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Tech prepared for Iowa State’s chaotic curse

By BRENNA HALE Staff Writer

The Texas Tech football team will look to push its two-game win streak to three as the Red Raiders are set to take on the Iowa State Cyclones at 11 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 27, at Jack Trice Stadium in Ames, Iowa.

The Red Raiders will be in for a challenge as they head north, for Iowa State’s fans are known to create a chaotic environment for visiting opponents. Senior offensive lineman Paul Stawarz is familiar with the adversity the team will encounter against the Cyclones.

“I personally think it’s the fans,” Stawarz said. “I think it’s a great atmosphere, especially in times like these. A lot of [fans] are shirtless in the 20-degree weather. I think it’s that culture and that atmosphere there. It’s a great place to play, and it can be intimidating for some opponents.”

The Cyclones have fared well against ranked opponents in recent years, having upset No. 3 Oklahoma and No. 4 Texas Christian in 2017, before continuing that trend with a surprise win over No. 6 West Virginia last week during the Cyclones’ latest home game. Now, borderline-ranked Tech faces the challenge of a red-hot Iowa State team coming off its biggest win of the season.

In Tech’s last trip to Ames, the Cyclones defeated the Red Raiders,

led by former Red Raider Patrick Mahomes II, 66-10, according to Tech Athletics. The loss snapped Tech’s four-year winning streak against ISU and eliminated the Red Raiders from bowl game potential.

“It was an interesting game for me,” Stawarz said. “Obviously, the last time we went there, it wasn’t the best. We know that we’ve learned from it. So hopefully, this week I’m going to have a better taste in my mouth leaving that place.”

Noise from the Cyclone crowd is expected to generate some strain on the Red Raiders’ communication during the game. Tech must establish and overcome the distraction if it wishes to find success.

“I mean, how loud it is, just on the road it’s always something you’ve got to kind of pay attention to no matter where you play,” Stawarz said. “Ames is always pretty loud.

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So really just kind of making sure everyone’s on point and getting the communication across is definitely key in a game like this upcoming week. At home you don’t really— communication is important, but it’s easier to do when you got the fans on your side.”

This time around, the Red Raider defense will be much more influential in the outcome of the battle.

In the last two victories over Texas Christian University and Kansas, the Tech defense held opponents to under 20 points.

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TOP: Texas Tech’s offensive line prepares to snap the ball before a play during the team’s game against Kansas Saturday Oct. 20, 2018, at Jones AT&T Stadium.

BOTTOM: Redshirt freshman defensive back Adrian Frye waits for Kansas to snap the ball Saturday Oct. 20, 2018, at Jones AT&T Stadium. After defeating the Jayhawks, the Red Raiders will travel to Ames, Iowa, this week to face Iowa State.

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Out-of-state students share experiences at Tech

School of Law creates therapy room

By BRIANNA MALDONADO

By MATTHEW SETZEKORN

Each year, out-of-state undergraduate enrollment at Texas Tech rises.

Students who come from outside of Texas have many reasons for moving away from home to attend Tech.

Camryn Mayer, a junior public relations major, is an out-of-state student, as her parents are both alumni of Baylor, Mayer lived in Waco when she was younger until Scottsdale, Arizona, became her home.

Mayer said she always assumed she would go to Baylor. With the limited options for big universities in Arizona, Mayer said Baylor stayed on her mind because she was not connecting to the schools in Arizona.

One thing that was important to her when looking at colleges was the sports program. She said she wanted to pick a school that was tied to sports and genuinely cared which is something she said Texas schools strive in.

Once her older brother was admitted to Tech, Mayer visited multiple times and started looking at what the school had to offer.

“It fit me perfectly,” she said. “I would say just across the board with the programs that we have and how fast-paced moving that Tech is, it puts us a step above a lot of states, including Arizona.”

Statistically, law students face more stress than other students during their time at school. This can lead to more severe mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety, and some even go so far as to attempt suicide.

According to the Dave Nee Foundation, 96 percent of law students admit to feeling stressed compared to 70 percent of medical students and 43 percent of graduate students.

The longer students stay in law school, the more likely they are to

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develop depression, according to the foundation. Only about 8-9 percent of law students have depression prior to matriculation. After one semester that number grows to 27 percent. After three years in law school, the number of students with depression grows to 40 percent.

Officials and students at the Texas Tech School of Law have decided to help alleviate these numbers by creating a room in the law school library dedicated to helping law students destress.

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Noah Hearn, a second year law student from Slidell, Louisiana, relaxes in the Texas Tech School of Law’s therapy room. The room was designed for students to have a moment of peace away from work.

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Students face anxiety over public speaking

By OSCAR VIELMA Staff Writer

Public speaking anxiety or fear is a common feeling for human beings to have. Those feelings are not as bad as they sound because they can be used to benefit performance.

Director and Instructor for Public Speaking at Texas Tech LeAnne Lagasse said she likes to think of public speaking anxiety as a concept called communication apprehension.

Communication apprehension is defined as a real or imaginary fear associated with the anticipation of communication with other people, Lagasse said.

Some of the reasons people are fearful of communicating in public situations Lagasse said are because they do not like being the center of attention, feeling like they’re in a novel situation, the feeling of being evaluated by an audience or forgetting what to say.

Part of the lack of preparation for public speaking is because it was not taught at a young age. Feeling awkward when delivering a speech is normal, she said.

“Nowadays we have to think even more carefully and critically about the words that we use when

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This room is for law student use only and can be reserved for 30-minute blocks and can be reserved by one person for an hour maximum per day.

The room includes comfortable chairs and aromatherapy.

More materials to help destress will be added later.

The issue of law students’ mental health at Tech was brought to the administration’s attention during the 2016-2017 school year, when the Student Wellness Advisory Council was formed. During the 2017-2018 school year, members of SWAC began the conversation to have the space for law students who are feeling overwhelmed.

were in public,” Lagasse said, “because we could go viral at any minute.”

People that prepare strongly before communicating publicly are the ones who decrease their anxiety levels the most, Lagasse said.

People tend to delay the start of their prep work because of the anxiety they feel from it. But if they started earlier they would find that their anxiety will begin to decrease.

Another way to decrease anxiety levels, Lagasse said, is to focus on the message and on the audience instead of focusing on themselves.

By focusing on the type of message or what the audience can do with the message, it gives the speaker a sense of empowerment and equips them to deliver the message, Lagasse said.

Rehearsing in a realistic situation is the best way to prepare because some kind of adrenaline and anxiety will be produced, Lagasse said.

Presenting the speech in front of roommates, loved ones and people they trust will help in the preparation process, Lagasse said.

