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Female student admits to reporting false assault A female student who originally reported a sexual assault Sept. 15 has come forward and admitted to making false statements.

Chris Cook, managing director of Communications and Marketing at Texas Tech, said the assault did not occur and the case is being turned over to the Lubbock County District Attorney and the Office of Student Conduct.

It is a Class B misdemeanor to file a false police report, he said, and a violation of the Tech Code of Student Conduct that could result in disciplinary measures being taken against the student at a university level.

At the time the report was filed, the student was unable to provide a description or information about the suspect, according to a previous article of The Daily Toreador.

The report filed listed the assault as happening between 4 and 5 p.m. Sept.

15 in the basement of the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center, according to the article.

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Texas Tech ranked in Best Schools for Majors Three of Texas Tech’s undergraduate programs were ranked in PayScale’s Best Schools for Majors.

PayScale is an organization that collects data related to careers and salaries, according to the PayScale website.

Out of the 20 schools, Tech art graduates are ranked 12th, earning a mid-level salary of $75,000, Tech physical and life science graduates were also ranked 12th, earning a mid-level salary of $90,700 and Tech education graduates were ranked 16th, earning a mid-level salary of $52,800, according to a Tech news release.

The rankings were decided upon based on a survey conducted by PayScale, according to the release. Information was compiled from an online survey about the earnings of graduates with only a bachelor’s degree and only the median mid-level salary earnings were recorded, according to the release.

According to the survey, the five highest-paying majors are petroleum engineering, actuarial mathematics, nuclear engineering, chemical engineering and electronics and communications engineering.

Schools making the top 20 in art include the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, ranked No. 1, and Temple University, ranked No. 9. Schools included in the top 20 for physical and life sciences are California State Polytechnic University in Pomona, ranked No. 1 and Texas A&M, ranked No. 14. In the education category, Texas A&M, ranked No. 2, was also included, and Texas State, ranked No. 7. ➤➤news@dailytoreador.com

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LEFT: STEPHANIE MECCA, a first year graduate student from Laramie, Wyoming, acts out a sceen as a part of the Tunnel of Opression in the Student Union building. RIGHT: ASHLEE PITTMAN, a junior education major from Wichita Falls, and Alex Campagna, a University Student Housing Residence Life Coordinator from Tampa, act out a scene about domestic violence as a part of the Tunnel of Oppression inside the Student Union building.

Texas Tech addresses oppression through awareness

By JENNIFER ROMERO Staff Writer

Oppression is a serious issue that affects many people.

However, not all people have experienced oppression firsthand or know what it is like to be oppressed.

The Tunnel of Oppression is open on the Texas Tech campus and is an hour-long guided tour through a series of scenes centered on different forms of oppression, according to the University Student Housing website, and challenges participants to think more

deeply about issues.

The Tunnel of Oppression began Tuesday concludes today it is open from 10 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. in the Red Raider Ballroom of the Student Union building.

Melissa Cook, the liaison to the Social Justice Education Committee, helped organize the event through Student Housing.

“We have to do a lot of outreach to classes and departments way in advance,” she said. “We set the dates in May so professors can include the event in their syllabi. We then look at the feedback from the previous

year and make any adjustments we need to.”

The tunnel began as a campus grassroots diversity program in 1983 at Western Illinois University, according to the Student Housing website, and this is the ninth year Tech has hosted a tunnel event.

The various scenes in the tunnel are focused on topics such as racism, relationship violence and body image, and these scenes are either portrayed through videos or live actors.

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Library increasing security in response to incidents

By DANI COPELAND Staff Writer

The Texas Tech library is in the process of making security adjustments in order to find the suspect involved in recent incidents of indecent exposure.

Justin McDonald, section coordinator for the library, said there have been three incidents so far. He said all three incidents have taken place on the first and second floor of the stack levels in the library.

According to a TechAnnounce from the Tech Police Department, the first two incidents occurred around 5 p.m. Oct. 10 and 15.

The most recent incident happened Oct. 16 around 11 p.m., McDonald said.

All three incidents happened during the week and all three victims were female.

Bethany Scott, a junior restaurant, hotel and institutional management major from Austin, said having someone around the library flashing girls is concerning. She said she thinks it is ridiculous and pointless for someone to go around the library exposing himself to random students.

“It scares me a little to think about it though, because I am often in the library by myself and I’m thinking about what would happen if that behavior escalates,” Scott said. “I don’t think that’s appropri-

ate to be representing your school by flashing people.”

Scott thinks the best way to catch the suspect is to have the staff at the library more aware of who comes in and out of the library, she said.

She studies in the stacks, she said, and will continue to study in the stacks even though these incidents have been going on for the last two weeks.

“It’s not going to stop me from getting my stuff done just because some guy is being stupid,” Scott said. “These types of things happen often and I don’t think it should keep someone from doing the things they need to do.”

McDonald said the Tech PD has been contacting him for video footage, documentation and any other new information discovered to help identify the suspect. The library is in the process of strengthening security, he said.

“The library staff is making security rounds every hour, and then the police are making rounds as well,” McDonald said.

“And that’s happening all hours of the day.”

Leila Taylor, a junior restaurant, hotel and institutional management major from Highland Village, said she was at the library when the last incident happened.

