Month: February 2011

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Women’s basketball has chance to clinch OVC title

With one game left in the regular season, the Tech women’s basketball team has a chance to clinch an Ohio Valley Conference-record 16th regular-season title Saturday at home against Jacksonville State. Tech (21-6, 14-3 OVC) beat JSU 79-63 in their last meeting in December and holds an 11-3 lead on […]

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Ignorance breeds hate groups

Last weekend, like most weekends in college, I went to a party with a friend and met a few strangers. They seemed nice enough. Just like I would any social gathering, I got to talking to people about traveling and mentioned my job. Somehow, this conversation led to one of […]

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Nursing students utilize learning simulators

In 2008, Tech received $2,000,000 in federal funds to build a new facility for nursing majors. Out of the funds given, over half was spent on new, state of the art simulation labs. Simulation labs are the new and improved method of health care education. They are referred to as […]

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College experience depends on student

Remember the last week of high school? You relaxed with friends, took pictures of everything, and daydreamed about college. After all, you’d been stuck in the same building for four years. College is still a utopian dream free from all the drama, rumors and immaturity of high school. I remember […]

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Athletic Advising Office gets face lift

Renovations in the Athletic Advising Office were completed last week.The office, located on the second floor of the RUC, has changed its look. “The renovations made, were part of an overall campus effort , which started last summer” said Lance Jasitt , Athletics and Student Welfare assistant director. The renovations […]

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Fitness Center adds new equipment

Students around campus have been complaining about some of the equipment in the fitness center being out of date and not being able to use the treadmills because there just isn’t enough equipment for all students to workout on.However, Suzann Hensley, Fitness Center assistant director, stated that the University has […]

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Bonnaroo lineup announced Tuesday to cheers and jeers

If your Facebook feed was anything like mine following Tuesday’s revealing of the Bonnaroo lineup, you probably ran out of paper bags for hipsters to calm their breathing.Let’s all just relax for a minute. Yes, Eminem is the headliner. I’m just as disappointed about that as many of you are. […]

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‘The Vagina Monologues’ opened last night

#8220;The Vagina Monologues” was written by Eve Ensler in 1996 after interviewing about 200 women about their views on sex, relationships and violence against women.Starting out at the now defunct HERE Arts Center in New York, the play enjoyed a longer tenure at the Off Broadway Westside Theatre, also in […]

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John’s Place in Cookeville awaits national recognition

During the Jim Crow south in 1949, John’s Place was the one business in Cookeville where everyone socialized together regardless of race. Michael Birdwell, history professor and Tennessee State Review Board for the National Register of Historic Places member, has submitted a registration form to Washington to have John’s Place […]