Day: November 5, 2010

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Football looks to keep win streak alive against Racers

The Tennessee Tech football team rides a three-game winning streak heading into this week’s game against Murray State, but that streak is in jeopardy with nine starters out injured. “We’ve got to do the best we can do,” head coach Watson Brown said. The Golden Eagles (4-4, 3-2 OVC) are […]

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Students able to help needy

How many of us have clothes in our closet that don’t fit anymore or still have T- shirts from clubs we joined in high school? I know I have a lot of stuff I don’t need anymore. One Tech student is thinking globally and decided to collect items to send […]

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Heffner, Reid named to All-OVC second team

Sophomores Leigh Heffner and Kerri Reid each received post-season honors as members of the all-OVC second team, as voted upon by coaches and sports information directors throughout the conference.Reid, a midfielder out of Peachtree City, Ga., was one of three Golden Eagles to start all 17 contests of the 2010 […]

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Red in, blue out

Tennessee will simultaneously have a Republican governor and majorities in both state legislative bodies. Tuesday night election results confirmed that Republican Bill Haslam was elected governor of Tennessee. The results also indicate Tennessee’s congressional delegation will shift from being a 5-4 Democrat majority to a 7-2 Republican majority. Once members […]

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Tech Players present ‘A Funny Thing Happened’

The Tech Players opened their newest production, “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” to a packed Backdoor Playhouse.Director Mark Creter explained he expected a large turnout after the final rehearsal before last night’s show. “We expect a large crowd for this show,” Creter said. “Musicals tend […]

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Proceeds from art auction benefit boy with cancer

Art for Heart is a charity art auction in which all proceeds go to the family of a 12-year-old boy with stage IV brain cancer. Sam Fallos, sophomore psychology major and creator of the event, said she heard the story through one of her oldest friends, the sister of the […]

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Right of way confusion causes two collisions

Look both ways-it’s a fundamental mantra of life on earth. Yielding to pedestrians is equally basic.Then again, when you repeat something over and over again, it tends to lose its poignancy, as demonstrated on North Dixie Avenue recently. During the past few weeks, two students were hit by vehicles while […]

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Tech offers state’s first agritourism concentration

Next semester, classes will be offered for a new concentration as part of the bachelor’s degree in agriculture.Tech is the first university in Tennessee to offer a degree concentration in agritourism, the combination of agriculture and tourism, the state’s top two income-producing industries. The concentration will partially merge agriculture with […]

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Local Honey covers Evan Donohue

I went out on a limb this week to review something that I hadn’t discovered myself – something I was completely unfamiliar with until a week ago. “The album is called ‘Rhythm & Amplitude. It’s amazing,” my friend told me on the patio at the Mercy Lounge in Nashville. The […]