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Organization: Chi Rho promotes faith, service and brotherhood.

Football: Eli Howard reflects on tipped passes.

Column: Some gun control arguments nonsense.

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Tech named bicycle-friendly university, gets silver rating

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By AUSTIN WATTS

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new Texas Tech basketball practice facility for the men’s and women’s teams will be built west of the United Supermarkets Arena.

Plans for the facility were announced during a Tech Athletics news conference on Wednesday, Nov. 8. The facility will be named after its largest donor, Dustin R. Womble.

“What this facility will do for us, it will allow us to recruit the best players in the country and to win Big 12 Championships and compete on the highest stage,” Tech coach Chris Beard said.

“It will also allow us to develop the players that we have. Both are equally important: recruiting and developing.”

The facility has a projected cost of $23 million, with $12 million already promised from private donors, Tech Athletics Kirby Hocutt said. Of that $12 million, Womble himself has donated $10 million to his alma mater.

“Coach Beard loves this school, first of all.

He wanted to be here. It was an awkward situation for him to get here, but this is where he ultimately wanted to be,” Womble said. “He got a commitment from Kirby (Hocutt) that he would get the facilities and all the support he needed to be successful at the highest level.”

Tech will continue to seek donations for the remaining $11 million needed for the project, with fundraising for the facility continuing to meet the $23 million goal, Hocutt said.

The facility is part of Tech Athletics’ Campaign for Fearless Champions, according to Tech Athletics, and is planned to be one of the most cuttingedge practices facilities in college basketball.

Hocutt said the athletic department hopes to have the majority of the project’s funds by

the summer.

“Fundraising is never easy, but we are so fortunate that we have those who share this vision and are interested in making this a reality,” Hocutt said.

The announcement of the new basketball facility comes less than a month after the ribboncutting of the new Sports Performance Center, which was approved in December 2015. The construction of that $48-million facility took more than one and a half years to reach completion, according to Tech Athletics.

The proposed facility will have state-of-the-art conditioning, workout, recovery and practice facilities for the Red Raider basketball teams, Hocutt said. It will also allow both basketball teams and the volleyball team to have separate practice courts. Currently, all the three teams share the United Supermarkets Arena court for practices.

The teams having to split practice time at the United Supermarkets Arena is not ideal, Hocutt said, and this project will help alleviate that issue.

“When you are competing at this level, you have to have a practice and training facility available to your student athletes each and every day,” Hocutt said. “This will be a state-of-the-art facility, but at the core of this facility is the practice court for our student athletes to use each and every day.”

The design firm in charge of the project is Populous, a sports-facility architecture firm that has designed multiple facilities and stadiums around the world.

“There will be some cutting-edge innovation that we implement in this facility, that are still in the discussion stages, that I think will set the bar for others to try to emulate with their facility projects in the years ahead,” Hocutt said. @AustinWattsDT

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1: A rendering shows what the Dustin R. Womble Basketball Practice Facility will look like once built.

Plans for the new practice facility were announced at a Tech Athletics news conference on Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017, in the United Supermarkets Arena. 2: Members of the men’s basketball team smile during a news conference announcing plans for the new basketball practice facility. The facility will provide the men’s and women’s team with conditioning, workout and recovery facilities. 3: Tech Athletic Director Kirby Hocutt talks with people at Tech Athletic’s news conference announcing the new practice facility. The project is part of the Campaign for Fearless Champions.

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Texas Tech was named a Bicycle Friendly University by the League of American Bicyclists on Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017. Tech also received a silver designation, which is a step up from the bronze designation the university was awarded by the organization in 2013.

Texas Tech has been named a Bicycle Friendly University and awarded a silver designation by the League of American Bicyclists.

Tech has received a similar designation in the past, having been awarded the bronze designation in 2013, according to a Tech news release. This award comes after changes were made around the campus by various entities and organizations such as the Outdoor Pursuits Center, Grounds Maintenance, Student Government Association and Citibus.

This designation means Tech has met all five criteria required

for a bicycle-friendly designation, according to the release. Those criteria are: engineering, education, encouragement, enforcement and evaluation.

“This designation benchmarks the university’s efforts compared to the rest of the country,” Stacy Stockard, media relations for Tech Transportation & Parking Services, said in the release. “It’s a great feeling to be at the top for Texas. We also want students and employees to know that bicycling issues are an important part of the campus transportation discussion.” @MichaelCantuDT

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College Choice recognizes Tech as prime school for veterans College Choice recently named Texas Tech to its list of 50 Best Colleges for Veterans. Ranked 22nd on the list, Tech received a College Choice Score of 88.58.

There are several factors that play into the rankings, according to the College Choice website.

However, one of the most important factors is how concerned the university is with supporting its student veterans.

“Each school has its own unique way of doing things, but at the end of the day the only thing that matters is that the school’s student veterans believe that they are part of a broader, campus team, and that the school does in fact have their six,” according to the website.

Stressing the difficulties student veterans can face when transitioning from military life to civilian life, it is crucial that universities help make that

transition easier, according to the website.

One of the reasons Tech was named to the list is because of the Military & Veteran Programs. Through this program, several events and social opportunities help connect the student veteran population on Tech’s campus.

“One of the most popular programs centered around these values is their Te c h Ve t s B o o t camp,” according to the website, “which occurs before the start of the semester and helps incoming student veterans or active service members with engaging in best practices during their transition into college life at Texas Tech.

It is billed as a great way to connect and engage with other veterans on campus, especially before the difficulties of campus and academic life get in the way.” @AveryAikenDT

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MVP supports nontraditional students

By MOLLY MCLENDON Staff Writer

Nontraditional military students have diverse lifestyles and backgrounds, but they can come together because of the Military & Veterans Programs at Texas Tech.

The department offers a wide range of support and opportunities to meet the diverse needs that the individuals might encounter during their time as college students, according to the Military & Veterans Programs website.

Simon Parmley, a graduate student from Seattle, said he had always planned on going to college but wanted to be involved in the military to find out what he was interested in.

“I did research finding schools that had good pro-

grams for what I was looking for and were known to be veteran friendly, and Tech was the one,” Parmley said.

The mission of MVP is to help these students thrive in both their academic and personal lives. The program prioritizes creating a positive college experience through promoting involvement both in the community and on campus, according to the website.

Timothy Miller, the program coordinator for the Military & Veterans Programs, handles most of the federal benefits offered to military students at Tech.

The program has a new group called Camo to Corporate. Miller said this group is designed to provide training on etiquette, resume writing, cover-letter writing, networking, interviewing and dressing for

civilian jobs.

Another opportunity offered is a program titled the MVP Green Zone. Specifically developed for Tech staff and faculty, this program helps them better understand the issues the students may be facing.

There is a specific logo on the door of any staff member who has gone through the training so that students can identify and confide in them, Miller said.

“VATT, veterans at Texas Tech, is basically a group of family members and veterans that come together and do occasional events, but don’t have the funding that some of these other organizations have,” Miller said.

