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Outdoor Pursuits Center offers adventure.

Young Red Raiders poised to make an impact.

Column: Higher education budget cuts ironic.

OPINIONS

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KTTZ-FM returns to airwaves After being taken off the air in August due to construction on the KTTZ-TV tower, the radio station KTTZ-FM has returned to the air.

The construction on the tower was due to a federally mandated repack to get a new antenna and transmitter. When the repack construction began, workers at KTTZ-FM noticed much of the equipment on the tower was damaged as well.

This led to the conclusion that the equipment must be updated as well.

While work on the tower began, the radio station could only be on the air in the mornings and afternoons due to the high levels of radiation that could injure the workers on the tower.

“You have to turn what’s on the tower either very low or off because there’s an enormous amount of radiation, and you could severely injure somebody,” Clint Barrick, director of programming at KTTZ-FM, said. “So, for a while, the radio station this summer would be on in the morning and on in the afternoon during drive times, but during the day we would be off while they were doing some assessment on the tower and taking at what needed to be done.”

As time went on, workers discovered everything needed to be removed from the tower, leading to KTTZ-FM being taken off the air. @MattSetzekornDT

FOOTBALL

Frye named to AP All-America second team Redshirt freshman defensive back Adrian Frye of the Texas Tech football team was named to the Associated Press All-America second team on Tuesday, Oct. 16. Frye was the only freshman named on the two defensive teams and is one of four cornerbacks honored by the AP. Frye is one of eight players to have four interceptions this far in the season, sharing the FBS lead nationwide. Frye’s latest interception, coming against Texas Christian Thursday, Oct. 11, was ultimately the play that sealed Tech’s road victory, 17-14. Earlier in the year, Frye snagged two passes against Lamar, marking the first time a sole Red Raider intercepted multiple passes in a game since 2015, according to Tech Athletics.

Frye has helped defend 13 passes this season, averaging 2.2 per game, giving him the lead amongst all freshmen across the country. In Tech’s first three Big 12 games, Frye recorded at least 2 picks per game, according to Tech Athletics.

The Red Raiders will face off against the Kansas University Jayhawks at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20, at Jones AT&T Stadium. @BrennaHaleDT

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Members of the Texas Tech defensive line take down a West Virginia wide receiver during Tech’s first home Big 12 game Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018, at Jones AT&T Stadium. Heading into week eight, Tech is tied for third in the Big 12 with Oklahoma followed by Texas at No. 1 and West Virginia at No. 2.

Conference title race remains close midway into season

By AUSTIN WATTS

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fter four weeks of conference play, the legitimate contenders for the Big 12 championship game have started to distance themselves from the pack.

Texas, West Virginia, Oklahoma and Texas Tech make up the upper tier of contenders and are currently the frontrunners with the best chances at making the title game, with each team having less than two losses.

Baylor, Iowa State and Texas Christian make up the lower tier of contenders with two losses each and are left with an outside shot at making the conference championship, while Oklahoma State, Kansas State and Kansas have all lost three conference games and have

almost no shot.

In that upper tier of contenders, Texas currently holds the lead and has the outright best chance of making the Big 12 title game at 4-0 in conference play. The Longhorns have already notched a win over their biggest division rival, Oklahoma, and the remaining hurdles on their schedule seem manageable.

Texas is favored in four of its last five games, with Tech being the sole team favored over the Longhorns.

Texas closes out its season starting with an away game against Oklahoma State next week, followed by a home contest with second place West Virginia, at Texas Tech and then home against Iowa State before closing out the season on the road against Kansas. It is unlikely that Texas stays undefeated to close out the season due

to the nature of the Big 12 in recent years, but of all the teams in the Big 12, the Longhorns have the clearest path to a Big 12 championship appearance.

West Virginia currently sits alone in second place in the conference standings after having secured three wins in conference play but is currently on bye, so the two teams tied for third in conference standings, Oklahoma and Tech, can catch up to the Mountaineers with a win this week. WVU is currently recuperating from a tough road loss to Iowa State that gave the Mountaineers their first loss of the season.

WVU had previously been the favorite to make the Big 12 title game based off its record, but losing to the 1-2 Cyclones in a road upset knocked the Mountaineers into second place. Of all the teams left in

the Big 12, West Virginia likely has one of the toughest schedules left, with games against OU and Texas looming ahead.

First, WVU will have a shot to right the ship and restore starting quarterback Will Grier’s confidence after four interceptions in his last two games, as the Mountaineers host Baylor. Following Baylor, WVU has its biggest challenge in Texas on the road, followed by TCU at home and then Oklahoma State on the road, before finishing out the season with Oklahoma at home.

Both Texas and Oklahoma appear to be favorites against the once unbeaten Mountaineers, and somewhere down the line one of these teams will knock another out of contention.

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Tech Museum houses 1 of largest college textile collections

By BRIANNA MALDONADO Staff Writer

From quilts to accessories to clothing, the Museum of Texas Tech houses the most extensive collection of clothing and textiles of any university in the country, with 33,000 pieces dating back to 1830.

Compared to metropolitan museums with a full staff and a separate wing just for clothing and textile, however, the Tech Museum has one person — Marian Ann Montgomery, the curator of clothing and textiles.

Montgomery said the main purpose of the collection was intended to provide inspiration to the Tech design students and be more of a classroom tool.

Betty Mills founded the clothing and textiles collection at the museum and retired in 1986. Coming from the home economics department, Mill’s students married well and were able to purchase fashion designer pieces, then donate them to the museum.

“She brought in a good collection and brought in things I will always be grateful to her for doing,” Montgomery said.

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The Museum of Texas Tech has a collection of more than 32,000 clothing and textiles objects spanning 240 years. Most of the objects are obtained through generous donations.

Out of the 350 quilts, Mills brought in one of the most important in the country, Montgomery said, since it is one of the very few that represent the Southern point of view on the Civil War. The family that gave the quilt to the museum

has a reunion in Lubbock every three years. With the quilts being stored in rolls, Montgomery takes it down and unrolls it for the family to view when in town for the reunion.

“They’re learning family history,” Montgomery said. “For a cu-

rator, there’s really very little that’s better than seeing something you’re taking care of being enjoyed by the family that gave it, and realizing that they did a good thing.”

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Tech academic programs continue to change

By NATASSIA HENRY Staff Writer

Texas Tech, originally known as Texas Technological College, has been operating for 93 years, its first enrollment class being in 1925.

Since then, the university has gone through many changes. According to the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library website, the initial enrollment was 914 students, co-ed, with four colleges comprised of only freshman and sophomores.

There was no graduate school until 1927, but that was only in the School of Liberal Arts.

