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Police investigating stolen Silverado car Texas Tech police has not disclosed any further information on Monday’s report of a stolen 2009 black Chevrolet Silverado.

According to the report, a Tech officer investigated the unauthorized use of a motor vehicle in the Z4P parking lot.

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Greg Abbott chooses first nominee as governor-elect AUSTIN (AP) — Governor-elect Greg Abbott on Tuesday chose a Hispanic Republican as the first nominee of his nascent administration, naming a county judge from the Rio Grande Valley to be the new Texas secretary of state.

Abbott spent his announcement at the Texas Capitol magnifying the credentials of Cameron County Judge Carlos Cascos as well as where he plucked the state’s next chief election officer from.

Abbott spent his campaign aggressively courting Hispanics, and immigration and border security are poised to be major issues of his first year in office.

The outgoing Texas attorney general made a point of mentioning that his first official trip since his landslide victory last week was to the Rio Grande Valley.

“Judge Cascos will give the Rio Grande Valley a strong voice in Austin.

He will also show the rest of Texas the outstanding leaders produced by the Rio Grande Valley,” Abbott said.

The secretary of state’s office primarily oversees elections in Texas — an area where minority leaders in Texas have especially taken aim at Abbott as attorney general. Abbott has stridently defended a strict new Texas voter ID law that opponents say disproportionately harm blacks and Hispanics, in addition to redistricting maps that Democrats say dilute the voting power of minorities.

Cascos spent as much of his introduction talking about border security and economic development as how Texans cast ballots. Among Abbott’s plans is to send an additional 500 state troopers to the Texas border, where the Texas National Guard has already been deployed until at least the end of the year.

Lawmakers began filing bills this week ahead of the next legislative session that begins in January, which will be the first in 14 years without Gov. Rick Perry at the helm. Although Abbott didn’t go into detail about specific bills already filed, he took a wait-and-see approach when asked about the potential return of a divisive “sanctuary cities” proposals that give police broader powers to ask people about their citizenship status.

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Suicide ranks second to motor vehicle accidents as the leading cause of death among U.S. college students.

According to a study titled “Leading Causes of Mortality Among American College Students at Four Year Institutions” by the University of Virginia, suicide accounts for more deaths annually than alcohol-related motor vehicle accidents among American college students.

Bobbi Britton-Stroud, Student Counseling Center case manager, said 15 percent of U.S. graduate students and 18 percent of U.S. undergraduate students have considered committing suicide at some point in their lives, but at Texas Tech, 22.6 percent of the students surveyed at the Student Counseling Center recorded they had had thoughts of committing suicide at least once.

“Most of the time that someone is contemplating suicide they have run out of options and don’t have any hope,” Britton-Stroud said.

According to a study from the Suicide Prevention Resource Center, 7.7 percent of U.S. college students have seriously considered committing suicide, with 1.2 percent actually attempting it.

In the United States, more than 34,000 people commit suicide annually, which almost doubles the country’s average of 18,000 homicides, according to a study conducted

by Emory University.

Britton-Stroud said the Student Counseling Center offers regular Question, Persuade and Refer suicide prevention training.

“We do monthly QPR training at new employee orientations,” she said, “so all new employees in the last three years every month have been training QPR.” The QPR Institute staff describes their method of prevention as a three-step process. The steps include questioning a person about suicide, persuading them to get help and referring them to the appropriate resource, she said.

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Humans vs. Zombies game continues on campus

By ANTHONY ESTOLANO Staff Writer

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NICK PODANY, A freshman mechanical engineering major from Aledo, and Ashley Worthington, a freshman business management major from Aledo, discuss their strategy before a Humans vs. Zombies mission Tuesday in the Free Speech Area.

With neon green bandanas wrapped around their arms or foreheads and Nerf guns in hand, students on campus have begun engaging in the annual Humans vs.

Zombies game.

Matthew Soto, a senior chemical engineering major from Fort Worth and organizer of the event, said the week will be filled with excitement, with the game having more than 400 participants registered this year.

“Everything has been going on normal,” he said. “Slowly but surely we will start building the zombie count, which is low right now.”

Students participating in the event can be identified by the green bandanas they have on, Soto said.

Students with green bandanas on their heads are zombies, he said, and those with

bandanas on their arms are humans.

“For those who don’t know about the event, it is a giant game of tag,” he said. “The zombies’ objective is to tag as many humans as they can. Humans can defend themselves by running away or shooting zombies with Nerf guns, which stuns them temporarily.”

Riley Neel-Hernandez, an undeclared freshman from San Angelo and game participant, said he gets paranoid when walking from class to class as he attempts to not be tagged.

Monday morning started off with two zombies, Neel-Hernandez said.

“As the day went on, the zombie count increased,” Neel-Hernandez said. “It will get a lot worse the rest of the week. The populations of zombies will continue to increase as it did (Monday) to 16 zombies, so I have to move quickly from class to class or any building.”

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SGA polls students about fall break Officials outline Tech response plans

By HUNTER HOWARD Staff Writer

The Texas Tech Student Government Association posted a poll Tuesday asking students if they would prefer the return of fall break or the addition of more dead days before finals. Although nothing is set in stone, the outcome of this poll could give the SGA Academic Council the push they need to make a vote, SGA President Hayden Hatch said.

Savanna Barksdale, a freshman from Farwell, said she would prefer a fall break.

She would want to go home and spend more time with her family or friends that also have a fall break, she said.

“If you had more dead days, a lot of people would be waiting around to take their final and a fall break would be much easier to organize,” Barksdale said.

Macy Fangman, an undeclared freshman from Canyon, said she would also prefer a fall break.

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Fangman said she does not want to stick around waiting for final exams.

“I just want to go home, catch up on some homework, relax and do nothing else, not spend HATCH my days off studying,” Fangman said.

Logan Shipley, a freshman from Krum, said he wants a fall break because it would be more time with his family and less time he has to spend at Tech dreading finals.

Shipley said he has a different view on dead days and breaks than some other students have.

“I wish that we could do away with dead days because I think that without a dead day or two, we could actually get a full week off for Thanksgiving,” he said.

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By JONATHAN LAUREL Staff Writer

Texas Tech is prepared for any emergency or disaster that may happen on campus with the emergency plans the administration has set for each building on campus.

The university also has processes in place to let students and faculty know of any emergencies or crises, according to the TechAlert! website.

During an emergency on campus, the TechAlert! Emergency Alert Notification System will be used to communicate alerts and emergency response information to students, faculty and staff, according to the website.

“Every building on campus has their own protocol and emergency reaction plan,” Ronald Phillips, a member of the university council, said. “In the plan there is a designated safe area where students will be asked to go in case of an emergency.”

