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RED RAIDERS BEAT IOWA STATE AFTER THREE INTERCEPTIONS

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hile the Red Raiders put up 66 points on offense in Saturday’s game against Iowa State, the defense had an equally impressive statistic: three turnovers.

These three turnovers came through the air in the form of three interceptions.

On Iowa State’s first offensive play of the game, sophomore defensive back Tevin Madison intercepted a pass from Iowa State quarterback Sam Richardson.

Madison said the early interception gave both the offense and defense a spark in momentum.

“I think it was very big, the turnover definitely that early,” Madison said. “It was good in getting some momentum for us, got the whole team going.”

Madison was quick to give the defensive line credit for pressuring the

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ABOVE: Texas Tech defensive back J.J. Gaines catches an interception during the second half of Tech’s matchup with Iowa State on Saturday at Jones AT&T Stadium. Tech won the game 66-31. RIGHT: Texas Tech fans sing the Matador Song before Tech’s 66-31 victory over Iowa State on Saturday at Jones AT&T Stadium.

quarterback and allowing him to make the play.

“They flushed the quarterback out and made him throw a bad throw,” he said, “and I was able to catch the interception.”

The other two interceptions came at the hands of defensive back J.J. Gaines.

Gaines’ interceptions came in the third and fourth quarters, and Madison said that gave the team momentum late in the game. “(Gaines is) a ball hawk,” Madison said. “Every time it’s in the air, it’s his.”

Gaines has played as a defensive back in every game this season, but for the first time this year he played the safety position in Saturday’s game.

The transition to a new position was not difficult, he said, because all defensive backs get the same knowledge as the other defensive players.

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BOARD OF REGENTS

HOMECOMING

Members discuss Raider Cash, academic degrees

King, queen reflect on experiences

By KRISTEN BARTON NEws Editor

The Texas Tech University System Board of Regents met Thursday and Friday in the Student Union Building.

The Board of Regents discussed and passed several plans that will affect Tech students, including student debit and store value cards, also known as Raider Cash, which is an initiative by the Student Government Association.

With the establishment of Raider Cash, students will be able to use their student ID cards off campus at contracted locations.

Currently, the only offcampus location students can use their student ID at is Varsity Bookstore, according to the presentation by Jim Brunjes, Tech vice chancellor and chief financial officer.

SGA has been pursuing off-campus locations for students to use their ID cards at, according to the presentation. Students will not able to purchase any alcohol or tobacco products with their Raider Cash. Off-campus use of Raider Cash is currently expected to launch in Spring 2016.

The academic, clinical and student affairs committee approved a new degree program in the College of

Human Sciences. The program is a Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences degree with a SCHOVANEC major in restaurant, hotel and institutional management.

The degree program will help students who already have experience in the workforce, Lawrence Schovanec, Tech provost and senior vice president, said. This new program will be taught by current faculty and will not need new facilities.

The board also approved online programs in various areas, such as an online Master of Science Nutrition and Dietetics.

The challenge is to grow the non-residential involvement in the online learning programs through Tech, Schovanec said.

Dr. Tedd Mitchell, president of the Tech Health Sciences Center, presented a dual degree program with the School of Law and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.

Mitchell said it makes the students more marketable. The board approved this program.

The Office of General Counsel discussed sexual assault policies.

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By JENNIFER ROMERO L a Vida Editor

Homecoming Week led up to the football game against Iowa State on Saturday, and the 2015 Homecoming king and queen were announced during halftime.

The members of the Homecoming court, which was composed of the top five men and top six women from the selection process,

participated in a ceremony on the field of Jones AT&T Stadium, and their family members escorted them.

Benjamin Sharp, a junior economics major from Borger and candidate for Beta Upsilon Chi, was crowned Homecoming king.

“I felt very overwhelmed, it was a huge blessing,” he said. “I didn’t really know what to think at the moment, it was all just shock.

It was a blast and a ton of fun, and I felt very blessed.”

The Homecoming king and queen were selected based on having the highest total scores, according to the homecoming handbook, which included résumé and interview scores as well as the results from a popular vote.

Sharp’s mother escorted him on the field, and he said he was happy to be

able to share the experience with her.

The candidates got to watch part of the game down on the field, and Sharp said he was able to see a touchdown right in front of him.

