Month: October 2013

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‘The Counselor’ is a Disappointment

After coming in fourth in the box office this weekend with $7.8 million and scoring a depressingly low 34% on Rotten Tomatoes, things are looking pretty bleak for “The Counselor”. Directed by award-winning Ridley Scott and starring talents like Michael Fassbender, Penelope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem, and Brad Pitt, […]

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Will We Ever Know What the Fox Says?

If you’re a human, and you interact through forms of social media, I promise you have pondered in the last month this question: What does the fox say? Now, if you’re not part of the 169 million viewers who witnessed the original music video on the “TvNorge” page, then you, […]

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November Looks to Offer Blockbusters, Potential Hits at the Movies

Coming out of October, ‘Gravity’, ‘Captain Phillips’, ’12 Years a Slave’,  and ‘Bad Grandpa’ were the clear winners. Each sustained great critical acclaim, box office success, and, minus ‘Bad Grandpa’, they all are straight shots to plenty of nominations come award season this winter. November is not slowing down with […]

Opinion

Bunching my Witch’s Britches

Forgive me, dear reader, I’m getting up on the coffin-shaped soapbox. I love Halloween. I sort of have to – it’s in the paperwork I signed as a child in order to grow up Goth (spoiler: not real paperwork). The Halloween-All Saints’ Day-Thanksgiving season is my favorite time of year. […]

Opinion

No More Blame Games, Mr. President

What is this nation coming to? Our politicians don’t know how to play nice and our president plays the blame game. At a fundraising dinner on Friday, Oct. 25, President Obama claimed that the shutdown of the government was about more than just health care; it was all about a […]

Sports

Soccer will not make OVC Tournament Appearance

The Golden Eagle soccer team ended its last weekend at home with a pair of losses to Morehead State and Eastern Kentucky University.         The loss to Morehead State last Friday closed the door on the Golden Eagles’ chances of making the OVC tournament.  This will mark the fourth consecutive season […]

News

New Hall Haunted House Gives Back

The staff and friends of New Hall North used PVC pipe, duct tape and plastic to set up the residence hall’s annual one-night only haunted house Oct. 21.   Every year, resident assistants from New Hall North set up a program for Tech students to attend. The past four years, […]

News

stand up

A ban has been placed and strictly enforced over the past year restricting students from sitting on the floor and the stairs in Henderson Hall. Every few feet, signs have been placed instructing students of the dangers that await them and others if they are to sit on the floor […]

News

Standing Room Only

A ban has been placed and strictly enforced over the past year restricting students from sitting on the floor and the stairs in Henderson Hall. Every few feet, signs have been placed instructing students of the dangers that await them and others if they are to sit on the floor […]