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Though a student cannot be forced to leave the building in an event of a fire or fire drill, Phillips said the university hopes that every Tech student will be responsive.

PHILLIPS “At the sound of the fire alarm, every CA is to go down to the residence hall office,” Braden Russell and Joey Buffano, who are both community advisers at Coleman Residence Hall, said. “The CA working the office will hand out cards with instructions and then do as the card instructs.”

There is at least one scheduled fire drill every month, but instances of pulled fire alarms have been taking place in Chitwood and Weymouth Residence Halls, Russell said.

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No foreseen end to cold temperatures

By KAITLIN BAIN Staff Writer

Students suited up for the cold weather that blew into Lubbock on Monday night, but there is no end in sight for the cooler weather.

According to The Weather Channel, lows for the next 10 days will stay in the 20’s and 30’s, except for Tuesday, when the low will rise to 40 degrees Fahrenheit.

The chance for precipitation has been taken out of the forecast, according to The Weather Channel, and days are expected to be sunny or partly cloudy.

As the temperatures are not expected to get warmer, students

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“As of this semester, Tech has put out information to students that it is a felony to provide false reports that endanger the public,” he said.

Though tornadoes are not a common occurrence in Lubbock, every building is still prepared for the natural disaster, he said.

In the event of a tornado, those on campus should take cover in the lowest area of the building, which is in almost all cases the basement. If there is not a basement or any underground shelter, move to the nearest hallway on the lowest floor and hide underneath a stable piece of furniture and avoid areas with wide-span roofs, like auditoriums.

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are making plans to stay warm.

Brittney Johnson, a freshman English major from Allen, said she would rather be in a warmer climate.

“I hate the cold,” she said.

“I didn’t think it was going to be that different in Lubbock but this is just the first day.”

She said she is happy the cold did not come as early as she had been told it would.

Johnson’s brother came to Tech, she said, and he used to should stay away from windows if inside, and if caught outside, lie in a ditch or sit next to a strong and sturdy building and check for alert signs.

“In the event of a tornado, students will be advised to go down the basement of the Coleman,” Russell said.

“If the basement becomes too crowded then the hallway will act as another safe area.”

In every building at Tech there is a basement, and those are considered the safe area.

For example, in the Chemistry building, there are signs posted along every hall stating the basement is the safe area if a twister were to ever hit campus, he said.

Tech has general university emergency procedures as well, according to the Emergency Communications Center website.

In the event of an evacuation, a

to see if we can find wiggle room that would allow either more dead days or the reinstatement of fall CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 break,” he said. “We would need to If the Academic Council votes discuss these ideas in more detail yes, the changes would go into ef- with the TTU Office of Official fect during the 2016 school year, Publications before knowing if Hatch said. implementing either would cause “Myself and the SGA Internal TTU to start class earlier.”

VP BaLeigh Waldrop have sat Bringing back fall break was on down and studied the calendar the ballot last spring, he said, and

tell her stories of it getting cold in Lubbock a week before Halloween.

“Sure it’s going to be cold during Carol of Lights,” she said. “That’s always been my favorite tradition but I’ll be able to buy more clothes at home over Thanksgiving before that.”

Lindsey Timothy, an undeclared freshman from Allen, said she’s going home early.

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weekend, she said, and her mom has wanted her to come home and visit to celebrate him.

“I wasn’t sure whether I wanted to go home or not,” she said. “Now that it’s so cold I just want to go home and get in my own bed. It may be fun to be in college but these beds are really cold.”

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as it gets colder, those who go outside should wear multiple

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Natalie Steadman, assistant professor of rehabilitation sciences at the Tech Health Sciences Center, said she attended a recent QPR training to learn more about helping people who may be dealing with thoughts of suicide.

“I have had issues or situations in the past dealing with students — dealing with athletes in my former job — but just dealing with students that were in need of some potential

layers of light, warm clothing with mittens, hats, scarves and waterproof boots and should stay aware of possible wind chill.

W h e n driving home, according to t h e c e n t e r, those traveling should listen to weather advisories and make sure to make arrangements for pets to have a safe and warm place to stay as well.

Mark Edwards, a junior political science major from Houston, help,” she said, “and knowing how difficult of a situation that puts us in as either faculty or staff or friends to those people that are trying to make the right decisions to make sure that, you know, they don’t harm themselves and get the help they need.”

According to the Suicide Prevention Resource Center’s website, substance abuse, delinquency and depression are all possible risk factors for suicide.

The Student Counseling Center maintains a staff of 16 full-time counselors to assist the entire Tech campus, Britton-

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Stroud said. The staff can meet with a student immediately if the student is having any issues, but it may take two to three weeks to be scheduled for regular meetings.

“Right now, in this time, this is the busy time of the semester.

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Bush father, son want Jeb Bush run for White House COLLEGE STATION (AP) — Former President George W. Bush said Tuesday that he and his father believe Jeb Bush should run for president but ultimately the former Florida governor must make a decision regardless of any pressure from the family.

“I can tell you I can speak for 41,” Bush said, referring to the 41st president, George H.W. Bush, during the official launch of the 43rd president’s book at his dad’s presidential library center at Texas A&M University. “He ought to run for president. He would make a great president.”

“We can pressure him all we want, but it’s not going to matter. ... You can’t pressure somebody on such an important decision. It’s not going to cause him to think positively or negatively if we all continue to harass him. Only he can decide.”

With his father and mother a few feet from him in the front row of an auditorium filled with a friendly audience of several hundred people, Bush was responding to questions from Andrew Card, his father’s transportation secretary and his own White

House chief of staff, primarily about his personal book “41: A Portrait of My Father.” The older Bush, seated in a wheelchair, smiled and waved but did not speak at the event.

George W. Bush said he didn’t know of any timetable for a decision but said from speaking with his brother he knows Jeb Bush “doesn’t like the idea of a political class.”

“The idea of ‘Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Bush’ troubles him, which speaks to his great integrity,” George W. Bush said of the succession of recent presidents. “So I said: ‘How does this sound? Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Clinton,’” George W. Bush added, referring to the potential presidential run of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

“The point is you don’t get to pick the environment in which you run.”

The comments were his most detailed to date about the possibility of continuing the Bush political dynasty.

George W. Bush said Sunday on CBS that there was a 50-50 chance Jeb would run. Jeb Bush was not in attendance at the book event Tuesday.

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George W. Bush, 68, said he wrote the book now while his father, 90 and in fragile health, was still alive and able to “see how much I care for him” and how much other people care for him. He also said a favorable reassessment of George H.W. Bush’s presidency is emerging, despite it being a single term and being “overshadowed” by the two terms of predecessor Ronald Reagan.

