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FRESHMEN DISCUSS MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT FINALS PG. 3 STUDENTS SHOULD NOT BE SCARED OF FINALS PG. 5

DO NOT DISCOUNT SLEEP DURING FINAL EXAMS PG. 6 GIBBS NEEDS MORE TIME TO PROVE SELF PG. 7

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HSC honors HIV/AIDS victims with vigil

By EASTON WOLLNEY Staff Writer

A candlelight vigil took place Wednesday night at Memorial Circle to bring awareness to HIV and AIDS and honor victims of the disease.

An estimated 50,000 people get infected with HIV each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The event featured red lit candles to show support and a speech from a victim affected by the disease.

Ramona Mittal, a secondyear medical student from Lubbock, helped put the event together and said the official AIDS awareness week for Tech began Monday and the official World AIDS Day was Tuesday.

Tech has had a flower wall on the main campus Monday through Wednesday, Mittal said, and the flower wall will be at the Health Sciences Center on Thursday and Friday for people who wish to donate money.

“A lot of people that stopped by our wall in the Free Speech Area this week actually were saying how they have family members affected by it or some-

one that they knew,” she said.

“So it was a very personal cause for them.”

Others who donated money were interested in research aspects or simply raising awareness, Mittal said, and the American Medical Student Association’s goal is to eradicate AIDS by 2030.

“Basically, we really just want to raise awareness, you know it’s one of AMSA’s national initiatives,” Mittal said, “and it’s a cause pretty close to us as well and it’s something that we think people should be more aware of.”

Tuesday night, a screening of “It’s Not Over” played at Alamo Drafthouse, Mittal said. The film is a documentary about millennials living with HIV/AIDS. “We realize that there’s a stigma around HIV and AIDS,” she said, “and it’s something that we want to overcome.”

All money raised throughout the week will be donated to Project CHAMPS, a local nonprofit dedicated to helping those with AIDS and HIV. Joshia John, a senior microbiology major from Dallas and one of the organizers of the event, said students, staff and faculty

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Ramona Mittal, second from right, introduces the speaker at the Texas Tech American Medical Student Association’s candlelight vigil to raise awareness about AIDS. Ramona is a second-year medical student from Lubbock and president of the AMSA chapter.

have donated money.

“All of the donations and events that we’ve done are just to spread awareness,” John said, “and all the money goes toward

AIDS/HIV awareness.”

Many people are ignorant about the disease, he said, and it is becoming more prevalent in the community.

“We just want to spread this throughout campus and for people to just realize this and take more of an initiative,” John said. “Take more of a stand

against it, because the more people who come together with this cause the more we can actually do something.” @EastonWollneyDT

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Honors College collects hygiene products for Bayless The Texas Tech Honors College is divided into four houses, and each house competes in academics and involvement at Tech to earn points in the hopes of winning the house cup at the end of the school year.

An opportunity for the houses to earn points in the fall semester is through the hygiene pack drive.

Now through Dec. 11, honors students are asked to bring in travel-sized soaps, toothbrushes, toothpaste, lotions and deodorant to help prepare these packs.

Non-honors students are also welcome to bring items to Stacy Poteet, located in McClellan Hall room 102.

“Not everybody has toothpaste to brush their teeth,” Stacy Poteet, scholarship coordinator and senior academic adviser, said. “Bayless (Elementary School) had seen a real need over break, where funds are spent on other areas, of course trying to give their families a Christmas or gifts for the holidays, and they don’t always have the funds to spend on necessities such as soap and deodorant and those type of things. We wanted to be able to

supply those needs.”

Administrators and teachers will give these packs to students at Bayless as they see fit, and the teachers will keep additional packages on hand.

“Bayless is a large elementary school in the Lubbock Independent School District,” Poteet said. “It has 730 students, and that’s pre-K through fifth grade.

100 percent of their students qualify for free or reduced lunch.

There are a lot of needs right here in our own community.”

The Tech Honors College has adopted Bayless as its philanthropy and regularly works

to better the school through fundraising and their mentor programs, Poteet said.

