By Zachary Rocha In 2015, 800,000 Americans updated their Facebook profiles to indicate their membership in the LGBTQ community, according to research conducted by Facebook. In the Digital Age, many people are choosing to “come out” to friends and family on internet platforms. In an interview on the “Today Show,” Anastasia Khoo, chief marketing officer for […]
Homeless and Hopeful: From Tent City with Love
December 10, 2015 by
By RaShayla Daniels, Maddy McCarty and Halima Fasasi Alex Lamm, a resident at Grace Campus, said he loves work. “Most of the people out here feel the same,” he said. “We want to work, we want to get up outta here. We want a home again.” Just two years ago, Lamm said, he and his his father […]
“Bass Predators”: Gone North, Gone Fishin’
December 8, 2015 by
Welcome to the pilot episode of “Bass Predators,” a fishing television show created and produced by Luke Heath for his mass communications master’s capstone project. It was filmed in northern Minnesota on the Mississippi River. Heath and his brother, Jake Heath, offer advice about fishing while catching tons of Smallmouth Bass. The project was edited and […]
Haunted Lubbock
October 30, 2015 by
By Nicole Crites, RaShayla Daniels, Alyssa Herzog and Maddy McCarty In Lubbock, when there’s something strange is your neighborhood… call Anita and Billy Fisher, a couple dedicated to investigating paranormal activity. Anita Fisher, president of the Lubbock Ghost Investigation Society, calls herself a “discerner of spirits” (or medium), and said she was born with the […]
Moving to Mars: Hollywood May Have Gotten It Right
October 20, 2015 by
By Everett Corder and Hannah Hipp Matt Damon’s new movie, The Martian, could someday become reality, according to a Tech professor and a Tech student. In the movie, Damon is able to stay alive on the Earth’s next-door neighbor. The timing of The Martian’s release coincided perfectly with the recent discovery that there was once […]
Local Attraction Owners Invite Public To Get Lost
October 19, 2015 by
By Nicole Crites, Ellysa Gonzalez and Maddy McCarty It’s an iconic piece of art: A woman standing beside a man wearing glasses and holding a pitchfork in front of a picturesque white house. “American Gothic” was created in 1930 by Grant Wood and has been recreated numerous times since. Now, Lubbock area residents have the opportunity […]
Bee Allergy-Free (and Pesticide-Wary)
October 10, 2015 by
Brooke Carson was once so sick with recurring infections that she had to take time off of school. Now a graduate student studying media and communication at Texas Tech, she attributes her illness to extreme allergies and her recovery to increased consumption of local honey. “My system just, like, crashed because of allergies, and I developed asthma,” the […]
Tech Officials, SGA: ‘Ride Your Bikes!’
October 5, 2015 by
By Nicole Crites, Ellysa Gonzalez, Alyssa Herzog, Hannah Hipp and Maddy McCarty On the nation’s second largest university campus, spreading over 1,839 acres, buses have limited reach, parking is costly and finite, and walking is only for the bravest of hearts. What’s left? Try biking, say those who see the big picture. Almost 36,000 students […]
Off The Wall With Dr. Coy Callison
November 21, 2013 by
I talk to Dr. Coy Callison this time around and we also mention the Muppets.
