By The Hub@TTU Staff LUBBOCK — Texas Tech Students for Justice in Palestine organized a silent, non-disruptive protest in the TTU Library on Wednesday, Jan. 24. Students who participated displayed posters in support of Palestine as they congregated in study areas. The United Nations’ International Court of Justice on Friday issued an interim ruling directing […]
Increasing International Students, Hard Workers
November 7, 2016 by
By Lilly Quiroz During the academic year of 1972-73, there were 146,000 international students in the United States. Last year, there were 974,926, and Texas Tech University accounted for 2,131 of those international students. Binari Witanapatirana, an admissions counselor for marketing at Texas Tech from Colombo, Sri Lanka, came to the U.S. for her undergraduate studies […]
SGA Executive Candidate Forum: What They Want to Do For You
February 24, 2016 by
Dozens showed up to the Student Government Association Executive Candidate Forum on Tuesday to watch the OneTech 2016 and Strive campaign teams answer questions on issues they may face if elected to student government. The night kicked off with a debate between the candidates running for graduate vice president, Kevin Koestler of Strive and Chelsea Clark […]
Hungry in Grad School: You Are Not Alone
February 19, 2016 by
With teaching, research and personal obligations, graduate school can be among the most stressful times in a person’s life. One of the first corners to get cut during this harried and low-income period is students’ health. “Sometimes in the graduate life, they have to put their health on hold, and food is one of those […]
Potential End to the DREAM
April 15, 2015 by
Saba Nafees, a mathematical biology graduate student, is the Texas Tech University Student Government Association graduate vice president, a member of the national White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and hopes to be a doctor. She said all of her accomplishments were made possible because of one Texas bill. According to the […]