Recent studies show speakers who change the way they think and use nerves as excitement instead of

anxiousness or fear tend to do better, she said.

Letting people visualize and think about what a good speech would sounds like is a way people can perform better, she said.

“Your audience doesn’t expect perfection. They expect authenticity, preparedness and competence,” Lagasse said.

Lagasse said she recommends for people to look back at their speeches if they are recorded because it will help to catch their own mistakes.

Lagasse said to prepare for a speech as if it were the Scholastic Aptitude Test, by getting a good night sleep and avoid substances that are going to enhance what the body already does naturally with adrenaline, like caffeine.

If time allows, meeting a few members of the audience is a way people can reduce anxiety levels, Lagasse said.

Lagasse said she’s taught public speaking for a long time, but still gets nervous on the first day of class because the new set of students.

Lagasse said she does not worry too much on students who have anxiety because that can be manage, instead she worries about students who are not anxious or nervous because

it can lead to unpreparedness or can be unfiltered.

Lagasse said she does not correlate student participation in class to being a better student because there are good students who are apprehensive about communicating out loud in class.

Krishna Joshi, computer science major from Red Oak, said he suffers from public speaking anxiety from the moment he begins preparation to the point he is going to start delivering the speech.

“My biggest fear is going up there and blanking in the middle of my speech,” Joshi said.

He overcomes fear by making sure he does enough prep work and rehearses his speech well in advance.

Working in the customer service industry has helped him decrease his anxiety when speaking publicly, Joshi said.

Maturity and putting himself in situations where he feels discomfort are some of the things that have help his speaking ability, he said.

A take away from his public speaking course is being able to deliver a speech and convince the audience on his idea.

Joy Delia Anderson, O’ Steen’s, assistant professor of practice in communication studies, said public speaking anxiety is not something that goes away without practice.

“Avoiding this isn’t going to make it to go away. And at

some point, you’ll start turning down money,” O’Steen said.

“What you learn when you study oral communication and public speaking are skills that are transferable to every single part of your life,” Lagasse said.

“Our main goal that we all decided that we all wanted to work towards was having counseling on campus,” Gunnison Matula, student director of the Student Wellness Advisory Council, said. “We were thinking of ‘what can we do, how can we solve this problem’ and so we went to the administration, to the Office of Student Life and were able to secure a room in the library.”

After they obtained the room at the end of the 20172018 school year, Matula said the new dean of student life, Sofia Chapman, helped the project take off for the 20182019 school year. With Chapman’s help, SWAC was able to begin the process of getting real counselors to help students with an issue that a large

amount of law students face.

Spencer Young, president of the Student Bar Association, said he wants to normalize the negative stigma of law students feeling like they should not seek help. He said his mission was to help break this stigma within law students that surrounds mental health.

“I can really see the implementation of this really begin to help students really just be easy on themselves,” Young said. “It’s my main goal throughout all of this for these mental health rooms, these Mental Health Wednesday’s that we do, all of these various things to eventually become so normal that it really starts to fight away at that stigma.”

Students should pay more attention to their physical and

mental well-being, start recognizing when they are not ok and seek out the resources available to them, Young said.

“Being aware of mental health and having those options available, students can begin to not only utilize the room but take in a larger picture and start realizing that it’s ok to feel bad sometimes,” Young said. “It’s perfectly normal to have your issues, it’s perfectly normal to be stressed.”

One of the major reasons law students have a hard time in school is due to the massive workload that comes with it, Matula said.

“I guess when I came to law school, I was kind of thinking ‘Oh, ok well yeah, college is busy.

What’s the big deal?’” Matula said. “I guess the way classes

are and you have so much on your plate at all times. You have a lot of reading, you basically have one test and that’s your grade for the entire semester, so it’s kind of scary all of a sudden when they’re like ‘Ok, you have a week to study. Hope you know what you’re talking about.’”

A lot of students begin to doubt their self-worth due to the pressure to perform well and ultimately falling short, Matula said.

“You go from having all of your self-worth attached to having good grades or having praise from family and friends,” Matula said “Then all of a sudden you go to school and you go ‘Wow, I’m in the bottom third of my class.

I’m just not understanding this material and these other people are saying they do. Who am I, am

I really that smart?’”

Another reason law school can be a lot on students is due to many of the students being older.

Many students have families to take care of, which can add a lot to a person’s plate, Matula said.

The therapy room was specifically placed inside the law school’s library, Young said. This is so students can have space in a closer range to them and could help with any students that need immediate help.

“The library is right down the hall from all of the classrooms,” Young said. “It just goes to accessibility, feasibility and just making life efficient. We already have limited time as law students, and students in general for that matter, so just making these options readily available.”

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Campus resources support attempts to avoid student debt

By ADÁN RUBIO Staff Writer

The struggle to pay for tuition can contribute to a student’s distress in college.

With one’s reliance on loans, debt is another issue that could add to that worry.

Whether it be poor money management or the need to use loans to pay for one’s college education, there are many reasons why a student may accumulate debt throughout their time at a university. For students who want to avoid relying on loans and collecting debt, there are many resources at Texas Tech dedicated to educating one about financial planning or resources that provide financial assistance.

Developing a stable financial plan is just one method of keeping track of expenses and how money is used. Red to Black is a department, located in Room 201 of the Student Union Building, that teaches students how to efficiently use money, make a budget and maximize student loans.

James Palmer, peer financial coach for Red to Black, said he conducts coaching sessions, presents to classes about financial literacy and participates in booths to promote Red to Black. As a financial coach, he said he teaches students to understand proper financial planning.

“Red to Black will be the number one service on campus to help students with coaching them on how to budget,” he said. “We don’t really tell students what to do, we help them kind of figure it out.”

Creating a budget is one method Palmer said is important to understand how one spends money. Figuring out the appropriate financial plan is a task he said requires a student to try out different budgeting techniques.

“It really just takes experimenting and figuring out how consistent you want to be,” Palmer said. “If you want

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 She is close with her family and high school friends, she said, so she always loves visiting home. After spending a summer away from Arizona, she said she started to feel the pull of Texas, as if she could see a future there.

“Freshman and sophomore year, I would say that I still consider Ariz o n a m y h o m e . T h a t ’s where I feel the most comfortable,” she said. “Now, I’m into my junior year, and I have thoughts that I need to stay in Texas, that maybe it’s the best place for me.”

Leah Roberts, a senior human development and family studies major, grew u p i n C a l i f o r n i a . Wi t h wanting to live in Texas, the Foothill Ranch native said Tech seemed like a good fit because she felt at home.

“The culture here is pretty much different in every aspect possible,” Roberts said. “The main thing I noticed is that everyone here is a lot friendlier.”

