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MONDAY, OCT. 9, 2017 VOLUME 92 ■ ISSUE 13

LA VIDA

SPORTS

Office of LGBTQIA: Texas Tech offers resources for the diverse Red Raider student population.

Soccer: The Red Raiders continue to show poise in the second half of their games this season.

C o l u m n : P r e s i d e n t Tr u m p ’s pandering to religious liberties is not legitimate.

OPINIONS

ONLINE First Friday: Texas Tech associate professor Dirk Fowler talks about his love for art and print making.

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CAMPUS

Gender & Sexuality Association promotes acceptance on campus

By TORI MCGEE Staff Writer

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he Texas Tech organization, the Gender and Sexuality Association, is one club on campus for people who may be looking for a place to feel welcomed or to make a difference in their community.

GSA, formerly known as the Gay-Straight Alliance, strives to make Tech and the Lubbock community a safe haven for all students regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity, according to the organization’s OrgSync webpage.

The GSA participates in national campaigns such as the Day of Silence and National Coming Out Day to raise awareness on issues members of the LGBT community face, according to the OrgSync webpage.

Viet Nguyen, a senior human development major from Ovilla and president of the GSA, said she joined the organization threeand-a-half years ago as a freshman because she wanted to make a difference.

“Periodically, I would read the news and some kind of discrimination would happen, and that upset me a lot,” she said. “But, I told myself, ‘Instead of sitting here being disappointed, go make a difference.’”

In her first year as president, Nguyen said her goal is to make the GSA an even more inclusive environment for all individuals regardless of gender, orientation, race and religion.

“We strive to educate the Tech student body about LGBT issues on and off campus, as well as creating an inclusive space for our members,” she said.

In addition to participating in Pride Week in the fall, the GSA partakes in Diversity Week and hosts the annual drag show in the spring semester, she said.

So far, the organization has about 50 to 80 members, Nguyen said.

Bruno Helmer, a senior business management major from Vitória, Brazil, has been an active member of the GSA since spring 2015.

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TOP: To promote the third annual Pride Week, members of the Gender and Sexuality Association hand out promotional flyers and provide information about the organization to students on Friday, Oct. 6, 2017, at the Free Speech Area outside the Student Union Building.

LEFT: A member of the Tech Gender and Sexuality Association arranges a pride flag on the organization’s table on Friday, Oct. 6, 2017, at the Free Speech Area. The group was passing out information about the third annual Pride Week, which starts Monday, Oct. 9, 2017, and lasts all week.

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FOOTBALL

PROFILE

Tech cracks AP top 25 rankings

Tech alumnus accomplishes goal, canoes in all 50 states

By CANDICE CLARK L a Vida Editor

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Texas Tech sophomore defensive backs Douglas Coleman III and Desmon Smith celebrate during Tech’s game against Eastern Washington on Saturday, Sept. 2, 2017, at Jones AT&T Stadium. After defeating Kansas, 65-19, on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017, the Red Raiders came in at No. 24 in the week seven Associated Press poll.

After a notable victory over the Kansas Jayhawks, 65-19, the Texas Tech Red Raider football team returned to the national rankings for the first time since 2013 at No. 24 in this week’s Associated Press Poll.

Tech is also receiving votes to be nationally ranked in the Amway Coaches poll, according to a Tech Athletics news release. The last time the Red Raiders were ranked was on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2013, as they came in at No. 25 by the AP and No. 23 by the coaches’ poll.

Over the last five weeks, the Red Raiders have received votes in the rankings system in at least one poll, according to the release.

Junior defensive back

Jah’Shawn Johnson said this is a result of putting in hard work over the offseason and creating chemistry on both sides of the ball.

“There’s a lot of effort getting to the ball,” Johnson said. “The coaches have done a tremendous job this offseason at getting us prepared, just letting us go out there and play fast and keeping things simple.”

With the win over the Jayhawks, the Red Raiders are off to their best start since the 2013 season when Tech opened the season with seven-consecutive victories, according to the release.

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Eric Straw, a 2008 alumnus of Texas Tech, made it his mission to canoe in all 50 U.S. states this summer.

Camping alongside the rivers and streams he paddled through, Straw said he went on the trip for himself and to raise money for American Rivers, a Washington, D.C. advocacy group that works to protect America’s bodies of water, according to its website. Straw also chronicled his trip through his own blog, Shameless Travels.

“I had that ‘aha! moment,’ where I wanted to canoe all 50 states. I was living and working in Dallas, and I wanted to do it when I was in college, but seven or eight years went by, and I had only done maybe three states,” he said.

“One day, I was jogging, listening to this Dallas sports show called ‘The Ticket’ of all things, and I just thought ‘If I am to do this, I guess I should do it now.’”

Straw said he began to save money in summer 2016, planned the trip and bought his canoe. He quit his job and hit the road.

“I canoed for five or six months, escaping the real world,” he said.

“I worked for an environmental conservation company in Dallas for six years. It was a normal big-boy job, but I was working to develop places that should not have been developed, and it was tough doing that. So, right now I’m just building my obituary, writing about my experience and sharing

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Eric Straw, a Texas Tech alumnus, spent the past summer canoeing in all 50 American states. Straw said after he saved money for the trip, he quit his job and hit the road for about six months. that with people.”

Straw graduated from Tech in 2008 with a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Conservation and Natural Resources.

Straw said he canoed with green sea turtles in Hawaii, crocodiles in Louisiana, and traveled more than 500 miles. He swamped his canoe in Deer Field, Massachusetts and hid in a ditch during a thunderstorm outside of Fargo, North Dakota.

“Being away from the internet and technology was great. I met a stranger who gave me $100 in the Florida Everglades, and along the way I had my faith restored in the American people,” he said. “I will say though, that if I wasn’t a white dude, I would have had a harder

time. There was racism in some places, but like that Maya Angelou quote says, I found that people are alike than they are unalike.”

With his trip now over, Straw said he will return to Dallas, where his family is hosting a party for him.

He will return to the workforce but will still find time to get out and canoe again.

