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Big 12 announces Tech, Oklahoma game kickoff time The Texas Tech Raiders will host the Oklahoma Sooners at 7 p.m. Oct. 22 at Jones AT&T Stadium. The game will be nationally televised on FOX, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

This is the eighth time since the 2015 season that the Red Raiders have kicked off at 6 p.m. or later.

Tech has yet to win against Oklahoma since the 2011 season, according to the release. The Sooners have a current win streak of four over Tech. Out of the 23 games the two teams have played against each other, Oklahoma has 17 wins over Tech’s four wins.

The Red Raiders have won three out of five games played against Oklahoma at Jones AT&T Stadium, according to the release.

Event starts off Homecoming week, announces court

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Raider Red and Saddle Tramp members perform a bell circle for students in attendance at the Homecoming Kick-Off on Monday at the Student Union Building North Plaza.

By ARIANNA AVALLE Staff Writer

he annual Homecoming Kick-Off was hosted from noon to 1 p.m. Monday by the Tech Activities Board at the North Plaza of the Student Union Building.

Last year’s Homecoming King Ben Sharp announced the names of the Royalty Candidates nominated for this year’s Homecoming court.

Sydney Notman, Homecoming Kick-Off and Rowdy Raider Rally chair for Tech Activities Board, said the Kick-Off is the first event of the Homecoming week. The purpose of the KickOff is to get everyone excited for the upcoming events.

“My favorite event of this week is bonfire which is happening on Friday night,” Notman

said. “A lot of alumni and locals go, and it is just a really great moment to be part of the Texas Tech community.”

Homecoming is a way for the alumni and students to come back together and celebrate Tech, she said. The events during the week are free and fun, so everybody is welcome to come.

Farah Mechref, a junior biochemistry major from Lubbock, said what she likes the most about Homecoming is the school spirit. For a whole week, Tech students get together and show their pride.

“A lot of times we go around this campus and we say we are Red Raiders, but I think that for this week we really prove it,” Mechref said. “We show ourselves and the student body who we are as Red Raiders and what actually means to have that pride in us.”

Mechref said she is looking forward to the Student Organization Sing event at 8 p.m. today in the United Supermarkets Arena. Mechref wants to see what the organizations have come up with in terms of creativity and skills.

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4 1. The 2016 royalty candidates hold their Guns Up during the Matador Song at the Homecoming Kick-Off. 2. Texas Tech Student Body President and last year’s Homecoming King Ben Sharp announces the 2016 Royalty Candidates at the kick off event. 3. The Masked Rider cheers along the Tech Cheer Squad during the Kick Off event. 4. A Tech cheerleader holds her Guns Up during the Matador Song at the Homecoming Kick-Off event on Monday.

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‘Making a Murderer’ lawyer discusses ethics, social issues

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Dean Strang, a lawyer known for his role in the "Making a Murder" Netflix series, speaks with the press after his lecture on Monday in the Texas Tech School of Law.

Dean Strang, a Wisconsin lawyer best known for his appearance in Netflix’s “Making a Murderer” series, guest lectured at noon Monday in the Texas Tech School of Law. “Making a Murderer” is a Netflix documentary about Steven Avery, who was convicted of rape and

attempted murder in 1985 and exonerated in 2003, according to a Netflix news release.

In 2005, Avery was charged with murder, according to the release, and the show follows the subsequent criminal case, including possible police misconduct and evidence tampering. Strang served as co-counsel on Avery’s defense team.

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The Texas Tech Meat Judging Team in the Department of Animal and Food Sciences has racked up another victory, continuing its long history of success.

The defending national champion Texas Tech Meat Judging Team in the Department of Animal and Food Sciences picked up an overall team victory Oct. 1 at the Eastern National Meat Judging Contest in Wyalusing, Pennsylvania.

Finishing with 4,183 points to win the overall team crown, Tech surpassed rival Texas A&M University by 11 points, while Big 12 Conference rival Oklahoma State University was third with 4,150 points, according to a Tech news release.

Angelo State University, a part of the Tech University System, finished fourth with 4,108 points, according to the release. Tech’s strong team showing was led by its firstplace finishes in the specifications and reasons/questions categories as well as its second-place finishes in beef judging, lamb judging and overall beef.

Jessica Humphrey, a senior from Okeechobee, Florida, led the way for Tech as the top individual performer with 1,067 points. Tommy Fletcher, a junior from La Vernia, finished sixth overall with 1,047 points, according to the release.

In the individual categories, Humphrey took first place in beef grading and specifications, second in overall beef and ninth in reasons/ questions. Fletcher took first in lamb judging and finished in the top 10 in beef grading and overall beef, according to the release.

Other notable performances from Tech came from Cole Perkins, a junior from Llano, who took first in pork judging and reasons/questions and fifth in specifications, and Kye Schwartz, a junior from Wall, who finished 10th in beef judging, according to the release. @ReeceNationsDT

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Industrial hemp workshop comes to campus, informs public on benefits

By NYDIA NATIVIDAD Staff Writer

The Texas Hemp Industries Association hosted an all-day workshop on Monday in the Matador Room of the Student Union Building, discussing the various uses and benefits of industrial hemp and educating people on the differences between hemp and marijuana.

“The only psychoactive attribute of the plant is tetrahydrocannabinol, known as THC,” Sheila Hemphill, policy and program director of Texas Hemp Industries Association, said. “When that THC concentration is 0.03 percent or less, it is not psychoactive, meaning that you do not get high off of hemp.”

Industrial hemp has many benefits in health, manufacturing and water conservation and is non-polluting to the environment or human body, she said.

The hemp plant altogether produces a commodity that can be used in food, fuel, plastics, clothing, building materials, paper, medicine and cosmetics, she said.

“The diversity of the products you can make from this and in 1938, they said that there were 25,000 different industrial applications,” Coleman Hemphill, executive director of Texas Hemp Industries Association, said.

Hemp seeds are 35 percent protein and highly digestible. The seeds have a near-perfect 3:1 ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acids, Sheila Hemphill said. Hemp seeds can also be used in food for livestock and feed for birds and fish.

While hemp oil can be used in the production of medicine, fuel, plastic

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Sheila Hemphill, program director of the Texas Hemp Industries Association, and Coleman Hemphill, executive director of the association, give a presentation on hemp and its benefits. The Texas Hemp Industries Association hosted a workshop and seminar about the uses and profitability of hemp on Monday in the Matador Room of the Student Union Building. and cosmetics, stalk fiber of hemp provides uses for textiles used to make clothing, Sheila Hemphill said. The stalk hurds can be used to make building materials for insulation, boards and concrete.

We can import every part of the plant into the state, the seed, the oil, the fiber, the resin, but we cannot grow the crop.

COLEMAN HEMPHILL TEXAS HEMP INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION Hemp oil has been used in medical research to help

those who are epileptic or experience seizures.

Because medications to heal seizures tend to be addictive, hemp oil is used as a healthier alternative, she said.

It is also necessary for children’s clothing to have flammable resistant capacity, Sheila Hemphill said.

This means chemicals are added to the fabric, sometimes being toxic to the child and not actually being flame resistant.

Hemp fabric is naturally flame resistant with no chemical additives, she said.

