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Raider Red character spans 43 years

By KRISTEN BARTON Staff Writer

In 1971, the Southwest Conference passed a ruling stating live animals could not participate in away games.

This created an issue for the then-Southwest Conference member Texas Tech, but from this ruling arose a new mascot for Tech: Raider Red. Tech Archives collects clippings, photographs and other historical artifacts related to Raider Red, archivist Lynn Whitfield said.

“I think it’s been a very nice tradition,” she said. “I think the main thing with Raider Red is that he is such a likeable character, and I think that’s why he keeps winning these mascot awards and the people love him so much.”

Jim Gaspard, a former member of Saddle Tramps, used a drawing by Dirk West to create Raider Red, Whitfield said.

In the fall of 1985, Tony Lloyd was one of the Saddle Tramps who served as Raider Red. He was one of the first to have a goal of traveling to all away games, Lloyd said, and he was the first to get to shoot the shotguns when Tech

scored a touchdown.

“It was an honor, and it’s neat to tell people it was something I was a part of,” he said. “It was an honor to be such a representative for the university.”

The costume he wore used to have a pillow and suspenders for the stomach, Lloyd said.

This made it hard to maneuver, he said, and mascots from other universities would sneak up on Raider Red during games and mess with the Saddle Tramps and High Riders.

Lloyd said he tried to make Raider Red a part of the community and do service as Raider Red. During Lloyd’s time as Raider Red, doctors told him a girl had just lost both her parents in a car wreck and had not smiled in days, Lloyd said.

“She couldn’t see Raider Red crying,” Lloyd said, “but Raider Red saw her smile that day.”

In 2001, Raider Red won Best All-Around Mascot at the National Cheerleaders Association Collegiate Camp Meeting, Whitfield said.

“It takes a lot of dedication to be Raider Red,” she said. “He doesn’t talk. He’s very animated, and you just see him, you’re like, ‘Wow I can’t believe he can walk without falling over.’”

The High Riders became a part of the Raider Red tradition in 2005 when, for the first time, a female donned the Raider Red costume, Whitfield said.

Chris Snead, chair of the Raider Red committee, said Saddle Tramps and High Riders are part of what makes this Tech tradition so unique.

In order to try out to be Raider Red, a student has to be a member of either Saddle Tramps or High Riders, he said.

“The membership process involves learning the history and traditions of the university,” Snead said. “That’s what makes being Raider Red unique.”

The tryout process has three steps, Snead said, beginning with an interview.

The committee then watches how students master the walk and image and character of Raider Red, he said, and the committee watches the student interact with the public as the mascot.

“Raider Red has always been an icon on campus,” Snead said. “The true national explosion

of Raider Red has happened the last three or four years, but Raider Red has always been an icon for our campus as much so as the Masked Rider.”

While everyone loves the Masked Rider and horse Fearless Champion, Snead said Raider Red is the more approachable and public mascot of Tech because his public appearances make him

more recognizable to the community.

In 2006, the number of students serving as Raider Red increased, Whitfield said, when Saddle Tramps and High Riders each provided two members to serve as Raider Red. Raider Red earned the title of Capitol One National Mascot of the Year in 2012, according to a Tech news release.

“I think he is a complete icon,” Snead said. “He’s the one you can get right up close to, the one you can go up and hug.”

There are several ways Raider Red is different from other mascots in the Big 12, Snead said, and Saddle Tramps and High Riders are an embodiment of the spirit and tradition at Tech.

“Every mascot is unique in its own way,” Snead said. “We’ve got a strong bias here, but I still think Raider Red is the best mascot in the country.” ➤➤kbarton@dailytoreador.com

Mascot Modifications TOP: RAIDER RED poses during the homecoming kickoff Monday outside the Student Union building. Raider Red earned the title of Capitol One National Mascot of the Year in 2012. BOTTOM LEFT: RAIDER Red holds his guns up in the courtyard of the Merket Center. The mascot was created after the Southwest Conference no longer allowed live mascots, like the horse ridden by Masked Rider, to travel to away games. BOTTOM CENTER: RAIDER Red rides in a vintage fire truck with students. To choose the mascot, a committee conducts a three-step tryout process. BOTTOM RIGHT: IN 1983, Raider Rose was the female version of Raider Red who co-represented the university for a limited time.

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Women’s Protective Services hosts vigil

By EMMA ZAMBRYCKI staff writer

As the sun set on Wednesday evening, several families arrived at the Lubbock County Courthouse to honor those closest to them who they had recently lost to domestic abuse.

The purpose of the event hosted by the Women’s Protective Services was to help bring closure to the families of the deceased, as well as remember and honor the lives of those who passed away, Sherry Taylor, executive director for Women’s Protective Services said.

There were 119 documented deaths as a result of domestic abuse this past year alone, Taylor said. However, because domestic violence occurs within the home, it is difficult to properly document the number of lives lost, and therefore, the true number may be much higher.

“We will be honoring those who we know have passed, and their families will be here, and the vigil is just so we can remember them, and work harder to make sure that this goes away someday,” she said.

The purpose of the vigil is to spread awareness of domestic violence within the Lubbock community, Kay Cross, deputy director of Women’s Protective Services, said, and within other neighboring communities as well. Other women’s shelters throughout the state are hosting similar events, she said.

Families and friends attended the vigil to show their love and support, Cross said.

The event acted as a symbol of support and remembrance to the families and the community.

