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System Chancellor Duncan given award Texas Tech System Chancellor Robert Duncan was recognized Monday by the Texas Access to Justice Foundation with the Legislative Hero Award.

As the former state senator, Duncan’s role in advancing access to justice was applauded during the luncheon hosted with the Supreme Court of Texas, kicking off Texas Pro Bono Week, according to a Texas Access to Justice Foundation news release.

The Texas Access to Justice Commission and Foundation launched the Legislative Hero Award program in 2010 to recognize legislators who have significantly advanced access to justice in Texas by assisting with the appropriation of funds or other substantive activities related to the provision of legal aid in the state, according to the release.

Former State Senator Duncan was elected to District 84 in the Texas House in 1992, according to the release. He served as president pro tempore of the Texas Senate during the 81st Legislative Session.

During his tenure, he served as chair of the State Affairs Committee and as a member of the Natural Resources, Higher Education, Finance and Education Committees, according to the release.

The Texas Access to Justice Foundation, created by the Supreme Court of Texas in 1984, is the largest state-based funding source for the provision of civil legal aid in Texas, according to the release.

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Chamber of Commerce to host candidate forum The Lubbock Chamber of Commerce is hosting a live televised candidate forum 7 p.m. today for candidates in the Texas District 19 Congressional General Election.

Incumbent Randy Neugebauer and challengers Neal Marchbanks and Richard Peterson will all appear in an hour-long televised event, according to a Lubbock Chamber of Commerce news release.

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Tech museum deputy director reaches out to community

By AMY CUNNINGHAM La Vida Editor

There are more than five million objects in the Museum of Texas Tech’s collection, and new Deputy Director Tabitha Schmidt wants the Lubbock community to experience them all.

Schmidt, who describes herself as a planner, said one of her primary goals is to reach out to Tech students and local residents.

“We’re not right in the middle of campus, so it’s not so easy for us,” she said. “It’s not like going to the library — it’s a little bit more difficult. We really want to find ways to open it up, to welcome people, get them in here and figure out ways to connect.”

Since she began her position Sept. 15, Schmidt said she is scanning her new environment to find out what people want to see in the museum.

The museum is free to the public and is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday and is closed Monday, according to the museum website.

The list of things she wants to accomplish while at the Museum of Tech is growing longer, Schmidt said.

“I’ve really been meeting with everybody who will talk to me,” Schmidt said. “My primary role here is going to be focusing on external constituencies, and that’s really anybody who wants to use the museum, including the campus community.”

Cameron Saffell, assistant director of museum operations, said communication is a key aspect of Schmidt’s position.

As a research hub for Lubbock and West Texas, the museum has a lot to offer and Schmidt will share these things with the area, he said.

“Tabitha is coming to help bring more attention to the museum and its role in the community,” he said. “She’s enhancing what we’re already doing with partners at Texas Tech and throughout the region.”

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TABITHA SCHMIDT, DEPUTY director of the Museum of Texas Tech, began her position Sept. 15 after working in the Kansas City Art Institute as director of the School for Continuing and Professional Studies. As deputy director, Schmidt will work with the Office of the Provost to promote the marketing, revenue and external aspects of the Tech museum. The museum, which has more than 5 million objects ranging from art to dinosaur fossils, is free to the public and is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, from 1 to 5 p.m. on Sunday and is closed Monday.

WR Jakeem Grant likely to play Week Without Violence hosted

by Women’s Studies, CCAAC Saturday after hospitalization Texas Tech junior wide receiver Jakeem Grant is likely to play this Saturday against Texas Christian after he was hospitalized and received stitches early Sunday morning.

Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury said Grant has been released from the hospital since and is doing well.

“I would expect him to play,” Kingsbury said.

“It’s not 100 percent, but it looks that way.”

The incident Grant was injured at took place at El Fonterizo, Lt. Bryan Taylor of the Lubbock county Sheriff’s Department said, which is located off of 124th Street and US 287. El Fonterizo is a venue that can be rented out to host parties and other events.

Taylor said the Sheriff’s Department received the first call about the incident at 1:17 a.m. Sunday.

An excess of 20 shots were fired at the scene, Taylor said, but they do not think Grant was shot.

“As far as his injuries go, I don’t know how he

sustained injuries,” Taylor said. “We do not think he was shot. We think maybe he was cut with something.”

Grant received stitches underneath his chin area, Kingsbury said, once he was admitted to the hospital.

GRANT Kingsbury said he did not know if there were any other Tech football players around the incident, but that was not a situation he wanted the players to be in.

“That’s not safe for our team,” he said. “Obviously, kids are going to go out. That’s part of the college life, but you’d hope that that wouldn’t happen somewhere that your players are at.”

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By KRISTEN BARTON Staff WritEr

One in five women and one in 16 men are sexually assaulted in college, according to the “It’s On Us” campaign website. Of these individuals, 40 percent of survivors of violence or sexual assault live in fear of their attacker striking again.

As a result of this, the Texas Tech Women’s Studies Program and the Cross Cultural Academic Advancement Center have partnered to sponsor Week Without Violence 2014. The week will include an information fair, candlelight vigil, literary reading performances and panel discussions, according to the program’s website.

The Texas Tech Women’s Studies Program is dedicated to this worldwide campaign to end sexual violence, Patricia Earl, unit

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Research team, Tech professor discovers brightest star in galaxy M82

By DANI COPELAND Staff WritEr

A Texas Tech astrophysicist was a part of a research team that discovered the brightest pulsar in galaxy M82.

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Pulsars are a type of dead star created after a supernova explosion, according to the release. This pulsar was discovered with NASA’s new telescope, Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array or NuSTAR. This pulsar burns with the intensity of 10 million suns.

Tom Maccarone, an associate professor of physics at Tech, was part of the team who discovered the pulsar, he said. The other scientists involved were from Canada, France,

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“It’s an exciting scientific result, and it’s always great for the university and the department to be making exciting discoveries,” Maccarone said.

