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Organization: Alpha Phi Omega members talk about service, leadership.

Volleyball: Red Raiders welcome new signees during fall period.

C o l u m n : Tr u m p f e u d s n o t presidential behavior.

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Tech bowl eligible, Kingsbury to stay another season

By JACK DENSMORE

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hen the Red Raiders traveled to Austin to take on the Texas Longhorns, the team was playing for bowl eligibility.

Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury was coaching for his job, having been on the hot seat the latter half of the season.

After Tech completed a comefrom-behind win, director of athletics Kirby Hocutt said Kingsbury will remain with the team for the 2018 season.

The Red Raiders finished the regular season with an overall record of 6-6, making them bowl eligible. They finished 3-6 in Big 12 Conference play, 2-4 at home, 3-2

away and 1-0 neutrally, according to Tech Athletics.

“I’m always going to do what’s best for Texas Tech,” Hocutt said.

“That’s above all else and we’ll make the best decisions.”

Kingsbury made the decision to start quarterback McLane Carter in the game against Texas, and the sophomore stayed in the game through three quarters.

Tech’s comeback against Texas began when senior quarterback Nic Shimonek entered the game in the fourth quarter.

On his first on the field, Shimonek threw a touchdown. With 1:47 left in the game, Shimonek threw another touchdown to give Tech a late lead.

However, the defense also played

a factor in the win by ending Texas’ last two drives in the game by interceptions from sophomore defensive backs Justus Parker and Douglas Coleman III. “Just, you know, excitement for those guys. They, through all the noise, all the bad bounces, all the missed kicks, they kept fighting and showing up on Sundays with a great attitude and believing in himself each other and getting better,” Kingsbury said. “Just to have them have their moment, first time I think ever in the history that those seniors have beaten Texas here two times in a row. So, it’s huge. Bowl eligible, as well. I’m just really proud for them.”

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1: Texas Tech football coach Kliff Kingsbury prepares to run out of the tunnel with his team before the start of the game against Texas Christian University on Saturday, Nov. 18, 2017, at Jones AT&T Stadium. After defeating Texas on Friday, Nov. 24, 2017, the Red Raiders became bowl eligible. 2: Kingsbury talks with the Tech offense during a time out on Saturday, Nov. 11, 2017, in AT&T Stadium.

After defeating the Longhorns on Friday, Nov. 24, 2017, the director of athletics Kirby Hocutt said Kingsbury will remain with the team for the 2018 season.

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Stars and Stripes Drive-In preserves family tradition, authenticity

State officials to host town hall

By REECE NATIONS Staff Writer

Drive-in movie theaters used to offer a wide range of audiences a unique movie-going experience.

Although rare these days, the opportunity for a new generation of moviegoers to take in the sights and sounds of a drive-in movie experience is within reach for Lubbock residents.

Family owned and operated since its beginning, the Stars and Stripes Drive-In Theatre has been an unparalleled movie destination for audiences in Lubbock since it opened on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2003, Ryan Smith, owner and president of Stars and Stripes Drive-In, said.

The theater is located at 5101 Clovis Highway and is open yearround Wednesdays through Sun-

days with the gates opening at 6 p.m.

Movie tickets cost $8 per person for ages 12 and up and $5 per person for ages 4 to 11, while children ages 3 and under can enter for free, Smith said.

Each screening at the drivein is a double-feature and it is recommended that moviegoers arrive at least 45 minutes ahead of show time to have more options for parking.

“Something that we try to hone in on is the family atmosphere that people will experience when they come here,” Smith said. “It’s an incredibly rewarding experience for us when we see people bring their kids along to the movies. It’s special for us to be the place where they make happy childhood memories, much like I did at my grandfather ’s drive-in when I

was growing up.”

That theater was the SkyVue Drive-In Theatre, which was opened in Lamesa in 1948 and ran continuously until it closed for business following a fire on Friday, Nov. 27, 2015.

Smith once worked at the SkyVue Drive-In and wanted to both preserve and share the remarkable experience with contemporary movie audiences, he said.

Another aspect of the historical drive-in theater culture Smith wanted to conserve was the snack bar, he said. Stars and Stripes features an authentic 50’s café where patrons will find a large variety of menu items, such as burgers, sandwiches, chicken strips, pizzas, popcorn, funnel cakes and more.

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The Stripes Drive-In Theatre offers people the chance to watch double features at an authentic drive-in.

The theater has a 50s cafe and playground on site, making it a familyfriendly environment.

Te x a s S e n a t o r Charles Perry and State Representatives John Frullo and Dustin Burrows are hosting a town hall at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 28, at the Frenship ISD 9th Grade Center.

The builiding is located at 407 North Dowden Road in Wolfforth.

The town hall is scheduled to last until 6:45 p.m., according to the Dustin Burrows for Texas Facebook page, and is free for members of the public to attend. @McKenziMorrisDT

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Officials discuss student loan knowledge

By NATHAN LAMB Staff Writer

The spring 2018 semester is less than two months away and so is financial aid distribution for the semester.

Financial aid is disbursed on Monday, Jan. 8, according to the financial aid office’s website. In addition, before aid is disbursed, FAFSA applications have to be processed both by the government and by Texas Tech.

Many students, however, are not quite sure on the details of loans or how those loans are going to affect their futures.

Christy Miller, the director of reporting and systems processing at the financial aid office, said one of the most common pitfalls for students stems from the fact that they receive their disbursement in one lump sum, and many of them have no budgeting experience or understanding.

“What we see in terms of the biggest issue in our area is not so much the borrowing, but how unprepared students tend to be once they receive their loan and financial aid proceeds,” Miller said. “Students often have financial aid or borrowed money to help pay for living and other ex-

penses beyond their (tuition and fees).”

Students used to eating steak may have to learn to love Ramen Noodles in order to stay within their budget.

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OFFICE OF FINANCIAL AID Additionally, many students lack general knowledge

about the loans they are actually taking out. Miller said oftentimes parents handle the entire application process and paperwork for loans, which means students are not being educated on the terms and conditions of the loans they are signing for.

Laura Scott, who oversees all communication and outreach efforts for the financial aid office, said part of the reason many students struggle with stretching their loans throughout the semester is their standard of living. Many students are used to a much higher standard of living than their

loans can afford.

“Many students are used to the standard of living provided to them by their parents and don’t realize that they may need to adjust their expectations while in college,” Scott said. “Students used to eating steak may have to learn to love Ramen Noodles in order to stay within their budget.”

Lauren Higgins, a senior advertising major from McKinney, said she wishes she would have done more research about loans and the impact of repaying them after she graduates.

Her advice to incoming

students is that they seriously consider the necessity of taking out loans, and that they be honest with themselves about what those loans are going to be used for.

“Honestly, I wish I’d thought more about taking out loans, because I did it for extracurricular purposes,” Higgins said. “And now that I’m six months away from graduating, I’m dreading the fact that I have to pay the money back plus interest regardless if I have a job or not. I wish I would’ve maybe saved money more than I spent, looking back.” @NathanLambDT

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Dry weekend draws shoppers, online sales boom CHICAGO (AP) — The driest Thanksgiving weekend in five years may have helped holiday shopping, despite an overall decline in foot traffic. But some shoppers just took notes in the hopes of finding an even better deal online.

That's a consequence of Amazon continuing to squeeze prices, exacerbating the "showrooming" practice of people getting ideas at brick-and-mortar stores, then buying online.

Heather Just and husband Dominic of Rockford, Illinois, brought their twin 11-year-old boys and 13-yearold son to the giant Water Tower Place on Chicago's Magnificent Mile on Saturday to see "what their eyes get big about."

The excursion was more recon mission than shopping spree. "We're watching, we're

watching," she told her sons, who focused their attention on a Nintendo Switch portable game console.

