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Committee aims for higher food quality By GERI ANNA WILSON Staff Writer
By WILL HOUSLEY Managing Editor
Tech’s Food Services has established a Food Committee in an effort to help improve the quality of food and students’ overall experiences in oncampus dining. The committee, which is expected to meet once a month, met Oct. 11. The committee consists of students, faculty and staff. Sam Holm, director of Food Services, is head of the committee. The committee focuses on helping the Food Services managers and staff so that they may grasp a better understanding of what students would consider an ideal dining service. Geri Anna Wilson “Help us create the Freshman Chayla Bell orders lunch at Chartwells’ Chef Yan Can Cook. best meal program on A Tech athlete at the Capitol Quad. campus,” Holm said. more frequently. Holm has tried to iniAnother student com- meeting suggested keep“That’s what the commitmented on the efficiency ing Mondo Subs and Back tiate a food committee in tee is about.” Several students of the service at Yan Can Yard Burgers open later the past, but was unsucthan the restaurants at The cessful with the attempts. brought forward issues Cook. “We’ve tried to start it “I like the food there,” Perch. The athlete said during the meeting. Two of the main topics includ- Allen Mullis, graduate stu- that her team usually does off and on, but we never ed the efficiency of Yan dent, said. “I like the qual- not finish practice until af- got any student support,” Can Cook and the opera- ity. I like how they cook it ter Swoops Food Court is Holm said. “Last year was tion hours of Swoops Food right then. It’s fresh; I just closed, and she feels that the first year that we actuthink the ordering process there is nowhere to get ally seemed to get some inCourt. a lighter, healthier meal terest, and this year seems One student said that could improve.” Some of the Food Ser- on campus after certain to be a little stronger so Yan Can Cook has been maybe we’re gaining some out of certain menu items vices staff members who hours. Holm explained that momentum.” several times when she were present at the meetHolm said that, idehas eaten there. She also ing attributed the long The Perch is open later said that the food was of lines in Swoops Food than Swoops Food Court ally, he would like to have poor quality when served. Court to students being because it is more conve- a committee consisting of “That shouldn’t be too selective with their nient for students living 15-25 members. He would the case,” Holm said. “It’s orders. They said that stu- in the residence halls sur- like for the students to fresh and hot. There’s dents who are unprepared rounding it. The original outnumber the staff, but nothing worse than Asian and overly particular intent of The Perch was to have equal representation food that’s soggy and while ordering may cause be open late for the conve- of both on-campus and other students to wait in nience of students living off-campus students. gross.” Holm added that he unnecessary long lines, on campus, Holm said. However, this doesn’t would further investigate and eliminating the probthe matter and would be lem relies on the students hold true for students in See “Food” page 6 Crawford Hall and the visiting Yan Can Cook themselves.
Doctorate not required for Tech presidency By NICK ROLLINS Asst. Managing Editor The Tennessee Board of Regents chose do not require a doctoral degree in order to become the next president at Tech. T B R voted on the criteria for Greppin-Watts Tech’s presidential search during their quarterly board meeting Sept. 23. Among the qualifications for each candidate, the first one listed states that they must have “an earned doctorate from an accredited institution (preferred).” “The earned doctorate is not required, but is preferred, so candidates without a doctorate can apply and be considered,” said Monica Greppin-Watts, communications director of TBR.
The list of qualifications also states that the candidate must have a minimum of five years of successful campus administrative experience. “The search firm working with the Board felt it would help attract a broader and more diverse pool of candidates, including those with proven experience in fields related to or other than higher education,” Greppin-Watts said. “However, the terminal degree will be a very strong preference.” Sophomore Briana Fulton said “I feel like with a doctorate, they have a better understanding of how to do the job and that they would perform at a higher degree.” However, there are current university presidents without a doctorate. One example is James Danko, who became president of Butler University in August 2011. According to an article in the Butler Collegian, Jay Howard, dean of the college of liberal arts and sciences at Butler, defended President Danko about earning his new position. “Some faculty will have some degree of suspicions [of a president
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A former Tech Athletics trainer was arrested on child pornography charges Oct. 21 in Cookeville, according to a Putnam County grand jury indictment. Upton Dabney Jr., 43, of Briarwood Street, was arrested Friday afternoon by Putnam County Sherriff’s Deputy Tory Womack and booked into the Putnam County jail, where bond was set at $10,000. The case was investigated by Cookeville Police Detective Sgt. Yvette Demming. The indictment charges Dabney with sexual exploitation of a minor and aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor, both stemming from 2009. According to the indictment, between June 8 and July 14, 2009, Dabney “knowingly possessed over 100 images or
material that includes a minor engaged in sexual activity.” Dabney also allegedly intended to distribute or exchange material that includes a minor engaged in sexual activity. Dabney posted bail the same day of his arrest and he is scheduled to appear in the Putnam County Criminal Court Nov. 15. Dabney Cookeville Police led the investigation in conjunction with Internet Crimes Against Children, a multi-agency unit in which detectives monitor internet sites for evidence of crime against children. Dabney was an athletic trainer at Tech from 2008 to spring 2011. Before that, he was a sports medicine employee at Oregon Tech University. Dabney is a graduate of East High School in Morristown, Tenn., and he earned a degree from Fountainhead College of Technology in Knoxville, Tenn.