“If you think about it, your skin is your largest organ, and you absorb almost everything around the environment in your skin.

So, you’re putting these chemicals on your children

and your family, and they are being absorbed causing health issues,” Lacy Wilson, a mother interested in hemp textiles, said.

Besides hemp bringing non-polluting health benefits, hemp is a rotational crop that can be grown around the year, Coleman Hemphill said.

The crop can grow in areas where cotton, corn and wheat are harvested, he said. Hemp also requires less water than those crops, allowing water to be conserved.

“Hemp can be grown on roughly half of what cotton can,” Jeff Williams, owner of Clayton-Williams Farms and Ranch, said.

“The fact that it’s a really small water demand crop is a huge thing because not only do you save the money

on pumping, but you’re not also using the water that can go into homes.”

A goal of the Texas Hemp Industries Association, besides educating people on industrial hemp, is to encourage Texans to vote for the legalization of hemp farming in Texas, Coleman Hemphill said. Currently, industrial hemp can be grown legally in 29 states.

“We can import every part of the plant into the state, the seed, the oil, the fiber, the resin, but we cannot grow the crop,” Coleman Hemphill said. “What we’re proposing is to define industrial hemp as cannabis sativa, with THC levels under 0.03 percent, in our Texas state law, so it would be exempt from the definition of marijuana.” @nydianatividad

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Grace Gealey-Byers to speak at sixth annual diversity banquet The Texas Tech Division of Institutional Diversity, Equity & Community Engagement will host actress Grace Gealey-Byers as the keynote speaker for the sixth Celebrate Diversity Awards Banquet, according to a Tech news release.

Gealey-Byers stars on the FOX music industry primetime soap opera “Empire.”

Each fall, the division recognizes those within t h e Te c h a n d L u b b o c k communities who exemplify inclusive excellence, according to the release.

This year ’s banquet will begin at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the McKenzie-Merket Alumni Center.

Byers was raised in the Cayman Islands by an African-American mother and a Caucasian father and had to face the challenging experience of being the multiracial child of two deaf parents, according to the release.

She moved to U.S. alone to attend the University of South Florida in Tampa, where she took up acting and earned a bachelor’s degree in theater arts, according to the release. Byers then obtained a master of fine arts degree in acting at the University of California, Irvine.

Her professional career took her from Los Angeles

to New York and finally Chicago, where she currently resides, according to the release. In her free time, Byers is involved in Saving Our Cinderellas, a movement of Saving Our Daughters that empowers young girls and women to stand up against bullying, address social issues and uplift one another in support of positive interests.

Past speakers for the event include Edward James Olmos, Soledad O’Brien, John Quiñones, former U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera and Terrence Howard, who also stars in “Empire.” @ReeceNationsDT

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Casadonte honored as world leader in educational movement

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A Texas Tech chem istry professor has been honored as a world leader in the innovative Flipped Learning Global Initiative educational movement.

Flipped Learning Global Initiative recently named Dominick Casadonte to its list of the top 100 educators leading flipped learning worldwide, according to a Tech news release.

The concept was developed in 2007 by Jon Bergmann and Aaron Sams, two high school chemistry teachers in Colorado who wished to maximize the influence of their classroom engagement.

Flipped learning flips the traditional lecturehomework-lecture-testlecture-homework paradigm on its head, according to the release. Instead of homework, the student

watches a lecture before coming to class. The student then works on a number of online homework problems based on the lecture.

This way, students are already exposed to the lecture material and are familiarized with the subject at hand, according to the release.

Teachers then use class time to recap the material, explain unclear points in the lecture and work advanced problems, all while using active and engaging learning strategies.

Casadonte began flipping his lecture-style classes in 2009 and launched a six-year longitudinal study to evaluate its effectiveness, according to the release. During the study, test scores improved about 9.2 percent on average.

After flipping the classes, Casadonte observed a 700 percent increase in the number of students performing at or above the 90th percentile, according to the release.

In addition to the study and his own teaching efforts, Casadonte has organized three national symposia on course flipping and has participated in two others, according to the release.

H e h a s work e d w it h graduate students studying f lipped learning and has given lectures nationwide on how to successfully f lip college-level classes in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, according to the release.

Casadonte credits these efforts for his inclusion on the Flipped Learning Global Initiative’s top 100 list. @ReeceNationsDT

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HSC develops strategies for impaired school children

By REECE NATIONS Staff Writer

Researchers at Texas Tech Health Sciences Center are collaborating with school districts in Lubbock County to develop better strategies to tackle behavior regulation issues in school children with language impairment.

Behavioral strategies include priming of skills, use of a specially designed scale to improve skill growth, repeated practice and targeting of successive smaller goals toward a larger goal, Yang-soo Yoon, an assistant professor in the HSC Department of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences, said.

“Historically, practitioners and researchers have been sharply contrasted, adopting either a behavioral or a developmental approach to these strategies,” Yoon said. “It’s only in recent years that the unique strengths of both methods have been combined to utilize their respective contributions.”

The behavioral regulation strategies developed by doctors are designed to directly shape the skills of linguistically impaired students and provide a way to practice their skill sets in a way that accounts for learning differences

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 Strang accepted the School of Law’s invitation to speak almost immediately, and he said he enjoys having a real opportunity to engage with students and Millennials.

“People who come and talk with me really are looking for engagement in broader issues and justice,” he said, “and I want to do my part of that conversation.”

Students, faculty and staff alike watched the documentary after its premiere in December, leading to a panel discussion of the show in the spring, Brie Sherwin, associate professor of law, said.

Dean Darby Dickerson reached out to Strang after the panel, Sherwin said, and discussions about Monday’s guest lecture began in February.

“We realized that this ‘Making a Murderer’ series would be the perfect basis from which to teach legal ethics and professionalism, as well as forming a good foundation for legal research and writing exercises,” Sherwin said.

During the lecture, Strang said more than 80 percent of people are too poor to hire a lawyer, and many cases are filed against impoverished individuals.

Because of funding shortages, societal issues and other factors, lawyers have an obligation to serve people in their communities, he said.

While it can be easy for people to stop fighting for

commonly seen in children with learning impairments, he said.

Conversely, the methods of development offer an opportunity for the development of cognition as well as for providing a more natural learning environment to stimulate the learning process, Yoon said.

The methods employed by the researchers also account for any attentional difficulties a subject may experience by creating learning opportunities within the child’s existing attention focus, Yoon said.

“Speech-language pathologists are one of the primary professionals who work with children with have speech-language impairments,” Marybeth Schmitt, an assistant professor of speech, language and hearing sciences, said.

“Because we know through research that children with language impairment are at a higher risk to struggle in school, pathologists address that need through specialized education techniques.”

Language impairment specifically refers to any difficulty in communication because of abnormally slow cognitive development, Schmitt said. Speech-language pathologists play a direct role in the development of literacy for children and

adolescents with communication disorders, including those with severe or multiple disabilities.

Pathologists also make a contribution to the literacy efforts on behalf of other impaired children and adolescents, she said.

A communication disorder is an impairment in the ability to receive, send, process and comprehend concepts like verbal, nonverbal and graphically symbolic systems, according to the American SpeechLanguage-Hearing Association’s website.

