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O'Rourke flaunts lack of PACs during Sunday townhall

Beto O’Rourke, candidate running against Ted Cruz for U.S. Senate, had a large turnout during Sunday’s townhall meeting in the Red Raider Room of the Student Union Building.Among local Lubbock officials who attended was Miguel Levario, District 19’s candidate for the United States Representative.There was a wide variety of citizens who showed up to see O’Rourke from Texas Tech students to citizens of Lubbock.
“Someone asked me along the way, when they found out I was a democrat,” O’Rourk...
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Obesity caused by often overlooked internal, external factors

After viewing a picture taken when she sent her son off to prom, Taynay Cameron did not recognize herself.Between working full time, raising a son and going to school, Cameron had not taken time to focus on herself and see who she was becoming.At her size, there were times she felt invisible and moments she wanted people to know she was there, too. There were little things she wanted to do again. She wanted her outside appearance to reflect the energy she had inside.
“I looked at my son...
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STI rates climbing in Lubbock

Even after a scare in 2017, the rate of sexually transmitted infections in and around Lubbock has been steadily increasing.Elena Sanchez-Freeman, a safety and wellness specialist for Risk Intervention & Safety Education at Texas Tech, said an outbreak can simply mean cases of certain diseases are being found.“One thing to really consider, is more reports can also mean more people are getting tested. For sure, an outbreak can mean that for whatever reason more people were acquiring some disease o...
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Student fees tricky in determining athletic event entrances

There has been a trend of colleges and universities reaching out to their student population to help fund their athletic department’s goals.According to An Analysis of Student Fees: The Roles of States and Institutions, researched and studied by Robert Kelchen, an assistant professor at Seton Hall University, student fees can be used to support a wide range of institutional priorities, but the traditional purpose of these fees has been to fund student services or auxiliary enterprises designed t...
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New transportation services to impact tuition fees

Texas Tech’s Transportation and Parking Services and the Student Government Association are looking for more ways to maximize the use of their funding.Per semester, Tech students are charged $52 for transportation fees on campus. The student government association oversees the amount students are charged for transportation.Micheal Gunn, the director of SGA, said when the bus system began in 1967, there was a limited amount of busing on campus and SGA wanted to change that.
“Before, trans...
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Professor: Trump's tariff plan may not help job growth

Earlier this month, President Donald Trump announced his intention to impose new, higher tariffs on foreign imported steel, at 25 percent, and foreign aluminum, at 10 percent, with the exceptions of Canada and Mexico, if a deal through the North American Free Trade Agreement could be made.Trump’s stated reason for imposing higher tariffs on these two items is to defend America’s national security. In Trump’s announcement, he said this action is necessary to protect industries devastated by aggre...
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Helping Hand: Students, community members volunteer with Habitat for Humanity to build homes

Every year during Welcome Week, many Texas Tech students gather to help build homes with Habitat for Humanity, an international Christian based organization that helps build houses all over the world.This week, students were tasked with helping with a few of the finishing touches of a home that began construction last year.This new home has been given to the parents of three children. Often, Habitat homes are given to larger families in need of a place to stay, or single parent households where...
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Black Student Association hosts "Actions and Reactions" discussion

On Thursday evening, Texas Tech’s Black Student Association hosted “Actions and Reactions," a discussion about racial encounters students have had, and how those situations were handled by Tech.Carol Sumner, vice president of the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, was in attendance as a guest speaker. Within Sumner’s first week in her position, the “frat chat,” involving students in Greek life and the president of the Interfraternity Council engaging in conversation that included racis...
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Unity focus of SGA candidates during forum

The candidates of Juntos TTU and Tech United answered the concerns of Texas Tech’s student population in Wednesday night’s 2018 Student Government Association Executive Forum.The forum was hosted at Thursday at 8:30 p.m. in the Matador Room of the Student Union Building. During this event, each candidate was given a question and had 90 seconds to answer.John Michael Getz, the graduate vice president candidate with Tech United, was not able to attend the forum because he had an interview in Chica...
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Scholarship dollars might go unclaimed

More than $2.3 billion in free college aid was left unclaimed by high school graduates during the 2016-2017 academic year. In that academic year, 1,234,249 high school graduates did not fill out a Free Application for Federal Student Aid. According to the Nerdwallet website, calculations estimated that out of those students, 648,191 of them would have been eligible for a Pell grant.There has been a misconception that there is a lot of scholarship money floating around that students can easily ob...
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Animal and Food Sciences professor earns NARRU Distinguished Educator Award

Heidi Brady, a professor in the Department of Animal and Food Sciences, received the Non-land-grant Agriculture and Renewable Resources Universities Distinguished Educator Award.NARRU promotes excellence in science-based teaching. It encourages hands-on experience in conducting responsive, issue-based research and communicating findings to stakeholders and the general public.“I’m so honored to receive this award,” Brady said in a Texas Tech news release. “Teaching means so much to me, and it is...