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Earl Survey Lab predicts Trump winning Texas

By MICHAEL CANTU News Editor

Started a few days after early voting began in Texas, the Texas Tech Earl Survey Research Lab in the Political Science Department took a random sample of around 500 registered voters to estimate which way Texas will vote in the 2016 presidential election.

To not many people’s surprise, Republican presidential nominee is favored to win Texas with 50 percent of the vote, according to a Tech news release. The survey placed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton at second place with 34 percent, Libertarian party candidate Gary Johnson third with 5 percent and Green Party candidate Jill Stein last with 2 percent.

The survey was conducted by two classes in the political science department: political analysis and environmental law and, second, introduction to American government, according to the release.

“For the most part, everything was pretty consistent. Texas is a fundamen-

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tally conservative state, and I think our results definitely demonstrated that,” Jared Perkins, visiting instructor of political science, said. “So, we weren’t’ very surprised when we got the results for Donald Trump in the presidential race.”

The margin of error for the survey was at +/- 4.2 percent, with a 95 percent confidence level, meaning there is a chance of the numbers going up or down by up to 4.2 percent, Sara Norman, director of the Earl Survey Research Lab and professor of political science, said.

The responses from the survey were gathered from registered voters in Texas who either voted during the early voting period or intended to vote, Norman said. In addition to asking whom voters were planning on selecting, surveyors also asked people’s stances on policy issues, such as Trump’s temporary ban on Muslims from entering the county, confirming Supreme Court Justice nominee Merrick Garland and the popularity of Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.

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Memo released Students participate in annual Humans vs Zombies Week on recent Tech student death Bradley James Farmer, 19, was a Texas Tech freshman from Euless who died on Nov. 5, according to a memo from the Office of the Dean of Students.

The Texas Tech flag at Memorial Circle will be lowered in his memory on Monday.

A copy of the memo and Farmer’s official transcript were sent to his parents, David and Laurie Farmer, according to the memo.

A GoFundMe account with an $8,000 goal has been created to help with funeral expenses. @DailyToreador

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One arrest made in fentanyl case Peyton Wilson, 26, is now in the custody of the Lubbock County Sheriff ’s Office while recovering in the hospital after being shot during a fentanyl raid Friday at 2200 2nd Place.

During the raid, LPD SWAT officers fired shots to subdue the two suspects who were in the house, according to a Lubbock Police Department news release. Before the raid, LPD detectives gathered enough evidence on Wilson to conduct surveillance of his home.

Once they had sufficient proof, they were granted a search warrant, and LPD SWAT officers and agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration were able to conduct the raid on the house, according to the release.

Both entities had reason to believe there were fentanyl and firearms inside the home, according to the release. Once they raided the home at around 12:20 p.m. on Friday, they found Wilson had a handgun. One officer fired two rounds at Wilson, and Wilson was struck both times.

Because of the high risk of fentanyl, once they were able to clear the house, officials called a DEA hazmat team from Dallas to clean up the remnants of the drug, according to the release.

Officials believe they seized fentanyl from the home but cannot be positive until lab test results arrive, according to the release. @DailyToreador

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Alexis Qaiyyim, a senior theater major from San Antonio, battles two zombies during a Thunderdome Humans vs. Zombies match at the Engineering Key on Monday. Thunderdome is a target practice game where two players choose whether they are a human or a zombie and battle in the middle of a circle formed by other group members.

By ALYSSA ACOSTA Staff Writer

Starting this week, students dawning neon green headbands and Nerf guns will be a common sight on campus as part of the Humans vs. Zombies game that began Monday.

Humans vs. Zombies is a game where most participants start off as humans and some start off as zombies, Michael Bass, a senior

mechanical engineering major from Carrollton and president of HvZ, said. Throughout the week, humans will try to evade the zombies by running, hiding and shooting zombies with Nerf guns.

“It’s basically, an on-campus game of zombie tag,” Bass said.

Humans are turned into zombies when they are touched by them, he said. The game will be played between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. until Saturday.

The game ends when all the humans turn into zombies or on Saturday when the last of the humans complete a mission, Bass said. Missions take place every day throughout the week at 6 p.m.

During these missions, humans and zombies battle to complete a certain objective.

HvZ has rules to keep everyone safe, including not playing inside buildings, staying away from certain buildings where children are

present and using only Nerf guns and balled up socks.

“Rule No. 1 is: safety first,” Bass said. “Rule No. 2 is: Don’t be a jerk.”

HvZ draws students of all majors, Elliot Savoie, a senior management information systems major from Houston and secretary of HvZ, said. HvZ helps students meet new people and make new friends.

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By MICHAEL CANTU News Editor

On average, the Lubbock Police Department makes eight to 10 arrests a week regarding drunken drivers.

However, this weekend, along with the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Lubbock County Sheriff ’s Office, LPD formed a task force resulting in 43 DWI arrests.

The task force, called

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No Refusal, was formed for the first time to aggressively patrol the streets to stop drunken drivers from hitting the road, Greg Stevens, LPD chief, said. From Friday to Saturday the No Refusal task force patrolled the Lubbock streets.

In a news conference at 1:30 p.m. Monday, all three entities presented their findings from the No Refusal weekend.

“Historically, this is the first No Refusal type of an event like this that we’ve held in this area, at least to this scale certainly,” Stevens said. “If we’ve done this before, it hasn’t been to this scale where we’ve done such a joint operation with all three of the law enforcement agencies, with some of our partners in the first responders community and just across the board to try and really address the problem of drunk driving.”

The idea came from members of the DPS who came to Stevens with the thought, Stevens said.

“This effort was actually the idea of one of our local troopers,” Gary Albus, region 5 DPS commander, said.

“One of our local troopers approached his chain of com-

mand and said, ‘Hey, we’ve not had a DWI task force in Lubbock County for a while.’”

