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Anticipated opening date for vet school 2021

By MATTHEW SETZEKORN News Editor

The West Texas region lacks academic opportunities for students who wish to become veterinarians. Texas Tech provides plenty of options for the key industries in the region, however the nearest veterinary school is located at Texas A&M in College Station.

Regents and administrators for the Tech System have been planning for a vet school within the system for years now, however those rumblings were finally put into action when plans for the school were approved during the Aug. 15 regent meeting.

The budget of $84.48 million

was slated to be paid for by donors.

As the months went b y, d r a m a within the SCHOVANEC system began to heat up and much of it seemed to derive from the vet school. Chancellor Robert Duncan announced his retirement, former Amarillo Mayor Jerry Hodge announced he would be taking back his planned $10 million donation for the vet school and several regents changed positions including Rick Francis’ resignation.

With all of these road blocks, the vet school has had many more hurdles, according to Tech President

Lawrence Schovanec, including the budget which is now at $89.82 million.

“We met with the first challenges by securing commitments of $90 million for the facility in Amarillo. That was a major achievement,” Schovanec said. “We have established a budget that runs through the next eight years and it provides information as to how much we might need in terms of exceptional item funding versus what will be generated by tuition and formula funding.”

Despite all of the hurdles faced, those within the system are still adamant about bringing the vet school to life with Chancellor Tedd Mitchell reassuring everyone the vet school is still in the

works; however, the school is still in the early stages. “(The School of Veterinary Medicine) is something vital for this area of the state,” Mitchell said. “We have a need out here that’s just exploded and so it’s serving the folks of West Texas.”

Other challenges for the vet school included putting together the academic plans, according to Schovanec.

“The academic plan has been prepared and at the board of regents meeting in August they approved that we could submit this to the coordinating board,” Schovanec said.

“So, we will probably be doing that sometime in the spring.”

As for the timeline of when the vet school is slated to open

and begin its first set of classes, Schovanec said there is no concrete date planned yet.

However, there is an anticipated enrollment date of 2021.

A date for the groundbreaking has still not been approved.

“With the funding that was provided in this biennium, $4.17 million, we began to make hires that supported the planning and initial activities of the vet school,” Schovanec said. “That money will also support the design and construction plans, and those plans are very well developed at this point.”

With the legislative session approaching, Schovanec and Mitchell plan to work together to help push the vet school and make a case for it as well as

the rest of the system.

“Dr. Mitchell has established a plan for approaching this session that includes much more involvement of all of the presidents with our legislators in Austin,” Schovanec said.

Schovanec wanted to reiterate why the vet school is so important, not only for the West Texas community, but for all potential veterinarians.

“It addresses a demonstrated need in the large animal industry. It also addresses the issue of access,” Schovanec said. “Many students want to pursue a degree in veterinary medicine, but many students have to go out of state or out of the country to get that education.” @MattSetzekornDT

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Experts discuss the growth of binge watching

By BRIANNA MALDONADO Staff Writer

After losing track of time many people have realized they just binge watched an entire season of a television show.

Binge watching is watching multiple episodes of a television program continuously, with little to no interruptions, as opposed to waiting a week to view the next episode.

Anna Christina Ribeiro, an instructor for philosophy of film in the Texas Tech Department of Philosophy, said just as most entertainment, viewers become connected to the characters and storyline. “ We e n j o y e n t e r i n g a world of make believe, which is what we do when we engage with the fictional world,” she said.

With the easy availability through streaming channels, Ribeiro said it makes it tempting to continue watching. Netflix auto-plays websites where the next episode will begin after 10 seconds,

according to its website, unless the consumer clicks to be redirected to the main menu.

Ribeiro said if people had to put in additional work to continue watching, such as going to the store to buy the next season, then fewer people would binge watch anything.

It is hard to have the self-restraint and pace to take a break from watching a full season in one sitting, she said. Through the connection of the show, she said people view shows as a way to diverge from their own life.

“It certainly can be a kind of therapy in a way and making you forget about your current problems,” she said. “You leave your world, enter this other world, where perhaps problems are taking place, but at least they aren’t yours. I think there’s also the interest we get from learning things from fiction, to learn what it is like to live a certain kind of life that is very different than yours.”

David Gay, a senior jour-

nalism major from Houston, said he has binge-watched many seasons of series through streaming Netflix or Hulu. Combined over the years, Gay said he has easily viewed over 50 seasons from different shows.

“I’m an entertainment geek. I always have been,” he said. “I like watching because it really helps me rest and makes me forget about the problems I have in the world, depending on the show.”

With hour-long episodes of shows, such as “Orange is the New Black,” Gay said he typically can only watch about three episodes in a row because he wants to make sure full attention is given.

However, with series he has seen before, like “The Office,” Gay said he can have it playing in the background while he focuses on something else.

“I sometimes can’t tell how many episodes I’ve gone through,” he said. “When I’m aware and watching intently, I do try to pay attention to how many I’ve watched.”

Todd Chambers, a professor in the College of Media and Communication, said binge watching is on the rise due to younger generations.

“I think that binge watching is the generations, millennials and generation Z, that represents (the) technological revolution, as far as the consumption of media content,” Chambers said.

There was only network television in the 1970s, he said, so shows and times were scripted out for consumers. With the Internet, he said younger generations are the first to grow up in an on-demand media system.

Through the accessibility of technology and a growth in the content available, Chambers said binge watching has become easy.

