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Researchers work to reduce pigeon population

Kingsbury approaches end of contract term

By AUSTIN WATTS Managing Editor

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ith Texas Tech in the midst of another season in the middle-of-the-pack in the Big 12 race, head coach Kliff Kingsbury’s contract has been called into question.

His future as head coach of the Red Raiders may reside in the fate of the final four games in conference play.

Last season, Tech was sitting at 5-6 with the season finale a daunting road game against the Texas Longhorns, Kingsbury’s tenure at Tech appeared to be nearing an end after a rough season. Instead, Tech defeated the Longhorns to secure its first back-to-back wins in Austin, having defeated the Longhorns in 2015. After speculation of a change, new life had been given to Kingsbury’s tenure, and Tech Athletics Director Kirby Hocutt voiced his decision to give Kingsbury job security for 2018.

“I’m not sure (regarding the status of his contract), that’s not a decision for me to make,” Kingsbury said following Tech’s win over Texas in 2017. “I want to be here, I love Texas Tech, always have, always will, so just leave it at that.”

Kingsbury signed an extension to his original contract back in 2014 following a 7-5 season in 2013. The extension locked in Kingsbury through 2020, but after 2017 the buyout on the contract started looking more appealing, both for Tech and for any school looking to poach the offensive minded head coach.

With Hocutt’s support, the calls for Kingsbury’s head slowly diminished over the offseason, and Tech entered the 2018 season rela-

tively quiet on that front. Despite Hocutt’s backing, the perceived lack of job security for Kingsbury was apparent in the team’s 2018 recruiting class, as Tech’s 19-recruit class was ranked 72 and 78 out of 130 schools by 247Sports. com and Scout.com respectively. Kansas was the only Big 12 opponent with a lower class ranking, and even then, the Jayhawks were ranked higher than Tech by 247Sports.

With a questionable recruiting class and a quarterback with just one start at the helm, Tech’s 2018 season opener against Ole Miss was expected to be a tough game, but one Tech could at least contend in.

Instead, Tech’s starting quarterback suffered an injury just minutes into the first q u a r t e r, and Tech p r o ceede d to

get dismantled by the Rebels, 47-27.

Despite Hocutt’s backing, despite the starting quarterback’s untimely injury, despite facing a very vertical Ole Miss team without half of the starting secondary, the calls for Kingsbury to be fired began again.

Just one game into the 2018 season, Tech was back in the same situation after the embarrassing 27-3 2017 home loss to Texas Christian: Back on the media’s

perceived “hot seat,” with a portion of fans backing his firing.

Enter Alan Bowman.

With Bowman, a true freshman quarterback who was listed as just a three-star prospect by both sites mentioned above, Tech stunned its next three opponents with dominant wins over Lamar, Houston and Oklahoma State.

Despite getting hurt against West Virginia and missing the win over TCU, Bowman returned and looked his best against Kansas in a dominant 48-16 win, the first home Big 12 victory for Tech since 2016.

Bowman had the worst game of his young career in Tech’s loss to Iowa State, but even then, it was clear the true freshman has potential in Kingsbury’s system.

Bowman changes things for Kingsbury’s Red Raiders. Harkening back to the Patrick Mahomes days, support for Kingsbury’s team is highest with an electric quarterback under center, and Bowman provides that for the 5-3 Red Raiders.

With Kingsbury’s contract only lasting through 2020, Tech is approaching a crossroads of sorts, as Hocutt will need to decide on Kingsbury’s future at Tech. Hocutt has four potential outcomes when deciding Kingsbury’s fate at Tech, each altering the fate of the football team.

PLAY IT OUT: Kingsbury finishes the final two years on his contract Out of all of the options available to Tech, this seems the least likely of the bunch for various reasons. First, neither Kingsbury nor Tech benefit in this situation.

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Changes to Lubbock budget provide updated safety, efficiency

By EMMA SIPPLE Staff Writer

The impact of the new changes to the Lubbock budget, which went into effect Oct. 1, will be seen in public safety and efficiency.

“There were two main guidelines for the new budget,” Jarrett Atkinson, Lubbock city manager, said. “The first point is that we are guided by our City Council, we use financial discipline as a guideline.

The second point is our mission, set by our charter which is to provide for public safety.”

The largest portion of the budget went toward paying for the Public Safety Improvement Project, which was approved in December 2017, Atkinson said.

“It is $60 million to add three new police facilities in the city, Lubbock is 132 square miles and the only police station is in downtown.

The public safety project moves us rapidly into the community,” Atkinson said. “The plan is to have three points in an almost diamond, so when we need a fourth station we’ll add it in southwest where we expect the city to grow. It also provides a new municipal court system property warehouse.”

The idea of having three parts of a diamond came from Lubbock

Police Chief Greg Stevens’ philosophy of community-oriented policing.

“I began to socialize the philosophy of community-oriented policing,” Stevens said. “You ask people, ‘What is community-oriented policing?’ You’re gonna get 90 answers from 90 people. In the 80s, this term began to really float around, because it sounds good. It sounds like I’m really gonna do great things when I do community policing. The fact is, we’ve been doing it for years and years.”

Adding the substations would help with the police force focusing more on the community, he said.

“So, when I got this job, they asked what I thought about this facility’s project, and I said, ‘Well, you can’t engage in communityoriented policing from one Taj Mahal downtown,” he said. “It’s impossible. This city’s way too big to do that. There’s no city this size that does not have substations. We have to decentralize our operations.

Primarily because I have to push accountability and authority out into the geographic parts of the city.”

Decentralizing to the substations helps the different stations focus on their specific area and accounts for the city’s growth.

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The pigeons on the Texas Tech campus require money and time to clean up after. Scientists at the university are working alongside the Operations Division to find humane, innovative solutions to reduce the pigeon population.

By AKHILA REDDY L a Vida Editor

Walking across the Texas Tech campus, it is difficult for students to get more than a couple of yards without encountering pigeons or pigeon droppings, an issue that poses a significant financial burden for the university.

To solve this problem, the university’s Operations Division has partnered with Tech faculty to implement research-based, innovative solutions to reduce the pigeon population, including pigeon birth control.

The project began approximately two years ago, John Zak, professor and interim chair of the Biological Sciences department, said. Sean Childers, assistant vice president for operations, brought up the pigeon difficulties on campus during a meeting.

“We were talking about pigeons on campus and he was looking how to humanely and ethically look at pigeons and try to figure out what we could do to decrease the pigeon population because they do too much damage, and the university spends too much money,” Zak said.

Pigeon feces pose a significant problem as the feces are acidic and can deteriorate buildings, Erin Stukenholtz, a Ph.D. student in natural resources management working on the project, said. Additionally, they stop up the gutters, so when it rains, the gutters can back up into the buildings and ruin them inside.

