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Red Raiders sweep TCU in Big 12 rematch.

Column: Some observation while you were voting.

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Student brings food truck aspirations to life

By COLEMAN TAYLOR Staff Writer

The Wafflin’ food truck sat in the parking lot of St. John’s United Methodist Church Wednesday surrounded by an excited and anxious buzz of noise.

The simple trailer already attracted a crowd of eager customers by its 5 p.m. opening time, who all stood outside under the overcast sky in defiance of the day’s earlier rain.

“Rain or shine, its Wafflin’ time,” Brandon Bell, the founder, owner and chef of the truck, said.

This one statement says a lot about Bell, a junior finance major from San Antonio. A tenacious and creative worker, Bell has chased his dream of creating community through food since he had the idea for the truck before the start of his freshman year.

The inspiration for Wafflin’ came in an unexpected way. It was not a waffle that led to Bell’s idea for the truck, but instead, a cinnamon roll stuffed into a waffle iron by his sisters, he said.

From here, the spark of ingenuity and creativity was lit, and he searched for the best waffle recipes he could find, before stumbling onto

the Belgian Liege waffle recipe online. A cultural cornerstone in Belgium, the waffles are not nearly as popular in the U.S., Bell said, but that did not stop him from trying to bring a piece of Belgium to Lubbock.

“I just made every recipe I could find, and the first couple came out terrible, but I found a recipe I thought was awesome,” he said.

“Since then, I’ve been making them for a few years, and I thought why not do this for the food truck.”

This system of trial and error turned up frequently throughout his story. His menu, which features creative waffles like the Gloria, a sugary mountain of waffle, Nutella, whipped cream, raspberries and strawberries, would not have come together without a fair amount of experimentation, he said.

The process became a one-man research and development department with friends as the test subjects for new waffles. Coming up with ideas, testing which ingredients tasted best together and serving a lot of bad attempts to his friends were all steps before hitting the sweet spot, he said.

“It was just at my house trying things out,” he said. “So it was just like here’s honey, here’s strawberries,

or bananas or peaches or pineapples.”

When the process works though, it shines. Bell’s first two public appearances, first at the West Texas Food Truck Championship Oct. 7, and now opening night, have drawn long lines of people with appetites for the inventive waffles.

Madison Kidd, a senior music education major, was one of the first to try a waffle on opening night. Her impression of the waffle, and the truck it came from, was a positive one.

“I think its super cool, I adore food trucks, and this is the best looking waffle I’ve seen in my life,” Kidd said.

Creating new waffles, finding the best combinations and things unexpected is Bell’s form of selfexpression, he said.

All of that is not even considering the trailer that provides Wafflin’s façade. First born out of necessity, because a college kid is too broke to own a restaurant, Bell said, the trailer became his pet project for many years. Saving money since he started mowing lawns at the age of 13, he said he had to look at what he realistically could do.

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TOP: Texas Tech student Brandon Bell had a grand opening for his Wafflin food truck in the St. John’s Methodist church parking lot Oct. 24, 2018. Families, friends and students attended the grand opening to try out some of the waffles from the truck owned and managed by Brandon Bell. BOTTOM: The menu for the Wafflin food truck comes from a system of trial and error that Bell has created over the years. The food truck opening is the result of several years of planning by Bell, and has been his project for many years.

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A memorial boulder was unveiled outside of the Texas Tech Police Department to honor fallen Tech Police Officer Floyd East Jr. at 2 p.m. Oct. 27.

Jerry Randall, road captain of the Lubbock Gunslingers Motorcycle Club who is a retired law enforcement officer, helped donate the memorial boulder along with Boulder Designs of Lubbock.

“He was our brother in blue. He was a part of the thin blue line,” Randall said.

Carmen East, the widow of Officer East, thanked everyone in attendance and for Boulder Designs and the Gunslinger Motorcycle Club for donating the memorial.

“Thank you for commemorating my husband and our family,” Carmen said. “It’s all about love and it’s a triumph over something so tragic which doesn’t only happen to our family. It happens to many.” @MattSetzekornDT

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The Texas Tech Police Department unveiled a memorial boulder for Officer Floyd East Jr. who was shot and killed on the line of duty Monday, Oct. 9th, 2017. The memorial was unveiled Saturday, Oct. 27th, 2018 at the Texas Tech Police Station.

The Texas Tech soccer team is amidst a run for the program’s first conference title since 2015, as the Red Raiders are 1-0 in the Big 12 Championship tournament at the Swope Soccer Village in Kansas City, Missouri.

The week-long tournament began Sunday, Oct. 28, and will conclude Sunday, Nov. 4.

The Red Raiders entered the tournament fresh off a 1-0 victory over the No. 17 Texas Longhorns. Tech’s rout of UT Friday, Oct. 26, places the Red Raiders at 13-4-1 overall and seals their conference record at 5-3-1. During the hard-fought game, sophomore forward Kirsten Davis netted the go-ahead score for Tech in the 86th minute, marking her fifth goal on the year, according to Tech Athletics.

