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Iglesias, Pitbull ticket presale begins today Texas Tech faculty, staff and students can purchase presale tickets today to see Enrique Iglesias and Pitbull in concert when they perform Feb. 6 in the United Supermarkets Arena.

The presale begins at 10 a.m. today and ends 10 p.m. Wednesday while tickets last, Cindy Harper, associate director of marketing and booking for the United Supermarkets Arena, said.

“I think it’s going to be a great event,” Harper said. “It’s a huge honor, and it’s exciting for the student population.”

In order to purchase tickets, go to selectaseatlubbock.com and use the passcode FIREBALL, according to TechAnnounce.

Faculty, staff and students can use their Tech IDs to purchase up to eight tickets at the box office in the Student Union building, Harper said.

Tickets go on sale to the public 10 a.m. Thursday.

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Tech venue hosts Cher ticket giveaway contest Fans of Cher at Texas Tech have the opportunity to win free tickets this week to see the musician Sunday by taking a selfie.

Cher will perform at 7:30 p.m.

Sunday in the United Supermarkets Arena, but a life-size cutout of the singer can be found throughout campus as a part of a ticket giveaway contest, Cindy Harper, associate director of marketing and booking for the United Supermarkets Arena, said.

“The cutout will be in a different location each day, Monday through Thursday,” she said. “People just have to snap a selfie, post it on social media and follow the instructions. With that, they’ll be entered to win.”

The location of the Cher cutout will be announced each day on TechAnnounce, Harper said.

After taking a selfie with the cutout, contestants can tag the United Supermarkets Arena on Facebook, Harper said.

Contestants can use Twitter and/ or Instagram with #CherTTU to enter, she said.

Two people will win a pair of tickets each, Harper said, and contestants can enter once per day.

United Supermarkets Arena officials do not know yet where the seats of the free tickets will be located, Harper said.

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TOP LEFT: TEXAS Tech guard Devaugntah Williams dunks the ball against Southeastern Oklahoma State on Monday in the United Supermarkets Arena.

Texas Tech won the game 79-67. TOP RIGHT: TEXAS Tech guard Robert Turner drives the ball against Southeastern Oklahoma State on Monday in the United Supermarkets Arena.

Campus makes biking safe for students

By LIANA SOLIS Staff Writer

With an increase in student population, iking to class and around the Texas Tech campus has grown in popularity.

Craig Cotton, transportation demand management supervisor for parking services, said Tech has implemented changes and added more amenities to increase safety for student bikers and for all students.

“We go above and beyond to make biking convenient for students on campus,” he said. “We had to start making things easier with the enrollment population growing so quickly.”

Cotton said Tech started improving campus for cyclists about five years ago.

Tech currently has about 400 bicycle racks on campus, he said, which can hold up to 8,000 bicycles.

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A TEXAS TECH student cyclist commutes on campus near Memorial Circle on Monday. The number of cyclists on campus has increased up to 25 percent in recent years.

Texas ranked 47th in United States for impact of citizens’ votes

By KAITLIN BAIN

Jacobson: Davis has run deplorable campaign

The Texas Tech men’s basketball team hosted an exhibition game against the Southeastern Oklahoma State Savage Storm, coming out on top 79-67 in the matchup.

Tech sophomore guard Randy Onwuasor got things rolling for Tech with a steal and assist to senior guard Robert Turner to score the first points of the game.

Turner got off to a strong start by nailing three of his four shots and scoring Tech’s first seven points of the game

In a study released by Wallet Hub on Monday, Texas was ranked number 47 out of all 50 states for the power voters have.

Jill Gonzales, spokesperson with Wallet Hub, said Wallet Hub decided to conduct this survey as a result of current conditions in Congress.

“So, we looked at this in the first place because Congress is maybe the most polarized since the Civil War,” she said.

“It’s having trouble passing any kind of legislation right now and public dissatisfaction with the government in general is at a record high.”

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state and compared those numbers to the number of senators and house representatives in each state, she said.

While the study did not explicitly take into account states that may have an already established political affiliation, she said the conductors did notice that smaller states had voters with more powerful votes and smaller states are more often conservative.

“We noticed that red states had more powerful votes than blue states,” Gonzales said, “averaging 26th on the list to 28th. That’s because a lot of those smaller states are conservative, at least for right now.”

Lauren Roblez, president of Texas Tech Student Democrats and senior political science and Spanish dual major from

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The key, she said, is for candidates to appeal to voting populations that are currently under-represented.

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in four minutes of playing time to lead Southeastern Oklahoma State 7-3.

With six minutes remaining in the first half, Southeastern Oklahoma kept Tech from taking a double digit lead and eventually cut down the Red Raiders’ lead to 24-23.

Turner said the team had nervousness in its first game against another collegiate team.

“We had some early jitters, I mean it’s the first time to get our feet wet,” Turner said. “A lot of things come into play, it’s the first game.”

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Humans vs. Zombies registration begins Using socks and dart blasters to avoid being attacked by zombies will be a common sight on campus next week as the Zombie Raiders Club will host its annual Humans vs. Zombies event.

Matthew Soto, a senior chemical engineering major from Fort Worth and organizer of the event, said students can register for the event by going to the library from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. all week.

“Human vs. Zombies is basically, at its core, a highly intense game of tag,” he said. “We play all across campus for a full week once per semester. We generally have between 400 to 600 people sign up every semester, so things get pretty crazy pretty quickly.”

Matt McDonalds, an undeclared junior from Highland Village and a mediator for the event, said the game is great way to make friends.

The game will be a weeklong event next week from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., McDonalds said.

“We will all have an armband or wristband that will distinguish those who are playing to those who are not,” McDonalds said.

Students who are interested in the event should visit the Human vs. Zombies Facebook page for more information and a list of rules for the game, McDonalds said.

This year’s game theme will be throwback because it is the 10th year of the event, Soto said.

“We will also do a raffle this year at our meet and greet event this Sunday at the Matador room of the SUB at 7 p.m.,” Soto said. “When each person registers, they will get a ticket to throw into the pile.”

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Student selected to help ignite change

By DANI COPELAND Staff Writer

A Texas Tech student has been selected to represent Tech in Washington D.C. to help unite and change the world.

Saba Nafees, an alumna and first-year graduate student in mathematics from Lahore, Pakistan, was selected to be involved in the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders as an E3! Ambassador, according to the program’s website.

Nafees said she was at the roundtable for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals when senior adviser Tuyet Duong spoke with her about applying for the ambassador position.

“I think there were 30 to 32 of us that were chosen from across the states,” she said. “We are just ambassadors that in our regions, work to enhance resources and help this population of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders through whatever is needed.”

She said her E3! Ambassador

term started in August and will end in May when she travels to Washington D.C. to talk about the year. This is the first year E3!

Ambassadors has been around, she said. E3! stands for educate, empower and engage.