Pigeons and pigeon feces are also capable of spreading disease, Stukenholtz said.

“Pigeons can spread zoonosis, diseases that animals spread to humans. Since we have such a large population, that means we’ll have a lot of feces and with our student body, they could come in close contact with the feces, and we don’t want that,” Stukenholtz said.

Large amounts of pigeon feces grow certain groups of fungi that can have negative impacts on lungs, Zac said, so the university must spend time and money to clean the feces.

“One of the reasons the university has been so adamant about getting large congregations of birds off campus is that they produce a lot of bird poop, and then you get groups of fungi growing in them, then you inhale them and that increases our likelihood of getting infected with lung infections,” he said.

To address these problems, Zak along with Richard Stevens, a professor of natural resources management, and David Ray, an associate professor in biological sciences, began this project two years ago.

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Tech advisors provide advice on additional education

By ADÁN RUBIO Staff Writer

Choosing a major can be the toughest decision a student makes. Even when a person decides on their main education path, developing a college plan is not necessarily over.

With the choice of a concentration, minor or double major, students have a lot to consider when deciding what additional coursework will diversify their college education.

For many students, time could be the prominent factor when deciding to pursue additional education.

Catherine Nutter, senior director of Texas Tech University Advising, said the amount of coursework added to a student’s degree plan could vary depending on if they choose a minor or concentration.

“Most often a concentration is an additional 15 hours. For the most part, we’re talking about five classes,” she said. “Most minors are 18 hours. We have some minors on campus that are 21 to 24.”

Depending on the department, Nutter said some colleges at Tech, such as the College of Arts and Sciences, require a minor, whereas others may not. For students in different colleges, she said the number of hours for a minor or concentration could vary.

In addition to the variance of minors and concentrations, she said people who want to undertake a double major will need to follow the requirements set for that second major.

“The core classes will double count toward the major but there are those specific upper level hours that are required to complete the major,” Nutter said.

Despite the different conditions set for a minor, concentration or double major, Nutter said taking part in more coursework, related or unrelated to one’s degree plan, is beneficial.

“One of the first reasons to consider a minor or a concentration or even a double major would be how adding such would set you apart in the industry market,” she said.

“Having additional information, additional knowledge, additional experience in an area always finds a way to enhance what it is we’re doing professionally or personally. I also think a concentration or a minor is a really nice way just to study something you’re enjoying studying.”

College requirements and the number of hours added to a degree plan are just some of the factors one might consider when wanting to engage in a new area of study. To fully understand the impact of the choice they are making, students can seek professional

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advice and information regarding their interests in supplementary courses.

“You start with the adviser,” Nutter said regarding the first point of contact a student should pursue when deciding on any form of additional education.

“Research the career field you’re interested in.”

Research is a way a student can obtain information about other educational fields they enjoy, Nutter said.

Seeking information about one’s college also could help a student understand what the best option is for their current major.

Chris Covarrubio, academic adviser at the Tech College of Education, said certain additional education plans may not be permitted in some colleges.

“Our college doesn’t deal with concentrations,” he said.

“College of Education does not permit for a double major.”

For students in the College of Education, Covarrubio said they have to manage a different degree plan than other colleges.

“Our college strictly goes off of 120 hours. That includes their core content plus the TechTeach program,” Covarrubio said. “If a student adds a minor to any of the additional programs on campus, it’s going to be 18 hours.”

With the addition of minors to one’s college plan, Co-

varrubio said an increase in the number of courses is one disadvantage for students.

Along with people dealing with additional degree requirements, uncertainty is another issue Covarrubio sees when advising students.

“The main thing that students really need to know when pursuing their major or a minor, or even if they want a double major, is to know exactly what it is they are interested in pursuing,” he said.

Utilizing resources at the Tech University Career Center is a way students can learn if they are really interested in the job fields they want to pursue alongside their main education path, Covarrubio said.

Depending on the college, students may have more options when considering a minor, concentration or double major.

Ashlee Brown, director of advising and retention at the Tech College of Human Sciences, said students in this college are not restricted when pursuing a minor.

“We don’t require minors with our programs,” she said. “We definitely have options. Some of our majors do have available electives to add a minor.”

Adding a minor is an optional route College of Human Sciences students can take. Although, with any additions to a degree plan, Brown said students need

to make informed decisions about their options.

“Anything that is going to add hours to the degree, we want to make sure the students are fully aware of the cost and benefits,” Brown said. “The second thing to look into is having the student really articulate why this minor is going to be a benefit for them in the long run.”

Conducting research, talking to professionals of a career field and asking

questions during advising appointments are ways Brown said students can understand the best plan when they want to add time to their course load.

“We want to make sure the student’s getting the most bang for their buck,” she said. “The time and money that goes into these additional courses, are they going to reap the benefits of those when they graduate?”

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it is 54.802 cents per $100.

The $10 million pays for the architects and engineers that are designing the stations. We are fortunate that we own land to place the downtown station, the eastern station and the south-central station. We will put the property facility on land we own. We only need land for the northwestern station which the city council voted on Thursday.

The remaining $50 million pays for construction.”

The $50 million will also provide an additional 10 police officers to the force.

“We are growing the force faster than the growth of the population,” Atkinson said.

“Four or five police officers would be the same with population growth which equals 1.7 officers per 1000 people.

Nationwide there are about two officers per 1000 people.

Most departments are a little under two right where we want to be.”

With the one cent in-

crease to taxes, the effect on homeowners would be around a $14 to $15 increase, Chief Financial Officer Blu Kostelich said.

“On the electric side, there were no changes to our rates,” Kostelich said. “We kept the rate where it was. On water, our rate structure changed last year but it stayed the same this year, so no increase on that. On our sewer, the wastewater, we did increase the base fee just slightly, and that is mostly due to the increase in operating costs for our wastewater system.”

Additionally, Lubbock will replace the water meters with remotely operated meters with $18 million of the budget.

“Before, someone would have to drive down alleyways to read the dial and enter it into a reader and then move onto the next one,” Atkinson said. “The plan is to make them be remotely read and talk back. It increases

accuracy, saves labor and gives greater customer service. Now it will give notice when the meter is running, which saves the homeowners time and money.”

There are a few smaller projects which are accounted for in the budget.

“We will be expanding the capacity of our solid waste facility for the first time since 1999,” Atkinson said. “We haven’t upped the number of trucks in the residential area. It is cash funded and we will staff a new machine with a full-time crew to go up and down alleyways to get the bigger trash.”

The budget also covers improving utilities and lowering debts which is on a two-year track.

“We are supporting the neighborhoods,” Atkinson said. “We are incorporating customer friendly development and making everything more efficient.”

CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 “Then we strategically located these (substations) North, South and East,” Stevens said.

The fourth station will go in whereever needed and the city will be set up for a while in terms of the growing population.

“We’re behind,” Stevens said. “So, we’re trying to catch up, but at the same time, we’re trying to get a little ahead, but set it up so down the road, the future chief, the future city manager, the future mayor can look at that and go, ‘Man, they really set us up for success.’”

The funding for the project is being brought from two different sources. “$10 million comes from a certificate tenure note,” Atkinson said. “There has been a one penny increase on the present property tax so now

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Assistant professor explores human figure through art

By REBEKAH BLANCHARD Staff Writer

At charles adams studio project in Lubbock’s Art and Cultural District, drawings in chalk-paste on paper covered the walls, some hung from exposed ceiling beams and were so grand in size that the paper swayed just above the bare cement floor.

Of the art displayed, the subjects are mostly friends and partners of the artist who created them, Ghislaine Fremaux.

An assistant professor of painting at Texas Tech, Fremauxs’ artwork examines embodiment, and within that, intimacy, pleasure and nudity. Fremaux said nakedness, intimacy and pleasure are experiences that require elements of humanness and vulnerability. Her interest in how we conceive of nudity in our clothed society, and the framework applied when looking at naked bodies, is illuminated through the work she does.

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 Among other things, they began looking at how pigeons use their habitat, where they are most densely located on campus, their abundance, whether they stay on campus, where they go if they leave from campus and more, Zak said.

In the past couple of years, the research group has been doing abundance counts on campus, Stuckenholtz said.

“In 2017 we did a count and discovered there are areas of hot spots, especially near Holden Hall and the library and ESB (Experimental Sciences Building), and in 2018 we found a light shift in those hot spots to other places on campus and a slight decrease potentially,” she said.

This decrease is potentially related to OvoControl, Stevens said. In May, the group started using OvoControl, a type of birth control that is distributed as pellets in the food of the pigeons.

“Through administering the OvoControl across campus sites, we’ve either seen an asymptote, which means that their growth has stopped or their numbers have actually gone down,” he said.

Tirhas Hailu, a post-doctoral student in biological sciences working on the project, said the results from OvoControl are potentially promising, but more time is needed.

“There is a little bit decrease, like maybe 10 percent from last year, so possibly in a couple of years maybe we will see a reduction, but right now there is not a lot of change starting from last year,” Hailu said.

OvoControl has been used in the past in other places, and for substantive reductionsin populations it typically takes approximately five years, Stevens said.

“We feel like we’re seeing a reduction, and so I think it’s a matter of time now to have those effects be magnified even more and have their numbers go down even more,” he said.

In addition to OvoControl, the group uses other methods to control the pigeon population, such as putting up bird wire, while identifying and controlling places on campus where birds nest, Stuckenholtz said.

The campus is particularly hospitable to pigeons, she said, in part because of the architecture.

“Pigeons, wild pigeons, they used to live on cliffs, and to these pigeons the buildings look very cliff-like with all the levels and different areas they can go into, so it’s a nice place for roosting,” she said.

As the campus has expanded, so has the pigeon population, Steven said.

“I graduated in 2002 and I don’t remember pigeons being a problem, but we have really expanded our facilities at Tech since then,” Stevens said. “So, I’m sure that that is related to it.”

Using OvoControl, the team ultimately hopes to reduce the pigeon population by 50 to 60 percent, Zak said. The current density of pigeons on campus is

B of CASP Work Studios, is primarily portraits of people Fremaux says she is close to.

An exception to this is are pieces from a project called, Skin of Years: Nudism And The Again Body, which delves into experiences of nudists over the age of 60.

“I intend for the work to be kind of about how people live in their bodies and hopefully not use anyone’s body in this more superficial way,” she said. “I do hope to the viewer, they are so large and the color is so volatile, I hope it’s hard to see them in those reductive and flattening ways or assess whether or not the body is good.”

The subjects Fremaux worked with while producing Skin of Years: Nudism And The Again Body are unlike the traditional “academic artistic nude,” models which Fremaux says are sometimes hired and potentially presented as objects of anatomical proof or socially agreeable representations of beauty.

“I sometimes see people

rushing to make a determination whether the body they’re looking at is disgusting, aberrant ugly or something and that seems to reemphasize this idea that the only bodies that should be naked are those that serve to be agreeable to our tastes in beauty or be sexually stimulating and I really want to push back on that,” Fremaux said.

Fremaux rarely highlights personal history when discussing her work, but said the way she developed her own beliefs about bodies and nudity, as well as experiences of body shame, propelled her work to inquire into nudity and embodiment.

“That sort of facet of myself and in my life is behind this and I really want to be freed from that myself,” she said. “So, I hope that, as indirectly in some ways as I might be doing it, the work can also serve to actually heal or affirm people or at least offer productive questions and how we all deal with these things in our daily lives and in our lives as just people in the world.”

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Ghislaine Fremaux, an Assistant Professor of Art, paints nude portraits in chalk pastel, coated with epoxy resin. Fermaux has various pieces in her studio space. subject is the human figure, and the way she introduces and she brings the figure forward to the public, is done with such beauty and respect for the body,” Fuentes said.

Fremuax said she hopes her works help promote questions and dialogue. Her work is disaplyed in ways more geared towards dialogue than the buying, selling and possessing of artwork.

“When we make artworks and put them out into the world, I believe we have to be extremely responsible with how we do that, and of course what happens on the receiving end of your work is not something you can control, but I think we have to be thoughtful and really committed to our work in order to produce and share high quality art work,” she said. @DailyToreador

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12,000 birds.

There are challenges the team must overcome to achieve this goal, Zak said. For example, the team is looking at if a reduction in the pigeon population on campus will result in pigeons from other areas taking their place on campus.

Another issue is the Pigeon Paramyxovirus, Stevens said, a virus that sickens pigeons and kills some of them. There is reason to believe the virus has recently made its way onto campus, and that must be accounted for in the data, he said.

“We don’t want to conflate our activities with that outbreak because birds are becoming sickened from that virus and are dying because of that virus,” Stevens said. “So, the obstacle now is we’ve got to disentangle those two effects now.”

Whether the resources are available to do that is another issue, Stevens said. He could easily foresee working on the project for the next ten years.

The data collected from this project has a lot of potential, he said. It can be applied to reduce pigeon overpopulation in many other areas.

“Pigeons in urban areas are a worldwide problem,” Stevens said. “It is probably a difficult pill to take for a city or a municipality to embark on an OvoControl like remedy with no data and we are creating the data.

Hopefully, we will be able to turn all of this into some sort of protocol that is proven to work, that people will jump off from.”