Panhellenic announces plans for new sorority next semester By LINDSEY WALLACE Staff Writer The Tennessee Tech Panhellenic Council has decided to bring a new chapter onto campus in the spring of 2012 due to overcrowded sororities. National Panhellenic Council area officer Tricia Barber and Greek Life adviser Katie Williams agreed to open campus for expansion in the spring. Waiting until spring will allow chapters to increase house total and better prepare for the expansion. “This decision will benefit all four chapters on campus to compensate for overcrowding and allow more women to get into the sorority of their choice,” Shelby Reagan, Greek Life graduate assistant said. Expansion will start with all four current sorority chapters agreeing to invite a new chapter to campus, according to Winningham. “Every time, the process is always the same,” Winningham said. From there, outside sororities send their information to the Tech Panhellenic Council explaining how they can make Tech’s campus and Greek Life better. Next, a special expansion committee will be formed by taking two members from each of the sororities— Alpha Delta Pi, Delta Gamma, Kappa Delta, and Phi Mu— currently on campus. This committee will be in charge of making the final decision of which submission will be the new chapter
on campus. “That way each sorority is equally represented in the decision, but everyone on Panhellenic Council usually gets to meet all the competing sororities,” Reagan said. “We are excited for expansion here at Tennessee Tech,” Laura Horton, Kappa Delta chapter president, said. “It will be interesting learning about a new sorority and seeing how they would fit into our campus. Another Panhellenic sorority will mean more chances for girls going through recruitment to find their places. It may also mean greater participation in philanthropic events and greater good done for Cookeville. “Our chapter is also excited to be able to help the new sorority get involved and bring about positive change for all of our organizations,” Horton said. The most recent organization to come to Tech was Delta Gamma, which established a chapter in 1980. Until now, there was no push to go back to five chapters on campus, according to Winningham. Expansion is different at every campus, it depends on the campus size. According to Winningham, some will expand every two years and some every 31 years. Bigger schools tend to plan in advance which organization joins at which time. Greek Life currently makes up 10 percent of the student body with 383 Panhellenic women. The average chapter includes 95 women.
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A group uses Halloween to pay homage to their favorite heroes, including the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Halloween costumes causing controversy CASSIE TESAURO Editorial Editor
Halloween fever has officially hit Tech. I’m loving every minute of it, but there’s one thing that keeps bothering me. Why are we so judgmental about people’s costumes? We’re too old to walk around and fill an old pillowcase with free candy. All we have left is the right to dress like crazy people. After all, unless you’re a regular at themed parties, Halloween is the one time of year that you get to wear whatever you want. And I’m not talking about a plaid shirt and striped pants. I’m talking about dressing like there is no such thing as normalcy. If you feel like wrapping yourself in foil and dancing the robot, then go for it. Do you want to wear fangs and a cape while you run errands? Then this is your one chance to do it and not look like you’ve read the Twilight series one too many times. So let’s stop worrying so much and enjoy all the holiday has to offer. Late October is always a busy time for the social lives of college students.
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Think of any event then add the word “haunted” in front of it and chances are you’ve named something happening in Cookeville. We have everything from haunted corn mazes to haunted half-marathons. After walking through a haunted you-name-it and being chased by the obligatory chain-saw-wielding maniac, it’s time to get ready for all the Halloween parties. That means it’s time to get a costume. Freshman year of college, I learned that costumes are not all considered equal. There is a definite hierarchy of costumes and you will be judged according to what you wear. First, there’s the elaborate and creative homemade costume. This is the highest in the college costume hierarchy. It’s clever, so it obviously took some planning. Another plus is that no one else will be wearing the same thing. Next on the hierarchy is the standard storebought costume. It didn’t take a lot of effort, but you did what was necessary to arrive at the party looking like something far removed
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from your everyday self. One more down is the slapped together homemade costume. You don’t want to spend the time to make a costume or the money to buy a costume so you throw on a lab coat and goggles you found earlier in Foster Hall and tell everyone that you’re a mad scientist. This category is still passable. The lowest and most controversial of the costume categories is the sexy costume. This can be homemade or store bought. Take any costume idea, make it tight and possibly short, and you’ve got a sexy costume. For some reason this category is only applicable to the ladies. I’ve seen plenty of sexy slave Princess Leia costumes, but I’ve never seen a guy show up as sexy Darth Vader. The college population has a strange obsession with the sexy costume category. We can’t decide if we love it or hate it. I’ve never heard a guy at a Halloween party complain that he’s sitting next to a miniskirt-wearing pirate. He’s probably busy sending a mental thankyou note to whoever designed the costume. But any other day of the year, the same guy will describe Halloween as “the one day a year girls get a free pass dress like sluts.” Really, guys? You
came to the party as Justin Timberlake from the SNL skit “[fill in the blank] in a box” and you’re judging us about having too sexual a costume on Halloween? Girls can be just as bad. Instead of enjoying the party, some of them will spend the whole time talking about how that sexy firefighter girl is just desperate for attention. Let’s be clear: if you show up to a Halloween party and wear a costume of any kind, then you want attention. If you didn’t want people looking at your costume then you would have stayed home watching YouTube clips all night. This is our one chance to wear whatever we want. If we keep judging each other and making up all of these costume rules then we’re missing the point. I don’t care if you show up as a sexy librarian, a homemade and historically accurate Charlemagne or if you just draw dark circles around your eyes and call yourself a zombie. It’s only a costume. So let’s forget about insulting others’ costumes and get back to what really matters: jumping out of corners wearing ski masks to scare our roommates half to death. Happy Halloween, everyone.
