Annual Dia de los Muertos ProcessionTime: 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.Where: From 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., at the International Cultural Center; from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., at Landmark Arts; from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., at Louise Hop-kins Underwood Center for the Arts; from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., at the Buddy Holly CenterSo, what is it?A collection of artists, musicians, speakers and exhibits will honor the Day of the Dead at the listed four sites. All are welcome to at-tend.

HKN Haunted BasementTime: 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.Where: Basement laboratories in the electrical engineering buildingSo, what is it?For just $3, come explore this spooky haunted house, a 50-year-old tradition.

Lubbock Fall CarnivalTime: 7 p.m.Where: Metropolitan Community Church, 4501 University Ave.So, what is it?Celebrate Halloween at the fall carnival. There will be booths with

free games and prizes as well as a food booth where you can purchase hot dogs and other goodies. Be sure to come dressed up for the costume contest.

Second Annual ScareHouse: Hangar of HorrorsTime: 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.Where: Lubbock International Airport So, what is it?The Beta Sigma chapter of Alpha Phi Omega hosts its second annual scare house and food drive to ben-efi t the South Plains Food Bank.

University Symphony Orchestra Halloween HauntcertTime: 3 p.m.Where: Hemmle Recital Hall, School of MusicSo, what is it? Come enjoy this Halloween-themed concert full of eerie and spooky tunes.

To make a calendar submission e-mail dailytoreador@ttu.edu.

Events will be published either the day or the day before they take place. Submissions must be sent in by 4 p.m. on the preced-ing publication date.

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — More than two dozen protesters rallied outside of a high school Thursday to call for the resignation of a school board member who posted on Facebook that he thinks gay youths should kill themselves.

Among the more than 30 gay rights supporters who gathered outside of Midland High School in Pleasant Plains were Midland alumni, members of a University of Central Arkansas gay and lesbian group, and others who had driven in from Little Rock and Fayette-ville in the state’s northwest corner, according to Little Rock television station KTHV.

They were calling for the resignation of board member Clint McCance, who in a Facebook posting scoffed at a cam-paign asking supporters to wear purple Oct. 20 to show solidarity after several gay and lesbian youths killed themselves, reportedly because of bullying.

“Seriously they want me to wear purple because fi ve queers killed them-selves,” McCance wrote. “The only way

I’m wearin it for them is if they all com-mit suicide. I cant believe the people of this world have gotten this stupid. We are honoring the fact that they sinned and killed thereselves because of their sin.”

In a follow-up response to Facebook users who criticized his comments, McCance wrote that he liked that gay people “can’t procreate (and) I also enjoy the fact that they often give each other AIDS and die.”

Counter-demonstrators also showed up outside the school and waived Bibles and fl ags in support of McCance.

McCance did not immediately respond to a phone message left Thurs-day at his carpet cleaning business, and there was no answer at a number listed for his home.

Several gay rights groups have con-demned the Facebook posting, including the Human Rights Campaign, which launched its own Facebook page calling for McCance’s resignation. More than 55,000 users clicked they “liked” the page, showing their support.

Gay rights backers demand school offi cial’s resignation

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BETHANY CASTILLO, A junior exercise sports sciences major from Plano, plays baseball during a sports psychology lab Thursday outside of the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreational Center.

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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — As the Notre Dame football team drilled on its practice fi eld, Declan Sullivan stood high above the turf in a hydraulic lift, videotaping the session so players could get an aerial view of their performance.

Suddenly, the wind, already whip-ping so much that Sullivan tweeted that it was “terrifying,” surged as high as 51 mph.

The lift toppled over, crashing through a fence before coming to rest in a street just behind a goal post.

“Things started fl ying by me that had been stationary for all of practice — Gatorade containers, towels,” Ath-

letic Director Jack Swarbrick recalled Thursday. “I noticed the netting by the goal post start to bend dramatically, and I heard a crash.”

Sullivan, a junior fi lm student from the Chicago suburb of Long Grove, Ill., was taken to a hospital, but Swarbrick said he received a call from the ambu-lance before it arrived saying that the 20-year-old was not breathing. The young man was soon pronounced dead.

Most such lifts extend to about 50 feet, but Swarbrick said he did not know how high Sullivan was when the machine fell over, and it was unclear who authorized Sullivan to go up in it.

As a student worker, Sullivan re-ported to a video coordinator associated with the football team. Swarbrick said the decision to practice outdoors is left up to individual athletic programs.

A workplace safety expert said the lift should never have been used in such blustery conditions.

The university pledged to review its policy for using the lifts.

“We’re going to look at how it was done this day,” Swarbrick said, adding that at least one other student was in a lift at the same time as Sullivan.

Just before the practice began, Sul-livan posted Twitter messages in which

Notre Dame investigates death at football practicehe said “Gusts of wind up to 60 mph today will be fun at work ... I guess I’ve lived long enough.”

Less than an hour before the ac-cident, he tweeted again, saying it was “terrifying” to be on the tower in the high winds.

Ellie Hall, another Notre Dame fi lm student who had friends in common with Sullivan, told The Associated Press in an e-mail that she was “horrifi ed” by the “eerily prophetic nature” of the tweets, which she captured in a screen shot and later described in a contribution to the Huffi ngton Post.

Within hours of Sullivan’s death, his family made his Facebook profi le, and the messages, private, Hall said.

Swarbrick said he was aware of the tweets and promised to look into “all the dynamics” that preceded Sullivan’s death.

A safety consultant with Workplace Group LLC, a Chapel Hill, N.C.-based consortium with expertise in occupa-tional safety, said wind gusts of 50 mph are much too high for the safe outdoor use of any scissor lift.

Some manufacturers make lifts that can be used in winds up to 25 mph, but W. Jon Wallace said he would recom-mend against using a lift in winds above 10 mph because the higher the winds, the more unstable the equipment be-comes.

SUDHEER JINKA, LEFT, and Seshadri Ramkumar stand in front of the cotton non-woven machine used to create Fibertect, a product currently being used as a decontamination wipe.

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“It is a great achievement for Texas Tech University,” he said. “Fibertect is being applied in the military fi eld and oil spills, and we are now fi nding broad applications and appeal in the global market from Hong Kong and India.”

The recognition by Cotton Inc. shows that non-woven cotton products such as Fibertect are leading the charge in fi nding new applications for cotton, Ramkumar said.

“The selection is very humbling,” he said. “It makes us feel like we are contributing in a small way to the U.S. cotton industry.”

The continued success of Fibertect, along with its growing number of appli-cations, shows cotton is a very versatile fi ber, Ramkumar said.