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HSC medical department renamed Texas Tech to host student diversity symposium Thursday

By NICOLAS LOPEZ Staff Writer

Texas Tech’s Open Teaching Concept is hosting a student symposium to introduce students to diversity in entities other than college from noon to 5 p.m. Thursday in the McKenzie-Merket Alumni Center.

The symposium will help students to think critically about diversity, while also allowing them the opportunity to speak with other students and exercise leadership skills in relation to diversity in students’ future careers, communities and platforms, according to a Tech news release.

Students can still apply to attend the symposium by picking up and filling out an application in Doak Hall Rm. 101, downloading the application from the CrossCultural Academic Advancement Center’s website or by emailing crosscultural@ttu.edu, according to a Tech news release.

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Texas Tech Health Sciences Center officials announced the renaming of the Department of Internal Medicine on Tuesday.

The department will now be known as the J.T. and Margaret Talkington Department of Internal Medicine, according to a Tech HSC news release.

“The Talkington Foundation has given us an endowment that will bring six endowed chairs. In other words, six new faculty members,” Dr. Steven L. Berk, HSC executive vice president, provost and School of Medicine dean, said, “each of whom will have a $1.5 million endowment to help build their research and education programs.”

Dr. Cynthia Jumper, professor and chair of internal medicine, said Lubbock only has five rheumatologists and three infectious disease specialists.

“They will be divided as we need to use them for what we call the ‘cognitive disciplines,’ such as endocrinology, infectious diseases and rheumatology,” Jumper said.

Jumper served as Margaret Talkington’s physician until her death in 2010, she said.

“I made home visits,” Jumper said. “She was in her 90’s and it was difficult for her to get out, to come and see the doctor.”

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DR. CYNTHIA JUMPER, chairwoman of the Department of Internal Medicine, talks about the impacts of the Talkington donation and department naming Tuesday inside Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.

During her time there Jumper got to know Margaret Talkington and told her about the programs at Tech, Berk said.

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Area suffering from drought despite rains

By NICOLAS LOPEZ Staff Writer

Even with abnormally high rainfall levels recently, West Texas is still suffering from drought.

According to the National Weather Service Forecasting Office, Lubbock received 6.94 inches of rain during the month of September, which is more than 270 percent greater than its average for that month.

“When we talk about drought, what people usually talk about is meteorological drought,” Venkatesh Uddameri, interim director of Texas Tech’s Water Resources Center, said.

“That is when you have limited rainfall or less than average rainfall in a given place.”

In 2011, the entire state was in a drought, he said. That changed over GRAPHIC COURTESY OF THE NATIONAL DROUGHT MITIGATION CENTER the years though. In 2012 only the

Panhandle was in a drought. This continued through 2013 and the beginning of 2014.

“This is Sept. 30 of 2014,” he said.

“You will still see, we have all this rain, but we have not fully recovered from this 2011 episode. We still have moisture deficits in the system.”

2011 was the worst single year of drought recorded in Texas history, Uddameri said.

Drought is nothing new to Texas.

During the 1950’s, Texas’ rainfall averages dropped by 40 percent between 1949 and 1951, with 75 percent of the state reporting below normal rainfall, according to the National Climatic Data Center website.

“The ‘50s drought had a very profound influence on us,” Uddameri said. “Because of that we went and built a lot of reservoirs to store water and supply it for when we do have a drought.”

Since the drought of the 1950’s, Texas has created nine water plans to address the needs of its residents, businesses and farmers, according to the website.

According to the 2012 Texas State Water Plan, Texas will not have enough water to meet the needs of its people, businesses and agricultural enterprises if faced with more serious droughts.

The United States Drought Monitor, operated by the University of Nebraska, currently shows most of the Panhandle of Texas as being anywhere from abnormally dry to suffering from exceptional drought.

The Tech Water Resources Center is studying how groundwater systems respond to droughts, Uddameri said.

Measuring groundwater in West Texas is difficult because the Clastic Aquifer, which supplies the Lubbock

area, does not respond to changes in the climate like low rainfall, he said.

William Tauber, a senior crop and soil science major from The Colony, said drought detection is important, but being proactive and focusing on reducing the effects of drought should be the current focus.

“Agriculture and hydraulic fracturing extraction of natural gas are the biggest consumers of water in Texas,” Tauber said.

Through the use of cloud seeding, a form of weather modification done to increase the amount of rain, we could combat the effects of drought, he said.

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HSC kicks off Lubbock community education program

By EMMA ZAMBRYCKI Staff Writer

The Texas Tech Health Sciences Center kiced off the Community Medical School Tuesday, a program that allows students, faculty, staff and community members to ask questions concerning predetermined topics and attend lectures on current public concerns.

The first meeting took place at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Academic Classroom Building in room 150, according to a news release from the Tech Health Sciences Center.

The program allows the HSC to showcase some of its faculty members, Brandi Hargrave, executive assistant to the executive vice-president for academic affairs and the coordinator of the Community Medical School, said.

“(The Community Medical School) comes from the academic affairs office and we’re coordinating with the faculty to come in and do a presentation every month. We have it during the academic school year,” Hargrave said. “It’s the third Tuesday of every month. We bring in a presenter, we bring different speakers from different schools and so we try to give a different topic.”