A language disorder is impaired comprehension of spoken, written or symbolic systems. The disorder may involve the form of language, known as phonology, the content of language, known as semantics or the function of language in communication, known as pragmatics, in any combination, according to the website.

“This project is looking directly at children’s behavior regulation,” Schmitt said.

“This pertains to student’s ability to pay attention, focus and follow instructions in school and how they compare to children with language impairments. In addition to that, linguistically impaired students generally have weaker behavior regulation

skills overall.”

Schmitt’s research project will collaborate with several school districts in Lubbock County to study different strategies for improving how pathologists treat behavior regulation issues, she said. What is unique about this project is it is being conducted in the schools themselves, not in a laboratory.

The project has even received funding from the National Institutes of Health, Schmitt said, further validating the need for research concerning behavior regulation skills in children with language impairments.

Receiving funding from the NIH is a significant accomplishment because of the competitive field of applicants, she said.

Funding from the NIH grants major credibility to this initiative and places it in a distinguished category of influential research projects.

“The hope is that our contributions to the medical community will improve the learning process of children with language disabilities,” Schmitt said. “What we hope to accomplish is a greater understanding of how we can enhance the academic experience for all of our nation’s youth.”

justice, Strang said it is the people with little already who will pay with everything if no one fights for them.

“If we give up on the project of justice, then there is nothing but injustice,” he said.

Strang has seen immense strength in clients and victims, and he said lawyers should not view themselves as just legal advisers but rather as servants to those in need.

Strang said being a servant keeps lawyers fresh and hopeful about what a single person can accomplish, which is important for law students to remember.

“You can find the humanity in your clients, no matter who your clients are. You really can,” Strang said. “I find clients actually often very restorative, and they often move me and inspire me in ways that I don’t expect.”

Although the creators of “Making a Murderer” were given more access to the defense’s side, Strang said, as a member of the defense team, he thought the show was well balanced.

Decisions to cut certain parts of the five-week long trial out were reasonable, he said, and the documentary gave screen time to all points the prosecution and defense said were significant during the trial.

The documentary shows flaws in the police’s case, and Strang said he understands why some investigators were tempted to augment evidence.

When someone is invested in a case and thinks he knows who committed a crime, it is

human nature to want to do whatever one can to ensure the person is found guilty, Strang said.

“I really have no reason to think police corruption is a bigger problem today than it was five years ago or any time in the past,” he said. “In fact, my strong supposition is that corruption is less a problem than 50 years ago or 100 years ago.”

Technologies like cellphones have made issues like police brutality more visible, Strang said, and the nation has to find ways to solve problems that are inevitable with a well-armed civilian population.

Just as “Making a Murderer” sparked national conversation, people must find ways to have spirited, civil and effective discussions, Strang said.

“I personally think that this sort of raucous, messy national dialogue we’re having about the role of police in communities fundamentally is healthy,” he said. “I think the Black Lives Matter movement is fundamentally a very healthy phenomenon. I think people rising to the defense of the police fundamentally is healthy.”

While Strang does not know what exactly makes the Avery case so intriguing, he said Millennials are OK with unclear conclusions to programs.

“I have a hunch that maybe it’s the untidiness of the ending, the lack of resolution,” he said. “Younger people especially have a greater willingness to accept shades of gray and uncertainty.”

When students are given

a storyline to which they can become attached in class, Sherwin said, they are more interested in the material.

When Sherwin and other professors teach using “Making a Murderer,” it is more stimulating and engaging for the educators as well, she said.

“What I’ve noticed with my students over the past couple of years, particularly with the Millennial generation, is they are very interested in social justice issues,” Sherwin said.

Sherwin’s goal is to get her students to become passionate about something during their first year of law school, she said, and “Making a Murderer” creates a springboard for conversation to find what drives them.

Students reacted well to Strang’s lecture and enjoyed class discussions about the Netflix series, Sherwin said.

Strang is humble and genuine, she said, and he sets a positive example for the future lawyers he spoke to Monday.

“He is that person you see in the ‘Making a Murderer’ documentary,” Sherwin said.

“He is very kind and sincere.

We need more lawyers like him, we really do.”

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Study says to rebuild San Antonio Hospital SAN ANTONIO (AP) — An independent architectural analysis of the San Antonio State Hospital ordered by the 2014 Texas Legislature has determined 80 percent of the hospital’s structures are in critical condition and the entire hospital should be demolished.

The report by architectural and engineering firm CannonDesign also showed the cost of maintaining the property would be higher than the at least $175 million to replace it, according to the San Antonio Express-News (http://bit.ly/2dFHxpQ ).

The question of replacing remains with the Legislature.

The newest buildings went up in the 1970s, while the oldest

date to between 1892 and 1946.

Some of the distress shown from the inspection includes sloping floors, straining support beams and sinking foundations. Along with foundation issues, the hospital’s aesthetic was found to be too dated, and the long distance between campus buildings too inconvenient.

The hospital has 302 beds for treating people with serious mental illness. About one-third of the beds go to forensic patients held involuntarily, by court order because they’re temporarily incompetent to stand trial or have been found not guilty of a crime by reason of insanity.

Between 2001 and 2012,

the number of civil beds across the state declined as the number of forensic beds rose, according to the Department of State Health Services. Director of the Bexar County Mental Health Department Gilbert Gonzales said if the state hospital became a fully forensic facility, it would be a “disaster for the community” because it would lead to overcrowding.

Due to growing systemic problems in state-run facilities, legislators appropriated $3.6 billion for behavioral health and substance abuse services in the 201617 budget, of which $40 million went to state mental health hospitals.

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Study: Texas, Calif. didn’t report police shootings HOUSTON (AP) — Hundreds of police departments in Texas and California failed to report officer-involved shooting deaths as required by law in the past decade, a recent study found.

R e s e a r c h b y Te x a s State University in San Marcos found registries created by the two states to report all in-custody deaths did not list about 220 use-of-force fatalities in Texas and 440 in California from 2005-2015, the Houston Chronicle reported Monday.

The Texas and California attorney general’s offices and police officials in both states confirmed to the newspaper that many cases were missing.

“We’re not really blaming anyone — this is an incredibly complex problem,” said Howard Williams, one of the Texas State University professors who conducted the study. But he said it’s hard to change policy, improve training or purchase new equipment “when you simply

lack the data to even know what’s going on.”

Texas and California are the only states to require reporting of all in-custody deaths, including jail deaths and officer-involved shootings, according to the newspaper. In each state, the attorney general’s office collect reports. Failing to report a death at the hands of a police officer is a misdemeanor in Texas; there is no penalty in California.

Brenda Gonzalez, a spokeswoman for the California Attorney General’s Office, said in an email that her office already has been asking police agencies to file missing reports but added California’s custodial death reporting law has “no explicit enforcement mechanism.”

In addition to requiring reports on use-of-force and in-custody deaths, both California and Texas also recently passed new laws requiring departments to report all shooting incidents, whether those shot survive or die.

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Atheists are not rude for sharing beliefs

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ast Thursday, in a column titled “We have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion,“ my colleague Jake Wischkaemper argued against the “evangelical atheist.”

