Tag: Feature
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Faith, love fuel global travel by alum
by SARA MARSHALL//Editor-in-Chief [Editor’s note: This story is part of an ongoing project in conjuction with the South Plains College Alumni Association. The project highlights former SPC students and their achievements.] With love in her heart and faith in her soul, Mollie McMeans is working on changing the world.
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New campus organization brings opportunity for student involvement
by VANESSA DELGADO//Staff Writer Service, leadership, fellowship. These are the three tenets that guide Circle K. Each member uses these tenets to guide their actions and their hearts. The feeling of giving back to one’s community can be incomparable. It can create a sense of responsibility and pride. Community service can make one’s heart full,…
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Auction, dinner held for ‘Heroes for Horses’ in Lubbock
by AARON FLORES//Staff Writer Easy R is an organization that deeply cares about the safety and wellbeing for horses. Their main mission is to rescue and rehabilitate abused, neglected, and disabled horses back to good health.
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Gelber gets students involved with her own interest in music
by REBECCA WILLIAMS//Staff Writer Deborah Gelber started to sing and play the piano in church when she was a little girl, singing with her family and the church choir. Dr. Gelber, assistant professor of Fine Arts, has been teaching for almost 16 years, five of which have been at SPC. She attended West Virginia University…
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South Plains Balloon Round-Up rises to occasion
by CHANEY ARNEY//Staff Writer Not even the rain could keep the balloons on the ground and the people away. Hundreds attended The Southwest Regional Balloon Club’s annual South Plains Balloon Round- Up on Sept. 10 and Sept. 11 at Buffalo Springs Lake. The festivities began 7 a.m. both days, with a night flight on Saturday. …
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Former student turns patrol officer after sexual assault
by MATT MOLINAR//Opinion Editor One South Plains College graduate has gone from calling the cops several times, to becoming the patrol officer responding to the emergency. Amber Rodriguez grew up in Lubbock, where she also experienced what most people would consider an absolute nightmare.
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Coloring books can help take adults away from daily stress
by KACI LIVINGSTON//Staff Writer After a long stressful day, you thoroughly enjoy being able to sit back, relax, and unwind. Sometimes the world can be a hectic and cruel place. A growing trend to de-stress is to revert back to childhood and get out a coloring book. But the coloring books are not just for…
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Student artist continuing his passion for drawing cartoons
by NOELL LUNA//Staff Writer David Alaniz has always wanted to draw ever since he was little. Now, Alaniz is getting the chance to live his dream during his journey in college, drawing cartoons for a living. Alaniz, a sophomore at South Plains College, is a cartoon artist from Lubbock who is working on his third…
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Former student has high hopes for budding music career
by SERGIO MADRID//Staff Writer Lubbock has spawned yet another rock star on the rise. Since she was 6, Alissa Beyer, has been singing and involved with music. While most kids were involved in sports or other after-school programs, Beyer’s mom started her off singing at the Cactus Theater. But Beyer would eventually put music down…
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SWAT team leader relates mass shooting experiences
by SARA MARSHALL//Editor-in-chief Bullets whizzing by his head. Distraught shouts and cries ringing in his ears. Footsteps echoing through the empty, disheveled hallways. Chaos unfolding all around him. Grant Whitus never backed down from the challenge of being SWAT Team Leader in his 17 years of service in the Colorado SWAT. Despite beginning his life…
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Feddes balances family life with maintaining Women’s Complex
by HANNAH NELSON//Staff Writer From rattles to room checks, Jennifer Feddes has impacted the hallways of the Women’s Complex in many extraordinary ways. Feddes, hall director for the Women’s Complex makes up a very important part of student housing and the South Plains College community. She works within the wings of her dorm nightly, providing…
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Alcazar hopes to continue family nursing tradition
by RILEY GOLDEN/Editorial Assistant BreAhna Alcazar says her interest in the medical field runs in her blood. The Pre-Nursing major at South Plains College took dual-credit classes in high school, and she played the saxophone in band, and participated in HOSA-Future Health Professionals, formerly known as Health Occupations Students of America, and has always been…