Amazon continues to beat prices at other retailers in many cases, according to marketing technology company Boomerang Commerce.

For example, it pointed out that Amazon cut prices on Beats Solo 3 wireless headphones. The Associated Press found them on Amazon selling for $200, $10 below BestBuy.com, and $40 below the Black Friday deal at Target.

But Walmart isn't far behind in high-tech price matching. Following its purchase of Jet.com last year for $3.3 billion, the company can now quickly ratchet prices down on popular items using machine-learning algorithms, while maintaining profit margins on lesser-

trafficked items.

The technology has set up Walmart and Amazon for a "clash of the titans" in online sales where consumer perceptions of prices are formed, according to Boomerang's vice president of marketing, Gary Liu. "You can't compete in the same way you did before," Liu said.

Steve Hagan, a general contractor from Richmond, Kentucky, said his 9-year-old son, Luke, and 8-year-old daughter, Lauren, used their own money and gift cards to buy toys on a Chicago shopping trip from the Star Wars and Bitty Baby brands.

But he was keeping track of where Santa could digitally fill in the blanks.

"That baby doll may need some accessories and I had to ask Luke which Star Wars character he was getting and

which one he already has," said Hagan, adding that he'll shop online later. "I'm taking notes."

Lisa Stripling, of South Bend, Indiana, said her goal was to see what her 3 1/2-year-old grandson Max liked and buy it online.

"I used to do most of my shopping in stores and now it's 75 percent online and 25 percent in the stores," she said.

Rainfall from Thanksgiving through the weekend was the lowest since 2013, and snowfall was the lowest in over 20 years, boosting foot traffic to malls and restaurants, according to weather analytics firm Planalytics.

Cold, dry conditions in the populous northeast bolstered the holiday shopping spirit, because it "drives more people to apparel" as they bundle up, according

to Planalytics president Scott Bernhardt.

Nationally, it was the warmest Black Friday weekend since 2001.

Despite the favorable conditions, foot traffic to stores nationwide for the Thanksgiving Day through Saturday fell 3.1 percent from a year ago, according to store visitation tracker RetailNext Inc. It partly blamed the creep of sales events into the first week of November.

Daniel Ives, head of technology research for GBH Insights, said Amazon was posting strongerthan-expected sales, and at this pace, it could beat fourth-quarter sales estimates by 5 percent.

Jon Abt, co-president of Glenview, Illinois-based Abt Electronics, said sales from Friday through Sunday were up about 14 percent from a

year ago, driven by higherpriced TVs from LG and Sony, video game consoles such as Sony's PS4 and Microsoft's Xbox One S and smart speakers from Amazon, Google and Sonos.

A few management decisions have kept the 81-yearold single-location retailer thriving: Abt shuns doorbuster specials with limitedsupply items that can run out and disappoint shoppers. It also has resisted the creep of sales starting earlier and earlier (the store is closed Thanksgiving Day).

And Abt says the store has more than 100 terminals to let people price-shop as much as they like, which the store will match.

"We invite people to use the internet if they want to," Abt said. "If they're not going to do it in here, they're doing it at home."

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Las Vegas looks outside the casinos to draw in millennials Casinos in Las Vegas are upping the ante in their pursuit of coveted millennial visitors with new attractions designed to wow them, provide them Instagram-worthy moments and maybe even get them to gamble a little.

In 2018, a zip line across the street from Caesars Palace and an e-sports arena at the Luxor will join the city's entertainment repertoire geared toward those generally up to age 34.

They are becoming majority spenders in today's economy but aren't necessarily interested in traditional casino gambling, such as blackjack and craps.

Fresh out of bankruptcy, Caesars Entertainment plans to build a 1,050-foot-long zip line above its outdoor prom-

enade anchored by the Linq hotel-casino and the world's tallest observation wheel.

"It's an efficient use of space, but it's exciting," Linq Promenade general manager Shaun Swanger said. "Our core audience is millennials. During the day, you see a lot broader range and a lot more families, but as the sun goes down, it gets a little bit younger, and as midnight approaches, it's one big party."

The ride will begin at the top of a 114-foot-tall launch tower that Caesars will build at the west end of the promenade. Photos and video of the rides, bound for social media, will be available.

Las Vegas casinos have invested in numerous non-gam-

bling amenities to attract the elusive millennials, from rooms with bunk beds for cost-conscious young travelers to a WiFi-equipped co-working space and a lounge that features pool and air hockey tables.

They also have embraced the outdoors by building a park and public promenades, counter to their long-held strategy of trying to keep people inside casinos, losing track of time as they buy more chips.

It has become increasingly common to bring zip lines — traditionally an outdoor adventure activity — into urban settings, said Andrew Lepp, an associate professor in the recreation, park and tourism management program at Kent State Univer-

sity. In Las Vegas, however, the thrill may last beyond the seconds-long ride.

"You get that adrenaline rush, and then you might be more likely to hit the blackjack table," he said. "Both are forms of calculated risk taking."

Casino operators for years have been luring young visitors with nightclubs and day clubs that regularly feature world-class DJs, some of whom have long-term contracts once reserved for stars the likes of Celine Dion.

These days, interest in the outdoors is such that Wynn Resorts Ltd. plans to begin the transformation next year of its 18-hole, par-70 golf course into a development that will feature a 38-acre lagoon.

Elsewhere on the Strip, MGM Resorts International is transforming a former nightclub into an arena for competitive gaming. The facility at the Luxor is expected to have a competition stage, LED video wall, daily gaming stations and a streaming and televisionquality production studio.

MGM created a committee several years ago dedicated to reimagining the gambling experience with millennials in mind.

What will become the second e-sports arena in the gambling oasis can hold 1,000 people at a time. It will have areas for people 21 and older and other spots for a crowd 16 and up.

And for young visitors who want to spend time on

the casino floor but find the average slot machine unappealing, operators have adopted skill-based machines.

Unlike traditional slots that depend solely on luck, a player's skill can influence whether he or she wins on the new-age machines.

MGM Grand patrons can try a version of the popular Frogger arcade game, while Caesars property Planet Hollywood unveiled new games on its casino floor last month, including versions of the smartphone games "Catapult King" and "Into the Dead."

The machines hit U.S. casinos for the first time a year ago in New Jersey, but casinos are still tweaking how to market them.

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Ships, aircraft search for 3 missing US sailors U.S. and Japanese ships and aircraft searched in the Philippine Sea on Thursday for three sailors missing since a U.S. Navy aircraft crashed a day earlier.

Eight people were rescued about 40 minutes after the crash of the C-2A "Greyhound" transport

aircraft Wednesday afternoon, the Navy said.

They were taken aboard the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier and were in good condition.

The Navy said it had notified next of kin that the three missing sailors were "whereabouts unknown" but

it would delay releasing their identities publicly for three days due to policy.

The twin-propeller plane came down about 500 nautical miles (925 kilometers) southeast of Okinawa as it was bringing passengers and cargo from Japan to the aircraft carrier, the Navy said in a statement. The cause wasn't clear and the crash was being investigated, the Navy said.

The aircraft carrier was leading the search and rescue efforts along with Japan's naval forces. The ships and aircraft had searched more than 320 nautical miles (590 kilometers) as of Thursday morning, the Navy said.

The Reagan was participating in a joint exercise with Japan's navy when the plane crashed.

"A full search mission is underway," U.S. Navy Secretary Richard V. Spencer said during a visit to Manama, Bahrain. "The Japanese navy is helping us with many, many assets."

Japan's Defense Ministry said the crash site is about 150 kilometers (90 miles) northwest of Okinotorishima, a Japanese atoll.

I n Wa s h i n g t o n , t h e White House said President Donald Trump had been briefed on the crash. Trump said in a tweet: "We are monitoring the situation.

Prayers for all involved."

