By Avery Mendoza Texas Tech dormitories last week engaged in a charitable battle royale for student blood. University Student Housing hosts the Battle of the Halls Blood Drive in collaboration with Vitalant Blood Bank, where students fight for bragging rights while saving lives. According to an article by Vitalant, blood donations have been at dangerously […]
Coronavirus Chronicles: healthcare personnel discuss mutual COVID-19 impact
April 30, 2020 by
By Tristini Tomlinson The COVID-19 pandemic has displaced countless lives throughout the world in one way or another. No sector has felt this more than the healthcare industry where nurses, doctors and other medical staff risking their well-being on a daily basis. Special procedures and protocol had to be enacted at the Henry Mayo Newhall […]
Candidate Comparison: O’Rourke vs. Cruz on immigration, gun rights and health care
November 5, 2018 by
Midterm election day in Texas takes place on Tuesday, Nov. 6. In the race for senate is incumbent Senator Ted Cruz, a Republican from Houston who has served in congress since 2013, and Congressman Beto O’Rourke, a Democrat from El Paso who has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2013. Here is where […]
Politics of Long-Term Birth Control
September 11, 2017 by
By Kristen Barton In 2016, some women were deciding who to vote for. Texas Tech student Gaby Wohead was worrying about how the presidential election would affect her affordable access to birth control. As the election inched closer and Wohead saw the chance that Donald Trump would become president, she decided to make sure her […]
Life as an Emergency Nurse
October 21, 2015 by
By Karla Rodriguez Evyn Box, an emergency nurse at the University Medical Center in Lubbock, remembers the first time a case hit close to home. She watched as an Iraq veteran experiencing an active flashback was taken to a psych room. “My husband is an Iraq veteran,” Box said. “He has PTSD, so hearing this man talking—and […]
Is Texas Tech Child-Friendly? Take Two
October 15, 2015 by
By Audra Coffman, Justin Gonzales, Vanessa Ledesma, Anna Johnson, Halima Fasasi A 2000 report described Texas Tech University as “desperately” needing a childcare facility. Fifteen years and an 11,000-student enrollment increase later, no such facility exists. The document, prepared by the Child Care Exploratory Committee, recommended the construction of a 34,000-square-foot center to accommodate 200 children, with […]
Prosthetic Limb Advances Assist Amputees
January 22, 2015 by
“That’s where it all started was a wooden socket just like a pirate, you know, a peg leg.” Kent Phillips is a certified and licensed prosthetist at Lubbock Artificial Limb and Brace. His father-in-law, Cecil McMorris, is a bilateral below-the-knee amputee from the Korean conflict and started the business in 1962. Phillips said prosthetic technology has […]
Obamacare, What's In It For You?
September 22, 2013 by
Thursday night the Covenant School of Nursing hosted an Obamacare panel to answer questions that many still have about this controversial law. The sole purpose of this event was to give the general public in-depth information about the effects, give medical and governmental views of the program, and local predictions on what to expect when […]