“We don’t know what the future holds for E3! Ambassadors because this is the first year that it has started,” she said. “This is the year we learn and go from here.”

Nafees said she is also involved in One Young World, a global youth summit where young leaders from every country come together and talk about the most pressing issues in their countries and what they are going through. “ I t ’s s o e x c i t i n g b e c a u s e there’s so many countries all over the world,” she said. “The young leaders come up to a stage and describe the problems in their country and hopefully work together and basically empowering other young leaders to join the cause.”

The One Young World event took place in Dublin this year

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SABA NAFEES, A Texas Tech alumna and first-year graduate student from Lahore, Pakistan, was selected to be an E3! Ambassador, part of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.

from Oct. 15 to 18, she said, and more than 190 countries were represented to discuss the problems and issues each country was currently facing.

Jennifer Horn, director of

translational research and entrepreneurialism in the Office of the Vice President for Research, said One Young World is a great opportunity for Tech to be involved in to connect with young leaders

from around the world.

“The event is not just for a university,” she said. “Many large corporations send their young employees so that they can connect with young leaders around the world. It’s a chance to just connect with young leadership around the world.”

Nafees is now in the process of applying to be a coordinating ambassador for One Young World, she said.

“What you do as a coordinating ambassador is unify the rest of the U.S. delegates as a U.S. One Young World team,” she said.

“I think with the U.S. probably being the most powerful country in the world right now, we have a bigger responsibility to be involved and to help.”

Nafees wants to be involved in One Young World for the rest of her life, she said. As an ambassador she is able to attend every summit that occurs each year.

“I want to go and give back whether it is as an ambassador or going there and counseling

younger delegates,” she said.

“I’ve always wanted to be involved in that.”

Horn said she met Nafees over the summer when she joined the TTIME organization through the Office of the Vice President for Research.

“We began getting a group of student leaders together and Saba just took things and ran with it,” she said. “She’s one of the most energetic people I’ve met.”

Nafees is very passionate about helping those who are less fortunate, Horn said, and Nafees has gone on many trips to other countries dealing with poor populations.

Horn said she has seen many students who see an opportunity and talk themselves out of it, but Nafees goes for the challenge and usually succeeds.

“I’ve never seen anyone quite like her,” she said. “She’s a positive, energetic person and that’s probably why she’s accomplishing so much.” ➤➤dcopeland@dailytoreador.com

Professor to help implement braille standards Engineering college hosting child seminar

By NICOLAS LOPEZ Staff Writer

Rona Pogrund, Texas Tech professor and coordinator of the Teacher of Students with Visual Impairments program, will be in attendance at a meeting of stakeholders in Austin to discuss how the state of Texas will implement new braille standards Tuesday.

Pogrund will represent Tech at the meetings Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss the implementation of the now two-year-old braille standards adopted by the Braille Authority of North America, according to a Tech news release.

“Each state is having to come up with an implementation plan,” Pogrund said. “This is the first official meeting that we’ve had in Texas.”

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“I read this article, I think it was an NPR article, earlier this week and it said that in midterm elections, they tend to have a whiter and more republican demographic and older demographics turnout to vote,” she said. “I think it’s a matter of appealing to all demograph-

According to the Braille A u t h o r i t y ’s website, Unified English Braille was adopted by the Braille Authority of North POGRUND America in Nov. 2012 because of inconsistencies within the previous braille code and its inability to keep up with changing print conventions.

“The old code was very limited in how we could represent everything on a printed page,” Susan Mattson, braille transcriber and adapted materials specialist at the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, said.

The old braille code could not keep up with technological changes

in textbooks and Unified English Braille will address this problem, Mattson said.

The change in braille standards is meant to bring access to modern textbooks to braille readers, she said.

“The user is going to have a much better idea of what the person sitting next to them reading a print book is seeing,” she said.

Topics like the preparation of materials, instructor training and what type of timeline the project will have will be key matters discussed at the meeting, Pogrund said.

One of the bigger topics for discussion will be over the math code, she said, and whether to stay with the old Nemeth code.

“We have currently been using Nemeth for the math and the literary

code for the literary,” she said, “but UEB has its own math code.”

One of the most difficult parts of this code change will be retraining teachers and transcribers to use the Unified English Braille code, she said.

“I think the hard part for all of us that have been in the field a long time is undoing our brains,” she said, “undo what we know and replace it.”

Pogrund is the coordinator of Tech’s Visual Impairment Certification Preparation Program, according to Tech’s website.

Pogrund said that most of the students who go through the visual impairment program work in an itinerant teaching model where they travel to the schools to help teach students who are visually impaired.

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ics and getting everyone out to vote.

I know younger generations in Texas aren’t voting and they’re very apathetic toward anything political that definitely pertains to them, but they aren’t aware so I think it’s just turning out and it’s advocacy and education so everyone can be informed about the issues that are at stake.”

Eric Rowley, a junior political science major from Austin, said he thinks

those eligible to vote should educate themselves about issues that will be brought to the polls.

In his personal experience, he said, he did not care about voting until he read about the issues and involved himself.

“I used to really not care,” he said.

“My sister was so excited when she first got to vote and I didn’t get it. Then she finally sat me down and made me listen to her talk. I listened to what was actu-

ally being voted on and now I always pay attention to the elections.”

Voting is her right, she said, to pick the candidate that aligns more with her beliefs.

“I come from a family of veterans and they have fought for my right to express myself and to vote for the candidate of my choice so I think it’s important that we exercise our right to vote and not only that but we vote on issues

Christine Cunningham, educational researcher from the Museum of Science in Boston, will present a seminar about why children should study engineering from 2 to 3 p.m.

Nov. 17 at Texas Tech’s Livermore Auditorium, according to a Tech news release.

The seminar, titled “Engineering is for Elementary Students: Why Kids Should Study Engineering Before They Can Spell It,” will discuss how engaging children with science and engineering challenges develops habits that can support their academic success, according to the news release. that make differences in our lives and the lives of other people,” she said. “It’s really important to be educated about what’s at stake.”

According to the survey, the top five states ranked were Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, North Dakota and Rhode Island. The bottom five were Pennsylvania, Texas, California, New York and Florida.

“You see a lot of times, especially for

Cunningham is the founder and director of the Engineering is Elementary program, according to the CUNNINGHAM news release, and is an educational researcher who has been a vice president at the Museum of Science, Boston, since 2003.

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Texas, there is a big gap between the senate vote where it ranks 49th and the house vote where it ranks 17th.

Texas has 36 representatives for about 20 million people in the eligible voter population. So there’s a big gap there and yet it’s still so skewed in overall voter weight to the Senate ruling,” she said.

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POLICE BLOTTER

Student charged for stealing parking boot from Texas Tech Transportation, Parking Services Wednesday 11:09 a.m. — A Texas Tech officer investigated a traffic accident on 15th Street and Akron Avenue.