“There’s a quote (Michael San Francisco, dean of the Honors College) uses by Mother Theresa,” Poteet said. “A woman had gone to Calcutta to see the orphanage and she said, ‘I want to come here and I want to devote my life to helping you and others here in Calcutta,’ and Mother Theresa said, ‘Find your own Calcutta.’ So for us, Bayless is our Calcutta, and we are trying to meet the needs that they have at this remarkable place.” @DailyToreador

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Freshmen discuss misconceptions about finals

By ALEXA ROSAS Staff Writer

The transition from high school to college is a big one, and the severity of the change is best seen in the differences between final exams.

For a first semester freshman, the words ‘final exam,’ may hold the weight of a million high school tests or it may be as light as a feather.

“My number one misconception was that it would just be like a regular test,” senior Noris Rogers said. “I was super surprised that we had to sit in a room for two and a half hours. I thought it would just be ‘get in, get out’ like any other test.”

Many are led to believe final exams are the only grade for the class and professors offer little outside of the designated class times.

“The biggest misconception is that I thought that we wouldn’t have a lot to go off of to review, but that just really depends on the teacher,” freshman Roehm Galvin said. “Some teachers review more than others. I was also

worried that all finals were going to be weighted really in our final grade, but that also depends on the teacher and the class.”

Two-year community adviser and junior Marisa Hohensee has seen hallways full of freshmen live out these fallacies.

“I see all of the stress levels rise and I can basically feel y’all’s anxiety.

No, studying 24 hours a day isn’t going to make you retain the information any more,” Hohensee said. “It gets to a point of once you know it you know it and if you don’t you don’t, but that doesn’t mean don’t study, clearly study, but if you’re studying all day and never take a break eventually your mind is just going to block out that information and you stop retaining any of the information you started learning.”

To aid freshmen in staying calm and studying smart, Hohensee offered some additional tips for managing finals.

“A big misconception is thinking that all-nighters are smart, they’re not. You’re

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Audrey Fisher, a freshman advertising major from Plano, and Chris Morrison, a freshman from Lake Travis, study for their finals in Clement Hall on Monday. not going to remember anything after maybe 2 a.m., or once you start getting tired

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your mind doesn’t memorize it and it’s not going to work,” Hohensee said. “Some of (the

finals) aren’t as hard as you think they are. You overstress yourself so much that

you freak yourself out before you even get to a test.” @DailyToreador

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Tech increases sustainability efforts Road Raiders Network available Texas Tech has done several things over the past years to increase sustainability and be more environmentally conscious.

Carey Hewett, the director for services and campus sustainability, said less than half of students at Tech now commute to campus by car and many utilize riding bikes, taking the bus or walking.

“Since the year 2000, we’ve had approximately a 25 percent reduction in energy use throughout campus,” Hewett said.

There are also several student organizations on campus dedicated to sustainability, he said, including Engineers for a Sustainable World, the Wind Energy Student Association and Clean Up the Environment club.

Custodial services also uses environmentally

f r i e n d l y g r e e n - s e a l a pproved cleaning products on campus, Hewett said.

“There are multiple classes and programs that lend themselves to, or are specifically focused on, sustainability,” Hewett said.

In addition, several of the more recent buildings on campus are leadership in energy and environmental design, or LEED, certified, according to the University Housing website, which means they use less energy and water and use some local resources.

Some of the buildings on campus that are LEED certified, Hewett said, include the Rawls College of Business, which is gold certified, Talkington Hall and West Village.

“They have multiple LEED certified buildings on campus,” Hewett said.

“That means they’re envi-

ronmentally friendly.”

The Office of Energy Management at Tech has been in place since 2007, Hewett said, and prior to the opening of the office the school still had recycling committees and made other sustainable efforts.

Recently, Tech approved to have a campus sustainability committee on campus to help raise awareness, he said, and offer new opportunities.

Tech is also a member of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, Hewett said, which is an organization dedicated to increasing sustainability on campuses. “ T h e r e ’s a l o t g o i n g on people don’t realize,” Hewett said. “In West Texas it’s a little bit harder to do some of this just because of our geographic location.” @EastonWollneyDT

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to assist students traveling home

The Road Raiders Safe Travel Network, sponsored by the Texas Tech Parents Association, is available to assist students traveling home for the holiday break.

The network consists of Parents Association members who are able to help students with travel issues such as vehicle problems, directions and finding a place to wait out bad weather, according to a Tech news release.

The network has existed for more than a decade and is updated quarterly.

