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Fitness is a Failing of Duty

As you all know, the University administration has plans for a new fitness center. The bill, “An Act to Build a New Fitness/Intramural Facility”, submitted by SGA Senator Nathan Cole but admittedly researched and written by SGA President Clay Stubblefield, proposes not only the building of a significantly larger fitness […]

Opinion

Over Commercializing Christmas?

What is a holiday without family? What would the holidays be without commercials selling all the toys a kid could want? I would love to find out one day. It wasn’t all that long ago we enjoyed holidays without obnoxious commercials one right after the other. It was a time […]

Opinion

Tech’s Registration Process Causes Anxiety Attacks

When I’m having a bad day, I like to take a time-out and drive down a country road with my windows rolled down and Kings of Leon turned up. I climb into my brand-spanking new Jeep Grand Cherokee and cruise along until I feel relaxed.  Then, the words “check engine […]

News

Fit Vote Passes

COOKEVILLE, Tenn. (Nov. 21, 2013) – Fifty-two percent of more than 3,300 students voted earlier this week to approve a $100 fee per semester to build a new fitness center at Tennessee Tech University. The vote was the product of a bill passed unanimously by the Student Government Association that […]

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Oracle Alumnus Cites 50th Assassination Anniversary

Nov. 22, 2013 marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, a story only The Oracle reported in Putnam County on the day of his death. Tech alumnus Harold Freeman was serving as the copy editor for The Oracle when the assassination occurred. He visited the […]

Sports

Golden Eagles Remain Undefeated in Hoop

The Golden Eagles’ men’s basketball team (3-3) looks to put together its first streak of the 2013-2014 season on Nov. 23 with a win over Wisconsin-Milwaukee (4-2). After defeating Indiana-Kokomo on Nov. 21 in the Hooper-Eblen Center, Tech will take on the Panthers who are also looking to bounce back […]

Sports

Tech Returns Home After Miss State Loss

After traveling to Starkville, Miss. to play the Mississippi State Lady Bulldogs, the Golden Eagles women’s basketball team will return home on Nov. 24 to play Valparaiso.  The Crusaders, members of the Horizon League, are currently winless after three games. They were preseason picked to finish last in their conference, […]

News

Public Service Announcement: Regional Phone Scam

The Oracle Staff received an email this weekend from the Director of Public Relations at Cookeville Regional Medical Center, Melahn Finley.  It contained a press release warning about a phone scam being perpetrated in the Upper Cumberland Area.  The full text of this press release is reproduced below. — Cookeville, […]

Opinion

Raking in the Green: Legalize Hemp in Tennessee

Believe it or not, I am not inherently anti-Republican. I’m anti-Tea Party and firmly against neo-liberal economics, two imports that have taken the Republican Party hostage (Eisenhower would be aghast). So, far be it from me to suggest that Republican ideals do not equal progress. Color me pleasantly surprised when […]