Legislators passed a bill last week making it legal for foster care and adoption agencies to prevent gay couples from adopting in Tennessee, setting a dangerous precedent for the state. The bill, proposed by Rep. Tim Rudd of Murfreesboro, allows licensed adoption agencies to prevent adoptions due to religious objections […]
Author: Britney Beaty
Varsity Blues Scandal
Full House actress Lori Loughlin and Desperate Housewivesactress Felicity Huffman’s involvement in a collegiate bribery scam raises interesting points about privilege and corruption. Loughlin and her husband are accused of spending $500,000 to get her two daughters into the University of Southern California by faking athletic ability and bribing a rowing coach. […]
Can you cancel ‘cancel culture’?
Illustration by Britney Beaty Last week, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam and actor Liam Neeson made headlines for their past behavior. The news has sparked a debate online about the importance of a person’s past conduct and how our society should hold that person accountable in the present. There isn’t an […]
Student reaction to viral video featuring Native American veteran and MAGA teens
Last week, I learned a valuable lesson through a viral video of a Native American veteran seemingly being taunted by teenage boys wearing “Make America Great Again” hats. I scrolled past the video multiple times on Reddit, Twitter and Facebook and formed a concrete opinion without doing further research. I […]
Opinion: Don’t play Christmas music in November
Holidays and seasons already tend to bleed together, and it doesn’t help that seemingly every store starts blasting Christmas music the day after Halloween. Cracker Barrel and Hobby Lobby both probably stocked their Christmas-related goods in August, and I’m sure that playing Christmas music as soon as they can helps […]
Video: Interviews with Tennessee Tech Baja SAE team members
Members of Eagle View productions toured the Tennessee Tech Baja SAE shop and interviewed some of its members.
Baja Blast: An introduction to Tech’s Baja team
Craig Bowen and Max Lamantia with their car. Photo by Britney Beaty Mechanical engineering students weld, tinker and joke in a workshop beneath Tucker Stadium while constructing an off-road vehicle they plan to race in April. Tech participates in Baja Society of Automotive Engineers, an intercollegiate competition in which students […]
Leatherheads take over president’s lawn
Walton Rittenberry advances toward the goal while dodging a U.S. Marine team player. Photo by Britney Beaty. Tennessee State Parks personnel and former and current Tech students took the field on Walton House’s lawn on Nov. 4 to compete in a vintage football game between the U.S. Army and the […]
Podcast: Baja SAE looks forward to competition
Baja team co-captains, Max Lamantia and Criag Bowen, discuss the road to hosting the Baja Society of Automotive Engineers competition at the Tennessee Tech campus next year. GREG TAYLOR: So, what is your name for the record? MAX LAMANTIA: I'm Max Lamantia, I'm one of the two co-captains. CRAIG BOWEN: […]
Feature: Fifty years of teaching at Tech
Peggy Fragopoulos Three generations of a family, spanning over five decades, have a unique, inherited tie to Tech. Alumna Peggy Fragopoulos, 70, first became familiar with Tech as a child when tagged along with her father, a janitor, to campus. Fragopoulos said her father, S.P. Adams, worked in T.J. Farr […]
