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Student Government Association presidents reflect on completing initiatives.

Column: Equality in sports still problematic.

Column: One year later, campus heals from shooting tragedy.

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Joseph Palumbo, a sophomore mechanical engineering major from Keller, holds a Thin Blue Line flag during the candlelight vigil for Texas Tech Police Officer Floyd East Jr. Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017, at Memorial Circle. East was shot and killed in the line of duty Monday, Oct. 9, 2017. FILE PHOTO/The Daily Toreador

Community continues to support Officer East, Tech PD year after shooting

By MCKENZI MORRIS Editor-in-Chief

year after his death, Texas Tech Police Officer Floyd East Jr. is remembered as hero by those who knew and loved him.

East died in an on-campus shooting Oct. 9, 2017, in the Tech Police Headquarters. Hollis Alvin Daniels III has been charged with capital murder, according to the Lubbock County District Court indictment. Daniels has also been charged with a felony case of possession of a stolen firearm by the U.S. District Court, according to the court’s indictment.

“At the time everything was very raw, all the emotions were very raw. A year has since passed,” Dr. Tedd Mitchell, interim Tech System chancellor said. “There is healing going on in our community, there is healing going on with his family, there’s healing going on in the greater community of law enforcement. For us, this is just a perfect time to come back and

remember Officer East and the good things that have come from it as a family.”

No one will wear badge No. 635 in the Tech Police Department after East, Tech Police Chief Kyle Bonath said.

Despite starting his law enforcement career late in life and it being cut short, Bonath said East exemplified what it meant to be a police officer.

“Officer East embodied our core values at Texas Tech Police Department which we in law enforcement always try to maintain — duty, integrity, honor and service,” Bonath said.

In the 365 days since East’s death, the Tech community has rallied around the police department and his family. Officials and students planned memorials, local businesses hosted give-back nights and people from across the country donated to different memorial funds.

The tragedy has allowed Tech to learn and grow, Mitchell said. During that time, the lessons learned

are what has helped the community bond with Tech PD. “It’s a touching tribute that, as I guess you’ve seen in the past, I have a hard time controlling my emotions on occasion because of the outpouring of support by the overall community,” Bonath said.

Honor Guards and officers from every part of the country attended East’s memorial service in El Paso last year. Mitchell said that support is a testament to the fact that a tragedy for one law enforcement group is a tragedy for all of them because their community is relatively small.

Situations like these are a testament to the local officers, Mitchell said, because these tragedies do not occur often.

“When something like this occurs, to see the response from the rest of the law enforcement community is really an incredible way of helping us heal,” Mitchell said.

Officers are the people that run toward the problem when others run away, Mitchell said. Because

of that, it’s easy to forget that these people are more than just law enforcement officers.

“These are all folks that while they’re protecting our students, protecting us, they’ve got family,” Mitchell said. “They’ve got friends.

They’ve got lives outside of their blues in the evenings. It’s important for us to remember that this is not just a tragedy for law enforcement, this is a tragedy for a family.”

Less than a year after the loss of their husband and father, the East family has started a foundation, Texas 635, to help other families of law enforcement officers who have gone through similar circumstances.

“I just want to applaud the character of that family to working to give back less than a year after suffering a tragedy,” Bonath said.

Tech will continue to honor East’s memory, Mitchell said. A boulder bearing East’s name and end of watch will be placed outside Tech PD headquarters on Saturday, Oct. 27, Bonath said. It was donated

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Officer East embodied our core values at Texas Tech Police Department which we in law enforcement always try to maintain - DUTY, INTEGRITY, HONOR AND SERVICE.

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East is and will always be remembered as a hero, Student Government Association President Sean Lewis said, one who answered the call to protect those he served.

“On Oct. 9, 2017, Officer Floyd East Jr. rose to the occasion and answered the call for duty,” Lewis said. “He made the ultimate sacrifice for his community and campus.” @McKenziMorrisDT

LEFT: People show their support for Texas Tech Police officers after the memorial for Officer Floyd East Jr. Tuesday, Oct. 9,2018, at Memorial Circle. RIGHT: Tech Chief of Police Kyle Bonath speaks to the crowd gathered at Memorial Circle for the one-year anniversary of East’s death. East was shot and killed in the line of duty on Oct. 9, 2017. Students, faculty, staff, community members and law enforcement officers gathered together to take a moment of silence in remembrance of East on the anniversary of his death. McKenzie Garza/The Daily Toreador

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Resources on campus provide security

By ADÁN RUBIO Staff Writer

For most people, being on a college campus invokes the need for quality security. At Texas Tech, different safety measures are necessary for students, faculty and staff.

Whether one wants to feel secure walking to class or living in a residence hall, certain protocols and tools can ensure people’s safety on campus.

With the resources and security offered at Tech, people can receive assistance in creating a protected study and work environment.

Lieutenant Amy Ivey of the Tech Police Department said campus patrols and blue phones are resources that help people in emergency situations.

“The Texas Tech Police Department patrols campus 24 hours a day, seven days a week,” she said. “We have over 120 blue phones on campus, outside and inside, available to anyone in need of emergency services.”

Blue phones are tools Ivey said allows anyone in an emergency, whether that be inside of the buildings or outside on the sidewalk, to connect with the Tech Police Department at a push of a button.

Regardless of the accessibility of blue phones, which are tested on a weekly basis and repaired when needed, Ivey said it is best for people to be aware of one’s surroundings and walk in well-lit

areas with a friend at night.

When a situation does occur, she said people need to utilize any form of communication to get in touch with the Tech Police Department.

“People need to use what is readily available to them at that particular moment,” Ivey said. “The individual can still push the button to make the blue light strobe, which could be a deterrent, and still use their cell phone to call 911.”

With the unexpected occurrence of safety threats, preparation is an aspect of security that can also benefit the Tech community.

Providing safety training, whether it be emergency or dorm safety training, to students, faculty and staff is a service Ivey said prepares people for future threats.

“Our officers are trained to respond to any type of emergency on campus,” Ivey said.

“We also offer trainings to the faculty, staff and students, so they are prepared in case of an active shooter, bomb threat.”

Along with security resources such as blue phones and training opportunities, Ivey said it is highly encouraged for anyone to report suspicious activity, even if one feels the situation is insignificant.

Informing oneself about safety techniques and reporting an emergency are ways people can stand up for themselves and others on campus.

For people who want to learn ways to keep themselves se-

cure, resources are offered at Tech to provide information.

Risk Intervention & Safety Education is a department dedicated to informing people about the proper safety techniques and referring students to the proper resources necessary to fulfill their needs.

Kelsey Lueck, violence prevention and peer education specialist at RISE, said one way for students to become involved in creating a safe environment is recognizing warning signs and reporting them.

“I think a great start for our students is to learn on how to step up and confront their friends who are showing red flags through words or actions,” Lueck said. “For example, being an active bystander if you hear another student talking negatively about another, describing plans to hurt someone, being secretive about their intentions or if you’re feeling uncomfortable about their behavior.”

Whether it be Think About It, which is a course that teaches students about the risks of pursuing a sexual relationship, or Raiders Respond, which are workshops that inform students about bystander intervention, Lueck said RISE offers many services to educate people and spread awareness of campus threats.