Many nontraditional military students decided to go back to college and specifically chose Tech for many different reasons,

he said.

Carol Pelican, a construction engineering major from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, said she arrived at Tech because her fiancé’s family lives near Lubbock.

“I met this guy, and he was only stationed at my unit for a little while, but we ended up dating, and we’re engaged now,” she said.

Pelican said she benefits from the program primarily through the support she receives. The members at the office also answer any question she may have.

The Military & Veterans Programs values and expects service, commitment, integrity and growth from its students. The program also assists the students in their re-entry to civilian life and community, according to the website. @DailyToreador

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Lubbock named safest city for zombie apocalypse

By MATTHEW SETZEKORN Staff Writer

Over the years, Lubbock has been able to better prepare itself for a number of natural disasters that could strike the city. However, one disaster that Lubbock unknowingly prepared itself for is a zombie apocalypse.

Lubbock was named the best city in the United States to survive a zombie apocalypse, according to

Lance Lambert at realtor. com. The city’s love for guns is what put it at the top of the list.

Because Lubbock is a part of one of the most Second Amendment-friendly states in the nation, there are many shooting ranges in the area, according to the website. This also gives people an opportunity to become familiar with firearms before a zombie apocalypse.

Another reason why Lubbock is safe from po-

tential zombie attacks is because of the large number of impenetrable safe rooms and bunkers, according to the website. After an F5 tornado touched down in Lubbock in 1970 and killed 26 people, according to the National Weather Service, tornado shelters, bunkers and safe rooms are now common throughout the city.

Joel Elliott, a sophomore electrical engineering major from Mesquite and a player

Florida executes man for killings dating to 1991 the victims, Robert Carter and Brandon Snider. Carter was fatally shot and Snider had his throat slashed.

“I hope the execution gives the Carter family some peace. I wish I could have done more to save Robert. I didn’t kill anybody, but I was there,” he said.

As he spoke, one of the victim’s female family members cursed.

“Robby was a good man and a good friend, and I let him down when he needed me most,” Hannon continued. “As far as Brandon Snider, I think that everybody knows what he did to get this ball rolling.”

safer than any other city in the United States.

“I don’t think Lubbock is any safer than anywhere else for a zombie apocalypse,” Hill said. “We still wouldn’t be prepared, even if we have guns.”

However, Hill said he agrees with Elliott in terms of why Lubbock could be a safer place than the larger cities across the nation.

“There’s not a lot of tightly packed people or places, so situations in which you’ll

be backed into a crowd would be so much lower,” Hill said.

Elliott said he feels Texas Tech could be a safe place for people to stay in during a zombie apocalypse, and people could seek shelter in the residence halls.

“The dorm’s doors automatically lock and won’t unlock unless you scan your ID,” Elliott said. “As long as those keep working, I think Tech could be safe.” @DailyToreador

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STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of killing two people in 1991 on Wednesday became the third inmate executed in Florida since the state resumed carrying out the death penalty after a hiatus.

Fifty-three-year-old Patrick Hannon received a lethal injection and was pronounced dead at 8:50 p.m. at Florida State Prison in Starke, the office of the governor said.

Hannon was strapped to a gurney as witnesses watched on the other side of a glass window. While he expressed regret over the killings, he said it was two accomplices that killed

in the game Humans vs.

Zombies, said Lubbock being so safe from the walking dead does not shock him at all.

“Lubbock is in the middle of nowhere, so you wouldn’t have the problems of Dallas or Houston,” Elliott said. “There aren’t as many people around that could put you in danger.”

However, Collin Hill, a junior electrical engineering major from League City, said he feels like Lubbock is not

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Students select ornaments containing free underwear on Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017, at Urbanovsky Park. This was a giveaway event called Panty Frenzy hosted by the Texas Tech Victoria Secret Pink organization.

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Developers denied height near Grand Canyon, not deterred F L A G S TA F F, A r i z .

(AP) — Residents of a small town outside the Grand Canyon’s South Rim have rejected a building height increase, but it won’t stop developers from pursuing an expanse of retail shops, open space and lodging at the edge

of town.

Vo t e r s i n Tu s a y a n turned down a ballot meas u r e Tu e s d a y t o a l l o w buildings up to 65 feet (20 meters). Of the 131 people who cast ballots, 60 supported the measure and 71 opposed it.

The result was a blow

to Italy-based Stilo Development Group USA, a major landowner that has eyed development in town since the late 1980s. Now, it must work within existing height guidelines. Stilo will submit building plans for a property that now houses an RV park to town

officials in the coming months, said Andy Jacobs, a company spokesman. ”What we heard from voters, and we did a lot of outreach, especially in the last couple of weeks, is they still support new opportunities, particularly housing in town,” he said Wednesday.

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Barack Obama shows up in Chicago jury duty; not chosen CHICAGO (AP) — Former President Barack Obama, free of a job that forced him to move to Washington for eight years, showed up to a downtown Chicago courthouse for jury duty on Wednesday morning. Then he heard the words most prospective jurors pray for: You’re dismissed.

The 44th president’s motorcade — considerably shorter than the one when he lived in the White House — left his home in the Kenwood neighborhood on the city’s South Side and arrived at the Richard J. Daley Center shortly after 10 a.m.

Obama — wearing a dark sport coat, dress shirt, but without a tie — waved to people who gathered outside.

Shortly before noon, Cook County Chief Judge Timothy

Evans told reporters that the former president had not been selected for jury duty. But Obama was ready to serve if told to do so, Evans said.

In fact, Obama was also summoned in 2010 but that was during the period when he was the most powerful leader in the world, and he was able to postpone reporting, according to his spokeswoman, Katie Hill.

On Wednesday, Obama did get the prospective juror experience of sitting through a decades-old, 20-minute video in which Lester Holt— now the anchor of NBC Nightly News but back then on local news —explained the ins and outs of jury duty.

Obama’s experience was a bit different than the others who watched the video.

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College of engineering receives ABET accreditation

By MOLLY MCLENDON Staff Writer

The Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering at Texas Tech recently received ABET accreditation from the Engineering Accreditation Commission.

Michelle Pantoya, department chair of mechanical engineering, was part of the process to gain accreditation.

Typically, ABET audits departments every five years. However, if there are shortcomings, the department is put on a probationary program until the identified issues are fixed, she said.

“Any institution is looking at ways of improving their program, meeting the needs of its ever growing student population, meeting the needs of the

next generation and their learning styles, and what makes them the best learners they PANTOYA can be,” Pantoya said.

It is important that departments continue to develop and improve, so they can meet the standards of not only ABET accreditation but also the university and its students, she said.

“Education isn’t really stagnant,” Pantoya said.

“It’s always changing, and we’re always working towards improved learning and improvements for our graduates and their professional careers.”