“It was pretty cool, but you couldn’t see much of the game because the football players are so big,” he said.

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Lauren Gfroerer smiles after hearing her name called as the Texas Tech Homecoming queen of 2015. Gfroerer is a member of Delta Gamma.

Texas Tech President M. Duane Nellis gives Benjamin Sharp a congratulatory hug after crowning him Homecoming king during halftime Saturday. Sharp is a member of Beta Upsilon Chi.

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COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

Petroleum engineering affected by oil prices

BY ANDREW GLEINSER Editor-in-ChiEf

Riding a roller coaster at an amusement park is considered by many to be fun, but an economic roller coaster can be quite different. At times, the petroleum industry has proven to be just that.

“This has been a boom-orbust industry forever and it’s probably going to forever be one,” Marshall Watson, associate professor and chair of the Bob L. Herd Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas Tech, said. “I can’t see it not being one.”

The most recent boom began when oil prices started climbing in the mid-2000s, peaked at more than $100 per barrel in 2011 and remained high until September 2014, according to CNBC’s stock summary of West Texas Intermediate Crude Oil. The petroleum engineering department has benefited from the industry’s success.

Apache Corporation gave $2 million to the Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering in 2012 for petroleum engineering research, according to a Tech news release. In 2014, Occidental Petroleum Corporation donated $1.5 million, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation donated $1 million, Pioneer Natural Resources donated $900,000 and Chevron donated $500,000 according to

Tech news releases.

These donations, along with others, helped fund laboratories in the Terry Fuller Petroleum Engineering Research building, which opened in 2014, according to the releases.

Watson said while petroleum companies made donations even in difficult economic times, there was more money for them to give with the industry in the midst of a boom.

Right now I’m teaching my junior classes. We have to split the students in two rooms and I have to broadcast to the second room because there’s so many students.

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John Christmann, CEO and president of Apache Corporation and chairman of Tech’s Petroleum Industry Advisory Board, said Apache’s donation, which was matched by state funds to bring the total to $4 million, was an investment and was put toward research, scholarships and the construction of the building.

“Texas Tech obviously is an important university and there’s a connection there in terms of how we attract and recruit our young workforce,” Christmann said.

As oil prices climbed, so did the number of college students seeking petroleum engineering degrees.

According to information compiled by petroleum engineering professor Lloyd Heinze and provided by Watson, oil prices have a strong effect on the number of undergraduate students enrolled in petroleum engineering departments.

“The number of students took off like oil prices,” Watson said.

This created a problem for Tech because it was difficult to hire experienced faculty to offset the enrollment increase when the industry was doing so well, Watson said, and consequently, the petroleum engineering department had the worst student-to-faculty ratio of any department in the university.

“Right now I’m teaching my junior classes,” he said.

“We have to split the students in two rooms and I have to broadcast to the second room because there’s so many students.”

Universities have been putting far too many students into the industry workforce, Watson said, because companies also need experienced workers and will only hire a certain number of recent graduates.

Adding another problem to the mix, crude oil prices fell below $90 per barrel in September 2014 and continued

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The Terry Fuller Petroleum Engineering Research building opened in 2014 and is a state of the art facility located in the engineering key in the northern part of campus.

to fall, according to CNBC. Prices bottomed out at $41 per barrel in August and have remained below $50 since.

“We are going through a period right now where we have to lower our cost structures,” Christmann said, “and as a result, part of that is you’ve got to figure out how to do more with less.”

Watson said while the petroleum engineering department itself has not seen any effects of the industry downturn, students have.

“We’re in a perfect storm situation,” he said. “Not only were we graduating too many students at the high prices, (but it) just exacerbated the problem when prices dropped. Now we’re in a really overshot situation where we’ve got a massive number of students looking for very few jobs.”

The number of jobs available for graduates has fallen 75 to 80 percent, Watson said, and available internships have declined as well.

Christmann said while Apache is not hiring as many college graduates this year

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as it has in previous years, it will still be hiring and providing internships.

For students hoping to get into the petroleum industry, Watson said they should be open to working manual labor jobs to gain experience, diversifying their degrees to include a second engineering major or getting a different degree altogether.

Christmann said the people who genuinely want to be a part of the industry and make a difference are going to be the ones who succeed.

