets us know that.

She’s just a really cool teacher.

She’s fun, and she tries really hard to do everything she can to help us learn,” Matt Molinar, a junior in the communication studies program, said.

The positive aura that Lazic brings to the college is not only profound on her students, but the faculty she works with also appreciate having her around.

Bolanle Olaniran, the interim department chair of communication studies, said that he has every reason to believe that Lazic receives the highest grade in her teaching evaluations and it is because she pays attention to detail. “ D r. L a z i c , w h a t s h e brought to our department is collegiality. You can always

count on her, and she brings in a different perspective that sometimes the rest of us might have overlooked. But beyond that, as a scholar, she is very intelligent, very smart, and willing to help wherever help is needed… Personally, I just think she’s a wonderful colleague,” Olaniran said.

Lazic brings a wide depth of experience and cultural knowledge to the program and to her classes, which is obvious in her knowledge of other languages.

Lazic speaks Serbian, English, Greek, Latin, and can pick up on parts of French, Spanish and German. One of her students is

learning Japanese, and Lazic has been inspired to find a systematic way of learning that language too.

“For me, languages are important, because they not only provide you with this bag of tools that now you can use to communicate with people who speak the language,” Lazic said. “But through language you learn cultures, and you learn history, and you learn what matters for people who live in that language and dream in that language. For me, personally, really knowing a language and getting a degree are two things that no one can take away from you.”

made sure to wait so that they could see the wedding.

“Us being on the ladders I think we got to have a different perspective than the students did on the field, but from what we heard from the students and what we experienced, it went great,” Calvit said. “I thought it went as great as it could go.”

Pyle also said the show was a success.

“I was a little skeptical at first, but the idea grew on me a lot and I think that the end product ended up being something really special and very cool for everybody,” Pyle said.

Preparing for this show involved a couple of small, unique logistical difficulties, he said. While the schedule and experience of preparing for the show was relatively typical, some of the more meticulous details came together at the last minute.

“It was just a different kind of show, you know there’s an

aisle in the middle of the field and there’s a lot of parts that didn’t get put into place until like Thursday night before the game or even the day of. Like we didn’t have the couple there until the day of the game,” Pyle said.

Despite the last-minute parts of the show, everything went as planned, Calvit said.

Her favorite part of the ceremony was watching the couple during their first dance.

“I liked watching them dance whenever all the spirit team surrounded them and they were all going nuts and I got to see the couple in the middle dancing,” Calvit said.

Pyle said his favorite part of the ceremony was the wedding march.

“It’s a cool moment and it’s something that I would never imagine would happen on a marching band field but it’s very unique and I think definitely a first time for college marching band ever,” Pyle said.

Allen said the band worked very hard to put together this show and will be performing a new show at every home game this year.

“It’s one (show) that we will be performing but it’s certainly one that’s a little out of the box if you will as far as conceptual ideas,” Allen said.

Pyle said although the band has some interesting shows in the works for the rest of the season, this particular show is special.

“We’re excited for all our shows, obviously, but this is definitely a landmark moment for us,” Pyle said.

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Taking an open-air stage in Texas’ progressive-minded capital city, O’Rourke said he wanted to appeal to voters from both parties and independents but called for universal health care and gay rights, warned of the ills of climate change and switched to his fluent Spanish to denounce President Donald Trump’s calls to wall off the U.S.-Mexico border. He also decried the federal government’s war on drugs, saying it disproportionately targets minorities and the poor.

“People of the future are counting on us while we can still get this right,” O’Rourke said of changing the direction of Texas, where a Democrat hasn’t won statewide office since 1994.

Despite refusing donations from political action committees, O’Rourke has enjoyed monster fundraising that has outpaced Cruz. He said that’s allowed him to focus on “people and that’s how we win this election.”

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Tattoos mark major life events for students

By BRIANNA MALDONADO Staff Writer

There are a lot of things that define a person growing up­­­: dating, driving, graduation, college, and for some, tattoos.

Although Chase Dowling, a senior accounting and finance major from Houston, has multiple tattoos, one stands out to him above the others.

In February 2017, Dowling decided on a tattoo to

honor his grandfather, who died in 2012.

When thinking of a way to best symbolize his grandfather’s life in a tattoo, Dowling sat down with a close friend to help design it. They decided on an electrocardiograph to represent his life, a small cancer ribbon to explain what happened, leading into a flat line to show his death and a small arrow added at the end to symbolize the continuance of his legacy.

