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Tech Encourages Sustainability With On-Campus Energy

With solar panels being noticed around Tech’s campus and the importance of sustainability being stressed by many, questions are being raised about where Tech’s energy derives from.  Ten years ago, Tech made the decision to stop burning coal for an energy source and convert to more efficient and reliable means. […]

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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 […]

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Tech Counseling Center and Mental Health

Tech continues to grow, with over 10,000 freshmen on campus in the fall of 2022. With this rise in numbers, students should be aware of the university’s resources.             The university provides health and safety tools.            Leigh Ann Ray, director of JJ Oakley Health Services, stated, “There are lots of resources […]

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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 […]

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Tech Family Weekend

Tech held its annual Family Weekend from Friday, Sept. 16, until Sunday, Sept. 18. The weekend consisted of many activities including: family golf and bowling, a bus tour of Cookeville, as well as a Tech football game against Samford University on Saturday night.    As many students welcomed their families […]

Arts On campus

24th U.S. Poet Laureate Performs at Backdoor Playhouse

On Tuesday, Sept. 20, the current United States poet laureate, Ada Limón, performed a poetry reading at the Backdoor Playhouse.  The event drew a crowd of an estimated 155 people to the theater where Lemón recited 13 poems from her newest book, “The Hurting Kind,” with subjects ranging from love, […]

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Women’s Center Art Gallery

Tech’s Women’s Center hosted their first women’s art gallery on Sept. 1 from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., featuring the artwork of Anna Grayson, a metals major from Gallatin, Tennessee.   The Women’s Center, located in Roaden University Center room 339, hosts a series of events throughout the year and […]