In short, Jake denounces this group of atheists, saying “they stand for nothing” and “are contrarians of the worst sort.”

Let me ask this: Are Christians the only ones allowed to share their faith?

There is a double standard in place. Religious people, particularly Christians, can freely share their faith, and it’s seen as a good deed.

They’re saving lives, saving souls.

But if an atheist shares his beliefs, he’s a jerk. I don’t get it.

The explanation I always hear on this issue is atheists don’t believe in anything. Because they don’t believe in anything,

Alex Olges is a freshman journalism major from Humble.

they have no reason, no right, to share their beliefs.

First of all, the argument that atheists don’t believe in anything is not true.

Atheists do not believe in a deity, but they do believe in the explanation of the universe that science provides.

This explanation is not currently complete and therefore requires some faith.

H o w e v e r, t h e r e i s good reason for atheists to share their beliefs with others.

Depending on who is asked, the reasons for why it is important to do so may vary.

I find it important to share my atheistic beliefs

with others because other people’s beliefs affect me.

A great example is the upcoming election.

There will be a group of voters who will vote for Donald Trump because religious leaders have endorsed Trump.

I want those who play a part in deciding how I am governed to be free thinkers, not blind sheep.

I want the decision on who to vote for — even if that decision is different from my own — to be based purely on one’s own thought and reasoning.

The term “free thinker” is defined by Google as “a person who rejects accepted opinions, especially those concerning religious belief.”

I don’t like this definition because it implies a religious person cannot be a free thinker. This is not true.

My father — a Christian who served in the ministry for 18 years

— is a religious person I would consider to be a free thinker.

He does not take anything concerning Christianity at face value and doesn’t let his church do his thinking for him. He understands what he does and does not believe. He isn’t afraid to disagree with other Christians.

But if an atheist shares his beliefs, he’s a jerk. I don’t get it.

See, I’m not saying we should share our atheistic thoughts in an attempt to convert anyone.

I’m saying we should share our atheistic thoughts simply as a way to get people thinking, to give others a different perspective and to raise questions in an effort to

encourage the questioning of what they’re told.

While atheists’ motives and morals may differ from religious individuals’, that does not mean they are nonexistent. We do not stand for nothing, as Wischkaemper wrote, but rather, we stand for original thought.

And yes, atheists have morals. Without morals, the world would be a truly awful place.

Religion is not needed for me to understand I shouldn’t steal or kill or the like. Morals are a product of logic.

Let me clarify, I am not defending all atheists.

There are some atheists who will go out of their way to make fun of those with religious beliefs in a very meanspirited manner.

It must then be pointed out that religious people do the very same thing.

Have you ever heard of the Westboro Baptist Church?

The irony in all of this is both sides are pointing fingers.

Christians accuse atheists of being jerks and atheists accuse Christians of being jerks. It’s an exhausting, never-ending cycle.

The reality is atheists, Christians and every other religious group have bad examples, and the bad examples always shout louder than the good ones.

I’ve met plenty of nice Christians. I’ve also met plenty of horrible Christians.

However, I’ve also met plenty of kind atheists and plenty of terrible atheists.

It goes both ways. Both sides are guilty of the very things they accuse the other side of.

No, atheists are not jerks. No, atheists are not an immoral people. And no, atheists do not stand for nothing.

To say so is simply absurd and irresponsible. aolges@dailytoreador.com

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Importance of Trump’s sexual assault tape ignored

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ast Friday, an audio recording from 2005 was released in which Donald Trump was seen and heard expressing horrifying comments about women.

These comments included things like how Trump could do anything he wanted with women because, “when you’re a star, they let you do it.”

We’ve all seen it, and if you haven’t seen it, you’ve surely heard of it.

It has easily become one of the biggest story of the 2016 election cycle.

It made anticipation for Sunday’s debate skyrocket as pundits and supporters alike waited to hear how the Republican Party nominee would defend himself face-to-face with Hillary Clinton.

GOP officials like Sen.

Haley Britzky is a senior journalism major from Trophy Club.

Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice were among a number of others who dropped support of their party’s nominee in the release’s wake.

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan released on Mo n d a y t h a t whi l e he would not pull his endorsement, he would no longer defend Trump and focus instead on keeping a Republican majority in the House.

It’s what looked like the beginning of the end for Trump, or so people thought.

The thing is, nothing

short of murder could end Trump’s campaign or — more specifically — persuade his base to vote for Clinton or third party instead.

Why? Because more than half his base isn’t voting for him as much as it’s voting against Clinton.

Sure, there are a ton of Republican voters who love Trump and everything he’s standing for.

The reality, however, is the majority are just so against Clinton that they’re willing to put up with Trump for a few years.

It’s been easy for some Clinton supporters and even Clinton herself to paint Trump supporters as people who share his values; to Clinton’s base, Trump supporters are all racist bigots, just like their nominee.

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Trump’s candidacy degrades US

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his election and, in particular, the months that have elapsed since the end of both major conventions, have been nothing short of nasty.

On one hand, we have Hillary Clinton, who despite her flaws, is quite possibly the most-qualified individual a major political institution has ever put forth as a candidate for president.

On the other hand, we have Donald Trump. Trump has never held elected office nor has he previously run for public office prior to this election. His campaign has been characterized by a series of ill-advised remarks, ranging from refugees to women to almost anything else.

Trump’s legitimacy as a candidate is not only extremely disappointing but also incredibly dangerous.

By allowing Trump to become the Republican party’s nominee, the GOP has given prejudice a platform.

It has given a voice to the darkest parts of our country, the place where racism, xenophobia and bigotry all reside. No matter the outcome of this election, U.S. will still have lost, not because of Clinton, but because of Trump.

The prejudice Trump has brought to light is not going

Jordan Butler is a freshman arts and letters major from Lubbock.

to simply disappear come the end of the election. Trump and portions of his base have displayed a stunning lack of humanity, empathy and even human decency.

He has implied his supporters should shoot Clinton, yet people still support him.

This is the power of prejudice. It is pervasive, infecting everything that it comes into contact with. However, the danger of Trump lies in more than his rhetoric and that of his base. It also lies within his policies.

In terms of foreign policy, Trump has publicly said he might not intervene if a NATO member state were attacked.

This would be in violation of Article five of the North Atlantic Treaty, which states any NATO member must come to the aid of another member who is subject to an armed attack.

It has only been invoked once, following the 9/11 attacks when troops were sent into Afghanistan.

This declaration is essentially a blank check to U.S. enemies, specifically Russia.

It invites Vladimir Putin to behave much as he did during the Crimean crisis, when he annexed parts of Ukraine.

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It has easily become one of the biggest story of the 2016 election cycle.

According to the RNC rules, “The Republican National Committee is hereby authorized and empowered to fill any and all vacancies which may occur by reason of death,

declination, or otherwise of the Republican candidate for President of the United States.”

That means that unless Trump dies or is in a situation which he can physically and mentally no longer run for president, the GOP is stuck with him. Sure, there’s an “otherwise” in there, but I wouldn’t get my hopes up if I were you.

What I’m saying is Trump is here to stay, whether you’re a fan of that or not.

I mean he’s come this far, he’s said an unbelievable amount of stupid things and he’s still here.