The program will also encourage future college students to pursue a career in medicine, Hargrave said.

The Community Medical School was established five years ago, Rial Rolfe, executive vice president for academic affairs at the HSC, said the program lasts throughout the year and faculty and staff give the presentations at a level that everyone can understand, excluding medical jargon from the lecture.

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She originally was studying on the She is hoping the incident does fifth floor of the stacks, she said, before not happen again, she said, but wonshe moved to the first floor to study ders if the man will cause another incident at the library or somewhere with her classmate.

She purposely avoided the sec- else on campus. ond floor of the stacks because she There are also detectives who are had heard about the man flashing involved in the case, McDonald said. students in that area, she said. It was The library and police are still in the while she was on the first floor when process of working out other precauthe man was upstairs in the stacks for tions in order to find the suspect. a third time.

“They are on top of this and it “I remembered seeing police will be resolved soon, I can assure responding to the incident pretty you,” he said.

Stephen Hinkle, administrative fast,” Taylor said, “but it made me scared thinking about how that girl captain for the Tech Police Departcould have been me and it would ment, said there are no new develophave been traumatizing.” ments related to the incident.

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The program has been successful in past years, Rolfe said, and helps to educate the public in order to create a more knowledgeable community that is aware of what is going on in the medical field as well as throughout the nation.

“The goal of the event is really to have an informed public so that, when the public seeks to get health care, or they see things in the news, they know about it,” Rolfe said. “It’s really kind of just general education, but also to help with their own healthcare.”

Kelsea Loveless, a second year medical student from Lubbock, said health care professionals from University Medical Center were in attendance as well.

The Community Medical School is open to the community to give the public a chance to see the work of the HSC firsthand, Loveless said.

“It helps them be more involved with the Health Sciences Center, and if they have any questions, or are just interested in how things work around here, it helps with that,” Loveless said.

Many of the questions asked during Tuesday’s event involved Ebola, Medicare and Medicaid, which are relevant in today’s news, Dr. Tedd Mitchell, president of the HSC, said.

The key is to lecture on topics that the audience will find interesting and encourage audience participation, Mitchell said.

“We want to give folks some pearls of information that are useful for them right now,” Mitchell said, “in their own life and their own quest to remain healthy. The second thing is to highlight what we do at the Health Sciences Center.” ➤➤ezambrycki@dailytoreador.com

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TEXAS TECH HEALTH Sciences Center President Dr. Tedd Mitchell and System Chancellor Robert Duncan speak on a panel at the Community Medical School on Monday at the HSC. The program’s focus this month was healthcare reform and will have seven more meetings.

Number of children infected with Enterovirus decreasing

By EMMA ZAMBRYCKI Staff Writer

Enterovirus D68, a virus that causes an upper respiratory infection, is expected to infect fewer individuals as the weather gets cooler as long as citizens are taking precautions to not continue the spread.

Three Lubbock school children were diagnosed with the virus last month and health care providers expected a decline in the virus’ spread shortly after. However, a child from the Frenship Independent School District was recently diagnosed with the virus and is currently recovering, according to a letter sent home to the parents of students in that area.

Pre-schools in Lubbock, as well as throughout the state, have policies to minimize the spread of viruses like Enterovirus D68. These policies include asking sick children’s parents to keep the child home and ensure their recovery before allowing the child to return to school, Dr. Richard Lampe, chairman of the department of pediatrics at the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center, said.

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“When Mrs. Talkington became ill, Dr. Jumper was her physician,” he said. “So they got to know each other very well and I think Mrs. Talkington got to know about the Department of Medicine and the potential it had for taking care of patients.”

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School’s administration also attempts to keep schools as clean and germ free as possible, Lampe said, by teaching students to wash their hands and practicing safety guidelines to prevent the spread of viruses.

“All day care centers or pre-school programs have policies to exclude sick children,” Lampe said, “so they don’t have children come when they’re sick, and if the children are sick, they train the people taking care of the children to wash their hands.”

Enterovirus D68 is not particularly uncommon, Dr. Fatma Levent, a professor at HSC said, and it is not localized in Texas. Enterovirus D68 is fairly widespread throughout the nation, affecting mostly school-aged children, teenagers and some adults, she said, but the numbers are expected to decline.

While many patients were experiencing upper respiratory infections, Levent said, they were not classified as Enterovirus D68 until after results were sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for further testing. There are many different types of Enterovirus, she said, and it was not until the CDC confirmed that this

particular type was Enterovirus D68, that health care providers were certain of their diagnosis.

“It looks like it is widespread all over the U.S. and we have seen it in Texas actually, pretty early as well. We think that this specific strain has been circulating with the other enteroviruses, but probably in less numbers, and some younger people do not have that protection,” Levent said, “or they are not immune to this specific one. Kids and adolescents are having more respiratory distress and infection because of that.”

The isolation of Enterovirus D68 in Lubbock was a result of health screenings within laboratories, he said. While the number of infected children within the city may appear small, he said a larger majority of school-aged children may have had the virus and recovered on their own without medical care.

Even with this newly diagnosed patient, Lampe said, from what health care providers and researchers can gather, the number of individuals contracting the virus seems to be decreasing, which is an expected trend.

