Taylor Swift’s highly anticipated new album dropped last Monday and is already No. 1 on the iTunes top album list. Of course, we all saw this coming. With her previously released catchy single “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” the album was sure to be a hit. “Red” is […]
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Volleyball’s Gray earns OVC DPOW Senior Kelsey Gray caught the attention of the conference and revealed why she is the best blocker in the Ohio Valley Conference when she turned in a 2.54 block per set performance over the weekend. Gray’s spectacular play at the net snagged the senior Defensive […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
‘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 […]
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 […]
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. […]