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Senior linebacker Jordyn Brooks chases down the Cowboys’ quarterback during the game against Oklahoma State University on Oct. 5, 2019 at Jones AT&T Stadium. The Red Raiders defeated the Cowboys, 45-35.

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Brooks steps up as leader, star player for Tech’s defense

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After Texas Tech football’s 4535 win against No. 21 Oklahoma State, senior linebacker Jordyn Brooks earned national attention after stuffing the stat sheet in the upset on Saturday.

Brooks finished the game with a career-high 19 tackles and four tackles for loss, according to Tech Athletics. The linebacker also recorded three sacks, one quarterback hit and forced one fumble against the Cowboys.

“I thought Jordyn (Brooks) did a really really good job of adding in and even had a couple of opportunities to have 21 tackles and a

couple more TFLs in that game on the quarterback alone,” defensive coordinator Keith Patterson said.

Following the upset against Oklahoma State, Brooks was honored with several weekly awards. Brooks started the week off being named the Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week, according to Tech Athletics. The senior then accumulated many more honors as he was named the Bronko Nagurski Trophy Award Player of the Week, Dave Campbell’s Coverboy of the Week and was also selected to Pro Football Focus College’s Big 12 Defensive Team of the Week. “(Brooks) is the complete package,” Patterson said. “He’s athletic, he’s smart. I like him because he’s quiet. The guy just

is a sponge. He’s really bought in, he’s physical, he’s athletic, He is a complete linebacker.”

In the four games before Oklahoma State, Brooks recorded 41 tackles and 6.5 tackles for loss, according to Tech Athletics. Brooks also recorded five quarterback hits and recovered one fumble, but did not record a single sack.

“Where (Brooks) has really grown probably over the course of the first five weeks is studying the game plan, and I think you see the potential for him to continue to get better and I think that’s what excites him, that his better days are in front of him,” Patterson said.

With Brooks leading the team in tackles, tackles for loss and

sacks, Patterson said the senior linebacker recorded 56 points on the production board. It was the most points Patterson said he has ever seen a linebacker record, as a good defensive game would result in around 15 to 20 points.

“I’ve never seen 56 points on a production board and that was with three missed tackles, two or three missed assignments, which are minus two points apiece,” Patterson said. “I mean honestly, he blew the production board completely out, which like I said, I’ve never seen anything and we’ve been using this production board for years. I mean, at least over 20 years.”

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As the need for child therapeutic care increases, Texas Tech and the University Medical Center are working to offer services to alleviate this issue and educate prospective therapists.

The Children’s Behavioral Health Clinic, which Tech and UMC partnered to develop, is a facility within the UMC Children’s Hospital aimed at providing therapeutic services to children, adolescents and families who have faced a traumatic event.

Dr. Brian Payne, chief medical officer for UMC Children’s Hospital, said people can self-refer or doctors can refer patients to the clinic, which is open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday in Suite 250 in UMC Medical Office Plaza I located at 3502 9th St. One can call 806-742-3074 for more information.

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event is one goal Payne said the staff hopes to achieve.

“The point of the clinic is that it is a very open clinic. It’s not like a doctor’s office,” he said.

“We have more couches and stuff like that. The rooms are purposefully very light-filled.

So, it’s meant to be a comfortable environment to provide that counseling and support.”

Even though the clinic focuses on patients less than 18 years old, Payne said the clinic is available for the community to fulfill a need for psychological care. For those who are concerned about financial aspects of the services, he said the people working at the clinic do not want finances to be a burden, so they will work with families depending on their need.

UMC is a regional trauma center that helps people from surrounding counties and some surrounding states, Payne said. Because of the number of patients that have come to UMC due to a traumatic injury, Payne said the need for more psychological care became more apparent.

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The Children’s Behavioral Health Clinic is available for appointments. Texas Tech and University Medical Center partnered together to establish the clinic. One of the rooms used for appointments on Sept. 30, at the University Medical Center.

Former Texas Tech student Hollis Daniels III has remained in law enforcement custody for two years for his alleged role in the shooting death of Tech Police Department Officer Floyd East Jr. on Oct. 9, 2017. Carmen East, the wife of the late officer, filed a civil lawsuit on Friday, DANIELS III Oct. 4, 2019, during the last days in the statute of limitations for her to file a lawsuit.

Carmen East filed a civil lawsuit against Daniels on Friday Oct. 4, 2019 for over $1 million.

The filing of the lawsuit just shy of the two-year anniversary was just within the two-year statute of limitations in the state of Texas for civil lawsuits.

C a r m e n E a s t ’s lawsuit claims she is entitled to recover wrongful death and survival damages as against defendant for his actions. She also claims she is EAST JR. entitled to recover and seeks loss of society; loss of advice and council; loss of companionship; loss of services; funeral expenses; mental anguish; exemplary damages; counseling bills and survival damages for the pain and mental anguish suffered by Floyd East, Jr., all of this is listed in article six of the civil lawsuit.

Since the release of the civil lawsuit, a gag order has been put into place preventing anyone involved with the case from discussing it with the media or the public.

