By Reece Nations, Managing Editor Texas Tech President Lawrence Schovanec announced via a campus-wide email Tuesday in-person class meetings for the final three class days of the fall 2020 semester will not resume following Thanksgiving break. “We know that many of you will travel over the Thanksgiving break to visit family and friends,” Schovanec said […]
Coronavirus Vaccine Nearing Completion as Trial Stages Advance, Experts Say
October 9, 2020 by
By Bodile van Oort AUSTIN – The world anxiously awaits the finalization and distribution of a COVID-19 vaccine. It is expected to be available to the public in the upcoming months of October and November 2020. The two vaccines, by Moderna and Pfizer, are in phase three trials — the final step before release, said […]
Tech Students Share Coronavirus Experience, Health Expert Shares Insight
October 2, 2020 by
By Krizia Williams and Reece Nations LUBBOCK, TX – When Madden Baggerly began experiencing coronavirus-like symptoms while living in Chitwood Hall, the responsibility of getting tested was clear to her. Baggerly, a freshman advertising major from Belton, said she wasted no time in scheduling an appointment with Student Health Services that got her on the phone with a nurse […]
Historical Hindrance: Lubbock Museums struggling to rebound, outlast pandemic
September 24, 2020 by
By Krizia Williams, Graciela Vazquez, Tristini Tomlinson, Rebecca Ruiz, Taylor Cordova & Reece Nations Lined in even rows side-by-side with each other, exhibits in and around the American Windmill Museum silently loom in seclusion until the visitors of the day arrive. However, the attendance at the windmill museum has dropped significantly since Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s […]
South Plains Fair set to Open With Cautionary Changes Amid Pandemic
September 21, 2020 by
By Emma Sipple, Elysiana Granado, Megan Zapalac, Sabrina Hoover, Shelbie Rhodes & Adán Rubio Despite the COVID-19 pandemic causing multiple event cancellations, Sept. 25 will mark the opening of one event Lubbock locals have anticipated: the Panhandle South Plains Fair. Along with the food, rides and other attractions attendees have grown to love at the […]
Lubbock couple forced into mandatory quarantine rely on faith, community for strength
May 5, 2020 by
By Reece Nations, Managing Editor All it took was a single phone call for husband and wife Lea Fulton and Heather Savonne to have their lives upended by the coronavirus pandemic. When Lubbock Health Department officials reached out to them on March 19, they were informed they may have been exposed to COVID-19 days earlier. The possibility of the virus’ transmission to them stemmed from a visit Savonne made to the home of another […]