Texas Technological College was renamed to Texas Tech University in 1969.

Lawrence Schovanec, the 17th and current president of Texas Tech, said Tech was originally supposed to only serve those in the West Texas area.

“It was very much a regional institution intended to serve the people and the needs of West Texas,” Schovanec said. “Today it is truly a global institution.”

Tech now has a campus in Costa Rica, he said.

“We just went through the (Southern Association of Colleges and Schools) accreditation of our campus in Costa Rica. We have just admitted our first class in San Jose,” Schovanec said. “I wonder if those who were on campus in 1925 could ever envision that we would have a campus in Costa Rica.”

Over the years, Tech’s recognition as a research school has increased. Tech is now a Tier 1 research university, he said.

“Our stature as a research institution has changed enormously,” he said. “We now rank in the top 10 percent, according to the National Science Foundation of Graduate Students, the top 15 percent of doctorates awarded,” he said. “Our research expenditures put us in the top 20 percent. We truly are a tier 1 research school.”

According to the Tech website, when the university first started operating, there were only four colleges: College of Agriculture, Liberal Arts and Sciences, Engineering and Household Economics. The university now has 10 colleges with the

most recent addition being Honors. Tech is still the only university in Texas that has its nursing, law and undergraduate university all on one campus.

The College of Media and Communication became a separate college in 2004 and is currently the fastest growing college, Schovanec said.

“The College of Media and Communication was only created in the last 10 years or so,” he said. “It used to be a school within Arts and Sciences, and yet today it is probably the fastest growing college in terms of enrollment.”

Even though CoMC is the fastest growing college, it is not the largest, Schovanec said, as that title goes to the College of Arts and Sciences.

The criteria to be accepted into Tech has gone from open admissions to a more selective process.

“Now, we typically receive 24,000 to 26,000 applications. Our freshman class this year was a little over 6,000,” said Schovanec.

The College of Media and Communication has changed as well. The college is now located in the old Rawls College of Business Administration building. Bill Dean, the president and CEO of the Tech Alumni Association and a 51-year journalism professor, said he believes journalism at Tech is more relevant.

“We are giving students more of an opportunity to do hands on kinds of things,” Dean said. “Research, writing, there’s the ad team, the internships that we now have were not available a long time ago. So, I think it’s probably more relevant than maybe in the past.”

Dean said the writing style has not changed, but the technology has. The college itself has not always been comprised of the various majors it houses. In 1972, advertising and radio and TV speech were brought to the college, which was named telecommunications. When the college first started, the basic degrees were journalism, advertising and telecommunications.

“In 1972, Dr. Billy Ross came over from the College of Business and brought with him advertising,” Dean said. “Then, we pulled radio and TV speech out of the speech department

to create what we called then Telecommunications, which later became electronic media and communications, now it’s changed again.”

While CoMC has had many classes added, classes like directing school of publications and journalism for the high school teacher, are no longer offered because of the changes in curriculum that the high schools use.

“Those were courses that reigned at the students who wanted to go into education and teach journalism,” Dean said.

Dean said he feels one of the best things that has changed about CoMC is the professors.

“I think that we have been able to track some really high-quality professors to make our colleges known throughout the country as one of the up and coming and fastest growing colleges that offers a lot of opportunities,” Dean said.

Brandon Weeks, associate dean of research and graduate programs and chemical engineering professor, said within the last decade, the student body has nearly doubled, and there has been a 30 to 40 percent increase in faculty.

Although only accounting for one-eighth of the university, it accounts for a significant amount of Tech’s research.

“The college now accounts for about one-third of the federal research expenditures of all of Texas Tech,” Weeks said. “When you think about it, we don’t have a third of the population of Texas Tech.”

The Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering has also had many changes to its departments, Weeks said.

“We have a number of new buildings,” he said. “Space wise, in terms of buildings and space that we have, we have probably increased about 20 to 30 percent, and these are all new buildings, and they’ve all been built with private funds.”

Some engineering programs have been added while others have been taken away, he said.

“We obviously no longer have textile engineering, but that was one of the first engineering programs that we had,” he said. “We have a big growth in petroleum.

Petroleum is now a big player

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The Texas Tech Administration building was one of the first buildings on Tech’s campus. While the rest of campus changed and grew around it, the Administration Building remained rather unchanged, mostly receiving indoor renovations. in Texas; chemical engineering is still a relatively new department; and then industrial manufacturing and systems engineering is, in terms of new degrees, that is the department that has the most new degrees.”

Those new programs are not the only things added to the College of Engineering, as distance learning is becoming more common, he said.

“Distance education is now a big deal in engineering,” he said. “We have about seven distance programs. While some are graduate level, we also offer a distance Ph.D. through the systems engineering.”

While some of the programs in engineering offered are also offered elsewhere, Tech is one of the only schools that still offers petroleum engineering, he said. Computer science is also the fastest growing program in engineering.

“Petroleum is somewhat unique, there aren’t a lot of programs in the country anymore, we’re one of about 15,” Weeks said. “And we’re ranked in the top 10 almost annually.”

Engineering does not currently have any plans to implement any new programs, he said. For the college to bring another program, there must be a demand for it, and bringing new programs to universities in the state of Texas is already difficult. Instead, the college plans on using resources and programs already in place, he said.

“Rather than trying to do new departments, what we’re trying to do is have new interdisciplinary programs,” Weeks said. “We’re focusing on trying to use capabilities that are already here to have new offerings that impact the community and the work force development.”

The College of Engineering plans to offer graduate certificates, where students can earn 15 credits and receive a certificate in a specialized area, he said. A program is also now being implemented that makes it easier for students to transfer to a different college within engineering, and common courses are now being added.

“What we started doing is having some common courses back then, so one of them is called ENGR 1315, and it’s just an introduction to engineering,” Weeks said. “They do basic programming, they do basic design problems, it’s meant to be a fun class, it’s meant to introduce them to all the other engineering disciplines.”

The dean of the college, Al Sacco Jr., is trying to introduce a common program for all engineering students, he said. This will help students to focus and decide what they want to do, and if they decide to switch disciplines, it will be easier.

“Right now, the dean is trying to introduce a common first-year program for

all engineering students,” Weeks said.

The first-year program is not currently in place, but Weeks said it can be expected in about two years.

Engineering is still heavily composed of male students, but not as much as it was when Tech first opened, he said. When Weeks first started in 2004, he estimates his field was 80 percent male. Now, he estimates it to be anywhere from 60 to 70 percent male.

“In certain programs, it’s getting close to 50/50.