Despite the many educational resources offered at RISE, there are different ways people can report suspi-

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cious activity as well.

“If someone witnesses an assault or knows of someone who has been assaulted, it is important to check in with them and see what their needs are,” Lueck said. “The resources to know are the three reporting options: crisis helpline number, TTU PD number and possibly LPD.” Contacting the authorities and reporting a crime is one aspect of preventing a dangerous situation from occurring.

Although, students, faculty and staff do not always have the capabilities to stop all threats. Improving campus security and communication between the police and the community may be necessary to keep people secure at Tech.

Tech Student Government Association President Sean Lewis, a senior from Virginia Beach, Virginia majoring in history, said he learned through his work in student government that students want to be safe on campus.

“I got involved in student government my freshman year,” Lewis said. “In my conversations with students over the course of the next four years, which brings me to present day, that common denominator, that common theme is that of campus safety.”

After the death of Tech Police Department Officer Floyd East Jr. last year, Lewis said people are more aware of the need for campus safety improvements. Regu-

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There are more than 120 blue light phones on the Texas Tech campus, Tech PD Lieutenant Amy Ivey said. Anyone on campus can use them in times of emergency. lar maintenance on blue lights, installing cameras and providing more lighting on campus are areas he said Tech has already improved.

Working with the university to ensure the safety on and off campus for the Tech community and visitors is a task the SGA is working to complete, Lewis said. To achieve this goal, spreading information in an efficient manner is one improvement he said is necessary, especially through the TechAlert! system.

“There’s no such thing as too much information,” Lewis said. “Getting the information, getting those resources on our phones, I believe is the step in the right direction.”

A safety app is one resource Lewis said SGA External Vice President Jude Al-Hmoud is

working with the Tech Police Department to develop. This app is a way he said will inform students and allow them to contact the proper authorities at any time.

Regardless of all the security improvements that are in progress or completed, there are resources on campus that keeps the Tech community safe.

Reaching out to the students and improving on the current safety techniques and tools are ways Lewis said the SGA and Tech will further secure people on campus.

“Our goal is to let students know that they are heard and that they are protected on campus,” Lewis said. “The main goal is to keep our Red Raiders safe.” @AdanRubioDT

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Hollis Daniels still awaits trial after year Scholarship created in honor of Officer East Hollis Daniels III, the 20-year-old former Texas Tech student accused of shooting and killing Texas Tech Police Officer Floyd East Jr. on Oct. 9, 2017, still awaits trial for a capital murder charge.

There is a gag order in place keeping the Lubbock County Sherriff ’s Office, the Texas

Department of Public Safety, the Lubbock County Medical Examiner’s office, the Texas Tech Police DeDANIELS partment and the Lubbock Police Department from discussing anything pertaining to Daniels’ case.

The state is seeking the death penalty, according to court documents.

According to court documents, Daniels was granted permission to change lawyers on Feb. 16. He is now represented by Attorney Chip Lewis A trial date has not yet been set at this time. @MattSetzekornDT

One year after the death of Texas Tech Police Officer Floyd East Jr., the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center in El Paso has created a scholarship in East’s name, the Officer Floyd East Jr. Memorial Scholarship.

David Peregrino, senior editor for the Office of Institutional Advancement at

TTUHSC El Paso, said on the TTUHSC El Paso newsblog website that the scholarship will benefit select undergraduate or graduate students at Tech enrolled in the Institute for Forensic Science or a concentration in criminology.

“We are proud to honor Officer East with a new scholarship program in his name,”

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Richard Lange, president of TTUHSC El Paso, said on the website. “It is fitting that the scholarship will go to students from his hometown pursuing education and careers related to law enforcement.”

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SGA presidents reflect on completing initiatives

By BRIANNA MALDONADO Staff Writer

Starting every February, many students campaign to be the next leaders in Student Government Association. With a competition between two parties, candidates run on initiates they believe will receive votes from the student body.

Holton Westbrook, SGA president from 2015-2016, ran under the umbrella of wanting to give back to students. During his term, he successfully completed multiple initiatives his team planned throughout the year.

Tech to Town, a day full of service for Tech students to give back to the Lubbock community, is still hosted every year since then. Raider Cash allows for students to use their Raider Bucks at specific food places off campus, and is still available around Lubbock. SGA provided scholarships to students based on financial need and merit. Up to that point, for the first time in over four years, they were able to put a hold on student tuition fees at Tech.

“I enjoyed what I did, and I think we were able to deliver in some way on every promise we had made during our campaign,” Westbrook said. “Whenever you make that promise and understand all the moving parts it takes to get those initiatives into action, it takes a lot of effort and a lot of working with administration.”

With SGA working alongside administration, Westbrook said his team had good relations with administration and were able to build upon them to push their initiatives forward.

“Sometimes you’ll have an idea, and it’s under wrapped and the university has kind

of kept it quiet,” Westbrook said. “I think a lot of where the administration’s mind is at, is where you need to go as a student leader sometimes and finding ways to compromise and work on the issues can be difficult.”

Ben Sharp, SGA president from 2016 to 2017, ran on the initiatives of improving academic advising, increasing campus safety by combating sexual assault, creating a safer alcohol culture and serving alcohol in Jones AT&T Stadium.

I’m also saying that in one year there are certain things that you set to accomplish that you can’t get done.

COLLIN MCLAREN SGA SENATOR For alcohol in the stadium, Sharp said the executives made progress in almost getting the initiative completed, but then Tech played Oklahoma in football, and students chanted profanities toward Baker Mayfield.

With it being heard through television, Sharp said SGA, athletics and administration received over 1,000 phone calls of people expressing it was unacceptable behavior.

Sharp said administration did not believe adding alcohol to the student’s behavior would be a good move after that.

Since graduating Tech, Sharp said he has thought a lot about the difficulty of completing initiatives. He said the biggest thing is that people promise big projects, and just like any big organization, it could take more than a year to complete.

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“Whenever you only have one-year terms, administrators know that and if they really don’t want to deal with whatever you’re pushing, they can just kind of push you off,” Sharp said.

It is not that administrators are constantly blocking ideas, Sharp said, but Tech being a bureaucratic system contributes to it. By the time approvals are made, Sharp said SGA presidents could be almost done with their term, and they do not have much remaining time to take the next steps unless the next president wants to take on the same initiative and build upon it.

Robbie Meyer, SGA president from 2017 to 2018, ran on the initiatives of a dog park on campus, WiFi in the Jones, a mobile student ID, and more food chains in the Student Union Building, specifically referring to Whataburger and Chipotle.

At the start of his term as president, Meyer said that many people believed these initiatives to not be feasible and it was his job to prove them wrong.

When contacted, Meyer referred all questions to current SGA leadership.

Collin McLaren was member of the SGA during Meyer’s term and now serves as a SGA senator for the College of Arts & Sciences.

McLaren said Meyer started Pet Awareness Week and slightly worked on a roommate survey.

Although Meyer did not complete his main initiatives, McLaren said it is because they involve big infrastructure changes.

