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ITS monitoring student printing, reviewing quota

Services department can monitor what every student in a campus lab is printing.   The reason for the monitoring is to see if the $25 quota every student has will give a sufficient amount of pages for academic purposes each semester. “I can see the name of the job that […]

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Tech students expand recycling program across campus

Tech is implementing its first campus-wide cohesive recycling program. The first buildings with plastic and aluminum recycling bins are Derryberry Hall and the RUC. Lydia Brown, senior and administrator of the recycling program, said there would be recycling bins in the Library and the Engineering Quad by the end of […]

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International student enrollment continues to rise

The enrollment numbers continue to rise as Tech starts the Fall 2012 semester with more than 200 international students on campus.  The International Student Affairs office started the semester with a rise in international students on Tech’s campus.  The numbers have increased the past five years based on interest in […]

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Dierks Bentley to replace Eric Church as Fall SOLO concert series artist

Dierks Bentley will visit Tech as a replacement for SOLO concert vote winner Eric Church.     Voting results last spring placed Church as the performer for the fall concert. However, Church will not be performing at Tech anytime soon. Bentley, students’ second choice, will be performing this semester instead. “I […]

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Tech students expand recycling program across campus

Tech is implementing its first campus-wide cohesive recycling program. The first buildings with plastic and aluminum recycling bins are Derryberry Hall and the RUC. Lydia Brown, senior and administrator of the recycling program, said there would be recycling bins in the Library and the Engineering Quad by the end of […]

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State Senate wages war on teenage hand-holding

Holding hands is a gateway to sexual intercourse, at least according to the Tennessee Senate’s newly passed bill. The bill itself almost reads like a class syllabus, laying out rules for sex education in Tennessee by way of a strict abstinence-only curriculum.   I could take this opportunity to cite […]

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State Senate wages war on teenage hand-holding

  Holding hands is a gateway to sexual intercourse, at least according to the Tennessee Senate’s newly passed bill. The bill itself almost reads like a class syllabus, laying out rules for sex education in Tennessee by way of a strict abstinence-only curriculum.   I could take this opportunity to […]