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10,000 flock to Tucker Stadium to witness eclipse totality
Awesome Eagle- Kayla Lehman Eclipse- Eva Dingwall
view a total eclipse in By J.K. MCMILLEN & ANNA-GRACE HALL Tennessee – an event STUDENTS OF JOUR 3760 500 years in the makThe total solar watching the eclipse,” ing. The eclipse’s path eclipse offered a oncesaid Kidd, an assisof totality stretched in-a-lifetime opportutant professor who has 70-miles wide across nity for thousands of taught the entire people in Cookeville, physics at “It’s the most mag- United but for one Tech UniTTU for ical thing I’ve ever States. versity professor the five years. experienced. I wish “It’s the event proved to be a Planning everyone could ex- most magichildhood dream come Tennescal thing true. see Tech perience that.” I’ve ever ex-Kirsten Davidson- perienced. Reading ChildEclipse craft encylopedias Fest also TTU Sophomore I wish hooked Dr. Mary took everyone Kidd on physics, on new meancould experience that,” but her ties to ing when her sister, sophomore nursing NASA prompt- a NASA scientist, intro- major Kirsten Davidson ed her to orga- duced her to the Citizen said. “It was really nice nize an eclipse CATE – or Continental- that everyone just kind watch party at Atlantic Telescopic of stopped to watch Tucker Stadium Eclipse – project that [the eclipse] together, on Aug. 21 – an engaged students and considering how crazy experience she their teachers in gather- things have been here described simply as ing scientific data durlately.” “awesome.” ing the total eclipse. “There’s nothing The watch party attractquite like being ed nearly 10,000 people -See FLOCK page 2 with 10,000 of your who wanted to witness closest friends and a rare opportunity to “I was excited. I just wanted to listen, because the birds don’t think its day and they stop singing. But there was no silence. Only shouting. It was loud. It should’ve been quieter. It could’ve been better.” -Astrit Imeri- graduate student, mechanical engineering
This Issue: Campus News -Page 3
-Backdoor Playhouse back in buisness -Changes in academic policies take place -Board appoints new chief of staff
Opinion -Page 4
-Waking up from a DREAM
Entertainment -Page 5
-SGA takes SOLO concert vote -The Stolen Faces bring Grateful Dead to life
Sports -Page 6
“It was really nice that everyone just kinda stopped to watch [the eclipse] together, considering how crazy things have been here lately.” –Kirsten Davidson- sophomore, nursing
-Football season starting on a downnote -Golden Eagle placekicker on awards watchlist
Abbey Markus | The Oracle
FRESHMAN HYPE- TTU Freshman preparing to preform the traditional “Running of the Freshman.”
Running of the freshmen wraps up TTU Week of Welcome
By ABBEY MARKUS Oracle Staffer
Tucker Stadium’s field floods with a rush of purple shirts on Aug. 31 for the 5th annual Running of the Freshman.
“It’s a great way to kick off the football season by allowing the new freshmen students to lead our football team out on the field for the first home game,” Allen Mullis, New Student and Family Programs
Director, said. The first 800 freshmen who arrived at the event received a free purple T-shirt that they wear as they stormed onto Tucker stadium. “We were pretty much toward the front, it
was awesome running with my classmates, it’s a really good tradition I think,” freshmn Jarrett Kilgore said. Running of the Freshmen wraps up Week of Welcome for the current Fall semester.
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