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‘What’s rightfully ours’

Tech to host NCAA tournament game after Big 12 championship

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n Monday, the Texas Tech soccer team found out its postseason tournament fate, as the NCAA announced the Red Raiders would host a first round matchup against North Texas.

The game will be at 7 p.m.

Friday at the John Walker Soccer Complex against the Mean Green.

The opponent selection was the only question in the minds of the Red Raider players as they watched the selection show for the first time ever, as they secured an automatic spot in the tournament by winning the Big 12 Conference championship on Sunday.

“It’s still a little bit unreal,” senior forward Janine Beckie said.

“That’s what we’ve wanted all four years here. It’s been taken away from us the last three years. You know, for me it’s like we finally got what’s rightfully ours.”

Tech did not become conference champions easily, though, Beckie said.

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UPCOMING GAME • • • •

What: First round NCAA tournament Who: Tech vs. North Texas Where: John Walker Soccer Complex When: 7 p.m. Friday

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The Texas Tech soccer team earned the first Big 12 championship in program history with a 1-0 win against Kansas on Sunday in Kansas City, Missouri. Tech will host North Texas at 7 p.m. on Friday at the John Walker Soccer Complex in the opening round of the NCAA tournament.

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HSC employee fatally hit by car while helping dog

Adviser displays love of music

Women’s Studies Program kicks off Week of Action

Travis Motsenbocker, a 26-yearold community member who worked at the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center, was fatally struck by a car at 2:40 a.m. on Sunday.

Motsenbocker was trying to help a dog that had been hit by a car when he was struck, according to a report.

The driver of the vehicle that struck Motsenbocker did not stop afterward, according to a report, and anyone with information about the incident should call CrimeLine at 806-741-1000.

Motsenbocker graduated from Coronado High School in 2006, according to the report, and formerly worked as a private contractor and carpenter.

Motsenbocker was working at the HSC alongside his mother, building onto structures, according to the report, and had a passion for animals.

Karen Douglas, Motsenbocker’s mother, said in the report Travis had a huge heart and never shied away from his emotions. The two were very close.

Amanda Motsenbocker was his wife, and said in the report the two recently celebrated six years of their relationship. The couple had known each other since elementary school.

A Go Fund Me page has been set up for those who wish to donate to the family for funeral expenses, according to the report.

When students are trying to decide what classes to take and what career path to follow, an academic adviser is there to aid them in a decision.

However, students rarely think of what other passions and hobbies that adviser might have.

Heath Tolleson, the academic adviser for journalism, said he has a passion for tending to other crowds of people through music.

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To l l e s o n is part of the local Americana band The Goners, that has gigs TOLLESON all around the city.

The Goners has three singersongwriters, including Tolleson, and includes various electrical and acoustic sounds. He said that he does vocals, harmonies and rhythm in the band.

Tolleson said although the

band may get the opportunity to travel at times, it is mostly local.

Part of this is because of the fact that along with his advising job at Tech, he is also in graduate school.

He said his love for music and songwriting came from his early love of poetry and short stories in elementary school.

Edgar Allan Poe was among his favorite poets, and he said “Annabel Lee” is a work he often still looks back on and admires.

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Tech Public Media wins EMMY awards On Saturday at a ceremony in Austin, Texas Tech Public Media was presented with two EMMY awards from the National Association of Televisions Arts and Sciences — Lonestar Region.

According to a Tech news release, the awards were presented for the documentaries “Guns Up: The History of Raider Red” and “Put Me to Suffering.”

“Congratulations to Paul Hunton and the entire staff at KTTZ-TV and Texas Tech Public Media for continuing to produce meaningful content for our viewers,” Chris Cook, managing director for Tech Communications and

Marketing, said in the release.

“They have done a wonderful job of identifying stories that relate locally, yet draw interest and viewers from beyond the South Plains.

I’d also like to commend Robert Giovannetti for his leadership and guidance as station manager when these stories were produced.”

“Guns Up: The History of Raider Red” is about the creation of the Raider Red mascot and follows the mascot to the 2012 participation in the Capital One Mascot Championship, according to the release. The film won the Outstanding Achievement Texas Heritage category.

The other documentary, “Put

Me to Suffering” is about Ted Dotts, former pastor for St. John’s Methodist Church in Lubbock’s journey with cancer. Dotts decided to forego cancer treatment, according to the release.

“KTTZ-TV, Texas Tech Public Media, is honored and humbled in receiving two EMMY awards,” Paul Hunton, station manager, said in the release. “We feel privileged to share the stories of the people of Lubbock and Texas Tech University.

