Through a lens

My life expands educationally, artfully

by Laura Norris, photography editor

It is with a heavy heart that I write this farewell piece. At first, I didn’t even want to write it.

First of all, I have to dote on the Plainsman Press. After all, if it didn’t exist, I wouldn’t be here writing this opinion column, and you wouldn’t be here reading it. In the beginning, I was the graphic design editor, then became the news editor. In my last year on the Plainsman Press, I became the photography editor. 

Farewell comes too quick

by Hilary McNamara, associate editor

As I was sitting around one recent Paper Night talking to the girls, we were having a conversation about why we were here, why we were doing this.  

I realized that the Plainsman Press just becomes apart of you.

Puzzle pieces put life together

by Hylann Camacho, online editor

People are like puzzle pieces.

Life throws certain people your way so that you can learn something from each one by putting all of them together.

So when you have all the puzzle pieces, you eventually get to see a bigger picture. The bigger picture is yourself.

Change inevitable but difficult

by Laura Cain, news editor

As the semester comes racing to a close, and everyone is frantic to get last-minute assignments turned in, it suddenly came to my attention that not only is this issue the last for the semester, but it is also my last issue to be an editor and writer.

Famous last words

Saying goodbye to two amazing years of my life

by Brittany Bradford, opinion editor

So this is it. This will be my last article.

'Plainsman Press' brought out my best

by Brant Thurmond, sports editor

For the past two years, I have been on the staff of the Plainsman Press staff.

I have gone from the one student who once sat in the back of the classroom and didn’t talk to anyone, to the sports editor.

Times they are a-changin'

by Courtney Bullard, staff writer

On my first day of Publications, the classroom was crowded and extremely loud.

I sat there absolutely terrified. I was painfully shy among a group of outgoing and opinionated people. I decided to make the most of it. I got involved and wrote as much as I could, becoming an editor for three semesters.  At the time, I really had no idea of what I was getting myself into.

Finding my purpose through unexpected place

by Courtney Ortega, staff writer    

When life leads you in unlikely directions

I used to think that the best way one could go through life was to always have a plan.

Plans are security, and they keep us on track. I used to think this was true, that is, until my life led me here.

Newspaper allows me to express love for God

by Isa Torres, staff writer

I have been dreading this day for a while now, the day when I will write the last words to the readers of this great newspaper.

I would like to explain what I think my whole purpose of being here has been.

After my first day in the newsroom, I knew I was supposed to be here.  A few years before I came to South Plains College, God had been teaching me a lot.

Government abuses power over citizens

by Schuyler Clark, staff writer

So I was cruising the streets of Littlefield recently when I happened to pass an off-duty police officer's house.

He was washing his fire-red Silverado with his kids playing some sort of variation of a neo-cops and robbers gig in the front yard. When I passed by in my untagged and uninsured 1971 F-100, minding my own business, the game turns against me, an unsuspecting bystander in a game of increasing political tension between the police and their opponents, those who stand up for their rights, and the general population. 

DREAM Act raises concern for college students

by Jason Hartline, staff writer

With all the expenses that accompany being a college student, imagine paying someone else’s way through the higher education experience.

With the passing of the “DREAM Act,” college students, along with the rest of the United States citizens, could be doing just that.

Wedding puts life in perspective

by Schuyler Clark, staff writer

I was lucky enough to participate in a wedding recently in Dallas as a best man. 

The importance and significance of this true honor didn't hit me until I was actually in it.  Tears began running down my face as the blessed proceedings took place.

Pregnancy brings transition in life

by Kendra Halsell, staff writer

Believe it or not, the choices you make can change your life in good and bad ways.

My choice to have sexual intercourse with my boyfriend at the time changed my life in a very drastic way. I am 18 years old and soon to be a single mother.

Music plays large role in my life

by Alex Everett, feature editor

Music has been in and a part of my life for as long as I can remember.

It has affected me in many different ways. For as long as my memory can recall my mother and father have always been into music and shared their music taste with me, whether I liked it or not. For my mother’s side, I remember helping her cleaning the first house I lived in, listening to Madonna, The Eagles, Bob Seager and whatever else came on the ‘hot hits’ on the ‘70’s, ‘80’s and ‘90’s radio station.

SPC more than just a college

by Amanda Anders, staff writer

With my time at South Plains College coming to an end, I find myself looking back on the last few years with mixed feelings. 

After taking off a semester out of high school, I attended SPC for the first time in the spring of 2003. At that time, I didn’t know where I wanted to go or how I wanted to get there. Like several students, I succumbed to the partying and less responsible side of life, quitting after less than a year. That choice has become one of my biggest regrets, yet best decisions, of my life.