Being over 1,000 miles away from home, she said adapting to Texas was weird at first, but it became easier because of how welcoming everyone is.

“Breaks are tough because I can never just go home for a single weekend like most people do,” Roberts said.

Visiting California is difficult for breaks and holidays because of her job, she said. She only receives two weeks off for Christmas, two weeks for summer and she does not have time to go home for Thanksgiving and Easter, so she has to find other family members to spend time with.

Hunter Johnston, a senior public relations major, is from Parker, Colorado. As Tech alumni, her parents wanted her to attend Tech

to be financially healthy, there has to be some sort of budgeting aspect to your life.”

Budgeting is just one aspect of working to avoid student debt. Loans are a type of financial assistance that could contribute to student’s accumulation of debt.

A student’s poor financial condition is one reason Palmer said one might have to rely on loans.

“Some people just don’t have the resources,” he said regarding one reason why students apply for loans. “It depends on your situation.”

Regardless of a student’s current situation, Palmer said it is important to budget, as it can help people avoid debt and not have to rely solely on loans throughout college.

For some students, paying for college is the main reason why they need to apply for a loan. With the accumulation of loan payments, the issue of student debt could get worse.

Christopher Crouch, Ph.D. candidate and associate professor for personal finance, said there are different ways a loan payment can lead to a lot of student debt.

“A lot of the problem is that you get this big student loan payment,” he said regarding students who do not have the money to pay off loans after graduation. “Another problem is that students don’t get enough loans.”

Avoiding loans and paying tuition with credit cards is another way Crouch said students can acquire debt, as they must later pay off their credit card.

Although, loans are a type of financial support he said does not have to result in debt after graduation.

“Realize that student loans are not necessarily bad,” Crouch said. “Make sure you do not take out too much.”

With the cost of tuition, the need for loans could vary among students. For people who spend more time in college, whether it be to pursue

a different major or to retake certain classes, there are different reasons why a student may have higher tuition payments than others.

Adding unnecessary time to one’s degree plan is another factor Crouch said contributes to future debt.

“The other suggestion is don’t waste time,” he said regarding the need for students to not spend too much time in college. “Adding these extra semesters just adds debt.”

Regardless of how one acquires debt, paying off some loans at the end of every semester is a method Crouch said he suggests to avoid the massive debt accumulation after graduation.

Whether it be accepting too many loans or not managing finances in a proper manner, student debt is an issue for some people.

Facing debt is an obstacle for some students leaving college. But for others, the challenge is making the appropriate preparations and utilizing different sources of financial support in order to avoid debt.

Tech Student Financial Aid and Scholarships is a department that works with students to determine their eligibility for other types of financial aid.

Christy Miller, director of financial aid, said scholarships and grants are other forms of support students can utilize instead of loans.

“Whatever we can possibly do to help the students minimize the amount they have to borrow,” she said.

“We’re giving you all kinds of resources.”

Regardless of the different types of financial aid, students may need to rely on loans at some point during college.

“When students apply for financial aid, they’re automatically considered for federal student loans,” Miller said. “In addition to that, there’s other types of loans they can borrow from the state, if they’re a Texas resident.”

and asked her to take a tour. Although she did not want to attend Tech at first, Johnston said she fell in love with the college.

Johnston said it is hard sometimes to see her friends from Colorado and spend time together.

However, she said it is nice being from out-ofstate because many people want to travel, so people can always depend on her

for a place to stay and a friend to see.

“Lubbock and Colorado have a way different feel.

The personalities are different, so it’s definitely a culture shock coming from there to here,” Johnston said. “It’s nice because I have a good group of friends in both places, so it’s kind of easy to flip back and forth.” @DailyToreador

For students who need loans, Miller said it is best to first receive federal aid once they complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. Whether it be federal direct loans, which can be granted after completing the FAFSA, or the College Access Loan, which is a state borrowed loan granted based off a student’s credit evaluation, she said there are a variety of loans to consider.

Whether it be for loans, scholarships or grants, there are certain measures students need to take to be considered for financial aid of any kind.

Laura Scott, associate director of financial aid, said with the variety of resources aimed at supporting one’s education, college students should make the proper preparations when seeking assistance from the department.

“There are lots of different types of them,” she said regarding different financial resources. “But what the students do need to do is give us their key, so that we can access their eligibility for them.”

Completion of the FAFSA, the university scholarship application and expected enrollment certification are the keys Scott said students need to have in order to receive the most out of financial aid. After a student has completed these steps, she said financial aid can work with them to provide the appropriate amount of financial support based off their eligibility.

For students wanting to take advantage of financial aid services after completing the requirements, there are different ways they can be helped.

“We have a walk-up counter. Students can text in ahead of time, so they don’t have to stand in line.” Scott said regarding how students can access services at financial aid. “We have a whole team of people in our call center.”

For students who are

trying not to rely solely on loans and accumulate debt, there are resources available at Tech to educate and assist students through financial obstacles. With the need to avoid future debt, any bit of support could contribute to the success of one’s education.

“For students who are

leaving college, make sure they know who their loan servicers are and connect with them and find out when their payments start,” she said. “The biggest thing I think is for students to know that they have resources that are available.

They are not alone.”

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Fast fashion culture repeatedly proven to be dangerous

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he truth is I never found myself thinking about the fashion industry.

I’ve bought countless items of fast fashion clothing over the years and, like most people, I rarely stopped to think about the true cost of each item.

It’s almost scary how little I thought about the fashion industry, and how easily I allowed myself to be fooled by the sheer desire of buying an affordable, new trendy top or a new pair of jeans. I’d even heard the term “fast fashion” after working for months in retail and didn’t really care to find out the true weight of the word. In retrospect, I’m surprised this revelation didn’t occur for me sooner.

When I was hired by a retail company last year, managers briefed all new hires and expressed to us the company’s goal: sell items that emulate fast fashion styles that are slightly better quality.

This was my first introduction to the term. What even is “fast fashion?”

The managers brushed over this question quickly.

Looking back on the conversation, it’s likely they could’ve told me the truth. Instead, they told me fast fashion consisted of the popular and quickly changing styles most brands sold to make money.

In reality, fast fashion is much more than just producing trendy clothing. A web-

Gloria Matheson is a sophomore political science major from Round Rock

site that has many in-depth articles about fast fashion, called Good On You, defined the term as “cheap, trendy clothing, that samples ideas from the catwalk or celebrity culture and turns them into garments in high street stores at breakneck speed.”

This doesn’t seem all that bad when we talk about it like this. In fact, it’s not all that different than the short definition my old company gave its new employees. And when we put the ideas behind fast fashion like this, it’s easy to think that it must be the result of supply and demand After all, people always want to wear what they see on the runway or on a celebrity’s Instagram. To some extent, this is absolutely the case. The target consumers are people who want to partake in those trends and look like their favorite celebrities.

