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December 19, 2007
Rock on, Red Raiders
Collaboration highlights students who demonstrate Foundation for a Better Life values.
Written by Cory Chandler
Raiders who Rock are students who demonstrate values while serving the community. To nominate someone visit the Raiders Who Rock Web site.
Hazing, binge drinking, spring break hijinks: Such lapses by college students seldom fail to snag a headline.
Less often noted, however, are those students who work quietly, diligently behind the scenes to improve their universities and communities.
A new collaboration between the Foundation for a Better Life and Texas Tech University’s dean of students and Center for Campus Life seeks to remedy that oversight.
Raiders Who Rock heralds the accomplishments of Red Raiders who demonstrate values such as tolerance, honesty, determination and ambition while serving their community.
“The media is filled with negative stories about students,” said Candice Laster, unit coordinator for the Division of Student Affairs. “We want to highlight students who are doing good things.”
Faculty, staff, advisors, community volunteers, Lubbock Independent School District personnel and currently enrolled Texas Tech students can nominate students or student organizations that exemplify some of the 52 values promoted by the Foundation for a Better Life. The foundation encourages adherence to these values with the goal of fostering personal accountability.
The Center for Campus Life already has begun taking applications and will debut its Raiders Who Rock Web site early in the spring semester with profiles of its first selections.
Megan Smith, a senior food and nutrition major; Jaime Watson, a senior art major; and students in the spring 2007 Human Behavior in the Social Environment course were chosen as the first Raiders Who Rock.
“The opportunity to meet with all of the nominees has been so rewarding; these students’ attitudes and actions every day, which add to the greatness of our community, are truly inspiring,” said Ashley McGee, a graduate assistant in the Office of the Dean of Students.
Story produced by the Office of Communications and Marketing, 806-742-2136.
Raiders Who Rock
Participants in the 2007 Human Behavior in Social Environment course displayed great patience and understanding through their work with hospice. L-R Miranda Woodruff, Laura Lowe, Shay Raygada.
Senior food and nutrition major Megan Smith leads the campus chapter for the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences. She was chosen for her leadership and hard work.
Jamie Watson is an artist at Texas Tech and lives in the ‘art’ world, which she describes as very difficult in terms of overcoming bias and opinion. She was chosen for her courage, passion and determination.