Enterovirus is prevalent during the

ton Foundation was established in 1997 in order to benefit the residents of Lubbock, according to the foundation’s website.

Alan Henry, former Lubbock mayor and current J.T. and Margaret Talkington Charitable Foundation board member, said the money that is being donated to Tech is part of the Talkingtons’ wishes.

They wanted their money to be donated to causes within Lubbock and

Hockley County, he said.

“We have done two community centers in low income areas of the city,” Henry said. “We have very recently funded a community center in southeast Lubbock that will be operated by the YWCA.” Dr. Tedd L. Mitchell, HSC president, said it is gifts like these to the Department of Internal Medicine that will advance causes in the Lubbock area concurrent

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• Wash hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds • Avoid touching eyes, nose and mouth • Cover coughs and sneezes with shoulder, not hand • Avoid sharing cups and utensils with others late summer and early fall months, he said, so the decline in the amount of infections comes as no surprise.

“The good news is hand hygiene,” Lampe said. “It’s washing your hands with soap and water and we know that this virus, the Enterovirus, soap and water takes care of it. That’s pretty easy, if you don’t want to catch it from other people, just make sure frequently wash your hands, or if you’re around somebody who’s sick.” ➤➤ezambrycki@dailytoreador.com

with the Talkingtons’ wishes.

“Mr. and Mrs. Talkington were innovative business people with a deep sense of community loyalty and appreciation of education,” he said. “A gift from the Talkington Foundation would ensure that the personal treatment provided to Margaret would become the caring model we encourage our physicians and students to apply to every patientphysician relationship.” ➤➤nlopez@dailytoreador.com

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Organizations promote alcohol awareness Staff Writer

Roughly 1,825 college students aged 18 to 24 die every year due to injuries related to alcohol, according to the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism website.

The Texas Tech Activities Board, in partnership with other campus organizations, is hosting Alcohol Awareness Week this week through events and activities to raise awareness about collegiate alcoholism.

Madeline Walker, a junior restaurant, hotel and institutional management and family and consumer science education dual major from Van Alstyne, said this is an annual event.

“For us, it’s very important to educate the campus about the effects alcohol has on students,” Walker said. “We want them to know the different ways alcohol takes part in people’s lives.”

According to the NIAAA website, about 20 percent of college students meet the requirements for having an alcohol use disorder.

Roughly one out of every four college students have said alcohol led to doing poorly academically, according to the website.

“College students are put into

situations involving alcohol every day,” Walker said. “We want people to be educated about how students can be affected by situations such as these.”

Julie Davis, a junior psychology major from Houston, said she lost one of her close friends to a drunken driver during her sophomore year of high school.

Her friend was walking near the side of the road when the driver of the car hit him while driving under the influence, she said.

“No one at our school had ever really paid much attention to anything anyone had ever said about how dangerous driving and drinking was,” Davis said. “I think after that happened, everyone’s eyes kind of opened, especially mine.”

Davis became interested in Students Against Drunk Driving, a national organization invested in promoting alcohol awareness, she said.

She helped start a campus version of SADD at her school to help spread awareness of drinking and driving, she said.

“We did fundraisers, an assembly and really anything we could to help get the student body aware of how dangerous

alcohol can be,” she said. “It is really scary how blind some people can be to what it does to people and their bodies.”

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ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF FITNESS AND WELLNESS several events this week to help promote the dangers of alcohol, Walker said.

One includes Crossing the Line, she said, which will be set up every day this week from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Student Union building North Plaza.

“Students can write different stories down on T-shirts, such as how their friends or families have been affected by alcohol, and even to honor anyone they may have lost due to alcohol,” Walker

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said. “It’s a good way for students to get their stories out there and show people how alcohol affects the people around them.”

Other events include alcohol screenings and an information session at the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center today from 4 to 7 p.m, according to the TAB website.

Kami Waden, assistant director of fitness and wellness at the Rec Center, said there will be many departments set up at the fair to talk about alcohol, including the Center for the Study of Addiction and Recovery and Raiders Against Drunk Driving.

“They are just going to talk about how alcohol can affect our lives in many different ways,” Waden said, “as well as some of the consequences that go along with it.”

Career Services will speak about how having a driving under the influence charge on one’s record can hurt chances of getting a job, she said, and the Tech athletic department will talk about how too much alcohol can affect the body.

The screenings will also be offered to anyone who wants to find out more about if they are drinking safely and what they

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“We require about 270 volunteers to pull off the event,” Cook said. “We talk to the Department of Theater to try and get experienced actors and actresses for the actual tunnel portion of the event.”

Volunteers also help by signing participants in, guiding groups every 10 minutes through the tunnel and debriefing the individuals after they have completed the tunnel.

After participants complete the tour of the different scenes, they must complete a debriefing session to discuss how they felt after viewing the different forms of oppression.

“The debriefing session is the

Kendall Jones premieres YouTube channel series Texas Tech cheerleader Kendall Jones has returned to the social media spotlight with the premiere of her new YouTube series, “Kendall Jones: Game On!”.