Although some may blame technology for the change in attention for young generations, Chambers said that is not the case, because each generation had something that distracted them, even if it was playing sports at the

recreation center instead of watching multiple episodes

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Coal question looms large as climate talks within United Nations begin in Poland K AT O W I C E , P o l a n d (AP) — Negotiators from around the world opened the United Nations’ annual climate change conference Sunday in a Polish city built around mining coal, widely seen as a main culprit behind global warming.

Arriving for two weeks of talks on tackling climate change, conference participants cast off hats, scarves and heavy coats as they entered cavernous halls in Katowice heated by coal-fired power plants nearby.

Coal is center-stage at

the U.N. summit, which is taking place three years after a landmark deal in Paris set a goal of keeping global warming well below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit).

While the Polish government claims Katowice is in the process of transforming into a green city , power plant chimneys pumped plumes of smoke

into a dull December sky and monitoring sites showed elevated levels of air pollution.

Poland, which is presiding over the meeting, plans to use Monday’s official opening event to promote a declaration calling for a “just transition” for fossil fuel industries that face cuts and closures amid efforts to reduce greenhouse

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Environmental activists have expressed concerns about the nonbinding declaration, arguing that it could be cited as justification for propping up dying industries instead of investing in renewable energy sources. Some also have questioned why coal companies are among the meeting’s sponsors.

Poland’s deputy environment minister, Michal Kurtyka, who is chairing the conference, urged envoys from almost 200

nations to use the time between Sunday and Dec. 14 to make progress on fleshing out the 2015 Paris agreement.

“We are here to enable the world to act together on climate change,” he said. With further meetings next year meant to build on what’s decided in Katowice, Kurtyka urged all countries to “show creativity and flexibility.”

“The United Nations secretary-general is counting on us, all of us to deliver,” he added. “There is no Plan B.”

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Relationships prove difficult while in college

By ADÁN RUBIO Staff Writer

Due to the workload of college and jobs, students may not get opportunities for leisure. In addition to this burden, devoting quality time to relationships can also be difficult.

Whether it be family relationships or relationships with a boyfriend or girlfriend, college students can be faced with many tasks throughout the day that could limit the time they dedicate to their loved ones.

Regardless of the type of relationship, college proves to be a factor which determines the amount of free time a student has each day.

Chris Straface, licensed professional counselor at PCS Counseling Services, said college can create distance in relationships.

“That just adds more stress and strain on their time,” he said. “Focus on time management and realize that quality relationships are important.”

Due to the importance of relationships, Straface said communication with family or one’s significant other is necessary to have their support during stressful times.

“We just have to have open communication of what’s going on,” Straface said.

Taking the time to speak with people about their workload in school could be beneficial for a student who feels they cannot meet the needs of their family or

significant other.

However, problems still may arise in their relationships, whether it be caused be college related stress or not.

“At some point there’s going to be some conflict,” Straface said. “Recognize that it’s normal.”

Along with any type of relationship dysfunction, Straface said issues could occur in one’s daily lifestyle.

“It might affect their ability to complete school requirements,” Straface said.

Along with these issues in productivity, there could be other problems that occur in relationships, especially during times of family bonding.

Elizabeth Massengale, managing director of Texas Tech Parent and Family Relations, said the department works to connect students and their families through different programs.

“We also want to make sure the families are involved,” she said. “We have opportunities through Family Weekend.”

Whether it be Family Weekend, which are events that allow students and families to spend time together at college games or through other activities, or Sibling Saturday, which allows students to spend time with their younger siblings on campus, Massengale said family members still can interact with their student through a variety of ways.

“Hopefully, it sets parent and family member expec-

tations,” Massengale said.

“When you think about the limited time that students have to spend with their families, that comes in a variety of different ways.”

Whether a student is busy with a study session or overwhelmed with multiple exams, Massengale said there are many reasons why a student may not be able to spend time or speak with a family member. Setting expectations about a student’s college schedule and informing family about the changes they are experiencing, whether it be new perspectives or interests, are ways she said students can help their family interact in a positive manner.

“The students are starting a new chapter in their life,” she said. “Families have to start a new chapter in their life when their student goes off to college and expect that things will change.”

The change in communication, whether the students calls more or contacts their parents less, is an obstacle that could occur while they are attending college.

When a student starts college, Massengale said they will manage a schedule that is different from their previous high school schedule.

With this change, explaining to family members about the new schedule is necessary to work around issues.

“It’s just about being open and honest and explaining

what’s happening,” Massengale said. “It’s about good, clear communication and setting expectations.”

For some students and their loved ones, quality communication may not be sufficient when resolving conflicts.

Family or couple’s therapy are services that could provide people the help they need to overcome obstacles in any type of relationship.

Nicole Piland, director of the Tech Center for Family Systems Research and Intervention, said people should seek family or couple’s therapy before a major crisis can occur.

“When people reach the point that the efforts that they have made are not creating the changes they desire,” she said. “Unfortunately, people tend to wait until a big crisis happens to feel justified to take the step to get therapeutic services.”

If people pursue therapy more actively, Piland said less work is necessary from the clients. Whether one is cooperating with a family member or their romantic partner, she said a student can face similar challenges despite the type of relationship.

The perspective of the student is one aspect, Piland said can differ from the perspective of a family member or significant other.

“The most common dynamic is autonomy versus interdependence,” Piland said. “Some of the challenges that young couples

can face is still within that continuum between autonomy and interdependence.”

