Tanner Warmoth contributed to this article. All students at Texas Tech have at least one thing in common: we are all Red Raiders. Student Government Association candidate bloc OneTech 2016 hopes to unify the student body even more. OneTech 2016 has ideas on how Tech can improve every student’s college experience. John Michael Getz, the […]
Conversations with Candidates: Strive
February 10, 2016 by
Tanner Warmoth contributed to this article. Texas Tech students are told to strive for honor. Four candidates for Student Government Association executive positions say they are trying to do just that. The Strive campaign bloc hopes to improve Tech by making it a more efficient and student-friendly campus. Ben Sharp, Strive’s candidate for SGA president, […]
SGA Election Season Begins
February 1, 2016 by
Eight students will be vying for executive Student Government Association positions for the 2016-2017 school year. The two candidate blocs were announced Friday afternoon. The first is OneTech 2016, which is the third campaign bloc in the last few years to run under the OneTech name. Its candidates are as follows: President: John Michael Getz, junior […]
SGA Initiatives, Ben Sharp: Alternative Parking Ticket Payments
February 16, 2015 by
As of August 2014, Texas Tech University Transportation and Parking Services had issued at least 135,332 parking tickets over two and a half years. At a normal price of $25 per ticket, that can be expensive for students. Ben Sharp has an idea to alleviate the cost. Sharp, who is running for Student Government Association external vice president […]
SGA Initiatives, Caleb Fisher: Partner with Uber, Anonymous Snapchat
February 16, 2015 by
With campus carry laws and the “It’s On Us” campaign being in the news recently, campus safety has been a hot topic in higher education. Last semester, the Texas Tech University Student Government Association’s sponsored transportation service, Safe Ride, had an undeterminable future. Now, SGA external vice president candidate Caleb Fisher is trying to revamp the program. Fisher, who is […]
