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Organizations competing in homecoming made banners which were displayed on Monday in the lobby of the Roaden University Center.

Tech bops its way through Jukebox Homecoming

By CAROLINA HATFIELD & JAMIE SAUVE

Reporters

The Tech community bops its way through Jukebox Homecoming celebrating the 89th year of the event with weeklong activities, ending with the parade and football game against Jacksonville State University on Saturday.

Jerry Keeton, coordinator of student activities and campus life, said two new activities were added this year.

“The pep rally is the newest thing we are bringing back this year and the pride day,” Keeton said.

Tech Activities Board introduced TN Tech

the cheer team and Awesome See page 3 for Eagle performed.

Other events included the homecoming candidates’ banner contest on Monday, Battle of the Bands air band statements ” contest on Tuesday and the canned food drive on Wednesday.

- Jerry Keeton, Additionally, TAB is reintroducing the HomeCoordinator of student coming Pep Rally at 5 p.m. today in The Hoop the first time in four years. Competing oractivities and campus life for ganizations perform the fight song, a sideline cheer, and a mini routine in hopes of winning Pride Day on Thursday on Centennial Plaza. the pep rally award.

Members of the TAB handed out T-shirts, a DJ See HOMECOMING, page 2 played music, and the Golden Girls Dance Team,

“The pep rally is the newest

event we are bringing back this year and the pride day.

Tech celebrates Veterans Week

By EMMA KENNER

Reporter

Veterans Week is Nov. 11-15 and is sponsored by Tech’s Department of Military and Veteran Affairs.

Veterans Week began last year and is something that Mary McCaskey, director of financial aid and veteran affairs, is hoping to turn into a tradition.

Veterans Day was originally only celebrated on Nov. 11, but was extended to a week-long celebration last year, McCaskey said.

“We averaged about 100 people last year at the ceremony and we’re hoping to have more this year. It’s open to the public so we’ve reached out to some local veterans and the state national guard as well,” McCaskey said.

This event is especially important to current student and veteran William Sloan.

Sloan is in his second year at Tech studying communications after serving 20 years of active duty in the Navy.

“I feel that it is an honor and privilege that Tech honors our veterans the way that they do,” Sloan said.

“I

feel that it is an honor and privilege that Tech honors our veterans the way that they do. do ” - William Sloan,

Student and veteran Sloan said he wouldn’t miss the events for any reason.

“My favorite part is cannon salute for each of the branches of the military,” Sloan said.

McCaskey said this week is important for the students to understand why we have Veterans Day. “I think there are still some folks on campus that don’t know we have an entire department dedicated to serving our military stuSee VETERAN, page 2

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Three Tech students, Mik Davis, Rachel Smith and Courtney Savage celebrate their completion of curriculum to be launched as Stanford fellows with a wings up.

Community invited to Students represented

“The Voice” watch party

By SHERRY CHAFFIN

Reporter

The Jake Hoot “Voice” watch party is scheduled for 7-9 p.m. on Monday at the Eblen Center.

Doors to the center open at 6:30 p.m.

HOOT The public is invited to view the show and vote to advance Jake to the next

round.

Hoot is a 2013 graduate of Tennessee Tech, where he was a member of the Golden Eagle football squad from 2009-2011.

Before performing on the “ Voice,” Hoot released his first single— “Better Off Without You.” Hoot has survived two rounds of elimination and is coached by singer Kelly Clarkson.

A Corpus Christi, Texas, native, Hoot has called Cookeville home for 10 years.

as Stanford fellows

By ALEXIS AGEE

Reporter

Three Tennessee Tech students completed curriculum to be launched as Stanford fellows.

Mik Davis, Courtney Savage and Rachel Smith, Tech’s cohort, received a fellowship and grant opportunity at Stanford University through a program called the University Innovation Fellowship.

The UIF is a worldwide program run and sponsored by Stanford’s school of design.

“The goal of the program is to educate students in the art of design thinking and innovation techniques so that they can launch cutting-edge new programs at their home universities,” Smith said.