Regardless of our political climate at the time, or what else may take place on the world stage, there are some issues that will invariably thrust themselves back into our country’s political dialogue every election season. Abortion is one such issue. Somehow, as exhausted as the subject is, with nobody on either side of the matter offering up any new or groundbreaking argument in the past 20 years, another debate on the topic resurfaces every time Americans go to the polls to vote. While the issue is not one that falls straight along party lines, we’ve traditionally seen Republicans speak out against the procedure in an effort to court the support of the “family values” constituency, with Democrats articulating primarily prochoice policy positions. It’s doubtful how sincere many candidates on either side of the aisle really are in expressing those views. Abortion is the perennial political football in the game of American elections. And let’s be honest, it’s the only reason anybody is voting for Rick Santorum. Because it is an issue that evokes such strong feelings from so many, candidates keep the issue at the forefront of their campaigns year after year promising to either defend the plight of the unborn child or uphold a woman’s right to choose. Pundits and campaign spin doctors will nuance either position to sound like a noble endeavor. We seem to forget, though, that underneath the talking points and heated rhetoric, there is a very real issue in play. The frequency of our discussion on the issue of abortion seems to have caused us to miss the gravity of what it actually means. And it matters tremendously. While I won’t defend all of the ways that abortion opponents have sometimes conveyed their message, I do believe there
is great value in the cause of defending innocent life. I was reminded of this last week, while watching a feature story on the TODAY Show. The segment profiled a pregnant woman who was diagnosed with cancer and faced with the painful choice of either treating her cancer or carrying her unborn child to term. Knowing that there was already a beating heart living inside of her, she made the difficult choice to protect that life and forego cancer treatment. The mother lived just long enough to hold her child before passing away. Just like that child—who came to be named Dottie Mae—if you are reading this column you too are the product of someone who chose life, and aren’t you glad? It is difficult to think of many issues that could possibly be more important than who is protected under the law and who is not; who is granted life and who is denied it. Those of us who affirm the importance and potential for all innocent human life must continue to speak up for this most vulnerable and voiceless population. Some 235 years ago, our founding fathers wrote in the Declaration of Independence, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” It is time now, to extend those sacred provisions to the unborn, recognizing that they, too, are a part of our society. This election season, let us be able to look at this longstanding debate with new eyes and be able to sift through the political speak long enough to hear the soft sound of a beating heart. And may we be reminded that defending the gift of life is always a worthy cause.
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NCAA approves option for student-athlete scholarship increase $2,000 dollar increse will steer student-athelets away from improper benefits, NCAA says By ANDY RUTHERFORD fees. This major reform proAsst. Sports Editor Over the past year, most of collegiate athletic coverage doesn’t seem to talk about the actual sports that are being played. It seems that all anyone can talk about anymore is conference realignment rumors and scandals involving student-athletes taking improper benefits. This week, the NCAA is in the news again for something, but this time, it could actually be something that will change the landscape of collegiate sports in a positive way. NCAA president Mark Emmert proposed a deal earlier this week that would give student-athletes an additional $2,000 of spending money along with their scholarships to cover full cost-of-attendance beyond just tuition, room and board, books, and
posal was approved on Thursday by the NCAA Division I Board of Directors. Conferences will now vote on whether to add this proposal. It’s pretty obvious that BCS conferences will quickly approve this because they can more than afford it with the television revenue they earn every year. This would also give them even more of an advantage in recruiting over non-BCS conferences. The big question that remains is whether the smaller conferences, which includes the OVC, can afford it. There isn’t as much revenue generated in smaller conferences because they don’t enjoy the network television deals and sponsorships that the BCS conferences do. Plus, when you consider the number of both men and women ath-
letes with scholarships and multiply that by $2,000, that’s a pretty hefty cost for a university to take on. This reform proposal included some other elements beyond the spending money. One thing it did was raise the academic standards for teams. The Academic Progress Rate will be raised from 900 to 930 and failure to meet that mark will result in a ban from postseason tournaments. This rule will also be implemented in bowl licensing agreements, meaning it will affect the FBS football teams as well. Eligibility standards for incoming freshman and junior college transfers have also been raised. Both required a 2.0 GPA before the reform. Incoming freshman must now have a 2.3 GPA in the 16 core classes, and have completed at least ten of them before their senior year.
Cross Country’s season culminates with OVC championships Saturday PRESS RELEASE
A season’s worth of hard work and preparation come to a head for the 16 Tech cross country runners who will compete Saturday in the Ohio Valley Conference Championships in Richmond, Ky. The event, hosted by Tech a season ago, moves to Eastern Kentucky this fall and will be held at The Arlington Club. The men will race first with an 8K at 8:30 a.m. CDT, followed by the women’s 5K at 9:30 a.m. The Golden Eagles have run in five regular-season meets this fall and last competed at the UE Invitational in Evansville, Ind., on Oct. 15, where six runners posted personal-record times. Tech was led by John Greene on the men’s side while Rebecca Cline was the top finisher on the women’s team. Greene has had an outstanding junior campaign, posting new personal-bests in all five of the team’s meets and leading all Tech runners in each event. He has chopped his best time down to 26:17 from 28:00 a season ago. Greene, a native of Friendsville, Tenn., represents Tech’s best chance at individual success at the conference championships as he could become the first male Golden Eagle ever to earn All-OVC accolades. Joining Greene in Tech’s eight-runner lineup at the
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Runner John Greene, (center, 62) leads the men’s cross country team into competition Saturday. Greene has set personal bests in every race this season. championships will be Matt Bishop (season-best time of 26:51), Mike Mahan (27:36), Adam McLeod (27:37), Sterling Smith (28:32), Matt Pennycuff (29:15), Charlie Jordan (29:30) and Kolbe Andrzejewsi (30:05). The women’s lineup will consist of Rebecca Cline (19:29), Peri Winborne (19:53), Leah Bradley (19:54), Amelia McCoy (19:56), Beth Miller (20:01), Kara Webb (20:12), Traci Jones (20:39) and Meghan O’Donaghue (20:45). “Our women’s team has had a tough year with several nagging injuries to some of our best runners, and we’re just now starting to get healthy,” said head coach Tony Cox. “The men are really excited about this
meet and want to place well. It would be great if we could get John Greene onto the allOVC team and have a first for our team.” At last year’s championships, held in Cookeville at Southern Hills Golf Course, the Golden Eagle women placed seventh while the men took sixth. Then-senior Sam Taylor paced the men’s team with a time of 27:11 while Peri Winborne was the top finisher for the women, coming in at 20:01. Cox said he expects Arlington to be a rolling-to-hilly course that will challenge runners. Results from the meet will be posted on TTUSports. com as they become available on Saturday.
