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100% JUICE- Rapper Juicy J performs to a standing-room-only crowd in the Hooper Eblen Center at Tuesday’s concert.

Juicy J lights up Cookeville Rapper Juicy J performs at the 2015 Spring S.O.L.O. Concert. Increased security at concert leads to arrests. Opening act, DJ Enferno is a Dark Horse to main performer.

By ADAM WEBB Staff Writer & KIM BIGGS Asst. Managing Editor

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“I didn’t see any, but I heard a lot of rumors about marijuana and smelled a lot of it,” said Livingston. “When I got into the crowd to look for it, I heard people talking about it and passing it around but never did see it.”

7,000 tickets were available for students to claim beginning March 24, all of which were distributed by Thursday, April 2. A total of 800 wristbands were distributed for floor access, while 760 wristbands were dispersed at the door on a first come first served basis.

Forty wristbands were awarded to 20 students who won the Student Government Association “Repost to Win” giveaways, said McDonald. The winners of the giveaway were granted floor access to the show.

Juicy J was paid $45,000 from SGA to perform at Tech, and Enferno was paid $6,000.

McDonald said she was satisfied with the level of enthusiasm the student body displayed at the S.O.L.O. concert.

“During my time in SGA, I have always enjoyed seeing the success of these concerts,” said McDonald. “It is very rewarding to see our student body excited about attending the many concerts SGA has.”

Backdoor Playhouse opens Shakespeare classic

By KAYLEE GENTRY Beat Reporter William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” will be performed in the Backdoor Playhouse over the next two weeks. Mark Creter, professor of English at Tennessee Tech, will direct the play.

“It is one of my absolute, all-time favorite Shakespeare shows. We did it here in ’96,” said Creter. “Historically, there was a production of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ back in 1916, so when we did it in ‘96, it was kind of fun because it was the first time there had been ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ in town, really, since 1916. And then since it’s the hundredth anniversary, the Centennial this year, I loved the Read More Online

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Microbiology major, Bailee Michaels, plays the role of Moth.

“It’s basically a trifold love story with lots of mishaps interwoven in a dreamlike state,” said Michaels.

Creter “It’s kind of a cacophony of relationships,” said Joshua Rapp, assistant director of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”

“There’s a lot of story lines going on at the same time that are all connected … but they’re also interdependent, so like, they progress on their own, but little pieces of their progress change other people’s lives.”

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Juicy J performed at the Hooper Eblen Center Tuesday, April 7 for the spring S.O.L.O. concert with opening act DJ Enferno. The former Three 6 Mafia member played in front of a crowd of approximately 6,500 people, said SGA President Emily McDonald.

DJ Enferno opened for Juicy J with an hourlong set that included live remixes as well as pre-recorded mixed tracks.

Enferno performs approximately eight college shows a year.

“This year will be more, and it’s growing,” said Enferno.

“It’s a lot of fun. The college crowd is pretty cool, especially with energy.”

After Enferno finished his set, Juicy J took the stage.

During the performance, Juicy J performed excerpts from the Three 6 Mafia catalogue, his verse from Katy Perry’s “Dark Horse” as well as the chorus from his song “Bandz a Make Her Dance.” Students were split in their opinions of Juicy J’s show; some believed that this S.O.L.O. concert experience was the best of the nine performances Tennessee Tech has offered.

Basic business major Hunter Scruggs enjoyed the experience.

“I appreciate (Juicy J) as a performer because there was a lot more interaction with the crowd,” said Scruggs. “There was a moment where he walked around the whole audience.”

Seth Anderson, a chemical engineering major, enjoyed the concert atmosphere but had a different reaction to Juicy J’s set.

“Juicy J’s performance wasn’t that great,” said Anderson.

“I noticed he had a cover guy right behind him the whole time. I think he might have been covering some of his lyrics too.”

Cookeville Police Department provided additional security for the concert. Seventeen officers from Cookeville PD were initially requested by the University to provide a larger police presence. At approximately 10 p.m. four more Cookeville officers were sent to the Hoop to aid in crowd control, said police sergeant Jon Giezentanner. In comparison to last semester’s S.O.L.O. concert featuring Neon Trees, only 13 officers were requested.

“We have had rap artists there before but it wasn’t that bad,” said Giezentanner. “It was worse than the other concerts that have been there.”

At the S.O.L.O concert, Cookeville police made at least two arrests with at least one being made for underage intoxication, said Giezentanner.

“We could’ve made several arrests, but we didn’t really have the man power to arrest people, so we cut tags and sent them on their way,” said Cookeville patrol officer Shane Livingston.

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SGA executive elections Tuesday, campaign rules to remain same as 2014

By DRAKE FENLON Managing Editor Elections for the executive officers of the Tennessee Tech Student Government Association will take place Tuesday, April 14.

Attempted election rule changes were put forth by the Executive Election Commission Committee of SGA, but were halted until the Fall 2015 semester.

Because of this, the 2014 edition of the rules are being enforced for this semester’s SGA executive and senate elections.

“The new election rules that we approved will be effective July 1,” current SGA President Emily McDonald said. “For the SGA elections this year, we are following the previous election rules.

All of our policy should be updated a year or semester prior.”

According to McDonald, SGA faculty adviser and Vice President of Student Affairs Marc Burnett told her that election rules could not be changed halfway through the semester.

The main revisions that were attempted for election rule changes included setting a $750 budget on all campaigns, the banning of candidates’ ability to campaign door-to-door in the residence halls, the banning of the collection of T-numbers and/or pin numbers from students in attempts to vote by proxy for a candidate, and the eliminating of the ability for a candidate to hand out bribes to be exchanged for votes.

Additionally, a clause stating that all candidates must all be full-time students was included in the attempted rule change.

McDonald said that despite the attempted changes, all candidates for this semester’s election are eligible to run office.

