By Steven Rodriguez For most collegiate student athletes, the journey to the professional leagues is nothing short of impossible. This was not the case for Texas Tech basketball alumnus Toddrick Gotcher. Gotcher started his five-year career at Texas Tech in 2011 and has never looked back. He has now left United States to continue his dream of […]
The Refugee Question
December 7, 2015 by
By Everett Corder As the U.S. gears up for the 2016 presidential election, every international issue is discussed and debated at length by candidates and political analysts throughout the country. Recently, one of those big issues has been whether or not candidates would allow people from Syria fleeing the terrorism in the Middle East to enter the […]
Are Study Abroad and Tourism the Same Thing?
October 23, 2015 by
Thursday’s “Tourism & Study Abroad: Problematics and Paradoxes” panel encouraged viewing study abroad as an empathy-driven cultural immersion—not a tourist trip. It began with a short documentary, “Framing the Other,” in which a Dutch tourist travels to the basin of the Omo River in the East African state of Ethiopia and takes pictures of the Mursi tribe in exchange for money. Mursi women are known for […]
