About Claudia Tristán

News Director    —    Journalism and Marketing double major, Class of 2013
Claudia works to cover current events and political issues that effect the Tech campus. She plans to return overseas as a foreign correspondent.

Surviving Rape At Texas Tech

Texas Tech publicly reported that there were five sexual assaults on its campus in 2012, but the actual number is much higher, according to a psychologist at the Student Counseling Center. “I think a lot of sexual assaults aren’t reported because it’s a tough thing to, because of that whole process of reporting it and […]

Tech Minority Growing But Still Not Showing

In the last five years, Texas Tech University has seen a 6 percentage point increase in the percentage of undergraduate minority students, according to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. The minority groups include African-American, Hispanic, Asian, and American Indian/Alaskan Native. The percentage of Hispanic undergraduate students at Tech has grown nearly 5 percentage points to 18.58 […]

Salute Our Veterans

Because today is Veterans Day there are going to be lots of posts, tweets, and filtered photos about our nation’s heroes. While all of that is sweet and dandy, there is more that you can do to actually support our veterans and their families. It’s time that we put our differences aside and give back to […]

Veteran Roll Call

For its second year in a row the Military and Veterans Program hosted a roll call of fallen soldiers at Memorial Circle. The list of names read consisted of 597 fallen soldiers and was made up of Texan veterans who have died since 9/11. “It’s a more recent time frame but it’s easy to not […]

The Men Behind The CoMC App

Forty-two drafts and 300 hours later and the College of Media and Communication application is now available for download. Carlos Alban and Sami Suteria, computer engineering students, won the App-athon last semester and were later contacted in May by CoMC to develop an app for the college. Working through different versions since June, Alban said […]

Is Raider Rash Offensive?

Sure we all enjoy the friendly trash talk that ensues with any sports activity, particularly at the level of college football, but sometimes people can go a little too far. Earlier this week Oklahoma State University published an article about this week’s upcoming game with the title ‘Cowboys Look To Avoid Raider Rash.’ Now for […]

Deaf Bingo

Student Disability Services kicked off its Disability Awareness Week with Deaf Bingo at Wall/Gates Residence Hall. James Whitfield, assistant director and interpreter coordinator for Student Disability Services, said the main goals of the event were to raise awareness of what deaf students on campus experience and awareness of the entire week’s events. “This kind of […]

#ManCrushMonday Etiquette

We all know those cute hashtags that have taken over our social media. You’ve got #ThrowbackThursday, #FlashbackFriday, #SelfieSaturday/Sunday for the self-absorbed duck-faced people of our time, #WomanCrushWednesday and my topic for today #ManCrushMonday. There is a certain etiquette that should be followed when using this particular hashtag and that is, you should only use your […]

Hands of Hope

As Domestic Violence Awareness Month comes to a close, the Women’s Studies Program will continue to hold their Hands of Hope collection drive until mid November. Patricia Earl, unit coordinator of the Women’s Studies Program, says this is the third year they’ve partnered up with Women’s Protective Services by hosting a drive for new or […]

Diversifying The Diversity Dinner

This is the first time the Division of Institutional Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement has brought a multiracial female as the keynote speaker at its annual Celebrate Diversity awards banquet today, according to Cory Powell, director of Mentor Tech and lead organizer of the banquet.  Soledad O’Brien, a broadcast journalist formerly with CNN, has a […]