2008 Woodie Awards
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Super Tuesday may not decide candidates
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With 24 states participating in the Super Tuesday primaries today, there is uncertainty about Texas' role in determining the final presidential candidates, but many people agree college students could make a major impression on the elections. Joshua Nunez, president of the Tech Democrats at Texas Tech, said he believes Texas will be a deciding state in the primaries although the Texas Primary does not occur until Mar.
Law school arbitration team wins national championship
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One Texas Tech team won a national championship not because its members can run faster, jump higher or hit harder, but because they could present a better argument. The arbitration team representing Tech's School of Law took first place Jan. 26 at a national arbitration competition near Tampa, Fla.
Presidential candidate Alan Keyes speaks in Lubbock
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Weaving a patchwork rhetoric of conservative politics and biblical allegories, Republican presidential candidate Alan Keyes urged Lubbock residents Monday evening to consider their religious morals the next time they exercise their rights to vote. During his speech at the Holy Spirit Catholic Church in south Lubbock, Keyes addressed his political and moral beliefs concerning, among other things, taxation, immigration, abortion, health care and governmental spending to an audience of parishioners and local residents.
Pimp my bike: Tech students work with middle school on low-rider engineering project
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Fifty students from Atkins Middle School kicked-off their journey of assembling and creating their own low-rider/dream bikes, with help from Texas Tech's School of Art and the university's Texas Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Center on Monday.