At Tech, the program is overseen by the innovation and entrepreneurship committee. All three students applied to the committee and selected to serve on it, then applied as a group to the Stanford program.

To be launched as fellows, the cohort See STANFORD, page 2

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ACS members, volunteers create human periodic table

By Maegen Brazzell

SMACS from left: senior president Abigail Rossi, junior Bethan Obenader, senior vice president Sam Jones, senior Steven Lam Soulch and junior Rachel Baker

ʻRuthlessʼ set for final two performances

By EMILY PATON Reporter Tech students and community members work in harmony as the Tech Players perform their fall production, “Ruthless,” a musical production that runs through Saturday.

This club holds their production at the newly renovated Backdoor Playhouse located in the basement of the Jere Whitson Building. They try to do a musical every fall.

Artistic director Mark Creter said that every production is a chance for students who may be new to the theatre program to work with other types of people.

"The auditions are open to anyone. You don't have to be a student,

you don't have to be in the English department, you don't have to be in the theatre program,” Creter said.

“So we get students who are engineers and education majors and we get from all across the campus that all just share an interest in work in theatre.”

Creter described the production as small compared to most musicals.

Based around movies such as "Gypsy" and "The Bad Seed," this musical is about a girl who strives to be in a school play. When she does not get the part she wants, she kills the person who got it, leading to deception among the characters.

Though not likely to sell out, more than 50 people have attended

each production so far, according to Samia Anderson, who plays the role of Sylvia in the musical.

Productions of “Ruthless” are at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday at the Backdoor Playhouse.

Tickets can be bought at the door with checks, cash or credit card.

Students can attend for $5, senior citizens for $12 and other members of the general public for $15.

"I think we're growing out of being the best kept secret on campus," Creter said.

Creter said he is always looking for people to be involved in Tech Players whether by acting or working behind the scenes.

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Campus organizations compete in homecoming through a point system. Keeton said teams gain points through member participation at events and competition placement.

Saturday’s events include the homecoming parade and the football game against JSU. At half time, Mr. and Miss TTU are scheduled to be crowned and the winners of homecoming are scheduled to be announced.

Six male and six female candidates take the field Saturday, representing their campus organizations in hopes of becoming the 2019 Mr. and Miss TTU. “I have never received more support in my life than during my time as a Golden Eagle! Tech is my family,” homecoming candidate Chad Yonge of Kappa Sigma, said.

Keeton said home-

coming builds a sense of leadership, teamwork and family.

“I have grown up being a Golden Eagle, and being a Tech student has helped me to grow into the person I am today,” homecoming candidate, Brookland Gordon of Phi Mu, said.

Organizers expect around 10,000 to attend the parade which steps off at 10:30 a.m.

Saturday.

The parade will be led by Grand Marshal Marc Burnett, Vice President of Student Affairs, who is retiring at the end of this fall semester.

The route starts at the former Hobby Lobby running north on Dixie Avenue and ending on Stadium Drive.

The 5-4 Golden Eagles take on the 6-4 Gamecocks of JSU beginning at 1:30 p.m.

Saturday in Tucker Stadium.

dents and dependents and this highlights that in a way. The number of veterans on campus is more than students realize,” McCaskey said. “This helps our students recognize them for their service and our university has been ranked as a top military school for a while now.”

The events for the week are listened below. Contact veterans@tntech.edu if you have any further questions.

• Monday - Veterans Day ceremony in front of Jere-Whitson at 9 a.m. Refreshments provided.

• Tuesday - Veteran Appreciation Day. Departments across campus are participating.

• Wednesday - Student Veteran Block Party on Main Quad from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

• Thursday – Student Veterans Organization vs ROTC Intramural kickball on Main Quad from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

• Friday- Campus Service Day. The Student Veterans Organization is partnering with different facilities to participate in a campus service project and lunch will be provided.

