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BY THE NUMBERS

Minority students bring diversity to Tech

By REECE NATIONS Staff Writer

While Texas Tech boasts one of the most diverse student bodies in the country, there’s more to diversity than just skin color.

“The role that diversity plays in the student population at an academic institution is the necessity to bring different perspectives, experiences and outlooks together when students collaborate with each other,” Ethan Logan, assistant vice president for enrollment management, said. “It’s important for any college campus to be diverse. When students graduate and join the workforce, they need to be experienced with working with people who are different than them.”

The concepts of teaching and learning experience pertain directly to exposing a learner to new ideas and perspectives, Logan said.

Diversity helps the process of education because it presents new concepts to students in ways they may not have experienced before.

Moreover, equal repre-

sentation in academics is essential to the teaching process as well, he said. In order to ensure no point-ofview is missed, professors with differing life experiences are required when presenting new information.

“Of Tech’s 36,551 students, over 8,000 are Hispanic and over 2,000 are African-American,” Logan said. “This represents a steady climb in enrollment for both ethnic groups, which is exactly what we’re working towards.”

However, Logan said the term “diversity” applies to more than just race and ethnicity. Gender, sexual orientation and religious denomination are also key factors in the multiplicity of the student population.

Additionally, the racial diversity of faculty is something that the administration takes into account, Logan said. Tech is an Affirmative Action Institution and an Equal Opportunity Employer.

“The coordinating board provides very explicit guidance in terms of dramatically increasing the number of individuals who hold

a baccalaureate degree or workplace certificate,” said Juan Muñoz, senior vice president for Institutional Diversity, Equity & Community Engagement and vice provost for Undergraduate Education & Student Affairs. “Surely, in the State of Texas, we

expect many of those individuals to belong to an ethnic minority group.”

The population of 25- to 34-year-olds will be more diverse than ever before in the upcoming years, Muñoz said. In order to appropriately reflect the racial and ethnic variety of an aver-

age workplace, Tech has made an objective goal to become more diverse.

Adding to that diversity, Tech is home to more than 800 Asian-American students and more than 100 students of Native American descent, according to the Tech Enrollment Fact Book. Overall retention remains high for the minority population of the student body.

“People in the United States come from a myriad of different cultural backgrounds, and having our students prepare to work with people who are unlike themselves is essential to the educational process,” Muñoz said. “Luckily at Texas Tech, we have students from all walks of life, so it’s a great place to prepare for just that.”

The ability to approach problems from different perspectives is one of the skills students can expect to learn while at Tech, he said. Communicating effectively in a global workplace is crucial to maintaining a competitive workforce.

The Education Trust has twice recognized Tech as an

institution dedicated to helping reduce the achievement gap between majority and minority student populations in the United States, Muñoz said. Tech was also the first of 10 schools in the country to receive the Diversity Champion Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine. “(Tech) was the first school in Texas to be given the Diversity Champion Award,” he said. “Along with that, we’ve received many awards for our support of women, veterans and firstgeneration college students.

So, all of those things together show that Tech is home to a climate where any student can be successful.”

Success is ultimately the goal for the administration, Muñoz said. Ensuring a better future for tomorrow starts with academic triumph.

“With programs like the Mentor Tech program, the (Military & Veterans Programs) and the program for first generation college students, it’s easy to see why Texas Tech attracts such a diverse student body.” Muñoz said. @ReeceNationsDT

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eLearning enrollment numbers gaining momentum with students

By NYDIA NATIVIDAD Staff Writer

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The current enrollment of students at Texas Tech is 36,551. However, with technological advances, students are becoming involved in the eLearning system with an additional estimated 2,500 students now enrolled.

Although on-campus enrollment still outnumbers online enrollment, eLearning is a growing program that allows students to receive their degrees without having to be in the classroom.

“How did we achieve this increase in enrollment?” Tech President Lawrence Schovanec said in his State of the University address in late September. “That was through improved retention rates.”

The eLearning program offers up to 37 different bachelor ’s, master ’s and doctorate degrees, all online. It also offers seven undergraduate minors and 25 graduate certifications, according to the Worldwide eLearning website.

“It’s growing, it’s more than we’ve had a couple years ago,” Justin Louder,

associate vice provost for Tech Worldwide eLearning, said.

In the eLearning program, about 2,100 students take all their courses online and around 400 are hybrid students, Louder said.

The hybrid students are students who take half of their classes online and the other half face-to-face in the classroom, Louder said. Blackboard is the university’s online learning management system to either be used in assisting face-to-face classes or be solely used for the purpose of all online courses.

“There’s about 90 percent of this campus that utilizes Blackboard in some way, shape or form every semester,” Louder said. “It is a huge component of a student’s educational time here at Texas Tech.”

Online classes that satisfy core curriculum requirements, such as the political science requirement, have increased in number, Louder said.

However, most students in the eLearning program are those who are older and seen as “degree completers.”

Campus eLearning enrollment • • • •

Current Enrollment: 36,551 students eLearning Enrollment: about 2,500 students All eLearning Enrollment: about 2,100 students Hybrid eLearning Enrollment: about 400 students

These students may have left Tech for various reasons and returned to school to complete their degrees, Louder said.

“Degree completers tend to be older students that probably have a full-time job and have family,” Louder said. “And of course we have the master’s and doctoral program, that all of those are students older than 22 or 23.”

Through eLearning, students can receive degrees from the College of Education, Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering, Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration, College of Arts and Sciences and College of Human Sciences, he said.

The College of Education features the highest number of online degrees through eLearning for teachers who want to extend their degrees, Louder said.

There are also regional

sites located in El Paso, Junction, Marble Falls, Waco, McKinney and Fredericksburg, Louder said.

