It was another banner week for the Texas Tech Police Department, who apparently decided Halloween season was the perfect time to run a full crime sampler pack. Between Oct. 26 and 31, officers investigated everything — car burglaries, stolen scooters, drug busts, dating violence, harassment, and a hate crime carved into a dorm door at Murdough Hall. You know, just the usual Red Raider campus vibes.
Car burglars made their way across half the parking lots on campus, apparently competing in some kind of “how many vehicles can we rummage through before lunch” challenge. One thief even took a license plate — because nothing says “I’m a criminal mastermind” like a souvenir from Z6-A. Meanwhile, someone decided that the Humanities Building was the perfect place to steal a pair of earbuds (the real crime there is probably majoring in humanities).
Elsewhere, Tech students were hard at work making the school proud — from DWI arrests to fake IDs and THC oil busts, to multiple harassment cases. Over at Sneed Hall, someone allegedly shared “intimate visual materials,” proving that privacy violations aren’t limited to Facebook anymore. And in the most depressing subplot, Murdough Hall once again made headlines for a racially motivated hate symbol carved into a student’s door. Because apparently, even in 2025, carving racism into dorm furniture is still a thing.
Between the hate crimes, drunk driving, and scooter thefts, one has to wonder: is this a university or a live-action cautionary tale?
Maybe Tech should change its slogan from “Strive for Honor” to “Lock Your Car and Hope for the Best.”