The ABET program encourages colleges to continuously progress and has crite-

ria to make sure departments are up to standard, according to the ABET website.

“We archive material. We show the justifications for why we make changes that we make,” Pantoya said.

“And then, ABET says ‘This is great. This is aligned with our criteria for an overall mechanical engineering degree, so keep working in this direction.’”

The department and the professors understand the criteria ahead of time, Pantoya said, so they can expect to pass and not encounter any surprises.

“As far as academia goes, this is our business, so we pretty much know what we’re doing,” Pantoya said.

The process to receive ABET accreditation is laborious, she said. It includes justifying work, reporting

Blake Shelton tickets to go on sale Friday Tickets for Blake Shelton’s 2018 tour stop in Lubbock will go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 10.

The Country Music Freaks tour, which also features Brett Eldredge, Carly Pearce and Trace Adkins, will perform in the United

Supermarkets Arena on Texas Tech’s campus at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 16, according to Shelton’s website.

Tickets cost $104 for the lower level and $78 to $51 for the balcony level, according to TechAnnounce.

Tickets can be purchased

at www.selectaseatlubbock. com or any Lubbock Selecta-Seat outlet, according to a United Supermarkets Arena news release.

Tickets can also be purchased over the phone by calling 806-770-2000. @DailyToreador

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US tightens travel rules to Cuba, blacklists businesses WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans seeking to visit Cuba must navigate a complicated maze of travel, commerce and financial restrictions unveiled Wednesday by the Trump administration, part of a new policy to further isolate the island’s communist government.

Now off-limits to U.S. citizens are dozens of Cuban hotels, shops, tour companies and other businesses included on a lengthy American blacklist of entities that have links to Cuba’s military, intelligence or security services. And most Americans will once again be required to travel as part of heavily regulated, organized tour groups run

by U.S. companies, rather than voyaging to Cuba on their own.

The stricter rules mark a return to the tougher U.S. stance toward Cuba that existed before former President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro restored diplomatic relations in 2015. They come as President Donald Trump tries to show he’s taking action to prevent U.S. dollars from helping prop up the Cuban government.

“These measures confirm there is a serious reversal in bilateral relations which has occurred as a result of the decisions taken by the government of President Donald Trump,” said Josefina Vidal, the top Cuban diplomat for North America.

Still, the policy is only a partial rollback of Obama’s changes. Cruise ship visits and direct commercial flights between the countries will still be permitted. Embassies in Washington and Havana stay open.

The rules are designed to steer U.S. economic activity away from Cuba’s military, intelligence and security services, which dominate much of the economy through statecontrolled corporations. The goal is to encourage financial support for Cuba’s growing private sector, said senior Trump administration officials, who briefed reporters on a conference call on condition they not be quoted by name.

To that end, the Treasury Department said it is expanding and simplify-

ing a license that allows some U.S. exports to Cuba despite the embargo. They include tools and equipment to build or renovate privately owned buildings.

“We have strengthened our Cuba policies to channel economic activity away from the Cuban military and to encourage the government to move toward greater political and economic freedom for the Cuban people,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said.

Trump announced his new policy in June during a speech in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood, the cradle of Cuban-American resistance to Castro’s government. The administration took several months to finalize the details of the new rules, which will take effect Thursday.

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on statistics and tracking students’ progress in courses.

“There are so many facets to our program that we have to report on and that we want to report on,” Pantoya said.

“We want to show what we’re doing, how we’re doing it, how students are responding.”

The accreditation checks for metrics such as faculty, staff, instructors, students, classes and how processes have changed and why. The classes are evaluated to see whether they meet ABET standards.

“It’s a quality check on where students are getting their degree and what they’re learning,” she said.

This year included a unique auditing process because rather than having a department specific audit, the entire college was audited. This made individual departments accountable for

S U T H E R L A N D SPRINGS, (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence and Attorney General Jeff Sessions joined Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in meeting with the families of victims killed in Sunday’s mass shooting at a South Texas church.

The wives of Pence and Abbott joined the officials in going from table to table at the Floresville High School library to meet with the families of those killed at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs. Floresville is the Wilson County seat and the closest town of significant size to Sutherland Springs.

Pence spoke to John Holcombe, whose parents, wife, three of her children, a brother and a niece died Sunday. Holcombe and his wife’s 7-year-old daughter, Evelyn, managed to run out of the church. Holcombe was treated for shrapnel injuries and released from the hospital Monday.

Phillip Holcombe, the eldest of Crystal’s children, was also at the library. His aunt, Torie McCollum, told AP earlier that she worries most about Phillip, known as PJ, because he had already experienced the death of their

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This genuine care from the professors is inspirational, Anderson said, and the accreditation is a testament to the quality of education the college offers.

“The accreditation pretty much means that your degree is of value and that we are learning the material that we need to, getting the experience that we need to, to do the job right,” she said.

Kyle Hansard, a mechanical engineering graduate student from Midland, said he came to Tech specifically for its engineering program.

ABET accreditation is an important indicator for any great program, Hansard said.

“As an engineering student here at Tech, the ABET accreditation is crucial,” Hansard said. “Without it, the degree is kind of pointless.”

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one another, Pantoya said.

“There’s levels of greatness, levels of excellence, and if you’re not in an accredited program, you’re not even in the playing field,” she said.

Jenny Anderson, a senior mechanical engineering major from Sugar Land, serves as an officer for the American Society of Engineering.

Anderson said a number of factors influenced her decision to choose Tech’s engineering college, including the wide variety of available classes and the extracurricular opportunities within the college.

“When I originally visited, I ran into a couple professors and just from what I had seen, a lot of them seemed to really care about the students and really care about us actually learning the material,” she said.

father, Peter Hill, from congenital heart failure in 2011.

Sessions told members of the Johnson family “the country’s grieving.” The Johnsons are relatives of Lula White, the shooter’s wife’s grandmother who was among the more than two dozen killed in Sunday’s shooting. He told the Johnsons that he had just come from their First Baptist and that he “grew up in a church smaller than that one.

Church is family.”

Vice President Mike Pence is blaming the Air Force bureaucracy in addition to the gunman for a massacre at a South Texas church that left more than two dozen dead.

Pence spoke at a news conference Wednesday afternoon outside the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs,

where the shootings happened.

He said the gunman lied on his background check application when buying the weapons. He also cited the man’s history of mental illness and bureaucratic failings within the Air Force for the tragedy.

Pence began his trip to Texas Wednesday by visiting Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio to meet with victims wounded in the shooting. Then he, his wife and Texas officials met with victims’ families, first-responders and two men who pursued the gunman.

Pence said President Donald Trump had authorized a full complement of federal resources to the investigation, including 100 on-site FBI agents.

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vil came to Texas, and Texas fought back as two heroic civilians took decisive action to halt the carnage taking place in a Sutherland Springs church.

In the wake of mass shootings, the liberals are the first to bring up gun control.