“For college students now, I say take a weekend and go camping,” he said. “Go hike Palo Duro or Red Rock. You won’t remember the weekend parties, but you will remember that weekend campout with your friends. Go out and get into nature.” @CandiceClarkDT

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HEALTH

Hand-washing kills germs, saves lives

By SHASHIDHAR SASTRY Copy Editor

A no-brainer to many but an unnecessary, additional step to some, hand-washing forms a simple yet critical step in preventing the spread of infectious diseases.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website, people touch their eyes, nose and mouth about 25 times every hour without realizing they are doing so. As a result, the germs on their hands get inside their bodies and make them sick. These germs get accumulated on the hands when people touch objects such as toys, foods, pets and other household items.

“One simple thing — hand-washing with soap and water — probably can save more lives in the world than anything else,” Dr. Richard Lampe, professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Texas Tech Health Sciences Center School of Medicine, said. “Cleanliness is next to godliness.”

According to the website,

the CDC recommends a fivestep hand-washing process to ensure clean hands: wet, lather, scrub, rinse and dry.

After wetting the hands in warm or cold water, people should lather their hands by rubbing them together, while paying attention to the back of the hands, between the fingers and under the fingernails, according to the website.

It is recommended that people scrub their hands for at least 20 seconds; if a clock is not nearby, singing the “Happy Birthday” song twice in succession is a good substitute.

“Hand-washing with soap and water is best, but if they’re not available, the alternative (is) the foam or gel (sanitizer) that people can carry in their whitecoats, in their pockets, etc.,” Lampe said.

According to the website, the CDC recommends alcohol-based sanitizers that contain at least 60 percent alcohol. However, it must be noted that although hand sanitizers can be effectively used when soap and water

are unavailable, they do not get rid of all the germs and harmful chemicals. Moreover, hand sanitizers are relatively ineffective when hands are soiled or greasy.

Hand-washing primarily serves two purposes: It protects healthy individuals from acquiring an infection, and it prevents the spread of infection from those who are already sick, Lampe said.

“Your hands are the organs that touch everything and pretty much bring all of

the germs to you,” Dr. Fatma Levent, associate professor of pediatric infectious disease in HSC School of Medicine, said. “And, before you eat, especially, and then after bathroom is probably the most important times.”

Additionally, people must be cognizant of maintaining good hand hygiene when they are around newborn babies and infants, Levent said.

With a baby in her household, Dr. Kelsea LovelessHoffman, a pediatric resident

in the School of Medicine, said she recognizes the importance of regular hand-washing.

“And I appreciate when other people wash their hands, too,” Loveless-Hoffman said.

In a university setting, transmission of germs can be relatively rapid because a number of students use the same desks, computers, workout machines in the recreation center and other university property. So, a good way to keep oneself from becoming sick is to wash hands frequently and thoroughly, she said.

“There are just a ton of viruses that are passed around every year by the students,” Loveless-Hoffman said. “They all go home, and they kind of pick up the germs from home, and they all kind of come to Tech and give those new germs to each other.”

Hand-washing is especially critical in hospitals and clinics. At medical schools, future doctors are advised to wash their hands both before and after the examination of a patient, Lampe said.

“We don’t want to bring patients any germs or any microbes from outside or from ourselves,” Levent said.

“But also, after evaluating them, we don’t want to carry what they have to another patient. So, before patient is seen and after patient is seen, it is very important that we continue to have hand hygiene.”

Lack of good hand hygiene can result in bacteria or viruses being transmitted into the body, which can ultimately result in diarrheal or respiratory illnesses, Lampe said. On the other hand, those who are sick must avoid sneezing directly into their hands because when they touch other objects, the germs may reside on them for several days.

“When we wash our hands we can’t make them sterile like the surgical gloves,” Lampe said. “But, we can reduce and take away the viruses and bacteria to such an extent that we won’t cause an infection to another person.” @sastryshashi

NATION

Equifax breach continues to present complex issue for consumers

By REECE NATIONS News Editor

The number of American consumers whose personal and financial information has been compromised by Equifax’s data breach is 145.5 million.

Although the credit reporting agency disclosed the data breach to the public on Thursday, Sept. 7, the company says it discovered the breach in July.

The breach of sensitive consumer information occurred as a result of a vulnerability in the company’s IT infrastructure, according to the Equifax website.

Unprecedented in its scale, the data breach has affected nearly half of the U.S. population, in addition to nearly 400,000 consumers in the United Kingdom and another 100,000 in Canada.

“Credit firms like Equifax, but also Experian and TransUnion, have been collecting the data of their customers for many years,” Sam Segran, chief information officer for Texas Tech, said.

“The expectation is that they would protect it. That’s what is particularly disheartening about this data breach.”

Consumers, instead of being concerned with whether

or not their data has been breached, should begin acting as though it already has, SEGRAN Segran said.

Equifax has launched a complimentary identity theft protection and credit-file monitoring product, called TrustedID Premier. The enrollment period for the credit monitoring service ends on Jan. 31, 2018.

Because online banking is a component of modern life, proactive consumers should start taking precautionary measures before they are subjected to having their financial information stolen, he said. Enrolling in a creditmonitoring service is an effective preventative measure to protect one’s data.

“When you’re doing online banking or (online shopping), the recommendation I would make is to use the security features that are available to you,” Segran said. “Make sure multi-factor authentication is available, where (vendors) have to send a code to your cellphone or email.”

Multi-factor verification is a process that is used not only for online banking but also when signing into an

email account, he said. The process makes it harder for hackers to compromise one’s online accounts, even when they already have one’s password and username.

Setting alerts on one’s mobile device is crucial when monitoring expenses, Segran said. They will automatically update an individual on charges made to bank accounts and credit cards.

“You can set fraud alerts with all of the major creditreporting firms,” he said.

“Fraud alerts are when if somebody does a credit check on you, or when someone applies for a credit card in your name, you will get an alert before that transaction is processed. It lets you either confirm that you were the one causing that activity, or it immediately stops it if it’s not you.”

Consumers can also set a freeze on their accounts on the websites of the three major accounting firms: Equifax, Experian and TransUnion.

There may, however, be fees associated with this action, according to The New York Times. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., has co-sponsored legislation with Sen. Brian Schatz, D-HI, that would allow consumers to freeze their credit reports

for free.

“One scary thing about this sort of security breach is that it’s not unique to just online banking or credit firms,” Drew Winters, interim area coordinator of finance in the Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration, said. “Credit card skimmers are being put in the most innocuous of places these days.

You could buy something from a vending machine and have your credit card number stolen as a result.”

There is a high amount of political pressure on regulators to take action on this issue, so undoubtedly there will be changes made to make sure something like this cannot happen again.