The distant students can also participate in synchronous online classes. The synchronous classes require students to log in at certain times and dates to view and participate in the lectures, Louder said.

The eLearning students participate in the commencement ceremonies and receive their official Tech class ring, Louder said.

“I don’t think eLearning will ever replace face-toface and traditional education,” Louder said. “I think we will see more and more hybrid programs because of scheduling issues, but I think we will also see a lot of people who thought they couldn’t finish their degree going back because of online programs.” @nydianatividad

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Misconduct at A&M campus led to animal mistreatment DALLAS (AP) — Infighting and poor oversight, including an instance of “profound neglect,” contributed to the mistreatment of animals at a Texas A&M University campus, according to federal and university reports.

Texas A&M University at Commerce, northeast of Dallas, violated three provisions of the federal Animal Welfare Act, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture report dated Sept. 15.

Among the findings were a veterinary care manager who was banned from the School of Agriculture’s farm, an administrator who changed

operating procedures without the authority to do so, and at least one horse that suffered because an equine manager failed to follow instructions for its care.

“This facility has had ongoing problems communicating with and following guidance from the attending veterinarian,” USDA inspector Cynthia Digesualdo wrote.

The report follows on the heels of Texas A&M-Commerce’s interim president, Ray Keck, announcing in August a “zero-tolerance policy” toward the neglect and mistreatment of animals.

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Keck said then that he’d been impressed by the quality of work at the school, but that “my review of the care and past oversight of animals on our campus, particularly in our agriculture department, proved to be an exception.”

“We regret deeply that that occurred. One of the changes the new president made was to address those issues. He implemented a zero-tolerance policy for the mistreatment of animals.

There has been a change of management at the farm,” said university spokesman Noah Nelson.

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Those changes were made in response to the concerns the USDA expressed in August, Nelson said.

An internal review in 2015 determined that a pregnant mare had suffered for months with a condition in which bones had rotated through the soles of her feet.

Despite her condition, she was used in breeding, contributing to her suffering.

The Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, a campus panel, was faulted for not properly overseeing the care of animals.

“The breeding of this mare in her lame condition was a severe violation of veterinary care standards and is evidence of profound neglect by the A&M-Commerce animal care staff, attending veterinarian and IACUC,” according to an internal report separate from the USDA findings. “Personnel who were responsible for this decision were relieved of duty.”

The mare eventually was euthanized.

People for the Ethical Tr e a t m e n t o f A n i m a l s , or PETA, recently filed a complaint with the Hunt County district attorney’s office, alleging the school was guilty of cruelty to a livestock animal.

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Lubbock population continues steady incline

By MICHAEL CANTU news editor

The first documented census of Lubbock was taken in 1910, when it had a population of 1,938. Fast-forward to the year 2016, and Lubbock is standing tall with an estimated more than 240,000 people within the city limits.

These numbers are estimates from the Lubbock GIS & Data Services department and are based on population trends such as birth and death rates, Sheri Rand, GIS planner, said. On average, Lubbock’s population grows from 2,000 to 2,500 people a year.

“The population is pretty diverse. Our Hispanic population has grown to about 37 percent,” Rand said.

The numbers presented by the department are not completely accurate, she said. A national census is taken every 10 years, and the current estimations are based on the information from the 2010 census.

Definitive numbers they can get are from Texas Tech’s enrollment, Rand said. Because Tech publishes the

numbers on its website for everyone to see, the department can pull that information in to create their estimates.

As of now, Tech’s population is at a record high of more than 36,000 students, according to Tech President Lawrence Schovanec’s state of the university address.

“So, that’s about not quite a quarter of our population,” Rand said, “but it increased our population significantly.”

This accounting is also something new for the department, Rand said. Before the year 2010, college towns like Lubbock did not include the university population, and the students were counted in their home cities or counties.

The continuous bump in population can also be attributed to a migration of people coming from surrounding counties into Lubbock, she said. This is also the reason the city limits continue to grow outward and heighten the possibility for some areas around Lubbock like Woodrow and Wolfforth to be annexed.

“There’s always an op-

portunity for annexation, but there are very strict state laws that govern annexation,” Sally Abbe, director of the GIS & Data Services department, said.

This April, the city annexed a few areas down south near 146th Street and north near the New Deal area, Rand said.

One of the biggest reasons attributed to Lubbock’s continuing growth is the medical services provided in the area, according to a Population and Economics Report provided

by Rand. With four hospitals, one medical school and four nursing schools, Lubbock provides a gross amount of more than $550 million to the local economy, according to 2004 estimates in the report.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects health service employment has accounted for 20 percent of the job growth between the year 2000 and now, according to the report. This increase in the medical job market has also increased the average lifespan in Lubbock from 47.3 years in 1900 to 77.2 years now.

LOCAL

Lubbock Police asks for help in identifying abandoned child

The Lubbock Police Department is asking help from the community in identifying a child who was found abandoned in a Lubbock driveway.

The child, who was found at approximately 7 a.m.

Oct. 3, was discovered in a woman’s driveway at the 2600 block of 22nd Street, according to an LPD news release. The resident walked

to her vehicle and found the infant wrapped in a blanket inside of a plastic container.

Officers from the Field Services Bureau and detectives from the Investigations Bureau and from Texas Child Protective Services were called to the scene, according to the news release. The baby was found in good physical condition

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Debate stunner: Trump won’t say he will accept election result of his supporters may not accept the results on Nov. 8 if he loses, thrusting the nation into uncharted territory.

Free and fair elections, with the vanquished peacefully stepping aside for the victor, have been the underpinning of America’s democratic tradition since the country’s founding 240 years ago.

The Republican National Committee immediately disavowed Trump’s statement. There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud, and election officials across the country have denied and denounced Trump’s charges.

