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Lubbock community members involved in the West Texas Accountability Project protest the North Dakota Access Pipeline Tuesday on the corner of University Avenue and 19th Street.

Protests took place around the country for National Day of Action.

Right: The Tech Student Democrats hold up signs during their Show of Solidarity forum Tuesday at the Free Speech Area outside the Student Union Building. The forum allowed students to come together and support each other, despite political differences.

Demonstrators gather on 19th Street to protect Sioux land

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ith cars screaming at them from the intersection 10 yards away, protestors gathered at the intersection of 19th Street and University Avenue at Tim Cole Memorial Park to protest the continued building of the North Dakota Access Pipeline.

Beginning at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, the protest was part of National Day of Action in solidarity with the Sioux Native American tribe at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, said Lean Lamb-Vines, co-chair of the West Texas Accountability Project, one of the groups sponsoring the event.

The demonstrators gathered totaled somewhere near 20-30 people, all holding signs, along the 19th Street curb.

“We’re showing solidarity. This is a day to show that there are people across the country and some places around the world,” Lamb-Vines said. “It lets President (Barack) Obama know that this opposition is here and is present and is strong.”

For the Sioux tribe in North Dakota, the pipeline is an impediment on its drinking water, Lamb-Vines said.

The biggest grievance the tribe has with the pipeline is it goes through its sacred and historic land.

The pipeline is being built through Dallas-based energy transfer partners, who obtained federal permits to build the $3.8 billion

project in July, according to the Associated Press. The intention of the pipeline is to carry more than half a million gallons of crude oil every day through South and North Dakota and Iowa, into existing pipelines in Illinois, where the oil can be accessed through Midwest and Gulf-Coast Markets.

Since the permits were issued during the summer, groups have been protesting the pipeline, and in recent weeks, many Native Americans and other protestors have halted continued progress of the pipeline, according to the AP. “We’re not protesting. This is a rally or a demonstration. We’re showing solidarity with Standing Rock Sioux and their struggle,” Lamb-Vine said. “Because, I think everybody recognizes the need for water, for clean water, the need to have your culture respected, to have your dignity respected, to be treated equally.”

Because Tuesday was the national Day of Action, protests like this were going on all around the country, Cordelia Barrera, associate professor of English, said.

“We know that these pipelines are not as stable as we’d like to imagine they are,” Barrera said.

“And so if anything does go wrong, it’s not that a couple of people are going to be affected, whole communities are going to be affected.”

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ather than strike up a protest, students in various political groups on the Texas Tech campus hosted a Show of Solidarity forum to address concerns about the latest presidential election.

The forum was hosted from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Free Speech Area of the Student Union Building.

The forum was not to be used as an anti-Donald Trump or antiHillary Clinton protest, said Angel Carroll, historian for Tech Student Democrats and a sophomore social work major from Austin.

“We just want to get together and show people that have been affected by the election,” Carroll said. “Whether it be hate speech or any kind of rhetoric that’s been offensive, we stand by them.”

The forum was hosted in response to the 2016 presidential election, especially most of those who are fearful of Trump presidency, Carroll said. Some people feel they have to be fearful of the atmosphere around them after hearing stories of racism and xenophobia around the country.

Originally thought of by the Tech Student Democrats, the forum attracted various political and social organizations from across campus, Carroll said. With people coming in and out of the area, the leaders of the various organizations had quaint,

peaceful conversations with any person who had questions for them.

“We don’t attack each other with hateful rhetoric, we understand that, ‘Hey, you may disagree with different policies than I do, but we’re all human,’” Carroll said. “That’s what makes America great, that we can actually talk and have a conversation and disagree with each other and have an educated conversation.”

While organizing the forum, many of the students involved had some apprehension, especially since it was to be hosted in a place like Lubbock, where people voted overwhelmingly for Trump, said Tristan Ramirez, vice president for Tech Student Democrats and a junior political science major.

However, those concerns can be overblown sometimes, Ramirez said, especially on Tech’s campus, where the majority of students can be mostly apathetic to any type of protest or forum. Usually, they simply go along with whatever is going on.

“I think we’re trying to, in part, spread the message that regardless of where we are, Lubbock County or wherever, there are going to be people that express these kinds of views, people who hold sympathies towards progressive ideas,” Ramirez said. “That’s one of those things that I think goes missed in today’s discussion about red states versus blue states.”

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Students, faculty members share thoughts on Thanksgiving history, cultural perceptions

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Thanksgiving is approaching and continues to be a time of togetherness over food. Yet, there are aspects of the holiday’s history little known to the public.