“It gives us a competitive edge,” he said, “and it puts the university into a great position from a strategic research standpoint.”

Amit Kapoor, the president of First Line Technologies, helps to commer-cially distribute Fibertect to various governmental agencies.

“We sell to the federal government for fi rst-line defense in Homeland Secu-rity, along with state and local govern-ments,” he said. “The government came to us looking for an innovative way of decontamination, which is how we initially got involved with Fibertect.”

The versatility of Fibertect makes it applicable in many different areas, Kapoor said.

“We can make a glove, called the Fibertect mitt, which can be used to decontaminate people,” he said. “Dr. Ramkumar did inside testing on Fibertect for use in oil spills, and we promoted it along with a new applica-tion into natural gas to catch harmful vapors while drilling.”

Kapoor said there could also be various commercial applications for Fibertect, extending its use beyond governmental agencies.

“In the future, Fibertect could be utilized commercially, with something like gas stations to clean up any oil leaks or spills,” he said. “It would be a much better method than what is currently used.”

Kater Hake, vice president of ag-ricultural and environmental research at Cotton Incorporated, said it is the main effort of Cotton Inc. to get more

non-woven cotton products such as Fibertect.

“We are looking at utilizing cotton beyond textiles,” he said. “Fibertect is a product that can be directly used to clean up environmental problems such as oil spills.”

Another reason Fibertect was cho-sen as a top innovation was due to its bio-degradability, Hake said.

“While the bulk of wipes do not degrade and are single-use products,” he said, “Fibertect is unique in that it is a natural product that can degrade, and

from a production standpoint, it uses a renewable resource.”

Cotton Incorporated strives to stay on top of cotton innovations, either through funding or co-development, Hake said.

“Particularly, Fibertect is an innova-tion that is especially benefi cial for the high plains,” he said, “where cotton is discounted in the marketplace, allow-ing the advantages of non-wovens to shine through due to the efforts of cre-ative organizations such as Texas Tech.”➤➤brian.howard@ttu.edu

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There are three bags of cof-fee at the store. The girl at the front of the line chooses the most expensive bag. It is only $2 more, but to a college student on a budget, $2 makes a difference. So, why did she buy that bag?

Texas Tech’s Seva chapter passed out free fair-trade coffee outside the Student Union Build-ing yesterday morning to explain why students should buy that bag.

“Fair-trade coffee pays the entire supply chain of farmers fair pay for their coffee,” said Seva vice president Ryan Culb-ertson, a master’s student in in-terdisciplinary studies from Fort Worth. “In third-world countries, farmers who grow the coffee are cheated in order to save money for the consumer. So, by buying fair trade, you ensure the farmers making the coffee are getting a fair amount of money.”

Culbertson said the farmers use the pay to feed their families and provide education for their children so they can continue farming for generations.

“It’s a way of helping those in third-world countries,” Culbert-son said. “It’s important for the world and for the ecosystem, and it tastes better.”

Most students who tasted the coffee agreed the coffee tasted better than what they normally buy, Culbertson said. The con-stant line of at least five students attested to that.

The president of Seva, Tina Arons, a master’s student in education from San Saba, said she was impressed with the high turnout of students.

“Students really like the idea of fair-trade coffee,” Arons said. “It’s just a matter of getting them to take that next step and start

Seva gives free fair trade coffeeBy CAROLINE COURTNEY

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paying that little bit extra for the coffee.”

Arons said her goal is to make students a little more aware of where those $2 are going and to show them that it is not a waste of money. It is truly making a dif-ference in someone’s life.

“Personally, I buy fair-trade coffee because I know without a doubt that I am helping some-one who truly needs it,” Arons said. “It achieves Seva’s goals of promoting awareness and activ-ism for social justice because it’s helping farmers.”

Fair-trade coffee empowers farmers, but it is also good for the environment and increases biodi-versity. Because it is organically grown, it cuts down on pesticides, which is better for consumers and

better for the farmer, Arons said. “Most people here just don’t

know a lot about fair-trade cof-fee,” Arons said. “So, hopefully through this, we can bring a little more attention to how much of a difference students can make.”

Emma Dawson, a senior public relations major from Carrolton who had never heard of fair-trade coffee, said she was attracted to the Seva table solely for the chance to get free coffee.

After speaking with Arons, however, Dawson said she was glad she came for coffee because she got to learn about a great cause and an easy way to get involved.

“I know as a student, it’s hard not having very much money and only limited resources to

help others, and you focus on yourself more,” Dawson said. “I think the simple act of buying a different coffee is a great way for students to get involved globally in a local way.”

As a student, Dawson said she understands it is hard to find the time or money to give to someone so far away, but said it is some-thing she always tries to put first in her life.

“It’s not about me,” Dawson said. “It’s about serving the world and giving back because my fi-nances and what I’ve been given are not mine, they’re God’s. Spending an extra $2 on coffee is a great deal if it’s going to help others, and it’s something that every student can do.”➤➤caroline.courtney@ttu.edu

RYAN CULBERTSON, AN interdisciplinary studies graduate student from Ft. Worth, talks about how Fair Trade coffee is organic, with Yvonne Jimison, on left, a senior environmental conservation of natural resources major from Ft. Collins Colo., and Audrya Houde, a junior occupational therapy major from Boerne, on Thurs-day outside the Student Union Building.

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The crew of the latest “Mis-sion: Impossible” will have at least one tall task: fi lming shots involving the world’s highest building.

The fi lmmakers are being tight-lipped about plot details and where exactly they plan to shoot in Dubai. But star Tom Cruise and producer Bryan Burk did let slip Thursday that the fourth installment of the big screen series will feature scenes with the Mid-east city-state’s more than half-mile-high (828-meter-high) Burj Khalifa.

“I’ll be spending many days, many hours on the side of this building,” Cruise told The Associated Press at the base of the silvery spire. “I can’t give you details, but I will be up there,” he said.

Unlike previous sequels in the spy franchise, the fourth installment will go without a number. Cruise blew its cover Thursday: “Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol.”

Cruise is in the emirate with his family to shoot scenes for the movie after wrapping up fi lming in the Czech capital Prague. Co-stars Paula Patton from “Precious” and Jeremy Renner from “The Hurt Locker” are also in town.

In an interview, Cruise dismissed talk that he’d taken a big upfront pay cut for this “Mission: Impossible.”

The 48-year-old star, who most recently appeared alongside Cameron Diaz in the poorly performing “Knight and Day,” laughed off a question about

‘Mission: Impossible’ sets bar highwhether he was still bankable at this stage of his career. “No worries” was his brief response.

