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Mother deals with son’s suicide, her own depression

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By PAIGE SKINNER

Michelle Watts sat in her parked car in the Taco Villa lot as her 17-year-old son, seated in the passenger seat, told her something didn’t feel right.

“Mom, I don’t know what’s wrong,” Jordan Watts said.

“Something’s wrong with me. I feel like I am literally standing still and the world is moving around me. It’s like my feet are two-ton rocks and I just can’t … .”

Michelle immediately recognized the signs of depression.

It surfaced throughout her life and the lives of her family members.

Michelle scheduled doctor and counseling appointments for her son, but it wasn’t enough.

Jordan hung himself in his room at the age of 19.

Rewind nearly 50 years when Michelle was born into a pastor’s family. She said she felt called to continue being a part of the Christian ministry — and that she did, marrying Nick Watts, a youth and music minister, on a rainy Saturday afternoon in 1988.

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Suicide prevention one of counseling center’s goals

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By NIKKI CULVER

According to save.org, a suicide prevention website, suicide is the third leading cause of death for the 15-24 age group, and many who attempt suicide never seek professional care for their depression.

Luckily, 80 percent of people who seek treatment for depression are treated successfully. Texas Tech offers various resources for students suffering from a number of emotional and psychological issues.

The Student Counseling Center offers individual counseling, group counseling and relaxation rooms to students in need of professional counseling at no cost to the student.

Students who are worried about depression in friends or themselves should look for some common warning signs, Richard Lenox, interim director and coordinator of clinical services, said.

“Some of the main symptoms of depression that they might be on the look out for is certainly depressed mood,” he said. “Depression can really impact sleep and appetite, so if there has been some big appetite changes or sleep changes or difficulty sleeping or what we call hypersomnia, which is sleeping a lot and just don’t feel like getting up in the mornings.

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you start having more negative self-image issues. Eating healthy helps you perform well, it helps Students encounter newfound you have energy to have the fun freedom in many aspects of their you want to have and you’re laylives when they move from home ing the ground work for long-term to Texas Tech. One of those free- healthy habits.” doms is found in food.

The proper diet depends on Sean Hollingsworth, a junior the person, Fillipp said, but the marketing and management major average college student’s plate from Plano, experienced weight should consist of half fruits and gain during his freshman year. vegetables, one-quarter protein “I gained a lot and it was be- sources and the last quarter grains cause I could just get whatever I and starches. wanted because I had a meal plan,” “Now we know a lot of college he said. “When I could have it at students’ diets don’t look like that, Tech, like in one of the dining but that would be something to halls, I would just get it because aim for,” she said. no one could tell me no.”

Hollingsworth said his overUnhealthy eating habits are all diet consists of pizza, wings, becoming a trend for college stu- chicken, burgers and queso. dents. According to an article in He said he tries to eat healthy the Journal sometimes, but of Amerihe likes other can College food better. He Health, 70 also believes percent of healthier foods college stuare more costly dents gain and the unweight durhealthy options ing their agree with his freshman college budget. and sophoHowever, remore years. sources, such as SEAN HOLLINGSWORTH the food bank, Director MARKETING AND of Dietetic are provided MANAGEMENT MAJOR Internships, for students, Shelley Fildepending on lipp, said she believes this results different circumstances, Fillipp from students’ new freedom of said. For students who are looking choice. for help, the Student Wellness “In the dorm, especially when Center offers Tech students counyou’re away from home, you can seling from a registered dietitian. eat whatever you want and how Some ways students could much you want,” she said, “so develop a healthier lifestyle is usually most students experience to think ahead, she said. For exsome weight gain because being in ample, when students leave their total management about how they residence hall rooms to study and eat and what they’re doing, total don’t bring a snack, their only opcontrol is a new thing for them.” tion is the vending machine.

Of those students, 53 percent “You have to make an effort to were women and 47 percent were say ‘OK, I’m going to be moderate men, according to the study. and reasonable about what I do,’” The study found weight gain Fillipp said. and behavioral patterns during Moderation and awareness are college may contribute to over- the best ways to develop better weight people and obesity in eating habits within college stuadulthood. dents, she said.

Fillipp said it would benefit “We don’t like to tell people students to start eating healthy there are good and bad foods, it’s sooner rather than later. just how often and how much you “I think when you keep build- eat it,” Fillipp said. “I think you’re ing on healthy habits at a young in a better mindset if you approach age, it’s going to help you focus it that it is all about moderation better in school and feel better,” and portion size and a healthy she said. “Sometimes when you approach.” don’t maintain a healthy weight ➤➤cwilson@dailytoreador.com

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Students also should take College Drinking Prevention, advantage of what they’re be- a government website, offers ing offered, including personal an alcohol calorie calculator in training, intramurals, the Rec which people enter the number Center facilities and sports clubs, of drinks they consume per week, she said. and the calculator determines The students who take up how many calories are consumed drinking in college also have to through alcohol. deal with the extra calories that A student who consumed six come with it, which can add up. beers, three shots of liquor and Liquor has about nine calories two glasses of wine each week per gram so it can pack on, said would rack up a yearly total Tyler Manske, a senior biology calorie consumption of 59,952 major from Idalou. calories, according to the ColManske, who is older than lege Drinking Prevention website 21, said he drinks casually on calculator. weekends and does not think it ➤➤tdorner@dailytoreador.com Staff Writer

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Students search for healthier dining options on campus

According to a recent article on the CBS news website, Food and Function, a health journal, published research showing the benefits of drinking Sprite the day after consuming alcohol.

The researchers tested 57 different beverages including a hemp-seed-based beverage, various teas and different carbonated drinks, according to the article.

The researchers found Sprite and soda water theoretically would cure a hangover.

Edzard Ernst, a medical expert at the University of Exeter in the U.K., said in the article people should take these results with a grain of salt as many of the things they ingest can have both good and bad effects on the body.

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lowed on campus, Texas Tech students have their own ideas on proper hangover cures.

Bryant Dunn, a junior accounting major from Houston, said he chooses water or the sauna as his usual hangover cures.

“When I wake up after I drink, I usually chug a ton of water,” he said.

Drinking water and sweating at the sauna helps release all of the toxins out of his body, Dunn said.