“This is a love story. It’s not an objective analysis,” he said of the book.

“It’s a story of an extraordinary man, in my judgment, the finest one-term president our country has ever had.”

The book includes Bush’s take on his father’s early failures in politics, his decision to go to war with Iraq in 1991 and the 1992 re-election loss to Bill Clinton. In the book, he says his father seriously considered not even running for re-election, despite loving his job, because he thought holding the presidency had placed son Neil under undue legal scrutiny for his role as a director of a large Colorado-based savings and loan that failed in the late 1980s.

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Monday 12:56 p.m. — A Texas Tech officer investigated theft at the Petroleum Engineering Building. An unsecured long board was taken from a classroom.

3:15 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated harassment at the Student Wellness Center. A Tech employee received numerous unwanted phone calls.

3:45 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated the unauthorized use of a motor vehicle in the Z4P parking lot. A student’s black 2009 Chevrolet Silverado was taken.

8:52 p.m. — A Tech officer investigated criminal mischief at Weymouth Residence Hall.

Three exit signs were damaged.

1:45 a.m. — A Tech officer investigated criminal mischief at Weymouth Residence Hall.

An emergency exit sign was tampered with.

1:58 a.m. — A Tech officer detained four students at Weymouth Residence Hall for the possession of alcohol by a minor and the possession of a fictitious license or certificate. The students were issued Lubbock County citations and released.

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Architecture students complete final project Staff Writer

As study rooms in the library fill up with students cramming for final exams, architecture and interior design students pick up blueprints and tools and head outside.

On Tuesday, architectural construction and interior design students presented their final projects.

Professor Peter Raab said the project was to create a full-scale one-to-one structure that can be occupied.

“It’s really good for interior design students to explore how the human body fits into space as well as architecture students thinking about the same thing,” he said. “They collaborated together to construct something full scale.”

The students experimented with a variety of materials.

Some students used wood while others utilizing steel, fabric or plastic, Raab said.

“It’s really about how they

look at materials,” he said, “and how they can begin to envision them and construct them.”

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presenting small models about the size of a softball.

Next, the students made their models into digital designs and presented a concept statement, he said.

Finally, students presented the full-scale models and the concept behind their designs.

“It’s a great way to test their knowledge of what they learned in construction one and two,” Raab said, “and use their skills in aesthetics and how buildings go together with real materials.”

The students built their projects in the art and architecture courtyard, including the stairwell and ground level.

One group of students designed and constructed a human beehive.

Caitlyn Barhorst, a junior architecture major from Lubbock, said the design for their project was inspired by the brick detailing under the windows of the architecture building.

“We made that into wood bricks and a flexible, structural dome that can be inhabited,” she said. “We spent on the upward of 35 hours working on this project.”

The objective of the project was to create a parasite to attach to the courtyard between the Art and Architecture buildings,

Barhorst said.

They chose to engage a corner that normally is ignored and make it interactive, she said.

“We started by sketching out the forces that can act on a structure,” Barhorst said, “and decided to create, based on a diagram, how humans can interact on the structure.”

Emily Jones, a senior interior design major from Amarillo, said the group faced some obstacles while constructing the project.

“The most challenging part was making sure we had the right size pieces,” she said. “The site is not flat so we had to deal with adjusting to those spaces.”

The team had to make adjustments to make up for the surface not being flat, Jones said.

The human beehive project is unique because it is interactive, she said.

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EMILY JONES, A senior interior design major from Amarillo, Caitlyn Barhorst, a junior architecture major from Lubbock, and Jonah Hubbard, a senior architecture major from Canton, gather around their final project “The Human Beehive,” on Tuesday in the Art and Architecture courtyard.

University offers on campus, Tech Activities Board student film competition canceled mother-friendly nursing rooms

By ABIGAIL HERNANDEZ Staff Writer

Five rooms were recently renovated to provide a private, comfortable place for nursing mothers on Texas Tech campus.

The five “Mother Friendly” rooms are located in Holden Hall, Doak Conference Center, the Student Union building, the English/Philosophy building and the Student Wellness Center.

Julie Isom, associate director of research of the Science Education Program at the Center for the Integration of STEM Education and Research, said the rooms’ locations can also be located through the Tech map phone app.

The rooms are available for both faculty and students and will work around their schedules, Morgan Pickering, analyst and human resources talent support, said.

“I believe that having the Mother Friendly rooms on campus is such a great benefit for employees,” Pickering said. “It gives new moms the ability to continue expressing milk for their child while back at work in a safe and relaxing environment.”

The rooms come equipped with pumps for the mothers, so all mothers have to bring are their own breast shields, Isom said.

Because even the most compact, portable breast pumps are bulky and inconvenient to carry around, these rooms are really helpful for mothers, she said.

“What we had to do prior is we had to let them use our offices, or they had to go to a bathroom stall,” Isom said, “or they’d have to stop nursing altogether.”

The rooms are clean and cozy, she said, and come with CDs of relaxing music.

The Mother Friendly Rooms program began in June 2011 when Tech was awarded a grant from the Texas Department of State Health Services to help implement the program, she said. The rooms became available in December 2011.

“We have administration that is very generous and forward thinking,” Isom said. “This program is a national model. Very few campuses have this option offered, and it’s been a huge success.”

About 78 percent of women on campus, including faculty, said they breastfed a child while working at or attending Tech, according to a Tech Today article.

However, many had to stop nursing because it was too difficult to find a place to do so, according to the article, before the rooms were created.

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“My hopes for adding new rooms is more availability for new moms at the times and location that best works for them,” Pickering said.

“Opening new rooms would just give us more convenience to offer our new moms.”

Currently, the rooms have to be scheduled through Human Resources, but Isom said they work well with mothers’ schedules, whether they are a student, staff or faculty member.

Mothers typically use the rooms twice a day for private 30-minute appointments, Pickering said.

Most mothers only use the rooms from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., she said. However, the rooms are available as long as the building is open.

“As more people find out, they’ve been booking them more,” Isom said, “so we would recommend getting some more rooms available.”

“It’s really good for everyone on campus to support them. Parents, both moms and dads, have huge jobs and anything we can do to reduce their stress is part of our mission here at Tech,” Isom said. “We believe wholeheartedly that this is a great thing and you should be proud of the school for it. For the little Red Raiders of tomorrow, we’re helping them get their milk.” ➤➤ahernandez@dailytoreador.com

The Texas Tech Student Activities Board has canceled the Student Film Festival due to lack of film entries for the competition.

Kristina Discher, a senior business marketing major from Plano, is the film coordinator for TAB and said TAB has been trying to get the word out about the canceled competition.