It is a huge honor to be recognized with one of the most notable and well-respected symbols of excellence in television and film.” @KristenBartonDT

One in five women are sexually assaulted during their college years, according to a Washington Post survey, and President Barack Obama started the It’s On Us campaign in September 2014 to put an end to sexual assault on college campuses, according to the White House website.

When the campaign was launched, the Texas Tech Women’s Studies Program joined in and created a video pledge to call others to act against sexual assault, Tricia Earl, unit coordinator and academic adviser for women’s studies, said.

“We’re trying to give resources as well as space for people to discuss what it means to be more than a bystander, specifically to try and end sexual assault on campuses,” she said. “It’s On Us hit home for us, I think, because it was coming from the perspective of a bystander.”

People can take the pledge to act as more than just a bystander on itsonus.org, Earl said, and Tech students can take the pledge in person in room 123 of Doak Hall.

People can also make video pledges with the help of resources on the It’s On Us website, and Earl said she encourages everyone on campus to upload pledge videos online to spread the word about the campaign.

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New York’s attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, has launched an investigation into whether Exxon Mobil lied to the public and investors about the risks of climate change.

The investigation has brought up the same set of questions used in investigations like the tobacco industry: What did the company know and when did they know it?

“These are effects (climate change) that are going to be seen globally,” Dylan Schwilk assistant professor in the biology department, said.

“They are the sum of many individual actions.”

According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the global average temperature has increased by more than 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit since the late 1800s.

The increase in global temperature, according to the EPA, is caused by human activities. This is a direct result of releasing billions of tons of carbon dioxide and heat-trapping gases, known as greenhouse gases, into the atmosphere each year.

Greenhouse gases come from a variety of human activities, including burning fossil fuels for heat and energy, clearing forests, fertilizing crops, storing waste in landfills, raising livestock and producing some kinds of industrial products, according to the EPA website.

In addition to the growing concern surrounding climate change, President Barack

Obama rejected the Keystone XL Pipeline Friday.

The implementation of the 1,179-mile pipeline would have produced 800,000 barrels of carbonheavy petroleum daily.

America is now a global leader when it comes to taking serious action to fight climate change, Obama said Friday at the White House, and approving this project would have undercut that global leadership.

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, in a news release, said Obama and Hillary Clinton caved to extreme special interest groups and rejected good American jobs.

The American people, Priebus said, overwhelmingly support the Keystone XL pipeline.

It is a job creator, it has virtually no impact on the environment and would get the U.S. closer to North American energy independence, Priebus said in the release. The decision proves the Democratic Party, led by Obama and Clinton, has moved so far left they care more about liberal special interest groups than the American people, he said.

On the contrary, Democratic candidates have taken opportunities, such as the presidential debates, to state their opinions on the pipeline and the growing concern around the changing climate.

In a November interview with CNN, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said the idea that the U.S. would give a green light for the transportation of 800,000 barrels of

some of the dirtiest oils all over the world makes no sense to him.

“Today the scientific community is virtually unanimous,” Sanders said in the first Democratic Party debate. “Climate change is real. It is caused by human activity and we have a moral responsibility to transform our energy system away from fossil fuel to energy efficiency and sustainable energy, and leave this planet a habitable planet for our children and our grandchildren.”

Schwilk said the Earth’s climate is always changing.

This in no way lessens the magnitude and seriousness of human caused climate change.

Gage Rowden, a senior biology major from Brownfield, said climate change is not something that happens overnight.

“The fact that snow still falls in Texas doesn’t mean

climatic changes aren’t occurring,” Rowden said. “Humans should be wise and heed the warnings from increasing amounts of evidence.”

Rowden said government officials generally like to rely on hearsay and popular belief rather than scientific evidence.

Rowden said he realizes policy is meant to reflect public opinion, but it is also the appointed official’s duty to inform the people on these global issues.

According to the EPA website, the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and the warming of the planet are responsible for changes such as changing temperature and precipitation patterns, increase in ocean temperatures, sea level, acidity, melting of glaciers and sea ice and changes in the frequency, intensity and duration of extreme

weather events.

Shifts in ecosystem characteristics, like the length of the growing season, timing of flower blooms, migration of birds and an increasing threat to human health are also results of the climate changing, according to the EPA website.

“The rate of atmospheric change due to fossil fuel combustion is unprecedented in our own evolutionary history,” Schwilk said. “The fact that change has been a constant doesn’t invalidate the seriousness and the threat to human societies and natural systems.”