This can be seen in multiple tweets of high-profile liberals after the Sutherland Springs shooting, such as former President Barack Obama.

“May God also grant all of us the wisdom to ask what concrete steps we can take to reduce the violence and weaponry in our midst,” Obama tweeted.

Comedian Chelsea Handler tweeted, “Innocent people go to church on Sunday to honor their God, and while doing so, get shot in (sic) killed. What country? America. Why? Republicans.”

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo also chimed in, tweeting, “We have pastors, priests, and rabbis to offer thoughts and prayers. What we need from Republicans in DC is to do something. Lead.”

After a multitude of tweets were sent out, attacking progun advocates and Republicans alike, the investigation later revealed that the shooting did not stop because law enforcement interfered. It stopped because an armed citizen, a “good guy with a gun,” began to fire at the shooter with his own AR-15.

The civilian fired at the shooter through a gap in his body armor and struck the shooter twice, though neither shot was fatal. The shooter attempted to flee the scene in his car, while the civilian, aided by another civilian in a car, chased

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after the shooter. During the chase, the shooter lost control of his vehicle and crashed. He was found dead in the vehicle from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

This individual should not have had firearms. The shooter was discharged from the Air Force under dishonorable circumstances. Some are saying that was the reason he could not own firearms, but it’s important to note that being discharged under the dishonorable circumstances and being dishonorably discharged, where gun rights are lost, are different.

He was discharged under dishonorable circumstances because of domestic violence, which is also a firearm-ownership disqualification. The only reason this individual could purchase firearms is because the Air Force failed to report his crimes to the database used for background checks.

Whoever is responsible for this mistake should face legal consequences. No new laws are needed because of this situation. Enforcement of current laws would’ve prevented the legal purchase of firearms if the Air Force did its job.

In this situation, we have an illegal gun owner opening fire on a church with an illegal gun being stopped by a legal gun-owning civilian. This is why many conservatives are pro-gun. Had there been more gun control, it is entirely possible that this shooting would have continued.

Most gun control advocates will cite a statistic about gun deaths that is somewhere to the effect of around 32,000 gun deaths per year in the United States.

This statistic is dishonest because it includes all gun deaths of which 60 percent are suicides and 3 percent are accidental deaths.

This statistic also includes justified shootings and so on. It’s also important to note that the clear majority of gun homicides are gang-related. In 2010 and 2011, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that 80 percent of gun homicides in the United States were gang-related.

That leaves only 2,200 non-gang-related homicides.

The Congressional Research Service report found that “assault weapons” were involved in less than 2 percent of crimes committed in the United States.

Murder in Australia, after gun ban, decreased to 31.9 percent. This is good for Australia, but the U.S. also saw a significant decrease in murder during the same period without a gun ban, 31.7 percent.

This overall decrease can be attributed to better technology for policing or various other reasons, but it sure can’t be attributed to a gun ban. According to Australia’s Bureau of Crime Statistics, after the gun ban, Australia’s assault rate went up 49.2 percent, its robbery rate went up 6.2 percent, and sexual assault rose 29.9 percent.

Overall its violent crime rate after the gun ban rose 42.2 percent. Australian women are now three times more likely to be raped than an American woman. This would seem to suggest the criminals in Australia know that the society they prey on is unarmed. With this anecdote and these statistics in mind, it’s hard to see why the left keeps insisting that firearms should be removed. @DailyToreador

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FBI unable to unlock a gunman’s cellphone WASHINGTON (AP) — The Texas church massacre is providing a familiar frustration for law enforcement: FBI agents are unable to unlock the gunman’s encrypted cellphone to learn what evidence it might hold.

But while heart-wrenching details of the rampage that left more than two dozen people dead might revive the debate over the balance of digital privacy rights and national security, it’s not likely to prompt change anytime soon.

Congress has not shown a strong appetite for legislation that would force technology companies to help the government break into encrypted phones and computers. And the fiery public debate surrounding the FBI’s legal fight with Apple Inc. has largely faded since federal authorities announced they were able to access a locked phone in a terror case without the help of the technology giant.

As a candidate, Donald Trump called on Americans to boycott Apple unless it

NEW YORK (AP) — Jubilant Democrats across America are declaring their big election victories in Virginia and New Jersey — their first of the young Trump era — mark the beginning of an anti-Trump surge that could re-shape the balance of power in Congress in 2018.

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer says he can “smell a wave coming.”

Not so fast, Republicans said Wednesday. But they acknowledged that setbacks in Virginia, New Jersey and elsewhere on Tuesday created new urgency for the GOP to fulfill its list of campaign promises before voters head back to the polls next year.

They, along with President Donald Trump, have failed to demolish “Obamacare” and now are straining to approve a far-reaching tax overhaul despite controlling the White House and both houses of Congress.

“If anything, this just puts more pressure on making sure we follow through,” House Speaker Paul Ryan said at an event hosted by the Washington Examiner.

He added, “I think it simply means we’ve got to deliver.”

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find an answer,” Combs said.

Apple said Wednesday it had offered the FBI technical advice, even though the agency had not requested its assistance.

In a statement, Apple also assured the FBI that it would expedite responses to any legal process the bureau sends the company.

Combs was telegraphing a longstanding frustration of the FBI, which claims encryption has stymied investigations of everything from sex crimes against children to drug cases, even if they obtain a warrant for the information. Agents have been unable to retrieve data from half the mobile devices — more than 6,900 phones, computers and tablets — that they tried to access in less than a year, FBI Director Christopher Wray said last month.

The issue also vexed Wray’s predecessor, James Comey, who spoke before Congress and elsewhere about the bureau’s inability to access digital devices. But the Obama White House never publicly supported

legislation that would have forced technology companies to give the FBI a back door to encrypted information, leaving Comey’s hands tied to propose a specific legislative fix.

Security experts generally believe such encryption backdoors are a terrible idea that could expose a vast amount of private, business and government data to hackers and spies.

That’s because those backdoor keys would work for bad guys as well as good guys — and the bad guys would almost immediately target them for theft, and might even be able to recreate them from scratch.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein took aim at Silicon Valley’s methods for protecting privacy during a speech last month, saying Trump’s Justice Department would be more aggressive in seeking information from technology companies. He took a harder line than his predecessors but stopped short of saying what specific steps the administration might take.

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helped the FBI hack into the phone, but he hasn’t been as vocal as president.

Still, the issue re-emerged Tuesday, when Christopher Combs, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s San Antonio division, said agents had been unable to get into the cellphone belonging to Devin Patrick Kelley, who slaughtered much of the congregation in the middle of a Sunday service.

“It highlights an issue you’ve all heard about before.

With the advance of the technology and the phones and the encryption, law enforcement is increasingly not able to get into these phones,” Combs told reporters, saying the device was being flown to an FBI lab for analysis.

Combs didn’t identify the make or model, but a U.S. official, who was briefed by law enforcement but was not authorized to discuss the case and did so on condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press it was an Apple iPhone.