During the weekend, all of the police officers who participated were off-duty, while the others patrolled the streets during the Texas Tech football game against the University of Texas on Saturday at Jones AT&T Stadium.

Combined, the three entities made 43 DWI arrests in and around Lubbock County, Stevens said.

“And to put that in perspective for the LPD, we average about eight to 10 DWIs per week,” Stevens said. “So, across the region, we had 43 just in this weekend. Unfortunately, I’m certain we probably didn’t catch all of them.”

Of those 43 arrest, 41 people had blood samples drawn from them and the other two were obtained by breath samples, he said.

Other charges included drug offense charges and arrest warrants, and most of them were felony warrants.

During the weekend there were 467 traffic stops with 15 motor vehicle accidents.

For this effort, all the entities reached out to other nonprofit organizations that deal with drunken driving

issues, Albus said. Partners included Mothers Against Drunk Driving and the emergency medical center Star ER, among others.

“One thing I want to add.

In 2015, there were 349 alcohol-related crashes in Lubbock County alone, so if you do the math, that’s just almost one a day,” Albus said. “And as a result of those crashes, we had 15 people that lost their lives.”

The entities plan on reviewing the data to figure out what they can improve on in the future, Albus said.

Besides this weekend, all entities have been educating the public on the results of drunk driving, Karen Peoples, Texas Department of Transportation traffic safety specialist, said.

“As we approach the holiday season, college bowl games, Super Bowl games, new year ’s parties, we’ll continue to ask you to plan while you can,” Peoples said. “And we will continue to be supportive of the No Refusal weekend.”

LPD and the other entities plan on hosting campaigns like this in the future, Stevens said.

“You don’t want to just do these kinds of things whenever we huddle around

SYSTEM

Tech Foundation appoints new directors to board The Texas Tech Foundation selected nine new members to its Board of Directors in its first meeting on Friday, according to a Tech news release.

The foundation, which provides philanthropic leadership to the Tech System, had its new directors approved in the October meeting, according to the release.

The new board members will serve four-year terms ending Aug. 31, 2020.

According to the release, the individuals named to the Tech Foundation Board of Directors are:

Chris Aulds, founder and partner of Pearl Energy Investments in Dallas; Tim G. Culp, president of Desert Production Inc. in Midland; J. Pat Hickman, chairman and CEO of Happy State Bank and Trust Company in Canyon, Texas; Joshua Hunt, executive vice president of Hunt Companies Inc. in El Paso; Dr. Michael F. Owen, physician with Covenant Medical Group in Lubbock; Jack Rentz, founder and chairman of Rentech Boiler Systems in Abilene; Donald R. Sinclair, presi-

dent and CEO of Western Gas Partners in Houston; Ben Stribling, owner and president of Stribling Co. in San Angelo; and Robert Taylor Jr., president of The United Family in Lubbock.

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Monday for her portrayal in a now-discredited Rolling Stone magazine article about the school’s handling of a brutal gang rape a fraternity house.

The 10-member jury’s decision came after they concluded Friday that the magazine, its publisher and reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely were responsible for defamation, with actual malice, of former associate dean of students Nicole Eramo in the 2014 story “A Rape on Campus.”

Eramo sued the magazine for $7.5 million, claiming it cast her as a villain who sought to discourage the woman identified only as Jackie from reporting her alleged assault to police. A police investigation found no evidence to back up Jackie’s rape claims.

Jurors heard testimony Monday about the extent to which the story has damaged Eramo’s life and reputation before

they began deliberating to decide how much to award her in damages.

Eramo told jurors that after the story’s publication, she had trouble sleeping, feared for her safety and struggled with how to explain what was happening to her then-7-year-old son. One day, she crawled under her desk and contemplated suicide as she felt her world come crashing down around her, she said.

Her husband testified that she told him: “I don’t know that I can live anymore.”

“I just wanted to disappear,” said Eramo, who cried throughout much of her testimony. “I didn’t know how it was going to be OK.” She claims the article prompted the university to move her out of her job as an associate dean into a different administrative role that she doesn’t like as much because she rarely works with students.

a large event, a holiday or whatever,” Stevens said.

“But those are certainly good times to do these kinds of ag-

gressive types of endeavors.

We may also do these just on an average weekend.”

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With cross tabulation, they were able to find overall a lot of people have strong support for their candidates, irrespective of how much they might disagree with specific policies, Norman said.

“It’s interesting, people do support Donald Trump, but they may not necessarily support his policy issues,” Norman said. “They may vote for him to be president, because they are Republicans. Same thing with Hillary Clinton as well. That’s what we see with a lot of people who are voting for her and their response to her email investigations and her plans for debt-free college.”

The reason these results were announced a day before Election Day was because both professors wanted authentic numbers that were not outdated, mostly because of the unpredictability of this election, Norman said.

The results have also nearly silenced the notion that Texas is on the path to becoming a Blue state, switching from its Republican leniency, Norman said.

Overall, the policy issue stances showed Texas has a long way to go before it strays away from its conservative roots.

“Well, Texas is historically a Red state, it has been since 1980,” Norman said.

“If you look at the different policy issues from our survey, you can see that we are still more of a Red state, and I think we have a little bit of a ways to go before we go to a Blue state.”

CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 What was interesting to Perkins, he said, was some of the divide on certain policy issues.

“Some of these results are within the margin of error, so that does make it interesting when you’re looking at some of the questions like support for Donald Trump’s policies like a ban on Muslims and building a (border) wall,” Perkins said. “I think it’s interesting that there is a divide amongst Texans on some of the policy issues, even if they’re pretty decided on who they’re going to support for president.”

Among the most contentious issues the survey found was approval for building a border wall between the United States and Mexico, Perkins said. 48 percent of the participants approved of the policy while 48 percent did not approve.

Transgender bathroom use and rights to ban hydraulic fracturing were, to many, more one-sided than many people thought they would be, Perkins said.