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Chase Dowling, a senior accounting and finance major from Houston, has a tattoo honoring his grandfather who died in 2012.

Compared to his other tattoos, Dowling said his family was more accepting of the tribute because it had so much meaning behind it.

“I think [the tattoo] is kind of timeless,” Dowling said. “That one will never change because the meaning is so set in stone.”

Summer Beckworth, a senior biology major from North Richland Hills, said she waited until after graduating high school to get a tattoo and tried to think of something meaningful for her first one.

While taking astronomy in high school, she learned about the pulsar map. A message was sent out to interstellar space on the Voyager spacecraft in 1977. Beckworth said if aliens ever found the spaceship, it would give them a map of our solar system.

In her class, Beckworth said her teacher was passionate about the Voyager spacecraft, and he viewed the pulsar map abstractly.

He explained to the class that

the center of the universe is where each person is relatively located.

When designing her tattoo, Beckworth said she kept in mind the teacher’s expression and decided to make the pulsar map more related to her life.

“I put Texas in the middle of the map because it is my home and put a cross in Texas because Jesus is the center of my universe,” she said.

After getting the map, she updated the tattoo in 2016 to include the solar system of the binary map.

“I’ve gotten more since then, but the first one still has a lot of meaning to me, and I really like it,” Beckworth said. “I just wish I could see it more, since it’s on my back.”

Hope Lenamon, a senior journalism major from McGregor, said her tattoo inspiration came from studying abroad in New Zealand in 2017, through the College of Media and Communication.

“On that trip, I met some of my best friends to this day

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Summer Beckworth, a senior biology from North Richland, has a tattoo of a pulsar map with Texas and a cross on the map. and some of my favorite professors,” she said. “Overall, it was just one of the best experiences of my life.”

Lenamon said they about learned the national bird of New Zealand, the Kiwi bird, and when she saw it at a botanical garden, she thought it was cute and needed a way to always remember it somehow.

After returning from her trip, she planned out a tattoo

of the Kiwi. Lenamon said she was too scared to get it for the longest time, but in May, she decided to schedule an appointment with a tattoo shop in Lubbock.

“I joke that my body is my passport now,” Lenamon said.

“Whenever I travel somewhere new, I want to get a tattoo to remember that time instead of a silly souvenir.” @DailyToreador

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Required public speaking courses benefit students

By BRIANNA MALDONADO Staff Writer

With an oral communication course required for every major at Texas Tech, some students will have to push through their fear of public speaking to understand the importance communication has on their desired future career.

Six courses are available at Tech to complete the oral communication requirement, three of which are housed in the College of Media and Communication, including public speaking and business communication.

Julia Heard, the director of advising at the CoMC, said face-to-face communication is a valuable skill, especially in a time where people com-

municate through electronics and social media. Public speaking will be in every student’s future, even if they have a fear of it, she said.

“If you are talking about something you are passionate about and believe in the topic, you will do better,” Heard said, “and stilettos help.”

Hailey Schmitt, a junior public relations major from Austin, said she enjoyed her public speaking class and thought it was beneficial for her future.

Her dream job is either a politician or an attorney, and Schmitt said the course helped with her fear of public speaking, because those careers require communication in front of the public frequently.

“It made me more comfortable speaking in front of people and more prepared,” she said. “Be confident in yourself and what you’re saying.”

LeAnne Lagasse, the director of public speaking in the CoMC, said out of all the students who take an oral communication course in the CoMC, at least 70 percent of them approach public speaking with high levels of anxiety.

“These students do not feel equipped and confident to deliver a speech, but they are not alone,” Lagasse said.

She said she advises students experiencing anxiety during public speaking to prepare and rehearse in front of other people, reframe their thoughts during the speech

and engage in self-monitoring behaviors, including considering feedback and watching their speech on video.

“Focus on the message more than you focus on the audience’s perception of you,” Lagasse said.

Employers are looking for graduates who have oral communication skills and know how to engage in ideas different than their own, since a huge part of any job is communicating with others, Lagasse said.

“I don’t think [public speaking] is just important.

I think it is crucial,” Lagasse said. “I think it is foundational to our culture, to our society, that we learn how to exchange meaning together.” @DailyToreador

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Teaching Assistant Robin Duffee discusses the different ways to achieve effective speech with her class on Wednesday, Sept. 26 2018, in the College of Media and Communication.

