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TUESDAY, DEC. 3, 2013 VOLUME 88 ■ ISSUE 67
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Concert affects Rec center parking Portions of Commuter West and Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center parking lots will be closed because of the TransSiberian Orchestra concert hosted today, according to an email from Texas Tech Transportation and Parking Services. No vehicles will be allowed in the C-11 parking lot after 1 p.m. because concert crews will be using the lot, according to the email. Parking for Commuter West permit holders will be available in lots west of Indiana Avenue, according to the email. Employee parking lots will open at 5:30 p.m., and Commuter West permit holders are allowed to park in any other commuter lot after 2:30 p.m. ➤➤cwilson@dailytoreador.com
Dean of Graduate School named Texas Tech President M. Duane Nellis announced Mark Sheridan was named vice provost for graduate affairs and dean of the Graduate School in an email. Sheridan is an associate dean in the College of Graduate and Interdisciplinary Studies at North Dakota State University, according to the email. He will assume his new position in March. Sheridan is the successor to Dom Casadonte, who served as interim dean of the Graduate School, according to the email. “Under his guidance and counsel,” Nellis said in the email, “the Graduate School maintained a healthy and positive course forward.”
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Students host HIV Awareness Week By JULIA PEÑA Staff Writer
Texas Tech Health Sciences Center students are hosting events to promote HIV awareness Monday through Thursday. HIV can be carried and infect the body through blood and many other bodily fluids, according to the AIDS government website. If any of those fluids enter the body, a person can become infected with HIV. “It’s a virus that affects your immune cells until they dwindle down to the point where you have no immunity left,” Andrew Roth, a medical student from Houston, said. “That’s when you progress into AIDS. Then you die of a susceptible infection.” More than 1.1 million people in the U.S. live with an HIV infection, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Tomorrow we have a panel,” Marta Hoes, a medical student from Lubbock, said. “We have a doctor and two AIDS patients.” The panel will discuss the challenges and difficulties HIV and AIDS present from the viewpoint of the patient, family and health care provider, according to a news release. The event will give attendees the opportunity to ask questions and get to know a little more about AIDS, Hoes said. A flower wall was created to promote HIV awareness Monday. People had the opportunity to donate money to buy a flower for the wall. HSC students also partnered with another organization to do a walk that raises awareness. “Getting people tested and aware of their condition is still a big problem,” Roth said. According to the government AIDS website, one in five people live with HIV and are unaware of their infections. About one in four new HIV infections are among
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MAX CHEHADI, A freshman biology major from Austin, places a red carnation on The Flower Wall on Monday outside the Student Union Building to honor people affected by HIV and AIDS. The Texas Tech Health Sciences Center hosted the event to raise money for its free student-run clinic.
youth and young adults ages 13-24. The availability of treatments is increasingly better, Roth said, but the stigma is still there. The money raised will help people who are uninsured get tested for HIV. “Part of it is just knowing that there are treatments available,” Hoes said. “It makes it a little less scary to get treated because the earlier you start treatment the better things are going to be for you.”
School of Medicine students are showing a film where they will hand out cookies to everybody who wears red Thursday, she said. The cookies also will have AIDS ribbons to promote HIV and AIDS awareness. The film “30 Years From Here” analyzes the challenges HIV and AIDS created during the past 30 years, according to a Tech news release. The White House released the National
HIV/AIDS Strategy in 2010, according to the AIDS government website. The goal of this initiative was to reduce the number of new HIV infections. An estimated 15,500 people with AIDS died in 2010, according to the AIDS government website. In the U.S., 636,000 people were diagnosed with AIDS since the epidemic began. ➤➤jpena@dailytoreador.com
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Killer of corrections officer set to die HUNTSVILLE (AP) — A man sentenced to 50 years in prison for attempted capital murder had a sufficiently clean disciplinary record that he became eligible for field work outside a Huntsville-area penitentiary. But that privilege wasn’t enough for Jerry Martin and another inmate who together made a bold dash for freedom from the onion and pepper patch where they worked — and killed a corrections officer in the process. Martin, 43, is set for execution Tuesday in the 2007 death of 59-year-old Susan Canfield, who had worked for the prison system for seven years. Martin requested appeals in his case be dropped and no actions taken to delay his scheduled lethal injection. “I can’t say I fully support him, but he’s at peace with his decision,” one of Martin’s attorneys, David Schulman, said last week.
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Red Raiders travel to Tucson Texas Tech students look to to take on No. 2 Arizona save during holiday season By REX ROSE Staff Writer
The Texas Tech basketball team hits the road for a matchup with the Arizona Wildcats at 8 p.m. today in the McKale Memorial Center in Tucson, Ariz. The Wildcats are undefeated at 7-0, ranked No. 2 in the nation and are coming off winning the preseason National Invitational Tournament at Madison Square Garden. Arizona played Duke in the champion-
ship and beat the Blue Devils 72-66. Junior forward Jordan Tolbert said he knows the game will be tough but believes the Red Raiders can come out on top. “It’s a big challenge,” he said. “It’s a big test for us and it will really let us know where we are for the year. We’re going in confident. We aren’t going nowhere to lose.” The game marks the 51st meeting between the schools. BASKETBALL continued on Page 6 ➤➤
By JOSE SOSA Staff Writer
Black Friday and Cyber Monday mark the beginning of the annual holiday shopping season. Shoppers began looking for stores with the best deals as well as gifts with the lowest prices. The U.S. economy slowly is recovering to its pre-recession levels, which indicates consumers will spend more this year, according to a survey by investopedia.com.
The average person in the U.S. spends about $650 on gifts, according to the survey, and parents typically spend $270 per child. According to savethestudent.org, for a college student on a budget it may be best for students to gift homemade crafts instead of expensive gifts. Lisa Perez, a sophomore business major from Midland, said she did most of her Christmas shopping during Cyber Monday. SHOPPING continued on Page 2 ➤➤
Texas Tech campus prepares for 55th annual Carol of Lights By TYLER DORNER Staff Writer
One of Texas Tech’s oldest annual traditions, Carol of Lights, will be hosted at 6:30 p.m. tonight at Memorial Circle. This year marks the 55th anniversary of the Carol of Lights, said Taylor Duckworth, vice president of administration and finance for the Residence Halls Association. The event started with lights being hung in the Engineering Key and students spending time there by singing carols and drinking hot chocolate, she said. From there, the event slowly evolved into a campus-wide event. “One of the best things about this tradition is that it was started by residents here on campus,” Duckworth said. Most of those in attendance are members of the Tech community, but members of the Lubbock community also attend, which brings a crowd of about 20,000 people, she said. The set-up process for the event began before the fall semester, said Megan
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Hatcher, RHA president. An application was sent out at the beginning of the fall semester to find and select people who wanted to be on the Carol of Lights committee. Since then, there was a meeting once a week for members, she said. Tech staff began hanging lights Oct. 1. The biggest difference between this year and years past is the date of the event, Duckworth said. The event is usually hosted on a Friday, but with the change of Thanksgiving break, Tech officials and the committee decided to host the event Tuesday to avoid interfering with finals and to receive the biggest turnout. Many different organizations helped make Carol of Lights possible, she said, including RHA and Saddle Tramps. For the first time in Carol of Lights history, the lights used are 100 percent LED, which will save energy and lower the cost of the lights that turn on at dusk every night until New Year’s, Duckworth said. LIGHTS continued on Page 2 ➤➤
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CHRIS VALADEZ, A grounds maintenance employee, adjusts the star on top of the Christmas tree Nov. 14 at the main entrance to campus.
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