College students who leave home are people who normally operate on the autonomy position while their family may not cherish this independence. In terms of a couple’s relationship, she said the challenge is sparked from the need to focus on personal interests and goals along with concentrating on the relationship.

Despite the challenges one may face, Piland said being proactive and seeking an outside perspective can help people, especially students, realize the impactful issues that are hindering a relationship.

“You might not be recognizing another way to look at the situation because you’re in it,” she said.

“That’s one of the benefits of having someone serve in that therapeutic role.” @AdanRubioDT

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Riots in Paris over taxes and cost of living become worst in decades; 133 injured PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron asked for an evaluation of possible protest security measures Sunday, a day after a Paris demonstration against increased taxes and living costs devolved into France’s worst urban riot in a decade.

Hours after he flew back to the French capital from the G-20 summit in Argentina, Macron held an emergency meeting at the Elysee presidential palace while crews worked to remove charred cars, broken glass and graffiti from the famed Champs-Elysees Avenue and other top Paris sites.

Paris police said 133 people were injured, including 23 police officers, as crowds trashed the streets of the capital Saturday. Officers fired tear gas and used water cannon to tamp down the violence as protesters torched cars, smashed windows, looted stores and tagged the Arc de

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Earthquake doesn’t disrupt food, fuel supply to Alaska ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The supply chain of food and other goods delivered to the Port of Anchorage from the Lower 48 has not been disrupted by the powerful earthquake that caused widespread damage to roads in the Anchorage area.

“The ships are coming in on schedule, the supply lines are at this point uninterrupted,” Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz said Sunday at a news conference.

The magnitude 7.0 earthquake rattled the state’s largest city early Friday morning swaying buildings and fraying nerves. There were no reports of deaths, serious injuries or structural damage to buildings.

Roads, however, took t h e b r u n t o f t h e d a mage, especially the scenic Glenn Highway, the closest thing Alaska has to an interstate and links the state’s largest city to suburban communities to the north.

Triomphe with spray paint.

Paris police Prefect Michel Delpuech said some officers described encountering “unprecedented” violence, including protesters using hammers, gardening tools, bolts, aerosol cans as well as rocks in physical confrontations.

Some radical far-right and far-left activists were involved in the riot, as well as a “great number” of protesters wearing yellow jackets, Delpuech said. The fluorescent jackets, which French motorists are required to have in their cars for emergencies, are an emblem of a grassroots citizens’ movement protesting fuel taxes.

Fires were started at six buildings and more than 130 makeshift barricades and 112 vehicles were torched, Delpuech said.

Paris prosecutor Remy Heitz said 378 people remained in police custody as of Sunday evening, 33 of them minors.

Earlier Sunday, Macron

visited the Arc de Triomphe, which had damaged statues as well as graffiti. One slogan on the famed war memorial read: “Yellow jackets will triumph.”

He then headed to a nearby avenue where activists battled police on Saturday to meet with firefighters, police officers and restaurant owners.

At the security meeting, the French leader asked his interior minister to consider making “adaptations” to security procedures to try to contain ongoing protests sparked by rising fuel taxes, Macron’s office said in a statement.

Macron also asked Prime Minister Edouard Philippe to meet with the heads of France’s major political parties and representatives from the grassroots movement behind the protests.

Plans for an earlier meeting between the prime minister and representatives of the movement collapsed last week after a request to broadcast

the talks live was rejected.

It was the third straight weekend of clashes in Paris involving activists dressed in the yellow vests of the new protest movement. The grassroots protests began Nov. 17 with motorists upset over a fuel tax hike, but have grown to encompass a range of demands and complaints

that Macron’s government does not care about the problems of ordinary people.

The scene in Paris contrasted sharply with protests elsewhere in France that were mostly peaceful.

“It’s difficult to reach the end of the month. People work and pay a lot of taxes and we are fed up,” said Ra-

bah Mendez, a protester who marched peacefully Saturday in Paris.

Speaking in Buenos Aires before he flew home to Paris, Macron said he welcomed the views of protesters but vowed that those who participated in wreaking havoc would be held responsible for their behavior.

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The reality of finals stress on college students

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here does the time go during finals?

My sleep cycle has been thrown off from late nights studying, I’m stressed and I just tried taking melatonin before bed to get back to my normal rhythm.

It has helped, but the side-effect has been a week of over the top wild dreams.

Two nights ago, I dreamt I was in the drive-through at Chick-fil-A on University Avenue, and the swirling red Lubbock wind blew my car into the building. Last night I punched the lamp off my night stand genuinely believing it was the terrifying Providence College Friars mascot.

I ask myself, how did everyone still get their order

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on time in my dream with the correct sauce? How is it that a quick Google search of Providence College would let you understand my exact fear?

It’s midnight, it probably doesn’t matter and I’m too busy studying to figure it out.

I’ll be 26 years old in three weeks, and I’m about to lose my parents’ health insurance.

Like most of my life, I didn’t prepare for this in advance, and I took advantage of the benefit my parents could give me without thought. Now I’m thrust directly into the American healthcare discus-

sion. Do the health care providers who keep calling me know I’m a millennial with a negative net-worth?

I’m a quarter of a century year old, it’s 12:30 a.m., and I’m too busy studying and too afraid of my lamp to get to sleep now.

When I study past 12:30 a.m. for my tax exam, things start to get weird. I’m stressed, my senses are elevated and every little thing begins to irritate me.

The wall vibrates lightly from my neighbor’s speakers, and I think for a moment an earthquake has hit my home. I take too big a sip of water from my glass, and for a second, I truly believe I am about to drown. Flipping through flashcards a cat paw swipes at me from

under the desk, and I am convinced an intruder has broken into my home.