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Incoming transfers will now need to maintain a 2.5 GPA and will be limited on the number of physical education credits that will count. Student-athletes that might be in compliance with the current academic standards but not the new ones can be given an “academic redshirt”. The athlete will sit out a season in order to get his/her grades up. This reform now gives individual schools the option of granting athletes multi-year scholarships or staying with the current year-by-year format. This means that schools can guarantee an athlete his/ her scholarship for the entire duration of their eligibility. The last part of the new deal involves summer basketball recruitment. Coaches will be given four evaluation days in April and twelve in July, as opposed to 20 in July under former rules.
Although they will have four less days of evaluation, coaches will now be allowed more contact with their own players in the summer and a text messaging ban has been lifted. So what is the purpose of this reform and such a quick approval of it? The NCAA feels that by giving athletes some spending money it will prevent them from seeking benefits from boosters and other outlets. But will this really work? What happens when an athlete decides that the $2,000 isn’t enough and he/she deserves more because they’re a better player? Just like any reform, this will not be perfect and will not keep every athlete from taking improper benefits. There will always be those that don’t abide by the rules. This is, however, a step in the right direction. This
will keep some athletes from taking improper benefits and give them something that many feel they deserve. People have argued for years that student-athletes should be paid because they bring in money for their universities and they don’t have the time to hold a job like any other student. Now they get it. The important thing here is the rise in academic standards. Many athletes just see college as a stepping stone for the pros. But not everyone gets to go professional in their sports and need a backup plan in case of injury or anything else that might end one’s playing days. Athletes shouldn’t see college as a stepping stone. They should see their athletic abilities as a way of receiving an education and preparing for a future beyond the field or court.
Tech student-athletes earn second-highest graduation success rates among all state public universities PRESS RELEASE Tech student-athletes received high marks in the 2011 Graduation Success Rate Report released Tuesday by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Tech student-athletes earned a combined GSR of 78, which ranks as the second-highest mark among all of Tennessee’s public universities. The grade for TTU is up one point from last year, when TTU had the highest mark among Tennessee public universities. In addition, Tech’s student-athletes continue to graduate at a higher rate than the general student body Annually among the national standard bearers in the NCAA’s Academic Progress Rate report – which measures eligibility and retention – Tennessee Tech also ranks among the nation’s best in GSR. “This most recent GSR report continues to be good news for Tennessee Tech Athletics, one that we can take a great deal of pride in,” said Mark Wilson, TTU Director of Athletics. “It verifies in numbers that we are successfully fulfilling our mission of graduating our student-athletes. “The results of this most recent NCAA report speaks to the diligence of our studentathletes,” Wilson said. “Our students are coming in better prepared when they enter Tennessee Tech, and they are staying on track to earn their degrees.” Four Tech programs – tennis, volleyball, men’s basketball and women’s basketball – not only ranked among the nation’s best, they paced the Ohio Valley Conference in GSR within their respective sports. Two of those teams – tennis and volleyball – recorded perfect GSR scores of 100, including a third consecutive year with a perfect score for coach John Blair’s volleyball team.
The latest GSR report reflects several others positive recent trends by Tech’s studentathletes, including the upward growth of the total numbers on the Athletic Director’s Honor Roll and the record-breaking combined grade point average by Golden Eagle student-athletes. During the past year, Tech’s student-athletes have posted the highest combined GPA ever achieved at the University, earned a combined 3.0 GPA six times in the last seven semesters, and filled the Athletic Director’s Honor Roll with more than 200 in four of the past five semesters. “These kinds of numbers continue to point out that our student-athletes and our staff continue to take seriously our goal of stressing the importance of academic success,” Wilson said. “This latest GSR is another gauge in how we’re doing, and it says we’re doing well. Our coaches, our academic support system and personnel, and our studentathletes are doing a good job.” The history of Tennessee Tech Athletics has typically shown a higher graduation rate for student-athletes than the general student body, and the GSR is a national report that supports that trend. “If you layer the GSR on top of the statewide graduation rates, we can say that Tennessee Tech is among the leaders in the state for graduating our student-athletes,” Wilson pointed out. Tech’s numbers are part of a national trend. According to the NCAA report, all Division I student-athletes combined achieved the highest marks ever for graduation. The single-year GSR for student-athletes who began college in 2004 is 82 percent, a new high for the NCAA.
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A “Freedom Climber” rotating rock wall is just one of the additions Tech will be making to the Fitness Center this spring. More than 23 machines will be added, along with upgrades to the basketball courts, carpet surfaces and pool.
