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Goodson prepares for junior season.

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Tech set to play Pepperdine in 1st round of NCAA tourney

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for a long time.”

Their study focuses on members of the community and university who grew up playing games, such as the original Super Mario Bros., Lindsey Resignato, a senior communications studies major from El Paso, said.

Resignato also wants to continue with research and eventually join the video game industry, she said.

“I think it’s a really hard field to break into if you’re a woman or a minority, so I think me having research specific to gaming under my belt when I want to go into that field later on will give me kind of an edge,” Resignato said.

The No. 15 Texas Tech soccer team is set to start the first round of the NCAA tournament, after receiving a No. 4 seeding, at 6:30 p.m. on Friday against Pepperdine at the John Walker Soccer Complex.

For the seventh time in eight seasons, Tech will participate in the NCAA tournament, according to Tech Athletics. This is the sixth time in program history the Red Raiders will host the first-round match in Lubbock.

In 2012, the Red Raiders appeared in the tournament and Tech shut out North Texas in the first round, 2-0, according to Tech Athletics. Tech then traveled to Tallahassee to face Florida State in the second round. After forcing overtime, Florida State scored a golden goal to send them to the third round and end Tech’s run in the tournament.

The Red Raiders had a similar outcome in 2013 after making the tournament for the second-straight season, according to Tech Athletics.

Tech was eliminated in the second round to Texas A&M. With a 3-4 shootout loss to the Aggies, the Red Raiders wrapped up their season with an overall 18-2-3 record.

Making program history in 2014, the Red Raiders appeared in the NCAA Sweet Sixteen, according to Tech Athletics. To get to the third round, Tech shut out Prairie View A&M, 8-0, and then defeated Auburn, 2-1. In the third round, Tech faced the No. 2-seed Florida and lost, 3-2, to conclude their postseason run.

This was the first time the Red Raiders advanced to the NCCA Sweet Sixteen and they have yet to get past the second round since then, according to Tech Athletics.

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Nick Bowman, an associate professor in the College of Media and Communication, does research on video games, virtual reality, augmented reality, social media, entertainment media and presence. Bowman shows some of his controllers and video games on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019, in the College of Media and SARAH VECERA-KING/The Daily Toreador Communication.

Fulbright scholar, professor discusses research in interactive media

By EMMA SIPPLE Copy Editor

After studying journalism in college, working in print, broadcast and radio as well as in public relations and lobbying, Nick Bowman, a Texas Tech journalism and creative media industries professor and Fulbright U.S. Scholar award recipient, went to graduate school to study how audiences respond to media.

While in his Ph.D. program at Michigan State, Bowman said he acted as a training researcher in a study about video games.

“I studied things like flow, which is this like psychological state of like loss of awareness and like involvement in a medium

that comes from when, like the challenge and the skills are balanced out,” he said. “I never really thought about that way like, maybe the reason I played games like three hours at a time and lost track of time was because I was in such a flow state that I just continued, focusing on the experience.”

A lot of the research focused on the more negative aspects of gaming, he associated playing video games with good memories of his mother and his friends, he said.

“I was interested in like, ‘What role do games play in people’s lives?’” Bowman said.

“And from there, I spent four years at Michigan State studying video games, studying games

and flow, studying games and psychological well-being. Games helping you feel competent, feel connected to other people feel as if you had a sense of accomplishment and choice, enjoyment.”

Currently, Bowman and his research team are studying video games and nostalgia, he said.

“And now, I would say now that the average age of gamers is in the 30s, and games have become much more acceptable for adult audiences,” Koji Yoshimura, a first year graduate student from Phoenix Arizona, said. “It just sparked an interest in you know, how the experience of you playing video games elicit feelings of nostalgia, especially for people who have been playing video games

FINANCE

Experts discuss money management during holiday season

By ELIZABETH HERBERT Staff Writer

Even though the holidays are a fun time of year for most people, saving money for the festivities may be a major stressor. Planning one’s finances weeks before the holidays may help avoid this issue.

Kaplan Sanders, financial coaches lead for Texas Tech’s Red to Black program, said there are two ways of viewing a holiday budget, and one’s mindset may dictate how well one manages money. He said one way of viewing a budget is as a tool to figure out how to delegate limited resources in daily life, while the other way of looking at it is as having a spending plan.

“The idea behind a spending plan is, ‘Let’s start at what your goals are. What do you actually take value out of financially?’”