1:45 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated a traffic accident at 600 Red Raider Avenue.

3:25 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated criminal mischief in the Zone 4-P parking lot.

The driver’s side rear tire of a student’s gray Dodge Ram was damaged.

3:26 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft in Horn Hall.

A gold/cheetah print Michael Kors watch was taken.

9:37 p.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for an outstanding warrant from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice after an observed traffic violation in the 1200 block of University Avenue. The nonstudent was transported to the Lubbock County Jail and the vehicle was released to a family member.

Thursday 6:14 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for the possession of marijuana after a traffic stop in the 3100 block of Drive of Champions. The non-student was transported to Lubbock County Jail.

8:35 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft in the Z5C parking lot. A Transportation and Parking vehicle boot was taken from a vehicle. During the investigation the boot was recovered and the suspect identified. A student was charged and released for theft.

9:57 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft at Chitwood

Residence Hall. Several exit signs and ceiling tiles were taken.

10:02 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft at the new Petroleum Engineering building. Ten Christmas light bulbs were taken.

12:26 p.m. — A Tech officer responded to a disturbance at the library. A student was using vulgar language and discussing sexual acts. The student was issued a criminal trespass warning from the library.

1:00 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft in the Chemistry building. An Apple iPhone was taken.

6:10 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft at the Media and Communications building.

A brown, pink and white bicycle was taken.

7:08 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft at the Z1B parking lot. A black Nike backpack was taken.

12:43 a.m. — A Tech officer issued a student a Lubbock County citation for an open container of alcohol in a motor vehicle in the 1500 block of Flint Avenue. The student signed the citation and was released.

2:39 a.m. — A Tech officer issued a student a Lubbock County citation for an open container of alcohol in a motor vehicle in the 2600 block of 15th Street. The student signed the citation and was released.

4:15 a.m. — A Tech officer issued a student a Lubbock County citation for possession of alcohol by a minor in the Z1B parking lot. The student signed the citation and was released.

Friday 7:13 a.m. — An officer investigated criminal mischief in the 2500 block of Broadway Avenue.

The fountain had soap in it.

8:52 a.m. — An officer investigated criminal mischief at Weymouth Residence Hall.

Thirty-one exit signs were damaged.

9:27 p.m. — An officer investigated the theft of unsecured laundry at Horn Residence Hall.

11:18 p.m. — An officer charged and released a nonstudent for the possession of marijuana and issued a student a Lubbock County citation for the possession of drug paraphernalia in Gates Residence Hall. The student signed the citation and was released.

1:10 a.m. — An officer charged and released two students for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia in Weymouth Residence Hall.

1:56 a.m. — An officer arrested a student for driving while intoxicated in the 2900 block of 18th Street. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail. The student’s vehicle was impounded by Lubbock Wrecker Service. One student passenger and one non-student passenger were issued Lubbock County citations for an open container of alcohol in a motor vehicle. Both individuals signed their citations and were released.

5:25 a.m. — An officer investigated a traffic accident in the 2500 block of 6th Street.

An unattended vehicle was hit.

Saturday 1:04 p.m. — An officer inves-

tigated theft in the Z2D parking lot. A magnetic sign was taken.

5:50 p.m. — A Texas State Trooper arrested a student for public intoxication at Gate 6 at Jones AT&T Stadium. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

6:03 p.m. — An officer arrested a non-student for public intoxication in the 3300 block of Main Street. The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

6:20 p.m. — A state trooper arrested a student for public intoxication at Gate 4A at the stadium. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

6:40 p.m. — A state trooper arrested a student for public intoxication at Gate 6 at the stadium. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

6:40 p.m. — An officer arrested a student for public intoxication at Gate 6 at the stadium.

The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

6:55 p.m. — An officer arrested a non-student for public intoxication at Gate 6 at stadium. The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

7:20 p.m. — A sheriff deputy charged a non-student for public intoxication at the cash room at the stadium. The non-student was released to a responsible party.

7:40 p.m. — An officer charged a student for public intoxication at the restroom three at the stadium. The student was released to a responsible party.

8:51 p.m. — An officer arrested a non-student for public intoxication in the 3100 block of Drive of Champions. The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

9:10 p.m. — An officer arrested a student for public intoxication at Indiana Avenue and Main Street. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

9:20 p.m. — An officer arrested a non-student for public intoxication in Section 114 at the stadium. The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

10:07 p.m. — An officer investigated criminal mischief at Horn Residence Hall. Posters and fliers were torn down off of hallway walls causing a substantial inconvenience to clean.

12:44 p.m. — An officer arrested a non-student for public intoxication in the C-2 parking lot. The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

1:15 p.m. — An officer investigated criminal mischief in the Z3-K parking lot. A vehicle had white paint splattered on the hood.

1:52 p.m. — An officer arrested a non-student for driving under the influence of alcohol, possession of alcohol by a minor and the unlawful carrying of a weapon in the 1800 block of Boston Avenue. The nonstudent was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

3:52 p.m. — An officer documented information in reference to damaged property at the Food Technology building. The Lub-

bock Fire Department located a drying oven, which was damaged from burns and a source of smoke that activated the building’s fire alarm.

Sunday 2:25 p.m. — An officer investigated a traffic accident in the C-3 parking lot. An unattended vehicle was hit.

5:07 p.m. — An officer investigated criminal mischief in the Zone 2-D parking lot. The driver and passenger side rear windows of a student’s silver 2005 Chevrolet Silverado were damaged.

8:10 p.m. — An officer issued a student one Lubbock County citation for the possession of drug paraphernalia in Horn Residence Hall after the report of a suspicious odor. The student signed the citation and was released.

8:44 p.m. — An officer issued a student one Lubbock County citation for the possession of alcohol by a minor in Horn Residence Hall after the report of a suspicious odor.

10:20 p.m. — An officer investigated a traffic accident in the 2D parking lot.

11:33 p.m. — An officer arrested a student for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia after the report of the odor of burnt marijuana by housing staff at Sneed Residence Hall. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail. A second student was released pending the filing of charges for possession of marijuana.

Information provided by B.J. Watson of the Tech Police Department.

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Voting in elections as important now as ever I

n 1787, the Constitution allowed white, property owning males over the age of 21 the right to vote.

By 1843, all white men over the age of 21 could vote. In 1870, all men over the age of 21 were granted the right to vote with the passage of the 15th Amendment, regardless of race or ethnic background.

By 1920, women over the age of 21 were allowed to vote.

In 1964, the 24th Amendment lifted the polling tax, thus allowing those of a low socioeconomic class to afford their right to vote.

Kristen Barton In 1965, the federal government stepped in to enforce these provisions on all states that previously scared minorities away from voting with literacy tests and intimidation methods.

In 1971, the 26th Amendment lowered the voting age to 18.