Astrophysics is easy for the public to relate to and understand when it comes to releasing new discoveries, he said.

“Astrophysics is one of the sciences in which things change most quickly,” he said.

“It’s also an area where, even though the

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The paper on the discovery appears in the journal “Nature,” Maccarone said. The main author of the research paper was Matteo Bachetti, who works at the University of Cagliari in Italy.

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“We want to take a balanced approach on teaching students about economic and civil liberties.”

Fuller said six members of the TTU chapter made the trip to Dallas.

Students for Liberty is an international libertarian student organization that has more than 1,300 student groups with more than 100,000 members in its organization, according to the group’s website.

The official attendance for the Regional Conference was 162 members, he said, an increase from last year’s conference, which had 140 attendees, according to the Students for Liberty website.

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On Saturday, members of the Young Americans for Liberty at Texas Tech traveled to Dallas for the annual Students for Liberty Regional Conference.

The purpose of the conference was to help collegiate groups become better student activists and increase political awareness on their campuses, Jake Fuller, Tech Young Americans for Liberty president, said.

Students from TCU, Texas State and other colleges in Texas and Louisiana were in attendance, Fuller said.

“Our mission is to educate students on liberty,” he said.

This fall Students for Liberty is planning to host 21 regional conferences across the United States and Canada, including one in Austin on Nov. 1, according to the website.

Bradley Gonzales, a sophomore political science major from Austin, said he is glad there are political organizations on campus, but he is not sure he agrees with student advocacy.

“I only like to advocate for the things that affect me,” he said. “I mean I guess people can have different opinions, but I don’t know if someone who doesn’t know about a certain issue should really speak on it.

Advocacy in general is good though.”

Fuller said student apathy and lack of education is a problem when it comes to politics.

“Many students connect politics with politicking,” he said.

“We want to teach people that you don’t have to endorse a politician in order to be political.”

Earlier this month, the TTU Young Americans for Liberty participated in the Students for Liberty’s End the Drug War campaign by hosting a three-speaker panel to discuss their opposition to the ongoing drug war.

The Young Americans for Liberty are also planning to hold a debate with the Young Conservatives of Texas, Tech Student Democrats and the Tech College Republicans, Fuller said.

YOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY

• Participates in the End the Drug War campaign annually • Hosting a debate with the Young Conservatives of Texas, Tech Student Democrats and Tech College Republicans later in the month • Attends conferences each year to meet other students and gain insight into advancing advocacy The conference featured speakers David Boaz, Lawrence Reed, Tom Palmer, Jeffrey Tucker, David Friedman, Shikha Damia, Matt Welch and Nick Gillespie, all international advocates, as well as breakout sessions, workshops and socials that allowed the students to trade ideas with other students on different college campuses.

By EMMA ZAMBRYCKI Staff Writer

The Texas Tech Health Sciences Center and the Laura W. Bush Institute for Women’s Health are hosting the Third Annual Gender-Specific Women’s Health Symposium from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday in the HSC academic classroom 100.

The symposium will feature keynote speakers from Tech and other universities, such as Georgia State and the University of Toronto, Angela Knapp, interim executive director for the Laura W. Bush Institute for Women’s Health, said.

“All of the topics revolve around gender specific medicine,” Knapp said. “The purpose of it mostly is to teach faculty members and also health care providers the differences between men and women in their health care practices.”

Tech has gained national expertise in gender-specific medicine, Dr. Steven Berk, academic dean for the

Tech HSC, said.

Gender-specific medicine examines the differences in the biology of men and women and how these differKNAPP ences can affect the treatment and overall diagnosis of diseases in both genders.

Gender-specific medicine helps researchers understand the differences in the symptoms and recovery of particular diseases in men and women, Berk said, as well as why women are diagnosed with a particular disease more often than men and why some treatments work better in men than women.

“It’s a symposium to look at those types of differences — differences biologically in the actual cells of men and women, but also how differences in gender affect health,” he said. “One of the lectures I will

be giving is on Ebola and why there are major gender differences in men versus women and how gender is so important.”

BERK Besides Berk’s lecture on the role of gender in the Ebola infection, other topics discussed will include sexual differentiation of the brain, the importance of gender in medicine and research as well as other topics about gender-specific medicine, according to the release.

The event will also include skill-building workshops regarding gender specific medicine, according to the release, and several shorter lectures throughout the day.

In his lecture, Berk will be examine the West African culture and explain why women in West Africa are much more likely to contract the Ebola virus than men, he said.

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Bachetti said when he found the pulsar he saw a stable pulsation from the source, which could not happen if the star had come from a black hole as originally believed.

“What this means for our research is, first of all, a change of attitude,” Bachetti said. “We saw these very bright sources and we thought that they must be possibly big, black holes.”

The research team used the NuSTAR telescope while observing the recent supernova explosion when they noticed pulses coming from a point nearby the explosion. According to the release, black holes are

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TOM MACCARONE, A Texas Tech astrophysicist, was a part of a research team that discovered the brightest pulsar in galaxy M82.

not known to pulse, but dead stars do, which is why it was identified as a pulsar.

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Friday 11:04 a.m. — A Texas Tech officer investigated theft in the Z5C parking lot. A YETI cooler was taken.

1:49 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a traffic accident in the 1800 block of Flint Avenue.

3:25 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft at Sam’s West. An unsecured Orange Fox wallet and the contents were taken.

4:14 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated criminal mischief in the R-18 parking lot. A tree limb was removed from a tree to make room for a tailgating tent.

4:21 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft at the east bike rack of the Chemistry building. An unsecured blue and white Trek Road Bike was taken.

4:26 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft in the Sneed Residence Hall’s Sam’s Place. An unsecured silver Apple MacBook Pro 13” laptop computer was taken.