“I think that fracking wasn’t as much of a surprise to us because of the strong attitude in favor of local rule that many Texans have,” Perkins said. “I think most Texans feel very strongly about little government interference as possible, so I think that often we see that applied in politics to Washington, but I think in some cases it can be applied to Austin as well.”

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Members of group honoring FBI have longtime Trump ties NEW YORK (AP) — FBI Director James Comey was honored Monday night by a group whose board includes several people with longtime ties to Donald Trump, including the CEO of the National Enquirer and a convicted felon who goes by the nickname “Joey No Socks.”

Comey, already criticized over his handling of Hillary Clinton’s email investigation in the final days of the presidential campaign, accepted the lifetime achievement award from the nonprofit Federal Drug Agents Foundation. The group lists more than three dozen board directors on its website; another was the developer of a troubled Trump-branded tower in Toronto.

An FBI spokesman said the foundation provides disability, bereavement and personal crisis support to federal agents and educational and charitable grants.

Foundation representatives did not immediately respond

to phone and email messages from The Associated Press.

The foundation regularly hosts dinners and events honoring law enforcement officials. Past recipients of the lifetime achievement award include Attorney General Loretta Lynch, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, former NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton and U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan.

It was not clear whether Comey — a former U.S. attorney in Manhattan — was aware of the board members’ ties to Trump, or whether he decided those connections were not consequential given the group’s stature with New York law enforcement. But the award and ceremony came as the FBI has been accused by partisans on both the left and right of injecting itself unnecessarily into the presidential race through Comey’s statements and updates about the FBI’s nowconcluded review of Hillary Clinton’s email practices.

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troduce herself in front of the class.

Hossain said this club helps with getting over the fear of public speaking.

“I think public speaking is important for every aspect of our life from daily life to job interviews. One can avoid nervousness, jargons, filler words through practice,” Hossain said. “I believe that this organization will help me to deliver my speech in a concise and interesting fashion.”

The best part about this club is one can give the speeches at his own pace and pick the day he wants to present, Agarwal said. Her favorite memory about the organization is the Halloween meeting during which members shared ghost stories and enjoyed food together.

“Because it is an international organization, it doesn’t end after graduating from Tech,” Agarwal said.

“In any cities you move (to), there is probably a Toastmaster, so you get the opportunity to continue your manual and perfecting your public speaking skills.”

Toastmasters meetings are hosted at 6 p.m. every Monday in room 103 of the Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration.

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Toastmasters International is an organization that helps its members improve their communication, public speaking and leadership skills.

Layne Russell, a senior public relations major from Waco, joined the club after its foundation. In his classes, Russell said he has seen students who are not good at communicating.

“They may be fantastic writers and designers, but when it comes to public speaking, a lot of people still struggle,” Russell said.

“If you (participate in) an organization like ours, you get the opportunity to come in and gain some confidence. You get the practice that you need, and if you don’t start doing it now, it is going to be too late when you get to the workforce.”

The members of this club gain presentation skills, become more comfortable on the stage and learn about different aspects of communicating to a crowd, he said. During meetings, they practice impromptu speeches which are useful for interviews.

Members receive manuals when they join the organization that contain speeches

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Layne Russell, a senior public relations major from Waco and president of Toastmasters, presents his prepared speech that follows specific guidelines. Russell performed his speech within five minutes, in order of importance and conducted a short Q&A. on a variety of topics aimed at enhancing communication skills, Russell said. The organization’s name comes from the idea of mastering toasts at weddings.

During a Toastmasters meeting, the president usually opens up by asking if the members have any new business with the organization and then hand over to the

toastmaster who is the moderator, Russell said. After that two or three prepared speeches are presented, and the last part consists of impromptu speaking.

To conclude the meeting, a few experienced members comment on the quality of the speeches and give advice to the speakers, Russell said.

Nazir Hossain, a graduate

student in chemical engineering from Dhaka, Bangladesh, said the weekly meetings are the perfect platform to meet new people.

In his first speech, Hossain shared the story of his journey to the United States. He said he enjoyed receiving immediate feedback because it helped him become a better speaker.

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Live reptile intrudes on flight in Mexico

Texas Tech students participate in a late night game of basketball at the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center on Monday night.

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Forget dumping ice buckets, dancing to music or planking on objects, the latest viral phenomenon sweeping the internet consists of people standing still as part of the “mannequin challenge.”

Viral videos of the challenge feature people posing as mannequins in dramatic postures.

They began to appear late last month online and by last weekend everyone from high school cheerleaders in Texas to the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks had taken part.

The Dallas Cowboys went airborne for their challenge, complete with a stoic Tony Romo being stuffed into an overhead compartment on the team’s plane.

The challenge has become a victory celebration for some teams.

Texas Christian, Penn State and Clemson’s football teams posted mannequin challenges after big wins Saturday.

The videos are set to the song “Black Beatles” by rap duo Rae Sremmurd, which held a live version of the challenge during a concert last week.

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Internet freezes for ‘mannequin challenge’

Aria Agarwal, a senior marketing major from Austin, serves as the vice president of public relations and membership for Toastmasters. She joined the organization to overcome her fear of public speaking.

In class, Agarwal said she would get nervous and start shaking when the professor asked her to in-

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Passengers on a commercial flight in Mexico were given a start when a serpent slithered into the cabin in a scene straight out of the Hollywood thriller “Snakes on a Plane.”

The green reptile appeared suddenly on an Aeromexico flight from Torreon in the country’s north to Mexico City on Sunday, emerging from the ceiling behind an overhead luggage compartment.

Cellphone video shot by passenger Indalecio Medina showed it wriggling briefly as if trapped before partially dropping down into the cabin.

“I was reading a magazine and the passenger next to me saw it and, ‘Oh my word!’” Medina told The Associated Press by phone Monday. He estimated it was over 3 feet (about 1

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Passengers hastily unbuckled themselves to get clear of the dangling snake before it dropped to the floor, where people trapped it between rows 5 and 6 with blankets provided by a flight attendant, Medina said.

