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Food bank to host annual food drive

By REECE NATIONS Staff Writer

The South Plains Food Bank will be celebrating National Hunger Action Month by hosting its fourth Wreck Hunger Food Drive on Friday.

“This event was designed to encourage the community to donate as many non-perishable dry goods as possible,” Danielle Robertson, communications and marketing manager for the South Plains Food Bank, said. “We set a goal each year for about 10,000 pounds of food.”

The food drive is also promoting September’s Hunger Action Month, a nationwide movement to help end hunger and spotlight the issue of hunger among college students, Robertson said. College hunger is a problem that affects millions of students every year and needs to be adequately addressed.

Texas is also one among 14 states that exhibit statistically significant higher households with food insecurity, according to the Feeding America website. The national average is 14.3 percent, while Texas sits at 17.2 percent.

“The event itself grows every year,” Robertson said. “The more participation we get from the community the

better, so we look forward to seeing everyone there.”

The Tech Volunteer Service Organization, Women’s Service Organization, the Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration Management Center, Eta Omicron Nu and Alpha Phi Omega are just a few of the groups involved in this year’s food drive, Robertson said.

“The purpose of the drive is to raise food for the community and some of the food pantries on campus,” David Weaver, CEO of the South Plains Food Bank, said. “We’re trying to raise awareness of food insecurity among college students, which is a bigger issue than most people realize.”

More food banks are doing their parts to address college hunger nationally, Weaver said. Because of the rising cost of tuition, housing, books and fees across the country, it can be hard for students to make ends meet.

“The food bank itself is part of Feeding America, which is a national network of 205 food banks serving every county in America, from Alaska to Florida,” Weaver said. “We want people to know that if they give a little bit of their time, they can make a difference.”

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Meat judging teams win first in Minnesota

New application offers students opportunity to discover artists

Batson prevails obstacles before football season

By JACK DENSMORE

Texas Tech’s livestock judging and processed meat judging team took first place among 10 undergraduate teams in the National Barrow Show in Austin, Minnesota.

The competition, which was the second time it was hosted, gave the Tech team the opportunity to beat teams from South Dakota State by 35 points, according to a Tech news release. Along with a first place finish, the team finished second in fresh pork and processed meats, according to the release.

L.J. Young, a junior from Pendleton, Indiana, finished as the top competitor for Tech’s team, finishing third overall with 669 points, according to the release. Another top competitor was Brody Halfmann, a senior from Garden City, who finished ninth with 664 points, according to the release.

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ists and give artists the feedback that they look for.

TownWave started through the Lone Startup competition hosted by the College of Media and Communication last spring, Geoffrey Graybeal, assistant professor in the College of Media and Communication, said.

TownWave placed second in the competition and received $1,500 as their place prize.

Since then, TownWave’s website has been in production, Dellsperger said. Dellsperger is planning on launching the website by the end of the year.

After the platform launches, Dellsperger and the rest of TownWave will have their official launch party at South by Southwest in the spring, he said.

He’s lining up in his position, he’s the wide receiver of the Texas Tech Red Raiders, the game crowd ready to cheer at any moment. When the ball snaps, the past fades into the back of his mind, what he focuses on is only route and when to look for the ball from his quarterback. It’s game time, and all past worries are behind him, his only worry is helping his team win the game.

Junior wide receiver Cameron Batson grew up in Oklahoma City.

He has two twin sisters, named Caira and Carmen. His older cousin Tramain Swindall played for Tech and had 150 career receptions, according to Tech Athletics. Batson went to Millwood High School, and when growing up, he said, he did good staying out of trouble in a city that ranks high in crime, according to therichest.com.

“There’s been a lot of struggles,” Batson said. “I’ve done a great job of staying out of trouble, distanced myself from certain friends because they were in that lifestyle, kept myself away from that, and I’ve seen a lot of people struggle. My grandma was diagnosed with ALS, back in 2008-2009. She can’t use her arms or her legs. She has a feeding tube, so that’s definitely something that I’ve overcome, seeing somebody’s health that declined so bad, someone that I’m so close with.”

His mother, Ericka, gave birth to him at the age of 16. Around that time, Batson’s father, Willie Batson III, was playing baseball at Alabama A&M, but came home to take care of his son.

Batson said his family had to relocate a lot to help with living expenses.

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Panel to be hosted by School of Law The Texas Tech School of Law will host a panel to discuss the position of a U.S. attorney and will include alumni who have served as attorneys or assistant attorneys.

The panel will host its discussion from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the School of Law’s Lanier Auditorium. Included in the panel will be Greg Fouratt, Margaret Leachman, Richard Roper, William Mateja, Mathew Orwig and Johnny Parker. @MichaelCantuDT

By DAVID GAY L a Vida Editor

Discovering different music artists can be a difficult task, searching through all the different online content out there. Through TownWave, a music platform created by Dalton Dellsperger, a senior media strategies major from Austin, people can discover artists in an easier way.

Dellsperger said he started creating rap music when he came to Tech as a freshman. As an upcoming artist, Dellsperger noticed the problem with people being unable to discover new artists online.

One day, Dellsperger went on YouTube to find an artist he had never heard before, he said.

That was where he got his idea for TownWave.

“I wanted someone completely

random, and there was no way to do that without digging through the content that was already online,” Dellsperger said. “I came up with the idea (for TownWave) from going through that experience and thinking that I probably wasn’t the only one who was having that problem trying to discover new artists.”

Through the TownWave platform, artists can post 10 to 20 songs for free and have one song in their radio rotation, he said.

Once these artists sign up for the website, they will be allocated by state, city and genre. Users can listen to different artists who perform different genres by city or town.

This platform gives the artists the opportunity to have music played on a radio, Dellsperger said. It also gives listeners the opportunity to discover new art-

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The Academy for Leadership in the Legal Profession hosted Rep. Dustin Burrows of Texas to speak at noon Monday in the Lanier Auditorium at the Texas Tech School of Law. Burrows is the District 83 representative who is from Lubbock, according t o t h e Te x a s Hous e of Representatives website.

After graduating from Monterey High School, Burrows went to Rhodes College in Tennessee, and then came to Tech to get graduate degrees from the law school and the Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration, according to the website.

His visit was part of a lecture series from the Academy for Leadership, Rishi Batra, associate professor of law and director of the academy, said.

“The academy is a threestage program that we have here at the law school to train students in leadership skills outside of the main academic curriculum,” Batra said. “Though it’s a three-stage program, that I mentioned, and it tracks the three years that the students are in law school.”

As part of the academy hosting lecturers, the talk is open for almost anyone to go to. However, if they are part of the Academy for Leadership in the Legal Profession, they must fill out a reflection

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Dustin Burrows, Texas representative for District 83, spoke for the Academy for Leadership in the Legal Profession on Monday in the Lanier Auditorium of the Texas Tech School of Law. form, Batra said. For these types of lectures, there is usually a lot of first-year law students at the event.

Those who go onto the second year of the program are introduced to a smaller and more intense setting that goes from nearly 150 students to six to 12, Batra said. Those

students participate in book discussion groups in which they meet at the home of a law school alumnus in Lubbock.

Along with that they also have small group workshops, Batra said.

“The third-year stud e n t s , t h a t ’s u s u a l l y four to five students at

the max,” he said. “They take the leadership skills they’ve learned over the last two years, and they do an intense leadership project, usually helping out here in the community somewhere.”

Those who finish the program are given a special certificate and recommendation letters from the law school administration and himself, Batra said.