The Sprite hangover cure is something Dunn said he had never heard of, but it sounded like it could work.

“I’ve never tried it before,” he said. “But I’m guessing it could work because of the citrus that’s in Sprite.”

Other drinking tips, Dunn said, include taking lime with tequila shots and eating food after having a nasty hangover.

The best hangover cure besides drinking water and eating food is not to drink at all, Dunn said.

As Red Raiders, students are required to take a course about alcohol safety and education.

According to the Student Health Services website on alcohol education, taking the course helps ensure students know what to do in alcohol-involved situations.

First-year freshmen must complete AlcoholEdu, which is an online course designed to educate students about alcohol and its physical and mental effects, according to the website.

The course has two parts and mostly is interactive with quizzes at the end of each section.

Tech Health Services, which is in charge of AlcoholEdu, has a statement for parents to read regarding their students’ requirements for taking the course.

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Student Counseling Center offers students confidential help Staff Writer

Many issues can arise when attending college, from depression to relationship turmoil.

Texas Tech students have a resource to help combat those problems.

The Student Counseling Center offers individual counseling, couples counseling, group counseling and relaxation rooms to students in need of professional counseling help. University student fees cover all costs, so students will not need to pay additional charges when visiting the counseling center.

“We are the primary mental health resources for students on campus,” Klint Hobbs, a counselor, said. “We have a wide range of individual counseling, group counseling, we’ve got our MindSpa, which is really a place where you can learn to control your stress and anxiety.”

Students have the option to participate in up to 12 onehour individual counseling sessions over the course of each academic year. To participate in the couples counseling, only one of the partners is required to be a registered Tech student, Richard Lenox, interim director and coordinator of clinical services, said.

To set up services with a

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“That could be an indication of depression. It’s not necessarily depression, but it can be an indication. Certainly any type of suicidal thoughts. Any of those type of experiences they should come in and we can get them assessed.”

According to the counseling center’s website, anyone can refer an individual to the center, and reasons to consider a referral include thinking personal opinions and feelings will interfere with objectivity, the situation has progressed to the point of needing professional assistance or if there is an immedi-

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As Michelle and Nick prepared for their second child in 1993, Michelle noticed she was sicker than usual. She thought she could be pregnant with her first son.

“The whole time I was pregnant with him, I really felt a great, great burden to pray for his health,” she said. “You always pray for your baby’s health, always, but for him, I really felt it. And I couldn’t explain why. There was no reason for it.”

Jordan was born July 12, 1993, with a true knot in his cord. The doctor noted of the 1,200 babies he delivers each year, two will have a true knot and one will be stillborn.

“God has something big planned for this child,” the doctor told Michelle.

Jordan struggled with depression nearly his entire life. Michelle said she would pick up Jordan from kindergarten only to find him sad.

“I used to tell him I would give him a quarter if he would just smile,” Michelle said.

Things didn’t get easier for Jordan as he grew older. He was bullied in middle school. He was called everything from a fag to a band nerd.

Describing Jordan as tender hearted with feelings that were easily hurt, Michelle said it wasn’t just peers who verbally bullied Jordan, but also his teachers.

“I think he suffered from depression a lot longer than we knew or even he knew,” she said.

But now, without Jordan and a quarter to fix everything, Michelle and the Watts family are dealing with the aftermath of Jordan’s suicide, trying to cope and move on.

“It’s completely devastated our lives in a way that nobody can describe,” she said. “Nobody can understand unless you’ve lived it. Would it be different if he died in a car wreck? Yes, it would be a million times different. I can’t compare my grief to other people’s, but everything I’ve read so far that suicide is a complicated grieving.”

Kristen Lewis, a counselor at Monterey High School and a friend of Michelle’s, is one of those people who said dealing with suicide is a complicated grief.

However, the Watts family is no stranger to depression. Nick grew up in a violent, alcoholic home and his grandfather shot and killed himself, Michelle said. Michelle also has traces of depression

counselor, students are instructThe center also offers various ed to visit the clinic during their group counseling sessions coverwalk-in hours from 12:30 p.m. ing a variety of topics, including to 3:30 p.m. Monday through “Understanding Self and OthFriday. Initial paperwork is filled ers,” “Social Coaching,” “Safe out and a student will meet with Haven: A therapy group for the an intake counselor to discuss GLBTQ community,” “Taking future appointments.

Back Hope,” “Mindful Eating,” “Initially, and “Copyou just walk ing Skills.” in and get the There is no whole process limit for the started,” Miamount of chael Iezzi, group sesa counselor, sions ats a i d . “ We tended. have walk in In addihours from tion to the 12:30 to 3:30. c o u n s e l o rIf for some led sessions, reason, that the center doesn’t fit also offers a your schedrelaxation ule, you can room, where call to schedstudents are ule that inigiven the tial appointopportunity ment, which to relax in we call an any way intake. It’s a they choose, fancy way for and a MindKLINT HOBBS saying we’re Spa, which STUDENT COUNSELING going to ask offers a bioCENTER COUNSELOR you a lot of feedback questions to system. get a better “ B i o sense of what you’re coming in feedback are computer programs for. So for that first time, you that give the student immediate fill out paperwork and then you feedback on the screen,” Lenox come in and talk to somebody.” said. “We hook the student up to

finger sensors that monitor their heart rate and the screen gives the student immediate feedback about their level of physiological relaxation. It helps the students train themself to get relaxed more quickly. For students who are struggling with anxiety or stress in general, those two services can be very helpful and there’s no session limit for either of those services, so students can use them as much as they want.”

The only services requiring appointments are the MindSpa and relaxation room, but a student does not need to have visited the counseling center before to use them. To make an appointment for the MindSpa, call the counseling center at 806-742-3674.

“Anybody can benefit from counseling,” Iezzi said. “I think there’s still a stigma that people that seek counseling services are crazy. Or we get students who think that ‘Oh, my problems aren’t big enough to go to the counseling center.’ I do believe that anybody can benefit from counseling and now is a good time to take advantage of that because it’s covered by student fees. We’re available, take advantage of it. No problem is too small. You don’t have to do it alone. We all need help from time to time.” ➤➤nculver@dailytoreador.com

THE STUDENT COUNSELING Center offers a MindSpa to students, faculty and staff. The MindSpa contains a Relaxation Room and Biofeedback Room for participants to learn how to manage their stress.

ate emergency. To refer a student to the center, the website recommends speaking directly with the student and letting them make their own appointments.

