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Tech parts ways with Kingsbury

By AUSTIN WATTS Managing Editor

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espite starting 2018 with a 5-2 record, a fivegame losing skid for the Red Raiders to a 5-7 finish has prompted the removal of Kliff Kingsbury as head coach of the Texas Tech football team.

“Let me say thank you to Kliff Kingsbury. He is a good man that has worked very hard and has represented us in a first-class manner over the past six years,” Tech Athletic Director Kirby Hocutt said. “He epitomizes class, and he is a Red Raider. I truly wish him the best in all of his future endeavors.”

Over six seasons as head coach of the Red Raiders, Kingsbury accumulated a 35-40 record as head coach, with winning seasons in 2013 and 2015. Tech managed to make three bowl games over that span, winning one in 2013 before dropping its next two appearances

in 2015 and 2017.

Early Sunday morning, Hocutt informed Kingsbury of his decision to find a new head coach for the Red Raiders, citing issues with the inconsistency and struggles of the Tech football program over the last three seasons, and the decision was not specifically tied to this season or the finale against Baylor.

“Late last night I made a recommendation to President (Lawrence) Schovanec that we make a change in the head football coaching position,” Hocutt said in Sunday’s news conference. “I met with Kliff Kingsbury this morning and informed him that we were going to move in a different direction and begin a national search for a new head football coach.”

The decision to fire Kingsbury was not based on one game or one season, but on a three-year pattern, Hocutt said.

“A three-year pattern of inconsistency,” Hocutt said. “We did not come here to win five, six and five games and to have the season end in November.”

After thanking Kingsbury for his contributions to the program, Hocutt emphasized his focus is now on finding a coach with the experience, knowledge and abilities to improve Tech’s football program in several facets of the game, whether it be recruiting or the play of the team in all three phases of the game.

Winning is fun and we will get there. I look forward to seeing this group of young men win in our time ahead.

KIRBY HOCUTT DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS “We want a man with the highest amount of character, integrity, somebody that is going to represent Texas Tech University with class. Somebody who is able to assemble a staff that can recruit in the state of Texas,” Hocutt said.

“Somebody who has experienced success in the game of football, especially in college football, and somebody that is able to build an elite program by winning and winning the right way.”

Kingsbury was hired back in 2013 and experienced his best season to date in his first year as head coach of the Red Raiders, with a hot 7-0 start to his head coaching career before dropping five straight. To further add to the collapse of the 2013 season, future Heisman quarterback Baker Mayfield decided to transfer, citing issues with Kingsbury’s handling of his scholarship.

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Vaping poses significant health threat

Christmas shopping proves stressful for college students

By AKHILA REDDY L a Vida Editor

Whether it be walking through the occasional plume of smoke on campus or scrolling through social media pages, vapes are seemingly ubiquitous.

However, despite their innocuous appearance, vapes, or electronic cigarettes, are at the epicenter of a public health crisis. In September, the United States. Food and Drug Administration announced youth use of electronic cigarettes had reached epidemic proportions.

Vapes were not designed to be used by youths, Kim Pharr, co-owner of 180 Vape in Lubbock, said. They were originally designed and are still used to help smokers transition from cigarettes.

“People know smoking’s bad for them,” Pharr said. “A lot of people are realizing what we realized a long time ago is that we were able to quit smoking using these devices, and a lot of people are seeing that.”

According to the Center for Disease Control, however, 40 percent of electronic cigarette users aged 18-24 had no prior history of smoking, indicating vapes are often times not used as aides for smokers.

Vapes are not necessarily the issue, Pharr said.

“It’s something I could go round and round on all day,” Pharr said.

“Who's to say (teenagers) wouldn’t pick up cigarettes instead? I mean that’s kind of my thoughts on it.”

Although vapes might not have the range of dangerous chemicals and carcinogens characteristic of cigarettes, they still have serious health repercussions, Thomas Tenner, a professor at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, said.

“Vaping is nothing more than a drug delivery system,” Tenner said. “The reason people smoke is not because people like inhaling carbon monoxide and smoke, it’s because of nicotine, and that is the same substance that is being delivered in vaping.”

Nicotine ranks with cocaine and amphetamine as being one of the three most addictive compounds available, Tenner said, even more so than heroin, cannabis or alcohol.

It functions by stimulating receptors that are pleasure centers in the brain, resulting in individuals initially feeling more alert, prepared, etc., he said. As nicotine use continues and the pleasure center is overstimulated, however, the center is desensitized and deregulated.

As a result, more nicotine is needed to achieve the same initial effect, he said.

“Over time once you become habituated or dependent on that nicotine, now when you take the nicotine whether smoking or vaping or however, you’re not feeling better,” Tenner said. “You’re not feeling an improvement. You’re really just trying to feel normal.”

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Students and community members gather at the Christmas tree at the end of the 57th annual Carol of Lights on Dec. 1, 2015. With the Christmas holiday a month away, students struggle to stay on budget when buying gifts.

By HAILEY WALTER Staff Writer

With Christmas a month away, the shopping and gift buying has begun.

The hunt for perfect gifts for loved ones and friends can be joyful, but also stressful.

According to Statista website statistics, the average consumer spent $862 on Christmas presents in 2017.

It’s predicted American citizens as a whole will spend $465 billion on holiday gifts this year, according to the National Retail Federation.

Finding the perfect gifts on a budget can be challenging, a common predicament for college students.

However, Suzanne Thomas, a bank teller for Independent Bank, said it is possible.

Thomas has done a variety of positions in banking for over 10 years and has experience with finances.

She said the key to budgeting for Christmas is to plan.