Saturday 1:17 a.m. — A Tech officer documented a medical emergency at Carpenter/Wells Residence Hall. A student was intoxicated and requested to be transported to the University Medical Center Emergency Room

by Emergency Medical Services for further treatment.

1:23 a.m. — A Tech officer issued a student a Lubbock County citation for an open container of alcohol in a motor vehicle in the 3000 block of 18th Street. The student signed the citation and was released.

1:32 a.m. — A Tech officer charged and released a student for

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ACROSS 1 Puzzles on kidfriendly place mats 6 1965 Beatles concert stadium 10 FedEx rival 13 Sheeplike 14 Fuse with a torch 15 “Amen to that!”

17 Scout’s motto 19 Nevada city on the Humboldt River 20 Ho-hum 21 Showed penitence 23 Gave permission 24 Indian bread 26 Like a watch with hands 28 Giant slugger Mel 31 Tool-hanging spots 34 Explorer Sir Francis 35 Soap unit 36 Actress who is Dakota’s sister 39 “Just teasing” 41 Organ with a canal 42 “Hooked on Classics” record co.

43 Japanese ritual including an iron pot 48 Dam-building org.

49 By oneself 50 Bela’s “Son of Frankenstein” role 51 Thanksgiving veggie 52 Former Seattle team now in Oklahoma City, familiarly 54 Where Mandela was pres.

56 DOJ division 57 Not-too-bright sort 60 Coarse file 64 Not out 66 Holders of the sandwich homophonically described by the first words of 17-, 36- and 43Across 68 Was aware of 69 __ code 70 Rocker Joplin 71 Dr. of rap

Paige Marquez, a junior business major from Houston, said she is glad to see advocacy efforts take place on campus.

“Students should be more involved,” she said. “I don’t know how to get involved and I hope things like this will help me, as well as other students, find ways to participate in national issues.”

driving under the influence of alcohol by a minor in the 1800 block of Flint Avenue. A student passenger was also issued a Lubbock County citation for the consumption of alcohol by a minor. The student passenger signed the citation and was released. The student’s vehicle was released to a responsible party.

2:54 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for public intoxication in the 1600 block of Flint Avenue.

The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

3:41 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for public intoxication in the 1800 block of Flint Avenue.

The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

11:51 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated criminal mischief in the Zone 4-P parking lot. Both side mirrors of a student’s vehicle were damaged.

2:15 p.m. — A Texas State Trooper arrested a student for public intoxication at Gate 6 in Jones AT&T Stadium. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

2:20 p.m. — A deputy arrested a student for public intoxication in Section 24 at the stadium. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

3:10 p.m. — A state trooper arrested a non-student for public intoxication in the C-11 parking lot.

The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

3:20 p.m. — A deputy arrested a student for public intoxication on the east side of the stadium. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

3:25 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for public intoxication in the 2500 block of 6th Street.

The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

5:48 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft at the west bike racks of Sneed Residence Hall. A secured blue, white and green Colnago Mapei racing bike was taken.

6:28 p.m. — A Tech officer documented a medical emergency in Section 101 at Jones AT&T Stadium. A student who is diabetic was feeling ill after consuming alcohol. The student was transported to the Covenant Hospital by Emergency Medical Services.

11:11 p.m. — A Tech officer documented a medical emergency in the 2500 block of Main Street. A student was suffering from possible alcohol poisoning. The student was transported to the University Medical Center Emergency Room by Emergency Medical Services for further treatment because of the student’s intoxication level.

Sunday 12:19 a.m. — A Tech officer charged a non-student driver with resisting arrest, evading arrest, driving while intoxicated, possession of marijuana and theft in the 3300 block of 19th Street. A non-student passenger was arrested for public intoxication and transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

1:28 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft at Bledsoe Residence Hall. A Tech identification card and $100 were taken.

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A Texas Tech professor’s research involving selenium and clinical antibodies has shown that it kills cancer cells more effectively than other treatments currently on the market.

Julian Spallholz, a professor of nutritional sciences at Tech, has studied the effects of selenium on several types of cancer, including breast cancer according to a Tech Health Sciences Center news release.

“The selenium research conducted by students and colleagues over the years and with the data from this commercial monoclonal antibody leads one to the longer term view that the redox technology produced by selenium and employed here is applicable to many medical applications,” Spallholz said, according to the release.

Almost a quarter of a million people were diagnosed with breast cancer this year, according to the release, while another three million are living with the disease.

Although breast cancer has an 89 percent 5-year survival rate, a large number of patients have experienced recurrence of their cancer, according to the release.

Selenium, when attached to a monoclonal antibo dy presently used to treat breast cancer, has shown greater success in destroying cancer cells in a patient who has experienced resistance to the chemotherapy, according to the release.

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Homecoming winners share experience

By LIANA SOLIS Staff Writer

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HOLTON WESTBROOK GETS crowned Texas Tech homecoming king Saturday at Jones AT&T Stadium. Westbrook was the homecoming representative for Pi Kappa Alpha.

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BAILEY IVERSON RECEIVES her homecoming sash after being announced Texas Tech homecoming queen Saturday at Jones AT&T Stadium. Iverson was Delta Gamma’s homecoming representative.

Not many people get to experience representing thousands of Texas Tech students as the homecoming king or queen.

Holton Westbrook, a junior agricultural economics major from Stephenville, and Bailey Iverson, a senior marketing major from Rowlett, were crowned as the Tech homecoming king and queen Saturday.

Westbrook, who represented Pi Kappa Alpha in the homecoming court, said the process of running for homecoming king was a long one.

“There was a lot that went into preparing for everything,” he said, “But it was worth it in the end once everything was done.”

The process started with turning in an application and resume, Westbrook said, that included goals, career paths and overall goals of being at Tech.

Recipients also had to get a nomination from the other members of their organization, he said.

“Everyone had to participate in S.O. Sing, which is where they announced the top 10,” Westbrook said. “I have no dance experience and can’t really dance, so it was interesting for me, but I still had a lot of fun with it.”