According to the History Channel’s website, the Pilgrims hosted a celebration for the harvest, where members of the Wampanoag tribe were present. Exact details vary, however, such as the kind of food served and how the Pilgrims did not call the feast itself Thanksgiving.

Mark Stoll, an associate professor of religious studies, said the instance where Squanto taught

the Pilgrims to fertilize corn with fish was taught as being a NativeAmerican method when it might not have been.

“He probably learned it in Europe,” Stoll said. “So, there’s one myth.”

Stoll said the Pilgrims were reliant on the Native Americans, and a schism was created in the colony because many citizens were not the members of the same church.

The celebration lasted three days, and multitudes of different food was served at the feast as opposed to what Americans eat at Thanksgiving today. According to the History Channel’s website, they lacked the supplies to make things like pumpkin pie, potatoes

were not accessible as a trade good and much more meat than turkey was served, likely cooked with Native-American methods and techniques.

Audrey Penn, a senior finance major from Pflugerville, said she believes many of the dishes served today replaced those that were originally eaten because of increased availability of options and necessity to adapt to different tastes over time.

Lauren Martinez, a senior biology major from Fort Worth, said the options available now are more convenient.

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Despite winning the popular vote in this year’s election, Hillary Clinton will not be the United States’ next president.

Clinton, the Democratic Party’s nominee for president, has around 780,000 more popular votes than Donald Trump, the Republican Party’s nominee, according to the Associated Press. However, Clinton only secured 232 electoral votes in contrast to Trump’s 290 electoral votes.

“These candidates know that they’re campaigning for the Electoral College,” Seth McKee, professor of political science, said. “The college does not take in to account that there are many liberal Democrats living in very conservative states, or vice versa.”

Because of battleground states like Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, candidates strategically focus their campaigns accordingly, McKee said. This is why some states

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are less sought after on the campaign trail.

Although it is rare for the winner of the popular vote and of the Electoral College to not be the same candidate, it has happened on a few occasions, he said. Democratic nominee Al Gore won the popular vote in the year 2000 but lost the election to Republican nominee George W. Bush, who was elected president after a contentious Supreme Court ruling in December of that year.

“If you look back at the election of 1824, Andrew Jackson won the popular vote and also had more Electoral College votes,” McKee said. “But he lost the election in the House of Representatives because he didn’t win the majority of Electoral College votes.”

Many Americans embrace the battleground-state mentality when it comes to presidential elections, he said. After the most recent election, however, there has been a growing resentment of the college and the election process.

This dissatisfaction has resulted in mass protests across the country. Until election reform becomes a major political issue, the protests are likely to continue, McKee said.

“I really like the Electoral College,” Trevor Jenner, a freshmen accounting major from Austin, said. “I think that swing states do what they are supposed to do, help us pick the best candidate.”

The protestors over the Electoral College are not helping people’s causes but rather making them look hypocritical, Jenner said. It is unlikely that anti-Trump protestors would be voicing resentment of the Electoral College had the results been flipped in favor of Clinton.

Candidates must put forth greater effort to appeal to the voters in blue-collar regions that have a higher electoral value, like Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Michigan or Illinois, Jenner said. If instead they focused their attention only on states with large populations, it

is possible that the average American may become alienated by the election process.

“The (Electoral) College makes it so candidates seek the vote of a region, not a population,” Hondo Bozzo, a freshman from San Antonio, said. “It ensures that the candidates have to convince the whole country to vote for them state-by-state, instead of just convincing half the population.”

Although he supports an Electoral College system, Bozzo said there is still a possibility that the current system in place has grown outdated. A reasonable argument can be made for restructuring the Electoral College to more accurately reflect the results of the popular vote, he said.

“Those who are protesting the Electoral College have a point, but it’s too late now,” he said. “They should accept that Donald Trump is our president and that there’s nothing they can do about that.”

federal government for aid in fighting this pipelines, but have been set aside like second-class citizens, Barrera said.

“They want to have their voice heard but are also being pushed back by a militarized police and government force,” Barrera said. “Personally, I don’t think that’s right. I think that people should be able to protect the things that are important to them.”

To many of the protestors, it seems the government and the entities involved are placing profits over people, Barrera said. It is also a question of environmental justice, because they are putting those who live near the pipeline in danger.

Many times, people do not have the means to pick up and leave the area, but in this instance, specifically, they should not have to, she said.

It seems the voices of those who live near the area are vetoed for the sake of money.

In this capitalist-driven society, people become forgot-

ten when it comes to making financial gains, Barrera said.

