Day: November 21, 2013

News

Interfraternity Council Sponsors Angel Tree

Tech’s InterFraternity Council is sponsoring an Angel Tree on campus this holiday season and is encouraging students, groups and organizations to sponsor a child. Ben Toline is a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity and serves as the vice president of philanthropy on IFC’s executive council. Toline is responsible for […]

News

Appalachian Center for Craft Presents Holiday Festival

The Appalachian Center for Craft will host a Holiday Festival this season Nov. 29 through Dec. 1 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The festival will have handcrafted holiday gifts and pictures with Santa.  Friends of the Appalachian Center for Craft, a nonprofit organization, have sponsored mini workshops for the […]

Sports

Seniors Look to Close Season with Win

In Saturday’s season finale, the Tennessee Tech (4-7, 1-6 OVC) Golden Eagles will host winless in-state rival, Austin Peay (0-11, 0-7 OVC) at 1:30 p.m. in Tucker Stadium. Saturday is Senior Day and marks the last time 11 seniors will take the field. Tech played in 11 games this season […]

News

Bid Big on Beards Before Break at BCM

Students will auction off their beards to raise money for global missions Monday, Nov. 25 at 7 p.m. at the Baptist Collegiate Ministry. Students will be able to bid on a beard at the BCM’s annual Beard Auction. Winners can shave the beards however they wish. Money raised will go […]

Opinion

Fitness is a Failing of Duty

As you all know, the University administration has plans for a new fitness center. The bill, “An Act to Build a New Fitness/Intramural Facility”, submitted by SGA Senator Nathan Cole but admittedly researched and written by SGA President Clay Stubblefield, proposes not only the building of a significantly larger fitness […]

Opinion

Over Commercializing Christmas?

What is a holiday without family? What would the holidays be without commercials selling all the toys a kid could want? I would love to find out one day. It wasn’t all that long ago we enjoyed holidays without obnoxious commercials one right after the other. It was a time […]

Opinion

Tech’s Registration Process Causes Anxiety Attacks

When I’m having a bad day, I like to take a time-out and drive down a country road with my windows rolled down and Kings of Leon turned up. I climb into my brand-spanking new Jeep Grand Cherokee and cruise along until I feel relaxed.  Then, the words “check engine […]

News

Fit Vote Passes

COOKEVILLE, Tenn. (Nov. 21, 2013) – Fifty-two percent of more than 3,300 students voted earlier this week to approve a $100 fee per semester to build a new fitness center at Tennessee Tech University. The vote was the product of a bill passed unanimously by the Student Government Association that […]