It’s hard to see any real issue when we talk about fast fashion this way. There isn’t really a problem with retail companies producing clothing that will be desired by consumers. The real issues behind fast fashion is that the clothing is cheap for a reason. The textile jobs are outsourced to countries that have low minimum wages (if

they have minimum wages at all) and little to no standards for working conditions.

We saw when outsourcing proved to be deadly for the workers in the Rana Plaza in Bangladesh, when workers noticed cracks on the walls and were still told to come in to work the next day, a clear signal that the company valued its profit as opposed to its workers’ lives. Unfortunately, the building collapsed on April 24, 2013. According to The Guardian, 1,134 garment workers died in the building collapse, thousands more being severely injured.

This horrifyingly tragic incident proved to many that low working conditions could prove disastrous. In response to the tragedy, over 200 companies from 20 countries signed the Accord on Fire and Building Safety, defined by the accord’s website as an “independent, legally binding agreement between brands and trade unions designed to work towards a safe and healthy Bangladeshi ReadyMade Garment Industry,” in attempts to prevent hazardous working conditions.

Since then, it has been reported 97,000 of 132,000 hazards at factories in Bangladesh have been addressed and corrected. Significant progress has been made to address the issues caused by the production of fast fashion clothing,

but there is still risk involved as the accord ended this summer and had no significant American signatories.

Another major concern is the continuous exploitation of workers. Low wages are still a major disadvantage in the production of these clothing items. Businesses are making a lot of money by paying employees and garment workers as little as possible.

Even as a retail associate, I barely made more than minimum wage. I was fortunate enough not to need the money to survive, but what about people who do? It’s hard for me to comprehend that we weren’t being paid livable wages when the company’s lowest paid executive made 206 times more an hour than their retail associates, yet somehow, we never saw raises.

Regardless of that fact, I am a white Latina woman living with immense privilege. I didn’t need the job to survive, and I live in a country that actually has an established minimum wage. I didn’t often think about the women my age in other countries who relied on jobs as garment workers to support their families. They don’t have the same privilege to be able to look for a job that has better pay and working conditions.

Part of the reason wages are so low in other countries is the government plays a very

small role in regulating minimum wages or even adjusting wages to account for inflation.

For example, a 2016 report from the Global Living Wage Coalition identified livable wages in Bangladesh, a country to which many garment and textile jobs are outsourced to, as anywhere between $177 to $214, whereas actual wages, which have undeniably increased after the tragedy at Rana Plaza, are between $38 to $68 monthly.

Acknowledging the government’s role is important, but even more so is realizing how much of an impact fast fashion companies are having on wages in countries like Bangladesh.

In fact, Bangladeshi workers protested against the company I worked for among others and demanded a threefold raise. Only one of the many companies promised to increase pay in 2018, though with less than three months left in the year, it’s unlikely that it ever happened, as I was unable to find any information that showed an increase in pay has occurred.

These companies clearly profit from underpaying their workers, giving them insanely short deadlines and even decreasing the amount of time allotted for finishing each garment. According to a report

by Mark Anner, the director of

the Center for Global Workers’ Rights at Pennsylvania State University, the amount of time workers had to finish their work decreased by 8.1 percent between 2011 and 2015, marking a clear growth in popularity of fast fashion.

At this point, the name quite literally means fashion expected to be made extremely quickly by underpaid workers who make clothing in improving, but still hazardous, conditions.

Overall, it’s clear that fast fashion clothing comes with incredible amounts of consequences for the garment workers. It’s difficult to say that no one will ever buy these items of clothing ever again, because it’s also difficult for middleand lower-class consumers to afford ethically made items.

The truth is ethically made items are more expensive, and there’s no way all of us can afford boycotting cheap, unethically made clothing.

Instead, we can begin combatting the practice of unethical fast fashion by simply shopping second-hand for unique pieces, or just stopping to rethink buying every single trendy item we see.

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Lack of critical response to Khashoggi murder cause for concern

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arlier this week, the globe responded to the murder of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi with condemnation and criticism.

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Unsurprisingly, President Donald Trump was particularly outspoken on the matter, asserting that Khashoggi’s tragedy constituted the “Worst cover-up in the history of cover-ups” on the part of Saudi Arabia’s government. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told the USA Today in an interview, “We’re making very clear that the United States does not tolerate this kind of ruthless action to silence Mr. Khashoggi, a journalist, through violence.”

The Trump administration then implemented p e n a l t i e s f o r t h e S a udis, including a revocation of visas for those suspected of involvement in Khashoggi’s murder and threatened to initiate sanctions as well, this includes those in intelligence services, the foreign ministry and members of the Royal Court.

Given that Khashoggi was a well-known dissident, frequently denouncing Saudi governance in his journalism, his death has prompted conversations about global standards of censorship and press freedom at large. Thus, it may be easily assumed that Saudi Arabia and the Middle East as a whole experiences extremely low levels of press freedom and protection of journalists to exercise free speech.

However, the failures of the U.S. to uphold freedom of the press, especially given President Trump’s recent commentary, may be far less evident. Nevertheless, the 2018 World Press Freedom Index indicates that the U.S. dropped to the No. 45 ranking out of 180 total evaluated countries. This reflects a drop of two spots since 2017, and is part and parcel with a global trend towards plummeting levels of press freedom.

In contradiction to the

Trump administration’s remarks about Khashoggi, Reporters Without Borders maintains that the strength of U.S. press freedom, as granted by the First Amendment to the Constitution, is vulnerable due to President Trump’s declarations of the press as an enemy to the American people.

He has worked to block White House access for multiple nonpartisan media outlets and characterizes the majority of modern American reporting as fake news, especially if content appears to criticize his administration.

Most concerningly, The Daily Caller reported that Trump recently demanded that certain media organizations, and corporations as prominent as NBC, have their broadcasting licenses revoked entirely while altogether precluding foreign journalists who report on sensitive international news from entering the U.S. This is

compounded by the fact that whistleblowers may be prosecuted if found in violation of the Espionage Act, and a lack of shield laws give no guarantee that journalists’ sources will be protected by the right to anonymity.

The U.S. is safer and much preferable to practicing journalism in Saudi Arabia or similar nations; I can write this article and reasonably assume that there won’t be retaliation or consequences by the federal government.

On the other hand, this does not negate the disturbing dissonance of being governed by a president consistently lauded for his supposed adherence to constitutional conservatism but simultaneously degrades freedom of the press.