Jones raised controversy over the summer when photos of Jones hunting lions, rhinoceroses and other animals in Africa went viral, according to CNN. In the first episode of the program sponsored by Remington Arms, Jones and Tech cheerleader Taylor Altom visit Louisiana to hunt alligators in Lake Charles with rancher Charles Schultz.

According to the video’s description, Jones, Altom and Schultz legally hunted the animals in accordance with the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries’ annual alligator season to maintain animal populations.

most beneficial thing about the Tunnel,” Cook said. “It allows participants the chance to process what they just experienced while making sure no one is left feeling emotional.

Maybe they themselves have experienced those forms of oppression, and that can bring up feelings. We don’t want anyone leaving worse off than they came.”

The general topics of the tunnel remain the same every year, Cook said, but the specific scenes change because each topic has many issues within it.

Chamonix Meija, a sophomore agricultural communications major from Laredo, said she felt more aware of the different forms of oppression people face after attending the event.

“As a Hispanic, I know racism

is still an issue for many people,” she said. “I went in expecting to see scenes portraying the issues we hear about like relationship violence and sexism, but there were others I never really thought of.”

The tunnel has received positive feedback in previous years, Cook said, and an estimated 2,200 participants attended last year.

“I hope the Tunnel is an eyeopening experience for people,” Cook said. “If they’ve never experienced a form of oppression I hope they will see that it does exist. The first step to fixing a problem is to acknowledge that it’s there. Our theme this year is ‘Healing Raiderland,’ and hopefully this event helps get people invested in helping.” ➤➤jromero@dailytoreador.com

• 20 percent of college students meet the requirements for having an alcohol use disorder • About one in every four college students have said alcohol lead to doing poorly academically • About 1,825 college students die every year due to injuries related to alcohol can do to change their habits, Waden said.

“The point of this week isn’t to tell people they need to stop drinking,” she said. “We just want them to know the good and bad side of alcohol so they can make better decisions.”

Waden said another theme of this week is to make people aware of the responsibilities they have to the other people around them.

Kimberley Simon-Akins, the assistant director of Student Activities, said because of the way college is portrayed in movies and on television, many students think all there is to do in college is drink alcohol.

“Many students think they are invincible and they can drink and nothing will happen from it,” she said. “We want students to stop and think about what they

Crossfit Tech to host Olympic weight-lifting event Saturday A non-sanctioned Olympic weightlifting competition, Red Raider Open, will take place Saturday at CrossFit Texas Tech.

Today is the last day to register for the event.

Females will compete from 10 a.m. to noon, according to TechAnnounce, and males will compete from noon to 2 p.m. Weigh-in begins one hour before each competition.

A maximum of 17 males and 17 females can register for the competition, according to TechAnnounce.

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BLANE POTTS, A junior landscape architecture major from Lubbock, and Megan Hatcher, a junior landscape architecture major from New Braunfels, carve out pumpkins Tuesday outside the Landscape Architecture building.

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dent ID, it costs $5 to enter, according to TechAnnounce.

The purpose of the event is to introduce students and community members to Olympic weightlifting, according to the Red Raider Open Facebook event page.

Competitors will use non-certified weights and bars, according to the page, and there will be one-pound increments during the event.

Weigh-ins will be clothed, according to the page, and one-piece singlets are not necessary.

do and if they are doing it safely.

They also need to know that there are alternatives to drinking, and make sure if they are drinking that they’re not doing it for the wrong reasons.”

The organizers want students to know the events this week are not a place where they will be lectured, Simon-Akins said.

Students operate many of the events, she said, where students can have conversations, ask questions and learn more about misdirected information about alcohol.

“We don’t want students to think we are telling them what to do,” Simon-Akins said. “We just want them to know there are dangers to alcohol, and be aware of the safety issues and physical and legal consequences that can come out of drinking if they are not careful.” ➤➤lsolis@dailytoreador.com

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rom my experience, the most commonly asked question in a college classroom is, “Will this be on the test?” I have even asked it a couple of times myself.

I understand the logic behind the question because sometimes a class may be uninteresting or difficult, and getting a desirable grade is the primary objective.

The problem begins when it becomes the only objective.

Saying grades aren’t important is not realistic. They shape our GPAs, financial opportunities and sometimes even our moods.

Grades are arguably the best tangible way to measure academic progress. Plus, they determine whether or not all our efforts eventually lead to graduation.

However, grades are not what’s most important, and thinking they are narrows the scope of knowledge that could be gained from the college experience. In fact, accepting the mindset of “doing only what I need to get by” could not only block out potentially valuable information, it could also prevent “test information” from being stored in memory long term.

According to collegeatlas.org, a lack of passion for the subject matter will “hamper a student’s learning process” and affect their ability to recall the information over time. Not to mention it’s a lot less of a burden to succeed when you care more about the work you’re doing and less about its numerical value.

College costs are high and steadily rising, so it makes little sense to pay so much to retain no information. In addition, it doesn’t contribute much to the post-college job search.

With the tentative state of the economy and unemployment these days, many people look to college as the best method to obtain a job. Because of this popular conclusion, more people are attending college and a degree has become a much less unique acquisition.

