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Column: Gameday traditions can be confusing for people who are not from Texas.

Quick draw: Opinions Editor competes against The DT’s cartoonist in a Halloween drawing competition.

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HALLOWEEN Local haunted houses open around Lubbock

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1: One of the sets for Halls of Horror is designed to look like a shipwreck, as could be seen on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017. The haunted house is open year-round and is located at 1201 84th St. 2: Some of the volunteer actors at Nightmare on 19th Street pose for a photograph on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017. The haunted house is open Thursday through Sunday until Halloween and is located at 602 East 19th St. Many of the volunteers work at a local coffee shop, Studio 19, when they are not performing at the haunted house.

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ubbock has a few haunted houses to check out before Halloween.

One is the Nightmare on 19th Street haunted house.

This place has four attractions, including the newly designed Dead Doll Island. Other attractions are the Blood Moon Manor, The Wastelands and Clown Town, which features dizzying carnival rides and lots of neon.

There are animatronics and ghouls, from realistic zombies to movie and television monsters like Jason and Twisty the Clown. The house also features a haunted walk in the woods where chainsawwielding monsters jump out and surprise visitors. There is a souvenir shop, a food stand and a radio station that broadcasts live during the house’s operating hours.

According to the house’s Facebook page, admission per person is $20 on Thursdays and Sundays, and $25 on Fridays, Saturdays and Halloween. The house is open from 7:30-11:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and until 10:30 p.m. on other nights, including Halloween night. It is located at 602 East 19th St. Wess Nessman, co-owner of Nightmare on 19th Street, said one of his favorite parts about the haunted house is

that almost every scream is followed by a smile.

“So, that’s what I really like about working at a haunted house, is we’re here putting smiles on faces, that’s what we’re doing,” Nessman said.

“This might as well be a comedy club. Every time someone gets scared what do they do right after? They giggle.”

There are more than 100 volunteers who help make the haunted house possible, Nessman said.

“Altogether, on a given night, there’s probably about 150 people that make this place run,” Nessman said.

“Out here at Nightmare, we become a family.”

Another haunted house in Lubbock is Halls of Horror, a haunt and movie set.

This haunted house features ghouls like nurses from “Silent Hill” with bandaged faces, clowns, zombies, dolls and more.

The place has five haunts: Psycho Ward, Terror Trailer, Freak Mansion, Hostel and Insane Clowns, in addition to a hayride attraction.

Halls of Horror has done actor and makeup artist meet-and-greets and donates to causes with community events, such as Special Olympics Night, which was hosted on Thursday, Oct. 19.

Karyn Bailey and Joe Menaldi, managers at Hall of Horrors, said the venue is

open year-long and not just during October.

“We use this place for music videos, parties, receptions,” Bailey said. “We filmed a wedding in here actually — Daniel and I did — and it actually turns out and works out very nicely.”

On the subject of the shock value of the haunted house, Bailey said there is usually one person every night who decides to leave after walking through the first house.

“A Tech football player — he’s about 6’10, 340 pounds, lineman, obviously — couple years ago, (was) walking through,” Menaldi said. “He is screaming like a little girl. We thought he was messing with us, right? He doesn’t even make it halfway through. We scared him too much.”

Halls of Horror is located at 1201 84th St. at an abandoned trader’s market. It is open Thursday through Saturday after dark until late.

According to its Facebook page, admission per person is $10 on Thursdays, and $20 on Fridays and Saturdays.

Bailey said some people have even soiled themselves while walking through the haunted house.

“It’s more about how it affects your senses,” Bailey said.

“There’s noise and music, and it’s eerie. Really, that’s how it messes with you.” @VivienHockDT

HALLOWEEN

Safe Treat open for local children

By PAYTON ROBB Staff Writer

Trick or treating, haunted houses and dressing up in costumes are a few activities associated with the month of October that are enjoyed by people of all ages. The Texas Tech Collegiate 100 organization offers a safe venue for students to participate in these Halloween festivities.

The annual TTU Collegiate 100 Safe Treat Haunted House will be at the Ted Phea Lubbock Boys and Girls Club on Friday, Oct. 27 and Saturday, Oct. 28.

“Safe Treat is an annual thing that the Ted Phea Boys and Girls Club hosts predominantly for younger-aged students on the East side of Lubbock,” Caleb Morris, a sophomore English major from Arlington and Collegiate 100 president, said. “It is a safe way for the kids to enjoy Halloween without having to go out into the community.

Collegiate 100 always put on a haunted house for the kids.”

Information on dates and times of the haunted house can be found on the Collegiate 100 website, http://texastechcollegiate100.weebly.com/. It is completely funded by Collegiate 100,

and is open and free to the public.

Collegiate 100 vice president Jordan Johnson, a junior general studies major from McKinney, said the haunted house is not based off one theme. The organization’s members design their own rooms.

“There is nothing too scary or too demonical because it is meant for little kids,” Johnson said. “We split our members up into groups, and each group gets to choose their own theme for their room. I think not having one theme for the entire haunted house makes it even scarier because the kids do not know what they are walking into next.”

Collegiate 100 mentorship chair Summer Jennings, a junior social work major from Sacramento, California, said all Collegiate 100 members participate in the haunted house.

There are seven groups that design rooms, and other members lead a group of students throughout the house.

She said the students who attend the haunted house are typically second through eighth graders.

“Most of these kids are familiar with us and know us as mentors,” Jennings said.

“Mentorship is a big part of our

organization, and we require all of our members to have a certain amount of mentorship hours.

The Ted Phea Boys & Girls Club is one place they can get them.”

The haunted house is a mentorship and community-service opportunity, Jennings said.

“We try to connect with these kids every chance we get, and the haunted house is just one way we can do that,” she said.

“It is also community service because we are not just doing it for the kids, but we are helping out the Boys & Girls Club, as well.”

Collegiate 100 is sponsored b y 1 0 0 B l a c k M e n o f We s t Texas, and it operates off four pillars: mentorship, leadership, professionalism and community service. The organization’s members highlight each of these pillars in the activities they do. The haunted house is one example, Johnson said.