“We’re working very hard to get into that phone, and that will continue until we

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Whether the president’s party delivers or not, there is clear cause for concern for a Republican Party that would lose its House majority if Democrats gained 24 seats next fall.

Tuesday’s results left little doubt that Trump’s dismal approval ratings can drag down Republican allies, particularly those serving in states he lost last November.

And even if his ratings show signs of improvement, history suggests that the first midterm elections for any new president often lead to major gains for the opposing party.

An early string of Republican retirement announcements in competitive districts across Florida, New Jersey and Arizona adds to the GOP’s challenge.

“We’re taking our country back from Donald Trump one election at a time,” Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez said in a Wednesday conference call. “This is not just one night. It is a trend.”

Added Schumer, the New York Democrat: “Our Republican friends better look out.”

Trump declared that the blame for Tuesday’s losses

was not his.

“Ed Gillespie worked hard but did not embrace me or what I stand for,” the president tweeted as he toured Asia.

Actually, Gillespie, a mainstream Republican who lost the Virginia governor’s race, had taken up Trumplike positions on such issues as Confederate monuments, NFL players’ national anthem demonstrations and the dangers of Hispanic gangs.

Trump endorsed him but was not invited to campaign in the state in recent weeks.

Republican National Committee Chair Ronna Romney McDaniel had a different view from Trump’s.

“I absolutely think any candidate should be embracing the president,” she said, “and I think Ed did.”

As for Tuesday’s longer-term significance for the Democrats, both parties’ leaders know that much can change in the year before voters decide the 2018 midterm elections. And Republicans enjoy a redistricting advantage that limits the number of truly competitive House races, thanks in large part to GOP routs during Barack Obama’s eight years in office.

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Also, Democrats wrestle with their own party strife, pitting the Bernie Sanders’ wing against the more mainstream.

The liberal group Democracy for America had abandoned Virginia’s gubernatorial candidate, Ralph Northam, over immigration policy, then celebrated his win days later. “The plus of a tidal wave like this is it washes away the stains of all the campaigns,” Charles Chamberlain, DFA’s executive director, said in an interview.

Republican Party leaders also expect their political outlook to improve dramatically once the GOP-led Congress takes action on taxes or health care.

Based on Tuesday’s results, they need to act quickly.

Governors’ races in Virginia and New Jersey — where Phil Murphy will replace Republican Chris Christie — were perhaps the most consequential, but Democrats also celebrated victories in Maine, where voters slapped the state’s Republican governor, a Trump ally, by backing a measure to expand Medicaid coverage under Obama’s health care law.

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Anna Thomas continues to heal after battle with aplastic anemia

By MARY BETH HOLM Staff Writer

Anna Thomas was elated when she received her acceptance to Texas Tech at 17 years old. A few years later, Thomas was preparing to graduate in May, but a week before walking the stage, she began to feel terribly ill.

She went over to what is now the Student Wellness Center to get blood work done and find the cause for her sickness, she said. To her and the doctor’s surprise, her platelet count was dangerously low.

According to the University of Rochester’s online encyclopedia, platelets are small blood cells that help the body form clots. Additionally, a healthy platelet count is about 150,000 to 450,000 platelets per microliter of blood. In Thomas’ case, her platelet count was at 4,000 per microliter of blood.

“ O n c e you’re below 10,000, your brain and body can start hemorrhaging, and there’s interTHOMAS nal bleeding that’s happening,” Thomas, who is now the associate director of operations at the National Wind Institute, said. “That’s why I had so many bruises that I couldn’t account for.”

She was rushed over to Covenant Medical Center, where she was diagnosed with severe aplastic anemia, she said. Six days later, she was transferred to University Medical Center for a bone marrow transplant for her aplastic anemia. Fortunately, Thomas’ younger sister donated some of her bone marrow to Thomas.

After going through many unsuccessful treatment options, Thomas said

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the doctors moved on to high-dose chemotherapy to introduce her sister’s marrow into hers, which proved to be successful.

After that, Thomas graduated with her bachelor of science in 2007 while in the hospital and was accepted into the College of Education’s graduate program.

Later, Thomas said she was healthy enough to have two children and graduated with her Master of Education in 2010.

While she was working on her Ph.D. and working at Tech, she said she began to notice symptoms similar to those she had before her first bone marrow transplant.

Despite being in Las Vegas for a conference, Thomas immediately went to the nearest Quest Diagnostics and got in contact with her doctor in Lubbock. To her dismay, her blood count results came back with a platelet

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would read and re-read an article four or five times just to include that information in my literature review, or I would have to look at and analyze data for days, when normally I could look at it and have it done in five or 10 minutes.”

Two years later, Thomas said she is still healing but is finally back to normal. She said even though she has a blood disease, she is focusing on her children and her work as the associate managing director at Tech’s National Wind Institute.

Looking back, Thomas said she was not scared the first time around, but became more scared the second time around. Then, she knew she was going to fight for her family and her future.

“I kind of see myself as a strategic fighter,” Thomas said. “I think I fight, and I work really hard, and I’m a very loyal person.” @MaryBethHolmDT

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from her friends and family in Lubbock, as she was transferred to MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston for radiation and chemotherapy.

“You’re not allowed to have visitors. You’re not allowed to walk around,” Thomas said. “It’s kind of like being in prison.”

The most frightening part of the ordeal, Thomas said, was when she was diagnosed with pneumonia on top of everything else. According to a scholarly article by Rudy Tedja, hospital-acquired pneumonia kills 27-50 percent of patients.

While she was going through this ordeal, Thomas said she was writing her dissertation from her hospital bed.

“I was on 46 medications at the time,” Thomas said.

“Needless to say, I was having a very hard time remembering what I was doing in my dissertation. Some days, I

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count of 75,000 per microliter of blood.

When drugs and treatments did not work like the first time, Thomas said it was an unreal period of time. Not only was she managing her health, the mother of two was president of Staff Senate at Tech. However, she said she had the support of her family and her work colleagues.

Kacey Marshall, assistant director of Student Services in the Wind Energy program, works alongside Thomas. She said when she and other coworkers heard about Thomas’ second transplant, they worked together to help out.

“We all did what we could,” Marshall said. “We (all) gave blood, and we got together for a benefit dinner and silent auction.”

While managing her role as a mother and co-worker, Thomas qualified for her second bone marrow transplant.

This news uprooted Thomas

In 1964, four students came together to create a fraternity that would help them grow in their Catholic faith.

After receiving the support from adviser Joe Urbanovsky, Chi Rho was founded.

The organization is a Catholic coed service fraternity that strives to strengthen the faith of its members.

“Our purpose is to unite college students under the bonds of Catholicism, to provide service to the university and the community, to further Catholic influence in life on campus, to encourage friendship, and to cultivate the spiritual development of our members,” Chi Rho President Ashley Hernandez, a junior community, family and addiction sciences major from San Antonio, said.

