ScholarWeb is saving Tech students’ time while giving them money.ScholarWeb is an online application for Tech scholarships including department scholarships, private donor funded scholarships and university money scholarships. Filling out one basic application automatically applies the student for all scholarships available. With all of the information in one place, applying […]

A 19-year-old Winfield man was injured Sunday when he was struck by a car in the Dixie Avenue crosswalk in front of the RUC, Cookeville police said. Micah Kidd, 19, of Winfield sustained head, arm and leg injury at approximately 9:17 p.m. when Charles Key, 55, of Cookeville, failed to […]

Why are so many teams having problems managing the clock nowadays? It seems like every week one team loses a game because they waste so much time running the two-minute drill.Last week, it was the San Francisco 49ers that fell victim to poor time usage on Monday Night Football. The […]

Anyone driving down University Drive this week may have noticed a change in scenery-or lack thereof. Part of a plan to plant better-quality trees, Tech Grounds Services cut a majority of the University’s Bradford pear trees on the northwest side of campus and replaced them with heartier trees. “I’ve been […]

Tech is now one of three universities across Tennessee giving teachers in the Putnam County area the chance to participate in the Upper Cumberland Writing Project.”The purpose of the program is to improve writing and the teaching of writing,” UCWP Director Shannon Collins said. “The learning doesn’t just stop at […]

The Tech men’s and women’s basketball teams will begin their 2008-2009 campaigns with a doubleheader on Saturday at the Hooper Eblen Center. The first game will tip-off at 5:30 p.m. as the women take on the 10th-ranked Louisville Cardinals. That game will be followed by the men, facing the Bryan […]

Spirituality seems to be a hot topic around these parts. I thought I’d weigh in on the matter.In my college years, I dabbled with atheism. I’d flirted with the major, Western religions throughout my childhood and adolescence. But I couldn’t find a fit. I liked most of the ideas. I […]

#8220;You pro-choice people, you need Roe versus Wade. You’re desperate for it. Not because you’re sure of your opinion, but because you’re not. You need to cling to that ruling as moral validation for a position you’re not entirely comfortable with deep down.”-William Shatner as Denny Crane in Boston Legal […]