“People’s rights get forgotten when a lot of money is at stake, and I think most of us know that the oil and gas lobby has more money than anybody else in the world, I think,” Barrera said. “It’s bullying, to me. Just like Trump is a bully who won (the presidency), and he won by bullying, he didn’t win by treating people fairly and justly, that’s wrong.”

Things like this happen all of the time in more indigent communities, she said.

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One topic that was discussed was how important individual mindsets are to democracies, especially in places like Lubbock, Ramirez said. There will always be people who hold liberal views in a predominantly conservative county, but there should still be civil political conversations.

They also spoke of how the electoral college has, in a way, unfairly gotten rid of the smaller voices within such a huge majority, he said. “(It) proved that we live in a suppressive form of democracy that does that to people’s voices,” Ramirez said.

“If you’re in Lubbock County, why shouldn’t your vote go towards progressive candidates?

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Texas, your vote does not get counted towards your candidate, it only goes toward the candidate you dislike.”

Members of Tech College Republicans, a political organization at Tech, actively participated in the event, relaxing people’s anxieties about what they perceived to be misinformation spread about their candidate, Trump.

In a way, they were trying also to calm any notion there was to be a protest in Lubbock and show support for their fellow organization, Tech Student Democrats, said Megan McMillan, president of Tech College Republicans and a senior marketing major from Albuquerque, New Mexico.

“A lot of people also think it’s funny that we have a sign that says we support the Tech Student Democrats,” McMillan said. “So, we’re just here to not cause any fights and

near toxic waste dumps and other environmentally hazardous areas.

“We’ve been trampling on American Indians’ rights for generations, and this just seems to me like another imperialist takeover of Native Americans,” Barrera said.

Many of the students who attended the event caught wind of it through social media, Jalaina Douglas, a sophomore pre-nursing major from Houston, said.

Douglas just happened to stumble upon the event by a quick Google search, after she found out about the Nato show that two parties can come together and we can unify as a nation.”

In its purest sense, the forum was a demonstration for unity, Ramirez said, and that is more than likely why members from the Young Conservatives of Texas and the Tech College Republicans were present.

It was a way to host a release of ideas, while still respecting each other’s opinions, he said.

“We’re not out here trying to make controversy. We’re not trying to be profane or get reactions from people. We’re out here to show solidarity,” Ramirez said. “Part of showing solidarity does include showing our resistance to a character like Donald Trump, who is incredibly divisive, who constantly makes generalizations about different races, about different groups of people to advance his political agenda.” @MichaelCantuDT

tional Day of Solidarity.

Lubbock, in general, has a weird way of showing its support for anything, Douglas said. In fact, one could make the argument there are not enough events like this demonstration.

“Injustice, in general, pisses me off. With Black Lives Matter and (with) black people, we’ve never been respected either,” Douglas said. “And I’m tired of the disrespect, and so I’m here to stand in solidarity with people who are also being unjustly treated.” @MichaelCantuDT

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Transition struggles plague Trump NEW YORK (AP) — Hidden from the public in his Manhattan high-rise, Donald Trump huddled Tuesday with Vice President-elect Mike Pence as he tried to fill out key posts in his Cabinet. But the transition team appeared to be straining under the enormous challenge of setting up a new administration.

Former Rep. Mike Rogers, a respected Republican voice on national security issues, announced he was quitting the transition effort. An apparent clerical oversight effectively halted the Trump team’s ability to coordinate with President Barack Obama’s White House.

Trump himself broke with protocol Tuesday night by leaving Trump Tower without his press contingent. The transition team had told reporters and photographers there would be no movement by the president-elect for the rest of the day and night, but less than two hours later a presidentialstyle motorcade rolled out of the building, suggesting that Trump was on the move and leaving reporters scrambling.

Trump turned up at Club 21, a midtown Manhattan restaurant where he was having dinner with his family. Reporters were not allowed inside, and Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks asked that they respect that he was having an evening out with his family.

With no public statements from Trump on the transition itself, his allies engaged in an unusual round of public speculation about his potential appointments — including their own futures — as the president-elect and his aides weighed the nation’s top national security posts.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani seemed to be angling for secretary of state.

But Trump’s transition team was reviewing Giuliani’s paid consulting work for foreign governments, which could delay a nomination or bump Giuliani to a different position, according to a person briefed on the matter but not authorized to speak publicly about it.

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Club promotes gender equity in business world

By ARIANNA AVALLE Staff Writer

Women in Business, an organization that welcomes all majors, backgrounds and genders, was created to help its members advance professionally and promote collaboration between businessmen and businesswomen.

Melanie Hudson, a junior management and marketing dual major from Sulphur Springs and the public relations officer for the organization, said Women in Business was founded by Paige Lehmann in 2013 during an anthropology class.