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Red Raiders drop Big 12 match to Baylor, 2-0

By SAMUEL MEDLIN Staff Writer

The Texas Tech soccer team dropped its fourth conference match of the season to the Baylor Bears, 2-0, on Sunday, Sept. 30, at the John Walker Soccer Complex in Lubbock.

Tech donned a conference record of 1-1-1 heading into the game against Baylor, and an overall record of 9-21, according to Tech Athletics. The Bears entered with a record of 8-4 overall, and 1-1 in Big 12 play.

The Red Raiders outshot Baylor 11-8, with six shots on goal. Only three of the Bears’ shots were on goal in the match. Both junior Jade King and senior Jordan Duke had three shots on the day to tie for the team high. Furthermore, King and Duke each had two on goal, and one off target.

Baylor struck first in the match following a strike from senior forward Jackie Crowther that found the back of the net in the 30th minute. The score to put Baylor up 1-0 marked Crowther’s third goal on the season, and gave the Bears a 1-0 lead heading

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“This was a tough competition. Almost the entire women’s team has personal best times and still gets beat in the invitational race. There were still some great efforts by the ladies and progress by all,” Tech coach Jon Murray said, according to Tech Athletics.

Fresh off a first-place finish at the TTU Open, redshirt senior Miguel Bautista led the charge for Tech once

into halftime.

Tech started out well in the match, as the Red Raiders were able to fire off four shots in the first half alone, with three on goal. On the other side, Baylor attempted five shots throughout the first half, and only two were on goal.

In the second half, Tech tagged five shots compared to Baylor ’s three.

Three of Tech’s five were on goal, while only one of the three Bear attempts were on goal.

Late in the second half, Crowther led the Bears’ offensive charge once again.

Crowther capitalized on the push by notching her second goal of the game in the 81st minute of the match for her fourth goal of the season. At the final buzzer, Tech fell to Baylor, 2-0, in a hard-fought game by the Red Raiders. again. Bautista finished in 77th place with a time of 25.18.9, according to Tech Athletics. Bautista’s finish helped push the Red Raiders to a 32nd place finish overall.

Closely behind Bautista, sophomore Cornelius Kiprotich crossed the finish line with a time of 25.03.8. After Kiprotich’s 172nd place finish, senior Michael Benoit followed suit 30 seconds later, to end with a final time of 25.34.2. Shortly after, Junior Grant LaSelle crossed the finish line to set a new

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TOP: Freshman forward Charlotte Teeter kicks the ball toward the goal during Texas Tech’s Big 12 game against Baylor Sunday, Sept. 30, 2018, at the John Walker Soccer Complex. The Red Raiders lost to the Bears, 2-0.

RIGHT: Senior forward Gwennie Puente goes after the ball during the Red Raiders’ game against the Bears Sunday, Sept. 30, 2018, at the John Walker Soccer Complex. Tech’s 2-0 loss puts them at 9-3-1 on the season and 1-2-1 in conference play.

The loss moves the Red Raiders’ overall season record to 9-3-1 and pushes their conference record to personal best of 25.37.8, according to Tech Athletics.

“The men’s side was similar,” Murray said, according to Tech Athletics. “The experience is something we can build on this season.”

Tech will return to Lubbock before competing in the Texas A&M Arturo Barrios Invitational Saturday, Oct. 13. The meet will be hosted in College Station and will be the last event before the Big 12 CrossCountry Championships, according to Tech Athletics. @EleanorGuinanDT

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Shea Whatley runs at a steady pace at the Texas Tech Open Friday, Sept. 14 2018, at the former Chaparral Ridge Golf Course. The men’s team finished 32nd last weekend.

1-2-1. Tech’s shutout loss to Baylor gives the Red Raiders their second dropped game at home.

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The longtime USA Basketball teammates had accomplished another piece of history together.

The pair has been a key part of all three titles and hasn't lost a World Cup game in nearly 12 years, including Sunday night's 73-56 win over Australia in the gold medal game.

"It means a lot. I was saying yesterday in the press conference that there's this misconception out there that this is easy for us," Bird said.

"I get it, because the scores can say that at times. But this isn't easy. We're thrown together and need to figure it out on the fly. We need to peak at the right time. It's extremely satisfying when we get it done."

Bird now is the most decorated athlete in World Cup history, winning four

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"I don't know if I can put it in perspective because I'm still in it," Bird said.