“It was a frightening situation ... but people remained calm because it didn’t get out of that space and nobody became hysterical,” Medina said. “Some people got up to see what kind of reptile it was, but nobody got carried away.”

After the pilot radioed ahead, the plane was given priority landing in Mexico City and touched down 10 minutes later. Passengers exited out the rear, and animal control workers came on board to take the stowaway into custody.

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Election Survival Guide: Day invites hysteria

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o d a y i s t h e d a y.

Today, the exhaustion and chaos of the past year and a half morphs into a different form of exhaustion and chaos as we welcome the new president of the United States into office.

Will we have a crass New York real estate mogul accused of sexual assault leading the most powerful country in the world?

Or will we elect a career politician who has been polled as largely untrustworthy across the board to be the first female president?

My, what a wonderful position we’ve put ourselves in.

I’ve heard concerns expressed from both sides of the aisle that if their opponent isn’t elected, our country won’t survive.

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton supporters alike have such extreme distrust in the other party’s

Haley Britzky is a senior journalism major from Trophy Club.

candidate that the thought of their presidency is synonymous with doomsday.

So — to make this process a little easier for all of us — I’ve compiled a handful of things to help you survive Election Day and the next four years.

While I believe this is something the Department of Health and Human Services should have taken care of a long while ago, I’ve done my best to make it as applicable as possible.

To g e t t h r o u g h t h e election, you will need the following: First of all, a quiet room in which you can scream or curse as loudly as you want without interrup-

tion and/or judgment. A bottle — or seven — of wine to steady your nerves because they will be uncharacteristically uneasy.

And an excuse ready for your boss and professors to explain your hangover induced absence on Wednesday.

Most importantly, you need the reality check that despite someone whom you abhor being elected, the world will keep spinning.

I’ve heard concerns expressed from both sides of the aisle that if their opponent isn’t elected, our country won’t survive.

Have you ever heard of checks and balances? Because that’s a thing which

we as Americans enjoy.

Every branch of our government is checked by the other two so that no one branch can go rogue.

There have been elections every four years since this country was founded, and I would like us to all think about how many elections there have probably been since then during which many people thought, “If (insert candidate’s name) gets elected, this country will be ruined.” Clearly, that did not end up being the case.

Now, to survive the next four years, you’ll need the following: extreme patience with your fellow citizens and faith in humanity.

That’s about it.

I don’t need to warn you of the people who will constantly flip-flop between saying “That’s why I voted for him/her” and “Well, if he/she were

in office, things would be much worse.”

It’s going to be irritating. We’re going to have to remind one another prison orange doesn’t look good on any of us.

We just need to stay cool and keep our mouths shut.

Is this election unlike anything we’ve seen in recent history?

Yes. I, for one, might cry when it’s over because this has been the longest year and a half of my life.

However, the sun will rise on Wednesday, and we’ll all go to work or school and carry on with our lives.

You can be pissed or excited about what happens tonight, but that doesn’t change the fact that you are solely responsible for your actions and words.

Yes, politics are important. Yes, this election is of particular importance.

However, it is not all there

is in the world.

Being on the “winning side” doesn’t make someone a better or a worse person.

Having voted for the next president is just something you can say you did that one time.

Miraculously, in four years it’ll be happening all over again, and we will have moved on from this.

Soon enough, the election of 2016 will just be something we shudder when we think about and whisper about in public, kind of like Voldemort.

So, don’t let it ruin friendships, don’t let yourself be so pulled in that you can’t see past it and don’t let your entire world come crashing down when the person you didn’t vote for wins.

Everyone, it’s almost over. Just a few more hours, then the real fun can start. hbritzky@dailytoreador.com

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2016 election follows American trend of progression

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lection Day is upon us. We’ve “berned” through nominees, and now, it’s finally come down to two.

I know. We’re all tired of hearing about it. We’re done being bombarded by ads and videos on Facebook. We’re sick of seeing the hate tear our friends and family apart.

Never have we seen a worse pair of candidates. It feels like 2016 has doomed as all.

But, has it? I mean, really, are we in that much danger after this year is over?

We’ve all seen the ugly come out in Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Several times, in fact.

Reporters and politi-

Kelsey Fuentez is a senior psychology and technical communication dual major from Odessa.

cians have repeatedly called it the worst election ever, and it seems to be only getting worse.

With Election Day finally here, we are almost through this awful season of watching both parties tear into each other harder than ever before.

Scandals have been consistently emerging, name-calling is all too common and the lies just keep growing. And the emails. Oh, the emails.

Let’s go back to 1968.

Remember the Convention Riots and the An-

ti-War Movement? How about the time Andrew J a c k s o n ’s m o t h e r w a s called a “common prostitute” in the newspaper?

Or what about the assassinations of Lincoln and Kennedy and the attempts on Reagan’s and Roosevelt’s lives? And these are just a few of the things our country has seen.

Every election year, the media calls it “the worst election,” but think about it.

Isn’t every year “the worst” of pretty much anything?

I read an article on Facebook recently, according to which, this would be the coldest winter, and, of course, every summer claims to be the “hottest.”

As our country and peo-

ple grow, everything gets bigger, smarter and faster.

See that trend of just taking an adjective and adding “er” to the end? It’s simply, in my opinion, a matter of time and progression.

Every election year, the media calls it “the worst election,” but think about it.

Isn’t every year “the worst” of pretty much anything?

Remember our grandparents’ stories about how people solely listened to the radio for news?

It’s different now. Speed is heightened and scrutiny is tightened. Now we have immediate and endless access to news.

I can watch highlights from the debates on Snapchat or read stats and hidden candidate secrets on Twitter.

I could even — if I felt so inclined — type this entire column on my phone and email it while I’m at the grocery store.

The beauty of technological innovation has opened not only the many doors of opportunity, but also the closet doors to reveal many hidden skeletons.

These candidates are being watched all the time.

