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fficials are now investigating to determine whether a knife attack at Ohio State University on Monday morning was an act of terrorism.

The attacker has been identified as Abdul Razak Ali Artan, a Somaliborn student at Ohio State. Artan was shot and killed on university grounds, according to The Associated Press. As of now, officials were not able to release any further information on the case.

The confusion of Monday morning’s events has since been cleared up by Ohio State police, according

to AP. Artan deliberately drove his Honda over a curb and rammed into the outside of an engineering classroom building.

After that, Artan began knifing people. It was by coincidence that an officer was near the area responding to a gas leak, according to the AP. Artan was shot on sight in less than a minute.

Nine people were injured and one suffered critical injuries, according to the AP. “It is remarkable what these first responders did,” Ohio Gov. John Kasich said in a news conference. “There will be a lesson all across America, all across America.”

Though most people now know the

assailant was yielding not a gun but a knife near the beginning of the incident most media outlets thought there was an active shooter on the Ohio State campus, according to the AP. On the Texas Tech campus, the Tech Police Department has been instrumental in providing resources to inform students, faculty and staff on how to respond to active shooter situations, Amy Ivey, sergeant for Tech PD, said.

“We offer it to give our faculty, staff and students the capability to be able to defend themselves in case there is an active shooter here on campus,” Ivey said. “We train as a matter of when it’s going to happen, not if.”

The training is based on the cur-

riculum called alert training from various departments across the nation, Ivey said. Several officers within Tech PD are certified and give presentations throughout campus, showing people what to do in case of an active shooter situation.

The department also gets a lot of its training material from past experiences with active shooter situations, Ivey said.

“That’s going to be our major teaching tool and maybe looking into the future,” Ivey said. “(The Dallas shooting) was the first time we’ve seen something outside. Before (that), we would think of active shooters just inside buildings.”

During the department’s train-

ing, the first piece of advice people are given, Ivey said, is to think of ways to survive an interaction with an active shooter.

“And we always tell them there’s two people that can fight. There’s ones that can and ones that can’t,” Ivey said. “And usually everybody in the room is going to be the ones that can fight.”

In essence, the people who are trapped in buildings and are near an active shooter are considered true first responders, because they make the first decisions, Ivey said. They are the ones who have the capacity to impact the outcome of the situation.

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Ohio State University officials inform students there is an active shooter on campus and they should "Run Hide Fight."

Officials say a shelter-inplace warning has been lifted and the scene is secure following reports of an active shooter and at least seven people are injured.

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The fire department says seven people have been sent to the hospital after an active shooter was reported at Ohio State University.

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A spokesman for Ohio State University says injuries in the attack on campus included stab wounds and being struck by a vehicle.

Hospital officials say eight patients they received from the scene of a reported attack at Ohio State University have non-life-threatening injuries.

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A witness to the attack at Ohio State University says he initially thought a car had accidentally driven over a curb into pedestrians but realized it was intentional when a man emerged with a butcher knife.

A spokesman for Ohio State University says a suspect in the attack on campus, which injured at least eight people has been shot and killed.

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Ohio State police say the attacker on campus purposely drove over a curb and into pedestrians and then got out of the vehicle. He began stabbing people with a butcher knife.

A U.S. official has identified the suspect in the Ohio State attack that injured nine people as a man of Somali descent. The official identified Abdul Razak Ali Artan as the now-deceased suspect.

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A police chief says authorities are looking into whether the attack at Ohio State University was related to terrorism.

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Tech Parking Services starts annual program

By ALEXA BOUTWELL Staff Writer

One of the strong offensive presences on the court for the Lady Raiders this season has been freshman guard Arella Guirantes, who has displayed her skills against top-ranked opponents.

As one of the newest additions to the Lady Raider basketball team, Guirantes has already set some specific goals she plans on achieving this season.

“I want to be Big 12 Freshman of the Year, and personally, I want to win the Big 12 and make noise in the Big 12 because a lot of people are sleeping on Texas Tech,” Guirantes said. “Basically, I want to have a fun year.”

She has already made strides toward achieving those goals, as she was named Big 12 Freshman of the Week on Nov. 21 for her performances against Texas A&M and New Mexico. The Lady Raiders are 3-2 after five games this season.

The losses Tech has acquired this season were against top-25

ranked teams. On Nov. 17, the Lady Raiders forced No. 24 Texas A&M into overtime but fell short to the Lady Aggies, 98-80. Tech battled against No. 21 Miami on Sunday but lost to the Lady Hurricanes in the Miami Thanksgiving Tournament Championship, 74-56.

Guirantes scored 17 points against the Lady Aggies and a career-high 21 points and 13 rebounds to record her first doubledouble of the season.