SCOTT HEIN PROFESSOR OF FINANCE Credit and debit cards with chips add another layer of protection for consumers, but not everyone has one, Winters said. The credit card numbers for about 209,000 American consumers were ac-

cessed in the breach, according to the Equifax website.

There is no sure-fire way to prevent identity theft and fraudulent charges, he said.

The best thing to do, in any case, is to take preventative action before one’s financial information is hacked.

“Once you pay for something online, you really have no way to be certain where your credit card (information) is going,” Winters said.

“If you’re paying with a debit card, and it gets hacked, (the hackers) now have a way to withdraw money directly from your bank account.

With credit cards, it’s a little harder since you have a line of credit that you can freeze once some suspicious charges are made.”

Names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and, in some cases, driver ’s license numbers were accessed in the breach, according to the Equifax website. Equifax’s databases contain the information of more than 820 million consumers and more than 91 million businesses worldwide.

“We’re facing, in this dayand-age, cyber-security risks that we never anticipated,” Scott Hein, professor of finance in the college of business’s School of Banking,

said. “Equifax was gathering this information for individuals who were taking part in some consumer activity, but it could be even from a student loan.”

Individuals need to recognize that their data may already be publicly available from this breach, Hein said. The information used to identify individuals who apply for credit or take out a loan needs to go far beyond just Social Security numbers and dates of birth.

For most, the presumption should be that their name, birthdate and Social Security number have already been compromised and accessed by hackers, he said.

Going forward, alternative methods of identification will have to be utilized when banking online.

“There is a high amount of political pressure on regulators to take action on this issue, so undoubtedly there will be changes made to make sure something like this cannot happen again,” Hein said. “If it was simply a case of one person not doing their job adequately, then in the future, these credit firms will have to make changes to how they manage information systems.” @ReeceNationsDT

LOCAL

Parks and Recreation looking for jack-o’-lantern donations For the Parks and Recreation’s 9th Annual Pumpkin Trail, which will be hosted from Thursday, Oct. 19-22, the Lubbock Memorial Arboretum will be lined with thousands of lighted pumpkins.

In 2016, the trail was lit with 1,524 pumpkins, according to a news release

from the City of Lubbock.

The goal for this year is to have 2,000 carved pumpkins lining the trail.

Lubbock Parks and Recreation will accept carved pumpkins from 7:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 18, at the Lubbock Memorial Arboretum, located at 4111

University Ave. Pumpkins will be accepted until 3 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 19, while the Pumpkin Trail is being finalized, according to the release.

The delivery site will be located in the east corner of the parking lot, and there will be a sign which reads as “DELIVER PUMPKINS HERE,” according to the release.

Pumpkin carvings must be family-friendly and appropriate for children of all ages. Participants are also asked to not begin carving earlier than Monday, Oct. 16,

so they can stay fresh for the full four days.

Groups that bring 10 or more pumpkins will have a sign posted on the trail with their name or logo on it, according to the release.

People are encouraged to call Hodges Community Center at 806-767-3706, so the number of pumpkins can be tracked. For the event, there are also volunteer positions open. Individuals can sign up to light the candles, count the pumpkins or guide the trails. @BrandiAddisonDT

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Lost items from Vegas shooting returned to some who fled LAS VEGAS (AP) — The abandoned baby strollers, shoes, phones, backpacks and purses strewn for days across the huge crime scene of the Las Vegas massacre were slowly being returned to their owners Sunday to become sad souvenirs of a horrific night.

One week ago, the same scene was home to a happy day of country music for 22,000 people at the Route 91 Harvest festival. A few hours later, when 64-year-old Stephen Paddock opened fire on the crowd from the nearby Mandalay Bay hotel, killing 58 people, those thousands were

left fleeing for their lives, with no care for the possessions they are now recollecting.

Federal agents have spent the week collecting evidence amid the thousands of items, some of them stained with blood.

“Whatever was dropped when people started running, those items we’re collecting and we’re going to provide back,” Paul Flood, unit chief in the FBI’s victim services division said at a news conference.

The items have been catalogued with detailed descriptions, and some have been cleaned of things including blood.

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PRIDE WEEK

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Drag Queen to appear in Pride Week pageant

By PAYTON ROBB Staff Writer

The third annual Pride Week at Texas Tech will celebrate the progress made for the LGBTQIA community by bringing in the traditional drag queen.

Texas Tech’s Office of LGBTQIA will host Glamour and Fame at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 13, at Club Luxor. This will be Pride Week’s first annual drag pageant.

“Drag has a very long and important place in the history of the LGBTQIA community,” Jody Randall, administrator of the Office of LGBTQIA, said. “At various times throughout history, it has meant different things to different people, and it kind of still does.”

Drag is an over-accentuated expression of gender and gender tendencies, Parker Reyes, a junior public

relations major from Austin and student assistant of the Office of LGBTQIA, said.

Typically, it is defined by exaggerated female characteristics. The stereotypical drag queen is usually a male identifying individual who dresses in over-accentuated female attire.

“There are many facets to it,” Reyes said. “There is also a drag king which is the flip of the drag queen. A female will dress as a man.

It is not necessarily how the participants identify as an individual. It is very much an art form.”

Drag is a profession as well as a hobby. People engage in drag for different reasons, Randall said.

People may participate because it is a way to express themselves, play with their gender or because they are interested in money, she said.

Photo Coutesy of Dee Ranged

“There are drag shows where the performers either sing, dance or do other forms of entertainment,” Reyes said. “Pageants are also an important part of the drag profession. Our pageant will include a talent portion, an interview, presentation and evening gown.”

The Glamour and Fame Pageant is for amateur

drag queens. However, a national entertainer will be in attendance.

Dee Ranged is a professional drag queen from Jacksonville, Florida, and will perform at the pageant.

“I agreed to come perform at the Tech pageant because I get excited to educate the youth, not only about the drag life, but life in general,”

she said. “For my performances, I do a variety of acts that have adult-based humor as well as impersonations of Peg Bunny, Edward Scissor Hands, Mad Hatter, Mary Poppins, Madonna, Lady Gaga and the list goes on and on.”

Ranged has won a variety of awards in the drag circuit: The National Entertainer of the Year, Universal Show Queen and National Comedy Queen. She said she is planning on competing for Miss Gay USofA in spring 2018.

