Month: November 2009

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Deja-vu: vaccine for you

Following the letter to the editor regarding my previous article about the H1N1 vaccine, I feel I should elaborate my position a bit further.The first point of my article: educate yourself. Know what is going into your body. All the information about the vaccine is on the national Centers for […]

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Coddling does not create critical thinking

When did college become a repeat of middle school? When Tech started learning communities. As I understand them, students in a learning community take most of their core classes together along with UNIV 1020, which is basically an introduction to Tech that you could learn in a campus tour. This […]

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Golden Eagle soccer falls in conference final to Murray State

For the first time since 2000, the Golden Eagles made it to the conference finals before falling 4-0 to Murray State in the championship game. On top of Tech’s successful weekend, five players from Tech were recognized at the Ohio Valley Conference banquet last Thursday. The tournament kicked off last […]

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Fitness Center to host state doubles racquetball championships

The 2009 Tennessee State Doubles Racquetball Championships will be held at the Tech Fitness Center on Nov. 21. Racquetball players of all ages will be traveling from across the state to compete for the title. “This is the first time Tech has ever been able to host the tournament,” Suzann […]

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Music department gets in the holiday spirit

Tech’s music department is gearing up for the holiday season with the annual candlelight Christmas concert.This semester has been eventful for the music department as they try to draw students in by having more concerts and recitals. From the Festival of Voices to the fall concert, students have had plenty […]

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Spring 2010 French class to include trip to Morocco

The foreign language department at Tech is offering a class in the spring that will travel to Morocco. The class, taught by Debbie Barnard, will take the trip over spring break. The French 4910 class will focus on Francophone literature and will have at least two learning sessions to focus […]

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Tech to host NASA downlink

Tech will host NASA’s Inflight Education Downlink for the STS-129 space shuttle mission. The downlink, scheduled for 10:53 next Sunday, will allow the Soaring Eagle Question Contest winners to ask International Space Station astronauts their winning questions. Those invited to attend will view it in the Nursing and Health Services […]

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Engineering student awarded Tapman scholarship

A Tech civil engineering student was recently awarded The Samuel Fletcher Tapman ASCE Student Chapter Scholarship. Lindsay Smith, a senior from Mount Juliet, received the $3,000 scholarship from the American Society of Civil Engineers based on activities within the ASCE, academic accomplishments and an essay in which she described her […]

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Alumnus Barry Wilmore to pilot NASA shuttle

Tech alumnus and NASA astronaut Barry Wilmore will be heading to space through the STS-129 Mission.Wilmore, a Mt. Juliet native, graduated from Tech in 1985 with his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering. While attending Tech, he played football, and in 2003 was inducted into Tech’s “Sports Hall of Fame.” Upon […]