Iverson, who represented Delta Gamma, said the nominees also attended other homecoming events, such as the Techsan Memorial service Oct. 16.

Nominees were able to meet and speak with the family members of students who have passed away in the past year.

“It was a really eye-opening experience to be able to speak with those families and hear everything they had been through,” Iverson said. “It was an incredibly special thing for me.”

After the top 10 nominees were named, interviews were conducted with the finalists the next morning, Westbrook said.

The process started becoming real for him going into those interviews, he said, because they found out quickly and didn’t have a lot of time to prepare.

“I was extremely nervous for those interviews just because everything started happening so fast,” he said. “It was still a really cool process to go through.”

Each of the top nominees also participated in the homecoming parade and pep rally on Oct. 17, Iverson said.

The events were Iverson’s favorite part of homecoming week, she said, and one of her favorite memories made at Tech so far.

“Riding by in the car and seeing all the little kids throwing their guns up was so amazing,” Iverson said. “It really shows how the traditions here and for homecoming radiate through families.”

The top five nominees were announced Friday, Westbrook said, which is the day things started to become more nerve-wracking for him.

The homecoming court included Nora Jan (Delta Phi Omega Sorority Inc.), Hayden Turner (Kappa Alpha Theta), Stephanie Addison (Pi Beta Phi), Ashley Peterson (Kappa Kappa Gamma), Jason Judd (Saddle Tramps), Florencio Aranda (Sigma Delta Pi), Nathan Pool (Kappa Sigma) and Kevin

Koestler (Sigma Phi Epsilon), in addition to Iverson and Westbrook.

Westbrook said all he could do then was wait and see who decided to vote for him.

“That wait till Saturday was the longest wait ever for me,” Westbrook said. “It was worth waiting for though — I wouldn’t trade this past week for anything.”

Iverson was anxious going into the game Saturday, she said, because she did not know what to think about the whole experience.

She was thankful she had made it into the top five, she said, and never thought she would make it as far as she did.

“My goal was to get Delta Gamma in the top five, because that is something we haven’t been able to do for a while,” Iverson said. “So my nerves really hit when I went onto that field and saw all the Tech students and fans looking at me.”

Iverson said after a bad first-year experience at Tech, she almost decided to transfer.

Delta Gamma and her sorority sisters are the main reason she stayed at Tech, she said.

“I have received so many countless opportunities here at Tech,” she said.

“That’s what Tech really is — a place for opportunity for everyone.”

Westbrook was announced as homecoming king first, and said he was shocked when he heard his name.

He said he began hugging his mother as soon as he hear the announcer say ‘Pi.’ “My mom wasn’t sure what was going

on till she heard them call my name,” he said. “Then she got surprised and started hugging me back — I was so surprised and I still feel so blessed.”

Iverson said the wait for them to announce the queen seemed like an eternity to her.

As soon as she heard her name, she instantly went into shock and found it hard to believe her name had just been called, she said.

“I turned to my dad and he was starting to cry while I just stood there in shock,” she said. “I’m still in shock today and I don’t think it is really going to set in for a while.”

Iverson and Westbrook said they believe homecoming has always been an important tradition in Texas and in the South.

It helps remind everyone that the university and those in the community are all family, Iverson said.

“The two people who are elected represent what this university is all about,” she said. “We are role models for all those kids that are watching us, too. We are really helping keep the tradition alive.”

Westbrook said he never would have imaged this happening to him a few years ago.

It was fun and rewarding to see all the hard work put into reaching his goal pay off, he said.

“It’s such an honor to represent over 35,000 students as the homecoming king,” Westbrook said. “It is so rewarding to know so many people have that ode of confidence in you.” ➤➤lsolis@dailytoreador.com

Texas Tech engineering students revamp solar powered car Staff Writer

The Ford Motor Company introduced its C-MAX Solar Energi Concept car at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show, according to the National Geographic website, and the car is a hybrid between solar energy and conventional fuel.

Various car companies support the development of solar cars by sponsoring college solar racing teams. For example, Ford sponsors the University of Michigan Solarcar and Volkswagen sponsors the Stanford Solar Car Project.

John Reel, a senior mechanical engineering major from Dallas and president of the Texas Tech Solar Racing Team, said the team was formed a few years ago and has gone through periods of varying involvement.

“Unfortunately the team had to go into a hiatus for a period of time while we waited for interest to be drummed up again,” he said. “This year we’ve had a lot of interest from students, so we’re becoming more active.”

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According to an email sent to students by Provost and Senior Vice President Lawrence Schovanec, Schmidt previously worked in the Kansas City Art Institute as director of the School for Continuing and Professional Studies.

Prior to working at the institute Schmidt worked in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City for five years, she said, and enjoyed the museum environment.

“The position I had before this was not at a museum, and I missed it,” she said. “I was looking for a career movement and an opportunity. I was also looking for a museum that was not just art because art is primarily the background I’ve had.

I wanted to sort of open my world up, and this museum has everything.”

Schmidt loves working with objects and collections, she said, because people can learn more and understand a topic better by having a visual item in front of them.

However, she said she wants to develop the role of the museum beyond education.

“We’re definitely an academic and research museum,” she said. “We’ve got that one pretty well covered, but we need to become more of a community museum also. As I like to say, we need to open up our doors and dust out the rugs.”

John Adams, a senior mechaniThe team builds a 16-foot car that runs completely off the power of cal engineering major from Mansthe sun, Reel said, and it competes field, said he joined the team while against other teams in the American it was in its inactive period. “ I ’ m Solar Challenge. looking The project is forward to difficult because getting the solar cells are not car working efficient enough and being to power cars able to drive completely, and it around Ford’s C-MAX car campus,” he can drive an estisaid. “It will mated 21 miles off be rewardof seven hours of ing to have solar charge. everyone see “It’s essentially JOHN REEL a losing battle, what we’re SENIOR MECHANICAL working on.” and you know that ENGINEERING MAJOR T h e going in,” Reel team is split said. “You do the into three best you can. The point is to try and push the technol- different groups, Reel said, and members can work on the mechaniogy a little further every year.”

