There’s a lot more to college weight gain than the Freshman 15. By the time senior year rolls around, many of us get out of breath walking from the desk to the fridge. That makes it all the more impossible that senior exercise science major Jack LeMaire is training for […]
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Spiegelman speaks in Derryberry auditorium
Spiegelman Pulitzer Prize-winning author and illustrator Art Spiegelman described comics as “a mixing together of words and pictures” during his lecture in the Derryberry Hall Auditorium this past Tuesday. Spiegelman came to Tech to discuss his previous work, the birth of comics and the reasons we should hold comics to […]
Phi Mu hosts Soups and Sweets fundraiser
Phi Mu will be holding a Soups and Sweets event that will be raising money for Children’s Miracle Network from 6 p.m. 9 p.m. Monday at 10th Washington Avenue Baptist Church. Soups and Sweets is an annual event in the greek life community. This event is held at a church […]
Michael Aurbach’s larger than life collection featured in Joan Derryberry Art Gallery
As you walk into the Joan Derryberry Art Gallery, you’ll notice there aren’t as many pieces as the last exhibit, but the pieces there are much larger. Michael Aurbach, artist-educator at Vanderbilt University, says his art is basically about protest, and he uses a lot of art historical “formats” and […]
Yes we can: Students plan to collect cans for charity even past Homecoming events
The Society for Technical Communication is collecting cans for the TTU Food Pantry for the winter break and calling the food drive “Cans, Collection and Communication.” They began accepting donations for non-perishable food items on Nov. 3 and will continue to accept them through Dec. 9. There is a donation […]
Student groups, organizations prepare for Saturday parade
The 2014 Tennessee Tech Homecoming Parade will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday. Many of Tech’s groups, dorms, organizations, fraternities and sororities will be showcasing their themed floats during the parade. This year’s Homecoming theme is “Every day’s a Holiday.” All participants have been designing and building variations of holiday […]
Student gives controversial presentation in speech class
A Tech student gave a speech during class about sex toys on Oct. 28 and was met with mixed reviews. Another student recorded the video and posted the video onto YouTube, gaining over 60,000 views. Erik Skottegard, 26, a chemical engineering major, gave a persuasive speech about sex toys in […]
Boys State Luncheon to reunite program alumni
Every year for the past 51 years, Tech has played host to the American Legion Boys State, a program that aims to expose participants to “the rights and privileges, the duties and the responsibilities of a franchised citizen.” Founded in 1935, Boys State has since become a widely known and […]
Flex dollars a possibility at athletic events
Using your dining dollars at sporting events may be possible in the near future due to one of the newest bills passed by Student Government Association. “An Act to Allow Dining/Flex Dollars to be Accepted at TTU Sporting Events,” written by SGA Senator Drake Fenlon, College of Arts and Sciences, […]
“Avenue Q” opens at Backdoor Playhouse
The fun-filled Broadway musical “Avenue Q” has dropped into the Backdoor Playhouse as of last night to begin its performances for the fall show. The first performance was last night, Nov. 6 at 8 p.m. This part-flesh and part-felt musical is about some of the true struggles college kids face […]