“All candidates are at full-time status and meet the GPA requirement,” McDonald said. “Both the old version of the SGA Constitution and new updated SGA Constitution state that a candidate must be a full-time student.”

“The 2015 election rules added that statement about ‘full-time’ so that it reflected the verbiage that is stated in the Constitution,” McDonald said. “That statement had previously never been stated in the rules, but it has always been stated in the SGA Constitution.”

McDonald said that in the future, it would be the responsibility of the SGA to update rules one semester prior to any election.

“That is my fault for not taking the time to update the SGA election rules last semester,” McDonald said.

Running for SGA President is economics major Nathan Cole. Cole is currently the Secretary of State for SGA and is a member of Phi Delta Theta. Opposing Cole is chemical engineering graduate student Bobby Adams.

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Candidates for SGA Treasurer:

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Student Moneys Allocation Committee and a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.

The election for treasurer in this year’s race is between current Freshman SGA Senator Chase Womble and Miranda Stoltz.

Womble is a basic business major and is from Maryville, Tennessee while Stoltz is a political science and sociology major from Sevierville.

In this year’s election of vice president and secretary of the SGA, both have just one person running for the offices. Savannah Savage is running unopposed in the race for secretary and Nick Russell is running unopposed for vice president.

“We have had many great leaders as part of SGA in the past,” said Russell, a sophomore mechanical engineering major from Chattanooga. “But in my time here, we have not had a clear vision of how we wanted to impact student’s lives.

It will be my mission as SGA Vice President to reach out to students across our campus, find out what would improve their experiences here at Tech, and make that SGA’s vision over the next year.”

The polls for the election will open at 8 a.m. Tuesday, April 14 and will close at 5 p.m. the same day.

Additionally on Tuesday’s ballot, there will be a section where students can write-in their suggestions for the Fall S.O.L.O. concert’s artists. The fall S.O.L.O. concert will be from the Pop genre. According to McDonald, these suggestions will be reviewed, and a ballot will be formed consisting of five to six artists that are within the budget of S.O.L.O. concert fund. This ballot will be voted on during the April 23 SGA Senate election vote.

“Students’ input will be helpful for us so that we can compile a list of artists that the students are interested in having at TTU, McDonald said. “From the artists that are written-in, we will check the artist’s availability and pricing.”

According to the election rules, results from the election will be posted outside the SGA office on the first floor of the Roaden University Center as soon as the votes are calculated.

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By ADAM WEBB Staff Writer Tennessee Tech’s Pi Sigma Alpha political science honor society held the annual Take Back the Night march around campus Tuesday evening.

The march was held in conjunction with the Clothesline Project, which was hosted by the Tech Women’s Center. Both events are meant to raise awareness and bring an end to sexual violence.

Take Back the Night began with featured guest speaker Tara Bates from Genesis House, a private, nonprofit agency that is dedicated to empowering victims of domestic and sexual violence in Cookeville.

The marchers began in the Tech Pride Room of the Roaden University Center then walked a loop around campus. Caitlin Jared, an alumna of Tech, said the atmosphere of the march was an emotional experience.

“Walking around and reading the stories caused a range of emotions from anger to sadness that prepared everyone for the march,” said Jared.

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gan, the tone of the crowd changed.

“At first I would say it was solemn,” said political science major Miranda Stoltz, “But once we started marching the crowd was getting fired up and shouting as loud as they could throughout the walk.”

“The march itself has a lot of positive energy, with participants shouting out chants and holding up posters to draw awareness to the problem of sexual violence,” said Jennifer Anderson, assistant professor of sociology and political science as well as faculty adviser to Pi Sigma Alpha.

The event is always held on the first Tuesday of April, according to Anderson, which this year coincided with Juicy J’s S.O.L.O. concert. Despite this, Take Back the Night was still able to take place at its regularly scheduled time.

“It was scheduled well in advance of the Juicy J concert,” said Anderson. “When we found out the concert was on the same date, we altered the start time so that students could attend both events.”

Although the events are meant to dissuade sexual violence, Anderson and Stoltz think Tech’s campus is a safe

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“In my four years involved with Take Back the Night, Tech’s campus has been very accommodating of the event, from the TTU police serving as escorts to the feedback we receive from the campus community,” said Anderson.

Stoltz said the campus is safe to express views on this subject as well walking in the dark.

“As far as walking around at night I believe it is safe, but I wouldn’t suggest it to anyone because sexual violence can happen anywhere,” Stoltz said.

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watch Shakespeare a lot … Go watch the play and follow what’s going on physically and let the words underscore what’s going on. So you’ll get little bits of backstory from the dialogue … let the actors’ physicality and stuff onstage tell you what’s going on in the story.”

“There’s a big crazy fun thing at the end that is kind of unique to this production as my stamp as a director on it,” said Creter.

Creter also said that this would be the last play in the Backdoor Playhouse for a few months.

“We’re closing for renovation for a year,” said Rapp. “We’re looking currently at spaces on campus. There have been a couple of potential spaces that haven’t been nailed down … There will be theatre. It will be a smaller space, so we’re looking

to do some more intimate shows, more interesting shows, which we’ve done in the past.”

“I am optimistically hopeful that the University will do what they say they do by getting the building done by the fall of 2016, so that we can move back in here, but we’ll see,” said Creter. “Temporarily we’ll be squatting over in Foundation Hall, and we’ll make the best of it.”

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” will be in the Backdoor Playhouse April 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 17 and 18 at 8 p.m. The late show will be April 16 at 10 p.m., and the matinee will be April 18 at 2 p.m.

Tech students get in free with their Tech ID, while general admission tickets are $15, senior citizens’ tickets are $12, and non-Tech student tickets are $5.

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Creter and Rapp say this is the play to watch even if one doesn’t like Shakespeare.

