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Victor's Taco Shop located on North Walnut Avenue. Photo by Rebecca Franey. With all of the additions affecting campus, it can be argued that Victor’s Taco Shop is one that students are happy to see fill the void on North Walnut Avenue. The Mexican restaurant officially opened on Jan.13 across […]
Tech’s student political leaders’ opinions about the record-setting government shutdown reflect their national counterparts’ views on the matter in a stalemate that showed some hope of breaking last week. Federal buildings, parks and offices closed and employees sent home after President Donald Trump and lawmakers failed to reach an agreement […]
Guest speakers honoring Martin Luther King Jr. last week encouraged Tech students to keep the civil rights leader’s dream alive by standing up for their rights and the rights of others. The Rev. Stephen Handy of Nashville said Americans are becoming so complacent they do not know what action to […]
Crowd at March for life in Washigntion DC on Jan. 18. Photo by Kathryn Porterfield. Less than two days before the 46th annual March for Life, my roommate and I decided on a whim to take a road trip and participate in the largest anti-abortion gathering worldwide in Washington D.C. […]
Last week, I learned a valuable lesson through a viral video of a Native American veteran seemingly being taunted by teenage boys wearing “Make America Great Again” hats. I scrolled past the video multiple times on Reddit, Twitter and Facebook and formed a concrete opinion without doing further research. I […]
The Sigma Alpha Epsilon house is pictured. Photo by Kendyl Seals. Members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon anticipate to be closed for four years after an investigation of a Dec. 7 event that ended in the death of a 23-year-old alumni. Members were informed at a Sunday night meeting and by […]
Cookeville police are working with the FBI to locate a former Tech professor wanted on a child pornography charge. Professor Omar Elkeelany, who taught computer engineering, is believed to have fled the United States after a Putnam County grand jury indicted him in October on a charge related to sexual […]
Tech men’s tennis predicted to finish first Four men’s tennis players on preseason top 10 Freshman Rafael Tosetto took home the No. 1 preseason ranking, one of three TTU newcomers to find themselves on the noteworthy list. Junior transfer Fanis Kontopoulos tied for third, while freshman Elias Grubert tied for […]
Students looking for the SGA office may find it empty, that’s because it moved to Room 208 in the RUC. The SGA office moved from the first floor to the second floor in July. The location change brought all of the student leaders to one central location. Student Dean Kate […]
In this 2018 photo, a group of Tennessee Tech students and faculty attend an event commemorating the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s death. Photo by Maddison Potter Adviser's note: This story originally published in the Cookeville Herald-Citizen in April 2018 and has been republished with the reporters' permission. […]