According to the EPA website, the climate will continue to change, but the extent of the change will depend on how much, and how quickly, greenhouse gas emissions can be reduced. @DailyToreador

POLICE BLOTTER

Non-student arrested for child negligence Friday 11:30 a.m. — A Texas

Tech police officer investigated theft of a bicycle

in Knapp Residence Hall.

A secured, red Schwinn bicycle was taken from the west bike racks.

2:42 p.m. — A Tech officer responded to a medical emergency in Holden Hall.

A student had a seizure and was transported by Lubbock Emergency Medical Services to the University Medical Center.

7:11 p.m. — A Tech officer responded to a medical emergency on the south side of Doak Hall. A temporary worker was having abdominal pains. She was transported by Lubbock EMS to Covenant Hospital.

8:39 p.m. — A Tech officer, while en route to campus,

arrested a non-student for failure to identify, outstanding warrants and violation of parole in the 1800 block of Avenue Q. The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Detention Center.

10:12 p.m. — A Tech officer issued a student a citation for consumption of alcohol by a minor in the Z4M parking lot.

The student signed the citation and was released.

11:43 p.m. — A T e c h officer arrested a student for possession of marijuana after a traffic stop in the C1 South parking lot. The student was also issued a Lubbock County citation for drunken driving by a minor and possession of alcohol by

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a minor. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

1:03 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for drunken driving and possession of marijuana following a traffic stop in the 1500 block of Akron Avenue.

The student was also issued a Lubbock County citation for possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of an alcoholic beverage in a motor vehicle. A student passenger was arrested for drug paraphernalia and consumption of alcohol by a minor. The two students were transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

2:25 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a non-student for drunken driving after a traffic stop at the intersection of 7th Street and Indiana Avenue. The non-student was also charged with abandoning or endangering a child after leaving a 2-year-old and an 11-year-old child alone without adequate supervision. The non-student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

3:33 a.m. — A Tech officer arrested a student for public intoxication after the report of a suspicious person

by Student Housing staff in Gordon Residence Hall. The student was transported to the Lubbock County Jail.

3:03 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated theft of an emergency exit sign in Weymouth Hall.

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AP

Bush leadership has Texas speaker AUSTIN (AP) — Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign has announced a Texas leadership team that includes his son, Land Commissioner George P. Bush, and state House Speaker Joe Straus.

The former Florida governor’s campaign released an “initial leadership committee” list Monday of 150-plus Texans.

They included top donors and business and industry magnates, as well as current and former state lawmakers.

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LA VIDA

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One Love Week events kick off at Rec

By MICHAEL CANTU Staff Writer

The One Love group of Texas Tech started a week full of events to highlight domestic violence at 5:30 p.m. Monday in the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center.

At the Rec Center the group was giving a look into what the rest of the week has in store, Maleah Schorpp, a sports management graduate student from Fort Worth, said.

The events are an effort to strengthen couples’ relationships and increase awareness of some unknown signs of domestic violence between couples.

Throughout the rest of the week One Love, will have workshops that will create scenarios of domestic violence and facilitation, Schorpp said. It will also show a video produced by the organization that shows the different steps of domestic violence.

“This is an important issue because throughout society there’s violence everywhere,” Anthony Lyons, a junior accounting major from Arlington and outfielder for the Tech baseball team, said. “And sometimes

ADVISER

CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 His musical background was inspired by his high school boss, the now country singer-songwriter Rodney Clawson.

The two worked on a ranch in a small farming town north of Amarillo, and Tolleson said Clawson helped him transform his thoughts and ideas into music.

Tolleson said he has been in many other bands before The Goners, in cluding his college band at Tech called the Orange County Band.

His first time playing live was at Bob’s Bar in Oklahoma, and he said it was an amazing experience for him.

“I was 18, and we went up there with one of my very good friend’s dad,” he

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 “When you come to a campus, you should feel like you’re in a safe environment,” Earl said. “That’s one thing that I think the president and vice president stressed (about the It’s On Us campaign).”

This year the Women’s Studies Program is hosting three events during the Week of Action, Earl

AP

SeaWorld will end orca shows SAN DIEGO (AP) — SeaWorld will end orca shows at its San Diego park after visitors at the tourist attraction made it clear they prefer seeing killer whales act naturally rather than doing tricks, the company’s top executive said Monday.