“It’s a gathering to hopefully bring about some type of awareness that will carry on through the lives of the survivors and their friends, loved ones and families who will basically carry a candle in their heart from now on,” she said.

Gaby Dye, a senior business major from Allen, said she came to the event to support Women’s Protective Services and the women who lost their lives as a result of domestic violence. Dye said her sorority, Alpha Chi Omega, supports the Women’s Protective Services through its philanthropy.

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Dye said the event was thoughtful and was glad to see the large amount of friends and family from all over the Lubbock community who came to show their support.

“We have opportunities to go (to the Women’s Protective Services) twice a week, so I’ve been before and I like doing that, helping the kids,” Dye said.

Kathy Longoria, one of the attendees who lost a loved one, said losing a family member because of domestic violence is an incredibly difficult experience to go through.

It’s helpful to see all the other families who have gone through similar experiences, Longoria said. It makes the process more bearable, knowing that there is a large support group so close at hand.

“I’m really glad that we were able to have this event, and everybody that is here has all experienced the same thing,” she said, “so it’s nice to know that we can call and comfort each other in something like this, and so I’m really glad that we were able to be here.” ➤➤ezambrycki@dailytoreador.com

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MALEAYA BURKS, FROM Lubbock, holds a candle in remembrance during the Women’s Protective Service’s Candlelight Vigil on Wednesday outside the Lubbock County Courthouse. According to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, one in every four women will experience domestic violence. 85 percent of those who have experienced domestic violence are women.

Texas abortion clinics reopening after ruling

By KAITLIN BAIN

MARK GUTIERREZ, A Texas Tech grounds keeper, makes sure the chlorine levels in the fountains on campus are correct.

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Abortion clinics are reopening in Texas as a result of a Supreme Court ruling halting a decision made Oct. 2 that required abortion clinics to meet hospital-level operating standards.

While clinics like the Routh Street Women’s Clinic in Dallas and a clinic in McAllen are in the stages of reopening, according to an article

by The Associated Press, clinics that previously existed in the Lubbock area are not reopening at this time.

Sophia Dominguez, president of the Texas Tech chapter of the feminist majority leadership alliance, said that while the 13 reopening clinics are not in the area, the decision will make more reproductive healthcare options available for Texas.

“It is evident that utilizing our political system through channels of active democracy, as well as student involvement and awareness, there can be progress made on the issue of reproductive rights,” she said. “The upcoming election on Nov. 4 is a perfect example of a way to express one’s feelings on

POLICE BLOTTER Tuesday 10:03 a.m. — A Texas Tech officer investigated theft at the Media and Communications building. A secured Huffy bicycle was taken.

1:25 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft at the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center.

An unsecured cell phone was taken.

1:38 p.m. — A Tech officer documented a possible sexual assault reported to the police department by a third party which occurred at an unknown location.

2:21 p.m. — A Tech officer in-

this political progression.”

According to the article, the justices suspended the Oct. 2 ruling by the 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans that ruled Texas could make abortion clinics upgrade their facilities to reach hospital-level upgrades. The provision that mandated clinics in McAllen and El Paso have doctors with admitting privileges in nearby hospitals was also put on hold. The provision is still in effect in other areas of the state.

Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said, according to the article, she hopes the law will be completely overturned in the future.

“We’re seeing the terrible impact these restrictions have on thousands of Texas women who effectively no longer have access to safe and legal abortion,” she said, according to the article. “We’re relieved that the court stepped in to stop this, and we hope this dangerous law is ultimately overturned completely.”

Dominguez said she believes the only way circumstances in Lubbock will change is if local citizens come together and ignite

vestigated theft at Holden Hall. An unsecured wallet was taken.

3:42 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for an outstanding Lubbock County warrant after a traffic stop in the Z5C parking lot.

The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County jail. The vehicle was released to a family member.

5:11 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft at Clement Residence Hall. A secured bicycle was taken.

1:08 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested two students for public intoxication in the 2500 block of 6th

a change in the legislation.

The closest abortion clinics to Lubbock are in Dallas and Albuquerque, New Mexico, according to the Planned Parenthood website.

Other clinics in areas where legislation has not changed are referring women to their affiliated clinics in other states, according to the article, Hilltop Women’s Reproductive Services in El Paso and New Mexico.

“There are no options available in Lubbock to those in need of reproductive resources,” Dominguez said. “It is evident that by doing a basic Google search of the reproductive health center available in Texas, such resources are not readily available in the West Texas area as a whole. However, it is up to the discretion of the women to investigate the resources that are available in our state as well as the surrounding areas.”

According to the article, the smaller number of clinics will not deter women from getting abortions, as nine in 10 live no more than 150 miles from an abortion provider and nearly one million women have driven longer than three hours for an abortion.

Street. One of the students was also issued a Lubbock County citation for possession of alcohol by minor.

Both students were transported to the Lubbock County jail.

2:15 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for driving while intoxicated in the 2500 block of Marsha Sharp. The student was transported to the Lubbock County jail. The student’s vehicle was impounded by Lubbock Wrecker Service.

Information provided by B.J. Watson of the Tech Police Department.

While this has been seen as a victory for those who support the right to choose, Joe Pojman, executive director of Texas Alliance for Life, said, according to the article, he believes legislation ruling against abortion will continue to be passed.