What difference will an audio tape encouraging sexual assault make?

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Clinton and her supporters one more reason to hate him and give his supporters one more reason to regret not getting behind someone else in the primaries.

Additionally, the Republican National Committee can’t replace Trump even if it wanted to.

This was condemned by many world leaders, including President Barack Obama, as it was in violation of various treaties signed by the Russia. The United Nations rejected the annexation and reaffirmed the borders of Ukraine.

Trump has vowed to do away with the Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, calling it a disgrace. He has also spoken out against wind energy because of the danger it poses to birds.

All of these are reasons to disavow Trump.

But even more dangerous than his policies are his lack of humanity.

When the Arbella landed at what would become the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630, future governor John Winthrop stated, “We shall be as a city upon a hill, the eyes of all people are upon us.”

Trump does not represent this. He is not what makes U.S. great. He is not what makes U.S. good or honorable.

A Tr u m p p r e s i d e n c y would not be representative of the wishes of Winthrop and the countless other individuals who have come to the U.S. in search of hope and freedom.

A Tr u m p p r e s i d e n c y would be quite the opposite.

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Well, that’s just not the case.

I know more Trump supporters who are begrudgingly putting up with him so they don’t have to vote for Clinton than I know those who are genuinely excited to vote for him.

So, this audio release — as disgusting and disheartening as it was — will not be putting an end to his campaign. In fact, by the end of this week, I’m willing to bet it will be considered old news.

As big of a story as it was on Friday, it was only talked about for a few short minutes in Sunday’s debate.

Whether that’s right or wrong isn’t the point; the point is it’s already on its way out of the news cycle.

All it did was give

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Pierce the Veil makes Lubbock stop

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Pierce the Veil, a U.S. post-hardcore band from California, is making a stop in Lubbock during its “Made to Destroy” tour at 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday at Lone Star Pavilion with Neck Deep and I Prevail. Pierce the Veil bassist Jaime Preciado talked with The Daily Toreador on the band’s tour and its new album, “Misadventures.”

Q: This is your first show in Lubbock since 2014. Why did you want to come back for this tour?

Jaime Preciado: For us, we try and hit all the places that we can. It’s especially important for us right now because this is the first time we have been headlining a tour since we put out our new record “Misadventures.”

So, we want to hit as many places as possible, so hitting Lubbock was a no-brainer.

Our last show there, if I’m not mistaken, was with Sleeping With Sirens and that show was awesome. We had a really good time with that one.

Q: Does the college market draw you to come to Lubbock with students growing up with your music?

JP: Anywhere in Texas is very special to us just because we have a lot of fans there that really care about what we are doing. Every show that we have done in Texas, whether it was down

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by Lubbock or in Dallas or Houston or wherever it may be, those shows are really special to us. Texas fans are not like any other fans in the United States. They are very passionate about music. We are stoked to be back.

Q: For the average listener, what kind of music does the band play?

JP: That’s a good question. It mostly depends on the song you listen to. We like to play fast-punk stuff.

We like to play heavy stuff.

We also like to play pretty sounding melodic stuff. It really depends on the song you choose and the record you choose. This new “Misadventures” record that we just put out has a diverse category of songs. We are always into trying new things and taking chances with songs. I don’t really know what exactly I could say about what we sound like. You could put us in the category of rock and alternative band. It depends on the song though.

Q: Since Pierce the Veil has been around since 2006, what has been the best part of your time with the band?

JP: Having this record finished. We took kind of an unorthodox approach to record the record. It took us longer to make this record than any other we have done.

The fact that we completed it and we are back on the road again is great. We are so excited that it is finally

done and we get to enjoy and play these songs live and see how the fans react. The tour has been great so far. We are almost a month in, and it has been amazing. We are out here with a band called Neck Deep from the U.K. and I Prevail from Detroit, Michigan, which is great. It’s a nice little three band bill. It’s a lot of fun and a lot of energy. We have a great time.

Q: In what unorthodox way did you record the new record, and how does the sound differ from your previous releases?

JP: With the last record we did, “Collide With The Sky,” it was such a great learning experience. At that time, we were trying to figure out what we were wanting to do. We were close to finding out what the band wanted, but we definitely tried some new things. Going into this record, we went with the same producer, which was different because we never went into the studio with the same person. It was a new thing out of the gate.

We kind of figured out what we wanted to do beforehand.

With this record, we called it “Misadventures” because it took us on this crazy ride we didn’t expect to have, like having a tour booked in the middle of recording the album. We have never stopped recording and gone on tour before. We also had our lead singer travel to different places to finish the lyrics

Miller’s favorite Homecoming tradition is the parade that is going to be held on Friday because the student organizations can show off their creative sides by decorating their floats.

“We are always trying to make Homecoming bigger and better. There are always things to improve,” Miller said. “This year we are more

set and prepared that we have ever been, so we are hoping for another big success.”

Grey Weller, a senior management information system major, said he enjoyed getting to find out the Homecoming nominees.

These people get the chance to represent not only their groups but also their organizational val-

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Pierce the Veil is a U.S. post-hardcore group from California. The band will stop in Lubbock on its “Made to Destroy” tour at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Lone Star Pavilion with Neck Deep and I Prevail. because we were literally in the studio for five months.

We needed to get out of there.

All of those things were so different to us. We had never done that on any other record before. Musically, we took a lot of weird chances. There’s a couple of things that we did that we couldn’t have done on our previous records.

Q: What can people expect from your tour stop in Lubbock?

JP: A lot of high energy.

We have been spending a lot of time on this tour’s production, on every aspect of the show. Right when you walk in to the moment you leave, ues, Weller said.

“I hope more groups will participate next year because there are so many organizations that we need to show off,” he said.

“I went to all the homecoming events last year, and I really enjoyed it. You get to meet new people and celebrate your school.” @DailyToreador

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The 2016 Homecoming Queen candidates line up as the names are being announced at the Homecoming Kick-Off on Monday at the Student Union Building North Plaza.

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Nancy O'Dell: Even locker room no excuse for Donald Trump comments LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Entertainment Tonight" host Nancy O'Dell says women shouldn't be objectified, even in the locker room.

On the entertainment news show Monday, O'Dell addressed crude, taped comments made about her by GOP presidential contender Donald Trump in 2005 and his response following their release last week.

Referring to a previous statement, O'Dell repeated her assertion that "there is no room for objectification of women, or anyone for that matter." She then added, "not even in the locker room."

During Sunday's debate with Democratic contender Hillary Clinton, Trump dismissed his remarks to then"Access Hollywood" host Billy

Bush as "locker-room talk."

The candidate apologized for the vulgar banter, which included his assertion that he tried and failed to sleep with a married woman he called "Nancy."

"Access Hollywood" has identified O'Dell as the woman Trump referred to.

In the recording that was published Friday by The Washington Post and NBC News, Trump also said, "When you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything," adding, "Grab them by the p----. You can do anything."

Under questioning by debate moderator Anderson Cooper, Trump denied groping women or kissing women without consent.

In her on-air remarks

Monday, O'Dell said she's been a journalist for more than two decades, and "it is my job to bring you news about others rather than turning the focus on myself."