“Sit down and write each person you need to get a gift for, and then set a budget per person,” she said. “Stay to that list and budget, and it keeps you from spending too much.”

She said to know how much to spend, some math is required.

“Look at how much you make a month and write down your monthly

expenses,” Thomas said. “Subtract your monthly expenses from your income, plus how much you plan on putting in savings. With what’s left, you can decide how much should go towards Christmas.”

Thomas said it’s important for individuals to not over spend during Christmas and put themselves into debt.

“Not being able to pay credit card debt at the end of the month often results in paying interest on that card,” she said. “That means you’re paying a percentage more of what you owe.”

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Tech accommodations integrate international students

By ADÁN RUBIO Staff Writer

Visiting a foreign country can pose many challenges for one who is not familiar with the culture. At Texas Tech, accommodations are offered for international students to manage these struggles.

Whether it be experiencing a new place, dealing with the language barrier or simply attending college, there are many factors that could create difficulty for international students attending Tech.

Regardless of the many obstacles an international student may face, resources are provided on campus to help these students thrive in college.

Kelley Coleman, director of international enrollment development and outreach at the Tech Office of International Affairs, said she helps international students through the recruitment process.

“It is a little more complicated for the international students because they do have additional documentation for the immigration process, they have to maintain their immigration status while they’re here and they do have to provide that English proficiency test requirement,” she said.

Similar to domestic students, Coleman said international students have admission requirements, such as submitting transcripts, along with requirements specific to them.

“We have set standards for admissions the students have

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“If you don’t have the cash to pay it off, don’t buy it,” she said.

It’s important to remember that most loved ones and friends understand college students operate on a low budget, Thomas said. When it comes to a Christmas present, it’s the thought that counts.

Olivia Bergeron, a senior finance major from Houston, has her own strategies budgeting for Christmas.

Bergeron has worked for an accountant for three years, interned in the finance industry for three summers and was director of finance for her sorority in 2017.

to meet,” Coleman said. “We have language standards.”

There are a variety of tests Coleman said international students can take to prove English proficiency for the admission process.

The Test of English as a Foreign Language and the International English Language Testing Services are exams she said require certain scores for international students to be admitted.

The services international students have access to could be helpful while enrolling, she said.

“It’s amazing the things they have to do to get here,” Coleman said. “We have a whole team that works with them through the recruiting process, through the admissions process.”

Whether it be completing admission requirements or preparing for orientation, Coleman said her team advises international students throughout the entire admissions process. As the advising team helps international students with their start at Tech, she said the students like to return the favor.

“They like to share their culture too and give back to the community,” she said. “It’s a great exchange that happens.”

The community aspect of attending a college campus, whether it is giving back to the community or taking part in social interactions, may be one experience that is difficult for incoming international students.

With the need to connect with other students at Tech, certain accommodations may

be necessary to help international students interact with their peers.

Since international students typically have a oneday orientation when they arrive at Tech, Beth Mora, Tech international student life administrator, said International Student and Scholar Services tries to meet the needs that were not fulfilled during their introduction to the campus.

“The easiest way to budget for Christmas is to start early,” Bergeron said. “If you plan to put $25 a month into a separate savings account, you’ll have $300 saved for Christmas presents at the end of the year without really trying.”

She said it’s good to always be on the look for good deals.

“If you find the perfect price, it’s okay to buy in July and save it for December,” Bergeron said. “So many stores have annual sales, so just be aware of when the best deals will be available, it’s not always on Black Friday.”

Emilee Elmore, a junior accounting major from Midlothian, also has a plan for Christmas budgeting.

“I don’t think there is a certain amount someone should spend on a gift,” she said. “Just whatever you can afford and not put

yourself to where you can’t pay for necessary things like bills and food.”

Elmore said learning how to budget can be hard for college students.

“A lot of us don’t have a lot of money to begin with and most of us have or have had our parents supporting us,” she said. “The little money we make tends to be spent on pointless things or going out with friends.”

Despite how difficult learning to budget can be, Bergeron said it’s a valuable habit.

“As we leave Tech and venture into our careers, our lives will only become more complicated – families, financial obligations, etc., it can be a lot,” she said. “College is a time to hone in on your budgeting skills so that you’re comfortable setting limits and prioritizing for yourself so that you’re comfortable with the process.”

(International students) like to share their culture too and give back to the community. It’s a good exchange that happens.

KELLEY COLEMAN DIRECTOR OF INTERNATIONAL ENROLLMENT DEVELOPMENT AND OUTREACH “We try to identify those things that maybe they’re missing out on,” she said. “We have a welcome event that our International Student Council puts on every semester to welcome the brand new students and have them engage with the students already here.”

Whether it be the International Student Welcome Event, planned trips or other social gatherings, Mora said there are a variety of events dedicated to giving international students the chance to interact with other students,

domestic or foreign.

“One of the things we want students to have is authentic experiences,” Mora said. “So, we have community members who adopt students for a year. We also have a peer-to-peer program that’s launched this semester.”

Through this peer-to-peer program, Mora said domestic students can help international students navigate through the campus lifestyle at Tech and possibly pick up cross-cultural skills as well.

“We really push programs like those, especially for our brand new students, to help them connect both on campus and off,” she said.

Connecting with other students may be a challenge for some international students who do not have much experience with American culture.

Teaching international students about certain cultural aspects of America and the Tech community is another service Mora said her department provides.

“We have orientation sessions for the undergrads that we work with to give them pointers and feedback to know how to handle certain situations,” she said. “We look into stuff like that to see how we can better support them from that perspective.”

Even though getting students to attend these sessions is difficult, Mora said international student organizations are helpful in wanting to get foreign students involved on campus.