“I hope everybody will come out and see it. It is a fun show. I have always made the argument that ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is the perfect show; not only for people who love Shakespeare because if you love Shakespeare, you probably love ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream,’ but also for people who think they don’t love Shakespeare.

‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is a great play to come see because it’s very accessible, it’s very fun, it’s very fast, it’s one of Shakespeare’s most efficient scripts as far as … the way he goes about telling the story,” said Creter. “So even if you think, ‘Oh, I’ve only read Shakespeare in class and it’s boring,’ it’s not, and this is a great show to really see Shakespeare as it’s meant to be done — which is live.”

“If anybody’s seen ‘Avenue Q’ or ‘Rocky Horror’ and they like the feel of those shows, then they’ll find that in ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream,’ it just will be in Old English,” said Rapp. “What I encourage people to do, especially people who don’t

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By LOGAN SHRUM Beat Reporter Tennessee Tech’s Office of the Registrar is implementing a new online registration waitlist in order to ease student course registration frustration for Fall 2015.

According to the Office of the Registrar’s webpage, the waitlist, which is available through the Eagle Online feature of Tech’s website, will allow students to save a place in line for a class that has previously been closed to further enrollment due to all of the available seats already having been taken.

The waitlist will also allow students to see their position on the list, in regards to others who have already signed up for the desired course. Once a spot opens in the actual class, an email will then be sent to the next person in line. That person will then have 24 hours to register before the slot is granted to the next student in line.

“It sucks when you have to wait a whole year to

try to get into a class, and it’s full, and they don’t offer it again until next year,” said Cameron Eden, an exercise science major. “If you try to get a permit, you end up going on a wild goose chase, running from corner to corner of campus.”

Eden said he doesn’t think the waitlist will work, because if someone forgets to check their email, they will get bumped to the back of the list regardless of how necessary the class is.

“I guess it’s fair though because it’s first come first serve. I still prefer asking for a permit face to face,” said Eden.

“I don’t really have issues with classes being full, but I always run into time conflicts,” said Denize Moore, a sophomore chemical engineering major.

“I think the new system will be nice because maybe it’ll let other people know how high the demand is for some of these classes. Then, maybe they will open some more sections.”

The waitlist, as of now, is not available for all classes.

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EAT YOUR BRAINS- Joshua Barnard performs at the Panhellenic Council’s Coffee House Talent Show hosted Wednesday, April 8 in the Tech Pride Room. The event’s acts varied from zombie-inspired songs to inpressionists.

Barnard, also referred to by his stage name Josh Shmosh, played an ominchord. The instrument is an electronic automated harp that has a video game appearance. The coffee house talent show was a fundraiser for the Circle of Sisterhood. The foundation aims to raise financial resources for entities from around the world. This was the second time the coffee house talent show was hosted, and plans to hold the event again are in the process.

By KAYLEE GENTRY Beat Reporter The Joan Derryberry Art Gallery is full of art produced by students at Tech. A variety of artists have displayed their works as part of the BFA Student Juried Exhibit.

With different artists come different mediums, and they range from vases to paintings to furniture spread throughout the room.

“There are approximately 20 students’ work on display, 29 artworks total,” said Kimberly Winkle, associate professor of art.

Samantha Rouse, a junior art education major, knows some of the artists on display.

“It hits home I guess because it’s, you know, our own people. That’s really cool though. It’s a big mix, so I like that,” said Rouse.

A panel of judges reviewed the art April 9.

“We have an esteemed guest juror, Namita Gupta Wiggers, who selects the award winners … The Volpe Library Art Committee has also selected an artwork to include in their permanent collection,” said Winkle.

The winners of the Student Juried Exhibit were: Sara Wiggins, honorable mention, Andrew Thompson, Heather Calfee and Dylan Loftis with Best of Show.

Students can stop by the Joan Derryberry Art Gallery to see these works of art and others.

“It’s an impressive display of our students’ skills and talents,” said Winkle.

An upcoming Center Stage event will feature Ed Barnhart, director of the Maya Exploration Center.

Barnhart will be coming to Tech April 14 to speak about Maya Hieroglyphics.

Barnhart was a student of Linda Schele who broke the Maya code of hieroglyphics in 1973.

“It would be impossible to teach people how to read Maya hieroglyphics in an hour’s lecture. What I’m going to do is … tell the story of how the clues were put together and the personalities that were involved in the long years, the journey towards breaking the code,” said Barnhart.

Barnhart has had several years’ experience as an archaeologist and discovered the city of Ma’ax Na in 1995.

“It was the end of the second season after I had come back, and I looked at the entire cartography maps of the region and kind of played the game of, ‘If I was a Maya king, where would I put my city?’” said Barnhart.

“It was neat, especially to be able to see someplace in the middle of nowhere on a map and say, ‘If I was a Maya king that’s where I would go,’ and be right about it – that was pretty darn exciting.”

Barnhart has also produced lectureships with The Great Courses.

“I have one 24-lecture course out on Ancient South America, and my latest one is a 48-lecture course on Maya to Aztec and everything in Mesoamerica,” said Barnhart.

Barnhart will be speaking in Clement Hall Room 212 at 11 a.m. April 14. The event will be free.

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By DILLON JAMES Beat Reporter Tennessee Tech students showcased their various talents at the TTU Coffee House Talent Show Wednesday night in the Tech Pride Room.

The event was filled with acts ranging from impressionists to singing a song about zombies on an ominchord, an instrument introduced in 1981 by the Suzuki Musical Instrument Corporation that acts as an electronic automated harp and looks like a giant Super Nintendo controller.

Drake Fenlon, managing editor of The Oracle, was one of the judges for the competition.

“It was a very tough decision for the judges.

Lots of unique talent, for sure. Not just your runof-the-mill guy with a guitar,” said Fenlon.

Freshman computer science major Joshua Barnard, also known by his stage name JoshShmosh, used an omnichord to engage the audience during his arrangement of “Your Brains”

by Jonathan Coulton.