By MAEGEN BRAZZELL Reporter Student members of the American Chemical Society created the first human periodic table at the Roaden University Center lawn on Sunday.

“This is the international year of the periodic table,” SMACS president Abigail Rossi said. “So, we are trying to honor it by making it.”

Student Organization Funding paid for the heavy weight glossy element signs and the color-changing cups that the participants received after the event.

SMACS spent two months organizing the event and advertised through Tech Times, flyers and emails.

Attendance fell below the required 118, leaving some elements on the ground.

“Everything is in its own row,” Rossi said. “All the colors correspond to the Alkaline Earth metals and noble gases.”

Photographer David Bohannon used a DJI Mavic Pro drone to take the picture.

The photo is going to be posted on Facebook and Twitter and shared with the Chemistry Department and American Chemical Society undergraduate office.

News Briefs Results from annual fundraiser increased from previous year

By KENDYL SEALS Reporter Tech’s 6th annual “Heatin’ Up the Quad” event raised $3,506 this year, increasing profits by a couple hundred dollars compared to last year, an organizer said.

“This event was good for us, good for the Food Pantry and good for Tech,” Suzann Hensley, assistant director for campus recreation, said.

She said 1,066 people attended the event, an

increase of 21% over last year.

The event took place on Oct. 8 on Main Quad in support of the food pantry which is located at Tech Village.

The event featured 35 department teams serving chili, soup, chowder, wings and desserts.

This event is sponsored by the provost office and is a part of the Tech Togetherness Initiative.

Flu shots available on campus, for students, faculty, staff

By ALEXIS AGEE Reporter Flu season is upon Middle Tennessee, and Tech students can now receive a flu shot at Health Services on campus for $18.

The clinic provides care for all full-time students, part-time students, faculty

and staff.

To make an appointment, students can call 931-372332 or schedule online on Eagle Wellness Portal.

Walk-ins are accepted if time permits.

Health Services is located in Bell Hall 105, at the corner of 7th and Mahler Avenue.

Clarification Editor’s note: The following story clarifies a previously published report about a student’s arrest on a domestic violence charge.

By MAEGEN BRAZZELL

Reporter A 22-year-old Tech student is scheduled to appear in Putnam County general session court on April 8 to face a domestic assault charge.

Nicolas Grant Harris is accused of slapping his

21-year-old girlfriend and spitting toothpaste in her face at Tech Village West on Sept. 6.

The assault stemmed from an argument about not having sex, according to a University Police report.

Police arrested Harris who was jailed in lieu of a $1,000 bond.

He later posted the bond and is prohibited from communicating with the victim, according to court records.

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completed six weeks of curriculum including interviewing prominent campus figures for online modules and working on design processes and techniques.

“After the six-week curriculum was completed, all of our work was reviewed by the team at Stanford and we were approved a launched as fellows.

Now, for the next six weeks, we have to launch our projects,” Smith said.

Courtney Savage, a nursing student, begins work on her social entrepreneurship and medical design club iCare project. Rachel Smith, a wildlife and fisheries science major, begins work with the college of in-

terdisciplinary studies and its dean, Mike Gotcher, to provide an outdoor leadership class in the future. Mik Davis, communication studies and political science major, begins operational work on a television/broadcast studio in the Volpe Library for student use.

“We applied and completed the program because we wanted to better the campus community and contribute to the innovation and entrepreneurship culture on campus,” Smith said.

“We really hope that what we do through this fellowship opens up the innovation and entrepreneurship culture on this campus to different populations of students.”

By Maegen Brazzell

From left, Sarah Greer, Caroline Hunter, Macinsie Bennett and Morgan Deambarger. The Spanish Club celebrates Dia de los Muertos on Oct. 31. Dia de los Muertos means Day of the Dead.

Tennessee Tech Halloween Door Decorating Contest Winners: 1st: Accessible Education Center – Al’s Toy Barn from Toy Story 2nd: iCube –“It” theme 3rd: College of Engineering- crystal ball “Look inside the crystal ball, for engineering has it all.”