“If there’s a gag order on it, then there is not anything that we would be able to share at this point,” Michelle Moore, the Executive Assistant to the District Attorney, said.

Individuals from law offices including Boerner, Dennis & Franklin; Payne, Powell & Truitt; and Kerby & Wade declined to comment on the case and general timeline questions. The Lubbock District Attorney and Jeffrey Haag, the lead attorney in the indictment for a stolen weapon, were both unavailable to comment.

On Oct. 9, 2017, the Tech campus was placed on lockdown beginning at 8:23 p.m. At 8:51 p.m., a follow-up message was sent stating the situation was ongoing and advised those on campus to stay on lockdown, followed by another update at 9:20 p.m. stating the subject shot an officer and fled on foot. The all-clear message came an hour and 11 minutes after the original TechAlert at 9:34 p.m.

Daniels, at the time a 19-yearold living in suite 134C at Talkington Hall, was taken into custody after allegedly being in possession of a controlled substance, according to Lubbock Police documents from Oct. 9, 2017. Tech PD transported Daniels back to the Tech Police Department where Officer East was completing booking paperwork for Daniels’ arrest for a controlled substance.

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 “As we see the various significant injuries they suffer, we did realize that we needed to intervene further on the behavioral health aspect,” he said regarding reasons why the clinic came to fruition. “Our physicians will treat broken bones, head injuries and other things like that. But we realized that the families dealing with long-term injuries or even the children dealing with acute injuries and having potential psychological difficulties afterwards was something that we were really worried about.”

Despite the development of the clinic being a year-long process, Payne said UMC has partnered with Tech many times in the past.

“We have, for multiple years, been supporting the psychology department. Their students do clinical hours here, and they work with our patients, and so, the Ph.D. department aspect of child psychology has been here in our hospital for a few years where we’ve stipend them and provided financial support,” he said regarding how UMC has worked with Tech departments.

“Then, we reached out to the Couples, Marriage and Family Therapy group to see if we could branch into having extra support for the families in addition to individual therapy.”

Through previous partnerships with Tech departments, Payne said inpatient services

were provided. Since this aspect of medical care was well established, he said UMC wanted to focus on outpatient treatment as well.

“Here in the hospital, they are only here for a few days, but some of these children need months of follow-up and care and counseling and support,” he said. “So, from that standpoint, we ended up talking to both of these groups, and they were very eager to help us create a system where the children, now at this point, can go out there, and they kind of work out on the outpatient setting whether they need individual therapy more, do they need family therapy more.”

Over the few months of providing services to the community, Payne said the clinic’s focus has expanded to patients who may be enduring suicidal ideation or chronic depression, not just those who have faced a traumatic event or injury.

In addition to patients, students involved in the Tech Department of Psychological Sciences or the Tech Couple, Marriage and Family Therapy program could benefit.

Nicole Piland, associate professor of practice in the Tech Couple, Marriage and Family Therapy program, said even though the clinic’s services have been available for a few months, over a year’s worth of planning went into establishing the clinic and learning how to fulfill the needs of patients and students working to get into the

therapy field.

“The other component is that, in time, we plan to pursue a variety of different grant funds to sustain the project,” she said. “At this point, the pediatric trauma patient-families are going to get services for free in the outpatient clinic. We want to be able to continue to offer those services for free, but we will need to secure grant funding to maintain that project and be able to provide a physical space for those services to be offered.”

What we do as systemic therapists is we treat not just the individual but the expanded system as well CAMERON BROWN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR Regardless of this obstacle, Piland said a lot of collaboration has taken place to make this clinic possible.

“Dr. Brian Payne has spearheaded this project in building a collaboration between the Couple, Marriage and Family Therapy program and the Psychology program as well to create on-site screening while the patient-families are in house, in the hospital,” she said. “We’ve built a team to do the assessments while they’re hospitalized, and then we have the Children’s

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 “(Corporal Tyler Snelson) advised Officer East was completing paperwork at the computers in the briefing room,” according to Lubbock Police documents from Oct. 9, 2017. “Officer East was facing the computers while Hollis Daniels was facing in the opposite direction. … were slightly offset from each other. At the time Hollis Daniels was not wearing handcuffs.”

Corporal Snelson then left the briefing room and went to an office nearby, according to Lubbock Police documents from Oct. 9, 2017.

Shortly after, he heard a bang from the briefing room.

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Behavioral Health Clinic to provide outpatient services for those who need it after discharge.”

UMC physicians conduct the physical care, while Tech faculty contribute to implementation of service delivery and other research elements, Piland said.

Graduate students will go to each room to make assessments of the patients and make referrals for outpatient services.

“This gives them a specific training opportunity to work in an integrated care situation where we’re merging medical and mental health needs,” she said regarding students working at the doctoral level. “And that gives them a specialty area that they get exposure and training around as they move forward with their career, and then having the faculty involvement, we provide training and supervision of their work.”

Along with benefitting the students, who are getting experience by serving patients, Piland said this partnership with UMC will benefit Tech in other ways.

