The Mass Communicator

Spring 2012 Table of Contents

Mass Communicator Staff

Publisher  Dean Jerry C. Hudson

Faculty editor  Kippra Hopper

Art director  Melissa Wofford

Website designer  Andrew Byrne

Editor-in-chief  Katie Yingling

Managing editor  Andrew Hart

Designer  Ryan Vatzlavick

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Foreign Graduate Students Bring Diversity and Culture

Foreign graduate students bring fresh ideas and different outlooks on life to the College of Mass Communications at Texas Tech University.

Ashik Mohammed Shafi, a graduate student from Bangladesh, said education is a main focus and priority in his country. He said the opportunity to come to the United States is considered an honor and is appreciated. He, therefore, mapped out his steps to prepare for studying overseas.

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Caring for the Whole Community

Derrick Ginter, the general manager of KOHM-FM, Texas Tech's National Public Radio station, not only has a passion for radio communications, but also for serving the public interest.

Ginter, a Texas Tech alumnus, began his career in radio communications after completing an internship in 1996 with Clive Kinghorn, the previous general manager of KOHM-FM and former mass communications faculty member. Ginter became the station's operations director in 1997 and succeeded Kinghorn in 2001.

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Student Organization Makes Big Impact

Jerry Hudson, Ph.D., and founding dean of the College of Mass Communications, formed the Dean's Council in 2009 as a way to give students a voice directly to the dean.

"It started out being a forum for us to get together and for me to get some feedback," Hudson said. "I rarely teach classes, so I miss the student contact and hearing what is going on with them."

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The Road Less Traveled

Robert Frost said taking the road less traveled made all the difference. Lexie Conduff would say the same thing. While her classmates in elementary school were reading “Nancy Drew” and “The Hardy Boys,” she was reading books on former presidents. While her high school peers were packing up to go to college in their home state of Georgia, she was heading to The University of the South in Tennessee. When her college friends were trying to find jobs around town in the summer of 2009, she was on a plane headed to Washington, D.C.

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Hall of Fame

Two Texas Tech graduates who have left their mark on the field of mass communications in the South Plains were honored for their achievements Oct. 15 in the Merket Alumni Center by being inducted into the College of Mass Communications Hall of Fame.

The late public relations professional and political consultant, Otice A. Green, was honored posthumously, along with Brad Moran, president of Ramar Communications and Lubbock community leader.

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