“A lot of what we do is tied to mentorship,” Morris said. “That is the pillar we were founded on and is our number-one priority.

Anything we do has some interaction with the community.

That is why we wanted to give young students a safe environment for Halloween.” @PaytonRobb_DT

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1: Lubbock children paint pumpkins during Safe Treat in Talkington Hall on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016. Safe Treat is an event created specifically for children to have a secure place to celebrate Halloween.

2: Lubbock children play games and participate in interactive activities at Safe Treat in Talkington Hall on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016. This year, safe treat will be on Monday, Oct. 30, 2017.

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#MeToo changes conversations about sexual violence

By AVERY AIKEN Managing Editor

As #MeToo continues to find its way onto the social media accounts of women and men around the world, this hashtag is finding its power in the magnitude and frequency at which it is being shared.

Morgan Allen, a senior psychology major from Lubbock and a member of Tech’s Women’s Leadership Institute, said the hashtag’s greatest impact is how it highlights the scale of the issue of sexual violence.

“Whenever a woman or man says #MeToo, it’s probably happened more than once. I know as a woman, since I’ve hit puberty, I’ve been dealing with sexual harassment,” Allen said.

“This is something that I deal with every day: trying to avoid it or dealing with

it when it happens.”

However, Allen said the movement fails to assign any blame to the perpetrators.

Therefore, it is not helping the world move toward a less victim-focused conversation regarding sexual violence.

“There’s a little bit of controversy in the fact that it’s, once again, putting the burden of solving this problem of sexual assault and sexual harassment on the victims who are mostly women,” Allen said. “So, it’s a little frustrating because it’s asking women, ‘What are you going to do to help prevent this?’ But it’s also good because it’s really — in my opinion — getting the attention of the bystander.”

By focusing on engaging the bystander and equipping bystanders with the necessary skills to help in potentially dangerous situations, Allen said the move-

ment brings the role of the bystander to the forefront of collective dialogue regarding sexual violence.

This is especially important because sometimes the people one expects to watch out for them can fail them, she said.

“I know because this has happened to me,” Allen said.

“I got groped at a party, and I turned to this person who groped me because I was little upset. And my friend that I had brought with me pulled me aside and said, ‘No, Morgan. Don’t worry about it. It’s not a big deal. It’s just something that’s going to happen.’”

Situations like this are why Allen, along with countless other social media users, have decided to use tag their posts or photos with #MeToo. She said the movement spotlights those who live their lives afraid because of the threat of sexual violence.

“The #MeToo is not just talking about one instance or one experience or the day their life changed,” Allen said. “They’re talking about the way they have to live their life and the way they walk around and experience the world.”

Annika Conrick, a senior history major from Fort Worth and president of Tech’s Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance, said the movement helps to put faces and numbers to the conversations the society is having about sexual violence.

“When I got on social media (the day the #MeToo movement started),” Conrick

said, “I saw post after post of high school friends, high school teachers, all of the mix, with #MeToo. And I was like, ‘Wow. So many different women have experienced this.’ It was like almost every woman I know was on social media putting the #MeToo.” As the president of FMLA, Conrick said her organization has frequent conversations about issues like sexual violence.

FMLA also hosts an event called Take Back the Night, which provides a safe space for victims of sexual violence to get support and share their powerful stories, she said.

“As Texas Tech, we’re very supportive of survivors,” Conrick said. “We have these support groups for survivors.

The administration is very good about being like, ‘OK, you have been sexually assaulted. Here are your resources. Here’s what we can do to help you.’ But, I would say where we lack is in the preventative side of it.”

Regarding Tech’s policy to have students complete Think About It, Conrick said those programs are only supplemented by the work done by the Risk Intervention & Safety Education office.

While RISE does good work to help change the way the Tech campus handles cases of sexual violence, Conrick said she wishes Tech did more to prevent sexual assault.

“We always imply that fraternities are filled with rapists. But, statistically, they can’t all be rapists. There’s

about one or two in each fraternity,” she said. “So, the problem is that whole group of men (in the fraternity) often allow those one or two guys to do it without saying anything.”

This emphasizes the power of having well-trained bystanders, who feel confident in their ability to intervene, Conrick said.

It is better for sexual violence to be prevented, she said, than to simply wait for it to occur before stepping in.

“Rather than having to clean it up, why don’t we just fix the problem before (it becomes a problem)?”

Conrick said.

So, she said she believes RISE’s bystander intervention training called Raiders Respond is one of the most effective ways on Tech campus to equip students with the skills they need to act proactively.

Celeste Medina, a senior human development and family studies major from San Antonio, is a part of a research team called Gender Scenes that works to discover how people feel toward talking about sexual violence on college campuses.

“There’s this uncomfortable feeling around sexual assault,” Medina said. “I know that even when talking with friends, they describe to me an experience that they’ve had, and I’m like, ‘That’s questionable. Are you sure you don’t feel assaulted?’

And they say, ‘Oh no, that doesn’t happen to me. That would never happen to me.

I’m better than that.’”

She said the society has

been cultivated to be a “culture of silence.”

Currently, the societal norm is one where people do not speak openly about problems that make them seem broken or imperfect, Medina said. However, by pushing against this norm, the culture can abandon its propensity to encourage silence, regardless of how uncomfortable that process would be.

“That discomfort is what’s challenging people to think differently,” she said. “It’s going to put you in a weird place, but you can’t move towards comfort without being uncomfortable. And that comfort zone can really be damaging. That’s where you start to see people not speaking up because they feel guilt or they feel shame. They want to stay in a perfect, ideal way in society’s eyes.”

Therefore, Medina said, it is so powerful to search #MeToo on social media and see how many people have already begun to change the norm.

She said because this movement is taking place on social media, it is spreading widely through younger generations, and this makes it even more impactful.

