Each year the Derryberry Award is given to a graduating senior who displays an overall achievement throughout his or her collegiate career at Tech. It’s the most prestigious award awarded by the University. Hunter McClelland, a mechanical engineering major from Kingsport, Tenn. is the most recent recipient of this award. […]
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Tech Student’s Participation in Health Fair made it a Success
Students were not only targeted in this year’s Campus Wide Health Fair with a purpose of promoting health and wellness, but they were a significant contributor in the success of the Fair on Tuesday. The Health Fair reached a new record of attendees with 1,986 people entering the doors of […]
Documentary about Tech professor airing on PBS, screening at BFA
It is class time again, and your professor gets in front of you and your fellow students to begin the lecture. Have you ever wondered what the professor’s life has entailed to get them to where they are today?At 7:30 p.m., Monday, April 20, in the Wattenbarger Auditorium in Brian […]
The Alarm System That Cried Emergency
May I have your attention please, may I have your attention please, there is really not an emergency! Well at least there really wasn’t an emergency on Monday or Tuesday when the alarm system asked everyone to evacuate the building. On Monday the alarm system sounded three times in the […]
Intrepid Traveler showcasing spoken word collaboration
A group of Tech students and local supporters will be presenting a collaboration of poetry, prose, spoken word and monologue at a local café next week. “A Writer’s Reading” will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. April 25 at the Intrepid Traveler Café on 121 W. Broad St. in […]
Currency, commandments, the pledge
I reached into my pocket the other day to grab some loose change for a donut at Big O’s. I looked at the ten dimes I was holding and realized one of them had been severely scraped on the part that usually says: “In God We Trust.” The scrape was […]
Summer Music Mayhem
How are you going to spend your summer? Are you planning a wild trip to Panama City Beach where you’ll party with a bunch of other predictable college kids who chose the same stock summer trip that they’ve taken for years? Of course you could spend your days on a […]
Latin Night coming to Intrepid Traveler
The Intrepid Traveler and Connection Bilingual Center are coming together for their first Latin Night. Latin Night will be an evening of dancing to the music of Danny Salazar and Trova Urbana, of Nashville, at 8 p.m. April 18. Frequent dancer and avid enthusiast of Latin music, Miguel Carpizo-Ituarte of […]
Invisible Children rocks Memorial for awareness
A lively sea of bobbing heads kept the focus off the creeping cold in Memorial Gym Wednesday night as students awaited the Invisible Children benefit concert. The mixed crowd melded together in excitement and awareness when the stage lights fell and Ocean is Theory took position. Heads gradually turned and […]
Oracle interview with Mike Ford about One Day Without Shoes
One Day Without Shoes is a campaign started by TOMS shoes to raise awareness for its campaign to put shoes on the feet of children who would normally go barefoot. Students and faculty joined in by going without shoes for most of the day. Mike Ford discusses the One Day […]