“I had other stuff planned, but it didn’t work out. I write music on a pair of Nintendo Game Boys, but my hardware decided to corrupt,” said Barnard.

During his performance, the audience was asked to sing a portion of the chorus in the style of a hoard of flesh-eating zombies.

Barnard won first place in the competition, and he said he was surprised at the positive feedback of his performance.

“It was crazy and unexpected. I didn’t think I did that well at all,” said Barnard.

“Even though he forgot a few of his lyrics, he got the audience involved. That instrument he was using was interesting as well,” Fenlon said.

The event featured acts such as a hip-hop dance performance from Kyusok Lee, a mechanical engineering major, and a performance from the all male a cappella ensemble Mentonation.

Those acts were awarded second and third

place, respectively.

Other acts included a barefoot, folk rendition of “Shake It Off,” originally by Taylor Swift, a performance by Backdoor Playhouse Open Mic Night regular, Amanda Beard, and a performance by a student flutist who hula-hooped while playing.

Big O’s Donuts, the Great Harvest Bread Company and Chartwells provided the refreshments for the event.

The event was a fundraiser for the Circle of Sisterhood, a foundation with the mission to “raise financial resources for entities around the world that are removing educational barriers for girls and women facing poverty and oppression,” according to CircleOfSisterhood.org.

This was the second time the organization put on the event, and they plan on bringing it back next semester to find students with even more hidden talents.

veloped during the first half of the 20th century.

As for Reich, he doesn’t care about labeling his music. He said composers don’t care about labels; they just write what they want to write.

“It was a time of change, for myself and others,” said Reich. “We went the way we wanted to go.”

Reich said he finds inspiration for his music through different means.

“I sit down at the keyboard and I improvise harmonies or melodic patterns,” said Reich, “or in the occasion of a text piece, the text will be the source of inspiration or the source of what to do.”

According to Reich, the text in “Daniel Variations” includes excerpts from the book of Daniel in the Bible and the last words of the American Jewish reporter Daniel Pearl before Muslim fundamentalists murdered him.

“Reich is one of the most influential and gifted composers of our generation,” said Hill. “The opportunity to meet and work with somebody of his caliber is something that students rarely experience.”

Dalton Hawkins, a senior music education major, is a member of the Percussion Ensemble and

is looking forward to the Q-and-A because he will have a chance to sit down face to face and ask Reich anything that comes to mind.

“His music isn’t telling a story. He just comes up with patterns and ideas and finds a way to use unique orchestration techniques to get his idea across to the audience,” said Hawkins.

“Tehillim” and “Proverb,” two other of Reich’s compositions, make use of layering different voice and instrumental lines to create dissonant and clashing chords.

Reich also said his compositions are rooted in speech melody, meaning people tend to sing while talking without even noticing.

“I think it’s a great privilege to have the opportunity to perform pieces by such a well-known living composer,” said Hawkins.

The Percussion Ensemble will host a free concert Monday, April 13 at 7:30 p.m. in Bryan Fine Arts Building’s Wattenbarger Auditorium, performing some of Reich’s own compositions.

Reich’s visit is a Center Stage event and is free and open to the public.

Reich: Minimalist composer to visit campus

By SARAH TATE Copy Editor One of the most important and influential American composers alive is coming to Tennessee Tech.

Steve Reich will host a question and answer session Sunday, April 12 at 7:30 p.m. in Bryan Fine Arts Building’s Recital Hall. The Q-and-A will cover topics such as his music and life experiences and will include a discussion about one of Reich’s most recent compositions, “WTC 9/11.”

Reich is known as one of the pioneers of “minimalist” music, or music that focuses on consonant harmony, steady pulse, gradual transformation and repeated motifs.

“Minimalist music, especially Reich’s, typically utilizes rhythmic cycles, and as a percussionist, this is particularly interesting and fun to play,” said Colin Hill, interim professor of percussion and director of Tech’s Percussion Ensemble.

Hill said the minimalism was a refreshing change from the highly complex music that had de-

Barketing on the Quad to raise money for animal shelter

By HALEY GREENHOUSE Beat Reporter The Tennessee Tech Marketing Club and the Cookeville/Putnam County Animal Shelter are hosting “Barketing on the Quad” Saturday, April 11 from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Main Quad. There will be food, music and games at the event as well as one or two dogs for students to play with for $2.

“We’ve all heard stories about other campuses bringing in animals for the students to play with, either during the school year or mainly finals week, as an outlet for relieving stress,” said Marketing Club’s Content Coordinator Christian Osaile. “As a group, we thought this might be a perfect opportunity to bring to our campus, while also helping the growing population at the animal shelters.”

In order to help the growing population at the animal shelters, the Marketing Club asked the Cookeville/Putnam County Animal Shelter

to collaborate with them after they noticed how clubs at Tech have worked with the shelter in the past.

“It was originally the Marketing Club’s idea to do more of a 5k and bring the dogs for the students and community to run with. But after a discussion we decided that it might be easier on everybody – the club and shelter – to just hold the event on campus,” said Osaile.

From 12 p.m. to 4 p.m., the Cookeville/ Putnam County Animal Shelter will set up on Main Quad for students who are interested in adopting a pet.

Debi Smith, volunteer coordinator at the Cookeville/Putnam County Animal Shelter, explains that three dogs will be brought with them to the event, and the adoption fee is $80¬; this fee covers the adoption and the rabies vaccination.

“When you adopt, you will be able to go home with the dog that day. We are looking for someone with a good home. Ideally a closed in yard, but definitely a good home,” said Smith.

Smith said she is looking forward to the crowd at the event and is hopeful for some adoptions and donations as well.

“Adoptions and donations are a blessing.

Therefore there isn’t any overcrowding and we can cover supplies that are needed,” said Smith.