“I think Robbie, like any politician that holds a role in public office, makes these promises and tries to get them done, and some of them happen and some of them don’t,” McLaren said. “He

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The Student Government Association was formed to represent the student body and initiate changes that reflect the interests ofTexasTech.The SGA office is housed on the third floor of the Student Union Building. definitely made efforts on those, and he worked them to a certain extent.”

He said students should keep in mind that SGA presidents only have one year in office, and that may be hard to make big change in a bureaucratic system.

“I’m not discounting the fact that one year is plenty of time to get things done,” McLaren said, “but I’m also saying that in one year there are certain things that you set to accomplish that you don’t get done.”

McLaren said like other SGA presidents, Meyer set the groundwork for the next president. However, Sean Lewis, current SGA president, said that Meyer did not have any initiatives from his term roll over.

Lewis ran on the main initiative of food trucks on campus, improving late night transportation for students, a personal wellness app, removing off campus housing restrictions and basketball tailgates.

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on all our initiatives,” Lewis said, “and we’re excited about the work that we’re gonna be able to get accomplished and get done.”

Lewis has been a member of SGA since his freshman year and worked under Westbrook, Sharp and Meyer.

Compared to past leaders, Lewis said he wants to improve upon doing their best to speak with the student body.

“I’ll be optimistic to say I think we can make significant headway in all of the core initiatives we ran on, and if we can’t, we’ll be sure to let the student body know that we couldn’t and this is why and to see if they have any recommendations on what we can do better in the future,” Lewis said.

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the students, so that has been our first priority and our main priority,” Lewis said. “I credit that to the team we have. We have over two decades of combined experience in Student Government together. We’re putting all of our past experiences together and just hitting the ground running.”

The late-night transportation has been an initiative already completed with the new RaiderRide service, which offers students transportation every night. From this point, Lewis said they are extremely focused on the wellness app, but it will specifically relate to assistance with mental health and why it is an issue at Tech.

Continuing, he said there will be an event this semester of food trucks on campus to see how students respond to them. For the brothel law, focused on off campus housing restrictions, Lewis said the external vice-president Jude Al-hmoud is working with city council to revise the law.

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One year later, campus heals from shooting tragedy

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veryone insists that time heals. However, I’ve put some thought into it and I’m not sure it’s really time that does the heavy lifting. Yes, usually it hurts less after a year, but it’s not simply because a year’s time has elapsed.

It’s because in that year maybe you went to counseling and you talked about it with your best friend for hours upon hours and you started accomplishing incredible things and you took bold risks and you laughed and you slept and you even cried a bit and you hugged your grandma and got a dog and you realized that the picture is bigger and the world is wider and everything just keeps moving forward and so you move forward too.

And then, after a year or five or ten, or even just after a couple months, you feel better.

That’s how I feel when I think about what happened on Oct. 9, 2017.

That night, I was sitting in room 067 in the basement of the College of Media & Communication when Officer Floyd East Jr. was shot and killed on campus.

At the time, I was crammed into that basement room along with about 150 Sigma Phi Lambda members for chapter.

About 15 minutes before we were supposed to end, our

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president told us there was an active shooter and put us on lockdown. We turned off the lights and locked all the doors and tried to hide ourselves as best we could.

As the room darkened and backs were pressed against walls, half the room started to sob.

Being an editor for The Daily Toreador at the time, I immediately jumped into work mode and called McKenzi Morris, The DT’s Editorin-Chief. For the next hour and a half, I frantically typed away on my laptop as my fellow editors — my dearest friends — ran after a loose gunman while I sat helpless in a room that rested directly below the newsroom.

I called my mom because I didn’t want her to hear about the lockdown from an outside source. By that point, our active shooter situation had made national news — so she remained quietly on the phone with me as I worked. Honestly, I expected her to be hysterical, but she responded the same way I did; she was clear and focused and was bracing for impact. I think she knew that was what I needed.

For at least an hour, no one knew what was going on. The girls around me kept asking questions, shrieking if I gave an unsavory answer, moaning if I didn’t have one.

I did my best to relay information as I received it to the girls around me, but my group message with the other editors was overloading their phones and they were losing the battery power they desperately needed to cover the chaos.

But as I sat there, I couldn’t help but wonder: “Where are they? Are they OK? Are we going to be OK?” What is “OK” going to be now?

Fast forwarding to 2 a.m. on that freezing October night, I remember McKenzi and I pulling away from Insomnia Cookies with a box full of chocolate chip cookies for the Saddle Tramps who were wrapping Will Rogers.

As if to match the unexpected nature of the day, the temperature had dropped to freezing and McKenzi and I were woefully underdressed.

Once we finished talking to them, we handed them the cookies and raced back to McKenzi’s Jeep where her boyfriend was waiting to drive us back to the newsroom so we could continue working.

That night, I remember

walking down the hall to my apartment at West Village. I was exhausted but wide awake. The lights to the hallway are motion activated, but they take about a minute to recognize movement. So, I walked in darkness through a building I had always felt safe in on a campus, I had always felt safe on at a school, I had always felt safe at and I just wondered how that would be different now. Different now that a shooter had ran around the same sidewalks I took to class.

The next day was a blur.

We went to the memorial that students pulled together. We told students where to go for counseling. We typed and we called and we emailed and we tweeted and we interviewed and we transcribed and we planned and we prayed. And we missed every single one of our classes.

The next week was a blur of press conferences and races to the courthouse and more phone calls and emails and typing and tweeting. The weather stayed cold and the students stayed scared and the administrators looked like they hadn’t slept for days.

We were told the shooter ’s name. And then the victim’s name.

We learned about what had happened and we listened closely to every interview and became so in-

tertwined in this real-time episode of CSI that we could hardly live outside of it.

But November came and so did December and then the next semester flew by.

And we’re all OK. Campus is OK. Texas Tech is OK. Our administrators are OK. We’re OK. Officer East’s family?

They won’t ever be the same kind of OK. And neither will the alleged shooter’s family.

But the rest of us? We’re OK. We walk through campus laughing with our friends or listening to music. We go to meetings and we go to class.

We go for jogs around the Rec and we hang out in the SUB. We’re OK. And I really believe that.

But every now and then, there are little things that happen which stir up the same fear and heartbreak that we all felt last October and, in those moments, I see everyone choke a little.

The other day, when we found that threating message in Holden Hall everyone panicked. But those who had been here last year panicked a little differently.

We remembered our campus locked down. We remembered our flags hung low.

We remembered our school silent. We remembered it all.

We remembered that we’re not untouchable and we’re not invincible.

And now, I’ve noticed that

Tech PD officers don’t go anywhere alone. They pull people over in pairs and they respond to emergency calls in pairs.

They aren’t going to lose another officer.

So, yes. We’re all OK now.

But “OK” looks different. A lot different.

We’re a little more cautious, a little more fearful, and little more aware of what a trauma like that does to a campus, to a community. It tears a community apart for an hour or two and then it builds it back stronger and smarter and safer.

We were shattered when that news broke on Monday, Oct. 9th. But on Oct. 10, we were all shoulder to shoulder in Memorial Circle with our Guns Up singing the “Matador Song,” mourning the loss of one of our own and bracing for the year of healing ahead of us.

