By Tiara A. Bryant Haley Hernandez, a junior majoring in electronic media, has heard of so much bloodshed on the news that she fears a mass shooting will happen at Texas Tech. “Every time I’m in a big lecture hall, I’m scared. I look for exits, “Hernandez said. “There are people with these hidden agendas all around […]
Archives for December 2015
Empowering Women, One Step at a Time
December 16, 2015 by
By Karla Rodriguez Tiarre Pierce, a senior human sciences and pre-nursing major at Texas Tech, remembers feeling oppressed while studying abroad in India. During her clinical rotations, she witnessed first-hand the inequality women experience. “They go and get a second opinion from a male doctor and don’t feel like you’re worthy enough because you’re a […]
Tech, New Company Help Release Recycling Genie
December 16, 2015 by
By Tanner Hunt You finish a beer. Do you throw the bottle in the trash? If it were up to the city of Lubbock, that would be your only option — even though glass is considered one of the rare materials to be infinitely recyclable without loss of purity or quality. Yet, the city stopped accepting glass […]
Apartment Complexes Test Residents’ Patience
December 15, 2015 by
By Kylie Smith Apartments near the Texas Tech campus are popular among students, mainly because of their convenient location. But tenants say there is a price to be paid beyond just rent. For starters, maintenance problems are frequent and can take some time to get resolved. Sara Van-Sickle, a junior finance major from Austin and a resident […]
Does Your Major Matter?
December 15, 2015 by
By Laura Duclos With the semester over, students finally have some time to mull the meaning of all their hard work in college. Choosing and sticking with an area of study is an important part of earning a degree. It can affect your future career. But will it? Looking back at their college experience, some Tech alumni and students say what you major […]
Closing the Gender Gap in Athletic Scholarships
December 14, 2015 by
By Preston Derrick and Abby Aldrich When Texas Tech University opened in the fall of 1925, it boasted a total enrollment of 910 students, almost three-quarters of whom were men. Fast-forward to this fall, when Tech registered a total enrollment of almost 36,000 students. In 2015, men and women attend Tech in almost equal numbers, […]
Hip Hop Dance Culture Brought to Texas Tech
December 14, 2015 by
By Megan Reyna Hip-hop dancing is something many convince themselves they could never master or understand. However, Ephrat “Bounce” Asherie believes anyone could connect to the style. “Dance specifically has an amazing power to connect people,” Asherie said. “This sounds cliché, but it is a universal language.” Ephrat Asherie, or “Bounce,” to which she refers […]
Uberior, Uberific — or Just Uberhyped?
December 13, 2015 by
By Vanessa Ledesma, Alyssa Herzog and Justin Gonzales Lindsay Hamilton, a Texas Tech student who transferred from the University of Oklahoma, was thrilled to find out that Uber had come to Lubbock. But when she tried to use the service, she was disappointed. “We had Uber in Norman, and I used it a lot there,” Hamilton […]
Stay True Tattoo: One of Lubbock’s Hidden Gems
December 13, 2015 by
By Laura Duclos and Megan Reyna Lubbock’s arts district is packed with hidden gems. Among them is Stay True Tattoo, a tattoo-and-piercing shop founded five years ago. Since its beginning, the shop has gained positive reviews from customers and members of the body modification community, said Vanessa Bathory, head piercer and assistant manager. “We pretty much pride ourselves in […]
Nightmare on Social Media: When Children Go Missing
December 12, 2015 by
By Caitlyn Nix and Kameron Court Paula Boudreaux likes to know where her children are at any given time. To ensure this, she has installed trackers on their cell phones. A private investigator in the Dallas-Fort Worth area who has handled about a dozen missing children cases, Boudreaux is all too well aware that “people are bought and […]