“Those that have rushed in because of high-paying jobs, don’t really love what they do, don’t want to be a part of it, that’s who’s going to get flushed out of here,” he said.

Some universities, such as Texas A&M and the University of Texas, have capped the number of students they allow into their petroleum engineering programs, Watson said, and other universities, including Tech, need to do the same. He also hopes with the downturn, it will be easier to hire industry-

experienced faculty.

“I could go out and hire a lot of Ph.D. students right out of school, but they wouldn’t have teaching experience, they wouldn’t have industry experience and I refuse to lower the quality of the department,” Watson said. “But it does put a lot of workload on us faculty to handle that many students. There’s no question you lose quality. No matter how hard you try, you definitely lose quality with those kinds of (student-tofaculty) ratios.”

The industry will have another boom, Watson said, but when that will happen remains to be seen. Christmann said the bust could last through 2016 and into 2017, but he sees it as an opportunity for the industry to become more efficient.

“It’s a tough time, it’s a difficult time, but we will come out of this stronger as an industry,” Christmann said.

“Put your head down and hang in there and bear with it. We’ll come out of this just as quickly as we went into it.”

well, according to the presentation, such as One Love and Define Your Line.

One Love is a program Tech Athletics, RISE, the Honors College and other programs are bringing to Tech in order to raise awareness about domestic abuse, according to a previous article in The Daily Toreador.

Define Your Line is a campaign started by students to encourage people to talk about consent, according to a previous article in The DT. The board approved the policies presented and in place at Tech.

The board also approved the plan for a new honors residence hall.

The project will be south of the Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration building, ac-

cording to a report from Michael Molina, vice chancellor of Facilities Planning and Construction.

The new residence hall will also contain 313 beds with two in a room and a community bathroom, according to the report. It will also have community study areas, classroom space and laundry areas.

The project will include public art, a new parking lot and landscaping, according to the report.

The budget for the project is $29.9 million, according to the report. It will be funded through the Revenue Finance System and 97.75 percent will be repaid through Housing Auxiliary Funds and 2.25 percent will be repaid through Hospitality Services Funds.

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Southwest: Technical issues delay hundreds of flights DALLAS (AP) — Southwest Airlines says hundreds of flights have been delayed by technical issues that are forcing it to check in some customers manually at airports and are causing long lines.

The Dallas-based company is asking travelers to arrive at least two hours before their scheduled departures as the problems that began Sunday morning continue into the evening. It is also asking customers to use airport kiosks to print boarding passes and tags for luggage.

At Los Angeles International Airport earlier in the day, several dozen people crowded the Southwest terminal waiting to be issued hand-written tickets. By late afternoon, Southwest said about 450 of the 3,600 flights scheduled for the day had been delayed.

E.J. Schultz, a reporter for Ad Age who was taking a Southwest flight from Chicago’s Midway Airport, said the airline was telling people at the gate that travelers with paper boarding passes were fine. But those who

had downloaded their passes onto their mobile phones were told they had to stand in line, he said.

Schultz said he didn’t understand why Southwest didn’t announce that people should print out their boarding passes at home before getting to the airport.

“If everyone had done that, it would’ve saved so much time,” he said.

Schultz said there was a line of about 50 people at the Southwest gate at around 4 p.m. local time. His flight had not yet been delayed.

The long lines at check-in may mean some passengers didn’t make their flights.

Emily Mitnick, who was flying to Detroit from Denver International Airport, said she missed her 10 a.m. flight, even though she parked her car around 8 a.m. She estimated that about 1,000 people were on line at the check-in for a boarding pass.

When she went downstairs to the curb-side check-in, she said there were about a couple hundred people in line there as well.

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Autumn Fest returns for second year

BY RYAN ORTEGON Staff Writer

To celebrate the start of October and the beginning of fall, Texas Tech hosted the Autumn Festival on Sunday afternoon in Memorial Circle.

The Autumn Festival took place from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and had a variety of events for the entire Lubbock community to enjoy.

The Office of the President hosts the festival, and it was the second time the event has been put on.

The festival invited all Tech students to celebrate the coming season through various activities, according to the Office of the President website. There were about 54 different tents placed all around Memorial Circle, which featured various venders who were selling their arts and crafts.

There were also five food trucks placed on the street

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 Sharp will be informed of all of his duties as Homecoming king this week, and he said he is excited to be able to represent Tech throughout the year.