“The fact that we have a platform like social media to do that with is something new to this generation, and so that’s why I think it’s so eye catching,” Medina said. “(It is) because we’re really reaching another dimension and another generation.” @AveryAikenDT

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Students participate in social media hiatus study

By NATHAN LAMB Staff Writer

Starting this year, Erica Taylor began giving her students a unique assignment: They were to take a 24-hour hiatus from social media and document their observations and experiences.

Taylor said she decided to incorporate the experiment in her course after reading a study published by the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research at The University of Chicago.

She wanted students to experience what it would be like to go without social media and apps, such as Netflix and Spotify, for 24 hours. She also wanted them to observe others during this period.

According to the study, titled “Brain Drain,” the mere presence of smartphones, whether in our pockets or on the desk beside us, adversely affects both our available working memory capacity and our functional

fluid intelligence.

Ian Zamorsky, a junior electronic media & communication student in Taylor’s course, said he knew, even before the challenge, that he may have some sort of addiction.

But as the 24 hours went on, Zamorsky said he began to notice how strong social media’s hold over him actually was. Several times, he instinctively reached for his phone or opened an app before becoming aware and forcing himself to stop. After 12-hour mark, however, he began to see things differently.

“Afterwards,” Zamorsky said, “it felt great to go 24 hours

without the use of technology.”

According to a Pew Research Center study in 2015, 46 percent of respondents said they “couldn’t live” without their phones, and 91 percent reported never leaving the house without them.

“It changes what people’s ideas of ‘normal’ are,” Taylor said. “It’s the norm to kind of automatically go to our phones, when we’re bored or when we have time to kill. It’s completely second nature. And you don’t realize until you take yourself outside of that norm, how many of these habits have built up over time.” @NathanLambDT

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Trump: Clinton team funding for Russia info ‘a disgrace’ WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and fellow Republicans

latched onto revelations tying Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign

to a dossier of allegations about his ties to Russia. The president said Wednesday it was a “disgrace” that Democrats had helped pay for research that produced the document.

“It’s just really — it’s a very sad commentary on politics in this country,” Trump said in addressing reporters one day after news reports revealed that the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee, for several months last year, helped fund research that ultimately ended up in the dossier.

The document, compiled by a former British spy and alleging a compromised relationship between Trump and the Kremlin, has emerged this year as a political flashpoint. Law enforcement officials have worked to corroborate its claims. James Comey, FBI director at the time, advised Trump about the existence of the allegations, and the ex-spy who helped assemble the document, Christopher Steele, has been questioned as part of an ongoing probe into possible coordination between Russia and the Trump camp.

Trump has derided the document as “phony stuff” and “fake news” and portrayed himself Wednesday as an aggrieved party, posting on Twitter a quote he said was from Fox News that referred to him as “the victim.” The new disclosure about the dossier’s origins is likely to fuel complaints by Trump and his supporters that the document is merely a collection of salacious and uncorroborated claims.

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Students participate in HvZ organization

By MICAH SMITH Staff Writer

This week, Texas Tech students decked out in lime green bandanas, faux blood and Nerf guns and zoomed around campus for a week-long game of Humans vs Zombies.

The event began on Monday, Oct. 23, and will end on Friday, Oct. 27.

Humans Versus Zombies, or HvZ, is a student organization at Tech that has been around for seven years. According to its OrgSync webpage, the organization’s mission is to promote a niche interest in the coordination of a campus-wide game of Humans vs Zombies among Tech students and alumni.

“People usually say that the best thing about this organization, other than getting to run around with Nerf guns and having fun, is that the people that you meet are usually vastly different from each other,” Elliot Savoie, a senior management information systems major

from Houston and moderator for HvZ, said. “We have all kinds of majors, and there’s a lot of diversity in the player group.”

The HvZ organization is open for all Tech students and alumni to join. However, organizations stress the importance of not labeling the group as nerdy.

“There’s a lot of crossover between nerds and people that enjoy the outdoors,” Logan Bunn, a “human” and a senior media strategies major from San Antonio, said.

During this mission, the game is more structured. We have to strategize.

Elliot Savoie Moderator for HvZ To kick off the game, all players begin as humans with green bandanas tied around their

arm. Disguised amongst the humans are “original zombies” that try to tag as many humans as they can, turning them into zombies, according to the OrgSync webpage.

Once the tagged humans have turned into zombies, the bandana is moved from their arm to their forehead in order to differentiate the living from the living dead. Humans can be seen wielding modified Nerf Guns and rolled-up socks. These weapons are used to “stun” the zombies, according to the webpage. Zombies can be identified by their vibrant lime-green outfits and bandanas on their head.

“Basically, it’s a giant game of tag,” Xavier Jenkins, a “zombie” and freshman computer science major from San Antonio, said. “Starting at 7 a.m., the alphas are allowed to tag any of the humans that have the green armbands, and so, once they get touched, they turn into a zombie and have to

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Students play Humans vs Zombies at the Free Speech Area on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017. HvZ is a student organization that involves a campus-wide game pinning humans against “zombies.” help throughout the entire ing the missions, the game “Personally, I’ve liked week to tag other people.” is more structured. We Nerf guns all my life. I saw The Humans vs Zombies have to strategize.” people playing with them game has proven to be far T h e H v Z g a m e w e e k on campus and decided more than tag, Savoie said. It takes place once every se- that I wanted to be a part also takes agility and strategy. mester. From strategizing to of it,” Michael Bass, a se“Throughout the semes- fun with friends, there are nior mechanical engineerter we, the moderators, many qualities about this ing major and president of create objectives and mis- organization that can appeal HvZ, said. sions,” Savoie said. “Dur- to many types of students. @DailyToreador

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Local boy gains fans through Tech football

By MATT COFFERN Staff Writer

Te x a s i s k n o w n f o r its love of football, and Lubbock is no exception.

15-year-old Ryan Smith, a Lubbock native, started a Facebook page, the Texas Tech Fanatics, at the age of 13.

Raised on Tech football by his Tech alumni family, Smith said he started the page a year and a half

ago to connect with other Tech fans in and around Lubbock. According to the group’s Facebook page, Texas Tech Fanatics has more than 6,300 members.

