The Tennessee Board of Regents’Business and Finance Committee passedseveral of Tech’s fee increase requests.

During the telephone meeting, heldon Monday, the business and fi nance committee passed Tech fee increase re-quests, including a raise in mandatoryfees and non-mandatory fees.

The committee unanimously passedthe mandatory fee requests from all uni-versities, in one package.

The Tech mandatory fee requeststhat passed the committee are a $25 ath-letics fee and a $10 student recreation feeincrease.

The specialized academic fee re-quests, based on student majors, alsopassed.

Among some of the specialized aca-demic fee increases Tech requested are a$10 per-credit-hour increase for engineer-ing majors, a $5 per-credit-hour increasefor nursing majors and a $25 per-credit-hour increase for education majors.

“I don’t like the idea of paying moreand more every year,” Josh Roberts,Tech engineering graduate student, said.“Since entering grad school, I’ve startedto accumulate some debt. You got to dowhat you got to do, though.”

The requests was presented to thefull board, which discussed the fees March 29.

If all of the fee requests are approvedby the TBR, all Tech students will see in-creased fall mandatory and non-manda-tory fees.

For more information about tuitionand fees, visit tntech.edu/bursar.

The Admissions Offi ce is sending ac-ceptance letters to prospective students to further encourage them to study at Tech.

The offi ce is trying to get students in-terested in Tech by keeping in contact with each prospective student through email and letters. These forms of communication tell students about the upcoming events and detail on how to get into Tech.

Recruitment“We start with some students in mid-

dle school and with some students in high school,” Alexis Pope, assistant director of admissions, said. “It just depends on when that student will interact with us.”

Pope said one way to recruit students in middle schools is when they come to visit Tech’s campus.

“We have been recruiting students—some one year, some fi ve or six years,” Pope said. “It just depends on the student.”

Admissions has been accepting appli-cations for Fall 2012 classes since August 15, 2011.

Upon receiving acceptance letters, stu-dents will start receiving letters to Student Orientation, Advisement and Registra-tion events. They will also be contacted, through email, about different events on campus and to see if they need any addi-tional information.

“We will follow up with emails on holidays and their birthday,” Pope said. “Current students will call the prospective student to see if they have any questions about Tech.”

Pope said they also rely on the SOAR orientation and campus tours to bring in prospective students.

“The campus visit program is a huge factor,” Pope said. “We encourage all of

our admitted students, if they haven’t been to the campus, to come visit the campus. If the student shows up on campus, then it’s a big indicator that the student is still interested and wants to enroll to Tennes-see Tech.”

StatisticsPope said the Admissions Offi ce has

sent more than 5,000 admission letters to prospective students.

Once the student receives their accep-tance letter, they are sent a package with information on how to set up their school email, important dates for orientation and fi nancial aid and other information about what facilities Tech offers.

Pope said if a fi rst time student is younger than 21, he or she are required go

to the SOAR orientation.“As of now we have 3,780 domestic

students that are going to the orientation, which is about 150 more students than last year,” Pope said. “After the end of sum-mer, we are expecting about 4,100 to 4,200 students to get an invitation to the orienta-tion.”

Sending lettersPope said the offi ce will send the ac-

ceptance notices via mail instead of email.“It’s a decision that orientation has

made to send the physical letter,” Pope said. “They know that the parent is a big factor in the student motivation to sign up for orientation, so the physical letter has a better chance of getting viewed by all par-ties of the student’s household.”

The overhaul of Tech Village is about to enter its second phase, which will require residents to be out of their apartments by the end of May.

Phase two of the renovations is set to begin June 1. Buildings H, J, K, L and M on the Eastern side of Tech Village and L West will undergo full renovations as the next step in the four-phase project. Buildings O, W and X are considered alternates.

“What happens in an alternate is, if the base bid comes in under what our projected target is for the project, we can pick up alternates and add buildings to it,” Jack But-ler, Facilities and Business Services associate vice president, said.

This is the fi rst set of renova-tions that the phase two buildings, built in 1967, have undergone.