CEO Joel Manby told investors the park — where the iconic “Shamu” show featuring killer whales doing flips and other stunts debuted decades ago — will offer a different kind of orca experience focusing on the animal’s natural setting and behaviors, starting in 2017.

Animal rights activists called the move a marketing gimmick and want the company to phase out holding any whales in captivity.

“An end to SeaWorld’s tawdry circus-style shows is inevitable and necessary, but it’s captivity that denies these far-ranging orcas everything that is natural and important to them,” said Jared Goodman of PETA.

coming from a good household you might not be very sure about what domestic violence would look like.”

Giving examples through peers, Lyons said, makes the message stick a little bit better. It also helps those who are in danger or know of someone in danger of domestic violence to realize the actions and the steps they can take to stop the violence.

The workshops will also help students recognize signs of domestic violence through text messages and the actions of others, Aryn Allbright, a senior nutrition major from Odessa, said.

They will give people the knowledge to know where they can find resources to help themselves or those in need, she said.

“We pointed out the Rec just because we’re trying to create a healthy lifestyle, a healthy relationship,” Schorpp said. “We want to do partner workouts throughout the night just to create the idea of a healthy relationship lifestyle.”

Through the Rec Center activity, they can highlight to others and give examples of what a healthy relationship looks like, Lyons said. The

organization wants to help people identify that there is a bit of independence that comes with a relationship and manipulation can lead to an unhealthy lifestyle.

Planning for this week started during the summer, Schorpp said, and the group knew they wanted to host events to highlight domestic violence but were not quite sure how.

They ended up adding on ideas and events they originally had, she said.

Since that time, they have also added group leaders from different parts of campus life, including Greek life, athletics, other student-led organizations and a few faculty facilitators, Lyons said.

“I think a lot of people don’t even recognize signs that are happening right in front of them,” Allbright said. “This is a good way to raise awareness about that.”

Statistics show domestic violence is high in society, and Lyons said there is the potential to show people they may not always be aware they could be on the verge of committing domestic violence.

Lyons said members of the group hope people leave knowing the indi-

said. “I had my guitar, and there were about maybe 14 people in the bar and I asked the bartender if I could play and she said sure, so I played for about an hour or so.”

He said he was used to being on stage from his acting experiences in high school, so he was not as nervous as most people are during their first time performing in public.

Tolleson is in graduate school studying clinical mental health, and he said he plans to have a career in counseling and therapy and be involved in the public policy of patient assistant programs.

He applied for an adviser position when he came back to Tech, and Tolleson said it was nice to see familiar faces like Todd Chambers, who had Tolleson for class when he was an undergraduate, on the said, and the first event is at noon today in TLPDC room 153 in the library.

During the “Rape Myths on Trial: Naming the Unnamed Conspirator,” Anne Munich, a prosecutor and advocate for victims of gender violence, discusses how assumptions of jurors often work against victims of sexual assault.

There will also be an open forum at noon on Wednesday in room 119 of Doak Hall where the

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Aryn Allbright, a senior nutrition major from Odessa, Maleah Schorpp, a sports management graduate student from Fort Worth, and Anthony Lyons, a junior accounting major from Arlington and outfielder for the Tech baseball team, discuss relationship violence with spin class participants as a part of One Love Week. There will be events throughout the rest of the week hosted by the One Love organization.

viduals themselves are more aware of domestic violence in today’s society.

Once they have sat through the events of the week, the organization’s goal is to make sure a person is confident in confronting domestic violence head on, Allbright said. The difference between knowing

and not knowing could save someone’s life.

The events of the week also serve as a way to get students involved, Schorpp said, either by being a facilitator for the group or by helping out with various activities.

As of now, One Love has more than 40 facilitators and five staff members.

Locations for the rest of the week’s workshops are located on the organization’s OrgSync page, Schorpp said.

“We’d love for as many students to come out as possible,” Lyons said, “because the more knowledge for students means the more awareness across campus.”

interviewing committee.

“It was just this very cool sense of homecoming I would say,” Tolleson said. “The thing about mass comm is that it’s always changing, but you know I think the theme and the spirit of that college hasn’t, and that’s what really attracted me back and that’s why I really pushed to be an adviser for that college.”

Tolleson said that although he loves his music and enjoys doing it very much, he would not focus on it as his main occupation goal in life.

“If you would’ve asked me 10 years ago, it would’ve been a full blown yes, this is what I want to do,” he said. “But you know you got student loans and to pay for grad school and things like that, so you kind of have to be a little bit more rea-

sonable, but I also song write with other artists, and so I kind of also live vicariously though them as well.”