Honorable mentions: Prescott Hall; School of Nursing

HOMECOMING

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2019 Homecoming Court Candidates “What does Tech mean to you?”

Reporting by Jamie Sauve & Carolina Hatfield

Brookland Gordon Phi Mu

Luke Garner Pi Kappa Alpha

Corinne Cheatham Delta Gamma

Brady Hancock Phi Gamma Delta

Jessica OliverWomen’s Volleyball

Hunter CollinsMu Phi Epsilon

“Tech has been my home for over 20 years. I have grown up being a Golden Eagle, and being a Tech student has helped me to grow into the person I am today.”

“It is the opportunity to make more of yourself. With it either being learning a new skill or making friends that will last a lifetime. Tech has everything you could ever ask for to grow as a person it allows you to enjoy the college experience.”

“Tennessee Tech means a place I can call home. It has tested and challenged me beyond belief, but with the friends, I have made it has allowed me to become my true self! I love the family I now have in Cookeville, I couldn’t imagine being anywhere else!”

“Tech is my home away from home! This university is so special to me because I have been able to make so many memories and connections throughout my 3 years here. I love everything about Tennessee Tech, and I’m so grateful that I get to call it home!”

“To me, I’d like Tech to mean unity. At the end of the day, I’d like for it to mean that we’re one big family despite our differences. I’d like it to represent students all across the board, both those that are a part of well-known groups as well as those that are underrepresented.”

“Tech means so many different things to me. Tech means friends, family, and fun. I’ve learned and experienced so much here that it’s hard to decide what the most meaningful part is.

For that reason, Tech will always be a special place for me!”

Blake HortonSigma Phi Epsilon

Brett HuttoSigma Chi

Macy GrissomKappa Delta

Chad YongeKappa Sigma

Tenille WilliamsDelta Phi Epsilon

Jorja GustAlpha Delta Pi

“Tennessee Tech is my home. It has small-town feel with opportunities that have allowed me to grow as a person. It was an honor to be an orientation assistant and see all of the incoming students find their home like I have.”

“It means family. Everywhere I go I know I’ll be treated with care whether that’s friends, advisors or professors learning can be tough but with the staff, Tech has hired, they make it so much easier. Tech means so much to me and goes so much further than just school. It’s home to me.”

“I’m a third-generation Tennessee Tech Student. I’ve grown to love it in my own unique way because of the community and environment it fosters. My dad was the first Grissom to go to Tech for Mechanical Engineering. He passed away from brain cancer this August during week of welcome. It may have seemed like I rushed into coming back to campus, but in truth, this is where I feel closest to him. I have a newfound love and admiration for this university.”

“Tech signifies families. I would say this university has placed me in a better position in life not only academically by physically and emotionally. I have never received more support in my life than during my time as a golden eagle! Tech is my family. Never give up, always keep your wings up.”

“Tech has prepared me and opened up a door to a world of many great possibilities for my future, I hope it does the same for many others.

Tech is a home, a home that I take great pride in. As I graduate soon, continuing to see the time-honored traditions occur, and the care for others I want Tech to help students as much as this university has helped me.”

“Tech means everything to me. It is the place where I found out who I am as a person, it has provided me with a multitude of opportunities that have molded me, and it is the place filled with people that make it feel like home.”

Student on the street: “How do you plan on celebrating homecoming?”

“I didn’t know homecoming was next week, so probably nothing.”

As homecoming approaches, students share whether they have plans for homecoming weekend.

“For homecoming week, I’m a part of Phi Gamma Delta, and so I’m representing them for Mr. Tennessee Tech. So, we’ll have a float in the parade, and then we do something called kazoo band with our fraternity. It’s kind of like a tradition our chapter has. We’ll just be pomping, getting our board ready for the board contest.”

Reporting and photos by Emily Welte

-Mechatronics engineering technology major, Evan Roberts

-Nursing major, Brady Hancock

“Next week for homecoming, we’re celebrating by going to the parade and watching all the floats go by. Then having a tailgate with our sorority out by the quad and have some yummy food and then watch the game.”