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Senior defender Brooke Denesik kicks during Tech’s game against Abilene Christian at 7 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 26, at the John Walker Soccer Complex.

Tech defeated TCU in the opening round of the Big 12 Championship to advance to the semifinals, where Tech will face Baylor.

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Engineering Key to acquire Holden Hall

By NATASSIA HENRY Staff Writer

Holden Hall, located in the Engineering Key, offered classes covering a variety of subjects, but now it will be dedicated solely to engineering-related classes.

W. B r e n t L i n d q u i s t , dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, said the dean of Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering, Dean Al Sacco Jr., wants to acquire the only part of the Engineering Key that is not part of engineering.

“My understanding is that the dean of engineering believes that he can raise money to get the Engineering Key named,” Lindquist said.

“And as part of that naming, he would like to acquire the only part of the Engineering Key that is currently not a part of engineering.”

This will be the first time every building within the Engineering Key will belong to exclusively engineering, Lindquist said. At one point, many buildings within the Engineering Key were arts and sciences.

“Well you have to look at the history, so in fact, the building right across the Engineering Key from us, which is now an experimental facility for engineering, it used to be communication studies,” he said. “So, Holden Hall, communication studies, and if you go back 20-ish years before I got here, there was also an English building right on the Engineering Key as well.”

For Holden to officially join the Engineering Key, there has to be a significant amount of money raised and many changes made, he said.

“There are several things that have to go on,” he said. “There are 30 percent of arts and sciences that is in this building. Arts and sciences are distributed in over 10 buildings on campus. But this one building holds four departments and the dean’s office.

Those four departments are roughly 30 percent of all of arts and sciences.”

Since engineering will be taking over Holden, all non-engineering classes that are in Holden now would have to be moved elsewhere on campus.

“The opportunity for arts and sciences is we will move the departments in this building in to what is currently the physics and geosciences building, which is one of the historical buildings on campus,” he said. “Before we can do that, we need to build

a new physical science building in the parking lot that is just west of chemistry and south of physics.”

Arts and sciences are excited to get the chance to consolidate in a different, more recognizable part of campus on the west side of the Engineering Key, he said.

Christion Sweat, a computer engineering major from Beaumont, said he was unaware of the upcoming change to the key, but thinks it would be a positive change.

“I think it would be an excellent addition due to the fact that many of our classes happen to be in Holden,” Sweat said.

Azrie Morgan, a me chanical engineering major from Dallas, said he thought Holden was already part of the Engineer-

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Holden Hall is set to house solely engineering classes. Offices and classes not related to engineering will move to various buildings across campus including Weeks Hall and a new science building. ing Key because he had several classes there.

While these changes are being talked about now, it will take some time for them to be implemented, Lindquist said. The specific

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Letters of recommendation benefit student opportunities Far-right Bolsonaro wins Brazil’s presidency by 56 percent

By OSCAR VIELMA Staff Writer

A letter of recommendation is a document where the writer assesses a person, their work ethic, qualities and capabilities. These are typically used most toward the end of a college student’s career or after it, however, students need to think about them the day they first step

foot on campus.

Career Center Associate Director of Employer Relations Nicole Noble said to get a strong letter of recommendation, there has to be a strong relationship between the student and the writer.

Ideally the writer of the letter should receive a curriculum vitae, akin to a resume, to know some capabilities and experiences

from the person requesting the letter, Noble said.

Asking questions, going to office hours, getting involved and volunteering are some ways students can make themselves visible and make strong relationships with professors, Noble said.

“That’s why professors got in this job, to help students,” Noble said.

“A bad letter, a negative letter can certainly destroy an applicant’s chances of getting into a program,” Noble said.

Typically, if a person cannot find three people who can say strong things about them, it speaks about the candidate’s ability to succeed in a program or job, Noble said.

“It can be kind of a case of death for an applicant, unfortunately,” Noble said.

Two to five letters are a good number of references to have at all times, Noble said. It is good to ask the person if they can be a reference before asking for a letter of recommendation.

Director and Instructor for Public Speaking at Texas Tech, LeAnne Lagasse, said the moment students get to campus, they need to be thinking about cultivating relationships with people that can vouch for them in the future.

Lagasse said that a letter of recommendation does not need to come from the professor in which the person got the highest grade, but instead the pro-

fessor who saw the strong work ethic.

Students need to be careful who they ask for these letters from, Lagasse said. The writers need to know about the applicant and be able to speak about character, perseverance and tenacity.

A good practice for students is to ask for general letters of recommendation as they go through their college career, Lagasse said.

A month is typically a good time frame to give professors time to write those letters, Lagasse said.

Lagasse said she has declined writing letters before because she was not able to write about that student specifically.

“I’ve declined because I didn’t feel that it was in the student’s best interest that I wrote the letter,” Lagasse said.