In addition to that, Smith said she is hopeful that working with the Marketing Club brings great awareness to the shelter and their cause.

“We want to bring awareness about spay and neutering and to correct the problem with overcrowding,” said Smith. “But also, we hope to inspire people to volunteer at the shelter. We need people to clean, feed, love, walk – and all those things can’t happen without people.”

The Cookeville/Putnam County Animal Shelter is located on 2650 Gainesboro Grade, Cookeville, TN 38501 and is open Monday through Saturday 7:30 a.m. until 6 p.m. and Sunday from 7:30 a.m. until noon.

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OPINION Age does not define you

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KIMMY WHITTINGTON Opinion Editor “ Yo u ’ r e just a baby,” said the audacious server at a local restaurant I

will not name.

He was looking over my driver’s license to see if I was old enough to get a drink. I quickly found out that customer service does not have a stronghold in his life.

I don’t understand this riddle: if you want me to tip you, treat me like an adult, or at least with a little respect, OK?

I have finally hit a wall where I just can’t take the criticism for my age, for the fact that I look like I am in high school, or that I got married young. Apparently these are all items that make me vulnerable to teasing and insensitive commentary.

Listen, my fellow peers and I are getting our bachelor’s degree in one month and we do not deserve your biased commentary on whether we are old enough to handle it.

Some of my friends and myself included have chosen love at an early age; it does not mean we are incompetent or settling, we are just in a different place.

Not a better place, a different one.

Regardless, age doesn’t define the decisions you make, and the decisions you make shouldn’t have to define your age – please liberate yourself to the world free of ageism.

One of the most irritating things to come my way has been servers, especially the one I originally mentioned. Almost every time my husband and I go out to eat for dinner, we are succumbed to a server that gives us little attention, judges us for being young and offers little to no service.

At first we thought these circumstances might be a coincidence. However, it started happening … every time.

We realized that if we

went on separate occasions, we were treated more kindly, but when we were together, a switch went off – we became “unservable.”

We finally put two and two together: it was simply because of our age, and the fact that we tied the knot at 21 and 22.

Why should society get to define what qualifies as OK, or acceptable? Society is a hot mess that derives itself from collective ideas of indifference toward one another.

Whether I am getting my degree, walking down the aisle, traveling the world, or leading a movement – I am capable of them all.

My request and hope is that this message is

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getting across, the message of acceptance. Age doesn’t define the decisions you make, and the decisions you make shouldn’t have to define your age.

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ADAM WEBB Staff Writer

Last fall, Rolling Stone published a story titled “A Rape on Campus” which depicted a supposed rape committed against a student on the University of Virginia’s campus.

The reporter, Sabrina Erdely, made a huge error in judgment by choosing to write this story. Yes, rape is not an issue to take lightly, nor is it something to be brushed under the rug.

Based on that merit, Erdely was in the right by attempting to shed light on this issue at UVA, and really across the country, but she went about it in one of the worst ways.

I understand and can sympathize that Erdely wanted to keep the victim, “Jackie” anonymous, but that’s no excuse for not attempting to track down the

STOP -The Rolling Stone story, “A Rape on Campus,” now has answers from a follow-up investigation by Columbia University.

men who allegedly committed the crime. What was supposed to be an investigative story with journalistic integrity has now been turned into a scandal that will more than likely hurt reputations for years to come.

In a scholastic year that

featured this story as well as the racially charged chant in the SAE fraternity chapter at the University of Oklahoma, greek life has not been painted in the most positive light and “A Rape on Campus” certainly didn’t help. Erdely might be able to bounce back

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from this set back, but the men of the greek system at UVA will be under scrutiny from university officials as well as their peers.

The police investigation, as well as an investigation conducted by UVA, found no evidence that Jackie’s rape

ever occurred. Despite the results of these investigations, it stands to reason that the greek organizations will be held to the same standards as if evidence was found that this rape actually had occurred and Jackie will not be held liable for her actions.

If Erdely really did write the story to the best of her abilities as she claimed she did, one would think she would try to get both sides of a story before submitting it for print.

Since the conclusion of the investigation, Rolling Stone has removed the original story and published a report from Columbia University giving the real facts of the story. While the Columbia report will help alleviate some of the headaches “A Rape on Campus” has most certainly caused, it won’t be able to fix the tyranny the men of greek life on UVA’s campus have already experienced.

Adam Webb is a senior in Communication with a concentration in Public Relations and News Editorial.

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Letter to the Editor I am currently Fine Art/Metals undergrad at TTU. I would like everyone to know about my experience this semester with the RODP Survey of Art History I course. This is by far the worst learning experience I have ever had, and I am at a complete loss as to why all of the great minds working at RODP and the Tennessee Board of Regents have been unable to correct the issue.

In a nut shell, students taking this course are not able to view their quizzes after the first attempt to see what questions (if any) they got wrong before taking the quiz the second time, and then after the second attempt, we are unable to view the quiz and see what the correct answers are, if any were missed.

Basically we are being graded without opportunity for review so that we can learn from our mistakes. This has been an issue from the second week of the class. Amazingly, it was only a partial issue for the first module as we were able to view both quiz attempts, but even after repeated emails to the instructor regarding what the correct answers were for questions missed, I was never given that information!

I went through the proper chain of command, notifying the instructor and after several fruitless attempts to have her address the issue with RODP techs, I put in a ticket to the help desk at RODP in mid February. This also was a dead-end. After a couple of weeks and the issue still hadn’t been corrected, I contacted both the supervisor at

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Not only that, but every lecture posted in this course is full of misspelled words and grammatical errors!! Basic spell check/grammar check seems to be unavailable for the person(s) who wrote the material being presented to the students!