Wednesday’s contest quickly shifted from a calm, policyfocused faceoff into a bitter and

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and was taken to a hospital for further evaluation.

Child Protective Services took custody of the infant, and the child remains in its custody, according to the release. LPD is still unable to provide a photo of the child but urges anyone with information to call the Crime Line at 806-741-1000.

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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Threatening to upend a fundamental pillar of American democracy, Donald Trump refused to say Wednesday night that he will accept the results of next month’s election if he loses to Hillary Clinton. The Democratic nominee declared Trump’s resistance “horrifying.”

Trump had spent the days leading up to the third and final presidential debate warning voters that the election would be “rigged.” Asked whether he would accept the outcome if Clinton emerges victorious, he said, “I will tell you at the time. I’ll keep you in suspense.”

Trump’s assertions raise the prospect that millions

“But we’re kind of in the middle. We’re a hub. And this is the largest city within a couple hundred miles,” Rand said. “So this is the place (to come), if anyone is out rurally and they want to come to a bigger city.”

With the number of small businesses in the surrounding areas, there is no fear that Lubbock’s growth will be too much to handle, Abbe said. In the surrounding counties and in the city, there is more than enough land to continue to expand at the pace it is expanding.

One of the only concerns city planners might have is sharing and being able to obtain water, Abbe said.

Water is also one of the biggest reasons that some areas are more easily annexed than others, Rand said.

“Our idea has always been that slow, steady growth is the most stable and secure,” Abbe said. “Look up the figures for yourself, the fastest growing cities in the state or the region, and we’re not in that category, but we’re not declining in population either.”

deeply personal confrontation.

Trump called Clinton a “nasty woman,” while the Democrat panned him as “unfit” to be commander in chief.

Clinton, who began the debate with a lead in nearly all battleground states, forcefully accused Trump of favoring Russia’s leader over American military and intelligence experts after the Republican nominee pointedly refused to accept the U.S. government’s assertion that Moscow has sought to meddle in the U.S. election.

She charged that Russian President Vladimir Putin was backing Trump because “he’d rather have a puppet as president of the United States.”

University Student Housing hosted a presidential debate watch party at the Chitwood / Weymouth Residence Hall Complex on Wednesday. The event included a panel of Tech political science faculty who answered questions before the debate.

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We need to stop taking everything so seriously

I

’ve written several columns that could be perceived as hypocritical.

For example, I wrote about how rap music sucks but admitted I listen to rap.

I’ve written about how Apple’s decision to remove the headphone jack on its newest iteration of the iPhone screws over its customers but said I would continue to buy Apple products.

A n d o n Tu e s d a y, I wrote social media is man’s worst achievement in recent history.

At the end of that column, I plugged my personal Twitter handle.

Are these columns actually hypocritical, or were these seemingly twofaced texts intentionally written in a way to prove

Alex Olges is a freshman journalism major from Humble.

a point?

My intentions were of the latter reasoning.

Whether I was successful in my execution is up to the reader to decide.

As a society, we take everything way too seriously.

We see someone post some insane, ignorant comment online and act like it is World War III. Sometimes we aren’t able to fit in our morning coffee and then let it ruin the rest of the day for us.

A McDonald’s worker might forget we don’t want pickles on our Big Mac, and we go on a man-

hunt to avenge our betrayed taste buds.

I’d like to let everyone in on a little secret. It’s really a very simple secret, but it’s important.

A McDonald’s worker might forget we don’t want pickles on our Big Mac, and we go on a manhunt to avenge our betrayed taste buds.

It could actually change our lives.

The secret is it isn’t the end of the world.

That asinine comment will simply fade away if it

is ignored.

There will be plenty more chances to consume coffee in our lifetimes.

And hey, just pick those pickles off.

It’s amazing how such a small little phrase we hear all the time as children can change our lives.

By managing to not act like every little thing carries all the weight in the world, life becomes so much less stressful and much more manageable.

In fact, life can go from being stressful to quite amusing.

Recently, I’ve found myself feeling like I’m in a sitcom; several friends around me keep making the same idiotic mistakes over and over, even after getting in trouble.

They never learn. How

stupid can they be? It’s rather hilarious, honestly.

I’m able to take the situation so lightheartedly because of two things.

Firstly, I’m unable to do anything to make the situation any better and am therefore able to distance myself from it.

Secondly, there’s another part of the secret I mentioned earlier: It will always turn out okay.

I know, I know; how cliché? Regardless of how clichéd it may be, it’s true.

It’s often said life is like a roller coaster; it has its ups and downs.

There are two ways one can look at this.

The pessimistic way, where life is always going to lead to a negative spot.

On the flip side, though, life will always

lead to somewhere good, great even.

Wi t h t h i s m i n d s e t , I’m able to look at those friends I mentioned and laugh a little.

Sure, things really suck for them right now.

But hey, they did it to themselves, and I can’t do anything about it now.

This has become my life’s philosophy, and I’m far less stressed and uptight as a result.

Don’t take everything so seriously. It isn’t healthy.

Perhaps this column has only furthered the image that I am a hypocritical jerk.

This is certainly not my intention. However, at the end of the day, it isn’t the end of the world. aolges@dailytoreador.com

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Step back from this election to think big picture

I

’m struggling with this election. I mean, we’re all struggling with it.

However, I just don’t know how much longer this wild disregard for civility can continue.

Are we going to shred the opinion of another just to prove our own to be right?

Perhaps this is how we have always operated.

However, it just seems infinitely more vitriolic now.

Insults fly more freely, attacks come more unashamed and respect resigns itself

Avery Aiken is a sophomore communication studies major from The Woodlands.

from every conversation.

You see, somewhere along the way, we decided — even though few of us fully support one candidate — that it would be our duty to defend every word that a candidate spoke.