“There’s a lot of different myths about suicidal people and one of those myths is that if they talk about it, then they’re not really going to kill themselves and that’s actually the opposite,” Michael Iezzi, a center counselor, said. “If somebody talks about it, that means they’re pretty serious, so we take that very seriously. That’s why, sometimes, people make jokes about it, ‘Aw, well I could kill myself.’ Well that’s something that we take very seriously and we’re going to ask you follow-up questions if you make

statements like that.”

Students have the option to participate in up to 12 one-hour individual counseling sessions, which do not require scheduling appointments, during the course of each academic year.

Iezzi said it is common for college students to experience suicidal thoughts at least once, but the ones who require more attention are the students who have serious intent behind their thoughts.

The center also offers free Question, Persuade and Refer, or QPR training once a month to staff, faculty and students. QPR is a national suicide prevention program, Klint Hobbs, a counselor, said.

“We teach people the warn-

ing signs for suicide and how to approach and help someone who is suicidal and refer them to the counseling team,” he said. “It’s backed by a lot of research and has a lot of good outcomes. Since we’ve been here, we’ve trained probably over 1,500.”

The remaining QPR training dates for the fall semester are at noon Oct. 21 and at 2 p.m. Nov. 20.

To begin seeing a counselor, students should visit the clinic during its walk-in hours from 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Initial paperwork will be filled out and a student will meet with an intake counselor to discuss future appointments. The initial appointment consists of the counselor

learning about the specific issues a student might be dealing with.

“Dealing with someone who is suicidal, the best thing that we can do and that other people can do is to build a safety net of support,” Hobbs said. “The profile of somebody who is feeling suicidal is somebody who feels very helpless and that no one understands or cares.”

If you think someone you know might be suicidal, look for these warning signs.

-What are they saying? If they are saying they want to “escape” or “leave,” it can be a warning sign.

Suicidal people rarely use the terms “suicidal” or “killing,” but they will try to communicate the idea of hurting or wanting to escape.

in her family. She even planned her own suicide after having her third child.

“People don’t understand depression,” Michelle said. “They don’t get it. It’s not all about being sad your whole life — it’s not about that. Sometimes it is, sometimes it’s a black hole that you can’t get out of. I know because I’ve been in it. I had my own suicide planned. I knew I was going to slit my wrist in the bathtub after Macy was born. I just couldn’t find a time when my kids wouldn’t find me.

That’s the only reason I didn’t do it. I was so depressed and sad.”

Jordan’s suicide wasn’t his first attempt. Michelle said his first attempt is not a secret; but it wasn’t something she talked about until now.

Michelle described Jordan’s beloved hammock he moved from outside their home to his room. A chain hung the hammock in his room. A hammock — something that typically conveys peace and calmness — was used in Jordan’s first suicide attempt at age 17.

“He told me that he had put the chain around his neck and stood on the stool and just dared God, screaming at God at the top of his lungs, to just kick the stool out from under him,” Michelle said.

Jordan eventually told his mother about his first attempt to kill himself, but promised her he would never try again.

That promise wasn’t fulfilled.

“I’ve spent hours talking to some of his friends to see if we can find out anything,” Michelle said. “We’ll never know why.”

She recalled clues leading up to Jordan’s suicide. Thinking back, she rests her head in her hands.

To grow closer to God, Jordan’s church group fasted for an entire week before he died. Even with Michelle’s concern for Jordan fasting without doctor supervision, she ultimately decided he was old enough to make his own decision.

Jordan later approached Michelle and Nick, concerned his current medication didn’t seem to be working well and that he needed something different.

The doctor suggested Jordan try 30 more milligrams of his current medicine — Cymbalta, an anti-depressant — for two weeks.

The two weeks were up on a Friday.

He killed himself the following Monday.

Michelle racked her brain, thinking of the minutes leading up to Jordan’s death.

“I was asking Nick the other day, ‘How could he make the noose and not think about us? How could he make that

noose and not think about what he’s about to do and how it’s going to hurt his family? How could he do it knowing how we would we feel?’” Michelle said.

Through counseling and talking with people, the day of Jordan’s death has been explained as a sort of out-of-body experience to Michelle.

“The best way this guy described it — and it was so perfect,” she said, exhaling.

“It’s like when I leave my house and go to school and I end up here and I’m like, ‘I don’t even remember turning, seeing things. I don’t remember anything. I just got here. And so, that’s how I have to look at it. It was more of a robotic thing.

I know he had thought about it before.

He was a magician. He had made nooses a billion times as a kid for different tricks he would do and all those kinds of things.

So he didn’t have to think how to make the noose. He just knew how.”

Michelle has spoken with Jordan’s friends since his death, but has avoided asking them if her son ever mentioned suicide. Jordan’s best friend apologized to Michelle for not telling her about his conversations with Jordan about depression.

“I’ve talked to his best friend, Austin, and he said he did talk about depression

a lot — talked about it a lot,” Michelle said. “But I haven’t asked Austin if he mentioned suicide a lot. I’ve never asked him that question. I don’t want Austin to feel guilty. He’s already apologized to me.

‘Michelle, I’m so sorry I didn’t tell you.

I’m so sorry I didn’t tell you. I’m so sorry.’”

Michelle wrestles with the guilt of not demanding Jordan spend more time in counseling, of not going with him to the doctor, and of not being able to stop the suicide.

After all the horrifying thoughts Michelle deals with, she now is capable of tuning them out.

“I can continue living because I’ve experienced God’s faithfulness before in my life,” she said, pausing. “I would not say it’s easy. It’s certainly not. And there have been times when I’ve had doubts. Oh, my gosh. What if — what if God’s not real. Satan comes and whispers those things in your ear and I just have to remind him that I have experienced miracles in my life after having prayed specifically for things, not just to have a baby, for Jordan and the knot in his cord — I mean I could go on and on, but I sense his presence in my heart and when I am in despair.”

Breakdowns of crying and screaming happen often in the Watts family, Michelle said. But their days must go on.

Michelle’s co-worker and friend Laurie Brehmer said Michelle’s first instinct always is to turn to God when she faces tough times.

