After finishing fifth last season, the Tech men’s basketball team is picked to finish in the same place this year. “I think the preseason polls don’t really matter,” Steve Payne, head coach, said. “Year after year it has shown that no one really knows what they’re talking about. Every team […]
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Wide Receiver Dontez Byrd catches a pass for a touchdown during a Nov. 4 homecoming game against Austin Peay State University. APSU won the game 35-28. Football: The Golden Eagles faltered in their first game following their first win of the season over Tennessee State, as they lost to Austin […]
RuPaul’s latest ‘Race’ features familiar faces
RuPaul’s Drag Race has become the reality show sensation that no one was really expecting. I, along with many other fans, was drawn in by the over-the-top fashion, campy humor and the drama that occurs on and off the show. The show’s rabid fan base rallies behind their favorite to […]
‘Chicago’ dazzles Tech
The cast of "Chicago" performs "We Both Reached for the Gun," Thursday night in the Backdoor Playhouse A packed crowd filled the recently renovated Backdoor Playhouse on Thursday night for the Tech Players’ opening performance of “Chicago.” “I’m so happy to be here. I think all the students, people who […]
White Supremacists rally in Shelbyville
The corners of Lane Parkway and Cannon Boulevard in Shelbyville look like the set for a military movie. Armored personnel carriers, numerous lines of police officers clad in riot gear carrying high-powered weaponry. Officers from Bedford County, Winchester, Fayetteville and more participate in drills on the block, while they await […]
When Hate Trumps Hate
The moment I found out there was going to be a "White Lives Matter" rally I knew I had to be there. It had been too long reading about them, looking at pictures of shields and helmets to ignore their presence so close to a place I call home. So […]
Tech goalkeeper’s dominant career
No one in Tech Women’s soccer history has played more minutes through their junior season than goalkeeper Kari Naerdermann. Naerdermann, a native of Germany, started her career playing for SG Essen in the Bundesliga, which is a professional association football club in Germany. She dressed as a member of the […]
Two Tech tennis players make quarterfinals
Eduardo Mena, TTU Senior, returning a voller during the ITA Men's All-American Championships Two TTU tennis players battled to the quarterfinals of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Ohio Valley Regional championships. Senior Eduardo Mena, the thirty-third ranked player in the nation and two-time Ohio Valley Conference Player of the Year, was […]
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Soccer: The nine-game undefeated streak the team accomplished during the last games of the regular season have placed the soccer team directly into the semifinals of the OVC tournament due to a double bye. The team, led by goalkeeper Kari Naerdemann, will play their first game on Nov. 3, with […]
“Gaming for Prevention” smashes stigmas
A student wears beer googles, last Tuesday at "Gaming for Prevention." The goggle simulate drunkeness The Tech Counseling Center partnered with the TTU Smash Bros. Club and eSports Club for an alcohol awareness and suicide prevention event. The Gaming for Prevention event highlighted combating stigma surrounding mental illness, information on […]