Industrial has a good mix of women, chemical does now, believe it or not, and so does environmental,” Weeks said. “There’s areas where women are having a big impact. The reasons for that is we have student organizations that focus on women and their success.”

There are programs for female engineers to attract them to the field, he said.

One thing the dean pushes is getting middle and high school girls interested in engineering at a young age with the program “Science is for Girls.”

“The other thing that we push a lot, that the dean pushes is attracting young ladies when they’re in middle school and high school,” Weeks said. “It’s all about attracting women to science and engineering.” @DailyToreador

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Accusation of police wrongdoing in Weinstein case NEW YORK (AP) — The sexual assault case against Harvey Weinstein was roiled Wednesday for the second time in a week by what New York City prosecutors said was a police detective’s improper conduct.

Det. Nicholas DiGaudio, whose alleged witness coaching prompted the dismissal of part of the case last week, is now accused of urging one of Weinstein’s accusers to delete material from her cellphones before she handed them over to prosecutors.

The Manhattan district attorney’s office detailed the alleged misconduct in a letter to Weinstein’s lawyer that was made public Wednesday.

The new allegations involve the detective’s interactions with an unidentified woman who says Weinstein raped her in his Manhattan hotel room in 2013.

Weinstein’s lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, pounced on the revelation, saying it “even further undermines the integrity of this already deeply flawed indictment of Mr. Weinstein.”

In her letter, Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi-Orbon said that during the investigation, prosecutors asked the woman to hand in any mobile phones she might have used during the time when she interacted with Weinstein.

The woman was willing to do so, Illuzzi-Orbon wrote, but was worried that the phones contained, “in addition to communications with the defendant, data of a personal nature that she regarded as private.”

She asked DiGaudio

what to do. He advised her to delete anything she didn’t want anyone else to see before handing over the phone, the prosecutors said.

“We just won’t tell Joan,” DiGaudio allegedly said.

Illuzzi-Orbon said the woman didn’t delete any information and instead asked a lawyer for advice.

The phones were turned over “without any deletions” Illuzzi-Orbon wrote.

The lawyer hired by the woman contacted the district attorney’s office about the detective’s conduct on Oct. 10.

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Outdoor Pursuits Center offers students adventure

By REBEKAH BLANCHARD Staff Writer

On the northwest side of the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center, The Outdoor Pursuits Center is a hidden gem of opportunities for students, faculty and staff eager to get outdoors.

Although the shop occupies only a small corner of the Rec Center, the Pursuits Center offers a wide array of services.

Morgan Kemp, a senior mechanical engineering student from El Paso has worked at the Pursuits Center for a year and a half. Like many, Kemp’s journey with the Pursuits Center began at the rock-climbing wall inside the Rec center.

“I got really interested in climbing and became friends with the wall manager at the time. She slowly brought me in as a kind of friend of the OPC, and I got involved and decided if I’m around all the time, I might as well apply because this is a really cool program,” Kemp said.

Kemp said there are three sections at the Pursuits Center. There is the gear and rental shop for students who already know what they are doing and just want to check out a tent or camping gear, the in-house program that consists of weekly training sessions teaching techni-

cal skills in outdoor activities like kayaking, climbing, mountain biking and trip program, which Kemp said most people get the best experience from.

All trips are student led and range from day hikes and mountain biking trips to more technically involved trips like the canyoneering or Big Bend trip. The costs covers transportation and all food, so all students have to do is show up.

You’ll gain something, whether it’s a friend, a skill or a memory.

MORGAN KEMP SENIOR “My favorite trip I’ve been on is our Big Bend trip just because it’s one of my favorite places and that was my first trip I ever led,” Kemp said. “It’s such an amazing environment and everyone has the same reaction when we get to this certain location on the south rim and it’s just a jaw dropping, you’re just so engrossed by the scenery type of the place.”

Kemp encourages students to get outdoors because

it is a great way to purify and restore, especially toward the end of the semester.

“When you feel bogged down by school and everything seems like it sucks, going on a trip where you’re not responsible for anything other than having a good time can be such a good restart,” she said. You’ll gain something, whether it’s a friend, a skill or a memory.”

Miller Scott, a senior political science major from McGregor has been working for the Pursuits Center since his sophomore year and is the current climbing wall manager.

“I was actually afraid of heights and didn’t climb until last January,” he said.

“I just had no part in it and didn’t want to and then we took a training trip and I decided if I wanted to have more fun out there, that I’d have to start training in the gym and then I climbed my first route and I’ve been going since then and it’s been a lot of fun.”

Scott said the Pursuits Center is currently in the middle of their busy trip season and have already had a couple of trips go out, including a trip to Albuquerque New Mexico’s Balloon Fiesta.

He said this weekend they are doing a canyoneering and rails to trails trip.

“We’ll round the fall

semester out with backpacking in Big Bend and bouldering in Hueco Tanks

by El Paso and then we do our big Thanksgiving trips, backpacking in the Grand Canyon and canoeing the Rio Grande,” Scott said.

For students or staff interested in a specific trip, Scott suggests stopping by the shop because there is almost always someone in there who has been on that trip or who is leading it.

“I hadn’t really done anything until I started going on OPC trips and I went on all of them by myself, I met tons of friends, I did a lot of activities, and now I’m pretty competent in most of them. I got hired here too, so if you really enjoy it then you’ll carve out what you want from it,” Scott said.

The Pursuits Center provides employment opportunities for students looking to get more involved. Those hired can teach other students and peers while gaining unique leadership skills and experiences during their time at Tech.

Kevin Hoffman, a program manager of outdoor pursuits, said every spring, the Pursuits Center starts accepting applications for their leadership development program.

“It does get quite competitive,” Hoffman said. “This is

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A student scales the rock wall during the TTU Rock Climbing Camp on Saturday, Feb. 3, 2018 at the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center. The center offers many programs for students to try new activities and get outdoors. just ball park, but we traditionally get about 40 applications for maybe 15 spots every year.”

Hoffman said when hiring student staff, one thing they look for is someone who can commit a couple years to the program, like freshman and sophomores.

That’s not to say that the Pursuits Center has not hired non-traditional or grad students. Hoffman is currently a grad student himself and working full-time for the

Pursuits Center.

“We hire based on potential, not prior experience.

So, when we get someone who’s got potential, and they’ve got a really good attitude, hopefully we can provide them with the training, tools and the equipment they need to eventually become a trip leader and take their peers out into the field,” he said. “I think that’s one of the most rewarding parts of the program.” @bekblanchardDT

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Various Texas Tech student organizations showcase their dancing and singing talents at the Student Organization Sing competition on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018, in the United Supermarkets Arena. The event is part of Homecoming Week and each group creates a routine based on the year’s theme. For the full slideshow of the competition visit www.dailytoreador.com.