With international students engaging in organizations and interacting with others,

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WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Sunday rejected a last-minute bid by former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos to delay his two-week prison term and ordered him to surrender Monday as scheduled.

Papadopoulos sought the delay until an appeals court had ruled in a separate case challenging the constitutionality of special counsel Robert Mueller’s appointment.

But in an order Sunday, U.S. District Court Judge Randolph Moss said Papadopoulos had waited too long to contest his sentence after it was handed down in September.

Moss noted that Papadopoulos had agreed not to appeal in most circumstances as part of his plea agreement and the

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barriers Pahom said could prevent some international students from fully participating in class. For some cultures, she said people do not want to disagree with a professor, as they see disagreements as defying authority.

“We have to remind that it’s okay to disagree, it’s okay to question things,” Pahom said.

“Having the classroom being a safe place is something we really value in the ESL classes.”

Despite the issues that could occur when trying to overcome the language barrier, culture could be a determining factor in one’s understanding of a language, whether it is an international student learning English or a domestic student learning to communicate with someone from a different country.

“Language and culture go hand in hand,” Pahom said.

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she said many people benefit from the cross-cultural learning that occurs.

“It’s a win-win for the Lubbock community, it’s a win-win for the students and for the Texas Tech community,” she said.

Learning the culture of another country could be beneficial when trying to connect with foreign students.

Experiencing cross-cultural interactions also could be helpful for students to overcome the language barrier.

Olga Pahom, instructor of applied linguistics and English as a second language, said most of the graduate students in her classes are international students.

“Most of the students I come in contact with through the applied linguistics and ESL courses have pretty good English proficiency,” she said.

“I would say the language barrier is really a lot of time cultural barriers.”

Differences in culture are

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judge said the challenge to Mueller’s appointment was unlikely to be successful in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Four different federal judges have upheld Mueller’s appointment as proper.

“The prospect that the D.C. Circuit will reach a contrary conclusion is remote,” Moss wrote.

Tweeting in response Sunday, Papadopoulos said he looked forward to telling the full story behind his case. In recent months, he has spent many nights posting on Twitter, as has his wife, venting anger about the FBI and insisting he was framed by the government. He has also offered to testify before the Senate’s intelligence committee, which is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, if he’s granted immunity or other conditions.

“The truth will all be out.

Not even a prison sentence can stop that momentum,” Papadopoulos wrote Sunday. “Looking forward to testifying publicly shortly after. The wool isn’t going to be pulled over America’s eyes forever.”

Papadopoulos had filed an initial motion on Nov. 16, nearly two months after the deadline for appealing his conviction or sentence. He followed up with a request to delay his sentence pending that motion on Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving.

“Papadopoulos waited until the eleventh hour to seek relief; indeed, he did not file his second motion — the stay request — until the last business day before he was scheduled to surrender to serve his sentence,” Moss’ 13-page order states. “He has only his own delay to blame.

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Working out can lead to better mindset

By BRIANNA MALDONADO Staff Writer

Aside from the physical changes continuous exercising provides, studies show working out can reduce stress, anxiety and depression while improving cognitive function, according to the American Psychological Association.

Bailey Palmer, instructor through the kinesiology department for exercise physiology and the science and practice of strength training, said exercise is proven to assist in mental clarity, improving mood and higher energy levels.

Through exercise, she said hormones – serotonin and dopamine – that are referred to as happy hormones are released. With balance and regulation, Palmer said they will increase and make people feel better. “(Exercise) is one of the best things we can do for ourselves,” she said. “It has a place in everyone’s life.”

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Additionally, nicotine can have an impact on the growth and development of the brain in young people, he said. The brain is not set until approximately the mid 20s in terms of growth and development.

Aside from nicotine, there are many other compounds used in the vape, he said. Some of those compounds are also used in medicine products and food, but not on a chronic level.

“So is it bad or not? The data is still out,” Tenner said. “I mean I cannot tell you definitively that these second hand, if you will, products are harmful to someone. They can’t help though.”

The risks and repercussions of vaping are significant, especially when considering the lack of discernible benefits for anyone, Tenner said, even those who have a prior history of smoking.

“This whole thing about vaping can help people quit has been pretty well disproven,” he said. “Incidentally, people who vape have greater incidence of turning into cigarette smokers because, again, the vaping is not the issue. It’s the nicotine delivery.”

Pharr, however, said vapes

One of the hardest challenges is finding the motivation to get in the habit of working out. Palmer said there are two kinds of motivations – extrinsic and intrinsic. Extrinsic motivation is due to external factors, including wanting to look a specific way, please another person or a push from someone else.

“It’s okay to be extrinsically motivated at first,” she said. “Usually extrinsic gets us out the door.

You want to feel good and improve your health. What keeps people coming back is you actually have to enjoy it.”

Extrinsic motivation typically does not last though, she said, ranging to a couple weeks or months. Whereas intrinsic motivation is where the continuous push comes from and leads to exercise becoming a habit.

“Intrinsic motivation is something that we should strive for,” she said. “It’s motivation that comes were beneficial in her decision to quit from cigarettes and have had a positive impact in her life.

“When I switched from smoking cigarettes to vaping, I noticed I could breathe easier. I actually could smell things. I could taste things,” Pharr said. “It was so much better. I felt just a lot better.”

There are pros and cons to vaping, Varsha Madipadga, a junior kinesiology major from Austin, said. Helping people transition away from cigarettes is a positive change, but on the other hand, vapes have an appeal that cigarettes do not for kids and young adults.

Since vapes do not have the bad smell or side effects associated with cigarettes, they may seem less dangerous, she said.