They are being judged all

the time. And we’re just being fed by it all.

This election is definitely bizarre, and it’s definitely getting the best of us. However, it’s only following and building off its past.

As a nation, we have made such progressive strides, and now we have found ourselves in such a momentous time in history.

So, that being said, go vote.

Research the candidates, and fight for your beliefs.

Be apart of the movement. Vote because you can do so in just five minutes; vote because you are privileged to make a difference; vote because you deserve to have a voice. opinions@dailytoreador.com

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Elbowing each other all the way, Trump, Clinton near finish SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — Straining toward the finish line of the wildly unpredictable White House race, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump blitzed through battleground states Monday in a final bid to energize supporters. Clinton urged voters to embrace a “hopeful, inclusive, bighearted America,” while Trump called for support to “beat

the corrupt system.”

The candidates planned to campaign late into the night, a frenzied end to a bitter election year that has laid bare the nation’s deep economic and cultural divides.

Clinton opened the day Monday buoyed by FBI Director James Comey’s announcement Sunday that he would not recommend criminal charges against

her following a new email review. The inquiry had sapped a surging Clinton momentum at a crucial moment in the race, though she still heads into Election Day with multiple paths to the 270 Electoral College votes needed to become the nation’s first female president.

“I think I have some work to do to bring the country

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Tech class ring tradition continues

By ALEXIS CARDEN Staff Writer

Receiving an official Texas Tech class ring is a tradition that has been happening for decades.

According to the Tech Alumni Association’s website, this tradition has been going on for many years. The style of the ring has changed many times, and the present-day style was created in 1999.

The style of the official ring has several elements according to the website.

There are several different engravings on the ring, such as the univer-

sity seal, the Administration Building’s Victory Bells, the Masked Rider and the Double-T. Each ring recipient has their own views on the importance of the ring and the symbol behind it.

Matthew McEnaney is a junior electronic media and communications major from Dallas.

“Getting and having a class ring basically says, ‘Hey, I went through this’ because every university is going to be a completely different experience,” McEnaney said.

A Tech class ring is unique compared to other

universities’ rings because it specifically highlights Tech’s traditions, McEnaney said. Every time someone looks down at his Tech class ring, it will remind him of his times in Lubbock.

Students may also choose to get class rings for other reasons like continuing a family tradition.

“As a third-generation Red Raider,” McEnaney said, “getting a class ring means quite a lot since it’s a continuation of a legacy which I plan to be a part of.”

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have 75 credit hours completed, according to the Texas Tech Alumni Association website.

R a c h e l B i t t n e r, a j u n i o r natural resources management major from Lockhart, said she will receive her class ring this week and is ready to finally

wear it after working hard to earn it.

“The class ring to me symbolizes the time you spent at Tech and the amount of time you spent working in your classes to earn it,” Bittner said, “It’s kind of like a reward in a sense.”

Jason Delacruz, a freshman electronic media and communication major from Lubbock, said though Tech class rings cost a lot of money, they are worth the amount of effort it takes to finally be able to wear one.

“It represents memories and stands as a symbol of when you are part

of something spectacular,” Delacruz said.

Students have different viewpoints about what the Tech class ring means to them.

McEnaney said even though everyone views the ring differently, all students are part of something bigger than themselves, which is the university.

“You can customize your ring to make it fit you personally,” McEnaney said, “which is another way to show that everyone does go through college differently, but in the end, you make the ring your own, just like your college experience.” @LexiCardenDT

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Caravaggio on display in Milan Artwork stolen from damaged church MILAN (AP) — The director of the Brera Art Gallery in Milan has courted controversy by including in a new show a painting whose attribution to Caravaggio is still being debated.

Critics charge the decision to display a panting of “Judith Beheading Holofernes,” discovered two years ago in an attic in southern France, legitimizes its attribution to Caravaggio, driving up the work’s price were it to be put on the market. A prominent art historian has quit the Brera’s scientific committee in protest.

But gallery director James Bradburne on Monday defended the work’s display as fulfilling one of a museum’s missions, “to be a laboratory for creating new knowledge,” and not an endorsement.

“If we are not that, we are just a big shed with some stuff on the walls,” Bradburne told The Associated Press.

Some of the controversy was born out of the owner’s insistence that the painting be hung with the Caravag-

gio attribution — which the Brera has done. But to distance itself from the stilldisputed label, the museum added an asterisk that leads to a disclaimer lower on the wall that the attribution was a condition of the loan and did not reflect the position of the gallery or any of its personnel.

Bradburne, who has been director of the Brera for a year, says experts, not museums, have the responsibility of deciding attribution, while museums have the unique ability to show works sideby-side to spark a discussion.

“No scholar on the planet can decide to bring five masterpieces and stick them together in his bedroom so he can look, or she can look, to see if it is what it says it is going to be. Only museums can do that,” he said.

Still, Bradburne said he would not have shown the painting if it were indeed on the market now.

The painting, whose sale has been frozen for three years by the French government so its provenance

can be further studied, is being displayed with a welldocumented Caravaggio, the Brera’s own “Supper at Emmaus,” and other known copies or suspected copies of the Baroque master’s work.

The owner has put a price of 120 million euros on it, and Bradburne said the French government was expected to exercise the right of first refusal.

The debated work is being shown side-by-side with a 1607 copy by Louis Finson, who is known to have had the original by Caravaggio in his workshop that later went missing. Some scholars believe the work recovered in France is indeed the longmissing original.

Bradburne said the side-by-side placement may well aid historians in their quest to decide its true origins.

“Certainly it is putting in a piece of the puzzle. Can it be a definitive answer?

I doubt anything can. It is a piece of the puzzle that nobody has done before, or could do.”

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Mom selling homemade food sparks charges FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A single mother of six in California is headed to trial and possibly a year in jail for selling homemade ceviche through a Facebook group she created as a hobby, officials said Monday.