For centuries, several groups

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RON EDWARDS, A construction worker, digs out a trench for piping Monday outside of the Biology building.

Tech professors earn leadership roles in The Obesity Society Professors from the Department of Nutritional Sciences at Texas Tech have made contributions to this week’s annual scientific sessions from The Obesity Society at Obesity Week in Boston, according to a Tech news release.

Obesity Week is an annual week that brings together experts and policymakers from throughout the world to discuss obesity research and treatment, according to the release.

Obesity week began Sunday and continues through Friday, Martin Binks, associate professor of nutritional sciences, said.

Binks is the secretary-treasurer, he said, one of five executive board members on the leadership team of The Obesity Society’s Basic Science Section.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 78.6 million American adults are obese. Medical care for obesity-related issues costs approximately $150 billion annually and medical costs for people who are obese are about $1,400 higher than costs for those of a

normal weight.

Binks will participate in multiple sessions and will accept the Atkinson Stern Award for Distinguished Public Service in improving the lives of those affected by obesity through research, clinical intervention and advocacy.

Binks also leads the Behavioral Medicine & Translational Research Lab, he said. He first began working for the society in 1999 and continues to consider the society his home.

“Being a part of your professional society gives you great opportunities in terms of networking with leaders in the field,” Binks said. “I started out being a person that needed to network with the leaders and have now become a member of this leadership group.”

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have fought for the right to vote in America. For some, specifically youth, this right took hundreds of years. Women and minorities protested and even after they won were still scared away from voting in certain states.

So why is it that after years of protests and discrimination, voter turnout rates are lower than ever?

Why are we not proud of this victory and overflowing the polls?

In countries around the world, citizens do not have the choice in who their leaders are. Not being able to choose their leaders causes a dictatorship and misrepresenta-

tion of the people’s wants.

All around the world, violent protests as a result of political unrest have taken the lives of many people, yet in America we take the right to vote for granted and don’t even exercise it. Why? Why is it that something other people are fighting for every day most Americans do not even register for?

It could be possible that this is just another instance of “spoiled Americans” not caring about the struggles of others around the world because we only see it through our obnoxiously large flat screens, where U.S. citizens could

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“Our ridership on campus “With this, we have pulled has increased around 20 to a lot of the bus traffic on the 25 percent over the past few interior part of campus,” Cotton years,” Cotton said. “Putting in said. “The bus-to-biker accident more bike racks makes it almost ratio dropped 80 percent since guaranteed that students will be we put in the new plan, so this able to find a spot when they are helps with bike safety and pedestrying to get to class.” trian safety on campus.”

David Young, assistant diJared McKinley, a junior phirector at the Outdoor Pursuits losophy major from Odessa, said Center, said the changes have he thinks Tech should still try made riding on campus safe and to make roads easier for cyclists easy for students, especially with to ride on. having free-range sidewalks for As someone who bikes on students to ride on. campus, McKinley said there Different people ride in dif- should be more bicycle lines ferent ways, he said, and Tech on the roads of campus to make has made it easier for all kinds riding on the road easier. of riders.

“There are some bike lines on “Tech has done a really good campus, but there really aren’t a job of limiting the amount of whole lot,” he said. “I think it traffic in the innermost part of would make things a lot easier campus where a lot of students for us if we had more bike lanes ride,” Young said. “It makes it to ride on instead of on the road easier for those who are comfort- with other cars.” able riding in the road to do so.”

All the roads on campus Last year, a new bus transfer that are wide enough to have a plan was implemented to limit bicycle lane already have one, off-campus buses to dropping Cotton said. students off on the fringe of The other roads on campus campus, Cotton said. without bicycle lanes do not

care less about voting because “our votes doesn’t really count” or “if everyone else votes, mine means nothing.”

Another downfall could be our education system. While students in the public education system are required to take government classes, these classes do not always have dependable teachers, and those teachers might neglect actually teaching students how to register and encourage students to do so. In addition, because the class is required for seniors in high school, the classic “senioritis” causes some students to not care have them because they are too narrow to have a lane, he said.

“We have them on all the main roads and parts of campus,” he said. “Ultimately, we have around three miles of bike lanes across campus.”

McKinley said he does not like some of the regulations cyclists have for riding on the sidewalks.

According to the Transportation and Parking Services page, bicyclists are not allowed to ride on sidewalks that face a building, sidewalks parallel to a street with a bicycle lane or areas that are dismount zones.

“I think the rules they have set are fair just because we can’t have bikers everywhere on campus,” Young said. “More than 90 percent of campus is open to riding, and it really only takes a minute to get off your bike and walk across the areas you can’t ride in.”

Cotton said other changes have been made to help bicyclists around campus, such as the installation of the Dero Fix Stations across campus.

The Fix Stations allow students to make small repairs to their bicycles as well as air up

about the course, or voting, at all.

There are countless reasons people do not exercise their right to vote. There is no way all of those reasons could be outlined.

The bottom line is this: people fought, and are still fighting for, suffrage.

It is time we respect that battle and uphold the foundation of democracy.

So as for me, I’ll be at the polls tomorrow. I hope you will be, too.

Barton is a freshman journalism major from Longview. ➤➤ kbarton@dailytoreador.com

tires if needed, he said.

“There are 10 stations installed across campus around the residence halls, the SUB and some other buildings around campus,” Cotton said. “We are really happy we got those in and they are really helpful for the students.”

Students can register their bicycles on the parking website, he said, just in case a bicycle is lost or stolen.

Students are not required to register their bicycles, Cotton said, but are strongly encouraged to.

“We have no way of proving ownership of a bike unless it is registered in our system,” he said. “It is easier and faster for us to get stolen bikes back when they are registered with us.”

Students who choose to cycle around campus have become bigger in numbers, Young said.

“Cycling is a growing culture around Tech and even we have grown and expanded with the amount of people who come in to get bikes or get repairs,” he said. “We grow every year, and I think we can only grow more from here.” ➤➤lsolis@dailytoreador.com

Tech professor honored with award, grant Meat science professor Chance Brooks was honored this weekend at the annual Association of Public and Landgrant Universities meeting.

Brooks, an associate professor of meat science in Texas Tech’s Animal and Food Science Department, was given the Excellence in Teaching award from the USDA, according to a Tech news release.

“It is an honor to be chosen as a regional award recipient,” Brooks said. “It was a very humbling experience. It is a great feeling to be recognized for something that you love to do.”

In addition to the award, Brooks also received $2,000 to be given to a college or university of his choosing to strengthen instruction in their programs, he said.

Brooks, who holds two degrees from Tech, has been teaching at the university since 2003, he said.

“As an alumnus of my home department, I had the opportunity to be instructed and advised

by many of my colleagues,” Brooks said. “My education at here was instrumental to my career, it means a great deal to represent Texas Tech as an award recipient.” ➤➤jlaurel@dailytoreador.com

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Davis has run deplorable campaign Kyle A Jacobson

fter bursting into the national spotlight with her abortion filibuster in 2013, State Senator Wendy Davis announced her candidacy to become governor of Texas — and she completely blew it.