Students share views on horror movies

By BRIANNA MALDONADO Staff Writer

Even though Halloween is on the last day of October, some people spend the month getting excited for the holiday by watching scary movies.

While some may love the adrenaline it gives, others shy away from the fright.

Aria Spence, a senior advertising major from Colleyville, said October is the prime time for horror, thriller and suspense movies.

Suspense and thriller pair together easily, Spence said, and they intend to keep the viewers on the edge of their seat. While horror movies are their own separate genre, she said they tend to make the audience have tension, uncertainty and anxiety.

“Some people spend most of the film closing their eyes and curled up in their seats,” she said. “Horror movies are intended to make people jump and be fearful.”

Spence said typically the audience can tell when something scary is intended to happen based on the music in the scene; characters or objects jumping out in the film are usually what causes people to fill with adrenaline.

“People love being scared and getting that feeling of adrenaline,” she said.

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Although there’s sometimes negative critics at the receiving end of her work, Fremaux said more often than not, her art is openly considered, and she feels heard and validated in her work by her colleagues, students, and the Lubbock community.

“I’m always eager to make a good remark about Lubbock as a place full of potential that has a really healthy interest in art and ideas perhaps more than people might realize who aren’t here,” she said.

Tina Fuentes, a professor in the school of art, is one of Fremaux’s mentors and colleagues.

“I’ve been here 33 years now and there’s just a freshness about her approach and it just reminds me to keep open,” Fuentes said.

Fuentes says Fremaux creates an experience for the viewer, one that engages the senses, as if the figure has come to life on that two dimensional surface.

“It’s creative thinking that I think is really significant and with Ghislaine, her dominant

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“Watching scary movies willingly is the exact same thing as going to a haunted house. Individuals love being scared, and it’s just the culture we live in.”

Alyssa Colt, a sophomore pre-nursing major from Arlington, said seeing a scary movie allows for a different experience.

“It’s not your typical movie where you sit back and relax.

I actually have more of an emotional response to scary movies,” Colt said.

When watching horror films, Colt said she gets scared from the slightest things, especially the dark because the movie has gloomy contrasts and was viewed in a dim theatre, so it makes the film somewhat realistic after.

Star Mendez, a junior psy-

chology major from Argyle, said she learned that there are three factors of scary movies – tension, relevance and unrealism – relating to the shock factor, if the audience can relate to it, and based on how realistic it is.

Although some scary movies may be based on everyday people, Mendez said viewers who like scary movies focus on the content being fake. People do not necessarily like being fearful or the graphic content of people being killed or haunted, Mendez said. However, there is a huge market for horror movies because people view them for the fright it gives them.

“Even if in the moment we are terrified, it will subside quickly,” she said. “It’s a rush.

It’s the adrenaline. Adrenaline

is a stress hormone that gets released when we become fearful.”

Although adrenaline may fill the crave of thrill for some, Mendez said others do not like subjecting themselves to adrenaline provoking situations on purpose.

Jessica Utz, a freshman human development and family studies major from Denton, said she never watches horror films because she hates the anticipation of jump scares. Throughout most of the film, Utz said she spends most of the movie hiding and is more distracted and focused on when something scary is going to happen.

“A few days after watching a scary movie, I’m always more jumpy thinking about the plot of it,” Utz said. @DailyToreador

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119 Tech Professors unite in opposition to proposed Title IX changes Editor’s note: the list of undersigned professors is appended to the online version of this story on The Daily Toreador website.

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ecently, The New York Times reported that the federal government is considering altering the currently recognized legal definition of sex under Title IX, the federal civil rights law that prohibits gender discrimination in educational programs.

The proposed change would “narrowly defin[e] gender as a biological, immutable condition determined by genitalia at birth.”

This proposed change represents a radical departure in how transgender, intersex, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming individuals are

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recognized and protected in accordance with federal civil rights law—so much so that it would erase the legal category of transgender and subject a broad range of individuals to profound marginalization.

According to the Times, under the new guidelines gender would be defined “on a biological basis that is clear, grounded in science, objective and administrable.” The Times further reports that the government proposes “The sex listed on a person’s birth certificate, as originally issued, shall constitute definitive proof of a person’s sex unless rebutted by reliable genetic evidence.”

Potentially, these guidelines would be utilized by the Department of Educa-

tion, the Department of Labor, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Department of Health and Human Services. As such, individuals’ access to education, employment, and healthcare may be severely limited.

While this policy is not yet in effect, the existence of such a proposal indelibly impacts the psyche of the millions of Americans who are trans, intersex, nonbinary, gender-nonconforming, and their allies. If the policy were to go into effect, the identities and experiences of these individuals would be erased, and the civil rights protections afforded by our government will be eliminated.

Such protections are essential given the widespread discrimination, harassment, and violence trans, intersex, nonbinary, and gendernonconforming individuals experience regularly. Trans

and gender-nonconforming youth frequently experience severe harassment and bullying in school, and such experiences have long-term mental health consequences.

Meanwhile, trans and gender-nonconforming adults are continually persecuted through harassment in the workplace, discriminatory hiring practices, termination, or obstructions to promotion. Furthermore, throughout their lifetimes trans and gender-nonconforming individuals are at substantial risk for physical and sexual violence.

M o r e o v e r, t h i s p o l i c y would be in direct opposition to well established scientific understandings of gender and sex. Simply, it is not consistent with any empirical groundings of gender and sex to reduce such identities to genitalia, or a binary system of female or male. Indeed, scholars and physicians have for de-

cades argued that biological sex can be categorized at multiple levels – sex chromosomes, genes, gonads, genitalia – and influenced by a number of internal and external factors – hormones, genes – whereas gender refers to the social expectations we place on a sexed body.

Thus, the proposed definitional change is incongruent with science and the impetus for genetic evidence is nonsensical. Importantly, one’s sex and one’s gender identity – one’s sense of their gendered self – do not necessarily correspond, as hundreds of years of transgender history attests to.

The American Medical Association has recently called for increased recognition that sex does not adhere to a binary system, and scholars in a broad range of disciplines acknowledge that the gender binary is not a natural

fact, but rather a cultural production that has often been enforced through oppression and violence— including the threat of erasure that the leaked memo advocates.

The undersigned faculty would like to send a public message of support and compassion to our trans, intersex, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming students, faculty and staff as well as their friends, partners, families and allies.

We see you, we care about you, and uninformed and misguided definitions will not erase your existence or your importance.

We are committed to an inclusive university community in which we can all learn and respect the complexities of gender and sex, and reject attempts to silence and harm our community members. @DailyToreador

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How climate change is impacting the housing market

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s coastal cities continue recovering from Hurricane Michael, property damage estimates are projected to reach $10 to $12 billion while agricultural damages and crop loss are set to exceed $1.3 billion, according to the Tampa Bay Times.

