Over the last year and a half of writing for The Oracle, readers have come to expect an extreme, conservative Christian viewpoint from me. Well, to be honest, I don’t think of myself so much as a conservative, but rather that I am unashamed of the Gospel and my writing […]
Opinion
The problem with Student Government Association and anonymous sources
Most of the time, you shouldn’t trust everything you read on the Internet, or in your email. If you do, I’ll forward you all the emails I got from a prince in Nigeria who wants to send us MILLIONS OF DOLLARS! So, understandably, when I was approached via email by […]
Tragedy at Fort Hood shocks nation
Once again America is feeling the pain of loss, loss on our own turf. I honestly didn’t want to write anything on this newest tragedy, but everything in me is ready to cry out in agony because of more senseless bloodshed. My heart is angry, but the more I read […]
Oldham speaks out about being a Christian on a secular campus
President Oldham had a lot of wise advice to offer students, faculty, staff and people of the community who attended the “2.17 Faith” event on Tuesday evening. The seminar came to a close with the final question of “Is Jesus Christ the son of God?” Bart Warren and Rolland Pack […]
I need a new lobby for my hobbies
I craft a lot. I don’t even care if its too femme to be feminist – crafting makes me and many others incredibly happy. Right now, my big, crafty thought is how to decorate my mortarboard for graduation. I think about it in the car, during boring Gen Ed classes, […]
A Millenial Medievalist’s mind on the matter
Every time I hear the word “Millennial,” I think about my Backstreet Boys Millennium CD. I’m 23 years old, and I haven’t listened to it in about 10 years. (www.simpleeverydaymom.com) It astounds me that I have lived long enough to say I have ignored something for a whole decade. I […]
Millenials: A generation covering 20 years
I am one of the generation called “Millennials.” Wow. I don’t want to claim it. I only started hashtagging in the last year and I’ve been doing “selfies” since I figured out how to use a camera back in the 90s; cell phones weren’t really an option back then. Oh, […]
Sex week and state senators: TTU caught in the crossfire?
I am very grateful for Knoxville, Tenn. It has a great library, tons of delicious and exotic food, and a lot of the plays and movies that we simply can’t bring to Cookeville. They once had Nightwish there! All the way from Finland! And it’s not an unreasonable distance away […]
Tech’s new look is turning heads and raising questions
This campus has always been beautiful and one of the greenest campuses around the state. Well, at least it did until this past year. I left for Florida just before Spring Break, looked over at the Bryan Fine Arts building and had flashbacks from my childhood about the beautiful trees […]
“The freedom of speech and expression doesn’t mean they are entitled to a platform.”
Sarah Dingwall’s string of articles, at least as long as I’ve been reading it, have been nothing but radical Christian rhetoric and thinly veiled fundamentalist proselytizing. Her latest article, a non-story about a man banned on Facebook for homophobic comments, only confirms this while further ingraining negative stereotypes about her […]