“Our parent Road Raiders are willing to assist students traveling away from campus,” TTPA executive director Joyce Zachman said in the release. “Whether going home or to an away game, association members from California to Virginia and from Washington to Florida are willing to help students

who experience car trouble or may need shelter to wait out storms. That’s a relief for students and their parents.”

The list of network members can be accessed online at http://www.texastechparents. org/?page=RoadRaiders, according to the release. Parents Association members can join the Road Raiders network through their association account. @DailyToreador

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2015 great year for music

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f listening to music were like dating, this year would have been speed dating from hell. There were so many great albums this year, with countless great collaborations in-between, I was shuffling through different albums with reckless abandon. Throughout this year, most of us seemed to be burning and turning through singles, using each one until it was no longer fun. Often this year, I would become infatuated with an album for a long time, telling my friends “she’s the one all right, this one is special,” until another beautiful album pulled me away.

Regardless, as a whole, 2015 was a fantastic year for music, and there were several different albums and musicians that made 2015 a distinct and memorable.

Around this time of year, many music news publications are coming out with their “Top albums of 2015” list, and most will have Kendrick Lamar’s “To Pimp a Butterfly” at the top of the list (Rolling Stone and Consequence of Sound both already have Kendrick’s album as No. 1). This high praise is well deserved.

Kendrick’s album was both musically dense and thematically meaningful, a powerhouse of an album that seemed to make 2015 a landmark year in music. Not only did Kendrick’s album sound good, but it was important — it reminded many listeners that an album can be multifaceted, emotional, beautifully crafted and relevant at the same time. In Medium’s article, “Why Kendrick Lamar’s ‘To Pimp A Butterfly’ Is An Important Album For Modern Hip-Hop,” writer Shaka Shaw writes, “This

Jarrod Miller is The DT’s opinions editor and a senior French major from Lubbock.

is an incredibly ambitious album, with a different message for every song and no fluff whatsoever. While that might prove to be unpalatable for some listeners, I think it takes something this jarring to wake people up and remind them that to a degree, this is what hip-hop is supposed to sound like.”

While Kendrick’s album definitely reminded listeners just how powerful hiphop can be, his album was only one of many meaningful albums this year. While D’Angelo’s “Black Messiah” soulful R&B album may not have been the type of album to air on Lubbock’s 102.5 Kiss FM, it was incredibly satisfying to see this politically-charged album so popular. After all, D’Angelo had not released an album since his award-winning album, “Voodoo” in 2000, so many saw this new album as the revival of the influential musician. Nathan S. said in a The DJ Booth article, “When D’Angelo’s Black Messiah dropped last week I was terrified to listen to it. It felt like my dad died in a car accident fourteen years ago, and then called me on a Tuesday night like, “Nah, I’m good. Want to go get a burrito?”

In terms of influential musicians, the list goes on and on for 2015. This year saw Sleater-Kinney reunite and produce an amazing punk-rock CD, which embodied themes from the 1990s feminist punk move-

ment, “Riot grrrl.” This year saw the rise of Vince Staples (who just recently won Consequence of Sounds’ “Rookie of the Year”) produce a catchy, political “Summertime ‘06.” Titus Andronicus released its grand, brutally honest rock opera, “The Most Lamentable Tragedy.”

In contrast with 2014, when Macklemore’s “The Heist” won the Grammy for best rap album, it is great to see these types of musicians grow and succeed. Aside from the ones listed, there were plenty of great albums for everyone. From the relaxing tones of Jamie xx’s “In Colour” to Sufjan Stevens’ singer-songwriter album, “Carrie & Lowell,” there was something for everyone.

In fact, anyone reading this column is probably thinking, “I can’t believe you aren’t mentioning (insert band here), how could you leave them out,” and I couldn’t agree more. It is a shame to neglect the new Alabama Shakes album, Grimes’ “Art Angels” or Drake’s “If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late.”

However, this is a good problem to have. The fact that I don’t have enough time to listen to all of the great music shows just how thriving the music scene is. 2015 was a year full of growth, but also full of pain. In between the countless bombings and shootings that plagued the world, 2015 was filled with strife and confusion. Thankfully, the U.S. still has a vibrant music scene that can channel these emotions into beautiful pieces of music, and the albums produced in 2015 are a brilliant testament to this fact. jmiller@dailytoreador.com

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Students should read over winter holidays

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y now, just about every student is more than ready for the holiday break. We all could use some time to rest and recharge before getting back to the grind next month.