I’ve got a paper due Monday, a final on Tuesday and Wednesday and each is worth 100 percent of my grade in the individual course. Does one grade correctly reflect my understanding of a course’s material? Does one exam reflect the kind of lawyer I’m going to be? Have my professors ever experienced the Providence College mascot?

There are the anxietyfilled questions I ask myself when I’m too stressed to sleep. I’m one-fourth of 100 years old, it’s 12:45 a.m. and I am too busy learning tax law to go to sleep.

Perspective and self-reflection keep me grounded

when I realize I can’t study anymore. I start to work through the things that help me de-stress.

I place a bookmark unevenly in my textbook, write down in my planner what I need to do the next day. I sit and meditate or pray, accepting in silence whatever it is I need to unwind to get through the next day.

I get stuck on the thoughts and feelings I’ve pushed away throughout the day.

Why the hell did I send that long text message to my ex? Do I really want to be a lawyer if I always feel this stressed? Why am I so bothered by a college mascot?

I accept them for what they are — reflexing emotions, some easier than others to work through. I try to

label them without shame, so I recognize them and they don’t bother me as much the next time they bounce through my head. I keep moving forward until I can just think peacefully without the weight of a million thoughts coursing through my head.

I get my still-insured body to bed, and the cat-homeintruder curls up in a ball near my side. I adjust the bent lamp on my night stand and grab the New International Version Bible from my drawer and turn to the book of Ecclesiastes. The sun rises and the sun sets.

I’m 25. It’s 1:00 a.m., I have finals this week and I’m too tired to keep studying. @DailyToreador

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College both ruined and saved my life, and I couldn’t be more grateful

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or as long as I can remember, people told me college would be the best time of my life.

I believed this to be true when I began my freshman year at Texas Tech in fall 2014. However, as time went on, college was turning into the opposite of what people told me it would be.

Everything started out well for me. I met a group of good friends, I even had one friend from high school with me as well. Classes were a bit overwhelming, but I felt I could get the hang of them after a bit, and I didn’t have any roommate issues.

However, life has a funny way of building you up just to send you crashing down.

Due to various circumstances, the group of friends I made the first few weeks and I parted ways, and classes just got harder. I started isolating myself, eating out of pleasure and boredom and watching Netflix all day and night, but I had optimism in me still that sophomore year would be better.

Sophomore year arrived, and I rushed a fraternity. I was also able to get a job on campus. Things seemed to be back on track. Life decided to rear its ugly head again, though, and as the semester progressed, my mental health got worse and my happiness was diminished.

I felt I had become a shell of a person. I dropped from the fraternity. I hated my job but stayed because it was a steady income, and at one point, I told my mom I wanted to come home and never come back.

She told me to finish the semester and see if I still wanted to leave then, so that’s what I did. Thankfully, I decided to stay. However,

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I just became numb for the next year and a half. Life kept throwing its worst at me. When I told myself it couldn’t get any worse, it somehow did.

Junior year arrived, and I had never felt more alone, but I was so numb to the sadness that it took me some time to realize just how lonely that year had been for me. I almost never left the apartment and I spent my spare time eating and taking care of my dog. I had two friends at most, but they were always busy with their own lives.

The following summer, life decided to give one of its biggest blows to me yet. It’s something I’d rather not publish for the world to see, but it’s something that crushed me more than I led on.

That following August, something in me woke up.

I was not going to lay in my apartment all day getting fatter and sadder with each passing day. That is not how I wanted my senior year to be. I refused to let life take me down any longer.

I started eating less, I started doing things I enjoyed and I decided to leave my comfort zone and pursue something I had wanted since arriving to Tech four years prior. I decided to apply to write for The Daily Toreador.

I was quite familiar with the online application for The DT, as I had filled one out every single fall semester, however I never felt good enough, so I always closed the tab before hitting send.

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Although the feeling of not being good enough started to reemerge, I pushed it down long enough to hit submit.

A month went by and I hadn’t heard back. I remember calling my sister, feeling defeated. She told me to email someone who works there, however, I didn’t know who to email.

Life sure liked kicking me down, but it decided to throw me a bone the very next day after talking with my sister, as I received a college-wide email from Avery Aiken, the managing editor for The DT at the time. The email consisted of her asking students to apply to write for the publication. Almost immediately after, I emailed Avery to tell her I had applied prior, and I was hoping to speak to someone about a position soon.

A week after emailing her, I found myself in the interview room in The DT with Avery, and she offered me a job on the spot. To this day I’m not sure if she hired me right away because they were desperate for news writers or if I just impressed her that much, but I like to go with the latter.

The following months were some of the most stressful, work filled, exhausting and busiest of my life, but somehow, they became some of the best. I met amazing people such as Tori McGee, Grace Stark, Molly Mclendon, Nathan Needham and Akhila Reddy. My days were full of laughter and happiness again.

When it came time to apply for an editorial position, I hesitated at first. What if I’m not good enough? What if I’m not a good leader? Can I actually do this?

Fighting through that storm of self-doubt, I applied

for the news editor position, and I got it.

I was able to keep my cool about getting the job in front of everyone at The DT, but I assure you, I called everyone with the biggest smile on my face to tell them I got the job. My last semester at Tech, I would be working as the news editor for The Daily Toreador.