“I’m gonna go to the parade and the homecoming game.

Just have fun with my sisters.”

-Nursing major, Turner Butaud

“We’re in ADPi, so we have a ton of homecoming events that take place throughout the week. There’s an air band competition that’s really fun. We do a canned food drive. Friday is a really big event. It’s what I’m most excited for...we’ve been working a lot of hours also on the float – little tiny pieces of tissue paper. We put a lot of time into that for the parade.

There’s a banner competition too, so we have girls painting the banner for homecoming.”

-Nutrition major, Savanah Medlock

-Nursing major, Grace Brinkley

“I’m not. I’m not at all. I’m not festive. I’m not prideful.

I just come here so I can get classes done, so I can get a decent job.”

-Communication major, Megan Dixon

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Student on the street: Opinions on the 2020 presidential race Have you been keping up with the 2020 presidential race?

Reporting by David Gorchoff

“No, I’m not really keeping “I think I’ve been keeping up up with it. Maybe just on with it probably more than Twitter. I’m not really sure other people I know. I think who I’m voting for. I mean, I’ve watched all of the debates, I’m a Republican, but I’m they’re pretty interesting for not gonna say “I’m voting for the most part. I do follow a Trump 100%”. If somebody few of the candidates on social else comes along that’s maybe media as well. I think Elizabeth similar, maybe not. I haven’t even kept up with it Warren is a really good candidate that I would that much.” -Austin Johnson, civil engineering major root for. I’m an education major so on a very surface level, she speaks to me because she was an educator at one point.”

“Not really. I wish I were more up to date with it. There are a couple of things I have read about but it was in the very beginning. There’s so many people. I’m a Democrat so I’m looking more towards those candidates but as of right now, they’re all kind of crappy. And like I said, I haven’t done as much research as I would want to so I haven’t really decided which way I would lean as of right now.”

-Yasamen Rahimi, nursing major

-Payton Womack, elementary education major

“I have not kept up with it. I am very much not attached to the news in any way which is a good and bad thing. I actually just turned 18. I’m still super new to all of that so the goal is to get more involved in that and understand more about it before I just jump into it.”

“Not really, no. Knowing that this is the first year that I can vote, I need to actually look into it. But I haven’t yet.”

“I am registered to vote. If I can get caught up on the information then I plan on voting in the primary.

I’m not keeping up with it closely though. I honestly don’t even know who is running, I know that’s really bad.”

-Emily Schleicher, nursing major

-Brookelyn Davis, business management major

-Kate Laulo, business management major

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Stories involving sex crimes, domestic violence, scams or other crimes that tend to humiliate or degrade the victim shall be scrutinized carefully before publication.

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Student on the street: Opinions on technology and health “People sit in front of computer screens and in front of their phones all day long. Kids nowadays aren’t running around and playing outside. It’s making people a whole lot less healthy and is affecting their physical health along with their mental well-being.”

- Boone Riddle, mechanical engineering major

“I think young women look at people on social media and they judge themselves off of what they see off of other people.”

Technology is used hours a day, especially by college students. Tech students explained how our devices are affecting our physical health.

Reporting by Sarah Pearson

“Some people are so addicted to technology that they don’t want to go out and want to better themselves because they would rather stay inside, but I guess on a whole level of the population, I would say it’s not really that big of an issue.”

-Jesse Boucher, sports administration major

-Alyssa Arden, exercise science major

“When I grew up, I like, played outside a lot. Me and my brother were constantly outside and were never in front of a TV a lot, or in front of a tablet. So, I think that kids now are not getting to experience the lives we used to have.”

- Mikayla Lovin, pre-occupational therapy major

“When you are on your phone all of the time you don’t get enough rest, especially at night. People would rather be on their phones, sitting on the couch, and eating than going outside and exercising and moving.”