During the semester, it’s easy to get bogged down by classes, homework, jobs, organizations and everything else we’re involved in. As a result, some of the more enjoyable and beneficial activities can often fall by the wayside.

I’ll be the first to admit I enjoy sitting in front of the TV as much as anyone, but it’s so worthwhile to take my eyes off the screen and put them on a page.

This particularly long holiday break can be an opportunity for students to pick up some of these activities, and one thing everyone should try to make time for during the break is to read.

I do more reading than I’d like to during the semester, but that reading is limited. If it’s not in a law textbook or published in The DT, I’m probably not going to read it. Reading for fun can become foreign while trying to keep up with everything, but when time allows, it’s well worth it.

Sometimes it can be difficult to make time, simply because there are so many other things for us to do. I’ll be the first to admit I enjoy sitting in front of the TV as much as anyone, but it’s so

Andrew Gleinser is The DT’s editor-in-chief and a third-year law student from Kingwood.

worthwhile to take my eyes off the screen and put them on a page.

For one thing, it’s a worthy goal to be well read. It improves your reading and writing skills and can help you become a better thinker.

There are so many classic novels, plays and short stories out there that one could read for years and never run out of good material.

I recently bought a used copy of “Moby Dick” for pennies off Amazon (because I’m ancient and actually read paper books), and I’m making that my holiday reading.

If you’ve got a Kindle or something of the like, it’s even easier.

If you’re into Shakespeare, knock yourself out. I’d highly recommend George Orwell’s “1984” if you haven’t already read it. If you’re looking for a short read, Ernest Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea” is a classic. For something newer, Mitch Albom’s “Tuesdays with Morrie” and pretty much any Cormac McCarthy novel are great reads.

Whatever you choose, find something you’ll enjoy reading and take some time to sit down and read it. It’s a good way to relax and to expand your mind, and it’s much more beneficial than just sitting in front of the television or staring at your phone. editor@dailytoreador.com

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“Hunger Games” showed how art captures millennial emotions

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ut there are much worse games to play.”

These final words in Suzanne Collins’ “Mockingjay” — the last installment in “The Hunger Games” series — oddly got me thinking about how quickly time passes.

During my freshman year in high school, I burned through that series in about two weeks.

I read on my way to track practice. I read while I waited for my mom to pick me up from school (oh, to be young and transportation dependent). I read while I walked through the halls (yeah, I was that kid).

At that time, I had never imagined four years later, as a freshman in college, I would hear Katniss mutter those last few heavy words to a dark theater, ending more than just a series.

Those books followed me, as well as many others, through these past four years. When they were made into movies, we waited up all night for the midnight premiere — sitting in the lobby of some theatre, the salty smell of popcorn and indecipher-

Avery Aiken is a freshman communications studies major from The Woodlands.

able buzz of chatter building our excitement.

To entertain us while we waited, my friends and I would bring blankets and card games and homework that never actually got done. The first time we were all together was the premiere of “Catching Fire.” From that point onward, we agreed that we would see every other premiere together — I guess we hadn’t realized that we would be in college, not together, when the last one came out.

Tr a g i c , I k n o w, b u t that’s not my point.

My point is that, regardless of whatever the circumstances were, I can still remember every memory “The Hunger Games” added to my life. If I look back at them all, I can almost document every year that has passed since I started reading the series. And now, when I watch the movies,

I am flooded with the most wonderful sentimentality.

We’ve been brought into adulthood (or just brought close to it) alongside this series and, while I am sad to see it come to close, I am so thankful that “The Hunger Games” left its mark on us. I am glad it was there to document all of the moments that flashed by too quickly for me to catch, capturing them between its words.

That’s the cool thing about our generation. We might be hopelessly distracted and ridiculously overcommitted, but we have built ourselves a web, composed of movies, books, lengthy posts and music libraries that capture the feelings of our time.