The American Solar Challenge cal structure of the car, the solar alternates between in-track driving cells and electrical circuiting, or competitions and cross-country pursuing sponsors. competitions, he said, and the cars James Rosenbaum, a senior are judged based on the number of chemical engineering major from laps or the total distance they drive Plano, said he has helped on all depending on the competition type. aspects of the car including working

on the solar cells.

“A lot of teams will professionally do the encapsulation and coating of the solar cells,” he said. “I was basically doing a professional job with amateur materials, but I think my work still helped. I would figure out how the efficiency of the cell differed and what type of coating the team liked best.”

The public relations aspect of the team is important because the solar car is completely funded by sponsors, and Reel said he is hoping to have a budget of $100,000 for this year’s car.

The team meets at 7 p.m. every Thursday in the Mechanical Engineering building to work on designs for the car, and Reel said any student is welcome to join regardless of major.

“We’re looking to give students a chance to use what they’re learning in school,” he said. “There’s so many things in the real world that you can’t learn in a classroom. It’s something different to put on your resume, and it’s a way to help students get jobs.” ➤➤jromero@dailytoreador.com

A MEMBER OF the Texas Tech Solar Racing Team works on designing a logo for the upcoming season.

ing list is the overhaul of the museum’s website, she said.

As a planner, Schmidt said she analyzes the successes of the museum, how to reach its target audiences and what the museum is currently missing.

“To find those answers, you’ve got to go to the source,” she said. “I know a lot of people have said they’d like to see more college students in here. They’re not our typical visitor, but they would come if things here were programmed for them.”

her at tabitha.schmidt@ttu.edu if they have suggestions or ideas for the future of the museum.

For now, Schmidt is adjusting to her life in Lubbock and wants to help the com-

munity access all the museum has to offer.

“I want the people to know there’s over five million objects in this museum’s collection,” she said. “Nobody knows that. It’s everything from dinosaur bones

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The point is to try and push the technology a little further every year.

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Schmidt wants everyone to know the museum is trying its best to open up to the community, she said.

The museum has a wide range of exhibits and collections most are unaware of, Saffell said.

“The Tech museum is truly one of the hidden gems for the campus,” he said. “We are one of the major research facilities on campus, and we cover a lot of things relevant across the region.”

Schmidt said anyone can email

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Concealed handguns beneficial to campus safety Kyle Jacobson shooter panicked and killed himself. According to CNN, the entire incident lasted less than 80 seconds.

Campus mass shooting procedures have changed drastically over time. In the 1966 University of Texas sniper shooting, the local police actually had to borrow citizens’ deer rifles to try and apprehend the shooter, according to an Esquire article. This incident helped lead to the formation of the SWAT team.

In the 1999 Columbine High School shooting, security and police were not permitted to enter the building, as protocol dictated they wait for the SWAT team to show up. However, the SWAT team didn’t enter the high school until 47 minutes after the shooting began and didn’t reach the first injured victims until nearly two hours after the shooting began, according to a CBS News article.

I applaud law enforcement for changing its tactics in response to such shootings. I think this is a large reason why a high school shooting in 2014 lasted for 80 seconds and a high school shooting in 1999 wasn’t fully addressed by police for almost two hours.

However, another step must be taken to prevent these tragedies on college campuses. The state of Texas should legalize concealed handgun carry on college campuses for those who have a Concealed Handgun License.

CHL holders must be 21 years old, pass a shooting proficiency exam, pass a written test and pass a federal background check for past felony convictions and mental illness. This means only mature, qualified and healthy individuals would be the ones potentially carrying a handgun on campus.

Some fear this policy change

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hat comes to mind when the topic of mass shootings arises?

There’s the relatively recent school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, where 26 people were murdered, 20 of them being kids. A few months before that was the movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado, where 12 people were murdered and 70 more were injured.

Going back further in time, there’s the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre in which 32 people were murdered. To this day, it is the deadliest shooting in United States history.

In 1999 there was the Columbine shooting, which took the lives of 13 people. Being from Austin, I’m personally reminded every summer of the University of Texas sniper, who killed 16 people and injured 32.

Every time we receive news of these tragic events, we ask ourselves, “When and how will it stop?”

There is no doubt an element of mental illness is involved with each shooting. However, “gun-free” zones serve as magnets to these shooters.

We can better prepare ourselves for and defend against these mass shootings by eliminating “gun-free” zones and educating ourselves about handgun safety.

Let’s look at the Aurora movie theater shooting. There were seven movie theaters within a 20-mile radius of the shooter’s apartment, according to a Fox News article. He did not choose the movie theater that could seat the most people, nor did he choose the movie theater closest to his apartment. The shooter chose the only movie theater out of the seven that banned handguns, according to the article.

Now let’s examine a similar movie theater shooting which occurred in San Antonio just after the Aurora incident. Not familiar with it? Of course not, because nobody died. A man fired a shot in a San Antonio restaurant before fleeing to a nearby movie theater parking lot and shooting his only victim, who was injured but not killed, according to a CBS News article.

He then ran into the movie theater and fired another shot. An offduty sheriff’s deputy who was legally carrying a gun inside of the theater ended the shooting by shooting the gunman, according to the article.

One must wonder how this incident would have ended had the deputy not been carrying a weapon.

After the Newton shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, some called for armed security guards in schools to either defend against a similar attack or intimidate an attacker from targeting a school in the first place. Others were skeptical that this solution was too militarizing and that school kids shouldn’t need to grow up near guns every day.

