TTUHSC No Longer Performing Medical Tests on Cats

Over two-thousand signatures were collected  protesting the use of cats for educational experimentation at Texas Tech’s Health Science Center, said Robyn Katz, founder of the Tech Student Animal Legal Defense Fund. Katz, who presented the petition to the secretary of Elmo Cavin, the interim president of TTUHSC, said it does not make any sense to [...]

First Lubbock Wine Festival Attracts Residents

Representatives from wineries across Texas traveled to the  Hub City for the Lubbock Wine Festival Nov. 6 to sample Texas wines, food from local restaurants, live music and several artist booths. The event, themed “the Giant Sip of Texas,” took place at the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts from 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 [...]

Rising Unemployment Effects Soon-to-be Graduates

Although the unemployment rate rose to 9.8 percent in September, forcing college graduates to enter an increasingly competitive job market, there are many things graduates can do to separate their work from an experienced and growing work force. While in School The best thing college students can do is to be involved while they are [...]

Campus Crime Prevention

Within the first few weeks of the 2009 to 2010 academic year an assault occurred at Texas Tech University. According to the Texas Tech Police Department’s crime log, on Sept. 10 around 10 p.m., an unknown male assaulted a female student on her way to the volleyball courts in Urbanovsky Park. The victim reported the [...]