So, fear not as 2015 comes to a close. New Year’s will make us all feel like we missed this year as we raced to the end of it, but we didn’t. We have it all tucked away in the world around us. We can find everything that 2015 was to us within the things that made this year what we are leaving it as. aaiken@dailytoreador.com

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Christmas movies play important role in showing holiday meaning

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he good thing about movies is that there’s usually an underlying motive, whether it is a new perspective or the life lessons some movies really aim to put across. What’s great about Christmas movies is that it’s hard for them to be pointless. Christmas movies will usually have the values of friendship, family and/or the importance of the holiday embedded into them.

Whether one is surrounded by family, friends or only a few furry companions, a great way to get wrapped up in the spirit of things is to watch a few Christmas movies.

As far as Christmas traditions go, if watching a Christmas movie at least once during the season isn’t

Emma Martinez is a sophomore English major from Odessa.

on the to-do list, one should rethink his or her ambitions to a successful holiday. There are movies for all types of people, and even if someone isn’t the biggest fan of Christmas, a Christmas movie can give him or her insight into life, aside from the overt Christmas themes.

Even though “The Night Before” isn’t exactly a family movie, it definitely includes the importance of family and friendship, especially during the holiday season. For anyone who can’t be with his or her family this holiday season, this would be a great movie to watch. “The Night Before” is about three friends and the issues they have within themselves and how they come to terms and deal with those issues while achieving their Christmas rituals.

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One of the main themes many Christmas movies portray is what Christmas is all about. No matter who wrote, produced or directed any Christmas movie, it’s a little hard to avoid this theme even if it isn’t the main one. “The Grinch” is a perfect example of a movie with this exact theme. Cindy Lou Who is an innocent little girl who’s beginning to give up on the idea of Christmas and what it may or may not stand for.

Out of all irony, the Grinch, the anti-Christmas bad guy, is the one to push her and her entire town into remembering what Christmas is all about.

Whether one is surrounded by family, friends or only a few furry companions, a great way to get wrapped up in the spirit of things is to watch a few Christmas movies. These movies aren’t just frilly backdrops to a society of candy canes, Santa Claus and reindeer. They’re built on moral and life lessons that anyone could take away from any time of the year. emartinez@dailytoreador.com

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Students should not be scared of finals

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he zombie-like walk of sleep-deprived students all over campus, the sudden cries that break the silence in the library and the cups of coffee that just seem to keep coming one after another, all a result of the dreaded finals week.

There are so many rumors and horror stories associated with the thought of finals week because it is portrayed as this impossible obstacle students need to exhaust themselves over.

It is true that some students may need to pull allnighters to grasp an excessive amount of knowledge in a short period of time, but that is when preparation is not involved in your study habits since the start of the semester.

I feel freshman college

Ryan Ortegon is a freshman electronic media and communications major from El Paso.

students, like myself, are under the impression that finals are something to be associated with extreme amounts of stress and the matter of grades before physical health.

Students believe the only way to handle their finals is to stay up all night and study nonstop. The norm for finals week becomes to drink coffee, take things like Adderall to help with focusing issues, and to put everything aside besides your course material.

With things like this becoming a symbol for finals week, it is no wonder why many students begin to stress and worry to a point that they will do anything to get good final grades.

Yet as issues with overexhaustion, lack of food and others begin to arise, there is not much concern from other students or even the student experiencing these issues. This is because of the fact that stress is such a common occurrence during finals week that many just let it pass them by.

Students put so much pressure on themselves to do well that they end up making themselves worry even more than they need to. With preconceived notions about finals week, everyone seems to have

an idea of how they are supposed to act during this week.

As a college freshman, I realize that my workload is not anywhere near a level I cannot handle and does not compare to the possible work I will have to do three years down the road, but I believe even the busiest students can manage all their studying for finals.

Thanksgiving break is a time for family, friends and food, However, it can be a trap for students who simply hide their homework under their beds and pretend it is not there.

Not doing your work during or prior to Thanksgiving break will be detrimental to your time management. All that work won’t go away, in fact it will

mix in with the homework you get the following week, and then with the studying you have to do for finals, and next thing you know, you find yourself doing homework from two weeks prior instead of studying for your biology exam.

The best advice I can give for finals week is to have a game plan well before finals even begin.

Start by making time to figure out your assignments early and make time to complete them. It may be stressful, but at least you will save time to study later for finals.

As for advice for actual finals week: 1. Oversee all the material you will have to study and list it from most important to least.