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Mega Million jackpot soars up to $900 million DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Mega Millions jackpot is now up to $900 million.

Lottery officials raised the estimated prize Wednesday, less than a day after another drawing without a winner increased

the prize to $868 million.

Officials say no tickets matched all six numbers to claim the Mega Millions prize Tuesday night. The numbers were 3, 45, 49, 61, 69 and Mega Ball 9.

The next drawing will be Friday. The estimated

jackpot for that drawing would be the second-largest lottery prize in U.S. history.

The largest lottery jackpot was a $1.6 billion Powerball prize won in January 2016.

The jackpot has been growing since July, when

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The odds of winning the jackpot aren’t good, at one in 302.5 million.

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ack of funding for K-12 education in America due to governmental budget cuts has been perpetually rehashed over the past few years, without resolution.

Social media posts by elementary, middle and high school teachers

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frequently go viral for their photographs and statuses depicting archaic classrooms and textbooks, inadequate numbers of desks, pencils and other student supplies and faculty strikes protesting insufficient wages. Meanwhile, issues within higher education have also proliferated across the United States, as college and university students struggle to afford rising tuition costs, pay back loans, and find employment after graduation.

This problem of general unaffordability does not seem to share similarities with the K-12 education system, but budget cuts and reductions in government funding for higher education may be to blame as well. But how is it possible that institutions of higher education,

which profit off of rising tuition prices and student fees, often fall short of the money necessary to provide a quality experience for students?

According to a 2018 study, “Higher Ed, Lower Spending,” increased state spending on primary public education, revamped police forces and prisons, fire protection measures, and public welfare programs (Medicaid in particular) have traded off with the money that otherwise would have been diverted to higher education in both red and blue states.

Consequently, public colleges are currently adapting to 25 percent declines in state funding per student. The Chronicle of Higher Education furthers that every $1 increase in per capita public welfare spending correlated with a $2.44 reduction in higher education funding per student.

Some analysts predict

a harrowing future for higher education, suggesting that if these existing national trends continue, state investment in higher education could reach zero dollars within the upcoming three decades.

Studies by the American Council on Education articulate that many states, including Alaska, Massachusetts, Montana, New Hampshire, New York, Texas, Washington and Wisconsin each rolled back their fiscal investment to where they are already 40 percent of the way to spending zero dollars before 2050.

These reductions then get passed on to students, who pay higher tuition to compensate and accounts for the 247 percent inflation in tuition and fee charges since 1980.

Given the United States’ failure to adequately address shortages in K-12 education, college students may face equally

grim prospects and holds especially true for vulnerable populations like lowincome students.

Marginalized groups that pursue a higher education but are disadvantaged by these budget cuts, face a disturbing paradox.

Policymakers continually tell low-income families that a healthy income and financial future is possible — as long as they obtain a degree.

However, this popular sentiment of American social mobility ignores not only the fact that student loan debt is necessary to obtain this degree and decreases the chances of achieving true financial security, but also that lowincome students are less desirable and thus not even considered a valuable addition to higher education classrooms anyway.

In fact, many public universities recruit and enroll lesser amounts of low-income students while

drafting out-of-state and wealthier students capable of paying higher tuition without institutional aid.

In discriminating against those of lower socioeconomic status, state budget cuts perpetuate vicious cycles of poverty that preclude one from gaining employment in positions requiring a college degree, trap students into debt and thus also necessitate – in a truly ironic manner – the very funding for expanding public welfare programs aimed at aiding the unemployed and the uninsured, which trade off with higher education spending in the first place.

When attempting (or being required) to cut costs wherever possible, today’s politicians would do well in taking to heart the connection between economic mobility and education they so like to preach. @DailyToreador

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Plurality elections pose primary impediment to multipartism

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mericans don’t hate third parties.

In fact, many often express the desire to be affiliated with a party that more accurately represents their interests.

A two-party system can often feel restricting to voters. There are two parties in power, which means two parties to choose from if you want to vote for a candidate that has a better chance of winning. Some may choose to stray from this and actually vote for third party candidates. The only problem is they don’t tend to receive votes on the same level as Republican or Democratic candidates.

Before I started studying political science, I didn’t understand why we were essentially forced to pick from two parties, or why third parties weren’t competitive enough in races against major-party candidates. It was frustrating to feel like I had to identify with one party or the other if there were things I didn’t like about

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either of them. I thought it must be some complicated explanation that would never be repairable. In reality, the explanation is simple. It has nothing to do with voter perception of third parties and everything to do with our electoral system.

Our two-party phenomenon is best explained by Duverger’s law, based off of the research of Maurice Duverger, a French sociologist and politician who studied this topic in the mid-20th century.

Duverger’s law posits that there are two factors determining the number of parties sustainable by an electoral system: the threshold to win seats, or number of votes needed to win an election, and whether or not people are encouraged to vote honestly for their preferred candidates, or voter psychology.

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we usually have singlemember districts in which only one candidate can be elected by voters to represent a district. Since our elections are also governed by a plurality system, only one candidate’s party will have representation by receiving the most votes. This means that although a candidate is not elected by the majority (which is generally defined by political scientists as 50% of votes plus one), they receive all of the representation of that area since they had the most support at the polls.

The threshold for our purposes, as called for by Duverger’s law, is simply the most votes. Clearly, this does not favor third parties as they don’t have as much support as the major parties, and therefore have a hard time gaining traction. This is mainly due to voter psychology as the two factors go hand-in hand.

When there is only one candidate who can win,

voters are less likely to want to vote for a party that has less support.

When they feel they are wasting their vote by voting for their preferred candidate, they are less likely to vote honestly.

It is also the case that they don’t want their vote to be insignificant. Voters might instead choose to not to vote for their preferred candidate than risk throwing the election to a candidate or party that they strongly dislike.

Wi t h t h e s t r u c t u r e of our electoral system, it’s nearly impossible for third party candidates to win seats or have any representation whatsoever, even if they would have enough support to win seats in a different electoral system.

So when we’re lamenting about the fact that there aren’t more competitive third party options, we have to discuss the fact that our electoral system is set up for two parties to thrive and dominate

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politics. Multipartism is not supported by our current system as the threshold is incredibly high to be able to win one seat, while under a proportional representation system the threshold is lower, therefore giving smaller parties the ability to have representation if they have enough support.

Many voters feel frustrated with politics and politicians for not representing them, when in reality our electoral system was set up in a way that made representing all of us difficult. It’s clear that our system is flawed to some extent, and would be difficult to change if we decided we really wanted multipartism as opposed to a two-party system.

