Tech’s athletic department recently offered a cash prize for students to attend university sporting events. The most supportive group display at the remaining home basketball games would win $250 to use at their discretion. While I applaud the efforts of administrators and staff members to increase athletic event attendance, I […]

Christmas break is over and it’s time to start another semester of Intramurals. With basketball already in play, it’s not too late to sign up for the remainder of the spring sports. This semester’s lineup includes basketball, ultimate frisbee, softball, table tennis, dodge ball, wrestling, Professional Fraternities Religious Groups bowling […]

The Bryan Symphony Orchestra will perform on Feb. 21 and March 21 at 3 p.m. Concerts performed by the University music department are free and take place in Wattenbarger Auditorium in the Bryan Fine Arts Building.With dozens of performances taking place this semester, the music department provides more entertainment than […]

The Appalachian Center for Craft hosts three gallery exhibits, ranging from mood-altering mixed media to up-scale culinary and comfort items.Gallery One houses a Meg Roberts collection titled “Mood Alteration” until Thursday. If focuses on personal, interactive and environments. Gallery Two is showing a Brian Ferrell household items collection until Thursday […]

Very rarely does a game come along that challenges our preconceived notions of morality and forces the player to look inward at who they are and who they think they are. “Mass Effect 2” takes on this challenge and soars with success.Recently, a plethora of games attempted this same feat, […]

The 2010 Outstanding Alumni Award reception and dinner are tonight at the Leslie Towne Centre in Cookeville. The reception starts at 6 p.m. and dinner will follow around 7 p.m.. “Our alumni come from a wide variety of backgrounds and achieve success in many different fields from their degrees at […]

1. Grizzly Bear – Vekatimest2. Dave Rawlings Machine – A Friend of a Friend 3. Magnolia Electric Company – Josephine 4. Girls – Album 5. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix 6. M. Ward – Hold Time 7. St. Vincent – Actor 8. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca 9. The Flaming […]

The Office of Career Services now offers more resources to better prepare students for the job search because of the bleak market.This year, in addition to the usual career fairs, Career Services will conduct two resume-building seminars. “They should be really helpful,” said Jade Smith, a senior business major. “There […]

As the unemployment rate across the nation and within our own state rises to staggering heights, some Tech students are finding job security under the branches of our armed forces in this country. According to Bureau of Labor Statistics the national average unemployment rate has risen to 10 percent, while […]