“This does not protect the health and safety of women who are undergoing abortion,” he said. “This is definitely a short-term loss, but not necessarily a long-term loss.”

Jonathon Rodriguez, a senior architecture major from San Antonio, said he does not support the ruling and does not think the two groups will ever reach a compromise.

“I mean yes I feel if they have the restrictions as far as the process goes it would save lives,” he said, “but at the same time (requiring abortion clinics to have hospital-like facilities) aren’t saving the lives of the unborn chid.”

Organizations like the Lubbock Rape Crisis Center, or Voice of Hope are still in operation in Lubbock to assist those who are in situations where they may be considering an abortion as well as those who have been affected by sexual assault. ➤➤news@dailytoreador.com

Program accepting student applications Texas Tech is now accepting applications for the Office of Technology and Commercialization entrepreneur program called TECHcelerator.

The program was created by the office, according to a Tech news release. The program is open to students, entrepreneurs and those who are aspiring to become entrepreneurs.

Ryan Reber, TECHcelerator program manager, said students who are accepted into this program will have the opportunity to work with technologies created to benefit society.

“Through the TECHcelerator program, Texas Tech students have an opportunity to work with these technologies,” he said. ➤➤dcopeland@dailytoreador.com

Homecoming events modify Tech parking Parking for Thursday’s homecoming events will be in the West Commuter lots located directly north and west of the United Supermarkets Arena.

Showtime,, a new event to homecoming week, and the Spirit Pep Rally will begin at 7:30 p.m.

Friday in the United Supermarkets Arena, according to a Texas Tech news release.

All arena doors will open at 6:45 p.m. and two concession stands will be open to purchase food, according to the release. The traditional bonfire will be lit at the bonfire pit at 9 p.m., weather permitting. ➤➤jgonzales@dailytoreador.com

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University invests in amenities for students

By JUSTIN GONZALES Staff Writer

Universities across the nation are catering to students’ preferences in regards to their facilities.

These facilities, including Texas Tech’s leisure pool, were chronicled in the economic report, College as a Country Club, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

The diversity in student preferences implies colleges offer different incentives depending on their current student body and the students the institution hopes to attract, according to the report.

Tech’s Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center leisure pool represents the largest leisure pool on a college campus in the United States, with a total cost of $8.4 million, according to Tech’s recreational sports website.

Candace Marlin, a first-year doctoral student studying human development from Collinsville, said there are pros and cons in Tech investing in state-of-the-art facilities such as the leisure pool, but

believes it does benefit students.

“It’s great to have these facilities and the opportunity to use these as a way to relax from our sometimes strenuous academic lives, but they also cost money,” she said. “I think tuition increases for things like this, specifically the new turf fields, is ridiculous.”

The economic report found most students appear to value college consumption amenities highly, including spending on student activities, sports and residence halls.

Facilities like the Rec Center and leisure pool provide students with the opportunity to form friendships and help build a sense of community with their peers, Marlin said.

“Some of my best friends are from playing volleyball in the Rec sophomore year,” she said, “but academically, I don’t see how students would benefit.”

According to the economic report, the taste for amenities is broad-based, while the desire for academic quality is confined to high-achieving students.

Raymond Martinez, a second-

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STUDENTS OF TEXAS Tech can escape the West Texas heat though the use of the leisure pool, which is paid through the student recreational fee. The Texas Tech Student Leisure Pool which opened in May 2009, has an annual budget of about half a million dollars.

degree student and biochemistry major from Odessa, said he has only used the rock wall at the Rec Center once and would rather see Tech investing money in other departments.

“I’m just not that kind of person that uses that kind of thing,” he said. “I have friends who use it, and I know they really enjoy it.

Just me personally, I’ve never been

attracted to that sort of thing.”

If Tech were to invest in something other than the pools, Martinez said he would enjoy better equipment in the student workrooms, classrooms and lecture halls.

Kyle Hill, a junior pre-engineering major from Kerrville, said he thinks it is a wonderful idea to fund projects such as the leisure pool,

and even though the state-of-theart facilities did not attract him to Tech, he thinks the Rec Center can help students in many ways.

“College is supposed to be the best three to six years of your life.

The fact that a university can see and come to realize that they can give back to students for working hard is awesome,” Hill said.

“Things like the lazy river could

be seen as unnecessary, since we as students are here to learn, but I find it to be a great place to relieve built up stress from classes.”

Hill said facilities such as the Rec Center and leisure pool help students physically to stay in shape, as well as get outside, and mentally, to reduce stress or reward themselves for hard work. ➤➤jgonzales@dailytoreador.com

College of Media, Communication conducting eye-tracking research

By EMMA ZAMBRYCKI Staff Writer

Eye tracking is a tool for researchers in both the Texas Tech College of Media and Communication and different fields outside of communication.

Glenn Cummins, associate dean for research at the College of Media and Communication, said the device being researched in the college allows researchers to pinpoint which images attract the most attention.

The eye-tracking device at Tech does exactly what its name suggests, Cummins said. it tracks the movement of the subject’s eyes across a computer screen.

The device begins by mapping

out the subject’s face in order to locate his eyes, and then, using infrared light, maps the movement of the subject’s eyes using x and y coordinates.

“That’s a deliberate selective process,” Cummins said. “When there are a lot of different things you could look at, you have to exercise some sort of selectivity in terms of where you choose to allocate that attention.”

Eye tracking can do more than simply point out where an individual is looking, but rather, record where the individual is looking specifically in the screen, according to the college’s website.