Personally, I don’t want to sign my name to the t r a n s c r i p t o f a n y o n e ’s words but my own. In fact,

I sometimes even wish I wasn’t responsible for the thoughtless things I can say.

So, with this being true, I refuse to waste my time defending some asinine comment by Donald Trump or justify why Hillary Clinton said one thing after doing the opposite.

I am not them.

I am myself.

I believe a woman’s body is her own while simultaneously believing an unborn infant’s body is also its own.

I believe outsourcing

puts U.S. citizens out of work, but I also believe complete domestic production is impossible.

I believe it would be nice for minimum wage to be raised, but I also understand that “there is no such thing as a free lunch.”

As you might have noticed, none of these beliefs completely line up with either of the platforms we have been presented with this election season.

So, unless some fool comes along and thrusts himself into this presidential race and uses my opin-

ions as his platform, I won’t be fully supporting anyone.

We must simply step back from this election.

I must stop evaluating our candidates for president based on their opinions, perspectives and actions.

I am not them.

We must look at this election and the consequences and benefits of every candidate and then make our decisions based

on those factors.

Who do I want appointing Supreme Court justices?

Who do I want working with Congress?

Who do I want shaking the hands of diplomats?

This is what matters.

The U.S. Congress and Supreme Court exist to limit the power of our president, so I’m not too worried about giving power to either of these presidential candidates.

They won’t get too far with it. aaiken@dailytoreador.com

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Good actions supplement Christian beliefs

I

am tired of this foolish banter on which religion is best.

Judaism, Islam and Christianity in particular have spent the last 1,200 years killing each other — Islam does not seem to be done — in the name of righteousness.

Although I know very little about the ins and outs of Islam and Judaism, I am relatively well versed in the tenents of Christianity.

I was raised a Roman Catholic, went to a Catholic school, am named after a saint, the whole thing.

In Pennsylvania — where I’m from — most Christians adhere to Catholicism, influ-

Ignatius Horstmann is a sophomore history major from West Chester, Pennsylvania.

enced heavily by the strong wave of Catholics who immigrated from Ireland, Italy, Germany and Poland.

It seemed pretty basic growing up.

We must serve others, love our neighbors and basically just be a good person.

Do that and you are following Jesus; you will go to heaven; everything will be fine and dandy.

Now, people love to screw up things, especially things

It seemed pretty basic growing up.

For real, those Mormons on bikes are always telling me why their beloved Joseph Smith — the polygamist cult-leader — was the only guy in 2,000 years who was actually in the know with Jesus.

Every new sect of Christianity that crops up believes it is God’s true chosen people.

In my humble opinion, whatever religion or sect of religion that gives you a decent moral compass, fills you with compassion and love and gives you the courage to do what is right should be the one for you.

For me, this is Catholicism. I believe we are all called to follow Christ by serving our fellow man.

That’s it.

Growing up, I was taught the best way to glorify God is by showing his love and mercy to my fellow humans.

There is no need to evangelize or push the scriptures down others’ throats.

Helping the poor at the soup kitchen, asking how

someone is doing, cheering up the sick, that’s what Jesus would have done.

I believe an atheist who does these things simply because it’s the right thing to do, is serving God far better than a so-called Christian who does nothing except show up to Church on Sundays.

Religion should serve as a guide to living moralistically.

The Bible was written by humans, infallible, imperfect humans.

Christ was pretty clear.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Pretty basic stuff here. opinion@dailytoreador.com

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AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s trashing of US economy is misguided WASHINGTON (AP) — A claim from the final presidential debate and how it stacks up with the facts: DONALD TRUMP: “So I just left some high representatives of India. They’re growing at 8 percent. China is growing at 7 percent.

And that for them is a catastrophically low number.

We are growing, our last report came out, and it’s

right around the 1 percent level and I think it’s going down. Last week, as you know, the end of last week, they came out with an anemic jobs report. A terrible jobs report.”

THE FACTS: China and India are growing faster in large part because they’re playing catch up to the United States, the world’s largest economy.

Those two Asian countries are starting from a much lower baseline with a much larger population than the United States, meaning that by definition they should be growing faster.

Economists would warn of a dangerous bubble if the United States grew that quickly and financial markets would fear a devastating recession to follow.

But China and India aren’t any better off than the U.S., said former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke in an analysis released Wednesday. On a per-capita basis, China has just 10 percent of the United States’ income. India has about 6 percent.

Factoring in life expectancy, inequality and leisure, Bernanke notes the

United States comes off even better. And the September jobs report that Trump calls “terrible” is viewed by most economists as encouraging. Employers added 156,000 jobs last month, and the unemployment rate ticked up to 5 percent because more Americans felt confident enough to start looking for jobs, a positive sign.

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AP FACT CHECK: Trump right that Obama has deported millions WASHINGTON (AP) — A claim from the final presidential debate and how it stacks up with the facts: DONALD TRUMP: “President Obama has moved millions of people out ... millions of people have been moved out of

this country.”

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International students share experiences

By KIRBY WARNER Staff Writer

Texas Tech is home to students not only from across Texas and different parts of the United States, but also from different parts of the world.

According to Tech’s Institutional Research website, 3,105 international students are attending the university this fall. Of those students, 1,562 are graduate students, 1,521 are undergraduate students and 22 are law students.

International undergraduate enrollment increased 11.2 percent from last year, Miranda Pruitt, lead admissions evaluator for international undergraduate admissions, said.

“Our recruiters go and travel internationally and to colleges within Texas,” Pruitt said. “They let people know about Texas Tech. They let people know about what we offer, what kind of programs we have. Then they kind of pass them on to us once they apply, and we’re with them every step of the way from

admissions to immigration.”