This is not necessarily a partisan issue, as past liberal administrations have been complicit in s i m i l a r b e h a v i o r. Ye t , the difference in public

reactions and levels of outrage from the political right regarding threats to other constitutional liberties, such as the right to bear arms, in comparison to freedom of the press is stark.

Debates over gun control, so frequent and heated that discussion has stagnated, far overtakes the amount of political dialogue and conversation surrounding the right to freedom of the press. The same goes for freedom of speech; even high schoolers can go viral for advocating the right to wear clothes picturing Confederate flags and bravely standing up against dress code bans that supposedly silence free speech and expression, as reported by Newsweek in 2017.

That attacks on freedom of the press apparently do not warrant equivalent concern is alarming, to say the least. @DailyToreador

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Pipe bombs target Democrats, CNN as political tensions mount WASHINGTON (AP) — A wave of glass-filled pipe bombs targeting Hillary Clinton, former President Barack Obama, other prominent Democrats and CNN was thwarted without physical harm, but an anxietyfilled day on Wednesday deepened political tensions and fears two weeks before national midterm elections.

None of the bombs detonated as law enforcement took them away for examination and disposal.

The first crude bomb to be discovered had been delivered Monday to the suburban New York compound of George Soros, a liberal billionaire and major contributor to Democratic causes.

The FBI said an additional package was intended for former Attorney General Eric Holder, but that one ended up at a Florida office of Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, whose return address was on it.

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Later Wednesday, the FBI said two additional packages addressed for Rep. Maxine Waters had been intercepted that were similar in appearance to five others.

The targets of the bombs were some of the figures most frequently criticized by President Donald Trump, who still assails Clinton at rallies while supporters chant “lock her up” — two years after he defeated her and she largely left the political scene. Trump accuses Soros of paying protesters and singles out cable news network CNN as he rails against the “fake news” media.

He took a softer tone at a rally in Wisconsin Wednesday night.

“Let’s get along,” he said.

“By the way, do you see how nice I’m behaving tonight?

Have you ever seen this?”

The attacks overtook other news in an already-tense political season that could reshape Congress and serve as a referendum on the first two

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The actions, which caused panicked building evacuations and reports of additional explosives that later proved unfounded, are bound to add to fears that overheated rhetoric could lead to deadly violence as the parties engage in bitter fights over immigration, the Supreme Court and the treatment of women.

The White House condemned the attacks aimed at Democrats and other perceived foes of the administration.

“Acts or threats of political violence have no place in the United States,” Trump said. “This egregious conduct is abhorrent.”

Other Republican leaders said the same. But Democratic Senate and House leaders Chuck Schumer of New York and Nancy Pelosi of California said such words “ring hollow” when coming from Trump. They noted the president’s recent praise of a GOP congress-

man who body-slammed a reporter, among other Trump statements.

Law enforcement officials said all the packages were similar: manila envelopes with bubble-wrap interior bearing six stamps and the return address of Florida Rep. Schultz. She is the former chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee who was accused by Clinton rivals of secretly helping the party’s eventual presidential nominee.

The package intended for Holder had the wrong address and was forwarded to Wasserman Schultz.

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The devices all were sent to an FBI lab in Virginia to be studied. Officials provided no details on a possible suspect or motive.

“Suffice it to say, it appears an individual or individuals sent out multiple, similar packages,” said John Miller, the New York Police Department’s head of intelligence and counterterrorism, who briefed reporters.

The U.S. Secret Service intercepted a bomb that was addressed to Hillary Clinton at the Chappaqua, New York, home she shares with former President Bill Clinton, and another that was sent to Obama at his home in Washington.

A police bomb squad removed still another from CNN’s New York office, which was evacuated. The CNN package was addressed to former CIA Director John Brennan, who has publicly clashed with Trump and is a regular television contributor.

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Video games reflect society in unexpected ways

By RILEY GOLDEN Staff Writer

One video game can be the perfect mechanism to foster a community and expand on the ever-changing culture of the industry.

Nyle Field and Jennifer Lester, owners of 806 Games in Lubbock, are not gamers, although as owners of a retro gaming store lend them an honorary place in the community. Not only that, they are presented a perspective of the community that most people don’t experience.

806 Games opened two years ago, but before that, there wasn’t a store in town that specialized in buying and selling retro gaming hardware.

“There was a need in Lubbock as well,” Lester said. “There wasn’t any local game store that specialized in retro.”

Lester said that people come in looking for Nintendo Entertainment Systems (NES), Super Nintendo Entertainment Systems (SNES), GameCubes, PlayStation 2’s and anything else they can’t find at GameStop.

Field said the Nintendo 64 consoles and games are their biggest sellers, and their typical target customer is the 30-to-55-year old male.

“Those are the generations that kind of like the nostalgic, retro stuff,” Field said. “That’s why we tilt it that way, because that’s a demographic that have jobs, have money, have kids, and all of those factors kind of work together.”

Lester said that they get customers that were referred to them by stores like GameStop, Best Buy and Ralph’s Records, with at least one new customer walking in daily.

Lester has a lot of fun working in the store because she loves meeting people and hearing their stories, Field said that’s a large part of what they like about being a part of the gaming community.

“I think it’s all relationships,” Field said. “It’s getting to know people you never knew because it’s a different

group of people that may have been out of our circle, when we first opened.”

Field said that they’re seeing a generational skip in interest in retro games.

They have two 19-year-old kids that are not very interested in the retro games, but there’s a younger generation that they’re seeing come in the store more and more.

“The 9-to-12-year-olds, their dads tend to match our demographics, and they start teaching their kids about the old stuff, so we’ve seen a little uptick in that age group wanting to come in and buy retro stuff, which is really cool,” Field said.

While retro gamers are a huge part of the culture, modern, mainstream games make up what a large portion of the community plays.

Megan Condis, who has a Ph.D. in English, researched how people express their gender and sexuality within gaming, and with the emergence of more playable female characters in games, players cannot assume just because they run into a player online playing a female character, that the person playing the character is a girl or even feminine.

“What I discovered was because people didn’t have access to a body they could dress and perform gender through, they developed mannerisms they could demonstrate through a game, that they could use to show off they are masculine or feminine,” Condis said.

One of the mannerisms Condis identified, teabagging, is somewhat lewd, but has been done in video games for almost a decade now. Teabagging is putting genitalia on another character’s face and is meant to demonstrate dominance.

Condis said explaining to her parents that she makes a living by studying genitals in video games can be weird, but the data that she has collected produced some interesting results.

“What I found really interesting about this practice was first it didn’t matter

whether the player was a guy or a girl. If you’re a part of this scene and you beat your opponent, the way that you demonstrate that you bested someone is by doing this practice (teabagging),” Condis said.