And as for speculation he could reprise his role as Lt. Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in a Top Gun sequel? Cruise was noncommittal.

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Another feature offered for the event was the “Boo Bus” for shuttling families from dorm to dorm. Wesley Hayes, a freshman biochemistry major from Flower Mound, lead the bus as “Roskono-kov,” a crazy Russian doctor.

“It is a very big campus, after all,” Hayes said in his best Rosko-nokov voice. “It would be most un-fortunate if everyone had to walk.”

Hayes offered to help families and answer questions, and he was also a part of the true purpose of the evening—giving kids candy.

Lexi Carpenter, a sophomore biology major from Whitesboro, said RHA provided “truckloads” of candy to the complexes and facilitated the entire event.

This year, Carpenter is just

handing out candy; last year, she was a big part of the planning for the Wall/Gates complex. She still wanted to participate this year, to get to see all the fun costumes and help give back.

“We do this to provide positive relationships with the community,” Carpenter said. “A lot of people only hear about parties that get busted or muggings.”

Parents agreed that this helped Tech’s reputation. Misty Strick-land, who brought her four chil-dren, ages 2 to 13, said it was the fi rst year, but she’d defi nitely come back.

“All the things Tech students do for kids are pretty cool,” she said. “It sends a good message to the kids, to give back. It shows that even though (the volunteers) are in college, little kids are still important.”

ALI ROGERS, A freshman art history major from Mansfi eld, paints the face of Yolanda Natal, 8, during Safe Treat on Thursday in Wall/Gates Residence Hall.

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With the midterm elec-tions now just days away, it will be inter-

esting to see how the second half of Obama’s term plays out with the distinct possibility that Republicans will control the House of Represen-tatives.

The Republicans, if in control of the House, may or may not continue their platform of pure obstruction-ism while simultaneously not add-ing anything of value to American political discourse. Or, alternatively, now that they may be responsible for a chamber of Congress, Repub-licans may actually decide to play a proactive role in legislation since any positive outcomes wouldn’t be viewed solely as a “Democratic victory.”

Whatever be the case, the Unit-ed States should hope that a Re-publican House of Representatives does not lead to the severe austerity measures currently seen in European nations such as Greece, Britain and France. Dramatic cuts in govern-ment spending at this time, in an economy that makes up one quarter of the entire global GDP, would be unwise and problematic.

Certainly, nobody is questioning the U.S.’s need to address its defi cit-prone budget. But the country also needs to make large investments in itself now in order to ensure long-term prosperity and stimulate short-term growth.

When it comes to deciding on whether to address our defi cit problem or to stimulate economic growth, Peter G. Peterson, an in-vestment banker and former U.S. Secretary of Commerce under President Nixon, framed the situa-tion best when he recently said, “We behave like we can’t walk and chew gum at the same time.”

Mainstream media and politi-cians seem to be oblivious to the fact that the U.S. is capable of doing more than one thing at a time and that long-term fi scal responsibility and short-term economic stimula-tion are not completely opposing ideas.

The United States’ defi cit prob-lem is structural, meaning fi nancial expenditures or revenues that occur on a regular and long-term basis. These unsustainable spending habits come from the budgets of things like Social Security, Medicare and defense, not from short-term spend-ing in order to save our economy and invest in future growth.

Keynesianism has to be one of the most taken-for-granted ideolo-

Today is the last day to vote early in the Nov. 2 elec-tion, and there’s quite a bit

at stake for Lubbock voters. I’ve already explained why John

Frullo is clearly the best choice for District 84 state representative, Rick Perry is the superior candidate for Texas governor, and weighed in on assorted other races.

I have written about this once already, but I feel that it is critical to emphasize the extreme irrespon-sibility of the Lubbock Independent School District’s plea for voters to ap-prove their nearly $200 million bond.

Some involved with the district are bullying voters toward the pa-thetic and asinine argument that if one is against approving a bond for the school district, they are voting against the children of the area. After all, the children are our future, and restricting high school students from heading to an independent restaurant where the food doesn’t taste like something harvested from underneath a circus

Lubbock ISD bond no tool for success

animal, or having smaller neighbor-hood elementary schools would be a severe injustice to the youth of Lubbock.

At least, this seems to be what the “Every Child, Every School” political action committee would have the voters of Lubbock ISD believe. The group says on the main page of their website that they are out to “help Lubbock students get the tools they need to succeed.” I fail to see exactly how swamping an area in further debt is giving anyone the tools to succeed; rather, it is causing a severe disservice to those paying property taxes in the district.

The political action committee that has been handling the propa-

ganda makes sure to tout that there will be no tax increase for this cur-rent part of the bond but generally doesn’t mention that the district’s “2020 Committee,” which has rec-ommended this particular bond also plans to recom-mend three more bonds, which will most assuredly carry hefty tax hikes.

This is re-markably wor-risome because while the district seems to enjoy crowing about how they feel they’re fi nancial-ly responsible, they do generally fail to put in their ads that they still have a sizeable amount of debt left to pay off.

As of Aug. 8 of this year, Lubbock ISD still had an outstanding debt service of just under $110.2 million,

which will still exist as they continue to ask to take out more debt. The current debt is scheduled to be paid off in 2031, and if approved, the new debt would last until 2044.

The debt which Lubbock ISD is begging voters for currently would be for $198 mil-lion, but taxpay-ers will wind up paying at least $415 mi l l ion through 2044, when 18-year-olds enter ing Tech in 2011 will be 51 years old.

LISD plans to use $106 million for school and

academic improvements, $39 million for arts and athletics, $25 million for safety and security, and $28 million for technological purchases, all of which could easily be bought or con-structed without engulfi ng the district

in debt for the next three decades. If LISD would pay off the current

debt service, which at minimum costs just under $14 million annually, they could have everything they are asking for in under 15 years at less than half the cost we will pay for the new debt, giving taxpayers much more effi ciency per dollar for their investment in the district.

Unfortunately, the district is far more interested in ludicrously broad immediate expansion rather than a responsible plan to provide for what the district really needs, and they will attempt to bluff voters into approving this steaming pile of debt using no argument other than voting against it is voting against the successful future of Lubbock youth.

Not everyone who has been involved with the LISD Board of Trustees in recent years supports this gargantuan bond package. Former LISD School Board President Gor-don Wilkerson told the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal this month that

he opposes the measure. The story elaborated on his posi-

tion by saying that “Wilkerson said he respects the school board, the school district administration and the 2020 Committee that recommended the bond proposal, but he calls the pack-age an unfortunate overreach that needs to be respectfully voted down.” Wilkerson is much nicer than neces-sary in speaking out against LISD’s fi scal misdeeds.