This was the fourth time Burrows gave a talk on the subject of perception and how potential employers view prospective employees, Burrows said.

“I’ve worked in law now for 12 years in a private practice,” Burrows said. “They do all things like family law along with criminal law.”

In his work with his law firm, he has also overseen hiring of many law associates who have gone into private practice, Burrows said.

In order to get a detailed look as to what specific points he should be speaking on, Burrows said he contacted law firms around Texas to get insight.

He then went over common misconceptions that many new to the legal profession had, such as pay and the amount of time devoted to practicing.

One of the biggest misconceptions they saw was students relied heavily on their time at law school and did not work too hard to get actual experience, he said.

“They say, I’ve seen this first hand, that because

you have done phenomenal things in law school, you’ve been on the board of barristers, you’ve been in law reviews, top of your class.

All those things are great, they’re going to help you get your first job,” Burrows said. “They’re going to tell your first boss or the person who is thinking about hiring you that you are competitive, you’re smart and that you can do research, but once you start that first day none of that matters anymore.”

Many times a great resume has helped students get jobs. However, it has never made their standing in the firm stick out among the rest, he said.

Burrows’ talk also covered other topics related to those who are new to the legal field, such as the ability to learn things a student may not specialize in.

Students who participate in Academy for Leadership in the Legal Profession are given credit for their work at the end of their three years if they make it that far, Batra said.

“Other law schools definitely have leadership programs, but ours is definitely unique in the sense that it’s more comprehensive,” he said. “You know we actually have looked this up, it’s more comprehensive than any leadership program we could find, and it’s more structured than any leadership program we could find.” @MichaelCantuDT

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LPD charges man Knife attacker with manslaughter lacked emotion The Lubbock Police Department has taken into custody and charged James Albert Pritchard, 49, with manslaughter after a collision at the intersection of 50th Street

and Indiana Avenue left one man dead on Sunday.

Pritchard has been identified as the driver of a Ford F-150 that rear-ended Sammy Castaneda, 50, who died soon after. The force of the collision sent both vehicles into the middle of the intersection, where they crashed into two other vehicles, according to an LPD news release.

Pritchard was then taken to the University Medical Center with mi-

nor injuries, according to the release. Officers also had probable cause to believe he was driving under the influence of alcohol at the time of the collision, and after his release from the hospital he was arrested and transported to the Lubbock County Detention Facility, according to the release.

The LPD Accident Investigation team is continuing to investigate the crash. @MichaelCantuDT

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DALLAS (AP) — An audit has found that a law enforcement official poised to become one of the top officers in Dallas County was paid for hundreds of hours of service that she may not have worked.

Among other findings, the routine county audit determined Precinct 1 Chief Deputy Constable Tracey Gulley did not provide documentation to confirm she worked on various days.

Also, her county ve-

hicle did not leave her home on 27 days that she said she was working.

The Dallas Morning News reports that auditors reviewed a period of more than six months and had questions about nearly 90 days of her work.

Gulley is running unopposed in November to become the precinct’s next constable.

She t ol d t he paper the errors with her timekeeping were clerical, not ethical.

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(AP) — One of the victims wounded in a stabbing at a central Minnesota mall says the man who carried out the attack showed no emotion and his eyes looked blank.

Ryan Schliep, one of 10 people who suffered wounds that were not life-threatening before the attacker was fatally shot, told WCCO-TV that the man “just walked right at me” before striking quickly and penetrating the skin of his scalp.

“He looked just blank in the eyes like he wasn’t even there,” Schliep said shortly before being released from a St. Cloud hospital.

Authorities are treating Saturday’s stabbings at Crossroads Center Mall as a possible act of terrorism, in part because an Islamic State-run news agency claimed that the attacker was a “soldier of the Islamic State” who had heeded the group’s calls for attacks in countries that are part of a U.S.-led anti-IS coalition.

But it wasn’t immediately known whether the extremist group had planned the attack or knew about it beforehand. St. Cloud

Police Chief Blair Anderson said Monday the attack appeared to be the work of a single individual and there was no sign that the attacker, identified as 20-year-old Dahir Adan, was radicalized or communicated with any terrorist group.

President Barack Obama said the stabbings had no apparent connection to weekend bombings in New York and New Jersey.

Because Adan was Somali, leaders of the state’s large Somali community acknowledged the prospect of a “long winter” for their people after the stabbings, but warned not to quickly accept the terrorism connection.

“We cannot give ISIS and other terrorist organizations more air time and propaganda without real facts,” said Jaylani Hussein, executive director of the Council on AmericanIslamic Relations’ Minnesota chapter.

Little is known about Adan, who was identified Sunday by his father, Ahmed Adan, and then

by St. Cloud police Monday night.

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Las Cruces picks Texan as new city manager LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — The Las Cruces City Council has selected a new city manager.

Council members on Monday picked Stuart Ed of El Paso, Texas over two other candidates.

The City Council is scheduled to consider a formal resolution selecting Ed as city manager at its Oct. 3 meeting.

His start date is subject to an employment contract to be negotiated.

The other out-of-town

candidate was Daniel Biles, deputy county manager-infrastructure in Alabama’s Jefferson County.

A third candidate was David Dollahon, who currently serves as assistant Las Cruces city manager/ chief administrative officer.

Ed most recently served as president/CEO of Goodwill Industries of El Paso, Inc. The city manager of Las Cruces oversees the dayto-day management of city government, which includes a $374 million annual budget.

CORRECTION In Thursday’s issue of The Daily Toreador, the article “Tech awards scholarships to Estacado

Early College students” should have read Berhl Robertson, Jr. The DT regrets this error.

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Tech faculty discuss benefits of minors

By BRITTNI CLEMONS Staff Writer

If students want to expand their knowledge in areas their majors do not focus on, declaring minors could be best for them.

Texas Tech has more than 200 minors for students to choose from, Bret Stine, senior academic advisor for University Advising, said.

Almost all majors are eligible for a minor, and some majors require students to declare a minor.

Some students also wonder what benefits they could have from a minor, Jay Killough, managing director at the University Career Center, said. It is important to have a minor because it exposes a student to a variety of disciplines, complements to a degree plan and provides marketable skill sets.

“Some students may

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The food bank serves people of all ages, from young children to seniors and people living in poverty, Weaver said. Hunger is an issue that effects every community, and the public is encouraged to make any contribution, no

think, ‘Oh, that job won’t hire me because of my minor, or it won’t matter because of my major.’ Well, I think it’s a bigger picture than that,” Killough said. “I think it’s how the students sell their minor.”

Minors are almost a double-up for you, no matter what.

BRET STINE SENIOR ADVISER Killough majored in public relations and minored in family studies. Although, public relations and family studies may seem completely unrelated, he said he sold his minor to his employer, and now he

combines those two subjects every day in career counseling.

Alyssa Boren, academic advisor for University Advising, said a minor differentiates a student by adding more value to a student’s knowledge for future employers.

“Having a business minor with an engineering major, or with any major, compliments each other very well and will be looked at by future employers because having that skill is essential to any field,” Boren said.

Not only will declaring minors add more value to students’ resumes, they will also allow students to hone-in on topics of interest that their majors touch only briefly on, Boren said.

“Let’s say you’re doing a physics degree, but you really like English lit., so you’re not going to get a whole lot of it. A minor is a great way to work

that in,” Stine said.

Tech offers a wide variety of minors, Boren said. Students can minor anywhere from atmospheric science or wind energy to American sign language or Latin, according

to the Tech catalog.