This is the worst learning experience I have ever had, online or in a physical classroom! The adage “you get what you pay for” does not apply in this situation as we pay additional tuition for the dubious privilege of taking a course via RODP!! I will never take another course with RODP and urge every student considering that option to think twice about it before investing their educational dollars with RODP!!!

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ENTERTAINMENT

“Furious 7” a fitting tribute to Walker “Real Housewives of New York” return

By HANNAH BENJAMIN Entertainment Critic

By JAKE THREET Entertainment Editor

Full of intense action and a stunning tribute to the late Paul Walker, “Furious 7” ripped into theaters last weekend and made $384 million at the box office worldwide, making it one of the highest grossing openings besides “Harry Potter” and “The Avengers.” While most series lose steam after the first few movies, the “Fast and Furious” franchise manages to reinvent itself and satisfy a huge cult following. Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a generous 82 percent, so audiences can tell this film means business. The movie picks up after “Fast and Furious 6” when the gang defeated international terrorist Owen Shaw and separated.

In “Furious 7,” his brother Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham) sets out for revenge. Additionally, a struggle ensues between a Somali terrorist and shady government official Mr. Nobody (Kurt Russell) to steal a computer terrorism program that can turn any technology into a weapon.

The team must get back together to both stop Shaw and retrieve the program from the clutches of the terrorist and the U.S. Government.

Everyone comes back to reprise their roles, including Vin Diesel, Paul

The B is back in New York City. The B being Bethenny Frankel on Bravo’s “The Real Housewives of New York City.”

Season seven premiered Tuesday, and after three seasons away making millions on her Skinny Girl products, doing her own reality show, and then doing a talk show, Bethenny is back to the show that made her a household name.

Fellow original housewives Ramona Singer and the Countess LuAnn de Lesseps, who is making her return to fulltime status after being a “friend of” last season, have returned as well. The always hilarious and over-the-top Sonja Morgan also returns with Carole Radziwill, Heather Thomson, Kristen Taekman and newbie Dorinda Medley.

If you’re keeping count, that’s eight full-time housewives this season. The first time in history that has happened.

So far, it doesn’t feel like too “man cook in the kitchen,” but we’ll see as the season progresses. Aviva Drescher is gone from the cast, and I couldn’t be more thankful.

Albeit full of drama, she was too crazy and bitter, and the only she did right was toss her prosthetic leg across a room at someone.

The first episode back was pretty much a catch-up with the cast and reintroducing Bethenny to the audience. It focused heavily on Bethenny but that was to be expected. The drama be-

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ONE FINAL RIDE- Paul Walker (above) had shot around 50 percent of his scenes before he tragically passed away.

Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, Ludacris and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.

Because Paul Walker passed away in November 2013 in the middle of production, extensive CGI work had to be done to complete the movie. His brothers and other similarly sized actors had to stand in for shots and unused film from other movies was edited in. Additionally, the technology for matching his face is commended as some of the best CGI work to replace an actor in history.

Watching the film, it is almost impossible to tell that he has been doctored so heavily.

Additionally, the film is very respectful and gives a meaningful tribute to both his character and his person.

The film provides enough action and excitement to continue the series in a powerful way. Not every

successful film series can adjust their plot and move forward, but ”Furious 7” manages it flawlessly. The actors have a distinct chemistry with each other, presumably after working together for seven movies, but the relationships work and translate well to audiences. Nothing seems faked or forced, except maybe some of the crazier car stunts.

Overall, “Furious 7” is powerful and moving, especially for Paul Walker’s last film. Any fan of the franchise is not going to be disappointed, and newer viewers will be entertained by the quick, fast-paced energy of the movie.

“Furious 7” is rated PG13 for prolonged frenetic sequences of violence, action and mayhem, suggestive content and brief strong language.

XenoVerse not perfect, still fun game

By SHEA JAMES Guest Critic

The out-of-mission gameplay features of “Dragon Ball XenoVerse” offer a full and robust character creator, stat allocation for fighting style customization, and the ability to learn new skills from the show’s various heroes and villains themselves.

The in-mission gameplay of this MMORPG handles like the series’ previous Raging Blast series. The combat feels pretty satisfying and simple, but with one issue: using any defense skill takes stamina, and once your stamina runs dry, you are helpless against incoming attacks. Also, side missions in the game absolutely love piling Super Saiyans against you, each with huge beam attacks that will kill your stamina and health.

The missions themselves function exactly like you would think. The game shows you a simple objective, usually typical RPG stuff – kill this, gather that.

But even something simple has to have its complications.

The game will sometimes ask you to do escort missions.

Sometimes it’s fine, but other times they’ll stack the odds

against you so badly that it’ll be a miracle if you manage to actually achieve it, especially if you want to get an Ultimate Finish on a mission to get the best loot.

Much like Destiny, this game features randomly dropped loot. To this game’s credit, it actually bothers to show what you can earn from enemies before the mission starts, but whether the enemy in question actually drops said loot is left up to chance. This means get ready to grind. Certain skills you can obtain in the game can also be incredibly, almost hilariously, broken beyond belief. For example, the Super Saiyan skill drains your Ki slowly, but while it’s active, skill costs nothing.

Not even extremely deadly Ultimate skills. This makes the Saiyan class, hands-down, the most overpowered class in the game.

What’s worse is that the game knows how broken Super Saiyan is and uses plenty of them against you. You can AI allies, but the problem with that is the game’s AI is hopelessly stupid (even enemy AI), so try to bring an online player with you if you can.

I have other nitpicks, but for now let’s talk about sound. Sound effects tend to

be satisfying but gratingly repetitive, and the music doesn’t leave much of an impact, but you’ll get absolutely sick of the hub town theme due to sheer repetition.

The final thing to talk about would be the online portion of the game, which, thankfully, is not necessary to complete the game at all. Unfortunately, if you are connected, and then are suddenly disconnected, this will result in the player being booted back to the start screen. This is frustrating, but the only time you’ll need online players is for certain missions with cheap difficulty, and being offline reduces the load time considerably.

