This Student Government Association election season, more students are running to become student senators than ever before, with a record number of senate seats available. Senators have many different responsibilities according to Amber Yanez, current internal vice president of SGA. She said senators not only attend meetings and write legislation, they are a voice for the student […]
Conversations with Candidates: OneTech 2016
February 10, 2016 by
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, […]
Mitchell v. Westbrook: Round Two
February 8, 2016 by
For the second time in the past two years, the names Westbrook and Mitchell will be on opposing sides of the ballot during the 2016 Texas Tech Student Government Association elections. In 2015, Holton Westbrook and Charlie Mitchell went head-to-head for the position of SGA president. This year, both of their younger brothers, Witt Westbrook and […]
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 Leaders: Experience Outweighs Job Perks
November 16, 2015 by
One of the many reasons to pursue a student leader position on the Texas Tech campus is because the gig often comes with a salary and some cushy perks. But is anyone getting rich? The most recent data available from the American Student Government Association, or ASGA, shows Holton Westbrook, the president of the Texas Tech […]
Guns Up? Students, Faculty Debate Campus Carry
October 15, 2015 by
Six percent of Tech students who filled out a 2015 Texas Tech Homecoming ballot intend to carry a concealed weapon on campus when Texas Senate Bill 11 goes into effect next August. The nearly 3,500 respondents represented 8.4 percent of all students. The 6 percent who indicated holding a concealed handgun license amount to about 200 students. Lacey Conklin, […]
SGA: Representing the Unseen 5 Percent
March 5, 2015 by
At one point, Saba Nafees was unsure if she would be able to attend college or not. Originally from Lahore, Pakistan, Nafees was an undocumented citizen when she graduated from her Fort Worth high school. The mathematical biology graduate student and candidate for graduate vice president for the Student Government Association said this is a […]
Student Senate Candidates Reflect on Job Responsibilities, Personal Motivations
March 4, 2015 by
What does a student senator do? Student senators are tasked with serving as their college’s liaison to the Texas Tech University administration, but Palak Ghetiya, a senator candidate for the College of Human Sciences, said she feels most students are not aware they have a personal spokesperson. “I don’t think a lot of people within […]
Emily Latham, Techsan Tradition: “We Want To Leave Something Behind”
February 26, 2015 by
Emily Latham said she is not the average business school student, describing herself as quirky and different. With bright red lips and a constant smile on her face, Latham does not seem like she is in the middle of her first election campaign. Latham, a senior marketing major at Texas Tech University, is a chief of […]