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The Fitness Center is getting new equipment and undergoing renovations for the spring semester. Rex Bennett is the Student Center Section Supervisor for the Fitness Center. He said that the changes will be mainly an aesthetic upgrade to the building, but that students will notice changes after the first of the year. “Coming up in December we have a project where we are getting 60 new pieces of weight room and CV (cardiovascular) equipment,” Bennett said. Among the new equipment will be treadmills and some bikes to replace older ones. “We have a lot of older machines here in the building that need to be replaced, it’s just sort of their time, so hopefully that is coming in early December but definitely for next semester they’ll be ready to go. “We are also getting 23 new pieces of pin select machines, which means that you select the plate you want. We aren’t getting any new free weights this time. We updated our dumbbells a few years ago so the free weights are actually in pretty good shape. We have new Olympic barbells coming, as well.” A brand new addition to the Fit will be the Freedom Climber wall. “On the second floor, towards the east end of the track, we are getting what is called a Freedom Climber, which is a rotating wall climber.” Bennett said. “We’ve gotten a lot of requests for a rock wall and that’s hopefully a future project. But for right now this is a really neat machine it counts not only your calories burned and
your time elapsed but also your elevation and you don’t get more than a foot off the ground when you climb on it. So if you’re scared of heights, don’t worry about it, Freedom Climber takes care of that. That will be ready hopefully in the next two weeks, by the first week of November.” “I think it’s always good to have new activities for students,” senior Jordan Jozwik said. “I think if they turned one of the racquetball courts into a full climbing wall it would get an enormous amount of use, and there are definitely enough students that work in the fit to train them to belay. Something new is better than nothing new.” Bennett said that the two main basketball goals in the Fit along with the basketball goals in Memorial Gym are getting replaced with new, fiberglass goals. The pool in the Fit also has some upgrades coming but for now, they will only replace the guttering system. In addition to all the new equipment, the entire building will be getting new carpeting and paint. “The purple around the building was done 10 years ago and the second floor has never been redone in 20 years.” Bennett said. Also, the intramural and health promotions offices will be renovated to match every other office on campus. The second floor bathrooms are currently under renovations and will be ready this week, equipped with all touchless features. The second floor of the Fit will be closed for renovations Dec. 16 through the 23rd, while the first floor will remain open. The whole building will be closed December 24 through its target re-open date of Jan. 3.
Tech looking to upset ranked OVC foe after loss By ANDY RUTHERFORD Asst. Sports Editor The Golden Eagle football team (4-2, 31 OVC) looks to bounce back from a heartbreaking loss as they travel to Jacksonville, Ala. to face off against the conference leading Jacksonville State Gamecocks (5-2, 4-0 OVC). Tech and Jacksonville State are both nationally ranked teams. The Golden Eagles are ranked 19th in the FCS Coaches Poll and 25th in the Sports Network/Fathead.com Poll. The Gamecocks are ranked 13th and 14th, respectively. “You want to be heading down the stretch still in the race,” Tech head coach Watson Brown said. “The winner of this game controls its own destiny. [The OVC] is a good league. It’s a competitive league. I thought everyone would have at least one loss by now, but they haven’t and they deserve credit for it.” This is the 16th meeting between the two programs with Jacksonville State holding a 96 lead. Last season, the Gamecocks came to Tucker Stadium ranked No. 4 in the country and looking to clinch the OVC. Tech had other plans however and overcame a 17-point fourth-quarter deficit to pull off a 35-24 upset. Jacksonville State is coming off a 38-14 loss to the Kentucky Wildcats last weekend. Although it was a losing effort, the Gamecocks had a good showing against the FBS opponent. They were led by junior running back Washaun Ealey, whose 120-yard performance gave him his fourth consecutive 100yard rushing game. Freshman Gabriel Chambers also made some noise with a 99-yard kickoff return for
a touchdown, the first Kentucky had allowed all season. Tech is coming off a bye week after scoring 20 unanswered points yet still coming up just short, losing 42-40, to Tennessee State on Oct. 15. The loss was not only their first conference loss of this season, it was also their first loss in FCS play. Despite losing, the team broke several school single-game offensive records in the game including 36 first downs. Junior quarterback Tre Lamb set single-game school records for completions (34), pass attempts (58) and total plays (69). “We just didn’t have enough to get it done tonight and that’s disappointing,” Lamb said. The loss could be attributed to turnovers and penalties. Tech turned the ball over four times (two interceptions and two lost fumbles) and committed 11 penalties totaling 80 yards. “We’re not good enough to win with turnovers and penalties like that,” Brown said. “We just can’t do it.” One bright spot from the game was freshman kicker Zach Sharpe. Sharpe was 4-5 on field goal tries and 4-4 on extra points. His total of 16 points is the second most in school history. Sharpe was named OVC Special Teams Player of the Week. “He keeps getting better,” said Brown of his kicker. “He made the kicks to keep us in the game.” The team’s hopes are still high for the remainder of the season. “We’re not done,” said junior Zack Ziegler, who totaled 102 yards and two touchdowns in the TSU game. “If we keep winning, nothing changes.”
Volleyball seeks to continue improving record with May, Gray and Penrod leading the way ByASHLEY SMITH Staff Writer With a win last Saturday against the Murray State Racers, the Tech volleyball team looks to pick up a couple more victories against the Austin Peay Governors and the Tennessee State Tigers while on the road this weekend. Leading the Golden Eagles in kills this season with 234, Sophomore Natalie Penrod has proven to be an impact player for Tech in its win over the Racers. Other impact players include Junior Kelsey Gray and Sophomore Allison May. Gray, with 326 total blocks in her career with the Golden Eagles, is ranked tenth on the all-times block list at Tech. May, with just 41 digs away from a career-high of 1000, tallied 19 digs in last Saturday’s victory. The four-match road trip will begin Oct. 28 against Austin Peay, with kickoff set for 7 p.m. On Oct. 29, the Golden Eagles are scheduled to battle against its third place opponent, TSU, at 2 p.m.
