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Sacred SISTAHS helps mentor area's girls

Erin Hawes — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:28:38 +0000

As a young girl, Dr. Tonia Causey-Bush of Fontana relied upon the strength and wisdom of elders to help her maneuver around obstacles and discover opportunities.

Causey-Bush and her husband – Dr. Lawson Bush V, Cal State Los Angeles/UC Irvine Joint Doctoral Program director – were teaching at Texas Tech University when she founded Sacred SISTAHS

Tech fans should greet visitors with respect, not rude behavior

Erin Hawes — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:23:58 +0000

Tech has so many great traditions, such as the Masked Rider, the Saddle Tramps and the Guns Up sign.

Some fans have added other traditions to a home game at Jones AT&T Stadium.

Rafael Anchia: Exonerees deserve Texan of the Year honor

Erin Hawes — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:11:33 +0000

Nothing can right the wrong that was committed against Tim Cole, the 17-year-old Texas Tech student who went to jail an innocent man and died in prison 13 years later. HB 1736, named the Tim Cole Act, will allow his survivors to receive payments that would have gone to Mr. Cole’s estate, although no amount of money can restore a son to his mother or ease the pain of her loss.

Texas Tech turns to data deduplication for data backup, disaster recovery

Erin Hawes — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:00:14 +0000

When Texas Tech University began to move away from relying solely on tape for data backups, it found it easier and less expensive to add data deduplication licenses to its backup software than buying a dedicated deduplication hardware system.

Madrigal Dinner set for Dec. 3 and 5-7

Erin Hawes — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:55:45 +0000

Madrigal Dinner 2009, a Texas Tech holiday dinner theater tradition transporting audiences back to a British castle at Christmas time, will take place at 7 p.m. Dec. 3 and 5-7 in the ballroom at Tech’s Student Union Building.

Human Race Machine launches discussions on race and identity

Erin Hawes — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:53:25 +0000

Texas Tech students are finding out with the help of a new machine that snaps a picture of a person’s face and transforms them into a black, white, Asian, Hispanic, Middle Eastern, or Indian person.

Group wants help increasing Tech scholarship named for O'Brien

Erin Hawes — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:20:18 +0000

A group of 1967 Lee High School graduates — ex-Marines all — are seeking help to beef up a Texas Tech University scholarship fun for one of their own — Medal of Honor winner George H. O’Brien.

Servicemembers sacrifices observed through generations

Erin Hawes — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:12:09 +0000

Reckner is also founding director of the Vietnam Center and Archive of Texas Tech University.

After discovering that youths know little about the Vietnam War, he and other individuals formed the center and began teaching freshman Vietnam War at the university.

“Thanks to many donors we now have some 23 million pages of documentation,” he said.

Tech credit union earns awards

Erin Hawes — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:56:30 +0000

The Texas Tech Federal Credit Union received two first place awards this month for its marketing efforts.

Tech’s credit union won first place for its 2008 annual report and for its television commercial during the Texas Credit Union League’s 22nd annual Credit Union Marketing & Business Development Conference in Galveston.

Student government conference attendees get demonstration in Lubbock

Erin Hawes — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:54:58 +0000

Texas Tech’s student government has a non-voting body of student organizations that advocates student government for change and access to money, said Joe Sangirardi, University College district representative.

“This is similar to what is being proposed by SDS,” he said. “Texas Tech [University] allowed [OU representatives] the opportunity to see how a student organization body could work in student government.”