In the beginning, Smith’s parents were skeptical. His father said he was afraid of what Smith would be exposed to if he opened the group up to anyone with a computer and an internet connection.

That concern was rem-

edied by the implementation of a moderator team that makes sure any vulgarity, racism, sexism or speech unbecoming of a Red Raider is immediately deleted and the user who posted it removed from the group.

Erik Hanson, a sophomore sport management major from Houston, is a current member of the Tech Fanatics page. He joined the group after

unsuccessfully searching for other Texas Tech fan groups, Hanson said. “(The page) is a great place to meet other diehard Texas Tech fans and have an open, friendly discussion with them about the team and the college itself,” Hanson said. “It really is a one-of-a-kind group.”

Earlier this month, Smith began the #BackTheBlue campaign on Face-

book and Twitter to raise awareness over the shooting of Officer Floyd East Jr. On the Tech campus on Monday, Oct. 9.

Through his page, Smith and his family had about 7,000 people wear blue for the Tech’s Homecoming game against Iowa State in support of East and his family.

“Lubbock is not the place for hatred against the police,” Smith said.

After the success of the campaign, Smith said he is not sure what he will do next. He is certain, though, that he will continue to support the Red Raiders and love his city.

Smith said he already has plans to attend Tech, his favorite university, major in journalism, and hopefully, become a news anchor for a national channel someday. @DailyToreador

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Football traditions hard to cope with

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ell folks, Saturday’s Homecoming football game marked my seventh football game ever. My high school didn’t have a football team, which I know is a crime here in Texas, but we didn’t have one in New Mexico.

But we did have sports that most of the school would show up for: soccer, basketball, baseball, volleyball; you name it, we had it.

I’ve grown more accustomed to seeing girls wandering around in oversized T-shirts and Birkenstocks, but with only four home football games to observe this “new” trend, I have realized there are many Texas traditions I simply do not understand.

Looking back on my very first Texas Tech football game, I thought I looked cute in my Tech T-shirt and cutoff shorts. I even pulled out my Tech red-colored Nike Roshes for extra-sporty measure. I thought I would at least fit in, if not look super cute. I was gravely mistaken.

In the last four home games, I have seen girls in stilettos, dresses and full hair and makeup, looking better than half the girls at any of the five proms I went to.

I really do commend all the women out there. I’d like to give a special shout out to a girl I saw at the Homecoming game wearing high-waisted, bell-bottomed, black corduroy jeans in 85-degree weather and direct sunlight.

I was wearing shorts, and I thought I would drown in my own sweat. That girl

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had commitment or a really strong deodorant. One of the two.

I love a good thigh-high suede boot like any other girl, but ladies. Why would you subject yourself to standing on bleachers for four hours in thigh-high boots and pleather skirts? It is the hottest time of the day. I know there has got to be sweat running into your boots.

I did not, and have not worn heels to any game I have been to for several reasons.

First and foremost, if I have to walk from my dorm to a tailgate to the football game to stand for more than four hours, then walk to get food and then walk back to my dorm, you are out of your mind if you think I’m wearing anything but comfortable shoes that won’t make me want to kill myself and the person who made them.

Secondly, tailgates are mostly outside in dirt lots.

I do not want an arid mix of cheap beer and mud coating my good shoes or my exposed toesies.

Also, blisters.

I get wanting to look good, and everyone looks like a rock star, but at a certain point, I question your judgment and the practicality of what you are wearing.

There was a white-out for the annual Cotton Game.

I, like so many others, wore white. I did not, however, wear an all-white ensemble.

I wore a white Tech football jersey — one that fit me properly — shorts and my good old sneakers. I looked cute.

You can’t tell me I didn’t.

Of course, there were lovely ladies in white lace dresses and rompers. Several had the inclination to wear cowgirl boots, but more were wearing some form of nice heels or boots. At the tailgate, we gathered in a dirt lot.

Just more than an hour of gaiety, food and music preceded a torrential downpour so violent, several tents broke.

Saturday, Sept. 16, turned into the largest white T-shirt contest I’ve ever witnessed.

I was surrounded by girls in gorgeous, soaked dresses and mud-caked heels. The weather forecast did say it would rain, but this was tragic.

Moving away from that dark day and looking at the entirety of the phenomenon, what I do not understand is why a sporting event garners so much glamour on the part of viewers. Props to you ladies: The world is indeed your runway. But, it seems that all practicality is thrown out the window.

As for me, I will stick to my jersey, Chuck Taylors and unblistered feet. @RyanRael_DT

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Media companies agree to congressional hearing WASHINGTON (AP) — Facebook, Twitter and Google say they will send representatives to a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing next week on Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

The Oct. 31 hearing is the third scheduled with the social media companies as congressional investigators probe the spread of false news stories and propaganda online. The three companies are already scheduled to testify at Senate and House intel-

ligence committee hearings on the same subject the next day, Nov. 1.

The Senate intelligence committee announced on Wednesday that each company will send its general counsel to testify. That’s Facebook’s Colin Stretch, Twitter’s Sean Edgett and Google’s Kent Walker. The companies have confirmed their attendance at the other two hearings but have not yet said who will appear.

All three committees are investigating the Russian interference and whether it

is linked to President Donald Trump’s campaign. Facebook recently provided all of the committees with more than 3,000 ads they said were seen by an estimated 10 million people.

The ads, which Facebook said were traced to a Russian internet agency, focused on divisive political messages, including LGBT issues, immigration and gun rights.

Legislation proposed

by Democratic Sens. Mark Warner of Virginia and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota would require social media

companies to keep public files of election ads and meet the same disclaimer requirements as political broadcast and print advertising. Both Facebook and Twitter have said they will provide more information to the public about political ads, including who is funding them.

Federal regulations now require television and radio stations to make publicly available the details of political ads they air. That includes who runs the ad, when it runs and how much it costs.