It takes Ranged about one-and-a-half to two hours to get ready for a show. Makeup, music selection and wardrobe are a few preparations for her performances.

“I basically fly to a different city every weekend to dress up as a lady or a character. I will lip sync to songs and tell jokes on the mic,” she said. “Drag

was always something that made me smile, even when I was young and listening to Boy George.”

According to the website, tickets to Glamour and Fame are $20 for VIP tickets and $8 for general admission.

Tickets can be bought at the door or online at https:// pflaglubbock.org/membershipmembership-center/.

“Our contestants for the Glamour and Fame are people who like to influence the LGBTQIA community and to add to what diversity is here in Lubbock,” Viet Nguyen, a senior human development major from Ovilla and president of Gay Straight Alliance, said.

“Drag is people showing their style in intense makeup, performances, comedy, music or any other talent.

It is very important in the LGBTQIA community.”

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CAMPUS

Randall discusses Tech’s LGBTQIA initiatives

By MARY BETH HOLM Staff Writer

The Office of LGBTQIA aims to strengthen the LGBTQ community and serve as a resource for allies. The office is a part of both the Office of Student Affairs and the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

Jody Randall, administrator at the Office of LGBTQIA, said she was surprised at the number of students who openly identify as belonging to the LGBTQIA community at Texas Tech when the Office of LGBTQIA officially opened in January.

“I thought, ‘It’s West Texas.

There’s some cultural barriers that we still have to deal with,’” Randall said. “Students continue to tell me that the experience they have on our campus is different than the experience they have in the broader West Texas area.”

LGBTQIA offices are forming all over the country, Randall said. Highereducation institutions, like Tech, are striving to support and serve the LGBTQIA population. Because of this upward trend, admissions and recruitment offices have seen a spike in the population

GSA

CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 “We do a lot of activism and information delivery,” Helmer said. “We advocate for equality on campus, offer resources, but also, we try to educate our members and anybody from the community that wants to join us about

of LGBTQIA students.

“Once you get LGBTQIA people here,” Randall said, “then you’ve got to start doing the inclusion work to make the climate supportive.”

Before the inception of the Office of LGBTQIA, she said the groups on campus that helped in advocacy efforts were the Risk Intervention and Safety Education office, the Student Counseling Center, Tech’s Gender and Sexuality Association, the department of Women’s & Gender Studies and several others.

“That’s common at a big institution, which Tech is growing very quickly. Like, ‘OK, we’ve got to have a strategy so that we’re not just shooting at the hip,’” Randall said. “But we’re doing something intentionally.”

Tech submitted data to the Campus Pride Index, which Randall said she sees as the benchmark tool for higher-education institutes to create a safer environment for LGBTQIA students.

However, Tech’s results were not as high as they hoped for.

“It was about 29 to 30 percent, and that’s not something you use as a marketing tool,” she said. “You can look at it different ways, but I saw it as a

starting place to say, ‘OK, well, we already know where our deficits are, where we need to release some time and effort.

And so we started doing that six weeks after the office opened.”

Randall said she formed a committee with the goal of bringing Tech to at least a three-star institution by spring 2018. With smaller goals in mind, the committee knew getting to a higher ranking was not going to happen overnight.

But in early September, Tech scored a 4 out of 5 stars for the Campus Pride Index.

“We’ve been open a semester and half, and we’re already a four-star premier campus,” she said. “We went from being one of the lowest in Texas to one of the highest. That’s sort of what brought the office together in the first six months.”

Randall said she is not new to the LGBTQIA movement. One of the facets that drew Randall to Tech was its small-town setting. Growing up in Alabama and spending most of her adult life in Kentucky, Randall said staying in the rural setting was an important part of her.

“Every little thing we achieve, I can see the reward from it,” she said. “I can see the impact it’s having on

people’s lives. When we make some little step forward or what might be perceived as a little step, I can see how important that little step was to our community here.”

Even though this is the third annual Pride Week at Tech, Randall said this is the first Pride Week for the Office of LGBTQIA. In hopes to expand on previous years’ pride weeks, Randall said she brought together a committee in the spring to organize a week’s worth of events for students, faculty and staff.

Some of the events of Pride Week include a gala with keynote speaker Phyllis Randolph Frye on Monday, Oct. 9, and a slam poetry workshop with Regie Cabico on Wednesday, Oct. 11, according to the Office’s website.

Randall said Pride Week is hosting meaningful events that are also catchy for the Tech community.

“We have a couple of trainings or presentations throughout the week that will equally be interesting to faculty and staff, if not more,” she said. “But then we have all sorts of student programming, too. It’s something students can engage in and have some fun with.”

issues such as transgender issues and bisexuality.”

Helmer said he joined the GSA as a freshman because he wanted to be a part of a community where he could feel safe and welcomed.

“Everybody here cares about each other, and we are always together,” he said. “The LBGTQIA office gave us one of their

cubicles. If you pass by during the day, there will always be members here talking and helping each other with homework. It’s a very good environment, and I feel very welcomed.”

Jadyn Tyler, a freshman pre-occupational therapy major from Annapolis, Maryland, said she discovered the GSA during orientation.

Then, she learned more about the organization and began applying herself and working to be an active member.

“I love it,” Tyler said.

“I love being around other people that are similar to me, and I enjoy being able to educate others about who we are and what we do. We aren’t just those weird people.” @DailyToreador

Ten months after the office was established, Randall said she is astonished at how LGBTQIA students navigate their lives on and off campus.

“I was surprised every day at how many of our LGBT students are out here,” Randall

said. “But every day, I see students who are open about their sexuality, open about their gender identity, navigating Texas Tech’s campus and doing so happily. That just amazes me. That’s where we are now.” @DailyToreador

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COLUMN

Trump’s pandering to religious liberties not meaningful

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n the United States, there is an outstanding type of cognitive dissonance that continually pushes the boundaries of the thought, “OK people cannot be any more ironic.”

The usual melody of straying away from religious rulings always changes tune in order to push upon the masses what is deemed moral or civil. This dissonance peaked itself out again over the weekend as President Donald Trump issued ruling that would broaden exceptions to health care coverage relating to women’s contraceptives.

Most of the exceptions would be related to the former President Barack Obama’s health care law’s promise of no-cost contraceptive coverage, touching off fresh lawsuits and renewed debate about the proper scope of religious liberty, The Washington Post reported on Friday.