The general process for undergraduate application is the students first have to meet the requirements such as English proficiency and SAT scores, Pruitt said. Then if accepted, the students start the immigration process, with the Office of International Affairs providing the means for students to receive visas.

As for graduate students, many come to Tech on a scholarship or through a program that provides scholarships to study in the U.S. Zeeshan Haq, a petroleum engineering graduate student from Karachi, Pakistan, is one example.

Haq said he received a Fulbright scholarship, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State.

“I did my undergrad in my country, Pakistan,” Haq said. “Then I worked for five years and then came here for a master’s.”

Haq said during his time at Tech he has met around 10 to 20 other international students of varying origins, such as India, China, Russia,

Columbia, Brazil, Venezuela and Pakistan.

Camille Vilela, an applied linguistics graduate student from Rio de Janeiro, said adjusting to studying in the United States can be challenging at first because differences in academic practices and social norms.

“It’s been challenging but doable,” Vilela said. “I don’t feel like a fish out of water.”

Vilela said one of the pros of studying abroad is being placed out of one’s comfort zone, while some cons are the distance from home and the need for transportation, which is something many international students struggle with.

Rie Iwamoto, an applied linguistics graduate student from Aichi, Japan, said some aspects of U.S. education are different than those in Japan, namely how students in the U.S. tend to have more input during classes.

“I was used to just listening to the teacher and taking notes in class and just memorizing them,” Iwamoto said.

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The international stu- la said. “Get out of your Iwamoto said she be- dents make up part of a bubble and get to know the lieves Tech is a good school whole, representing thou- locals and make an effort because of not having a lot sands of others who come to have American friends of distractions but having from different backgrounds instead of closing yourself helpful facilities such as and cultures. For incoming off into what is familiar The Writing Center and the international students, Vilela to you.”

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Texas Tech is comprised of 15 different sports, including the men’s and women’s variations. Each of those sports have history, good or bad, and each sport has had a best ranking, season or overall timeframe in history.

Football For football, it is somewhat of a three-way tie between the 1953 season, 1973 season and 2008 season.

In 1953, under former coach DeWitt Weaver, the Red Raiders went 11-1 and went on to win the Gator Bowl against Auburn 3413, according to the NCAA website. That same season, the Red Raiders also finished ranked No. 12 in the nation.

In 1973, Tech was under former coach Jim Carlen, and went 11-1 and also won in the Gator Bowl against Tennessee, according to www.saturdaydownsouth. com. The team finished the season ranked No. 11. n 2008 under now Washington State coach Mike Leach, Tech went 11-2 and went on to play in the Cotton Bowl. However, Tech lost to the Ole Miss Rebels, according to Bleacher Report, and finished ranked No. 12 in the nation.

“When we went to the Cotton Bowl, when Mike Leach was the coach and we were new in the Big 12, it was a real highlight,” Gerald Myers, assistant athletic director and former Tech basketball coach, said. “I mean it

was a great time for Texas Tech football and for Texas Tech University.”

Basketball In terms of basketball, Tech has appeared in the NCAA tournament 15 times throughout history, according to ESPN, and its tournament record is 8-16 overall.

Tech’s best seasons include the 1996 and 2005 seasons.

In 1996, the Red Raiders finished with a 30-2 record overall and undefeated in conference play according to www. sports-reference.com.

At this time, Tech was under former coach James Dickey. The Red Raiders were seeded No. 3 in the NCAA tournament and won the first two rounds against Northern Illinois and North Carolina, before losing in the semifinals against No. 2 Georgetown.

The women’s basketball team won the NCAA tournament in 1993 and became the national champions.

In 2005, Tech finished with a 22-11 record overall under former coach Bob Knight. It also finished 10-6 in the conference. For the NCAA tournament, Tech was seeded No. 6 and also won the first two rounds against No. 11 UCLA and No. 3 Gonzaga. However, it lost the semifinals against No. 7 West Virginia. Lastly, Tech basketball once again got to the NCAA tournament after a near 10-year stretch, but this time it lost to Butler in the first round 61-71.

“Coach Tubby Smith did a good job. He did a good job recruiting the year before.

They struggled a little bit,

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but they learned, they grew and they got better,” Myers said. “We did get beat, but we were a young team.

So, it was a really good accomplishment for that team. They were picked last, and the conference was so strong that they got selected to the tournament, and they played a good team from Butler, and Butler has been in the tournament every year for the last 10 years, so they’re a pretty experienced team. So, all those boys are back, Chris Beard is their coach, and he has recruited well and has brought in some good players. I’m really excited that our basketball team is going to be very competitive in the Big 12 (Conference).”

Myers said the first conference championship Tech accumulated under him was in the 1972-1973 season. For the NCAA tournament, he said there used to only be 32 teams that were selected, before it was changed to 68 teams.

He said he also gives credit to former Tech basketball player and New York Knicks player Rick Bullock. In 2013, Bullock was inducted into the Southwest Conference Hall of Fame, according to Tech Athletics. In school history, Bullock was the only one to get more than 2,000 career points and 1,000 rebounds.

In 2013, he ranked top five in every category and ranked third in all-time scoring at Tech. For three seasons in a row, Bullock was in the top 20 in the nation in scoring and field goal percentage.

“We made it in ‘73 and ‘76, and we had a good team both years. The one common denominator that we had on both teams was a guy named Rick Bullock,” Myers said.

“Bullock was a six-foot, nineinch freshman in ‘73 when we won the conference, and then he was a senior in ‘76 when we won again, but it was exciting. We got to the regionals that year. We played the first-round game in Denton and beat Syracuse

in that first round. So, we went to regional and were only two steps away from going to the final four, and that’s what was exciting, but we ran into a really good Missouri team. They had a guard named Smith, and he couldn’t miss that night. He scored 35 points, and I mean we were guarding him way out there. We were in the game, but we eventually lost by about eight.”

