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Inflation’s effect on college students

Inflation’s effect on college students

Kaelin Collar, Junior Reporter, Associate Editor-in-Chief February 21, 2023

Inflation has been fluctuating and significantly affecting people throughout the past couple of years, specifically college students. While the government had assisted during the COVID-19 pandemic, the...

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ChatGPT: A new way to plagiarize

ChatGPT: A new way to plagiarize

Blass Guerrero, Senior Reporter February 16, 2023

ChatGPT, or Chat generative pre-trained transformer, is a chatbox powered by OpenAI. It can write and debug computer code and compose music, TV shows, cartoons and student essays. It can also be answering...

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Buff $mart gives relationship advice

Buff $mart gives relationship advice

Blass Guerrero, Senior Reporter February 13, 2023
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Campus safety top priority as mass shootings increase

Blass Guerrero, Senior Reporter February 9, 2023

Mass shootings in the United States have increased since 2014. As of Feb. 7, 60 mass shootings have occurred in the U.S. since the beginning of the year, according to the Gun Violence Archive. In 2022,...

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Francis Cowart

Behind the major with Francis Cowart: Understanding yourself

Kaelin Collar, Junior Reporter, Associate Editor-in-Chief February 7, 2023

Francis Cowart is a 20-year-old senior majoring in psychology here at West Texas A&M University. Cowart is from Clovis, New Mexico, and has found herself a second family on campus through Jarrett hall,...

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Students to headline WTs Media Communication Association series

Students to headline WT’s Media Communication Association series

JoLina Lopez, Contributor January 25, 2023

Drew Helterbran, Kara Villarreal, and Jordan Conde will headline West Texas A&M University’s Media Communication Association (MCA) Series in a Jan. 25 event. The students will speak at 12:20 p.m....

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The yarn bombing team posed in front of the Charles K. and Barbara Kerr Vaughan Pedestrian Mall on Jan. 16 2022. (Photo/ Victoria Fatiregun)

Service to all and for all

Victoria Fatiregun, Senior Reporter, Editor-in-Chief January 17, 2023

Since 2016, the Beta Sigma Phi sorority has gathered every year to hang scarves, hats and other winter clothes to provide for the West Texas A&M University community, as well as others within the...

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WT’s Bird Scooter rollout exceeds safety expectations

Michael Kidd, Contributor November 30, 2022

In 2020, Consumer Reports found that commercial e-scooters were just as risky as riding a bicycle without a helmet. Almost eight months ago, Canyon and West Texas A&M University partnered with Bird...

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WT Students have mixed feelings about voting

JoLina Lopez, Contributor November 30, 2022

Early voting started on Oct. 24 and Texas voters are heading out to the polls. However, upon speaking to many West Texas A&M University students, they have different thoughts and opinions about voting....

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Studying in coffee shops helps WT students focus

Jeanine Fabbri, Contributor November 30, 2022

For students rushing to prepare for finals, the perfect way to study includes changing to comfy clothes, drinking your favorite beverage at a coffee shop and most importantly, the perfect study tips. Coffee...

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Student cast votes for change

Blass Guerrero, Senior Reporter November 30, 2022

This year's midterm election is on Nov. 8 and students are watching closely and hope the change will come on key issues. Typically, midterm elections have lower turnout than presidential elections according...

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WT’s Virgil Henson Activities Center is a stress relieving hub for students

Augustine Galvan, Contributor November 30, 2022

One of the biggest issues for students at a university is stress. Stress comes in all shapes and forms. From studying for midterms, to making deadlines and paying for tuition. All while trying to have...

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