Senior Director of Advising and Recruiting in the College of Media and Communications Julia Heard Witt said she stresses building strong relationships that will lead to strong letters of recommendation.

“I always tell students to treat their professors in their classes like they are the CEO of whatever dream company they want to work for,” Witt said.

Students should never be wondering the last semester of their senior year who can write a strong letter of recommendation because those relationships should be cultivated from the beginning, Witt said.

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Being in school is like having a full-time job, Witt said, and the quality of work a student turns in speaks of them a lot.

Witt said she has written good and not so good recommendations because she sees it as a duty to whoever is contacting her for those letters.

Witt said she has not hired someone because they did not have a good professional reference.

“That is your life transcript, your working professional transcript,” Witt said.

Someone can be great a friend, great member of their church, a great child, but if she does not see a good work ethic on paper, that person will not get to work for her, Witt said.

Sometimes GPA’s do not always represent what type of work ethic that student has, Witt said.

If a student gets a C as a class grade but shows a letter of recommendation from the professor saying how hard the student worked for that grade Witt said, she would not look down on the grade.

Wi t t s a i d s t u d e n t s should not undermine any of their work experiences even if they worked at a fast food place. If they had good customer service, showed up on time and were a hard worker, then that is an excellent reference.

“You treat from day one your college career as your first job because that’s where those recommendations are going to come from,” Witt said.

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal has declared farright congressman Jair Bolsonaro the next president of Latin America’s biggest country.

With 96 percent of ballots counted, Bolsonaro has 55.5 percent of the votes. Leftist Fernando Haddad of the Workers’ Party has 44.5 percent.

Vo t e r s i n S u n d a y ’s runoff election apparently looked past warnings that the brash former army captain would erode democracy and embraced a chance for radical change after years of turmoil.

Bolsonaro went into the election the clear front-runner after getting 46 percent of the votes to Haddad’s 29 percent in the first round of the election Oct. 7.

After opinion polls in recent weeks had Bolsonaro leading by as much as 18 percentage points, the race had tightened in recent days. But Haddad was unable to make up the difference.

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Halloween contact lenses pose dangers for eyes

By ADÁN RUBIO Staff Writer

On Halloween, people may risk their safety at late night parties or outside while trick-or-treating. Along with these dangers, damage to their eyes is a health concern people may not realize.

With the availability of colored contact lenses, people can add to their costume accessories. Completing a costume or wanting to change up the style are just a few reasons why people may wear colored contacts on Halloween.

Regardless of the appeal of decorative lenses, people who use this accessory may be at risk of complications involving their eyes.

Constance Crossnoe, optometry doctor and faculty associate who is therapeutic optometrist at Texas Tech Eye Consultants, said wearing contact lenses that are not fitted properly, such as the decorative lenses for Halloween costumes, can cause a corneal ulcer, which is a very painful eye infection that could cause severe loss of vision.

“You’re putting something directly on the eye that is going to have some bacteria on it,” she said. “Not having them fit

properly makes it even worse.”

Red eyes, irritation, pain and change in vision are just some of the negative effects Crossnoe said occurs when wearing contact lenses that are not clean or not fitted appropriately. With the presence of these symptoms, she said the first step is to take the lenses out of the eyes and go see a doctor.

Whether people buy the approved products or obtain decorative lenses without the use of a prescription, any lack of eye care and contact maintenance could lead to injuries, Crossnoe said.

“It’s illegal to sell contacts without a prescription but it still happens at flea markets and places like that,” Crossnoe said. “Part of the process of getting the prescription is we teach you how to keep them clean.”

Despite the differences between regular and decorative lenses, Crossnoe said one similarity between them is the daily maintenance.

“It’s an FDA approved product. That’s why you have to have a prescription to buy them,” she said. “Colored contacts, especially the Halloween ones, have so much paint and colors in them that they’re significantly less healthy than just regular clear contacts.”

With the need for decorative lenses to improve a Halloween costume, people may still wear these accessories despite the risk for eye injuries.

For people who are still wanting to wear these types of contacts, preparation is one requirement necessary to ensure healthy eyes.

Bryan Gibson, optometrist at Gibson, Gibson and Moore Lubbock Eye Care, said for those considering decorative lenses and wanting to avoid the negative effects, they should treat the accessory like a typically contact.

“Make sure they’re fitted by a professional,” Gibson said. “Make sure they are disinfected and not expired.”

Maintaining the lenses is another step Gibson said people need to complete daily.

“Wash your hands before touching the contacts,” Gibson said. “You don’t want to sleep in them.”

Even though Halloween contacts should be treated like normal lenses, Gibson said the two are not of the same quality.

“I would not want to wear them long term,” Gibson said.

“The take home point is that these decorative contacts are not like regular contacts.”

Colored lenses may be worn for a short amount of

time during different Halloween events.

However, for some people, decorative lenses are not exclusive to Halloween.

Mallory Prucha, assistant professor of costume design at the Tech School of Theatre and Dance, said on occasions, theatre students may wear colored lenses for performances when certain character traits need to be represented and the audience is seated closer to the actors.