For now, we just have take the time to understand why our electoral system produces only two parties and how that will continue to work as our country develops. @DailyToreador

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Esports team rises to new heights

By COLEMAN TAYLOR Staff Writer

Texas Tech is a vibrant place for sports and competition. The football team is off to a strong start for the season, the basketball team will be looking to capitalize on last season’s huge success, and of course, there’s the team that has been ranked the top 50 in the nation, and even won a national championship in 2017.

This isn’t another traditional athletic team though, or an intramural one. No, this rising star in Lubbock is the Tech Esports team.

Esports is an umbrella term for all kinds of competitive video-gaming, and the scene for it is growing exponentially. With popular games like “League of Legends”, “Overwatch”, and many more, hundreds of thousands of people are flocking to the activity around the world.

Tony Le, a senior mathematics major from Houston, serves as the vice president for the Tech Esports club. He explained that while Esports as a whole is growing, there

TEXTILES

CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 Out of the 33,000 pieces the museum has collected over the decades, the majority is clothing. Now that the collection is 95 percent full, Montgomery said she only adds objects to the collection if they are clean and not a duplicate of another piece in the collection, unless someone famous in history wore it.

The museum does not have the funds to clean or buy pieces, so they are mostly from people who donate.

“People donate because they’re too beautiful to throw away,” Montgomery said. “What comes in is really so beautiful, so unique. They want it to be preserved, or they want their family’s story to be preserved.”

Even with the passing of family members, she said they will live on forever because the pieces they made are at the museum. When collecting articles, Montgomery said she tries to document as much information as possible about it to get the overall picture.

The clothing and textiles

are special incentives for students now too.

“There are thousands of dollars given out for the best student players. Eventually, scholarships will be granted to highly skilled players to attend certain universities,” Le said.

That could be one explanation for why Tech’s own chapter has seen explosive growth over the last year.

Guy Bao, the president of the club, and senior chemistry major from Houston, said that when he joined, the organization wasn’t very active.

After restarting the club under the College of Media and Communications, the club’s membership jumped almost immediately.

“We exploded with a lot of members and registration.

Now we have 700 plus members, which is exponentially higher than last year. Last year we had 100,” Bao said.

Le also described this huge increase in membership, calling it an experience that he would never forget.

Seeing the club grow into a place for like-minded individuals express themselves and bond has been incredible, collection is the only division at the museum that does not have a gallery since all the pieces need to stay in dark and covered with a white tieback because the light deteriorates things. On occasion, the museum will host exhibits that will feature pieces from the clothing and textiles collection. Some exhibits in the coming years include the feed sack collection, an embroidery exhibit and a 100-year anniversary of the Miss America Pageant.

Alyssa Stewart, one of the two graduate students in museum studies, said part of her education is working with the collection. The more students interact with the objects and learn about life in the museum business, the better prepared they are.

“Basically when I was in college, I figured out it was someone’s job to put together exhibits and take care of this.

I knew that was my future job,” Stewart said.

Sally Logue Post, the marketing director of the museum, said the clothing and textiles collection is very broad and rep-

he said.

“It’s a haven for people to play, either casually or competitively, and it’s been an honor to contribute and nurture that to where it is now,” Le said.

The advantages of the club restarting go beyond just membership though, as Dylan Winn, a sophomore journalism major from Albuquerque, New Mexico, explained. Winn serves as the club public relations and social media head, and said that the club has now become a sort of family.

The organization runs on a mutual passion and cooperation, Winn said. Whether it’s supporting each other in gaming, he said, or helping to fix a broken computer, someone will always be there to help.

“I know that ‘Oh we’re a big family’ is cliché when it comes to clubs here on campus, but it’s true. Tech Esports is a tight-knit group of gamers, who are both competitive and compassionate, tough and sportsmanlike, and dominant in game and in their collegiate careers,” Winn said.

The competitive aspect

can not be emphasized enough when discussing the Esports team. Through a group of eight different games, Tech Esports competes on a national collegiate level, and has seen astonishing success.

Bao described the competitions the team has been successful in, including in his list the “Overwatch” team reaching 38th in the nation this spring and winning 3rd place at a tournament in Dallas, the Player Unknown: Battlegrounds team reaching the top 6 teams last fall, the League of Legends team winning a tournament in Houston, and to cap it all off, a national championship for the “Hearthstone” team.

It can be hard to remember then that these spectacular competitors and gamers are also still college students, but that balance is not lost on the members. Le said the task of managing both student life and helping run the organization can be difficult, but its something he loves doing.

“I would be lying if I said it has been a smooth ride between the two but we (Red) Raiders aren’t quitters. It

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The Museum of Texas Tech has collected more than 33,000 pieces for its textiles collection over the course of decades. The majority of the collection is clothing. resents a variety of time periods.

“You don’t need to like or particularly know fashion. It’s the history that comes with the fashion that I think is the most interesting,” she said.

Montgomery is a nationally known expert on quilting, Post said, which has been great for growing their assortment of quilts and learning the history of the collection as a whole.

“I think it sets us apart from other museums. A lot of museums are either art or they’re science; they’re one thing. We’re

multi-disciplinary,” Post said.

“We have a variety – from art, to history, to science. This collection fits into a lot of those areas.”

The clothing and textiles collection is available for the public to view, but they have to make an appointment in advance with Marian Ann Montgomery. The museum, located at 3301 4th St., is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. and is closed Mondays. @DailyToreador

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National Weather Service forecaster Jason Ru-

nyen said the already-saturated area was expected to get an additional 1 to 2 inches (3 to 5 centimeters) of rain Thursday and Friday, with some isolated areas getting as much as 4 inches of rain.

“It’s not going to take hardly anything to cause additional issues with

flash flooding and river flooding,” Runyen said.

The bodies of two people were found this week as the area was inundated with rains. As rivers overflowed, a bridge was destroyed, people were forced to evacuate their homes and others had to be rescued.

Llano County Emergency Management Coordinator Ron Anderson s a i d We d n e s d a y t h a t whi l e t he L l ano River had gone down after cresting on Tuesday, he cautioned that there was still a threat of more rain and other hazards were present after the floods.

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On Tuesday morning, an interview was held in the library with senior Guy Bao, the president of the Tech Esports Organization. Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018. Esports is a term for all competitive video gaming and is growing in popularity at Tech. takes a lot of work to organize events, moderate the multiple teams we have formed to compete but I wouldn’t want it any other way,” e said.

With such an astronomical rise in only one year, a break in that expansion would only seem natural, but according to Bao, there is no intention of slowing down. Instead, the club is

looking to the future, hoping to not only improve as gamers, but as an organization on campus.