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On JFK documents, Trump squeezed over disclosure WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is caught in a push-pull on new details of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, jammed between students of the killing who want every scrap of information and intelligence agencies that are said to be counseling restraint. How that plays out should be known Thursday, when long-secret files are expected to be released.

On one side is an alliance of sleuths and scholars pushing for Trump to mind the 1992 law that requires the release this week of all 3,150 still-secret files on Kennedy’s killing on Nov. 22, 1963. For them, Trump has tweeted his intent to “allow the release of the long blocked and classified JFK FILES.” But U.S. intelligence agencies are apparently citing the same law to urge him to keep some files out of public sight on national security grounds. For this group, Trump’s tweet offered a caveat that he intends to disclose the materials “subject to the receipt of further

information.”

Students of the assassination say the CIA is pushing Trump to keep some of the materials secret. The spy agency isn’t denying that.

“Clearly there are documents, plural, files, plural, being appealed to him,” said University of Virginia historian Larry Sabato, an authority on Kennedy. Of the pressure on Trump, Sabato said, “I’m told reliably that it continues and that it has intensified.” The historian said documents generated in the 1990s that could contain the names of people who are still alive are of particular concern to those who want files held back.

Whatever details are released, they’re not expected to answer the major — and for many, still-lingering — question of whether anyone other than Lee Harvey Oswald was involved in the assassination, including the government. The Warren Commission in 1964 reported that Oswald had been the lone gunman, and another congressional probe

in 1979 found no evidence to support the theory that the CIA had been involved. But other interpretations, some more creative than others, have persisted.

For example, Roger Stone, a close Trump ally, advanced the unsubstantiated and widely disdained theory that Lyndon Johnson, who became president upon Kennedy’s death, was involved in it.

Stone is not sure key documents will see the light of day.

He said that 440 documents related to the assassination, released by the National Archives in July, were so heavily redacted “on the basis of ‘national security’ that they are useless.” Stone said he’s lobbied Trump personally to release all remaining materials and believes the CIA is pushing the president to keep some secret.

Trump wasn’t tipping his hand Wednesday. “The long anticipated release of the #JFKFiles will take place tomorrow,” was all he said in a tweet. “So interesting!”

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The gunshots that the Warren Commission said killed Kennedy almost immediately inspired theories about whether Oswald had been the lone gunman who, with extraordinary luck by any measure, had hit his target.

As the nation mourned in disbelief, Oswald was shot and killed in police custody by Jack Ruby — forcing Americans to consider whether their government was hiding what it knew of the assassination. The event remains in the nation’s living memory for a significant slice of the country. Forty-nine million Americans, or 15 percent of the country, are age 65 and over, according to the Census Bureau. They were around age 11 or older at the time.

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Rep. Kevin Brady, the chairman of the House’s tax-writing panel, wouldn’t rule out changes to the program used by 55

million U.S. workers who hold some $5 trillion in their 401(k) accounts, a system that has become a touchstone of retirement security for the middle class.

Earlier this week, Trump promised the program would be left alone, and appeared to bolster that pledge Wednesday, saying he moved swiftly to end speculation that the tax-deferred program may be changed because it’s vital for working Americans.

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Students engage in music through String Project

By MARY BETH HOLM Staff Writer

Every Tuesday afternoon during the fall, Blair Williams, Clara Zahler and Texas Tech students see a group of fourth and fifth graders enter the Tech School of Music. As the children enter with their instruments, the lesson begins.

Williams is the director of the Tech String Project, which offers string instrument instruction to elementary school students and adults in the Lubbock area.

Before the String Project was founded, Williams said there were many string lessons taught on campus, but they were not unified. In 2001, the National String Project Consortium and the American String Teacher’s Association united the separate string lessons.

According to the String Project’s website, its goals are to provide low-cost string lessons and a guided teaching lab environment to undergraduate and graduate students wanting to purse string music education.

Williams said she and the teachers of the String Project host recruitment presentations for fourth graders at the beginning of the school year.

Rachel Mazzucco, the harp

instructor in the School of Music and one of the teachers for the String Project, said she got the students excited about the harp by playing “How Far I’ll Go” from Disney’s movie “Moana.”

“The first presentation we did was introduce the instruments, and I wasn’t quite sure what piece to play, so I played the piece I really like (which is) ‘Oh Danny Boy,’” Mazzucco said. “That was fine, and (the kids liked it), and then I started thinking some more about it and was like, ‘What about “Moana?”’

The kids were really keen on ‘Moana.’ I played two notes (on my harp), and the kids (recognized it).”

According to the String Project’s website, students meet at the School of Music twice each week and receive private lessons from undergraduate and graduate Tech music students, Master Teachers or Williams.

Williams said her passion for music began in a small one-stoplight town in Kansas when she was the age of the current String Project students. After passing her school district’s music aptitude test, she got involved with the school’s music program and began playing the violin. Her passion for music grew with the

help of her middle school orchestra director.

“In seventh grade, I went to my orchestra director and said ‘How do I become you,’” Williams said. “She helped me along that route and gave me a lot of great opportunities for teaching private lessons while I was in high school. It was a small town, and she was just a single orchestra director, and so she needed help teaching some of those beginners.”

In 2015, Williams was named the director of the String Project. She said she oversees the String Project and second-year string students. So, elementary school students work with Tech students and with a Master Teacher. A Master Teacher, Williams said, teaches the first-year string students how to play their instrument and read music.

Zahler, a violinist from Cremona, Italy, became a Master Teacher of the String Project after moving to Lubbock from New York in 2016.

Before coming to Tech, Zahler taught at music schools such as Carnegie Mellon University and in public school music programs.

“All along I knew I wanted to teach at some point,” Zahler said. “Even though I didn’t start that way. I

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Master Teacher Leo Garza, a graduate student in music education, teaches drills to a first-year cello class. Garza is part of the Texas Tech String Project, a music school program aimed at teaching elementary school students and adults how to play stringed instruments. would give private lessons on and off, but not as a regular event.”