In these rare situations, she said students should always consult a professional first.

“What I would have a student do is go to an optometrist,” Purcha said. “Have their eyes checked to make sure they’re suitable for contact lenses.”

Along with professional guidance, Prucha said some doctors and licensed vendors provide catalogs that offer safer, prescribed decorative lenses.

Being educated on the type of lenses and the requirements necessary to prevent eye injuries is one precaution she said can prepare anyone, actors or not, who are considering the use of decorative contacts.

“You don’t know what exactly you’re putting into your eye,” Prucha said. “If they haven’t worn contact

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Trent Brown, freshman public relations major from Fort Worth, puts contacts on. Decorative contact lenses put those who use them at risk of damaging their eyes. lenses before, they need to ask about length of wear.

They need to ask about cleaning practices.”

Learning the proper techniques to maintain and obtain lenses that are fitted properly is one method Prucha said can benefit people who want to

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The Garden, a dog friendly patio bar, held it’s 2nd annual Howl-O-Ween Costume Contest featuring a dog named Riley dressed as a lion. Dog owners participated in the contest at 7 p.m. on Oct. 25.

Iowa, New York home to winning $688M Powerball tickets NEW YORK (AP) — The co-owner of a Manhattan deli where someone purchased one of two Powerball tickets that hit the $688 million jackpot said he likely sold the winning ticket, but he has no idea who won.

Jose Espinosa and his father own the West Harlem Deli, which lottery officials say sold a ticket that matched all six numbers in Saturday night’s drawing for the fourth-largest lottery prize in U.S. history.

The ticket holder will split the winnings with whoever purchased the other winning ticket from a convenience store in a small Iowa town While helping a steady stream of customers Sunday, the 41-year-old Espinosa

joked that he knows he sold the lucky ticket because always working: “I’m always here. I live here.” But he doesn’t know who bought it.

“It wasn’t me,” said customer Jose Humphreys, a 45-year-old pastor at a nearby church. “But hey, if somebody hit the lottery and they wanted to donate to our church, we would in no way refuse it.”

The other winning ticket was sold at Casey’s convenience store in Redfield, Iowa, a rural community of about 800 people roughly 35 miles (56 kilometers) west of Des Moines. A clerk who answered the phone at the store Sunday declined comment and referred questions to lottery officials.

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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Tributes rolled in Sunday to the victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre as authorities worked to piece together the background and movements of the suspected gunman, who authorities said expressed hatred of Jews as he opened fire with an AR-15 rifle and other weapons and later told police, “All these Jews need to die.”

Robert Gregory Bowers killed eight men and three women inside the Tree of Life Synagogue on Saturday during worship services before a tactical police team tracked him down and shot him, authorities said in state and federal affidavits made public on Sunday.

Six people were injured in the attack, including four officers.

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wear these contacts.

“Over the Halloween season, be careful about anything you are putting on your face or near your eyes,” Prucha said. “You don’t know where those products are coming from.”

ed intellectually disabled brothers and a husband and wife. The youngest was 54 and the oldest was 97.

“The loss is incalculable,” said Stephen Cohen, co-president of New Light Congregation, which rents space at Tree of Life.

Mayor Bill Peduto called it the “darkest day of Pittsburgh’s history.”

Bowers shot his victims with an AR-15 — the weapon used in many of the nation’s mass shootings — and three handguns, all of which he owned legally and had a license to carry, according to a law enforcement official who wasn’t authorized to discuss the ongoing investigation, and spoke Sunday on condition of anonymity.

Little else was known about Bowers, who had no apparent criminal record but who is believed to have expressed virulently anti-Semitic views on social media.

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Some observations while you were voting W e are either blessed or cursed with so much information available to us during this midterm election. It’s fascinating, humorous and so many other things because there is so much going on.

There was no single topic I could think about writing while you were voting this week. So, here are a few things I could not look away from, according to The Texas Tribune.

While you were voting with a finger touch and a wheel spin on a grimy voting machine last certified almost a decade ago, machines in parts of Texas were reported

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as flipping straight-ticket selections to opposite party for senate votes.

The Texas Secretary of State’s Office reported that the issue was not with the, older-than-a-first-generation-iPad, Hart eSlate machines used in 30 percent of counties in Texas. Instead, the problems stemmed from user error and are the result of “voters hitting a button or using the selection wheel before the screen is finished rendering,” which de-selects the pre-filled candidate selection, according to the Secretary of State Office.

The voting machine was last certified in 2009, when I had a Samsung flip phone that year as a sophomore in high school and not a touch screen phone like my cool friends. The State of Texas is recommending to voters to avoid this issue, as I recom-

mended myself when texting to, by taking their time and carefully reviewing their ballot before submitting it.

The difference between my ancient flip phone and a voting machine though, is that my quick thumbs pressing tiny number buttons left an annoying typo, rather than causing my important vote to become the exact opposite of what I wanted. Its 2018 and I have a super computer phone in my pocket now. The Hart eSlate machine looks like an oversized 90’s palm pilot that I was too young to ever use, am I still to blame?