Such recovery costs are harrowing, yet not entirely unexpected or surprising.

However, many property owners, some of whom have yet to be affected by extreme weather events, might be surprised to learn the collateral damage of natural disasters could be manifested in dropping home value and real estate prices. Studies from Zillow indicate properties exposed to rising sea levels sell at

Maria Judith DeMarco is a senior communication studies major from Salt Lake City, Utah.

around a 7 percent discount to equitable properties in locations subjected to less climate change risk.

With insurance companies recalculating risk based on the “price of climate change” and its oftenunpredictable yet massive effect on the housing market, the Wall Street Journal explains that new mathematical models enable homeowners and the real estate industry to better see the risks of living in certain areas that are especially vulnerable to climate change ramifications.

According to Fortune magazine, these new cal-

culations are reflected in already-depressed real estate pricing for coastal properties, particularly areas experiencing sea level rise. Some economists even maintain that such value loss may be the first indicator of a complete housing market collapse, as many communities become “untenable.”

Unfortunately, reactive rather than proactive approaches to solving climate change on a legislative level seems to have precluded any possibility for reversing these weather trends, and this inaction leaves Americans forced to adapt as best they can.

Fortune Magazine corroborates this idea, explaining that President Trump

recently signed a disaster relief bill including debt forgiveness for up to half of estimated damage costs, but the policy only follows two years of downplaying climate change as a crucial concern and a denial that it exists altogether.

While necessary, reactive financial bailouts also have the negative effect of essentially subsidizing disasterprone real estate without requiring any improvement in infrastructure to better prepare for weather events in the future.

Moreover, the Yale Program on climate change Communication found in 2017 nearly 13 percent of Americans believe that climate change is not real, and 30 percent believe

that humans have no role in the phenomenon. This disconnect between a dismissive U.S. public and their policymakers versus concerned insurers, economists, and scientists only seems to be intensifying.

Perhaps because we are far past the brink of reversing climate change and are left hoping for mitigation and adaptation at best, discussing attitudes are irrelevant.

Yet, the dissonance of witnessing luxury housing market risks a downturn while being governed by an experienced businessman, lauded for his success in real estate, is more than a little troubling. @DailyToreador

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Increasing political polarization shuts down open discourse

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am going to begin by saying this is not a political article. Well, maybe I can’t completely claim that much, but at the least, it’s not meant to be.

I feel like I must preface too many conversations with a similar statement these days. I feel like any time you want to discuss anything remotely controversial you need a disclaimer flashing across your forehead that says “Please, I don’t want to fight!”

Somewhere along this misshaped journey America has gone on (and yes, we can all debate how we got here but the result is the

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same) we have become more polarized than ever.

And yet, a third option and perhaps more dangerous one, has arisen.

Have you ever said a single sentence to someone and been met with, “Oh I’m sorry I don’t want to get into a political debate,” or even simply asked someone IF they have voted to have them shun you like you have the plague? When did we lose the ability to have civilized discussions even when we disagree with

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each other? Somewhere along the way we decided that was not even a possibility anymore.

I can easily blame the era of keyboard warriors and the ability to lash out from behind a screen, but I have to believe it goes deeper than that. As the country became more and more polarized, we clung more and more fiercely to our beliefs and ideals. It became a personal attack if someone even questioned where we stood. How can we, as a society, learn from each other and make any growth if we cannot even open our ears for conversation?

The freedom of speech is a beautiful thing because

it allows ideas to freely flow, and it allows public discourse to thrive. But we live in a world now where no one is willing to speak unless they are those whose beliefs are so deeply rooted, they qualify as radical.

Two of my favorite role models are Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the late Antonin Scalia. Both were Justices for the Supreme Court. Both were staunch believers in their fundamentals. The two of them were about as far apart politically as you can get on the Court. And yet, they were friends. I have always admired that kind of relationship. How much

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more progress could we see if we could easily be friends and have debates with the same person.

I’ll end with a quote as I often do, “We confuse disagreeing with someone’s beliefs with disrespecting the person. In fact, we’ve confused the difference between people and ideas altogether. Where we once used to be able to challenge a person’s beliefs without necessarily denigrating that person, we now think that challenging certain beliefs is the same thing as denigrating the person who holds them” — Abdu Murray @DailyToreador

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Tech prepped for semifinals against Baylor

By SAMUEL MEDLIN Staff Writer

The No. 5 seed Texas Tech soccer team is set to take on the No. 1 seed Baylor Bears in the semifinal round of the Big 12 Championship Tournament at 4:30 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 2, at the Swope Soccer Village in Kansas City, Missouri.

In the first round of the conference playoffs, Tech knocked off the No. 4 seed Texas Christian University Horned Frogs by way of penalty kicks, according to Tech Athletics. Tech netted all five of its penalty kicks to secure the postseason victory and push its season record with TCU to 1-1.

The Red Raiders out-shot the Horned Frogs throughout the match, notching five shots on goal compared to TCU’s four, according to Tech Athletics. Each team was given 14 penalties on the night.

“It was a great college soccer game,” Tech coach Tom Stone said of the match

against the Horned Frogs.

“TCU has had a phenomenal year, and we have a lot of respect for those guys. It’s not surprising that it went 0-0.”

Baylor visited Lubbock earlier in the season, defeating the Red Raiders by a score of 2-0, according to Tech Athletics. Furthermore, Baylor finished atop the Big 12 to secure the conference title while leading the league in several statistical categories.

“We’re going up against the team that won our conference,” Stone said. “We know what that means, and we know what it’ll take to be victorious, which is everything we’ve got. The good news about our team is we’re not afraid to put forth that kind of effort.”

The Bears ended with a final regular season record of 16-4, along with a leading conference- record of 8-1, according to Tech Athletics. Baylor’s only Big 12 loss came against the University of Texas, losing in Austin, 2-1. To advance to the semifinals, the Bears snagged a 3-0 victory over No.

8 seed Iowa State University in round one.

On the opposite side of the playoff bracket, No. 2 seed West Virginia is set to take on the No. 3 seed Texas Longhorns in the semifinal round at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 2, in Kansas City, Missouri, according to Tech Athletics. The winner between Texas and West Virginia will receive a berth to the title match.

The Red Raiders will be presented with tough competition as they navigate through the tournament, but Tech is adequately equipped for the challenge with multiple dynamic players. Coming just days before Tech’s rematch with Baylor, freshman defender Cassie Hiatt was listed to the Big 12 AllFreshman team, according to Tech Athletics.