Davis became an all-star in the Texas Democratic Party during Texas’ last legislative session. All across the state, people called for her to run for governor following the announcement that current Gov. Rick Perry was resigning after a record 14-year tenure. Before an embarrassment of a campaign, she might have had a shot despite running in a deeply conservative state.

Davis had her work cut out for her. The state of Texas h a s n ’t v o t e d for a democrat for President since 1976. To put this in perspective, Davis wasn’t even old enough to vote in that election. Some conservative and moderate democrats continued to hold statewide office until 1994, the last time a democrat won a statewide election of any sort.

But Davis galvanized young people and had leftists convinced that, for the first time in 20 years, a democrat could win a statewide office. Although her fame-inducing filibuster ultimately failed, it was enough to launch an optimistic campaign.

For the first time since Ann Richards ran for re-election against George W. Bush, the democrats had a decent chance at being competitive in the gubernatorial race. There was energy, attention, momentum and money (mostly flowing in from out of state) all on Davis’ side.

However, Davis ruined any chance she had at becoming governor by failing to develop ideas and solutions for the state of Texas and employing desperate campaign tactics instead.

Rather than run on a platform of her public policy beliefs, she

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dedicated her time and efforts to convincing the largely conservative electorate that her republican opponent, Greg Abbott, is an evil person.

There have been many awful campaign moments for Davis, but I’ll focus on arguably the two most blatantly bizarre claims she has made against Abbott.

Most recently, Davis tried to make interracial marriage an issue in this campaign by criticizing Abbott’s response to a question about a longoverturned statewide ban on interracial marriage. Did she forget what year it is? Interracial marriage has been legal in Texas since 1967 (better late than never), and obviously nobody is trying to change that.

Here is w h a t ’s e v e n worse about this manufactured political crisis regarding interracial marriage: Greg Abbott, a white man, is married to a Latina woman. In fact, when Abbott wins tonight, she will be set to become the first Latina First Lady in the state’s history.

Yes, you read that correctly.

Davis is accusing Abbott, who is interracially married to the soon-to-be first Latina First Lady in Texas history, of possibly supporting an interracial marriage ban which doesn’t exist among any bill or law. If only that were the end of it.

Davis has also repeatedly claimed that Abbott, while an attorney, worked against victims who became disabled in accidents and then sued for settlement money. Of course, it’s a pretty desperate claim to begin with. Who would just rule against disabled victims for no

If (Wendy) Davis were running against Santa Claus to become governor of Texas, she would probably accuse him of hating Christmas.

reason? Every lawsuit has varying evidence which would result in various amounts of settlement money being awarded to disabled victims, if any. But again, the context of the claim makes it even more absurd.

Abbott is in a wheelchair, paralyzed from the waist down.

He was disabled after a tree fell on him while he was going for a jog. Yes, he won an insurance settlement as a result of the accident, which is a petty issue for the Davis campaign to try and exploit. Essentially, Davis is saying that Abbott, who has been in a wheelchair for more than two decades, dedicated his law career to discriminate against disabled people.

If Davis were running against Santa Claus to become governor of Texas, she would probably accuse him of hating Christmas.

I understand that negative campaigning has its place in politics, but usually it’s reasonably tame (i.e. “My opponent’s jobs plan will create fewer jobs than mine”) and at least makes sense.

But saying “the guy in the wheelchair hates disabled people” and “the white guy married to a Latina wants to ban interracial marriage” is just plain baffling. Does she expect anybody to buy it?

If Davis had any legitimate ideas and plans for the state of Texas, she would not have resorted to such desperate attacks on her opponent. Had she run a solid campaign, I still do not think Davis would have won the gubernatorial race. But she did have an opportunity to energize some Texas voters and make the Democratic Party a little more viable here in the Lone Star State. Instead, she further alienated Texans from the Democratic Party through her disgusting political ploys.

Davis will lose by 15 or 20 percent tonight when the election results pour in. She will not have come any closer to turning the governor’s mansion blue than any of her predecessors such as Bill White and Chris Bell.

The democrats have nobody to blame except for Davis’ pathetic attempt at a political campaign.

Jacobson is a senior political science major from Austin. ➤➤ opinions@dailytoreador.com

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Class participation should promote class involvement

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he holidays are approaching, and with that so are calculating those scores for a potential end of the semester average. In some classes it’s an objective rather than a subjective issue, but for those falling under the subjective category, I find it hard to calculate and predict.

For instance, I’m sure at some point or another you have had a class in which the professor set up a rubric or grading system that included individual participation points as a chunk of the overall score. I always wondered at the end of the semester after seeing the final tally how that score was an accurate measure of my efforts.

Adding this to any grading system seems like a mistake for the simple reason that it targets the wrong students for participation. Many students who speak up in class do so to either show off their own knowledge of the topics, to debate an issue or repeat an element that has already been discussed, or a combination of the three. None of these students are benefiting from the extra points in regards to material retained as the instructors anticipate them to.

As this trend of interactive grading continues, I urge instructors to observe their classes. What are the most interesting questions that have been brought up by students in participation-graded classes? This is a question all professors need to identify before considering

Kendra Kimberlin implementing this grading system for an upcoming semester.

An interesting conundrum professors are then forced to face in this system is calling on those who have yet to participate for the allotment of points at the end of the semester. While getting a class to interact is not a concern, it’s how that is implemented. Calling on certain students can sometimes lead them to feel on the spot, which then can hinder the student from listening to the actual course work discussed after.

I think a great solution comes from discussion groups, an assigned article for review or selecting teams to debate — even games would be a more practical answer. These can help students understand topics better with some knowledge of the event beforehand.

In the past I had a professor who assigned a chapter per row of students to review and thoroughly understand in order to be quizzed when that chapter came up in the semester. Then when this chapter was due, he would do a sort of battle round of questions or debates of the subject matter. I to this day re-

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member the government requirements for employment and retirement, and while this may change, it impacted my grade significantly.

Statistics show class involvement improves grades, but what those statistics do not show is the class involvement that entails. MAP-works 2011 Fall Transition survey shows, “Approximately 59 percent of first-year respondents indicated they participated in class at a high level of frequency, 38 percent participating at a moderate level and 3 percent at the lowest level. Frequency of class participation is linked with higher self-assessment of academic behaviors.”

“Students who more frequently reported participating in class are also more likely to attend class, take good notes, study and turn in homework nearly always compared to those who report participating with less frequency.

Higher frequency of participation is also linked with increased self-assessment of skills related to time management and self-discipline.”

While there is no hard evidence for either case as it is hard to prove a subjective theory, I would bet that even professors don’t see the outcomes for participating students.