Chi Rho is also affiliated with St. Elizabeth Catholic Church and the Catholic

Student Center in Lubbock.

The members must attend at least one mass a week.

The fraternity was built on three pillars of faith, service and brotherhood, and the members incorporate each pillar in their activities, Hernandez said.

“For faith events, we go to church and set times throughout the week to pray the rosary together,” she said. “For brotherhood, we have bonfires, go to the movies, go bowling or just do anything to hang out together. We also have family nights and hosts dinners. As far as our service pillar, we work with the Ronald McDonald House and Catholic charities, we participate with the university on Arbor Day and Tech Retreat here on campus, and we are doing Soldiers’ Angels.”

Soldiers Angels’ is Chi Rho’s next major service project, Hernandez said. The members will collect items, package them and ship the boxes overseas to American soldiers.

The fraternity requires its members to have a certain number of service hours every semester. It hosts service activities like Soldiers’ Angels to give its members the opportunity to earn their hours.

Chi Rho currently has 13 active members and 12 pledges.

“We will almost be doubling in size after this semester,” Hernandez said. “We ask that students come with an open mind and open heart.”

Chi Rho Publicity Coordinator Bethany Naranjo, a junior public relations major from Thorndale, said she encourages students to like Chi Rho’s Facebook page and follow the Twitter and Instagram accounts to learn more about the organization.

“We have recruitment at the beginning of every semester,” Naranjo said.

“Students have to wait until recruitment to join. They cannot become a pledge in the middle of a semester.

However, they can always ask us questions and get to know us at any time.”

The organization’s activities are designed to strengthen the friendship between members. Naranjo said it was the brotherhood aspect that made her join the group. She wanted to become close to other students while growing her faith.

The fraternity is open to people of any denomination.

Members do not have to be Catholic. Overall, the group is characterized better as a family than as a fraternity, Hernandez said.

“I was really interested in it because it was a Catholic based organization,” Chi Rho Treasurer Cristian Rivas, a junior electrical engineering major from Rosenberg, said.

“I have met some really great people, and I consider them some of my best friends. We definitely have a strong bond as a group as a whole.” @DailyToreador

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Commentary on killings draws strength through repetition NEW YORK (AP) — A satirical website is responsible for one of the starkest commentaries on mass killings, and it draws its

power through repetition.

After the Texas church shooting this week, The Onion posted for the sixth time a

variation of the same article headlined: “’No Way to Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens.”

The article changes datelines — this time it was Sutherland Springs, Texas — and a few details to reflect which tragedy was most recent. But its centerpiece quote, each time from a different fictitious person, remains the same.

This week’s post: “This was a terrible tragedy, but sometimes these things just happen and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop them,”

said Kansas resident Britt Mulvanos, echoing sentiments expressed by tens of millions of individuals who reside in a nation where over half of the world’s deadliest mass shootings have occurred in the past 50 years and whose citizens are 20 times more likely to die of gun violence than those of other developed nations. “It’s a shame, but what can we do?

There really wasn’t anything that was going to keep this individual from snapping and killing a lot of people if that’s what they really wanted.”

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Texans should sign Kaepernick to fix quarterback problems T

he Houston Texans’ replacement for the ACL-torn Deshaun Watson should be former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick for the rest of the 2017 season.

Kaepernick fits the Texans’ new mobile quarterback system Watson created, much better than the currently signed quarterbacks: Tom Savage, T.J. Yates and Josh Johnson. Although Johnson is more of a mobile quarterback, Kaepernick has had more success in his career than any of the other currently signed quarterbacks.

When Kaepernick first started playing for the 49ers in 2012, he led the team all the way to the Super Bowl against the Baltimore Ravens. Even though the 49ers lost, completing this feat so

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early in his career is impressive, especially because the 49ers only lost by a field goal.

In 2013, he led the 49ers to the NFC Championship.

The 2014 season and beyond have been dark days for Kaepernick, as the team failed to reach the postseason time and again. More so, former 49ers head coach and current Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh left the team after the 2014 season.

The following year in 2015, Kaepernick had a mediocre season: throwing for only 1,615 yards, six touchdowns and

five interceptions. That year, the 49ers went 5-11; in 2016, it went 2-14. However, Kaepernick stepped up his game in 2016 by throwing for 2,241 yards, had 16 touchdowns and only four interceptions, according to NFL.com.

Another issue Kaepernick faces is the issue of the so-called national anthem protests. For the Texans, this should hardly matter in the first place, as the majority of the team knelt before the game against the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday, Oct. 29.

The team itself isn’t opposed to Kaepernick, but it’s likely the issue stems from the ownership level in Bob McNair.

He has been under fire ever since his “inmates” comment before the game against Seattle, which prompted the Texans’ protest before the game.

However, Texans coach Bill O’Brien has said Kaepernick has been discussed when looking for quarterbacks.

Although, I find it unlikely Kaepernick will be signed because of the possibility of backlash from fans regarding the heated debate over the anthem protests.

In reality, the protests shouldn’t even be discussed.

Savage cannot lead the Texans to having a successful rest of the season, nor could any of the other quarterbacks signed.

What I am saying is not to give Kaepernick the starting position forever, but to simply let him play out the rest of the Texans’ season as the starter. Additionally, Kaepernick could possibly have a backup role to Watson, once he returns from injury,

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if Kaepernick plays well with the system. He has seen more success than any of the other quarterbacks, and it would be much better to have someone who has seen success than

If the Texans continue with Savage, the Texans will easily go 4-12 or 3-13. someone who hasn’t.

Kaepernick is perfectly capable of keeping the Texans from an embarrassing season. Even if he leads a mediocre season, it would be better not only for O’Brien, but for the fans to have at least a mediocre season. The Texans could go 8-8, 7-9 or

6-10 under Kaepernick, but O’Brien would likely keep his job.

If the Texans continue with Savage, the Texans will easily go 4-12 or 3-13.

That would spell disaster for O’Brien, especially if the Texans lose to a team like the 49ers, whom has yet to win a game in the 2017 season.

If that was the case, O’Brien would be deep in the hot seat, and it wouldn’t be surprising if he was fired.

To avoid this, give Kaepernick the chance. If he works out, make him the backup and mentor to Watson. The Texans need something right now, and an insurance policy in the future in case Watson is ever injured again. Houston needs Kaepernick. @JackDensmore_DT

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Savage tries rebound after ‘cringe-worthy’ game Cowboys’ Elliott mum HOUSTON (AP) — Tom Savage knows he has a lot of work to do to rebound this week against the Los Angeles Rams after what he called a “cringe-worthy” performance in his first start for the Houston Texans on Sunday since Deshaun Watson sustained a season-ending knee injury.

Savage failed to move the offense for much of the day

in a 20-14 loss to the Colts on Sunday. The defense scored a touchdown in the first half, but Savage didn’t lead the team to any points until he threw his first career touchdown pass to DeAndre Hopkins with about six minutes remaining.