But the release of the tape that's become a national story and part of the presidential race has "thrown me in the middle of the political arena of which I didn't ask to be a part," O'Dell said.

She used the opportunity to call for respect for all.

Speaking as a mother, she said, children and especially young girls "need to know that their hard work, their achievements, their intelligence, their heart are most important."

O'Dell, who did not refer to Trump by name in her remarks, thanked viewers

for the many "kind words" she has received.

In her weekend statement, she said it was "disappointing to hear such objectification of women. The conversation needs to change because no female, no person, should be the subject of such crass comments, whether or not cameras are rolling."

Trump was visiting a soap opera set when he and Bush were taped in a bawdy hotmike conversation. Bush, now with NBC's "Today," has been suspended indefinitely from the job he started just two months ago.

"Today" Executive Producer Noah Oppenheim said in a memo Sunday that "there is simply no excuse for Billy's language and behavior on that tape."

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ruling sparked a large protest Monday in North Dakota that led to the arrest of 27 people, including “Divergent” actress Shailene Woodley, who is known for her activism.

you are having a good time.

Obviously for our show, we are always trying to outdo ourselves live. We try and go bigger and better, all that fun stuff. There is no exception in this tour. There are some crazy things that will hopefully blow your mind.

Q: What would you say to the people questioning to come?

JP: This is the tour where we are playing new songs and we are playing old songs too, so it is a combination of all our records. We have a couple of surprises for our old fans as well. We are going to have a lot of fun. Texas is

always a good time, so there is no doubt that we will have a blast.

Q: What’s next for the band?

JP: We are going to finish this tour in a couple of weeks.

We have about eight or nine more shows left. Then, we have six days off at home, and then we head to the U.K. We do all of Europe, and then come back and do some radio festivals, and that will take us to the end of the year.

Obviously, we have some more plans coming up next year that will be pretty fun.

We will be busy boys for sure. @DavidGayDT

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Second debate doesn't set viewership record NEW YORK (AP) — An estimated 66.5 million people watched the second debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, down from the record-setting audience who saw their first match but on par with the Obama-Romney contests four years ago.

The first debate reached a total of 84 million viewers, more than for any other presidential debate on record, the Nielsen company said on Monday.

The previous record of 80.6 million had been set for the only debate between Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan in 1980.

In 2012, an estimated 65.6 million people watched the second debate between President Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney, after 67.2 million saw their first debate.

On Sunday, the two candidates were competing against the NFL's prime-time contest between the Green Bay Packers and the New York Giants, which was seen by 16.6 million people on NBC. A football game aired opposite the first debate, too, but it was on cable's ESPN and reached only 8 million people.

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Students to receive suicide prevention training

By HALEY DAVIS Staff Writer

The Texas Tech Student Counseling Center will provide students with QPR training on Friday to give them the resources they need to save someone in a suicidal crisis.

QPR stands for question, persuade and refer.

The QPR Gatekeepers will be trained to recognize the warning signs of a suicide crisis, to ask questions and to persuade and refer someone to help, according to the QPR Institute website.

Jordan Baccus, a junior kinesiology major from Boerne, said he lost a friend to suicide on Aug. 4, 2015.

“I think that QPR training can be really beneficial for someone that is reaching out for help,” Baccus said. “You never know who might need you.”

A person dies of suicide every 17 minutes in the U.S., making it the 11th-leading cause of death across all ages, according to the Student Counseling Center website.

QPR Gatekeepers are shown suicide is a journey of increasing hopelessness that starts with an idea and ends with an act.

Jason Taylor, a senior human sciences major from Hobbs, New Mexico, said timing is of essence for

QPR Gatekeepers.

“Suicidal tendencies are typically not something that diminish after one incident,” Taylor said. “So, consciously being aware and taking a proactive stand to follow up with these individuals is ideal.”

There are more than 1,000 suicides on college campuses per year, ranking it as the third-leading cause of death among people aged 15 to 24, according to the Emory University website.

“I think that change can be overwhelming and happen too quickly for certain young adults,” Taylor said.

“These thoughts can manifest in many ways, stemming from areas of peoples lives that are not always so black and white. The source is often hidden.”

Emory University is an online academic university that provides the Emory Cares 4 You foundation, an organization that promotes awareness and support to prevent suicide.

Suicidal thoughts are higher among adults aged 18 to 25 than among adults aged more than 26, according to the Emory University website. There are multiple factors that put this particular age group at risk, including loss of social networks, loss of the safety net of home,

academic pressure and experimentation with drugs and alcohol.

“This particular age group deals with a lot of stress and having prolonged stress that goes untreated could possibly contribute to this,” Baccus said. “Suicidal thoughts can also coincide with mental and substance abuse problems that have a certain stigma associated with them so people are

NBC suspends Billy Bush for role on Trump tape sion with Trump when the future presidential nominee was on a Hollywood set to make an appearance on a soap opera.

On the tape, Trump brags about kissing, groping and trying to have sex with women who were not his wife. Bush joins in, laughing at some of Trump's comments and later encouraging an actress to hug Trump.

Bush, 44, has been brutalized on his own Facebook page since the tape surfaced. Hundreds of hostile comments were attached to Bush's last posting Friday — of him distributing a plate of bacon to "Today" viewers outside of the show's studio. "You are sickening!" one woman wrote, in a comment that nearly 5,000 had "liked" through Sunday afternoon.

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“I just want to say that if there is anyone out there that is struggling or contemplating suicide to know that they are loved, important, and cared about,” Baccus said.

“We as individuals have our own unique purpose in this world, and no matter what our circumstances are, we can rise above it.” @DailyToreador

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Armando Sanchez, a freshman computer engineering major from Presidio, strikes a forehand during a pingpong game on Monday in the Student Union Building. Students can play games such as pingpong and pool every day during the Student Union Building's open hours.

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seeming happy and carefree,” Baccus said. “But, others display signs like changes in behavior, feeling like they are trapped for one reason or another, isolation and depression.”

QPR Training will be from noon to 1 p.m. Friday in room 100 of the Student Wellness Center, and those who wish to register may contact Klint Hobbs, assistant director at the Student Counseling

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NEW YORK (AP) — NBC on Sunday suspended "Today" show personality Billy Bush indefinitely after he was caught on a videotape from 2005 in a crude conversation about women with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

"Today" Executive Producer Noah Oppenheim said in a memo Sunday that "there is simply no excuse for Billy's language and behavior on that tape." Bush, who hosts the third hour of the "Today" show, has been suspended "pending further review of the matter," Oppenheim said.

NBC announced its decision two days after the videotape from the "Access Hollywood" archives surfaced.

Bush was a host for that show in 2005, and he was taped in a hot-mic discus-

fearful to ask for help.”

QPR Gatekeepers can be anyone, and the Student Counseling Center welcomes students as well as faculty to receive training. These individuals are held accountable to recognize warning signs and prevent a victim of a suicidal crisis from an emergency room visit, according to the QPR Institute website.

“Certain people show no warning signs at all,

Leading Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda dies at 90 WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's leading filmmaker Andrzej Wajda, whose career maneuvering between a repressive communist government and an audience yearning for freedom won him international recognition and an honorary Oscar, has died. He was 90.