So, Condis’ research is summarizing that when people play video games, they don’t escape from the reality of different sexual identities, genders and gender norms, but they are all kind of mixed up in the melting pot of online gaming.

“What my work is about is when we play video games, we don’t magically escape the cultural practices that shape our everyday life,” Condis said. “It’s not like we’re in a perfect Utopia where there is no gender or race and everything’s just the life of the mind, but those things do get scrambled and remixed in really interesting ways, where if you’re presented with the only tool I have is like punch, kick and crouch, it’s like ‘We’re going to find a way to use those tools to enact these cultural categories that we have.’”

While Condis looks at how racial, sexual and gender identities play out in video games, Bobby Schweizer, who has a Ph.D. in digital media, did his research on video game worlds, and how they differ from but also reflect society.

“When I was looking at it I was basically trying to say, ‘Okay, if we spend all this time building these fictional worlds, what do these fictional worlds of these video game cities say about the real world?’”

Schweizer said. “What’s happening when we build these cities, what are we saying about our cities?

Then eventually it was, ‘Okay, well now that we have all of these video game cities we spend so much time playing in, how does it change how we think about the actual cities around us?”

Schweizer said that Grand Theft Auto V, also known as GTA 5, is a great example

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806 Games offers a wide variety of retro video game hardware, as well as a glimpse into the culture of gaming. The store is located at 5701 Slide Rd. and is open every day of the week. of how games can take an actual city, and turn it into a playground for the player, but there’s a lot more to it than building a lifeless, geometrical area for players to explore.

“When you build a video g a m e c i t y, y o u h a v e t o make everything work, right? It’s up to the designer to make sure the player not only has stuff to do in the space, but that it feels alive, that it has a sense of reality, a sense of verisimilitude-ness,” Schweizer said. “Cars need to drive around in a way that you might expect them to, pedestrians need to move, you need to include police stations, hospitals, restaurants, apartment buildings and all those things.”

Video games and their cities are reaching a point of blurring the lines between the game and reality. Virtual reality headsets, like the Oculus Rift are a great example of this, but one doesn’t have to step into a virtual reality to get swept away in the blurred fictional reality of a game.

“Over time as these city’s get more elaborate, the level of detail they have to have to support them becomes even more intense. I remember I was playing GTA 5 for the first time and I was just driving down the street. I pulled into a turn lane at a traffic light, and I stopped,”

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CNN criticizes White House after NYC evacuation NEW YORK (AP) — CNN chief Jeff Zucker criticized the White House for a “total and complete lack of understanding” of the seriousness of its attacks on the media, as his network’s New York bureau was evacuated for five hours Wednesday following the discovery of an explosive device sent there.

Feelings were raw at the cable network because of a what it believed was a reluctance by the adminis-

tration to discuss CNN as one of the targets of crude devices sent to political leaders, and the delivery of a fundraising email that attacked CNN that arrived in inboxes of supporters as the story unfolded. Trump’s campaign later apologized for the email.

“The president, and especially the White House press secretary, should understand their words matter,” said Zucker, president of

CNN Worldwide. “Thus far, they have shown no comprehension of that.”

There was no immediate response from the White House.

The CNN attack was in one respect a case of mistaken identity. The package that included the explosive device and an envelope containing white powder was addressed to former CIA director John Brennan, a frequent Trump critic.

Brennan is actually a contracted analyst at NBC News, although the package’s street address was for the Time Warner Center in New York’s Columbus Circle, where CNN’s offices are.

CNN’s Jim Sciutto and Poppy Harlow were on the air shortly after 10 a.m., conducting a live interview about the devices sent to political leaders when the whooping sound of an alarm went off.

Schweizer said. “I was like, ‘I’m sorry I didn’t stop at a traffic light in a video game?’

Like, I don’t have to do this but I was just wrapped up in the moment and it just felt like I was like belonging in that space.”

Although games are getting increasingly better at making players feel welcomed in their environment, developers haven’t quite been able to construct the extra characters in a

game to be like the extra characters in our real lives.

“The thing that they don’t do is they don’t tell the individual stories of all those people in the system, right?” Schweizer said. “So, when we play in a video game city, we rarely have to think about anyone that’s not ourselves, which is not true or at least shouldn’t be true, when we are in the real world.” @DailyToreador

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By COLEMAN TAYLOR Staff Writer

Haunted houses are one of many Halloween festivities that set up shop for the month of October and offer their services of fright-induced adrenaline rushes, before closing by the end of the month.

Of all the terror themed attractions in Lubbock, few can claim as much prominence as Nightmare on 19th Street.

Labeling itself not merely as a haunted house, but as West Texas’ only Halloween theme park, Nightmare and its crew take pride in their craft and ability to scare.

This year the park hosts

five attractions, ranging from a traditional haunted house to an island of creepy dolls, and new for 2018 is “Voodoo Alley,” which draws heavily from folklore surrounding New Orleans.

There is more that goes into scaring people than just jumping out and yelling “boo.” Robin Burkett, the lead actor coordinator for Nightmare, works to make sure every actor is where they are supposed to be so the attractions run smoothly.

Nightmare’s staff is unique, because every member of it volunteers to work there, Burkett said. This brings all kinds of people, regardless of acting experience. While some

of the actors may have experience with community or school theatre, others come with no experience at all.

“We get people with no experience who are actually really shy, and it can be hard to pry them out of their shell, but we like to include them and make them one of us,” Burkett said.

Kelly Deuvall, a student at South Plains College and fourth-year Nightmare actress, said she came to the theme park with some acting experience already under her belt, but learning to scare people was a whole new ball game.

As a theatre major, Deuvall said she has acted in

a wide array of roles, but switching from traditional dramatic or comedic styles to this new kind was initially difficult. Breaking from the seriousness of drama and putting on a clown costume and makeup to terrify people only gets easier with practice and help, she said.

Help was abundant though, and the more experienced actors of Nightmare did a lot to teach her and others, she said. During her first year, she constantly watched the older actors, adapting what they did into her own scaring repertoire.

“You say that you want to scare but don’t know how to, and that’s when you talk to the people that have been here for three or four years, and they give you tips,” she said. “We’re nice enough to give tips.”

Laquita Morrell works with the costuming department of Nightmare, which she said is a vital part of the theme park. Without the detailed work of the costumes, the atmosphere of the park would be off, she said.

“You can’t scare people in plain Jane clothes, it doesn’t work” Morrell said. “You need a good costume to get the

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This year, Nightmare on 19th Street features five attractions including a traditional haunted house, an island of creepy dolls and “Voodoo Alley.” most scare out of it.”