-Alexis Trimiar, exercise science major

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Equestrian Team finishes season

By Allison Rison

Social Media Editor

The western riders of Tech’s equestrian team racked up ribbons at Murray State University’s horse show on Nov. 2 and 3.

Participants were Sasha Conatser, Madeline Plus, Mackenzie Garner, Emily Moser and Allison Rison.

Conatser won sixth

place in beginner horsemanship: walk, jog.

Garner won third place in both classes of Rookie B horsemanship: walk, jog, lope.

Plus won fourth place in both classes of Novice horsemanship: walk, jog, lope.

Rison won sixth and third place in both classes of Rookie B horsemanship: walk, jog, lope.

Garner was the team’s high point rider.

The English riders finished their season at Maryville College on Oct. 26 and 27. The riders included Savannah Bayens and Mackenzie Garner.

Bayens won fifth place in both jumping classes and sixth and third place in both flat classes.

Garner won fifth

and fourth place in flat and jumping classes.

The show season will resume in February with Tech’s western show at Hyder-Burks Agricultural Pavilion Feb. 1 and 2.

Admission is free to spectators.

Those interested in joining the equestrian team should contact Courtesy Photo Rebecca Huddleston at Sasha Conatser rides Stella, who is owned by Murray State tightfitstables@yahoo.

Former barn becoming new hands-on ag lab

By Katelyn Cammock

Reporter

Photo by Alexis Agee

Plans to turn a Shipley Farm storage barn into a lab for agricultural engineering technology is expected to be completed by this time next year, an official said.

The location across the Hyder-Burks Pavilion currently is used to store the farm’s combines and tractors.

The proposed lab is intended to improve students’ understanding of major concepts in the field.

“Several of the concepts can prove difficult to learn without any handson experience,” John Russel, president of the Agricultural Engineering Club, said.

Agriculture professor Keith Morris said the college used to have labs in the former maintenance building but lost that space. Lack of space

forced officials to cancel some specialized classes, such as Agricultural Machinery and Tractors which involves students working on tractors, combines, sprayers and other equipment.

“Currently we do not have space to anything with our labs,” Morris said.

The renovation project includes removing two silos and updating a loafing barn to make room for new bathrooms and a workshop. Two new hay barns also are planned to accommodate hay displaced by stored equipment.

“The new building will create opportunities we haven’t had previously,” senior Anderson Schmittou said. “We are looking forward to the advancement of the ag engineering department, new experiences and knowledge that will be gained.”

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T h e n e xt e v e nt i s at N C A A S o ut h R e gi o n al C h a m pi o n s hi p s a g ai n st T all a h a s s e e Fl o ri d a o n N o v. 1 5.

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K ei s h a w n D a vi d s o n l e d t h e G ol d e n E a gl e s wit h 1 8 p oi nt s a n d si x a s si st s. D a ri u s All e n c oll e ct e d si x r e b o u n d s.

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M et h o di st U ni v e r sit y a n d at 7: 3 0 p. m. T u e sd a y a g ai n st W ri g ht St at e U ni v e r sit y.

Wo me n T e c h w o m e n st a rt e d o ff it s s e a s o n wit h a n 8 8- 5 1 wi n o v e r C u m b e rl a n d U ni v e r sit y ( T e n n.) at h o m e o n T u e s d a y.

T h e G ol d e n E a gl e s d o mi n at e d t h e e nti r e g a m e wit h K e s h a B r a d y t all yi n g 1 5 p oi nt s a n d ei g ht r e b o u n d s t o l e a d t h e s q u a d. T h r e e of h e r t e a m m at e s al s o s c o r e d i n d o u bl e di git s: M a c k e n zi e C ol e m a n ( 1 2); J o r d a n B r o c k( 1 1) a n d M a ali y a O w e n s( 1 1).

T h e y r et u r n t o t h e c o u rt at 5: 3 0 p. m. t hi s c o mi n g T u e s d a y a g ai n st U ni v e r sit y of L o uisi a n a M o n r o e.

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