While there are things that need to be done in LISD, they can be achieved through responsible use of the tax dollars that fuel the district, rather than the capricious use of leviathan bonds. Rather than sad-dling our area’s student denizens with contemptible amounts of debt for a sizeable chunk of their lives, the most effi cient tool for success for Lubbock is a vote against LISD’s feckless bond.

““The current debt is scheduled to be paid off in 2031, and if approved, the new

debt would last until 2044.

gies around. It cleaned up the mess from the Great Depression and post-World War II and brought prosper-ity for decades only to be kicked aside in the ‘70s. Now, Keynes-ianism fi nally had the chance to come back into vogue and actually prevent (not just clean up after) a potential second Great Depression. But in doing so, it was so successful that people begin to doubt it even did anything at all.

If only we had a time machine, we could show the country how much worse things would have ended up if, alternatively, Congress hadn’t passed the TARP bill or Recovery Act.

The Federal Reserve is already gearing up to begin a quantitative easing round two, likely by the end of this year or beginning of next, that takes care of the monetary side. What the U.S. needs is stimulatory efforts on the fi scal side.

This country would only be so lucky if, after the midterm elections, our legislators put together a large stimulus bill aimed almost com-pletely at investing in our nation’s infrastructure and education system.

However, this bill should only be passed in conjunction with a massive effort to cut discretionary defense spending, possibly turn So-cial Security into some hybrid sort of individual retirement account and to fi nally fi x the hyper-infl ationary health-care cost structure — which would cut billions off of the Medi-care, defense and Social Security budgets simultaneously. Can you say “hat trick?”

The Democrats may be fearful, and possibly for good reason, that a Republican House will just further enable a derailing of the administra-tion’s agenda. However, and maybe I’m just too optimistic about this country’s future, but perhaps the Republicans owning a chamber of Congress may actually give them in-centive to help bring our legislative process back from the dead, and in turn, our politicians may remember how to again walk and chew gum at the same time.

US should address defi cit, spark growth

Over the last few days, the website WikiLeaks and its Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange have made international news headlines by publishing almost 400,000 classified United States military field reports from the War in Iraq. Such a pub-lication brings up questions of credibility and responsibility that the US govern-ment, WikiLeaks, and the American people should answer.

Assange, an Australian computer hacker who started the site in 2006, has a reputation and fl air for the dramatic. His Monday-night round table discussion in London was no different. “The Pentagon lies, and it lies frequently,” he said.

The event, held at Frontline Club, sold out before I heard about it. Thanks to modern technology I got to watch a live stream of it. For almost two hours, Assange took questions from the crowd and CBS News correspondent Elizabeth

Government should address WikiLeaksBy RAY WHITEHOUSE

DAILY NORTHWESTERN (NORTHWESTERN U.)Palmer, who hosted the discussion.

With every answer, the messy-haired Assange cultivated a notion of WikiLeaks as the hero and most everybody else, especially the US government, as a vil-lain. His explanation of such a dichotomy was comical, as most issues of great sig-nifi cance are hardly that black and white. Just minutes before his comment about the Pentagon lying, Assange responded to a question about WikiLeaks’ goals. “Truth doesn’t need a policy objective,” he said. In other words, the government lies and WikiLeaks tells the truth.

Such a declaration makes for a nice quote, but is it credible? Can we trust WikiLeaks to provide people the “truth,” as Assange so often claims? How does an organization with a goal of increasing transparency lack such transparency in its own organization? His answer on Monday night amounted to an assertion that getting delicate information requires anonymity and secrecy. His answer is a convenient one. In this way, he can

publish any information he gets without having the ability to fully corroborate it with the source. Any journalist, as Assange claims to be, should be wary of any information gathered in such a clandestine way.

That being said, WikiLeaks claims to make a “detailed examination” of all its documents to judge their credibility and has made a name for itself as a source of accuracy. From a case of $3 billion cor-ruption in Kenya to the insider trading documents from JP Morgan, the site has continued to be right about the informa-tion it publishes. The site goes as far as to say it “has correctly identifi ed the veracity of every document it has published.”

Because of the WikiLeaks’ history for accuracy, the American government has a responsibility to address and investigate the information contained in the reports. I want to know if the information in those 391,831 documents is accurate. If it’s false, tell me why. If it’s true, and I’m betting it’s true, make the necessary steps to correct

the inaccuracies of past reports and statements.

The most obvious example of this is the reports of torture. Torture is not acceptable. It violates the inalienable rights set fourth in the Declaration of Independence.

Saying either Assange or the American government is correct and telling the “truth” is unproductive. The inherent debate between security interests and transparency interests lo-cate this debate in more of a gray area. It is diffi cult to assess the increased security risks based on this report.

So far, however, no WikiLeaks-related deaths have been reported as a result of either large-scale publication of documents. The question now is can the US government see WikiLeaks’ side of the security-transparency debate? I hope the answer is a yes. For the hypocrisy of ignoring the released information is something I’d rather not think about.

Just when it seemed you couldn’t be judged more by your physical appearance, a recent study shows that women who have a signifi cantly lower than average weight also make signifi cantly higher than average money. Men, on the other hand, make less money as they weigh less, and more money as they weigh more, up until the brink of obesity.

Timothy A. Judge, of U. Florida, test-ed the effect of weight on salary for men and women for 12,686 U.S. residents.

The average woman in this study weighed 147 pounds and the average man weighed 182 pounds, which is less than the national average weight for adults,

according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website. The average measurements for adults 20 years and older are about 5 feet 9 inches and 195 pounds for a man, and 5 feet 4 inches and 165 pounds for a woman.

Even after adjusting for factors such as height, age, job complexity, industry and childhood socioeconomic status, the study found that women who weighed 25 pounds less than the group average earned an average of $15,572 more ev-ery year, whereas a woman who was 25 pounds heavier than the average weight earned an average of $13,847 less per year than a woman of average weight.

For men, being 25 pounds under the average study weight led to earning $8,437 less annually. Their wages actually

increased – in one of the studies, the peak earning was at 207 pounds.

So what, exactly, do these numbers amount to? It’s not a matter of health, at any rate. According to the CDC, a healthy BMI is within the range of 18.5 to 24.9. Although the number for a BMI is far from being set in stone as an indi-cator of health, a woman who is around 5 feet 4 inches to 5 feet 6 inches and weighs around 147 pounds is well within the boundaries of a “normal” BMI, as is a woman who weighs 25 pounds fewer.