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Allison May tosses the ball up for a serve. May is 41 digs away from 1,000 on the season.
Weekly Roundup Swansey receives National recognition Preseason accolades continue to pour in for Tech, and this time, it’s senior guard Zac Swansey garnering high honors from a national media source. The USA Today named Swansey its Preseason Player of the Year in the Ohio Valley Conference in its college basketball preview publication released earlier this month. The newspaper, which boasts a circulation of 1.8 million, also named senior guard Kevin Murphy a first-team All-OVC selection. Swansey is the second Golden Eagle to garner attention as a Player of the Year candidate — Murphy drew the honor in official OVC voting and also from CBS Sports and the Sporting News. “Our offense runs through him and he makes everyone around him better,” head coach Steve Payne said of Swansey. “He’s obviously deserving. He gets the ball where it needs to go for us, and I’m happy to see him receive the recognition.” Swansey piloted the OVC’s most productive offense a season ago and posted near record-breaking assist numbers. He distributed double-figure assists in six games and ranked seventh in NCAA Division I in assists per game. He also did his share of scoring, averaging just shy of 10 points per game. Murphy, also a senior guard, was Tech’s leading scorer
FCS Coaches Poll Week 9 1. Georgia Southern 2. Northern Iowa 3. North Dakota State 4. Montana State 5. Appalachian State 6. Lehigh 7. Sam Houston State 8. Montana 9. Wofford 10. James Madison 11. New Hampshire 12. Maine
13. Jacksonville State 14. Townson 15. South Dakota 16. Old Dominion 17. Jackson State 18. Indiana State
19. Tennessee Tech 20. Delaware 21. William and Mary 22. Alabama State 23. Harvard 24. Liberty 25. North Dakota
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in 2010-11 and ranked third in the OVC, averaging 17 points per contest. He was an allOVC first-team selection a season ago. Murphy was also recently named one of five all-OVC selections by CollegeHoops.net.
Tennis Stuggles in Knoxville
Tech’s men’s tennis team only posted one victory in Saturday’s play in Knoxville. That victory came from Syrym Abdukhailikov. Abdukhailikov defeated Tennessee’s, Bryan Schwartz, in straight sets, 6-3, 6-1. Advancing to the next round, Abdukhailikov faced Kentucky’s Alex Musialek, who is ranked 20th nationally and was the number two seed for the tournament. Musialek defeated Abdukhailikov, 6-7, 7-6, 6-2. Also participating in Saturdays action were seniors Alex Chen and Justin Kirstein. Chen lost to Indiana’s Stephen Vogl, 6-2, 6-7. While Chen took a loss to East Tennessee State’s Juan Ramirez 6-2, 6-0. Sophomore Vasily Eremeev and freshman Ezequiel Gils also competed in Saturday’s action. Eremeev was handed a 6-2, 6-1, loss from Tennessee’s Mikelis Libietis. Gils was defeated by Dalton Albertin of Ball State 6-4, 6-2.
This week’s Weekly Roundup contains stories by Staff Writer Justin Matheney and TTU Sports Information.
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After being forced to disband, the three musketeers reunite to prevent a war that would destroy Europe.
“The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” opens in the Backdoor Playhouse this Thursday at 8 p.m. Presented by the Tech Players, “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” is a one-act musical focusing on a fictional spelling bee set in the geographically ambiguous Putnam Valley Middle School. The musical follows six quirky students as they compete in the bee, which three equally odd teachers run. Based on the Rachel Sheinkin book, William Finn wrote the music and lyrics for the
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By WILL SHECKLER Asst. Entertainment Editor Calling all action and adventure fan, lovers of steam punk, and scalley wag pirates, too; “The Three Musketeers” released in theaters and it will definitely entertain you. “The Three Musketeers” are the best elite swordsmen for the King of France and defenders of Europe when it is in danger. Single handedly these highly trained fighters are capable of taking on the whole European continent and they’re still ready for more. We’re introduced at the beginning to the three heroes: Arthos (leader; intellect), Aramis (stealth), and Porthos (strength). As well, we have D’Artagnan, a new aspiring musketeer, that’s taken under the wing of the other musketeers. Together the four are unstoppable. An example
displayed at the beginning of the film when D’Artagnan and the Musketeers take on 40 of the King’s guards successfully. After their feat, the King of France and Cardinal Richelieu summon the musketeers for punishment. Cardinal wishes that the four to be treated harshly for such crimes, but the King found their victory to be quite impressive; so he commends them and tells them not to do it again. One of the main adaptations to the film is the use of steam punk technology like fully functional scuba gear while it has the look of the time and still looks pretty cool. The film reminds me of ‘Pirate of the Caribbean’ meets steam punk technology once the Duke of Buckingham (Oralando Bloom) sails onto the French King’s courtyard in his flying battleship. Another selling point of the movie had to be the choice of actors like Bloom and Mat-
thew MacFadyen (played Mr. Darcy in “Pride and Prejudice”), the attempted feel you get from the ‘pirates’ films, and the flying ships. I really was jealous about those giant ships because deep down even with all of today technology a flying air ship is all anyone really wants…. Sword fights and battles will more than likely occur later. Ending off here, just don’t compare it to the classics and it’ll be fun. Let loose and enjoy yourself a while. “I never remembered history being so interesting,” said Jason Swafford, movie attendee and student at TTU. Pros: EXPLOSIONS, air ships, decent and fun sword fights, an interesting update of the films Cons: a little too predictable, the credits song threw me off, wouldn’t see it in 3D What to look forward to: A second movie with more air ships and Orlando Bloom. Rating: C+, a good matinee and fun adventure film.