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The U.S. didn't have its entire team together until a few days before the tournament started as Bird, Breanna Stewart and Jewell Loyd were winning the WNBA championship with the Seattle Storm. Stewart, who was the WNBA regular season and postseason MVP, added the MVP of the World Cup to her resume

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"It's been an incredible few months, that's for sure," Stewart said. "The biggest thing about it all is it's all focused on the team and having the team win."

Brittney Griner scored 15 points to lead the U.S. and anchored a stellar defensive effort against Liz Cambage.

Australia's star center came into the game averaging 27.2 points in the tournament, but was held to just seven.

She remained the No. 1 enemy of the Spanish fans, who jeered and whistled every time she touched the ball.

Cambage keyed Australia's win over the host nation in the semifinals. Spain won the bronze medal, beating Belgium 67-60 earlier Sunday.

Taurasi, who scored 13 points, helped the U.S. get off to a strong start with a 10-0 lead. Australia could only get within three the rest of the way. It was the first time in the tournament that the U.S. didn't trail in a game.

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TOP: Freshman wide receiver Kesean Carter runs the ball during the game against WVU on Sept. 29, at Jones AT&T Stadium. Tech lost 42-34 despite a late comeback. MIDDLE: Junior wide receiver Antoine Wesley misses a catch in the end-zone. Tech’s WRs struggled with drops throughout the game. BOTTOM: Freshman quarterback Alan Bowman throws downfield during the game against WVU. He left the game in the second quarter with an unspecified injury.

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 Hill was not the only Red Raider producing for her team, as freshman outside hitter Brooke Kanas stepped up in her first conference match by collecting 17 kills and four blocks against the Bears. Junior outside hitter Chandler Atwood also reached double-digits with 15 kills and a pair of blocks.

The Red Raiders victory marked its first win over the Bears since 2014, according to Tech Athletics. Atwood praised Kanas for her standout play against the ranked opponent.

“It was the best thing to see a freshman, a true freshman, go out there and really kill it like she did. 17 kills in her first Big 12 game, that is insane. Her block was amazing, she owned both outsides out there,” Atwood said, according to Tech Athletics.

After snagging its sixthstraight win against the Bears, the Red Raiders kept their perfect record at the United Supermarkets Arena by defeating West Virginia, 3-1, Saturday, Sept. 22, according to Tech Athletics.

Kanas followed up on her incredible Big 12 debut and led

the team in kills once again.

The true freshman collected 14 kills, Hill recorded 12 and Atwood racked up 10. Collectively, the trio totaled five blocks on the day, according to Tech Athletics. Senior middle blocker Katy Keenan also put up double-digits in the game, matching Atwood’s 10 kills.

The win over WVU gave the Red Raiders their first 2-0 start in conference play since 2000. Kanas’ two consecutive remarkable performances earned herself conference recognition for the first time in her career, as she was dubbed Big 12 Rookie of the Week on Monday, Sept. 24, according to Tech Athletics.

With seven-straight wins, consistent display of talent from young Red Raiders and an undefeated home record, Tech entered its third conference game riding a wave of momentum. Once again, the Red Raiders came out on top, 3-1, to give Tech its second 3-0 start in program history. The win over Iowa State University marks the first time the Cyclones have dropped a match to the Red Raiders since 2006, according to Tech Athletics.

During the game against ISU, Tech’s talent level was on full display. Hill racked up a respective season high

Despite a frustrating home loss to No. 12 West Virginia that left the Red Raiders beaten up, Texas Tech enters the bye week with hope at 3-2, with a chance to recover before facing Texas Christian University coming Oct. 11.

An early hit on true freshman quarterback Alan Bowman took the dynamic starter out of the game, with sophomore Jett Duffey taking his place in the lineup. Despite trailing 35-10 at half, Duffey helped lead Tech back into the game, cutting the Mountaineers lead to just one score before an ill-advised throw led to a WVU pick-six, effectively sealing Tech’s fate.

Now facing the possibility of missing both Bowman and junior quarterback McLane Carter when Tech travels to TCU in two weeks, the bye week couldn’t come at a better time. The 12-day stretch without a game will give Tech time to evaluate the status of Bowman, who coach Kliff Kingsbury said has a partially collapsed lung, while Carter battles back from a high ankle sprain suffered in the season opener against Ole Miss.

Despite the concern at the quarterback position, Tech has just under two weeks to figure out its starter before facing an above average 18 kills while Atwood, Kanas and Keenan once again posted double digits to keep the Red Raider offense hot, according to Tech Athletics.

Senior setter Missy Owens collected 57 assists on the day to reach a career total of 3,015.