Because we had to read President Schovanec’s letters and we had to figure out how to go on campus at night again and we had to learn how to trust our fellow students and test the Blue Lights and talk to Tech PD and spend some time away from campus and spend even more time safely on campus and then after all of that, we realized we’re OK. We’re all OK. @DailyToreador

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Florida coastline brace for unprecedented devastation as well.

While widespread evacuation efforts, storm warnings and sophisticated weather systems should theoretically maximize the safety of United States citizens, Florida officials recently reported that only a fraction of the 370,000 people ordered to evacuate have actually left.

No official explanation of why these individuals decided to stay has been released, but large populations remaining in the path of life-threatening storms is not an isolated nor unique dilemma.

With an already limited amount of means to safety, and a majority of them exclusively available to those possessing necessary funds and clean criminal records, increasingly dangerous natural disasters should prompt concern over what populations are forced to weather the storm ­— literally.

Just last month, over 1 million people on the East Coast were ordered to evacuate and prepare for Hurricane Florence, yet many families reported that fi-

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nancial burdens prevented them from doing so. In an interview with U.S. News published by the Huffington Post, North Carolina’s Maggie and Scott Warner explained that last minute plane tickets cost upwards of $600 each. Coupled with rising hotel prices, evacuation was simply unaffordable.

Driving is only an option when roads are safe and limited to those who already own a vehicle, while fronting the cost of gas required to travel long distances can be financially infeasible as well.

Still others are precluded from evacuation simply due their incarceration status.

According to the New Yorker, 1,000 prisoners at the South Carolina Department of Corrections were prevented from evacuating, despite South Carolina’s governor Henry McMaster’s statement.

“We do not want to risk one South Carolina life in this hurricane,” McMaster said in the statement, mandating an evacuation at the press conference prior to the

storm.

Instead, as evidenced in photographs published by the facility’s official Twitter page, inmates simply shoveled sand into bags in preparation for the storm.

According to an inside source interviewed by the New Yorker, correctional officers allegedly characterized prisoners’ water bottles and stores of clean drinking water as prohibited contraband, and even left inmates in cells even when the flooding reached knee-height, When evacuation is possible, the consequences of storms in Category 3 and above can prove more calamitous for people upon returning to their home.

Last year, CNN reported that storms like Hurricane Maria and Hurricane Irma left 1 million Americans in Puerto Rico without food and water and another 3 million without power.

Months after the storm, these basic necessities remain widely inaccessible and illness continues to run rampant. Disaster recovery efforts by FEMA and similar organizations have helped, but CNN also elucidates that the needs of vulnerable populations in these areas

far surpass existing amounts of aid.

Accordingly, such poor living conditions and a lack of clean water exacerbate the chances of cholera and other frequent disease outbreaks. A January 2018 EPA report furthered that some individuals have resorted to drinking water from hazardous waste sites, compounding the already low quality of life and public health crisis across the island.

Meanwhile on the mainland, a USA Today article revealed that cases of water bottles sold for $99.99 on Amazon. This pervasive price gouging across consumer industries following Hurricane Harvey, especially in the travel sector, went largely ignored by authorities.

American Airlines flights out of Texas reached $1,960 for a single roundtrip ticket.

Corporate spokesperson and managing partner Seth Kaplan merely maintained that, “It’s not price gouging, it’s just that there aren’t enough seats.” Absent legislative intervention, potential victims of Hurricane Michael may confront these same harrowing prospects this week.

Catastrophic events and their implications conjure

images of death and destruction that seem inconceivable, yet only invoke remembrance of past havoc wreaked by disasters like Hurricane Katrina with gross familiarity. This includes not just domestic residents but also international community, as entire continents struggle to adapt to a changing climate, food shortages abound, and climate refugees seek new homes entirely.

However, despite this vast scope, an undeniable pattern emerges; in each circumstance, the worst impacts of impoverishment, sickness, and death were faced by our world’s most vulnerable groups – those of low socioeconomic status, incarcerated and marginalized groups, and others pushed to the periphery of societal consciousness.

Natural disasters do not determine who survives, but finances, criminal records and other social indicators certainly do. These categories may be abstractly constructed, yet their ability to concretely and materially render particular lives disposable demands our attention and correction. @DailyToreador

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No clear winner in Kavanaugh confirmation

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t the time of this writing, Supreme Court Justice Brent Kavanaugh has been sworn into the highest court after a hearing based on Christine Blasey Ford’s accusations of sexual assault.

However, now that the FBI has ended their investigation, the conclusion is there isn’t enough evidence to suggest the accusations were true.

So now, here we are: the hearings are over and Kavanaugh is a judge on the Supreme Court. I feel no sense of victory or defeat; I feel only hollow apathy.

I held no particular

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These hearings were the first time I had ever heard of these people (I might have heard President Trump speak about Kavanaugh before, but that is neither here nor there) so I had no preconceived notions about either. My only true stake in the conflict was that the truth be upheld — whether he be found guilty or innocent of the crime.

Even then, I wouldn’t feel completely satisfied with the results. I didn’t

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want him to be guilty because I wouldn’t want anyone to have done what he supposedly did. I also didn’t want him to be truly innocent, because that would mean his accuser lied or was misinformed in some capacity, damaging the legitimacy of people who come forth with accusations of sexual assault, and suggesting a serious abuse of stature.

But again, here we are: Kavanaugh has been sworn in and he now sits as a judge on the Supreme Court. Though a naive man might think this means it is all over, he would be wrong.

In the politics of today, nothing is ever over; the winners will just keep pointing at the losers, spewing forth their putrid and painful “I told you so’s” and the losers will just keep shouting out and gallivanting their grand displays of anger and indignance for all to see, regardless of which side the “winner” or “loser” happens to be that day.

I remember my teacher of media law always drilling into our heads one particular phrase: “the rights of the speaker trump the feelings of the listener.” Every day, I find the world around me

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relies upon their feelings more and more, and their heads less and less. Even in the Kava-whoever situation (or the Kavalanache, as StephenColbert put it), when they straight up said that there is not enough evidence that a crime was committed, everyone devolves into a giant mosh-pit of their own bile and feelings, convinced of their own rightness and of the fact that others couldn’t possibly be right, even a little.

Either way, no one wins — and I think we all should be more concerned by that. @DailyToreador

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Raider Red Meats gives students experience

By BRENNA HALE Staff Writer

To many students, suiting up in rubber boots, a hair net and a hard hat to spend time in a cooler with freshly harvested carcasses is not what they imagine when searching for an on-campus job. For students who work at Raider Red Meats, however, it is a unique opportunity to gain comprehensive experience in their chosen field and a chance to see what it takes to produce top quality meat products first hand.

Since 1982, Raider Red Meats has provided students in the College of Animal and Food Sciences the opportunity to participate in every step of the meat production process.

Raider Red Meats processes and packages beef, pork, lamb, goat, specialty smoked meats, jerky, bacon, sausage and meat seasonings for sale in their retail store and restaurant housed in the College of Animal and Food Science. They also distribute their products to United Supermarkets and local restaurants and online orders can be delivered to the customer’s door.