The Nov. 16-26 joint exercise in waters off Okinawa has been described by the Navy as the "premier training event" between the U.S. and Japanese navies, designed to increase defensive readiness and interoperability in air and sea operations.

The Navy's Japan-based 7th Fleet has had two fatal accidents in Asian waters this year, leaving 17 sailors dead and prompting the removal of eight top Navy officers from their posts, including the 7th Fleet commander.

The USS John S. McCain and an oil tanker collided near Singapore in August, leaving 10 U.S. sailors dead. Seven sailors died in June when the USS Fitzgerald and a container ship collided off Japan.

The Navy has concluded that the collisions were avoidable and resulted from widespread failures by the crews and commanders, who didn't quickly recognize and respond to unfolding emergencies. A Navy report recommended numerous changes to address the problems, ranging from improved training to increasing sleep and stress management for sailors.

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Petrodollar stands well in terms of economy

By NATHAN LAMB Staff Writer

The reign of the petrodollar may be coming to an end as both the Chinese and Russian governments seek non-dollar methods for trading oil.

Taylor Huckaby, spokesperson for Bay Area Rapid Transit, said the origins of the petrodollar began under the President Richard Nixon administration.

“Basically, after the Vietnam war, the U.S. faced serious debt, mounting inflation and unsustainable spending,” Taylor said. “In the Nixon Shock, President Nixon abruptly pulled out of the Bretton Woods Accord which pegged the value of the dollar to the price of gold and based the value of all other currencies on that of the dollar. A free-floating currency was established which quickly became pegged to the price of oil.”

In 1974, Huckaby said

Nixon and then Secretary of State Henry Kissinger began negotiations with the Saudi Royal Family. Through a series of complicated negotiations, an agreement was arrived — in exchange for the U.S. providing Saudi Arabia with arms and protection for their oil fields, Saudi Arabia was to price all oil sales in U.S. dollars and invest surplus proceeds in U.S. debt securities, according to Financial Sense.

Within a year, all oil-producing members of OPEC had followed suit, and the reign of the petrodollar, and petrodollar recycling, began.

However, after three decades of benefits from the petrodollar recycling system, Huckaby said the U.S. is beginning to see diminishing returns.

David Spegel, global head of emerging market sovereign and corporate research at Bank BNP Paribas, said in a Reuters article that in 2014, for the first time in years, oil producers were

sucking capital out of financial markets rather than recycling it back in.

In 2006, oil producers recycled roughly $500 billion into financial markets, according to the article. In 2012, the amount exported was $248 billion, in 2013, $60 billion. In 2014, however, producers imported $7.6 billion.

“At its peak, about $500 billion a year was being recycled back into financial markets,” Spegel said in the article. “This will be the first year in a long time that energy exporters will be sucking capital out.”

The potential ramifications of this, positive and negative, are widely disputed. Tres Bruffey, a CPA and controller for the Rip Griffin Companies, said he is cautious about the potential shift due to China’s shaky history of currency manipulation.

“Since China manipulates the value of their currency to keep their goods more economically competitive,”

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A student walks in front of the 38-foot-tall Christmas tree in front of the Texas Tech campus. The tree is part of the decorations put up over campus in preparation for Carol of Lights.

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Bond set for man who punched Austin police officer after traffic stop AUSTIN (AP) — A $10,000 bond has been set for a 23-year-old Austin man jailed on a charge of attempted assault on a peace officer after arrest records show he punched a police officer as authorities were on the side of a

highway trying to move a disabled vehicle.

Documents show Southern Longoria shouted an obscenity at the officer when he was asked to move and then, with arms flailing, charged at the officer. One punch landed on the officer’s

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Firm gets 700 applications for pink slime’ worker aid fund DAKOTA DUNES, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota meat producer has received 700 applications for aid from former workers.

The Dakota Dunesbased company in September set up a $10 million fund for employees who lost jobs when the company closed three plants in 2012 over reports of a

beef product critics dubbed “pink slime.”

The company laid off about 750 workers and closed plants in Texas, Kansas and Iowa in 2012, saying ABC’s coverage of the producer’s lean, finely textured beef product misled consumers into believing the product is unsafe.

ABC stood by its reporting.

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chest. The struck officer and a partner apprehended Longoria. The officer who was hit wasn’t hurt.

Longoria was taken to the Travis County jail.

A motive for the attack Friday isn’t clear.

Bruffey said, “they could similarly impact crude oil prices were it traded using the Yuan.”

This will be the first year in a long time that energy exporters will be sucking capital out.

DAVID SPEGEL BANK BNP PARIBAS Trevor Harding, a former Air Force fighter pilot and current commercial pilot, said the concern over the potential change is mostly unfounded, as the dollar will likely remain the world’s reserve currency.

The U.S. “floats” its currency against all other major world currencies, Harding said, which means that if people are doing something mischievous or wrong, the dollar would be commensu-

rately punished or rewarded.

“We are the reserve currency for the world. Basically because we have the biggest economy, just about every major world commodity is priced in dollars. You can’t get too wrapped up in us trying to price oil in dollars or anything else because the fact is we float our currency against every other major world currency,” Harding said. “When an economy tries to peg oil against some other currency, it’s fair as long as that world currency floats.”

Despite the fact that other nations pegging oil against their currency is fair, Harding said he does not think currency is likely to change from the dollar.

When an economy is strong, the currency goes up in value; the world is getting more confident in that economy, and as that happens the value increases, Harding said.

The reverse is true too,

with France and Venezuela proving that a currency can plummet if people don’t think that economy is going to do well, Harding said. The U.S. economy has been coming on strong in the past six months or so, and the dollar has seen those benefits.

Considering the U.S.’s percent of world-market capitalization, he said other countries likely will be stuck relying on the dollar.

“The bottom line is the petrodollar can get a bad rap, but the world doesn’t have a choice. U.S. market capitalization is 50 percent of the world’s market capital, so of course the dollar is the world currency,” Harding said. “The dollar has inherent value in the world’s belief that the U.S. will pay its debts, that the U.S. will collect from taxpayers and that the U.S. economy will stay strong. So the rest of the world will peg commodities, oil, against it.” @NathanLambDT

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Advocates say Texas exploiting day laborers after Hurricane Harvey HOUSTON (AP) — Guillermo Miranda Vazquez starts his day in a parking lot near the Home Depot where he easily finds work alongside other day laborers who are cleaning up Houston after Hurricane Harvey.

Some days, he clears rotted drywall and hauls out furniture and carpet destroyed by Harvey’s floodwaters. Other days, he chops fallen trees or helps to lay the foundations for new homes.

He ventures daily into homes wearing a T-shirt, work pants and tennis shoes, often while surrounded by the pungent stench and raw sewage that flowed into homes during the flooding.

“I always wash and scrub myself, and I use alcohol or something similar so that I don’t get infected,” said Miranda, a native of Guatemala. “I haven’t gotten sick yet.”

Hundreds of day laborers like Miranda have quietly become an integral part of the recovery from Harvey, toiling in dangerous conditions amid the fear of being picked up by immigration authorities.

Harvey damaged or destroyed 200,000 homes and flooded much of Houston and smaller coastal communities with record amounts of rain and high winds. In a construction industry that already had labor shortages before the storm, it created a massive demand for the kind of work that day laborers have long performed after hurricanes and tropical storms.

Day laborers interviewed by The Associated Press said they’ve been hired by a mix of individual homeowners, work crews from out of state, and subcontractors working on residential and commercial buildings. Mostly immigrants, they operate in plain sight, gathering early

in the morning in parking lots near construction stores and gas stations, and waiting to be offered work.

Advocates from the National Day Laborer Organizing Network recently fanned out to these sites with pens and clipboards to survey the workers about the conditions they’re experiencing. Interviews suggested most are routinely exposed to mold and contamination, and aren’t aware of legal protections they have even if they’re not in the country legally. Advocates have been passing out flyers with information and holding worker trainings.

