After working for months on the paperwork and meetings, the Pre-Veterinary Medicine Club is an official organization at Tech. Since last summer, Andy Ligon, a senior pre-veterinary medicine and animal science major, has worked on developing plans for the Pre-Veterinary Medicine Club, with the help of Timothy Pearson, a junior […]
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Good Old War releases new album, performs in Nashville
Pennsylvania indie-folk trio Good Old War performed several songs from its impressive March 6 release, “Come Back As Rain,” in downtown Nashville, Tenn., at 3rd and Lindsley Bar and Grill on March 11. Both the new album and the performance served as a testament to the band’s ever-growing talent for […]
Voter ID Law Means Fair Elections for Tennessee
Last year our state legislature approved a measure requiring residents to show a photo ID in order to vote. Although a July 2010 poll found that 92% of Tennesseans approve of such a measure, the small minority of citizens who oppose this commonsense legislation to ensure fair elections in our […]
Tech requests 3 to 6 percent tuition increase, fee hike
Tech submitted requests to the Tennessee Board of Regents to increase many student fees by Fall 2012. Included is a tuition increase, an increase in both mandatory and non-mandatory fees and changes to residential housing fees and apartment rent. Tuition is likely to increase in the fall by 3 to […]
Restaurant Review: Pueblo Viejo
Welcome to Club Viejo! It may not be the clubbing hot-spot anymore, but the Pueblo Viejo Mexican Restaurant and Banquet Hall is located where Club Jet and the Cookeville Expo used to be on 12th Street, towards Algood. As I parked outside this huge white restaurant, I couldn’t help but […]
Weekly Roundup: This week’s sports stories at a glance
Intramural Dodgeball hits final round Tech intramural dodgeball has entered in to the championship rounds. Intramural dodgeball has amassed nearly 45 different teams this semester of men, women and professional fraternities and religious organizations. Students have their own personal preference of why they play dodgeball and what attracts them to […]
Students asked to wear purple, display Tech pride at Saturday double-header
Crowds are expected as Murray State University comes to Tech Saturday for a double-header. Murray State’s men’s team is ranked No. 14 nationally. It’s Senior Night as both teams come off wins, set to compete in the last home game of the season. Tech’s women’s team has already clinched the […]
Seventh Street closures expected through summer
A Cookeville Public Works project will intermittently close a portion of Seventh Street for the remainder of the semester and throughout the summer. “The city has been asked by the hospital to expand the road and to make a turning lane,” said Carey Vaughn, Cookeville Water and Sewer Department civil […]
Women’s rugby team in works to become a Tech organization
A women’s rugby team is forming at Tech. According to Veronica Sublett, women’s rugby captain, rugby is a contact sport, but there aren’t any physical requirements to being a rugby player. “The one thing people say is that they’re too small,” Sublett said. “You’re never too small. I’m 5-foot-2.” Sublett […]
“This Means War”: Just a corny catastrophe
#8220;This Means War” puts a tacky, macho CIA man spin on a story that has been told countless times before. Lauren, played by Reese Witherspoon, is a single woman whose best friend Trish, played by Chelsea Handler, takes Lauren’s love life into her own hands and makes Lauren a profile […]