Contributing to the immersion of the attractions is the ultimate goal of costuming, but with new attractions it can be difficult to find the best balance of authenticity, she said. Dead Doll Island in particular presented challenges, she said, for somewhat obvious reasons. Taking the pretty and colorful dolls and turning them into something

that gets a reaction out of people took time to figure out.

Beyond her responsibilities in transforming the actors, Morrell said her true passion is gatekeeping. Being able to greet the park guests and families coming to have fun is the most rewarding part of the job, she said. Interacting with younger kids especially puts a smile on her face.

“I get to meet all the different people,” she said. “I get to talk to them and take pictures with their kids that come through. Its just fun and interesting to do.”

The behind the scenes production value of Nightmare can often be lost on people going for a quick scare, but for actress Desiree Mendez, it is the most important part.

Even though it may seem simple from the outside, Mendez said detailed training is given to all the actors on how to deal with emergencies. From purposefully hostile guests to medical emergency situations, Nightmare actors are trained to deal with it all, she said.

Preparation for the Halloween season happens yearround, Mendez said. As soon as October is over, the planning for the next year starts.

From November to the next October, work happens constantly, including remodeling and new additions, she said.

Above all though, Mendez said she would want the guests to know how tight knit the Nightmare group is. Everyone who works there becomes a community and family.

“We’re all one big family, and we work really well with each other. We all just click,” she said.

For people who may be hesitant to go to Nightmare On 19th Street, Deuvall offered some advice. To her, its all about starting small and building up to the really scary attractions.

“For starters, you have to start watching some scary movies, then you can move up to the scarier haunted houses,” Deuvall said. “But for people who are really jumpy, or punchy even, maybe keep your hands to yourselves.” @DailyToreador

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Tech searches for success in back half of Big 12 play

By GABRIELLE TAITE Staff Writer

The Texas Tech volleyball team began the back half of Big 12 play by falling to West Virginia, 3-1, Wednesday, Oct. 24, in Morgantown, West Virginia.

Tech sits at 4-5 in conference and 15-8 overall, according to Tech Athletics. The team has pulled victories over top teams in the Big 12 such as Baylor, West Virginia, Iowa State and Kansas State.

At the beginning of this season, Tech head coach Tony Graystone said he felt confident about how the Red Raiders would do in Big 12 play.

“We’re feeling good about where we’re at right now,” Graystone said. “It’s been a little up and down. We’ve

had moments where we look great and others where we are just searching. Overall, I feel good about what we’ve done and where we’re at. I know the urgency is going to kick in, and we get to put our attention on some teams we’re more familiar with that have a little bit more of a personal feeling for us, teams that we’re wanting to get after.”

So far this season, many Red Raiders have taken the conference by storm, starting with freshman outside hitter Brooke Kanas. She was named the Big 12 Rookie of the Week for her breakout week that helped Tech with its first 2-0 start in league play since 2000, according to Tech Athletics. Senior setter Missy Owens also recorded a

season high 57 assists and surpassed her 3,000 career assists for her collegiate career during the match against Iowa State.

Graystone said Owens is an essential part of his team winning Big 12 matches.

“Let’s be clear, we aren’t going anywhere as a program, making the changes we have without Missy as our setter,” Graystone said.

“What she’s done for us — her ability as a player, her mindset as an athlete and a competitor, her ability to make plays and kind of pull it all together — it takes a special kid to be able to do that. I can’t give her enough credit. She’s really been a big part of this.”

Graystone also said Owens has been able to take the strengths of her fellow teammates and combine

them together and help the team be successful.

The team will take on Texas Christian University, Kansas, Oklahoma, Baylor, Kansas State, Texas and Iowa State to close out Big 12 play, according to Tech Athletics. The Red Raiders have previously lost to each of these teams in the 2018 season except for Baylor, Iowa State and Kansas State.

Junior Emily Hill said the team anticipates more Big 12 victories than last season, giving Tech enough wins to make it to playoffs this season.

“We need to be more efficient, and my goals are more centered around the team,” Hill said. “We want to make it to the tournament, and so we need to win more games to do that.” @TaiteDT

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Sophomore defensive specialist Emerson Solano readies herself for an Iowa State serve. The Red Raiders defeated the Cyclones 3-1.

Solano, a native of Amarillo, Texas, has totaled 344 digs through Tech’s 23 games played thus far.

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On Tuesday, Oct. 23, a pair of student-athletes on the Texas Tech men’s track and field team, freshmen Jequan Hogan and KeSean Carter, were dubbed AllAmericans for remarkable high school seasons.

Carter, a wide receiver for Tech’s football team, received All-American recognition for his performance of 10.22s in the 100m sprint, according to Tech Athletics. Carter is also honored for his contri-

butions to the 4x200m and 4x400m unit at The Woodlands High School, located just outside of Houston.

The team of four posted a national record time of 1:23.25s in the 4x200m event at the Texas 6A State Championships.

Wes Kittley, director of track and field and cross country, provided his take on the freshman’s potential on the track. The Tech men’s track and field team is coming off a successful 2018 season, in which the Red Raiders swept both the indoor and outdoor Big 12

championship titles.

“He wanted to do football and track, so I got really involved in his recruiting and we worked really well with (Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury),” Kittley said. “He’s one of the top sprinters in the country – if not the top sprinter in the country – and being able to have him add to what we already have is going to be incredible.

He’s one in a million.”

Hogan, a native of Fountain, Colorado, garnered All-American recognition for his top-ranked triple jump. Hogan’s leap that

cleared 51ft accounted for the best in the nation in the event last year, according to Tech Athletics.

Tech coach James Thomas, who specializes in men’s and women’s jumps and combined events, shared his thoughts on Hogan’s accolade.

“It’s something we’re proud of and hopefully it’s something that gives him motivation,” Thomas said.

“For him to be honored as the number one guy in the country is a great lead-up to what our expectations are going to be for him.”

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Starting with the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party this weekend, the division title contenders will be meeting

over the next two weeks to sort things out.

No. 7 Georgia and No. 9 Florida get the big stretch going Saturday in Jacksonville, Florida. Then, the Bulldogs and No. 12 Kentucky tangle to further settle what’s now a three-

way logjam in the SEC East.

And the SEC West’s two top-5 teams, No. 4 LSU and No. 1 Alabama, face off in Baton Rouge to start off November after both have an open date this weekend.

At Alabama, the lone

unbeaten team, coach Nick Saban knows how hard it is to stay that way down the stretch. He pointed out to his players that the Tide has now started 8-0 eight times since his arrival, and 2014 was the only undefeated team.

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snapped a three-game losing streak with a 4-2 victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Tuesday night.