Women in Business is about connecting, learning and growing together, Hudson said. This organization helps its members develop networking skills and encourages them to challenge themselves on a deeper level.

“I think that since business has had a predominately male population

for such a long time, there are many stigmas, stereotypes and issues to break through,” Hudson said.

“It’s time for men and women to start working together to address them.”

Catherine Paulino, a senior health care administration major from San Juan, Puerto Rico, serves as the vice president of Women in Business. Paulino said her mission is to help the other members learn and overcome the “glass ceiling.” The glass ceiling, according to Feminist.org, is a barrier that keeps women and minorities from rising up in job positions.

Paulino went to the United Nations in New York to represent Women in Business at Women’s Entrepreneurship Day. Paulino had the privilege of meeting women entrepreneurs from all over the world and listening to their stories, she said.

“Many of them came from countries where

women don’t have rights to own their own businesses or even have the opportunity to go to college,” Paulino said. “It was very inspiring to be there and listen to their ideas.”

Even if there are obstacles for women in the workplace, they have more power than one may think, she said. The current generation is overcoming many of the walls and stereotypes minorities have fought against for years.

“I believe that the only reason why we see these disadvantages is because women are apprehensive about rejection or losing things that they’ve worked hard for,” Paulino said. “However, taking a little risk can be healthy, and it opens many opportunities that otherwise the individual wouldn’t be exposed to.”

Llewellyn Harkness, a senior accounting and finance major from Houston, said Women in Busi-

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Members of the Women in Business organization gather for one of their meetings. The organization was created to help its members advance professionally and to promote gender collaboration in the business world. ness is a great opportunity for both men and women to network with one another in an open context. During their meetings, they can discuss the issues that women face in the workplace without the fear of judgment and provided constructive criticism.

As a male, Harkness said he thinks the first thing to do is understand the obstacles for women in the business world.

“I believe that anyone

who does their job should be rewarded equally in the workplace,” he said. “I also feel that women should not be monetarily penalized for taking maternity leave to have children.”

Desirea Wright, a junior economics and general business major from Mansfield, said women are treated differently in the workplace. A way to fight this issue is not letting the stereotypes about women affect work habits.

One of her favorite memories of this organization is when Tech football coach Kliff Kingsbury came to speak at a meetings, Wright said. In his speech, Kingsbury talked about business and how to apply what one learns in real life.

“I learned how to carry yourself professionally and be open to any opportunities that may come your way,” Wright said. @AvalleAriannaDT

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Muslim Student Association expands their horizons

By ALYSSA ACOSTA Staff Writer

There are many misconceptions that surround the religion of Islam and those who practice it.

The Texas Tech Muslim Student Association aims to clear those misconceptions and invites everyone to learn more about Islam.

On Wednesdays, members of MSA go outside the Free Speech Area to Student Union Building to hand out roses and pamphlets about the misconceptions of Islam. This weekly event is meant to spread their message, Isha Steadman, a junior business management

major from Denton and MSA president, said.

“We do it every Wednesday,” Steadman said. “It’s just to send a message of peace and love. We are not trying to preach to people.

We are not trying to convert people.”

MSA also hosts a halaqa each Wednesday where a guest speaker talks about Islam or reads from the Quran, Steadman said.

All students are invited to attend the halaqa and be part of MSA. Amin Mohammed, a senior mechanical and structural engineering major from Houston and involvement ambassador of MSA, said he is working to reach

out to other organizations.

MSA is planning events with the Jewish community as well as the Church of Christ community at Tech. “(MSA) is a home for all Muslim students, even though you don’t have to be Muslim to be part of it,” Mohammed said. “It is a home away from home.”

Hussain Abidi, a junior biology major from Dallas and vice president of MSA, said the members aim to change the way the public views Muslims by educating the community about some of the misconceptions surrounding Islam.

“We are trying to clear up the cloudiness that surrounds our religion,”

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NBC News gets elections boost NEW YORK (AP) — The presidential election boosted NBC News — and its aftermath helped Fox News Channel and "60 Minutes."

Although CNN and Fox News were the most-watched networks on election night, NBC topped its broadcast brethren ABC and CBS, a major point of pride for the news divisions. The presidential contest also helped NBC's regularly scheduled newscasts.

For example, the "Today" show on Wednesday had its most-watched single day since the 2011 wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, as America tuned in to learn more about Donald Trump's election as president, the Nielsen company said. "Today" also beat ABC's "Good Morning America" for the week, its first weekly win

since February, not counting the weeks NBC broadcast from the Olympics.