“The research side of it is also going to be a component where we are going to collect data on the patient-families,” she said. “When they enter the outpatient clinic, we will assess them at that point, provide therapeutic services and reassess them towards the middle of their care and probably again towards the termination point of therapeutic services.”

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ing multiple opportunities for aspiring therapists and other interested students, the need for child therapeutic care may be an issue some people hope to relieve.

Cameron Brown, assistant professor in the CMFT program, said across the nation, millions of children struggle with mental and behavioral health issues which can lead to poor performance in school and other consequences. Only a fraction of them receive treatment.

“There are many things that get in the way of treatment,” he said regarding the stigma of children and families that feel treatment is embarrassing.

The lack of access is the second obstacle Brown said prevents people, especially those in rural communities, from receiving therapeutic services.

“We want to make sure what we’re offering is effective,” he said. “We want to ensure that the way we are offering therapy through teletherapy, maybe through new interventions, is actually reducing health concerns among adolescent kiddos.”

To provide effective therapeutic care, Brown said therapists at the clinic are utilizing systemic therapy methods and community-based participatory research.

“We see that individual as part of a more complex system that has maybe a parent or parents, siblings, friends, schoolteachers, neighbors, community members,” he said regarding systemic treatment. “What we

do as systemic therapists is we treat not just the individual but the expanded system as well.”

CBPR is a method Brown said consists of working with other professionals.

“We as researchers partner with stakeholders within the community about what works to help reduce post-traumatic stress,” he said. “We will be partnering with successful patients, we will be partnering with doctors, we will be partnering with nurses, interns, other people that will be working at the hospital.”

One idea that poses issues for patients and some medical professionals is that medical care, social care and mental care are separate entities that never interconnect and need to be handled individually.

“We are hoping to bridge that,” he said. “So, we not only have our medical professionals that we are coordinating with, we not only have our social professionals, us, being able to help with relational aspects and also our mental health. It’s all one together.”

Through a collaborated effort, Brown said he hopes the clinic’s services will benefit many patients.

“That’s what really makes this clinic unique, especially to the Lubbock area and abroad,” he said. “This truly is a collaboration between many professionals, not just one. We don’t see ourselves as siloed.”

no longer in the room.

“Officer East’s police body camera was missing and Officer East’s pistol was in his holster,” according to Lubbock Police documents from Oct. 9, 2017.

“Hollis Daniels was located near 2720 Drive of Champions, City Bank Coliseum, where he was subsequently taken into custody.”

When Daniels was taken into custody, a loaded .45 caliber pistol was found near his person in a box with other refuse, according to Lubbock Police documents from Oct. 9, 2017.

Daniels stated to officers that he was the one that shot their friend, that he “f***ed up,” then stated that he did “something illogical”.

Immediately on Oct. 9, 2017, an arrest warrant was filed for Daniels for

intentionally or knowingly causing the death of Floyd East Jr. by shooting him, according to the arrest warrant. Daniels’ original bond was set for $5 million on a felony charge of capital murder of a police officer/firefighter.

In the following days, The Grand Jury of the United States of America charged Daniels with one count of Possession of a Stolen Firearm, according to court documents from 2017. The firearm was later found to be a Springfield Model XD45, a .45 caliber semi-automatic pistol.

With over two years since the filing of federal charges, the right to a speedy trial may be an important aspect in Daniels’ case.

“That’s not unusual,” Patrick Metze, a professor of law and Director of Criminal Clinics, said. “You have to assert your speedy trial right. You have to say ‘hey, I’ve got a right. I want a trial right now.’”

There are several requirements to exercise the courts review a speedy trial violation under, Metze said. One of those things they look at is whether or not one has been asking for a trial.

If there is one place Daniels can get a speedy

trial, it is federal courts, Metze said.

After changing lawyers’ multiple times, Daniels still has not been tried.

“When you change horses, it takes a while to get the horse running again,” Metze said. “If he changes lawyers that’ll slow it up.”

Ta c t i c a l l y t h e r e a r e some reasons why one does not want to get in a hurry most times, Metze said.

Time generally works in the defendant’s favor. The whole reason for a speedy trial is based in the way people were treated in the 18th century. “(Carmen East’s) civil case will run independently of the criminal case,” Metze said. “It’ll have a different court, it’ll have a different schedule, what’ll happen will happen at different times, they will run totally independent of each other.”

They should not have any effect on each other, Metze said.

“There are ways that he can assert his right to a speedy trial on that capital murder,” Metze said. “He has not done so. Doesn’t mean he’s waved it but it means that I don’t see anything to indicate that he is beating the drum to go to court.”

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Writing, typing notes presents pros, cons

By MIGUEL JUNCO Staff Writer

When observing the average classroom, one would be hard-pressed to not find students utilizing their computers to take notes. However, this sheds light on a rising question: is it better to write longhand or type?

Lyombe Eko, a professor of Journalism and Creative Media Industries, said he prepares his lectures in a summarized form and advocates his students write by hand, as he says that writing is a natural form of interacting with the material.