“We just didn’t meet the

numbers we needed for applicants and films for the competition,” Discher said. “We can’t put on a competition with no films.”

Instead, TAB will show a double feature of its Thursday night film earlier in the day, she said, when the competition would have been.

The board will host the competition next fall, Discher said, and will try to get more partner-

ships from other parts of campus such as the Electronic Media and Communications Department.

“This was the first time we tried hosting a film competition,” she said. “So we really didn’t know what to expect. We are going to start planning earlier and announce it earlier so students have enough time to make their films and won’t be rushed.”

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ties Board website, this week’s Thursday night film is “100 Foot Journey.”

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US must reinvigorate space exploration

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he recent success of the movie “Interstellar” has reignited a passion for space exploration in people around the world. The film, starring Academy Award winners Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway, raked in $132 million worldwide in its opening weekend. The movie even sparked interest from worldrenowned cosmologist Neil deGrasse Tyson.

People around the world have always admired space exploration, but Americans especially have taken an interest in it. Who hasn’t been inspired by Neil Armstrong walking across the moon and saying, “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind?”

Space exploration in the United States, according to Space.com, ended in 2011 after the space shuttle Endeavour returned back to Earth.

This was a travesty to the scientific community, but even more so, a major blow to the American public.

Since space exploration began, astronauts have been considered the bravest and the noblest Americans.

In losing out on space exploration, astronauts could no longer explore space in the same way and try to understand why we exist and what/ who else is out there.

According to an article by The Huffington Post, “The nation that put humans on the moon and inspired generations of excellence in science, technology, engineering and math is now paying Russia to transport Americans to and from the International Space Station. And we wonder why U.S. students are falling behind in science, technology, engineering, and math. With a lack of clear objectives widely supported by the public, the government, and industry, has the United States human space flight program, once the symbol of excellence and innovation throughout the world, been relegated to history books?”

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Erin Wallace has the budget needed to reinstate the space exploration program.

According to The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum website, we go to space “for purposes of scientific discovery, economic benefit and national security.” We are also a society that values innovation and taking chances to achieve.

The Air and Space Museum website cites three reasons we need to go to space: to be the best, to satisfy curiosity and to leave a legacy behind. “Most of us want to be, both as individuals and as societies, the first or the best in some activity. We want to stand out. This behavior is rooted in our genes. We are today the descendants of people who survived by outperforming others,” according to the website.

The most significant of the three reasons is about our desire to leave a legacy behind. Do we want to be known as the generation that stopped American space exploration? We are, as of now, the generation of people that ended decades of innovation and education about the universe and our place in it. We cannot leave this behind for our children or grandchildren.

According to the Air and Space Museum website, “We want to leave something behind to show the next generation, or the generations after that, what we did with our time here.”

The need to fund space exploration again, of course, comes with a very high price tag. NASA, according to Save Our Science, needs to receive $1.5 billion per budgetary year. “Right now the White House proposes far less than that ($1.28 billion),” for the budget of 2015. To

keep this money in context, $1.5 billion is “less overall than what Americans spent on dog toys in 2012.”

An organization called Penny4NASA spreads awareness of the budget crisis NASA is facing. “NASA’s current budget, at 0.5 percent of the total U.S. budget, does not reflect the hugely important economic, technological and inspirational resource that this agency has been in its 50+ year history. This is the people saying that as a society, we want our tax dollars to reflect the importance of scientific exploration, research and education; and 0.5 percent doesn’t cut it. The NASA budget must be increased to at least 1 percent of the U.S. federal budget,” according to Penny4NASA’s website.

This organization is urging Americans to get involved and start to fight for NASA. According to the website, a number of ways citizens can help are, “A high number of supporters which can be contacted quickly to act as one voice at the same time; A public presence that consistently reminds the administration and Congress that we want our society to support NASA funding at a higher level, concurrent with the agency’s economical, technological and inspirational excellence; And perhaps most importantly, by consistently and in large numbers, contacting members of Congress to tell them what we want and why we want it.”

It is long past time the U.S. reinstates its space exploration program.

Space travel is the epitome of scientific exploration and the necessity of curiosity. We can all get involved in spreading the word about raising the budget to fund NASA. The U.S. was built on the idea of leaving behind a legacy — we need space exploration and we need NASA at its full capacity.

Wallace is a sophomore social work major from Austin. ➤➤ ewallace@dailytoreador.com

College students should take technology hiatus

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o matter the day or the occasion, most college students can be seen with headphones in their ears and fingers glued to their cell phones. This is simply evidence of how deep we’ve immersed ourselves in a virtual world of texts, GIFs and tweets.

To escape from this virtual world, some people have adopted the practice of taking a “technology hiatus.” They go without technology for a certain period of time in an attempt to integrate themselves back into the real world around them. The road may be hard and riddled with a few bouts of withdrawal, but the general consensus is positive.

Technology definitely plays a large part in the academic life of a college student as well as the social life. Along with the usual essays to type and equations to calculate, many professors are beginning to provide textbooks and assignments exclusively online.

Therefore, it would be difficult for a student to take a week off from technology. But pushing electronics aside for 24 hours every once in a while isn’t much of an imposition.

Plus, the benefits can outweigh any problems. One of those benefits is the chance to better connect with others.

Whether it’s a friend down the hall in your dorm or a relative halfway across the country, technology makes communicating with others quick and efficient. While this is beneficial, it isn’t always necessary. Too often we opt to have a virtual conversation rather than a real one.

In most cases, people are easier to connect to with face-to-face communication than through an electronic device. It is possible to create strong bonds by electronic means, but sharing an in-person experience with someone can make building these bonds easier.

Removing the option of texting,

Jemima Johnson calling or emailing someone forces you to think of creative ways to interact with other people. In addition, investing more time in something increases the likelihood you will be engaged in the activity.

Allotting time away from technology also helps you become more aware of your environment. I can’t count how many times I have had to remind myself of my surroundings after a few minutes with my head in my phone.

The head-in-cell-phone effect may not be as severe for everyone, but a disconnect from the environment is still present. According to “Psychology Today,” only two percent of people can multitask successfully.

Basically, this means we can only focus on one thing or the other. Why not give our attention to the beautiful things nature has to offer for once?

Another benefit of unplugging from electronic devices is the opportunity to explore pastimes that don’t require a charger. At some point, most of us have wanted to do something unrelated to technology — read a novel, paint a landscape, learn to knit.

Somewhere between checking social media feeds and binge-watching television shows, these plans always fall to the wayside. Taking a break from technology creates the opportunity to explore these interests and interests yet to be discovered.

Besides the benefits a technology hiatus can provide socially and recreationally, taking a break is just plain relaxing. Not having to worry about a questionable comment on an

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Instagram photo, catching up on the latest season of “Scandal,” or how long half a battery will last in a 90-minute class is liberating.

