With more than 32,000 students attending Texas Tech University, safety not only does involves preventing crimes, but it also includes such things as laboratory safety. “Texas Tech University is committed to ensuring the health and safety of our students, faculty, staff and visitors,” wrote President M. Duane Nellis in an email sent out in late […]
SEX
April 25, 2014 by
If that didn’t get your attention, then I don’t know what will. Next week The Hub staff is introducing “Sex Week.” The staff has been busy producing content that is meant to excite, inform, entertain, and start a discussion. Do you know what a “bedroom burrito” is? Have you ever considered rape culture from a man’s […]
The Women Of Troy: Review
March 6, 2014 by
Mourning. Weeping, Fear. Loss of hope. These are the elements that make up the stories of the Women of Troy. In February, the TTU Women’s Studies Program, alongside the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance, had a panel discussion with community and university leaders entitled, “Rape Culture at Texas Tech University,” to help promote One Billion Rising, a […]
Surviving Rape At Texas Tech
December 31, 2013 by
Texas Tech publicly reported that there were five sexual assaults on its campus in 2012, but the actual number is much higher, according to a psychologist at the Student Counseling Center. “I think a lot of sexual assaults aren’t reported because it’s a tough thing to, because of that whole process of reporting it and […]
Consent Is Sexy
November 4, 2013 by
Scroll to the bottom for the gallery. The SlutWalk message is simple but challenges hundreds of years of worldwide traditional gender ideologies: Blaming victims of rape is unacceptable. According to research by the National Institute of Justice Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an estimated 2.1 million women in the U.S. are raped and/or physically […]