musical. The play originally debuted on Broadway in 2005 and was nominated for six Tony Awards, winning two. Mark Creter, Tech theater professor, will direct the Tech production with musical direction by Mendy Richards. As for the cast, members of the student body and faculty will play the characters. “Theater is open to anyone at Tech who’s interested. For instance, this musical has a cast that’s a combination of students as well as faculty. This gives students a chance to work with seasoned performers, and it also brings a little variety to the show,” said Creter. The show opens Thursday and continues through Nov. 12. Admission for students is free.
November 3 - 5, 7 & 8, 11 & 12 at 8:00 p.m. November 10 at 10:00 p.m. November 12 at 2:00 p.m. All performances are free for Tech students
Octubafest continues through Thursday By SHANNON ROUNTREE Staff Writer
If you pass the Bryan Fine Arts building between now and Nov. 4, you’ll most likely hear the tuba players preparing their pieces for Tennessee Tech University’s Department of Music and Arts 36th annual Octubafest. Octubafest includes a substantial amount of recitals and concerts of TTU students and alumni who play instruments in the tuba family. This also involves the euphonium, bass tuba and contrabass tuba. Octubafest at TTU provides an environment for students to demonstrate their technical and musical abilities, hard work and efforts put into these specific instruments. Being the youngest of orchestral instruments, the tuba family was not featured in solo settings until the 1960’s. The rapid recognition and advancement of the tuba during this period is partly attributable to Winston Morris, Professor of Music and Instructor of
Tuba and Euphonium at TTU. Morris has been on the faculty since 1967 and is not only been regarded internationally for the advancement of the tuba for the past 40 years, but the major authority on the development of the tuba ensemble. The Tennessee Tech Tuba Ensemble is a group of TTU alumni that has won several awards and is the most recorded group to date. Taking place in the Wattenbarger Auditorium in the Bryan Fine Arts Building on TTU’s campus, all of the recitals and chamber music concerts are free and open to the public. There are still around a dozen recitals remaining on October 28 through October 31 and Octubafest will conclude with a special performance by the Tennessee Tech Tuba Ensemble Nov. 4 at 7:30 p.m. To find out the various times of each performance, visit TTU’s website at www.tntech. edu or contact Morris at wmorris@tntech. edu.
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No matter the type of vampire, make your costume more realistic with fake blood you can make at home on a budget.
Last minute Halloween costume ideas Halloween is Monday, but have no fear procrastinators,The Oracle is here to help. By CHUCK ACHESON & WILL SHECKLER Entertainment Editor, Asst. Entertainment Editor Halloween is quickly approaching, if you need a costume idea, we’re here with some suggestions. The bed sheet ghost is a Halloween cliché so I offer an updated version of the classic. Instead of using a white bed sheet, use a flannel one. When people ask what you are dressed as, reply that you are the ghost of a dead hipster. A couple Pabst Blue Ribbon cans tied together make a great alternative to rattling chains. Zombies and vampires are popular this year and really only require a minimal monetary investment. Thrift stores are your onestop shops for expendable clothing or relatively inexpensive suits. If you want to make a realistic zombie or vampire costume, however, you’re going to need some fake blood. Will Sheckler has the solution with his personal recipe.
Fake Blood Recipe:
• 4 tbsp of Corn Syrup • 2 cups of Warm water (or as much as the amount of blood needed) • 1 tbsp Red food coloring (use a few drops of yellow and green to make realistic) • 1 tbsp of Cocoa powder/chocolate syrup • Bowl/Jug/some kind of container After you aquire the necessary materials, which can be found for cheap in most dollar stores, you need to mix the ingredients together. Step one: place the water and cocoa in with each other before adding other ingredients. Step two: add corn syrup and gradually add drops of red food dye until satisfied. Step three: keep mixing reds and very little bits of yellow and green for darker colors. Now, you have a delicious way to make fake blood around your face.
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STEM Center now home to exotic animals By KARLA HAMMAC Staff Writer
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Jane Baker holds Reggie, a four-month-old hedgehog, who now resides at the STEM Center. Reggie will also soon be accompanied by three newts: Edward, Jacob and Bella.
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The STEM Center is no longer accompanied by only students, teachers and staff. Room 131 houses a hedgehog and a rose-haired tarantula. These animals live in their respective cages and are on a feeding schedule administered by instructors and students. Rosie, the rosehaired tarantula, feasts upon live crickets, and Reggie, the four-month-old hedgehog, consumes cat food. “The purpose of the animals is to allow early childhood development students to become comfortable with class pets and learn how they can be used in classroom instruction,” Jane Baker, assis-
tant professor of early childhood education, said. Every day in class, the creatures are let out to play with early childhood education undergraduate and graduate students. “It is neat to see future teachers warming up to the animals, along with taking pride and care of them,” Baker said. Three newts will also soon be living in Room 131. The Twilight series inspired the students to name the new aquatic amphibians Edward, Jacob and Bella. “Ideally, there would be one of each animal class in the classroom,” Baker said. Viewing times for the animals are administered by the STEM Center office.