Zahler said after hearing of String Projects across the nation when she would attend American String Teacher’s Association conferences, she was asked to join the Tech String Project when she moved to Texas last year.

“I love teaching,” Zahler said. “I believe all of us are given a gift, and it’s not enough to have that gift and

use it, but we need to pass it on, and it’s wonderful when you see little kids getting as excited about it as you are.”

Nikit Desai, a senior music education major from Amarillo, teaches viola to second-year String Project students. He said his most heartwarming experience with the String Project is when a student expressed his excitement for his lesson.

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Fats Domino stirred New Orleans flavor into rock ‘n’ roll doubts, adding that Domino’s “New Orleans roots are evident in the Creole inflected cadences that add richness and depth to the performance.”

He was one of the first 10 honorees named to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Rolling Stone Record Guide likened him to Benjamin Franklin, the beloved old man of a revolutionary movement.

Domino became a global star but stayed true to his hometown, where his fate was initially unknown after Hurricane Katrina struck in August 2005. It turned out that he and his family were rescued by boat from his home, where he lost three pianos and dozens of gold and platinum records, along with other memorabilia.

Many wondered if he would ever return to the stage. Scheduled to perform at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in 2006, he simply tipped his hat to thousands of cheering fans.

His friend Haydee Ellis said then that Domino was “OK, but he doesn’t feel up to performing.”

But in May 2007, he was back, performing at Tipitina’s music club in New Orleans.

Fans cheered — and some cried — as Domino played “I’m Walkin’,” ‘’Ain’t That a Shame,” ‘’Shake, Rattle and Roll,” ‘’Blueberry Hill” and a host of other hits.

That performance was

a highlight during several rough years. After losing their home and almost all their belongings to the floods, his wife of more than 50 years, Rosemary, died in April 2008.

Domino moved to the New Orleans suburb of Harvey after the storm but would often visit his publishing house, an extension of his old home in the Lower 9th Ward, inspiring many with his determination to stay in the city he loved.

“Fats embodies everything good about New Orleans,” his friend David Lind said in a 2008 interview.

“He’s warm, fun-loving, spiritual, creative and humble.

You don’t get more New Orleans than that.”

The son of a violin player, Antoine Domino Jr. was born Feb. 26, 1928, to a family that grew to include nine children.

Antoine and Rosemary Domino raised eight children in the same ramshackle neighborhood where he grew

up, but they did it in style — in a white mansion, trimmed in pink, yellow and lavender. The front double doors opened into an atrium with chandeliers hanging from the ceiling and ivory dominos set in a white marble floor.

As a youth, he taught himself popular piano styles — ragtime, blues and boogiewoogie — after his cousin left an old upright in the house.

Fats Waller and Albert Ammons were early influences.

He quit school at age 14, and worked days in a factory while playing and singing in local juke joints at night. In 1949, Domino was playing at the Hideaway Club for $3 a week when he was signed

by Imperial record company.

He recorded his first song, “The Fat Man,” in the back of a tiny French Quarter recording studio.

“They call me the Fat Man, because I weigh 200 pounds,” he sang. “All the girls, they love me, ‘cause I know my way around.”

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Domino, the amiable rock ‘n’ roll pioneer whose steady, pounding piano and easy baritone helped change popular music even as it honored the grand, good-humored tradition of the Crescent City, died early Tuesday. He was 89.

Mark Bone, chief investigator with the Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, coroner’s office, said Domino died of natural causes early Tuesday morning.

His dynamic performance style and warm vocals drew crowds for five decades. One of his show-stopping stunts was playing the piano while standing, throwing his body against it with the beat of the music and bumping the grand piano across the stage.

Domino’s 1956 version of “Blueberry Hill” was selected for the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry of historic sound recordings worthy of preservation. The preservation board noted that Domino insisted on performing the song despite his producer’s

Project, Desai said he and other teachers provide private lessons to the elementary school students. Last year, he was teaching one of the private lessons and asked his student how his day was.

The student told Desai his day was better because he looked forward to his lesson with Desai.

“My heart just melted,” Desai said. “It was probably the sweetest thing.”

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By ALEXA BOUTWELL With a two-game losing streak looming over Texas Tech, the Red Raider offense is looking to step up its play and fix mistakes observed over the past two contests.

The Tech football team recently fell to West Virginia, 46-35, on Saturday, Oct. 14, and Iowa State, 31-13, on Saturday, Oct. 21, according to Tech Athletics. In both games, the Red Raiders have failed to score effectively after halftime, with only one touchdown in the second half against the Mountaineers and against the Cyclones.

“Yeah, we need to play better. I felt like Oklahoma State, West Virginia had a chance to win those games last week.

Even in the fourth quarter we're driving for the interception. Had a chance to win the game,” Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury said. “But can't turn the ball over three times. We got stopped on fourth twice, which we consider a turnover. Just have to have more intensity and have better execution.”

One area of focus has been the showing of senior quarterback Nic Shimonek. This

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41-34 loss to Oklahoma State on Saturday, Sept. 30, 2017, at Jones AT&T Stadium. 2. Senior running back Justin Stockton carries the ball in the 41-34 loss to Oklahoma State on Saturday, Sept. 30, at the Jones.

The Texas Tech offense has faltered in the past two contest causing the Red Raiders to be on a two-game losing streak. season, Shimonek has a 70 percent pass completion rate with 18 touchdowns and 2,341 total yards, according to Tech Athletics.

Despite the losing streak, senior wide receiver Dylan Cantrell said Shimonek is as talented of a quarterback as he has ever seen.

“Like I've mentioned before, he's one of the toughest guys on the team, the most competitive.

So, when one thing, when a play doesn't go our way, he puts it on himself,” Cantrell said.

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In the game against Iowa State, the Red Raider offense struggled to hold the line as Shimonek was sacked twice, according to Tech Athletics.

“I think as an offense we struggled to have continuous drives and take care of the football,” Kingsbury said.

“The interception and the screen, we missed a block. But (Shimonek) was efficient in the passing game. We moved the ball well at times.”

