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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 9, 2013 VOLUME 88 ■ ISSUE 32
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Texas Tech student dies in car accident Draven Reid Wirick, a freshman engineering major from Kingwood, died in a two-vehicle collision Sunday night, according to a San Angelo Standard Times article. The collision occurred on U.S. Highway 87 in Kimble County. Wirick was driving northbound in a 2005 Kia when he crossed the center highway line and struck a southbound 2012 Mazda sedan head-on, according to the article. San Angelo native Isaac Cruz Guzman was driving the sedan. Both men were pronounced dead at the scene, according to the article. Wirick was 18 and Guzman was 36. Wirick was a member of the Theta Xi fraternity. ➤➤cwilson@dailytoreador.com
Tech student reported as missing, found A Texas Tech female student, who was reported to be missing, has been found, Tech Police Department Administrative Captain Stephen Hinkle said. “She actually was not missing,” he said. “Her father couldn’t get a hold of her, and we found her and got her in touch with her dad.” A Tech officer documented the report of a missing person at 2:30 a.m. Sunday. The student was reported missing by her father and was last seen in Dallas, according to the report. Because officers were not able to locate the student, she was entered into the State Missing Person Clearinghouse and the NCIC database as a missing person. The student resides in Wall Residence Hall. ➤➤cwilson@dailytoreador.com
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Student copes Part one of a three-part series about the Jeanne Clery Disclosure Act with bedbugs Liquor law violations increasing By TYLER DORNER Staff Writer
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Students will Wherever say the classic you have large rhyme before bedtime, “Sleep numbers of tight and don’t people living let the bedbugs together bite,” after re- in today’s ports of the inenvironment, sects biting students during the your’re going to have the risk night. Sidney Riley, of bedbugs.” a s o p h o m o r e Sean Duggan communications Managing Director major from Hous- University Student ton and resident Housing o f We y m o u t h Residence Hall, said he started receiving a few random bumps on his hands and feet, but didn’t think much of it until one morning he woke up and knew something was wrong. “I woke up one morning and I had around 10-15 bites on my right arm that hadn’t been there the night before, and that’s when I decided it was time to do something about it,” he said. His roommate also started to receive more and more bumps just like his, Riley said. Riley put in a fix-it order, he said, and 20 minutes later someone was at the room to inspect it because maintenance already was in the hall inspecting another room for bedbugs. According to the Mayo Clinic website, bedbugs bite and feed on human blood. Bedbug bites are generally red with a dark spot in the middle, itch, and may be located on the hands, arms, neck and face. “When we become aware of bedbugs, we jump on it with both feet because we don’t want it to become systemic,” said Sean Duggan, the managing director for University Student Housing. University Student Housing has tracked bedbugs for the past three years and had about 25 cases with about 50 false alarms, Duggan said. “Wherever you have large numbers of people living together in today’s environment, you’re going to have the risk of bedbugs,” Duggan said. Once the inspection crew was in the room, they quickly found the bugs hiding inside a pillowcase, Riley said. Bedbugs, according to the Mayo Clinic website, are often found in mattresses, box springs, frames and headboards. BEDBUGS continued on Page 2 ➤➤
Tech PD Captain explains possible reasons for increase By CARSON WILSON Staff Writer
The Texas Tech Police Department released the results of the 2012 Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics report. Liquor law violations increased from a total of 444 in 2011 to 524 in 2012, according to the report. In 2010, there were a total of 368 violations. “Obviously, we don’t like increases in crime, but then again we have to provide a safe environment for everybody, so we’re going to enforce the law and do our jobs,” Tech PD Administrative Captain Stephen Hinkle said. Tech PD is required to report crimes on campus because of the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, or the Clery Act. The Clery Act requires all universities receiving federal aid to report crimes on campus to notify and alert students, prospective students, parents, faculty and staff of the prevalence of crime at universities. The Clery Act was introduced after a 19-year-old freshman, Jeanne Clery, was raped and murdered in her residence hall at Lehigh University in 1986, according the report. “At that time, there was no reporting done on college campuses,” Hinkle said. “So it became a federal statute that college campuses had to start reporting violent crimes and certain offenses to the federal government every year.” Hinkle said he believes the steady enrollment increase throughout the years plays a role in the increase, and the results in the report represent what is happening throughout Texas. “You have to look at it from the aspect of, you have 18- and 19-yearold kids, first time away from their parents, they’re freshmen in college now, living on their own, and some of them make the wrong decisions sometimes,” he said. Most liquor law violations Tech PD handles are minor in possession, minor in consumption and public intoxications, Hinkle said. “The majority of our public intoxications come after a big event