“It’s just like something new I guess because everyone knows don’t smoke cigarettes, but this isn’t like traditional cigarettes,” she said. “It definitely smells better and looks cooler. But it’s still a problem.

They have nicotine.”

Although vapes may not have all the chemicals in cigarettes, the significance of the nicotine in them cannot be overstated, Tenner said. Tenner, an ex-smoker, said nicotine addiction is like a 100-pound ball weighing one down.

“It’s like ‘Gee oh do I want to cuff myself to a 100-pound lead ball and drag it around with me for the rest of my life,’” he said.

“That’s what nicotine does.

Nicotine is the 100-pound lead ball, and it’s in vapes.” @AkhilaReddyDT

from within.”

Steban Flores, a freshman kinesiology major from Ozona, said exercise has been a part of his life ever since he was young. During eighth grade football, his coach pointed out he would be a better player if he had more muscle.

(Excercise) is one of the best things we can do for ourselves.

It has a place in everyone’s life.

BAILEY PALMER FITNESS INSTRUCTOR From then, Flores said he has been working out practically every day, taking a resting day on Sunday. He was introduced to power lifting his junior year of high school. Flores said he was able to increase his weights and running distances over

the years and is now able to bench over 300 pounds and run three miles a day.

“It was a slow process at first, but I built myself up,” he said. “Through a month time period, I’ll see the changes in my body. I see myself get better in a way.

I just like the way it boosts my confidence.”

George Orebe, a personal trainer, said working out leads to a better mental state of mind through the release of endorphins.

“You feel better, and you look better,” he said. “When you hit the gym, there’s a different persona of you whenever you come out.”

Orebe said people have different reasons for exercising – stress, a bad day or just want a quick boost of energy. After a work out, Orebe said he recommends people drink plenty of water, eat protein and low-fiber carbohydrates, such as white rice and dried fruit. @DailyToreador

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The Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center is a place where Texas Tech students go to exercise, socialize and participate in free classes to meet their fitness goals and to stay healthy.

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Mars landing looms for NASA; anxiety building a day out CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — With just a day to go, NASA’s InSight spacecraft aimed for a bull’s-eye touchdown on Mars, zooming in like an arrow with no turning back.

InSight’s journey of six months and 300 million miles (482 million kilometers) comes to a precarious grand finale Monday afternoon.

The robotic geologist — designed to explore Mars’ insides, surface to core — must go from 12,300 mph (19,800 kph) to zero in six minutes flat as it pierces the Martian atmosphere, pops out a parachute, fires its descent engines and, hopefully, lands on three legs.

It is NASA’s first attempt to land on Mars in six years, and all those involved are understandably anxious.

NASA’s top science mission official, Thomas Zurbuchen, confided Sunday that his stomach is already churning. The hardest thing is sitting on his hands and doing nothing, he said, except hoping and praying everything goes perfectly for InSight.

“Landing on Mars is one of the hardest single jobs that people have to do in planetary exploration,” noted InSight’s lead scientist, Bruce Banerdt.

“It’s such a difficult thing, it’s

such a dangerous thing that there’s always a fairly uncomfortably large chance that something could go wrong.”

Earth’s success rate at Mars is 40 percent, counting every attempted flyby, orbital flight and landing by the U.S., Russia and other countries dating all the way back to 1960.

But the U.S. has pulled off seven successful Mars landings in the past three decades.

With only one failed touchdown, it’s an enviable record.

No other country has managed to set and operate a spacecraft on the dusty red surface.

InSight could hand NASA its eighth win.

It’s shooting for Elysium Planitia, a plain near the Martian equator that the InSight team hopes is as flat as a parking lot in Kansas with few, if any, rocks. This is no rock-collecting expedition. Instead, the stationary 800-pound (360-kilogram) lander will use its 6-foot (1.8-meter) robotic arm to place a mechanical mole and seismometer on the ground.

The self-hammering mole will burrow 16 feet (5 meters) down to measure the planet’s internal heat, while the ultra-high-tech seismometer listens for possible mars-

quakes. Nothing like this has been attempted before at our smaller next-door neighbor, nearly 100 million miles (160 million kilometers) away.

No experiments have ever been moved robotically from the spacecraft to the actual Martian surface. No lander has dug deeper than several inches, and no seismometer has ever worked on Mars.

By examining the deepest, darkest interior of Mars — still preserved from its earliest days — scientists hope to create 3D images that could reveal how our solar system’s rocky planets formed 4.5 billion years ago and why they turned out so different.

One of the big questions is what made Earth so hospitable to life.

Mars once had flowing rivers and lakes; the deltas and lakebeds are now dry, and the planet cold. Venus is a furnace because of its thick, heat-trapping atmosphere. Mercury, closest to the sun, has a surface that’s positively baked.

The planetary know-how gained from InSight’s $1 billion, two-year operation could even spill over to rocky worlds beyond our solar system, according to Banerdt. The findings on Mars could help

explain the type of conditions at these so-called exoplanets “and how they fit into the story that we’re trying to figure out for how planets form,” he said.

Concentrating on planetary building blocks, InSight has no life-detecting capability. That will be left for future rovers.

NASA’s Mars 2020 mission, for instance, will collect rocks for eventual return that could hold evidence of ancient life.

Because it’s been so long since NASA’s last Martian landfall — the Curiosity rover in 2012 — Mars mania is gripping not only the space and science communities, but everyday folks.

Vi e w i n g p a r t i e s a r e planned coast to coast at museums, planetariums and libraries, as well as in France, where InSight’s seismometer was designed and built. The giant NASDAQ screen in New York’s Times Square will start broadcasting NASA Television an hour before InSight’s scheduled 3 p.m. EST touchdown; so will the National Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. The InSight spacecraft was built near Denver by Lockheed Martin.

