Conversations with Candidates: OneTech 2016

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

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

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, Valerie Briley: Transparency in SGA

Currently, the Texas Tech University Student Government Association meeting minutes are not available to view online. Valerie Briley, candidate for internal vice president, thinks this needs to change. “Transparency, to me, means a lot of things,” Briley said. “Whether it’s making sure that legislation and the minutes are up to date every single time we do […]

SGA Initiatives, Amber Yanez: Digital Raider Cards

“I’m sure this has happened to you; it’s happened to me,” Amber Yanez said with a laugh. “When you’re at a football tailgate and you decide to walk over to the football game with your friends, and then you realize you forgot your ID. That happens to me all the time.” Yanez, who is running […]

SGA: 49th Senate Session Begins

With well-wishes for the next year and an official transition of power, the 48th Student Senate Session has ended — a historic one for the Student Government Association — and the 49th has begun under Internal Vice-President Jill Berger. The 49th Senate — with only eleven senators returning from the 48th Session — met to […]