“We need to keep building.

Our successes are a start, and we help organize events, but we want to do more. We want to show that we’re serious about this and we’re passionate,” Bao said. @DailyToreador

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By SAMUEL MEDLIN Staff Writer

The Texas Tech women’s golf team is scheduled to compete in the Betsy Rawls Invitational from Friday, Oct. 19, to Sunday, Oct. 21, at the University of Texas Golf Club in Austin.

Last year, the Red Raiders finished in a tie for sixth place out of the 15team field, according to the Golfstat website. Tech was within the top five following day two of play but recorded a score of 17-overpar during the final round for a total combined team score of 36-over-par.

Senior Mami Yamamoto was the best finisher for Tech in 2017, firing an open-

ing round 1-under-par 71, according to the Golfstat website. Yamamoto went 3-over-par over the last two rounds to finish with a total individual score of 4-overpar, tying for 12th place.

Former Red Raider Lauren Mason posted the next best finish for Tech, according to the Golfstat website. Mason recorded two rounds of 3-over-par 75 and a second-round score of even-par 72, tying for 18th place with a total individual score of 6-over-par.

Sophomore Louisa Brunt was the final Tech golfer to post a notable finish last year. Brunt finished in a tie for 39th place with a total individual score of 12-over-

par, according to the Golfstat website. Her low round throughout the event came on day two when she fired in a 1-over-par 73.

Sophomore Sofia Garcia is looking to compete in this event for the first time since her freshman year in the 2016-2017 season, according to Tech Athletics. Garcia missed last year’s tournament, as well as the entirety of the season, due to injury.

The last time Garcia took part in this event, it was the second tournament of her freshman campaign, according to Tech Athletics. Garcia led the Red Raiders in scoring that week, finishing in a tie for fifth place with an individual score of 2-under-par.

She posted a sub-par score in

two of the three rounds.

During the first semester of Garcia’s collegiate career, she possessed the second-best scoring average on the team at 73.8 strokes per round, according to Tech Athletics. She also claimed a personal low-round of 2-under-par during the fall 2016 season which was the secondlowest individual score on the team.

The following semester, Garcia opened the spring with a career low 4-under-par 68 in match-play, and again led Tech in scoring with a stroke average of 73.6 after playing in all 10 events, according to Tech Athletics. Her overall stroke average for the season was 73.6, marking the

sixth lowest scoring average by a Red Raider in program history as well as the lowest by a freshman.

As a freshman, Garcia claimed a top-20 finish at the Briar’s Creek Invitational, tying for 18th with a total score of 2-over-par, according to Tech Athletics. She followed up her top-20 finish with her first ever top-five finish, placing in a tie for fourth individually in the Henssler Financial Intercollegiate, firing in two rounds of 2-under-par or better.

At the Big 12 Championships in 2017, Garcia posted a team leading score of 5-over-par 221, according to Tech Athletics. She finished in a tie for

seventh place individually, which earned her All-Big 12 Tournament honors.

Garcia played a crucial role in the Red Raiders’ trip to the postseason, tying for 17th at the NCAA Lubbock Regional, according to Tech Athletics. She began the event with backto-back rounds of even-par 72, then wrapped up the event with a 2-over-par 74, finishing with a total individual score of 2-over-par.

During the NCAA Championships, Garcia was one of the top finishers out of all freshmen, according to Tech Athletics. She placed in a tie for 32nd individually after posting a final round even-par 72. @SamMedlinDT

VOLLEYBALL

Tech looking to break 3-game losing streak

By GABRIELLE TAITE Staff Writer

The Texas Tech volleyball team will be searching for redemption in its upcoming match against the Texas Longhorns at 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 20, in Austin, looking to turn around a three-game losing streak.

After being 4-0 in Big 12 conference play, the Red Raiders suffered their first loss against Texas Christian, 1-3, according to Tech Athletics. The loss ended the Red Raiders’ nine-game winning streak, as well as a threegame win streak against TCU. Tech coach Tony Graystone said the team’s offense is what got the best of them in the match against the Horned Frogs.

“We fought hard, but ultimately TCU’s serve and pass game was better than ours,” Graystone said. “They’re a transition team, and we were able to give them a lot of tran-

sition chances, and they put them down. It was all about our first possession. We weren’t able to generate enough offense, and they were getting some easier transitions and spreading our block out.”

However, Graystone said the Red Raiders’ loss did not impact the squad too much, as the team is aware of beneficial takeaways from defeat.

In the match against the University of Oklahoma, the Red Raiders fell, 1-3, according to Tech Athletics. The loss against the Sooners gave Tech a 1-2 record on the road in Big 12 play, however there were multiple highlights during the match. The Red Raiders won the opening set for the second time in six Big 12 matches, as well as junior Emily Hill leading the team in kills for the 11th time this season.

Graystone said the team made multiple errors during

the match, which ultimately led to Tech’s downfall.

“They picked up their game quite a bit,” Graystone said.

“On our side we just got a little bit too high error. We didn’t take good enough care of the ball, and when you put that together with OU playing better, it was a tough turnaround.

There’s a fight that we’ve got to be able to have non-stop.

When somebody takes something away, we’ve got to be ready for another adjustment.

That’s part of the process and learning curve for this team.”

As for the Red Raiders’ most recent loss, Kansas swept Tech, 0-3, according to Tech Athletics. During the match, Hill once again stood out as she led the team in kills for the 12th time this season.

Hill said she believes the team needs to correct simple errors to start another winning streak.

“We can fight back, we just have to work on finishing,” Hill said. “We make little, silly errors and sort of shoot ourselves in the foot. I think it starts in practice, and from the very first ball in practice, we have to be clean and efficient. In a game that’s what we do, we start slow, and that’s what we do in practice. We start slow and then pull ourselves up.”

The team needs to be more aggressive on the court, Hill said. Furthermore, the junior outside hitter said she would like the team to make these improvements in time for the Big 12 tournament.

On the other side of things, senior middle blocker Katy Keenan said the team’s block needs improvement before the upcoming match against the Longhorns.

“Our block is normally one of the strengths of our game, and recently it hasn’t been since we’ve gotten to Big 12,” Keenan said. “That’s definitely something that we’re going to work on this coming week.

We can take away just how much better we can be. It’s got to be us, and we have to take it. I think that’s something we can carry with us going into next week (against Texas).”