Remember when I said the 2017-2018 school year was the most stressful, work filled, exhausting and busiest months of my life? It doesn’t hold a candle to the craziness of this past semester. From drama with the Board of Regents to accidental campuswide evacuations to staying in the newsroom until 2 a.m. on Election Night, my time as news editor has been a rollercoaster. The best rollercoaster I have ever been on, might I add.

So, as I write this farewell column, I look back at my time at Tech and I reflect.

Was college really the best time of my life or was that just a sham? I’m sure one would say I probably feel conned and college was the worst time of my life, but it was quite the opposite.

Sure, it had its road bumps, but they pale in comparison to the many small moments that I’ll treasure for the rest of my life.

Wa t c h i n g “ P h a n t o m of the Opera” and developing a weird obsession with the movie with Claire Bendtschneider; Joy Ramirez and I intentionally making our co-workers mad by blasting Taylor Swift and saying we’re best friend goal; going to every formal with Jamie Winegeart; celebrating a dysfunctional but amazing and irreplaceable friendship with Shelby Ou-

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bre; these are the memories I look back at and feel my heart fill with happiness.

Now for the sake of ending this column before it reaches five pages, because believe me, I can do that, let me just say I’m forever grateful for Avery Aiken and McKenzi Morris for having faith in me, even when I didn’t.

Michael Cantu, I know I frustrated you more times than you can count, but I’ll forever be in your debt for teaching me so much about how to be a good journalist, and I can only dream to be even a fraction of the journalist you are.

Fall Editorial Board, I will forever cherish our constant laughs and the stories we told when we put the paper together twice a week. Although we probably looked and sounded crazy to the average person, those were some of my favorite moments.

Staff members at The DT, keep up the hard work. I know things can be hard and the work can be stressful and its a thankless job, but just know your work is amazing and very much appreciated.

I’m proud of the person I am today. I still have my days, and I still have my moments of self-doubt, but I’m not the same person I was when I moved into the fifth floor of Weymouth Hall.

I wouldn’t be who I am today if it weren’t for Tech, all of the nonsense I went through, all of the people I met, all of the tears I shed and all of the laughs I had.

For that, I will forever be grateful.

I love you Tech and The Daily Toreador. Thank you for everything. @MattSetzekornDT

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Ranching Heritage Center prepares for Candlelight at the Ranch

By BRIANNA MALDONADO Staff Writer

The National Ranching Heritage Center is getting ready for one of their most anticipated events of the year – Candlelight at the Ranch.

Jim Bret Campbell, the executive director of the NRHC, said the event began as a way to feature the Ranching Center with a Christmas event.

For its 40th annual Candlelight at the Ranch, Campbell said the center has largely kept the same structure from the first event. Volunteers will be in period dress in most of their outdoor structures and participate in activities they would have in the early 1800s and 1900s – including baking, sewing and making Christmas decorations.

“Some of the things that we did, and we continue to do, is highlight the way of life during those time periods,” Campbell said. “It was a way for them then, and us

now, to bring the community together, bring folks in and let them enjoy (the center) and provide living history.”

Most things will be candlelit or lanterns as a form of light, he said, and campfires and the heaters in the structures will provide warmth.

Reaching around 1,000 attendees for the first Candlelight, Campbell said it has grown to more than 8,000 people within the two nights. He said it is a unique opportunity to take part in the values the American West represents.

“It’s a great tradition.

People bring their third and sometimes fourth generation to participate,” he said. “It’s a real testament of what this facility means to the community, and the success that Candlelight has had from the very beginning.

People realize that there wouldn’t be a Lubbock, Texas, without ranching.”

With over 300 volunteers participating in Candlelight,

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At Candlelight at the Ranch, volunteers in period dress participate in various activities of the early 1800s and 1900s. Last year, members of the Texas Tech Ranch Horse Team camped out by a chuck wagon to depict cowboys spending Christmas on the range.

Campbell said the event requires a tremendous amount of work and dedication.

Carol McDonald has been a volunteer at the Barton House structure since 2009.

By getting involved through her daughter, McDonald

said she always enjoyed her time and decided to become a continuous volunteer for the NRHC, helping almost every Saturday.

“Getting to dress up is just the icing on the cake,” she said, “But it’s meeting

the people that come out here. We’ve had people from France, Germany and Australia come (to Candlelight).”

For the almost 50 structures, 20 will be on display during Candlelight. McDonald said they are the original buildings, and all the structures are facing exactly the same way they were on their piece of land.

John Levacy has been a volunteer for the NRHC since 1990, assisting in whittling, leatherwork and playing guitar. Growing up with an interest in Texas and Western history, he said the NRHC allows him to share his interests with visitors.

“Our structures at the Ranching Heritage Center are not just buildings, they represent the people that settled the country and how they lived,” he said. “People should understand how things came to be and look around and realize that just 140 years ago, there was nothing here but grass. Each of the structures we have

were occupied by people who wrote their page in history.”

Visitors at Candlelight will get a glimpse of how people celebrated the season through the 1800s and early 1900s, Levacy said. Although the volunteers in period dress will not be allowed to speak with the public, he said Candlelight resembles a living Christmas card.

“Some of the (activities) people don’t do anymore, but how do you know where you’re going if you don’t know where you’ve been?” he said.

“This gives them a chance to see where they’ve been. This is a chance to step back in time and see what a holiday season was like over 140 years ago.”

The event will be hosted at the National Ranching Heritage Center on Friday, Dec. 7, and Saturday, Dec. 8, from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.

