Month: February 2011

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Career Services offers jam-packed schedule of events

Tech students may not know that Career Services has a lot to offer them this year. This service offers students a variety of help in landing that job after graduation. “I feel like they could help a student out a lot,” Job Kriebel, computer science major, said, “I’ve chatted with […]

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Lions Club encourages students to get involved

Tech approved the creation of the Lions Club in October 2010.The Tech Lions Club pertains to the assistance of individuals with ocular related handicaps, including the visually impaired and those with hearing or speech difficulties. “We discourse and deliberate with clubs all around our district, state and area in regards […]

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Journalism program likely contender for move

With the Department of Public Health relocating to a new facility, many are wondering which department will take its place. The journalism program could be moving from the top floor of the RUC to the Public Health building, where it would share space with the communications department and the childcare […]

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Winter weather awakens idle policy

Tech’s inclement weather policy entered the spotlight as the spring semester began amidst heavy snow. Classes on campus usually persevere through the winter wonderland of January. However, bad weather leading into a three-day weekend at the start of the semester makes a unique enough situation to cancel classes. “We didn’t […]

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4th and Long

Welcome to the first Oracle of the spring. Sports fans, you know what that means? That’s right; it’s again time for athletics to start bribing you to come to basketball games.But why do they have to do that? Our basketball team is in first place in the conference, has only […]

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Mandatory student fees may increase

Tech students could see some increases in mandatory fees next fiscal year. The requests for increases were reviewed during the Tennessee Board of Regent’s first quarterly meeting Monday. Other topics discussed that will directly affect Tech students were adjustments made to the quarterly calendar and reviewing student revenues needed to […]

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Lynn, Mayhew set records at TSU

Tennessee Tech’s track and field team rewrote the school record books this past Saturday at the Tennessee State Invitational at the Gentry Center. Not only did the team have a good showing, two individuals broke school indoor records as they won their events.Katherine Lynn and Ashley Mayhew showed their senior […]

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Tech hosts Morehead in doubleheader Saturday

The Tech Men’s Basketball team has relied on a simple recipe for it’s recent success.Balanced scoring, high-percentage shooting, an unrelenting effort on the boards, and a dash of timely shooting by junior guard Zac Swansey has the team in the hunt for an Ohio Valley Conference championship. Swansey hit his […]

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Social networks spawn procrastination or productivity

We all do it. At least, I like to think we all procrastinate. Some people may claim they never slack off, however, I know that I, and many of my peers, struggle to get down to business sometimes and opt out of doing work until the last minute. I personally […]