After Guirantes was awarded Big 12 Freshman of the Week, Tech coach Candi Whitaker said she was impressed with the way Guirantes was playing on the court.

“We are very proud of (Guirantes),” Whitaker said. “She competes and plays at a high level and continues to prove what a key player she is within our team.”

In high school, Guirantes was the No. 44 prospect in the nation and the No. 17 wing player in the 2016 class.

The guard chose to play for Tech over offers from LSU and Rutgers.

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Texas Tech guard Arella Guirantes prepares to catch a pass from her teammate during the Lady Raiders' basketball game on Nov. 20 against New Mexico in the United Supermarkets Arena. The Lady Raiders defeated New Mexico 69-58.

Transportation & Parking Services started its annual Toys for Tickets program Monday. According to a Tech news release, the Toys for Tickets program benefits Toys for Tots, a nonprofit organization that gives toys to children whose parents cannot afford gifts.

To have a citation dismissed, one must bring a new and unwrapped toy or toys of the value of their citation along with the receipt for the toys. People can bring these materials to room 145 of the Administrative Support Center at the southeast corner of 4th Street and Flint Avenue, according to the release.

Transportation & Parking Services is open on weekdays from 7:30 a.m.-8 p.m. According to the release, only one citation may be dismissed through Toys for Tickets, and monetary donations will not be accepted. @DavidGayDT

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National Wind Institute forms partnership with WTC

By REECE NATIONS Staff Writer

In a ceremony hosted at Texas Tech, an agreement that allows Western Texas College students to transfer their coursework to Tech in order to receive a Bachelor of Science in wind energy was signed by representatives from both colleges.

The ceremony was hosted on Nov. 10.

The educational partnership is part of an administrative initiative to make Tech’s National Wind Institute the premier wind energy stud-

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ies program in the United States and also included an agreement to last through 2018, Andy Swift, associate director of education for National Wind Institute, said. “ W h a t ’s i n t e r e s t i n g is that this isn’t the first agreement between the two schools,” Swift said. “A similar academic partnership was signed in 2012 that first allowed (Western Texas College) students to transfer their coursework towards a Bachelor of Science in wind energy at Texas Tech.”

The educational plan allows students who have earned an Associate of Arts degree in general studiesscience at Western Texas College to transfer their coursework to Tech in order to earn a Bachelor of Science in wind energy. Tech’s relationship with Western Texas College has been integral to the growth of National Wind Institute’s wind energy education program, Swift said.

More than 180 students are now majoring in wind energy. The program has a

job placement rate of 80 percent, and the United States’ renewable energy sector is steadily growing, Swift said.

“This is still a very young industry, which is why so many students are choosing wind energy as their major,” he said. “West Texas is a terrific place to study meteorology in general. There’s no shortage of wind here.”

Students at Western Texas College will also be able to transfer additional coursework, and Tech will accept both the transferrable core curriculum and other coursework within the Texas common course numbering system, Marina Gonzales, Western Texas College wind energy curriculum specialist, said.

Tech is home to the only bachelor’s degree in wind energy in the entire country, Gonzales said. Tech has aided Western Texas College in creating five wind energy courses at the communitycollege level, which were the equivalent of lower-division undergraduate courses in a bachelor’s degree.

“The new credit transfer program will serve as an affordable way for students to receive the bachelor’s (degree) they want from the only university in the country that offers it,” Gonzales, a Tech alumna, said. “The numerous academic partnerships between the two schools are a testament to their dedication to providing a quality education at the most affordable cost available.”

All of the wind energy courses at Western Texas College are offered both online and in the traditional classroom setting, according to the Western Texas College website. Employers will be looking to hire as many as 300,000 employees in the next 15 years.

Indeed, the demand for wind energy specialists from the renewable energy industry was one of the reasons why the academic partnership was formed between the two institutions, Gonzales said. Potential opportunities for employment include a career as a wind farm developer, wind project site manager and

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home at the end of the day to their family and friends,” Ivey said.

For active shooter training, all people on campus are invited to contact Ivey.

Tech PD visits classes, trainings and conferences for the benefit of the campus, she said.

Training consists of two parts: a presentation and a type of hands-on training.

Both are about an hour in length, Ivey said.

“We start off by going through an active shooter profile, giving some stats to look for, maybe some workplace violence and stuff like that,” Ivey said. “Many active shooters, they suffer in silence, they face depression and they have a change in dress and speech.”

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“Instead of just cowering down, begging and pleading, we give them ways that they can fight to be able to go

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W. Andrew Jackson, a professor and the associate chair of the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering, and Hongxing Jiang, the Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a faculty member in the Texas Tech Nanophotonics Center, were named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on Monday.