Brandon Adams, a close friend of Tolleson, said he admires the writing and musical skills Tolleson has.

“Heath over the years has been a really good entertainer, his live shows, you know he always likes to get a lot of energy going,” Adams said. “When he writes, he writes with the same kind of enthusiasm. He will throw a lot of words out there, and a lot of music and a lot of thought to it.”

Adams and Tolleson have written together for years and have produced songs and extended plays, including the song “Baby Bird” that they co-wrote together on Adams’ most recent EP.

Adams said Tolleson adds to his writing when he is trying to write songs.

“He gives me a lot of ideas whenever I’m writing, his enthusiasm and his sheer volume of ideas that he brings to the table are really helpful, and it kind of motivates you to get with it with your song,” Adams said. “I mean it’s very fun.”

Tolleson said to be involved in music, one does not just have to play an instrument, contrary to what people think. He said he personally loves producing music when-

ever he and his band can get some studio time.

He said if someone cannot play an instrument, there are other music careers like producing, writing music and even getting into the business aspect of the industry.

Tolleson said if there is one thing he would love to do to progress his music career, he would want to pursue songwriting, whether for himself or for other artists.

The Goners have a Facebook page with links to their website and music.

campus community can discuss topics related to It’s On Us. The last event is the forum “Rape Culture Is: Know It When You See It” at noon Thursday in TLPDC room 153 in the Library.

“Some of the faculty and students use our events as an outlet to talk,” Earl said. “This is really a campaign that’s never going to go away unless we all become more conscious about

what it’s like to be more than a bystander.”

Students can use #TTUItsOnUs to follow the campaign this year and see events from last year.

“I’ve heard a lot more people are coming to the events,” Earl said. “Every semester I think we have more and more support across campus. There seem to be more and more students and faculty who want to get together and talk.” @JenRomeroDT

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acial discrimination is a serious problem in today’s society, so if someone claims to have been racially discriminated against, they better believe it will be taken very seriously. However, if one exaggerates and ultimately lies about the encounter, it then becomes a completely different issue with entirely new implications.

According to the Los Angeles Times article, “How a ‘walking while black’ allegation turned into a ‘perfect’ police-training moment,” Dorothy Bland, dean of the journalism school at the University of North Texas, victimized herself into a case of racial discrimination on false grounds.

Bland accuses the officers, who stopped her during a late Saturday morning workout, of being racist. However, by watching the dash-cam video on YouTube, one easily can tell the encounter wasn’t what Bland had made of it.

I originally received the video of this encounter through a link on Reddit someone sent me. It piqued my interest right away, so I decided to do some research and found a lot of different opinions, stories and columns that had all been published within the span of a week. Racial discrimination is a serious problem, so I felt assured it will be thoroughly investigated.

Bland said in her column “I was caught ‘walking while black,’” published on Oct. 28 for the Dallas Morning News, and “flashing lights and sirens from a police vehicle” put her walk to a pause. However, I had already seen the video before and didn’t remember any lights or sirens, so I went back to take a second look. This was one of the many second takes I made to the video to compare it with what Bland and others were saying about it.

When comparing the video to Bland’s statement, it is clear Bland began exaggerating her story from the first sentence. Bland said her jog was interrupted by, “flashing lights and sirens,” while in the video it’s hard to tell whether the lights are on (I couldn’t), and it is obvious there is no sound coming from the police vehicle.

Police Chief Deborah Walthall said, “while the patrol car ’s emergency lights were activated, no sirens were used, contrary to Bland’s claim,” according to a Right Wing News article. This effectively proved Bland purposely exaggerated and lied in her column to victimize herself and perpetrate the officers.

After reading Walthall’s comment, I felt like the entire column would be unreliable. If one is racially discriminated against, he or she shouldn’t have to make exaggerations or lie about what happened, as the facts are enough proof.

Bland’s whole purpose in writing about her encounter with the Corinth police was to explain how she had been stopped for “walking while black.” In the video from the dashboard camera, however, one of the officers instantly explains to her she was being stopped for walking on the wrong side of the road and impeding traffic, which is a Class C misdemeanor. According to the Dallas Morning News article titled, “Dorothy Bland: I was caught ‘walking while black.’ Police chief: No, offi-

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cers were doing their jobs,” Walthall said this encounter was “a display of professionalism and genuine concern for her safety.”

During the four years of my running cross country in high school, we ran in the morning before the sun came up almost every day. We ran in residential areas, around loops and beside some major streets every now and then, so our coaches were of course very concerned and prepared to keep us safe.