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or during a big event, which would be a sporting event or a concert, that’s when we get the majority of them,” he said. “The rest of the time they are really sporadic. Of course we have the minor in possessions and minor in consumptions, the majority of that stuff is actually called into this department, and then we’re responding to them. The officers aren’t actually out looking for that stuff, that’s just stuff we get called to.” This year, 13 people were arrested on adjacent public property. Tech police officers arrested 113 people on on-campus property and 63 of those were in on-campus student housing. There were 398 referrals reported on on-campus property, and all of those were reported in on-campus student housing. Referrals are crimes reported to the Tech PD by other agencies. “We get calls from facility coordinators, which are the housing people, we get calls from the (CA)’s and we get calls from deans of colleges,” Hinkle said. “They happen everywhere.” The reports aren’t just from the Lubbock campus. Statistics are gathered from the El Paso and Amarillo campuses, campuses in Midland and Odessa and the Tech Health Sciences Center, all of which are part of the Texas Tech University System, Hinkle
said. Peer pressure and media influences could be contributing factors to drive students to drink at a younger age. Drinking, especially binge drinking, dramatically affects judgment and development, he said. Jerry Koch, a professor of sociology who teaches an alcohol, drugs and society course, said he believes students who can obtain alcohol don’t know how to properly manage the effects. “Everybody who is under 21 and has access to alcohol, and that includes just about everybody, really just sort of has to wing it in terms of figuring out how much for them is too much and what the consequences are,” he said. “You know, there is very little conversation about teaching people to drink, teaching young people to drink and the way adults drink. Most adults drink reasonably and moderately.” To help the problem of liquor law violations, Hinkle said he would like to see more people report crimes they witness. “I know the PD offers a lot of crime prevention programs that is not utilized a whole lot. I’m sure that could be taken advantage of more,” he said. “I’d like to see students get more involved, and faculty and staff if they see something.” ➤➤cwilson@dailytoreador.com
University Career Services hosts career fair for Tech students By MIKAEL GONZALES Staff Writer
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Potential employers lined the walls at the Overton Hotel Conference Room to recruit students looking for employment opportunities after graduation Tuesday. Kristen Seideman, assistant director for University Career Services, said the fair was a great opportunity for Texas Tech students and alumni. “There are over 100 companies in there. I think our final was 105,” she said. “There are companies here looking for almost every major.” One of the more unique companies, Seideman said, included Marfa Public Radio, which made its first appearance at the event. The host of the radio show, she said, was present at the fair and it was obvious by his voice what he did for a living. Agricultural companies, financial companies, oil companies and police
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departments were among the recruiters in attendance, Seideman said. The companies were not just from Texas either, she said. “We have companies that have come from as far away as Idaho, Connecticut and Minnesota,” Seideman said. According to a handout of attending employers at the event, recruiters included Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers, Wal-Mart, Geico and Wells Fargo Bank. This is a unique opportunity, Seideman said, because it is not often so many potential employers are grouped in the same location. The success of the fair, she said, belongs to the Tech students who, according to recruiters, are some of the best and brightest. “The hospitality in West Texas when the recruiters come to recruit here makes a big difference,” Seideman said. FAIR continued on Page 2 ➤➤
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MARLEE LOFGREN, A junior restaurant hotel and institutional management major from Wichita Falls, speaks with Will Hacker, director of strategic partnerships at Aramark, about job opportunities at Aramark during the University Career Fair on Tuesday at the Overton Hotel Conference Center.
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