The device can provide information to researchers and advertisers on where to place advertise-

ments, according to the website, and which types of advertisements attract the most attention.

“The benefit of eye tracking is that we can tell exactly what you’re looking at on that screen,” Cummins said, “as opposed to just generally telling you’re looking at a computer, but we don’t know what you’re looking at.”

Not only is the movement and focus of the eye mapped out and monitored, but the device is also able to detect the amount of time an individual spends viewing a particular advertisement or image, according to the website.

The advantages of the device really depend on the study at hand, Harrison Gong, a graduate student at the college, said.

Texas Tech hosts Global Ethics Day

By DANI COPELAND Staff Writer

The Texas Tech Ethics Center is hosting its first Global Ethics Day 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday.

The event will take place in the Escondido Theatre and will be live streamed for institutions around the world to join in on the ethics conversation, according to a Tech news release.

Speakers and those involved in panel discussions will talk about different ethical topics during sessions.

Ralph Ferguson, managing director of the Ethics Center, said Tech is partnering with the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary of global ethics.

“One of the things Carnegie Council suggested is seeing universities and other non-government organizations around the world participate in a global ethics day,” Ferguson said.

The Carnegie Council is an organization that strives to make the world a better place, Ferguson said. Carnegie Council was created to help those looking for guidance on moral issues

such as war, peace and social justice.

Ferguson accepted the job as managing director in the summer and is excited to be in the position, he FERGUSON said. It is energizing to start off his position with Global Ethics Day. “It’s the one day in the entire world where every culture is talking about it,” Ferguson said.

There are approximately 50 universities around the world involved in the first Global Ethics Day, he said.

For Tech, Ferguson said, there will be faculty members speaking throughout the day about their disciplines and how it relates to global ethics needs.

“For instance, one of our professors is a construction engineer,” he said. “So she will talk about global housing and sheltering and energy saving and its importance to being part of the ethical dialogue in the future.”

Ferguson said a known example of global ethics is the Ebola virus. Although

Ebola is a dark example, he said, it shows how nations all around the world are coming together to figure out a cure to stop the virus from spreading.

Discussing global ethics on a college campus would help college students begin to consider what is going on in the world, Ferguson said. His definition of global ethics would be “to do no harm and remember to serve,” he said.

“Ideally, we all have that John Lennon ‘Imagine’ concept: no more war, no more hunger, no more disease — all of us have those notions in our mind,” Ferguson said. “The key to this global ethics discussion is trying to give the least of us an opportunity to become the best of us.”

Javon Johnson, a junior marketing major from Abilene, said he thinks it is impressive Tech wants to participate in making a difference in the world.

“Although it is just a group of people talking tomorrow, I think it’ll be a good start,” Johnson said. “You have to take small steps in order to try and make a big difference, especially if it is focused on fixing the entire world.” ➤➤dcopeland@dailytoreador.com

Although it can only track eye movement, it can give advertisers an idea of what consumers pay the most attention to. In his research, Gong said he is evaluating the effects on different types of smoking public service announcements in order to find which have the highest impact on consumers.

Through the use of the eye tracking device Gong said he hopes to find how advertisers can improve the effectiveness of anti-smoking PSAs by finding which images individual’s linger on, versus those that cause smokers to focus solely on the smoking cues and not the overall anti-smoking message.

“When people are flipping through a magazine for 200 pages,

they will probably only spend five minutes on that magazine if it’s filled with advertisements,” he said, “and people are spending lots of money to put their image in that magazine, so of course they want people to pay attention to that. What I’m trying to do is determine how we can enhance the effectiveness of those magazine advertisements.”

Researchers have been interested in studying viewer attention on a particular advertisement or commercial for years, Cummins said. In the past, studying viewer attention was difficult and imprecise. However, with eye tracking, researchers are able to gather much more accurate data, Cummins said.

When the university received

its first eye-tracking device, the technology was more invasive than it is currently, Cummins said.

It required the subject to wear a sensor around his head in order to track the subject’s eye movements, whereas today’s device requires absolutely no attachments or invasive equipment.

“We’re really proud of the research facilities that we have here,” Cummins said. “Frankly, you can’t go to another communications school in the country and find all the different labs that we have here in the basement of the Media and Communication building. We have a collection of technologies that simply aren’t parallel to other universities across the country.” ➤➤ezambrycki@dailytoreador.com

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College students should have part-time jobs

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ollege is a juggling act. Balancing homework, friends and sleep can be overwhelming at times. Students often say they can pick two off that list.

College students today typically have a job in order to help with daily expenses or even to deal with the very high cost of college. According to College Board, the average Texas Tech student will pay $23,333 for the year to live on campus and $14,928 to live off campus.

Having a part-time job in college can seem scary and seem to add to the stress of being a college student today.

I have found, however, that it makes my life easier. Working students gain a variety of useful skills to aid them in future endeavors, such as responsibility, time management and focus. Students, regardless of economic stability, should have jobs in college.

According to an Education Portal article, “There are many benefits to getting a part-time job while in college besides making extra cash. A part-time job can help you network with potential employers while building skills and knowledge that benefit your future career.” The article also found that students will “acquire new skills,” such as “gaining experience,” helping to create a “professional work ethic,” learning time-management skills, and even learning to handle yourself in professional squabbles.

