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When Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick announced his senate committee assignments for the 86th Legislature this month, a change in assignment saw West Texas losing one of its best advocates on the Senate Higher Education Committee, Education Committee and the budget-influencing Finance Committee.
Here at Texas Tech, the 2017-2018 academic year has been one full of milestones.
On Tuesday morning, Oct. 10, we saw a young man smirking as his mugshot was being taken while he was in the county jail and a Texas Tech police officer lay dead.
At the mere mentioning of Spike Dykes’ name, a Gatorade cooler of memories pours from those who knew him. Every word we’ve heard and every sentence we’ve read overflows with love for this treasured coach.
On Tuesday, Texas Tech announced Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration Dean Lance Nail will resign as dean effective Dec. 31 as a result of the improper grade-change allegations made public in July. However, Nail will remain with the university as a tenured professor of finance a…
In one year, the U.S. will have elected its next president. This country has been under the leadership of President Barack Obama for the past seven years, and soon it will have another leader.
With the campus carry debate raging, Texas Tech officials are working to determine how to implement the law. Many in the campus community have strong opinions on how that should be done and on the merits of the law itself.
Texas Tech’s Campus Beautification Project has greatly improved the look of the Broadway entrance to campus with the addition of new trees and landscaping. It’s a worthwhile endeavor to be sure, but one likely unforeseen and potentially dangerous result has occurred.
When The Daily Toreador editorial board decided to do this year in review issue, our goal was simple — to take a step back and look at everything that has happened at Texas Tech in the past year.
The University of Oklahoma community was rocked Sunday night by a video allegedly showing members of the university’s chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity partaking in a racist chant. Members stood and pumped their fists while chanting “There will never be a ni**** SAE. You can hang…
Whether or not to allow same-sex marriage often sparks heated debate, as is the case here in Texas with the state’s ban on same-sex marriages currently stuck in limbo in the court system. The debate, however, can essentially be boiled down to one topic — freedom.
Newspapers in the U.S. practice the tradition of endorsing political candidates on the editorial page. Some may think the process of choosing and singling out specific candidates is controversial. However, The Daily Toreador editorial staff believes this process is important for voters in th…
When the editorial staff at The Daily Toreador sat down in October to plan this Thursday issue, we knew we wanted to spotlight the issue of sexual assault.
As a culture and a campus, we have yet to move forward on the idea of sexual assault and rape. This behavior not only targets women but men as well. Both genders face this plague together. This is an issue beyond Greek life and the Texas Tech community — it is a human rights issue that needs…
On Wednesday, a federal judge struck down Texas’ ban on same-sex marriage, which is a positive step toward equality.
Recent off-campus crime data published Thursday in The Daily Toreador cannot be taken lightly by Lubbock or Texas Tech officials.
Skittish investors on Wall Street and beyond hurried to sell off stakes in Apple earlier this week after Steve Jobs unexpectedly announced another medical leave of absence from his beloved company.
Right on schedule with the end of the semester, the press is full of reports about how much cheating occurs on college campuses. For your professors, these articles are as gripping as those about Kim Kardashian’s new boyfriend, who will play in what bowl game and Chilean miners all rolled in…
Right on schedule with the end of the semester, the press is full of reports about how much cheating occurs on college campuses. For your professors, these articles are as gripping as those about Kim Kardashian’s new boyfriend, who will play in what bowl game and Chilean miners all rolled in…