Texas Tech University - La Ventana Yearbook (Lubbock, TX)

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, TECH EXES COME HOME FOR i HOMECOMING rech exes took advantage of the many activities )rdinated by the Ex-Students Association during necoming weekend. fech alumni enjoyed breakfast, buffets, an alumni ;eball game, receptions, a homecoming parade and Seventh Annual Red Raider Road Race, rhe Ex-Students Association kicked off homecom- weekend with the Past Presidents breakfast on day morning. rhe annual council and awards luncheon took place day, and the six Top Techsan awards were presented iniversity staff members Peggy Flores, Aha Burse. irie Taylor, Jessie Rangel, Michael Gower and Bill ynes. fhe recipients received plaques from the Ex-Stu- its Association and checks from the university, fhree distinguished service awards were given to n Maddox, Idris Traylor and Winifred Vigness. rhe highlight Friday was a send-off rally for former :h President Lauro Cavazos. ' avazos left Lubbock to serve as U.S. secretary of ication. Dn Saturday morning, the Red Raider Road Race, a running event, took place for the seventh time. Contes- tants ran 5K or lOK, and the events were open to anyone. T-shirts and trophies were donated by the West Texas Running Club, First National Bank. Lubbock Bever- age. Cardinal ' s Sports Center and Care Link. Entry fees went toward student scholarships, and an endowment fund was established by the West Texas Running Club for future scholarships. Jim Douglass, assistant director of the Ex-Students Association, said homecoming at Tech has changed over the years. Douglass said the Ex-Students Association coordi- nated activities to celebrate coming home for Tech alumni. This also will get current students involved with alumni and the homecoming celebration, he said. We try to involve both alumni and current students in homecoming activities. Douglass said involving current students is a way of encouraging them to come back for homecoming once they have graduated. — Jamie Stewart Homecoming — 1 5

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Little Sister Vanessa Rekers watches the homecoming bon- fire with her Big Brother, Jeff Day. (Pholo by Greg Hump- hries! 1988 HOMECOMING QUEEN Becoming the homecoming queen is something very special that ril remember for the rest of my life. said Marie Phillips, the 1988 Texas Tech homecoming queen. My parents were sitting right in front of me. My Dad had a big smile, and my Mom cried. Phillips was sponsored by the band and the flag corps. She was chaplain of the Women ' s Service Organiza- tion, a sweetheart for Delta Sigma Phi and a member of the Tech band flag corps. She served as a resident assistant for two years, served on the RA council and was a member of the National Residence Hall honorary. Phillips, from Odessa, received her degree in ele- mentary education with a specialization in early child- hood education. I want to teach first grade because I like the little ones, she said. Basically, you ' re starting them off and giving them a base for the future. When I was participating in the Cotton Bowl parade with the other Southwest Conference home- coming queens, there were quite a few people from Tech in the crowd cheering for me. It made me feel good. Phillips said she enjoys spending her free time dancing and watching sports. — W.J. Proctor Photo by Robert Williams McDonald ' s restaurant exem- plifies communitv involvement at homecoming by driving an inflatable clown down Broadway to promote the Ronald McDonald House. iPholo by Corby Roberts) A family poses in front of the Tech seal near Memorial Circle, showing that homecoming not only is for Tech students and exes but also can be an enjoyable event for families. (Photo b Corby Roberts! 14 — Homecoming I

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STUDENTS PARTICIPATE IN DECISION ' 88 Mud-slinging between presidential can- didates George Bush and Michael Dukakis caught Texas Tech students in a heated bat- tle in party politics. Students were bombarded by people shoving party paraphernalia in their faces as they walked through the University Cen- ter. While the Young Democrats and the Col- lege Republicans were frantically register- ing eligible voters on campus, the organiza- tions also knocked on doors and telephoned voters, encouraging participation in the 1988 election on Nov. 8. This is my si.xth year as a College Re- publican. I went to rallies and helped with committees and campaigns, said Michael Verdone, a political science graduate from Lubbock. Angela Ledford, a freshman from San Angelo, said, Since I am a political science major, I decided to get involved in the elec- tion by supporting the Lubbock County Young Democrats. Specials were shown on television to en- courage voter participation. Newspapers flashed candidates ' faces on front pages around the country. Many Tech students were voting in their first presidential election and weren ' t sure who was right for the job. Some students made a voting decision on who they thought looked the best on televi- sion. The two Bush versus Dukakis debates raised many of the issues that had not been resolved during the ' 88 election. The trillion dollar deficit and the defense budget were leading the headlines. Abor- tion, taxes and child care were other issues that confronted the candidates. I didn ' t feel that any one of the candi- dates had a good standing on the issues, so I chose not to vote for either one, said fresh- man Liz Pyle. Between both precincts on campus, 36 percent of the 2,284 registered voters did not vote. Of all the students who were regis- tered to vote, 51 percent voted for Bush- Quayle and 12 percent voted for Dukakis- Bentsen. Two other relatively unheard of parties showing a return were the Libertar- ian Party with .9 percent of all registered voters and the New Alliance Party with .1 percent. Bush took the majority of the Tech vote as well as Texas and the nation. He won a landslide on the Tech campus with 1,170 votes, or 80 percent of the ballots, to 265, or 18 percent, for Dukakis. The Libertarian candidate received 16 Tech votes, or 1 per- cent, and the New Alliance nominee re- ceived 2 votes for less than 1 percent. — Rebecca Hawkins Representing the College Republicans. Kevin Treible answers questions about issues at a campus debate Nov. 3 in the UC. (Photo by Greg Humphries}