The Longhorns will give Tech a challenge, as Texas was picked to finish atop the Big 12 in the preseason polls, according to Big12sports.com. Following the game against Texas, the Red Raiders will face off against each conference opponent for the second time of the year. @TaiteDT

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TOP: Sophomore middle blocker Allison White prepared to leap for the ball set by senior setter Missy Owens during Texas Tech’s match against the Kansas Jayhawks Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018, in the United Supermarkets Arena. BOTTOM: Junior outside and right side hitter Chandler Atwood leaps for the ball during Tech’s match against West Virginia Saturday, Sept. 22, 2018, in the United Supermarkets Arena. After winning four straight matches, the Red Raiders lost their next three.

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Cowboys look to solve road puzzle FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Well more than half of Dak Prescott’s sacks and all four of the Dallas Cowboys quarterback’s interceptions have come on the road.

There are plenty of other numbers to illustrate the stark contrast between the Cowboys at home and away from AT&T Stadium, starting with the symmetrical records of 3-0 and 0-3.

While a visit to NFC Eastleading Washington on Sunday is a chance for at least a tie for first place along with their first winning record this season, the Cowboys would probably view it as a road breakthrough more than anything.

“We’ve talked about it all year,” right guard Zack Martin said. “It’s usually been reversed. We’ve usually been better on the road than we have at home. I think the biggest thing is our communication on the road has not been anywhere near how it’s been at home.”

Communication speaks to the protection issues with Prescott, whose passer rating is more than 40 points lower on the road — 67 compared to 108.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Young Red Raiders poised to make impact

By ELEANOR GUINAN Staff Writer

After most of the starting five on the 2017-2018 roster graduated, the Texas Tech men’s basketball team needed new faces to step up and help the team have another record-breaking season.

Tech added three true freshmen to its roster this year, and with the season starting in less than a month, the returners and Tech coach Chris Beard are talking about the newcomers with confidence and believe they are going to be a great fit.

“This new group comes ready to come, ready to play, ready to practice every day they’ve been fun to play with,” senior center Norense Odiase said.

Kyler Edwards, Khavon Moore and Josh Mballa know they are part of a historic team, they said, and have to keep striving to be better than the team that made it to the Elite Eight last season.

“We just can’t go backwards from last year, we gotta keep pushing forward and prove everybody right really exceed expectations,” Edwards said.

Edwards has made an impression on his teammates with his hard work

and power, enabling his team to return to the postseason.

“Kyler Edwards, he’s been playing really well,” Odiase said of the freshman.

Odiase and Edwards have a relationship that goes far beyond the court.

They’re both from the Arlington area, and have a deeper connection than just teammates, Odiase said.

“He’s from my hometown and his dad is the deacon at my aunts’ church so we have a connection there,” Odiase said. “He’s doing a great job on the floor and off.”

Beard has been keeping an eye on the new freshmen, he said, and is grooming them to become future leaders. Beard recognizes the talents and special qualities that they can and will bring to the team.

“We got some guys that can be special one day and I told those young guys first thing they got to do to be a leader is prove you can be a follower,” Beard said. “They have really bought into our culture so far they’ve been a lot of fun.”

Freshman forward Josh Mballa is a silent recruit this fall. Coming from Bordeaux, France, he brings passion and agility to Tech. Beard said he is looking forward to what Mballa will contribute

to the team.

“Josh is a talented young guy he’s athletic and he plays really hard and he can play different positions I think he helps us from day one with his rebounding and his attitude his toughness,” Beard said. “What’s exciting is there is a lot of skill behind the scenes and I think he’s gonna be a guy one day that ends up a perimeter player.

This first year I think he’ll help us and play the role is put in front of him but I got a lot of confidence in Josh, not just because of his talent but because of the type of person he is. He is a bigtime person high character low maintenance dude just comes to work every day fits our culture perfectly.”

In contrast, with Mballa and Edwards, Moore has taken a different route to beginning his collegiate career. The forward suffered an injury late in his senior year of high school, and has been battling to return to his team. Most recently, Moore was cleared to participate in light-contact practices.

Last year’s breakout freshman, Jarrett Culver, has turned into a leader during his sophomore season. With his hard work and improvement, Culver has been named

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Then-freshman guard Jarrett Culver goes up for a shot during Texas Tech’s game against Oklahoma on Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018, in the United Supermarkets Arena. After a strong first year with Tech, Culver said he wants to be a leader for the freshmen like the upperclassmen were for him last year. a candidate for the 2019 Jerry West Shooting Guard of the Year Award Watch List, according to Tech Athletics.

During the 2017-2018 season, the Lubbock native averaged 11.2 points and 4.8 rebounds, according to Tech Athletics. Culver said he is ready to come back this season and be better than he was last year.

Culver made a big impact

as a freshman and is continuing to be an asset to the team. He said he wants to help the freshmen learn and become more experienced like the older guys did for him last season.

“I’m just looking to be a better leader, individual wise be the best teammate I can be and I feel like everything else will fall into place,” Culver said. “I take pride in the role

of being an experienced guy and that helps a lot. I can help other people younger guys that haven’t experienced it.”

The returners and newcomers will hit the court for the first time of the 20182019 season at 6:30 p.m.

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 Oklahoma and Tech are currently tied for third in the conference standings, with each teams lone loss coming against Texas and West Virginia respectively.

OU currently has better odds to make the conference title game than Tech, and part of that reasoning is the electric play of quarterback Kyler Murray.

OU’s offense can just about outscore anyone in the Big 12, but the team’s defense has been subpar over the first half of the season, which led to the firing of Mike Stoops. While OU’s defense is not expected to make a major defensive improvement over the last half of the season, there is a chance that OU may give Murray enough defensive help to win the Big 12.

Oklahoma’s remaining schedule includes away games against WVU and Tech, which are the only daunting games left for the Sooners, despite being heavily favored in both. OU will face TCU on the road, Kansas State at home, Tech on the road, OSU and KU at home before closing their season with a road game against WVU. OU is favored by ESPN’s Matchup Predictor in every remaining regular season game, so there is a strong chance that OU is able to make it back to the Big 12 title game despite its loss to Texas.

Tech is the final team in the upper tier of contenders with a real shot at making the conference championship, and even then, the Red Raiders have the hardest path. Tech’s sole conference loss came against West Virginia, but in the process,

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Freshman running back Ta’zhawn Henry runs the end-zone during Texas Tech’s Big 12 game against West Virginia on Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018, at Jones AT&T Stadium. The Red Raiders are favored in every game left on their schedule except for Oklahoma.

Tech lost its breakout true freshman quarterback Alan Bowman to a partially collapsed lung.

While Bowman awaits a return to the field, Tech will have to get by with the duo of sophomore Jett Duffey and junior McLane Carter under center, neither of which have shown the ability to lead this offense like Bowman has.

