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Friday, April 19, 2024
One out of every three women will be beaten or raped in their lifetime. February is becoming an eventful month as the V-Day movement, designed to end violence against women, expands in Cookeville. Tony Award Winning play, ‘The Vagina Monologues’ returns as well as two new events to raise awareness. […]
This Valentine’s Day weekend, vaginas are taking the stage. The Backdoor Playhouse will present Eve Ensler’s ‘The Vagina Monologues’ for the eighth time since it was brought to Tech’s campus in 2001. The controversial monologues are performed every other year to promote awareness and to end violence against women and […]
Months ago Beyoncé was announced to be headlining this year’s Super Bowl halftime performance. Needless to say, I was excited and a tad giddy. After the infamous nip slip and wardrobe malfunction during Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake’s Super Bowl XXVII show, the performers in the following years were a […]
The women’s basketball team returned victoriously from a two game road trip in Nashville. After a 16 point home loss to Murray State on Jan. 29, the women’s team went on the road to defeat Belmont University and Tennessee State University Saturday, Feb. 2 and Monday Feb. 4. In the […]
#8220;When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers.” Proverbs 21:15 (ESV) Former Marine, Eddie Ray Routh, killed former SEAL, Chris Kyle and his neighbor over the weekend, at a shooting range in Texas. Many people will say that Kyle got what was […]
Beginning Sunday, Jan. 13, tens of thousands of troops from the 10th Mountain, 101st Airborne and the 1st Armored Divisions began boarding an aircraft bound for yet another combat tour in Afghanistan. When the war began in 2001, some of these troops were still in grade school, and will now […]
Susan Elkins, vice president for extended programs and regional development, will be retiring at the end of the semester, from Tech after accepting a position with the University of South Carolina. Elkins previously ran for the office of the president at Tech but lost to Phil Oldham. Starting this fall, […]
Student enrollment for the Spring 2013 semester is down by about 1304 people from last fall but is up slightly from last spring. “We had 11,469 students enrolled last semester,” Dr. Robert Hodum, associate vice president for enrollment management and student success, said. “The official number for this semester has […]
Tech’s Sustainable Campus Committee and the Energy Conservation Group coordinated the purchase of six Solar Power-Doks charging stations to place in common areas on campus for the spring semester as part of the Green Initiative. Solar Power-Doks are self-contained power charging stations that give students the option to charge technology […]
For the first time in the history of the SOLO Concert Series, Tech students are finally getting what they voted for. The winner of the popular vote, Aziz Ansari will be performing at the Hooper Eblen Center on April 4. Ansari received more votes than Gabriel Iglesias, Ralphie May, Joel […]