A hiatus can be disconcerting at first, but it provides a peace of mind that can lighten the burden of college coursework.

We live in a technological society; there is no doubt about it. With time, the presence and maturity of technology will only increase. However, with this increase will come the need for us to take time regularly to detach ourselves from electronics and attach ourselves to what’s real.

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Fathers must step up, help guide children

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ccording to Ian Morgan, an Episcopal priest and author, “A boy needs a father to show him how to live in the world. He needs to be given swagger, taught how to read a map so he can recognize the roads that lead to life and the paths that lead to death, to know what love requires and where to find steel in the heart when life makes demands on us that are greater than we think we can endure.”

All the necessary details on the role of fathers are not written in any book. Nevertheless, fathers have always had well-defined roles to play within the family and the society. These roles date as far back as creation and were assigned to men biblically, socially and economically.

Biblically, according to the book of Genesis, God created man and ordained him to care for and protect his family — thus a fatherly role from the very beginning. Society also expects men to be present to help shape the lives of their children, to love them and teach them the fundamentals of life and instruct them on how to be good citizens.

Economically, men are expected to work hard in order to be able to provide for their families.

As I mentioned earlier, these are the fundamentals that are expected of men and fathers. However, the question then remains, “do most fathers live up to this expectation?”

Today, it is commonplace yet saddening to note that some fathers blatantly refuse do what is expected

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Francis Cobbinah of them. Many fathers go about proclaiming they are fully grown men yet are never there for their young ones, forgetting that these kids need their love, care and guidance to succeed.

I had a couple of close college friends who never talked about their childhood whenever it came up. They did this to avoid talking about their dads since they say they were never there for them and never played any role in their upbringing.

Whenever they did talk about them, they did so with some resentment.

While I have a great deal of respect for such friends who have been able to weather the storm and make it through to college, I always get disappointed in those fathers who have failed to live up to their creed — the very essence of their fatherhood.

A father, in the complete sense of the word, is not someone who merely helps create a child and vanishes into thin air. It is anybody who has the interest of a child at heart and is willing to make sacrifices in order to secure the future of that young person.

Also, while these ambitious and dedicated friends of mine have been able to fight their way through to college, the same cannot be said across the board for many children who grow up without fathers to guide them.

According to the National Center for Fathering, children from fatherless homes are statistically proven to be more likely to be poor, become involved in drug and alcohol abuse, drop out of school and/ or suffer from health and emotional problems.

Last week as I watched “Road Strip,” an episode of CNN’s “This is Life” hosted by Lisa Ling, a pattern became obvious which contributes to this fatherhood discussion.

In that episode, two strippers being interviewed were asked if their parents were in support of their chosen profession. Their responses can basically be summed up as, “I grew up with my mom and we never really got along. My dad was also never there since I was a child so I am stripping but no one really knows about it.”

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for stripping was to make money so they could move on with their lives since they did not want to spend the rest of their lives stripping.

Interestingly, a male patron of the strip club, who was a father himself, was asked if he would be happy if his daughters were the ones stripping.

He answered in the negative, saying he would never allow that to happen and that if it were to happen, he would never be happy about it.

Even though this column is not meant to stigmatize strippers nor look down on them, the question here is would the women still be subjecting themselves to sensual objectification if their “fathers” had been there to guide them? I understand that sometimes, tough circumstances are the reasons why people do what they do. Nevertheless, would stripping still be an option for these ladies if they had any fatherly figure to support them and to make them understand that it is wrong to objectify one’s self like that?

There are people who may argue their profession is a matter of choice and personal preference. Well, if that were true, why would they not want to continue stripping for the rest of their lives? Is it not everyone’s desire to be able to do what they want for the rest of their life? Why, then, is this any different? The truth is that mostly, people do not want to do these things but because they have no fatherly figure to look them stern in the face and tell them to stop, so they end up doing it.

The bottom line is the world is a very mean and unfair place. Take for instance the man who would be unhappy with his own daughter stripping but would pay to watch someone else’s daughter subject herself to sexual objectification in the name of a profession.

Ultimately, people are looking out for themselves and for their families alone. Fathers worth their salt should remember that nothing should be an excuse for not taking care of their children and showing them the right path to go.

Absent that, the drug abuse, poverty and crime rates will continue to increase, and at the end of the day, innocent children who could potentially become prominent future leaders may end up being used for something they did not bargain for — another fatherless child statistic.

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When local wildlife is injured or orphaned, the South Plains Wildlife Rehabilitation Center works to return individuals back to the wild after a recovery process.

Carol Lee, the founder of SPWRC, created the center in 1988.

“I was working for a vet at the time, and a lot of people were bringing in baby birds that would go to the back to be put to sleep because they’re so time consuming,” she said.

“I started taking them home, then one thing led to another and I got my permit. We bought the wildlife center property, and the rest is history.”

Wildlife rehabilitation permits are required by Texas Parks and Wildlife, according to the TPW website, and the department inspects the facilities prior to awarding a permit.

Gail Barnes, the education and junior volunteer coordinator for SPWRC, has been a full-time volunteer at the center for 15 years and has her

rehabilitation permit along with Lee. “Our greatest need is in the spring and summer because it’s baby season,” she said. “We need a lot of people. You have to be able to multitask.”

The center takes in between 2,500 and 3,000 injured or orphaned animals every year, Barnes said, and approximately 75 percent of those animals come to the center between April and October.

The rehabilitation center only has two paid workers, and Barnes said it relies on volunteers and interns to carry out its work because it receives no state funding.

“In 1990, I came down to (Texas Tech) to talk to Dr. Nancy Matthews,” Lee said. “I wasn’t there to ask for money. I was there to ask for help. She told me, ‘Let’s start an internship program.’”

The first semester, six Tech students interned at the center, Lee said, and there are currently 22 interns from Tech and West Texas A&M. Students who intern for univer-

sity credit must complete 100 volunteer hours at the center, and Barnes said they earn three credit hours at the end of the semester.

“They have to field the phone calls and talk to people about wildlife problems in the area,” Barnes said.

“We educate people, and we take our animals to the vet. We’ve worked with veterinarians over the years, so we know how to stabilize an animal.”

All the animals have a specific feeding schedule, and Barnes said the baby birds have to be fed every 30 minutes and the baby squirrels are fed every three hours.

Katherine Brackman, a sophomore natural resources management major from Bedford, started volunteering at the rehabilitation center this semester.

“The baby birds have started to see us like their moms, so they get all excited when we come in,” she said. “We have to feed them with a syringe, so sometimes it’s difficult to keep them still long enough to put it in their mouths. I really enjoy working with all the animals.”