Looking ahead, Tech hosts Kansas this weekend before heading to Ames, Iowa, to take on Iowa State on Oct. 27. Tech has shown Duffey can lead the offense well enough that Bowman may not be needed in either game, if Tech’s defense continues to show the grit that helped it win against TCU and shut down both WVU and OSU in the second half.

However, Tech stands little to no chance in the following two games without

Bowman back, as the Red Raiders host No. 9 Oklahoma on Nov. 3 followed by No. 7 Texas on Nov. 10. Tech closes out its season with a road game against Kansas State and a home game against Baylor.

For the Red Raiders, Bowman’s status will be one of the biggest turning points of the season as Tech enters the back-to-back stretch against two top 10 teams. Neither team looks unbeatable, but if Tech cannot maintain the high level of offensive efficiency that comes with Bowman under center, Tech will fall behind in the conference race.

Currently, Tech is favored in every game aside from the one against Oklahoma, so the opportunity to close out the season strong is there for the Red Raiders.

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With so many games left to be played amongst the top four teams in the Big 12, every game is vital to ensuring a spot in the championship. If Tech can get Bowman back, the welltimed rise of Tech’s increasingly improving defense may be enough to give Tech its first conference championship appearance. @AustinWattsDT

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OCT. 18, 2018

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SOCCER

Red Raiders roll through Big 12 play

By NOAH MICIOTO Sports Editor

With two Big 12 games remaining for the Texas Tech soccer team, the Red Raiders are just one victory away from surpassing the most conference wins since 2014.

Tech enters its last two games with an overall record at 12-3-1; 4-2-1 in the Big 12; 6-2-0 at home and 6-1-1 on the road.

The Red Raiders have seen tremendous success in away games, losing their sole road match early on against Boston College, 1-0, on Saturday, Sept. 1. After falling to Boston College, the Red Raider defense has been airtight, paving the way for Tech’s four shutouts in its six subsequent away games.

Perhaps the most essential component on Tech’s lockdown defense is sophomore goalkeeper Marissa Zucchetto. The Mississauga, Ontario, Canada native has earned conference recognition three times throughout this season.

Zucchetto’s performances against Oklahoma State, Kansas State and Kansas have garnered her the Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week award for two consecutive weeks. Tech coach Tom Stone

spoke on Zucchetto’s humility and performance.

“I think in ‘Zu’s’ case, she’d be the first to say -- she’s so humble -- that that’s a team award, a team defensive award. It took all 11 of us to keep Kansas from scoring additional goals or putting us away,” Stone said.

“But in the Kansas game specifically, under those (inclement weather) conditions, ‘Zu’ was spectacular.”

Zucchetto’s clean slate helped Tech take a 1-0 victory over the No. 21 Oklahoma State Cowgirls on Friday, Oct. 5, marking the first Red Raider win in Stillwater, Oklahoma, since 1997, according to Tech Athletics. Stone provided insight on why the Red Raiders have performed so well on the road.

“Part of the deal about being a good road team is getting along -- man if you don’t get along, the road is lonely,” Stone said. “The girls are great to each other and they enjoy getting out. Chemistry is a huge component.”

Although defense has played a large part in the team’s success, the Red Raiders’ aggressive approach on the other side of the ball makes Tech a well-rounded

club. The Red Raiders are 115-259 on shots on goal attempts. Furthermore, Tech is averaging 16.2 shots per game while holding its opponents to 6.9, according to Tech Athletics.

The Red Raiders typically set the tone early, as they have totaled 130 shots in the first period alone through 16 games. Despite firing on all cylinders out of the gate, Tech’s tenacity keeps the Red Raiders scratching away, even in the second period with 125 shots. Though Tech claims a .108 shot percentage, the offense continues to fire off shots with no hesitation.

“It’s soccer, there’s no way we’re going to score every chance we get,” Stone said. “I think the most impressive part is, we just refuse to go down.”

The Red Raiders are riding a wave of momentum from their three game win streak, as Tech enters its fourth straight road match against Texas Christian set for Friday, Oct. 19, with first touch slated for 7 p.m., according to Tech Athletics.

The Red Raiders’ match against TCU will serve as their last away game of the regular season.

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Sophomore forward Kirsten Davis competes for the ball during a game against West Virginia Friday, Sept. 21, 2018, at John Walker Soccer Complex. The Red Raiders fell to WVU, 2-0. Davis is one of the most dynamic players on the Tech offense, as she claims a team high six assists.

Stone went on to mention the leadership role the seniors play within their team.

With exemplary leaders, the younger Red Raiders can look up to a group that will consistently advocate for the team’s best interest, regardless of potential consequences.

“They’re just stubborn, my seniors, they’re the most stubborn women I have ever coached- and

that’s the biggest compliment I could give them,” Stone said. “They’re not afraid to speak up to the coaches or other players, and they don’t like losing.”

Though Tech has done well in its away bouts, the team is excited to soon return home and conclude its season one game at a time. The Red Raiders will conclude their season by taking on the No.

20 Texas Longhorns at the John Walker Soccer Complex, Thursday, Oct. 25.

“We do look forward to playing the season finale at home,” Stone said. “Really, being in the present is the most important part for the end of the year. I think if you start looking ahead, or getting ahead of yourself, you lose focus.” @NoahMiciottoDT

SOCCER

Pair of Red Raiders earn Big 12 recognition

By SAMUEL MEDLIN Staff Writer

Freshman defender Cassie Hiatt and sophomore goalkeeper Marissa Zucchetto of the Texas Tech soccer team have each earned a Big 12 Player of the Week award following Tech’s sweep on its Kansas road trip.

Hiatt was recognized as the Freshman of the Week, while Zucchetto received Defensive

Player of the Week honors, according to Tech Athletics.

Late in the game against Kansas University, Hiatt nailed a header into the back of the net, forcing the match into overtime, where the Red Raiders then took home the victory.

This is the second straight week Zucchetto has been named Defensive Player of the Week for the conference, according to Tech Athletics.

She is the only player in the

Big 12 who has nabbed three weekly awards this year.

Of the two matches played against Kansas and Kansas State over the weekend, Zucchetto only allowed one goal and successfully saved six, according to Tech Athletics.

Zucchetto shutout the Kansas State Wildcats for her 10th shutout on the season which leads in both the Big 12 and the nation. @SamMedlinDT

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Sophomore goalkeeper Marissa Zucchetto kicks the ball onto the field during the game against West Virginia University at John Walker Soccer Complex on Friday, Sept. 21, 2018. The Red Raiders fell to WVU, 2-0. Zucchetto currently has the third best save percentage in the Big 12, at .833 overall. The native of Mississauga, Ontario, leads the conference in shutouts, with 10 thus far.

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