WT Readership winners will travel to Honduras in Spring
This year, 15 WTAMU freshmen will be spending their spring break in an unusual location compared to most college students. These students will be traveling to Honduras with WT’s Readership Ambassador Program. This year the freshman class read, “Where am I Wearing,” by Kelsey Timmerman. The first story of in the book is about the [...]
A ‘Day Without Shoes’ to raise awareness
For most people, shoes are a crucial part of their daily lives. However, in many countries around the world, children only dream about owning their first pair of shoes. These children have never owned shoes and have been exposed to many diseases as a result.
Zombies scheduled to attack on March 23
March 23 will mark the beginning of a war among humans and zombies at WTAMU. WT students will participate in the first game of tag, put on by the Residential Hall Association at WT.
Gaga, Glee make billboard history
It has been a big week for two different music entities. Lady Gaga and the cast of Glee both share this week’s spotlight on the Billboard Charts. Lady Gaga’s new single, Born This Way, released Feb. 11 has made its way to the Billboards number one spot making it officially the one-thousandth song to reach [...]
Looking Forward, Looking Back in Comm Department
“Looking Forward, Looking Back” is the theme for this year’s Communication Week, a series of events that the Communication Department puts together annually. The idea for the theme came last fall when the Communication Committee met and talked about celebrating WTAMU’s Centennial. “We wanted to look at the way communication has changed,” Dr. Trudy Hanson, [...]
Chamber Singers to travel to Italy
The WTAMU Chamber Singers is a choir composed of 20 undergraduate and graduate students from a variety of majors. To be a member of the WT Chamber Singers, students interested must audition at the end of the school year in May to be considered for the following academic school year. Last year the WT Chamber [...]
Week without Facebook
A week without Facebook is much easier said than done. The thing about Facebook is that I can go without it as long as my friends do not mention or discuss the daily updates they read. But once they start, it is only a matter of clicks before I log on too. I did not [...]
Circle K aids others
WTAMU Circle K is part of the Texas-Oklahoma Circle K International division, which includes six other chapters from the Oklahoma/Panhandle area. Their main sponsor is the Amarillo Kiwanis, but they also work closely with the Canyon Kiwanis. Serving as the clubs president this year is Kimberly Summers, a graduate student. During their first meeting the [...]
Fan no longer ‘Glee’ful for show, still likes music
I promised myself that I would never watch an episode of “Glee”. I remember the nights when many of my friends on Facebook updated their status to “Glee Night” or something that related to “Glee.” I never understood what all the excitement was about until one night I was sitting at home and I heard [...]
WT media intergrates to create a new organization
Buffsity, a group made up of WTAMU media organizations, is creating an app that will redefine media integration at the University. “Buffsity is an innovative and collaborative group of students that have come together representing different WT media outlets,” Dr. Leigh Browning, director of broadcast media, said. After the Amarillo Addy Awards ceremony in Feb., [...]
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