2. Decide which days you will study what and how much you will study and be sure to incorporate break in between to give your brain some rest.

3. Find a quiet study space where you wont get distracted and you will get things done.

4. Sleep when needed.

Staying up late to get that extra chapter in, is not worth oversleeping and missing your test the next morning. Instead make time to stop and sleep and set your alarm earlier to give you enough time to wake up and pick up where you left off.

5. Eat three meals a day to keep you healthy and awake and alert. @DailyToreador

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Preparation makes finals stress controllable A s soon as the first of December hits, the Internet is littered with amusing videos, memes and statuses about the stresses that come from finals.

With this being my first year to experience taking a college final, I cannot yet share in those statuses, memes or videos.

However, in my first semester of college I have come to realize that stress is manageable if students do three things throughout the semester: go to every class, keep up with the material and give yourself a break to explore your passions

Mallory Barnett is a freshman public relations major from Lubbock.

outside of your schoolwork.

Going to every class seems to be a novel idea for most students. Whether it is making excuses, partying too hard or just simply out of laziness, student attendance in college classes has plummeted in just this semester alone by my observations.

I understand there are cer-

tain circumstances in which a class must be missed, but that does not mean the student cannot simply ask for notes from the professor or a friend. Some students have even neglected to do that. The one and only way to get the material is to go to class each and every time you are able to.

Keeping up with material is completely manageable if good organization plays a role. Once the material that was covered in class is put into a folder and revisited multiple times after class, it begins imprinting itself into the mind. If students make a conscious effort to

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frequent breaks that take the edge off: students are more enthusiastic to continue studying and actually get less distracted.

Also, when students take time during the semester leading up to finals to explore their passions outside of academics, their minds are sharper, clearer and more encouraged to pursue challenges.

The balance of academic, as well as creative, stimulation will ensure ultimate student success and minimized stress on all finals taken regardless of the subject. The stress of

finals is perfectly manageable when these steps are taken and the number of online memes, videos and statuses will be greatly reduced.

In my opinion, finals are crucial to the education of college students and should be taken seriously, but the stress can be diminished significantly if students would have more initiative and less laziness to their study routines throughout the semester and not just during finals. @MalBarnettDT

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revisit the material for a mere five minutes after each lesson, the overwhelming feeling that usually comes with studying for exams will be greatly diminished during finals week.

The stress that usually comes with studying for finals is completely manageable if students sectioned their lessons into easily organized portions. Then, by the time finals arrive the material comes more quickly and easily to mind.

Lastly, studies have proven that study material is learned more efficiently when there are

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ANNA CLAIRE BEASLEY/The Daily Toreador Zulema Garcia, a junior university studies major from Houston, puts icing on her gingerbread man on Tuesday in the Student Union Building. The event was hosted by the Tech Activities Board and also included free hot chocolate.

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Soldier who lost all limbs hopes book inspires others AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A soldier who lost all four limbs during an explosion in Afghanistan hopes to inspire others with his story of how he recovered from his injuries and got on with his life partly by helping other amputees.

Travis Mills is raising his family, delivering motivational speeches and helping other wounded warriors

through his foundation.

With his book, “Tough As They Come,” he’s added author to his accomplishments.

“My message is pretty clear. Never give up. Never quit. Find your motivation.

Find your goals. And keep moving,” he said Tuesday.

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Magazine, studies have shown that sleep deprivation can have long-term effects on the body, which go beyond a day or two of feeling groggy.

It can cause hallucinations, hypertension, diabetes, bipolar disorders but mostly memory impairment — that sort of defeats the whole purpose of staying up all night studying. The most confusing thing about sleep is that scientists and other analyses do not have any definitive conclusions as to why sleep is important, it just is.

However, most scientific evidence has led many to believe the average person needs somewhere between seven to nine hours of sleep a day. This does have some outliers and different people need different amounts of sleep, but overall that is the common conclusion.

There are some people who think they can do well with four or five hours and can catch up on sleep later, but there are many theories as to why that is unhealthy for the mind, body and soul.

It’s almost impossible to actually catch up on sleep, Steven Feinsilver of the Center for Sleep Medicine at Mt. Sinai

School of Medicine said in the Atlantic Magazine article.

If a person were to do so, they would have to get the regular prescribed amount of rest and tack on the remaining hours that they did not get.