The article also found that jobs in college allow for “job shadowing.” “The

Erin Wallace best way to find out if you’ll enjoy the career of your choice is by getting your foot in the door as a part-time employee.

For instance, if you want to be a medical doctor, you may want to get a part-time job as a receptionist at a hospital to learn the ins and outs of the medical field,” according to the article.

Having a job in college helps students “network.” “Getting a part-time job can help you meet people outside of school and your existing social circle. You’ll also have the opportunity to connect with professionals who can eventually serve as mentors or references for future jobs,” according to the article.

According to a Moneyfor20s.com article, “Working in college can help you avoid debt, working in college provides valuable job experience, working in college teaches time management skills, working in college can improve your grades, and working in college can provide employee benefits.”

Improving grades is always something to look into. “Many students are surprised that their grades increase when they begin working part time. This is a result of learning to organize and plan your study

Wallace is a sophomore social work major from Austin. ➤➤ ewallace@dailytoreador.com

Greek life provides many benefits for members, community

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we raise money to support local and national communities. According to the Zeta Tau Alpha page they themselves have, “Been a partner with the Race as a national sponsor of the Survivor Program since the first Race for the Cure. We have been proud to raise over $50,000 each biennium for ZTAF and our philanthropy.”

The funds we raise for our philanthropies help on both a local and national level. For example Kappa Delta at Tech and other, “KD collegiate and alumnae chapters raise more than $1.5 million dollars to benefit child abuse prevention efforts. A full 80 percent of the money raised stays in the community and is donated to local child-abuse prevention agencies; the remaining 20 percent is donated to PCAA’s national office for its national programs.”

In other words, 80 percent of what Kappa Delta raises stays in Lubbock and benefits the Lubbock community. There is so much more to the Greek community than the partying stereotypes we are all held up to, according to the Kappa Delta Tech website.

I have amazing sisters and every single one of them were there for me when my boyfriend was diagnosed with cancer. It was my sisters and his brothers who helped us through those times. We became a family.

I learned to care about my grades because we value good GPAs and good academic standing. In fact, the Greek community has better overall GPA averages than non-Greek students.

There is so much more to the Greek community than what meets the eye and holding us to outdated stereotypes and stipulations makes you just as much of the problem.

Signed by a woman who will never be a blossomed lady.

Kimberly Rhodes is a senior English major from Caddo Mills.

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do the girls learn to become in their sorority? I certainly wouldn’t want to pick a blossomed ‘lady’ from many of these groups, many losing moral petals by the semester and frequent plucking. Yet is this honestly what Tech can say about its Greek life?”

Because I am in a sorority I’m subjugated to a generalization that assumes that I am a slut and I like to sleep around. This type of language and discussion is problematic. It also is just degrading to women in Greek life. The women that I have met and associated with through Tech Greek life have amazing leadership skills, confidence, and their own interest.

They are independent women.

Making false allegations that because they are involved in Greek life they become morally incompetent is disgusting. His condemning the Greek community for perpetuation of rape culture becomes hypocritical after he makes these generalized comments about women in the Greek community.

You want to know what I learned in my sorority? I learned leadership.

And now because of that I have been able to become the president of the Tech debate team.

I participate actively in community services. In fact, the Greek community supports multiple charities and organizations and together

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time effectively,” according to the article.

A U.S. News article has a list of seven reasons to work through college: “earn bucks, learn to budget, time-manage, improve learning, career experiment, build resume and connect with professors and students.”

Learning to budget in college is a very useful skill because if you aren’t careful, your bank account will be in the single digits very quickly. According to the U.S. News article, “Students who have to earn their own pocket and entertainment money learn budgeting and are less likely to overspend than those who can charge a Cancun spring break or pizza party to a parental credit card, counselors say.”

According to a Shmoop.com article, “Work shows a level of maturity,” and that if you can work a job that relates to your major, it is a good way to “show you how passionate and committed you are to a particular field of study.”

Working in college has been proven to raise grades, improve useful “adult” skills and network for potential jobs. All students should look into getting a parttime job, especially on campus. Working on campus helps connect students to the university, work in an environment that obviously values education, learn and work with students and faculty in their degree plan.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR *Editor’s note: the following is in response to the personal opinion column “Tech should ban Greek organizations” from Tuesday’s issue of The DT. The Daily Toreador misprinted an article claiming that the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority had a “Border Patrol” themed party.

The article turned out to be false and a misrepresentation of the true events that had occurred. Yet you didn’t see the Greek community going into an uproar, blaming the entire student journalism program and demanding that they be removed from campus.

Removing the Greek community from Texas Tech isn’t going to solve any problems. When the fraternity displayed the inappropriate banner and sprinklers it was not just the Tech campus that was appalled and thought it wrong. The Greek community as a whole thought the actions inappropriate. And now they are being properly held accountable for their mistakes.

Yet let’s burn all fraternities and sororities at the stake because they must be the problem. Blaming every fraternity and sorority on campus for the actions of one seems very problematic. Removing Greek life from campus will not create a solution for the issues.

Jordan Sigler wrote, “And what

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Column misrepresents Greek life, members *Editor’s note: the following is in response to the personal opinion column “Tech should ban Greek organizations” from Tuesday’s issue of The DT. The fact that this article even was allowed to run is absurd. Yes, everyone has the right to their own opinion and freedom of speech is one of the rights I would never even think about taking away, but there are laws such as libel that Sigler is getting dangerously close to crossing.