Homecoming Week included a long list of events for the Homecoming court candidates to attend, and Sharp said the experience was fun.

“I enjoyed getting to see everything that Texas Tech does from a homecoming perspective from a different view,” he said. “I’ve always been a spectator, and now I’m a participant. It’s been pretty cool to see all the traditions from that perspective.”

After the winners were announced, the new king and queen got to go into the president’s box of the stadium, and Sharp said they got to meet President M. Duane Nellis, Tech University System Chancellor Robert Duncan and many other members of the Tech administration and community.

Sharp said he enjoyed interacting with all of the

of Memorial Circle, such as Chilly Lily’s, StrEat, La Picosita and others, that provided people with all kinds of food to eat.

For the kids, there were all kinds of fun activities such as inflatables to play on, face painting, pumpkin painting, bubbles and dozens of other kid-friendly activities.

The event also had live music, which featured five different entertainers throughout the day.

Student volunteers and members of the Autumn Fest committee who helped run the event.

Keri Shiplet, the Autumn Fest chair, said this event ties together the community of Lubbock and Tech.

“We are here to celebrate what Lubbock is all about and the surrounding area and that’s important because we want students and the staff and faculty to be able to know what’s in our

local community and to appreciate it as well,” she said.

“All of our vendors are local, none of them are corporate or a chain organization. It is purely local groups that are here to sell their arts and crafts and food.”

Shiplet said she was assigned to the committee for last year’s festival, and she loves she was able to be apart of it this year.

She also said there was a significant turn out at this year’s festival, which is something they expected, and the committee is glad it turned out how they hoped.

Many people came to Tech to partake in all the events that took place.

Anna Morton, a Lubbock resident, said the festival is a great way to see Lubbock’s true colors. Morton moved to Lubbock from Ukraine five years ago, and she said she loves living here.

“I was very excited

Homecoming court candidates, and he said the homecoming committee said the candidates did not raise any complaints about each other throughout the whole process.

“I was very honored to be on the court with those other five guys,” he said. “Each of them is absolutely just as worthy as me to have won.

I felt very honored to stand beside them out there. It was pretty cool to see the caliber of guys and girls that Texas Tech puts out.”

Lauren Gfroerer, a senior elementary education major from Austin and candidate for Delta Gamma, was crowned homecoming queen.

Sharp said he was happy for Gfroerer, and she was his partner during the Student Organization Sing on Tuesday.

The 2014 Homecoming queen Bailey Iverson was also a member of Delta Gamma, and Gfroerer said she looks up to Iverson and having her there made the crowning ceremony more special.

“It’s been an honor to represent my sorority in this way,” Gfroerer said.

“I’ve been humbled by this whole experience to be able to go and represent us to the

entire university.”

Gfroerer said her father escorted her on the field, and she enjoyed seeing the Goin’ Band perform during halftime.

She was not expecting to meet Nellis in the press box, and Gfroerer said it was an honor to watch the rest of the game there with Sharp.

“They were so incredibly welcoming and introduced us to everyone,” she said. “It was phenomenal.

It was fantastic.”

Being homecoming queen is a great honor, Gfroerer said, and she is looking forward to representing her sorority and the Tech student body.

It is important for the Homecoming king and queen to be well rounded, Gfroerer said, because Tech encourages students to be involved.

“I feel like being a Texas Tech University student has helped me to grow as a person,” she said. “I think it’s important that the king and queen represent that, because (well rounded) is truly what Texas Tech strives for our students to be. I think that the candidates should reflect that they strive for honor.” @JenRomeroDT

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The Office of the President hosted the Autumn Festival from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday in Memorial Circle.

Lubbock residents enjoyed a variety of live music, vendors and family-friendly activities.

about this opportunity to show my mom, who is visiting from Ukraine, everything that’s best about Lubbock,” she said. “It’s so nice to see everybody enjoying the fresh air and sun and all the activities

that represent Lubbock’s artists community.”

A large amount of the Lubbock community came out and took part in the many events that were taking place at Memorial Circle.

“For me, Lubbock is Tex-

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Martin gets serious as art curator of Harris LOS ANGELES (AP) — Comedian, actor, writer, musician, and now we can add art curator to that long list of titles placed alongside Steve Martin’s name.

