Category: Spring 2023
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Capturing the wind: Vote for your favorite picture
You can’t photograph the wind. It’s invisible, right? Wrong. Photographing the wind is exactly what students in News Photography, COMM 1316, were assigned to do this week. On Tuesday, Feb. 14, local news stations reported the National Weather Service issued a High Wind Warning for Lubbock, Hockley, and surrounding counties. According to KLBK, wind gusts…
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Artistic mishaps open to interpretation at new SPC art exhibit
Editor’s note: The authors for this story include 10 students from Margaret Kirby’s COMM 2311 News Writing. They helped write this story as a group during class and tackled issues such as how to write a lead, what quotes to use, how to organize information, and how to end a story. Student names are: Joshua…
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Hanging out: Photography students capture student hang outs
By students in COMM 1316/News Photography The first assignment students in News Photography, COMM 1316, tackled this semester was called “Student Hangouts”. From the name of the assignment, you can guess their challenge was to find places on and around campus where students gather. Students were told they were not just looking for places in…
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Microbiology students become germ hunters
By Morgan Minnick/COMM 1316 Microbiology students recently became germ hunters on the lookout for bacteria. It sounds a little like a science reality show, and in some ways, that’s what this science lab is. In this lab students took “environmental swabs” or samples from everyday areas such as shoes, glasses, keys, and the bottoms of their backpacks. …
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Decent exposure: Biology class hosts “Naked Egg” lab
Photos Courtesy of Kristin Bingham, biology department chair at SPC The title of this lab may draw giggles from a seventh-grade sense of humor, but it’s not meant to. This week students used “naked eggs” to learn first-hand what osmosis means in zoology lab. The term “naked” here means “without shells”. According to Dr. Harriet…
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Man on the Street: Dating apps
With Valentines Day approaching, students across South Plains College gave their opinions on dating apps and how they do or do not use them. Their answers are featured in the video below. Video By Marley McKay & Alyssa Guevara/Texan Mosaic Staff
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Gala raises funds for student scholarships
By Chloe Martin/Texan Mosaic Staff The silver anniversary of the annual scholarship gala will take place February 24 in the Mallet Event Center and promises to be a sparkling festivity. “The gala is a wonderful way for the community to raise money for scholarships for SPC students and a fun time for the community to…
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Community “Packs the Dome” for Texan basketball
By Gabriel Nieland & Aalijah Soliz Photos by Jordan Irvine/South Plains College South Plains College hosted “Pack the Dome” Saturday, January 28 for the home games against Odessa College at the Texan Dome. The games were also broadcasted live on ESPN plus. Roger Reding, athletic director at SPC, said the college wants the community involved…
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Eagles expected to outlast Chiefs in Super Bowl LVII
By Isaac Castillo/Texan Mosaic Staff This year’s Super Bowl is stacked with talent as both the conference leaders advance to the final game of the season. Texas Tech’s very own Patrick Mahomes managed to edge a win versus the talented Joe Burrow and the Cincinnati Bengals (23-20). This win was anything but easy, as the…
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Attention to detail: Coach Barker hones craft on & off field
Photos by Gabriel Nieland/Texan Mosaic Staff At 80, Coach Frank Barker continues to go the distance. At this time of year on most afternoons you’ll find him standing on the South Plains College track at 2:30 p.m. sharp with a stopwatch in his hand. Barker is an assistant track and field coach at SPC. He has been…
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Student, community organizations on display at TC3
By Joshua Flores/Texan Mosaic Staff On Tuesday, January 31, South Plains College hosted the TC3 (Texan Campus, Clubs, and Community) in the Student Life Center at the Levelland Campus. The TC3 Organization fair was an event to raise student awareness of the resources and opportunities available to them while studying at SPC. Such resources and…
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Students represent SPC at Community College Day
By Noah Lopez/Texan Mosaic Staff The future of community colleges is dependent on the decisions of a few, but those decisions will impact students across the state. Recently, a group of South Plains College students traveled to the Texas Capitol to advocate for the college’s future. Student Life Director Josh Meredith organized the trip. ”…
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Lifting the mask: ANT Club provides safe space for students
By Alec Leos/Texan Mosaic Staff Often times people who identify as neurodivergent don’t feel like they necessarily fit in with typical student clubs. This is why Claire Young, president of the Autistic and Neurodivergent Texans (ANT), founded the ANT Club in August last year. “It’s nice to have a safe space when not everywhere in…
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Flashes from the past: Vintage polaroids donated to SPC
The South Plains College Media Communication Department received an interesting Christmas gift this year. In early December, employees at the Salvation Army Family Store in Levelland donated a small suitcase of vintage cameras to the department. The bag, originally donated to the Levelland Salvation Army by Beth Wels, was full of about a dozen vintage…
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SPC proud to host Honor Guard Academy
By Texan Mosaic Staff Honor is something those in law enforcement and other service organizations hold to the utmost priority and officers from across the region got a real feel for honor at the first Honor Guard Academy hosted at South Plains College last week. “This is the first time we’ve ever done it and…