Then, the Arapahoe High School shooting occurred. According to 7NEWS Denver, an armed guard confronted the shooter after he claimed his only victim. The

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would result in a bunch of people running around campus waving guns in the air. People ask me, “Are you out of your mind? You want a bunch of stressed out college kids carrying guns on campus?” It’s a blatant misconception.

According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, for the year 2012 – the last year for which statistics are available – CHL holders accounted for just 0.19 percent of Texans convicted of a crime.

Politifact estimates that 2 percent of Texans have a CHL. If CHL holders committed crimes at equal rates to non-CHL holders, CHL holders would account for about 2 percent of the crime in Texas. This means CHL holders would have to multiply the amount of crimes they commit by ten just to be even with their fellow Texans without a CHL. It is unfortunate that we live in a society where guns are often associated with violent acts. In reality, when they are used properly as a defense mechanism, they can end shootings and prevent further loss of life. “Gun-free” zones become anything but “gun-free” when these mentally ill shooters show up on campus. Places like schools are magnets for the deranged because they know they can kill as many people as possible without any resistance.

Some people without home security systems put a home security sign in their front yard anyway. Why? A burglar won’t go into that house.

Do you think a burglar would go into a house with a sign that read, “This house is not armed with an alarm nor a weapon?” Of course they would.

So let’s take down Texas Tech’s “no guns permitted” signs and allow those who responsibly use concealed handguns as defense mechanisms to help Tech police keep us safe and repel potential shooters before they even arrive on campus.

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lmost all incoming Texas Tech engineering students will be required to study abroad before they graduate. This program began with the fall class of 2013, according to the Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering website, and was billed as a part of Tech’s bid for Tier One recognition. However, the requirement is and will continue to be very detrimental to the university and the COE. According to the COE website, the requirement can be fulfilled by taking a minimum of three course hours abroad, or by completing an internship, research or service project abroad.

While it is clearly beneficial to students to have an appreciation for other cultures, making such an expensive, time-consuming activity mandatory as part of an already cramped degree plan is downright ludicrous. Even the most straightforward programs cost thousands of dollars and require a student to spend a substantial amount of time abroad.

There are the two main issues with the program. First, in terms of cost, each course taken abroad costs several times the amount it would cost to take at Tech, when program fees are included. Students and their families should not be required to spend any more money than is necessary on a degree, and this is a significant expenditure for arguably very little return.

While scholarships are available, it is clear that not every person who studies abroad will have their expenses covered by a scholarship.

This problem will only get worse as more and more students are required to study abroad, as the number of scholarship dollars per student will likely decrease.

Second, and perhaps more importantly, most engineers are expected to obtain valuable work experience through summer internships prior to graduating. However, most of the COE-sanctioned study abroad programs also take place in the summer, thereby creating a conflict. While it can be argued that, “employers will value the study abroad experience

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s college kids we are all aware of the tremendous amount of money we go through. The question is where it is all going. It is critical to understand where your money is ultimately ending up.

By shopping at local shops rather than chain stores, we end up helping the economy and community as well as our own personal values. A myriad of things come into play when we shop at local places, for instance, keeping money in the community, creating jobs and retaining our local identity.

Our economy is slowly progressing, and as such we should help allow it to continue by boosting our responsibility through local buying.

A study by Civic Economics shows, “local retailers return an average of 52 percent of their revenue to the local economy, compared with just 14 percent for the chain retailers.

Similarly, the local restaurants recirculate an average of 79 percent of their revenue locally, compared to 30 percent for the chain eateries.”

This proves the velocity of money filtering through with wages, nonprofit donations, local goods and services are serious determi-

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just as much as an internship,” this argument is patently ridiculous.

Most employers (i.e. those which only operate domestically) couldn’t care less whether or not a candidate has studied abroad. All employers, on the other hand, care how many years of internship experience the student has when deciding on fulltime job offers.

The international requirement does allow internships abroad, ostensibly to alleviate this concern, but there are few companies that offer paid internships abroad due to visa restrictions for short-term employees (like summer interns).

Thus, if a student wishes to maximize the number of summer internships, he or she must study abroad during the school year.

However, as there are not enough classes offered abroad to fill a whole semester on a specific degree track, this student will likely be forced to delay his or her graduation. Simply put, this program will force most engineering students to choose between graduating on time and maximizing their summer internship potential.

This is a decision that a student should not have to make. It is truly remarkable that the COE has failed to anticipate these consequences, which will probably begin widely manifesting themselves by the end of 2015 as more and more 2013 freshmen realize they will need to study abroad to graduate.

A third factor, liability and safety, presents another huge obstacle for the program’s success. In coercing students to travel abroad, Tech is taking on a huge risk. If a student were to be harmed in any way, or, God forbid, were to go missing, the university could be found liable no matter how many waiver forms the students and their parents had signed.

While the locations currently listed for study abroad seem fairly

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safe (Spain, Germany, etc.), the simple fact is every American citizen is a target to criminal organizations overseas, and the university clearly does not have the resources to protect students sufficiently.

Only one course of action will resolve this issue: Effective immediately, the COE should drop the international requirement from the curriculum.

This is not to say it should not encourage students to study abroad.

Some students, such as those who don’t get an internship after their freshman year, would greatly benefit from doing so. Others can simply make it their priority if that’s what they want to do, but this is a very large commitment in terms of finances, time and risk assumption on the part of the student, and as such, should be a personal decision and not a requirement.

Furthermore, under this protocol, the scholarship money available for study abroad could be given to those who will get the most out of it — the students who wanted to go in the first place.

If this change is not made, many parents and students will likely choose to matriculate elsewhere, particularly the top engineering students who plan to graduate in four years and obtain internships all three summers. These are the students Tech needs in order to achieve Tier One status, which ironically was the goal of the program in the first place.

Although its ill effects have not yet been felt, the COE international requirement will be detrimental for the university in the long run, and as such must be changed. Students should not be forced to assume that level of financial obligation, risk and time commitment without expressly choosing to do so. Tech should not be assuming the liability for sending students overseas.

