Texas A&M University-Commerce hosted the 2011 TCCSTA Play Festival for a group of junior colleges in the Performing Arts Building March 2-5. The students were very appreciative at the chance to be at this year’s festivities. “This entire week in itself has been incredible,” sophomore Brady Smith Howard College […]
Color of Sound displays musical diversity
The A&M-Commerce department of music presented the second performance of the Color of Sound concert series on Monday, March 7, at 3:30 p.m. in Finney Concert Hall at the Music Building. The majority of the music played involved strings, with the harp present in a few scores and an […]
Central Oklahoma wins Lone Star Conference
The Bronchos of the University of Central Oklahoma won the Lone Star Conference championship on Feb. 6, in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. They defeated the LSC South’s first placed Tarleton State University 68-52 in the championship game. The Bronchos stampede started in their first game of the conference tournament against Eastern […]
Sorority donates new lion statue
On Feb. 28, students arrived for classes to find a new addition to the outside of the Sam Rayburn Student Center, a brass lion statue donated to the university by the Gamma Upsilon Chapter of Kappa Delta in honor of their 50th anniversary. Senior business administration major and Kappa […]
A&M-Commerce holds annual Mane Event
Student volunteers, educational staff, and department representatives gathered at the SRSC last Saturday to welcome prospective students from high schools all over the state and their parents to Mane Event. From 8:30 to 9:30, guests were greeted by student ambassadors and university staff at the Sam Rayburn Student Center. […]
Students and faculty speak out against imminent gun legislation
While many political experts believe that Texas will most likely pass legislation allowing students with concealed handgun licenses to carry their firearms into university buildings, groups representative of both the student and faculty body have expressed the same strong opinion on the subject. The resolutions by Faculty Senate and […]
‘Take Me Home Tonight’ entertaining, lacks depth
Do you like drugs and/or alcohol? Do you like Topher Grace? Do you yearn for the golden years of the 1980s – the days of parachute pants and clunky, “portable” cellular phones? If you said yes to at least two of those, then “Take Me Home Tonight” is the […]
Editorial: Guns on campus will be blunder
The debate raging on college campuses across the state of Texas concerning the proposed concealed handgun bills will not end anytime soon, regardless of whether or not the legislation passes (and odds are it will). Obviously, the issue is one that plays on people’s political, religious, and socio-economic backgrounds, […]
Lions falter in first round
The men’s basketball team was defeated in the first round of playoffs 82-67 by Midwestern State University on March 3 at the Lone Star Conference championship in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. The Lions were trailing the Mustangs 37-31 at halftime, but came back five minutes into the second half to take the […]
Chancellor Mills’ Information for Life:
College is a place for learning. You learn who you are, who you’re going to be, how to survive on your own, what you’re going to be when you “grow up,” etc. There are some things, however, that you may not learn how to do – certain skills that […]