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The loneliest generation of Americans are in college now

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hen I think of what it is to be lonely, I think about someone in the later stages of life who has lost their husband or wife, learning to live without their partner for the first time. I think of my grandfather who I moved in with after my grandmother died while I was getting my undergraduate degree at University of Texas at San Antonio.

He spoke of feeling lonely to me sometimes even in a crowded home with myself, my dog and my next-doorneighbor aunt who came every day to take care of him.

But, there were days where I didn’t have as much time to sit and talk with him be-

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tween our different schedules – his late-nights watching loud Spanish television and my early mornings rushing to class or work.

The days where his schedule of reading the newspaper, watching TV and feeding scraps to my dog were not satisfying enough for him, and a lack of companionship and feeling of isolation set in. I understood that he felt lonely then, even in a home where he was never really alone.

I know now the difference between what I thought being lonely was and feeling lonely was nonexistent. It doesn’t matter how many people you’re surrounded by – to be lonely is to feel lonely.

It is to lack companionship, meaningful relationships or to be isolated from others. And it is to feel the people you are around lack the interests you share, feel as if there is no one to turn to when you really need to talk about something or feel like you aren’t really “close” to anyone. Loneliness is a feeling regardless of whether you’re physically alone in a room or at a party

surrounded by a group of people you don’t feel connected with.

No one questions my grandfather’s grief and the amount of time I had to spend with him as loneliness; most of us accept that is what it means to be lonely.

Many of us attribute loneliness with age and hardship; however, new national research reveals that younger generations are lonelier than any generation before. Generation Z, ages 18-22, and Millennials like myself, ages 23-37, report being lonelier than any other generation. Put in context, if you’re on campus reading this article and stopped to look at the students around you, the chances are that more than half experience a sense of loneliness.

In national surveys, research studies and a former surgeon general describes as facing a “loneliness epidemic,’ college age students are truly and factually the loneliest American’s in the country.

If you’re asking why loneliness even matters it’s because, unaddressed, loneliness can be connected to an increase in stress and anxiety across the country that affects physical well-being. It can be connected to the rise in suicide rates and overdoses in America. It can be connected to a rise in angry

politics, as individuals seek to fill that hole in their lives finding a sense of community in polarized political “tribes.”

Even though loneliness is a very human experience, one of many in a broad and complex system of shared emotions we must go through in life, like most problems left unaddressed, its growth becomes a toxic problem in our society.

That sounds ridiculous, doesn’t it? We seem able to accept being lonely later in life as a real issue and loneliness as a college student as some sort of weakness.

There is a societal view that this is a nonissue – these are best years of our life, our youth and age something we should be grateful for. We don’t think enough about the difficultly for college students moving away from home for the first time.

About a generation with an endless view of what others experience by social media that heightens feelings of loneliness and isolation. We don’t think about the natural amount of time needed to build friendships and establishing a sense of community when society emphasizes school grades and work above all else. For most of us, college loneliness can seem trivial in the grand scheme of what a college student is there to accomplish.

That is certainly what I thought when I first started questioning my own experience with loneliness last summer. I was alone at first spending much of the summer in Lubbock working in an unpaid internship.

Without law school most of my friends had left for the summer for internships in other cities, and the friends I had in town were older fathers with families and without school bringing us together I never saw or spoke to them much.

All I had was an unpaid internship, but the hours were short and I spent most of my time alone in my apartment trying to find something to do. The community I had established in Lubbock was gone, and I felt needy reaching out to friends, asking to Skype or talk with me while I knew they were busy with their work and their lives in other cities.

It was lonely in a way that I didn’t know how to address at the time, and while eventually I did meet someone who I connected with and she ended up becoming one of my best friends, I felt a lot of shame and loss of confidence over the experience.

I never thought about loneliness before that and if I did think about that

feeling for myself my first instinct was to genuinely call myself a snowflake in a politically correct world that needs to suck it up.

That is something I actually wrote down in my writer’s notebook.

It didn’t matter before that national studies show loneliness is normal and shared by many my age and growing across America.

Facts and logic don’t stand a chance against the internal feelings, the thoughts in the back of my head, the pride I grew up with, the strength of the way I was raised to view that these feelings don’t exist and I need to just keep working. It didn’t matter until I actually felt those things myself.

I accept and address loneliness as it comes, and understanding it as a universal experience, changed my ways of dealing with it from pushing it away as shame to understanding and doing things to help myself like connect and invest more into my friendships and my community.

I can accept what my grandfather felt as real, something that should be helped and when it comes to my own feelings of loneliness and others I can accept that they are one in the same @DailyToreador

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Climate change’s newest, most contentious legal battle

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his past summer, a group of children, teenagers and one NASA climate scientist won the right to trial in a lawsuit brought against the United States federal government on the grounds that the government should have taken more significant steps to alleviate climate change.

In a court case that was started in 2015 under the Obama administration, the plaintiffs argue that by taking steps to promote fossil fuels, indifferences to greenhouse gases and failure to adequately mitigate or resolve the effects of climate change.

Specifically, they argue, “That lapse violates, the court papers argue, their fundamental constitutional rights to life, liberty and property,” according to National Geographic.

They further their point against the federal government by arguing that the government violated the public trust doctrine. The doctrine is the legal standard that holds the government responsible tor protecting public resources. The youth argue that the climate system is just as

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NASA scientist James Hansen, director of the program on Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions at the Earth Institute at Columbia University, is allegedly the only adult amongst the group of children and teenagers endorsing the idea of suing the federal government. His granddaughter, Sophie, was one of those youth. Hansen told the court that the U.S. had, what he called, “at-best schizophrenic, if not suicidal U.S. climate and energy policy.”