The man who brought bluegrass music to mainstream audiences and introduced the banjo and balloon animals to comedy routines has a new passion: He wants to imbue in U.S. audiences the same deep admiration he has for the works of Lawren Harris, arguably Canada’s most revered artist and one almost completely unknown in the U.S. He’ll get that chance beginning Sunday when “The Idea of North: The Paintings of Lawren Har-

ris” opens at Los Angeles’ Hammer Museum.

The show, which travels to Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts and Canada’s Art Gallery of Ontario next year, will be the first and likely the last exhibition he curates, Martin said earlier this week as he led a visitor on a private tour.

“I love this!” he exclaimed, pointing to a large oil-on-canvas work depicting Canada’s Lake Superior in a way so colorful as to appear almost psychedelic, while at the same time maintaining a look of total realism.

“You know, if you were standing in front of this locale, you would know he just captured it perfectly,” he continued, pointing out

how the artist had subtly captured the weather and time of day.

Then, pointing to an equally majestic but more esoteric rendering of the snowcapped mountains of Jasper National Park, he noted, “Pictures like this one show a very unreal place. It almost looks like an ascendency into heaven.”

The artist’s ability to strike a dichotomy between the abstract and the real was one of the things Martin said drew him to Harris’ work.

He’d discovered him years ago when he’d mistaken a Harris painting for one by prominent American landscape artist Rockwell Kent.

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Is the Tech student section too vulgar?

Tech student section profane, Rowdy fans make football fun, sets bad example for children vulgarity impossible to prevent

W

hen my parents couldn’t make it out to Lubbock for Parents Weekend, I was almost relieved. I had no idea how I was going to explain to them the plague of profanity that overtakes our student section on game day.

During the school week, we Red Raiders are generally a pretty agreeable bunch. We bop around campus in our Chacos, fill our bellies with seriously great Tex-Mex and try not to get washed away when it rains.

However, when Saturday rolls around, something changes. Like werewolves under a full moon, we become louder, rowdier and much more belligerent. Perhaps it is the tortillas stuffed up our boots or perhaps this is just how most college student sections behave, but that doesn’t mean we have to, nor that it is not something to be ashamed of.

T h e L u b b o c k Av a lanche-Journal reported in an article titled “Are Red Raider fans really the worst in the Big 12?” that apparently we are not so bad. In fact, after conducting a study, which included factors like how often people are arrested or ejected from a game, they found that “Texas Tech fell in the middle, fourth out of eight [of

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the participating Big 12 schools], with one arrest for every 6,700 attendees.”

So, with that said, there does not seem to be much of a reason why we should be ashamed of our student section’s behavior. It seems rather regular, right?

The thing is, I personally do not care if the guy next to me is shouting words that would have gotten his mouth washed out with soap as a child, but I’m not the only one exposed to his profanity.

As a college student, I am used to people dropping the f-bomb and calling out suspected “bull.”

H o w e v e r, a t t h e s e games there are not only distinguished alumni and proud parents present, but also their children — children who admire us and absorb our every word.

And, one day, especially if they’ve been raised going to these games, we could start to see them imitate us. That sounds terrifying — a little kid throwing his hot dog or water bottle at another person when he doesn’t get his way.

A darling example of this is given by Conor G r e n n a n o f T h e H u f fington Post who tells us about his 3 and a halfyear-old little boy, Finn.

Grennan says when he “won’t let him have cupcakes for breakfast (that’s cupcakes plural) or when [he’s] been ‘disobedient’ by telling him that he’s not allowed to turn on the TV at 6 a.m.,” Finn issues him a timeout.

Grennan goes on to say “it took having children to understand just how impressionable [they are]” and to realize “what a powerful thing ‘impressionable’ is.” He even reminds us that this is something that happens all the time in nature — it’s “called imprinting [and] it’s why newborn ducklings hatch,

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Obama gives Kanye tips for his presidential run SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — If you’re going to run for president, Kanye West, you might as well listen to someone who’s been there and done that.

“I do have some advice for him,” President Barack Obama said during a West Coast fundraiser featuring an appearance by the rapper. “Just some stuff that I’ve picked up on the way.”

When West appeared on the MTV Video Music Awards last month, he announced that he would run for president in 2020.

