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Southwest Airlines to drop three Lubbock flights, add one
Despite Southwest Airlines' announcement last week of flight cuts at Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport, local experts believe students' travel plans will not be significantly hindered.
Southwest Airlines will cut three weekend flights from Lubbock beginning this winter, said James Loomis, director of aviation at the airport.
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Tech to use new, 'streamlined' Web-based learning program
The current WebCT program Texas Tech students have become accustomed to will cease to be available, prompting an upgrade Tech's online learning program next fall.
Blackboard and WebCT merged in early 2006, and the company is now discontinuing the WebCT Campus Edition 4.
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No results in search for missing Tech student
Park rangers continued aerial and ground searches of a Utah wilderness area for a 61-year-old Texas Tech graduate student who has been missing since July.
Michael Leonard Krasnick was last seen on July 29 in Austin and planned to go on a camping trip somewhere in Utah, Arizona or New Mexico before returning to Lubbock, where he moved from Austin earlier in the summer, according to a Tech Police Department incident report.
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Student Senate passes funding bill; Bailey addresses senate
The Texas Tech Student Senate passed, for the first time, rules for funding student organizationsThursday at teh Tech School of Law.
Also, the SGA hosted the Vice President of Student Affairs Michael Shonrock and the newly appointed Tech President Guy Bailey.
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Students find eTextbooks helpful in lightening the load
No hard copy required.
Online textbooks, better known as "eTextbooks" are gaining popularity at colleges as a convenient tool for students and professors to access at school, work or on-the-go, and at a discounted price.
Frank Lyman, who works in marketing and business development for CourseSmart, one of the largest distributors of online textbooks, said the company offers has more than 4,000 titles in use this fall.
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Unintentional plaigiarism leads to disciplinary action
Keeping up with the fast-paced world college students live in may increase the temptation to plagiarize - a decision that could lead to serious consequences.
"The pressure to succeed in college has grown and that can create anxiety, which produces a motive to cheat," said David Callahan, author of "The Cheating Culture.
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Learning institute offers continuing education
A million-dollar grant from the Bernard Osher Foundation has made it possible for senior citizens to further their academic career.
Sept. 1 was the first day for senior citizens to enroll in continued education classes at Texas Tech's Outreach and Distance Education.
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Nevada's pistol offense awaits No. 12 Texas Tech
Call it the gun show.
Mike Leach's shotgun-ready offense will meet Nevada coach Chris Ault's powerful pistol formation when No. 12 Texas Tech kicks off against the Wolf Pack at 8:05 p.m. Saturday in Reno, Nev., at Mackay Stadium.
Last week against Grambling State, Ault's offense spread the ball between running backs like quarterback Graham Harrell does to his receivers.
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Tech volleyball faces tough test
Better competition breeds better teams.
The Texas Tech volleyball team will see that kind of competition when it travels Friday to Tucson to play in the Arizona Invitational. The Red Raiders play a total of three games: Santa Clara and Texas State at 2 p.
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Tech soccer goes on first road trip of season
After its first challenge in conference play, the Texas Tech women's soccer team will attempt its first challenge on the road.
The Red Raiders (2-1, 0-1 in Big 12 Conference) are heading to Murfreesboro, Tenn. this weekend to play two non-conference games in the Middle Tennessee Soccer Classic, the first time the team will spend the weekend on the road.
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