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one must have been a member of AAAS for four consecutive years.

To receive the honor, JACKSON one has to be nominated by three previously elected fellows who are current AAAS members.

“I think it is safe to say in Texas Tech’s nearly 100-year history, fewer than 20 faculty have ever been elected fellows,” Todd Anderson, the interim director of The Institute of Environmental and Human Health, said in the release.

Along with Jiang and Jackson, 10 AAAS fellows are faculty members JIANG at Tech, according to the release, .

“I feel very honored,” Jackson said in a news release. “Being recognized by other leaders in their fields as well as some truly exceptional scientists is a wonderful affirmation of my career so far. I hope I can continue to pursue answers to interesting and relevant questions.

I sincerely enjoy being a scientist and engineer.” @DavidGayDT

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(College), we’re incredibly excited to see how the program grows and develops in the future.”

the training shows examples of how to take down an active shooter, should the situation arise, Ivey said.

Another resource, Ivey said, she urges people to use is the Raider Safe app introduced at the beginning of this academic year by the Student Government Association.

Raider Safe allows people to text through the Rave Guardian mobile app system

without loud notifications.

“I’m very confident in our faculty, staff and students, just because we have active shooter presentations scheduled all the time,” Ivey said. “There’s constantly people that are requesting the active shooter presentation, so they can be prepared if a situation happens like this here on campus.”

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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Government orders for protesters of the Dakota Access pipeline to leave federal land could have little immediate effect on the encampment where scores of people have been gathered for months to oppose the $3.8 billion project.

A North Dakota sheriff on Monday dismissed a deadline from the Army Corps of Engineers as a meaningless move aimed only at reducing the government’s legal responsibility for hundreds of the demonstrators there.

The Corps “is basically kicking the can down the

road, and all it is doing is taking the liability from the Corps and putting it on” the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier said.

The Corps said last week in a letter that all federal lands north of the Cannonball River will be closed to the public for “safety concerns” starting Dec. 5. The order includes the encampment called Oceti Sakowin, or Seven Council Fires camp.

The agency cited North Dakota’s oncoming winter and increasingly contentious clashes between protesters and police.

in attack at Ohio State COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A Somali-born Ohio State University student plowed his car into a group of pedestrians on campus and then got out and began stabbing people with a butcher knife Monday before he was shot to death by a police officer. Police said they were investigating whether it was a terrorist attack.

Eleven people were hurt, one critically.

The attacker was identified as Abdul Razak Ali Artan. He was born in Somalia and was a legal permanent U.S. resident, according to a U.S. official who wasn’t authorized to discuss the case and spoke on the condition of anonymity. The FBI joined the investigation.

The details emerged after a morning of conflicting reports and confusion, created in part by a series of tweets from the university warning there was an “active shooter” on campus and students should “Run Hide Fight.” The warning was prompted by what turned out to be police gunfire.

Police vehicles and ambulances converged on the 60,000-student campus, and authorities blocked off roads. Students barricaded themselves inside offices and classrooms, piling chairs and desks in front of doors, before getting the all-clear an hour and a half later.

Ohio State University police Chief Craig Stone said the assailant deliberately drove his small Honda over a curb outside an engineering classroom building and then began knifing people.

A campus officer nearby because of a gas leak arrived on the scene and shot the driver in less than a minute, Stone said.

Angshuman Kapil, a graduate student, was outside Watts Hall when the car barreled onto the sidewalk.

“It just hit everybody who was in front,” he said. “After that everybody was shouting, ‘Run! Run! Run!’” Student Martin Schneider said he heard the car’s engine revving.

“I thought it was an accident initially until I saw the guy come out with a knife,” Schneider said, adding the man didn’t say anything when he got out.

Most of the injured were hurt by the car, and at least two were stabbed. One had a fractured skull.

Columbus police Chief Kim Jacobs, asked whether authorities were considering the possibility it was a terrorist act, said: “I think we have to consider that it is.”

Republican Vice President-elect Mike Pence called the episode “a tragic attack” and said “our prayers are with them all.”

U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff, of California, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said the bloodshed “bears all of the hallmarks of a terror attack carried out by someone who may have been self-radicalized.”

“Here in the United States, our most immediate threat still comes from lone attackers that are not only capable of unleashing great harm but are also extremely difficult, and in some cases, virtually impossible to identify or interdict,” he said.

Ohio State’s student newspaper, The Lantern, ran an interview in August with a student named Abdul Razak Artan, who identified himself as a Muslim and a third-year logistics management student who’d transferred from Columbus State in the fall.