About a quarter of the more than 350 workers surveyed said they had been denied wages promised for cleanup work after Harvey, sometimes by employers who abandoned them at work sites after they had completed a job, according to a report on the

survey by Nik Theodore, a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Around 85 percent had not received safety training.

More than 70 percent of the day laborers are in the U.S. illegally, some of them having previously been deported, the survey found.

Their wages have stayed at around $100 a day, according to the survey, though some individual laborers said they were being paid more after the hurricane.

The problems they face have cropped up after every major recent storm. Day laborers were an integral part of Houston’s rebuilding after Hurricane Ike in 2008 and more recent storms that flooded neighborhoods in 2015 and 2016. After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, one survey found that workers without legal authorization were being paid less and were less likely to have protective equipment than those who were in the country legally.

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Trump’s feud not presidential behavior I t was constant feuding between Lyndon B. Johnson and Robert Kennedy that led to highly politicized, contentious and workable scenarios for the United States government.

Though the two were in positions of leadership they were able to both work together, or rather, make it seem like they were working together to conduct proper policy making routines. The two politicians, professional at heart, had a childish feud, the likes of which most of the American public were not able to see.

It seems the era of professionalism and maturity has come to an end with the arrival of half-thought-out tweets and cable television name-calling. It has been like a volcano waiting to erupt for the past week as

Michael Cantu is a senior electronic media and communications major from New Deal.

President Donald Trump and LaVar Ball, a reality-TV star and dad to three highly skilled basketball players, have been feuding both over social media and on TV. Ball, the loud-mouthed cheerleader for his three sons and founder of Big Baller Brand, has been prodding at the president since last week, the back-and-forth stemming from an incident with Ball’s son, LiAngelo Ball, who was arrested in China for shoplifting while on a trip with the UCLA basketball team.

The Hill reported that Trump was able to have a meeting with the Chinese

President Xi Jinping to arrange for the release of LiAngelo Ball and other teammates, that is when things began to get a little hairy.

Trump’s successful arrangement granted the UCLA team members freedom but not protection from the wrath of Ball.

The younger Ball praised Trump in his success, a gesture that his father took offense to. It was later on CNN that Ball castigated Trump for a praiseful tweet boasting about his success in negotiating with Jinping.

“If you help, you shouldn’t have to say anything,” Ball said, according to The Hill.

“Let him do his political affairs and let me handle my sons, and let’s stay in our lane.”

It was Trump’s tweet, “HAVE A GREAT LIFE! Be careful, there are many pit-

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falls on the long and winding road of life!” that prompted the response from Ball.

Though that is hard to wrap my head around because out of the many raucous tweets Trump has sent out, that one seems to be the tamest. In fact, that one had useful advice, which is a bit of an alien subject for the president.

But Trump cannot stand far away from himself for too long before he has to begin acting like his old self again. After hearing Ball’s response, he took to Twitter with, “Now that the three basketball players are out of China and saved from years in jail, LaVar Ball, the father of LiAngelo, is unaccepting of what I did for his son and that shoplifting is no big deal. I should have left them in jail!”

This must have been the

dreams George Washington was having when he went to sleep the nights after he began mapping out the inner workings of our democracy. It is in these actions the president has proven himself to be a contemptible substitute for what one should consider a leader.

It seems as though he still thinks he is on “The Apprentice” and is trying for high ratings.

It seems as though he still thinks he is on “The Apprentice” and is trying for high ratings. But the oval office is does not include a seat that

favors ratings or popularity.

His office is one that is deserving of the upmost respect and sensitivity.

Though the president should be cognoscente of his appearance toward the rest of the world, Trump is taking it out of proportion and squawking at any other rooster that comes his way.

It is in his posture that he is fooling himself and most of his voting base into thinking fights are worth the time and can be considered a victory.

It has been nearly a year since his inauguration and his behavior in the White House can be summed up with lots of negative adjectives: Silly, child-like and, to use his own tweet against him, he is an “Ungrateful fool!” @MichaelCantuDT

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No health care plan will fix U.S. Powerholders should not be immune to sexual assault probes

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ith the transition to a new administration, we have seen many attempts to change the current Democratic healthcare plan, Obamacare.

Yet no draft of the Republican’s Affordable Care Act seems to be acceptable to the public. The incomplete healthcare plan is not our biggest concern when it comes to health.

We are fixated on getting our government to create a plan that will “take care of us.” But we do not even take care of ourselves. According to publications on Trust for America’s Health’s website, about eighty percent of

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American adults do not meet the government’s national physical activity recommendations for aerobic activity and muscle strengthening.

How can we ask our country to worry about our health when we do not worry about it ourselves.

We want cheaper or free healthcare, understandably, yet we are doing nothing to prevent diseases that affect a massive number of Americans such as diabetes, hypertension, and obesity.

These diseases are responsible from $147 to $210 billion

dollars every year. Having a healthier lifestyle will show we are trying to take care of our body, that will show we care.

Our solution is not a healthcare that covers everyone. Our solution lies within healthier eating habits and regular exercise regulated by congress.

By doing this we will see a massive decrease in the need for healthcare and expenditure, we need to focus on preventing rather than on treating.

We need to care about ourselves before we ask others to. @DailyToreador

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First trial of several begins for 2016 inauguration day protests WASHINGTON (AP) — Eleven months after the

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inauguration of President Donald Trump, trials have begun for the more than 160 people arrested during violent anti-Trump protests in Washington on Inauguration Day. The protesters are being tried in small batches in a process that is expected to extend deep into 2018.

The first trial, which began Monday and is expected to continue for about a month, accuses the first batch of six protesters of inciting a riot and destruction of property — charges which could result in prison sentences of over 60 years.

The charges stem from a violent Jan. 20 protest, in which hundreds of demonstrators dressed in black, many with their faces masked, marched downtown toward Franklin Square. Some marchers

broke windows in a bank and a Starbucks, and a limousine parked on K Street across from Franklin Square was trashed and set ablaze.

The prosecution is pursuing a somewhat unusual strategy: Rather than trying to prove that any of individual defendant was personally guilty of destruction, prosecutors are arguing that all demonstrators present that day were aware and supportive of the violent intentions of the others.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Kerkhoff, in her comments, has repeatedly referred to the “black bloc tactics” of the protesters as part of a message that everyone participating in the protest came with either the intention to commit violence or the knowledge that violence was part of

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in the state of Alabama came out in the public and revealed that they were sexually assaulted by Republican Senate candidate, Roy Moore. A hashtag called #metoo was started by women who revealed they too were also sexually assaulted at a young age. All this leads to the conclusion that there is a problem in our society.

That problem is powerful men getting away with assaulting women. I believe each of us should care about this because we all have

mothers, sisters, and female relatives who we love and would never want to see them go through such a traumatic experience.

Thankfully there’s a solution: creating legislation that protects individuals who come out and reveal that they have been sexually assaulted. Ask your congressman and senator to construct legislation that protects our mothers and sisters.

If you do nothing, these predators will keep on getting away with it.

Imagine a future with less rapists around. @DailyToreador

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Franken said he apologizes for making some women ‘feel badly’ WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Al Franken issued a Thanksgiving explanation and apology in the wake of four women alleging that he had touched them inappropriately, a message that ended with a promise to regain constituents’ trust and suggested no resignation was being contemplated.

Franken, elected to one of Minnesota’s Senate seats in 2008, faces a Senate ethics investigation for improper conduct. His statement Thursday didn’t admit to groping or other inappropriate touching but acknowledged that some women felt that he had done something offensive during their encounters. Still, the senator apologized.