Doing something one loves, which does not correlate to his major, does not mean it is not beneficial, Stine said. Everything students learn in school has a

purpose and makes them gain side-skills, which will be useful anywhere they go.

“Minors are almost a double-up for you, no matter what,” Stine said. @BrittniClemonsDT

matter how small. This year, the food bank will serve more than 57,000 people.

“More and more we’re seeing college students needing food assistance,” Weaver said. “If you’re hungry, you’re not going to do as well in school. We want to look out for the health and well-being of everyone we can.” @ReeceNationsDT

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Judge tossed for misconduct WACO (AP) — A longtime federal judge in Texas who was reprimanded for making unwanted sexual advances has retired from the bench.

U.S. District Judge Walter Smith Jr. in a letter to President Barack Obama said his retirement was effective last Wednesday.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in December reprimanded the 75-year-old Smith for making unwanted advances toward a court employee years before. Smith also was

suspended from overseeing any new cases.

The Waco Tribune-Herald reports that a federal committee determined in July that further investigation was needed to see whether Smith made advances toward other women.

Smith became a federal judge in 1984 and the Tribune-Herald says in retirement he’ll receive an annuity equal to his salary of $203,100.

Attempts to reach Smith by phone for comment Monday were unsuccessful.

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Arrest in fatal shooting of Texas A&M student COLLEGE STATION (AP) — An Austin-area man arrested in Fort Worth is charged with murder for the shooting death of a 21-year-old Texas A&M student killed at her off-campus apartment over the weekend, police said Monday.

College Station police said Victor Manual Garcia-Loyo, 22, of Del Valle, had been dating Maricarmen Quiroz-Octaviano.

Police were called Saturday night to her apartment complex not far from the A&M campus after reports of gunfire.

They found the woman’s body inside her apartment.

Police said detectives contacted Garcia-Loyo by phone and he agreed to come in and talk with them but never showed.

Investigators were able to track him by his cellphone to Fort Worth, where police found him at a residence Sunday. He was carrying the driver’s license of Qjuiroz-Octaviano and a 9mm handgun. He also had what appeared to be a gunshot wound to his hand.

Authorities said Garcia-Loyo told College Station police who went to Fort Worth to interview him that he shot the woman during an argument and shot himself in the hand during the gunfire.

He was returned to Brazos County where he was jailed Monday without bond on a murder charge.

Police described the shooting “an isolated incident” of domestic violence and said the public was in no danger

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Teen planned on killing parents for two weeks BROWNWOOD (AP) — Court records show that a 1 7 - y e a r- o l d c h a r g e d with capital murder in the shooting deaths of his father and stepmother at their West Texas home had planned on killing them for two weeks.

According to a probable cause statement obtained

by Abilene television station KTXS, Cody Flores said he was mad at his father for not letting him move in with his grandmother.

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Flores and Ophelia Lucio were shot to death early Saturday in their home near Lake Brownwood.

Brown County Sheriff George Caldwell says Cody Flores called 911 and claimed the two were shot in a home invasion, but the teen’s story kept changing and he eventually confessed to the slayings.

Flores remained jailed Monday on $500,000 bond. Jail records don’t list an attorney for him.

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Stephanie Berrie, a printmaking graduate student from Kettering, Ohio, works in the early stages of her printmaking project at the Art building on Monday.

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Suspect is shot, captured in New York-area bombings LINDEN, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey police officer responding to a call about a hoodied vagrant curled up asleep in a bar doorway roused him and

quickly recognized the bearded face of perhaps the most wanted man in the United States.

Ahmad Khan Rahami — identified in an FBI

bulletin just hours earlier as a man wanted in the weekend bombings in New York City and New Jersey — pulled a gun, shot the officer

a n d t r i g g e r e d a r u nning gun battle in the street that ended with Rahami wounded and in custody Monday, authorities said.

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Transgender movement starts to challenge modern gender roles S

even hundred thousand; 41 percent; 19 percent; 26 percent.

All of these numbers have meaning, according to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

Seven hundred thousand is the approximate number of transgender individuals living in the United States.

Forty one percent of transgender individuals in the United States have considered suicide.

If you do the math, that comes out to about 287,000 people who have nearly ended their life.

Nineteen percent of transgender people report experiencing harassment or violence from a family member because of their identity. That comes out to 133,000.

Twenty six percent of trans individuals report having lost their jobs due to their identity.

Jordan Butler is a freshman honors arts and letters major from Lubbock.

Of that, another 50 percent report having experienced workplace discrimination or harassment.

These statistics highlight the reality of what it’s like to be transgender in the U.S., without taking into account intersectional factors such as race, socioeconomic status or education.

Said factors can add or remove intersections, or layers, from one’s identity, making life easier or more difficult depending on the absence or presence of said factors.

Although the term transgender has only recently entered the public discourse — it was first used in 1965 — what we know as transgender has

existed for a very long time.

In earlier millennia, people who blurred the lines of gender were thought to possess insight that individuals of a singular gender did not. Because of this, they were held in high esteem.

In ancient civilizations such as Mesopotamia and Assyria, an intersex deity known as The Great Mother was worshipped.

We have knowledge of this thanks to artifacts uncovered by archaeologists.

Priestesses of The Great Mother were often men who had transitioned into womanhood, either by castration or eunuching; said communities were highly communal and held women in very high esteem.

However, as societies moved from matrilineal to

patriarchal — with the additions of class and social division — the status of women was reduced. In addition, because individuals who did not fit into the categories of male or female were believed to possess more insight, they were repressed.

Despite the recognition of transgender individuals dating back to ancient times, trans people are still viewed as social pariahs with a glaring otherness hanging about them.

So, I ask the question: How do we change this? Obviously, a trans-issues-panacea doesn’t exist. But a good starting point would be changing the way we view gender.

The gender binary is often seen as rigid and inflexible. It shouldn’t be. In it’s current state, the binary can be incredibly oppressive.

Gender roles often limit the activities of men and women, who don’t want to be perceived as effeminate or masculine for performing certain tasks.

Boys too often grow into hard men who have walled themselves off and expelled the notion of vulnerability because they do not want to be seen as weak or effeminate.

Girls, meanwhile, will grow into women afraid to voice their opinions or beliefs because they do not want to be perceived as domineering.

Both of these circumstances are completely avoidable.

By advocating for a change in the way we view gender, I am not suggesting the total rejection of gender as it is currently seen. However, I am advocating the careful consideration of gender and gender roles in their current form.

Why is cooking a stereotypically feminine quality? This might have made sense in the distant past, when strength was needed outside of the home for the hunting of game.

Now, seeing as how we have supermarkets where we can pick up a cut of meat in under five minutes, it doesn’t really make sense to me.

By changing the way we see gender, we can eliminate these notions and the harm they cause, as well as change the way people live.

Imagine the number of trans individuals who might not have been driven to end their own lives if they had not felt bothered because of their inability to fit in to the boxes of male or female. opinions@dailytoreador.com

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Student provides eight college tips for freshmen

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our freshman year is your most important year.

1. So, let nothing get in the way of your schoolwork.

How much effort you put in to your school work your freshman year sets the tone for the rest of your college career.

No matter what anyone says, GPAs do matter, and if you mess up freshman year, it is going to be hard to raise your GPA. This was a dilemma I had.

I didn’t realize how much one C could hurt me.

