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IFC raises money for prostate cancer

Mustaches and facial hair have taken over many faces on Tech’s campus, turning November into Movember. Tech’s Interfraternity Council has been raising money and awareness this month for its annual philanthropy, Movember.   Movember is a worldwide philanthropy, which involves participants growing mustaches to raise awareness for men’s health, specifically […]

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Tech lands among top national rankings for eighth straight year

Tech’s ranked in the top 100 Best College Buys for the eighth consecutive year through Institutional Research and Evaluation, Inc.   According to 100bestcollegebuys.com, the organization specializes in identifying the top 100 American colleges by focusing on high quality education at a low cost. Robert Hodum, tech enrollment management, said […]

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Physics and chemistry combine for fun times

The marble shot off the mousetrap, flying across the room and barely missing a chemical engineering student who had moved out of the way seconds earlier. The accidentally launched marble was part of a Rube Goldberg machine designed by a team of freshmen chemical engineering students at Tech. The marble […]

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LGBT employees may benefit from committee proposal

Tech’s Faculty Senate is set to review a resolution regarding benefit equality proposed by the Faculty Senate at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville during its meeting Nov. 12. The Resolution on Support for Benefit Equality presented by the Benefits and Professional Development Committee proposes all benefits of employment at […]

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TKE gets charitable for children in need, hunger

The brothers of Tau Kappa Epsilon are planning their first community-wide charity event. Cole Spurgeon, a junior finance major at Tech, has spent the past several days planning a concert that will serve as the collection point for donations for Toys for Tots and Move for Hunger, a coalition of […]

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SOLO comedian concert voting starts today

Voting for the spring 2013 SOLO concert opens today, with students choosing from five comedians. The selection of comedians are Aziz Ansari, Gabriel Iglesias, Ralphie May, Joel McHale and Bill Engvall. Students are excited about the genre and have varying opinions on who they want to come perform. “We’ve got […]

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City of Cookeville, Tech students to participate in annual parade

There is no place like home for the holidays, but while students are still on campus, they can escape the stress of finals and enjoy the Cookeville Christmas parade. Cookeville is hosting its 46th annual Christmas parade Dec. 3 starting at 7 p.m.  The event was originally scheduled for Nov. […]

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Awesome Eagle wins free trip to Orlando

The Tech mascot, Awesome Eagle, has won this year’s No. 1 spot in the video tryouts for the Universal Cheerleaders Association’s national competition held Jan. 18-20 in Orlando, Fla. Awesome has auditioned four straight years at the UCA Nationals, but this is only his second year to qualify. To qualify […]

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SGA looks to rollover student printing quota allowances

A new act proposing any left over money from the printing allowance each semester will roll over to the next semester’s allowance passed the SGA Senate Nov. 6. The $25 printing allowance comes from student’s tuition and fees. If this money is not used by the end of the semester, […]