Category: Fall 2023
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Regents stand firm in keeping SPC affordable
By Noah Lopez/Texan Mosaic Students are the lifeblood of South Plains College, and their experience and upcoming student events were the focus of Thursday’s Board of Regents meeting. South Plains College Board of Regents held a meeting at the Levelland campus in the administration building on Thursday, October 12. The meeting included information about student…
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Students practice CPR, first aid safety
*Editor’s note: Photos were taken by students in COMM 1316 News Photography, including: Andrew Angelo, Esosa Iyengunmwena, Isabela Salas, Joshua Cantu, Noah Lopez, Sydney Oates, and Trista Stanley With an evil smile, Kinesiology Department Chair and Professor Jon Marc Moore turns up the volume on his smart phone and it up high. Verse after verse… after…
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Natatorium seeks pool of lifeguards
By Sydney Oates/COMM 1316 It’s not easy to keep the number of lifeguards at SPC’s natatorium afloat. That’s why Mike Harrison, the director of natatorium and assistant professor of kinesiology, says he’s always taking lifeguard job applications. “I never know these days when a lifeguard is going to leave,” Harrison says. He says he’s looking…
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TexHex haunts student union building October 27
By Noah Lopez/Texan Mosaic Get ready for a scary good time at the annual TexHex Haunted Halloween Spooky Spectacular. The event, set for Friday, October 27, is organized by Student Life with the help of clubs and organizations and is open to students and the community. This is the third year for TexHex, which used…
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Edens named to CCATT board of directors
By Noah Lopez/Texan Mosaic Staff Chris Edens, a member of the Board of Regents for South Plains College, will be representing the college on a bigger stage following a big win last month. Edens was elected to the board of directors for the Community College Association of Texas Trustees (CCATT), an organization that advocates for…
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Students help clean up Levelland
South Plains College students with student life organizations came out Saturday to help clean-up Levelland at the community-wide clean-up. The event was sponsored by the Keep Levelland Beautiful program. Students said they believed it was important to do their part to keep the community that supports the college clean, and to take accountability for where…
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Expanded welding facility already busting at seams
By Texan Mosaic Staff With sparks flying, the welding technology program at South Plains College might have already outgrown its Levelland space…again. In October 2022, construction began on the Levelland welding building to increase usable space. At that time, Jimmy Stratton, chairperson for industrial technology and associate professor for welding technology, said the program had…
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Relieve your stress one piece at a time
Editor’s note: The authors for this story are eight students from the COMM 2311 News Writing Levelland section. They wrote this story as a group during class and tackled headline and lead writing, direct versus indirect quote choices, as well as organization. Their goal was accuracy as well as making the story flow. Student names…
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Campus food pantry fills gap for students
By Payton Hinojosa Fall break, Friday, Oct. 20, might seem like a long way off. But it’s really not if you are the one making sure the shelves at the SPC Food Pantry are stocked and ready to go. Food pantry organizers say holidays like the fall break, or Labor Day at the start of…
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Check it out: SPC offers online library services
Editor’s note: The authors for this story are six students from the COMM 2311 News Writing Lubbock section. They wrote this story as a group during class and tackled tough areas such as how to write aheadline and lead, what direct versus indirect quotes to use, how to organize, and then how toend the story. Students…
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College celebrates perfect SACSCOC evaluation
Contributed to by Noah Lopez/Texan Mosaic South Plains College celebrated a perfect evaluation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) Wednesday with donuts and coffee at the snack bar on the Levelland campus. In an email to faculty on September 21, Dr. Robin Satterwhite, president of the college, congratulated faculty…
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Imagination runs rampant at Make-Believe art exhibit
Story by Noah LopezPhotos by students in COMM 1316 News Photography Colored fabrics of all kinds of patterns hang from the walls, along with random household items, and it is all surrounded by gold-framed traditional portraits. At the new exhibit “Make-Believe” by Sophia Villalobos, all the colorful fabric pieces are on display. The exhibit is…
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Community festival involves current, former students
South Plains College students had a noticeable presence at the Cotton and Crude Festival, hosted by the Levelland Chamber of Commerce, Saturday, in downtown Levelland. Not only were students featured as the opening act for Cory Morrow that night, but they also provided free live music at the gazebo on the downtown square during the…
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Students capture campus beauty shots
Students in COMM 1316 News Photography jump started their semester using the cameras on their smartphones. Their challenge? Find something on campus that is “pretty”. Something that might promote the school if it were included on its website. It could be a tree, colorful pile of leaves, pattern on the corner of a building, or…
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Students fall back into routine
Story By Katie Brackens/COMM 2311/News WritingPhotos by students in COMM 1316/News Photography So, how did it go? The first week of classes was probably different for everyone. Professors tried to make sure their Blackboard class sites were set up correctly. Students tried to get into Blackboard and find where their face-to-face classes were located. Many…