If a change is not made, Tech will likely lose the top students it needs to achieve Tier One status.

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Kendra Kimberlin nants of how healthy a community is. Take charge and become investors in our community.

Another benefit of having money stay in the local area is the fact that more cents per dollar go to various philanthropic ventures. Through nonprofit organizations, people from different backgrounds find commonality and passion to help others for a certain cause.

Along those lines that same money gives back directly to helping improve parks and other projects that generate pride for that city, which I believe Lubbock needs more of. This also gives local goods a higher value and quality through caring for what goes on around them.

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and minimum benefits give chain store employees reason to keep their options open to new and better things, not to mention the fact that to the corporation, the employee is just another pay check in the books.

By going to a local store versus a chain, the atmosphere is incredibly different. Corporations often feel cold and distant with no help for making decisions, whereas a local shop or eatery operates on customer satisfaction and friendliness.

Small businesses don’t have the perks of discounted items or start up packages. They make up for that in training and enabling workers to move up through learning and becoming a special part of the business.

This is especially important now that specialization is increasing the limitations of our workforce.

Retaining our local and state identity is critical. When corporations and others start to homogenize the way we buy and ultimately view things through national marketing plans, it slowly starts to eat away our pride as a city or region. Our values and trends have meaning that should not be taken by the proliferation of chain retailers.

One way I’ve found fun to tackle this issue has been through the groceries I buy. If you go into a grocery store, you are hounded by the options for the same products. Next time you shop, look on the back of the packages for a label of where it is made.

Often I’ve done this for not only the most common products like produce or meat, but also for the packaged items. Not only do you feel a part of the community, it more likely than not will be a better product.

While this will not become a habit overnight, it is something to investigate to find neat places to shop and eat. This, in turn, helps steer our economy, community and individuality in the right direction.

Kimberlin is a junior business management major from College Station. ➤➤ opinions@dailytoreador.com

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By LIANA SOLIS Staff Writer

For those who want to have fun singing without the fear of being judged, the Texas Tech Glee Club is a place to do just that.

The club, which is broken up into a men’s and women’s ensemble, practices at 7 p.m. every Thursday in the music building, according to TechAnnounce.

Ross Krueger, a junior secondary science education major from Houston and president of the men’s ensemble named The Fermatadors, said the club was originally going to be an all men’s singing group.

“We had been wanting to do it for several semesters but didn’t get it started up until this semester,” Krueger said. “We got the idea to create a Glee Club, so a few of us guys laid the foundation and got it started up.”

They decided to create the club, he said, because they wanted something similar to the Matador Singers but with a more relaxed vibe to it.

Emily Bryan, a freshman mathematics major from Azle and president of the women’s ensemble named The Victory Belles, said she joined because she was looking for a fun way to stay involved on

campus her first year of college.

“At first I didn’t know the club was going to be co-ed when I first found out about it,” Bryan said.

“Then they sent out an email about it saying they changed it to co-ed, and I emailed back that I wanted to join.”

Krueger said the purpose of forming the club is to bring people together who want to sing.

He thinks it is a way to feel like students are in an academic choir without as much commitment, he said.

“With this club we can become more educated with reading music and learning how to perform,”

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STUDENTS HANG SHIRTS with anonymous stories about their alcohol experiences written on them Monday outside the Student Union building. The event was part of Tech Activities Board’s Alcohol Awareness Week.

Colorado proposes edible pot ban, then retreats out of the barn, I think that would be a nice proposal for us to put on the table,” said Karin McGowan, the department’s deputy executive director.

Talking to reporters after the workgroup reviewed the department’s proposal, McGowan insisted the edibles ban was just one of several proposals under review by pot regulators.

Lawmakers have ordered state pot regulators to require potinfused food and drink to have a distinct look when they are out of the packaging. The order came after concerns about the proliferation of pot-infused treats that many worry could be accidentally eaten by children.

Statewide numbers are not available, but one hospital in the Denver area has reported nine cases of children being admitted

after accidentally eating pot. It is not clear whether those kids ate commercially packaged pot products or homemade items such as marijuana brownies.

The Health Department’s recommendation was one of several made to marijuana regulators.

“We need to know what is in our food,” said Gina Carbone of the advocacy group Smart Colorado, which says edible pot shouldn’t be allowed if it can’t be identified out of its packaging.

Marijuana industry representatives insisted that marking pot won’t prevent accidental ingestions.

“There is only so much we can do as manufacturers to prevent a child from putting a product in their mouth,” said Bob Eschino of Incredibles, which makes marijuana-infused chocolates.

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Violence is a chance to put that October is Domestic Vio- structure of thinking into active lence Awareness Month, and listening.”

Week Without Violence is a The week will include several worldwide annual campaign events, beginning Monday with that takes place the third week guest speaker Leslie Timmons, a of October, according to the community educator. Monday’s Week Without Violence web- event at the Lubbock Rape Crisis site. The campaign focuses on Center is called “Voice of Hope.” encouraging communities to From noon to 1 p.m. today, Ty create a world without violence. Stafford, staff psychologist and The grassroots campaign was coordinator of sexual assault serlaunched in 1995 and has ex- vices, will speak at the University panded ever since, according Student Counseling Center. to the website. Week Without The Student Counseling CenViolence now takes place in more ter has a great program for stuthan twenty countries. dents, specifically at Red Raider Recently, the White House Orientation, to understand and launched the “It’s On Us” cam- prevent sexual assault, Heather paign, according to a previous Martinez, director of the Ofarticle in The Daily Toreador. fice of Community Engagement The Women’s Studies pro- and the Institute for Advanced gram encourages students to Learners, said.

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But after a weekend U.S. Supreme Court decision allowed Texas to enforce a strict voter ID law at polls through Nov. 4, even other Democrats are raising concerns over turnout.

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“He does a really good job highlighting the role of men in regards to violence and men in regards to relationships and all types of approaches of violence and men,” Martinez said. “I think that’s something that’s really important.”