It seems the pious nature of the president is forcing him to act morally, coincidentally near the anniversary of the leaking of his “grab them by their (profanity)” statement.

The president is now hoping to make it legal to have employers deny coverage of birth control and other contraceptives on the basis of religious or moral beliefs. In this salient act, the president shows that his concern for women is not related in any way to facts, but rather it is an attempt to please his hyper-Christian

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base, who would like to see all signs of immoral relations go away.

This also brings back the narrative of the country’s cognitive dissonance, because it is pitted purely in irony that a country denouncing any type of religious ruling will allow laws opening up the gates to religious discrimination.

The ruling is an inimical attempt to carve out standards that would benefit working women and their health.

That is why the president wants to see something like this gone: Working women tend to intimidate him.

It seems most of the concerns for how issues such as this tie into religious freedom come more from rich, old, white men than anyone else. The Post referred back to religious organizations that threw fits when the legal text of the Affordable Care Act required employers to also include health care coverage of contraceptives.

Now, the leaders of those organizations sit up on their moral high ground lauding the ruling and wishing no mercy on the souls that would require such medication.

“Now they can lead their organizations in good conscience without choosing between their convictions and obeying the law,” Jeremy Dys, deputy general council for the conservative group First Liberty, said, according to Bloomberg.

It is people like Dys and his constituents who believe that all types of contraceptives lead to loss of life and an even more immoral disregard for a growing fetus.

The ruling is set to harm more women and help more employers, who more than likely are going to be rich people who would be more than willing to pay less for their employees, especially their women employees.

For some reason, in the U.S., there is a deep-rooted hatred by most of those in charge for anything that would help women.

This is more of a push to a predetermined moral code that would effectuate the idea that a predominantly Christian ideology should rule: an ideology that shuns any type of immoral sexual behavior. There is the thought by those in the Trump administration that funding contraceptives and things alike will lead to more promiscuity.

However, that should not be the concern of anyone but the person committing the acts. Trump has no concern for straying away from licentious actions, which is apparent by his model of a wife, two exspouses and a recording of him describing how easily he can get his fingers inside of woman’s no-no area.

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The answer back: Democrats are willing to hear his ideas, but scrapping the Obama health law is a nonstarter.

Trump’s latest overture to Democrats followed GOP failures so far to fulfill the party’s yearslong promise to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. In spite of controlling the White House and Congress since January, Republicans have not passed the legislation.

The president tweeted that he called New York Sen. Chuck Schumer on Friday to discuss the 2010 law known as “Obamacare,” which Trump said “is badly broken, big premiums. Who knows!” Trump said he wanted “to see if the Dems want to do a great HealthCare Bill.”

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Seeking momentum for gun restrictions, Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Sunday said only broader legislation would be effective in outlawing “bump stocks” like the device used by the Las Vegas gunman. But the National Rifle Association urged more limited regulations that stopped short of a ban.

It was a sign of a rocky road ahead for action by Congress even with growing bipartisan support for regulating or banning the devices that convert semiautomatic weapons into rapid-fire guns. “ R e g u l a t i o n s a r e n ’t going to do it. We need a law. It can’t be changed by another president,” said Feinstein, D-Calif., a longtime advocate of stricter gun control measures who introduced legislation to outlaw bump stocks. She lamented the stratified lines of debate in “a gun-happy country.”

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Schumer said a starting point could be negotiations led by Sens. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Patty Murray, D-Wash., who have been discussing a limited bipartisan deal to stabilize state-level markets for individual health insurance policies. People covered under the health law represent about half of those who purchase individual policies.

Trump irritated GOP leaders in Congress when he reached a deal with Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on a spending bill and the debt ceiling. The president has referred to those two Democrats as “Chuck and Nancy.”

But the Trump administration announced Friday that it would allow more employers to opt out of no-cost birth control to women by claiming religious or moral objections. The move was one more attempt to roll back Obama’s health overhaul, prompting Democrats to question whether Trump is com-

mitted to avoiding sabotaging the law.

Trump floated the potential talks as he approved an emergency declaration for a large part of Louisiana and ordered federal assistance for the state as Hurricane Nate approached the central Gulf of Mexico.

The president headlined a fundraiser on Saturday night in Greensboro, North Carolina, to benefit his Trump Victory joint fundraising committee with the Republican National Committee. The event was expected to raise $2 million, with donors paying up to $35,000 per couple to serve as co-hosts.

Before leaving for North Carolina, Trump repeated his assertion that trying to negotiate with North Korea over its nuclear and missile programs is a waste of time.

In a two-part tweet, he said: “Presidents and their administrations have been talking to North Korea for 25 years, agreements made and massive amounts of money paid ... hasn’t worked, agreements violated before the ink was dry, makings fools of U.S. negotiators. Sorry, but only one thing will work!”

Feinstein: Congress, not exec branch, must ban bump stocks

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consider “a temporary deal.”

What that might involve was not clear, but Trump referred to a popular GOP proposal that would have the federal government turn over money for health care directly to states in the form of block grants.

“If we could do a one-year deal or a two-year deal as a temporary measure, you’ll have block granting ultimately to the states, which is what the Republicans want. That really is a repeal and replace,” he said. In an interview taped earlier this week and aired Saturday night on Trinity Broadcasting Network, the president assured host Mike Huckabee that “we’ll have health care before the election.”

Schumer said through a spokesman Saturday that Trump “wanted to make another run at repeal and replace and I told the president that’s off the table.” Schumer said if Trump “wants to work together to improve the existing health care system, we Democrats are open to his suggestions.”

Trump has suggested before that he would be open to negotiating with Democrats on health care, but there

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gressional Republicans and the Trump administration have expressed openness in restricting bump stocks, but lawmakers remain divided over whether to rely on legislation or push for an executive branch order.

Bump stocks are accessories that substitute for the regular stock and grip of a semi-automatic rifle and allow the weapon to fire continuously, some 400 to 800 rounds in a single minute. Bump stocks were found among the weapons used by sniper suspect Stephen Paddock and explain why victims in Las Vegas heard what sounded like automaticweapons fire.

The bump stock device, which retails for around $200, causes the gun to buck back and forth, repeatedly “bumping” the trigger against the shooter ’s finger. Technically, that means the finger is pulling the trigger for each round fired, keeping the weapon a legal semiautomatic. Because it creates a significant rocking motion it also means that the gun is “spraying” bullets and it’s difficult to hit a target.

