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Courtesy of Hani Michael Annabi.

Welcoming the TTU System family back to campus

Hani Michael Annabi, Texas Tech University System Student Regent September 11, 2022

Dear Texas Tech University System students, Welcome back to campus – and for all the new students at our universities: welcome to our TTU System family! My name is Hani Michael Annabi, and...

Climate Change Guest Column: Initial Responses to Technogenic Climate Change

Climate Change Guest Column: Initial Responses to Technogenic Climate Change

Edward Burke Roberts, Guest Contributor January 17, 2022

Edward Roberts, under the anonym “strannikov”, has written flash fiction since 2007 appearing online at Delicious Demon, Language Is a Virus, Gone Lawn Journal, Metazen, Dead Mule School of Southern...

Antarctica ice caps.

Climate Change Guest Column: A Most Uncertain Fiction

Edward Burke Roberts, Guest Contributor January 17, 2022

Edward Roberts, under the anonym “strannikov”, has written flash fiction since 2007 appearing online at Delicious Demon, Language Is a Virus, Gone Lawn Journal, Metazen, Dead Mule School of Southern...

Amos Perkins poses with Wichitan staff at the spring 2021 end-of-semester party, April 9, 2021. Photo courtesy of Emma Perkins.

Saying goodbye to The Wichitan: I came for the writing and I left with a family

Amos Perkins, Editor in Chief December 1, 2021

I first came to The Wichitan in Fall 2019 about a month into my freshman year of college on a total whim. After all, I was an education major writing a book on the side, just looking for some way to keep...

Power plant

Climate Change Guest Column: Naming the scourge we made

Edward Burke Roberts, Guest Contributor November 11, 2021

Edward Roberts, under the anonym “strannikov”, has written flash fiction since 2007 appearing online at Delicious Demon, Language Is a Virus, Gone Lawn Journal, Metazen, Dead Mule School of Southern...

Gabriella Pettijohn, economics junior with a Spanish minor

OPINION: The student involvement problem on campus

Gabriella Pettijohn October 18, 2021

*Columns are the opinions of their respective authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Wichitan as an organization.* I was a Freshman college student during the peak of COVID-19. I did...

Opinion: The fire inside

Opinion: The fire inside

Casee Harl October 13, 2021

*Columns are the opinions of their respective authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Wichitan as an organization.* When you are trying to kill a flame do you pour gasoline on it or...

Tedd L. Mitchell

Welcoming MSU Texas to the Texas Tech University System

Tedd L. Mitchell, Texas Tech University System Chancellor September 15, 2021

Tedd L. Mitchell, M.D., is the fifth chancellor of the Texas Tech University System and previously served as the longest-tenured president of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (2010-2019)....

McCullough-Trigg Hall 77.46ft tall. March 12.

OPINION: Negative experiences living in the MSU’s McCullough-Trigg Dormitory

Triston Ogier March 28, 2021

*Columns are the opinions of their respective authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Wichitan as an organization.* Triston Ogier was the winner of The Wichitan's In My Opinion Column...

pencil and paper

ANNOUNCEMENT: I.M.O. Column contest details

Amos Perkins, managing editor February 24, 2021

Have something you want to complain about or boast about MSU? This is your chance! The Wichitan is holding the first "In My Opinion" column contest now until March 22, open to any MSU Texas Student...

"A slow suicide"

“A slow suicide”

Whitney O'Brien, Columnist January 29, 2021

*Columns are the opinions of their respective authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Wichitan as an organization.* I remember the first time I began to lose weight without trying. I...

Finding freedom in prison

Finding freedom in prison

Whitney O'Brien January 18, 2021

*Columns are the opinions of their respective authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Wichitan as an organization.* I have always been a stubborn person, rigid in what I believe to be...

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