NBC's "Nightly News" won last week as well, stopping at least temporarily a slide that has led ABC's "World News Tonight" to do better the last two months. Lester Holt's newscast on Wednesday was the most-watched since last February, Nielsen said.

Meanwhile, 20 million people tuned in to a "60 Minutes" interview with President-elect Trump and his family on Sunday. That was the biggest audience for the venerable newsmagazine since its Sean Penn interview last January and, before that, all the way back to an interview with Barack Obama just after his election in 2008.

Post-election cable news ratings gave a strong indica-

tion of who was interested in watching political news. Fox News Channel — where most happy Trump fans would be likely to watch — averaged 4.82 million viewers in prime time last Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. That was up 48 percent from its average during October, Nielsen said.

Meanwhile, the audiences for both CNN and MSNBC were depressed: CNN was down 1 percent from October for those three days, and MSNBC down 24 percent.

NBC won last week in prime time, averaging 8.4 million viewers for the week.

CBS averaged 8 million viewers, ABC had 6 million, Fox had 5.5 million, Univision had 2.2 million, Telemundo had 1.7 million, the CW had 1.3 million and ION Television had 1.2 million.

Abidi said.

Getting other people involved is one way MSA brings awareness about the organization and their religion, Abidi said. MSA does not pick sides politically and only wants to unify the student body.

“For us, the religion is all about peace. So, to us (radical Islamic terrorists) are not really Muslims,” Abidi said.

People treat the word “Muslim” as a bad word that should be used with caution, which is something he does not agree with, Abidi said.

It can be frustrating dealing with the many misconceptions Muslims face.

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According to the History Channel’s website, some Native Americans disapprove of the way Thanksgiving is perceived within modern culture, namely its simplic-

Growing up in an Islamic community, Steadman said she never thought there was any negative feelings toward Muslims.

At the beginning of the semester, MSA was asked if it would still be comfortable tabling in the Free Speech Area with the new campus carry law.

Steadman said she felt her organization should not be afraid about being targeted on campus.

“Even though it is frustrating to have to explain (our religion) over and over, we understand that it is for a purpose,” Steadman said.

Mohammed said the purpose of MSA is to unify

people. One misconception people have about Muslims is they do not respect Jesus, but MSA is here to say they respect all religions and invite all students to participate in their events.

Muslims have the same beliefs as followers of any other religion, Abidi said.

If others could take the time to read the Quran, the world would see this. “ We o b v i o u s l y c a n ’t change the whole count r y, ” M o h a m m e d s a i d .

“I’ve never been in a more diverse place than Tech, and they can take our message to wherever they are from.”

ity in being taught in schools.

People skirt around the tensions and the bloody conflict that occurred before and after the initial celebration.

The relationship between Plymouth colonists and the Native-American tribes had many ups and downs, Stoll sa “We all like to think our origins were more noble than sometimes they were,” Stoll said. “When you go to colonize somebody else’s land, it’s not going to be a happy situation.”

Stoll said if not for the epidemic the Native Americans faced, the Pilgrims would have had more difficulty finding land.

Penn said this view of history tends to be glossed over because the United States wishes to look better, but she believes both the origin and the spirit of the holiday are important.

“It’s evolved over time,” Penn said, “but the origins should definitely be mentioned accurately because it’s history.”

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Television squanders American potential

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ollege for many is a time of high stress and significant change.

Students are in a transition period during which they must learn to balance all of their needs and desires in a responsible manner as well as explore their options in light of future goals.

Co l l e g e c a n a l s o b e an isolating time, during which young adults must create and strengthen relationships in a new context.

T h e n , i t i s n o t s u rprising that the trend of binge-watching television is so prominent in a culture where feeling emotional fulfillment, finding a sense of purpose and escaping figuratively is so strongly desired.

The average college

Sasha Ross is a freshman honors arts & letters major from Lubbock.

student watches 20 hours of television a week.

This is 20 hours that could be spent exercising, studying, sleeping, reading or accomplishing any other goal that actually improves the mind and body.

Why, then, do intelligent and explorative young adults turn to passive story-watching as a pastime?

I believe it is because watching television is a form of immediate gratification.

We, as viewers, can get to know all of the interesting and unique components of a character without having to go through awkward conversation or boring introductions.

If we dislike a charac-

ter, we can change shows.

There is no component of personal rejection or a sense of discomfort.

Because of how technology has advanced, this artificial sense of relationship can actually replace real relationships.

Why, then, do intelligent and explorative young adults turn to passive story-watching as a pastime?