Adding to the uncertainty over the devices,

the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said last week it was in no position to reexamine its 2010 judgment that bump stocks were legal and that Congress would have to act.

On Sunday, the NRA reiterated its support for limited regulation, saying too much public focus was being spent on restricting devices rather than preventing bad human behavior. A leader of the gun rights group insisted it was ATF’s responsibility — not Congress’ — to reconsider the agency’s 2010 decision allowing the sale of bump stocks.

“We think ATF ought to do its job, look at this, and draw a bright line,” said Wayne LaPierre, CEO of the National Rifle Association.

He said the group has been clear in supporting current law that bans fully automatic firearms and is concerned that action by Congress could “fuzz the line” such as by imposing new restrictions on semi-automatic weapons.

Feinstein said her legislation banning bump stocks had attracted “Republican interest” although the 38 co-sponsors so far were all Democrats. The No. 2 Senate Republican, John Cornyn of Texas, has said

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Sen. Ron Johnson, RWisc., who heads the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee, said Sunday he would be willing to support bump stock restrictions either by fiat or by a new law. “However that gets fixed, I’ll support it,” he said.

Seeking broader consensus, Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said that if Republicans were willing to pass a bill banning bump stock devices — like those used by the Las Vegas hotel sniper — he would support the legislation, even if it was not accompanied by any other restrictions of weapons purchases. Murphy, an ardent supporter of gun control after the 2012 mass shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, said he would be willing to hold off for his broader goal, the institution of background checks for weapons buyers, if the Senate agrees on a narrower bump stock ban.

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After visiting the show for an hour and a half with his wife Brigitte, Macron said he likes in Picasso’s paintings a “great sensuality” and at the same time a “political meaning” especially in the years leading up to World War II. The “Picasso 1932. Erotic Year” show displays many portraits of Picasso mistress Marie-Therese Walter, including a famous masterpiece, “The Dream,” and a “Girl Before a Mirror,” a treasure of the Museum of Modern Art in New York that rarely travels.

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With only four regular season games left in the 2017 season, the Texas Tech Red Raider soccer team has a record of 8-5-1, and has seen most of their success in the

second half of play.

While Tech has played well during this season’s first half, the real dominance it has showed is in the second half where Tech has outscored its opponents two-toone this year, according to Tech Athletics.

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In this season’s second half, Tech has scored 10 goals, while holding its opponents to only five goals in the last 45 minutes of play, according to Tech Athletics.

This is a stark difference compared to its first half scoring, where Tech has a cumulative eight goals compared to its opponents’ seven goals in the first half of this season.

“I think what’s really big for us with our defense and offense is that we are celebrating both our offensive wins and defensive wins,” junior midfielder Jordan Duke said. “The shots, we’re like ‘great shot,’ we’re so encouraging, and when we block shots, we are just as encouraging.”

The seasonal stats show that Tech plays best in the second half, where it tends to pull out the win. When Tech cannot pull ahead in the second half, it tends to lose, as the team is a combined 1-2-1 in overtime this season, according to Tech Athletics. The Red Raiders’ sole overtime win came against San Francisco on Sunday, Aug. 20.

A testament to their play in the second half is how well-conditioned the team is. When Tech has the depth and stamina to keep playing at a high level, it

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Texas Tech freshman forward Kristen Davis kicks the ball down field in the 1-0 overtime loss to TCU on Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017, at the John Walker Soccer Complex. This season, the Red Raiders have shown significant scoring in the second half of each match. tends to overpower its opponents. Tech coach Tom Stone praised the girls earlier in the season on their offseason effort and said the results have played out well for Tech.

“We've worked really hard, and the girls have been fatigued afterwards, but we came in so fit,” Stone said. “I think we mentioned we broke every fitness record we've ever had in the sum-

mer and in the preseason, and when your team’s that fit you're gonna be fatigued, but you're gonna bounce back quicker, so that’s been a strength of us so far.”

With only four games left on the schedule, the Red Raiders will push to get over the 10win hump, and will be playing for a chance at the Big 12 Tournament on Wednesday, Nov. 1, in Kansas City, Missouri.

“I think obviously every-

one wants to go as far as we possibly can,” Duke said. “I think we really can if we put our minds to it. The games we have unfortunately lost, I think we’ve beat ourselves on our own mistakes, not teams actually beating us in the game. I think our potential is unlimited if we all keep our minds focused and ready and prepare for what we really want.” @AustinWattsDT

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Simmonds scores in OT, Flyers beat Ducks 3-2 ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Wayne Simmonds ended things quickly in overtime.

Simmonds scored 44 seconds into overtime to give the Philadelphia Flyers a 3-2 victory over the Anaheim Ducks on Saturday night.

The puck ricocheted off Ducks forward Andrew Cogliano skate and directly

to the open Simmonds.

He quickly gained control and snapped a shot past goalie John Gibson for the Flyers' second victory in three games.

"It's tough playing out west, there's a lot of big bodies," Simmonds said.

"For us we just wanted to use our speed and keep skating and skating and

skating. We came away with two points so we accomplished our goal."

Philadelphia defenseman Ivan Provorov beat Gibson stick-side to give the Flyers the early lead.

Assisting on the goal and earning his first NHL point was Nolan Patrick, the second-overall pick this summer.

For the second game in a row, the Ducks allowed their opponents to get on the board first.

"I'd like to see us come out and put teams on their heels instead of vice versa.

We haven't in the first couple of games, but the season is still young. I expect us to improve," said defenseman Cam Fowler.

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or fans of college football, the past weekend proved to be an interesting one, as multiple Associated Press top 25 teams lost with upsets erupting in the college football atmosphere.

The weekend started with the biggest upset of all, as Iowa State faced then ranked No. 3 Oklahoma. The Sooners entered as 31-point favorite over Iowa State, but the Cyclones would not be ignored, scoring the go-ahead touchdown to pull ahead with five minutes remaining, according to ESPN. Iowa’s defense stood strong, forcing a turnover-on-downs from Oklahoma to seal the game.

Iowa State rallied from a 24-10 deficit in the second quarter to get the win.

An upset win like this is excellent news for the rest of the Big 12 Conference, because it gives teams like Texas Tech a better shot at the Big 12 Championship.

With the loss, Oklahoma has fallen to No. 12 in the AP top 25 rankings, according to ESPN.