Here’s a tip, if you’re worried about your GPA by the time the semester ends, enroll in a summer course to boost your GPA. The less hours you take, the easier it is to boost your GPA. Also remember that if you take classes back home — not at Texas Tech

Jayda Ward is a junior public relations major from Houston.

— it won’t be factored into your GPA at Tech.

2. There will be a time for relationships.

Don’t get caught up in any drama — especially boy or girl drama.

Freshman year should be fun for you.

That guy you’re worrying about? One day he won’t even cross your mind.

Don’t feel obligated to hang on to your high school sweetheart.

College is full of interesting people to mix and mingle with.

This is just the beginning of your life; you can date around; find out what you like and don’t like.

Most importantly, don’t feel pressured to do anything you don’t want to do.

3. Friends are truly so important in college.

Friends are a form of stress relief in college. They understand what you’re going through because they’re in the same environment as you.

If you’re going to a college where you don’t know anyone, make friends with your roommate first.

Your roommate shares the same living space as you and making friends with him will make your life a thousand times easier.

4. Enjoy dorm life.

When you first get to college, moving into your dorm is one of the most exciting new-student experiences.

It’s like an affirmation.

You’re finally here and ready to embark on your new journey in life.

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long time ago, in a galaxy we are all familiar with, sat a tiny blue planet named Earth.

Animals of enormous sizes such as the desktop computer and the Sony Wa l k m a n r o a m e d t h e planet, but one of these relics seemed to have survive extinction.

It remains with us today, going by the name of Texas Tech Wi-Fi. To say that campus Wi-Fi is slow is an understatement.

I am a sophomore and have now experienced two full semesters here at Tech, and I have had numerous teachers who have had to skip parts of lessons because a video or a presentation was unable to load.

Tech prides itself in having more than 60 academic degrees, certifications and certification preparation programs available fully online. In fact, I am currently enrolled in one of these classes.

To understand the frustration that countless students are going through as we speak, visualize yourself beginning your first assignment for your online class.

It’s just a two-minute video of your instructor. You hit play on the video, and the video begins to load.

Just like any human being you check your phone while the video loads.

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You eventually look up from your phone, and you see that the video is still loading.

So, you go to Snapchat and watch a few of your friends’ stories.

After finally going through all of your friend’s stories, you realize that the video still isn’t playing, and you’ve been on your phone for at least five minutes.

That’s no problem because, as we all know, sometimes you just have to refresh the page, and then the video will run smoothly.

However, this isn’t the case when dealing with our campus Wi-Fi. After hitting the refresh button and then pressing play on the video, it begins to load again.

You decide that while you wait you will pick your phone up once more, but this time you choose Twitter or Facebook as a time-killer.

Congratulations, now, you’ve played yourself because you effectively wasted a total of 15 minutes on your phone attempting to watch a two-minute video that has not even loaded.

Like any normal human being, you begin to go into techno-rage, which is the equivalent of getting road rage, except with technology.

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lars in tuition, so you might as well take advantage of all the free things you can get.

7. Make use of the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center.

The recreation center is a great place to relieve stress.

There are yoga classes, booty toning classes and cardio classes all at your disposal and totally free.

Well, technically it’s not free because Tech already charges you for the recreation center in your tuition.

Take advantage of that 8. Lastly, stay close in your relationship with God. College can be a trying time that will make us question a lot of things and we need that spiritual guidance.

Just remember, take college seriously, but not too seriously.

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and I got along great. If I needed to borrow something, I would just ask and vice versa.

Also, don’t rush to move off campus. Enjoy dorm life for as long as you can.

5. There will always be another party.

If you ever have to decide between going to a really fun party and studying, always choose studying.

There will always be another party, and you only get to take the test once.

College is all about managing your priorities, so study ahead of time.

6. Always take the free food.

Many events are always happening on campus and feature free food, giveaways and other free things like T-shirts, school supplies and event tickets.

Take advantage of all the free stuff you can.

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After countless explicit words are yelled and your mouse is smashed to pieces from clicking, the refresh button, the video begins to play.

You think to yourself that the trauma is finally over and you can continue with you first assignment.

Sadly, you are mistaken because not even thirty seconds into the video, it begins to buffer and starts to load again.

Now, I could keep going, but I as I type this I have begun to get frustrated just thinking about how a two-minute video turned into a 20-minute ordeal that ended with realizing that after the first video there was a second video that gave me just as much if not more trouble than the first one.

H o p e f u l l y, w e h a v e reached the same conclusion that “campus Wi-Fi sucks” is a gigantic understatement.

In all seriousness, Tech must come up with a solution for its Wi-Fi to cope with the demand of the ever-expanding student population.

In this digital age, students, staff and faculty will not be able to maximize the substantial learning potential that technology brings to our campus.

In short, Tech needs to stop being cheap and either switch providers or add more Wi-Fi routers around campus to strengthen our internet connection.

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I stayed in Horn Residence Hall my freshman year, and it was amazing.

I was so excited to move in to my dorm because it was my first step toward adulthood.

There were no strict rules in my dorm, and we could come and go as we pleased.

My dorm was basically one big shared room with two beds, a sink and two closets.

At first, I didn’t know how I could deal with living with a random stranger.

Would I have to always change in my closet? Is she going to borrow my clothes without asking? Will she eat my food or constantly have friends over?

Luckily, when you move in to your dorm you’re required to fill out a sort of rule sheet that basically lays down the laws for what’s acceptable and what’s not acceptable.

In the end, my roommate

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Volunteer Fair brings opportunities to students

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The Volunteer Fair was hosted on Monday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Student Union Building. The Tech Activities Board organized this event to give students a chance to volunteer on or off campus.

Solabomi Ladega, a senior international economics major from Lagos, Nigeria, said she is looking for more volunteering opportunities for herself and her organization, Gamma Alpha Omega.

She enjoys volunteering for different organizations.

“I usually (volunteer at the) Ronald McDonald House, Talkington and Salvation Army,” Ladega said.

“I like helping people out and just being there for them.”

Not having a lot of time is the hardest part about volunteering, Ladega said.

Shelby Williams, a girl experience specialist for the Girl Scouts of Texas Oklahoma Plains, said she has

taken part in the Volunteer Fair for two years in a row.

She likes the setting and the fact that they received some volunteers out of it.

“Seeing the girls growing and trying new things are two of the main reasons for which our volunteers like Girl Scouts so much,” Williams said.

The Girl Scouts offers short term opportunities, events and girls scout camps, she said. Williams encourages students to give their time toward different causes because they can impact people in numerous ways.

“It’s really cool to see how much volunteers can do to impact the community,” Williams said. “Girl Scouts would not exist if we didn’t have volunteers. I encourage people to even give a few hours because that is enough to make a difference.”

Becky Robertson, the ministry engagement coordinator from Buckner Foundation, said the fair offers an opportunity for meeting different

clubs, organizations, fraternities and sororities.

“We need volunteers to work with our foster children and families and with our program of single moms and their children” Robertson said.

It is important to give back to the community because there are a lot of vulnerable children and families that need help, she said. This is a way to connect to others and to bring unity and love to Lubbock.

Maria Hernandez, a junior kinesiology major from Deming, New Mexico, said she attended the event for the first time. She enjoys the fact that all organization are grouped into one single room, so it is easy to get around.

She came to the Volunteer Fair to find more organizations to volunteer with.

“I enjoy helping people.

With my organization, we go to Talkington High School, and we help the girls there,” Hernandez said. “It is really fun because you get to know

them and their stories.”

