The 2009 winter benefit production of The Vagina Monologues brought entertainment and awareness to sold out performances while raising more than $2,000 for the Tennessee Coalition against domestic and sexual violence.This is the sixth year that Tech Players have participated in V-Day, a global movement to end violence against women […]
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Mixed Martial Arts
Need a good idea for a romantic date with that special someone? Don’t look here. Saturday night, Memorial Gym will become a pit of mayhem and fury as Fight Party Productions presents the Cookeville Fighting Challenge. The Mixed Martial Arts event will consist of several professional fighters in ten scheduled […]
Biannual Call for Entries
The Appalachian Center for Craft Exhibition Committee is calling for art work to be displayed in all three galleries at the satellite campus. The committee is reviewing digital photos for solo or group exhibitions in any medium for 2010-2011. The last call for entries was in 2007, and more than […]
Operating organically – Waters Farm
Many farmers are stereotyped as being “country bumpkins.” But if you were to talk with Randy Dodson about work being done at the Waters Organic Farm, you might think he was talking about a science project. Probably, because he is. John Hoax, a graduate student who works at the farm […]
Intramural all-star hoops tourney
Tech Intramurals presents its first ever All-Star All-Campus Basketball Tournament.The Intramural All-Star Committee will pick eight all-star players from each of the four divisions to be a part of their respective team. The divisions comprise of a professional, collegiate, professional religious and fraternity league. Intramurals Coordinator Darren Gregory said the […]
Res villages further discussed
Plans are underway for Tech’s first residential villages, aimed at making a large campus seem small and more inviting. The living and learning villages will cater to on- campus and off campus students and will be open to entering freshmen who choose to participate. Student fees and auxiliary funds will […]
Bell talks budget with SGA
An informative source pertaining to the budget crisis visited the Student Government Association at Tuesday night’s meeting.President Bob Bell shared his knowledge of the current situation and what he, personally, foresees happening during the next few months. “Tech has been asked to submit two budget scenarios,” said Bell. Scenario one […]
Operating organically – Food Services
You walk through a line in the cafeteria and get food, sit down to eat and then take your plate with leftover food to the racks. Have you ever wondered what happens to the food and waste?Food Services, run by Chartwells, has a program set up with the Agriculture department. […]
Usher urges swift passage of Service America Act
Five-time Grammy winning recording artist and philanthropist Usher Raymond IV testified yesterday before the Education and Labor Committee in Washington, DC to plead for the swift passing of the Serve America Act, which President Obama referenced Tuesday night in his Congressional Address. At the invitation of Chairmans Miller and McCarthy, […]
Tech prepares students for competitive graduate level fellowships
If you are thinking of pursuing a graduate fellowship to continue education and do research, there are resources at Tech to prepare you. You have to start working toward it now. It takes at least a year of preparation. “I was aware many honors programs wanted to educate their students […]