He said he was looking for a place to pray openly and worried how he would be received.

“I was kind of scared with everything going on in the media. I’m a Muslim, it’s not what media portrays me to be,” he told the newspaper. “If people look at me, a Muslim praying, I don’t know what they’re going to think, what’s going to happen. But I don’t blame them. It’s the media that put that picture in their heads.”

In recent months, federal law enforcement officials have raised concerns about online extremist propaganda encouraging knife and car attacks, easier to pull off than bombings.

The Islamic State group has urged sympathizers online to carry out lone-wolf attacks in their home countries with whatever weapons are available to them.

In September, a 20-yearold Somali-American stabbed 10 people at a St. Cloud, Minnesota, shopping mall before being shot to death by an off-duty officer.

Authorities said he asked some of his victims if they were Muslim. In the past few years, London and other cities also have seen knife attacks blamed on extremists.

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Library officials discuss finals week accommodations

By KIRBY WARNER Staff Writer

Texas Tech students are not the only ones who have numerous preparations to make for the upcoming finals week.

Many students tend to take their studies to the Tech Library, which features various accommodations to fit academic needs. However, a lot of work goes in to keep up with the hectic nature that accompanies the finals week.

Justin McDonald, the section coordinator for circulation, said library officials take the finals week seriously. The operating hours of the library will change from 24 hours for five days a week to a full 24/7 schedule.

“We try to help our students here at Texas Tech as much as we can,” McDonald said.

McDonald said during that week, the library offers a number of services, including all three service desks

being open for students to ask questions.

Kaley Daniel, the director of the library’s communications and marketing department, said the library partners with the South Plains Obedience Training Club to bring dogs, which provide the opportunity for students to de-stress.

“There are studies that actually show petting an animal will lower blood pressure and stress levels,” Daniel said. “So, we like to take advantage of our partnership with SPOTC to do that for our students.”

Daniel said there is also a new service called Study B r e a k @ Yo u r L i b r a r y, which includes activities such as puzzles and art sketching to help students deal with stress.

The library has its own difficulties to manage, however. McDonald said maintaining security can be a challenge because of the

increased number of students who study in the library at night. This has led to a collaboration with the Tech Police Department. “(Tech PD is) fantastic in scheduling their officers to make security rounds through the library,” McDonald said, “and they make it all through the library. They go up and down every floor.”

There are also night supervisors who make rounds.

Thanks to them and Tech PD, McDonald said, the library seldom encounters serious security problems.

However, another potential problem faced by library staff is the leftover trash, McDonald said, which creates more need for cleanliness.

Student assistants employed by the library also need time to study for their exams. Conni Marcum, lead specialist in circulation, said she has been preparing the student assistants to work during that time using a

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Sam Cherribi gave a lecture on “Islam in Europe” at 5:30 p.m. Monday in the Escondido Theater of the Student Union Building. Cherribi has a doctorate in sociology from the University of Amsterdam and focuses his work on issues of race and ethnicity in the Middle East, Africa and European Islam.

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Artist builds Mother Teresa’s mosaic with staples PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — An Albanian artist on Monday unveiled a portrait of Mother Teresa using staples, in a call for European countries to stop raising fences to shut their borders to refugees.

Built in less than a month, Saimir Strati unveiled the 10-squaremeter (12-square-yard) mosaic portrait of Teresa, built with 1.5 million wire staples, at the National Museum of Kosovo in the capital, Pristina.

Strati’s idea came after seeing hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees coming to Europe while diplomacy and politics failed to resolve their situation. “ O n l y M o t h e r Te r e sa’s humanism may save them,” Strati told The Associated Press. “This is Mother Teresa’s year.”

The 50-year-old Strati decided to unveil the portrait on Albania’s independence day.

The tiny Western Balkan nation was part of

the Ottoman Empire for almost five centuries until Nov. 28, 1912.

Teresa, who was recently made a saint, was born to Albanian parents.

Strati detested that some countries have erected fences to hold back refugees coming to Europe for a better life.

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by Pope Francis at the Va t i c a n i n S e p t e m b e r and the migrant crisis inspired him to create his latest mosaic.

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“Students have a good amount of time to respond to that,” Marcum said, “and to make trades with each other and to ask for time off, if they choose.”

Marcum said this allows for a structure mixed with flexibility.

One of these student assistants, Reynaldo Cansino, a junior political science major from Corpus Christi, said he has expressed contentment with this system.

“It’s really convenient,” Cansino said, “because not only do you know when you’re working, but you’re able to talk with others to see if you can change your shift if things don’t work out or there’s a conflict.”

Ultimately, McDonald said, the library’s goal during finals week is to provide the student body with as much help as needed.