Sanders said. “From there, we are going to look at limited resources, but we’re going to start with what you care about.”

Apps and websites, such as mint.com, help students track where their money is going, Sand-

ers said, and allow one to create a budget with weekly reports. This can be especially helpful during the holidays when money is constantly changing ownership.

“I would recommend starting with your goals and then going to an app like this, and it will just go ahead and categorize (transactions) for you, and it’ll send you email notifications that say ‘Hey, you’re about to hit this budget, hey you’re exceeding this, you went over on this month,’” he said regarding the free app.

Budgets need to be updated regularly, especially during the holiday season, and Sanders said how often one reviews their budget depends on the type of person one is.

“There are some people that need to be looking every day because they do a lot of impulse buys, and I think they know themselves well enough that they could selfidentify, but I’d say a couple of times a week at least, just check in to see how you’re doing,” he said.

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Library staff creates publishing platform, peer-review service

By AUSTIN TAYLOR Staff Writer

RAIDER publishing, a digital platform for publishing cheaper alternatives to college textbooks, is about to publish its first original textbook, “Vanguard: Exercises for the Creative Writing Classroom.”

Digital Services Librarian Heidi Winkler said RAIDER publishing is an initiative from the Texas Tech University Libraries that will give faculty and graduate students the chance to create open textbooks and open educational resources for the community at Tech.

RAIDER publishing will allow users to download and customize published materials to fit into their courses, Winkler said.

“It’s really about educational resources being used in an environment that makes since for 2019,” she said.

Given the right permissions, Winkler said instructors will be able to remix previously published material using the Pressbook publishing platform.

“Say you see one chapter out of another professor’s open textbook … remixing means you can take that one chapter and use it,

with complete permissions within your own class,” Winkler said regarding the instructor remixes.

“And maybe put that together with an open article you’ve found and use that to put together a course set that really applies to what you’re teaching.”

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RAIDER publishing started in 2017 when the library recognized there was a growing movement within the academic community to provide educational resources and opportunities for open textbook creation, Winkler said.

Digital Initiative Librarian Joy M. Perrin said when RAIDER publishing started in 2017, the goal was to publish low-cost textbooks, not open-source materials, at Tech.

The change to utilize an open platform is meant to avoid competition with pre-existing publications, Perrin said.

There are important differences between RAIDER Publishing and Pressbooks, Perrin said.

“The idea behind Pressbooks is to give people a platform to make content for their classes,” Perrin said.

“RAIDER Publishing is really about textbooks by Tech professors for classes, so an honest to goodness textbook.”

If an author writes a book and wants to go through the peer-review and editing process, Perrin said the author would then go through the publishing process next.

“Vanguard: Exercises for the Creative Writing Classroom” was authored by doctoral students Kate Simonian, Jasmine Epstein and Jess Smith.

The peer-review and editing going into “Vanguard” was paid for with a $10,000 grant from the Tech Alumni Association, Perrin said.

“Vanguard” is a collection of writing prompts and exercises assembled by graduate students for creative writing classes, Simonian said. The authors solicited exercises from graduate students

and adjuncts from several universities because they wanted the materials in the books to reflect lessons and ideas being taught in classrooms today.

As they were given exercises to work with, Simonian said the authors curated and compiled the material they thought was flexible and engaging.

“We were looking for innovative content, work that accurately represents the work going on in the classroom,” she said. “We wanted to avoid stuff like prompts that are one line, then you ask the students to finish the story.”

Each author oversaw editing of one of the three sections of the book: nonfiction, fiction and poetry, Simonian said.

“Seeing as those are the main subjects’ students hone-in on, it just made sense for us to target those areas,” Simonian said.

As “Vanguard” has gone through the peer-review process and edits to grammar have been completed, the authors will now go over the edits and make revisions to the material based on the copy editors’ recommendations, Amy Dillon, a library staffer, said.

Dillon’s role in RAIDER has been selecting the copy

HOLIDAYS

other goods.

“If you say, ‘I’m going to spend this much on gifts,’ then you can actually calculate how much you have to save per paycheck to get there,” Sanders said regarding how people can plan their spending for the holidays. “You make X number of dollars every week. You want to save a certain amount of money for gifts, divided by the six weeks you’re going to work, and that’s how much you need to save each week.”

About 80 percent of Americans report suffering from financial stress during the holidays, according to a study by the American Psychological Association.

