Tech SGA members expressed their thoughts concerning the state midterm election and stressed the importance of voting. The Associated Press gave online results as a guide to understanding this year’s election. With nine seats in the House of Representatives up for election this year, as well as election for state […]
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ETSU student seeks recognition of ASL and Deaf culture
American Sign Language has been recognized as its own language in the United States since the 1960s, and Tennessee passed legislation in 2017 recognizing it as a modern language that fulfills high school foreign language requirements; however, students at East Tennessee State University say that the institution has fallen behind […]
Drake and 21 Savage release “Her Loss” to high quality results
While there were multiple high-profile releases Friday night, the album that caused the most online discourse was Drake and 21 Savage’s collaboration album “Her Loss.” An hour of material from two of the most acclaimed and discussed rappers of the last decade is bound to cause discussion and, in […]
Smino, BabyTron and more on New Music Friday
Friday, Oct. 28 has indisputably been one of the most exciting nights of the year for hip hop music. With many versatile rap albums releasing, rap fans all over the country can find an album to fit their hip hop preferences. Chicago rapper Smino released his third studio […]
Underground artists dominate the end of 2022
For the most part, the months September and October were slow for mainstream album releases, but packed to the brim with incredible albums from underground artists. On Oct. 7, one of the most promising genre-benders in the underground, Jean Dawson, released his third album “CHAOS NOW*” with features from […]
Upper Cumberland cities sued for violations of Clean Water Act
The cities of Cookeville and Sparta have been named in a federal lawsuit alleging violations of the Clean Water Act. The complaints, filed in the U.S. District Court by Tennessee Riverkeepers, Inc. claims Cookeville and Sparta are in violation of provisions of its National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit by […]
Summary Judgment Requested By Faculty Suing Tech
Two Tech faculty members who have filed a lawsuit against the university’s provost recently requested a summary judgment in federal court. Attorney Robert Bigelow, representing Dr. Julia Gruber and Andrew Smith — associate professor of German and English instructor respectively — claims the university used surveillance technology to “unmask and […]
SGA Committee Meeting
Tech’s Student Government Association hosted their first committee meeting led by president, Addison Dorris, and vice president, Jacob Cherry. Tech’s Student Government Association hosted their first committee meeting on Sept. 12 in the RUC’s Multi-Purpose Room at 7 p.m.. The meeting was led by Tech’s president, Addison Dorris, and vice […]
A Way of Dealing With the Times
If you go into any houseware store, or locally owned boutique, you’ll find wooden signs speaking to our ways of life. Each one is different, but yet the same; however, when you see them in someone’s home, office and personal space, you begin to get glimpses into their humor or […]
Chief Diversity Officer Aims to Make Tech a Welcoming Campus
“What does it look like for a student who has a single parent who worked hard, but they just barely made ends meet, and they were poor—what does it look like for that student to come to Tennessee Tech?” This is the type of question Dr. Rob Owens aims to […]