“Yes, it’s extremely busy for us,” McDonald said. “I

think the library’s one of the busiest places on campus during that week. But that’s OK. That’s what we’re here

for, and we just want our students here at Texas Tech to succeed.” @KirbyWarner_DT

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Looted art reunited with Nazi victims’ heirs PARIS (AP) — Scam.

That was Henrietta Schubert’s first thought when lawyers told her a 16th century Flemish painting hanging in a French museum belonged to her Jewish grandparents, who had sold it in 1938 to secure their passage from Nazi Germany to America.

But when France’s government returned “Portrait of a Man” to Schubert’s family on Monday, her tears could not have been more genuine.

“You never expect something like this,” Schubert, 67, a Vienna resident born in the same Austrian town as Adolf Hitler, said. “The Nazis are dead, and this can help our wounds heal.”

Aware that time is stealing chances to identify the owners of lost or looted WWII treasures, France has dialed up efforts to find them or their heirs. The government, which in the past relied on claimants to come forward, now is actively seeking them out.

The groundbreaking initiative relies, in part, on painstaking detective work by dozens of genealogists scouring death records and other public and private archives to piece together the family trees of people persecuted or killed by the Nazis.

That’s how an Edgar Degas sketch that Nazi occupiers in Paris stole from Maurice Dreyfus in 1940

came to be reunited this year with his daughter, Viviane.

Her family was the first beneficiary of the government’s proactive search program, launched in 2015.

“We just got back a small, little piece of my father that I never knew about, which is a beautiful, beautiful miracle,” Viviane Dreyfus said at the handover ceremony in May of Degas’ “Trois Danseuses en Buste.”

Maurice Dreyfus died in 1957, unaware that the charcoal sketch of three ballerinas had been found six years earlier in a cupboard of the Nazi-era German Embassy in Paris. Dreyfus never had mentioned the 19th century artwork to his family.

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Male gender roles as unfair as female ones I don’t make a very good man. Before anyone asks, no, I’m not coming out as a woman or anything along those lines.

It’s true, though; per society’s gender roles, I would make a better woman than I would a man.

First of all, I don’t like football. In fact, I hate it.

Really, I don’t enjoy sports of any sort.

To many, this is sacrilegious; breaking the holy standard of what it means to be a man.

I don’t generally enjoy physically taxing activities, either.

I c o u l d n ’t c a r e l e s s about having a muscular body or being able to lift things like I’m Hercules.

Who cares?

I’m not overweight; that’s all I care about.

Alex Olges is a freshman journalism major from Humble.

I like pink. I have a pink iPhone, and I use it without a case proudly.

Why does society say a color is only supposed to be enjoyed by one gender?

Ironically, pink was originally associated with boys and blue with girls in the early 1920s.

The colors eventually switched to how we associate them today around the 1940s.

This just goes to show how the whole thing is completely arbitrary.

Pink doesn’t make me feminine just because some dude 70 years ago

decided pink is for girls.

I don’t like hiding my emotions. Rather, I put them out in plain sight, as I do almost weekly in The Daily Toreador.

I’m not ashamed to cry.

I’m not ashamed to admit I’m afraid.

Why should emotions only be allowed for one sex?

Here’s a controversial one: I treat women like actual human beings.

Now, for the record, I’m not saying all men treat women poorly.

But, in my experience, many do. I just don’t see women as a tool to “get some,” but rather as interesting human beings just like anyone else.

T hi s has fr equent l y stopped me from becoming friends with other men.

The view that women

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are just ways to fulfill a man’s desire seems so common, at least on a college campus.

I’m not trying to come off as anti-men or anything extremist.

Still, I have debated for a couple of months about writing on this topic.

My fears were I would come off as weak, pathetic or simply whiny.

Regardless, this is something important to me that I think needs to be said.

My point is, according to unwritten gender roles, I make a bad man.

I’m not macho, I don’t have very many guy friends and I wear my heart on my sleeve.

I must be gay or something, right?

Even if I were, it

doesn’t matter. At least, it shouldn’t matter.

If we would all just let everyone be themselves, I think the world would be a better place.

My point is, according to unwritten gender roles, I make a bad man. I’m not macho, I don’t have very many guy friends and I wear my heart on my sleeve.

Let everyone enjoy pink, allow anyone to show a little emotion and so on.

What I’ve always found

rather amusing is we are often told to be ourselves in pop culture.

R e a l l y, w h a t t h a t means is to be ourselves within the boundaries of acceptable behavior as defined by society.

How shameful.

This all goes back to a very common message which is present in a lot of my columns: Be your own person.