To help avoid this financial stress, Sanders said students can offer gifts that cost little to no money.

CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 Even though maintaining a budget can be valuable, Sanders said students should not worry if they deviate from their spending plans.

“The point of a budget isn’t to feel bad if you don’t succeed at making every single goal that you had,” he said. “The point of the budget is just to keep you aware of where your money is going and to help you go, ‘Oh, I don’t actually care about that.’”

Students may start saving for the holidays as soon as possible to reduce stress, Sanders said. One can do simple math to calculate how much he or she needs to earn and save in the weeks leading up to the holidays in order to purchase gifts and

editor and making sure the book manuscript moves smoothly between the editor and authors, she said.

“Every external person we use has to have a contract with Tech,” Dillon said.

“They don’t have to be a part of the university. They have to have a contract with Tech, because they’re technically

independent contractors.”

The current goal is to have “Vanguard” published

by Spring 2020, but that could change, Dillon said.

“I would encourage other grad students to use the opportunity they have to pitch teaching ideas to RAIDER,” Simonian said.

“Think about the things that have mattered the most to you,” he said. “A lot of it is spending time together with people, trying to create experiences with people. That creates a lot more value than things.

Things get broken and thrown away; experiences get remembered.”

Mark Evers, a certified financial planner and financial educators lead, said he starts budgeting and planning what gifts to buy for the holidays over the summer when holiday goods are on sale. He said paying attention to the interests of whomever one is buying gifts for is important to consider.

“You’ve got to be careful.

Make sure the gift you buy somebody is really going to be important to them,” Evers said regarding other considerations. “You don’t have to spend a lot of money. People actually like things that are important to them; you have to understand the individual, so it takes more time than it takes money to buy a good gift for somebody.”

Planning for gifts ahead of time increases one’s odds of getting the item off-

season when it is cheaper, Evers said. But one needs to be wary of holiday sales, such as Black Friday, which was named so because it is the day retailers go from being unprofitable and in the red to being profitable, or in the black.

“A lot of times, prices may look cheaper, but they might actually be more than they were well before the holiday season,” he said.

Students who want to contribute to charities may do so in many ways, Evers said. Students should be aware of generous yet fiscally practical opportunities.

“You don’t necessarily have to give monetarily,” he said. “You can go give time and effort and help the community that way as well.”

Fugang Deng, a junior computer science major from Guang Zhou, China, said he starts planning for the holidays about a semester beforehand and spends about $100 a year on gifts. He said he does not typically feel a need to utilize a budget.

“I mean, depending on how much it costs - if it costs a lot, yeah, I would definitely consider making a budget first,” he said.

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Online classes limited for on-campus students

By ELIZABETH HERBERT Staff Writer

With distance, hybrid and face-to-face classes available at Texas Tech, students have multiple opportunities on how to take a class, but certain restrictions may limit distance learning.

The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, Tech’s regional accreditor, sets guidelines stating what is considered a distance, hybrid and face-to-face program, so students know how many online classes they may take.

Justin Louder, associate vice provost and interim superintendent for Tech eLearning and Academic Partnerships, said the guidelines regarding how many online classes students can take are not new, but students may just be hearing about them because of how many classes are now available online.

“When you start looking at, say a student takes quite a bit of their core curriculum online, they start taking some of their minor, major classes online, they could get close to that 50 percent of their program being online,” he said.

The Office of the Provost does not limit the amount of online classes one may take, Louder said, but it will input restrictions individual colleges sometimes

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Yoshimura said he wants to study morality of characters and media along with how media can make even more morally ambiguous characters seem sympathetic.

“When you watch characters in media, obviously, you’re observing their behaviors and certain theoretical framework,” he said. “You are continuously monitoring the morality of characters behavior. I’m just interested in what happens one characters in media do bad things, what happens when they do a combination of good and bad behaviors and so broadly, my work for the foreseeable future will be in the realm of morality and media.”

In addition to the study on video games and nostalgia, Bowman is planning to study how the different demands of virtual reality and other interactive media impacts audiences.

“Interactive media, they require you to think, they require you to feel, they require you to do and they often require you to talk,” Bowman said. “So, cognitive, emotional, physical and social demands.

And what’s wild about interactive media is that sometimes they want you to do all those things. And it can be hard to do like to do all of them at once.”