In 1985, the Red Raiders went 23-8 and finished first in the Southwest Conference. Their conference record was 12-4, and they lost to No. 11 Boston College in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

Myers said the team in the 1982-1983 season had problems with the players, and he was largely forced to cut some athletes. Then, three players quit the team all in the same year, but with eight players, the Red Raiders were able to go 7-9 in the conference. However, that next year, they went 10-6 and won the conference championship.

“In ‘85, we had another good team, with Bubba Jennings. Bubba was one of the best all-time shooters we’ve ever had around here,” Myers said. “He averaged about 20 points a game, and we really had a well-rounded team. I had to cut some boys for some team rules they violated, which were pretty severe violations of those rules, and three quit. So, we had eight players on the team. That’s all we had. That year, we started out real poorly. We had bad morale, bad chemistry, just wasn’t working. When I let the three go, and three quit, we started winning, and actually when we got down to eight players, that was the most responsive, one of the best chemistry, one of the most coachable teams that I ever had for the rest of that year, and they eventually won the championship, which was a great reward for them, for what they had been through the previous two years.”

Baseball/Softball Last year was the sec-

ond time Tech baseball reached Omaha for the College World Series. The team went 47-20, according to Tech Athletics, and also won the first game in Omaha for the first time in school history. In 2014, Tech made its first trip to the College World Series but did not win a game in the tournament.

“To go to Omaha two out of the last three years is just. For Tech, it had never happened before,” Myers said. “We had never been in Omaha, and it was just unbelievable, the excitement and the exposure that you get going to the (College World Series). It was great.”

For softball, Tech has had five different playoff a p p e a r a n c e s . I n 2 0 11 , Tech reached the NCAA Regional playoffs for the second time in school history. It also reached a 4216 record, the highest in school history, surpassing the previous 45-19 record from 1998, according to Tech athletics.

That year, Tech broke the record for most home wins, best win/loss record, most mercy-run rule games, consecutive win streak and consecutive home wins. It also broke a number of offseason records, pitching records and fielding records.

Track and Field/Cross Country For the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, Tech sent five athletes to compete in the games, three of whom were with Tech track and field. Former Tech athletes Bradley Atkins, Michael Mathieu and Gil Roberts competed in track and field competitions.

The men’s track and field team has won two Big 12 Conference championships, one in 2005 and another in 2014, according to Tech Athletics. The women’s cross country team has won three from 2008-2010. Throughout history, Tech has sent 15 Olympians overall, four of whom have won medals in the games.

Soccer In soccer, Tech sent

Janine Beckie and Victoria Esson to the 2016 Rio Olympics. Beckie represented Canada and Esson represented New Zealand.

In 2013, under Tech soccer coach Tom Stone, they reached their best record yet, 18-2-3, and finished second in the conference.

The Lady Raiders went to the NCAA tournament and tied Texas A&M 2-2 in double overtime and went again last year and lost to Auburn in the first round.

“We’re honoring three (Olympians) this weekend,” Tech track coach Wes Kittley said. “I mean it’s just incredible to be able to bring those guys back and to honor them, and you know I’ve been here, starting my 18th year, so we’ve had several Olympians. It just makes (me) tremendously proud to be the head coach and have these kids be able to do that through your program and see them run like Michael for 12 years.”

Volleyball The best win/loss record for volleyball was in 1990 under Mike Jones and the Lady Raiders went 30-3 overall and 8-2 in conference. They also went to the NCAA tournament and progressed to the second round. Overall, the Lady Raiders have been to the NCAA tournament eight times, according to Tech Athletics.

Golf In 2010, the men’s golf team finished fifth out of 30 teams in the NCAA tournament. For the women’s team, in 2010, the team appeared in the NCAA East Regional Tournament. Overall, they have appeared in 14 NCAA Regional tournaments.

“Last year was probably one of our better across the board of qualifying teams for the NCAA playoffs,” Myers said. “Both tennis teams were in the NCAA tournament, both golf teams were in the NCAA tournament, soccer was in, baseball was in the World Series, basketball was in the playoffs, football was in a bowl game.

It was a good year.” @JackDensmore_DT

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That plan seemed especially dicey in Game 5 of the AL Championship Series, with lightly used Ryan Merritt on the mound.

But out of nowhere, the rookie delivered.

Merritt coolly kept the Indians ahead until reinforcements arrived, and Cleveland earned its first trip to the World Series since 1997 by blanking the Toronto Blue Jays 3-0 Wednesday.

The 24-year-old lefty defied expectations, shutting down the powerful Blue Jays before exiting in the fifth

inning. Thanks to a most unlikely pitching performance, a most unexpected team won the ALCS 4-1.

Cleveland, which has never hosted a World Series opener, will play Game 1 at Progressive Field on Tuesday night against the Chicago Cubs or Los Angeles Dodgers.

Manager Terry Francona’s team will try to augment what’s already been a scintillating year in Cleveland after LeBron James and the Cavaliers earned the city’s first major pro sports championship since 1964.

The Indians’ title drought dates to 1948. In 1997, they let a one-run lead get away in the bottom of the ninth inning in Game 7 and lost to the Florida Marlins in the 11th.

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Tech relies on experience, mentality

By DIEGO GAYTAN Staff Writer

Two seasons ago, the Texas Tech basketball roster had one of the youngest team in NCAA Division I basketball, with five freshmen and three sophomores on its roster. Entering the 2016-2017 season, Tech now has one of the most experienced squads in the nation and the oldest team in the Big 12 Conference.

Currently, one freshman, six juniors and six seniors are in the active roster.

