The Tennessee Tech football team suffered another Ohio Valley Conference loss to No. 23 Eastern Kentucky University last Saturday 42-28. “We were sharp,” Watson Brown, head coach, said on “The Watson Brown Show.” “We played a good game. Both sides of the ball played a very good game, but the […]
Author: Drew Haston
Soccer splits weekend, improves to 3-5 in OVC
The Tech soccer team split last weekend’s conference games with a loss Oct. 19 to Austin Peay State University and a win Oct. 21 over Murray State University. The split brings the Golden Eagles’ conference record to 3-5 with two Ohio Valley Conference games left before the tournament starts Nov. […]
Tech tennis trio find singles success in OVC regionals
The Tech men’s tennis team competed over the weekend in the USTA/ITA Ohio Valley Regional Tournament at the University of Memphis. The tournament took place over a four-day span, including players from 21 different schools throughout the region. “They’ve all been working hard since the spring season, and these events […]
Haunted things are happening in Cookeville
Students who want to get spooked for Halloween can enjoy activities in Cookeville and the surrounding counties this weekend. One event is the Maze of Terror. “The Maze of Terror is a 2-3 acre cornfield with a multi-room haunted house in the middle,” Derek Woolbright, volunteer firefighter and EMT-IV for […]
‘Paranormal Activity 4’ a scary boring catastrophe
#8220;Paranormal Activity 4” is a pitiful excuse for the end of a franchise that has too much dead time and not enough scares. The film begins five years after Katie (Katie Featherston), a previous character of the franchise, disappears with her sister’s child, Robbie, after killing her boyfriend. Katie and […]
ABC’s ‘Nashville’ brings country music, drama to tv
Being labeled as the most critically praised new drama on television this year, “Nashville” is spicing up primetime on Wednesday nights. Callie Khouri, The Academy Award-winning creator of “Thelma and Louise,” created the show. The show stars Connie Britton and Hayden Panettiere as two characters who begin a budding rivalry […]
Obama, Romney challenger to visit campus next week
Green Party candidate Jill Stein will deliver a presentation over her running platform, the Green New Deal, in Derryberry Auditorium Nov. 1 at 11 a.m. Katey Culver, co-chair of the Tennessee Green Party and the state coordinator for the Jill Stein campaign, contacted English instructor and Student Environmental Action Coalition […]
Campus to officially welcome Oldham during investiture
The official welcoming and initiation ceremony of President Phil Oldham will take place Nov. 2 in the midst of Homecoming festivities. Oldham will become the ninth president at Tech as the campus community bestows the office of the president on him at 9:30 a.m. Nov. 2 at the Hooper Eblen […]
Cookeville meningitis death sparks concern
With the meningitis outbreak on the rise, students need to be aware of their surroundings to keep from obtaining the infectious disease. The current outbreak of fungal meningitis is said to be caused by a fungus found in steroid injections produced by the New England Compounding Center in Massachusetts. The […]
Funding formula threatens budget
A new plan to base a university’s state funding on graduation rates is going to cause some major changes to Tech, including a reduction in state funding. Previously, state funding was based on enrollment numbers. The goal of this program, called the Complete College Act, is to raise Tennessee’s overall […]