Obama’s Tip No. 1 could have been aimed at reality TV star turned presidential candidate Donald Trump — and maybe a few others in the crowded GOP field.

“First of all, you’ve got to spend a lot of time dealing with some strange characters who behave like they’re on a reality TV show,” Obama

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see a corgi and will follow n late 2013, Tech stuthat corgi around as they dents may remember an would their own mother.” online video of a Tech fan going viral. This viral So, when my friend video, fortunately much and I were sitting in the better than the viral “Texas stands the other day and a Tech Bell Ringer” video, dad brought his two little showed a girl fan shouting daughters, both being no the f-bomb at a referee, folmore than 4 years old, up to lowed by a look of horror the front of the bleachers, it when she realizes the act made sense that our hearts was caught tightened on camera. as we heard Opinions May Vary is The video fans sing can still be “we will a feature in which f o u n d o nhit ‘em.” columnists present line with In a seca quick ond, those opposing viewpoints on G o o g l e girls were a particular topic. search of going to the phrase, be overTell us your opinion “ Te x a s whelmed Te c h g i r l with a on the issue by taking curses.” crowd of Just as college our online poll at the girl in students dailytoreador.com. the video gleefully acted inshouting credibly ashamed as soon profanity at their rivals, as she was caught cursing, something that is not only the Tech community can extremely poor sportsmanquickly become entirely too ship but also less than critical of the whole student admirable etiquette. section when a couple of As the crowd finished students do something insaying “we will wreck credibly stupid. ‘em,” my friend and I This criticism against yelled as loud as we posthe student section is ofsibly could “hit ‘em, wreck ten brought on by brief, ‘em, Texas Tech,” hoping extreme acts of stupidity, to drown out the altered such as students throwing version of the chant. bottles at TCU officials this I am not sure it worked, season. Of course, by no but I am sure that in the means should these acts moment I felt horribly be allowed. These students ashamed of our student should be thrown out as section. I want Tech stusoon as possible. dents to be a good example In criticizing these stuto the kids around us — dents, however, it is crucial from the little field-tripto remember how important pers who are filling their a rowdy hearts with student aspirations Last week’s poll section is of attendto the ening to the results joyment kids who Was the state of of a footwill grow ball game. up in this Oklahoma correct to T h e s e c h a r m remove a statue of profanitying college the 10 Commandriddled, town with ments from its Capitol obnoxious us as their students examples grounds? may be of how to Yes: 35.2% vile, but be young they are a adults. I No: 64.8% key ingrewant us to dient in a make sure healthy game day crowd. we are acting in ways that we would be proud for After all, even if the them to imitate, because student section is foul, they will. In fact, they with their vulgar version already are. of the fight song and tortilla-throwing tendencies, it should be noted that a aaiken@dailytoreador.com quiet, polite and civilized crowd is a much worse alternative.

I have been to quite a few football games where the crowd is quiet and bored. It is terrible. I remember the old days of my high school football team where we would travel to said. “So you’ve just to be cool with that.”

Tip No. 2 referenced West’s fifth studio album.

“Saying that you have a ‘Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ — that’s what’s known as ‘off-message’ in politics,” Obama said. “You can’t say something like that. There are a lot of people who have lost their congressional seats saying things like that.”

Tip No. 3 hit the Chicago-raised West close to home. “Do you really think that this country is going to elect a black guy from the South Side of Chicago with a funny name to be president of the United States?”

Obama asked. “That is crazy. That’s cray!”

Obama, aka POTUS, also joked that West has his own nickname for the person in the White House — Peezy (that’s someone who is really, really cool).

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far-off towns during the winter, and our fan base was absolutely pitiful. The few traveling parents would never shout. The poor high school band, with its thin marching jackets and icecold instruments, could only muster the efforts to play a pitiful, dissonant version of the fight song.

The players could be heard talking on the field. To this day, I try and wipe those slow, tedious games from my memory.

The student section may be vile, but it sure beats a boring crowd. I don’t see many old men singing the vulgar lyrics to the school song at football games, but I also don’t see any old men with their shirts off, painted red and black and raising hell when Tech is on the verge of a first down.

In the 1973 article, “Fear and Loathing at the Super Bowl,” journalist Hunter S. Thompson notes a similar experience when the San Francisco 49ers made Candlestick Park their home field in 1971. According to Thompson, the move made the price of tickets double, clearing out the rowdy fans and bringing in richer, more composed fans.