“She is just one of the strongest faith-built people that I’ve ever been around,” Brehmer said. “She just turns it all over to God and looks for joy in every circumstance.”

Michelle’s friend Lewis agreed and said Michelle is not overcome with fear.

Even with her Christian faith, Michelle said she sometimes still feels weak in the midst of the hurt.

During a family getaway in the mountains a month after Jordan’s death, Michelle was looking for reassurance.

Because rain has symbolized God’s presence throughout her and her family’s life, she said she decided to exercise her faith once more.

“I asked, ‘God, please make it rain,’” she said.

And in the middle of the drought in Ruidoso, N.M., it began to pour as Michelle and Nick sat in a Starbucks.

“And the guy at the Starbucks coun-

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-What is their situation? People are at an increased risk for suicide if they have a family member who has committed suicide, if they’ve lost a job, relapsed after a recovery from an addiction, or loss of a major relationship.

-Research shows most people in a suicidal crisis only remain in crisis for a few hours, at most a few days.

-U.S. suicide rates are highest in the spring.

-The strongest risk factor for suicide is depression.

-There are four male suicides for every female suicide.

Info provided by Klint Hobbs of the Student Counseling Center and save.org. ➤➤nculver@dailytoreador.com

ter said, ‘Oh, my gosh, It hasn’t rained like this in four years,’” Michelle said. “That’s exactly what he said. I started bawling. I just started bawling. I couldn’t believe it.

I was like, ‘OK, God. OK.’ I mean I feel like the children of Israel. ‘I know you’re there. I know you’re there. And you’ve proven it to me over and over again.

Thank you for making it rain.’”

Reporter’s note: Since Nick Watts spoke at Jordan’s funeral, several people have asked Michelle Watts and Nick for help. Because of raising awareness of suicide and depression, Michelle said the couple knows of four suicides that have been prevented.

“Although my heart breaks every day,” Michelle said, “I can rejoice knowing something good has come out of it. God has made beauty out of ashes.

Maybe this is the something big God had planned for my son — to help remove in some small way the social stigma associated with depression — to save four lives.”

Michelle and Nick welcome and encourage anyone struggling with depression to contact them at calico.palace@att. net or talk to a counselor or doctor or call 1-800-SUICIDE. ➤➤managing@dailytoreador.com

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Camel, hired public relations companies to manipulate the public into buying more cigarettes through print media ads and billboard signs.

Go into the Texas Tech Library and on the first floor of books you can look through archives of Time and Life Magazine.

On about every other page you’ll find Joe Camel or the Marlboro man. It wasn’t until 1999 that all forms of smoking ads were made illegal in the U.S. The ban on smoking advertisements has had positive results. Countries across the world are trying to fight companies such as Phillip Morris International, which has shifted its advertising efforts to Asian markets, by proposing similar restrictions on advertisements.

The U.S. government, however, has supported U.S. tobacco corporations in promotion of their products. As Noam Chomsky documents, “The U.S. Agriculture Department has provided grants to tobacco firms to promote smoking overseas. Asian countries have attempted to conduct educational anti-smoking campaigns, but they are overwhelmed by the miracles of the market, reinforced by U.S. state power through… threats of economic sanctions.”

He goes on to cite Oxford University epidemiologist, Richard Peto, who estimates “among Chinese children under the age of 20 around 50 million will even-

To justify sacrificing our personal freedom to smoke, we must look for a bigger reason to propose a ban on campus.

tually die from tobacco-related illnesses.”

Today, there are about 300 million smokers in China. Tobacco conglomerate Phillip Morris teamed up with the China National Tobacco Company to promote its products, including Marlboro, all across China.

U.S. tobacco corporations spend billions of dollars worldwide on cigarette advertisements.

In addition, they lobby foreign governments to prevent legislation that would make advertisements of cigarettes illegal.

Right now, Phillip Morris International is suing the Australian government for a law requiring cigarettes to be sold in plain packaging.

This shows how irresponsible tobacco companies are. Tobacco companies’ sole purpose is to make profit. They realize by advertising cigarettes around the world it will manipulate millions into purchasing a product that will lead them to an early grave, yet continue in their genocidal ways.

This is why I propose a ban on smoking cigarettes at Tech.

Not because a couple of kids will develop a mild cough from walking by a pack of obnoxious smokers, but as a form of protest for the irresponsible behavior of U.S. tobacco corporations.

People have the right to choose whether to smoke. As long as U.S. tobacco corporations are able to promote their death sticks to 13-year olds in Beijing or Thailand with a picture of the Marlboro man riding on the side of a dilapidated tourist bus, people aren’t making a choice. They are being manipulated.

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moker or not, instituting a smoking or tobacco ban on campus would be a bad idea. Nobody likes to be told what to do, especially when it comes to our personal choices.

Last semester, Student Government Association hosted a couple of town hall meetings to discuss the possibility of a tobacco ban on campus. Although I am not a smoker and the ban wouldn’t necessarily have an effect on me, it still troubled me SGA was actually considering imposing a tobacco ban on campus. The new policy being considered wasn’t just a smoking ban on campus, but a campus-wide ban on all tobacco products, including both cigarettes and dip tobacco.

This proposed tobacco ban not only affects students, but faculty and staff as well. Students, faculty and staff alike can often be found taking a much-needed release from class when taking a break outside.

You may not notice it, but there are quite a few smokers on campus. The AlcoholEdu survey gives a good estimate of how many students on campus actually smoke or use tobacco products in general.

The information that follows was compiled from the data obtained from the Fall 2012 AlcoholEdu survey. On Survey No. 1, 14 percent of first-year freshmen reported smoking cigarettes in the past two weeks. On Survey No. 3, 16 percent of firstyear freshmen reported smoking cigarettes in the past two weeks, showing there was a slight increase in students’ smoking hab-

Last week’s results: Gleinser — 62.1 % Sigler — 37.9%

its after they arrived on campus.

This survey only is given to incoming freshmen, but it gives a good look into what percentage of each class uses tobacco products. I think it’s safe to assume there is a similar pattern among the upperclassmen.

With Texas Tech enrollment at about 33,000, I’m going to assume 15 percent of students at Tech either smoke or use tobacco, based on the AlcoholEdu survey. That’s more than 5,000 students who this new policy would affect directly, not to mention the number of faculty and staff members who also smoke or use tobacco products.