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CONTINUED from page 1 According to Holm, a couple of the advantages for participating with the Food Committee include receiving a free meal and the accomplishment of changing and adjusting Food Services in order to meet people’s needs. “I want the students to get very comfortable with the managers because, in my opinion, the more comfortable you are with a person,
the more likely you are to walk up and talk to them about your problems,” Holm said. “Bottom line, we want to hear from the students how to run their food service. We want to run it the best we can and how you guys want it.” For more information about the food committee, contact Sam Holm at sholm@ tntech.edu.
At 10 p.m. every Thursday, students gather in the lobby of New Hall North for light conversation over free pancakes. New Hall North resident assistants continue pancake night, a regular event targeting hungry Tech students, with the help of Tech’s Treehouse learning village. “It gives the students a good break, a good social time,” Caitlin McCowan, assistant coordinator of the Treehouse, said. “And it’s neat because when they’re standing in line for pancakes, they’re talking to people they didn’t know. So it definitely meets the community goal we’re after as Res. Life.” According to McCowan, the process is simple. A team of RAs make each student two free pancakes with choice
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of chocolate chips, butter and syrup. “Generally by 10 after, there’s a line out the door. It is rare for us to have less than 100 people,” McCowan said. The amount of ingredients used is evidence of the event’s popularity among the campus-wide audience. “Every week we have pancake night, we’re probably going through three gallons of syrup and eight boxes of batter,” McCowan said. The event is now directed by Michelle Best, a junior at Tech. According to Best, Sara Lynes, a former Tech student, is responsible for starting pancake night during the 2009-2010 school year. “Two years ago, she lived in Jobe-Murphy, and she used to do it in there,” Best said. “Then she asked Caitlin if we could do it in here and it just kinda turned into a big thing.”
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28 Midterm Grading Ends Students may now view Midterm grades on Eagle Online 7:00 p.m. Jacob Reid, Jalen Tally, tuba, Student Recital Wattenbarger Auditorium 8:00 p.m. Briana Engelbert, euphonium, Student Recital Wattenbarger Auditorium
29 1:00 p.m. STEM Safari Saturday STEM Center 2:00 p.m. Tuphonium Quartet, Student Recital Wattenbarger Auditorium 3:00 p.m. LesTubas Quartet, Student Recital Wattenbarger Auditorium 7:00 p.m. Bill Glesias, tuba, Student Recital Wattenbarger Auditorium
Students gather at New Hall North for weekly pancake night By LOGAN NICKLESON Staff Writer
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Awesome Eagle eats breakfast with Pre-K classes at Cane Creek Elementary to encourage students to eat a healthy meal before school.
CRIME BRIEFS: - Oct. 8 - 10:35 a.m. Charges: Theft of vehicle stereo Location: New Hall North - Oct. 8 - 4:34 p.m. Charges: Theft of GPS from vehicle Location: New Hall North - Oct. 10 - 3:20 p.m. Charges: Bike Theft Location: Ellington-Warf Bike Rack - Oct. 10 - 4:10 p.m. Charges: Bike Theft / Recovered Location: Jobe-Murphy Bike Rack - Oct. 11 - 1:50 p.m. Charges: Vehicle Vandalism Location: Prescott MS Parking Lot - Oct. 11 - 10:10 p.m. Charges: Theft of motorcycle helmet and gloves Location: Open Parking North Dixie Avenue - Oct. 12 - 1:30 a.m. Charges: Threatening Text Message Location: New Hall North - Oct. 12 - 9:10 a.m. Charges: Vandalism / Window shot with BB gun Location: School of Nursing - Oct. 14 - 12:15 a.m. Charges: Sexual Harassment Location: Murphy Hall - Oct. 14 - 8:30 a.m. Charges: Vandalism / Window shot with BB gun Location: School of Nursing - Oct. 15 - 7:45 a.m. Charges: Extortion Location: Southwest Stadium
- Oct. 17- 1:20 a.m. Charges: Verbal Argument Location: Tech Village East - Oct. 17 - 3:01 a.m. Charges: Attempt B&E Location: New Hall North - Oct. 20 - 2:09 a.m. Charges: Driving without DL, Misuse of Registration, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia Location: 8th & Armstrong Ave. - Oct. 20 - 8:09 a.m. Charges: Vandalism to state vehicles Location: Intramural Parking Lot - Oct. 21 - 3:10 a.m. Charges: Underage Consumption Location: Jobe Hall - Oct. 21 - 10:30 p.m. Charges: Suspicious Persons Location: Tech Village Community Center - Oct. 21 - 10:16 p.m. Charges: Pulled Fire Alarm Location: Foster Hall - Oct. 26 - 1:55 a.m. Charges: Arson (set fire to cardboard box) Location: Prescott MS Parking Lot - Oct. 26 - 6:20 p.m. Charges: Bike Theft Location: Pinkerton Hall Bike Rack - Oct. 26 - 1:33 p.m. Charges: Theft of unattended laptop Location: Volpe Library
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30 3:00 p.m. Euba Quartet, Student Recital Wattenbarger Auditorium 7:00 p.m. Austin Vogt, euphonium, Student Recital Wattenbarger Auditorium 8:00 p.m. Patrick Curry, tuba, Student Recital Wattenbarger Auditorium
31 3:30 p.m. Faculty Senate Meeting President’s Conference Room 7:00 p.m. Nick Waycaster, euphonium, Student Recital Wattenbarger Auditorium 8:00 p.m. Derek Cunningham, tuba, Student Recital Wattenbarger Auditorium
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