“We are thrilled that Cassie has been recognized as an outstanding freshman amidst so many quality freshmen in the Big 12,” Stone said. “She joins a long list of Red Raiders that have been selected to the Big 12

All-Freshman team.”

Hiatt has held down the four slot in a stacked backfield of three Red Raider seniors, playing in all 19 matches at the position, according to Tech Athletics.

“She responded extremely well to the demands here at Texas Tech, so we had no hesitation to start this freshman in the back line with three other seniors” Stone said. “This collective group of outstanding defenders has shut out six Big 12 teams this year.”

Hiatt earned herself Big 12 Freshman of the Week honors for the week of Oct. 15, after heading in the gametying goal against the Kansas Jayhawks to force overtime, according to Tech Athletics.

Hiatt also helped lead Tech to a conference-leading 11 shutouts as a defender and nabbed three goals on the offensive side of the ball throughout the season.

Hiatt and the Red Raiders are hoping to shut down the No. 1 seed Baylor Bears during the second round of the

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Cassie Hiatt sets up a shot and successfully makes the goal during Texas Tech’s game Sunday, Sept. 9, 2018, at the John Walker Soccer Complex. The Red Raiders will face Baylor on Friday, Nov. 2, in the semifinals of the Big 12 Championship tournament in Kansas City, Missouri. tournament. If successful, Tech will compete against WVU or UT in the final round of the Big 12 Championship at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 4,

at the Swope Soccer Village in Kansas, City Missouri, with the game being broadcast live on FS1. @SamMedlinDT

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Red Raiders to play 5 intrasquad fall games Thomas will return to Denver with Houston on Sunday FILE PHOTO/The Daily Toreador

Coach Tim Tadlock gives a signal to the batter during Texas Tech’s game against Arkansas on Wednesday, June 20, 2018, at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Nebraska. Tadlock and the Red Raiders will conclude their fall schedule with the Red and Black Series which starts Thursday, Nov. 1, at Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park.

The Texas Tech baseball team will wrap up its fall practices with the annual Red and Black Series starting at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 1, at Dan Law Field at Rip Griffin Park.

The series will feature five intrasquad scrimmages, all of which will be free and open to the public, according to Tech Athletics. Rosters for each of the teams will be released before the start of the series.

The second game will take place at 3:30 p.m. Friday,

Nov. 2, according to Tech Athletics. After taking Saturday off, the series will continue with game three at 2 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 4.

The final two games will take place Tuesday, Nov. 6, and Wednesday, Nov. 7. First pitch for both games will be at 3:30 p.m. All games will take place at Dan Law Field.

After the conclusion of the series and their fall schedule, the Red Raiders will return to action in January before the start of the 2019 season. @McKenziMorrisDT

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Inside the Big 12 replay center where all games are under review IRVING (AP) — West Virginia freshman Leddie Brown takes an inside handoff, puts his head down and lunges forward. The on-field official signals touchdown as the running back falls into the end zone with the ball cradled in his right arm.

While Mountaineers players and fans celebrate, officials in the replay booth at the stadium in Morgantown and at the Big 12's Replay Operations Center in suburban Dallas are already simultaneously reviewing the play — like they do every score, and just about every-

thing else, at home games for conference teams.

"I'd stop it. I think he's going to be short," David Warden, the Big 12's replay coordinator sitting in Texas, says through a headset that connects him to the replay official at the stadium and another in the same room with him who is assigned to that game. Referee Eddy Shelton will soon join the conversation from the field some 1,200 miles away.

This is the second season of the Big 12's centralized replay system, and during a recent midweek game, The Associ-

ated Press was one of three media outlets allowed in the 1,000-square-foot room filled with monitors and nearly two miles of wiring and cables to see how the operation works.

On game days, Warden sits at a station in the back of the room, along with Big 12 coordinator of football officials Greg Burks, with four monitors directly in front of them.

There are six similar stations in the room, split over three rows, where two people work each individual game. Four

huge television monitors hang on the wall, with the sound turned off so not to be influenced by anything being said.

Burks and Warden, who on Saturdays usually have multiple games going on the same time, observe and make final decisions when reviews are needed. Burks said they don't need to get involved on nine out of 10 calls, with most decisions made by the replay staffs at the stadium in collaboration with those in Texas working that particular game.

HOUSTON (AP) — Demaryius Thomas is playing for a team other than the Denver Broncos for the first time in his career after his trade to the Houston Texans.

The receiver won't have long to miss Denver though, with the Texans visiting the Broncos on Sunday.

"It was strange to get traded first off, and then come here and get ready to play in the Mile High City that you've been playing for the last 8½ years is very strange," Thomas said.

The Texans traded for Thomas on Tuesday, adding the veteran to replace Will Fuller, who tore a knee ligament in Houston's win over the Dolphins last week. The 30-year-old Thomas was a first-round pick by the Broncos in 2010 and has piled up 9,055 yards receiving with 60 touchdowns since then.

"I like his size ... I think he can do a lot of different things," coach Bill O'Brien said. "I like his intelligence, his experience. I don't think there's any substitute for experience. Obviously, he's got good hands. There's a lot of things to like about Demaryius Thomas."

Acquiring Thomas was a big move for a team which has reeled off five straight wins since opening the season 0-3 to move into first place in the AFC South.

The Texans have star receiver DeAndre Hopkins, but didn't have any proven playmakers to pair with Hopkins after Fuller was lost for the season.

Quarterback Deshaun Watson, who tied a career high with five touchdown passes against the Dolphins, is excited about the possibilities for this offense with two receivers as talented as Hopkins and Thomas.

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Red Raiders set to host UTEP in exhibition game

By NOAH MICIOTTO Sports Editor

The Texas Tech men’s basketball team will hit the court against the University of Texas El Paso Miners in an exhibition match Thursday, Nov. 1, with tip off slated for 6:30 p.m. at the United Supermarkets Arena.

Proceeds from the contest will support the National Compassion Foundation – Sante Fe Strong Fund, according to Tech Athletics.

General admission will cost $10 per ticket, and per usual, admission for Tech students will come at no charge.

The Santa Fe Strong Fund was created to support the families of victims that were injured or killed in the shooting that occurred at Sante Fe High School in May of 2018. All of the proceeds toward the fund are given directly to those affected by the tragedy, according to Tech Athletics. The Santa Fe Fund was developed through the National Compassion Fund, an organization that advocates for and provides support to families that have been subject to mass killings.

Tech and UTEP’s Thursday matchup will mark the 63rd competition between

the two squads, according to Tech Athletics. Last season, the Miners concluded their 31-game schedule with an overall record of 11-20 on the year, according to UTEP Athletics. The Miners averaged 67.5 points per game last year while Tech posted a respective 74.6 PPG. The Red Raiders have set expectations high for their upcoming season, as the squad reached the NCAA Elite Eight for the first time in Tech basketball history last year. Tech posted a 27-10 record in last year’s campaign; however, the Red Raiders will have some big shoes to fill in the upcoming season.

