Several graduate and international student organizations at Texas Tech University started a food pantry to help an underserved, unknown population in need – their peers. The Wreck Hunger Graduate & International Food Pantry, which is open for donations, is spearheaded by Ashlee Taylor, the president of the Graduate Student Advisory Council and a graduate student in nutritional sciences. She has studied food and nutrition insecurity but didn’t realize how serious a problem it was among other graduate students until she found out a number of her peers frequently didn’t have access to healthy food or even enough food. In looking into it more, she learned this was a problem at many universities throughout the country. Graduate students frequently get a stipend from their university for being a teaching or research assistant, but it’s rarely enough to cover all their expenses. Not all are eligible to work somewhere else in addition to their on-campus positions. Additionally, graduate
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