Ben Weatherly, Raider Red Meats’ sales manager, said

90 percent of the business’ employees are students, and 90 percent of those student employees are enrolled in the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources or a field related to agriculture.

“They’re learning everything in the process from the live animal to the time it gets to the customer,” Weatherly said.

Tate Corliss, the director of Raider Red Meats and meat lab manager, said his main focus is to not only offer quality products but to produce quality students by giving them the opportunity to participate in every stage of the processing practice.

“Our students are involved in every aspect of it, and not just the student workers, but also students in the courses that are taught here in the college,” Corliss said. “They get the opportunity to work in packaging, logistics, food quality testing, quality assurance, and they also get to work with the USDA because we’re a federally inspected facility.”

Corliss estimates that 33 to 40 students are on their staff, depending on the time of year. Corliss said seeing the growth and success of students involved with Raider Red Meats is the most re-

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LEFT: Raider Red Meats has meat sourced from the Texas Tech New Deal farm. All proceeds from the store benefit a scholarship endowment awarded to students from the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources. RIGHT: Raider Red Meats, a business within the College of Animal and Food Sciences, sells high quality meat products to the public. Student employees oversee the entire production process. warding aspect of the project. we bring in, and some of the them coming back.” to see the harvest process “We get phone calls from students that work for us are All of the proceeds of the from start to finish, from the employers that say ‘Hey, we a part of the meat judging retail store and restaurant go live animal to the finished just hired your student, can team,” Weatherly said. “When toward a scholarship endow- product,” Evers said. you send five more just like they’re not judging, they’re ment for students enrolled in The Raider Red Meats them’ and that’s really re- helping us, and we’re defi- the CASNR. Though the de- retail store and restaurant, warding,’” Corliss said. nitely proud to support them.” partment’s meat lab has been formerly known as CowaThe business sources its’ Weatherly said that one in existence since the 1950s, mungus!, is open to the pubanimals from the Texas Tech aim of theirs is to produce top the business rebranded and lic from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Research Farm at New Deal. quality meat for the public. began to raise money for the every weekday and from 10 The stock at the farm is “Especially on beef, we’re scholarship about 10 years ago. a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays. The evaluated during practice focusing on the top 7 percent Danielle Evers, a first year restaurant serves breakfast for Tech’s livestock judging or 8 percent in the U.S. for graduate student studying and lunch on weekdays. team and the meat that is eating quality,” Weatherly meat science from Sioux City, Weatherly said they ship later harvested is used as said. “So, USDA Prime and Iowa, works in the meat lab. out online orders, offer capractice material for Tech’s High Choice is what we try “It’s a part of my require- tering and are frequently meat judging team. to focus on and we try to give ments for my graduate study, having online specials and “We support the judging people something that is high but the biggest thing I’ve tak- holidays sales. team, as far as the animals quality, consistent, and keeps en away from this is getting @BrennaHaleDT

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School of Theatre & Dance embraces performance spaces found throughout Lubbock community

By REBEKAH BLANCHARD Staff Writer

The question of whether the venue or the show comes first for Texas Tech’s School of Theatre and Dance is answered in one word — both.

This year’s production sites have been carefully selected and are scattered throughout the Lubbock community while the school’s main theater undergoes a major remodel.

Cory Norman, the director of marketing and communication for the school, said planning for the 2018-2019 season started over a year ago, and the committee who selects the plays began looking at venues during that time.

“This is a site-specific and found-space season,” Norman said. “You find a space, you get excited about a space, and then have to go back and look at the play with the idea of being in that space, and it’s exciting!”

Norman said the whole season is dedicated to the “foundspace,” site-specific idea, an exciting departure from the norm, and one theater goers can expect to see in future seasons.

“We’re interested in being in the community,” he said. “People don’t always have to flock to the theater to see theater. Sometimes people can stay in their own neighborhood and we’ll come to them, and that’s kind of

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The J.T. & Margaret Talkington College of Visual & Performing Arts undergoing renovations to its Charles E. Maedgen Jr. theater. what this is.”

Cole Wimpee, a part-time graduate instructor and Ph.D. student in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, said before moving to Lubbock, he participated in and directed site-specific plays while living in New York.

“I am a big proponent of this style of theater, what we call in the industry either ‘Site-Specific’ or ‘Found Space.’” Wimpee said.

“What I love about it is in how it broadens the ideas of what a theatrical performance can be, for both the artists involved and the audiences we engage with.”

Wimpee said he is looking forward to the first site-

specific production of the season, “Hands on a Hardbody,” directed by Dean Nolan and opening next week. The production is set in a parking lot of a car dealership and written

by Pulitzer Prize winner Doug Wright, with music by Trey Anastasio and Amanda Green.

The musical is based on a actual contest that took place at a Longview car dealership in the early 1990s and centers around contestants vying to win a new truck. The winner must be the last person standing with their hands on the truck. The production will be hosted at the McGavock Nissan Dealership, a site-specific venue.

Wimpee said with site-specific productions, performers, administrators, designers, technicians and the like, embrace the opportunity to be pushed outside their comfort zone. Of course, this is no easy undertaking.

“I can speak to the primary challenge I’ve encountered historically, and it is in trying to help prepare the actors during the rehearsal process for the unique dimensions and architecture of a performance space they have not yet rehearsed in,” he said.

All artists should, by their nature, be innovative, Wimpee said.

“The ability to take what might seem like a perceived weakness or limitation, and turn it into a strength, is a bold and clever type of risk-taking that you want to see in the leadership of an academic program,” Wimpee said, “and we have some outstanding faculty here that have made that happen.”

Wimpee has been cast in the final production of the 2018-2019 season Canterville, directed by Randall Rapstine, based on one of Oscar Wilde’s classic ghost stories. The performance will utilize a foundspace, a house in Tech Terrace.

“We’ve begun rehearsing and it will be interesting to see how we develop material as a blueprint of the home prior to having access to the residence,” he said.

Bill West-Davis, a thirdyear graduate student pursu-

ing his master’s in design, specifically lighting design, said the School of Theatre & Dance has done well adapting to the circumstances of not having a theatre to perform in.

“From a design standpoint, a lot of these spaces don’t have any kind of architectural drawings that are usable to us,” West-Davis said. “We must survey our sites, take measurements and make decisions on how we will utilize the space.

This process takes time, but it adds to the experience.”

Instead of the theatre construction hindering the School of Theatre & Dance, Davis said it is pushing them to take their production off-campus and explore what they can create in a site-specific structure.

“Jeff Goldblum as Dr. Ian Malcom in ‘Jurassic Park’ said it best, ‘Life finds a way,’ and we sure have,” Davis said. @bekblanchardDT

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Red Raiders set for Big 12 Match Play Championship

By SAMUEL MEDLIN Staff Writer

The No. 25 Texas Tech men’s golf team is set to tee off in the Big 12 Match Play Championship occurring from Friday, Oct. 12, to Sunday, Oct. 14, at The Club at Houston Oaks in Hockley.

The upcoming event marks the first time this season a conference has coordinated its own Match Play tournament, according to the Big 12 website. Each school will be given a seed 1 through 10 based on the team’s Golfweek, Sagarin and Golfstat rankings heading into the event.