Wajda had recently been hospitalized and died Sunday night, said film director Jacek Bromski, head of the Association of Polish Filmmakers, on the private television station

TVN24. The filmmakers association confirmed his death on its website.

Bromski called Wajda "our mentor, our teacher, a model not to be matched."

Though physically frail, Wajda worked until the end of his life. Using a walking aid, he appeared at last month's Film Festival in Gdynia, for the premiere of his latest film "Afterimage," based on the life of Polish avant-garde artist Wladyslaw Strzeminski who was

persecuted for refusing to follow the communist party line during the Stalinist era, Poland's Oscar Commission, which selected the as Poland's official entry for an Oscar in the best foreign language film category, called the film "a touching universal story about the destruction of an individual by a totalitarian system."

Wajda told the Polish news agency PAP that he wanted to "warn against the state intervention into art." The film was seen as yet another veiled political statement from the director, coming at a time when Poland's current conservative government has been accused of interfering with

the arts and media.

Wajda received an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement in 2000. He was cited as "a man whose films have given audiences around the world an artist's view of history, democracy and freedom, and who in so doing has himself become a symbol of courage and hope for millions of people in postwar Europe."

The director trod on ground controlled by communist-era censors with "Man of Marble" (1977), which looked at the roots of worker discontent in communist Poland in the 1950s; and "Man of Iron" (1981) on the rise of the Solidarity labor union movement, which eventually led to the demise of communism in Poland.

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Former Spice Girl Halliwell pregnant with 2nd child LONDON (AP) — Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell has announced she is expecting her second child.

The 44-year-old Halliwell announced the news on Instagram Monday with a sketch of a pregnant woman and the words, "God bless Mother Nature."

Her spokesman confirmed that she and husband Chris-

tian Horner are expecting a child. She married the Red Bull Formula One racing team boss last year.

Halliwell already has a 10-year-old daughter named Bluebell.

She was known as Ginger Spice in the Spice Girls' heyday when they enjoyed a string of "girl power" pop hits in the 1990s.

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Receivers post more than 500 yards in game

By JACK DENSMORE Staff Writer

Senior receiver Devin Lauderdale had seven receptions for 92 receiving yards against Kansas State in Texas Tech’s 4438 loss to the Wildcats Saturday evening in Manhattan, Kansas, and his longest reception came from a 41-yard pass from junior quarterback Patrick Mahomes II. Sophomore receiver Keke Coutee had five receptions for 130 receiving yards and one touchdown in the game.

“I feel great about it,” Coutee said. “I feel like it was one of the best performances I’ve had since I’ve been here. To me, that’s in the past, a game that I’ve already played. I’m just going to focus on this week, just play my game and just hopefully have another big game.”

Overall, 11 receivers had a least one reception in the game against a high-ranked Kansas State defense. In every game so far, a minimum of 10 receivers have seen the ball at least once.

Against Stephen F. Austin, 17 receivers had a reception, the highest so far this season.

Mahomes, despite playing with an injured rightshoulder, threw for more than 500 passing yards and two passing touchdowns, one of those going to Coutee.

“We have a lot of depth and a lot of competition every single day in practice, and people can see

that with the number one and number two offense, whatever we have,” Lauderdale said. “Everybody brings something different to the table.”

Despite Tech having the highest scoring offense in the Big 12 Conference, according to ESPN, Lauderdale said the Red Raiders have yet to play their best game.

After the loss, the Red Raiders travel back to Lubbock and Jones AT&T stadium to face off against West Virginia for Homecoming.

“The difference is in an away game, they’re just going to come at you from all angles,” Coutee said.

“Whenever you’re at home, you have home-field advantage of course, but it’s totally in a way that if they get a little momentum then one little thing could change the whole game.”

Overall, Tech is 2-3 against West Virginia.

The first game both teams played against each other was in 1938, when Tech lost 7-6 against West Virginia.

In the past, there was only one game that Tech scored more than 40 points against West Virginia.

According to ESPN, West Virginia is close to Kansas State in allowing the least amount of points in the Big 12. The Mountaineers are also undefeated, but have yet to play in an away game, and so far, only Baylor was able to score more than 30 points against the West Virginia defense.

“Just getting better, route running, tech-

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Texas Tech sophomore wide receiver Keke Coutee runs the ball around the Kansas defense and toward the end zone during the Red Raiders’ game against Kansas on Sept. 29 at Jones AT&T Stadium. Coutee had five receptions for 130 receiving yards and one touchdown against Kansas State on Saturday. niques. Especially blocking this week’s going to be a big thing for us,” Coutee said. “West Virginia’s physical so we have to match that intensity.”

Coutee, at a young age, did not play football, but both of his uncles and his stepfather played football.

His stepfather played at UCLA, but eventually Coutee was introduced to

football and never stopped playing it since.

“My uncle signed me up for football at the age of seven,” Coutee said. “So, before that I never played football before that, but after that I’ve been playing football ever since.”

Coutee’s first receiving touchdown came against Kansas this year in a game where he had 73 receiving

yards and two receiving touchdowns overall. His freshman year, he played in all 13 games, according to Tech Athletics, but did not score a touchdown.

The game against Kansas State was his biggest game in terms of receiving yards, 130. This statistic passed up his freshman year, where he had 105 receiving yards

the entire year.

Right now, Coutee has 232 receiving yards total and three receiving touchdowns. His longest reception so far was a 61yard pass.

“It was fun to see Coutee have a great game like that,” sophomore receiver Jonathan Giles said. “So, it was great to watch.” @JackDensmoreDT

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Athletes to Trump: That’s not how our locker room talks MIAMI (AP) — Udonis Haslem was leading some banter with Miami Heat teammates after practice Monday, the jokes and laughter helping everyone wind down after practice.

That’s how he defines locker room talk.

Donald Trump’s characterization of his caught-ontape crude and predatory comments about women as

“locker room talk” has raised the ire of plenty of athletes, the overwhelming majority saying that what goes on even in private doesn’t match up to what the Republican presidential nominee said on the now-infamous leaked tape.

“I don’t know what locker room he’s been in,” Haslem said. “No, I didn’t appreciate it, to be completely honest.

That’s not our locker room

talk. I don’t know Trump very well at all, but I don’t know who he’s played for the last couple years to even say he’s been in anybody’s locker room and had those kind of conversations.”

On the tape, recorded in 2005, Trump brags about kissing, grabbing women’s genitals and trying to have sex with women other than his wife. “When you’re a star,

they let you do it,” he bragged.

“You can do anything.”

“It didn’t sound like any talk in any locker room that I’ve ever been in, so maybe it was just a phrase,” Cleveland Browns wide receiver Andrew Hawkins said. “But it was wrong.”

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Tech looks past loss to Kansas State

By ARIANA HERNANDEZ Staff Writer

T h e Te x a s Te c h R e d Raiders look past the loss against the Wildcats as they prepare mentally and physically for the Homecoming game against the West Virginia Mountaineers.

Kansas State was a missed opportunity for the Red Raiders. However, they are moving on and working toward gaining a win against the Mountaineers.

“That was just one we let step away, there was no way the team should have competed with us,” sophomore wide receiver Keke Coutee said. “We missed a couple of opportunities.