Oddly enough, for a man between 5 feet 9 inches and 5 feet 11 inches, 195 pounds is firmly rooted in the “over-weight” category, and even 170 pounds is at the upper level for “normal” weight.

The studies seem to indicate that

there is still bias when it comes to people’s weight and physical ap-pearance. For women, the standard is thinness that is diffi cult to attain healthily; for men, the standard is more questionable.

Ultimately, weight should not be an issue when it comes to salary. If it’s a matter of performance, perhaps we should stop stigmatizing people based on their physical appearance. After all, performance is tied in with self-esteem, and society has always done little to enhance the self-esteem of people outside of our standardized weight paradigm. Maybe if we stopped fat shaming, if we stopped setting impossible weight standards, we could eradicate this egregious pay inequality.

Higher, lower weights shouldn’t affect wages earnedBy CINDY LUO

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Trick-or-treating, fall festivals and costume parties are often a part of nighttime Halloween festivities. The Texas Tech School of Music is host-ing an hour-long Hauntcert at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Hemmle Recital Hall to offer a fun event for Halloween.

Andrew George, the School of Music director of orchestras, is one of the show’s conduc-tors. The other conductors are two graduate as-sistants, Caro-lyn Turner and Raul Munguia, he said.

The annual concert features the University Symphony Or-chestra, George said. Visual ele-ments are inte-grated into the performance, and dramatic skits are used to introduce the pieces.

“It’s a fun and unique concert,” George said. “The entire orchestra, the conductors and most of the audience are in costume. We present a wide va-riety of short pieces of music in creative and humorous ways. It gives a chance for the audience to hear vocal soloists.”

This year, the concert features a medley from the musical “Wicked” performed by soloists from Tech’s voice department, George said.

A unique feature of Hemmle Re-cital Hall is the audience sits above the orchestra, so they can see the perform-ers for the duration of the concert, as well as their costumes.

School of Music’s ‘Hauncert’ seeks to entertain masses

By BRITTANY HOOVERSTAFF WRITER

“There’s a lot funny stuff going on,” said Xavier Degrate, a violin perfor-mance major who participated in the concert last year. “They’re acting and telling jokes; it’s not a formal concert.”

Not only is the concert an event for children to attend before trick-or-treating, George said, it is a great experience for all ages.

The performance is especially en-joyable to Tech students, said Degrate,

a sophomore from Dallas.

“A lot of times people d o n ’ t c o m e because they think it’s a for-mal concert,” he said. “But at this one, you can laugh be-tween pieces. It’s fun for the audience.”

Tickets can be purchased through Select-a-Seat or at the door, if avail-able, George said. A lim-ited number of free tickets are available for

Tech students at the Student Union Building box offi ce. General public tickets are $7 in advance, $8 at the door. Children 13 and younger are free.

George encourages all Tech stu-dents to come to the concert and celebrate the holiday with live music.

“It’s a chance to hear a live sym-phony orchestra; that can’t be dupli-cated in a recording,” he said. “Plus, it’s such a wide variety of music, including concert favorites and a musical num-bers. It’s a talented orchestra, a great sounding orchestra, and it’s hard to beat the price.”

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➤➤brittany.t.hoover@ttu.edu

ADAM REDD, A graduate student from Chico, Calif. studying ceramics, paints a vase for the pottery sale during Clay Date on Thursday in the 3-D Art Annex. Clay Date is an event hosted for all School of Art students so they can get some experience with clay without having to be in a specifi c class.

PHOTO BY SAM GRENADIER/The Daily Toreador

CLAY CREATION

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A boy-friend and two doctors who were part of Anna Nicole Smith’s inner circle in her fi nal days and were charged with enabling her prescription drug use were acquitted of most drug charges Thursday, but two were convicted of conspiring to use false names to get her prescriptions.

Howard K. Stern, Smith’s boyfriend-lawyer, and Dr. Khristine Eroshevich, her psychiatrist, were convicted of conspiring to get the former Playboy model and reality TV star painkillers and sedatives.

Prosecutors contended during the nine-week trial that the defendants were dazzled by Smith’s glamor and fi lled her demands for prescription drugs to protect their insider status in her personal life and her celebrity world.

Defense attorneys countered by por-traying the defendants as angels of mercy who were trying to help Smith cope with her chronic pain, particularly after she gave birth to her daughter by cesarean then quickly lost her 20-year-old son,

Daniel, to a drug overdose.Smith eventually died of an acciden-

tal drug overdose in Florida in 2007, but the defendants were not charged in her death at age 39.

The jury convicted Stern of con-spiring with Eroshevich to obtain drugs through the use of a false name and misrepresentation. Eroshevich also was found guilty of using a false name and misrepresentation to obtain prescriptions for the painkiller Vicodin for Smith.

Dr. Sandeep Kapoor, the physician who prescribed most of her pain medi-cations, was acquitted of all charges in a verdict he called a triumph for the medical profession.

“This is not just a victory for me, but for patients everywhere who suffer chronic pain,” an emotional Kapoor said outside court.

His lawyer Ellyn Garofalo said it also was a victory for Smith.

“The jury found she was not an ad-dict,” Garofalo said.

Stern originally faced 11 counts of conspiracy, excessive prescribing of opiates and sedatives to an addict, and fraudulently obtaining drugs by using false names but was convicted of only two conspiracy counts. The judge previ-ously dismissed two charges against him.

As he left the courthouse, Stern told reporters, “Everything relating to the appropriateness of the medication, I was acquitted of.”

His lawyer, Steve Sadow, said Stern never denied using his name on Smith’s prescriptions but maintained Stern didn’t know it was illegal.

Stern, 41, had been Smith’s lawyer, manager, lover and friend since they met in 2001. Testimony showed they were inseparable, even when she was involved with other men.

In 2006, Smith donned a wedding gown, and she and Stern had a com-mitment ceremony on a catamaran off the Bahamas. They exchanged rings and vows but were never legally married.

At one point, Stern claimed he

was the father of Smith’s baby daughter until DNA tests made clear the father was photographer Larry Birkhead, who now has custody of the child.

Sadow contended during the trial that Smith was the love of Stern’s life and he would never harm her. He also stressed that Stern was not a doctor and was relying on medical professionals to do the right thing for Smith.

Kapoor and Eroshevich also were close to Smith during her fi nal years.

Eroshevich, 63, was Smith’s neigh-bor and friend before treating her as a psychiatrist. Prosecutors claimed the friendship was a violation of professional ethics and called a pharmacist who testifi ed the amount of drugs Eroshevich requested for Smith at one point would have amounted to pharmaceutical suicide.

