By Kortni Robinson Have you ever wondered how difficult a class or professor will be before registering for a class? Rate My Professors is a website that could possibly answer some of these questions for you. With more than 15 million ratings, along with listings of 1.4 million professors and over 7,000 schools, RateMyProfessors is one of […]
Seeing Double: A Pair of TWIN-terviews
March 8, 2016 by
By Emily Hamilton Have you ever been told you look strikingly similar to someone else? Maybe even someone of the opposite sex? Texas Tech University students Tori and Garrett Thompson and Montana and Wyatt Horn all said they experience this quite often while attending the same university as their fraternal twin siblings. Contrary to popular […]
Do You Ride Your Horse To School?
March 2, 2016 by
Tanner Warmoth contributed to this article. Howdy, y’all! If you have ever traveled to other parts of the country, I’m sure you have heard at least one good or bad, mostly bad, thing said about The Lone Star State. “That’s where all the cowboys live.” “What are you going to name your horse that you’ll be […]
Innovation Hub Picking Up Steam
February 26, 2016 by
Tanner Warmoth contributed to this article. With eight commercial tenants and many opportunities for entrepreneurial students, the Texas Tech Innovation Hub is forging ahead as the core of a future research colossus. The building on Fourth Street, which opened in August, cost almost $26 million to build, show documents obtained by the Hub@TTU through a Texas […]
OneTech 2016 v. Strive: 2016 SGA Executive Candidate Forum
February 23, 2016 by
Political debates have dominated television recently, with presidential candidates going head-to-head for votes. A similar scene will unfold tonight in room 353 of the College of Media & Communication. The 2016 Student Government Association Executive Candidate Forum allows the eight candidates vying for student votes to answer questions related to their desired office. Each candidate will answer […]
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, […]
Guide to a Guide Dog
February 5, 2016 by
Tanner Warmoth contributed to this article. A media and communication graduate student has started a Lubbock chapter of Lone Star Guide Dog Raisers, an organization that allows volunteers to train guide dogs for Guide Dogs for the Blind . The club is the only program of its kind in West Texas. Kaitlyn Beckert got involved when […]
The Media and Male Body Image
January 27, 2016 by
By Allyson Padron Media missions such as Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty and Aerie’s Real Campaign feature unretouched pictures of female models, encouraging women to love their body, no matter what it looks like. But what is the media doing to support positive male body image? The National Eating Disorder Association suggests 10 million men in the U.S. […]
Digital Music: Who Gets Paid?
January 26, 2016 by
By Blake Lucas In the first half of 2015, Americans streamed 135 billion on-demand tracks through services like Spotify, Pandora and Apple Music, according to a 2015 Nielsen report. Although streaming services are used often, 78 percent of people surveyed said they were unlikely to pay to listen to the music. With many users listening for free, how […]