In the beginning of the season before practices in the streets started, we had to attend mandatory information meetings to go over the rules and laws of running, working out or even walking in the street. The first major rule is to always run toward opposite traffic, so if a vehicle is coming one can get out of the way.

It’s understandable that not everyone may be aware of this law (although it does seem slightly suspicious that Bland, a consecutive runner in the streets, wouldn’t be aware of this, but it’s still possible). When the officers stopped and told about this lawful precaution, she didn’t even seem to care to retain information on something that could potentially save her life one day.

There is too much racial discrimination in the world to be crying wolf and exaggerating an encounter to make it into something completely different.

Even after the officer explains this to her, she goes on to say “I’m amazed I get stopped for walking,” which leads me to believe she hadn’t paid attention to the explanation the officer had just given her or even cared. In her mind, she was stopped because she’s black, making her prejudiced toward the police officers.

The officers didn’t stop her because she’s black.

They had even passed her earlier but didn’t stop her because she was not in the street or impeding traffic.

According to Walthall, the reason they went back was because a pickup truck was forced into coming to an almost complete stop to avoid hitting her. As the officers passed by, the driver of the truck motioned to them in a way of saying, “please do something about this,” so they turned around.

Bland only mentions the reason for her stop once in her column and she leaves out the multiple times the officers assured her they were ultimately concerned for her safety.

There is too much racial discrimination in the world to be crying wolf and exaggerating an encounter to make it into something completely different. Walthall said she was disappointed in a resident making this into a racial issue when, “clearly it is not.” emartinez@dailytoreador.com

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Black Friday sales closest thing to “Hunger Games” US will ever get

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ccording to a Nov. 4 Fox News article, fans of the “Hunger Games” will soon be able to travel Bartow County, Georgia, and experience the “Hunger Games” theme park.

However, Lionsgate Entertainment, the company that owns the rights to the film series, has made a huge miscalculation. I do not know who would ever want to spend the money at these parks when they could recreate the “Hunger Games” experience during Black Friday sales across the U.S. for free.

There are few things as vicious, adrenaline pumping and soul sucking as an intense Black Friday race at a popular store. If I were to rate the experience, I would place it slightly above a “Hunger Games” experience and slightly below a “The Most Dangerous Game” experience.

Of course, people don’t get murdered during this sale (Which isn’t to say people do not die during these events. See Ranker’s classy list, “The Worst Black Friday Injuries and Deaths of All Time.”), but these sales will give customers the most violent, legal sense of action possible.

I was first introduced to the competition one cold November during my high school years. My father told me I chose to participate in the calamity of Black Friday, but the calamity actually chose me. It was a laptop that forced me to venture out, a 15-inch Sony Vaio laptop with three gigabytes of RAM for $300.

To a high-school student without a smartphone, this laptop was a ticket to

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the outside world. I was hooked: I really had no other choice than to volunteer myself as tribute to the Black Friday machine.

Thanksgiving came, and my family gathered for a feast. My grandmother and my great-aunt both cooked a grand feast, with turkey, stuffing, hot rolls, fruit salad, cranberry sauce and baked potatoes. Yet, my mind was elsewhere. I was impatient. I scarfed down my food, especially when my friends texted me that a line was forming. My relatives all ate slow, chewing with lumbering thought, dissecting every taste and discussing tedious memories. As soon as the meal was finished, I excused myself and sped off into the night.

At the beginning of each Black Friday not only is the success of each shopper determined by how passionately they shop, but also by how much time they sacrifice. By the time we arrived, a steady line of shoppers had already set up their tents, creating an odd campground of shoppers against the gray, cold sidewalk and walls of Best Buy. We tried to make friends with the other shoppers, but soon realized it was pointless. One of the largest problems characters faced in the “Hunger Games” trials was loyalty; in a fight for survival, friends became foes within the blink of an

matter how civil American families may be considered, give them great discounts and many will trample each other in a race to get cheaper material goods.

Of course, once the sun comes up and the city awakes, the shopping becomes more normal and less violent. The city will be flooded with shoppers preparing for the upcoming holiday season, but at least no gates will be broken down and no fights breaking out. The real fierceness of Black Friday occurs in the early hours of the morning, and most shoppers will never see its true face.

As for me, I had missed the majority of my family’s Thanksgiving, and finally had a laptop of my own.

The Sony Vaio, now discontinued, turned out to be a sturdy laptop, and I used it for many years.