Mariza Ruelas, 37, was cited with two misdemeanor counts after launching the online fo-

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Agreement reached in divorce LOS ANGELES (AP) — Representatives for Angelina Jolie Pitt say she and estranged husband Brad Pitt have reached a custody agreement regarding their six children.

A statement released by a representative of the actress Monday night says the agreement was reached more than a week ago and calls for the children to remain in Jolie Pitt’s custody, with Pitt to continue to receive “therapeutic visits” with his children.

The actress filed for divorce in September, citing irreconcilable differences and saying it was for the health of the family. She sought sole physical custody, and Pitt asked a court last week to award joint custody.

rum called "209 Food Spot" — a group for Stockton-area residents to trade recipes and sell their specialty dishes.

This case has no place in the criminal courts, said San Joaquin County Deputy Public Defender Benjamin Hall, who described Ruelas as being part of a new, shared economy that's evolving

through social media. He compared it to ride-sharing ventures, such as Uber and Lyft.

Prosecutors say, however, that Ruelas did not have a business permit or undergo health inspections required of restaurants that protect people from eating food prepared in unsanitary kitchens, which can turn fatal.

MILAN (AP) — Italian authorities are investigating the theft of a 17th-century painting from an earthquake-damaged church, one of the first suspected victims of looting from last month’s quakes that have sent officials racing to recover priceless artworks before thieves and the elements get to them.

The national police unit charged with protecting cultural treasures said Monday that the 1631 painting “Pardon in Assisi”

by French painter Jean Lhomme was stolen from a village church in Nottoria.

The work was well-known among historians.

The parish priest, the Rev. Marco Rufini, told news agency ANSA that the thieves apparently ignored the risk of the church collapsing on them when they cut the painting from its frame, “adding injury to injury.”

The earthquakes on Oct. 26 and Oct.

30 collapsed buildings across a broad swath of a region already reeling from a deadly August quake. One of the iconic images of the devastation is the basilica of St. Benedict of Norcia, built over the birthplace of the patron saint of Europe, where only the facade remains standing.

While the main priorities have been tending to the estimated 30,000 people left homeless, authorities have also begun recovering artworks from the more than 182 quakedamaged or destroyed churches in the area, said the archbishop of Norcia and Spoleto, Monsignor Renato Boccardo.

“These towns have been abandoned, with their churches destroyed, so the risk of theft is very high,” he said.

In addition, a powerful storm Sunday night threatened even more damage to artworks ex-

posed to the elements. The mayor of quake-hit Visso, for example, flagged that important frescoes of the Madonna were at risk from the rain and required a helicopter to come in and extract them.

The army has moved in anti-looting units to the region, but Boccardo noted that cities like Norcia and nearby Cascia have around 40 tiny hamlets apiece, sparsely spread across mountains.

“Whoever wants to go into a home or church can go easily,” he said.

While stressing that his primary concern was providing for his flock, he said the damage to the churches had added to their trauma.

“The history of this area is expressed in its churches, the witnesses of art, history and faith,” he told reporters in Rome.

For the people of the region, he said, the quake represented a “double loss” of both their homes and their churches.

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 “We’ve got people from all different majors and different walks of life,” Bass said. “It’s one of the things that makes us unique.”

Savoie said his first game was difficult, but as he began to make new friends who would team up with him, he began to have more fun.

“My first game was so stressful because, as a human, anytime you see lime green you freak out,” Savoie said.

Walking around with other humans gave Savoie a chance to bond with other players. At the same time, being tagged by a zombie is not bad either because one gains a new group of friends to hunt down humans, he said.

Zachary Moore, a junior mechanical engineering major from Rowlett, said he watched others playing the game for three semesters before he finally joined. Moore is now a moderator with HvZ, which means he helps plan the game.

“My first game was awesome even though I got infected the first day,” Rowlett said. “I spent the rest of the week as a zombie, which was a lot of fun.”

Rowlett said he prefers being a zombie but is determined to survive until Wednesday as a human.

Playing HvZ is like playing a video game in real-life, which is why it is so much fun, he said.

“Just go have fun,” Bass said. “Don’t be too afraid of doing things wrong, and don’t be too afraid of dying.” @DailyToreador

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1. Humans vs. Zombies players battle during a target-practice game at the Engineering Key on Monday. 2. Kaleb Hess, a sophomore from Amarillo, leaps to attack a human player during a Humans vs. Zombies game at the Engineering Key on Monday. The weeklong game began Monday on campus. 3. A student leaps over another Humans vs.

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As campaign closes, Barack, Michelle Obama pass torch to Hillary Clinton PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In the place where America’s democracy took root, with tens of thousands shivering in the

cold, Barack and Michelle Obama passed the torch Monday to Hillary Clinton in an emotional but anxious plea to elect her president.

Though the book won’t close on his presidency until Inauguration Day, Obama’s frenzied, last-minute push for Clinton was a farewell tour of

the nation. As he crisscrossed Michigan, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania, he waxed nostalgic, told old stories and teared up as he thanked the

nation for betting, improbably, on “a skinny guy with a funny name.”

He said he’d been asked recently whether the hope

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that defined his campaign had somehow survived eight trying years. “ T h e a n s w e r ’s y e s , ” Obama said in Independence Mall, not far from the Liberty Bell. He said he was still a believer, “and that’s because of you.”

“In the letters you’ve written me, in the tears you’ve shed for a lost loved one, I’ve seen again and again your goodness and your strength and your heart,” Obama said.

Then the Obamas and the Clintons embraced onstage: The last Democratic president and the current one; the first black president and the woman who, today, may break yet another historic barrier.

It was left to Michelle Obama, whose visceral speeches this campaign hit a nerve with many Americans, to cast both families as part of a singular American story: One of inclusive opportunity that she hoped would contrast powerfully with the vision of Republican Donald Trump.