Additionally, television is enthralling. The day-today mundane and ongoing checklist of errands, which seems to make up

adult life, dulls in comparison with the stories we watch of heroes and villains, passion and hope.

Who wants to waste time accomplishing tasks as part of the perpetual cycle of unfulfilled living, when you can imagine you are accomplishing the greatest feats and partaking in the best adventures?

Further, the cathartic nature of watching television is a distraction from ongoing negative emotions and experiences.

Television truly is an efficient distraction from pain and boredom, and therefore I can hardly blame my generation for turning to it.

In fact, the question arises, why shouldn’t we turn to television? We shouldn’t we escape from reality?

I believe, simply, because it is not real life.

The empathy we might have for a fictional character dulls in comparison with the reality of true human compassion. The stories we watch cannot replace our own.

I believe people settle for less than reality because they are afraid or feel real life cannot be made desirable. They feel stuck and lack passion.

“My life can never be what I hope it to be, so I will settle for passive entertainment.”

This is a piteous mindset, rampant throughout modern the U.S. Our wealth and position as a nation, which should be empowering, instead enables a mindless existence.

College is supposed to be a time in which one seeks

passion and fulfillment.

Instead, more and more, millennials are falling into the traps their parents fell into – only desiring a sustainable existence and attempting to evade total boredom.

I understand society is setup to support a traditional lifestyle, which is hard to oppose or change.

However, we are intelligent, capable and — most of us — are wealthier than 90 percent of the world.

We, of all people, should uphold the values of bravery and active existence.

20 hours of television a week? That doesn’t fit into the picture.

Honestly, I think we have more important things to do. opinions@dailytoreador.com

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Underage dipping must be addressed differently

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ost young boys in the southern or western United States is introduced to tobacco at some point.

Before this, the children are unaware of the dangers.

Typically, this formal introduction comes early in high school or, in some cases, junior high school.

When presented to them by a friend or classmate, it is sold as “cool” or “macho.”

Many kids — including my former childhood self — are sold on first sight.

Others resist peer pressure and refrain.

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Austin Martin is a graduate student studying kinesiology from Dallas.

Now, if a child sold on the thought of dipping is caught doing so, he will be lectured on the subject.

These lectures come in many forms and styles, but the most common is the standard testimonial.

If a parent is unqualified, he will typically find a friend who once dipped to tell his kid of the evils.

This person will tell the kid how they themselves used to do it and how it made them miserable.

Kids — being impressionable, as we well know — do listen to these stories.

However, they only hear part of it: the wrong part.

They envision the adult packing a lip and think to themselves how cool that adult probably looked.

The parts about addic-

tion – gum problems and cancer – pass right over their heads.

After getting caught with dip as a high-school freshman, my accomplice and I were lectured by multiple adults about their negative experiences.

We thought those adults were astonishingly cool after learning about their previous dipping habit.

Needless to say, we did not heed their advice.

The advent of dipping in a young boy’s life is an interesting phenomenon.

It coincides directly with puberty and a heightened interest in the opposite sex.

As hormonal as kids are at the high school age, most things they start doing — like hanging out at the mall or putting thought into their clothing — are to attract the opposite sex.

Dipping, however, has the opposite effect. Fe-

uses it.

Professional baseball players used to play a small role, but this has stopped since Major League Baseball’s ban of tobacco in 2016.

On top of that, these are not the types of athletes our youth look up to anymore.

Thus, I have no suggestions for how to prevent it initially.

The social forces that drive dipping’s popularity are beyond my scope of understanding. Secondary prevention, on the other hand, can be addressed in a tactical manner.

In my experience, the testimony model does not work.

In many respects, I look like someone who has his life together.

If I tell a younger kid not to do something I used to do, that child will naturally look at me and think, “Well, look at him. He turned out fine.”

Despite the negative

spin I put on it, that is what they will hear.

I think this school of thought also holds true for drugs and alcohol.

I once used it and have no problem when someone does it in front of me.

However, tobacco use is a risk factor for many diseases.

Children would be much better off being told by an adult — or really anyone that child looks up to — that they never did it, and that’s why they are okay now.

Let’s not bring ourselves down to the level of those we’re trying to lift up. opinions@dailytoreador.com

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Harassment encouraged by Trump’s election

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think we can all agree it should not be above 65 degrees Fahrenheit by Nov. 13 each year.

However, Sunday provided a nice little break of sunshine, perfect for a refreshing Dr. Pepper.

Unfortunately, I missed Sonic Drive-In’s happy hour, so I settled for a Stripes nearby.

As I pulled into the parking lot, a man exiting stared at me as he slowly drove by.

I walked inside, and there was a younger man working in the back of the convenience store.