The pharmacist refused to fi ll the request, and prosecutors showed Ero-shevich used other pharmacies to get most of the drugs and took them to Smith in the Bahamas.

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Red Raiders to face desperate Baylor squadBY TOMMY MAGELSSEN

STAFF WRITER

Entering the fi nal weekend of the season, Texas Tech soccer can relax knowing they already qualifi ed for the Big 12 Conference Champion-ship.

But their seeding in the tourna-ment is still up in the air, and like most years in the Big 12, it comes down to the fi nal game.

The Red Raiders (11-6-1, 4-4-1 in Big 12 play) sit at seventh place in the conference, but if they win their fi nal game, and get a little help from a few others, Tech can fi nish third.

“They know that there’s a dom-ino here that can affect the next several games,” Tech coach Tom Stone said about his team. “So, you know, getting points in this game pushes you closer to your goal and gives you a chance to get a better game in the Big 12 tournament.”

Tech travels to face Baylor at 7 p.m. today in Waco. The Bears (10-7-2, 3-6) sit on the outside looking in when it comes to the Big 12 tourna-ment. The top eight teams qualify for the postseason, and Baylor is ninth.

In order for Baylor to snag the elusive eighth seed, the Bears must defeat Tech and hope Colorado, the current eighth-place team, loses to Nebraska.

The Red Raiders can potentially fi nish third if the following occurs: Tech beats Baylor, Colorado beats Nebraska, Oklahoma State beats Oklahoma, Missouri loses to Iowa State and Texas loses to Texas A&M.

A lot of what ifs, but stranger things have happened.

If all of those scenarios go down, Tech will be tied for third with Nebraska and Oklahoma. The seeding will be determined by goal differential, so Tech, currently with a minus-four, needs to run up the score a bit against Baylor.

Four goals may be hard to come by, though, considering the Red Raiders likely will see Baylor’s A-game today because of the “win or go home” situation the Bears face.

“We haven’t focused much on Baylor needing to win as much as we needing to win in order to advance our season and make our record look better for postseason play,” Tech defender Haley Fowler said.

For the third consecutive week-end, Tech plays a team facing elimi-nation. Two weeks ago, the Red Raiders ended Kansas’ postseason dreams with a 2-0 win, and Friday, Tech defeated Iowa State 3-2, dash-ing the Cyclones’ slim hopes of mak-ing the Big 12 tournament.

Stone said facing a team on the

verge of elimination can be a bit of a double-edged sword because of how determined the opponents likely will play. However, it keeps his team prepared.

“I don’t think that you can ever take your foot off the gas,” he said. “It’s hard to then accelerate again. I think you just have to keep the hammer down; even when you’re not playing well, you have to keep the hammer down and keep pushing, and keep digging and clawing and scrapping toward your goal because once you let up, once you take it easy, it’s hard to get going again.”

The Red Raiders may be without attacking midfi elder Taylor Lytle, who injured her foot last Friday in the win against Iowa State. Stone said Lytle almost single-handedly beat Baylor last year. But stepping up to fi ll the attacking midfi eld spot is Dawn Ward, who led the Red Raid-ers with 13 goals last year.

Ward, who has four goals on the year, said she is excited to play against Baylor because of their dif-ferent style of play.

“They are a team that man-marks, and they stick with it, and it’s to their disadvantage, I would say,” Ward said. “But it’s an advantage for us knowing that and knowing how to work around it and beat the system.”

PHOTO BY RIANNON ROWLEY/ The Daily ToreadorTEXAS TECH DEFENDER Haley Fowler attempts to take the ball away from Missouri’s Alyssa Diggs during Tech’s 5-2 loss against Mizzou at the John Walker Soccer Complex. Tech plays at Baylor 7 p.m. today in Waco.

Baylor hoping to top Big 12 South

WACO (AP) — They have heard the derisive chants of “Worse than Bay-lor!”

They know school officials fought hard to keep Baylor in the Big 12 last summer when it looked like they would get left behind in the realignment shuffl e.

Now Bears football players can point to the top of the Big 12 South standings, where they sit alone in fi rst place. Quarterback Robert Griffi n III and a core group of teammates told themselves three years ago their mission was to start “a Big 12 takeover.”

They might just pull it off.“We’ve been down for a long

time here at Baylor,” senior safety Byron Landor said. “A lot of teams don’t expect us to come out and play to win.”

Ranked for the fi rst time since 1993, No. 25 Baylor (6-2, 3-1 Big 12) rolls into Austin on Saturday night to face struggling — and un-ranked — Texas (4-3, 2-2), which has lost two in a row at home but is nonetheless favored by 7 1/2 points.

How remarkable is Baylor’s rise? Landor said that during his anatomy class after the Bears beat Kansas State last week, the professor asked the football players in the room to stand up for applause.

Beat the Longhorns and the Bears aren’t just talking about competing in the Big 12, unheard of since the day the league was founded.

They’ll be in position to maybe even win it.

To understand just how far Baylor has come, consider this: the Bears have suffered the heartburn of 14 consecutive losing seasons, from 1996-2009, full of blowouts and last-second losses.

In 1999, the first year of the

Kevin Steele era, the Bears tried to punch in a last-second touchdown to get a more emphatic win over UNLV and set the tone for an emerging program. But a fumble into the end zone led to a 100-yard touchdown return and a Baylor loss.

During one stretch, the Bears lost 30 consecutive Big 12 games. That’s when the chant of “Worse than Bay-lor!” became one of the most damning insults Big 12 fans could hurl at each other.

But after last week’s 47-42 win over Kansas State, Baylor is bowl eligible for the fi rst time since 1994.

“You can dodge it if you want to, or act like it doesn’t exist,” Baylor coach Art Briles said, “but we buried some ghosts (Saturday) night.”

The entire campus is excited about the postseason and it’s not yet Halloween.

“Everybody’s talking about it. I REALLY want to go to a bowl game,” senior Kirsten Dahl said outside the Baylor Student Life Center this week. “This is the fi rst time they’ve done it and it’s my last year.”

Dahl, who is from Dallas, has suffered the teasing of friends at Texas and other Big 12 schools about Baylor’s ineptitude on the fi eld in the past.

“They all said we had to pay to stay in the Big 12,” Dahl said. “I’m making fun of them now.”

Baylor has had four coaches since joining the Big 12 in 1996. It wasn’t until Briles was hired away from Houston and brought with him the hotshot recruit Griffin that Bears fans had any real hope of turning things around. Although Griffi n grew up just 70 miles from Waco in Copperas Cove, he wasn’t recruited by former Baylor coach Guy Morriss.