To c o m p e n s a t e f o r t h i s change, employers have raised the bar on what they expect from prospective employees. Memorizing a horde of random facts may be good enough to pass a test, but it appears to fall short during the

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According to the National Association of Colleges and Employers’ Job Outlook 2014 survey, employers desire applicants with skills in teamwork and problem solving, but “making good grades” didn’t make the top ten.

Before you can impress future employers you have to get past your college instructors, and placing learning over grades goes a long way with them too.

Going the extra mile helps to learn more about the subject and, indirectly, the professor. After all, they are the ones who will be writing the majority of the recommendation letters students use to earn internships and jobs.

It’s probably much easier to write a letter for someone you know cares about your subject and who knows you than for someone lost in a sea of students only concerned with scores.

Even though college is a hot commodity now, some extremely successful people never even graduated. The most well known examples are Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Apple founder Steve Jobs.

These men may have left college during better economic times, but upon their exit they exhibited some of the same qualities employers are searching for today. Ultimately, a great deal of skill with teamwork and problem-solving is needed to head a billion-dollar brand.

This is not to say college is unnecessary; the level of necessity varies among different people in different circumstances. I am saying there isn’t much to be gained from a college education if you’re only doing enough to get by from test to test.

Look at it this way — what’s going to be on the test and what might actually be useful in the future aren’t always the same thing.

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he spread of fear of the Ebola epidemic has gone a little too far.

To date, Eric Duncan, a native of Liberia who was in direct contact with the virus, has been the only person to die in the U.S. since the outbreak began.

Atop the headlines these past few months, the Ebola virus has found itself running rampant physically, but even more so mentally through the nation’s collective mind.

Undoubtedly, the loss of lives and illness of people is a horrible thing, but the media’s role in portraying the deadliness and severity of the virus has been beyond overkill. Statistically, an estimated 7 billion people roam this Earth, and fewer than 5,000 people have died from Ebola during the current outbreak, according to CNN. To put it in perspective, an article from netsforlifeafrica.org estimates that a child dies every minute from malaria, or 627,000 people a year, many of which are children. Additionally, according to a U.S. Department of State Fact Sheet on the Death Toll in Darfur, during the high death toll months, from December 2003 to April 2004, approximately 10,000 people per month died as a result of the conflict.

Again, these numbers are staggering and represent tragic and catastrophic losses of life, but show the slight impact of Ebola up to this point. The fear imposed upon people across the globe is unwarranted.

After Duncan was officially diagnosed with Ebola in Dallas, “About 86 percent of students showed up to class at the affected Dallas schools, and the attendance rate is usually about 10 percent higher,” Mike Miles, the Dallas ISD superintendent, said.

Multiple parents reported being very worried when picking up their children in the middle of the school day. According to ABC News, “parent Marcie Pardo told the Associated Press, ‘It’s the contagious part that gets me worried.’” Another parent, Maria Vargas, said, “[I’m] very worried.”

While the Ebola virus is something that should be taken seriously, it does not justify the media flooding its outlets and terrifying the public, which has yet to see

one case disjointed from being in direct contact with bodily fluids of an Ebola-diagnosed patient.

At the same time, I am not saying we should wait until people become infected and the disease is rampant among other continents, but rather that not a lot of good has come from coverage of the virus. In fact, more damage and worry has been set into the public’s mind of the fear of what might happen.

Aside from informing hospitals and medical personnel of appropriate treatment and prevention methods, I do not see what more the general public could do than stay out of contact from bodily fluids of an infected person.

The untimely loss of human life is a horrendous tragedy, but living a life in fear of dying is simply not worth it. Texas Tech President M. Duane Nellis’ University Advisory Regarding Ebola is a great example of how to handle the situation. Instead of generating panic and mass hysteria, Nellis’ letter to the Tech community provides an excellent example of how to handle the situation.

Last Thursday morning, a patient in Lubbock was released from isolation after being cleared of the possibility of Ebola. Eric

Finley with the University Medical Center said UMC employees, “…have been talking about this for several weeks now. We just had hospital-wide meetings this morning where we went over exactly what our protocols would be in a situation like this.”

The next afternoon, Nellis released his advisory to the Tech community. His advisory explained how the risk of catching the virus is low and included information on contacting the Student Wellness Center after listing symptoms of Ebola.

Instead of generating panic among our community, Nellis, along with UMC, executes an excellent example to the rest of the globe of acknowledging a problem and providing a solution.

It is deeply saddening that thousands of people are losing their lives as a result of the Ebola outbreak. It is also discomforting to watch the media continue to instill unnecessary fear among the masses. I wish the best for those physically affected by the disease and those worried about themselves or their loved ones catching the disease.

Smith is a senior mechanical engineering major from Frisco. ➤➤ nsmith@dailytoreador.com

Drug abuse problematic, users must help themselves

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rug abuse is a common menace in society today. From unprescribed medication purchased to fight minor illnesses like the common cold to hard drugs like heroin and cocaine many people use for diverse reasons, the tale of drug abuse can never be fully told.

According to a 2013 study by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration, about 22.2 million Americans aged 12 and older were classified with a substance use disorder in the past year.

According to a CNN article, more than 23 million Americans needed some sort of treatment for drug or alcohol abuse problems.

The report stated that out of this number, only 2.6 million people received treatment while those who did not get treatment mostly indicated they did not feel they needed help.