I can understand how a smoking ban might be something some students would be in support of, as the effects of secondhand smoke are real issues people face on a daily basis. But a ban on all tobacco products is a bit much. I highly doubt many people on campus are affected by secondhand dip. It isn’t the prettiest thing to see somebody dipping in class, but it’s their choice and doesn’t affect me at all.

Tech has a huge, open campus that allows for consistent airflow in between the buildings. I would understand if the buildings were more congested with limited airflow, but we just don’t have that problem, and that’s one of the things that make our campus great.

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pete. That Lubbock wind is well enough to keep the air from stagnating and filling with smoke.

The big issue with this is going to be the enforcement of the new policy. Who will enforce it and how? And what will the consequences be for possession of tobacco on campus?

I fear the enforcement will either be underenforced, leaving the policy to be a big waste of time, or it will lead to Tech Police Department, or whoever is left to enforce the new policy, to infringe on our personal privacy while on campus.

The current policy seems to cater to both sides, but needs to be enforced more. Right now, the rule is that an individual must be at least 20 feet away from a building entrance to smoke. But the lack of enforcement seems to be the driving force behind the idea of a campus-wide ban.

For example, there may be a sign displaying the 20-foot rule, but the cigarette butt receptacles are conveniently located within steps of the entrances at Holden Hall and other high-traffic areas.

Moving these receptacles to the 20-foot minimum distance would be a good start in enforcing our current policy and lessening the effects of secondhand smoke to people walking in and out of buildings.

Before we put a radical new policy in place, we should start by enforcing our current one and work from there.

Before we put a radical new policy in place, we should start by enforcing our current one and work from there.

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ccording to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 440,000 people die each year from cigarettes and about 49,000 of these deaths are from secondhand smoke. That’s more than crack, cocaine and heroin combined, and that’s only secondhand smoke.

Some people use these statistics to justify banning cigarette smoking on campus, but I say these statistics are trivial. Surely, those who died from secondhand smoke weren’t college students walking by smokers on campus. Those 49,000 probably grew up with a neglectful mom who chain-smoked while taking her children to soccer practice in her minivan.

According to CDC, on average, smokers die 10 years earlier than nonsmokers. Is there a third category for secondhand smokers? Does this mean they die five years earlier than nonsmokers? Five years off somebody’s life is not a reason to ban smoking on college campuses.

Smokers like to say they have the right to smoke, and I agree.

To justify sacrificing our personal freedom to smoke, we must look for a bigger reason to propose a ban on campus.

In the 1970s, Congress banned cigarette advertisements on American television. This did not stop tobacco conglomerates from finding ways to portray cigarette smoking as a social necessity.

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Students should not avoid counseling for fears, uncertainty Kassidy Ketron

Every day was a struggle.

VIP was worried about what their family and friends would think. VIP didn’t want to be on medicine for the rest of their life, or much less walk into the counseling center at their university.

But, after much convincing and the best support I could give, VIP decided to reach out to the counseling services at their university.

Although VIP is taking medicine,

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like they didn’t want, they’re happy. VIP feels better and finally smiles again.

I’m so proud of VIP because I know how hard it is to reach out to a stranger or even someone you know.

Last year, I spent three months utilizing the services at the Student Counseling Center.

Someone who was supposed to love me unconditionally and never want to hurt me abused me.

It got to the point last fall that I knew I needed to seek help or my bitterness and hate for this person would never lessen, much less go away. I was depressed.

The hardest part was walking into the counseling center. I wanted to leave immediately. I wanted to throw up. I felt like everyone in the room was judging me, like

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ou are not alone. Ever.

My entire life I have been surrounded by loved ones who have struggled with depression, bipolar disorder and anxiety.

A very important person to me — my rock — was diagnosed with clinical depression last week.

My VIP struggled with depression for months before this individual decided they deserved to feel better. Nothing necessarily traumatic had happened to cause this pain, which made VIP think they were unworthy to seek help and admit they weren’t feeling like VIP. Something just wasn’t right. I was forwarded to voicemail often because VIP just didn’t feel like talking, but they couldn’t help it.

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I didn’t deserve to be there. There are other people who have suffered from so much more than my seemingly petty problems.

But, I stayed.

I was called back and I cried the whole time. I cried at every session I went to, and it felt good.

It felt good to cry, to be angry and every emotion you can think of. And my counselor was on my side and cared. It was hard at first talking to a stranger and, like I said, I felt judged.

After every session I went back to work and classes as if nothing had happened. I’m not someone who keeps to herself. I’m very much an open book, but I told very few people because I felt silly and embarrassed.

Why did I feel that way? I have no idea. I shouldn’t have. It’s not

silly, and it’s not embarrassing.

I’m so much stronger now than I was then. I can handle situations I used to run away from.

Going to the counseling center was one of the best decisions I ever made.

Maybe you’re like me and VIP and you don’t feel like what you’re going through is good enough to seek medical help for.

But, if you’re constantly sad and you don’t feel like you can talk to any friends or family about it because they won’t understand, help yourself.

Feeling better isn’t so far away.

It’s hard, but there are people who love you, enjoy seeing you in classes and being in your presence.

You don’t want to talk about it?

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me how much talking about everything helped me in all aspects of my life.

Never feel dumb or “overdramatic,” as I called myself, for going to counseling. There is absolutely nothing wrong with it.

I’m a strong person, but I knew if I kept going through each day avoiding what was always on my mind, I would eventually collapse from the burden of it all.

D o n ’t c o l l a p s e . D o n ’t g o through every day feeling sad when there are people who want to make you happy again and see that wonderful smile on your face.

Be like VIP and me — be happy.

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How to avoid freshman 15 on campus

By LIANA SOLIS Staff Writer

Many students have the worry of going away for their first year of college and gaining the dreaded ‘freshman 15.’

Luckily, Texas Tech offers healthy eating options and a fully functional recreational center to help students avoid gaining that extra, unwanted weight.

Alan Cushman, the manager for business development for Hospitality Services, said he doesn’t think the freshman 15 is as prevalent as it used to be.

“Students nowadays are more conscientious than they have been in the past about what they eat,” he said. “It’s more of a myth now than it ever has been.”