Of the six seniors, forwards Anthony Livingston and Thomas Brandsma along with Giovanni McLean came in as transfers. The team’s experience and maturity, Tech coach Chris Beard said, could turn into the team’s defining characteristics.

“This year in our rotation, it’s just going to be all juniors and seniors,” Beard said. “We’re going to talk to our guys a lot about ‘Let’s not hang our heads on the fact that we’re older, but let’s

embrace this identity about being mature, that we’ve been through some wars.’

There should not be a lot of ups and downs on this team.”

Although Tech has the oldest team in the Big 12 Conference, most of players on the squad for the upcoming season lack playing time together. At the end of the 2015-2016 season, four players transferred and guards Devaugntah Williams and Toddrick Gotcher graduated from the program.

With less than a month of official practices, junior center Norense Odiase said he cannnot tell the difference between the returners and the newcomers.

“At this point, we’re all returners, we’re all family.

I feel like our dynamic as team together is predicated on winning, and we will win with this group,” Odiase said.

“We have six seniors and his (Beard’s) big thing with these six seniors is we want to win now.”

Offensively, the team has

had to adjust to Beard’s new schematics, but most of the focus during practices has gone toward improving the team’s defense. Last season, a second-half surge placed the team in the NCAA tournament while splitting its 18 conference games.

Early on into the conference portion of its schedule, Tech struggled in the perimeter at preventing three pointers, which hurt the team in five games defined by single digits. After its opponents averaged nearly eight three-pointers at a rate of .356, the team has taken a philosophy defined by the mantra “4:1.”

“Four, that’s the mental, and the one is the physical,” junior guard Keenan Evans said. “You have to be more mentally tough then you are going to be physically tough.”

Under Beard, much of the team’s attention rests on bettering itself when it does not have the ball. Still not far into practice, Beard said he believes assistant coach

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Texas Tech coach Chris Beard speaks to the media during the men’s basketball Media Day on Wednesday in the United Supermarkets Arena. The team is one of the oldest in the conference with six juniors and six seniors on the roster.

Mark Adams has a successful plan to address the team’s defensive needs, but as of now, the team still needs time to hone its defense.

“Our defense doesn’t look very good today in practice, but most coaches would tell you that this time of year,” Beard said. “At the end of the

day I have a lot of faith and confidence in our players, in myself, our coaching staff and specifically Mark Adams.” @DGaytanDT

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Penn State ex-official denies coach lost job over Sandusky BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — Jurors in a defamation and whistleblower lawsuit were read testimony Wednesday by a former Penn State athletic director who denied a claim by a main witness against Jerry Sandusky that he was terminated as an assistant football coach because of his role in the child molestation case.

The deposition by Dave Joyner, who was athletic director when Mike McQueary’s contract was not renewed at the end June 2012, said that new coach Bill O’Brien brought in his own staff.

“My decision not to retain Mr. McQueary only relates to the fact that there was no employment for him, and his term was running out, and we did not renew it,” Joyner said in the 2013 deposition.

McQueary was put on paid administrative leave in November 2011, shortly after Sandusky’s arrest and the firing of longtime head coach Joe Paterno.

The campus was in an uproar, and McQueary became the target of critics who questioned why he had not physically intervened or

reported to police when he saw Sandusky abusing a boy in a team shower a decade earlier.

McQueary ended up in financial straits when he was terminated not long after he testified against Sandusky, who was convicted of 45 counts of child sexual abuse, including several counts related to the incident McQueary witnessed.

A few months later the school consented to pay him 18 months’ severance under terms of a letter agreement that McQueary and other coaches had been issued a few years earlier, to insulate them from changes that were expected when the aging Paterno ended his career.

Joyner said McQueary’s case didn’t precisely fit the terms of that agreement, but he decided to honor it because he “thought it was the fair thing to do.”

McQueary has not been able to find work since, and he is seeking more than $4 million in lost wages and other claims.

Also Wednesday, an investigator said a raft of threatening emails and calls about McQueary that came

in to Penn State in the days after Sandusky’s arrest were not enough to make him fear for the man’s safety.

Anthony Sassano said “there was discussion, and no one expressed any concern.”

The university is defending its handling of McQueary, saying he was sidelined from the football program over safety concerns as the scandal broke and led to Paterno’s firing, caused the ouster of the school’s president and triggered a riot-type disturbance near campus.

Sassano said investigators concluded McQueary and the public were not at risk when Penn State played Nebraska a week later. Evidence in the trial has included threats against McQueary and vague warnings that something could happen at Beaver Stadium if he showed up on game day.

“That’s what they have 200 cops for at the stadium,” Sassano said.

He described McQueary as a linchpin in the investigation of Sandusky, and of two high-ranking administrators charged for their actions in response to how they handled McQueary’s

complaint in 2001.

Sassano said he counseled McQueary against making a public statement in the aftermath of the arrests, even though McQueary expressed dismay that he was being heavily criticized.

“You don’t respond to these kooks or nuts out there who are threatening you,” Sassano testified.

Another witness, State College physician Dr. Jonathan Dranov, described how a visibly upset McQueary told him the night of the shower incident that he heard sexual sounds coming from the shower, then saw Sandusky and the boy.

Dranov advised McQueary to report it to Paterno the next day, which he did, but authorities didn’t find out about the incident for nine more years.

Under questioning by a Penn State lawyer, Dranov said he did not tell McQueary to report it to child welfare authorities or to police, nor did he or McQueary’s father suggest they return to the locker room to check on the boy’s welfare.

“It was our impression the incident was over,” he said.

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OCT. 20, 2016

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BY THE NUMBERS

Jersey numbers more than just digits

By ARIANA HERNANDEZ Staff Writer

Jersey numbers are an athlete’s identity. Athletes’ jersey numbers are often displayed large and bold for everyone to see, while their names are displayed smaller, if even displayed at all.