Thompson describes these fans as, “a sort of half-rich mob of nervous doctors, lawyers and bank officers who would sit through a whole game without ever making a sound — not even when some freak with a head full of acid spilled a whole beer down the neck of their grey-plastic ski jackets.”

A rowdy student section may be vulgar and obnoxious, but is also essential to maintaining a loud and entertaining stadium. This rowdiness must be protected, and that means stopping hazardous students from ruining everything. It would plausible to stop students who attract criticism by throwing bottles and hard objects. On the other hand, is extremely unlikely to stop the student section from singing dirty lyrics and slinging tortillas.

Aside from supporting the team, being rowdy at the football game is one of the few times students have a chance to be rowdy and fun. Each of us has

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a difficult workload from school, and because of the ridiculous cost of higher education, most of us are now burdened with a job.

College football is one of the few times I have to be angry and loud — a rarity for me in college life.

Some may believe students should keep vulgarity out of college games, but in reality, college sports are one of the few things it is acceptable to be collectively rowdy and passionate about.

For example, high school sports teams are the most acceptable things to be passionate about. These teammates grow up in the same neighborhoods, take the same classes and the coaches are limited to students within a reasonable geographical location. Of course, fans are heavily restricted from becoming too rowdy at these games, and vulgarity and alcohol are heavily prohibited.

Professional football teams, on the other hand, are the least dignified things to be rowdy about.

Take a quick look at the Dallas Cowboys 2015 roster, and one can see most of the team players aren’t even from Texas. Sure, drinking and rowdiness are more widely accepted around these games, but it just isn’t as dignified. The tickets are more expensive, and when famous NFL players aren’t beating their girlfriends or deflating balls, they are hiding concussions and switching teams.

College football remains one of the only occasions when public rowdiness is acceptable and dignified.

Most of the Tech players are from around Texas, and even those players who aren’t local are still sweating through classes on campus like the rest of us.

If the Tech Administration truly wanted to tone down unruly behavior at football games, I would suggest they stop automatically charging each student with tickets. Like Thompson wrote in his article, this would cut down on rowdiness, as well as greatly benefit the thousands of students who don’t go to games and are still charged.

Of course, the Tech Administration would never do this. Rowdy Tech students are too much of a financial asset, and their vulgar, yet passionate spirit is a key element in creating a fun game day atmosphere. jmiller@dailytoreador.com

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Tech loses three sets to TCU

By DIEGO GAYTAN Staff Writer

A first and second set determined by slim margins and a dominating third caused a 3-0 loss for the Texas Tech volleyball team to the Texas Christian Horned Frogs Saturday morning in the United Supermarkets Arena.

For the second time this season, Tech lost in its home gym, dropping its overall record to 12-7 and its Big 12 record to 1-4.

I think we could have taken them, absolutely, from game one. We started off with a huge lead. We lost our focus.

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At the onset of the match, Tech’s offense fired quickly with a pair of 4-0 runs, giving the Red Raiders a 12-5 advantage.

The Horned Frogs, however, began to rally back by outscoring the Red Raiders 13-5 to tie the set at 20

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“I was just reading the quarterback’s eyes,” Gaines said, “and he led me in the right place and I was able to catch the ball.”

While the defense was getting turnovers, the Tech of-

each. Both teams continued to exchange leads to force extra frames, but TCU finally secured its rally after a costly service error from Tech and a kill.

After its comeback first set win, TCU began the second set by outmaneuvering the Tech defense with a 5-0 run. TCU sparked the offensive burst with two consecutive aces and finished it off with a kill to go up 11-7.

Tech Coach Don Flora said the first two sets of the match came down to two key aces from the TCU setters.

“At the end of set two we had three more kills, we had a few more errors and they had one or two more aces,” Flora said. “You get to those crunch time points, you got to make points.”

The Red Raiders threatened to overtake TCU once sophomore outside hitter Alyssa Ybanez knotted the match at 16 each with a kill. The Horned Frogs, however, stopped Tech’s offense from completing a rally late into the second set. The Horned Frogs found relief off an attacking error and ball handling error from Tech and grabbed a 25-23 second-set win.

