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TUESDAY, OCT. 13, 2015 VOLUME 90 ■ ISSUE 29
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CAMPUS CONSTRUCTION
Honors College granted new residence hall By KRISTEN BARTON News editor
Last week at the Board of Regents meeting, members of the board approved a new residence hall for the Honors College on campus. The residence hall is expected to open in Fall 2017. The residence hall will be located south of the Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration building, Sean Duggan, managing director of student housing, said. It will be near the Carpenter/Wells Residence Complex and Murray Residence Hall. The new hall will not cost more than $29.9 million, he said, but the university is hoping to bring that cost down. The funding for the hall will work the same way buying a home does, Duggan said. Tech takes out a loan to build the hall and pays it back during a 30-year period. “What we hope is that this dorm will fill itself up with honors students,” Duggan said. “If for some reason there’s beds still available, we will use those beds.” Michael San Francisco, dean of the Honors College, said the current honors residence hall, Gordon Hall, is older than other housing options and the Honors college is a growing entity on campus. The incoming freshman class has grown more than
30 percent in the past four years. Administration has an interest in growing the Honors College at a rate that keeps up with the rest of the university, San Francisco said. There will be 305 beds in the hall, and the layout will have two people in a room and a community bath, Duggan said. However, the layout will be pod living.
The students will be in a living, breathing, learning environment, San Francisco said. “I think one of the great things about this new space is the building will have a classroom or two in it,” he said. “That is cool because then we can have seminars in the evening in the students’ environment.” Duggan said the pod-living lay-
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out means there will be eight rooms surrounding a central bathroom. There will be one bathroom for every 16 students, and there will be a common living room space. “We think it will create a really neat community environment, especially for honors students to have a small feeling of community,” he said, “and still connect with other
students down the hall.” The new hall will also open up on-campus jobs, Duggan said. People need to help manage the building and be community advisers. The new living environment enhances the future goals of the college, San Francisco said.
SEE HONORS, PG. 2
GREEK LIFE
Allen takes in her senior season Fraternity volunteers
to clean Tech public art By JENNIFER ROMERO L a Vida editor
DERRICK SPENCER/The Daily Toreador
Texas Tech senior outside hitter Jenna Allen is preparing to finish her career as a Red Raider. Allen said she is focusing on leaving a legacy for future players.
By DIEGO GAYTAN staff writer
Only a few games remain before the end of the 2015 volleyball season, and for senior outside hitter Jenna Allen, a few more weeks remain for her to gather memories. In her last season as a member of the Texas Tech volleyball squad, Allen now sees every practice, warmup, game and team trip with an added importance. Allen said she is startled at how quickly three fall semesters at Tech passed by. When her senior season at Tech began, Allen said she found out just how many moments really exist in a collegiate career. “Everything means a little bit more and you kind of take advantage of every practice that you get,” Allen said. “You look back at your practice and you’re like ‘Dang, I don’t think I really used every
rep I got’ because you realize how short it is.” Allen wants to savor her senior season, she said, but also wants to stamp her final season as a turnaround year for the program. While the season continues and Tech moves on to its next opponent, Allen now focuses on something she did not think of as much when she began her sophomore year at Tech — leaving behind a legacy. For Allen, leaving a legacy means setting values and standards for Tech’s future players. “I want to be able to look back and say we were the ones that pioneered us into the team that we are now,” Allen said. By the time Tech’s six freshmen began their careers at Tech, Allen began taking the responsibilities stemming from her status as a senior and one of the teamappointed captains along with
senior libero Carlie Foust. Three years removed from her first season at Tech, Allen knows the anxieties, challenges and personal triumphs the underclassmen go through in the course of a Big 12 season. In Allen’s first season at Tech, she learned the mix of emotions a newcomer on the team can feel, as pair of injuries halted Allen’s debut with the Red Raiders, she said. The recovery process, however, shaped Allen’s approach toward her game, she said, as she sought to make her debut in Tech’s first conference game against Oklahoma. “I was determined to be able to start as soon as we started conference,” she said. “I don’t think it really held me back very much. I think it really pushed me to work hard.”
SEE ALLEN, PG. 6
Texas Tech promotes having art on its campus, and it established the Public Art Program in 1998 to use 1 percent of the estimated total cost of a construction project for public artwork. Emily Wilkinson, public art director, said facilities planning and construction tries to clean all the artwork at least once a year. Phi Delta Theta volunteered to clean some of the public art pieces on campus on Monday afternoon, including the Will Rogers and Soapsuds statue at Memorial Circle. Joey Alexander, a junior construction engineering major from Lubbock and member of Phi Delta Theta, said the fraternity likes to volunteer in the community. “With our new guys, we try to
give them a certain amount of (volunteer) hours a week,” he said. “We want to help out the community.” Some of the artwork has to be cleaned by professionals, but Wilkinson said the bronze statues are easy for anyone to clean. “It’s a pretty basic wash with soap and water,” she said. “Once they get it all washed with soap, we’ll do a good rinse of it. Once it’s been washed, we wax it. The wax forms this protective coating over it.” Members of Phi Delta Theta scrubbed the statue with toothbrushes, and they washed the entire statue. The fraternity members also washed the Park Place statues, and they will wax both pieces of artwork today if there is less wind.
SEE ART, PG. 5
MAKENZIE HARRISON/The Daily Toreador
Members of Phi Delta Theta fraternity volunteered to clean the Will Rogers and Soapsuds statue on Monday. The volunteers washed and scrubbed the statue and hope to wax it today.