After a rough start to the case, in July the group won the right to trial. After being challenged once by the Obama administration in 2016 and most recently by the Trump administration, the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon advised the district court, “to consider the striking breadth of the case before rejecting other attempts by the government to

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dismiss the lawsuit,” according to the Pacific Standard.

As a college student, it is becoming clear that climate change is no longer a political issue, but a global issue. It is virtually scientific consensus that the Earth is warming at a more rapid rate than is natural, that human produced greenhouse gasses are the cause, and that it poses catastrophic, if not extinctionlevel risks to the globe.

The fourth National Climate Assessment report of 2018 concludes, “Climate change creates new risks and exacerbates existing vulnerabilities in communities across the United States, presenting growing challenges to human health and safety, quality of life and the rate of economic growth.

Without substantial and sustained global mitigation and regional adaptation efforts, climate change is expected to cause growing losses to American infrastructure and property and impede the rate of economic growth over this century.”

By failing to take-action, and in fact encouraging the

usage of fossil fuels the U.S. federal government is actively destroying our climate, ecosystems and aiding the deplenishment of our public resources.

With warmer temperatures comes warmer air. Warmer air can absorb more water, and this is what leads to more extreme drought events, but with brief and heavy precipiticipation which is what leads to flooding. This also affects natural disasters. Hurricane Harvey, for example, dumped more than 21 trillion gallons on Houston and surrounding areas over one weekend.

For context, that is enough water to fill Utah’s Great Salt Lake, twice, according to the Washington Post. An Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report projects that climate change will cause over 5 billion out of a projected 8 billion individuals, or over 60 percent of the global population, to be living in a “water stressed country.”

Climate change also affects food supplies and arable land, which are also vital resources.

Through extreme weather events, warmer temperatures, lack of water, lower ozone

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layers, species extinctions, migrations, the risk of famine and diseases all question the globe’s ability to produce enough food. A recent study by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America indicates that if climate change goes unresolved by 2100, we could lose over 35 percent of our vegetable productions needed to survive on Earth.

Needless to say, climate change poses a significant threat to the Earth and all its inhabitants. The case poses the first legitimate and legal challenge against the U.S. federal government for not taking actions to resolving climate change.

Although the court will hear questions about whether or not climate change affects public resources at a level that the federal government is responsible for, the scientific consensus is clear; it is time the federal government be held accountable for the potential dangers it is allowing to run free by not taking actions to mitigate climate change. @DailyToreador

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KINGSBURY CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 Despite a five-game losing streak and his talented quarterback bolting for conference rival Oklahoma, the Red Raiders defeated Arizona State in the Holiday Bowl, 37-23, for the only bowl win during Kingsbury’s tenure.

In the year following, the Red Raiders regressed significantly, finishing with a 4-6 record, the worst of Kingsbury’s tenure, and the worst finish for the program since 1990 when Tech went 4-7 under former head coach Spike Dykes.

The lone bright spot of 2014 was the emergence of true freshman quarterback Patrick Mahomes II, who quickly won the starting job over incumbent quarterback Davis Webb.

I n 2 0 1 5 , Te c h b u i l t on the skills Mahomes brought to the table, sur-

rounding him with electric skill players in wide receiver Jakeem Grant and running back DeAndre Washington which helped Tech to a 7-5 record during the regular season, before a 56-27 blowout loss to LSU in the Texas Bowl.

2016 saw the Red Raiders regress heavily again, as the entire team failed to produce aside f r o m M a h o m e s . Te c h ’s defense ranked 128 out of 128 teams in scoring defense in the FBS, and Kingsbury was unable to surround Mahomes with enough weapons to get Tech over .500.

After a 5-7 finish, Mahomes left for the NFL and was taken 10th overall by the Kansas City Chiefs. Despite developing a star quarterback, the Red Raiders struggled to replace talent all over t h e r o s t e r, w h i c h w a s heavily apparent in both 2016 and 2017.

SPORTS In 2017, Kingsbury’s highly-touted offense floundered with senior quarterback Nic Shimonek taking over for the departing Mahomes. Despite a failing offense and a still-abysmal defense, Tech was able to limp to a 6-6 record, qualifying for the third bowl in five years with Kingsbury as head coach. Tech could not get past University of South Florida in 2017’s Birmingham Bowl, falling 38-34 as a Tech hail mary fell far short of the goal line in the closing seconds.

In 2018, the expectation was that Kingsbury was on the hot seat, and a strong season would be needed to keep his job.

In the season opener, a blowout loss to Ole Miss, paired with an injury to Kingsbury’s chosen starting quarterback, led to the critics calling for his head once again.

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would come in the form of true freshman quarterback Alan Bowman, who picked up a 4-3 record as a starter, showing promise in Kingsbury’s offense. However, in two of the three losses, Bowman suffered lung injuries and was unable to finish either game.

Without Bowman, the Red Raiders dropped three more straight losses to close the season. With Bowman at the helm for the entire year, this season may have gone wildly different, but the struggles at the quarterback position proved too much for Kingsbury’s Red Raiders to overcome.

A major role in the decision to remove Kingsbury has been the struggles of the Red Raiders in conference play since his hiring.

In six seasons, Tech has a winning record in conference play against just one conference foe, Kansas, and has split the last six

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Against WVU, KSU, OSU and OU, Tech has a combined 3-21 record over the last six years.

Tech’s conference struggles can be seen in its abysmal 17-31 record over the last six seasons. In conference play Tech has been outscored 2109-1854 over the last six years, having been outscored by four points on average over Kingsbury’s tenure.

“However, winning is fun, and we will get there.