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Kansas on tap for Falls, Tech volleyballBY JOSHUA KOCH

STAFF WRITER

If it wasn’t for the Kansas vol-leyball team, Texas Tech would still be winless in Big 12 Conference play this season.

But that’s not the case — Tech defeated Kansas 3-2 in Lubbock on Oct. 2, ending what was a 64-match losing streak in conference play.

Now, the opportunity to sweep the season series against Kansas lies before the Red Raiders this weekend in Lawrence, Kan.

But Tech coach Beth Falls believes a second win will not come easily.

“I think Kansas is going to come back with a vengeance,” she said. “I mean, they’re gonna want that win, and they’re defi nitely not going to lay down and give it to us.”

Tech (3-18, 1-11 in Big 12 Con-ference play) will face the Jayhawks (13-10, 4-8) at 6:30 p.m. Saturday in Lawrence, Kansas.

The Jayhawks are on a four-match losing streak coming into this match, a streak that includes losses to No. 10 Texas and No. 12 Iowa State.

The Red Raiders have not been successful of late, either, riding a six-match losing streak, which is second worst in the Big 12.

Tech will try and get its fi rst road win of the season this weekend, since the team has posted a 0-8 record away

PHOTO BY PAUL HAILES/ The Daily Toreador TEXAS TECH INTERIM head coach Beth Falls talks to her team during a timeout during Tech volleyball’s game against Texas A&M Wednesday night in the United Spirit Arena.

from the United Spirit Arena. The only problem with improving

that road record is the fact that the Jayhawks have won the majority of their games this season at home, post-ing a 9-4 record.

This match will begin a home stand for the Jayhawks that includes

matches against No. 2 Nebraska and Colorado.

Junior outside hitter Allison May-fi eld is a player to watch for the Jay-hawks this weekend. Mayfi eld has had a solid season, posting 254 kills and 190 digs thus far.

A player to watch for Tech will be sophomore outside hitter Miara Cave. Cave has had a productive season on the offensive side of the ball, racking up 109 kills, good for second on the squad.

In preparation for this match, Cave said, the team is doing everything they can to be ready for a hungry Kansas squad.

“I think that we’re trying to get pre-pared as possible,” Cave said. “I mean, we beat them before, and that’s our goal again. And so we’re doing all that we can and prepare, and, you know, give

Kansas all that we have.” Since the Red Raiders’ last win

came against the Jayhawks, Tech will try to repeat that same performance in hopes of notching their second Big 12 match of the season.

Freshman defensive specialist and outside hitter Sheridan Burgess said to get another victory against Kansas, the team will have to come out with the same fi re they had last time, which led to the end of that conference losing streak that began during the 2007 season.

“Defi nitely keep our energy level up,” she said. “We had a huge energy vibe during that game. And just stay-ing aggressive and being explosive on our hitting and just keeping each other energized.”➤➤joshua.koch@ttu.edu

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Texas Tech cross country fi nds itself on the road once again to participate in a meet.

Only this time, the importance looms larger than it has at any other point this fall.

Tech coach Jon Murray and the men’s and women’s squads are in Stillwater, Okla., today for the Big 12 Cross Country Championships.

“Well, we are going to the Big 12 Championships this weekend,” Murray said. “Should be an exciting competition, looking forward to it.”

The No. 4 Lady Raiders will take the course at 10 a.m. today and defend their two consecutive titles, hoping to attain a third.

If Tech claims a third-straight title, they will be only the second team ever to win three consecutive titles in Big 12 history.

This will be the last conference meet with the current set of teams, since Colo-rado and Nebraska leave the Big 12 next summer for the Pac-10 and Big Ten confer-ences, respectively.

To clinch the title again, the Lady Raiders will have to take out some ranked opponents along the way, which include the likes of No. 7 Colorado and No. 11 Iowa State.

The Lady Raiders are undefeated going into this weekend’s meet, winning all four meets they have run in this season.

But Murray said winning a third con-secutive title shouldn’t be the girl’s main focus this weekend.

“They realize a little bit of the history that we have here,” he said. “They’re just

Tech cross country heads to Big 12 Championships

By JOSH KOCHSTAFF WRITER

proud of that. Their main focus is just to go out there, do the best they can on that day and just see what happens from there.”

After the women take off, it will be the men’s turn to take the course at 11 a.m.

The men fi nished 10th in last year’s Big 12 Championship, right behind Missouri and Kansas, who tied for eighth place.

The fi eld of competition does not get any easier for the Red Raiders coming into this meet as there are four ranked squads running today.

Three of those teams are ranked in the top 10, including in-state rivals No. 2 Oklahoma State and No. 5 Oklahoma.

Seniors Gilbert Limo and Silas Kemboi, two of Tech’s more experienced runners, will lead the way for the Red Raiders today with their leadership and consistency.

Limo has placed in the top fi ve and Kemboi in the top 15 of every meet run this season.

With a team like this that has historically struggled at the Big 12 Championships, Murray said all this team has to do is set high goals and do its best to get there.

“Trying to be one of the best Texas Tech teams that have ever run at the conference meet,” he said. “Defi nitely trying to be in the top six, top half of the group. I think that would be a great goal for them.” ➤➤joshua.koch@ttu.edu

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The Texas Tech-Texas A&M game always has significance, con-sidering the Aggies are probably Tech’s biggest rival.

This year, though, the game takes on extra meaning, with both teams struggling and coming into the game with 4-3 overall marks.

Saturday brings the best chance for another conference win for either team, since A&M still has Oklahoma, Baylor and Texas to worry about, plus Nebraska, one of the Big 12 North’s best teams.

Meanwhile, Tech still has dates with the conference’s two highest-rated teams: the Sooners and Missouri.

Pre-season expectations are out the window. Right now, both teams just hope they’re playing during the holiday season.

With their respective teams still pushing for the six-win mark, both Coach Tommy Tuberville and A&M’s Mike Sherman are in desperate need of a rivalry win on Saturday.

Tuberville’s woes have been well documented in these pages. The Air Raid offense he promised to carry over from the Mike Leach era has looked more like a Hindenburg at times. Just when it looks like the offense is on pace, it goes and lays an egg. The running game, supposed to be much improved, is averaging 119 yards a game.

The defense is the same way. Many heralded the unit as the team’s savior, myself included, after the loss to Texas. But forget-

Who has two thumbs and needs to win the Tech-A&M game? These guys.

table performances made fans forget that game, and the defense looks like the Tech defense of old, bending and doing its best not to break. So far, it’s ranked 94th in the nation in points allowed.