“I’ve met tens of thou-

sands of people and taken thousands of photographs, often in crowded and chaotic situations,” he wrote. “I’m a warm person; I hug people.

I’ve learned from recent stories that in some of those encounters, I crossed a line for some women — and I know that any number is too many. Some women have found my greetings or embraces for a hug or photo inappropriate, and I respect their feelings about that.”

He continued: “I’ve thought a lot in recent days about how that could happen, and recognize that I need to be much more careful and sensitive in these situations. I feel terribly that I’ve made some women feel badly and for that I am so sorry, and I want to make

sure that never happens again. And let me say again to Minnesotans that I’m sorry for putting them through this and I’m committed to regaining their trust.”

The multiple accusations against Franken came as the issue of sexual harassment gripped the nation and brought about firings and admonishments against powerful men in politics, entertainment, media and other institutions.

Los Angeles radio anc h o r L e e a n n Tw e e d e n said last week that Franken had put his tongue in her mouth during a 2006 USO tour undertaken when the former “Saturday Night Live” writer and performer was still working as a comedian.

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Big Tobacco’s anti-smoking ads begin after decade of delay WASHINGTON (AP) — Decades after they were banned from the airwaves, Big Tobacco companies return to prime-time television this weekend — but not by choice.

Under court order, the tobacco industry for the first time will be forced to advertise the deadly, addictive effects of smoking, more than 11 years after a judge ruled that the companies had misled the public about the dangers of cigarettes.

But years of legal pushback by the industry over every detail means the ads will be less hard-hitting than what was proposed.

Tobacco control experts

say the campaign — built around network TV and newspapers — will not reach people when they are young and most likely to start smoking.

“Their legal strategy is always obstruct, delay, create confusion and buy more time,” said Ruth Malone, of the University of California, San Francisco, who has studied the industry for 20 years. “So by the time this was finally settled, newspapers have a much smaller readership, and nowadays, who watches network TV?” The new spots, which begin Sunday, lay out the toll of smoking in blunt

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Recently, five women

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Pet abandonment raises concerns on campus

By MICAH SMITH Staff Writer

As the semester comes to an end, students leave town for the holidays and often pets get left behind.

According to dosomething. org, it is impossible to determine the number of homeless animals in the United States, with the number for stray cats alone estimated to be up to 70 million.

Pet abandonment on college campuses is a real issue with damaging effects, according to article written

by Dawn Warren, president

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CONTINUED FROM PG. 1 “The way that indoor theater ticket and concession prices were set up, pretty much everybody complained about it,” Smith said. “But at the Sky-Vue, the snack bar’s prices were reasonable for both the customers and the business, and that’s really what we try to do at our 50’s café.

We want to give people a great experience and a great deal so that they will come back and continue to support us.”

Another option available to moviegoers is to bring in food and drink from outside the theater. Smith said because there is no formidable way to ban patrons from bringing in their own candy, popcorn and beverages to the drive-in, the establishment does not discourage the act.

“We figured people sneak candy and stuff into indoor theatres all the time, and

of Tech Feral Cat Coalition.

Many pets that get left behind often end up never finding a new home and dying, according to Warren’s article.

Don’t get a pet unless you’re ready to have one. You have to realize when the time is not right.

MAGGIE DURHAM TFCC SPONSOR According to Texas Tech’s hiding it in your car would make it even easier,” he said. “So, we basically said ‘Oh well, we might as well allow it.’”

No alcohol or glass containers are permitted at the drive-in, however. For safety reasons, cooking and grilling is prohibited as well, Smith said.

Although they are not allowed in the 50’s café or at the adjacent playground, pets are welcome at Stars and Stripes, he said. Patrons may also feel free to watch the showing from a lawn chair placed either in front of or beside their vehicle.

“One of the coolest things to do here (in Lubbock), without a doubt, is to have a night out at the drive-in,” Joseph Martis, a sophomore kinesiology major from Corpus Christi, said. “If anyone ever says to me ‘There’s nothing to do in Lubbock,’ I always immediately ask if they’ve been to (Stars and Stripes Drive-In Theatre). When

residence hall policies, animals, with the exceptions of fish in tanks five gallons or less, service and therapy pets, are not permitted in dorms. However, this does not stop some students from taking in stray animals.

“Most of our campus cats are the product of pet abandonment. Many of the TTU campus cats were initially owned pets of students living on or near the university campus,” Kat Livingston, associate registrar and cosponsor of Tech Feral Cat Coalition, said.

There are many circum-

stances that can lead to students abandoning their pets, Livingston said.

“These former owners were likely not prepared for the responsibilities that comes with pet ownership, including the cost of food and supplies, vet bills, time commitment,” Livingston said.

“Additionally, at the end of each semester many students move to new homes in Lubbock or move to new cities after graduation, and instead of moving to a place where pets are welcome, they choose to leave their pets behind to fend for themselves,”

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its reputation for quality enjoyment at an affordable cost to consumers.

Rain or shine, the management and staff at Stars and Stripes is fully committed to serving its customers and ensuring that a great time is had by all, even in spite of unlucky circumstances, Joe Moore, a sophomore mechanical engineering major from Aurora, Colorado, said.

“Last year, I went with a group of friends to see “La La Land” at (Stars and Stripes), and about halfway through the film it started to rain as we sat in our car,” Moore said. “For some reason, we all thought ‘Dang, looks like the fun is over now,’ but the staff at the (50’s café) let us know that they only shut down the screens when the weather is extremely severe. I would recommend the drive-in to anyone wanting to experience something that’s uncommon but unique to the area.”

Stars and Stripes features an authentic 50’s café where patrons will find a large variety of menu items. Another option available to moviegoers is to bring in food and drink from outside the theatre, Smith said. their response is ‘No,’ I’ll always try to fix that as soon as I can.”

Preserving the drive-in theater experience is a fun and rewarding cause to involve one’s self in, Martis said. Stars and Stripes is more than deserving of

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A whale’s tale: Longest painting in North America restored NEW BEDFORD, Mass.

(AP) — A museum has restored the longest painting in North America so it can share the story of American whaling with the public.

The quarter-mile-long (0.4-kilometer-long) panorama toured the U.S. after it was completed in 1848. A section was featured at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.

But the panorama deteriorated after so much traveling on wagons and trains, rolling and unrolling. Paint dried up and flaked off, and the panorama was put into storage.

The New Bedford Whaling Museum enlisted the help of a textile conservator to fix the “Grand Panorama of a Whaling Voyage Round the World.”

Now it’s searching for a large venue to display it, scouting locations in New Bedford but open to considering Provi-

dence, Rhode Island, or the Mystic Seaport in Connecticut.

D. Jordan Berson, who’s managing the project, said he hopes this record of American whaling can eventually return to some of the cities that were stops on the national tour, including Boston; Buffalo, New York; and St. Louis.

“It’s a national treasure that’s been out of the spotlight for too long,” he said.

Benjamin Russell and Caleb Purrington created the panorama to capture all aspects of a whaling voyage. The panorama would be mounted on a system of cranks and reels to go across a theater stage as a narrator told stories of hunting whales and processing their carcasses. A poster for the Boston stop in 1849 advertises tickets for 25 cents.

The audience members would hear what it was like

to round Cape Horn and visit Fiji and other far-flung destinations as they saw painted scenes of those locations. Most people hadn’t traveled to any of those places, and photography was in its infancy.

Many young men at that time were headed west in search of gold, which meant they weren’t joining whaling crews, said Michael Dyer, the museum’s curator of maritime history. The panorama may have been used as a recruiting tool, he said.

“It serves as a pictorial documentation of whaling in a way almost nothing else does,” he said.

The museum has spent $400,000 to conserve, digitize and store the panorama. The money was raised from individual donors, private foundations and government grants.