While you were voting for your best interests on health care, an issue which most polls have at the top of concern this midterm election, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was stating his hope of repealing the Affordable Care Act, commonly referred to in an angry tone as Obamacare, if the midterms bring forth enough Republican votes.

It is a rallying cry largely slowed down this election as

premiums and out-of-pocket costs have kept going up. A repeal without a similar replacement would take away Medicaid from millions as well as take away the biggest democratic talking point, the Care Act’s protection for preexisting conditions.

A call to repeal the Affordable Care Act is probably the worst thing the extreme right McConnell could do to his party now. Worse even than the op-ed on healthcare President Donald Trump, sent to USAToday, that the conservative leaning Washington Post described as having every sentence contain “a falsehood or a misleading claim.”

As Texas Republicans such as Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Pete Sessions, both given Trump’s endorsement on Twitter, platform as protecting pre-existing conditions, a call for Republicans to repeal the ACA makes them look terrible. Both Senators have sought to ignore their voting records by stating their support for pre-existing conditions this election, and call to repeal the act which protects

pre-existing conditions has it appearing they will go back on their words again.

It is crazy enough for Republican politicians to lie about protecting pre-existing conditions, especially Texans while Texas’ Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton leads the current federal lawsuit, backed by 20 republican states and the Trump administration, to end pre-existing conditions.

But, when you continue to live or die by partisanship as their voting records have shown time and again, Americans are smart enough to know they are not protecting any conditions other than the condition to continue using, “Repeal Obamacare,” as a catchy and angry rallying cry.

Finally, while you were voting for a leader for our state for 2018, Trump, the leader of the free world, was still chanting the strange and dehumanizing 2016 rally cry for Hilary Clinton’s imprisonment for her unsecured private emails, “Lock her up.” This comes despite the

reports of the President rejecting white house advisor’s advice to use a secure phone, due to security reports of Chinese and Russia spies listening in on his conversations.

In spite of all of this, the “Lock her up” chant has seemingly become the Republican party chant, and the same 2016 rally cry still can be heard in selective red states where the President believes he needs to visit to secure 2018 Midterm votes, it could also be heard at the Cruz campaign in Houston as he joked about locking Beto O’Rourke up with Hilary in a “double-occupancy cell.”

Is it easier for me to ask my Republican leaders to end this absurd rally cry?

Or would it be worth sneaking into the back of a Beto rally and attempt to bring forth a counter “Lock his phone up” chant? Maybe like yelling “Freebird” at the harp player during a funeral viewing, both options seem too far from reality to work in the end. @DailyToreador

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Why God is crucial to Western civilization

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oday I’m going to talk about something I haven’t talked about before: God. However, I’m going to talk about God in a way you may have not heard before.

This isn’t going to be about my relationship with God, or why you should believe in him. This is going to be about how the idea of God holds up all of Western civilization.

First, I would say to my atheist peers that I hope you keep reading, because the truth value of what I am going to say is not predicated upon whether or not God actually exists.

Because of this, an atheist could (and I hope will) agree with me without being a believer.

My first stipulation is that belief in God upholds our civilization through the idea of a “divine spark,” innate to each individual.

The internal logic of man being created in the image of God suggests each man and woman has in them something divine.

There is something sacred about the individual.

This leads to the eventual conclusion that each individual, being “endowed by their creator,” possesses certain unalienable rights.

Because the individual is divine, there exists some

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fundamental right(s) which cannot be justly infringed upon.

This idea is central to how our society — not just in the U.S. but in all westernized liberal nations — functions, and if the idea of God were rejected, this ideal loses its critical basis.

This is because we are not equal in man’s eyes; we are entirely unequal. But in God’s eyes, we are all equal — we are all equally made in his image with our own unique and divine spark. If we weren’t, I’m not sure how we can maintain the idea of individual rights. The potential transformation of these rights is from unalienable and innate, to Stategranted and contingent.

My second stipulation is that morality is objective.

This means there is actually, objectively, right and wrong.

This is the case because God would’ve had to set objective moral rules about what is right and wrong. If there’s no God, there is no such thing as right and wrong — only behavioral preference.

This means you could

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say, “I don’t like murder,” but you could not say, “murder is wrong.” Societies could be built upon these preferences, legal systems wise; but even then, they could only logically make things illegal based on reasons other than the supposed morality.

This means you could not logically criticize people for performing actions simply because your preference is different. Preference is subjective (a visit to an art gallery quickly confirms this). Imagine trying to convince someone your favorite painting (or song, movie, play or book) is the objective best; the conversation would be frustrating at best, and useless anyway.

This is how moral arguments would now play out.

You would no longer have the normative weight associated with saying something is wrong. You could only say you prefer something different, and the argument ends there. This is because no one is right or wrong when it comes to subjective matters.