It is free to the public, but a donation of $5 per family is suggested, according to the center’s website. @DailyToreador

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Raiders of the Last Archive exhibit showcases Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library

By AKHILA REDDY L a Vida Editor

In 1925, Texas Tech’s first librarian, Elizabeth Howard West, decided to start putting items away and saving old ranching records.

Today, her small collection has grown into the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, the most extensive historical repository in this region.

To showcase the many collections and items in the archives, Lyn Stoll, lead archival associate at the SWC/ SCL, organized the “Raiders of the Last Archive” exhibit.

The exhibit consists of items from each collection in the SWC/SCL that have never been displayed before.

“The Raiders of the Last Archive is a fun exhibit,” Stoll said, “And we’re exhibiting some items that have never been exhibited before, and it’s really some hidden treasures that you can find in different collections.”

There are millions of items in the SWC/SCL, Stoll said, many that have never been displayed before. The items in the collections are diverse and reach past West Texas.

“You know, you would think that in West Texas all that they would have would be ranching records, but we have all those other collections,” she said, “And so that’s what makes it a much broader experience to come, and that’s what you can see in the exhibit.”

Stoll asked the archivists of each collection to select an item they felt needed to see the light of day for the exhibit, she said.

Robert Weaver, assistant archivist at the SWC/SCL, contributed to approximately a fifth of the exhibit, representing the Southwest Collection.

Other SWC/SCL collections on display in the exhibit include the Sowell Family Collection in Literature, Community and the Natural Word, the University Archives, the Crossroads of Music Archive and the rare books collections, Weaver said.

Although they are not part of the SWC/SCL library, the Vietnam Center and Archive, one of the largest collections on the Vietnam War, and the Remnant Trust, containing rare manuscripts, also contributed to the exhibit.

“They have so many great artifacts from helmets and uniforms to guns and Lord knows what else,” Weaver said. “So, they selected their items and put those in their as did the Remnant Trust, which is sort of a rare books educational portion of the archives that we share the building with as well.”

Items in the exhibit include a canoe paddle used by an author from the Sowell Collection, an adding machine and ranching ledger from the Southwest Collection, a helmet bag from the Vietnam Center and Archive and more.

Lynn Whitfield, associate archivist at the SWC/SWL, contributed a Masked Rider miniature saddle and stand from the University Archives to the exhibit. Each of the former riders got a saddle with personalized stands with their names.

“I kind of did that because one of our favorite

traditions at Texas Tech is our mascots,” Whitfield said. “The ghost rider is the origin of the Masked Rider, and so I thought this would be a good way to promote Texas Tech history.”

Having each archivist contribute to the exhibit, and placing the exhibit near the front doors was Stoll’s idea, Weaver said. It shows students and other viewers the extent of the collections.

“First off, our exhibit’s preparator Lyn Stoll, this may be her last exhibit,” Weaver said. “She’s been talking about retiring, and she’s done exhibits for us for almost 20 years and has worked with each of these departments and knew all of the good stuff that we all have to share. So she wanted to do a big piece that showed every single thing in the building to people.”

Students should come see the exhibit because it is representative of the collections as a whole, Stoll said.

It might alert students to

different holdings they are interested in or want to learn more about.

“Well, it’s something that they might not know is here,” Stoll said. “And it’s not just a bunch of old papers.”

The archives contain items and records researchers come from around the world to look at, Whitfield said, particularly in areas the museum specializes in such as ranching history, agriculture history and sports history.

Having these materials is an opportunity for students, Whitfield said. The archives are here to help students do whatever research or answer whatever question they may have.

“Our focus is to save our histories, to ensure that people have access to that history,” Whitfield said. “History is not accurate without different viewpoints, if there’s only one that’s represented, so for us, that’s kind of what we want to do.” @AkhilaReddyDT

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Wells dedicated to winning now, not later

By AUSTIN WATTS Managing Editor

To the applause of many, Matt Wells, the 16th head coach of the Texas Tech Red Raiders football program, was introduced to an energized crowd on Saturday in the United Supermarkets Arena.

The reasoning for the applause was Wells commitment to not only this team and the players on it, but to winning football, especially sooner, along with later.

Despite Tech’s struggles last season and the 5-7 finish, Wells envisions the Red Raider football program as in a “reload mode” rather than in the “rebuild mode” many thought a new coach may bring.

“As this process started there were three things that initially I think got me really fired up about Texas Tech,” Wells said. “One of them is the explosive offenses that have been, I think, pretty synonymous with Texas Tech football in many recent years. The current talent on the team, all right? This is a reload, not a rebuild. There’s guys here that can play.”

After former head coach Kliff Kingsbury was relieved of his duties, Tech Athletic Director Kirby Hocutt, along with Tech President Lawrence Schovanec, started the search for the 16th head coach in program history.

Despite rumblings that former Tech head coaches

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Matt Wells coaches during a game at Utah State. In his last season with the team, the Aggies went 10-2 and earned a spot in a bowl game. Wells is bringing offensive coordinator David Yost and defensive coordinator Keith Patterson to Tech from Utah State.

or offensive coordinators would be in the mix for the job, Wells emerged as the primary candidate, and was officially announced by Hocutt in a press conference Thursday night.

“It’s with great enthusiasm that we announce tonight that coach Matt Wells is going to be joining us as head football coach, and I couldn’t be more excited,” Hocutt said. “As we worked through our process over the past number of days, (Wells) became our focus and our candidate.”