Berson spent a year spraying

the panorama with an adhesive to stabilize a paint layer that had powdered over time. The conservator stitched sections that were taken apart, repaired thinning areas of the cotton muslin fabric and fixed holes and tears. Every section has been photographed and merged into a large digital image so it can be shown moving to replicate the original experience.

The restored artwork will be static when it’s displayed, meaning the museum needs to find a room that’s at least 16,000 square feet (1,486 square meters), Berson said.

The panorama is about 1,300 feet (400 meters) long and 8 feet (2.4 meters) tall.

The museum’s chief curator, Christina Connett, said she’s confident it’s the longest painting in North America and she knows of no longer moving panorama in the world.

Livingston said.

Abandoning a pet falls is considered animal cruelty according to Texas law and can be prosecuted as such.

Any wild living creature previously captured and subject to a person’s care and control falls under the category of a domesticated animal, according to the ASPCA website.

The abandonment of previous pets, whether adopted or rescued, is a felony offense and is punishable by up to a $10,000 fine and two years in jail, as stated in Texas animal cruelty law.

Maggie Durham, lead academic advisor of the Tech Department of Psychology and on-campus sponsor of the Tech Feral Cat Coalition, said there are many ways students can combat the abandonment of animals on campus.

“Don’t get a pet unless you’re ready to have one,” Durham said. “You have to realize when the time is right and when the time is not right you get your fur fix in other ways, like volunteering, pet sitting. There are so many things that you can do.” @DailyToreador

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Armenia’s Oscars submission imagines world without war TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Armenia’s foreign-language film submission to the Academy Awards for this year invites viewers to imagine a world without war, according to its director.

Anahid Abad, the director of “Yeva,” said at the Iranian premiere of her debut movie on Thursday, “The world without any war is much more beautiful, even for warmongers.”

The film tells the story of a young woman who escapes her influential inlaws with her daughter, Nareh, after her husband’s tragic death and takes refuge in a village in the Karabakh region.

Criticizing war, Abad said its consequences are long lasting. “I was not directly in frontline of any war, but war was a part of

my life,” said Abad.

Abad has a long track record working in Iranian cinema as an assistant director.

Her film is a joint production between the National Cinema Center of Armenia and the Iranian Farabi Cinema Foundation in Tehran, where the Iranian premiere was held.

The foundation also submitted Iran’s foreignlanguage film entry to the Academy Awards for this year, another anti-war film by a female director, Narges Abyar’s “Nafas (Breath).”

Alireza Tabesh, the managing director of the foundation, told The Associated Press that both countries submitting anti-war films by female directors this year was “an invaluable coincidence.”

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Alpha Phi Omega members discuss service

By MARY BETH HOLM Staff Writer

Angel Velazquez originally joined Alpha Phi Omega because he saw an advertisement for free pizza at the organization’s information night.

Six years later, Velazquez is president of one of the largest collegiate fraternities in the United States.

Alpha Phi Omega, according to apo.org, is a coeducational service organization. Founded in 1925 by World War I veteran Frank Reed Horton, the organization was started to assemble students interested in community service and high

standards of fellowship.

Texas Tech’s chapter, the Beta Sigma chapter, was founded in 1937 by John Gillespie and Tech President Bradford Knapp.

One of the highlights of being in the Beta Sigma chapter, Velazquez, a senior finance major from Houston, said, is the diversity of the group and coming together to help others.

“There are all kinds of people with different majors and backgrounds,” Velazquez said. “It was nice to see a large and diverse group.

Another thing was just being able to help out others at service events, but it didn’t feel like work because everyone

is having a good time with (other members).”

Alpha Phi Omega has forced me to get out of my comfort zone in college.

SONIA LOERA EXTERNAL SECRETARY, APO Sonia Loera, a senior restaurant, hotel and institutional management major from Houston and external secretary, joined Alpha Phi Omega in Spring 2015. She said being in the service orga-

nization helped her develop her leadership skills outside of Alpha Phi Omega.

“Alpha Phi Omega has forced me to get out of my comfort zone in college,” Loera said. “It does this by putting me in roles of responsibility that will prepare me for the real world, like being the merchandise chair for three years and being the external secretary for one year.”

Part of the community service Alpha Phi Omega does, Loera said, is volunteering at the Women’s Empowerment Center, which helps women get back on their feet, among other projects like the Boys and Girls Club of Lubbock and the

South Plains Food Bank.

One of Velazquez’s favorite service projects is working with The Boys and Girls Club of Lubbock and the events they put on because he has the opportunity to interact with the kids there.

“Most of the kids there are from low-income families,” Velazquez said. “Having the same sort of background as them, I love going and talking to them and letting them know that they can go to college and they have a future, despite their state of life.”

Sarah Fuhrmeister, a senior community, family and addiction sciences major from Murphy and head pledge trainer, said she

joined Alpha Phi Omega in Fall 2016 because a friend encouraged her to go to an information meeting. After meeting potential and active members, she realized she wanted to surround herself with them.

“I immediately realized these are the people I want to spend my time with,” Fuhrmeister said. “We’re doing things that not only benefitted myself, but others around me. If you’re far from your family and you’re looking for one, this is it.

These are people that have good hearts, will always be there for you, and want to do good.” @MaryBethHolmDT

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Universities revoke awards given to Charlie Rose amid sexual misconduct allegations PHOENIX (AP) — Charlie Rose, who was fired this week by CBS News and whose program was canceled by PBS in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations from multiple women, had accolades from two universities rescinded Friday.

Panels at both Arizona State University and the University of Kansas met this week and coincidentally came to the same decision on the same day.

A r i z o n a ’s Wa l t e r Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication gave Rose an award for journalism excellence in 2015. But the actions reported about Rose were too “egregious” to ignore, according to Dean Christopher Callahan.

“The actions victimized young women much like those who make up the overwhelming majority of Cronkite students — young women who deserve to en-

ter workplaces that reward them for their hard work, intelligence and creativity and where they do not have to fear for their safety or dignity,” Callahan said in a statement.

Callahan said the action was mostly symbolic. But he hoped it would send a message that sexual misconduct would not be tolerated. The award has never been revoked since it was created in 1984. Past recipients include Bob Wood-

ward, Diane Sawyer and Christiane Amanpour.

The William Allen White Foundation, which supports journalism education at the University of Kansas, presented Rose an award last spring. The National Citation award has been bestowed on a journalist annually since 1950. Other recipients include Bob Woodward and Gwen Ifill.

After the allegations against Rose surfaced, the

foundation’s board of trustees voted to revoke the honor. In a news release, officials said Rose “does not exemplify the ideals of this award.”

Eight women who worked for or wanted to work for Rose told the Washington Post Monday that the veteran newsman groped them, openly walked around nude or said sexually inappropriate things on the job.

The fallout for Rose was

swift. After initially suspending him, CBS News fired Rose from its morning show Tuesday. Three women at the network have since come forward with complaints with two saying he grabbed them inappropriately.

PBS, which broadcasts his eponymous interview program, cut ties with Rose.

In a statement earlier this week, Rose apologized for his actions and said he was “deeply embarrassed.”

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Pixar’s ‘Coco’ feasts on ‘Justice League’ at box office over Thanksgiving weekend NEW YORK (AP) — Pixar’s “Coco” sang its way to the fourth best Thanksgiving weekend ever with an estimated $71.2 million over the five-day weekend, a total that easily toppled Warner Bros.’

“Justice League.”

“Coco” rode strong reviews and an A-plus CinemaScore from audiences to the top spot at the domestic box office. According to studio estimates

Sunday, it grossed $49 million from Friday to Sunday.

Centered on the Mexican holiday Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead), “Coco” has already set box office records in Mexico, where it has made $53.4 million in three weeks.