Te c h g r a d u a t e d f i v e game-changing seniors at the conclusion of last season along with losing a dynamic freshman to professional ball. Guard Zhaire Smith, a native of Garland, inked his name in the Tech record books for the most points in a single-season as a freshman (417) before being picked 16th overall by the Philadelphia 76ers in the 2018 NBA Draft, according to Tech Athletics.

Fortunately, the Red Raiders are welcoming a handful of new players to the squad.

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Texas’ Andrew Jones faced “biggest fear” in leukemia fight AUSTIN (AP) — Even when his whole body ached just to walk, and everywhere he went meant taking along a chemotherapy bag attached to a tube going straight into his body, Andrew Jones had a goal: Get back to basketball.

That included a mission to dunk, which took about two weeks or three weeks and was celebrated with a video on social media.

"I never knew if I would dunk again. When I was finally able to flush a dunk easy, I thought, 'OK, maybe I'll be

able to make a stronger comeback,'" Jones said Wednesday, nearly 11 months after he was first diagnosed with leukemia and had to leave the team for treatment last season.

Jones returned to school over the summer and rejoined his team for the upcoming season, which starts Nov. 6 against Eastern Illinois. Jones has been pushing himself hard to get back to playing shape but calls himself "day to day" in terms of being ready to return to live competition.

Amongst the newcomers are a pair of transfer graduate students, forward Tariq Owens from St. John’s University and guard Matt Mooney, hailing from South Dakota, according to Tech Athletics.

The duo is expected to give Tech a reinforcement of experienced ballplayers.

Furthermore, most of Tech’s returners were essential components of Tech’s success last year. Some Red Raiders made their contributions to the squad by giving full effort in practices to pose a live look at solid competition.

On the other end, the frequent starters for the squad made the most of their teammates behind the scenes efforts and capitalized on in game opportunities. Amongst the dynamic returners are a pair of Redshirt seniors, guard Brandone Francis and center Norense Odiase, along with a duo of sophomore guards, Davide Moretti and Jarrett Culver.

Following Tech’s exhibition match against UTEP, the Red Raiders will host the University of Incarnate Word for the 2018-2019 season opener.

Tipoff against the UIW Cardinals is set for 6:30 p.m. in the United Supermarkets Arena. @NoahMiciottoDT

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Then freshman guard Jarrett Culver goes up for a dunk during the Texas Tech Men’s Basketball game against Oklahoma State in the United Supermarkets Arena on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018. Tech won 75-70. Culver, a Lubbock native, is poised to play an important role in his sophomore season.

MEN’S TENNIS

Bjorn Thomson promoted to chairman of Big 12 committee

By DANIELLE DIXSON Staff Writer

Texas Tech men’s tennis coach Brett Masi announced Wednesday, Oct. 31, junior Bjorn Thomson was selected by his conference peers to fulfill the Big 12 StudentAthlete Advisory Committee chair position.

The Big 12 SAAC is an organization that provides a handful of student-athletes

from each university in the conference to voice their opinions on local and national athletic matters, according to Tech Athletics. Members of the organization are encouraged to create a social change by being vocal and acting as a liaison between the Big 12 and their fellow student-athletes.

In July, Thomson was elected vice chair of the SAAC, according to Tech Athletics. With a recent vacancy in the chair

position, Thomson was looked at to step in. He was unanimously appointed by his peers to helm the organization for the remainder of the 2018-2019 year.

In the past, candidates for the SAAC chair position must have had at least oneyear of experience prior to becoming eligible for fulfillment to the top role, according to Tech Athletics. However, the SAAC members altered the pre-existing requirements

for Thomson’s appointment.

Thomson joins two other Red Raiders, senior guard Zuri Sanders of the Texas Tech women’s basketball team and junior offensive lineman Travis Bruffy as representatives of Tech in the Big 12 SAAC, according to Tech Athletics. Thomson’s fellow Red Raiders advocated for his appointment to the chair position. @DaniDixsonDT

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Parade fetes Red Sox; trophy, manager Cora hit by beer cans BOSTON (AP) — Confetti cannons boomed and huge crowds of fans cheered wildly on Wednesday as the Boston Red Sox rumbled through downtown aboard duck boats to mark the team’s fourth World Series championship in the past 15 years.

One of the team’s championship trophies and team manager Alex Cora were hit by flying cans of beer that Boston fans have made a practice of offering their sports heroes during recent victory parades.

Neither was seriously injured and it didn’t take any varnish

off the shining celebration.

The rolling rally set off from venerable Fenway Park and wound its way through major city streets lined by fans numbering in the hundreds of thousands, some who arrived before dawn.

Bits of red, white and blue paper rained down as team officials, players, and their families waved from the amphibious, World War II-era vehicles. Some autographed balls and drank beers tossed to them from the jubilant throng.

Many in the sea of Red Sox jerseys and ball caps took advantage of the fact that the parade coincided with Halloween.

Young children dressed up as comic book and Disney characters, 20-somethings from the

city’s numerous colleges sported full-body panda and dinosaur outfits, and fans took selfies with a doppelganger of pro wrestler Hulk Hogan roaming the crowd.

“It’s been nothing but love.

We’re out here having a good time. We’re turnt up,” said Jarrick Fidalgo, a New Bedford, Massachusetts, native with his face painted in the diabolical red, white and black of the Joker from “Batman.”

But it wasn’t all carefree fun. Team manager Alex Cora, one of the team’s four World Series trophies and a bystander were among those hit by errant beer cans. Cora and the trophy were barely scathed, but the bystander was urged to get treatment for a gash on her nose, The Boston Globe reported.

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 If Kingsbury does well enough in 2019 or 2020 his buyout will be considerably small enough for other teams to attempt to poach him.

Another issue is recruiting, in that Tech will have trouble improving upon its recent recruiting shortcomings if Kingsbury’s fate is still up in the air. Players have a hard time committing to a program in which the head coach may be gone before they graduate. This was seen in 2018’s recruiting class following the drama that surrounded Kingsbury’s fate at Tech.

While there is merit in letting Kingsbury prove himself, Hocutt’s comments at the end of last season already sounded like a “prove it” situation for Kingsbury in 2018. His performance this year should be enough of an indicator to swing the decision either way. If Tech were to keep Kingsbury and then fire him after 2019 or 2020, Tech runs the risk of ruining Alan Bowman’s development along with the other young players that have shown potential under Kingsbury. For the coach, the lack of an extension as he moves into the final years of his deal may be enough for him to seek a job elsewhere, and he might depart Tech regardless of Hocutt’s decision.