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By Luke Watson

Mainstream media needs body diversity

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n the immortal words of Meghan Trainor, it seems as if it’s “all about that bass” when contesting the representation of women’s bodies in mainstream media.

Recently, Victoria’s Secret released advertisements in the United Kingdom as part of a marketing campaign for their line of “Body by Victoria” bras.

The advertisement featured several tall, slim models in lingerie with the tagline “The Perfect Body.”

This spurred many women to speak out against the advertisement because of the absence of fuller-figured women and the distorted message it sends to the general public, particularly young women.

Three British students started a petition requesting an apology from Victoria’s Secret, which has received more than 20,000 signatures so far.

Some people have bombarded Victoria’s Secret with their ill feelings, while others have taken the incident as an opportunity to engage in a “war of the body types.”

Frankly, I think both of these reactions are unnecessary. Victoria’s Secret’s actions were foolish and poorly thought out, and the company should be held responsible for them. However, idle anger is not the solution.

Similarly, subjecting anyone to “body shaming” is counterproductive to the cause. Body diversity includes all body types — short, tall, slim and curvy.

Whether it’s the expectation of women to be thin or men to be muscular, we have all experienced some form of self-consciousness about our bodies.

At the age of 12, I became sensitive to the difference between my appearance and the appearance of women portrayed in magazines and on television. While thumbing through the pages or scrolling through the channels, I often found myself wishing for longer legs and toned limbs.

Recent studies have shown this sentiment is shared among plenty of other girls around the same age. According to the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated •Publishing information Periodical Postage paid by The Daily Toreador, Media and Communication building, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, 79409-3081. Publication number 766480. The Daily Toreador is a student newspaper published Monday through Thursday, September through May; Tuesdays and Fridays June through August, excluding November 26-27, December 4 - January 13, March 16-19 and May 6 - June 3. The Daily Toreador is funded primarily through advertising revenues generated by the student sales staff with free campus distribution resulting from student service fees.

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Jemima Johnson Disorders, 69 percent of girls in 5th-12th grade reported that magazine pictures influenced their idea of a perfect body shape.

It is obvious that advertisements like Victoria’s Secret’s have an effect on young girls, but the responses to them may present a bigger problem.

Lately it seems as if mainstream media has been embroiled in a “body type war” where women identifying as either extreme of the spectrum slight each other in order to build themselves up.

The Perfect Body campaign is one of many advertising initiatives accused of glorifying skinnier women. Songs, and accompanying music videos, like the aforementioned “All About That Bass” by Meghan Trainor, “Booty” by Jennifer Lopez and “Anaconda” by Nicki Minaj have come under fire for praising larger figures.

I don’t understand why it has to be one or the other; both should be praised equally and without malice toward the other. The movement for body

diversity includes both body types and every other type in between. Skewed media portrayals are a problem, but encouraging girls to dislike or try to “one-up” each other based on body type isn’t much help.

Supporting one another is the only way to make progress in this area. For example, Australian model Ashley Hart came out in support of The Perfect Body campaign’s critics.

Despite her sister Jessica’s involvement in the campaign, Hart said she “sees where (critics are) coming from” and their accusations are “probably true.”

The success of the apology petition is another indication of widely spread support.

Overall, the end goal shouldn’t be to trash the establishment or put one kind of woman on a pedestal. The goal should be to enlighten others regarding the need for diversity and make strides to change it.

Skewed images of women are presented to the population every second of every day. I am happy this incident has raised awareness for the issue, but I hope it doesn’t die down when the controversy does.

Johnson is a freshman electronic media and communications major from Lubbock. ➤➤ jjohnson@dailytoreador.com

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Haagsma says Tech is where she is meant to be

By STAFF WRITER Staff Writer

It has been almost one year since former Red Raider Hayley Haagsma finished her last season at Texas Tech.

Her final season ended with a loss in the second round of the NCAA women’s Division I soccer tournament to Texas A&M in a 3-4 penalty shootout after finishing regulation and overtime tied 2-2, according to Tech Athletics.

Haagsma said after the match there was only one thought on her mind.

“What is next?” she said.

She was either going to continue her soccer career into the professional ranks of the National Women’s Soccer League, Haagsma said, or she would come to the decision to join the “real world,” which entailed continuing her schooling and starting a career.

Haagsma’s No. 1 choice was to go into the National Women’s Soccer League, she said, but she had to wait until February to find out what fate had in store for her.

February eventually came, and the NWSL College Draft came along with it. Sky Blue FC selected Haagsma as 15th overall, according to Tech Athletics.

When she learned about the selection, Haagsma said, she felt a sense of accomplishment.

“Kind of the first feeling was like ‘Wow, I am about to do this,’” she said. “This has been a lifelong goal, since I was a little girl.”

Haagsma was soon in an exhibition match between Sky Blue FC and St. John’s University.

Her fortunes, however, quickly changed for the worse.

While at right back dribbling the ball down the line, Haagsma said, a defender came and knocked her off balance. The force caused her left knee to bend outward when planted.

When the injury occurred, Haagsma knew instantly what it meant, she said. Her first season was done before it had even started.

“I struggled with ‘What I do now?’” Haagsma said. “But, (Sky Blue FC coach Jim Gabarra) sat me down and was like ‘You know you can still learn a lot if you stay here?’”

Haagsma stayed and said she is glad she did. The injury allowed her to observe the team as a bystander and gain a better understanding of what she needed to do to excel at the professional level, while also building relationships with her teammates and coaches.

Once July came, though, Haagsma began talking to her former coaches at Texas Tech about coming back to the campus, she said.

There she could focus on rehabilitation from her injury, Haagsma said, as well as other benefits.

“I was able to have a job here to make some money,” she said, “but also to be around a team environment again with medical people, too, if I ever came into problems.”

It was the perfect situation, Haagsma said.

Tech coach Tom Stone said it has been nice to have Haagsma back with the program.

She does not intrude on the development of this year’s team, Stone said. Haagsma has allowed the team captains to lead.

“I didn’t even have to tell her

that,” he said. “She just stayed out of it. Where she has been super valuable is she is sitting in the coaches’ office with us sharing her thoughts on things we have been doing well over the year and things we need to get better at.”

This arms Tech with a player’s perspective of the team to fine tune the program, which has helped the team immensely, Stone said.

Assistant coach Gibbs Keeton said he was excited to hear Haagsma was coming back.

Selfishly, he knew how valuable she would be to not only Tech, but the entire community, Keeton said.

“She epitomizes that ‘Never Give Up’ attitude,” he said, “but to come out and live, breathe and see it is way more impactful.”

Nevertheless, there was only one goal with any importance, Keeton said, which was for the entire soccer program to protect and nurture Haagsma through the rehabilitation process.

About two weeks ago, doctors cleared her for on-the-field drills, she said. Now, Haagsma is able to practice with the Tech soccer athletes more with her knee deemed to be stable enough.