“I certainly wouldn’t want to pick a blossomed ‘lady’ from many of these groups, many losing moral petals by the semester and frequent plucking.” You’re allowing every sorority woman on our campus to be called a woman whose only interests are sleeping around. These women lead Young Life groups, campus and Greek-wide bible studies, mentor young girls and boys across the Lubbock community and lead countless other organizations that stand for goodness and virtue that many non-Greeks attend and enjoy.

These women who are “...losing moral petals by the semester and frequent plucking,” were nominated and chosen out of many applicants, Greek and non-Greek, and were decided to be the

best because of their service to the community and morals that so clearly align with what younger generations should be looking up to.

And what about these blazer-wearing boys trying to learn how to become “real men” you ask? They are right next to these women, in charge of these exact things and mentoring in the exact same places.

I guess it takes a boy to apply to be a mentor at Lubbock’s Women’s Protective Services. I guess it takes a boy to be a leader in RaiderThon to help Children’s Miracle Network. I guess it takes a boy to lead high school youths in need or even those that aren’t in need but might just need someone to look up to.

I guess “real men” don’t do all these things, but I know for certain “real men” don’t bash entire groups of people that they don’t know anything about. A real man would have gotten to know members of this apparently damnable community of fellow Red Raiders before deciding that we aren’t worthy of respect or at least enough respect to learn the real facts.

The members of the Greek community have an average higher GPA than non-Greeks and a higher post-undergrad

success rate. Yes, Greek life has been in the spotlight for negative reasons recently, but these organizations are not the only ones who have lost a student recently or who have had a few bad seeds give their whole organization a bad name.

This entire article is honestly sad.

I’m sad to hear that this person and the entire The Daily Toreador staff has such little respect for those that they share a school, traditions, and many other non-Greek organizations with. Get to know us. We don’t discriminate between Greek and non-Greek students. We were all non-Greeks at one point or another, and not much has changed between the two periods of time. From my, and most other Greek’s, standpoint, I have become a better, stronger woman through my Greek organization. I truly hope The Daily Toreador’s apparent prejudice toward Greek life stops with the help of some education.

Sincerely, A very disappointed human, Greek life member and fellow Red Raider Erika Moon is a senior restaurant, hotel and institutional management major from McKinney.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Column inaccurately portrays fraternity, sorority members *Editor’s note: the following is in response to the personal opinion column “Tech should ban Greek organizations” from Tuesday’s issue of The DT. I hope Mr. Jordan Sigler understands just how wrong he is. It baffles me as a woman, a student at Texas Tech, and a member of the College of Media and Communication that someone would be allowed to post this article.

I understand everyone has a right to say what they want to say, but it is embarrassing that The Daily Toreador would allow this to run. The things he is saying are exactly the opposite

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It makes me very sad that he is allowed to degrade Greek women as well. And to put it quite honestly, he probably doesn’t know any of us at all. Do people who are “not Greek” understand how many incredible, God-fearing women I know because of the sorority I’m in? Do they not Copyright © 2014 Texas Tech University Student Media/The Daily Toreador. All DT articles, photographs and artwork are the property of The DT and Student Media and may not be reproduced or published without permission. The Daily Toreador is a designated public forum. Student editors have the authority to make all content decisions without censorship or advance approval.

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Page 5 Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014

S.O. Sing

Homecoming tradition won by Pi Beta Phi, Delta Tau Delta

By JENNIFER ROMERO Staff Writer

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MEMBERS OF TAU Kappa Epsilon and Alpha Delta Pi dance to music from The Breakfast Club during Student Organization Sing on Wednesday in the United Supermarkets Arena.

The Student Organization Sing is hosted annually during homecoming week, and any student organization can sign up to participate.

Kendall Watson, a senior elementary and special education major from River Oaks, has helped organize S.O. Sing for the past two years.

“We really started planning from when homecoming ended last year,” she said. “We have organizations submit themes to us, and then from there they submit CDs with music that correlates to their theme. They spend weeks preparing for their dance.”

Every group must have members sing the lyrics to its music, Watson said, and the singers can change the actual song lyrics if they choose.

The organizers work to find different

judges and a host every year, and this year Mudflap from KLLL hosted the event.

Kappa Delta and Pi Kappa Alpha performed first, and their dance was based on “Pirates of the Caribbean.”

Abigail Brinker, a freshman mechanical engineering major from Austin, performed with Delta Gamma and Alpha Tau Omega to songs from “Top Gun.” “I was on drill team in high school, so I’ve always liked performing in front of crowds,” she said. “It’s exciting because this was the biggest crowd I’ve ever performed for.”

Jared Culpepper, a freshman electrical engineering major from Odessa, performed to music from “Dirty Dancing” with Chi Omega and Kappa Sigma.

“We had a lot of waltz aspects to the dance,” he said. “We also had some turns, lifts, tumbling and flips. It took about two or three practices to get everyone in sync, but we had it down by the third practice.”

After Zeta Tau Alpha and Sigma Alpha Epsilon performed to music from “Despicable Me,” Mudflap introduced all the candidates for homecoming royalty.

A total of 13 groups performed S.O. Sing routines, and 26 organizations were a part of the event.

“When scoring the groups, judges look at the quality of the music,” Watson said. “They look at the overall performance, and that can go all the way from the costumes to the actual choreography of the routine. It’s just how well organized it is.”