Cushman said the administration has increased healthy eating options on campus because more students have demanded them.

“We work with the student organizations on campus, so we are always listening to what the students want or have to say,” he said. “After all, if students are hungry and don’t know where they want to eat, that means we’re not doing our job right.”

Hospitality Services, Cushman said, developed its programs, such as the Wellness and Smart Choices programs, to help students avoid falling into the trap of eating unhealthy.

Dewey McMurrey, the executive chef for Hospitality Services, said he first developed the menu for the Smart Choices program when he was

a student at Tech.

“Besides a few salad bars, we really didn’t have any healthy eating options when I was in school,” he said. “It was the students’ push for healthier options that sparked the Smart Choice program.”

The program was introduced in 2003, McMurrey said, and started with one location in the Student Union Building.

“It was still salad bar heavy, but there were also more healthy entries that the students seemed to really enjoy them,” he said.

Because of the success of the SUB location, McMurrey said, Smart Choices opened a brand new location in the Horn/Knapp Residence Complex Dining Hall.

“Our new location has entries such as grilled chicken, make-your-own flatbread pizzas, yogurt parfaits and lots of delicious yet healthy foods,” Cushman said. “We have been trying to structure meals that are geared toward everyone, including vegetarians, people who want gluten-free options and more.”

McMurrey said hospitality also is working on expanding Smart Choices to the west side of campus.

“When students go off to college, they don’t have their parents bogging down on them telling them they need to eat healthy,” he said. “So when they have this newfound freedom to eat whatever they want, that’s what causes them to fall into the habits of not eating healthy.”

Hospitality also has a website for its Wellness and Smart Choices programs that includes nutrition facts and information, Cushman said.

“Anyone can go online and read about information on vegetarianism, living a gluten-free lifestyle, or just nutrition facts about the different foods we serve on campus,” Cushman said.

“We know that we have unhealthy options on campus, too, but they are still popular, and it is the students’ choice on whether they want to choose the healthy or the unhealthy foods. When it comes down to it, what you put in your body isn’t just an eating habit; it’s a lifestyle.”

To go along with the healthy eating options Tech offers and is expanding, exercise also is an important aspect of living a healthy life.

Kami White-Waden, the assistant director of fitness and wellness for Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center, said many students do not take advantage of the facilities on campus.

“They technically pay for membership at the Rec Center in their tuition, so it is free for them to use any time of day they want,” she said.

The Rec Center is open from 6 a.m. to midnight daily, White-Waden said, and offers classes for beginners and more advanced students.

“We also have a lot of students who get intimidated when they first come in and see everyone else who is more experienced than them,” she said. “You have to start somewhere though, and

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the classes we offer are for all levels of students who want a way to stay fit.”

White-Waden said the Rec Center also offers personal training sessions and specialty classes for a low price.

“Any other gym you go to will try and charge you over $50 for special classes or personal trainers,” she said.

“Our classes are very affordable and are also more private for the students who don’t want to go through sessions in

front of large groups of people.”

Besides specialty classes, free equipment, tracks and swimming pools also are available all times of day, WhiteWaden said.

“We have a CrossFit room, indoors and outdoors pool, several jogging tracks, weight rooms and so much more,” she said. “As long as students bring their Raider ID, they can get in practically whenever they want.”

White-Waden said there are ways for students to stay fit and healthy without going to the Rec Center as well.

“Doing simple things like taking the stairs, walking or biking to class and avoiding the bus make all the difference,” she said. “It doesn’t raise your heart rate as high, but it is still healthy and helps you avoid gaining that unwanted weight that no one wants.” ➤➤lsolis@dailytoreador.com

Partaking in meat-free diet has benefits, repercussions

By ALI WILLINGHAM Staff Writer

Most don’t define themselves by their diet, but for junior Madison Weinhoffer, her diet became a way of life.

The theater and anthropology major from Houston said she’s a vegan, which means, depending on how strictly one adheres to it, no animal products are used or consumed.

A vegetarian is just not consuming meat, Weinhoffer said, although some do not eat eggs as well.

“Vegans is like no meat, no eggs, no dairy and a lot of vegans don’t eat honey,” she said. “Nothing dry from animals and they do nothing that’s been tested on animals if they’re going like hardcore.”

Weinhoffer said that means one must look at where makeup comes from, the cleaning supplies used and what clothing is made of — a vegan shouldn’t wear wool or leather.

“I don’t wear makeup so that’s not really an issue for me,” she said. “I definitely check where all my shampoo and conditioner and toothpaste and all that kind of stuff though.”

Besides living a vegan lifestyle, Weinhoffer said a big deal, for her personally, is living a very sustainable, low-impact lifestyle.

She said she doesn’t own a car and only showers once a week.

“I wait to do my laundry,” Weinhoffer said. “I try to keep it off as far as I can, because water is not a sustainable resource anymore. I would like to have that knowledge that I am making as low as an impact as possible.”

By being sustainable, she said if people give her something, such as a food item, even though they know what she eats and she can’t find someone to give it to, she eats it.

Weinhoffer said she doesn’t like throwing things away or wasting food.

“If I have anything made of leather, I will not throw it away,” she said.

Weinhoffer became a vegetarian four years ago, she said, and has been a vegan for about two-and-a-half, maybe three years.

Weinhoffer’s sophomore year in high school, she said, her friend and her were talking about interesting things to give up for Lent, and even though she’s not Catholic, the friends used it to see who could give up soda or something and see if it was hard.

“We both were watching (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) videos,” Weinhoffer said. “The PETA videos were inspiring enough to make the decision that I was going to try to give up meat for 40 days, and then it wasn’t hard.”

Afterward, she said she realized she didn’t eat meat that much.

Her family members are not super, protein-based kind of meal operators, Weinhoffer said.

“They were upset with me,” she said.

“It still is work for my father and my stepmother to get on board.”

Weinhoffer said it’s hard to get them to relinquish the idea they’re going to die

and be unhealthy and sick all the time.

For a long time, she said, when a person stops eating meat or make switches between meat and no meat, they get sick.

“You do get sick,” Weinhoffer said, ”because your body is adjusting to the changes that it’s going through. You’re completely removing a source of easy-toget protein and amino acids and things like that.”