This is improbable because it could possibly call for upward of 12 to 14 hours and really, who has that kind of time?

Dangerous mood swings can be a possible side effects as well as lack of energy.

This affects the learning process in a number of ways, and the ability to focus is limited and memorization goes out the window. So there can be no point in this staying up all night to study or only getting two to three hours in between exams.

In some cases sleep deprivation can even cause death, but sometimes that is the preferred choice as opposed to actually taking or failing an exam. But the side effects of sleep deprivation are real and damaging and should not be taken lightly.

The best advice for this time of year I can give is to incorporate sleep into already hectic schedules. Of course it might take some study time away from you, but that is much better than any longterm side effects that I have heard of.

I think it would be safe to say the best study aid you can get is sleep, and lots of it. @MichaelCantuDT

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s the warship that is finals is approaching the shoreline, I think it is safe to say most students are getting to a panicking point of high anxiety.

While you are digging through your books, notes and whatever other resources you can get your hands on, sleep does not need to be left in the dark.

According to a study by University of Alabama professor Adam Knowlden, roughly 60 percent of college students get an adequate amount of sleep on a regular basis.

Since irregular sleep schedules are already common occurrences among my fellow peers, by the time final exams approach and the cramming sessions come into play, there are a few possible outcomes, and most of them negative.

This can be particularly hard for those people with exams from beginning to end during finals week, but it should definitely play into account when studying in every instance. There should not be long periods of sleep combined with short ones: it is not healthy.

Consistent sleep schedules result in better health and brain function according to many studies.

But the real danger here is pulling the dreaded “all-nighter.” According to an article in The Atlantic

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WASHINGTON (AP) — New at the White House this holiday season: penguins, snowmen and snow women, and hanging snowflakes.

Returning this season: larger-than-life replicas of dogs Bo and Sunny, an 18 1/2 -foot Blue Room tree dedicated to military

families, and a gingerbread White House — covered in dark chocolate, instead of white chocolate as in years past, and weighing in at nearly 500 pounds.

President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, expect to welcome more than 68,000 guests in the weeks

before Christmas.

They’ll be greeted at the East Wing entrance by a family of plywood penguins before walking down a hallway with paper snowflakes hanging overhead. There’s one snowflake for each state and U.S. territory, along with others made by local schoolchildren who adorned them with handwritten wishes.

Outside the hallway windows, 56 snowmen and women, some wearing hats and scarves or earmuffs, look on from the first lady’s garden.

The first lady unveiled the decorations Wednesday, giving military families the first peek. Afterward, she led a group of children dressed in their finest clothes to the East Room where they prepared crafts and treats with help from the White House executive chef, head pastry chef and head florist.

Mrs. Obama said celebrating the start of the season with military families is an important part of her family’s White House tradition.

“We do this because of everything that you all do every day to make our country great,” she said.

Mrs. Obama and Jill Biden, the wife of Vice President Joe Biden, started a na-

tionwide campaign in 2011 to generate more public support for active-duty and retired service members and their families.

In all, some 62 trees and 70,000 ornaments, most of them reused from years past, decorate the White House.

The Fraser fir that dominates the Blue Room features messages to U.S. troops from their families on a ribbon that wraps around the tree. Its decorations were inspired by the stars and stripes of the U.S. flag. Each family will receive their portion of the ribbon after the holidays as a keepsake.

Some 55,000 feet of black yarn was knitted into 7,000 pom-poms that were used to make the Bo and Sunny replicas.

Nearly 90 volunteers from across the country spent from the day af ter Thanksgiving through early this week decorating the building.

Among them was firsttime volunteer Cheryl Forbes, who said she was surprised to end up working in the Oval Office.

“It took me a minute to take it all in,” said Forbes, a vice principal at a charter school in Bronx, New York.

“Just to see where a president sits, it’s indescribable.”

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n the wake of Texas Tech announcing that three defensive assistant coaches would not be returning for next season, many were also calling for David Gibbs to be removed from his position as defensive coordinator.

This is completely unfair considering Gibbs has only had one year to work with his defense.

Gibbs inherited one of the worst defenses in the country at a school that has seen a revolving door of defensive coordinators.

While the statistics for Gibbs’ defense this season were not pretty, there was improvement in a few areas. Gibbs can greatly improve the Red Raider defense, but it is going to take time.