I look forward to seeing this group of young men win in our time ahead,” Hocutt said. “To the Red Raider Nation, let me reiterate that at Texas Tech Athletics, we aspire everyday to be elite in everything we do. We will find the right individual

to come in and provide the leadership to get this program to a higher level.”

With Kingsbury out of the picture, Hocutt will start the search for Tech’s 16th head coach in school history. At 35-40, Kingsbury departs with the second worst winning percentage in program history. For Hocutt, he expects the search for Tech’s next head football coach to be a timely search, yet also thorough in finding the right man to fix the state of the program.

“We have a list of priority candidates, absolutely.

When I walk out of here, in the next few minutes, that will occupy every waking second that I have,” Hocutt said. “We will begin making direct contact with candidates and working to identify that next person.

That process will begin in full-force when we walk out of this room today.” @AustinWattsDT

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Texans to honor McNair, who Tech excels academically died Friday, in game with Titans HOUSTON (AP) — When the Houston Texans take the field on Monday night against the Tennessee Titans in their first game since Robert “Bob” McNair died on Friday they’ll all carry a reminder of the team’s late owner and founder.

Affixed to the back of each player’s helmet as they try to set a franchise record with their eighth straight win will be a small decal in the shape of a football with simple white block letters bearing his initials of “RCM.” One of the NFL’s most influential owners, McNair had battled both leukemia and squamous cell carcinoma in recent years before dying in Houston on Friday. He was 81. The team did not release a cause of death, but said he died peacefully with wife Janice and his family by his side.

While McNair hadn’t been around the team much this season as his health declined, he’d been a near constant

presence in years past. He was often seen sitting on a golf cart watching his team practice or standing on the field before games.

On Saturday before the Texans started practice, coach Bill O’Brien discussed McNair’s fight with cancer and his passing with the team.

“He loved the Houston Texans and he loved coming out here to practice and he loved ... the veterans will tell you, the guys that have been here a long time, sitting in his cart with (son) Cal (McNair) watching practice, driving around to the different drills,” O’Brien said on a video provided by the team.

“And I just think on a day like this before we hit the field — this is his field — (we’ll) have a little moment of silence and then we break and we’ll go to practice. Because at the end of the day, guys, Bob McNair wanted us to win.”

After games McNair, who dressed impeccably in a

suit to watch the team play, would often emerge from the locker room to address the assembled media, beaming and raving about the Texans after big wins or lamenting that they had to do better after tough losses.

This team wasn’t merely a business to McNair, he cared deeply about the Texans and talked often about his desire to bring Houston its first Super Bowl title.

The Houston Oilers never won one before skipping town for Tennessee after the 1996 season. It was then that McNair made it his mission to return the NFL to the city.

He formed Houston NFL Holdings in 1998, and on Oct. 6, 1999, he was awarded the 32nd NFL franchise. The Texans began play in 2002.

And whether near or afar McNair had been a presence in all 266 games the Texans had played since their inaugural game on Sept. 8, 2002, when they beat the Cowboys 19-10.

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Stars emerging under Stollings’ system

By DANIELLE DIXSON Staff Writer

With the hiring of head coach Marlene Stollings, the Texas Tech women’s basketball team has made progressive strides toward reemerging as a top contender.

Just five games in, the Lady Raiders are only three wins away from tying last year’s total amount of victories (seven) with an overall record at 4-1. A large part of Tech’s recent success can be credited to Stollings’ practice style and player development.

Among those key players is junior center Erin Degrate, a transfer from the University of Louisville where she played in 28 games with one start. She averaged three points, 3.1 rebounds and had a 53.1 percent shooting percentage from the field.

Degrate hit her career high of 10 rebounds when Louisville played against Clemson, according to Tech Athletics.

This is Degrate’s second season with the Lady Raiders. In her first season she had two starts and averaged 8.1 points and 3.8 rebounds, according to Tech Athletics.

She had a 54.1 percent from the field during Big 12 play,

leading her to be ranked fifth overall in the league.

Five games into her junior season, Degrate has recorded a handful of starts for a combined total of 54 points thus far. In her first start for this season, Degrate had 17 points and three rebounds, leading the Lady Raider offense, according to Tech Athletics.

Another high impact player for this team is a transfer student as well. Junior center Sydney Goodson has performed well in her first season with the Lady Raiders, fresh off transferring from Arizona State University, where she recorded a .385 shooting average and .350 from beyond the arc. She saw 27 of the 33 games for the Sun Devils, according to Tech Athletics.

Although Goodson has only started in a couple of contests, she comes off the bench explosive for the Lady Raiders. In the five contests played this season, Goodson has posted a 10.8 points per game average, according to Tech Athletics. The new-toTech center hit her game high in the scarlet and black in the game against the University of Idaho, scoring 14 points.

Freshman Chrislyn Carr has established herself as a dy-

namic component to the squad.

Carr, a native of Davenport, Iowa, is the lone freshman on the team, but that has not stopped her from showing out for the Lady Raiders, according to Tech Athletics. In her collegiate debut, Carr posted 16 points on the board and matched that total in the second game of the season against the University of LouisianaMonroe. Carr shot for 19 points against Houston Baptist, marking her season high.

Before coming to Tech, Carr was the star of the show at her high school. She hit her 1,000th career point in her first game as a junior, and by the end of her senior season, she hit 1,474 points. Heading into Tech, she was ranked 116 for recruits overall, according to Tech Athletics.

Team co-captain, junior forward Brittany Brewer has been essential for the Lady Raiders. The 2018-2019 campaign marks Brewer’s third season with Tech. As a freshman, she averaged 5.8 points and 5.7 rebounds, according to Tech Athletics. She was the third freshman in Tech’s history to be named to the Big 12 All-Freshmen Team.