Pi Beta Phi and Delta Tau Delta won the S.O. Sing competition with a routine themed to the movie, “Urban Cowboy.”

S.O. Sing helps students get in the spirit for homecoming, and Brinker said she is more excited for the rest of the week after participating in the competition. ➤➤jromero@dailytoreador.com

Students blindfolded to simulate visual disabilities

By JENNIFER ROMERO Staff Writer

There are an estimated 619,500 people with visual disabilities in Texas, according to the National Federation of the Blind website.

To simulate what these individuals experience on a daily basis, faculty from the Virginia Murray Sowell Center and Texas Tech volunteers guided blindfolded people from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday outside of the Student Union building.

White Cane Safety Day was proclaimed on Oct. 15, 1968 by President Lyndon B. Johnson, according to the NFB website, and the independence of the blind is celebrated annually on this date.

Nora Griffin-Shirley, the director for the Sowell Center for Research and Education in Sensory Disabilities, said President Barack Obama changed the name of the day in 2011 to Blind Americans Equality Day. “The day celebrates the accomplishments of people who are blind, as well as the use of the white cane,” she said. “The white canes allow the blind to move around independently and more efficiently.”

The first white cane legislation was passed in 1930 in Illinois, GriffinShirley said.

White cane legislation has since been passed in every state, she said.

“You as a driver have to be acquainted as to what you have to do when you see someone walking with a white cane,” Griffin-Shirley said. “Drivers are legally required to stop and allow the person to cross the street in front of them.”

Niki DeHoyos, a senior public relations major from Corpus Christi, volunteered with her sorority, Delta Gamma.

“Our philanthropy is Service for Sight, so we try to be involved with any organization on campus that helps visually impaired students,” she said. “We were trained to be able to lead people around. We had to be lead blindfolded so we could see what it was like, and we practiced a lot with going through doors and down stairs.”

The volunteers led the blindfolded participants through the SUB. George Stern, a junior journalism major from Lauderdale Lakes, Florida, is visually impaired and volunteered to lead people around.

“It was funny having to deal with different things when leading someone around,” he said. “When I get to stairs, I usually just fly down them. Since I was guiding someone who was not used to being blind, I had to point out more things and be more deliberate in my actions.”

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NIKI DEHOYOS, A senior public relations major from Corpus Christi and vice president of Foundation for Delta Gamma, helps guide ZipporahJo Whitby, a junior early childhood education major from Lubbock, around the Student Union building Wednesday as part of White Cane Safety Day. Delta Gamma also set up a booth outside the SUB to promote awareness of visual impairments.

Stern led participants around with the aid of his guide dog, Vale.

“The students are put in pairs and take turns leading and being led with a blindfold,” Griffin-Shirley said. “We’ll go from an indoor environment, to outside, to the mall, to the airport. We do everything a visually impaired person might do.”

The event raised awareness for the obstacles of the blind, which DeHoyos

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Tech dominates all-time series with Kansas

By JEREMY KRAKOSKY Staff Writer

At 2:30 pm Saturday at Jones AT&T Stadium, the Texas Tech football team will try to improve to 15-1 all-time against Kansas.

Senior linebacker V.J. Fehoko said while this game is usually a win for Tech, the team still has to prepare just as hard as they would for any other team.

“You look at Kansas, and they’re kind of in the same boat, fighting for a win, too. So you expect it to be a dogfight,” Fehoko said. “When you have those kinds of games, you got to prep for your best.”

While the Red Raiders have won a large amount of games against the Jayhawks, there is a long history between the two teams.

The first matchup between the two teams was on Sept. 18, 1965 in front of 35,300 fans in Lubbock.

Tech’s 26-7 win over Kansas was the first intercollegiate game in which instant video replay was ever used, according to Tech Athletics.

56 seconds into the fourth quarter, Tech coach J.T. King and Kansas coach Jack Mitchell met at midfield and called the game due to heavy rain, wind and a tornado warning.

Over the next few years the Red Raiders would remain undefeated against the Jayhawks before the teams took a 26-year absence of playing each other.

In 1996, the two teams would meet again in the Big 12 Conference and Tech would ultimately win 30-17.

The Red Raiders trailed 17-14 in the fourth quarter, but Tech quarterback Zebbie Lethridge and the offense scored 23 unanswered points.

After the game, Letheridge said, in the Tech student newspaper, the team took on a different mentality in the second half.

“The first half we were waiting for things to happen,” he said. “In the second half we were making things happen.”

In 2001, quarterback Kliff Kingsbury was putting up large passing numbers through the first three games of the season when Kansas traveled to Lubbock for

Tech’s homecoming game.

After Spike Dykes was inducted into the Tech Hall of Honor during halftime, Kingsbury injured his thumb in the third quarter and was forced to sit out the rest of the game.

Kansas scored the 11 points in the final four minutes of regulation to force overtime.

Backup quarterback B.J. Symons was picked off in the second overtime to seal the Jayhawks first and only victory against the Red Raiders.

During the Red Raiders historic 10-0 to the 2008 season, the then-ranked No. 6 Tech team defeated No. 19 Kansas 63-21, its first win of a four-game stretch against ranked teams.

Kansas coach Mark Mangino said the Red Raiders were by far the better team in the matchup.

“We got a good old-fashioned butt-whipping today and we know that,” he said. “You just get a day where the snowball starts rolling down the hill and before you know it, you’ve got no chance to stop it and it runs over you.”