Wells, a former quarterback at Utah State, spent the last eight years coaching as his alma mater. Brought on to the Utah State staff in 2011 as the quarterbacks and running back coach, Wells was promoted to offensive coordinator in 2012, before taking over as head coach in 2013.

In six years at Utah State, Wells amassed a 4434 record, and helped the Aggies to five bowl games in six seasons. Since Wells joined the staff in 2011, Utah State has made seven bowl appearances, which accounts for seven of Utah State’s 12 bowl games over the schools 106-year history.

“Right now, it’s the golden age of Utah State football,” Wells said. “120 some years of Utah State football, last eight years been to seven bowl games. A remarkable run.”

Wells preached his commitment to Tech during his introductory conference, but he also preached his commitment to the players on this team. Many wondered the fate of vari-

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Texas Tech football coach Matt Wells, Tech Director of Athletics Kirby Hocutt and Tech President Lawrence Schovanec put their Guns Up during the “Matador Song” at Wells’ welcoming press conference at Saturday, Dec. 1, 2018, in the United Supermarkets Arena. Wells was hired on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018, after being the head coach at Utah State for six seasons. ous star players from the Kingsbury-era, but as of now it appears that Wells and his coordinators will work to build around these players, rather than casting them aside.

“I quickly researched it, I don’t know everything, but I know enough to say these guys deserve the chance to win right now,” Wells said.

“This senior class coming up deserves the chance to win right now. I’ll tell you what, the staff we are going to put together will pour every bit of heart and soul into these guys, this team, not just for this year, but for the years to come.”

Wells has already started to round out his coaching staff, as he brings both of his coordinators from his time at Utah State. Offensive Coordinator David Yost joins the Red Raiders after spending two years with Wells at Utah State.

On the opposite side of the ball, Keith Patterson will be Tech’s defensive coordinator, with his two years at West Virginia providing experience and insight on defense in the Big 12.

“We, when I say ‘we’, you’re going to hear me say that a lot because that’s what (Wells, Yost and Patterson) are all about, these two guys down here, some more to come, we left a phenomenal program, one that we built for a long time at Utah State. It was a tough, to be

real honest, and emotional decision for me,” Wells said.

“A lot of that was because that was my school, I was an alumni there. I knew it would take somewhere special, somewhere with a vision to where they wanted to go, how they wanted to go, and someone is going to have to paint that picture for me in a very real and vivid way.

These two (Schovanec and Hocutt) did.”

Over Kingsbury’s tenure at Tech, the struggles to recruit overshadowed what Kingsbury was able to do with talented prospects once he got them, and overtime Tech struggled to replace star talent through the years. Wells wasted no time in assuring the fanbase that he can successfully recruit in the state of Texas, but that he also has the staff necessary to do so.

“These guys have recruited Texas,” Wells said. “ D a v i d Yo s t h a s n e v e r coached in Texas but recruited quarterbacks all over the state. A lot of guys know him. We are going to have a lot of guys with Texas ties as well as Texas recruiting ties.”

Finally, Wells reiterated why he came to Tech, and what drove him to move on from his alma mater to come to Lubbock. Wells thanked both Hocutt and Schovanec for sharing their vision of the program with

him, and for helping him find a school that fits the way he likes to play and coach football.

I’ll tell you what, the staff we are going to put together will pour every bit of heart and soul into these guys, this team, not just for this year, but for the years to come.

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HEAD COACH “I know absolutely what we do on offense is going to be really close to being a lot more same as than different. I think it’s the current talent, the players right now, and it’s recruiting Texas football,” Wells said on why he chose Tech. “You don’t have to go very far to get your guys. I think all of that is conducive to having great success. That’s what I knew from the outside, okay? Once I got a vision to the inside, the visionary thoughts of both the President and Kirby, I think that’s what ended up selling me.” @AustinWattsDT

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David Yost joining Wells Keith Patterson bringing as offensive coordinator defensive style to Tech

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David Yost, Texas Tech’s new offensive coordinator, talks to other coaches on the sideline during a Utah State spring game.

Keith Patterson, Texas Tech’s new defensive coordinator, looks toward the field during one of Utah State’s scrimmages.

By AUSTIN WATTS Managing Editor

While news of Texas Tech football head coach Matt Wells’ hiring dominated the press last week, the announcement of his coordinators also drew the attention of fans, as each one will bring something special to the table for the Red Raiders.

Offensively, the guy is David Yost, Tech’s newest offensive coordinator. Yost also spent time at Utah State with Wells, having coached there since 2016.

Prior to joining Wells at Utah State, Yost was the offensive coordinator for Missouri from 2001-2012, while the Tigers were still in the Big 12 conference. After leaving Missouri, Yost spent time at both Washington State and Oregon.

Schematically, Yost brings more of the same that Tech is accustomed to, having coached the third best scoring offense in 2018 at Utah State.

Described as a mix of both no-huddle and spread, Yost and Wells’ expect to continue that success at Tech with even more offensive talent available to utilize.

A big portion of that talent comes in the form of Alan Bowman, the true freshman quarterback who took Tech by storm in 2018. Quickly becoming a fan favorite, Bowman’s future at Tech drew more speculation and was constantly referenced by media and fans alike during the hiring process. Bowman reiterated that he is a Red Raider and

will look forward to working with Wells and Yost.

“I love the university, I love it here, I feel like I’m in a good spot,” Bowman said.

“Little close to home, five hours away, love the team, the atmosphere here is nuts, and obviously running the same air-raid offense, I’m glad to be here for sure.”