Even though the numbers involved call for concern, and people continually fall for the charm of drug abuse, this column is in no way meant to condemn people who are into drugs. It is meant to rectify a widely held view that remains only but a fallacy.

Francis Cobbinah Also, taking into consideration how big a number this is, the question then remains, “Does anyone ever start using drugs or alcohol with the intention of getting seriously hooked onto it?”

From a logical perspective, it is obvious humans want good for themselves and that no one will wake up one day and start using hard drugs with the intention of getting hooked onto it or merely for the beauty of it.

The truth is, with every human decision, there are serious factors that form its basis. It is these factors that have indirectly pushed people into being gurus in the hard drug industry. Generally, these factors are different from one person to another.

Apart from college students who are in the news every week for abusing drugs and/or alcohol in the name of “turn up,” the number one reason why a large majority of people abuse hard drugs on a daily basis is because

they try to use it as a means to fight their depression or ease their suffering, according to a report from jenniferact.com. In other words, people choose to do drugs mainly because they seek an escape from their problems and their worries, and doing drugs appears to be the magic that makes that wish come true, at least temporarily.

It is quite cowardly to believe one’s problems will go away just by hiding in some obscure place and getting high on some illegal substance without even making an attempt to confront the issue.

People can decide to get high to the point of being at the same level with the stars. However, the fact still remains that it will not be long until they get back to normal and their problems stare them right in the face again.

For the “young braves” who think hard drugs are needed to have a good time at any party or social gathering, that ideology is wrong and highly flawed. It is the delusion that one needs to be heavily drunk or really high to have fun that sets into motion the long drive to the city of addiction.

Since this column is again not meant to judge anyone, I must say

that apart from the delinquency and plunder most people who are deep into drugs may occasionally engage in, the only stumbling block that hinders the sobriety of addicts is their failure to recognize that they need help.

A story from drugaddiction. org revealed Jasmine, a woman who used to be on drugs, as saying, “I lost everything due to my addiction. I didn’t think I had a problem. I started stealing from my family and doing unusual stuff. Everyone stopped talking to me until I decided to get help.

Once I got my help, my life has been so much better.”

An age-old proverb says, “You can force a horse to the river but you can never force it to drink water.” People who are deep into drugs must realize drugs are not a cure to problems and will never be. Inasmuch as family and friends may be willing to get them to be clean, the ultimate decision rests on them and with some resolution, they can turn out like the many who walk around today free from the chains of addiction.

Cobbinah is a sophomore petroleum engineering major from Accra, Ghana. ➤➤ fcobbinah@dailytoreador.com

Football may be related to aggression in players, fans

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ootball season is a time when sports fans everywhere become divided because of their preference of which team to follow. Best friends become rivals, everyone sports their favorite team’s jersey and Sundays become more about football and less about church.

Since this is Texas, the team that seems to be everyone’s favorite is the Dallas Cowboys.

On Sunday, the Cowboys continued to impress fans everywhere by having six consecutive wins in a row. Fans took to Twitter and Facebook to express their joy and support for the team’s improvement.

According to CBSSports. com, Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, is so confident in the Cowboys’ winning streak that he predicts they will make it to the Super Bowl. In an interview on “Good Morning America,” Cuban said, “It is going to be the Cowboys versus the Broncos with the Cowboys coming out on top.”

All this hype is over a winning streak, but what happens if the Cowboys lose their next

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game? Dedicated fans seem to keep their morale boosted no matter the outcome. Fans keep a sense of resilience and hope for their team in the long run.

Extreme fans also tend to show aggression, which is because of their frustration with their team’s losses. Sometimes fans curse and throw things, blame the quarterback or even the coach for the loss. But why do they get so angry and agitated — isn’t it just a game?

Sometimes football can be a way of bullying. Accord ing to an article in The New York Times, in Sayreville, New Jersey, a high school’s football season was recently canceled because of hazing. The allegations against the football players not only include hazing, but also physical and sexual abuse.

The town’s devotion to foot-

ball has caused some residents to lash out against the victims on social media sites. The attitude and mentality of the citizens is focused on revealing the victims. According to a Time.com article, “the search is on for the snitches — who killed football in Sayreville?”

The town’s residents’ aggression toward the freshman victims is due to their anger at a canceled football season.

Instead of coming to these boys’ defense and expressing anger with their perpetrators, they are more concerned with a game.

Does football cause aggression in players and fans?

The NFL has had many encounters with domestic violence in the past. Can this be related to football causing aggression in players? According to a Forbes.com article, Adrian Raine, psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania, said, “It’s a plausible hypothesis, without a doubt.”

Aggression is a serious behavior to feed into, but it can also just be a part of the game.

When players warm up, they thrive off of a sense of euphoria

gained by their determination to win. Aggression is used throughout the game by players to gain physical power over their opponent.

It becomes an issue when it is used outside of the sport. If players are physically abusing their teammates or taking part in domestic violence, aggression becomes a bigger issue.

If football were just a game, people would be satisfied with any outcome, but this is not the case for everyone. Many fans use aggression to lash out at the opposing team and their own team when their team fails to win.