Austin Watts is a senior electronic media & communication major from Sweetwater.

In Big 12 standings, Oklahoma’s loss blows the conference wide open as another loss will greatly diminish its chance at the Big 12 Championship. Oklahoma will face Texas next weekend, with both teams playing to keep their Big 12 championship chances in good standings.

Another top ranked team that lost was Michigan, which fell to its Big 10 Conference rival Michigan State.

The final score of that game was 14-10, as the Spartans defeated the Wolverines on Michigan’s home field, according to ESPN. Michigan imploded in the game, losing five turnovers to the Spartans. This is the eighth win for Michigan State out of its last 10 games against Michigan, showing its tendency to upset Michigan.

The loss for Michigan puts them behind in Big 10 standings. Currently, Penn State and Ohio State look to be the main contenders for the Big 10 Championship at 3-0, but if Michigan State can force as many turnovers as it did against Michigan, then the Spartans have a shot. Michigan State is now ranked No. 21, while Michigan has fallen to No. 12 in the rankings.

Michigan has fallen short of the college football playoffs and the Big 10 Championship in recent years, and this loss only makes it harder for the Wolverines to have shot at the title. While its teams have featured dynamic defenses and explosive offenses the last few seasons, Michigan has fallen short in the Jim Harbaugh era, and this year looks no different.

Michigan State was a team surrounded by questions going into the season, but now sits soundly at No. 3 in the Big 10, with a chance to contend if it keeps winning games.

Other top 25 teams los-

ing this weekend included Louisville, West Virginia, Utah and Florida, according to ESPN. Of these four teams, only West Virginia lost to a ranked team, as it fell to now ranked No. 6 TCU. West Virginia fell from the rankings due to the loss, and No. 24 Texas Tech was able to move up into the top 25 for the first time since 2013, according to Tech Athletics. All four of these losing teams this weekend fell out of the AP top 25.

Louisville continued to deal with the struggles that bogged down the team last season, as the team fell, 39-25, to North Carolina State, which moved to No. 20 on the AP poll with the win. Louisville has Heisman quarterback Lamar Jackson at the helm, but has continued to struggle defensively to support its offense. While Louisville has a promising team, it will be a season or two until it is able to compete for its conference, as Clemson and NC State look firmly in control of the ACC Atlantic.

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No. 6 TCU only Big 12 team still without a loss FORT WORTH (AP) — Sixth-ranked TCU is the only undefeated team remaining the Big 12 Conference, even after giving up more than 500 yards and needing some trickery after blowing a two-touchdown lead in the second half.

“I would bet every game is going to be like this,” coach Gary Patterson said.

“If you’re going to win a championship, as a general

rule ... you win about three or four of them that are ugly. You got to win the ugly ones sometimes.”

Count their 31-24 win over West Virginia as one of those for the Horned Frogs (5-0, 2-0 Big 12), who were up two spots in the AP Top 25 poll Sunday.

The Mountaineers (3-2, 1-1) dropped out of the new poll from 23rd.

One weekend into Octo-

ber, with every Big 12 team having played two league games and no open dates left, only the Frogs and Texas (3-2, 2-0) are without a conference loss. Iowa State upset two-time defending Big 12 champion Oklahoma (4-1, 1-1), ending the Sooners’ nation’s-best 14-game winning streak and leaving TCU as the only team without any losses this season.

“It’s nice just for the fact

that now we’re at the top of the conference, but it just means that everybody’s going to be gunning for us,” TCU quarterback Kenny Hill said.

Hill became the first player from a current Big 12 school with running, passing and receiving touchdowns in the same game when he scored the gamewinner on 3-yard run with 2:53 left Saturday.

Utah fell to Stanford in a 23-20 loss, causing Utah to fall out of the top 25 and Stanford to climb to No. 23 in the week 7 rankings. Utah has its work cut out for the team if it wants to close the gap between it and USC, which leads the division.

For Florida, the loss to LSU is an upset, but less so than the other upsets this week. LSU recently fell from No. 25 after it lost last week, and rebounded with a 17-16 victory over the Gators, according to ESPN. Florida fell out of the rankings with the loss, but this is not the first loss the Gators have suffered to a top 25-caliber team, as the Gators fell to Michigan to start the season.

The losses for the teams in the AP top 25 only muddles the CFB playoff picture as a nearly-flawless record is required if a team wants to be one of the four teams to get a shot at the national title. With Oklahoma’s loss, TCU appears to be the only Big 12 team with a real shot at making the playoffs.

In the Big 12 Conference, the loss of Oklahoma knocks them out of the lead in Big 12 play. Texas and TCU now sit tied at 2-0 in the lead for conference play, while Tech is tied with five other Big 12 teams at 1-1. If Tech wants a shot at the Big 12 title and remain in the top 25, it will have to defeat West Virginia this weekend.

This upcoming weekend will be a big one for the Big 12, with multiple games deciding how the conference will play out this season. Although it is still early, a loss this weekend will make the road to the Big 12 Championship difficult for any team with Big 12 title hopes.

Overall, the upsets this weekend prove one thing: You cannot underestimate any team in college football. Even the teams that have inconsistent records might have the right matchup against a team, and any team with a winning record will have target on them.

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Next for the Red Raiders, they will continue their road stretch as they face the West Virginia Mountaineers, who were recently knocked off the AP rankings after a loss to No. 6 TCU, 31-24, on Saturday, Oct. 7, in Fort Worth, according to the release. Tech will face West Virginia at 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 14, in Morgantown, West Virginia.

The nationally ranked Red Raiders will end their road stretch with the Mountaineers and will return home to face Iowa State on Saturday, Oct. 21, at Jones AT&T Stadium.

CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 Along with defeating Kansas, Tech has also found success against Eastern Washington, Arizona State and Houston this season.

The Red Raiders now have an overall record of 4-1 on the season with a winning percentage of .800 , according to Tech Athletics. Tech has split the difference against Big 12 Conference opponents with a conference record of 1-1.

The Red Raiders also have a perfect away record of 2-0.

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Chargers end nine-game losing streak, Giants remain winless EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Philip Rivers threw a 10-yard touchdown pass to Melvin Gordon with 2:58 to play and the Los Angeles Chargers rallied for a 27-22 victory Sunday over the New York Giants, who lost star receiver Odell Beckham Jr. to a broken left ankle in the waning minutes.