Furthering the belief that Bowman will be utilized by this new coaching staff is Yost’s history with previous star quarterbacks. In his various tenures at different schools, Yost has worked with Brad Smith, Chase Daniel, Justin Herbert and Blaine Gabbert, all of which saw success at the collegiate level. Yost said Bowman is one of the more talented quarterbacks that he has gotten to work with.

“Actually, I worked out Alan twice, got down here in January, and then in the spring I came down here and he threw for me,” Yost said.

“We got to see a guy that’s tremendously talented at throwing the football, but I think probably the best part about Alan is the off-the-field stuff ... He’s kind of a football junkie, falls right into that and can be a guy that we can put a lot on and give a lot of responsibility, and he can go out and make us look good.”

Yost’s scheme offensively is built around scoring and scoring fast, with a hightempo attack being the base of the offense, but also having a slower-paced spread attack to fall back on, depending on the state and

situation of the game.

“Our tempo is probably the thing that is the biggest difference. We’re gonna try and go as fast as we can, every snap, it’s part of our DNA,” Yost said.

However, both Yost and Wells realize that the talent leftover from the Kingsburyera has experience and skill sets based toward the spread offense, and that that portion of the offense won’t be forgotten.

“Once we don’t go tempo, is when we slow down, we look to the sidelines, then we turn into more of a spread offense. When you see us look to the sideline, that’s when you’re going to see a lot more of the ‘same-as,’ what has gone on here before,” Yost said.

Yost expects there to be a good amount of balance in his offense, with last year’s Utah State team finishing top-20 in passing and top35 in rushing, according to Tech Athletics. Yost said a good portion of that balance comes from having a tight end, something Tech has moved away from over the last few seasons.

“A lot of our run game comes off our tempo. We’re a zone team and a gap team, and we’re going to run both of those, gives our guys up front the best opportunity to attack what the defense does,” Yost said. “We use a tight end in our offense, and that’s probably the biggest change from teams that run the air-raid.” @AustinWattsDT

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By AUSTIN WATTS With the hiring of Matt Wells last week as head coach of the Texas Tech football program, another accompanying announcement was that Keith Patterson will accompany Wells from Utah State to fill the role of defensive coordinator.

Patterson’s coaching history includes one season at Utah State where the Aggies defense improved from 67th in scoring in defense to 38th under Patterson’s guidance. Prior to joining Wells at Utah State, Patterson spent two seasons at West Virginia as defensive coordinator under Dana Holgorsen and three seasons as the defensive coordinator at Arizona State.

He also spent time as a high school coach in Oklahoma and Texas, making him familiar with the area in terms of recruiting.

Overall, Patterson brings nearly 30 years of coaching experience at both the collegiate and high school level to Tech.

“I love the challenge (of coaching defense in the offensive-minded Big 12). I would say for the better part of 10 years, is the fact that we were a completely style of defense back probably 12 years ago,” Patterson said. “We were not to say a bend-but-don’t-break, but we were a sound fundamental football team. Stop the run, stay sound vertically

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as a linebacker,” Patterson said. “So that particular position is a kid that has more DB skills. Our boundary linebacker, which I just changed yesterday to the ‘Raider’ position, is a young man that possesses a little more defensive end, passrush ability.”

Despite changing jobs and schools several times over the last few decades, Patterson said the choice to follow Wells to Tech was an easy one, since he trusts Wells and enjoys the opportunities Wells allows him as defensive coordinator.

“The type of man coach Wells is, he allows me to coach, he allows me to do what I love to do and have a passion for, and that’s defense. I just wasn’t gonna tie myself to anyone when I left Arizona State,” Patterson said. “My whole thing was I’m gonna coach for someone that I know and someone that I trust.”

Wells reiterated the aggression that Patterson said his defense is known for and emphasized that Patterson, offensive coordinator David Yost and himself were a package deal.

“On defense we base out of the odd front,” Wells said.

“We’ll be a multiple pressure package team that are going to be coached and played in a major aggressive manner, all right? We have tweaked, my whole thing, when you hire Matt Wells, you’re going to hire our team, our program, all right?” @AustinWattsDT

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in coverage, and then here comes a guy by the name Gus Malzahn as our offensive coordinator … so what I tried to do over the course of the last 10 years is design a program, system to where (we can get turnovers).”

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In front of approximately 25,000 students, alumni and community members, more than 25,000 lights on the Texas Tech campus were illuminated with the flip of a switch during the 60th annual Carol of Lights on Friday, Nov. 30. The Tech tradition is hosted by the Residence Halls Association each year. For the 60th anniversary, Alumni Association President and CEO Bill Dean flipped the switch just like he did at the inaugural Carol of Lights. For full coverage of this year’s, including a slideshow of more photos, visit www.dailytoreador.com.

The Texas Tech campus is lit with multi-colored lights during the 60th annual Carol of Lights on Friday, Nov. 30,2018. Each year more than 25,000 lights are strung around campus and a Christmas tree is put near Memorial Circle to celebrate the holiday season. PHOTO BY CIARA PEROZZI/The Daily Toreador Texas Tech President Lawrence Schovanec speaks to the crowd during Carol of Lights Friday, Nov. 30, 2018, on the steps of the Geosciences building. As part of the tradition, the Tech trombone choir and university choir performed popular holiday songs at the event, including “Come AllYe Faithful,” “Oh, Holy Night” and “Joy to the World.” This year’s event was the 60th anniversary of Carol of Light, a Tech tradition that dates back to 1959.

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