“A lot of students are used to the passive way of learning were the it’s the professor’s authority who pours knowledge into them and they are supposed to memorize and regurgitate it back,” Eko said. “I don’t like that type of educational system. I believe professors are only as good as their students, good students keep professors on their toes and have an exchange were there is something learned.”

Eko said the brain gets confused with the bombardment of information when someone tries to balance a multitude of subjects and external factors such as television or computers.

Technology can be a distraction to students who receive an email or message from a social media platform during class, he said. It causes them to attempt to become multitaskers.

“The human mind is designed to be a serial tasker, not a multitasker. The notetaking method is taking things one at a time, taking key words and creating summaries with them,” Eko said. “When it comes to the time of recall, it is easy because you just think about the prompt.”

On the other side of the spectrum, Chloe Killebrew, a communication studies bachelor and current graduate student, said from a student’s perspective, typing on a computer can be preferable due to the speed difference between writing longhand and typing.

The way a student takes their notes is dependent on their preference, she said.

As a Teaching Assistant, she said she would never restrict a student from their own method of note-taking.

“As a student, in most of my classes, I prefer to type my notes out,” Killebrew said. “I feel that I can type faster than I would be able to write down notes.”

The style of note-taking is dependent on the course material, Killebrew said.

One example is a class she takes which is more theoretical based, requiring more diagrams and overall making written notes the more effective method.

Due to the manner in which typing may cause a disconnection between the material and the student, as previously stated by Eko, Killebrew has for-

mulated methods to assist with studying her typed notes, said.

“If it’s a PowerPoint, I will be taking notes and making a line so that I can have my own personal notes next to it,” she said. “I like to print out my notes afterwards, I like to highlight and have an outline of them. I use a kind of bulletin format, that way I can space it.”

Killebrew said that if a student does prefer to type their notes, there are simple yet effective countermea-

sures to prevent distractions such as turning their phones on Do Not Disturb mode, puting their phones away, and turning off messages if there are Mac users in case of Alerts.

Jacob Merrell Greenwell, a junior advertising major from Dallas, said that the first part of typing one’s notes is having a computer to type with, an option that may not be available to every student.

Greenwell went on to explain the downsides to

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Lime-S scooters are available for public ride sharing on the Texas Tech campus on 10 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 4, 2019. Lime-S was launched on campus on November 7, 2019 at Memorial Circle.

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Lime, a scooter and bike rental service, will celebrate a full year of being available on the Texas Tech campus.

In Lime’s year at Tech, changes have been implemented to efficiently incorporate Lime as a mode of transportation on campus.

Neil Kilcrease, assistant director of Tech Transportation and Parking Services, said there are approximately 1,000 scooters in Lubbock during the spring and fall semesters.

“During the summer, they scale them down because the students aren’t here,” Kilcrease said. “So, when they redeployed them in August, 50 percent of the fleet was new.”

Nick Barber, general manager for Lime Northwest Texas, said scooters removed from Tech are repaired and either sent back to Tech before the fall semester or moved to different markets and replaced with new scooters.

Part of Lime’s agreement with Tech requires the company to manage daily scooter pickups, Barber said. During these pickups, Lime employees in vans charge and perform maintenance on scooters.

Along with these maintenance teams, Barber said Lime has employees at Tech who make sure scooters are parked at bike racks and the 15 parking boxes on campus.

When selecting locations for parking boxes, Stacy Stockard, media relations coordinator for Tech TPS, said the department worked with Lime and Tech Grounds Maintenance to place designated Lime parking areas in busy areas.

“We want them to be a good tool for our campus community, and part of when you use them is being a good part of that community too,” she said. “Make sure when you’re done, park them in

their designated areas.”

In addition to looking at busy areas, Kilcrease said TPS decides where to put parking boxes based on where riders are leaving scooters. Students who notice scooters parked in unauthorized areas can submit a complaint using the Lime app and the scooter’s identification number.

Regarding the report of violations, Kilcrease said Lime will implement changes to benefit the blind. In three weeks, Lime is expecting to launch a program putting braille stickers on scooters.

“The scooters will have the number to Lime’s call center in Braille where scooters can be reported by location,” Kilcrease said.

Patrick Flynn, director of university relations at Lime, which will operate

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typing. He said that by writing out their notes, students are not only studying and interacting with the material during class, but also have the same benefit as those who type and can access their notes later.

Greenwell said one reason for his preference for writing is penmanship.

He said in his younger years his handwriting was lacking and though, it is a digitalized world, writing is a fundamental component of society.

“I can type faster than I can write,” Greenwell said.

“Many would ask, ‘well, why not type then?’ I primarily write because half the time I am comprehending what I am doing. When you are typing a ‘y’, you don’t know if you are typing a ‘y’, ‘a,’ or ‘d,’ all you know is that you are making a word. When you actually think about the letter itself, you comprehend what you are writing and are studying the courses material at the same time.” @MiguelJuncoDT

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few days ago, renowned director Martin Scorsese spoke to Empire magazine regarding the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and his thoughts on the series as a whole. He surprised the interviewer by completely denying the MCU’s status as a piece of cinema.

