Author Archive: Maria Molina
Maria Molina is the Editor of The Prairie. She started writing for the paper in 2009 and became Editor Fall 2010. She is a Senior double majoring in Broadcasting and Corporate Communication at West Texas A&M University.
Listen Up!: Former President Bush cycles through Palo Duro Canyon for Warrior 100K
Get your headphones on and listen up to our latest episode. This one is about Former President Bill Clinton’s speech at WTAMU. The transcript for this episode can be found below.
Warrior 100K Press Conference with Former President Bush
Former President George W. Bush cycled through Palo Duro Canyon for the Warrior 100K race for wounded veterans. During the event, he gave a brief press conference and was interviewed by The Prairie. Watch the report here. Web Editor’s Note: To read more about Warrior 100K, click here! To check out the rest of our [...]
100K mountain bike ride honors wounded warriors
April 27 marked the second day of the Warrior 100K mountain bike ride dedicated to the U.S. service men and women wounded during combat. “There are 19 of us here and it is just a testament to all of us who have overcome these traumatic instances, overcome these obstacles, these barriers to get here,” Melissa [...]
Listen Up! Former President Bill Clinton Speaks at WT
Get your headphones on and listen up to our latest episode. This one is about Former President Bill Clinton’s speech at WTAMU. The transcript for this episode can be found below. Transcript Maria: On April 24, former President Bill Clinton spoke at West Texas A&M University, an event that captured the attention of students, faculty [...]
Newspapers search for a new ad business model
The newspaper industry has struggled to find a business model to balance online and print revenue. A 2012 study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism shows newspaper’s digital gains in advertising revenue don’t make up for print loses. According to the research, “for every $1 gained in digital, $7 are lost [...]
President George W. Bush to host the Warrior 100K
Former President George W. Bush will host the second annual Warrior 100K at Palo Duro Canyon State Park on April 26-28. The 100-kilometer mountain bike ride is dedicated to U.S. servicemen and women wounded in Iraq or Afghanistan. “I look forward to spending time with these wounded warriors in a beautiful part of Texas,” Bush [...]
Former President George W. Bush will host Warrior 100K
Former President George W. Bush will host the second annual Warrior 100K at Palo Duro Canyon State Park on April 26-28. The 100-kilometer mountain bike ride is dedicated to U.S. servicemen and women wounded in Iraq or Afghanistan. “I look forward to spending time with these wounded warriors in a beautiful part of Texas,” Bush [...]
“Kony 2012” becomes a new social media trend
The Viral Video “Kony 2012” became a trend across social media during the past month with 86,723,160 views on YouTube and 17,800,000 on Vimeo as of April 3. According to Pew Research there were nearly five million tweets about the video a week after it was published on March 5. Dr. Nick Gerlich, department head [...]
Former President Bill Clinton to speak at WTAMU
Former President Bill Clinton is scheduled to speak April 24 at 8:00 p.m. at WTAMU as part the Distinguished Lecture Series. The event will take place at the First United Bank Center and it is free and opened to the public. Doors will open at 7:30 p.m. Oceanographer Robert Ballard, who discovered the Titanic in [...]
WTAMU will soon be a Hispanic Serving Institution
West Texas A&M University set as a goal for the university to become a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) by 2014. The Hispanic population increase in Texas is one of the factors that influenced this decision. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Hispanic population has increased six percentage points from the 2000 to the 2010 [...]
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