Yet, in retrospect, I actually wonder if it made my life any better, any richer.

With it, I spent countless hours surfing the web, watching movies and playing online video games with friends. Most of the time, I was in my room alone. I might have beat the Black Friday crowds, but did I actually win?

The “Hunger Games” theme park may try and promote wonder and excitement, but the books and movies are built on themes of violence, competition and loss. For these themes, shoppers should skip the theme parks and instead go camp out for a Black Friday sale, the truest “Hunger Game” experience one can find in the U.S. jmiller@dailytoreador.com

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eye. Sure enough, when Best Buy started passing out limited vouchers for items at 4 a.m., tensions began to rise as item vouchers ran out.

At 5 a.m., the gates finally opened, and all hell broke loose. In the “Hunger Games,” each contestant began the competition with a race for their favorite items, and in Best Buy it was no different. The short shoppers ducked and wove through the crowds while the tall leaned over others and grabbed their items.

The small shoppers darted through the aisles, while the large plowed through any poor soul who stood in their way.

As for me, I grabbed my laptop and got out as quickly as I could, which happened to be around 6 a.m. Across the country, reports of stampedes, fights and broken gates were rising, and I wanted nothing more than to be home with my new laptop.

One of the most important themes of the “Hunger Games,” is the implication of the ominous powers and how they can manipulate the nation. In this sense, theme parks would be challenged to fully recreate this feeling, even if the parks wanted to. However, the Black Friday sales show a force that rules American culture in a way a theme park never could.

If the government in the “Hunger Games” uses the competition to remind its citizens who has power, the Black Friday sales show just how strongly consumerism has become ingrained in U.S. culture.

The holiday proves that no

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hroughout the past decade, the Texas Tech football team has boasted one of the top offenses in the country.

After Saturday’s game against West Virginia, the Red Raiders have now recorded more than 325 yards of offense in 50-straight games, which is the longest current streak in FBS, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

Despite the team’s 5-5 record this season, the offense is approaching a record that has never been achieved before: a 4,000yard passer, 1,000-yard receiver and a 1,000-yard rusher in a single season.

According to the statistics in the archives on the Tech Athletics website, this has never been done in Tech football history. With two games remaining on the 2015 schedule, there is still a little more that needs to be done to reach this mark.

Sophomore quarterback Patrick Mahomes needs 473 more yards to reach the 4,000 passing yard mark.

He is averaging 353 passing yards per game, according to the NCAA football website.

Jeremy Krakosky is a senior dual marketing and management major from Red Oak.

Senior wide receiver Jakeem Grant is 40 yards away from breaking 1,000 receiving yards for the first time in his career. He averaging 96 receiving yards per game, according to the website.

Senior running back DeAndre Washington reached the 1,000-yard mark this past Saturday. He has 1,034 rushing yards this season, which is already just outside the top 10 rushing seasons in school history, according to the Tech Athletics website.

Senior center Jared Kaster said the offensive line is proud to have helped Washington reach 1,000 yards in back-toback seasons.

“Seeing him put all that work in and actually showing and getting another thousand yards, we take pride in that just to see him doing that,” he said.

“If there’s one guy on this team that’s going to get an

accomplishment like that, it’s going to be him. (We) are happy for the guy.”

As for the passing part of the trio, Tech has had a 4,000 yard passer nine times in school history, according to the Tech Athletics website.

The team has had more than 10 seasons with a 1,000-yard receiver and more than 10 seasons with a 1,000-yard rusher.

The last time the Red Raiders had two of three accomplishments was in 2008 when Graham Harrell and Michael Crabtree connected to go more than 4,000 and 1,000, respectively.

Tech had a 1,000-yard receiver and runner in 1992, according to sportsreference.com, but quarterback Robert Hall threw for only 1,645 yards.

Having this trio of offensive weapons is not a common accomplishment as no team has done it this season. Only Colorado State and Oregon accomplished it last season, according to the NCAA football website.

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With a productive game from Mahomes and a few passes to Grant this Saturday, the Red Raiders could become the first and possibly the only team in the nation to have a 4,000-

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Now the quarterback thrust into a starting role for No. 4 Baylor because of Seth Russell’s season-ending neck surgery is prepping for his first home start. The Bears (8-0, 5-0 Big 12, No. 6 CFP) play 12th-ranked Oklahoma (8-1, 5-1, No. 15 CFP) on Saturday night after winning at Kansas State in Stidham’s first start.

