Freshman 15: Fact or Fiction?

By Kortni Robinson Rumor has it that students gain 15 pounds during their first year of college. Hence, the frightening term: freshman 15. After speaking with experts and students, I got to the bottom of this terrible myth. Chandler Cheak, a first-year kinesiology major at Texas Tech, gained about 5 pounds before heading home for […]

Weekly Poll: Have You Been Having Trouble With Texas Tech’s New Email Platform?

This semester Texas Tech is transitioning from an older version of Microsoft Outlook to a cloud-based email system, Microsoft Office 365. As accounts were converted from one server to another, some students had difficulty accessing email, said Josh Robinson, the media production manager for the College of Media & Communication. Faculty and staff accounts have not been switched […]