Scorsese is well known in the film community for his additions to the Italian-American filmmaker history that, to this day, continue to be timeless classics (e.g. “Taxi Driver”, “Goodfellas”).

Scorsese has a career that spans more than 50 years of filmmaking and has 81 Academy Award nominations for his works with 20 wins under his belt.

Needless to say, Scorsese is a veteran of the industry and has built up his reputation of knowing the

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intricacies of great filmmaking and whether or not a movie deserves the reputation it has.

Back in April of this year, Marvel Studios released its 22nd film in its Marvel Cinematic Universe and the final film in “The Infinity Saga,” “ Av e n g e r s : E n d g a m e . ” This film received critical acclaim and was called “a feat of engineering” and “a masterpiece” by reviewers on Rotten Tomatoes.

When Scorsese was asked by the interviewer his thoughts on the 22nd MCU film, he responded very negatively saying that he had not seen it and

would never do so. When asked why, he responded that “the closest I can think of them is theme parks” and added that the MCU is not cinema because it does not “convey emotional, psychological experiences to another human being.”

This response immediately went viral within the Marvel Studios family with names such as James Gunn, Karen Gillian and Samuel L. Jackson responding on twitter and in interviews.

Gunn responded on Twitter very humbly saying that Scorsese is one of his favorite filmmakers and said that he is criticizing a movie that he has never seen, the same thing people did to Scorsese’s adaptation of “The Last Temptation of Christ.” Gillian added onto this saying that “cin-

ema is storytelling with visuals” and that “there’s so much heart and soul, and it’s [James Gunn’s] soul in there.”

Looking at it now, I concluded that this is a result of the generational gap and how differently a person like myself and a person like Scorsese see cinema as a whole.

Despite disagreeing, Samuel L. Jackson acknowledged the fact that Scorsese is entitled to his own opinion. Jackson told CBS News that “films are films” and added that “everybody doesn't like his stuff either.”

When I read Scorsese’s comments, I was immediately taken aback by the idea that one of my favorite filmmakers had disliked one of my favorite franchises. I had grown up with these movies and the characters in them. To hear that they were not considered proper cinema by one of my favorite filmmakers made me question whether or not these movies that I loved had been just a money ploy to blow up the box office. To some extent, I know it is, but it still hurts.

Looking at it now, I concluded that this is a result of the generational gap and how differently a person like myself and a person like Scorsese see cinema as a whole. In reality, the way we see cinema happens to be exactly the same minus one factor: runtime.

Scorsese grew up and looked at filmmaking as a work of literature that would only take up one film, filled to the brim with inner or man versus man conflict. I always s a w m y f a v o r i t e c h a racters and stories span into multiple movie contracts and franchises that would have characterbuilding elements spread out through the connected storyline. “Avengers: Endgame” is no different.

If a person looks at the entire MCU as one long movie, they will be able to see the character growth and psychological effects on said characters.

These actors and directors dedicate themselves to their projects and when it has character turmoil and inner conflict, then it is cinema, according to Scorsese. @MGutierrezDT

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ultiple faculty members at Texas Tech come from foreign countries or did not grow up speaking English. With perseverance, these individuals learned a second language to become educators in Lubbock, which is an achievement that needs to be respected rather than ridiculed when miscommunication arises in the classroom.

Despite these professors’ efforts to start a new chapter in their lives, when they have a thick accent, some students react with intolerance, as they feel they

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cannot learn from someone they cannot understand.

There have been many moments on campus where I would overhear students attributing their failure or confusion in a class to their professor with a thick accent. This blame would sometimes be linked with insensitive jokes regarding how that professor speaks.

It is reasonable if a student feels they cannot learn effectively from someone who has an accent that is difficult to comprehend, but that does not mean a professor should be disrespected because he or she cannot be as easily understood.

Being bitter toward an educator and their grasp of English, regardless of that educator’s position or education level, is disrespectful.

Someone who is making an effort to speak a foreign language and follow the social norms of a foreign country is going to struggle and not present themselves clearly at

times, which is why people need to be open-minded about the struggles the person may be facing.

If someone were to tell me about a person who came to America to pursue their passion and share it with students, I would think that person should be respected. Unfortunately, some students do not share the same sentiments.

At Tech, faculty members, staff members and students have the right to educational and job opportunities no matter their grasp of the English language.

Since I never had to move to another country or learn another culture to communicate with people, I as a student feel I have no right to speak to the struggles of a professor who is practicing the English language.

This mindset definitely applies to college professors, as not only does a faculty member from another country have to learn an-

other language, but they also have to teach a subject in a new language.

Now, one may be wondering why a person not experienced in English wants to teach at a university in the U.S. that consists of mostly English-speaking students, faculty and staff. I do not know why, as there could be a variety of reasons for each professor.

Whether it be because of social or political issues in their home country or the opportunities for stability in America, a professor may not have had a choice in moving to America. If one moves to America and has the necessary experience to teach in a specific field, teaching may be the best and only route that will provide them stability and fulfillment.