In 2008, the Tennessee legisla-ture passed a law requiring all uni-versity-owned apartments to install sprinkler systems by August 2014.

Interior renovations include new fl ooring, wiring, added insula-tion, new windows and doors, up-

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Tech Village renovations enter second phase

By MICA BILBREYBeat Reporter

Fee increases come one step closer to approvalBy JONATHAN KAULAYBeat Reporter

Jim Cobb, the director of Campus Safety and Environmental Services, dis-cusses the ongoing renovation plans for Tech Village.

Casey Woodard

The Oracle will return, in print and online, April 13.

Rosemary AppleStudent Admissions Representative Jacob LeQuire gives prospective students a tour around Tech’s campus.

dated Frigidaire appliances, added central heating and cooling and the installation of a sprinkler and fi re alarm systems.

Exterior changes include new hand rails on the outside stairs, added porch roofs over the stairs, new brick underneath the windows and new light fi xtures in front of doors. Some one-bedroom apart-ments will be conjoined, and some will be wheelchair accessible.

“This needed to happen,” Macke said. “We looked at ‘do you want to just tear them down and build a new apartment complex?’ Then we looked at just gutting them and coming back with all new stuff, and we decided that was a little more cost-effective.”

Macke said that rent prices for the one-and-a-half-bedroom apart-ments will remain the same, but the prices of the one-bedroom and two-bedroom are yet to be determined.

“We haven’t fi gured out the price for the one-bedrooms and two-bedrooms,” Macke said.”The one-bedroom in phase two is a big-ger apartment than a one-bedroom in phase one, so my guess is they’ll have to be a little bit more expen-

sive.”The cost for rent will be affect-

ed by the bond that Tech is taking out to pay for the renovations.

“We fi gure our cost based on: we have to take a loan out—a bond—and that bond has to then pay for those apartments,” Macke said. “TBR, Tennessee Board of Regents, requires that they pay for themselves when they’re set up. So then the bond kind of dic-tates what your costs are, of what your charges are.

“Now, I hope that they are pretty much in line, but they’ll be a little bit more just because they’re more square-footage.”

Residential Life has notifi ed residents in the phase two build-ings to vacate the apartments by May 30, but Tech is accommodat-ing displaced students by offering apartments in Tech Village.

“Anybody who has to move out, they are going to get fi rst dibs on wherever they want to go, whatever space we have avail-able,” Macke said.

Phase two is expected to be complete by June 30, 2013 and open by August.

Tech’s Information Technology Services has im-plemented phase two of the Pharos Uniprint system and changed the billing process to eliminate future printing problems.

Charges will not incur during the second testing phase. The new change, printing in arrears, will allow students to pay after they print if they exceed quota.

“We didn’t want to cre-ate an environment where students couldn’t print when they needed to,” Annette Lit-trell, ITS manager, said.

In the fi rst phase, stu-dents would have to put money on their Eagle cards before printing more than quota.

“Now students can print and don’t have to worry about delays in communi-cations between Pharos and the Eagle card systems,” Lit-trell said.

Littrell said Pharos keeps up with the billing state-ments now, not the Eagle Card Offi ce. The Eagle cards are needed to confi rm iden-tity.

Littrell said this is to en-sure students get their cor-rect print jobs released.

Each student will see an amount of $25 on his or her account at the beginning of each new term.

Negative charges will be sent to the Bursar’s offi ce monthly. The next month’s balance will be reset to zero.

Students who don’t ex-ceed their allowed amount won’t reach into the nega-tive.

“This is a major shift in what everyone is used to,” Littrell said. “We’re getting the system up and running and trying to help students understand what our pur-pose is.”

Littrell said some stu-dents were concerned they would not be able to print enough.

Fewer than 200 students

have gone exceeded quota so far, and 12 students have printed more than 2,000 sheets each.

“For majority of the students, this quota is suffi -cient,” she said.

Littrell said if students go over their quota, the mon-ey goes toward Technology Access Fee funds.

“This is so we can do other projects for students,” Littrell said.

Jerry Boyd, ITS assis-tant director, said more fees collected allow for funding more technology projects.