A CAPTURED KING: Kingsbury signs a contract elsewhere and leaves Tech This scenario is nearly as unlikely as Kingsbury playing out his final two years, but still possible.

Kingsbury’s offenses have long been considered some of the best in college football, and there would be teams willing to overlook his defensive shortcomings if Kingsbury ever became easily available. As it stands now, Kingsbury’s contract has two years left on it, and any team looking to poach the offensive mastermind would need to pay a buyout.

What’s concerning for Tech is that the buyout has gotten extremely affordable for other schools desperate enough to pay for a fix to a stagnant offense.

If a college team decided to pursue Kingsbury to fill an offensive coordinator or head coach position, the school hiring him would be forced to pay Tech for the final two years of his buyout which is $2 million, according to the full contract.

For reference, Tech most recently dealt with a buyout when Hocutt hired Tech basketball coach Chris Beard, paying the University of Las Vegas $1 million in the process to release him from his previous contract.

While $2 million appears to be a large sum, Kingsbury’s offensive success may be enough to attract other colleges looking for a quick fix to their offensive struggles.

Another buyout possibility is if an NFL team decided to hire Kingsbury, with his buyout then being $1.5 million. While highly unlikely, the increased prevalence of the spread offense in the NFL may lead an NFL team to step outside the regular channels and pursue a coach like Kingsbury, with the understand-

ing that his offense may or may not translate. The Rams are currently benefiting from taking a chance on a young, unproven offensive minded coach in Sean McVay and have established themselves as one of the better teams in the NFL. While Kingsbury comes with his own concerns, there lies the intrigue in seeing Kingsbury’s explosive offense ran with NFLtalent throughout.

While not exactly an option Tech would choose, it is one of the four potential outcomes Tech is faced with as the end of Kingsbury’s contract draws near.

A KING OVERTHROWN: Kingsbury is released by Tech Of the four possibilities, the two most possible are to either extend Kingsbury’s contract, or the option that some fans have been clamoring for years, which is to fire Kingsbury and look in a different direction for head coach. Kingsbury has had success across his college career, but for every great moment in his tenure a disappointing low has accompanied it. His current record as head coach of Tech is 35-36, according to Tech Athletics, having fallen back below .500 with the loss to Iowa State.

In his tenure at Tech, Kingsbury has never finished the regular season with more than seven wins. He has finished all five seasons here with somewhere between four to seven regular season wins.

His lone bowl victory came in his first season, and since his 2014 extension Kingsbury has lost both of his bowl appearances. One of the worst statistics to describe Kingsbury’s tenure at Tech is his record against ranked opponents.

Since 2013 when he was hired, Tech has a 3-20 record against ranked opponents, according to Tech Athletics.

Another of Kingsbury’s biggest flaws is how bad Tech’s defense have been while Kingsbury has been at Tech. Tech’s scoring defense has finished 88th, 126th, 125th, 128th (dead last), 100th and finally sits at 70th in 2018, according to sports-reference.com. In each of those years there were between 125 and 130 FBS schools, and Tech finished in the bottom 5 percent for scoring defense for three straight years.

Kingsbury had possibly one of the best quarterbacks in all of college football in 2016 with Mahomes, and Tech was barely able to limp to a 5-7 finish.

Since Kingsbury’s sevenwin streak in 2013 to start his head coaching career, Tech has never won more than three straight games, according to Tech Athletics.

To sum up Kingsbury’s career at Tech, the Red Raiders have been the epitome of average for over half a decade. Despite fielding an impressive offense that can bring any opposing defense to its knees, far too often Tech has fallen just short of victory. Since hiring Kingsbury, Tech has a winning record against just one team in the Big 12, and that is the Kansas Jayhawks. Tech has a split or losing record against every other Big 12 opponent, including an 0-5 record against the soon-to-visit Oklahoma Sooners.

For those that want Kingsbury gone, it is easy to see why. Despite the occasional big win or breakout star player, Tech has far too often been one of the worst teams in the Big 12, rarely sharing any of the success that other Big 12 schools have gone through over the last few years. Kingsbury would cost Tech only $4 million if fired and released from his current contract.

If Hocutt truly wants to turn the success of the Tech football team around, then replacing Kingsbury may be his only route.

KEEPING THE KING: Kingsbury receives a contract extension Finally, the last option Tech has is to give Kingsbury a contract extension and retain him as head coach of the Red Raider football team.

While all the things listed above paint a picture of mediocrity and failure, they fail to paint the full picture of Kingsbury’s tenure at Tech.

Kingsbury may not have a Big 12 Championship on his resume, but the offensive guru is responsible for developing some of the most beloved Red Raiders in recent Tech history. Patrick Mahomes, Jakeem Grant, Deandre Washington, Keke Coutee and more are all examples of players that have had success and went on to represent Tech in the NFL. Despite his defensive shortcomings, Kingsbury is one of the best at what Tech is known for, and that is a strong offense. Accompanying the pitiful scoring defenses of the past six years have been some of the best offensive teams in college football. Tech has finished 24th, 54th, 2nd, 5th, 23rd and is currently 10th in scoring offense over the last six years, according to sports-reference.com. Part of why Tech has struggled on defense is because Tech’s offense has been so good and forced other teams to get into “shootouts” with the Red Raiders.

Looking back, prior to Kingsbury’s arrival at Tech, former head coach Tommy Tuberville’s defenses finished 93rd, 117th and 92nd in scoring defense during his three-year tenure at Tech. This is part of why Kingsbury fits in so well at Tech, as dating back to former coaches Mike Leach and Spike Dykes, Tech has been known for its offense.

Finally, Kingsbury is a hometown hero, having quarterbacked the Red Raiders in the early 2000s under coach Leach. When asked following the win over Texas in 2017, Kingsbury reiterated his love for Texas Tech and his desire to remain at Tech as long as his contract allows. As long as Tech is willing to pay him, the chances of Kingsbury bolting for a better opportunity are low.

These final four games of 2018 will help decide K i n g s b u r y ’s f a t e , a n d Bowman will play a large part in that. If Kingsbury can lead this team to wins over top 25 opponents in Oklahoma and Texas, it will be hard to fire him.

If Tech can’t beat either team as history suggests, then Kingsbury’s fate may lie in Hocutt’s evaluation, and faith, in him.

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LEFT: True freshman Alan Bowman prepares to throw the ball during the Texas Tech football game against the University of Houston on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018, at Jones AT&T Stadium. RIGHT: Texas Tech quarterback Patrick Mahomes II looks down the field before making a pass during the Red Raiders’ game against Oklahoma at Jones AT&T Stadium. With four games left in the season, head coach Kliff Kingsbury’s contract is in question once again.

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