If we would all stop caring about what everyone else is doing and start minding our own businesses, the world would be all the better for it.

I’ll keep my pink phone and my “feminine” side and be proud of it.

Does that make me a bad man? So be it. aolges@dailytoreador.com

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Jill Stein presidential recount Law enforcement condemns effort prompts money gusher letters threatening Muslims WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Stein is on track to raise twice as much for an election recount effort than she did for her own failed Green Party presidential bid.

Fueled by the social media hashtag #recount2016 and millions of dispirited Hillary Clinton voters, Stein’s recount drive had already netted $6.3 million by Monday, according to her campaign website. That’s close to the $7 million she posted as a goal and millions more than the roughly $3.5 million she raised during her entire presidential bid.

Citing without evidence concerns about “cyber hacking,” Stein wants a recount in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania — places that Clinton, a Democrat, thought were safely in her column. Instead, Republican Donald Trump won all three and with them the electoral votes needed to win the White House.

Stein won no states and wouldn’t directly or immediately benefit from a recount

— nor would she likely be able to topple Trump. Even Clinton’s attorney Marc Elias wrote there’s “no actionable evidence of hacking or outside attempts to alter the voting technology.”

But Stein’s effort could help her in other ways.

By continuing to raise money, she is building up a larger donor list that she can later turn to if she runs again. She also can try to influence policy by urging those donors to call lawmakers or contribute to other politicians. Her campaign says 137,000 people have contributed to the recount.

A bigger supporter list can command bigger fees if Stein chooses to lease it out to other campaigns.

Laurence Tribe, a Harvard constitutional law professor, said that although recounts are “entirely within the law,” Stein’s effort is probably aimed more at “trying to gain attention and establish herself as a national player.”

Stein said she is “proud to

stand up for election integrity” regardless of whether it changes the outcome of the presidential race. If she raises more money than is needed for the recount itself — including multimilliondollar attorney fees — her campaign will use the surplus for “election integrity efforts and to promote voting system reform.”

Stein has reminded supporters that they can contribute up to $2,700 for her recount drive — even if they’d already donated the maximum $2,700 to her for the general election. Any money she raises in excess of the actual recount costs could then be donated to charity or to a political party, according to Federal Election Commission rulings. “ T h e m o n e y c a n ’t b e used for her personal benefit, but beyond that there’s some flexibility,” said Bob Biersack, who worked at the FEC for three decades and is a senior fellow at the nonprofit Center for Responsive Politics.

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Los Angeles police are investigating identical letters received at two mosques in the city as a “hate incident,” but not a crime because it does not pose a specific threat, Deputy Police Chief Michael Downing said.

Photocopies of a handwritten letter were sent by mail to at least six mosques in California and one in Georgia that was addressed to “the children of Satan” and referred to Muslims as “vile and filthy people.” The letter called President-elect Donald Trump the “new sheriff in town” and said he would do to Muslims what Hitler did to Jews.

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Key players stand out after season’s end M uch to the disappointment of Red Raider fans, Texas Tech football is over. However, the season ended on a high note after the 54-35 victory over the Baylor Bears on Friday at AT&T Stadium, Arlington.

While the season might not have progressed as expected, there were a number of notable players who stood out.

Tech’s offense performed above and beyond its capability and was truly a show to watch for Tech fans. There were many players who could be labeled as most valuable; however, the one player who held the team on his shoulders is the team’s leader, junior quarterback Patrick Mahomes II. He has gained a spot among Tech’s greatest quarterbacks. The 6-foot-3-inch, 230-pound Whitehouse native leads the nation in passing yards this year, with a total of 5,052 passing yards.

Mahomes also leads the nation in total offense, with 5,357 offensive yards and 53 total touchdowns for the season, according to the Tech Athletics website. Three times this season, Mahomes was named the Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week.

Sophomore wide receiver Jonathan Giles also was a notable player for the Red Raiders this season. Giles received and caught 69 passes for 1,158 yards and 13 touchdowns, according to Tech Athletics, and his total receiving yards is

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“I chose Tech because it had all of the things I was looking for in a school,” Guirantes said. “I thought it was going to push me mentally and physically, and I thought it was going to challenge me to be uncomfortable. That was a big reason I came here.”

Guirantes attended the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida, where she averaged 33 points, 13 rebounds, three assists, three steals and two blocks. Away at the time from her family in Bellport, New York, Guirantes said she is accustomed to not living at home.

“It hasn’t been difficult because I lived in Florida last year,” Guirantes said. “I went to prep school out there. So, basically I was already transitioning and learning how to be away from home. I wasn’t in Texas, but I was used to being away from my family. So, the transition wasn’t bad.”