The Texans had a chance to win it on the last play, but he was sacked and fumbled for his third lost fumble in just 1½ games after he was benched at halftime of the opener after los-

ing the ball twice.

“I’m my worst critic. I really am. I mean, I know you guys probably write some bad stuff,” he said referring to reporters.

“But I can promise you that there’s no one more hard on myself than me. And so, obviously, I just look at everything I can work on and try and get better from there.”

Savage used the term “cringe-worthy” when he was asked what it was like to watch video of the game.

“Because ... I know that I can make these plays,” he said.

“That was the most frustrating part ... it was a very frustrating game for me because I was coming off the sideline like I’m

seeing everything, it’s not like too fast or the lights are too bright or anything. It’s just the way it is. I’ve done it all training camp, all preseason and I’ve done it my whole career.”

Coach Bill O’Brien wasn’t in the mood on Wednesday to discuss details of what Savage has to do to improve this week, instead speaking in broad terms about what he wants him to do.

“Play loose, play free, let it rip,” he said. “Go out there, have some fun.

Don’t worry about anything other than making the right reads, getting us into the right play and let it rip.”

amid more legal limbo FRISCO, (AP) — Ezekiel Elliott skipped his weekly media session Wednesday because of more legal limbo in the star Dallas Cowboys running back’s fight over the NFL’s six-game suspension on alleged domestic violence.

The difference this week is that Elliott, the NFL’s secondleading rusher, was with his teammates. That wasn’t the case early last week when the 22-year-old was suspended until Friday after a judge rejected his request for a second injunction.

The third legal reprieve came in an emergency stay two days before the Cowboys beat the Kansas City Chiefs.

Now Elliott seeks a longerlasting injunction from a three-judge panel that will hear his case Thursday in

New York.

A ruling could come before Sunday, when Dallas (5-3), on a three-game winning streak with significant contributions from Elliott, visits defending NFC champion Atlanta (4-4).

Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones said on his radio show Wednesday he believed Elliott was planning to attend the hearing. If so, it will be with the blessing of coach Jason Garrett.

Elliott attended the hearing in New York last week after which U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla rejected all the arguments of his legal team in reinstating the suspension levied by Commissioner Roger Goodell in August.

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Mayfield tunes out Heisman talk NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Many pundits across the nation have declared Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield the front-runner for the Heisman Trophy.

It makes sense — he passed for a school-record 598 yards and tossed five touchdown passes in last week’s 62-52 win at Oklahoma State . He already had a Heisman moment in the bank when he passed for 386 yards and three touchdowns in a 31-16 win at Ohio State in September.

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Experience has helped Mayfield put such chatter in perspective. He could become the fifth player overall and the first quarterback to finish in the top four in the Heisman balloting three times after finishing fourth in 2015 and third last year.

Right now, he’s focused on his team’s next marquee moment, when the fifth-ranked Sooners host No. 8 TCU Saturday night. If he does his part and the team keeps winning, he figures awards will take care of themselves.

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Eli Howard reflects on tipped passes

By JACK DENSMORE Staff Writer

So far in the 2017 season, sophomore defensive lineman Eli Howard estimates he has tipped about seven passes. Now, with the cast off his left arm, he looks to tip more passes this season.

Howard had to wear the cast because his left hand was broken during the game against Houston on Saturday, Sept. 23.

However, in the week leading up to the Baylor game on Saturday, Nov. 11, he was able to get the cast removed.

With his cast off, Howard is planning on intercepting a few passes instead of just tipping them, Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury said, and he has good hands with a knack for anticipating throws and getting his hands up.

“I’d like to catch one of those out of the air,” Howard said.

“But just try to get my hands up

there, and if I can get two on it, I think I can bring one down, but it just depends if I can get a good feel for it.”

During his freshman fall semester, Howard attended the University of North Texas and was redshirted before he transferred to Tech and began working with the team during spring practices, according to Tech Athletics.

Last season, Howard sat out because of the NCAA transfer rules, but he was recognized as one of the top players on the scout team by the coaches, according to Tech Athletics.

“We saw him do some really disruptive things on scout team last year, and he carried over through the spring,” Kingsbury said. “Once he’s kind of found his groove, he’s showing up, making a lot of plays and (being) very disruptive.”

In terms of the tipped passes,

one of Howard’s most recent was during the game against Kansas State on Saturday, Nov. 4. During the play, he tipped the ball right back to sophomore quarterback Alex Delton, which resulted in junior linebacker Dakota Allen tackling Delton for a loss of 11 yards, according to Tech Athletics.

During that play, Howard said he was engaged with the Kansas State offensive linemen when he threw his left hand up after he saw Delton going through his throwing progressions. This allowed him to tip the pass into the air. “(Defensive coordinator) coach (David) Gibbs has always told us the good pass rushers see the quarterback and get their hands up whenever the ball is coming out, so I just try to make an impact in the game any way I can,” Howard said. @JackDensmore_DT

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Texas Tech sophomore defensive lineman Eli Howard sets before the snap against Kansas State on Saturday, Nov. 4, 2017, at Jones AT&T Stadium. The Red Raiders lost to the Wildcats, 42 - 35, in overtime.

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Tech Athletics records highest Jose Altuve voted best by ever graduation success rate players for 2nd year in a row The 2016-17 academic year had the highest Graduation Success Rate, or GSR, for Texas Tech Athletics in school history.

Tech had an 82 percent GSR for the 2016-17 year, according to data released by the NCAA. Last year, Tech had a GSR of 81 percent. For nine-consecutive years, Tech has either maintained its score or improved from the year before, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

“We’re proud of the success our student athletes have made in the classroom,” Tech Athletic Director Kirby Hocutt said in the release. “Our goal is to always give our student athletes the tools to thrive on the playing field as well as the classroom. There are few

better moments than when we see our student athletes earn their degrees.”

Nine programs at Tech either improved or maintained their GSR score from the year before. The men’s golf, men’s tennis, women’s basketball, women’s tennis and volleyball teams all had a 100 percent GSR score, according to the release. Baseball, men’s track and field, soccer and softball either improved or maintained their GSR scores.

Eight of Tech’s programs were in the top three in the Big 12 Conference with their GSR rates for their respective sports, according to the release. GSR rates that were equal to or higher than the national average for each sport were also made by the

same eight programs.

Starting from the freshman class of 1995, the NCAA gathered GSR data, which started as a part of the NCAA’s academic-reform initiative to measure success of Division I student athletes, according to the release.

The Marsha Sharp Center for Student Athletes has spaces for private study, computer labs, supplementalinstruction classrooms and a private conferencing area for tutoring and mentoring appointments for the student athletes at Tech, according to the release. The staff is dedicated to guiding each student athlete through college from time of enrollment into the college to graduation.

NEW YORK (AP) — Houston second baseman Jose Altuve was voted outstanding player for the second straight season in Players Choice Awards balloting by the Major League Baseball Players Association.