Other Big 12 teams noted in the most recent top-25 national rankings include: No. 1 Oklahoma State, who has claimed the top spot for the eighth straight week, according to Tech Athletics.

Just behind OSU, the Oklahoma Sooners claim the No. 2 spot overall. The University of Texas holds the No. 8 ranking, and Baylor University falls at No. 24.

Following Tech’s runnerup finish at the Showdown in the Rockies, the Red Raiders have been listed in the top 25 national rankings for the first time since the preseason, according to Tech Athletics.

“I really love the team’s

work ethic and their chemistry together,” Tech coach Greg Sands said. “We still need to keep working on wedges and putting though to be a dynamic team.”

In the Red Raiders last event, junior Sandy Scott took home a top-5 placement, finishing in a tie for fourth on the medalist leaderboard, according to Tech Athletics. Scott opened the event with a 5-under-par 67, recording a total of eight birdies throughout the round. He closed the tournament with a solid round of 4-under-par 68, finishing with a total individual score of 8-under-par.

Sophomore Kyle Hogan ended the last event with a seventh-place finish on the medalist leaderboard, recording a total individual score of 3-under-par, according to Tech Athletics. Hogan posted two out of three rounds under-par, opening the tournament with a 4-under-par 68, and ending with a 1-under-par 71.

Senior Adam Blomme carded two out of three rounds at 1-over-par or better in the last event, according to Tech Athletics.

Blomme had an opening round 1-over-par 73, then closed the tournament with a 1-under-par 71. Blomme

finished with a total individual score of 3-over-par, in a tie for 21st place on the medalist leaderboard.

The last time the Red Raiders competed in a match play event was during their Elite Eight appearance in last season’s NCAA National Championship, according to Tech Athletics.

The No. 3 ranked Tech faced off against No. 6 seed Alabama Crimson Tide, losing the match 3-2.

The Red Raiders that took part in last year ’s match play competition were Blomme, Hogan, Ramirez and Scott, according to Tech Athletics. Blom-

me was the only Red Raider to win his match, carding a birdie on the 17th hole to defeat his Alabama competitor by a score of 1-UP. Hogan, Ramirez, and Scott all dropped their match play competitions during Tech’s Elite Eight appearance, resulting in the Red Raiders elimination from playoff contention, according to Tech Athletics.

Following the Big 12 Match Play Championship, Tech will look forward to the Isleworth Collegiate, occurring from Sunday, Oct. 21, to Tuesday, Oct. 23, in Orlando, Florida. @SamMedlinDT

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‘Melo joins Rockets Garcia takes home individual victory HOUSTON (AP) — The Carmelo Anthony experiment in Oklahoma City didn’t go well last season.

The Rockets believe things will be different for the 10-time All-Star in Houston and that Anthony can be the piece stars James Harden and Chris Paul need to win the rugged West — and maybe win it all.

“We can win. I think he sees that, feels that,” coach Mike D’Antoni said. “Now it’s just up to everybody (and) they’re going to do whatever it takes to win.”

“At the end of the day whatever I have to do to help this team win a championship, then that’s what’s going to be done,” Anthony said.

Sophomore Sofia Garcia of the Texas Tech women’s golf team claimed the first individual win of her collegiate career by tying for first place in the Illini Invitational Tuesday, Oct. 9. The native of Asuncion, Paraguay, earned first victory with a total individual score of 9-under-par, according to Tech Athletics.

During all three rounds, Garcia recorded a sub-par score. Garcia’s win marks the first medalist victory since former Red Raider Gabby Barker took home first place in the Lady Boilermaker Invitational last April, according to Tech Athletics.

It is only the second event Garcia has participated in since returning from a sea-

son-ending injury, according to Tech Athletics. In the first tournament of Tech’s season, she took home an 11th place finish on the medalist leaderboard for the best placement by a Red Raider.

In Garcia’s freshman year, she made her presence known by claiming second best on the team in scoring, with an average of 73.6 strokes per round, according to Tech Athletics.

Her scoring average was the lowest by a freshman in program history.

Garcia finished in a tie for 32nd individually in the NCAA Championships her freshman year, with a total combined score of even-par, according to Tech Athletics. @SamMedlinDT

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Sophomore Sofia Garcia took home the first individual win of her collegiate career as she tied for first place in the Illini Invitational Tuesday, Oct. 9. Garcia was under-par in all three rounds of the tournament.

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Big receivers making big plays for No. 9 Texas AUSTIN (AP) — Facing third-and-long, Lil’Jordan Humphrey caught a quick pass on a play designed to get Texas a few yards.

Then came a load of Longhorns teammates.

Next came the surge.

With his legs churning and Texas pushing, Humphrey and the Longhorns moved the pile another 10 yards. The play picked up 19 yards, Texas converted on 4th-and-2 and finished the drive with a touchdown that would prove critical in a 48-45 win over Oklahoma.

C o a c h To m H e r m a n called it “the play of the game.”

“It was a snapshot, a demonstration of our culture of toughness, our culture of not giving up,” Herman said.

It was also the latest big play from Humphrey and Collin Johnson, two giants on the outside who

have given Texas some of the biggest moments and touchdowns in a 5-1 start that has catapulted the Longhorns to the top of the Big 12 and their first top 10 ranking since 2010. Texas hosts Baylor on Saturday.

“I feel like we’re one of the best receiver groups in the nation,” Humphrey said. “We can’t be stopped at times, really at all.”

The highlights of a fivegame win streak would back that up. Humphrey and Johnson have combined for 65 catches and eight of the team’s 12 passing touchdowns.

Both had touchdown catches against Oklahoma and Humphrey even threw one to Johnson on the first possession; it came on a play named “Jordan,” with Humphrey lined up in the backfield for a direct snap and he faked a run before jumping and tossing the

ball to Collins. With Humphrey a threat to run, no Sooner defender dropped off with Johnson, who was wide open in the end zone.

The throw could not have been easier.

Humphrey became the first Longhorn to have a touchdown pass and reception in the same game since David Ash did it in the 2011 Holiday Bowl.

“I knew that was going to hit right when they called it,” Johnson said.

“When we called it in practice, it hit every time. They (Oklahoma) thought LJ was going to run it in. You don’t know what he’s going to do.”

Herman has called Humphrey a “Swiss Army knife” kind of player who can do anything. Quarterback Sam Ehlinger has been able to count on Humphrey and Johnson to catch just about anything he throws their way, and usu-

ally with big results.

The two are a nightmare matchup for defensive backs: Johnson is 6-foot-6 and Humphrey is just 2 inches shorter.

Humphrey consistently breaks tackles to pick up first downs while Johnson has a distinct advantage on jump balls.

Ten of their 15 catches against Oklahoma resulted in first downs — or touchdowns. Humphrey’s 47-yard catch-and-run score against Southern Cal is Texas’ longest offensive play of the season.

Johnson’s diving touchdown catch against TCU is maybe the most acrobatic.

Johnson played every offensive snap against Kansas State and all but one against Oklahoma. He’s just waiting to match Humphrey as a passer.

“When they call my number, I’m going to throw it down,” Johnson said.