For the receiving core, the Red Raiders have accumulated 20 touchdowns compared to opponents who average 18 receiving touchdowns, according to Tech Athletics.

Tech also averages 351.9 receiving yards per game.

Over seven games, Cantrell leads receivers with 455 yards and averages 65 yards per game, according to Tech Athletics. Against the Cyclones, Cantrell was targeted seven times, but received the ball six times for 48 yards and zero touchdown receptions.

When facing opponents with a strong defensive unit

and solid defensive backs covering receivers, Cantrell said one has to adapt and mix things up between running the ball and looking down field for the open man.

“We didn't have very many big plays and didn't throw the ball down field very much, because we couldn't because they're dropping. They have three safeties and corners are getting out,” Cantrell said. “So just got to attack the underneath stuff, and having shorter plays and you know getting ready for those longer, 10, 12-play drives where you have to move it down field and

not rely on that big play. So, that's what we've got to get better at, is just having those longer play drives and getting in the end zone.”

There is only one way to bounce back from the adversity of overcoming losses, junior defensive lineman Kolin Hill said.

Preparation and having the right mentality is key for morale.

“Our coaches always try to motivate us and keep that edge for us,” Hill said. “But, as a player, as leaders, we need to tell the other guys rally the troops. Just everybody keep that same mentality throughout@ABoutwellDT the whole game.”

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he stage is set and the Commissioner’s Trophy is on the line, as the Houston Astros face off against the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 2017 Major League Baseball World Series.

It’s the single thing baseball fans wish for all season: the

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best of the National League pitted against the best of the American League. Yet, baseball is a game filled with random occurrences. After a 162-game

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regular season, the odds that the single best team of one league will meet its crossleague counterpart are slim.

However, this year, fans are in for a treat, as numbers don’t lie. The Astros posted a record of 101-61, only to be topped by the Dodgers themselves with a record of 102-60, according to ESPN. Houston slugged its way to the offseason, with a lineup that refused to quit. At the end of the season, the Astros offense was ranked first in batting average, on base percentage and slugging percentage.

The team was led by second baseman Jose Altuve, who posted a stunning .346 batting average for the season.

However, Houston’s momentum appeared to falter in the American League Championship Series, as it was forced into seven games with the New York Yankees. Of those seven games, Houston failed to score more than one run in three of the games, including a shutout in its fifth game.

While Houston’s starting five can get the job done on the mound, the Dodgers’ starting five take the crown for shutdown pitching.

Led by former MVP and three-time Cy Young Award winner Clayton Kershaw, the Dodgers’ pitching rotation gave NL offenses nightmares,

filled with high-heat and sheering sliders. They finished the regular season ranked first in hits allowed, runs allowed and lowest combined ERA of any starting rotation in the league.

If a team’s aces are shutting down hitters and its bullpen has the depth to do just the same, the offense is typically left with a light workload. The Dodgers’ star hitters such as Cody Bellinger, Justin Turner and Corey Seager have been able to carry that workload with ease.

Each club has its strengths, which happen to reside on opposite sides of the field and should make for a fireworkfilled finale. But how can we tell who has the edge?

With all that being said, my prediction for this World Series is the Dodgers pulling out the win in seven games.

Good defense wins championships. Kershaw may be the highlight of the Dodgers’ rotation, but the rest of its arms are just as locked down.

I’m not sure the Astros can match the caliber of pitching, which the Dodgers will be able to consistency put out. Yes, Houston’s offense is good, but the Dodgers cruised through the postseason only dropping one game. They’re fresh and they’re ready to secure the first franchise championship since 1988. @JamesLossDT

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Travis Bruffy overcomes setback

By JACK DENSMORE Staff Writer

Sophomore offensive lineman Travis Bruffy’s start to this season was delayed because of mononucleosis, but he was able to overcome his illness and get back on the field.

Bruffy came down with mononucleosis the last week of fall camp before the season opener against Eastern Washington on Saturday, Sept. 2. He was hospitalized at the University Medical Center for three days and his lymph nodes were swollen, but after he was given fluids and some steroid shots, he was able to return home to recover.

“Having all of that ripped away from you because of something you can’t control is just devastating,” Bruffy said, “and I’m just ready to keep attacking the season.”

In terms of weight, Bruffy said he started losing weight at around 300

pounds and is currently at 292 pounds after dropping to 268 when he was sick.

“Conditioning wise, I’d say I’m 100 percent, if not better, than where I was,” Bruffy said. “(Tech athletic trainer) Andrew (Krueger) and the training staff has gotten me back to as best as I could be. (Strength and conditioning) coach (Rusty) Whitt and all of them have helped, as well, and I’m getting back to my peak physical condition.”

Bruffy missed the first two games of the season as he was told to stay home because of how contagious mononucleosis is. It can be spread through kissing, coughing or sneezing, according to the MedicineNet website.

His first game back was against the Houston Cougars on Saturday, Sept.

23, in Houston, close to his hometown of Missouri City, Texas, according to Tech Athletics.

In his freshman year,

Bruffy played in all 12 games as an offensive lineman, a tight end or on field-goal protection, according to Tech Athletics.

He was also given the role of regular tight end half-

way through last season.

Bruffy’s work last year and his training during the offseason made the news of the mononucleosis diagnosis disappointing, but he said he bounced back faster

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Rockets lift off past 76ers PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Eric Gordon hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer to lift the Houston Rockets to a 105-104 win over the P h i l ad e l p h i a 7 6 e rs o n Wednesday night.

The Sixers were sloppy down the stretch and used a series of bad decisions and bad plays to cough up a lead that had stretched to 11.

Joel Embiid was whistled for goaltending, and the Sixers had Jerryd Bayless take a shot with the game still on the line instead of Embiid or Ben Simmons.

While the Sixers collapsed, the Rockets pounced and scored the final nine points.

Gordon scored 29 points, James Harden had 27 and Clint Capela had 16 points and 20 rebounds.