Chicago Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo was selected Marvin Miller Man of the Year, given to the

player who most inspires other players through onfield performances and contributions to his community. Rizzo was treated for limited state classical Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2008 and in 2012 founded the Anthony Rizzo Family Foundation, which funds pediatric cancer research and supports the families of children with cancer.

Altuve, who led the Astros to their first World Series championship, also was voted outstanding AL player for the second straight year. He hit .346 and won his third AL batting title in four years.

Miami outfielder Giancarlo Stanton was the outstanding NL player, leading the major leagues with 59 home runs and 132 RBIs.

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Texas can pay most for Otani, followed by Yankees and Twins NEW YORK (AP) — Texas, the New York Yankees and Minnesota can pay the most to a young international amateur free agent as highly touted pitcheroutfielder Shohei Otani prepares to enter the market, and Major League Baseball and its Japanese counterpart have agreed to the outlines of a deal to keep the old posting system for this offseason.

The Rangers can agree

to a maximum $3,535,000 signing bonus from their pool that covers July 2 through next June 15, according to figures compiled

by Major League Baseball and obtained by The Associated Press. New York can pay $3.25 million and the Twins $3,245,000.

Just three other teams can give him a seven-figure signing bonus: Pittsburgh ($2,266,750), Miami

($1.74 million) and Seattle ($1,570,500).

After that comes Philadelphia ($900,000), Milwaukee ($765,000), Arizona ($731,250), Baltimore ($660,000), Boston ($462,000) and Tampa Bay ($440,500).

Twelve teams are capped at $300,000 as penalties for exceeding their signing bonus pool under baseball’s previous collective bargaining agreement, which did not have a cap

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Texas Tech’s tip off with Baylor was at 6 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 13, 2017. The team will play in its first game of the regular season on Friday, Nov. 10, 2017, in the United Supermarkets Arena.

The 2017-18 regular season for the Texas Tech men’s basketball team kicks off on Friday, Nov. 10.

Tech will start its season with non-conference play, followed by Big 12 Conference play starting in late December.

This will be Tech’s second season with Chris Beard as head coach, according to Tech Athletics. Tech’s team boasts a large senior class this season with four senior starters. Tech also has a large freshman class, with seven true freshmen competing to be in the starting rotation.

Tech’s first game of the season will take place at 8 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 10 in the United Supermarkets Arena as the Red Raiders take on South Alabama, according to Tech Athletics.

Tech’s second game of the season will be at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 14 in the

United Supermarkets Arena as Tech takes on Maine, according to Tech Athletics.

Both games are part of the 2017 Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Tipoff Tournament Regional Round, according to Tech Athletics.

Eight teams are competing, with the tournament finishing in Uncasville, Connecticut After the regional round in Lubbock, Tech will face Boston College at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 18 in Uncasville, Connecticut. The two teams with the best record will compete in the championship round of the tournament, with a consolation game also being held.

Following the finish of the tournament, Tech will face Wofford University at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 22 in the United Supermarkets Arena, according to Tech Athletics.

Tech will remain at home and face Savannah State at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 25.

Last season Tech went

12-1 in non-conference play.

Tech’s lone loss came from Auburn, as the Red Raiders fell, 67-65, to the Tigers in the 2016 Cancun Challenge, according to Tech Athletics.

Conference play for the Red Raiders will begin in late December as the Red Raiders take on Baylor at 7 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 29 in the United Supermarkets Arena, according to the Tech Athletics.

Following the start of conference play, Tech will play only one more non-Big 12 game for the rest of the regular season, as Tech faces South Carolina on Saturday, Jan. 27 in the 2018 Big 12/ SEC Challenge, according to Tech Athletics.

Overall Tech will play 30 games this season, with potentially an extra game in the Naismith Tournament.

According to Tech Athletics, last season Tech finished their season at 18-14 with a 6-12 record in conference play. @AustinWattsDT

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No. 8 TCU holds down top offenses FORT WORTH (AP) — TCU coach Gary Patterson doesn’t recall ever having to prepare for an offense averaging more than 600 yards a game.

The No. 8 Horned Frogs (8-1, 5-1 Big 12, No. 6 CFP), with the conference’s top defense, have already this season defeated three of the top 10 FBS offenses while holding them below their season averages for yards and points. The next challenge is a Saturday night showdown at No. 5 Oklahoma , against Heisman Trophy frontrunning quarterback Baker Mayfield and the nation’s most productive offense.

“You can’t let Oklahoma big-play you, and that’s hard to do because they have a lot

of people,” Patterson said.

“You’ve got to be able to give them different looks and you’ve got to have a group smart enough to do that and still play within the structure of the defense. Because any time you put the quarterback in play, it makes it harder.”

Mayfield had 274 yards passing with two touchdowns and ran for 55 yards and two more scores in the Sooners’ 52-46 win last year, the most points TCU gave up in 2016.

Oklahoma (8-1, 5-1, No. 5 CFP) is averaging 608 yards a game and coming off a wild 62-52 win last week at No. 12 Oklahoma State. Mayfield had a school-record 598 yards passing and five touchdowns, plus ran for another score.

“Baker ’s really done a

great job,” Patterson said.

“He’s one of those guys, if you’re playing against him you probably don’t like him. ... If you love competitors, you’ve got to admire the things he’s been able to do.

He keeps plays alive. He’s tough to tackle.”

Before Oklahoma’s CFP game in the Orange Bowl two seasons ago, Mayfield said TCU was the team that disappointed him the most in recruiting and claimed the school “kind of drug it out” without offering a scholarship while he turned down other offers. His parents later criticized Patterson and TCU in an ESPN The Magazine article for how the quarterback was treated in the recruiting process.

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Roy Halladay was among 1st to fly plane he died in LOS ANGELES (AP) — The tiny sport plane Roy Halladay was flying when he fatally crashed into the Gulf of Mexico was made for entry-level pilots like him, though the plane’s chief designer and test pilot died while flying one earlier this year, officials and experts said.

Halladay, the 40-year-old former Blue Jays and Phillies pitcher, had been the proud owner for less than a month of his ICON A5, and was

among the first to fly it, with only about 20 in existence, according the website for ICON Aviation.

In one of many enthusiastic tweets about the plane, Halladay said it felt “like flying a fighter jet.”

Rolled out in 2014, the A5 is an amphibious aircraft meant to be treated like an ATV, a piece of weekend recreational gear with folding wings that can easily be towed on a trailer to a lake where it can take off

from the water.

“The way that a lot of people described it is a Jet Ski with wings,” Stephen Pope, editor-in-chief of Flying magazine, told The Associated Press. “It’s really a play thing.”

The man who led the plane’s design, 55-year-old John Murray Karkow, died while flying an A5 over California’s Lake Berryessa on May 8, in a crash the National Transportation Safety Board blamed on pilot error.

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