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Tech, Utah set for first-round meeting

By ALEXA BOUTWELL Staff Writer

The Texas Tech soccer team earned its fifth straight NCAA Soccer Championship berth, as the Red Raiders travel to take on Utah in the opening round at 2 p.m.

Saturday at Salt Lake City, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

In the five appearances by the Red Raiders, this will be the first year Tech has had to open up the tournament on the road. The Red Raiders are currently 5-3-1 all-time in NCAA Championship matches, according to the release.

The Red Raiders were not sure if their season would continue after falling short to No. 1 West Virginia in the Big 12 Conference Championship quarterfinals round, but they are excited to get to continue the season, Tech coach Tom Stone said in the release.

“Five NCAA Tournament bids in a row is certainly a great feeling, and we didn’t want to be saying goodbye to our seniors today, so it was awesome to be able to look at them and say, ‘Hey, you have at least one more game and possibly more,’” Stone said in the release. “This year, we really didn’t have any kind of idea because we were in that bubble group. So, we didn’t know if we were in, where we would go or who

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Texas Tech sophomore forward Gwennie Puente advances the ball down the field on a breakaway during the Red Raiders’ match against the Oklahoma State Cowgirls on Oct. 7. The Red Raiders are currently 5-3-1 in NCAA Championship games. we would play. Look at the Big 12 RPI. It’s No. 1 in the country, and I think the conference strength really helped us today.”

This Saturday will be the first time the Red Raiders and the Utes meet each other on the soccer field. It will mark the first time Tech faces a PAC-12 opponent in the NCAA Championship,

according to the release.

The Red Raiders will enter the tournament with a 9-8-2 overall record. After knocking down non-conference opponents earlier in the season with a record of 7-1-2, Tech split its first two Big 12 matches.

The Red Raiders ran into a dry spell after defeating Iowa State 3-0 on Sept. 25

and did not win any more conference games until they faced No. 24 Oklahoma in a do-or-die matchup. Tech overcame the Sooners 1-0 to end the regular season and enter the Big 12 Championship tournament.

Freshman forward Jade King became new face on the field for the Red Raiders and has led the team on

offense this season. She was selected to the All-Freshman Big 12 team and led the Red Raiders in scoring with six goals and one assist, according to the release.

This Tech team has been a versatile one with nine different Red Raiders scoring goals this season. On the defense, senior goalkeeper Watson was named the first

team All-Big 12 honoree, according to the release.

The Red Raiders also had sophomore midfielder Gwennie Puente selected to the All-Big 12 second team, while freshman midfielder Jordie Harr was selected to the AllBig 12 freshman team.

Utah went 11-3-5 in the regular season and had a 6-1-4 record against PAC-12 opponents. The Utes offense has been led by sophomore forward Hailey Skolmoski, who has tallied 13 goals and three assists this season, according to the release.

Tech has a 4-0 record in opening-round matchups, but it will have to defeat Utah on Saturday to keep the winning streak alive. The Red Raiders have advanced to the second round in all four NCAA Championship appearances and plan to do the same this weekend.

“It’s interesting because it’s the first time for us to go on the road for a first-round game. We’ve always been at home in the friendly confines of Lubbock, Texas,” Stone said in the release. “But now we get to go to altitude and play a team that’s red hot.

They’re one of the best teams in the PAC-12: very athletic, very well-coached, they’re the heavy favorite, and I think we can sit in that spot and get ready for them and hopefully give one of our best performances of the year.” @ABoutwellDT

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Kelce’s towel throw expresses frustration K ansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce had to leave early in the fourth quarter for two unsportsmanlike conduct calls during his team’s 19-14 win over the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday.

His first unsportsmanlike penalty had nothing of note, as he just protested a pass interference call not given to him on a pass to the end zone.

The second penalty he received happened almost immediately afterward. As soon as the penalty flag landed, Kelce gave a referee a solid reason to eject him.

Kelce then threw a towel

Diego Gaytan is a senior technical communications English major from Austin.

he tucks in his pants in the direction of the referee.

Having already thrown his only flag before Kelce tossed his, the referee had nothing but his cap to throw back to make the sequence of events into one of the strangest and most wonderful things to happen this season.

This season, the NFL front office and its officiating crew have received much criticism from the players

with their inconsistency in applying the game’s rules and policies.

For example, former Baltimore running back Ray Rice hasn’t returned to the NFL after receiving an indefinite suspension for domestic violence, but New York Giants kicker Josh Brown, received just one game for his thoroughly documented domestic violence incident.

As far as its officiating crew, NFL referees have yet to give Cam Newton a roughing the passer call after multiple head-to-head hits.

These particular storylines may have not factored into Kelce’s decision to the throw at the ref, but it ex-

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pressed the frustrations of many fans.

If one watches football long enough, one eventually questions an officiating crew’s decisions. You can best experience this phenomenon at any Texas Tech football game.

Only referees throw flags on the field, and with Kelce reversing the roles, football fans had the chance to see an official metaphorically penalized.

How many yards Kelce’s flag accounts for remains unclear, but his rebellious act has the potential to turn into a fixture in and outside the NFL. Seeing the referee

throw his cap dumbfounded by Kelce’s towel throw, shows the originality of Kelce’s throw.

The towel flying past the ref completely caught the referee off guard.

The referee probably never had a towel thrown at him outside of the times he swims.

While throwing a towel connotes a feeling of defeat, Kelce turned it into a symbol of defiance, a representative push back.

Obviously, Kelce’s ejection implies throwing a towel at someone doesn’t go over well, but his towel throw came at a time when the NFL has tried to take the

fun out of its product.

Players can’t wear certain cleats, can’t twerk, can’t dunk on field goal posts and can’t spin a ball on the ground.

Anything cool a player could do, the NFL looks like it wants to take it away.

The NFL sees “excessive” celebrations and colorful cleats as potentially detrimental to a young fan’s character, all while placing advertisements promoting alcohol around stadiums and in commercials.