I do want to clarify, because I often hear this, that I do not mean to say that atheists cannot live moral lives; they absolutely can, and do. What

I mean to suggest is that the logic which built our society up through the claims of individual rights and objective morality will begin to slowly crumble if we lose the idea of God. I believe this could and may lead to government taking certain rights away, as well as average behavior seeing an immoral downturn. I believe people will still be able to live moral lives, but they will choose to live in other ways because of the lack of perceived objective morality.

Before closing I will give you a brief and fun hypothetical example of how I think moral behavior could degrade. Let’s say you are a man married to a woman, and your marriage is great. You are an atheist, and you buy my argument that objective morality doesn’t exist because God doesn’t exist. Your wife has a friend who is also married, and you think she is pretty attractive. You find out she is having a hard time in her marriage and she is unhappy.

She starts to confide in you and you gradually fall for this other woman, despite still being in love with your wife. You have an affair with this other woman all while maintain-

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ing your marriage as is. No one ever finds out; no kids result from the affair, and you make the other woman’s life better because she now has a partner who cares about her.

My question is this. How can an atheist, given what I have said, say this is wrong? No one is hurt, and in fact, you could argue well-being has been increased overall resulting from the two having the affair. You can say your wife might be angry if she were to find out, but that is just a claim about her preference if she were to find out, which she didn’t (and won’t, we’re hoping).

I would argue that you would’ve violated moral laws regarding the sanctity of marriage and laws regarding being faithful, but I get those moral laws from my religion and faith in God. If I was an atheist, I don’t know how I would claim you and your mistress have done anything wrong — and that’s my point. Because of this lack of logical justification for condemning what seem to be immoral acts, behavior will tend to get worse over time if the idea of God is lost. @DailyToreador

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Tech students share Halloween costume advice

By HANA KELETA Staff Writer

Once a year on Halloween night, students have the opportunity to be somebody or something else as they choose from an assortment of costumes. This tradition can be expensive, but some students say it can be easy to put together a costume for cheap with a little creativity and effort.

Halloween is a time to get creative and have fun with costumes, Jamellah Siika, a senior economics major from Dallas, said.

“This doesn’t necessarily always mean just go out and buy a costume someone else might be wearing too,” Siika said. “If you want to be unique for Halloween, I would suggest a DIY.” There are thousands of DIY videos on YouTube with

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 “I found this 1958 trailer and renovated it, and did a lot of the work myself,” he said. “I’d been saving up money for years, but finally had enough junior year to make it happen.”

I want to have a brick and mortar to bring Wafflin’ and a extension of home to the community.

BRANDON BELL JUNIOR The process of restoring the trailer and turning it into the charming food truck it is did not happen easily, Bell said. Learning how to pull off the transformation took help from professionals, friends and YouTube videos.

He researched online how to paint a vehicle and talked to strangers at hardware stores, trying to find the paints, sandpapers and tools to use. Though he started off a little clueless, he said he feels slightly more confidant in his abilities now.

creative ways to make Halloween costumes that require no sewing experience at all, Siika said. That is a good starting point when trying to find something affordable for Halloween, along with thrift shopping.

“When it comes to costumes I feel like the thrift shop may be your best bet,” she said. “The thrift shop has so many old vintage clothing options so say you’re trying to recreate a character from the 70s to 90s, you could definitely find some good clothing options in there and throw something together.”

If students want to work with what is in their closet, they should be open to the idea of being comfortable with using a pair of scissors on some old clothing they don’t mind messing up, Siika said.

“I felt like HGTV, but like a really bad version of it. I don’t know maybe I could paint a bench or something now,” he said.

On top of owning and operating his own food truck, Bell must juggle the same schedule every other college student does.

In addition to balancing academic and business life, Bell is also a member of the Air National Guard.

Enlisting at the age of 17 and joining a civil engineering squad, he said it was a big step outside of his comfort zone.

Naturally a creative and conceptual person, he said it forced him to learn and adapt to practical skills, and build a finer attention to detail.

“Even with something as small as hammering a nail into something, the detail matters,” he said.

Enlisting in the military at such a young age is a monumental decision, but it was one made out of a desire to serve, Bell said. Helping other people and continuing his family’s history of service was important to him, and the education benefits sure didn’t hurt either, he said.

“My dad joined the guard, I have cousins in the guard. I just wanted to

“Your closet holds way more options than you think,” she said. “Just get creative.”

Fasil Fitta, a marketing major from Dallas, said to get creative with things that are already in one’s closet or use unorthodox methods to create an outfit.

“I would say from the thrift would be the hardest because you don’t have set options on what you can pick and choose, but you can save a good amount of money,” Fitta said. “A costume made from home would be the a little easier because you know what you have, but you are limited to just what you have, and it is also the least expensive option.”