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OCT. 25, 2018

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MEN’S TENNIS

Tech prepared for SoCal Intercollegiates

By DANIELLE DIXSON Staff Writer

The Texas Tech men’s tennis team is set to hit the road Thursday, Oct. 25, as the Red Raiders are set to travel to Los Angeles to compete in the SoCal Intercollegiates, marking Tech’s seventh appearance in the tournament.

The SoCal Intercollegiates, hosted by the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, will conduct the annual tournament consisting of elite teams from all over the country for the 62nd straight year. Tech coach Brett Masi shared his thoughts on the upcoming tournament and the teams the Red Raiders will compete against.

“This is a solid event for our guys to get more quality competition. Seeing players from different regions will be nice. Hopefully we can out

some good matches together and improve in some areas in which we’ve been struggling this fall,” Masi said, according to Tech Athletics.

Tech has four players who will begin play Thursday, Oct. 25, sophomore Justin Bloss, senior Tommy Mylnikov, senior Artem Kapshuk and sophomore Matheus Leite. The remainder of the Red Raiders, redshirt junior Bjorn Thomson and sophomore Ilgiz Valiev will begin competing Friday, Oct. 26.

The last time Tech appeared in the SoCal Intercollegiates, the squad started out undefeated on day one and continued the winning streak into day two.

In round 16 of singles play, all four Red Raiders went on to fall to their opponents.

On day three, the duo of former Red Raider Alex Sedegeya and Bjorn Thom-

son made it to the doubles main draw quarterfinals and defeated their opponents from the University of California Los Angeles, 8-4. Day four was cancelled ending the tournament, according to Tech Athletics.

With more than half of the 2018 fall slate completed, the Red Raiders have found quite a bit of success this season.

Tech duo senior Artem Kapshuk and sophomore Ilgiz Valiev brought home the doubles title at the 2018 John Breaux Cajun Tennis Classic in Lafayette, Louisiana, to start the season strongly, according to Tech Athletics. Assistant coach Dan Whitehead shared his thoughts with the outcome of the tournament.

“Anytime you leave a tournament with a title, it feels great, “Whitehead said.

Moving along, junior pair Bjorn Thomson and Parker

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Cooper prefers show over tell for impact on Cowboys FRISCO (AP) — Amari Cooper is ready to show the Dallas Cowboys what they got in giving up a first-round draft pick for a new No. 1 receiver.

The former Oakland pass-catcher just isn’t too interested in talking about it beforehand.

“I will leave that for you guys to see,” Cooper said Wednesday in his first meeting with reporters after his first practice with the Cowboys, who have extra time to get him ready for a new offense with their open week before returning Nov. 5 at home against Tennessee.

Quarterback Dak Prescott said he will stay home during his weekend off to spend extra time with Cooper, acquired Monday for Dallas’ top pick next year. They were Southeastern Conference rivals when Prescott was at Mississippi State and Cooper at Alabama.

“Just excited,” Prescott told The Associated Press on Wednesday. “A guy I played against in college and then I’ve seen him play in the NFL and be a twotime Pro Bowler. Just the things that he does and how explosive he is, he has a lot to offer this offense.”

While Cooper has connections to the Cowboys through previous offensive coordinators who worked under Dallas’ Scott Linehan and a strong link to tight ends coach Doug Nussmeier from their time together with the Crimson Tide, he says the system he’s walking into is quite different.

Cooper also says it doesn’t matter much.

“I’ve been playing football all my life,” Cooper said. “You just have to be a good learner, and I think I’m that. I’m already adjusting and picking up the system pretty well.”

Cooper said he saw the move as a fresh start, but added he hadn’t really thought about whether he needed one . After two 1,000yard seasons with trips to the Pro Bowl his first two years, Cooper’s production dropped in his third season with the Raiders.

This year, Cooper had two 100-yard games before being targeted just twice with one catch in his final two games with the Raiders. He left his final game with Oakland against Seattle early with a concussion, but says he has cleared the concussion protocol.

“When I found out I was going to be a Dallas Cowboy, I just knew I would have to adapt fast,” said Cooper, who said he found out on the practice field with the Raiders on Monday. “I knew everything would happen real fast. I didn’t really have time to think about it, to be honest.”

Wynn led the Red Raiders into the doubles consolation bracket at the St. Francis – ITA All-American Championship tournament. The Red Raiders continued the initial push by advancing to the finals at the ITA Texas Regionals this past weekend, Friday, Oct. 19 through Monday, Oct. 22, according to Tech Athletics. Tech’s ITA run ultimately came to an end in the Texas Regionals.

The Red Raiders look to continue making strides in the right direction during the SoCal intercollegiate leagues, as Tech will only have one more tournament remaining following this weekend. The Red Raiders will conclude their fall season Friday, Nov. 9, when they hit the road for Austin to compete in the Longhorn Invitational.

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Sophomore Bjorn Thomson congratulates junior Connor Curry after the men’s tennis match against Oklahoma State Friday, April 7, 2017, at the McLeod Tennis Center. Texas Tech will be competing in the SoCal Intercollegiates in Los Angeles on Thursday.

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 In addition to the volume of the home crowd, the Red Raiders will likely have to combat low temperatures when they take the field in Ames. In Tech’s visit to Jack Trice Stadium in 2016, the temperature was 38 degrees at kickoff, marking Tech’s second lowest game time temperature since 2000, according to Tech Athletics.

“From my stories I’ve heard, everybody says it gets cold up there,” redshirt freshman defensive back Adrian Frye, said.

“Sometimes the grass freezes over, and it’s like playing on icicles. I’ve never played in an icy environment.”

Looking ahead, after Tech’s plays Iowa State, the team will have just two home games remaining in the 2018 season.

The Red Raiders will host both Oklahoma and Texas prior to battling Baylor at AT&T Stadium in Arlington. Frye detailed the necessity of keeping an eye on Tech’s upcoming opponents visiting Lubbock.

“We try to make sure were always on top of our game,” Frye said. “If we get complacent, it can go downhill real fast. So, we just make sure that we stay focused on the long run because, at the end of the day, every team wants to win the conference championship.”

Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury said his goal is to focus on coming home from Iowa with a win before worrying about

the team’s last three daunting opponents. With a win against the Cyclones, Kingsbury will become a winning coach with a record of 36-35, according to Tech Athletics.

“We got to focus on Iowa State. They’ve had our number,” Kingsbury said.

Tech’s last contest of the regular season against the Bears will close Tech’s 10-year history of playing against Baylor at the AT&T Stadium or Cotton Bowl Stadium in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. The Red Raiders are slated to make their debut at Baylor’s McLane Stadium in Waco, in 2019, before bringing the competition home to Lubbock in 2020, according to Tech Athletics. @BrennaHaleDT

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