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Equality in sports still problematic

W

hen someone mentions sports, what typically comes to mind? Men playing baseball, or women playing basketball?

When I think about sports, my thoughts are a bit different.

One of my main thoughts is as follows: Will women ever be as dominant as men in the sports world? Let’s face it, sports have been dominated by men since the first Olympics in 776 B.C. From a biological perspective, men are indeed stronger than women; naturally, men dominating sports has been and will continue to be the norm, or will it?

Let’s start in high school, where a majority of young ladies have their first opportunity to compete with something at stake in their given sport. Though it is refreshing to see high school students involved with athletics, historically speaking, the number of female athletes hasn’t always been so prevalent.

After the Title IX Act

Eleanor Guinan is a freshman journalism major from Altus, Oklahoma.

was passed in 1972, two in five girls now participate in sports. Before the act was passed, only one in 27 girls took up athletics.

Evidently so, the Title IX Act has proven to make a big difference. Furthermore, women in sports at the collegiate level has increased 600 percent since the Title IX Act was put into effect, according to motherjones.com.

However, there is still some work to be done in professional sports, starting with the National Pro Fastpitch League. The NPF is a professional softball league that attracts less than 1,000 fans a game. On the contrary, Major League Baseball attracts an aver-

age of 30,000 fans a game, according to forbes.com.

This low ticket sale in softball shocked me. How could women be performing so well in sports on the collegiate level, yet have an exponentially smaller turn out in pro leagues? Furthermore, softball is only one of many sports that deserves more attention, as female athletes across the board have gone on to achieve remarkable accomplishments.

For example, women’s tennis is well known, thanks to the Serena Williams. The star-studded athlete is even more notorious now, as she recently stood up to the judge who accused her of cheating in the 2018 US Open.

Additionally, the U.S. women’s soccer team has emerged as one of the best in the world. The team proved its skill by winning the FIFA World Cup in 2015. Dating back to 2003, the US women’s soccer team has

been ranked in the top two teams in the world in the FIFA standings, according to fiftythirtyeightcom.

On the other side of the spectrum, the U.S. men’s soccer team didn’t even qualify for the world cup, as they were beaten out by Trinidad and Tobago. The women’s national team is quickly becoming the face of women’s soccer, and it could be the reason why women’s sports will one day will become well known.

For another example, the Women’s National Basketball Association receives a little more attention than the NFP, and by attention, I mean people just know it exists. If I gave some names from that league, could you honestly tell me you know who they are? What if I gave names from the NBA, then could you? Maya Moore is a forward for the Minnesota Lynx, and has a playing style that is compared to

Michael Jordan. Moore even has her own shoe in association with the Jordan brand, according to huffingtonpost. com. So, why doesn’t anyone know about her?

Simply put, its marketing, or lack thereof. The female athletes in the WNBA and leagues alike are highly skilled professionals, so it is valid to at least consider the following: If the women’s leagues offered a more prominent market for investors and consumers to partake in, would these athletes and teams have the same notoriety as their male counterparts?

To put things in perspective, the WNBA averages 20,000 viewers each game, while the NBA averages over a million viewers each game, according to variety.com.

As proven earlier, female athletes compete with the same intensity as men, but it doesn’t seem that

way simply because the marketing is less.

This is disappointing to me not because I am a woman, but because I am a sports fan. I want to see all athletes recognized equally. I want society to understand the hard work and dedication that’s invested by all athletes, regardless of gender. I want this equality not on behalf of just professional female athletes, but for all women that step on their given playing field or court.

With the women’s national team taking home championship titles, and athletes like Serena Williams taking a stand against male dominated sports culture, they are actively paving the way toward equality for all. It goes without saying that the process won’t be quick or easy, but eventually, society might know there is a professional softball league. @EleanorGuinanDT

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Entering his eighth season in San Antonio, Mills has become most tenured player with Spurs Being traded from a city and franchise he loved angered DeRozan, but he has since embraced San Antonio and its response has overwhelmed him. The most meaningful gesture to the four-time All-Star was seeing his mural painted on the wall of a local restaurant before he had even stepped foot in San Antonio.

“Honestly, the day I saw it, I thought it was fake,” DeRozan said. “My cousin sent it to me or showed me.

I was like, ‘Man who drew this? I mean, who photoshopped this?’ He was like, ‘No it’s in San Antonio.’ I didn’t think it was real until later on it went viral. It gave me one of them feelings to where it was like, ‘Damn, they love like this already?’ It gives you that extra hunger to want to go out there and do something for the fans and make them feel better than I felt in that moment.”

Popovich learned it’s never good to try and change what

a veteran is used to, which is good news for DeRozan. Popovich adjusted his approach prior to last season after Aldridge was unhappy with how he was being used. Popovich joked he tried to turn Aldridge into Boston Celtics great John Havlicek. After a heart-toheart talk between the two, Popovich allowed Aldridge to be himself and expects the same for DeRozan.

“DeMar is already an AllStar and he plays a certain way,” Popovich said. “So,

there will be some things that we will try to add to his game, if he’s willing, but I’m not going to jump on him like I did L.A.” DeRozan is excited Poeltl is joining him in San Antonio.

The 7-foot center enters his third season averaging 5.4 points and 4.1 rebounds.

“His IQ for the game is definitely high,” DeRozan said. “I think being here being under Pop (and) being under a new situation, I think you’re definitely going to get a chance to see him

thrive at a high level. He’s definitely one of them guys, I even

told Pop, I was high on and I was high on him in Toronto.”

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Nowitzki hopes 21st season with Mavs is start of turnaround DALLAS (AP) — Dirk Nowitzki hasn’t won a playoff series since leading the Dallas Mavericks to their only championship in 2011 and has watched the franchise’s steady slide to depths not seen since he was the fresh-faced rookie out of Europe 20 years ago.

If Nowitzki’s record 21st season with the same team is his last, the superstar from Germany at least wants to be able to say he was there for the beginning of a turnaround.

Those hopes are grounded in another precocious Euro transplant, No. 3 overall pick Luka Doncic from Slovenia, and second-year point guard Dennis Smith Jr., who can tell his new young teammate what it’s like to start an NBA career as a teenager. The

Mavericks open the season next Wednesday at Phoenix.

“To me it was always about winning and keeping us a winning franchise,” Nowitzki said. “Ever since the championship we had a few rough seasons, snuck into the playoffs a couple times, missed the playoffs. So it’s been tough to be part of it at times. But hopefully we’re headed in the right direction.

Hopefully we’ll have a better year than the last two.”

Winning now might fall a little bit more toward the older guys.

Harrison Barnes was the first big step toward life after Nowitzki as the team’s leading scorer the past two seasons after winning a title and losing in the NBA Finals with Golden State. Center DeAndre Jordan, one of the

game’s best rebounders, finally joined the Mavericks three years after backing out on a pledge to do so.

“It’s a newfound energy now, being on a new team and a new nucleus and a new owner and a great city with amazing fans,” Jordan said. “These fans have always been amazing, every time I’ve been here and played. I think there’s a new energy and a new excitement with our team.”

