Tech student makes marriage proposal in bell tower

With romantic music playing on the 43-bell carillon, the Texas Tech Administration building's west bell tower was the scene of a student's marriage proposal Thursday evening.

Laurence Garcia, a senior architecture major from San Antonio, proposed to Rachel Aulbach, a senior architecture major from Houston, at the top of the bell tower as the Righteous Brothers' song "Unchained Melody" and the Beatles' "And I Love Her" echoed across campus.

Aulbach, who said yes to Garcia's proposal, said the bell tower has a special meaning for the couple, who have dated for almost three years.

"We'd talked about coming up to the bell tower ever since we were freshmen," Aulbach said. "I didn't know it was going to be like this."

Garcia said his scheme took two weeks of planning with administrators and time to clean the tower.

Though James Brink, vice provost at Tech, said he wanted to insist that Garcia's use of the tower was a unique opportunity, it was one he was happy to accommodate on a one-time basis.

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