This season, the defense allowed 540 total yards per

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game, which ranks 125th out of 127 teams in the country.

They allowed 272 rushing yards per game, which also ranks 125th according to the NCAA football website.

While those statistics are not impressive, Tech plays in the Big 12 Conference, which is filled with high-flying fast-paced offenses. Opponents ran 969 plays against the Red Raiders this season, ranking toward the top in the country.

Besides that, this was Gibbs’

first season here and the players are not his recruits. Gibbs has talked multiple times this season about how he is building a foundation, but he is trying to build it the right way and that is going to take time. Most of the players on the defensive side of the ball have been coached by basically a new defensive coordinator every season, and it is going to take time for them to forget bad habits and fully learn Gibbs’ defensive strategy.

The last main reason why Gibbs deserves more time in Lubbock is that Tech has not had a solid defensive team in a long time.

It is not like Gibbs took over the defense and the Red Raiders became one of the worst defensive teams in the country. This

season, the defense ranked ninth in the Big 12, in 2014, they were ninth and in 2013 they ranked seventh. Defense has been an issue going back even further than two years.

While yardage allowed this year was painful to watch, there were some positives on defense.

The Red Raiders improved dramatically in takeaways and turnover margin. This is not just by chance either, Gibbs has a track record of forcing a high number of turnovers.

In Kliff Kingsbury’s first two seasons at Tech, his team ranked last and next to last in turnover margin.

In 2013, the team had the fewest interceptions and takeaways in addition to the most turnovers in the conference,

according to the Big 12 website.

Again in 2014, Tech grabbed the least interceptions and had the next to fewest takeaways. They ended the two seasons at -13 and -14, respectively, in turnover margin, according to the website.

This season was a completely different story for takeaways and turnover margin. Tech ranked sixth in the Big 12 by ending the regular season +2 in turnover margin, according to the website. The team had the fourth-most takeaways in the conference, including the fourthmost interceptions.

Once again that was not by coincidence.

The second reason for hope is that Gibbs has a talented group of young players that got extended playing time and

made contributions already this season.

Freshmen Breiden Fehoko, Dakota Allen, D’Vonta Hinton and Jah’Shawn Johnson all made plays.

Also, the secondary that grabbed the fourth most interceptions in the Big 12 is young, but now has experience.

Sophomore cornerbacks Tevin Madison and Nigel Bethel have both started a high number of games in their first two seasons and showed much improvement this season.

While it is not going to happen overnight, with Gibbs’ defensive strategy and young talent, the Red Raider defense is only going to get better with time. @JeremyK_DT

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NFC East has fallen far from storied history, could have playoff team with losing record If we turn back the clock to the beginning of the 2015 offseason, a few questions lingered around when looking at each team in the NFC East.

Who would replace DeMarco Murray for the Cowboys?

Would Chip Kelly be able to bring his fast-paced offense from Oregon into the NFL? Analysts all throughout the offseason debated these and several other questions, but the biggest question was: who will win the NFC East?

Fans of each team were optimistic going into the season after each team displayed itself in the preseason, saying

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things such as, “Just wait until Romo and the starters play,” and “Chip Kelly is taking us all the way!”

The NFC East was quickly put on display in week 1 with the Giants visiting Arlington to match up against the Cowboys, which ended with a gamewinning touchdown pass from Tony Romo and Jason Witten.

Two weeks into the regular season, the Cowboys traveled to Philadelphia and improved to 2-0 on the season after defeating the Eagles.

Even with though the Cowboys won the game, they still found themselves losing in the end.

Tony Romo was driven into the turf after a pass attempt and stayed down.

Reaching for his left collarbone, doctors and the Cowboys training staff walked Romo to the locker room and ruled him out with a broken left clavicle.

From there, the Cowboys would go downhill.

The team that made it to the NFC Divisional round in the playoffs in the previous season lost its quarterback for nine weeks.

The division was now up for grabs with the team with the deepest playoff run in 2014 losing its star quarterback.

The Eagles, Giants and Redskins, however, seem to have different plans.

The Giants and Redskins are currently tied for first place in the division, both with a record of 5-6, with the Eagles sitting at 4-7 behind them at third.

The Cowboys managed to

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