On Sunday, Hernandez volunteered at the Suicide

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Michelle Obama hosts Broadway event to help educate girls and bring people together to take action for these girls.

Because people will pick up the phone when we call,” Obama said.

The event, emceed by TV talk show host Stephen Colbert, took advantage of the gathering of world leaders in New York for the opening of the 71st United Nations General Assembly. More than 50 spouses attended, along with public school children and girl scouts who packed the theater.

Colbert joked that Michelle Obama is one of the most admired women in the world “despite her constantly telling everyone to eat their

vegetables.” She hit the stage to a thundering ovation.

Remarks also were made by three girls from Jordan, Pakistan and Malawi about the work in their home countries still needed for adolescent girls, as well as songwriter Sara Bareilles, Jordan’s Queen Rania, and Gertrude Mutharika, the first lady of Malawi.

Bareilles, who wrote the songs “Brave” and “Love Song,” helped create the musical “Waitress,” the firstever Broadway musical with an all-female creative team.

She joked that she didn’t even notice that at first.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — As Utah waits to see if President Barack Obama will designate a new national monument in the state, this weekend’s 20th anniversary of another national monument rekindled memories of an event that ignited simmering western frustrations about federal ownership of public land.

President Bill Clinton created the Grand Staircase Escalante-National Monument on Sept. 18, 1996, by signing a declaration at the south rim of the Grand Canyon in Arizona.

It was lauded by environmentalists, with actor and Utah resident Robert Redford appearing at the ceremony with Clinton.

But in heavily Republican Utah, he move was viewed as a sneaky, stabin-the back example of federal overreach.

About 70 miles (112.65 kilometers) north of Clinton’s ceremony in the Utah town of Kanab, just outside the new monument, flags flew at half-staff, residents wore black ribbons of mourning and high school students released 50 black

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Robert Durst’s lawyer: Indiana prison doesn’t make sense fusion surgery in mid-July “They figure he needs a higher level of medical care than we think he needs,” he said.

Durst is accused in California of killing his friend Susan Berman in 2000 to keep her from talking to prosecutors about the disappearance of Durst’s first wife, Kathleen Durst, in 1982.

“We’ve been saying from the date of his arrest in April of last year that he didn’t kill Susan Berman, doesn’t know who did and he wants his day in court and wants to prove that he didn’t. And the only place that can be done is in California,” DeGuerin said.

When U.S. District Judge Kurt Engelhardt sentenced Durst in New Orleans, he recommended that Durst serve his time at FCI Terminal Island, California, about 30 miles from downtown Los Angeles. The location is near the trial venue and has medical facilities Durst needs because of his “advanced age and serious health considerations, including mobility challenges,” defense lawyers wrote in their request.

balloons as a sign of protest. More black balloons were hung around town, along with signs that said “Shame on you Clinton.”

The monument and the way it was created remain a sore spot for many Utah Republicans and local residents, who say it closed off too many areas to development — including one of the country’s largest known coal reserves — that could have helped pay for local schools.

They also argued it was too large — enveloping about 1.9 million acres — the largest national monument in the contiguous United States and an area about the size of Delaware.

Many of those same people who now oppose the proposed Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah cite Grand Staircase as proof of why monuments are bad news for rural residents.

In 2015, Garfield County declared a state of emergency for falling school enrollment, and county commissioners laid some of the blame on Grand Staircase.

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - It doesn’t make sense to send real estate heir Robert Durst to prison in Indiana, where he’s been assigned, when he faces a murder trial in Los Angeles, Durst’s attorney said Monday.

“Our legal team is doing what they can to find out the why of it and find out if anything can be done” to get Durst sent to the federal prison closest to Los Angeles, Richard DeGuerin (duhGEHR-in) said Monday.

But he said he doesn’t know if there’s any way to change the decision to send Durst to Terre Haute to serve his sentence of seven years and a month on a weapons charge.

“The Bureau of Prisons is an agency all of its own.

Even a federal district judge can’t tell them what to do,” DeGuerin said. “There’s no process of appeal.”

DeGuerin said the assignment may have been made because the Terre Haute prison has one of two “level 3” medical facilities in the federal system. The other is in North Carolina at a prison for sexual offenders.

He said Durst had spinal

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for the rest of my time as first lady but for the rest of my life. And I hope that you all will join me.”

The concert was held at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre — the normal home of “The Color Purple” — as part of the Let Girls Learn initiative, which encourages world leaders to provide education opportunities to millions of girls globally who do not attend school.

“When people hear stories of girls who aren’t in school, they want to help. And as spouses of world leaders, so many of us here in this room have a platform that we can use to tell these stories

ence that helped her make a lot of connections.

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Students play volleyball together on Monday evening on the sand courts outside the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center.

There are multiple outdoor volleyball and basketball courts available for use.

NEW YORK (AP) — Michelle Obama tapped some big voices to help deliver her push to get girls educated across the world.

The U.S. first lady went to Broadway on Monday to host a concert for the spouses of global heads of state that included performances from the female-centric shows “The Color Purple,” ‘’Waitress,” ‘’Wicked” and “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical.”

“More than 62 million girls around the world are counting on us to be their voice,” Obama said. “And I intend to continue speaking out on their behalf — not just

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American Crime Story important for viewers

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ecently, Hollywood has based a lot of its content over events in our history and has recreated it for the viewer’s pleasure.

Starting with “Serial,” a podcast released by WBEZ Chicago that told the story of the murder of Hai Min Lee by Adnan Syed in 1999, avid media consumers have been fascinated by the opportunity to be reintroduced to a piece of history or a controversial crime that occurred many years later. “ T h e P e o p l e v. O . J .

Simpson: American Crime Story,” aired on the FX network in February and won three Emmy Awards on Sunday night, including Outstanding Limited Series. This show followed the O.J. Simpson trial, a

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Through his connections in both Lubbock and Austin, Dellsperger has reached out to around 2,000 artists to be on the website, he said. This experience with the different artists and the music business helped his idea grow.

David Gay is a sophomore journalism major from Cypress.

period of history that most Americans know.

Being born in 1996, I knew a little bit about the Simpson trial. I knew the basics, like the saying “If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit” and how Simpson was found not guilty to the shock of most of the world.

But, with the show being released in 2016, I was curious to see how Ryan Murphy was going to spin this case that everyone knows about.

Through this show, I was exposed to how emotional this story was. This “I have done a lot of past shows, a lot of them here in Lubbock opening for big acts,” Dellsperger said. “This website will be open to all genres. Right now, when we are generating the website, it will be mostly hip-hop, rap, EDM, rock and alternative.”

Graybeal said this platform already has an advantage over other similar platforms because Dells-

show helped expose me to what happened in the courtroom and how each side was affected throughout the trial.

While I watched the show, I became attached to the character of Marcia C l a r k , f l a w l e s s l y p o rtrayed by Sarah Paulson.

As the show progressed, her story kept tugging at my heartstrings and made

the inevitable outcome harder to watch at the end. Paulson, who won the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Movie, added layers to a person who most Americans were familiar with.

With this emergence of true crime in different forms of media, these characters portrayed by different actors made these people more understandable. I related to the struggles that Clark went through during the trial, seeing her try and balance having a family and being a prosecutor on the hardest case of her life.

This show also gave the other side of the argument, one of a human element.

O.J. Simpson, played by

Cuba Gooding Jr., was shown initially shown as a family man who then became a man with demons he was attempting to overcome. Robert Kardashian, played by David Schwimmer, was shown as a person who initially had Simpson’s back, but toward the end of the case had second thoughts on his innocence.

