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GSA, others celebrate National Coming Out Day By EFRAIN DUARTE STAFF WRITER
Preoccupied with the upcoming election, most people overlook an important day in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history. National Coming Out Day was Thursday. According to the Human Rights Campaign website, the roots of National Coming Out Day began in 1987. The march on Washington for lesbian and gay rights took place 25 years ago Oct. 11, 1987. The march resulted in the organization of many LGBT organizations, such as the National Latino(a) Gay and Lesbian Organization. Rob Eichberg, founder of a personal growth workshop and Jean O’Leary, former head of National Gay Rights Advocates, originated the idea of National Coming Out Day on Oct. 11, 1988. Since 1988 National Coming Out Day has been celebrated annually on Oct. 11. On Wednesday, the Texas Tech Gay-Straight Alliance had a meeting and members discussed coming out stories. “You never really stop coming
out,” Evan Weinberger, a junior chemistry major from McKinley, said. Those at the Tech GSA meeting, who identify as gay or lesbian, were not the only ones who told a coming out story. Casey Higgins, a senior psychology major from Houston is an ally. “I became a straight ally because growing up in high school, I had a bunch of friends who were gay,” Higgins said, “and I always got along with them really well.” There have been celebrities who have publically come out, such as Ellen DeGeneres and Anderson Cooper. According to the Human Rights Campaign website, there are themes associated with National Coming Out Day. This year’s theme is “Come out. Vote.” “You don’t need a label,” Weinberger said, “but it is nice to find that part of yourself and to admit it freely. “ Coming to terms with being gay was difficult for Cole Morrison, a sophomore Spanish major from Midland. COMING OUT cont. on Page 2 ➤➤
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Being healthy involves not only physical health, but also psychological health. A team of Texas Tech interior and environmental design students won the 2012 Nurture Collegiate Health Care Competition with the project, “Innovative Design for Cancer Centers through the Use of ‘Care Control Stations.’” The theme of the competition this year was Supporting Mobile Work in Health Care, said Debajyoti Pati, associate professor in the Department of Design and adviser for the team. The goal was to design any environment in a hospital and incorporate technology to enhance the collaborative process and make the process more efficient and safe. About one and half million
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people are diagnosed with cancer annually in the United States, said Haitham El- Hammali, an interior and environmental design graduate student from Benghazi, Libya. Because cancer is a common disease, the team decided to work on this design involving cancer treatment. “One of the main issues with the cancer center is the collaboration,” he said. “As we know, cancer is not only about medication and therapy, but also about treatment, the physical and psychological treatment between the staff and the patient.” Understanding the process was a major factor in the design, El-Hammali said. Staff from the Cancer Center at UMC were interviewed, and patients and flow of treatment were indirectly observed and later analyzed. DESIGN continued on Page 2 ➤➤
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LEFT: LINEBACKER BLAKE Dees wraps up New Mexico tight-end Lucas Reed in Tech’s 49-14 win against the Lobos on Sept. 15 at Jones AT&T Stadium. RIGHT: West Virginia wide receiver Tavon Austin will play for the first time against the Red Raiders on Saturday in Lubbock.
High-powered offense led by Heisman candidate fuels West Virginia By MICHAEL DUPONT II STAFF WRITER
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The last time West Virginia (5-0, 2-0) and Texas Tech (4-1, 1-1) faced each other in 1938, gas was a mere 10 cents per gallon, a loaf of bread cost 9 cents and the average cost to rent a house was $27. Tech and West Virginia may be unfamiliar with seeing each other on opposing sidelines at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Jones AT&T Stadium, but with the addition of West Virginia to the Big 12 Conference this season, the two teams will have plenty of time in the next several years to enjoy each other. Tech coach Tommy Tuberville said the Mountaineers are without a doubt the early favorite to win the Big 12 Championship.
“This is a good team,” Tuberville said. “I said it the first of the year. My vote was going to go to these guys. Just knowing the quarterback they have, if anybody has the front running lead of this championship, it will be them with all the experience and speed they’ve got.” The Mountaineers are led by senior quarterback Geno Smith. Smith, the early Heisman front-runner, has failed to complete only 38 of his passes. To put that into perspective, he has thrown more than 200 passes. The quarterback has thrown 24 touchdowns this season, 21 of which have gone to junior receiver Stedmon Bailey and senior receiver Tavon Austin. Tuberville said for Tech to keep Bailey and Austin at bay this weekend, the Red Raiders will have to tackle as a unit and make plays
in open field. “You better have more than one person around them trying to tackle them,” he said. “So we’ll go in with the same type of game plan. We’ll bring four. We’ll bring five. We have just got to make sure that whatever we do, that we tackle at the point of attack. We can’t give up 150 yards after the catch or after we’ve made contact on the run. We can’t do that.” Tech is coming off a disappointing 41-20 loss to Oklahoma in Lubbock last weekend. Tuberville said after Tech made easy work of its non-conference schedule, it will be interesting to see how the Red Raiders respond to adversity. FOOTBALL continued on Page 7 ➤➤
Organizations no longer allowed to tailgate at Red Raider Club Parking By MATT DOTRAY STAFF WRITER
The decision to no longer allow student organizations to tailgate football games at Red Raider Club Parking may have caused greater problems than the ones it was trying to prevent. Kaitlyn Cennamo, a broadcast journalism major from Keller, is a member of the Panhellenic Executive Council, an organization that provides programming and activities for sorority women. Cennamo said when tailgating was no longer allowed at Red Raider Club, organizations, specifically fraternities, began tailgating all across town instead of all in one place.
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“Now, the problem is that people are drinking at these tailgates, having to drive to different locations, and then having to drive to the game,” she said. “They’ve created some problems in trying to solve other ones.” Drinking and driving is a problem in the community, Cennamo said, and now people are drinking at home and driving to the game instead of just walking from the tailgate. She said fraternities are starting to tailgate at Greek Circle, which is putting a risk management and financial strain on people driving to the game. Cennamo said if the majority of fraternities and sororities tailgate off campus, the university should provide transportation for students, so
they can arrive to the game in the safest way possible. “For those of us that like to go and see our friends and go to the game,” she said, “I’m having to find a way to get to the game, physically.” Reed Young, the external vice president of the Student Government Association, said organizations are still allowed to tailgate at RaiderGate, which is where students originally tailgated before moving to the Red Raider Club’s parking lots. Young said there were a number of reasons behind the decision to stop tailgating at Red Raider Club.
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