The center also has an educational outreach program, and Barnes says she travels around a 250-mile radius to give approximately 110 presentations a year to different groups.

Interns travel with Barnes to educational presentations, and they bring a variety of animals such as owls, birds of prey, a tortoise and various mammals.

“You talk about the species and about how animals are part of our natural resources,” Barnes said.

“You’re talking to our future generations who have to take care of these resources. You want them to be knowledgeable about the laws that protect them.”

Anyone can volunteer or apply for an internship at the center, he said, and the center also has a junior volunteer program for kids ages 12 through 17. To work with animals like bobcats and badgers, volunteers must get a rabies shot.

The rehabilitation center is open 365 days a year during daylight hours, and Barnes said the center could always use more help and

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The national Bedsider organization is promoting #ThxBirthControl today to raise awareness for why people choose to use birth control.

Tabitha Collier, president of Bedsider of Texas Tech, said the organization is a national campaign to prevent teen and unplanned pregnancy.

“It teaches about safe sex and birth control,” Collier said.

“People use birth control for several reasons, it could be to

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When prospective students show interest in Texas Tech, Undergraduate Admissions works to get as many of them to attend as possible.

The student telecounseling program employs current Tech students to recruit prospective students, and it is currently hiring for next semester.

Brandon Taylor, assistant director of recruitment, said the program began in 2008.

“We had a consulting company come in to develop strategies to help us reach our goal of 40,000 students by 2020,” he said. “One of those strategies was a student telecounseling program. There was a team of about three or four of us who served as the pilot team. There became a level of expectation because you were going to be paid at the end of the day.”

The students are expected to have a foundational knowledge of programs on campus, Taylor said, including University Student Housing and Red Raider Orientation.

Carlos Favela, the customer relationship supervisor for the telecounseling program, was a student telecounselor when the program first started.

“We got to set a lot of the foundations for the program,” he said. “We developed the calling campaigns and the guides we use to go through a call. Eventually I got to be a lead telecounselor, and I got to oversee a lot of that process as well.”

The program has grown since its initiation, and Taylor said between 20 and 30 students are employed in the program every semester.

Each telecounselor makes between 110,000 and 120,000 calls throughout the year, he said, and the program tries to reach as many prospective students as possible.

“Texas Tech is known as a family, and people care about you here,” Taylor said.

“It’s our opportunity to share that and add a personal touch. It’s also an opportunity to reach out to students through our current student population.”

The supervisors structure the telecounseling staff to be diverse in major and experience, and Favela said the telecounselors call students who come from similar areas or similar backgrounds, such as transfer students.

Regine Cliatt, a senior journalism major from Mansfield, is responsible for calling prospective students from the Dallas area.

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regulate hormones or control acne or to prevent pregnancy.”

Birth control allows students to continue to be students and not have to worry about hormones, acne or pregnancy, she said.

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MATTHEW SOTO, A senior chemical engineering major from Fort Worth, and Landon Oliver, a senior geology major from The Woodlands, prepare the Human Team for Human versus Zombies on Tuesday in the Free Speech Area. Both of the seniors are mediators for this year’s Human versus Zombies and must oversee the game as well as brief participants on rules and regulations.

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donations such as paper towels and Dawn dish soap.

“It takes a special person and a special commitment to do what we do,” Barnes said. “It’s very time consuming. It’s not a typical job. A

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Josh Sharkey, a senior geology major from Houston, said he is one of the students currently playing as a zombie.

His objective is to try to find humans and ambush them without getting shot by the Nerf guns, Sharkey said.

It is more exciting being a zombie compared to being a human, he said.

He is able to spot a human participant, he said, and chase them as they walk out of their class.

“It’s a lot of fun playing in the game,” Sharkey said. “I have been doing this for a year and a half, so I think it’s a great way to meet a lot of cool and great people. It’s almost like a bonding experience.”

The game will last until Friday this year, Soto said.

“The game will end on Friday night where the remaining humans will get a prize,” Soto said.

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THE SOUTH PLAINS Wildlife Rehabilitation Center helps injured or orphaned animals, like opossums, and nurses them back to health. The center opened in 1988 and accepts Texas Tech students as interns.

“My area also includes Waco and the East Texas area,” she said. “It’s beneficial to call your area because you’ll have more experience. I enjoy calling kids particularly from my hometown because I can say I grew up in Mansfield and while Tech may seem far, Southwest has a flight that only takes 45 minutes. It makes the calls easier on you as well as on them because they can relate to you.”

The telecounselors complete a fourday training, Taylor said, which includes shadowing current telecounselors before making calls under supervision.

Wesley Mitchell, a senior business administration major from Sydney, Australia, said the training program was intensive because he had to learn facts about Tech as well as improve his communication skills.

“Usually the kids we call are pretty respectful,” he said. “They tell you straight away if they’re still interested in Texas Tech or not. Sometimes you get people who just say, ‘Not interested,’ and hang up. Other times you get people who have been wanting to go here forever.”

Training is a continuous process, and Taylor said University Student Housing this month visited the telecounselors because the housing application just opened for new students.

The overall goal of the telecounseling program is to gauge the level of interest of prospective students, and Taylor said it helps the university estimate the enrollment for the next year.

“Right now in telecounseling we’re calling kids who just got admitted,” Mitchell said. “We get to call them up and tell them they got admitted into Texas Tech. It’s exciting.”

Student telecounselors can work between three and five shifts a week lasting four hours each, Taylor said, and the program is open from 5 to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday as well as from 1 to 9 p.m. Sunday.

Students can change their work schedule if shifts are available, and they are also given three personal days a semester to take as necessary.

“I get paid to talk about Texas Tech,” Cliatt said. “You get to talk about the things you like and the things you don’t like. You can make someone else’s college experience a little bit better than your own.” ➤➤jromero@dailytoreador.com

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Watson only option to replace GK Esson

By DAWIT HAILE Staff Writer

Texas Tech redshirt sophomore Lauren Watson had her first shutout game in her first career start against Oral Roberts Aug. 24, a 5-0 victory, according to Tech Athletics.

The only other Red Raider to accomplish this feat in her career start is former Red Raider goalkeeper Victoria Esson.

Watson’s first career start was a long time coming, and she had to wait behind Esson to earn it.

Tech soccer coach Tom Stone said the former goalkeeper Esson was a thinker at the position.

“Very position-oriented, almost a line keeper,” Stone said, “not super athletic, not super tall. She had so much experience at the international level that she was moving to balls before they are even shot.”

There is virtually nothing she did not have an answer to, he said.

Replacing Esson would not be easy for Watson.