Everyone has the right to do what is best for them, and sometimes, that consists of facing obstacles, such as navigating a new country and learning to speak another language.

At Tech, faculty members, staff members and students have the right to educational and job opportunities no matter their grasp of the English language.

I can write all day about how a student

should be open-minded regarding the difficulties a teacher has to deal with when learning another language. But when one’s grade is on the line, putting the blame on an outside factor may be a student’s first reaction, which is not okay.

Taking the time to speak individually with the professor or posing a question during class are ways students can work to further understand what the teacher is trying to say.

O b v i o u s l y, w h e n a teacher has a thick accent, learning can be hindered, as it will take students time to understand what the teacher means and how they pronounce certain English words.

When a student quickly condemns the professor and the way they teach their class, that is when issues arise.

Taking the time to speak individually with the professor or posing a ques-

tion during class are ways students can work to further understand what the teacher is wanting to say.

I do not know how many times I have sat in a class, and students just look at each other when a professor with an accent says something that is unclear.

Even if students are making efforts to meet with the faculty member, and no progress is being made, the first action should not be to criticize the educator for their shortcomings in communication. If one cannot rely on his or her professor, multiple tutoring resources and supplemental instruction resources are available on campus.

No matter the situation, no one should be disrespected because they cannot get their point across during an initial conversation or cannot say an English word correctly.

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Harvard teaches America a lesson in diversity—without discriminating When all is right with the universe, Harvard beats Yale. And now my alma mater has beaten the rap.

As you may have noticed, the merit system is constantly on trial these days. Whether it is wealthy parents cheating the college admissions process with bribes and fraud to get their kids a spot, or the children of politicians trading on their names to get lucrative consulting deals, evidence is piling up that suggests your parents were right when they said: “It’s not what you know, but who you know.”

In a federal courthouse in Boston, Harvard stood accused of intentionally discriminating against Asian Americans to make room for less-qualified African Americans and Latinos. Whatever “qualified” means.

A new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research found that a whopping 43 percent of white students admitted to Harvard fell into one or more of four categories:

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There’s the real preferential treatment. Where is the lawsuit against these beneficiaries?

Exhibit A is Jared Kushner. The first sonin-law is a member of Harvard’s Class of 2003.

It probably didn’t hurt his chances that his father had donated $2.5 million to the university.

The study, which looked at admissions data from 2009 to 2014, also found that roughly 75 percent of the white students admitted from those four categories would have been rejected if not for those designations.

These days, students of color also fall into those categories. Yet, in those cases, the percentages drop dramatically. With African Americans, Latinos and Asian Americans, less than 16 percent of those admitted had those designations.

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Sorry, America. But we’re not post-racial yet.

The plaintiffs were a group of Asian Americans rejected by Harvard who banded together as “Students for Fair Admissions” and who were led by a white conservative activist who has long railed against affirmative action. They were always going to have a steep legal climb.

Does Harvard consider Asian American students inferior because of their race? Of course not. Does it exclude them wholesale as a group based on that shared characteristic?

That’s ridiculous.

So, pray tell, where’s the racism? Moreover, where’s the negative impact?

Put simply: It’s hard to make a credible argument that a given characteristic is keeping someone out of a place when that place has a sizable number of people who have that same characteristic.

This is the same problem white males always had in litigating claims that they were victims of

reverse discrimination — when they get the lion’s share of seats in colleges and graduate schools, academic fellowships, highpaying jobs, promotions, corporate board appointments, federal court nominations — and newspaper gigs. Victimhood may be the only thing white males aren’t good at.

In 2017, Asian Americans made up 5.9 percent of the U.S. population.

In the Class of 2023, according to Harvard’s admissions office, 25.4 percent of students are Asian American. If you’re Asian American and didn’t get into Harvard, it was quite possibly one of your own who took your seat.

Not surprisingly, and in fact quite logically, Judge Allison Burroughs ruled that while Harvard does consider the race and ethnicity of applicants, it colors within the lines of what is permitted by the Constitution. And, the judge found, the university does not intentionally discriminate against Asian Americans.

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Next stop? It’s likely the Supreme Court, where four of the nine justices are graduates of Harvard Law School — and about the same number have previously expressed concerns about affirmative action.

Don’t be surprised if the high court produces some high drama over this case.

When merit is on trial, fairness counts for a lot.

But the deliberations must also include honesty and common sense.

You would think that the poster boy for someone who gets a free ride through life without earning it would be an ultraconnected white male like Hunter Biden or Donald Trump Jr. But, for many people — especially white people in both political parties — it’s still a Mexican American kid at Princeton.

No one should be penalized or treated as inferior because of their race, ethnicity or skin color.

Throughout U.S. history, we’ve had quite enough of that rubbish. We don’t need more.

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Solano works on mental toughness, confidence

By JAY STRADER Staff Writer

Junior libero Emerson Solano has played in 272 sets and counting for the Texas Tech volleyball team since enrolling at the university in 2017.