Aggression can affect players in negative and positive ways. It can be a helpful tool within the game, but a dangerous weapon outside the game. Society needs to put less emphasis on winning and fans need to separate themselves from being a part of a team and watch as fans. Winning is not everything and losing is not the end of the world.

Tijerina is a junior English and psychology major from Lubbock. ➤➤ mtijerina@dailytoreador.com

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Tech drops exhibition match to Zhejiang

By DIEGO GAYTAN Staff WritEr

The 2014 national champions of the Chinese volleyball league, Zhejiang, opened a six-match United States tour by defeating the Texas Tech volleyball squad in a five-set exhibition match.

Tech began the international matchup with a 25-19 first set win over Zhejiang.

Tech never lost the lead in the first set as they drove in five straight points to start the match and maintained a lead throughout the set.

After a first set loss, Zhejiang kept the Tech offense quiet as they snatched the second set 25-10.

Zhejiang grabbed its first lead of the match in the second set and forced Tech to only four consecu-

tive points and six kills.

Senior middle blocker Mikia Mills said the Zhejiang’s fast set play style contrasted volleyball in conference play.

“That was the biggest difference, I believe, that I saw,” Mills said. “They were able to score against our defense very well with the tips and stuff. It was for us to have a weakness exposed so that we can work on it in practice and be able to transfer it over to Big12 play.”

Tech and Zhejiang traded the leaded ten times in the third set.

Tech tied the set 12-12 after a Zhejiang timeout, but Zhejiang broke from Tech and went on a 3-0 run to close the set and the match.

The Red Raider squad reverted back to its first set success by win-

ning the fourth set 25-20.

Like the first set, Tech never lost the lead to Zhejiang. Tech’s largest lead of the match was a sixpoint lead with the score at 16-10.

Zhejiang’s defense halted the Tech offense again to tie the match 2-2 after winning the fourth set 25-11.

Although Tech tied the set 10-10, Zhejiang’s offense took a comfortable lead with a 6-0 run.

After Tech ended the 6-0 run, Zhejiang’s offensive produced another lofty run by scoring nine straight points.

Points exchanged back-inforth in the fifth set of the match.

Junior outside hitter Meghan Stacy finished match by leading the Tech offense with 13 kills. Senior libero Rachel Brummit lead the Tech defense with 17 digs.

Tech head coach said the match versus Zhejiang can carry over to future Tech matches.

“I think one of the big picture things is you have an opportunity to play an international team that goes about it a little bit different,” Flora said. “I think that that’s a really good opportunity for us to see volleyball at a broader perspective.”

Although the five set loss does not affect Tech’s official record, Tech’s loss against Zhejiang marks its first loss in a five set match.

Zhejiang plays Wayland Baptist today in the second match of its U.S tour.

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Red and Black series tied after two games

By EVERETT CORDER SportS Editor

After the first two games of Texas Tech baseball’s fall Red and Black series, the two teams are tied at one game apiece.

Tech coach Tim Tadlock said the players were fighting hard in both games, which is what he wants to see in an offseason series like the Red and Black series.

“I thought both days were pretty good,” he said. “We pitched it OK and played pretty good defense. Really, some aggressive mistakes, and that’s kind of the nature of the beast this time of the year. You’re trying to get them to play aggressive, and I thought the guys were doing that.”

The Black team won the series opener on Monday, according to a news release from Tech Athletics, led by home runs from freshman second baseman Michael Davis and junior outfielder Quinn Carpenter.

In the seventh inning, the Red team attempted to come back from its 7-1 deficit, scoring four runs on three hits. Three of the seventh inning runs came on a home run from sophomore first baseman Will Hairston.

Tech senior pitcher Dominic Moreno, who is playing on the Red team for the series, said the comeback near the end of game one was really beneficial for the Red team and helped them build confidence heading into the second game.

“I said (Monday) I thought it was the perfect way to build

into (Tuesday) even after a loss,” Moreno said, “so I felt really confident coming into (Tuesday).”

Moreno, along with several other players who were a part of Tech’s first ever College World Series team last season, was drafted into the MLB over the summer, but decided to stay a Red Raider for another year.

The senior relief pitcher said he took some time to think about the decision and talk with his family, but ultimately he has no regrets about staying at Tech another year.

“As soon as I stepped foot on campus I knew I had made the right decision,” Moreno said. “I’m glad to be back, I’m ready to go and it’s good to be out there.”

The Black team took the lead early again in game two of the series, with utility player Hunter Hargrove walking and scoring in the top of the first inning.

In the bottom of the first, however, the Red team responded and took the lead on a two-run single from sophomore outfielder Anthony Lyons.

Tadlock said some hits that have fallen in the first two games of the series would not have done so in previous seasons because of the new baseball being used in college games this year.

The new ball has smaller seams holding it together, Moreno said, which makes it hurt his fingers less, and Tadlock said it seems to be carrying 20 or 30 feet further at Rip Griffin Park.

“I love it, but so do the hitters,” Moreno said. “I actually hate the balls that we used last year. They

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Mattress, Furniture. Student discounts. 5127 34th Street (34th & Slide). 785‑7253.

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SERVICES

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EYEGLASS REPAIR & Replacement. Serving Lubbock 37 years. Mid‑West Optical, 34th & Uni‑ versity (806)797‑5534

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