I went to the soda machine, got my drink, paid for it and — the whole time — the guy working in the back would not stop looking at me.

Then, I left the store,

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

and as I walked to my car, I noticed a man in his truck watching me very intently.

This whole pit-stop took maybe five minutes. And, in those five minutes and in that one convenience store, I was made to feel weirdly uncomfortable.

I’m not some gorgeous model, and I was definitely not blessed with curves. I was wearing lengthy sweat shorts and a plain longsleeve tee.

I had no makeup on, and I looked like I just rolled out of bed.

In that store, however, I felt somewhat attractive.

Not attractive in the way of being appreciated and admired as a beautiful human being, but attractive in a way which paralleled with feeling like a walking piece of bait amongst hungry predators.

I know this is no new or striking occurrence to anyone. Unfortunately, women everywhere have to deal with this every day. Harassment is something all too familiar to women.

Sadly, I fear it will remain just as prevalent now that our nation is represented by one of the most infamous faces of sexual harassment.

Catcalling, inappropriate gestures, grabbing — the list is endless — and if we don’t reciprocate the way men want, we get treated even worse.

Just a few weeks ago, a guy driving by the gas station yelled at me to “bend over.”

It’s almost as if the word “man” has adopted a new definition.

Unfortunately, women everywhere have to deal with this every day.

What I once would describe as strong, protective and brave, I now think of as dangerous, powerful and scary.

We shouldn’t have to be negative and cynical toward men for no reason, but some-

times it’s just necessary to appear strong to them.

I am not, by any means, saying all men are perverts.

I am, however, saying enough of them fit into this category to make young women like me live in an unnecessary fear.

I can’t even go to the store without feeling violated.

Furthermore, I have an 11-year-old sister. She has matured tremendously over the past few months, and it terrifies me.

I can’t protect her all the time, just like I can’t be protected all the time.

I can only hope she knows how to be safe and the young boys around her will grow into kind, caring gentlemen. opinions@dailytoreador.com

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males find it repulsive.

Despite this, the allure of dipping persists. So, other social forces must be at play.

Now, I am not here to talk about how repulsive the habit of dipping is.

People already do enough of that.

I once used it and have no problem when someone does it in front of me. However, tobacco use is a risk factor for many diseases.

Thus, I do think the less one interacts with tobacco the better, especially for younger children.

The toxic culture that dubs it cool to children needs to be addressed. How to do this, however, is the main question.

Movie stars and rock stars play a big part in making cigarettes seem cool, but this is not really the case with dip. No one notable I can think of

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Lady Raiders take on former Big 12 rival

By ALEXA BOUTWELL Staff Writer

After grabbing the season home opener against North Dakota, 90-80, on Sunday, the Texas Tech women’s basketball team will travel to College Station to take on No. 23 Texas A&M at 7 p.m. Wednesday.

The game against the Lady Aggies will be the first nonconference road game of the season for the Lady Raiders.

A&M’s women’s basketball team tipped off its season against Central Arkansas, where the Lady Aggies won, 74-49.

Since defeating Midwestern State, 121-56, in an exhibition match and North Dakota, 90-80, the Lady Raiders have seen what they need to improve on to compete with A&M this week.

“I think there are a lot of things defensively that we need to fix,” Tech coach Candi Whitaker said. “We have to guard the ball better, we had a lot of straight-line drives that got our bigs in foul trouble. So, we have to do a much better job on the perimeter. I think we have to be more consistent on the offensive glass, and we have to be more fundamental in boxing out and rebounding.”

Junior center Jada Terry, a transfer from A&M, said facing a tough opponent early in the season is an opportunity to show what the team is made of.

“It’s very good because it shows us where we are at and what we need to improve on in order to make it to the NCAA tournament,” Terry said.

The team has had to work hard on the court and watch film on the Lady Aggies to get a glimpse of an opponent this program has not faced in years, Terry said.

“We’ve seen who they are and who their go-to players are,” Terry said. “We have seen what their strengths and weaknesses are and what plays they do.”

One part of the Lady Raiders’ game that needs improvement is blocking out the opponent and grabbing boards, junior center Ionna McKenzie said. Against North Dakota, Tech came up with 36 rebounds, while the Lady Hawks had 44.

“Every day, we just come to practice with the mindset that we’re going to make sure that we are rebounding every single time, and we’ve got to be aggressive on the boards and just make sure we work hard every single rep, so we

can be better in the game,” McKenzie said.

Playing a top 25 ranked opponent early in the season can be a good opportunity to see where Tech needs to go from here. A&M has a successful program, McKenzie said, but the Lady Raiders are talented, too.