Losing is getting old for coach Rick Carlisle, going into his 11th season with the Mavericks. He had just one sub-.500 record in his first 14 years as an NBA coach. The second of two in a row (2458) was Dallas’ first 50-loss season since the last of seven in a span of eight seasons in 1998, a couple of months

before Nowitzki showed up.

“I’m not going to throw any numbers out. I’m not going to do anything stupid like that,” Carlisle said. “When I went to Detroit in 2001, I got asked that question, someone asked, ‘Hey, you think you can be .500?’ And I said, ‘Why would you want to throw out 41 as a number that you’re striving for?’

The 40-year-old is expected to come off the bench with regularity for the first time since he was a rookie. The Jordan signing clinched it, since Nowitzki was considered the starting center last season. Shooting guard Wesley Matthews is the other starter along with Smith, Barnes, Doncic and Jordan. Nowitzki knows it will be different but is fine with it.

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Red Raiders wrap up successful Fall Season

By ELEANOR GUINAN Staff Writer

After sweeping the University of Houston Tournament, the Texas Tech softball team has concluded its fall season, posting an undefeated 7-0 record.

The Red Raiders gathered a total of seventy-five runs in their seven games, according to Tech Athletics. In two of the Red Raiders wins, Tech’s offense put up over twenty runs. The Red Raiders rolled over Odessa College, 22-1, in their first game of the fall season, and shortly after Tech took 23-1 victory against Midland College.

Tech’s offense played a big role in the Red Raiders undefeated fall season. In the last five games the Red Raiders played, the team

outscored their opponents 30-12, according to Tech Athletics. The talent on Tech’s roster was on full display throughout the fall slate, with multiple Red Raiders going on to have notable performances.

Redshirt sophomore Heaven Burton went five for five in the contest against Midland College to start her season on a strong note. Senior Taylor Satchell has also had success at the plate this fall. Satchell made some noise in Tech’s last home game of the fall, in which she came in clutch smoking a grand slam to give the Red Raiders a late-inning lead.

In the University of H o u s t o n To u r n a m e n t , Satchell hit a two-run home run to help Tech earn an 8-1 win against

L a m a r U n i v e r s i t y, a c cording to Tech Athletics.

Sophomore Trenity Edwards also made a name for herself in the tournament. To start things off, Edwards hit a solo home run against the University of Houston Cougars and a two-run double against Lamar in the first day of play, according to Tech Athletics. In the final day of the tournament, Edwards launched a grand slam to help Tech earn a 5-4 win against Houston.

Along with Tech’s bats being explosive, the Red Raider defense has also been dominating, with the pitching staff leading the way. Junior Missy Zoch and freshman Morgan Hornback were the two pitchers that frequented the circle

for Tech, along with an appearance by sophomore Erin Edmoundson. In the first three home games, the pitching staff held their opponents to seven runs, according to Tech Athletics.

“We’re pretty much split in the young and the old I think we as a group want to have a grown mindset and wanted to also be leaders. I think sometimes having a grown mindset is hard but if you wanna be great then you will do it.”

Tech coach Adrian Gregory said of the returners helping out the newcomers.

After posting an undefeated record, the Red Raiders have set expectations high for the upcoming spring season, giving Tech something to prove come January. @EleanorGuinanDT

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Sophomore pitcher Erin Edmoundson hit the ball during Texas Tech’s game against Clarendon on Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018, at Rocky Johnson Field. Tech went 7-0 during its fall slate.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Spurs enter season battling same uncertainties

Tech Announces Redemption Rewards Program

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The Spurs were eager to turn the page after all the injuries and uncertainty of last season.

Instead, the hard luck continues.

San Antonio was beset by two knee injuries in the preseason, the most devastating to point guard Dejounte Murray. Coach Gregg Popovich said Murray will likely miss the season after tearing his right ACL on Oct. 7.

“I feel bad for the team because they were all so high on Dejounte,” Popovich said, “but mostly for him because he’s worked hard and he has improved.”

The injury and the torn right meniscus suffered two days earlier by first-round pick Lonnie Walker IV dampened the Spurs’ eagerness to put last season — and the awkward offseason — behind them. Injuries to Kawhi Leonard, Tony Parker, Rudy Gay, Danny Green, Kyle Anderson and several oth-

Texas Tech Athletics announced the Red Raider basketball season ticket holder redemption rewards program, Wednesday, Oct. 10.

The program gives season ticket holders who have had their tickets scanned at 90 percent of home games a special gift from Tech coach Chris Beard, according to a Tech Athletics release. Fans who participate in the ticket holder program but can’t attend games are encouraged to give the tickets to a friends, family or coworkers.

Program participants can also donate their tickets

ers hurt, though the Spurs managed to earn their 21st straight postseason berth.

Leonard missed all but nine games with right quadriceps tendinitis and then forced a trade in the offseason amid reports he didn’t like how the team handled his injury. The trade along with the retirement of Manu Ginobili and the departure of Parker through free agency to Charlotte punctuated the end of a veteran era for the Spurs. The Spurs acquired DeMar DeRozan and Jakob Poeltl from Toronto for Leonard and Danny Green.

“We’re happy to turn the page,” forward LaMarcus Aldridge said. “DeMar is here, he’s happy, he’s motivated, he’s going to make us better.

You’ve got to look forward. We have a very talented team I’m looking forward to play for.”

The Spurs were preparing to enter the season with their most athletic and versatile team since the early days of the Big Three, but

that excitement was tempered by the injuries to Murray and Wright. The one saving grace is San Antonio had a lot of depth.

“I feel like we got more talented because we can go small ball easier and we can play big with our big team,” Aldridge said. “I feel like we are in a happy medium where we can do both.”

A healthy Gay is back along with veterans Pau Gasol and Patty Mills and the return of veteran guard Marco Belinelli through free agency.

They are joined by maturing young players like Bryn Forbes, Davis Bertans and Derrick White. Walker is expected to miss six to eight weeks. Mills and White are expected to handle point duties.

“We have a lot of guys who can still handle the ball,” Gay said. “So, we can play up-tempo. Derrick is going to have to grow up fast. He’s extremely talented, and I think he is capable of leading this team.”

electronically to the Texas Tech Athletics Department, which will then pass along them along to a nonprofit organization. The Red Raider basketball program started this new initiative to ensure the home field advantage is evident during the season, according to the release.

The Red Raiders had a historical 2017-2018 season, in which Tech posted a record of 17-1 at home and advanced all the way to the NCAA Elite Eight, according to the release. The attendance last year increased from seventh in the Big 12,

to fourth.

“The next level of support is coming to the games and when you can’t give your tickets filled then we have a home-court advantage before we even start. We want to see all of our friends at the game,” Beard said, according to the release.

The first game of the 2018-2019 season will be Tuesday, Nov. 6 against Incarnate Word, marking the first of a seventeen-game home slate at the United Supermarket Arena, according to the release. @EleanorGuinanDT

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Texas Tech fans rush the court after the Texas Tech men’s basketball game against West Virginia on Saturday, Jan. 13, 2018, in the United Supermarkets Arena following Tech’s, 72-71, upset. Tech recently announced a new Rewards Program for season ticket holders that will go into effect for the 2018-19 season.

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