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Diversity
F1RSTGEN Banquet celebrates students, community
November 8, 2019
West Texas A&M University’s F1RSTGEN organization held their first annual banquet honoring first-generation college students on Thursday in Jack...
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Art
Student success center becomes temporary art gallery
November 7, 2019
Jonah Dietz, Junior Reporter
Michelle Blake, assistant director of educational services, walked into the Math Tutoring Center recently to find a portrait of philosophy professor...
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Features
Artifacts COMM Alive during Family Weekend at the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum
November 5, 2019
Savannah Wesley, Features Editor
Artifacts COMM Alive is an event that takes place every fall during West Texas A&M University’s Family Weekend in which students present an artifact...
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Cinema
Spanish film festival shows Devil’s Backbone
November 1, 2019
Jonah Dietz, Junior Reporter
At 7 p.m. on Oct. 30 in the Old Main theater, the Spanish Film Festival put on by the Department of English, Philosophy and Modern Languages, screened...
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Entertainment
The Legacy brings ‘Weird Stories and Dark Tales’ to Barrel and Pie
November 1, 2019
Olivia Spiezio, Senior Reporter
West Texas A&M University’s creative writing journal The Legacy held its second annual Halloween reading at Barrel and Pie on October 29, sharing...
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Editorials
Día de los Muertos and Halloween: A celebration of different cultures
October 31, 2019
Jeffrey Williams, Senior Reporter
Happy Halloween! ¡Feliz día de los Muertos! With the end of October and the beginning of November, we celebrate the lives of those we love and the traditions...
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Custodial
The unsung heroes of our collective learning space
October 29, 2019
Jonah Dietz, Junior Reporter
The custodians at West Texas A&M University are some of the unsung heroes of our collective learning space; quietly, stoically and proficiently...
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Features
Get connected through WTAMU internet resources
October 28, 2019
Ceasar Escalante, Junior Reporter
With the newly built Buffalo Stadium at J Ferg Field comes many new attachments and upgrades from the previous Kimbrough Memorial Stadium. Many welcome...
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Features

How do Buffs keep warm?

Alyssa Gonzales, Sports Editor

November 11, 2019

As the harsh weather continues here in West Texas, many try their best to...

Alumni share sacred moment at Joseph A. Hill Memorial Chapel

November 10, 2019

West Texas A&M is home to Texas’...

Social media parody accounts the musical

November 8, 2019

As much as I would like to provide a musical...

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Sports

NCAA makes big changes for college athletes

Alyssa Gonzales, Sports Editor

November 1, 2019

As of Tuesday October 29, 2019, the National Collegiate Athletic Association has begun the process of changing their official rules in regards to college athletes to receive...

The helping hands behind the sports injuries

October 28, 2019

A new way to tune into tailgates

October 21, 2019

Is the Fair Pay to Play Act fair enough?

October 8, 2019

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Entertainment

The Spanish film festival screens first film

Jonah Dietz, Junior Reporter

October 19, 2019

The Spanish Film Festival kicked off on Oct. 17, in the Old Main Theater with a screening of “El espiritu de la colmena”, director Victor Erice’s ambiguous, government-critical...

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