His research will look at how these demands impact audience enjoyment of interactive media. With this research, he hopes to improve VR’s ability to tell better stories, Bowman said. Currently, VR is not doing any better in terms of storytelling compared to regular videos.

“Because the assumption is that, oh, it’s 3D, it must be better because you’re going to get more information, I’m

request for specific courses.

“We put a restriction on the classes so that Lubbock students, local students, can’t sign up for the online class until about a month before the semester gets started,” he said. “We do that to allow our online students and our regional sites students the opportunity to sign up for classes because if we didn’t do that, all of the local Lubbock students would sign up for the online classes and then our online students or our distance students wouldn’t have classes to take.”

Restrictions are not only meant to save seats in a class, Louder said. Some departments submit requests because they want to see students in person.

“Some departments, internally, have also made the decision to limit the number of online courses their students can take because, like I said, they want their students in a face-to-face degree program,” he said.

Students very rarely exceed the percentage of online classes permitted for their degree plan, but when they do, Louder said Tech will work with them to choose a new plan.

“Most of the departments are very willing because they understand students want that flexibility of modality of courses,” Louder said. “But at no time since I’ve been in this role, and it’s been about eight years now, have we ever gone to a student

and said, ‘Sorry, you took too many classes, and your program is not approved.’ We’re never going to do that; we’re always going to work with the student.”

Julia Heard, senior director of advising and recruiting in the Tech College of Media and Communications, said the percentages are based off what makes sense for the program.

“If a student is in a face-toface program, it would make sense, it’s logical that they would have more face-to-face coursework than online,” she said.

“Hybrid is a combination of faceto-face and online and then, obviously, distance is only distance.”

Students tend to favor online classes, Heard said. So, the rules tend to benefit distance students who have fewer class options than students in hybrid or faceto-face programs because most major, upper-level courses are unavailable online.

“If there’s more available online coursework, sometimes students will choose to do online, and then we will have to kind of adjust, and more students, you know – that number’s getting a little high – let’s make sure to take it face-to-face,” she said.

Some reasons many students are only hearing about the rule now, Heard said, is because the rule has just become prominent and students have been largely unaffected by it in the past.

“It’s not something we really,

going to be able to put you in the experience,” Bowman said. “So, you think, ‘Oh, well, like if he could put me inside the experience, it should be much more persuasive,’ and we’re finding out is not really.”

However, people do find VR fun to watch, but the effects on their attitudes and behaviors are not there, Bowman said.

“And we think it has something to do with not understanding how people are regulating their attention, and not understanding how people balance out these cognitive and emotional and physical and social demands,” he said.

“In other words, this thing actually requires you to do a lot more than this thing. And making you do more, it might actually be ruining the very message trying to portray.”

He compares the current issues with VR being a technology display to the early film industry where the first films were simply moving

pictures without any of the current cuts and edits and storytelling in film today.

“It took us a long time to learn how to tell stories with film,” Bowman said. “We learned how to cut images. You film like five scenes, and you cut them and put them together and make a new scene. Nowadays, cuts and edits and multiple cameras that’s just considered a movie. I think this is happening to VR. It’s so new. We just don’t really know what to do. So, we’re just filming things, but then we filmed them in three dimensions. And we’re still at what’s called the technology, the technological demonstration stage.”

He said now the goal is to find ways to use VR to tell better stories, and he is going to study how the demands of VR effects persuasion.

From January to July of 2020, Bowman will be in Taipei, Taiwan at the National Chengchi University to conduct research. He received the

like, warn students about or explain to students unless it becomes an issue because we monitor now, now that it is a rule, and we are seeing more availability of online classes, so more students are taking online classes,” she said. “We make it a point in every advising session and every time we pull up a student’s account to check that percentage, just to kind of make sure.

Students do not need to worry about the rule but should be aware of it, Heard said, because Tech has systems to monitor student degree plans and suggest

changes as necessary.

“We always make sure to be proactive before it becomes close to being a broken rule. So, that’s probably why a lot of students aren’t made aware because it’s not an issue that is going to ever pertain to them,” Heard said.

“But now that more institutions are offering distance programs, hybrid programs, it’s going to be something that we’re going to probably monitor more of.”

Deeja Austin, a junior biology major from Lubbock, said the online rule influenced her class schedule when she transferred

from West Texas A&M, where she was working on a more hybrid program than she is at Tech.