This is all while she works as a temporary employee for Tech Athletics, Haagsma said.

Haagsma is currently an assistant teacher for a student-athlete class on Monday nights, she said.

Plus, she provides an extra pair of hands when the Athletic Department needs some extra help.

Tech has not only been the perfect place for her to rehab and gain experience during her time back, but it has also provided the

perfect place for an important moment in her life.

At the John Walker Soccer Complex, her boyfriend, Greg McCall, took her to the middle of the field prior to Tech’s match against Baylor, she said. There McCall kneeled down on one knee, presented an engagement ring and asked for Haagsma’s hand in marriage.

Haagsma said yes, and everyone was thrilled for the couple, Stone said.

Stone thought it was amazing McCall was proposing to Haagsma on her former playing field, he said.

“I had to clear everybody out,” Stone said. “Turn off the music.

Nobody was allowed at the gate (as I was) standing guard, so (McCall) could have his privacy out there with her.”

Haagsma has changed dramatically from her high school self that never wanted to leave California, she said.

“Before I decided to come to (Tech),” she said, “I was like ‘All right, I need to go. I need to get out of here because I may never do that.’”

Then during her sophomore year, she went to Waco, Texas, for a match against Baylor, Haagsma said.

After the game is when Haagsma first met McCall, she said. He then visited Lubbock a few times, and they hit it off from there.

At the same time, Haagsma was developing into a defender with the ability to lead Tech to the second round of the NCAA tournament in her junior and senior years, according to Tech Athletics.

It all would not have been possible without Tech, Haagsma

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FORMER TEXAS TECH soccer player Hayley Haagsma, continues to work with Tech Athletics and play professionally for Sky Blue FC.

said. She would never have been able to leave California, would not have been drafted into the NWSL or would not have found the love of her life.

Now Tech will be responsible for her returning to Sky Blue FC better than ever, she said.

“I knew while I was here that I was here for a reason,” Haagsma said. “And now, being able to be back and do all this stuff just has been such a blessing. I am just reminded more and more how perfect it was that I got to come here.” ➤➤dhaile@dailytoreador.com

Wallerstedt named to new coaching staff

EYE OF THE TIGER

Former Texas Tech coach Matt Wallerstedt has been named the newest member of the Louisiana-Lafayette coaching staff, according to a report in The Daily Adviser.

Wallerstedt’s last game at Tech was against Arkansas in which the

Red Raiders gave up 499 yards in a 49-28 loss to the Razorbacks. He left the team the following week for personal reasons.

Tech’s former defensive coordinator had been acting as a defensive consultant for the school, according to the report, but

moved into the new position after David Saunders left the team.

Lafayette currently ranks No. 90 out of 125 Football Bowl Subdivision teams with 436.4 yards allowed per game, according to the NCAA website. ➤➤sports@dailytoreador.com

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By JEREMY KRAKOSKY Staff Writer

Jones AT&T Stadium, filled with the third-largest crowd ever, erupted with 4:09 left in the first quarter as the Texas Tech football team took a 6-3 lead over Texas behind senior defensive lineman Jackson Richards’ sack and forced fumble of sophomore quarterback Tyrone Swoopes.

Tech junior defensive end Branden Jackson recovered the ball in the end zone for the Red Raiders first defensive touchdown of the season since the Texas State game last season.

After the game, junior running back DeAndre Washington said that play was huge for momentum because the offense really needed a boost in the first quarter.

“It was huge. I think at that point in time (the offense was) struggling,” he said. “It kind of sparked the offense, got things going. We just couldn’t capitalize on it the way we would have wanted to.”

According to a Tech Athletics news release, the defensive touchdown was Tech’s first since Will Smith recovered a fumble and ran into the end zone against Texas State in a 33-7 victory.

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would prove to be nearly half the Red Raiders’ points against Texas, as the offense was shut out in the second half.

Coach Kliff Kingsbury said the defense was improved from the previous week, especially for how many snaps it had to play. “(The defense) definitely played better. You still can’t give up 34 points, obviously, and have a chance to win in that situation,” Kingsbury said. “But I thought as a defense we came together, had some big stops, especially in the first half, and second half they got tired, we put them on the field a bunch, and it was just a tough second half.”

The Red Raiders recorded three sacks in the game, marking the first time since 2011 that the defense has recorded a sack in six straight games.

Junior linebacker Pete Robertson continued to lead the Big 12 Conference in sacks as he recorded his ninth of the season. He is now tied for 10th on Tech’s single season sack list, according to the release.

Robertson said the defensive line has been playing great every week and allowing him to get into the backfield and make sacks.

Due to an injury to senior linebacker Sam Eguavoen, junior Micah Awe made his second consecutive start at the middle

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the free throw line in practice,” Onwuasor said. “We’ll get better at that as season goes on and it’s the first game CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 of the season and people are nervous, Two straight layups by Turner freshman out there haven’t played in with a minute left in the first half a college game so we’ll get better.”

Despite its lack of free throws, prevented Southeastern Oklahoma from ending Tech’s lead. Turner Tech shot from 44 percent on the scored eleven of Tech’s 38 points in court in comparison to Southeastern the first half.

Oklahoma shooting for 35 percent.

Free throw struggles plagued Southeastern threatened to end the Tech offense throughout the Tech’s lead early in the second half first half of the game. In 19 free by cutting its deficit to 42-41 three throw attempts, Tech only scored minutes in. seven of its attempts. Southeastern A pair of free throws and a threeOklahoma, however, made each of pointer gave Southeastern Oklahoma the push it needed to take a 46-44 its four free throws.

Making only 18 of 37 free lead with five minutes into the secthrows, Onwuasor said he expects ond half. the team to focus on free throw A jumper from Tech freshman shooting moving forward. center Isiah Manderson and a field “We have been struggling from goal and free throw from Onwuasor

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Awe surpassed his previous career-high in tackles, which was 11 against Texas last season, as he recorded 12 tackles on Saturday night.

The junior linebacker said he is frustrated about the loss but is making the most out of starting while he gets the chance.

“I just thank God for the opportunity because it’s been a long time since I’ve had 60-plus, 70-plus plays. Like I said, I’m having fun out there,” he said. “The loss hurts, but at least I have the opportunity to be out there and run around and show people why Texas Tech was the only team that recruited me and show the rest of the Big 12 why they should have recruited me.”

The defense did allow the Longhorns to gain 469 total yards of offense, including 242 on the ground, their highest since they ran for 281 against Tech last year.

The Red Raiders struggled to stop Longhorn senior running back Malcolm Brown as he ended the game with 116 yards on 22 carries plus two touchdowns.

Awe said they knew coming into the game that Texas was going to run the ball because of the talent they have in the backfield.

“Texas is a good team. They’re known for running. Malcolm tied things up for Tech with 14 minutes remaining in the first half.