Kelce received an ejection, but he left the NFL a towel to wipe its lame and flaky policies. @DGaytanDT

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Rockets glide past Wizards, 114-106 Cowboys visit Steelers for road match WASHINGTON (AP) — James Harden set aside a rough first quarter to finish with 32 points and 15 assists, leading the Houston Rockets past the struggling Wizards 114-106 on Monday night. Washington’s John Wall broke the franchise record for career assists before getting eject-

ed in the final minute.

Harden shot just 1 for 4 and had five turnovers in the opening period, which ended with Washington ahead 3023. But he got more and more involved at the offensive end and scored eight consecutive Houston points in one stretch of the fourth quarter, including half of a 12-0 run that

gave the Rockets a 106-95 lead with a little more than 3 1/2 minutes left.

This was his fourth consecutive game with at least 30 points and 10 assists for Harden, who entered the day leading the NBA in assists at 12.3 per game and fourth in scoring average at 31.5 points.

FRISCO (AP) — Dak Prescott is on a rookie roll in Dallas not unlike what Ben Roethlisberger enjoyed in Pittsburgh 12 years ago.

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Players, coaches seek bowl eligibility

By ARIANA HERNANDEZ Staff Writer

The Red Raiders need to win at least two of the last three season games in order to become eligible for a bowl game. Tech faces off against Oklahoma State this Saturday, followed

by Iowa State on Nov. 19 and then Baylor during Thanksgiving break.

The last time Tech did not appear in a bowl game was in 2014, which was junior quarterback Patrick Mahomes II’s freshman year.

Last season, the Red Raiders finished the season strong and won the last two regular season games and qualified for a bowl game and played against Louisiana State University in the Advocare V100 Texas Bowl in Houston. Tech lost, 56-27.

Tech has appeared in a total of 37 bowl games. Out of the 37 appearances, Tech’s all-time record stands at 14-22-1.

The Red Raiders have yet to win a bowl game since 2013 when they played in the Holiday Bowl against Arizona State and won, 37-23.

“We want to be here playing for a bowl game,” Mahomes said. “You don’t want to go home in December and sit at home. I did that my freshman year and never want to do that again. It’s something people are going to fight and give whatever they’ve got to

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Texas Tech senior defensive back Justis Nelson waits for a play to start during the Red Raiders' 47-35 loss against Texas on Saturday at Jones AT&T Stadium. Tech has not won in Stillwater, Oklahoma, since 2001. win, hopefully three games, and get to a bowl game.”

Appearing in a bowl game would mean less off-season time for Tech, which could appeal to both coaches and players. However, Tech’s next opponent Oklahoma State, will not be an easy game to win. Currently the Cowboys are ranked No. 17

going into week 11.

The Red Raiders have not won against Oklahoma State since 2008, and they have yet to win in Stillwater, Oklahoma, since 2001 when Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury was quarterback for Tech, according to the Tech Athletics website.

While Oklahoma State

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has a seven-game win streak against Tech, the Red Raiders have a current win streak of four against Iowa State and last season Tech won against the Cyclones, 66-31, in Lubbock.

However, for Tech’s last matchup of the season against Baylor, it will be another tough one to come

by. Baylor currently has a win streak of five over Tech and last season Baylor won, 63-35, in Waco.

Kingsbury said while the thought of a bowl game is in the back of players’ and coaches’ minds, the team is taking things week by week.

“I think you focus on each week, really and truly,”

Kingsbury said. “I’m sure players think about it. Coaches think about it. But when you’re playing a top-15 team on the road, you better worry about them first. So, that’s a big challenge, and it’s been our main focus.”

Junior wide receiver Cameron Batson said he is not nervous about the thought of not attending a bowl game.

For him, he said it makes him play harder when there is pressure to get the job done.

“I definitely don’t feel pressure, not personally,” Batson said. “I don’t think the team feels pressure. I always play better when my back’s against the wall. You have to come out fighting like a dog, that’s what we’re going to come at.”

Senior defensive back Justis Nelson said finishing the rest of the season strong would be ideal.

Nelson said the Red Raiders will have to continue to play physical as they head into the last three games of the season.

“We’re trying to win every game,” Nelson said. “I mean, I think we’re doing what we can in practice. We’re practicing hard out there, for sure.

The mindset isn’t to just win two games to be bowl eligible, but we’re trying to win every game. We’re trying to finish this season as tough as we can, as perfect as we can.” @A_HernandezDT

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Tech, Iowa State set for 2:30 p.m. start Texas Rangers decline Holland’s deal Texas Tech will face off against Iowa State at 2:30 p.m. on Nov. 19 at Jack Trice Stadium in Ames, Iowa. The game will be nationally televised on Fox Sports 1.

This was the final game time to be announced for Tech, and it was announced by the Big 12 Conference

Monday morning, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

Tech is 11-3 against Iowa State and has four straight wins in the series. Last year, Tech defeated Iowa State, 66-3, and junior quarterback Patrick Mahomes II had 428 passing yards and five

touchdowns in that game.

However, before the Red Raiders travel to Ames, they must head north for a road match against the Oklahoma State Cowboys at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater, Oklahoma. @JackDensmore_DT

ARLINGTON (AP) — Derek Holland is a free agent after the Texas Rangers declined their $11 million option on his contract and instead chose to pay the lefthander a $1.5 million buyout.

The AL West champions announced the move Monday, but left open the possibility of re-signing Holland.

Holland was part of Texas’ only two World Series teams in 2010 and 2011, but has missed significant time because of injuries the past three seasons.

“The Rangers appreciate the many contributions that Derek Holland has made to this franchise, both on the field and in the community,” general manager Jon Daniels said in a

statement. “While today’s action doesn’t necessarily close the door on our future interest in Derek, we want to thank him for the impact he has made here.”

In 179 career games for Texas, Holland is 62-50 with a 4.35 ERA. He was a 25th-round selection in the June 2006 amateur draft and signed with the Rangers the following May.