After a disappointing debut last weekend, the much-maligned DC Comics superhero team-up film “Justice League” slid to second with $40.7 mil-

lion. In the five-day holiday frame, it earned about $60 million. “Justice League” is faring better overseas, where it has made more than $300 million.

The two top spots told a familiar tale: Quality is trumping mediocrity at the box office, where Rotten Tomato ratings bear considerable weight and where wordof-mouth spreads lightning quick. “Coco” is Pixar’s sixth

release to land an A-plus CinemaScore from audiences.

The film’s Rotten Tomatoes rating, 96 percent fresh, is more than double that of “Justice League” (41 percent).

“In a world where moviegoing and quality seem to be connected, having a brand that has as consistently as Pixar has delivered on very high expectations definitely makes our work a little easier,” said Dave Hollis,

distribution chief for the Walt Disney Co., which owns Pixar.

“Consumers have really come to expect high quality. This is once again Pixar doing what they do best.”

The success of “Coco” came just as reports of sexual misconduct were published regarding Pixar co-founder and Disney Animation Chief Creative Officer John Lasseter. On Tuesday, Lasseter

announced that he was taking “a six-month sabbatical.”

He acknowledged “missteps” and “unwanted hugs” with employees. Disney has said it supports Lasseter’s leave of absence.

Lasseter has been foundational to the rise of Pixar and the revitalization of Disney Animation. “Coco” is the latest in a long line of hits he’s overseen.

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Red Raiders welcome signees during fall period

By GABRIELLE TAITE Staff Writer

T h e Te x a s Te c h v o l leyball team recently announced five prospective team members who have signed their national letters of intent for the upcoming 2018 season.

Among the signees are right-side hitter Brooke Kanas from New Braunfels, middle blocker Jessica Langridge from Flower Mound, setter and defensive specialist Audrey Smith from Mission, opposite hitter Haley Killinger from Prosper and setter Alex Kirby from Knoxville, Tennessee, according to Tech Athletics.

Then, following freshman opposite hitter Emerson Solano, Tech coach Tony Graystone gained Under Armor All-American Killinger, according to Tech Athletics.

This is the first time since the 2010-2011 sea-

son that Tech has signed players of this status in consecutive years, according to Tech Athletics.

Graystone said he is excited to bring in new players for the 2018 season.

“This is a big group, and it’s our first full recruiting class as a coaching staff,” Graystone said. “We have all of the positions covered.

We’re adding some size and a lot of offense in there.

We’re really happy about them. These are some players that are going to be the foundation for what we are moving forward with.”

Four of the five signees are all from the state of Texas and fulfill different positions on the court.

C o l l e c t i v e l y, t h e 2 0 1 8 class consist of eight allstate honors and 13 alldistrict nods, according to Tech Athletics. There are also two Under Armour All-American Watch List players and a pair of prepvolleyball.com Senior

Ace Awards.

Senior libero and defensive specialist Kate Klepetka said although she is sad to be leaving the Red Raider volleyball team, she is excited to see what 2018 will do for the program.

“I want them to do even better than we did this year,” Klepetka said. “Be the best team at Tech since 2001. I want nothing but greatness for them.”

Klepetka said she hopes whoever is filling in her spot for next year ’s season surpasses her legacy at Tech.

“I want her to kill it and be better than I was,” Klepetka said. “Use me as a role model and do better than I did. Just go kill it.”

More recently, Tech added its 6th signee, outside hitter and middle blocker Karrington Jones, from Little Elm, according to Tech Athletics. This marks the closing of the fall earlysigning period.

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Texas Tech senior wide receiver Dylan Cantrell and senior quarterback Nic Shimonek run off the field during Tech’s game against Oklahoma State on Saturday, Sept. 30, 2017, at Jones AT&T Stadium. The Red Raiders became bowl eligible following their victory against Texas on Friday, Nov. 24, 2017.

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The possibility of Kingsbury no longer being with Tech was real as the Red Raiders started the season 4-1 and were ranked No. 24 nationally in the AP poll, but began to falter and Tech went on a fourgame losing streak, losing to West Virginia, Iowa State, Oklahoma and Kansas State.

The streak stopped with a win against Baylor on Saturday, Nov. 11, but a Senior Day loss to TCU

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Texas Tech junior right side hitter Sarah Redding celebrates a point with teammates after Tech won it’s match with UC Riverside, 3-0 on Friday, Sept. 8, 2017, in the United Supermarkets Arena.

Tech recently announced five prospective team members who have signed their national letters of intent for the upcoming 2018 season.

The Red Raiders expect to finalize the 2018 class before next fall, according to Tech Athletics.

Graystone said he is satisfied with closing the fall

signing period with Jones.

“Karrington is a bigtime athlete with a ton of upside,” Graystone said.

“She can play in the middle or on either pin, and she

can score points in a lot of different ways. She will make us better immediately, and we’re thrilled she’s a Red Raider.”

reignited Kingsbury’s hot seat after the Red Raiders were unable to score a single touchdown.

When asked if his job security was in his control after defeating Texas, Kingsbury said it was not up to him, but he wants to be with the Red Raiders and he has and always will love Tech.

“You know, I think at times, it slips in just because you think about missing your players and that’s the hardest part is just thinking about not being around those guys,” Kingsbury said. “But you

try to compartmentalize it and just focus on what you’ve got to do and focus on what you can control, and that’s getting your team ready to play and making sure they are excited and fresh and ready to go.”

With Kingsbury staying as Tech football’s head coach, not only does he have to look forward to a future bowl game, but also the 2018 season.

Right now, he likes what he sees for next season’s team, Kingsbury said.

“I think 19 of those guys have started are under-

classmen, ten out of 11 on defense. I like where we’re at, obviously. To see how they fought all year, I think in the last five years after that win, we had the exact same record over that span as this university does,” Kingsbury said. “It’s a tough league to break through the top tier. Those guys have been doing it a long time, and that’s what we’ve been chomping at.

We were more competitive this season than we’ve been. We were in every game. We just have to get over the hump.”

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2018 bowl game ticket Gonzaga blows big lead, holds off Texas 76-71 in OT requests now available — Coach PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) before putting away Texas after nearly knocking off ally four parts to that game Mark Few had no 76-71 in overtime in a No. 1 Duke before caving that were really unique The Red Raiders secured bowl eligibility for the program’s 38th time following a 27-23 victory against the Texas Longhorns.

Texas Tech is one of eight Big 12 Conference teams to be bowl eligible.

While the specific bowl game is still to be determined, Red Raider Club members and season ticket holders can now place deposits for tickets, according to a Tech Athletics news release.

Requests for tickets can be placed online or via phone until 5 p.m. Dec. 1, according to the release.

All ticket prices are subject to the specific bowl game Tech gets selected for. Once the bowl selection is announced, Red Raider Club members and

season ticket holders will automatically have their credit card charged if they placed a ticket request.

For questions, people can contact the Tech Ticket Office at 806-742-TECH from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Three of the bowls Tech could be selected for are the Autozone Liberty Bowl on Dec. 30 in Memphis, the Cactus Bowl on Dec. 26 in Phoenix and the Zaxby’s Heart of Dallas Bowl on Dec. 26 in Dallas, according to the release. Those three bowls all have Big 12 Conference ties.

Tech will learn its bowl fate on Dec. 3 following the final release of the College Football Playoff rankings. @JamesLossDT

idea what to expect from No. 17 Gonzaga when his team arrived here and knowing the kind of competition the Bulldogs could end up facing.

Based off the results, it could be one wild ride for the Zags.

“We feel like we should have went 3-0 in this thing, but we also think we represented ourselves great,” Few said. “We competed at the highest level. I walk out of here knowing we can play with anybody in the country now and we did not know that coming in.”

Rui Hachimura came off the bench to score a career-high 20 points, Josh Perkins added 15 points and Gonzaga blew a 21-point second half lead

consolation game Sunday at the PK80 Invitational.