While some might say this program had a clear bias toward the verdict being wrong, this program was an important way for people to remember the case that took over their lives in 1994 and 1995. This program brought an emotional face to a historical event that most people only saw at face value.

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events in history is very important for the U.S. Through programs like “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story,” viewers saw the case unfold in a new light, marred by the scars of police brutality and the racism that still occurs in the country.

In the future, I hope Hollywood keeps making programs like this. I hope to expose my kids to certain historical events through entertaining and thought-provoking programs. Hopefully, season two of American Crime S t o r y, w h i c h i s a b o u t Hurricane Katrina, will affect me as personally as “The People v. O.J. Simpson” did.

perger has experience in the industry.

“Dalton himself is an artist and has experience in the music field,” Graybeal said. “He comes at it from a perspective of knowing what he’s talking about.”

Dellsperger said this platform is different from other music websites like SoundCloud and Spotify because TownWave gives the listener more of an

experience. Through the other platforms, users just listen to the music.

The goal of TownWave is to give every artist a chance, Dellsperger said.

All artists do not have the same opportunities as the successful ones.

“There are a lot of artists that make it nowadays, especially in the rap/ hip-hop genre, that simply made it because they had

thousands of dollars from what they did in the past,” Dellsperger said. “Some artists don’t have that same opportunity, and they end up quitting and not being persistent when they have a true gift. We want to give these artists an equal platform and give them the feedback they deserve.”

Through participating in different startup

competitions through the College of Media and Communication, Graybeal said he commends Dellsperger on the way he has started the process.

“Dalton and TownWave have done a really good job of seeking out and really finding these opportunities to develop and launch (the platform),” Graybeal said.

Being born in 1996, I knew a little bit about the Simpson trial ... Through this show, I was exposed to how emotional the story was.

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Iran nominates Farhadi's film ‘The Salesman’ for 2017 Oscar TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran has nominated a film by the country’s Oscar-winning director Asghar Farhadi for the next Academy Awards.

The Saturday report says the Farabi Foundation, affiliated to Iran’s Culture Ministry, chose “The Salesman,”

which won two prizes at the Cannes film festival in May. Lead actor Shahab Hosseini won a Palme d’Or for best actor and Farhadi won the award for best screenplay.

The movie is about a pair of actors rehearsing for a performance of

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Arthur Miller ’s “Death of a Salesman.”

T h e c o u p l e ’s l i v e s are upended when the woman is mistaken for a prostitute and sexually assaulted.

In 2012, Farhadi received Iran’s first Oscar when “A Separation” won best foreign film.

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Rapper Coolio arrested after loaded gun found at Los Angeles airport LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say rapper Coolio has been arrested after a loaded firearm was found in a carryon bag during security screening at Los Angeles International Airport.

LAX police were alerted Saturday morning by the Transportation Security Administration and detained a man who

claimed the bag was his.

Airport police Officer Alicia Hernandez says an investigation found the bag contained items that belonged to the man’s traveling companion who passed through the screening area and boarded an aircraft.

Officers found the other man, later identified as Coolio, and booked

him on suspicion of possession of a firearm by a felon.

He was booked as 53-year-old Artis Leon Ivey Jr. of Las Vegas.

The man with the carry-on bag was released.

Coolio is best known for his 1995 hit “Gangsta’s Paradise.”

A call to his manager hasn’t been returned.

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Daniel Stout, a junior music education major from Dumas, practices his saxophone under the shade of a tree outside of the Music building on Monday. Stout is practicing his instrument for class.

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Hillary Clinton says Donald Trump gives ‘aid, comfort’ to IS recruiters

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ESTERO, Fla. (AP) — Hillary Clinton accused Donald Trump of giving “aid and comfort” to Islamic terrorists Monday, declaring his anti-Muslim rhetoric helps the Islamic State group and other militants such as ISIS recruit new fighters.

But Trump hit back, saying his Democratic rival and the Obama administration hadn’t done enough to quell the group’s rise.

“Her attacks on me are all meant to deflect from her record of unleashing this monster of evil on us and on the world,” said Trump at a packed Florida rally, referring to Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state.

He also insisted the U.S. should “use whatever lawful methods are available” to get information from the Afghan immigrant arrested in this weekend’s bombings.

As several Trump supporters shouted “Hang him!” the Republican presidential candidate bemoaned the fact that Ahmad Khan Rahami, a 28-year-old U.S.

citizen originally from Afghanistan, would receive quality medical care and legal representation.

“We must deliver a just and very harsh punishment to these people,” he said.

“These are enemies, these are combatants and we have to be tough, we have to be strong.”

Both candidates moved swiftly to capitalize on investigations into a weekend of violent attacks — bombings in New York and New Jersey and stabbings at a Minnesota mall — casting themselves as most qualified to combat terrorism at home and abroad.

Clinton touted her national security credentials at a hastily arranged news conference outside her campaign plane, accusing Trump of using the incidents to make “some kind of demagogic point.”

“I’m the only candidate in this race who’s been part of the hard decisions to take terrorists off the battlefield,” Clinton, a former secretary of state, told

reporters. “I know how to do this.”

The possibility of a home-grown terrorist plot cast a new shadow over the presidential race, diverting both candidates’ attention from the daily controversies of the campaign and giving them a high-profile opportunity to make their case to undecided voters.

Clinton and her team see her experience and what they say is her steady judgment as key selling points for her candidacy.

On the campaign trail, she frequently invokes her role in the 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden, describing to voters the tense atmosphere in the White House alongside President Barack Obama at that moment.

But while much of the foreign policy establishment has rallied around Clinton, Trump’s antiimmigrant rhetoric, promises to close U.S. borders and vows to aggressively profile potential terrorists have fueled his presidential bid.

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believe if you score a touchdown, you earn one minute to celebrate as you like. In the National Football League, Cam Newton does the “dab,” or the outdated act of pretending to sneeze on your elbow when you actually have no actual sneeze coming. Dez Bryant crosses his arms in an X formation and Stefon Diggs, one of my personal favorite maestros of the end zone celebration, pretends to dig a hole. His last name explains this celebration.

Other than Newton’s celebration, I think end zone celebrations look great. At the start of the NFL season, Antonio Brown, wide receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers, turned into an end zone trailblazer by dropping the football he caught and started to twerk. Brown’s celebration made me root for the Steelers to win, and I don’t like the Steelers. Sadly, though,

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High school featured some of Batson’s biggest achievements.

He was the valedictorian of his class, and he earned the Oklahoma Gatorade Player of the Year at the end of the 20132014 season.

He said a great accomplishment was having an athletic scholarship to help his family financially.

“I have a lot of good things that God has blessed me with. I guess one that I’m most proud of is probably being a valedictorian at my high school and winning the Oklahoma Gatorade Player of the Game of the Year. So, those are my two biggest accomplishments,” Batson said. “Of course, making it to college, and keeping my parents from paying for college, because we don’t have a lot of money. So, not having them pay for college is something that’s big.”

However, Batson’s first sport was not football. It was baseball, but he had a connection for the game of football ever since he played little league.

He said his favorite part of the game is being let loose.