Transitioning to the wear and tear bodies go through in the collegiate level can be stressful, but Guirantes said it is all for the love of the game.

“It wasn’t as bad as I thought,” Guirantes said. “It definitely does wear you out more, but I’ve come to enjoy it and accept it. This is what I love to do. So, you have to get used to it.”

Guirantes seems to have

ninth all-time in Tech history.

Freshman running back Da’Leon Ward was an impactful player for Tech’s running game.

The young player had a total of 428 rushing yards with three rushing touchdowns to end the season. Ward also had 131 receiving yards this season, and according to Tech Athletics, four times this season, Ward ran the ball for 80 yards or more.

Throughout the season, the defense progressively made small strides in cleaning up its act. At the start of the season, the offense was making grounds, but the defense never could hold up its end of the game.

However, as seen in the final game of the season against Baylor, the Red Raiders have what it takes to be good defensively.

They will have to step up their game next season to prove that.

For some, it might prove difficult to label a Tech defensive MVP. However, I found it quite easy to name a few key players.

Freshman linebacker Jordyn Brooks had a good first season at Tech. In the Baylor game, he had 18 total tackles, the most for a Red Raider this season, and he had a total of 86 tackles this season, according to Tech Athletics.

The Houston native made

his first career sack during Tech’s game against Oklahoma State on Nov. 12.

Freshman defensive back Douglas Coleman was another notable player for the Red Raider defense. Coleman had one forced fumble, one recovered fumble, six pass breakups and one interception during his freshman season, according to Tech Athletics.

Coleman made an incredible play when he recovered a fumble and ran it back 100 yards for a Red Raider touchdown during the game against the Texas Longhorns on Nov. 5.

The last player for Tech’s defense I believe should be noted is team captain and senior linebacker Luke Stice, who was a leader for Tech’s defense.

Stice ended his career at Tech with 50 total tackles this season and came away with a career-high of 15 tackles during his last game as a Red Raider against Baylor, according to Tech Athletics. Stice had his first career sack during Tech’s game against Oklahoma State.

Tech’s special teams had a successful season. The last key player to be noted for Tech football for the 2016 season is sophomore place kicker Michael Barden, who had a good second season playing for Tech.

The Austin native was named Big 12 Special Teams Player of the Week after he completed a 15-yard fake punt and recovered his own onside kick on the Oklahoma State 46-yard line, giving

adjusted well to playing in college, averaging 16.2 points per game. Her strongest performance this season was against New Mexico, where she set her career high in points, rebounds and assists.

The freshman was the leading scorer against the Lady Lobos and the momentum-booster behind the Lady Raider offense.

“I thought she was the

one in the first half that was trying to rally the troops with her communication and with her play,” Whitaker said. “(Guirantes) is a player. She loves this game, and I can’t imagine her ever showing up and not playing as hard as she can every single minute. I thought she was the one who kept us in it and made big plays, and that’s a big-time

Ariana Hernandez is a freshman journalism major from Seguin.

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Texas Tech sophomore wide receiver Jonathan Giles jumps for a pass during the first half of Tech’s 45-37 loss to Texas on Nov. 5 at Jones AT&T Stadium. Giles received and caught 69 passes for 1,158 yards and 13 touchdowns this season.

Tech excellent field position. @A_HernandezDT

stat line for a freshman.”

Guirantes said she adjusted quickly to the collegiate level of play with the help of the people she met in Lubbock.

“I feel like I’ve met a lot of people who are going to help me achieve what I want in the long run,” she said. “It’s always about you helping them and them helping you.” @ABoutwellDT

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exas Tech’s season ended with a 5-7 record after defeating the Baylor Bears on Friday.

The season started with high hopes from the Red Raiders, but it didn’t go their way toward the middle of the season.

Tech’s first loss was against Arizona State at the beginning of the season, but the loss didn’t seem to down Tech’s spirit. It wasn’t until a tough loss to West Virginia during Homecoming week that Tech began the journey downhill.

Right after West Virginia, Tech tried to bounce back but fell short to Oklahoma in a back-and-forth contest. After the win against TCU, Tech lost three straight games, and the game against Iowa State should’ve been a win, but it turned into a more tragic loss than the West Virginia game.

Tech was outscored by 56 points in that game, and during a press conference following the game, Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury summed this up perfectly as “embarrassing.”

Now, finishing the season one game below bowl eligibility isn’t all Kingsbury’s fault, even though he takes the blame. Some of his decisions were poor, but sometimes

Jack Densmore is an undeclared freshman from Cedar Park.

it’s the players’ performance that causes these losses and unsuccessful seasons. Kingsbury should be given another chance to show what Tech truly is, and finishing off with a win against Baylor was an important step. The defense was criticized mostly throughout the season, but weirdly if the defense showed up, the offense didn’t and vice versa, except during the Baylor game.