Owens joins the likes of only five other Red Raiders in Tech volleyball history to break the 3,000 mark, according to Tech Athletics. Graystone recognized Owens contributions as an essential aspect of the Red Raiders recent success.

“Let’s be clear, we aren’t going anywhere as a program, making the changes we have without Missy as our setter,” Graystone said, according to Tech Athletics. “She’s really been a big part of this. Obviously, it’s not one girl that does this, but she’s in the middle of everything we do.”

With experienced, award winning seniors like Owens and Keenan, the underclassmen are provided with sufficient examples of what it takes to be the next leader for Tech.

True freshmen like Kanas and Katy Northcut, who have been given the opportunity to play early in their collegiate career, have followed in the footsteps of their predecessors by going above and beyond on

TCU defense that currently ranks 38th out of 130 teams.

Defensively, Tech will have some breathing room as TCU’s offense ranks around the middle of the pack, at just 31.6 points per game, which is 62nd out of 130 teams.

Tech’s biggest injuries all lie on the offensive side of the ball, as Carter, Bowman and sophomore wide receiver TJ Vasher all battle back from injuries. Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury stressed the importance of getting all three closer to returning to the field, and what they mean for the offense when healthy.

“Yeah, we’ve got to get healthy. We’ve got to get our starting running back going again full go, got to get T.J. Vasher back, got to see where the quarterbacks are at and there’s some things,” Kingsbury said. “We’ve got to regroup and get healthy and then just play better.”

On the other side of the ball Tech is also struggling to adapt to the loss of starting cornerback Octavious Morgan, with Tech’s defense struggling against the pass all season. Part of this can be attributed to senior safety Jah’Shawn Johnson missing the first three games of the season, along with Tech facing two Heisman-caliber quarterbacks in its first five games.

Te c h ’ s d e f e n s e h a s strengthened over the course each play.

Despite being picked to finish at seventh overall in the Big 12 preseason polls, the Red Raiders have established that they are a force to be reckoned with. As long as Tech can keep its momentum rolling, the Red Raiders will continue to rise up both now and in the near future.

“The crowd is getting bigger and you can tell everyone is paying attention,” Graystone said, according to Tech Athletics. “I think we are just right there ready for it. This is about to get really fun for us.” @NoahMiciottoDT

of each game, but if the Red Raiders want to stand a chance as they get deeper into conference play the defense must play better in the opening quarter. In the first quarter this season Tech has allowed a total of 66 points defensively. In the following three quarters Tech’s defense has allowed just 65 points defensively, with 27 allowed in the second, 21 in the third and 17 in the fourth.

“I’m not sure. You know, I think you want to avoid the letdown deal, but I did a poor job of preparing us because we were awful in that first half and (WVU was) really good,” Kingsbury said. “Came out and dominated us, and you get behind like that against a good team, you’re not going to stand a chance. So, I don’t have an answer, but that’s on me for not having us prepared. I know that.”

Throughout these games, Kingsbury and Gibbs have adapted the defense to slowly throttle opposing offenses and keep games manageable, but having started four games trailing at the end of the first, it places a lot of pressure on Tech’s offense to claw them back into games.

“I thought defensively the second half we made some adjustments, played hard, but that first half we were just giving up – you give up 400 yards in a half and 35

points, it’s not going to beat anybody,” Kingsbury said.

“We’ll keep working at it, continue to execute at a high level, higher level. That’s what we’ve got to do.”

Looking ahead, Tech’s schedule has some daunting games. TCU, Texas and Oklahoma have all been ranked this season, and will all present a challenge for Tech. Luckily, Tech will host both OU and UT, which gives the Red Raiders a home field advantage in possibly the two biggest games left on the schedule.

At 1-1 in conference play, Tech’s chances at a good finish to the year are far from gone. However, this bye week must result in improvement and stability on both sides of the ball. Tech’s receivers need to play better and help Tech’s offense find its rhythm, especially with a question mark at quarterback due to health concerns.

Tech’s defense needs to play better early on, and start creating the turnovers that Gibbs’ system is built around.

“Alan played well, and I thought he was doing okay (against WVU), had the one interception but had some bad drops early that hurt us offensively that guys weren’t helping him,” Kingsbury said. “So, we’ll see. We’ll evaluate everything, get everybody healthy and see where we’re at.” @AustinWattsDT

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Red Raiders come together after a play during their game against Rice on Saturday, August 25th, 2018. Texas Tech ended the day victorious against Rice after a five-set game.