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Brown received a penalty flag for his valiant celebratory dance. I have a problem with this. Brown didn’t make contact with anybody when he started to twerk. He didn’t rough the passer, he didn’t hold anyone and he didn’t hit the kicker. To the best of my knowledge, he didn’t even speak while performing the act, and since it happened after a score, it didn’t burn seconds on the clock. Other than the Washington players and fans, people watching Brown twerk, for the most part, enjoyed his brash and boastful shaking. Brown made a game between the Steelers and Washington an inclusive experience for football fans.

I don’t understand why Brown’s celebration earns a 15-yard penalty while Newton, Diggs and Bryant come away with no flags. Although Brown’s celebration uses a significant amount of buttshaking, his message doesn’t differ from the message sent

by Bryant, Newton or Diggs.

E s s e n t i a l l y, B r o w n through his twerking told the Washington defense it can’t catch him and it can’t stop him from scoring. NFL officials could argue Brown taunted the opposition by gyrating, but Diggs pretending to dig a grave for the defense appears exponentially more confrontational.

Brown’s celebration exemplifies why the NFL’s unsportsmanlike conduct needs tweaking. The rule relies on subjectivity. Essentially, the league allows what it calls “simple” celebrations but penalizes “excessive” celebrations, according to an

ball player. I just love the game of football,” he said. “I like to go out there and knock somebody out. It’s definitely a great feeling, where you can put that anger out on the field and not get in trouble for it. So, that’s definitely something I have fun with.”

Batson started playing football in little league, but the team’s roster he was going to join was filled up. However, the coach of the little league team knew of his skills.

It was the first time he had played football, but it would lead him all the way to where he is now, playing for Tech every Saturday, and possibly in the NFL in the future.

“Actually, when I first started playing football, the little league team was actually full that I was going to play for, and the coach, he knew that I could play, and during the first day let me play with the team, and I’ve been playing ever since,” Batson said.

For the NFL, Batson said he plans on playing in the league in the future. He also has a wide list of receivers that he enjoys seeing every Thursday, Sunday or Monday. From Odell Beckham Jr. of the New York Giants to Dez Bryant of the Dallas Cowboys to Brandin Cooks of the New Orleans Saints, they are all players whom he likes to watch.

He said it does not matter what team he ends up in. He will put in all of his effort no matter the team.

“Definitely, that’s been a big dream of mine ever since I was little playing the game,” Batson said. “I definitely think that God has blessed me with the talents and the ability to take my game

to the next level, so we’ll see what happens.”

Before every game day, he said he likes to listen to music to get pumped for the game.

He listens to Tupac, Lil Wayne, Snoop Dogg, Future and many other artists.

He said he does not have a specific game he is excited for this season, but he always looks forward to games against his home state teams.

“I wouldn’t say hyped for a certain game, because all of the games are important, but I’d definitely say those Oklahoma teams, because I’m from Oklahoma,” Batson said. “I have a lot of fans back home rooting for me, so I definitely want to give those guys a hard time, but other than that I really don’t have a favorite game, or a game that I’m looking forward to. All games are important to me, and I have to take it one game at a time in order to accomplish our goals.”

When talking about his past few games against the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs, the Arizona State Sun Devils and the Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks, Batson said it was not just him, but the whole team that contributed to his big games.

Arizona State was his biggest game, where he had nine receptions for 148 receiving yards and one receiving touchdown.

He said it was the offensive line blocking, junior quarterback Patrick Mahomes II throwing the ball well and the receivers doing a great job of blocking.

Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury said Batson probably did not see the ball as much as he would have liked to in the game against

article by ESPN. Personally I don’t find Brown’s celebration excessive, and I don’t find it excessive enough to draw a penalty. If his teammates started throwing dollar bills at Brown while he twerked, I still wouldn’t find it excessive enough. If, however, Brown’s teammates began to twerk along with Brown then had a helicopter full of dollar bills rain down on the stadium, then I may find it excessive.

My examples may seem absurd, but the NFL’s rule has plenty of open space for celebration. The rule needs a clearer definition as to what accounts for excessive and simple. Simply placing the terms “excessive” and “simple” doesn’t anticipate all the possible celebrations a player could do. The rule should use specific terms as to what makes a celebration liable for a fine. With this in mind, the NFL shouldn’t discourage all end zone cel-

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Louisiana Tech. In that game, Batson had two receptions for 25 receiving yards and one receiving touchdown.

“He’s doing a good job. He’s been very solid. The ball hasn’t come his way as much as he’d like, but every time he gets his opportunity, he’s making a play,” Kingsbury said. “He’s feeling the punch really well. We didn’t block for him great in that phase of last weekend, but he’s been a key contributor for us.”

When talking about high school, Batson said something he took away was his hunger and his drive to be the best at what he does.

He talked about having to

compete with not just his high school friends but also the whole nation.

“In high school, we had a lot of guys on the team that had the ability to play Division 1 ball, collegiate football,” Batson said.

“We had a lot of guys that went through a lot of hard times, and just seeing that group growing up, it definitely just drove me to be the best that I can, and try to separate myself from everybody around the nation.”

Some of Batson’s top movies have deep meanings for him.

His favorite films, “Scarface” and “300,” speak to him about how the world is one’s own and the importance of teamwork.

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He also relates these movies to his team.

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There’s not a lot of people that will be on your side, but they’ll get on your side if they fight with you, and I like to think that as my teammates, and my family, all of those people are right beside me.”

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If his teammates started throwing dollar bills at (Antonio) Brown while he twerked, I still wouldn’t find it excessive enough.

these stipulations, the NFL opens a new venue to entertain its fans and even present a new monetary route. If a guy twerks, it shouldn’t set his team back 15 yards on a kickoff. Instead, the officials should allow teammates and fans to demand more flashiness and innovation.

The NFL enacted its celebration policy in part with the impressions they may have on kids. However, I think the policy limits creativity and makes the game too serious. Kids want to play a fun sport, not one which discourages silliness and imagination. If the NFL officials discourage Brown to explore variations of twerking unknown to the world, football fans may never discover increasingly more ingenious and enjoyable movements we can incorporate into our culture and everyday life.

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By ARIANA HERNANDEZ Staff Writer

Junior running back Demarcus Felton has been proving himself to be a player to look at. Last season, he contributed on special teams and played in all 13 games. Felton has three touchdowns under his belt this season, along with 156 rushing yards.

Felton said he is happy with where the direction of the Red Raiders is going.

“I’m feeling good,” Felton said. “It’s going good. We lost one game, which we should have won. But other than that right now it’s going really good, I like what I’m seeing right now.”

Felton is coming along and has the potential to be great, Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury said.

“DeAndre, I think he was older, so he had developed as a more complete back as far as catching the ball, backfield, running quotes, things of that nature,” Kingsbury said.

“I think Demarcus has that potential. He’s a great runner.

He sees it. He’s a one-cut type guy, and he’ll hit the hole.”

Felton said he was not the single contributor on the field on Saturday.

“I feel good, I mean the O-line contributed too. I mean I wouldn’t have had that good of a game if it wasn’t for them,” Felton said. “So, it’s a big shout out to them and what they did and how they approached that game.”

Kingsbury said he is not sure how many more carries Felton will receive. It depends on what all it will take for Tech to win a game.

“We’ll see,” Kingsbury said. “We’re gonna give as many as it takes to win the game really. If there’s a bunch of runs that week then he’ll get a bunch of carries.

If we go to throw it a bunch, he probably won’t. I think between him, Justin (Stock-

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Texas Tech junior running back Demarcus Felton makes his way across the field during Saturday’s game against Louisiana Tech at Jones AT&T Stadium. Felton has scored three touchdowns this season, and coach Kliff Kingsbury said Felton has potential to be great. ton) and ‘Q’ that’s a good trio of guys that all have different skills and bring different things to our offensive.”

