By Urvi Dalal / The Hub@TTU This year’s Carol of Lights is the official closing ceremony of the Texas Tech Centennial Celebration. The 65th Annual Carol of Lights will take place on December 2. This is one of Tech’s oldest and most treasured traditions. It provides an opportunity for all of Texas Tech’s students, faculty/staff, […]
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Carol of Lights Through the Years: A Tribute to Texas Tech’s Centennial Celebration
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Experts warn students, community of Fentanyl dangers
November 7, 2023 by
By Urvi Dalal As death tolls due to illegally manufactured fentanyl have rapidly multiplied in the last decade, Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill to counter the growing crisis in Texas. Fentanyl deaths are now classified as poisonings, and fentanyl-related deaths can be tried as murder, according to a new law that took effect in […]
Texas Tech Football Through the Years: A Tribute to Texas Tech’s Centennial Celebration
November 1, 2023 by
By Urvi Dalal / The Hub@TTU Throughout its 100-year existence, Texas Tech has prided itself in education and research as well as the athletics program. A multitude of athletes have graduated from the university and gone on to professional careers. Texas Tech’s student section has also been recognized as one of the top student sections […]
In remembrance of Jay Leeson
October 8, 2023 by
By: Urvi Dalal A loving father of four. A political activist. A media personality. A cartoonist. Jay Leeson, West Texas leader and former Texas Tech graduate, passed away on Thursday, Sept. 28, at the age of 44. Michael Leeson, his brother, reached out to Jay’s followers on Facebook saying “Jay battled a long-term illness that […]
Lending Books to LBK
September 12, 2023 by
By Aubrie Harris Halie Pierce, a local artist and lover of color, was walking in her neighborhood park when she saw something in front of someone’s house that gave her an idea — a small, wooden community library filled with books. “I wanted one in front of my house,” Pierce said. “But the wooden ones […]
The Art of Being Oneself
April 17, 2023 by
By: Melanie Escalante / The Hub@TTU The first time I saw vibrancy in West Texas was on the first Friday of March, when feminism was celebrated at the start of Women’s History Month. I walked into the Texas Tech School of Art Satellite Gallery around 11 a.m. for a discussion titled Community, Women and the […]
Black Cultural Center, comic book exhibit and Peters Family Legacy Library commemorate Black History Month
February 28, 2023 by
By Urvi Dalal To honor Black History Month, Texas Tech students, faculty, and campus organizations took time to support and celebrate Black culture through a myriad of events this past month hosted by the Division of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion. However, the celebration and recognition goes beyond the month of February and its historical background. […]
Weather places conditions on Lubbock homeless population
February 15, 2023 by
By Urvi Dalal / The Hub@TTU With colder weather settling into the South Plains countless individuals are searching for housing, filling local homeless shelters to capacity. Although Lubbock has a number of temporary housing organizations the onset of colder weather, holidays, and trying economic times have brought an influx of individuals to shelters. Shelters are […]
“Up Against the Wall”: Remembering Texas Tech’s (Almost) Banned Newspaper
February 9, 2023 by
By Urvi Dalal / The Hub@TTU Once upon a time, after a famous legal case had confirmed public school students’ freedom of speech, a state university tried to ban the publication of a student newspaper. Surprise: a court trashed the ban! The year was 1970. The school was Texas Tech University. The newspaper was called […]