That’s why the game ended how it did. Now we’re just going to move on and focus on West Virginia.”

Junior quarterback Patrick Mahomes II took back his role as leader on the field and led Tech in its game in Manhattan, Kansas.

Mahomes did not play much during the week.

Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury announced last week that whether Mahomes would play against Kansas State would ultimately be up to Mahomes.

The team was enthused when it got word of its starting quarterback coming in to play, sophomore wide receiver Jonathan Giles said.

“We were excited, Mahomes is a very great player,” Giles said. “But even if he didn’t play, we have great confidence in Nic (Shimonek), so it didn’t matter who played.”

Coutee caught a number of passes for 110 yards and a touchdown before the first half was over. The 130 yards he totaled at the end of the game was the first

time Coutee reached more than 100 yards during his career at Tech, according to Tech Athletics.

“This was probably one of my best games, but my best is yet to come,” Coutee said. “So I’m just going to work hard.”

The Red Raiders will go head-to-head against the Mountaineers at 11 a.m. Saturday at Jones AT&T Stadium.

West Virginia has a current win streak of two against Tech. Last season, Tech lost to the Mountaineers in Morgantown, West Virginia.

Tech is looking forward to getting back on its home turf this weekend as it tries to redeem itself against West Virginia from last season.

The atmosphere of a home game seems to help the players perform well, Giles said.

“I think it’s just playing in front of fans,” Giles said. “The fans we have, the student section’s great, the crowd is great, so I think feel like that’s one thing that helped us play well at home.”

This past weekend marked sophomore offensive lineman Paul Stawarz’s first start.

Stawarz has played in previous games but had not started until he got the opportunity against Kansas State.

The Tech offense failed to reach the 50-point mark for the first time this season. The offense will have to work on the little things this week, Stawarz said.

“Just the details, finishing blocks is always big,” Stawarz said. “We can always play harder, always do more, do extra, but the details, we’re going to focus on that this week for sure.”

West Virginia has a

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Texas Tech wide receiver Jonathan Giles runs the ball to the end zone during the Red Raiders’ game against Kansas on Sept. 29 at Jones AT&T Stadium. Giles said the Red Raiders will watch film and practice against defensive players to prepare for Saturday’s game against West Virginia. solid physical defense, Coutee said.

To k e e p u p w i t h t h e Mountaineers, Coutee said the Red Raiders will have to match them at their own physical play.

“They’re going to get in your face,” Coutee said.

“That’s one thing about them. They’re going to press the whole game. They have pretty good guys at the linebacker position,

but they’re just physical.

They’re going to make you play physical, so we have to play physical.”

To prepare for West Virginia’s defense, Giles said the Red Raiders are not going to do anything out of the ordinary.

The offense will go up against some of the defensive players during practice to try and practice for what West Virginia might throw

at them, Giles said.

“We watch film,” Giles said. “But also during practice we go one on one with our DBs just to get a feel for how West Virginia plays.”

To keep on going as the highly successful offensive team that the Red Raiders have been and are improving as a defense, Stawarz said they are going to continue to keep their heads up and look forward to the

Homecoming game.

Though Tech lost its first game in conference play for the 2016 season, the team will push the game behind it this week in practice.

“We’re going to try and keep the energy as an offense and as a team,” Stawarz said. “Keep pushing, keep moving forward, looking ahead, really try and keep a positive attitude.” @AHernandez_DT

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Lady Raider golf finishes Strong says Texas won’t give up amid 3-game skid seventh in tournament The Lady Raider golf team completed the Jim We s t C h a l l e n g e w i t h a 3-over 867 the final round, according to a Texas Tech Athletics news release.

Hosted at The Club at Carlton Woods in The Woodlands, Tech finished the tournament in seventh place.

In the final round, Tech recorded a 3-under 285.

Junior Lauren Mason led the Lady Raiders as the highest finisher in the tournament with an evenpar 72 final round score.

Mason’s score placed her in a tie for the 11th individual spot. Mason’s performance in the tournament matched her lowest career score, as she shot for 3-under 231.

Playing her first collegiate tournament, freshman Sofia Garcia shot a 3-under 69, the lowest 18hole score for a Lady Raider this season. Garcia and junior Gabby Barker completed the event at even par overall to tie for the 23rd place finish. Sophomore Caralyn Barker tied for 53rd overall, as she recorded an even-par final round, and sophomore Mami Yamamoto shot a 3-over final round.

Tech plays its next tournament in Austin in the Betsy Rawls Invitational.

The two-day event begins Monday at the University of Texas Golf Club. @DGaytanDT

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AUSTIN (AP) — Texas coach Charlie Strong took over his defense to get things fixed and save the season. He designed new coverages. He tried different ways to get pressure on the opposing quarterback. None of it worked.

S t r o n g ’s g a m b l e o n himself failed and the Longhorns have lost three straight, including an 0-2 start in the Big 12. Strong is facing open speculation that he’ll be out of a job after the season if he doesn’t pull off a miracle run to the end of the season.

So now what?

With seven games left and a home game Saturday night against Iowa State (1-5, 0-3) Strong pleaded Monday for fans to not give up on his players.

“We’ve been away for a month. We have seven games left. This is their football team,” Strong said.

“You need support. You can’t be fair-weather fans. We’re not going to give up hope.

We are going to continue to play hard, we will continue to fight .... I see what we have and know the direction it’s going.”

Strong, who is 13-17 in this third season, has no

choice but to be the public optimist when everything about Texas is trending down.

Even his efforts to shake up his defense fell painfully flat. The Longhorns (2-3, 0-2) surrendered nearly 700 yards in a 4540 loss to Oklahoma with three touchdown plays of 47 yards or longer. Texas defensive backs were still getting beat on deep balls or missing tackles.

Everything seems to work in practice, only to collapse at game time, Strong said.

“Everything is about fundamentals and technique. I told the guys it’s a simple

game we make some complicated. We go out there and practice and knock every one of them down. We can’t complete one in practice,” he said. “You can’t have mental lapses in big games.”

Senior safety Dylan Haines said Strong used last week’s practices to create some new coverage schemes and calls for rushing the passer. Haines did have Texas’ first two interceptions of the season but Texas rarely pressured Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield, who wasn’t sacked until late in the fourth quarter.

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Buccaneers beat Panthers 17-14 on last-second field goal CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Roberto Aguayo kicked a 38-yard field goal as time expired, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeated the Carolina Panthers 17-14 on Monday night.

Aguayo had missed from 33 and 46 yards earlier in the

game and was just 3 of 7 on field goals this season before the winning kick.

Jameis Winston was 18 of 30 for 219 yards and a touchdown, and led a 66-yard drive to get the Buccaneers (2-3) into field goal range. A costly 15-yard facemask penalty on

Kony Ealy hurt the Panthers.

The Panthers turned the ball over four times, three of those by Derek Anderson, who was filling in for the concussed Cam Newton.

Greg Olsen had a careerhigh 181 yards receiving on nine catches and Cameron

Artis-Payne ran for two touchdowns for the Panthers (1-4).

The Panthers turned the ball over just 19 times last season en route to the Super Bowl. This year they already have 14 turnovers in the first five games.