J.J. Redick scored 22 points, Embiid had 21 and Robert Covington 20 for the Sixers.

The Sixers seemed in control until the final 2 minutes.

Embiid, the 7-foot center out of Cameroon, again had the Sixers playing like a playoff team and not pushovers when he’s healthy and energized. His 3 off the glass from the top of the arc in the fourth gave the Sixers a nine-point lead.

The Sixers drew another big crowd — 20,682 — as fans have bought into “The Process,” and big plays had fans going wild.

Both teams played without key cogs to their offense.

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The Texas Tech offensive line readies for the snap in the 31-13 loss to Iowa State on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017, at Jones AT&T Stadium. Sophomore offensive lineman Travis Bruffy is ready for action after suffering from an illness earlier in the season.

Nugent joins Cowboys, Bailey out will be out after he injured his right groin — he’s a right-footed kicker — in last week’s 40-10 win at San Francisco.

But Nugent did let it slip that he could be doing this “for the next few weeks.” There is a timeframe of two to four weeks for Bailey.

The 35-year-old Nugent was with Cincinnati last season and spent training camp with the New York Giants this year.

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Texas Tech redshirt senior libero Katy Klepetka waits for the ball. Texas Tech lost to Baylor 3-0, on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017. With the loss, Tech is now on a three-match losing streak.

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“I’m not afraid to say that when they told me what I had, I just busted out crying,” Bruffy said.

“It’s something you look forward to, and it’s some-

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SPORTS

OCT. 26, 2017

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SOFTBALL

Broseman readies to make impact in second season

By AUSTIN WATTS Staff Writer

After an up-and-down 2017 season, the Texas Tech softball team is looking forward to a clean slate after its 19-36 record last season.

One of the returning players from last year’s team is sophomore pitcher Hannah Broseman, who appeared in 18 games last year as a freshman, according to Tech Athletics. Broseman pitched in seven games, recording 14 strikeouts while posting a shutout in her first career start for a win.

In her first season with the Red Raiders, Broseman was one of the athletes selected to the 2017 Academic All-Big 12 Rookie Team, according to Tech Athletics.

Broseman said she was part of a five-pitcher rotation last season, and she should see more playing time from the mound this season as part of Tech’s four-pitcher rotation.

“I’m just looking forwards to our new team dynamic,” Broseman said.

“Just like how our culture has been established and

how it comes together through real games.”

Broseman said she can trace her softball history back to her youth, where she picked up the sport as a child.

Since then, Broseman had a highly-touted high school career, winning District MVP in her junior season, according to Tech Athletics.

“I started playing around the neighborhood. My dad was the coach,” Broseman said. “I slowly moved up from there, playing high school and tournament ball.”

After finishing high school, the pitcher from Cypress decided to continue her softball career at Tech after exploring other offers.

“Texas Tech felt like home,” Broseman said. “I loved the atmosphere, I loved the school, and I loved the coaches. Everywhere else I went, I just felt like this was the place for me.”

With a relatively young team, the sophomores will be some of the more experienced players on the roster. The Red Raiders only have nine freshmen but only three seniors on the roster. The sophomores and juniors

will have to be mentors to the younger players, Broseman said.

“So basically, half of our team is new,” Broseman said.

“With them coming in, it was up to us, the returners, to take them in and show them how everything works. It’s been really fun, creating relationships with them, and showing them our experiences and helping them to not make mistakes.”

One of the seniors on the team is catcher Allison Knopp, who has worked closely with the pitchers to improve communication and understand the players on the mound.

“Hannah is a sophomore now, and in the circle, she is very driven,” Knopp said.

“She works hard, never wants to do anything mediocre, so when she is in the bullpens or at practice, she wants to know what she can do better. That’s not only working on and improving her strengths, but improving her weaknesses as well.”

With one senior pitcher, one freshman pitcher and two sophomore pitchers on the Red Raider roster, Broseman’s time on the mound should increase in 2018, as

RACHEL HALLORAN/The Daily Toreador

Texas Tech sophomore pitcher Hannah Broseman winds up for the pitch on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017, at Rocky Johnson Field. Broseman found the passion for softball at a young age as she was coached early on by her father. She plans to make an impact in her second season as a Red Raider. she is now one of the three veteran pitchers on the team.

“Our pitching staff is so close and supportive of each other,” Broseman said. “We complement each other well, because we are so different.

We always cheer each other on and are each other’s big-

gest fans, and we just go together really well.”

Having witnessed her abilities on the mound last season, Knopp said she looks forward to seeing what Broseman does for the Red Raiders as the season approaches.

“She is someone who does

not accept mediocrity,” Knopp said. “She is someone who will come in on an off day and pitch, and that’s exactly what we need in our pitching staff: someone who will go out in the circle and work hard for your team every day.” @AustinWattsDT

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Exhibition game against Angelo State moved The Texas Tech men’s basketball team has moved its exhibition game against Angelo State to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 1, in the United Supermarkets Arena.

Admission for the exhibition match is still free for onlookers, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

The Red Raiders are ranked 26th nationally for the largest average attendance increase from the 2015-2016 season to the 2016-2017 season, according to the release. Season tickets for the upcoming 2017-2018 season have already seen an increase from last year.

Tickets for the season are on sale and feature season ticket packages starting at $99, according to the release.

Season tickets can be purchased at the Tech Athletics Office on the east side of Jones AT&T Stadium.

Purchases are available online at www.texastech. com or over the phone at 806-742-8324, according to the release.

After the exhibition game, the Red Raiders will begin regular season play as they host the 2017 Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Tipoff Tournament Regional Round against South Alabama at 8 p.m. on Friday,

FILE PHOTO/The Daily Toreador

Senior foward Zach Smith goes for the two-handed dunk in the 77-69 win over the Oklahoma Sooners on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2017, in the United Supermarkets Arena. The exhibition game against Angelo State has been moved to Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2017, in the USA. Nov. 10, and Maine at 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Nov. 14. Both games

will be played in the USA. @ABoutwellDT