There was confusion, but students we spoke to said it was a generally calm feeling once they left their dorm or classroom.

leading to outages on the Texas Tech campus. Electricity and gas were shut down across both the Texas Tech and Health Sciences Center campuses in Lubbock to keep the fire from spreading further.

Later reports confirmed the power outages as "widespread," affecting the university and the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. The TTUHSC campus asked students and staff to vacate its ...