“I needed to work more, and being at home or being able to set my schedule with online classes would have been good for me or ideal for me instead of having to go to class face-toface, and I know for my degree, a lot of the classes that I have to take I can’t take online, or it won’t be considered for my major,” Austin said. “So to me, the percentages should be higher, but that’s my opinion.”

Fulbright U.S. Scholar award and now acts as the Wu Jingjyi arts and culture fellow.

“I’m researching at Taipei because Taipei is home to the company HTC which makes virtual reality headsets, and the National Chengchi University does a lot of media psychology research,” he said.

In addition to his research, Bowman will teach two classes and give lectures and attend conferences in Asia and Australia.

When he returns to Tech, Bowman said he plans to replicate his research at Tech, send his research out to conferences and to bring partnerships with National Chengchi University.

He said he is thankful the

Secretary of State of the United States, the founder of the Fulbright Foundation, and Tech are all willing to give him a chance.

“Tech already has a good college of media and communication,” Bowman said. “But I think

this is one of those things that we can do that other people can’t, like not many schools can claim to have a Fulbright scholar, and not many schools can claim these international relationships.”

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Tech students stand out with unique style I

t is easy to take your surrounding environment for granted. We assume that people have similar experiences to us; they have had similar childhoods, parents, high schools, courses and friends.

Oftentimes, we become friends with people that we share a lot in common with, thus confirming our suspicions of generalized similarity. These things in common extend from hobbies to interests to clothing choices. Our sameness with others can expand beyond friendships to entire universities and even cities.

Since coming to Texas Tech, I have noticed unique fashion trends that differ from other places I have lived. Students here may not realize the differences due to exclusive exposure to these styles.

First is long hair on guys. I have seen more

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m e n r o c k i n g c u r l y, straight, blond and brunette manes on this campus than anywhere else.

I love that fun hairstyles are not restricted only to women and it is common for guys to join in on the luscious locks.

S e c o n d i s t h e o v e rsized t-shirt and short shorts combination.

When school first started, I was a bit thrown off because it looked like people were walking to class without pants. After realizing there were in fact shorts underneath, I grew accustomed to this look. Everyone dresses like we are at summer camp, and it al-

lows for a very relaxed and casual campus vibe.

Surprisingly though, wearing long pants is the norm for gym wear. I thought I would fit in at the recreation center with my t-shirt and shorts, but it turns out there is a different popular trend for working out: sports bra and yoga pants.

My undergraduate gym enforced an arguably sexist dress code, prohibiting the display of sports bras without a shirt covering them. It is reassuring that Tech allows students to wear whatever they feel most comfortable in for exercise.

Next, I have noticed a prevalence of dangling earrings, especially on m en. Jus t as t he l ong hair, I appreciate that traditionally feminine expressions are no longer as restrained to only women.

Guys here accessorize

with necklaces, bracelets and especially earrings.

For all genders, I have seen more body tattoos than ever before. I am not sure if it is a Texas thing or a generational difference, but I am very impressed with the individualism, and frankly, the high pain tolerances.

Oftentimes, we become friends with people that we share a lot in common with, thus confirming our suspicions of generalized similarity.

I could never fathom getting a tattoo on my own body because I try to avoid pain at all costs, but tattoos appear to becoming

more popular in college s t u d e n t s . A t a c o n f e rence I attended last year, psychologists were even studying perceptions of tattoos in the workplace because of the need to adapt to the growing number of tattooed employees.

Nightlife fashion is also distinct here. Coming from the Midwest, we had a strict uniform of black leggings and a crop top to the bars. Colors and sleeve lengths of the tops could vary, along with shoe choice.

When I visited Las Vegas, the outfits were much more formal. People wore fancy dresses and suits to the clubs, and my friend was even turned away for sporting attire that was too casual. From pictures I’ve viewed, it appears that other regions of the country prefer to don more elegant and expensive clothing items to bars.

In Lubbock, however, the style is much more casual. Women wear sweatpants and t-shirts, and men throw on jeans to drop by the clubs. My outof-town visitor commented that her Chicago style of a crop top and leggings drastically stood out as compared to local fashion.

As someone who loves laziness and rolling out of bed whenever possible, I am a big fan of the laid back styles that seem to fit right in with the low or nonexistent cover charges.

I think people underestimate these benefits of living in a smaller city.