All in all, “XenoVerse” is a fun game; it’s by no means perfect, but it fills a burning desire in the hearts of “Dragon Ball” fans everywhere and provides a pretty cool online beat-‘em-up experience. It’s very flawed but most of the people who would be interested in a game like this won’t care. Not to mention, this game could be considered an alternative for all of the gamers who feel burned by Destiny.

I give this game a six out of 10; recommended mostly to “Dragon Ball” fans and RPG aficionados.

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DRAMA IN A NEW YORK MINUTE- Season seven of the series premiered to 1.5 million viewers, up from last year. gins next week, though, as Bethenny and Ramona go at it in the Hamptons. There are little things I love more than semi-classy women arguing deep in the Hamptons.

The premiere also featured the trailer for the rest of the season and it looked wonderful. Full of laughs and drama, it proved that this might indeed be the best season of the New York housewives in a few years.

Besides the return of Bethenny, I am most looking forward to the Countess LuAnn returning as a fulltime cast member. Even though she was only recurring last season, she won the show as the fan favorite and it was her best season to date.

The trailer seems to predict that she will outdo herself this season and I couldn’t be more ready. As she says in her opening tagline, one should never count out the Countess.

During the premiere, we got introduced to the newest addition, Dorinda. Funny and straight forward right off the bat, she easily will fit in with this bunch of women.

She was featured a lot in the first episode as well and she proved her worth. If the preview is any indication, she will more than hold her own and may became a new fan favorite.

And I can’t go without mentioning Sonja. This woman makes for such good TV. Sure, she may be a little too outrageous and I may worry for her at times, but Sonja is funny. She provides great comedic relief to the show, even when she’s the hottest mess on the Upper East Side.

Easily my favorite of the housewives franchises, this season of New York City looks to be full of great fun and enticing drama. The last couple of seasons have been good, but a change was needed, and the return of Bethenny feels right and the show feels like the seasons of past, which is a good thing. I’ve always said there’s something special about those New York ladies, and they have yet to prove me wrong.

“The Real Housewives of New York City” airs at 8 p.m.

CDT Tuesdays on Bravo.

Matt and Kim still having fun on “New Glow”

By ADAM WEBB Staff Writer D a n c e punk, synth-pop duo, Matt and Kim have released their follow-up to 2012’s “Lightning Bolt,” entitled “New Glow,” the band’s fifth album since its inception in 2004.

This album features Matt and Kim sounding more like their rap influences rather than their quick, spry songs from their beginning. Matt’s vocal range is still on point, and the synth and keyboards still groove with the beat very well, but the drums don’t sound like something you need a drummer to play.

The beats on this album almost all sound like they were produced on drum machines by a producer rather than Kim. This has been a trend the duo started on their 2010 album “Sidewalks” and they’ve only increased that on “Lightning Bolt.”

Tracks like “Can You Blame Me” and “Killin’ Me” sound more like the original pop sound from which Matt and Kim gained their popularity. It’s a nice change of pace from the rest of the songs on the album, which sounds like they came straight from the pop-rap catalogue of the mid 2000s.

“Get It” and “Stirred Up” sound more like they belong on a Rihanna album instead of Matt and Kim. These tracks

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GET IT- “New Glow” received mixed reviews from critics and currently holds a score of 52 out of 100 on Metacritic. feature the drum machines found throughout the album, but “Get It” is mostly devoid of Matt’s synth and the chorus sounds like the chorus from LMFAO’s “Party Rock Anthem” but just a few octaves lower.

Despite some songs losing their way in the rap influences, there are still some groovy beats on the album that have just enough credence to make this album still sound like Matt and Kim. “Not Alone” sounds something like a companion piece to “Good Ole Fashioned Nightmare” from the duo’s 2009 album, “Grand.” The album’s lead single, “Hey Now,” has Kim smacking her drumsticks against the rims of her drum heads and Matt playing the keys in a more traditional tune to make an

infectiously catchy beat. This track also features horn samples reminiscent of the band’s single “Cameras” from 2010.

Aside from the departure of their dance-punk sound, Matt’s vocal delivery and song lyrics are still classic Matt and Kim. With lyrics ranging from doing everything all day with a hoodie on, to making a mess like a kid, the New York-based duo are still about having fun.

Fans of the duo’s older work who didn’t enjoy “Lightning Bolt” will find more of that sound here, rather than the dance-punk of “Grand.” But for fans of happy-go-lucky beats and catchy hooks but who are unfamiliar with Matt and Kim, then “New Glow” is a perfect album to kick off the spring season.

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BASEBALL

Baseball defeats Blue Raiders in Murfreesboro

Mister Clutch

By KYLE ROBINSON Beat Reporter & SHEA HAILE Sports Editor The Golden Eagles baseball team was back on the road Tuesday evening, competing against rival Middle Tennessee State at Reese Smith Stadium, after winning two of three at home against Eastern Illinois. Tech broke an eight-game losing streak with the win against EIU April 2.

“That was great,” said head coach Matt Bragga about ending the streak.

“Anytime things are not going your way and you are not playing well enough to win, it just feels so good to get that W and get back to winning ways from a morale perspective.”

There would be no scoring from either team during the first two innings Tuesday evening as each team struggled to put the ball in play.

Tech could not get the bats going in the top of the third, which allowed MTSU to take advantage in the bottom of the inning with a double to left field

by Dustin Delgado, scoring Will Schnure to make it 1-0 in favor of the Blue Raiders.

It was more of the same from both teams in the fourth inning and then again in the fifth with neither team scor-

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HOP ON IT- Catcher Jordan Hopkins takes a swing during Tech’s late week series with EIU. Hopkins 3 RBI double gave the Tech a 6-5 lead against MTSU. ing and keeping the score 1-0 going into the top of the sixth inning.

