Day: March 6, 2009

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Health Services offers women’s health service

Health Services now offers a special Women’s Health service to all female students, faculty and staff at Tech.All female students, faculty and staff can receive services such as complete physical examinations, birth control administration, sexually transmitted disease testing, Pap smears, and breast examinations. Physical examinations are included in each visit […]

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Economy puts strain on endowment, scholarships

Along with buyouts and budget cuts affecting student life at Tech, scholarships may be next to fall under the critical eye of administrators looking for ways to shore up diminishing funds.Due to the souring economy, the Tech endowment is also put at risk. The endowment is where most of the […]

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Women’s Center announces National Women’s History Month

March is National Women’s History Month and the Women’s Center has a number of events planned to celebrate. Established in 1987, National Women’s History Month is dedicated to educating the public about women’s history across many cultures. “So few women are aware of their own history and what their mothers […]

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Prose writing competition accepting compositions

Writers get your pens ready, because the Golden Eagle Prose Writing Competition is currently accepting submissions.The competition offers two categories: short story and narrative essay. “I’ve been running it for five or six years,” said contest supervisor Michael O’Rourke. O’Rourke also changed the competition from strictly fiction. Both categories offer […]

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Writing competition accepts entries

Writers get your pens ready because the Golden Eagle Prose Writing Competition is currently accepting submissions. The competition offers two categories: short story and narrative essay. “I’ve been running it for five or six years,” said contest supervisor Michael O’Rourke. O’Rourke also changed the competition from strictly fiction. Both categories […]

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Simran Sethi scheduled to speak

Award-winning, environmental journalist, Simran Sethi will present “Green For All: Environmental Equity” at 7 p.m. on March 24 in Derryberry Hall Auditorium. The Women’s Center, with the help of Center Stage, will host the presentation as part of National Women’s History Month. The National Women’s History Project chose “Women Taking […]

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Women’s season ends in first round of OVC tourney

The women’s basketball season ended Tuesday for Tech in Charleston, Illinois. The women were defeated in first round action of the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament ending a late season run by the Golden Eagles. Down by as many as 16 early in the contest, the Golden Eagles refused to submit […]

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Tech baseball off to 5-2 start

The Golden Eagles returned home from South Carolina with a pair of one-run victories over Marshall and The Citadel, improving Tech’s record to 5-2.In the tourney opener, Adam Liberatore and A.J. Kirby-Jones pitched a combined shutout and Heath Cheverton’s sacrifice fly provided all of the offense as the Golden Eagles […]

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MMA hits Tech

Memorial Gym was awakened Saturday night with thousands of people, both young and old, lined up along Quadrangle Drive, eager to see Cookeville’s very first organized fighting event. Blood was spilled, consciousness was lost, and seats were filled as the hoards of fans screamed at the top of their lungs […]

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“Oliver Stone, thou hath forsaken me.

The other night, I watched Oliver Stone’s Biopic W. I think I speak for many who have seen the film by noting that Stone’s attempt at showing “both sides” of President George W. Bush seems shockingly diplomatic. Stone doesn’t shrink from presenting the much heralded failures of the man (the […]