It has been fun experiencing Tech’s unique summer and fall fashion on campus, in the gym and at the clubs. I am looking forward to the upcoming exciting winter and spring styles. @HannahSnidmanDT

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Indecisive Texas weather inhibits winter fashion statements

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ith the recent cold fronts that have hit Lubbock, many of us has been facing a dilemma specific to west Texas: what should we wear for cold mornings and warm afternoons?

This dilemma is even more relevant to college students due to the fact that we are walking around campus almost all day, meaning we have to be prepared for all kinds of weather. Some-

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times this means wearing a raincoat or lugging an umbrella around in anticipation of the rain and never using either because the day clears up. Most of the time I end up carrying the coats I

wear in the morning because the sun starts beating down by the afternoon.

While the fact that this is ineffectual does bother me, what’s really annoying to me about the indecisiveness of Texas weather is that my outfits are consistently ruined by the drastic change in temperature from the morning to the afternoon.

So often I want to wear a nice coat when I wake up

and see that it’s 25 degrees outside but then I scroll further on my weather app and realize it’ll be too warm to base my outfit around a warm coat.

One of my favorite aspects of life is getting to put together a good outfit that I’m proud of, so when I don’t know how to comfortably dress for the weather I end up spending way too much time standing in the middle closet trying to plan

something out.

Unfortunately, since I do take pride in a good outfit, I’m always frustrated with Texas during the odd transitional period of the fall. I find myself either wearing a tshirt with a jacket (that of course I’ll end up carrying around by the afternoon) or, even more frustrating, I end up settling for joggers and any light sweatshirt I can find.

The tragedy of not being able to wear either sundresses or nice warm, layered outfits that will make sense for the entire day will always bother me as long as I live in Lubbock. Fortunately for myself, I enjoy so much about Tech and Lubbock that I am able to overlook this minor, yet very annoying, flaw of West Texas. @GMathesonDT

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Emerging rapper Sueco shares story, set to perform in Lubbock

By MAX HENGST Sports Editor

Sueco the Child, a rapper whose career blew up with a song that went viral on TikTok, will perform in Lubbock at Coho Nightclub on Friday night.

Sueco is best known for his song “Fast” which was released on April 1, according to genius.com. As of November, the song has been streamed over 47 million times on Spotify and the music video has been viewed more than eight million times on YouTube.

Before releasing “Fast,” Sueco’s musical career dated back to when he was a child as his father was the choir director at a church and his mother sang in the choir, he said. After singing in the church’s choir, Sueco said he became a big fan of the game Rock Band, playing the drums.

From playing the drums in Rock Band, Sueco transitioned to a real drum set, saying it was easy to pick up after practicing on the video game. After learning to play the drums, he participated in a jazz band and was a member of his high school’s drumline, being the center snare.

Along with playing the drums, Sueco started writing songs when he was 13 years old, singing while playing the acoustic guitar, he said. After the death of his mother when he was 15 years old, he said he started to dive into music more, being a drummer in a hardcore punk band and then transitioning into the band’s screamer.

Throughout his younger years and high school, Sueco said his music consisted of more drums, guitar and the punk genre, but he also always liked rap.

“I always listened to rap, and I was always the kid with the pencil on the table banging out beats for kids to freestyle,” Sueco said.

“But then I started making beats when I went to university and that’s also when I started taking rap more seriously. So that was in 2014 when I started making beats and everything.”

Sueco said he came up with his name unintentionally in middle school with the help of one of his teachers. In his Spanish class, his teacher asked the students what name they wanted to be called and Sueco said he wanted to be called “OG.” His teacher then told him he would not call him that, but would call him “Sueco G,” since Sueco means Swedish in the language of Spanish.

His teacher called him that since he knew Sueco’s family was Swedish.

Sueco attended California State University, Northridge for two years after high school and then went to University of Puerto Rico to conduct research on artificial intelligence, teaching computers how to understand Spanglish, he said. While in Puerto Rico, Sueco said he realized he wanted to do music and dropped out of school.

“In 2017 there was a lot of lost time, long period,” Sueco said. “I lived in Nashville for a while. I knew I wanted to do music, I just didn’t really know how. I was working minimum wage jobs trying to figure shit out.”

In 2018, the following year, Sueco said he signed a management deal and moved back to Los Angeles. At the end of the year, he decided to part ways with the management company after being locked in the studio to make music on his own. Sueco and his friend group then started to make viral videos where they made beats with random objects.

“In March t h i s y e a r, we took a step back.