It was the conclusion of a roller coaster three games for the Bulldogs. They overwhelmed Ohio State in the opener. They played an epic double-overtime game against Florida in the semifinals, falling 111-105.

And less than 36 hours after losing to the Gators, the Bulldogs (5-1) used a 24-0 first-half run to take control and needed every bit of the lead they built to hold off a charge by Texas in the closing minutes.

“Forty-four of the minutes was pretty good. I’m going to choose to focus on that,” Few said.

The season could end up being just as wild for the Longhorns. Two days

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Melson also hit a key 3-pointer with one minute left in regulation as the shot clock expired and Gonzaga was melting down.

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The Bulldogs held on despite shooting 33 percent in the second half.

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Defense shines in game against Texas

By JACK DENSMORE Staff Writer

Texas Tech’s defense made key stops against Texas to secure the Red Raiders’ comeback win against the Longhorns as they gained bowl eligibility.

The defense allowed Texas to only convert seven out of 22 third downs in the game.

The Red Raiders forced Texas to punt nine times, forced a field goal three times, recovered two fumbles and had two interceptions.

The Longhorns only scored two touchdowns in the first half.

“We just came out and did the same stuff we knew,” junior defensive back Jah’Shawn Johnson said.

“We started like five out of the last ten or 11 games with a shot, or a trick play, or something like that and we knew that they were going to do that. Just kind of let the quarterback get behind us. They went fast and they executed well on offense, but we just kept grinding and kept fighting. We made some plays.”

On Texas’ first drive, the Longhorns scored a touch-

down after freshman quarterback Sam Ehlinger threw a 27-yard slant pass to senior wide receiver Armanti Foreman to give Texas an early 7-0 lead.

The defense then responded by forcing Texas to punt four times and kick one field goal on the Longhorns’ next five drives. Texas didn’t score another touchdown until the second quarter.

“I thought we had a great plan all week and had great practices and guys were flying around,” Tech coach Kliff Kingsbury said. “They built a lot of confidence throughout the year. I thought last week against TCU they kept us in it and had another great performance tonight.”

In the second half, both junior defensive back Kisean Allen and sophomore linebacker Jordyn Brooks had a fumble recovery in the third quarter. However, Tech was unable to get any points off of those turnovers.

The Red Raiders held the Longhorns to just a field goal at the beginning of the fourth quarter.

The Longhorns led the Red Raiders, 23-13, after

the field goal, and that is when senior quarterback Nic Shimonek came into the game, taking over for sophomore quarterback McLane Carter. Shimonek’s 13-yard touchdown pass to redshirt freshman wide receiver T.J. Vasher was the beginning of Tech’s comeback.

With 2:06 left to go in the game, the Longhorns were looking to end the game with a few first downs.

However, Ehlinger threw an interception that was caught by sophomore defensive back Justus Parker, which he returned to Texas’ 14 yard line, putting the Red Raiders in the red zone. As a result to Parker’s interception, Shimonek threw a 16-yard touchdown pass to senior wide receiver Cameron Batson to give Tech a 27-23 lead.

“I was just waiting for my opportunity,” Parker said. “You know, coach had us in some zone coverages there at the end, and we switched a man on that play and we just fooled the quarterback. He threw it to me and I caught it.”

With 1:47 left to go in the game, the Longhorns

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Tech became bowl eligible with its win against Texas on Friday, Nov. 24, 2017. had time to take back the lead with a touchdown.

After a 26-yard pass from Ehlinger to Foreman the pressure was being put on the Red Raiders’ defense.

After Ehlinger’s pass to sophomore running back Kyle Porter was for a loss of two yards, the Longhorns called a timeout with 1:04

left to go in the game. On the next play, sophomore defensive back Douglas Coleman III intercepted the ball and secured the win for Tech.

“I think they just decided, ‘Hey, we’re not going to lose (the) game.’ There was some great conversations listening to those guys at halftime, challenging each

other on both side of the football,” Kingsbury said.

“They came out and played great on both sides of the ball and those turnovers were huge. I think every game this year we won the turnover battle, we won the game. That’s the key to our success.” @JackDensmore_DT

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Texas A&M fires coach Kevin Sumlin after 6 seasons of coaching Texas A&M has fired coach Kevin Sumlin after six winning seasons.

The first black head coach in program history was 51-26 and 25-23 in the Southeastern Conference and never had a losing season. But his first year at A&M was his best, and he never could come close to matching it.

In 2012, Sumlin had a Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback in Johnny Manziel and ushered in the program’s move from the

Big 12 to the SEC by going 11-2. That earned him a new contract and $5 million annual salary, but the Aggies have not won more than nine games since.

The Aggies ended their regular season on Saturday by losing to LSU . They dropped to 7-5 and finished 4-4 in the SEC for the fourth time under Sumlin.

Athletic director Scott Woodward, who was hired by the school in the summer of 2016, said in a statement that Sumlin made Texas

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A&M “a better all-around football program and led our program with dignity and character.”

“Our expectations at A&M are very high,” Woodward said. “We believe that we should compete for SEC championships on an annual basis and, at times, national championships. I believe that we need a new coach to take us there.”

Sumlin, 53, had two years left on his contract, which calls for a $10 million buyout to be paid within 60

days of his termination. Texas A&M said the terms of the deal would be honored.

Stuck behind powerhouse Alabama in the SEC West Division, Sumlin never won a division crown.

He also faced enormous pressure this season to deliver big results. After Texas A&M blew a huge lead and lost the season opener at UCLA, a school regent publicly called for Sumlin to be fired.

Texas A&M has long been seen as a potential

powerhouse that has not maxed out its huge resources. The Aggies haven’t won a conference championship since winning the Big 12 in 1998, but A&M led all of Division I in athletic revenue in 2015-16 .

During Sumlin’s tenure, new football facilities have been built and Kyle Field was renovated and expanded to seat more than 102,000. But it didn’t translate to a level of success that Aggies supporters and school administrators

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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Derek Carr threw two touchdown passes after losing starting receiver Michael Crabtree to an ejection for his role in a brawl, and the Oakland Raiders spoiled Paxton Lynch’s first start of the season with a

21-14 victory over the Denver Broncos on Sunday.

The story coming into the game was about the upheaval for the two teams after Denver (3-8) fired offensive coordinator Mike McCoy and made another quarterback

change and Oakland (5-6) fired defensive coordinator Ken Norton Jr .

But the fight between Crabtree and cornerback Aqib Talib that led to three ejections ended up overshadowing the recent disarray

even as the Raiders recorded their long-awaited first interception of the season in their first game under defensive play-caller John Pagano and the Broncos lost seven games in a row for the first time in 50 years.

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had hoped.

A former Texas A&M assistant, Sumlin was the head coach at Houston when the Aggies brought him back to energize a program that was bolting from the Big 12 and traditional rivals like Texas to join the SEC. His first season proved to be his best, but it also set the expectation that a program flush with cash and grounded in some of the most fertile recruiting territory in the country should be able to do more.

Hurricanes slip past Predators 4-3 in shootout

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — When it came time for Sebastian Aho and Teuvo Teravainen to face Juuse Saros in a shootout, they knew what to do against their fellow countrymen.

“A little bit of Finn on Finn there,” Carolina coach Bill Peters said. “They know Saros ... and I said to (Aho) ‘You own this guy?’ and he said ‘Yeah, I do.’ Teuvo said the same thing.”

Aho and Teravainen scored in the shootout and the Hurricanes earned a 4-3 victory over the Predators on Sunday.

Aho beat Saros with a wrist shot over his blocker on Carolina’s second attempt.

After Hurricanes goalie Scott Darling stopped Filip Forsberg’s second attempt for Nashville, Teravainen lifted a backhand over Saros’ left shoulder for the winner.