Instructor for Nutritional Sciences Allison Childress said when switching to vegetarianism or veganism, a lot of times students become tired and see some weight loss, but not always.

The registered and licensed dietician from Amarillo said sometimes women will report their hair isn’t as full or doesn’t grow as quickly.

“If you’re not eating enough protein,” she said, “you could also lose some muscle mass.”

Childress said she thought vegans or vegetarians should see a registered dietician to make sure they’re receiving the correct amount of protein and calories

needed and are making up for some of the vitamin and mineral deficiencies.

“If you do all of those things,” she said, “it can definitely be a healthy lifestyle.”

Some vitamins and minerals people can lose when switching to a vegetarian lifestyle, Childress said, include B12, iron, calcium and, if not eating fish, can be at risk for not having enough omega 3 fatty acids.

Moving to the vegan lifestyle, she said, the risk is more magnified.

“The biggest health risk is probably making sure they get enough protein,” Childress said, “especially if they’re an athlete or exercise regularly.”

Typically though, she said, a vegetarian or vegan diet is high in fiber, which most Americans don’t receive enough of.

It’s high in fruits and vegetables, Childress said, which most Americans also don’t consume enough of.

“A lot of times,” she said, “people who are vegan or vegetarian tend to focus on whole foods or less processed foods and those are beneficial as well.”

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She said she thinks the most difficult part of a vegan or vegetarian diet is going out and participating in social situations — going to environments a person can’t control.

Childress said it takes a lot of good, careful planning.

“Maybe sometimes just taking your own food,” she said, “or just being hyper vigilant about finding out about what’s going to be served where you’re going I

think would be the most difficult part of it.”

Other things that can be difficult, Childress said, are that sometimes vegan food is a little more expensive and can be harder to find in certain areas.

“In big cities, we don’t really have a hard time finding vegan options,” she said, “but in smaller towns you definitely can.”

Weinhoffer said she thinks having

a lifestyle defined by what one eats, as it is necessary to eat to survive, is a big step for people.

It can be difficult and easy, she said.

“You just have to be committed to it,” Weinhoffer said, “because you’re making a difference not only in your own lives, but in saving the lives of other animals and helping the general health of the Earth as a whole.” ➤➤awillingham@dailytoreador.com

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Nutrition is key to igniting Tech soccer

By DAWIT HAILE Staff Writer

A high-performance car is nothing without the correct fuel inside it, much like the athletes on the Texas Tech soccer team are less extraordinary without the correct nutrition.

Tech’s sports dietitian Dayna McCutchin said this is the analogy she approaches the athletes with when discussing the importance of nutrition.

“We like to push proper nutrition for optimum performance,” McCutchin said.

The women on the soccer team require the right diet, which provides them energy throughout an entire game and helps them endure the many hits taken, she said. Each player is treated on a case-by-case basis in tandem with the strength and conditioning coach, Katie Munger.

Along with Munger, the players’ position and body composition are factored together. A player-specific program then is constructed so the player can perform at her optimum level.

Senior forward Jessica Fuston said keeping up with her diet has helped speed up the process of returning to her fitness level before her knee injury.

The attention she pays to her nutrition is more than she did in high school, Fuston said. The past few years have been the fittest of her life and have brought improvements in her everyday life.

“I have more energy to do things during the day,” she said. “I don’t feel groggy or gross. I haven’t been sick in a long time.”

The main result she observes from soccer players who do not follow proper nutrition is fatigue, McCutchin said. Because soccer is an outdoor sport, hydration is key. A 1-percent difference in hydration makes all the difference sometimes.

Everything an athlete consumes is seen as fuel, McCutchin said.

However, it is essential for those on the soccer team and in other sports to not only focus on eating the right foods, but also eating them at the right times.

On the road, senior defender Hayley Haagsma said it is easier for players to follow nutrition because coaches and trainers are keeping an eye on them, but when back at Tech, the Red Raiders must show a lot more self-discipline.

The discipline is for them to stay hydrated during practice and classes and prepare the right meals when on their own, Haagsma said.

There is an understanding these players cannot always consume the best foods all the time because of

their schedules as student-athletes, McCutchin said. An 80-20 rule was developed to combat the problem.

“We encourage them to be mindful of what they are eating, and eat for performance 80 percent of the time,” McCutchin said. “And they can be more lax with their diet 20 percent of the time. The time to be lax is within a 24-hour window when they don’t have a practice, workout or a game.”

The variation this rule brings into athletes’ diets tends to increase their metabolism, she said.

Since the schedule for those involved in sports is hectic, she encourages them to pack snacks filled with carbohydrates and proteins, McCutchin said.

Haagsma said bringing snacks to class has helped her, but time management is the No. 1 tool.

This means cooking meals ahead of time so she can either take them in sack lunches or eat them later, Haagsma said.

“I’m fortunate to live with a few other girls who play on the team,” she said, “so if one of us is having an especially busy day and someone is cooking, we will just cook for each other.”

Many of the freshmen do not have access to a kitchen, because they are required to live in the residence halls, McCutchin said. She deals with this by notifying the players which residence halls contain the best foods for them.

McCutchin said she also details the right foods to consume when eating out. They have gone as far as to create an application called the “Healthy Raider Performance App.” “Then (athletes) can access anything that is on campus provided with nutritional information,” McCutchin said, “and anywhere in the community that has posted nutritional information.”

Fuston said she does not have trouble watching her eating habits because she is a nutrition major.

Fuston switched her major earlier in her college career for life after college, she said. The switch has helped her know the foods to take out of her diet and reach a new level of health.

The athletes with Tech soccer are the ones who tend to come into her office on their own, McCutchin said.

This shows her the team recognizes the importance nutrition has on their performance individually and as a whole.

Nutrition provides only an incremental advantage, she said. But, along with great coaching and recruiting, nutrition has allowed the team to achieve the success they have to this point in the season. ➤➤dhaile@dailytoreador.com

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Health can single-handedly stop a team from accomplishing the goals it wants to achieve. The athletic trainers are the ones to make sure health does not derail a season.

Laura Schnettgoecke, Texas Tech soccer athletic trainer said there is a lot of dynamic movement that puts pressure on the legs, knees and ankles of the players. The contact during games tests their bodies as well.