That’s around the time I made the song ‘Fast’ and then we dropped that and it went crazy on TikTok,” Sueco said. “I

was making music the whole time for like a super long time. ‘Fast’ was just the first one that really took off.”

Once “Fast” went viral on TikTok, Sueco was able to get one of the rappers from the Grammy-winning group Migos, Offset, as well as rapper A Boogie with a Hoodie to hop on a remix of the song. Along with getting two well-known rappers to feature in the remix after “Fast” dropped, Sueco said almost every label contacted him.

He then signed with Atlantic Records, saying he was offered a good deal and t h e y

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Sueco said he is influenced by several artists.

“I would say my biggest influences are The Weeknd, Kanye (West), Kendrick (Lamar) and Green Day,” Sueco said. “I would say those are my biggest influences, so that’s a big, wide range of music and I feel like that’s kind of what defines my sound; it’s collective. It’s just all over the place.”

Aside from music, Sueco said he is interested in several things people may not know about. One thing fans might not know about Sueco is that he is a big Star Wars fan and is currently playing Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. He also used to play rugby and in his downtime, he is trying to get back into downhill longboarding.

With Sueco coming to Lubbock to perform, he said fans should keep an eye out for new music to drop soon.

“Something crazy is about to happen very soon,” Sueco said regarding the music he is about to release. “I can’t tell you even a date, but in the very extreme near future, something crazy is about to happen.”

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Before TikTok, Sueco said he used to attend parties to try and gain exposure as a producer in college.

“When I was going to (California State University, Northridge), at college parties, literally I remember I would go up – I was so hungry as a producer back then, everywhere at the college parties when people would be freestyling, I would go up and have these business cards,” Sueco said. “I’d pass out business cards.”

As Sueco used to try to get recognized as a producer in college, he said he has produced most of his music by himself.

“Up until literally right now, everything was like 90 percent me and 10 percent my people,” Sueco said.

“Now, I’m starting to work more closely with different producers and just getting different sounds. Right now it’s me expanding if that makes sense.”

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Sueco said he knew the song would do something big after he started to send it to people and received good feedback. He also said he knew at the time TikTok was popular, so he wanted to push the song on the platform.

After his song went viral on TikTok, Sueco noted that it was an untraditional way to get recognized in the industry. He said historically, new artists would get noticed with the help of people in positions of power or influence, such as big-name artists, a radio show or television show.

“Even though the power of the internet, yeah an artist can do a lot more, but it’s still been pretty much -- there has to be something that puts you on pretty much,” Sueco said. “But because of TikTok and because of how that’s working, that kind of just went out the window to some extent. Obviously,

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With the Texas Tech women’s basketball season approaching, junior guard Sydney Goodson is one of three returning players for the Lady Raiders.

As a child, Goodson said she played soccer but made the switch to basketball in middle school and did not look back.

“I kind of found basketball in middle school and I was like, ‘Oh, this is kind of fun,’ and I liked the idea of the harder you work, the better you got instead of more of a skills thing,” Goodson said. “I played it, fell in love with it and I was like, ‘This is it. This is what I want to do.’”

After leading Liberty Christian High School to back-to-back state championships, averaging 17.6 points, 3.7 assists and 2.9 steals per game, Goodson continued her academic and athletic career at Arizona State, according to Tech Athletics.

Goodson’s freshman season with Arizona State came after the Sun Devils finished their 2015-16 season ranking No. 11 in the Associated Press’ top-25.

“I went out to Arizona State, you know, they were top-25, and I was excited about the program,” Goodson said. “I got out there, and it was far from home. My parents couldn’t really come to anything, so I didn’t really fit well with the team culturally, and it just wasn’t a good place for me.”

Because Goodson said she felt like she did not fit in at Arizona State, she transferred to Tech in 2017 and was redshirted in 2017-18 due to NCAA

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Goodson said she has always loved the Big 12 Conference and being in Texas, as the Argyle native’s parents could watch more of her games. With her parents being able to make more games, Goodson said her dad travels to every game, whether it is in Lubbock, Iowa or West Virginia.

Last season, Goodson played in all 31 games, starting in 26, according to Tech Athletics.

She finished her sophomore season averaging 10.8 points, 5.0 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 1.6 steals per game. She also shot 38.9 percent from the field and 37.7 percent from behind the arc. She also reached double digits scoring 18 times with two double-doubles last season while also ranking third in minutes played in the Big 12.