Tech quarterback Graham

Harrell threw for 386 yards and five touchdowns in the win.

The last time Kansas traveled to Lubbock, in 2012, they entered with a record of 1-8, while Tech was 6-3 overall.

The Jayhawks threw for only 29 yards but ran for 390 and forced another double overtime game.

Senior quarterback Seth Doege threw for 476 yards and helped Tech avoid the near upset in a 41-34 victory.

Last season in Lawrence, Kansas jumped out to a 10-0 lead, but Tech quickly recovered and won 54-16 behind freshman walk-on quarterback Baker Mayfield’s 368 passing yards and rushing touchdown.

Kingsbury will try to improve to 2-0 in his coaching career against Kansas, but said a homecoming win for his team will not be easy.

“We got to play a great homecoming game against Kansas, that’s playing pretty well,” Kingsbury said. “They better be motivated and from what I can tell, they are.” ➤➤jkrakosky@dailytoreador.com

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KLIFF KINGSBURY YELLS from the sideline during the game against West Virginia on Saturday at Jones AT&T Stadium. The Mountaineers defeated the Red Raiders 37-34.

Red Raider soccer team sticking together through adversity Staff Writer

No. 22 Texas Tech (10-3-1; 0-3-1) continues to search for its first win in the Big 12 Conference following its 2-4 loss to No. 16 West Virginia on Oct. 10.

Tech is scheduled to face No. 9 Kansas (14-1-0; 4-0-0) 7 p.m. Friday in Lawrence, Kansas, and Texas Christian (7-5-3; 0-2-3) 1 p.m. Sunday in Fort Worth.

Senior defender Jaelene Hinkle said spirits remain high amongst the Tech soccer program.

The team is just having to endure an extended run of bad luck, she said, but expects it to end soon after a hard week of training.

“Everyone has come out really hard,” Hinkle said, “knowing that if we get our two wins this weekend that we are right back where we want to be.”

Tech is able to stay confident in its ability to make it into the NCAA Division I tournament because of its Rating Percentage Index, or RPI. Tech currently possesses an RPI ranking of 19th in the country, according to the NCAA.

This means Tech has had a tough schedule in which it has competed favorably, according to CollegeRPI.com.

Wins against teams previously ranked No. 11, California and Notre Dame, plus wins against other solid teams have afforded Tech with the opportunity to go through a rough patch.

Tech coach Tom Stone said he understands the Red Raiders are still in a position to find their way out of these difficulties with an entire second half of conference play remaining.

That only means as much as what they can make of it, so the Red Raiders need to come away with as many wins as they can in their last four games of the season, he said. To help in this effort, priorities have been focused on maintaining health and preparing the younger players to contribute.

“What rattled their cages a little bit is it has been a long time, like two years, since they faced (the adversity) they have faced recently,” Stone said. “And some of these players, the sophomores specifically, have never faced this. The sophomores know of one loss in their entire career here until we took some

for so long, she said. injuries and dropped a couple games.”

There is comfort in seeing each “(Junior forward) Caity Heap hit the crossbar of the Red Raiders three times,” support one another, Devine said. while also maintaining a feeling of dis“She is going pleasure in the way to start scorthey have played in ing. (Junior forward) Jathe first four confernine (Beckie) ence games, he said. is going to If they were only start scoring. like this when winning, he would have When learned this group those goals do come, of Red Raiders was they are gonever a team to beJAELENE HINKLE ing to come gin with.

SENIOR DEFENDER in bunches, Junior midfielder TEXAS TECH Hannah Devine said she said. what allows Tech to That time may come sustain this attitude, through good and bad, is the confidence Sunday against TCU. It is in the same boat as Tech. Both it has in its collective talent.

Opponents can only hold Tech back teams have yet to earn their first wins.

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... If we get our two wins this weekend ... we are right back where we want to be

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By DAWIT HAILE

Defensively, they are difficult to score against. Tech has allowed only 13 goals through 13 games, while TCU has allowed just 14 goals through 15 games.

Where Tech could capitalize, however, is in shot opportunities. TCU may not allow many goals, but it let opponents release 218 shots, 22 shots more than it has been able to take itself, according to TCU Athletics.

Somehow, TCU currently possesses a five-goal advantage on its opponents with 19 goals. This changes to a sevengoal disadvantage when compared to Tech’s 26 goals on the season, according to Tech Athletics.

Before Tech faces TCU, it will need to compete against the best team in the Big 12.

The Jayhawks are statistically better than the Red Raiders in goals scored and goals allowed.

They already have 31 goals under their belt with only 191 shots, according

to Kansas Athletics. They are able to accomplish this feat with 41.4 percent of their shots on goal.

This is coupled with senior goalkeeper Kaitlyn Stroud and her Jayhawk backline allowing just seven goals.

Kansas coach Mark Francis transitioned his team into a mirror image of Tech, at least in terms of formation, Stone said. Both teams play with a 4-3-3 formation.

However, Stone does not see any major advantage coming from Tech competing with this formation longer, he said. Kansas is different in how it likes to defend out of the system and how it shapes up when moving the ball up field.

“It should be a pretty game to watch,” Stone said. “I’ll say that right, and it will be awful. It will be so ugly, and somebody will win 1-0 in the last minute. But it has the makings of really good game.” ➤➤dhaile@dailytoreador.com

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