Solano, who played volleyball at Amarillo high school, took home many high school and club accolades during her junior and senior seasons. She was placed on the 2016 MaxPreps All-American First Team her senior year of high school and led Amarillo to a state title, according to Tech Athletics.

Solano came in and made an immediate impact for the Red Raiders her freshman year. She played in 96 sets and recorded 171 digs in her playing time and was a big part of Tech’s run to the National Invitational Volleyball Championship game, according to Tech Athletics stats.

Solano started playing volleyball when she was 11 years old, she said. Her P.E. teacher told her she should tryout for a club team and she has been playing ever since.

“My P.E. teacher asked me to come tryout for the club team, and I didn’t even know what club volleyball was,” Solano said.

“Then I made the 12-national travel team. So, that’s how I got started.”

The libero position in volleyball comes with high expectations, she said.

The position is given to the player with the best defensive skills and has to dig out the ball in order to get the offense started.

“Being the libero basically means you’re one of the best defensive players on the team and one of the best passers. So, that comes with (having) the first touch on the ball.

Like, if you don’t get a touch then you really can’t get a good set and get a good hit. So, it’s kinda on my shoulders,” Solano said. “I have to get up a ball that’s good enough for my setter so she can give our hitters a good ball.”

Solano has 873 digs

so far in her Tech career, 260 of which have already been recorded this year, according to the stats.

The Red Raiders are averaging 12.41 assists per set this year, a result of Solano and her backcourt mates passing the ball to their setters.

“I just gotta make splashy plays,” Solano said. “(A splash) is a crazy ball that you didn’t think that they could get up.”

This is Solano’s second season as the team’s main libero. Last season, she ranked second in the Big 12, averaging 4.06 digs per set, according to the stats. Solano said she had to make adjustments to mentally prepare to play this position.

“I’ve never played libero. This is my second y e a r ( p l a y i n g t h e p osition) and I’ve never played this position as long as I’ve played volleyball,” Solano said.

“So, the biggest adjustment was the mental game. Cause it doesn’t look hard, but it is and sometimes it’s easy but if you’re not mentally there than you can just jack it up super easy.

S o , i t ’s d e f i n i t e l y s u per mentally tough and I’ve to work a lot on my mental toughness and confidence this year.”

The Red Raiders had a speaker come talk to

them before the 2019 season started. Solano said the speech helped her confidence grow and help her find solutions to tough situations.

“I like to visualize what I’m gonna do right,” she said. “So, I’ll visualize me digging up a hitter or getting a good pass and I try to forget about my past mistakes as soon as they happen.”

The chemistry between Solano and the team has a role in the team’s success.

Solano said that the team does lots of little things together, like getting brunch before a Tech football game, or just hanging out at someone’s house. One team trip stood out to her as being the most fun.

“This summer, as soon as the new freshman got moved in, we went to Buffalo Springs Lake and we went to (the water park Altitude H2O). We had a ball. (The water park) is literal huge floaties on the water and you have a life jacket on and it’s like obstacles,” Solano said.

“You’re climbing up things and you’re just eating crap into the water. So, we just like doing things like that.”

Solano and the rest of the Red Raiders will travel to Ames, Iowa to take on Iowa State at 1 p.m. on Saturday.

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Junior defensive specialist Emerson Solano jumps up to hit the ball during the home season opener against Abilene Christian University at 6 p.m. Monday, Sept. 16, 2019. The Red Raiders defeated the Wildcats, 3-0. Tech is set to take on Iowa State in Ames, Iowa at 1 p.m. on Saturday.

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By ARIANNA FLORES Staff Writer

The Texas Tech soccer team has two goalies, junior Madison Zucchetto and freshman Madison White.

Both goalkeepers have multiple awards and victories with the Red Raiders.

Prior to coming to Tech, Zucchetto represented her home country, Canada, at the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup held in Jordan, according to Tech Athletics. She started in one match and was a part of a 3-2 victory over Cameroon.

Zucchetto has played in a total of 739 minutes so far this season and came onto the field this year after almost breaking a Big 12 record in the previous 2018 season, according to Tech Athletics. She was tied for first in single game shutouts with 14 and was only one away from breaking the all-time Big 12 record for shutouts.

Zucchetto earned three Big 12 awards for her time on the field and was the only Red Raider to accomplish this in the 2018 season, according to Tech Athletics. Zucchetto ended last season with a total of 183 minutes in the box and 58 saves.

Zucchetto is eighth in the Tech record books with 98 career saves.

This season, Zucchetto played and started in nine games so far and has recorded 16 saves and faced 49 shots, according to Tech Athletics. Zucchetto has

BROOKS

CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 Following his performance, senior defensive back Douglas Coleman III said Brooks’ success is because of his work ethic.

Brooks works hard in every practice and it shows in

only lost to one team, New Mexico, and has only allowed five balls to get past her into the goal.

“Zucchetto was a big leader on the field in terms of her voice she knows the box well she knows just how the backline works,” freshman defender Hannah Anderson said.

During the match against South Florida, Zucchetto collided with her opponent while defending the goal which resulted in face injury.

