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May 4, 2011
Politico.com - “No one ever sat me down and explained to me that my dreams were unreasonable and impossible,” he told graduates at a commencement speech at his alma mater, Texas Tech.. “No one explained to me that even though I had been interested in ‘60 Minutes’ since I was 16 years old, that there was no way I could work there.”
tags: Texas Tech in the News
May 3, 2011
New York Times - These days a few landmarks rise above the flatness — water towers, radio antennae, lonely-looking trees. Mostly, though, there is still “a lot of land but nowhere to go,” as the artist Donald Judd observed of West Texas. So there may be few better bases of operation for an unusual academic program that has taken root here under the guidance of a Harvard-trained architecture professor at Texas Tech University, in which scholars study and make art in places about as far away from museums and galleries — and from bathrooms, decent beds and air-conditioning — as is possible within the continental United States.
tags: Texas Tech in the News
May 3, 2011
Scottsbluff Star Herald - A major event at the 2011 Nebraska Vietnam Veterans Reunion will be the Texas Tech Vietnam Archives that will be in Gering all three days. The Vietnam Archives are dedicated to “Preserving the Past for a Better Future.”
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May 3, 2011
Washington Post - He was inducted into the Texas Tech University alumni Hall of Fame and serves on the board of the university’s School of Mass Communications. Prior to his time at CBS News, Pelley was a producer/reporter for WFAA-TV Dallas/Fort Worth (1982-89), KXAS-TV Dallas/Fort Worth (1978-81) and KSEL-TV Lubbock, Texas (1975-78). He began his journalism career at the age of 15 as a copyboy at the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal newspaper. Scott Pelley was born in San Antonio, Texas, and attended journalism school at Texas Tech University.
tags: Texas Tech in the News