Freshman guard Keenan Evans gave Tech the lead once again with a pair of free throws.

With seven minutes left in the game, redshirt junior guard Toddrick Gotcher went past the Savage Storm defense to drive in a layup to put Tech ahead 67-61.

Gotcher continued to build the Tech lead with a steal and long pass to Onwuasor to put the Red Raiders ahead 70-62.

Southeastern Oklahoma failed to reclaim the lead and finished the night with a final score of 79-67.

Tech only scored one out its eight three point events compared to Southeastern Oklahoma’s 11 out of 34.

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TEXAS TECH LINEBACKER Pete Robertson dives for Texas quarterback Tyrone Swoopes during the game Saturday at Jones AT&T Stadium.

Brown, Johnathan Gray, five-star running backs, O-line, they’re good,” Awe said. “So if you watch football, you keep running the ball, you’re going to get some yards. It’s all about bend-don’t-break as a defense.

That should be your mentality.”

Entering the game, the Red Raiders ranked ninth the conference said Tech’s lack of three pointers concerned the team.

“It was a concern for us. I guess we were one for seven in the first half and guys just refused to shoot them in the second half,” Smith said. “I thought Southeastern, Coach Green (Kelly Green), had his team. They got out at us, made us put it on the floor. That’s why we were getting the ball inside.”

Onwuasor and Turner posted leading numbers for the Tech offense.

Onwuasor scored 13 points, had four assists and had two steals. Turner scored 19 points, had one block and three steals.

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by allowing opponents to convert on third down nearly 47 percent of the time. On Saturday, third down proved to be the strength of the defense as the Longhorns converted on only five out of 16 chances.

As the team now enters its final bye week before playing Oklahoma, Awe said the defensive will have

extra time to prepare and try to keep improving every day in practice.

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Six Tech soccer athletes honored The Big 12 Conference named Texas Tech junior forward Janine Beckie the Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year Monday, according to a Tech news release.

Her conference-leading 29 points, 13 goals and 103 shot attempts earned her the honor of being the first Red Raider in program history to receive the award.

Beckie also joined senior defender Jaelene Hinkle and senior midfielder Paige Strahan on the All-Big 12 First Team, according to the release. Tech tied Kansas and West Virginia for the conference high in First Team selections with these three.

Junior midfielder Hannah Devine, redshirt sophomore goalkeeper Lau-

ren Watson and freshman defender Cassie Conarty received honors, too.

Devine and Watson were selected to the Second Team, while Conarty made it onto the All-Newcomer Team, making it a total of six selections for Tech. This is the thirdstraight season for Tech to have at least five honorees, according to the release.

For each of those three seasons, Beckie and Hinkle were named to the First Team, which is the longest streak in program history. Hinkle’s unanimous selection to this season’s First Team makes her the first Red Raider to ever earn a spot on one of the teams all four years of her collegiate career. ➤➤dhaile@dailytoreador.com

Houston Texans look for spark on offense HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Texans are back below .500 and searching for answers to fix their stagnant offense as they begin their bye week.

There also might be a quarterback controversy brewing.

Ryan Fitzpatrick for 203 yards with two touchdowns and an interception for Houston, but struggled to move the offense for most of the day in a 31-21 loss to Philadelphia.

Coach Bill O’Brien cautioned against placing too much blame on the journeyman quarterback when asked if he would consider a change at the position to spark the offense.

“I think we have to evaluate everything,” he said. “I’ve said this all along, I don’t think you can look at one position and put all the blame on that.”

Ryan Mallett joined the Texans after three seasons in New England to back up Fitzpatrick. He raised eyebrows Sunday night with a tweet that he later deleted.

“I’m staying focused for when

the time comes ... seize the opportunity #justwaiting,” he tweeted from his verified account @Ryan_ mallett_15.

He was in damage control on Monday morning despite deleting the tweet.

“Don’t misinterpret my last tweet,” the tweet said. “I’m not calling to be the starter. Frustrations of losing. I play my role. I am a team player first. Always.”

O’Brien has applauded his improvement over the past few weeks, but Mallett has almost no game experience despite being in the NFL for four seasons.

“He’s a guy that works extremely hard in practice, which is totally different than in the game,” O’Brien said. “In practice he seems to have good command of what we’re doing. He’s come in here with a good knowledge of the offense.”

Mallett didn’t take a single snap in two of his three seasons with the Patriots. He appeared in four

games in 2012, but completed just one of four passes for 17 yards with an interception.

The 31-year-old Fitzpatrick has learned to ignore outside criticism in a 10-year career spent with five different teams. But he’s the first one to admit that he has to improve if the Texans hope to finish the season strong and says week after week that has to play better.

“He’s going to work extremely hard to play at a more consistent level like all of the players need to do,” O’Brien said. “4-5 is a very mediocre record and it’s the sign of an inconsistent team.”

He has thrown for 1,960 yards with 11 touchdowns and eight interceptions in his first season in Houston. He’s fumbled five times, but has lost just one of them.

Andre Johnson, the longesttenured Texan after joining the team in its second season, was asked if he thinks the offense has improved since the beginning of the season.

“I don’t know,” he said. “Our record doesn’t show it. We just have to take a look at it and get it fixed.”

O’Brien was pointed with his statements that the entire team needs to do more after the break and that extends to the coach and his staff.

“We talk a lot as a coaching staff with our players that we’re really all in it together. There’s no finger pointing,” O’Brien said. “It’s not one guy’s fault.”

A bright spot on the offense this season has been the resurgence of running back Arian Foster after last season’s back surgery. Foster is second in the NFL with 822 yards rushing. But Foster hurt his groin late in Houston’s loss to the Eagles and it’s unclear how serious the problem is.

O’Brien wouldn’t provide any details on the injury to Foster or on cornerbacks Kareem Jackson and Johnathan Joseph, who also left Sunday’s game with injuries.

Baylor’s Briles likes QB’s ‘no-nonsense mentality’ Baylor coach Art Briles admits he was a bit surprised by how quarterback Bryce Petty answered questions after the No. 10 Bears’ bounce-back victory.

“But I was kind of pleased,” Briles said Monday.

In the postgame interview after Petty threw three touchdowns and Baylor scored on 11 consecutive possessions in a 60-14 victory over Kansas on Saturday, the usually talkative quarterback answered five of the six questions he was asked with the same answer — repeatedly responding, “Just ready for O-U.” The lone different answer was “Yep,” to the question of if he was ready for Saturday’s game against No. 16 Oklahoma.

“He’s in a mode where it’s kind of a no-nonsense mentality,” Briles said. “So I certainly appreciate that part of it.”

The defending Big 12 champion Bears (7-1, 4-1 Big 12, No. 13 CFP) rebounded from their lone loss at West Virginia with the expected big victory over Kansas. Now they play at eighttime champion Oklahoma (6-2, 3-2, No. 18 CFP), a place where Baylor has never won.