Te c h ’ s p e r f o r m a n c e against Baylor was what was expected this whole season. It wasn’t going to be a perfect season, but it was expected to be more successful than the 7-6 record posted by the Red Raiders last year. What happened in the games like Iowa State and West Virginia shouldn’t have happened, and games like Texas, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State could’ve been won if mistakes were not made.

Even though the season didn’t shape up how many Red Raiders wanted it to, the

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Texas Tech football coach Kliff Kingsbury interacts with the team before the start of the Red Raiders’ game against Oklahoma State on Nov. 12 at Boone Pickens Stadium. Kingsbury’s fourth season as coach ended with a 5-7 record after Tech defeated Baylor on Friday at AT&T Stadium in Arlington.

Kingsbury will return for a fifth season with the Red Raiders. offense, including junior quarterback Patrick Mahomes II, had an amazing season. The bad news is I believe he will go for the NFL draft next season rather than stay. He broke many records in just the Oklahoma game alone, and I wouldn’t be surprised if he was taken by a team that

needs a quarterback in the first or second round.

However, the quarterback position isn’t the cause of concern for Tech, as there are many talented quarterbacks waiting for an opportunity to step up in an air raid offense.

Rather, it’s the defense that needs some touching up dur-

ing this offseason.

A lot of the times, defensive backs were beat on the coverages, causing huge scoring plays from the opposing teams. There are a few gems in the defensive back position, but there are also some gaps.

With the Big 12 Conference being a mostly offensive confer-

ence — the offenses are power houses and the defenses not so much — it’s important to have as great a defense as possible.

Earlier this year, West Virginia was able to have a great defense and kept Tech to only 17 points in the Homecoming game. The Mountaineers also kept TCU to 10 points and Texas to 20 points. It was even said some Big 12 teams tried to run the same type of defense as West Virginia. I don’t believe Tech should try to copy West Virginia’s defense, but Tech needs to reform it in some way, change things up.

The coaches mostly need to figure what works for the team and what doesn’t. I feel this season was a good way to figure this out, as it showed completely different sides of the Red Raiders. The most important game to look at is the Baylor game, as the Tech defense got a few turnovers, the offense played fantastic and it was an overall good game for Tech.

For the coaches, they must figure out how to make that game’s performance carry over to next season. If they do that, Tech will once again be a powerhouse team. @JackDensmore_DT

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Texas Tech releases softball schedule

Players named to Big 12 team

Texas Tech softball coach Adrian Gregory announced the full 54-game schedule for the 2017 softball season on Monday.

The Red Raiders will host 18 games at Rocky Johnson Field, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

Included in the schedule is a pair of home tournaments and three Big 12 Conference series against Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma, the reigning national champion.

In nonconference play, the Red Raiders’ schedule features eight games against NCAA Regional teams from last season: Cal-State Fullerton, Fresno State, California, Wichita State, Tulsa and Alabama.

“Our schedule is another ambitious quest to be great,” Gregory said in the release.

“I believe that you can only be the best if you prepare like you are the best and you compete with the best. I felt that last year, we played competitively with many of the top programs in the country but just were not able to close down the stretch. It was our goal this year to continue to schedule competitively and be determined to finish. Our kids are extremely excited to face the competition we have on our schedule this year.”

The team will also embark on a trip outside of the country for the first time in 25 years to compete at

the Puerto Vallarta College Challenge in February.

Gregory said in the release that the trip to Mexico is the one she is looking forward to.

“The most exciting trip will be that of the one in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico,” Gregory said in the release. “Our administration has been so supportive of us taking this trip and allowing our kids to have an amazing cultural experience. We will face great talent there as well, so it is a win-win for all of us in the Red and Black. It will also serve as a homecoming for our senior pitcher, Dominique Alcocer. It will be an incredible experience for her family and friends.” @BSoliz_DT

On Monday, Texas Tech Athletics announced senior middle blocker Lauren Douglass and sophomore libero Reyn Akiu have been named to the 2016 All-Big 12 Second Team.

This is the third time Douglass was named to the second team.

It is the first time Akiu AKIU has received the honor.

Douglass led the team in kills, totaling 343. She also led the team in kills per set.

Akiu had the second most individual digs this season with 547 digs in her first seaDOUGLASS son as a fulltime starter.

Douglass and Akiu have been nominated for American Volleyball Coaches Association All-Region awards, which will be announced on Dec. 6, according to the release. @BSoliz_DT

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