“We went in unscathed and remain unscathed,” coach Art Briles said Monday, refusing to refer to the quarterback who has been on campus since January as a freshman.

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Senior wide receiver Jakeem Grant and sophomore receiver Ian Sadler combined for 21 receptions and 300 yards in Tech’s loss to Oklahoma State on Oct. 31.

The two receivers led the team in both categories, while outside receivers Devin Lauderdale and Reginald Davis only hauled in six passes total for 65 yards.

Davis and Lauderdale did not have any receiving touchdowns against Oklahoma State.

Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury said he believes Davis has to mature on his second half play on and off the field, as in the second half against Oklahoma State, Davis was disqualified because of two personal fouls committed.

“He’s got to practice better, be more consistent, same things continue to show up on game day, and he’s got to get better,” Kingsbury said. “We’re depending on him to be a better player, and I think he’s got to mature on and off the field.”

Grant said he needs the other receivers to step up and make plays while he gets double covered so quarterback Patrick Mahomes II can get the ball out of his hands.

“I tell them that there’s going to be times where I’m double covered and Pat can’t go to me and Pat has to go one of you guys,” Grant said. “I tell them to match my intensity

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RIGHT: Texas Tech wide receiver Devin Lauderdale celebrates with a teammate after scoring a touchdown in the first half of the game against UTEP on Sept. 12 at Jones AT&T Stadium. ABOVE: Tech wide receiver Reginald Davis spins away from UTEP defensive back Nik Needham during their Sept. 12 matchup at Jones AT&T Stadium. Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury said Lauderdale and Davis need to improve for the Red Raiders to be more successful in red zone. and go out there and feel like no one in the nation can stop you.”

Tech needs one more victory to be bowl eligible and Grant said he mentions last year to the other receivers to get them focused.

Grant referred to last season when they watched other teams play in bowl games while the Red Raiders sat at home as motivation for the final games this year, he said.

“I told them to just look back to last year, how does it feel not going to a bowl game,” Grant said after the loss to Oklahoma State. “It hurts, so what I tell them is to not to think about

those games we won or those games we lost, we just have to think about winning out, going 3-0.”

Tech currently has two wins in conference play with four losses to ranked Big 12 opponents.

Statistically, the last two games for the Red Raiders should be easier matchups with the Kansas State Wildcats and Texas Longhorns being ranked in the bottom of the conference.

This past week, the Red Raiders traveled to Morgantown, West Virginia, and Lauderdale and Davis did not start on the outside in the loss.

Rather, Kingsbury started two young players in freshmen Tony Brown and Keke Coutee, a decision Kingsbury said was because of the combination of the other receivers not working.

“It hadn’t been working with the combination we had, so we wanted to get fresh guys in there,” Kingsbury said.

“They were young, (and) they played young.”

Davis and Lauderdale combined for a total of 19 receiving yards against the Mountaineers.

Davis hauled in one touchdown reception, but was silent the rest of the game.

Stone said. “The four of them were interchanging positions, the movement was great, the shot got rebounded and one freshman passes to another freshman and then next thing you know I’m looking up at the clock and we’re up with 5:30 left to go.”

Stone said a Big 12 championship was the goal since the beginning of his time coaching at Tech.

He and former athletic

director Gerald Myers discussed the championship aspirations in his interview before being hired at Tech.

“I remember thinking, ‘well that’s who you want to work for,’” Stone said.

“You want to work for a department that, that’s their goal. They don’t just want to have a winning sports team and just throw some resources at it, they wanted to win, so that was

an easy decision for me on that standpoint.”

Stone and Beckie have both talked about the impact the freshmen would have to make on the team throughout the season, and Beckie said the championship game was the perfect example.

Those freshmen contributions will have to continue, Beckie said, for the team to be successful in this next phase of the

“I’ve coached these guys for three years, and it’s inexcusable,” Tech offensive coordinator Eric Morris said. “They’ve got to step up and do it, or we’ve got to make some changes.”

Morris also mentioned starting the two freshmen and said he expected them to not shine against a veteran defense in West Virginia.

Morris went on to say that despite their age, they should not drop open passes when they 2015 season.

“I think there’s been times in the season that they’ve been the reason we’ve won,” Beckie said.

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are thrown to.

“We started those two freshmen, and both of them are 18 years old playing against two senior corners,” Morris said.

“So, you know, you expect a couple, not us not to dominate out there on the outside, but they can’t just drop (passes).”

Tech will look to improve on the outside when it hosts Kansas State at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday at Jones AT&T Stadium. @BSoliz_DT

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