I think Demarcus (Felton) has that potential. He’s a great runner. He sees it.

KLIFF KINGSBURY TECH FOOTBALL COACH Felton said football has been a big part of his life since early-on.

The love for the game continued to develop as he got older and started to play at higher levels, Felton said.

“I mean I played football ever since I was little,” he said. “I played football for a little team in Houston. My little league coaches taught

me some of the stuff I know.

Then it just moved on over, and I started to love the game even more as I went along.”

As for the transition from high school play to college play, Felton said it was something he had to get used to, including the roommate situation. Junior running back Justin Stockton and Felton are friends and have been from early on in both of their careers at Tech.

Felton said the two got close when they had to room together.

“It was very good. It was an experience that I had to get used to because coming from high school you don’t really have a roommate, you’re living at home,” Felton said. “So you come to college, and you’re on your own. We just got close and everything. We’ve just been good friends since.”

Felton said the two do normal things in their free time,

from playing video games to hanging out and taking a breather from the game.

“We play video games, we always play ‘Madden.’

It’s a competition there, but other than that we really just chill, watch TV,” Felton said, “watch football games and that’s about it.”

There are some lessons Felton said he has taken with him from high school and applied throughout his college years at Tech.

His Dekaney High School coach Anthony Williams left Felton with words of wisdom that Felton continues to use today.

“Coach Anthony Williams always told me, ‘Run with a chip on your shoulder,’” Felton said. “Whatever team you go against that’s the team that did not look at you when you were here.”

Dekaney High School has had numerous players come out of its program and become

successful athletes. Trey Williams was one of them.

Williams signed with the Washington Redskins as an undrafted free agent in 2015.

Felton said when Williams went on to play in college, he felt the pressure from the absence that Williams left. Felton said all the talk after Williams’ absence was one of the biggest things he has had to face.

“The biggest challenge I would say I faced was overcoming Trey Williams’s shadow,” Felton said. “It probably still follows me to this day. Coming out of high school and starting that role there playing varsity high school football, it was always about Trey Williams this, Trey Williams that, you got big shoes to fill and everything.”

In Felton’s personal life, he said the biggest inspirations are his parents. However, in the football world, Felton

named as his inspirations running back Adrian Peterson of the Minnesota Vikings and retired NFL running back Marshawn Lynch, who played for the Buffalo Bills and the Seattle Seahawks.

Lynch played in the 2014 Super Bowl with the Seahawks and won against the Denver Broncos.

“My biggest inspiration would be my parents,” Felton said. “They brought me up. I thank them for everything they’ve done for me and everything. But on a football level, my biggest inspirations would be Adrian Peterson and Marshawn Lynch. I like the way they run, and they just run with a chip on their shoulder, like nobody can tackle them. Nobody can mess with them.”

Felton said his hopes for the future are to play in the NFL. It would not even matter what team. He said he would be satisfied by simply getting the opportunity to play at that level.

“Oh yes, that’s the definite goal. Any team really, whatever team picks me up, I’m happy. There’s not one team in particular,” Felton said. “Just, I’d be happy wherever I go, if God makes that possible.”

To make this dream come true, Felton said his motivation every day is to remember that he loves the game and that he wants it.

Felton said football is not something he does just for enjoyment. He said he loves the game and sees a bigger picture with where his career in football could take him.

“My motivation every day is to just to get up and grind and like want to do it,” Felton said. “Like, I want to do this. It’s not a hobby, it’s not something that I’m just doing. It’s something I like to do and I love to do it. And one day I want to be able to provide for my family, so they won’t have to work anymore or worry about anything.” @A_Hernandez_DT

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Big 12 lags behind Power 5 CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — These are not proud times for the Big 12.

The league overall has been a disappointment, going 15-11 against nonconference opponents over the first three weeks.

The .577 winning percentage ranks last among the Power 5 conferences and sixth among all FBS conferences, while the 15 wins are eighth among the 10 leagues.

The Big Ten leads the way at 79 percent, followed by the Southeastern Conference, the Pac 12, American and the Atlantic Coast Conference.

“I look around the country and there’s a lot of surprises that take place,” Kansas State coach Bill Snyder said Monday. “Coaches understand that they’re vulnerable every time they get on the field.”

And all that preseason talk of again making the

four-team College Football Playoff needs to be put on hold, at least for now. First, the Big 12 needs to get into position. The conference has no team ranked in the top 15.

“I hope it’s too early to figure it out,” said Baylor interim coach Jim Grobe. “A lot of teams have at the first of the year started a little sluggishly. We are no different than everybody else. We hope as we go through the season we get better and better.”

Oklahoma made the playoff a year ago despite losing to Texas. After falling to Houston and Ohio State this month, the 25th-ranked Sooners are 1-2 for the first time since 2005, and now coach Bob Stoops is using a bye week to shift his team’s focus on winning a conference championship.

“As far as goals go, that’s always a major one for us,” Stoops said.

No. 16 Baylor (3-0) and

West Virginia (2-0) are the league’s only remaining unbeaten teams.

Coach Charlie Strong of No. 21 Texas (2-1) said the Big 12 “will be fine,” while Oklahoma State’s Mike Gundy said it will be several weeks before the football playoff committee starts taking an in-depth look at individual team performances.

“We’ve got to play our games, keep going and do the best we can,” Gundy said.

Oklahoma State (2-1) hosts Baylor on Saturday in a game that will give early momentum in the league race. Four other teams continue nonconference play, and Kansas, Texas Tech and Texas join Oklahoma in having a bye week.

Premature celebrations: Stoops said he planned to talk to Joe Mixon about dropping the ball short of the goal line on a 97-yard kickoff return for a touchdown Saturday against Ohio State.

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Dak has Cowboys in better shape With turnover-free rookie quarterback Dak Prescott, the Dallas Cowboys are already in better shape than they were without Tony Romo in the early part of last season.

First of all, they already have a win.

There is also the hope with the way Prescott has already progressed in two games to believe there could be more wins while Romo continues to heal from that broken bone in his back.

“Now we’re two weeks into this, so we have to understand that. I think he improved from Week 1 to Week 2, I think he learned from some of the experiences in the opener, and I think he improved over the course of practice and throughout the game in Washington,” coach

Jason Garrett said Monday.

“He approaches it the right way, it starts with that.

His intangibles are excellent, his preparation, his poise, his composure, all of that stuff gives him a chance to play well.”

After winning 27-23 at Washington, when Prescott helped direct a late go-ahead drive, the Cowboys (1-1) are back home Sunday night against the Chicago Bears.

Then before the bye week in late October, there are three more games against teams that have already lost games this season — San Francisco, Cincinnati and Green Bay. Romo did make the trip with the Cowboys to Washington, a positive sign that his back was well enough to travel without any problems.

He even threw a few passes on the field before the game and got an exam from team doctors in which owner Jerry Jones said the 36-year-old quarterback “looked good.”

But that is no indication of an immediately pending return for Romo.

“He’s in that stage right now,” Jones said. “Hopefully, soon, he’ll be out of the danger stage relative to his spine, probably 2-3 more weeks and we can see how far he wants to go by his own volition.”

When the Cowboys opted against putting Romo on injured reserve, they allowed the possibility that he could play before Nov. 6, which would have been the earliest he could have played if on that list.