While Tuber-ville hasn’t been perfect at Tech, his job isn’t in jeopardy. He’ l l have at least two o r t h re e m o re years to get his style of recruits in and build the pro-gram. It’s disap-pointing to Tech fans, who recog-n i ze the t a lent this team possess-es, but right now it’s clear that Tech won’t be challeng-ing for the Big 12 South title.

The same can’t be said for Mike Sherman, the A&M coach who has a 14-18 record in his third year as coach. That’s just not doing it at a school that demands championships.

Much was expected of this year’s

team. A&M returned 15 offensive and defensive starters from the 2009 squad that finished fifth in the South division and lost the Independence Bowl.

But the Aggies ran into trou-ble, star ting in the beginning of September when they had to come from behind to beat Florida International. Then they took a loss to Oklahoma State during a Thursday night game and went into a three-game skid they’ve just emerged from by beating up Kansas last Saturday.

M u c h o f t h e i s -s u e s h ave s t e m m e d from quar-t e r b a c k J e r r o d J o h n s o n . J o h n s o n was in the H e i s m a n race before a bal l was s n a p p e d , b u t h e threw four picks in the Florida In-ternational g a m e , m a t c h e d t h a t to t a l

against Oklahoma State and threw one against Arkansas.

Johnson might not even end up starting at quarterback Saturday, since wide receiver and quarter-

With their respective teams still pushing for

the six-win mark, both Tuberville

and Sherman are in desperate need of a rivalry win

on Saturday.

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back combo Ryan Tannehill came on and played well in the Kansas win.

Tech can at least cushion its season with wins against Weber State and Houston and become bowl eligible, but A&M doesn’t have that luxury. Sherman needs a win Saturday; his job might de-pend on it.

This is an opportunity for either coach to really improve his stand-ing with the alumni and fan base. It would be a huge step toward bowl eligibility. It has been a long time since this game meant this much to both teams.

The fan bases, while loyal to the core, are getting disgruntled with the changes. Both have become accustomed to winning in recent years. Tech fans drew a W by A&M’s name for the past decade before last year’s ambush by the Aggies.

Unfor tunately, due to the teams’ struggles, there’s no televi-sion for this game. Tech fans are beginning to learn to cope without after the Colorado game wasn’t broadcast.

I’ll be maintaining a live blog at www.dailytoreador.com, and there’s always Brian Jensen on the radio call.

Whether you track the game from afar or head to College Sta-tion, it’s sure to be a good one that each coach will hope to claim even more than a typical game.

MICHELLE GUZMAN AND the Texas Tech women’s cross country team head to Stillwater, Okla. for the conference championships along with their male counterparts. The Lady Raiders are ranked No. 4 na-tionally and are hoping for a third-straight Big 12 title. The men’s team fi nished 10th in last year’s Big 12 Championships.

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One game at a Tuberville: ‘I think any victory is big’

TIME Arguably every Red Raider fan’s favorite game of the year is about to get underway.

Texas Tech takes on Texas A&M on Saturday at 2:30 p.m. in College Station, and fi rst-season Red Raider head coach Tommy Tuberville is taking a business as usual approach instead of embrac-ing the in-state rivalry.

“I think any victory is big,” Tuberville said after Wednesday’s practice. “I don’t care what school you’re at, you take them one game at a time and win that week. I think the emotions are a little higher. I think when the game is over, if you win, you win no mat-ter who it’s against, but I think there are some guys on this team and some guys on their team that would much rather beat us than somebody else because there are some crossover ties.

“We don’t look at it that way. As a team and a coaching staff, you look at the team and really not the name.”

Most fans probably see it differ-

ently. The Texas A&M game gar-ners more interest then maybe any other game during the course of the Red Raiders’ 12-game season.

Knowing that must make the R e d R a i d -ers excited to get after one of their pri-mary rivals . It’s one thing to get excited to play a game and another to execute well enough to win it, however.

A w i n might hinge on the Tech offense’s abil-i t y t o g e t moving early – something it has struggled with as of late.

In last week’s game against Colorado, aside from an 11-play, 79-yard touchdown drive in the second quarter, the offense failed to get much of anything going in the fi rst half.

Tech football hopes to get offense going, get a win against rival A&M

By MIKE GRAHAMSTAFF WRITER

The offense fi nished the fi rst half with 94 yards before taking off with 336 yards and 20 points in the second half.

If Tech (4-3, 2-3 in Big 12 C o n f e r e n c e play) does not ge t mov ing early, it could be a long day. Texas A&M’s defense allows an average of 320 yards. In the Agg ie s ’ worst defen-sive outing, they allowed 451 yards to now-No. 19 Arkansas.

In a 38-35 loss at Oklaho-ma State, the Aggie defense

allowed the Cowboys just 351 yards – 230 less yards than the Red Raiders allowed the Pokes.

Quarterback Taylor Potts knows the offense should be per-forming better than it has been early on in conference games, but he said he is not worried about the Red Raiders not starting strong against Texas A&M (4-3, 1-2)

“I’m not the kind of guy that gets worried about stuff like that,” Potts said during Monday’s news conference. “I know we’ve got the talent to do things, and I know we’ve got all the things in the right places in order to get things done. It’s just a matter of us players going out and doing it.”

The Aggies have some seri-ous offensive issues of their own, however.

Texas A&M quarterback Jer-rod Johnson just has not been the player he was in 2009.

Johnson collected 327 all-purpose yards against the Red Raiders last season in the Aggies’ 52-30 win in Lubbock.

Instead, there is a lot of discus-sion from the Aggie camp that Johnson will split time in the game with Ryan Tannehill, who played exclusively as a receiver until being tossed into the game at quarterback in a 45-10 win at Kansas last week.

The potential problems Texas A&M could face in playing two quarterbacks could work in Tech’s favor. Many teams have failed to utilize two quarterbacks effectively.

Defeating the Aggies on the road would be a big conference victory considering the Red Raiders will close out the Big 12 portion of the schedule with No. 7 Missouri and on the road at No. 11 Oklahoma.

“These are three big last con-ference games,” senior receiver Detron Lewis said. “We’ve been on a rocky road just as a team, win-ning the game, losing, winning the game, losing. We’re just looking to stay on this winning road and looking forward to these last three conference games.”

TEXAS TECH QUARTERBACK Taylor Potts throws a pass during the the Red Raiders’ 27-24 win against Colorado on Saturday at Folsom Field in Boulder, Colo.PHOTO BY BRAD TOLLEFSON/The Daily Toreador

““ I don’t care what school you’re at, you take them

one game at a time and win

that week.TOMMY TUBERVILLE

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