Finding a costume online would be the easiest but most expensive option, she said. Students can get exactly what

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On Wednesday, customers bought waffles from Texas Tech student Brandon Bell. Bell had a grand opening for his “Wafflin” food truck in the St. John’s Methodist church parking lot. Wednesday, October 24, 2018, on 1501 University Ave, Lubbock, Texas. be able to serve my country and gain those invaluable experiences,” he said.

While continued service is in his plans for the future, it will not be through the Air National Guard. Instead, Bell said he plans to continue to serve people his delicious waffles after college.

While he has many options, staying in Lubbock has both potential and purpose for him, he said.

Growing Wafflin’ in the community as much as possible is the goal for now, he said, but his ulti-

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“I chose a costume from my closet,” Fitta said. “There is a brand called vlone and there is a song called vlone thug. So, I wore the vlone shirt and a bandana and was a vlone thug for Halloween.”

Goodwill, American Council of the Blind and St. Paul’s Thrift House are a few thrift stores in Lubbock less than two miles away from campus.

Feven Damer, a freshman marketing major from Houston, said she loves going to thrift shops to browse around for a while and find gems.

“If you really look for pieces of a costume you have in mind at the thrift shops, you will definitely be able to find things for the costume.” she said.

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mate dream is to expand into a restaurant.

“I want to have a brick and mortar to bring Wafflin’ and an extension of home to the community,” he said.

“I want to pour my heart in it and commit myself to it. I’d like to see myself in 10 years with a brick and mortar restaurant.”

Getting to this point has already been a journey for Bell, and moving forward, it will likely only get more difficult, but he said he has not had to do any of it alone.

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Halloween costumes and Halloween themed apparel are available at the Goodwill located on Marsha Sharp Freeway. Students can purchase these items at a discount as they put together their costumes.

Damer said she bought her Halloween Costume from Goodwill last year, and was able to find an Aaliyah costume because she found oversized jeans and a Tommy Hilfiger bandeau.

“Just take your time and browse around the store and I’m positive you’ll be able to put something together for less than $10,” Damer said.

has helped him develop Wafflin’ to where it is now, he said, and it started with his family. The people he has met at Tech have been invaluable as well, he said. His friends continue to support him, even after all the bad waffles they may have eaten, and encourage him to keep growing the business.

Sam Chen, a junior biochemistry major and one of Bell’s friends, said when he met Bell, the truck was still just a business plan, and he was skeptical of the idea.

“I thought this was going to be a lot of work, and it’s not going to be easy,” Chen said. “And I didn’t think waffles were going to work, but after he made the first one and I tried it, I was like yeah this is going to work.”

Other opportunities at Tech, such as the Innovation Hub, introduced Bell to some key mentors who would help him in this process. This sense of community and opportunity was the main reason Bell said he came to the university in the first place.

“The staff there is super supportive and friendly, they take time out of their day to listen to me. I’ve made some really great

mentors who took me in,” Bell said.

A deep and helpful community has helped raise him to the position he now occupies, and if all goes to plan, he will use that help to give back and create a new community, he said.

The desire to serve and bring people together were a part of Bell long before Wafflin’ though.

He traces it all back to a small-town coffee shop in Ohio, opened by his aunt and uncle, which became a hub for the people who lived there.

The shop would see all kinds of people hanging out on any given day, he said, and there would even be days where all the shop’s revenue would go to supporting one cause in the community. He said seeing that as a young kid inspired him to do the same as soon as he could get the chance.

“I think restaurants and food trucks should be an extension of home, and homes are fun, exciting, warm and welcoming places,” he said. “So, I want to do my best to create an environment one day that’s all those things. I want people to feel that when they come to Wafflin.”

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Red Raiders sweep TCU in Big 12 rematch

By GABRIELLE TAITE Staff Writer

The Texas Tech volleyball team has surpassed its most Big 12 wins in a season since 2002 following its 3-0 win over Texas Christian University Saturday, Oct. 27, in the United Supermarkets Arena.

The match puts the Red Raiders back on track, ending the team’s five-game losing streak, according to Tech Athletics. Tech also moves ahead of TCU and into the top half of the Big 12 standings. This game marks Tech’s ninth sweep this year and first during its 2018 conference play.

Tech coach Tony Graystone said the victory against TCU was much needed.

“We were so hot (earlier in the season) and then cooled off,” Graystone said according to Tech Athletics.

“There’s days where you really want to win and days where you really need to win, and I think today’s we really needed. It’s just so

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 Davis, a native of St. Louis, Missouri, brings a dynamic playing style to the table for the Red Raider offense, as she leads the team in assists with five thus far, according to Tech Athletics. Junior forward Jade King spoke on the offensive impact Davis has while on the pitch. “(Davis) just gets in dangerous places and is really soccer smart,” King said, according to Tech Athletics. “She knows when to pass it and when to shoot it, and that helps a lot having someone who is really smart on the ball.”

King is the leading

good for our team to get back on track. I’m happy.”

The team is aware of what they need to fix and is committed to getting better to improve its records for this season, Graystone said. It is just a matter of time before the team continues another winning streak, he said.