She was taken out of the game during the first half and has not played for the past four games, according to Tech Athletics.

“Our first priority is making sure every part of Zucchetto is back. Like physically she looked good, but was there any trepidation, was she flinching at any balls, was traffic a problem?” head coach Tom Stone said. “But none of that has been, this week has been great for Zucchetto because I think she feels like she is back.”

White has only played in four games this season and started in three. She stepped into the box after the injury Zucchetto suffered. Stone put her in during the second half of the match while Tech was winning 2-0. During that match alone, White recorded seven saves and faced 14 shots, both her seasonal highs so far, according to Tech Athletics.

When she got on the

field, Anderson said she saw White’s nervousness and told her to just be herself, an athletic goalkeeper who is good at making amazing saves.

“I think that was probably one the best games for her to come into just because the environment was great and we knew that this team was going to be coming at us pretty hard and she knew that it was her time,” Anderson said.

“I think everyone on the team really pumped her up and just gave her confidence to do really well.”

White has allowed only two goals to get past her into the goal, one from South Florida and another from Oklahoma, according to Tech Athletics. Still in her rookie season, White has faced 45 shots and saved 12 in only four games.

“Obviously Maddi has been playing great and has been recognized for those efforts,” Stone said.

These last three weeks, White has been acknowledged with three Big 12 awards for her time in the box for the Red Raiders. She earned back-to-back Freshman of the Week awards for the Big 12 and was given the Defensive Player of the week this week, according to Tech Athletics.

“We will make the decision (Wednesday). It’s not going to be big secret, or we aren’t going to unveil something. It’s just we have a lot of reasons to stay with the hot hand (White) and there is ex-

games, he said.

“When I prepare just a little bit harder than I did the week before, just practice a little bit harder it shows up on game day,” Brooks said. “That’s just something I like to take pride in. It’s something as a linebacker group, we all do

it. We got two days a week that we watch film at each others’ house and just try to get better.”

Heading into the game against his second straight ranked opponent, Oklahoma State’s Chuba Hubbard led the nation in rushing yards with 938 yards, ac-

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LEFT: Marissa Zucchetto prepares to punt the ball during the match against Oregon State at the John Walker Soccer Complex on September 9 2018. RIGHT: Junior goalkeeper Madison White walks off the field during practice at on Aug. 28, 2019 at the John B. Walker Soccer Complex. perience with the side of Zucchetto,” Stone said.

The Red Raiders travel to Morgantown for the

next match against West Vi r g i n i a a t 6 p . m . o n Thursday. This is Tech’s second conference game

away from Lubbock and are 2-0-1 in conference, according to Tech Athletics.

cording to the NCAA. With Brooks and the Red Raiders’ defense stepping up, Hubbard recorded just 156 rushing yards.

“I feel like when you feel like you the best, you want to go against the best.

You want to prove you the best,” Brooks said. “It was just a little more extra this week knowing that we had Oklahoma State. They got a great running back, great receiver, good quarterback.

We wanted to contain him as much as we could and I think we did that.”

Prior to his senior season, Brooks recorded 259 total tackles in three seasons as a Red Raider, according to Tech Athletics.

He also recorded 13 tackles for loss, 14 quarterback hits and four sacks before his senior season.

Before being hired, Wells said he heard about how great of a player Brooks was from coaches in the Big 12.

“I didn’t really watch much tape from last year,” Wells said. “I didn’t really have that, but I talked to some coaches that were

in this league and they all told me number one (Brooks), number one’s a dynamic player.”

Along with the Big 12 coaches, fellow senior offensive lineman Travis Bruffy said Brooks is one of the best linebackers he has seen. Bruffy added that no matter how good of a game the linebacker has, Brooks will never settle as he has high expectations for himself.

Aside from his statistics, Bruffy said Brooks is one of the biggest leaders on the team this season with the departure of Dakota Allen as he was drafted by the Los Angeles Rams.

“I mean, Dakota Allen was the best leader I’ve ever been around in my enter life. I thought we’d lack that, especially someone who knew the game as well as Dakota (Allen), who could lead people as well as Dakota (Allen) did,” Bruffy said. “Jordyn (Brooks) has stepped into the role seamlessly. Honestly, he’s progressed our defense a lot further than anyone could

have ever imagined.”

Following the loss to No. 6 Oklahoma on Sept.

28, the team had a player’s only meeting. While Bruffy said he did not want to discuss the details of the meeting, he said Brooks is a part of every positive change to the program.

“He is at the forefront of every positive change that this program is experiencing,” Bruffy said. “He takes all the responsibility, good and bad. So if there’s something that needs to be addressed, Jordyn (Brooks) is going to address it. I can’t speak for exactly what was said or what he said, but I can tell you that if there was a change to be made, he’s the one to do it.”

As he is one of three starting seniors on the defense, Brooks said he tried to step his game up against Oklahoma State to take the pressure off of the young defensive backs.

With Brooks helping lead the Red Raiders’ defense, Tech will travel to Waco to take on No. 22 Baylor on Saturday.

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