“I think our strength and conditioning has been really huge for (helping Goodson stay on the court longer). Coach

Ralph (Petrella) has helped us a lot to make sure we are in condition, so I can keep up with the pace,” Goodson said. “Also, in the weight room, we do a lot of injury prevention stuff, ACL prevention stuff to keep me healthy. I think that’s huge. I think recovery is huge. We typically get massaged once a week, ice tube all the time, making sure if anything’s achy or pain, you get it taken care of in the training room.”

With the 2019-20 season near, Goodson said she is excited to play with this season’s team.

“I’ve seen more consistency.

Everybody shows up every single day and wants to be here and works really hard consistently, and I think that’s a huge difference,” Goodson said. “I think that is going to be huge this year. I think work ethic separates you, and I think that we have that edge this year.

I’m excited about that. I mean, we still have a lot of progress to make before the season starts, obviously, but I’m excited about where we’re going.”

Along with the team’s work ethic and consistency, Goodson said the team’s chemistry has improved since last season despite having a team with a lot of new players. Everyone on the team is best friends, she said, and they love to be around each other.

Goodson said senior forward Brittany Brewer has been an incredible leader as she has stepped up as a leader, getting everyone excited and locked in at practice. Along with Brewer, she said she has tried to help take some of the newcomers under her wing.

“I think one thing for me,

last year, I was a newcomer and last year I was just seeing coach Marlene (Stollings) and everything, so understanding what I struggled with and how I learned how to improve and get better and how to take coaching and what they expect,” Goodson said. “I think it’s helped me a lot because I know their expectations, and I know what they expect from the newcomers and from me.”

Goodson said after playing under Stollings for a year, it is easier for her to explain the coaching in a different way to the newcomers. Goodson also gives the new players tips while she encourages them, as she tries to be the teammate she wished she had last season.

With a fairly new team, Goodson said her favorite thing about the group of players is that no one is selfish.

“I love the style of play. I love how we play together,” Goodson said. “We pass the ball really well, and we share the ball. We don’t have any selfish players. I think all of us have bought into the ‘We over me.’ So I think that’s really fun to play with, and coach Marlene (Stollings) is really fun to play under because of her quick pace.”

The Lady Raiders will start their season on Nov. 14 against Sam Houston State at United Supermarkets Arena, according to Tech Athletics. With a little over a week until the season begins, Goodson said one goal for her is for Tech to make it to the NCAA Tournament in March and rank in the top half of the conference.

Individually, Goodson said she

out the Eagles 1-0. Janine Beckie scored the game-winning goal to send the Red Raiders to face Auburn. The Tigers defeated the Red Raiders 3-2 in overtime of the second round of the tournament to eliminate Tech.

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time since 2011.

In its latest NCAA run, Tech hosted Princeton in 2018, according to Tech Athletics. In the first half of the match, senior Jade King scored the first goal and during the second half, junior Kirsten Davis and sophomore

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Junior guard Sydney Goodson shoots a layup during the game against Stephen F. Austin on Nov. 28, 2018, in the United Supermarkets Arena. Tech defeated SFA, 77-69. wants to record a higher shooting percentage than she did last season. Another goal this season is to become a better rebounder and become a more consistent player as a whole, she said.

“I want to be more than a shooter, I want to be more versatile,” Goodson said.

With her goals set, Goodson has gone to the gym to practice as much as she can as well as working with graduate assistants to expand her game in the offseason, she said.

Aside from her performance on the court, Goodson was named to the Academic All-Big 12 First Team for her work in the

classroom, according to Tech Athletics. She mentioned that her grades are very important to her and once she got a planner, she was able to manage her time to plan to make sure she stayed on top of her assignments for class.

“I’ve always kind of thought that if you’re going to be excellent on the court, that should carry over in all areas of your life,” Goodson said. “So, if I’m going to be excellent on the court, I want to be excellent in class, I want to be excellent in my social life or whatever it is. I take that very seriously, keeping that bar set high.”

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Tech shut out the Tigers 3-0 to advance to the second round.

In the second round of the tournament, Tech was eliminated by Virginia in a shootout, according to Tech Athletics. In the last match, Tech recorded

seven saves and 10 shots. In overtime, Tech scored two goals versus Virginia’s four, ending the Red Raiders’ season.

Now, Tech will face Pepperdine with a 5-0 record in firstround at home on Friday.

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