She said not only will the discussion include why men should disengage from violence, but will also tackle violence against men.

“I think that we as a society don’t tend to think of men in terms of violence,” Martinez said.

“We tend to only think of women as victims.”

This is a key time for an event like this in light of the recent events on campus, she said.

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The club is also trying to plan a November concert, Krueger said, and wants to do some sort of Valentine’s Day concert as well.

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Robertson emerges as defensive threat

By JEREMY KRAKOSKY Staff Writer

Entering Big 12 Conference play, the Texas Tech Red Raiders had dropped their previous game to Arkansas and allowed 499 total yards of offense, including 438 yards on the ground.

Defensive coordinator Matt Wallerstedt resigned days after the rough outing against Arkansas, and then-inside linebackers coach Mike Smith took over the job with no previous experience as a coordinator.

Since then, junior linebacker Pete Robertson has thrived with the new defensive scheme and has recorded seven sacks since conference play began, after having only one in nonconference.

After Robertson recorded two sacks in Saturday’s win over Kansas, junior defensive end Branden Jackson said Robertson is a huge reason why the defense has been improving every week.

“Pete is playing hard. You know, he is playing out there with confidence like no one can block him,” Jackson said. “It’s starting to show up on film. He’s resilient, he works hard. Pete’s just a completely different player than he’s been in the past.

It’s a tribute to his offseason workouts and

the way he carries himself on and off the practice field. Hat’s off to Pete.”

Through the first seven games this season, Robertson leads the Big 12 with eight sacks and has hit the quarterback three additional times, according to the conference website.

Following the win against the Jayhawks, the junior linebacker said the way he has worked at his game the past few months has helped production more than any defensive strategy.

“Hard work, hard work every single day, before practice and after practice.

Everybody gets it in, you know, it was just it’s how bad you want it,” Robertson said. “I just dedicate myself to this game and this sport.”

In the previous game, Robertson had a momentum changing sack against West Virginia quarterback Clint Trickett and forced him fumble the ball. The turnover helped Tech preserve their lead before losing on a last second field goal.

Despite the recent spike in production, Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury said he can remember when Robertson was not always such a dominant player.

“He’s grown a lot both on and off the field. He’s a guy who, when he first got here, couldn’t play an entire game. He’s

got himself in shape and now playing 80 or 90 snaps,” he said. “I’m very impressed with the way he’s played, and we’re going to need him this week.”

After playing both on offense and defense in high school, including playing quarterback, Robertson has improved every year in his first three and a half seasons with the Red Raiders.

In his first year on campus, Robertson was a medical redshirt after playing in three games, according to Tech Athletics.

During the 2012 season, he found more playing time as he saw action in 12 games and recorded his first solo sack in Tech’s bowl game against Minnesota.

Last season, Robertson started to emerge as one of the young leaders on defense. He earned All-Big 12 honorable mention after recording 60 tackles, two forced fumbles and two interceptions, including one returned for a touchdown.

Now in the middle of a breakout season, the 6’3’’ 236-pound linebacker says his stats are far from the main thing on his mind.

“I feel good, but the most important thing, I’d just like to win for my team.

I’m doing everything it takes to help the offense and defense out to win,” he

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TEXAS TECH LINEBACKERS Pete Robertson and Andre Ross sack West Virginia quarterback Clint Trickett during the second quarter Oct. 11 at Jones AT&T Stadium. The Mountaineers defeated the Red Raiders 37-34.

said. “My goal is to just get through the second half of the season for my team to go to a bowl game so we can have a really good season.”

This week, the Red Raiders will prepare to play No. 10 Texas Christian on Saturday in Fort Worth.

After beating the Horned Frogs their first two years in the Big 12, Robertson said the team is confident heading into the game, but they still have to prepare hard every day this week.

“We can’t live on the past, but the past is still there. We beat them twice.

But they’re coming to look for revenge,” Robertson said. “We’re going to their home stadium, so they’re going to have the home field advantage. We’ve got to go in with a level head and just be ready to play ball.” ➤➤jkrakosky@dailytoreador.com

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The 15-4 Texas Tech volleyball squad takes a break from Big 12 Conference play as they face Zhejiang (China) in an exhibition match at 6 p.m. today in the United Supermarkets Arena.

Tech brings international volleyball experience in its matchup versus Zhejiang with three of the players from the Tech roster originally from countries

outside of the United States.

Junior setter Emily Ruetter from Canada, redshirt freshman right side hitter Victoria Hinneburg from Germany and freshman outside hitter Audrey Fragniere from Switzerland compose the trio of international players Tech coach Don Flora recruited in his three years coaching at Tech.

Other players on the Tech roster with international experience are senior libero Rachel Brummit and senior outside hitter

Breeann David.

Brummit said some members of the Tech squad have yet to face an international opponent and the matchup against Zhejiang offers new experiences.

“We don’t have film on them, we don’t know what they are going to do, how they’re like, who their hot hitters are, but the challenge will be from the time the game starts to pick on what they do and develop our game plan,” Brummit said.

David, as part of the United States Collegiate National Team, traveled on a European tour with team USA over the summer, and Brummit joined the U.S. Collegiate National Team in Minneapolis this summer.

Zheijang competes in Group A, the highest level of play in the Chinese Volleyball League. Zhejiang won the 2014 national championship and placed third in 2012-2013 season.

“I think this opportunity for our athletes to be able to play against some of the best volleyball players in China,” Flora said, “to play against one of the world class volleyball teams in the country, that’s a high level opportunity for them to experience.”

The scheduling of the game occurred after a promotional group invited the Tech squad to face Zhejiang, Flora said.

“We’ve had Amanda Dowdy (former Tech player) playing professionally in Germany, and she was part of their organization in her time going over there,” Flora said. “Just a long standing relationship with promotions organization that is just a really good opportunity to play the best volleyball.”

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