In 2012, Watson came to Tech as a freshman goalkeeper from The Woodlands, Texas. However, she was not the only goalkeeper on the roster.

At the time, Stone had redshirt junior goalkeeper Erin Wikelius, senior goalkeeper Alexis Braziel and junior goalkeeper Victoria Esson, according to Tech Athletics.

Those last three goalkeepers all received some playing time that season

with Esson earning the majority as the starter for all 22 games that season.

Watson did not receive any time in front of the net, so she redshirted.

She eventually found herself on the field in the 2013-2014 season for two games, but she did not start in either.

Watson backed up Esson against Colorado State and Arkansas PineBluff. During her 97:48 minutes of play she made one save and allowed no goals, according to Tech Athletics.

By this time, the only competition Watson had for backup goalkeeper was senior goalkeeper Torie Calhoun.

It seemed inevitable for Watson to be the next in line behind Esson to take over the spot at starting goalkeeper with Calhoun and Esson graduating.

However, the spot was not just handed to Watson.

Two new recruits, Marissa Torres from Amarillo and Carissa Christensen from Alta Loma, California, came in the spring to battle for the starting job.

Assistant coach Gibbs Keeton said no doubt crept into his mind about whether or not Watson possessed the ability to handle the position of starting goalkeeper for Tech, but the two freshmen were unknowns for the team and what they could bring to the table needed to be seen.

Christensen and Torres quickly made it obvious they were not going to simply let Watson become the starter because she was an upperclassman, Keeton said.

“They pushed ‘Lo’ like no other,”

he said.

Watson said Christensen and Torres were able to test her because they rivaled her in talent and competiveness.

Admittedly, Watson said there were times she wondered if she was doing enough to secure the job, because she has such high expectations for herself.

“I’m always evaluating myself,” Watson said. “I’m always saying ‘Am I working hard enough?’ or ‘Am I pushing them or are they pushing me?’”

Through the course of the threeperson battle, Watson began seeing benefits appear, she said. These benefits didn’t appear on anything specific, but more on how she approached training.

No longer would she put maximum effort for the beginning of training, and then have it peter out toward the end, Watson said. She stayed focused from beginning to end with full effort throughout each day of competition.

When spring training came to an end Stone had to decide who the next starting goalkeeper would be.

Watson earned the job of starting goalkeeper.

Watson, Keeton and Stone all said they do not remember when the decision was made, but all thought it was the right one when they heard.

“I waited two years,” she said. “I worked my butt off, and it is awesome to finally know that (I’m) the starting keeper.”

With that said, Watson understood her new position came with new responsibilities. She now possessed the

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responsibility to not just protect the net, but be a leader for the defense as well.

A trial run in this new role came when Tech faced No. 25 Denver in an exhibition match Aug. 16 in Denver, Colorado. This match served as a tuneup before the season.

It was not perfect, but Watson did enough, finishing the game with one save, one allowed goal and one victory.

From there Watson hit the ground running. After the Big 12 Conference regular season and tournament, she is

ranked second in goals allowed and goals against average in the Big 12, according to the conference website.

Watson is also in a three-way tie for second in the conference for shutouts with eight.

Now she is preparing to take No. 3-seed Tech into its first matchup of the NCAA Women’s Division I soccer tournament against Prairie View.

Looking back, Stone said there was no other choice besides Watson.

She has a tall 5’10’’ frame and

athleticism few goalkeepers possess, he said. Plus, she has quick hands. These physical tools allow her to come off the line and dominate crosses, he said, which Esson did not dare to do.

However, Watson is not just an athlete, Stone said. She also has the mental capabilities to think her way through a game, which allows her to shot block like Esson.

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Qatar tells critics World Cup will be good for community DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Qatar’s sports minister says the 2022 World Cup will set a benchmark of excellence that will be “almost impossible to beat” and promised in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press that the Gulf nation will implement labor reforms in the next few months.

Salah bin Ghanem bin Nasser alAli also insisted that Qatar wouldn’t jeopardize its hosting of the World Cup and ambitions of being at the front and center of sports by funding terrorism.

He was vague on whether alcohol will be sold inside World Cup stadiums and how gay fans will be welcomed at the 2022 tournament.

The minister left no doubt that Qatar wants its World Cup — financed with vast oil-and-gas wealth — to stun the world. He said the Middle East “needs something like this. It’s hope. It’s giving the youth in this region really a positive event that can change a lot of their hopes and dreams.”

Qatar’s name is now “a brand related to quality, to luxury. We will not jeopardize this brand (by) holding a World Cup that is not successful,” the minister said. He anticipated that on opening night in 2022, he’ll be saying to himself: “God help the country that will host the World Cup after us.”

“Really. I will stick to that. You will see that we will put a benchmark that is going to be almost impossible to beat.”

On allegations that Qatar supports the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria and other extremists, al-Ali insisted it would make no sense for “a country that wants to hold the World Cup and big events almost every year” to be financing terror.

“This is ridiculous,” the minister said. The country’s ruling emir has also said Qatar doesn’t support terrorists, but the minister expanded on the reasoning for that.

Citing the example of Afghanistan, which became an al-Qaida and Taliban stronghold after the United States armed and financed anti-Soviet fighters there in the 1980s, the minister said: “If you support any terrorist group it will not bring you any good. It is only going to haunt you one day.”

“So we don’t believe in that, we don’t do that,” he said. “We are not ready anyway to take that risk because we know it’s dangerous for us.”

But it was al-Ali’s vigorous insistence that Qatar will tackle the ill-treatment of migrant workers which stood out most in the 90-minute interview in a luxury hotel overlooking the Aspire sports academy in Doha, the capital, where young players who will make up Qatar’s 2022 squad are being hot-housed.

Qatar qualifies automatically for the tournament as hosts.

The minister said his own father worked as a 12-year-old laborer in the

oil industry in “very hard conditions” that today “would be like child abuse.”

“We understand this problem. For us, it’s a human question,” he said.

Qataris aren’t “vicious people who are like vampires,” he added. “We have emotions, we feel bad.”

Human rights groups have documented ill-treatment in Qatar of migrant workers from Asia and Africa and conditions they say amount to forced labor.

Critics accuse Qatar’s government of being slow to act and warn that laborers flooding into the country to build World Cup stadiums, rail networks, roads, hotels and other massive public works will be vulnerable to abuse if Qatar doesn’t change and better enforce its laws.

Such problems aren’t unique to Qatar and have long been an issue across the Gulf, but the World Cup has shone the spotlight on the 2022 host.

“We are under focus now which, OK, it’s tough,” al-Ali said. “It is something that really needs big, big work from us. But we are really tackling this problem face-to-face. We are not hiding.”