Some athletes pick a certain jersey number because of a current or former player they like. Sophomore point guard Japreece Dean picked No. 24 because she was inspired by an athlete in the NBA who wore No. 24.

“I picked No. 24 because of Kobe Bryant,” Dean said.

“I love his work ethic, and I love the thing they did, the muse over him, and that inspired me. So, I think that’s why I picked No. 24.

Also, 24 is the number of my mom’s birthday.”

The 2016 season will be Dean’s second year at Tech.

She contributed to the Lady Raider basketball team last season and was named Big

12 Freshman of the Week six times in 2015, according to the Tech Athletics website.

Lady Raider coach Candi Whitaker said when she played at Tech from 20002002, she originally wanted to change her jersey number. Whitaker was No. 11 throughout high school and college. She said her Tech coaches knew she had been No. 11 in the past and did not want her to change.

There is not a Lady Raider basketball player this season who wears the No. 11.

“I actually wanted to change my number when I got here and my coaches recited my record from high school through college in 11 and didn’t let me change,” Whitaker said. “I probably picked 11 originally because I had to pick from some type of small jersey, and I’ve always liked double numbers.”

Some players associate their jersey number with a date, such as a holiday, a birthday or some special occasion.

Tech volleyball senior

middle blocker/right side Lauren Douglass said she picked No. 5 for no particular reason. However, her birthday is on Dec. 5, which prompted her to decide on No. 5.

This will be Douglass’ fourth season at Tech. In her junior season in 2015, she led the team in kills and hitting percentage in all 13 games and was the team leader in total kills, according to the Tech Athletics website.

Douglass was No. 10 as a redshirt sophomore in the 2014 season before changing her number to No. 5 in the 2015 season.

“There’s really no reason.

It’s just been my number throughout middle school, high school, club. I’ve always been No. 5,” Douglass said.

“Oh, and my birthday is Dec. 5.”

Junior outside hitter Alyssa Ybanez previously played in a different jersey number. When she came to college, she had to decide on a different number than her

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previous one. Ybanez said she was No. 7 all the way up until college.

At Tech, Ybanez picked No. 11, and she said the number has grown on her. When an opportunity rose to change it back to No. 7, Ybanez said she decided to stay with the No. 11.

Ybanez is a proficient hitter on the court. She had a total of 69 kills for the 2015 season and was named to the 2015 Academic All-Big 12 second team, according to the Tech Athletics website.

“Well, when I was being recruited I was told I had to pick a number,” Ybanez said.

“And I had been seven my whole life, seven was always my number. I felt like it was a part of me. Then I get to Tech and they said seven was taken, so I was a little upset.

So I was like, ‘OK what numbers you got?’ They named a few numbers, and of course had to pick another odd number and then the smallest one they had was 11.” @A_HernandezDT

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Texas Tech guard Japreece Dean motions an offensive play for the Lady Raiders during the basketball game against Kansas on Jan. 30 in the United Supermarkets Arena. Dean said she picked her jersey number because of Kobe Bryant.

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Baylor under investigation Big 12 now has to decide whether for alleged Title IX violations to divide or not after no expansion WACO (AP) — Baylor University is under federal investigation after its former coordinator responsible for preventing gender discrimination filed a complaint over sexual violence on the university’s Waco campus, a federal agency spokeswoman said Wednesday.

The investigation by the Office for Civil Rights for the U.S. Department of Education began after the agency received a complaint from Patty Crawford, Baylor’s former Title IX coordinator, said agency spokeswoman Dorie Nolt. The office “will collect and analyze all relevant evidence to develop

its findings,” she said in a statement Wednesday.

As Title IX coordinator, Crawford was entrusted with enforcing federal standards meant to prevent discrimination based on gender at Baylor. She resigned as Title IX coordinator early this month and said publicly that top campus leaders undermined her efforts to investigate sexual assault claims and were more concerned with protecting the Baylor “brand” than the students.

“I never had the authority, the resources or the independence to do the job appropriately,” she said during an appearance on “CBS

This Morning” the day after her resignation.

A Baylor spokesman did not respond to a request for comment on the federal investigation but said in a statement in response to Crawford’s resignation that Crawford went public with her grievances only after the school rejected a demand for $1 million and retention of book and film rights.

“Baylor University was surprised by the action taken by Patty Crawford given her public comments in August about the strong support she felt from across the University,” the statement said.

Now that the Big 12 has decided to stay at 10 schools, it’s time for the conference to figure out whether to split up into football divisions and determine who will play in the Big 12 championship game that returns next season.

“We weren’t able to move forward in a direction until we knew about the composition of the conference going forward,” Oklahoma athletic director Joe Castiglione said. “We are looking at several options.”

If the league opts to return to divisions, the big question then becomes how to split into groups of five.

As a 12-team league until 2010, the Big 12 had North

and South divisions. That is possible again, or maybe a roughly East-West split?

There are four Texas schools, two each in Kansas and Oklahoma and one each in Iowa and West Virginia.

“It’s a hard league to play in because you play everybody,” TCU coach Gary Patterson said. “Good teams are good teams. ... It’ll be interesting to see how they set it up and how they do it.”

The league is keeping the round-robin schedule proudly touted since dropping to 10 teams so, divisions or not, every team will still play each other every year. That’s different from the larger

conferences; Nebraska left the Big 12 for a 14-team Big Ten after the 2010 season and last weekend played Indiana in a conference game for the first time.

Traditional rivalry games like Texas-Oklahoma at the State Fair of Texas, KansasKansas State and BaylorTCU will continue an annual basis. There is just now the possibility of a championship game rematch.

Castiglione said league ADs will even consider the possibility of divisions that would change “every so many years” based on some sort of metric, perhaps standings from previous seasons.