By Kayla Chandler More families adopt a pet during the winter holidays than at any other time of year, according to the Helen Woodward Animal Center’s website. A well-known Christmas adoption myth is that pets given as holiday gifts would eventually end up back in a shelter. But Kathryn Newton, a Texas Tech student from Austin, Texas, […]
A Home for the Holidays
November 17, 2015 by JOUR 3312
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Journeying from South Korea to the U.S.
November 12, 2015 by Natalie Morales

When Hannah Lyons goes out to lunch with her mother, waiters often ask if they want separate checks. Lyons, a public relations major at Tech, was adopted from South Korea when she was three months old. She came to the U.S. after spending time at an orphanage and then with a foster family. A “military man” flew with her from […]
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