TCU grabbed control of

the third as its offense and defense synced together for a 6-0 run early in the set.

As the match went on, the Horned Frogs continued to outmatch the Red Raiders, pushing a commanding 2210 lead. With a 12-point deficit for the Red Raiders to overcome, TCU cruised to a 25-16 third-set win.

As TCU added points on the board, Ybanez said the team let the mentality they came in with in slip.

“I think we just let the points get to our heads,” Ybanez said. “I think we could have taken them, absolutely, from game one.

We started off with a huge lead. We lost our focus.”

Tech’s loss to the Horned Frogs tied the all-time series between the two teams at 6-6. The victory versus the Red Raiders improved TCU’s overall record to 14-4 and 4-2 versus Big 12 opponents.

Senior outside hitter Meghan Stacy and Ybanez led Tech in kills with seven each and senior libero Carlie Foust came up with 20 digs.

The Red Raiders continue Big 12 play as they travel to Morgantown, West Virginia, to face the Mountaineers at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the WVU Coliseum.

fense did not give up a single turnover in the game.

“The biggest deal to me was the turnovers,” coach Kliff Kingsbury said. “I know you may get tired of me saying it, but if we protect the ball we’ll win the game, and that’s what we did and we

gave ourselves a chance.”

In Tech’s previous two games against TCU and Baylor, both losses, the team failed to force a turnover against either team.

Kingsbury said the team had chances to get turnovers in the games but failed to capital-

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Meghan Stacy, outside hitter for the Texas Tech volleyball team, goes for a pass during the home game against Texas Christian on Saturday morning in the United Supermarkets Arena. Tech lost the sets 30-28, 25-23 and 25-16. ize on those opportunities.

Turnovers are what make the difference in big games, Madison said.

“We didn’t get turnovers against those two teams,” he said, “so to come out tonight and get turnovers is definitely a win. We want

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Receivers step up against Iowa State

By BRANDON SOLIZ Staff Writer

Texas Tech sophomore quarterback Patrick Mahomes II went into Jones AT&T Stadium on Saturday against the Iowa State Cyclones without three of his receivers who were listed as starters in week one.

Sophomore Ian Sadler, juniors Devin Lauderdale and

Dylan Cantrell were all absent during Tech’s 66-31 win over the Cyclones.

Cantrell has yet to take the field as he is dealing with back spasms, an injury that Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury said is being handled day to day.

However, Tech’s offense did not miss a step, as Mahomes was able to connect on 33 of his 46 attempts to 11 different

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Senior receiver Jakeem Grant led the team in receptions and receiving yards with nine catches for 166 yards.

Four different Red Raiders were on the receiving end of six touchdowns, with Grant and freshman receiver Jonathan Giles both ending the day with two touchdown receptions each.

Tech was able to win the turnover battle as well as the third down margin on offense.

The Red Raiders converted 11 times on a total of 15 third downs, while the Cyclones converted five times on their 15 attempts.

“Between that and the turnover margin is huge, that was the difference,” Kingsbury said.

“Our offense made some plays to stay on the field and then our defense made some to get them off, and so that gave us some momentum early and we were able to run away with it.”

At the end of the game,

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Tech’s offense broke the school record for total offensive yards with 776, just one yard past the previous high of 775 set back in 2003.

Both true freshman receiver Tony Brown and sophomore wideout Zach Austin made their first career starts against the Cyclones.

Kingsbury and his coaching staff were prepared to see how their young receiving group would do in a big part of their offense and were impressed with their play, he said, despite some mistakes that were made.

“We had ups and downs, but we knew that going in,” Kingsbury said. “With young wide receivers you are going to have some good plays and some bad plays, but I thought they all competed well and I don’t think the moment was too big for them.”

10 of the 11 Tech players with a reception during the game had 20 or more yards once

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Texas Tech running back Jakeem Grant celebrates after scoring during the first quarter of Tech’s 66-31 victory over Iowa State on Saturday at Jones AT&T Stadium. the game was over.

Freshmen Jonathan Giles, Tony Brown and Keke Coutee combined for 11 receptions that added up to 130 receiving yards between the three young receivers.

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Texas Tech wide receiver Jonathan Giles catches a touchdown pass during the second half of Tech’s 66-31 victory over Iowa State on Saturday at Jones AT&T Stadium. Giles had two in the game.