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averaged 18.4 points in addition to 12.4 rebounds per game, according to Tech Athletics.

Most recently, Brewer totaled a career high 34 points with her seventh double double.

Lastly, lone senior forward Zuri Sanders and fellow co-captain on the team has been through it. As a freshman, she averaged 5.3 rebounds a game, ranking in the No. 2 spot for Tech.

In her sophomore season, Sanders suffered a knee injury, but that did not stop her from hitting her season high in blocks and six-field goals against Texas Christian University, according to Tech Athletics.

Sanders made 16 starts in her junior season, and seeing action in 29 games, she averaged 4.3 points and 5.4 rebounds. She was ranked third in assists, recording 40 for the season, according to Tech Athletics. She tied her season best going 5-5 from the field against West Virginia University.

As a senior, Sanders has started in all five games for the Lady Raiders. In the second game of the season she tied her game best of 16 rebounds against ULM, according to Tech Athletics. @DaniDixsonDT

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TOP: Sophomore guard Sydney Goodson scores a layup during the women’s basketball game against the University of Louisiana Monroe on Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018 in the United Supermarkets Arena. BOTTOM: Freshman guard Chrislyn Carr goes up for a layup over a defender during the women’s basketball game against the University of Louisiana Monroe on Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018 in the United Supermarkets Arena. The Lady Raiders are 4-1 on the season under new coach Marlene Stollings.

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Brady new NFL leader in yards passing Winston shines, Bucs beat 49ers, 27-9 EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Tom Brady set yet another NFL record. Ho-hum.

The New England Patriots quarterback was more excited about earning another victory.

Brady threw two touchdown passes and became the career leader in total yards passing in regular-season and playoff games, leading the Patriots past the New York Jets 27-13 on Sunday.

“Just wins,” Brady said.

“That’s what we’re here for.

I’m trying to be a part of as many of these as I can.”

Well, the five-time Super Bowl champion certainly has lots of those.

The latest clinched the Patriots (8-3) their 18th straight season with a .500 record or better. That ranks second in NFL history to only Dallas, which had 21 in a row from 1965-85.

Brady had just one TD throw in his previous three games, but

connected with Rob Gronkowski and Julian Edelman against the AFC East-rival Jets (3-8). The Patriots quarterback went 20 of 31 for 283 yards, giving him 79,416 for his career.

He also reached 3,000 yards passing for the 16th straight season, tying Peyton Manning for second in NFL history behind Brett Favre’s 18.

That’s all after missing Friday’s practice with an illness after being limited during the week with a sore knee.

“I’d prefer to be healthy and practice all the time,” Brady said. “That just wasn’t the case.”

He was plenty good enough.

Rookie Sony Michel ran for a season-best 133 yards and a TD , and the Patriots had 215 yards rushing — responding well to coach Bill Belichick’s challenge to his offense.

“We talked about being consistent week in and week out,” Michel said, “play-

ing Patriots football, being physical and run the ball and throw the ball and control the line of scrimmage.”

Coming off a 34-10 loss to Tennessee two weeks ago, the Patriots avoided their second two-game losing streak of the season — something the franchise hasn’t experienced since 2015. New England, which improved to 3-3 on the road, has won five straight in the series against New York and eight of the past nine.

With Jets rookie Sam Darnold out with a foot strain, 39-year-old backup Josh McCown got his second straight start — making this game the NFL’s second-oldest QB combo at 80 years, 258 days with 41-year-old Brady going for New England. Only Carolina’s Vinny Testaverde (44) and Green Bay’s Favre (38) in 2007 are an older combination at 82 years, 44 days old.

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — James Winston is determined to make the most of his latest opportunity to prove he’s Tampa Bay’s long-term solution at quarterback.

The fourth-year pro sparkled in his first start in a month, throwing for 312 yards and two touchdowns in the Buccaneers’ 27-9 victory over the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday.

“Jameis played quarterback the way you need to play it in the NFL until you get into desperation time, which we never did today,” coach Dirk Koetter said after the Bucs (4-7) snapped a four-game losing streak.

“Jameis wasn’t perfect, but he played a good game.

I’m proud of him. It’s been a difficult road,” Koetter added. “He sees what that looks like. He needs to consistently play like that and he can be one of the best.”

Winston, benched last month after turning the ball over 11 times in 14 quarters, completed 29 of 38 passes without an interception.

The No. 1 overall pick from the 2015 draft has shared the starting job with Ryan Fitzpatrick this season. Each has played well enough at times that Tampa Bay leads the NFL in passing yards and total offense,, however a porous defense and the league’s worst giveaway/takeaway ratio has undermined the team’s chances for success.

Winston led TD drives of 73, 75 and 85 yards. His 6-yard scoring pass to Cameron Brate put the Bucs up early, and later teamed with Adam Humphries on a 28-yard TD on a play the quarterback extended by scrambling to his right before throwing back toward the

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center of the field.

It was the same type of play that often comes back to haunt Winston, who’s been criticized throughout his career for poor decision-making.

“He was wide open. It was a decisive decision,” Winston said. “When you’re decisive with the ball, it’s no thinking about it. You trust your instincts and make the throw.”

Tampa Bay (4-7), meanwhile, had four sacks and forced turnovers on defense for the first time in eight games, with Ryan Smith and Isaiah Johnson coming up with the team’s first interceptions since a loss to Pittsburgh on Sept. 24.

Midseason acquisition Cairo Santos also made two field goals and three extra points.

“We made all our kicks.

We got two takeaways. We didn’t turn it over. Life is good,” Koetter said.

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