“Every game is a good opportunity for us. This is just a good time for us because they’re a good school,” McKenzie said. “With us, I feel like we are also a good team, so this should be a good matchup.”

Whitaker was a studentathlete at Tech and played for the women’s basketball team during her collegiate career from 2000-2002. While on the team, Whitaker said her A&M memory was not a fond one.

“Unfortunately, my A&M memory is we went there, I believe we won, but our plane broke and we had to take the bus home,” Whitaker said. “The A&M was not the A&M they are now, and so for women’s basketball, it wasn’t always the biggest rivalry game. We had other teams I think we were looking for more, but I know the history of Texas Tech and that rivalry.”

This game between the Lady Raiders and the Lady

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Texas Tech guard Recee’ Caldwell pushes past a North Dakota player and moves toward the basket during the Lady Raiders’ game against North Dakota Sunday in the United Supermarkets Arena.

Aggies will be one to watch as the teams used to be in the same conference. With A&M being ranked No. 23 in the nation, Tech has a great opportunity to show what it

is made of on Wednesday, Whitaker said.

“It’s a great opportunity for us. It’s an in-state game that’s not in our league and a top-25 team now and typi-

cally is a top-25 team. So, it’s a great way for us to learn early here about who we are and where we need to get better,” Whitaker said. @ABoutwellDT

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Defense continues progress, focuses on Iowa State

By ARIANA HERNANDEZ Staff Writer

Tech’s defense is looking to continue being physical as the team travels to Ames, Iowa, to take on the Iowa State Cyclones on Saturday.

The Red Raider defense seemed to tighten up in the second half of the game against Oklahoma State on Saturday. Tech’s defense was able to come away with a turnover in the game.

Sophomore defensive lineman Breiden Fehoko said the defense has been making progress on the field by learning from its mistakes at the beginning of the season.

“I think just learning from first six games of the season,” Fehoko said. “I mean ever since I would have to say the (Oklahoma) game, I think we’ve, kind of, just come together and said, ‘Hey, you know what? We got six left.’ I mean now we’re down to two more. There’s pressure, but at the same time, we want to play as if there’s no pressure.”

Sophomore defensive back Jah’Shawn Johnson made seven solo tackles and had a total of 10 tackles against Oklahoma State.

The defense had a fumble recovery and a stop in backto-back drives that gave Tech’s offense the opportunity to make something happen

on Saturday. Johnson said the players have learned that the key for them is to come out strong and stay that way, so the offense has numerous chances to score.

“We just know we got to come out and start fast,” Johnson said. “We’ve been doing it for the first few quarters and then kind of backing off at halftime.

We’ve been challenged to come out and start fast in the second half and give our offense the chance.”

Obviously, we haven’t had games go the way we want them to, but I can see the coaches are still very confident, the players are still confident. These games we have to go in and play confident.

We have to sell out, can’t leave anything out on the field.

JUSTIS NELSON DEFENSIVE BACK The defensive players still have fight in them as they head into their last two games, Fehoko said, and it is a now-or-never situation for the team.

The Red Raiders need to win out these last two games against Iowa State and Baylor in order to become eligible for a bowl game.

“I think right now with these next two games, with our back against the wall, I think now it’s time for the pistol to fire,” Fehoko said.

“Time to bring everything out and leave it all out on the table. Two games left, two games to get bowl eligible. At the same time, there’s a lot of pressure, but for us, it’s just to keep playing hard, putting good things on the field.”

The weather in Ames, Iowa, this weekend is predicted to be colder, but senior defensive back Justis Nelson said he does not think the weather will affect Tech’s performance. Nelson had six total tackles against Oklahoma State.

“I don’t think it’ll be a big factor,” Nelson said.

“It will be chilly, but that’s football weather.”

Iowa State won its first Big 12 Conference game against the Kansas Jayhawks, 31-24, on Saturday.

Even though Iowa State has not been doing well in Big 12 play, it is still a tough opponent, Fehoko said, and has not been counted out.

“They play tough, they’re a tough team,” Fehoko said.

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Malik Jenkins, Douglas Coleman and D.J. Polite-Bray tackle Oklahoma State running back Justice Hill during the Red Raiders’ game against Oklahoma State on Saturday at Boone Pickens Stadium.

The Red Raiders have lost their last two Big 12 Conference games.

“They should be at least 6-4 right now, and you can never underestimate a team, especially at home.”

The mindset of the Red Raiders this week is to focus on executing on Saturday, Johnson said.

Turnovers play a role in success for the Red Raiders, Johnson said, and the defense is focusing on making more of those against

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