The touchdown pass was Rivers’ third of the game and came three plays after Kyle

Emanuel had a sack, forced fumble and recovery against Eli Manning at the Giants 11-yard line. It also came four plays after Beckham become the fourth Giants receiver knocked out of the game with an injury.

It was the ugliest thing in the game involving two teams that posted 0-4 records in the first month of the season.

Rivers also hit Gordon on a 6-yard TD pass in the second

quarter and had a 25-yarder to tight end Hunter Henry in the third as the Chargers ended a nine-game losing streak dating to late November.

Manning had given the Giants a 22-17 lead early in the fourth quarter with a 48yard TD pass to a wide-open Beckham. New York missed the 2-point conversion attempt after being hit with a delay of game penalty.

Manning, who was

sacked five times, also threw a 29-yard touchdown pass to backup Roger Lewis Jr. in the third quarter. Orleans Darkwa scored on a 23-yard run and the Giants got a safety in scoring their first first-quarter points this season.

Manning’s attempt to rally the Giants in the final minute ended when he was intercepted by Tre Boston just inside Los Angeles territory.

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OCT. 9, 2017

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FOOTBALL

Tech finds success with team unity

By ALEXA BOUTWELL Sports Editor

This season, the No. 24 Texas Tech Red Raiders’ chemistry on both ends of the field has been on full display with four wins in five games.

The Red Raiders have performed well to give Tech a 4-1 overall record and a 1-1 record in conference play, according to tech Athletics.

Tech’s most recent win came on Saturday, Oct. 8, when the Red Raiders defeated the Kansas Jayhawks by a considerable margin, 65-19, in Lawrence, Kansas.

The gap between Tech’s scoring drives and the opponents’ lack of being able to mimic the Red Raiders’ momentum shows what this team can do when both the offense and defense are working hard on the ball, Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury said.

“I really like how each side of the football played off each other and rising up the same time and all the turnovers, all the big stops feeds our offense,” Kingsbury said, “and when our offense scores, it feeds our defense.

That’s when you can really start having some success.”

On offense, senior quarterback Nic Shimonek had a pass completion rate of 79

FILE PHOTO/The Daily Toreador

LEFT: Texas Tech junior defensive backs Jah’shawn Johnson and Kisean Allen tackle Kansas sophomore quarterback Carter Stanley in the Red Raiders’ 65-19 win over the Jayhawks on Saturday, Oct. 8, 2017, in Lawrence, Kansas.

ABOVE: Texas Tech senior quarterback Nic Shimonek throws the ball in the 41-34 loss to No. 14 Oklahoma State on Saturday, Sept.

30, 2017, at Jones AT&T Stadium.

Courtesy of The University Daily Kansan

percent for 233 yards and one touchdown, according to Tech Athletics. Along with Shimonek, sophomore quarterback McLane Carter got in some reps throwing 3-3 for 57 yards and one touchdown.

The receiving core saw plenty of action with nine Red Raider receivers seeing action on the field. The three receiving touchdowns against Kansas came from junior KeKe Coutee, senior Derrick Willies and sophomore Quan Shorts.

Shorts had one of the

longest touchdown receptions of the game in the first quarter as Tech was up, 140. Shimonek found Shorts wide open downfield for a 37-yard touchdown pass.

This marked Shorts’ first touchdown this season.

Shorts said the touchdown was almost like a dream as he was not fully aware of the ball at the time. However, he came up with the play and was happy with the result.

“I didn’t have any awareness of where I was at the time,” Shorts said, “but I just

caught it and leaned back with it. It was a good play.

I’m happy it went like that.”

Another aspect on the offensive end utilized against Kansas was Tech’s successful run game, which is something Kingsbury has stressed on during the last few weeks. After the loss to Oklahoma State, Kingsbury addressed the media and said if the team cannot run the ball, then success will be limited in conference play.

“We’ve just got to get better. If we want to have success in the Big 12, all the teams that have won our league have run the ball effectively,” Kingsbury said.

“We didn’t (against the Cowboys), and we just have to improve upon that.”

The Red Raiders did just that against Kansas with a combined 313 rushing yards in 52 total attempts along with five touchdowns, according to Tech Athletics.

Many running backs displayed their ability to find success on the field. Senior Justin Stockton recorded 161 yards in 15 attempts and one touchdown. Stockton was the first Red Raider to get points on the board as he ran in a 13-yard touchdown in the first quarter to take the lead, 7-0.

“When we get the chance

to run the ball, we have to run it as if it’s our eighth carry,” Stockton said. “Just trust the process and know that we have to work hard every day, and we can get the chance to show that we can run the ball.”

Junior running back Desmond Nisby tallied four of the five total rushing touchdowns and recorded 93 yards in 11 attempts, according to Tech Athletics. Nisby extended the Red Raider lead in the first quarter with a 47yard touchdown to further Tech’s lead to 14-0.

It was not just the offense that came up with scoring drives, as the Red Raider defense also found the end zone in the third quarter after sophomore Justus Parker forced a fumble and recovered the ball for a 20-yard touchdown to make the score, 42-19, in favor of Tech.

“Just dropping in coverage,” Parker said. “We work on stripping the ball every day in practice. It’s just what our defense does. Our identity is getting the ball.

So, all I was thinking about was stripping the ball and getting it out.”

In total, Tech’s defense recorded 65 total tackles and 51 solo tackles, according to Tech Athletics. The Red Raiders also came up with

one sack, two interceptions, one quarterback hurry and two forced fumbles.

Parker said the defense has improved this season because of the coaching style of defensive coordinator David Gibbs.

“T h at ’s c om pl et e ly coach Gibbs. It’s what he puts into our heads every single day in practice,” Parker said. “It’s what he does. It’s what his defense does, and it’s what we do.”

After the combined effort from the Red Raider offense and defense, Tech defeated Kansas, 65-19, to record the first conference win of the season.

Kingsbury said this is what he expects from his team every game and the fact that both the offense and defense did their jobs well shows the improvements made as the season continues.

“I felt like a few times this year, we let teams get back in it, and this is a time where we didn’t,” Kingsbury said. “We got a big lead there in the second half. They tried to come back, and defensively, we turned them over, got that big fumble recovery for a touchdown. So, that was encouraging to see: When we had an opportunity to finish it, we finished it.” @ABoutwellDT

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