Senior defender Hayley Haagsma said athletic trainers help the athletes warm up and deal with behind-the-scene issues and problems with their bodies.

“Our athletic trainers are top class,” she said. “They know what they are talking about. Any injury they have all these different methods of working around that to keep you strong and keep you fit.”

There is off-field work the players complete to relieve the burden the sport puts on them, but the contact brings about unavoidable problems sometimes, Schnettgoecke said.

Schnettgoecke and the strength and conditioning staff work in tandem to control what they can, she said.

“We make sure that (the wom-

By EVERETT CORDER Staff Writer

When he played the game in high school the idea of pulling players because of concussions was basically nonexistent Westover Park Junior High School seventh grade football coach Jason Lynch said.

Lynch said he remembers getting a concussion in a Friday night game when he was on his high school football team, and he was just told he had a headache and was back to practicing on Monday.

“When I was a kid, there was basically no such thing as a concussion,” Lynch said. “You went home if you had a headache, but you strapped your helmet back on and went the next practice, so it’s really different from then.”

As Lynch said, the times have changed when it comes to concussions. In recent years, concussions have been in the news because of the recent rule changes in both the National Football League and NCAA. Following suit right behind the collegiate and professional leagues is the beginning levels of football.

The youth leagues, middle and high schools all have made changes at their individual levels to help pre-

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en) are fit and that they’re strong to withhold not only the duration,” she said, “but the contact during the games.”

Strength and conditioning coach Katie Munger is in charge of getting the soccer team fit, Schnettgoecke said. The process begins in the summer well before the season. The duo cuts down on this when the team is in the midst of the season, but they re-intensify the training after the season in the spring.

Schnettgoecke said to avoid running Tech soccer into the ground, the coaches and her devise a plan suitable for the semiweekly games.

Usually, the team has a day off on Monday, she said. The athletes go through a long, difficult practice Tuesday, followed by a short, but equally intense practice Wednesday. Then Thursday is light with jogging and other movement.

Friday is a game day, so they just jog and stretch. The players recover Saturday to have the ability to play Sunday.

The schedule is repeated weekly, Schnettgoecke said. It took a little trial and error for them to construct the schedule in its current state.

During all the training, Schnettgoecke focuses on ensuring nothing unusual happens, she said. She

wants to prevent injuries from occurring, so Munger and her have each player perform little leg workouts to avoid knee injuries.

Time management is a must for an athletic trainer, Schnettgoecke said. Players receive their own injuries, either big or small, and all need tending to.

“There is a saying: ‘rest, ice, compression and elevation,’ we do all of that,” Schnettgoecke said. “We work very closely with our doctors to make sure it is not something serious.”

Every injury needs treatment specific to the player because each player is different, she said. The main goal is to return every athlete to full health as soon as possible.

Redshirt senior midfielder Conner Whitfield said during rehabilitation the trainers focus on strengthening the given body part.

Currently, she is rehabbing from her third knee injury.

The trainers are concerned with the pressure her knees can handle, so they have her doing exercises involving plenty of jumping, Whitfield said.

The strengthening exercises are to make sure the injured body part can endure further impact, she said. Whitfield goes through these exercises because she elected not to have surgery after she sustained

her injury.

Haagsma said she knows how quickly the trainers can return a player to health because she was one of those players. After a knee injury her freshman year, Haagsma returned to health in seven months.

Full health to Tech soccer does not only mean just physically, but emotionally and mentally as well.

Athletes need their confidence restored to return to how they were before the injury, Haagsma said.

“They rehab us, and they get us mentally strong again because the physical part is only half the battle,“ she said. “It’s the mental part that is the rest of it.”

There are counselors on staff to assist the players through difficult times related to soccer or not that can affect their school work and work on the field, Schnettgoecke said.

Plus, there are tutors to break through the mental workout college school work can become sometimes, she said.

“We try to help the athletes as a whole,” Schnettgoecke said.

This help at the end of the season could result in helping the team to a Big 12 Conference championship, but as of right now the team is going to enjoy the break a bye week provides. ➤➤dhaile@dailytoreador.com

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“With any sport or non-contact sport, anyone can get a concussion, but football is proving to be one of the most dangerous sports where you have a higher percentage of getting one next to boxing, wrestling, flag football, baseball, basketball and even soccer,” Lubbock Youth Football League President J.R. Castilleja said.

In the youth league Castilleja is president of, children start tackle football at 5 years old. He said younger children used to play flag football, but were aggressive and kept running into each other and hurting themselves.

The league decided in 2011 that putting them in pads and teaching them how to tackle would be safer for the children in the youngest division.

“It’s basically an introduction,” Castilleja said. “You get that one out of 200 that’s an athlete and can really hit, but 90 percent of the kids don’t. They still tackle, but it’s nothing like you see in high school or junior high.”

In LYFL, coaches go through a seminar at the beginning of each year teaching them about the dangers of concussions, and if one of the coaches thinks a child might have

away at night, in dumpsters where kids couldn’t find them because they didn’t want kids pulling them out and playing in the front yard with them,” Lynch said. “I really think there’s been some great improvement in helmet technology in recent years.”

Once students enter the high school level of athletics, there are University Interscholastic League mandated rules to keep concussions at a minimum, Randall High School head football coach Bryan Wood said.

After the doctor clears a high school player, Wood said UIL has a five-day mandated clearance process where the player adds more and more physical activity each day before beginning full practices with the team.

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a concussion during the season, a doctor must clear him before playing again.

Castilleja said a difference in the youth league is most of the concussions received don’t come from fast-paced collisions like the NFL. “When a child falls down and hits his head on the ground, that’s where we have most of our concussions happen,” Castilleja said.

Lynch said a lot of the same information is true for his players at the middle school level, including doctor’s note rules and concussion training before the season.

If they think a player has a concussion, one of the coaches takes the student off to the side and asks them some simple questions to see if they’re in any kind of “mental fog.”

“Usually the question that gets them is when I ask them what they had for lunch,” Lynch said. “If we see any fogginess at all when we’re asking questions, we either send them to the nurse, or sometimes the high school athletic trainer is there helping, and they do the more serious tests.”

Besides the instituted rule changes, Lynch said the athletic staff also had to throw out all helmets made more than five years ago.

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