Tech’s bats remained cold as they failed to get on the scoreboard in the top of the inning. The Blue Raiders would score one run in the bottom of the sixth courtesy of a single to right field from outfielder Brad Jarreau, scoring Will Schnure. The score was now 2-0 going into the seventh inning.

Tech’s bats would finally catch fire in the top of

the seventh thanks to a rally started by a two RBI double down the left field line from outfielder Tyler Brazleton, scoring Josh Pankratz and Ryan Flick, making the score now tied 2-2. The rally kept going from a single to center field by David Allen, scoring Anthony El Chibani. Tech would end the top half of the inning with a three RBI double from Jordan Hopkins, scoring Dylan Bosheers, Tyler Brazelton and David Allen, making it 6-2 in favor of the

Golden Eagles.

“Before that at-bat, when I was going in I was just confident knowing I was gonna get a hit,” said senior Jordan Hopkins about his seventhinning heroics. “He gave me a good pitch to hit and luckily we had some runners on base and that double meant something – we got some runs in.”

That would be all of the scoring Tech would need for the rest of the evening as MTSU would only score three

more runs all in the bottom of the eighth inning helping the Golden Eagles keep their lead and win the game 6-5 over their in-state rivals.

Tech was led by catcher Jordan Hopkins, who went two for five with three RBIs. The Blue Raiders were led by outfielder Jared Allen who went three for four with two RBIs. Jeb Scoggins was the winning pitcher for Tech, giving up one run on two hits in one inning of work, and the save went to Cain Sloan

who struck out one and allowed one hit in 1.2 innings of work. The losing pitcher for MTSU was Heath Slatton, who had a poor performance allowing four earned runs on three hits with not even an inning of work.

Tech will be back in action April 10, on the road against OVC rival Jacksonville State for game one of a three-game series.

The series opener starts at 6 p.m.

SOFTBALL

Softball goes down to Georgia State, lose two

By KYLE ROBINSON Beat Reporter & SHEA HAILE Sports Editor The Tennessee Tech softball team won three of four games over the weekend on the road against Eastern Illinois and SIUE. The biggest moment of the weekend came from Tech’s starting pitcher Danielle Liberatore.

Saturday, against Eastern Illinois, Liberatore, would become the first pitcher in Tech softball history to record two 15-strikeout games. Tech would win the game behind Liberatore’s strong outing 1-0. Tech would finish the weekend by winning two more games at SIUE, the number one team in the Ohio Valley Conference.

“I was very pleased,” said head coach Bonnie Bynum. “We went 3-1 against some of the better competition in our conference.”

They were back on the road again Tuesday for a double header against Georgia State.

Georgia State would take advantage of Tech’s scoreless first inning and score four runs in the bottom of the inning. The Golden Eagles would have to come back from an early deficit, going into the top of the second down 4-0.

Golden Eagles infielder Sabrie Neeb would triple to start off the top of the second and Bayli Cruse would single to right field scoring Neeb and giving new life to Tech, the score now 4-1. Tech would score seven more runs in the inning thanks to RBIs from Angi Sakamoto and Olivia Bennett. A three-run homerun down the left field line by Alyssa Richards would make the score 8-4 Tech going into the bottom of the second.

Georgia State would answer Tech’s rally by scoring two of their own runs in the bottom half of the inning, making the game 8-6 in favor of the visiting Golden Eagles going into the top of the third.

The Panthers would continue to cut into the Golden Eagles’ lead in the bottom of the third with an RBI single from Ivie Drake.

Tech, would finally get another run on the board in the top of the fourth, the score now stood 9-7. Georgia State would fail to capitalize in the bottom of the inning and Tech still had the momentum going into the top of the fifth inning.

Hannah Eldridge scored Callen Griffin, giving Eldridge three RBIs in the game and putting Tech up 10-6 going into the bottom of the fifth. Georgia State would hit a solo

shot to left field, making it the only run the Panthers would score in the inning. Tech would still have the lead going into the top of the sixth 10-8.

Georgia State would end up scoring, tying the game and going into extra innings.

In the extra frame, Tech still could not get anything going and failed to score a run in the top of the inning. In the bottom of the eighth, the Panthers received a triple

by Ashley Christy, scoring Taylor Anderson and ultimately giving the Panthers an 11-10 come-from-behind win.

In game two of the double header, Tech would try to avenge their loss from game one. Tech would not start off well, failing to score in the top of the first. Georgia State would start the scoring in the bottom of the first with a throwing error by the Golden Eagles, scoring Taylor Anderson. Megan Litumbe would hit a two run shot to left field making the score 3-0 Panthers in the early going.

A Megan Litumbe homerun and a sacrifice fly from Lauren Coleman gave the Panthers a 5-0 advantage in the third.

The Golden Eagles Sabrie Neeb hit a homerun in the top of the fourth, but that would be the only run Tech could manage in the inning. In the bottom of the fourth inning, homeruns kept flying off the bats of Georgia State, adding two more runs for the Panthers.

Tech would not get any more runs in the top of the fifth inning and Georgia State capitalized yet again with an RBI single from Taylor Anderson and a grand slam from Callie Alford, ultimately ending the game on a run rule 12-1.

Tech was led by infielder Sabrie Neeb who had a homerun while the hosting Panthers were lead by third baseman Callie Alford, who went two for three with four RBIs and two runs scored. Hannah Weaver took the loss again for Tech with four earned runs and six hits in three innings of work, while the win went to the Panthers’ starting pitcher Taylor Thorpe, who had one earned run and three hits in five innings of work.

The loss dropped Tech to an 22-19 overall record.

“I thought we fought really hard the first game,” said Bynum. “Unfortunately, the second game we did not carry that over.”

Next up for Tech is a double header at home Saturday, April 11, against OVC rival Jacksonville State. Game one of the double header starts at 1 p.m.