Although World Cup organizers introduced mandatory welfare obligations for contractors in the last year, changes to the labor law were only proposed by the Qatari government in May. Al-Ali said those reforms have now been through cabinet and will get final approval in “the next few months.”

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KLIFF KINGSBURY CALLS a timeout during the game against Texas on Nov. 1 at Jones AT&T Stadium. The Longhorns defeated the Red Raiders 34-13.

At 2:30 on Saturday at Jones AT&T Stadium, the Texas Tech football team will attempt to win its final home game of the season and keep hopes of a bowl game alive against Oklahoma.

By Saturday, the Red Raiders will have had 14 days of rest since their last game.

With their final bye week of the season over, junior linebacker Pete Robertson said the defense took advantage of the break and is now preparing hard for the Sooners.

“We’re feeling good. A lot of guys were banged up, minor injuries,” he said. “We’re feeling pretty good. We had a week off to relax.

We actually had a light practice Saturday, but the week felt good just knowing we had a week off to get prepared for Oklahoma.”

Robertson will look to continue disrupting offenses against the Sooners as he is tied for the Big 12 Conference lead with nine sacks.

Similar to the Red Raiders, the Sooners starting quarterback is in

question this week and their starter ceiver D.J. Polite-Bray was moved to likely will not be decided until late cornerback during the bye week due in the week. to lack of depth at the position.

After playing both wide receiver In last week’s game against Baylor sophomore quarterback Trevor and cornerback in high school, Te c h c o a c h Knight was Kliff Kingsbury carted off the said Polite-Bray field with a will add needed head injury. size and speed Robertson to the defensive said it was position. unfortunate “(Politethat Knight Bray) is excited got hurt, but about it. He’s Oklahoma got some speed will still have that we need a dangerous over there on offense even that secondary,” if he does not MIKE SMITH he said. “So he’s play.

TECH DEFENSIVE excited about “ T h e y COORDINATOR a future there, have playmakand we’ll see e r s . Tr e v o r Knight went down. I hate that he how it goes the rest of the year.”

No matter which quarterback gets went down in the game,” Robertson said. “He was a big part of that. He the start for the Sooners, the Red can make plays with his feet and also Raider defense will be faced with the challenge of stopping freshman with his arms.”

The Tech defense will have some running back Samaje Perine, who is added help in the secondary against in the middle of a breakout season.

The 243-pound running back is Oklahoma after sophomore wide re-

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We are just building a package to stop the run first.

Right now it’s what we try to do.

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averaging 87.6 rushing yards per game, ranking third in the conference, and is second in the conference in rushing touchdowns as he has found the end zone 11 times this season.

Defensive coordinator Mike Smith said with the Sooners quarterback issues Tech has to stop the run and force them to try to beat Tech through the air.

“Same thing we say every week, they are going to come here and try to run it on us. We are just building a package to stop the run first. Right now it’s what we try to do,” Smith said. “We got to be sound at what we do and disciplined up front.”

After losing to Oklahoma the last two meetings, Robertson said this is a game he has been looking forward to and he is going to do everything he can to help his team come away with a win.

“It’s going to be very important to help my team out and put us in a better situation and better field position for the offense to score a touchdown,” he said. “So the defense is going to come out and just try to take off on OU.” ➤➤jkrakosky@dailytoreador.com

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JUAN MUÑOZ, RETIRED Marine sergeant, senior vice president for Institutional Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement and vice provost for Undergraduate Education and Student Affairs, says a few words Tuesday inside the Student Union building before the reading of names of Texans who have died in the line of duty since 9/11. Approximately 700 men and women have died since that day.

FORT WORTH (AP) — TCU coach Gary Patterson is well aware of that escalating debate centered on his No. 5 Horned Frogs and No. 6 Baylor.

Which one gets in the new fourteam playoff if both win the rest of their games?

“Right now, we’re just trying to get to 9-1,” Patterson said Tuesday.

“I can plead a lot better case if I win the next three ballgames.”

After playing five ranked teams in a span of six weeks — with the only loss that epic 61-58 game at Baylor a month ago — the Horned Frogs (8-1, 5-1 Big 12) have three games left against teams without winning records. They play Saturday at Kansas (3-6, 1-5).

“I thought we went to this ... it was all about body of work, not about politicking and doing all the rest

of it,” Patterson said. “I just watch everybody say, ‘well you’ve got to win by x-amount of points, you’ve got to impress the committee.’”

If TCU and Baylor both finish 11-1, the Bears would have the headto-head victory.

The 12-person College Football Playoff selection committee wouldn’t be bound by that tiebreaker when completing its final rankings Dec. 7 to determine the four teams in the playoffs. But Baylor would be the Big 12’s designated team for any of the other four bowl games on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day outside the semifinal matchups.

“They should, they beat us, there’s no questions asked, that’s what the rule is,” Patterson said. “But you still get a trophy for being (Big 12) cochampions, and that’s the one thing

that I can control.”

The Frogs also play at Texas on Thanksgiving night and end the regular season Dec. 6 at home against Iowa State.

Baylor (8-1, 5-1), coming off an impressive 48-14 win at Oklahoma, has an open date before playing Oklahoma State, Texas Tech and No. 13 Kansas State. TCU beat the Wildcats 41-20 last weekend.

“I watch all the banter between TCU and Baylor. The bottom line is, I saw something (former Texas coach) Mack Brown tweeted out, we both need to enjoy the ride,” Patterson said. “You’ve got two really good football teams. ... Both in the state of Texas, they just need to enjoy the ride, hopefully that we can both win out, win 11 games and have an opportunity to go do something like that.”

World Series of Poker’s final 3 to vie for $10M Man released in S.Africa soccer star killing case LAS VEGAS (AP) — There will be no chants of “USA” when the final three players vying for the World Series of Poker’s $10 million top prize return to a Las Vegas stage Tuesday night.

The last players standing — all European — survived nearly 12 hours of no-limit Texas Hold ‘em poker from Monday night into Tuesday morning.

The bluffing and betting battles

resume at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, and play will continue until a winner is crowned.

Jorryt van Hoof, of the Netherlands, dominated most of the 12 hours of poker with larger towers of chips than his foes at the table.

He remained in a healthy position going into Tuesday night, with a third more chips than Martin Jacobson of Sweden and nearly double the total of Felix Stephensen of Norway.

“It should be a fun battle,” Jacobson said of the three-man matchup.

As for getting this far, “patience is key in tournament poker. You need to know how to pick your spots, and it’s something I’ve gotten a bit better at over the years.”

The Swedish player had a strategy to drown out the cheering, singing and general noise: earplugs.

“I was in a vacuum. I was able to focus a lot better that way,” he said.

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