In addition to matching the amount of conference victories in a season dating back to 2002, the Red Raiders surpassed their 2017 regular season and conference win total, according to Tech Athletics. Tech is now sitting at 5-5 in Big 12 play and 7-1 at home after the TCU victory.

Saturday’s win moves the Tech and TCU all-time series to even at 10-10 each.

Sophomore libero Emerson Solano said the Red Raiders are dedicated to improving their performance.

“We actually have been working all week in practice,” Solano said. “Coming back from being 17-21, and that’s exactly what we did.

It’s really nice to see that

all our hard work during practice is paying off, and I know that we all looked at each other and knew that we could finish the set out (during the TCU match).”

The Red Raiders can now look forward to building another winning streak and getting their confidence back up, Solano said.

Standout freshman Brooke Kanas said the team’s energy is what wins matches for Tech.

“We just need to focus on our energy and having fun,” Kanas said. “It’s just so much easier to play together and finish a match with better energy.”

With just six matches remaining in the season, the Red Raiders will search for victory as they hope to advance to the playoffs. The next match will be against Kansas on Saturday, Nov. 3, in Lawrence, Kansas. The time for the match has yet to be determined.

goalscorer for the Red Raiders, with seven to her name this season. Both King’s and Davis’ athleticism and ability to make quick decisions enable the duo to consistently create opportunities for Tech.

Although the Red Raiders possess a fast-paced and highly proficient offense, Tech’s performance on the other side of the ball is perhaps the most essential component toward the team’s success.

The Red Raiders have posted 11 shutouts on the year, with five coming in league games. Tech’s lockdown defense is led by sophomore goalkeeper Marissa Zucchetto, who claims the third best save percentage in the Big 12

at .808, according to Big12sports.com. In this season alone, Zucchetto has collected three Defensive Player of the Week accolades from the conference for standout performances.

Aside from a top-notch keeper, another important piece of the Red Raider defense is composed of three seniors who hold things down in the backfield. Left back Brooke Denesik, left center back Cassie Boren and right center back Carly Wickenheiser have each started in their respective positions in all 18 of Tech’s games this season, according to Tech Athletics.

L a s t l y, f r e s h m a n Cassie Hiatt frequents the right back position for Tech, joining the trio

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Senior setter Missy Owens jumps to set the ball during the Big 12 game against TCU at the United Supermarkets Arena on Saturday, October 27, 2018. The Red Raiders won 3-0. Owens has totaled 841 assists on the year. of senior defenders ultimately composing the last line of defense before Zucchetto’s net.

With a blazing fast offense and heavily guarded defense, Tech has the necessary ingredients to take a title in the Big 12 tournament. Though the Red Raiders are adequately equipped for success, Tech’s route to snagging the conference title will be studded with plenty of challenges.

Immediately out of the gate, the No. 5 seed Red Raiders defeated the No. 4 Texas Christian Horned Frogs in penalty kicks.

Tech netted all five of its PK’s to secure the win and avenge the Red Raiders loss earlier in the year.

The Red Raiders will now advance to the semi-final round to take on No. 1 Baylor, scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 2.

On the other side of the bracket, No. 2 West Virginia is set to face off against No. 7 Oklahoma and No. 3 Texas will battle it out with No. 6 Kansas all during day one. Should the Red Raiders advance to the title match, their opponent will be one of these four teams. Tech

has previously beaten two and tied the third of four potential championship contenders, as WVU is the only team to hand the Red Raiders a loss.

If Tech continues to play with the same resilience and aggression it did in its win over Texas, the Red Raiders pose a threat to any competition that steps up. After throwing up 13 Ws in the win column during the regular season, Tech has proven it has the experience, skillset and chemistry necessary for success. @NoahMiciottoDT

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The Red Raiders celebrated with each other after beating the Texas Longhorns at the John Walker Soccer Complex Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018. The Red Raiders defeated the Longhorns, 1-0, with sophomore Kirsten Davis scoring the winning shot in the 86th minute.

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Chiefs complete sweep of Broncos KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Patrick Mahomes had another 300-yard passing day with four touchdowns. Kareem Hunt had another hurdling, tackle-breaking touchdown that gave the Chiefs a lead they’d never surrender.

Travis Kelce and Sammy Watkins produced huge games, too, as the high-powered Kansas City offense once again made the incredible look downright casual in a 30-23 victory over Denver on Sunday that finished off a season sweep of the Broncos.

“When we’re clicking and spreading the all around,” Mahomes said, “We’re really tough to stop.”

You could make a case for nearly impossible. The only team to beat the Chiefs (7-1) so far has been New England, and it took the Patriots scoring 43 points at home to win by a field goal.

The Broncos (3-5) never came that close Sunday.

Mahomes finished with 303 yards passing for his franchiserecord seventh consecutive 300-yard performance. Watkins had 107 yards and two of the TD catches, and Kelce and Hunt had the other two, as the Chiefs won for the 19th time in their past 21 games against the AFC West rivals.