“We’re managing these projects for the departments to implement needed tech-nologies,” Boyd said.

Littrell said students had 500,000 sheets to be released to print, but only 350,000 sheets were printed.

“Either students in-creased awareness of print-ing, or they never went and picked it up,” Littrell said. “Now that you have to stop and think about it before you release the prints, it saves

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318 a.m.58th Annual Cumberland Plateau Regional Science & Engineering FairSTEM Center

10 a.m.2012 Celebration of CraftAppalachian Center for Craft, Smithville, Tenn.

6 p.m.International Friendship BanquetRUC Multipurpose Room

Last Day to Drop a Course with a “W” Grade (Advisor’s Signature Required)

3 p.m.58th Annual Cumberland Plateau Regional Science & Engineering FairSTEM Center

2Summer and Fall 2012 Registration Begins

3:30 p.m.Faculty Senate MeetingPresident’s Conference Room, Derryberry Hall

310 a.m.The Clothesline Project DisplayRUC Tech Pride Room

11 a.m.“In Shapes of Sacred Space” presented by Dr. Christopher PowellClement Hall, Room 212

11 a.m.TAB Giveaway: LiliesRoaden University Center

7 p.m.Take Back the NightFront steps of Roaden University Center

By MEGAN SEVEREBeat Reporter

A group of engineers are expanding be-yond Tech’s campus to help others.

Members of Engineers Without Borders, a student organization that formed last se-mester, are building a wheelchair ramp to-morrow for someone in need.

“It’s for a young man who lives north of Cookeville with his father,” Robert Griffi n, En-gineers Without Borders president, said. “He was in a motorcycle accident and is paralyzed now. It’s mainly so he can go outside without relying on someone else to help him.”

“He currently has a removable ramp, but someone has to help him put it there,” Grif-fi n said. “In order to get actual freedom, there needs to be a permanent system in place.”

Lenly Weathers, faculty adviser for En-gineers Without Borders, received a grant in order to build these ramps for community members.

Griffi n said that most of the materials needed to build the ramp are being provid-ed.

The group is expecting to build a second wheelchair ramp this semester, but the plans have not been fi nalized.

Engineers Without Borders also does oth-er volunteer work within the Cookeville com-munity. This year, the group has helped out with two Habitat for Humanity builds, Boy Scouts of America’s Merit Badge College and local churches’ food pantries.

Engineers Without Borders also partici-pates in FAB Fridays and Safari Saturdays at the STEM Center.

“We work with children doing different science experiments to get them more inter-ested in STEM programs,” Griffi n said.

Elections for next year’s Engineers With-out Borders offi cer positions will be held in April. For more information, contact the group at ttu.ewb@gmail.com.

Engineers Without Borders to construct a wheelchair ramp for injured Cookeville manBy EMILY HAILEBeat Reporter

1011 a.m.TAB Giveaway: Power BandsRoaden University Center

6Good Friday Holiday: No Classes, Offi ces Open

Information Technology Services’ new printing system moves forward

Omega Psi Phi frater-nity is hosting its third an-nual Easter egg hunt from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 7 at Sherlock Park.

Children between the ages of 3 and 11 can partici-pate and should bring their own baskets to collect part of the 1,000 eggs the frater-nity is supplying.

“Past Easter egg hunts have been great,” Lamar Moore, Omega Psi Phi pres-ident, said. “This hunt gets the whole city of Cookeville involved, because Tech is the center of everything that happens in Cookeville. This hunt is a great way for kids involved in our city, since there are not a lot of Easter egg hunts held around this area.”

The hunt, free and open to the public, is a part of

various events Omega Psi Phi is hosting for students and the community.

April 2 there will be a movie night at the Black Cultural Center. A step show performance is sched-uled for the following night on South Patio. April 4 there is a forum to raise aware-ness about Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old black Flor-ida resident who was shot and killed by neighborhood watch member George Zim-merman.

“Tech football players will be helping out at the event on Saturday, as well as a few campus organiza-tions,” Moore said. “This is an opportunity for our chapter to give back to the community and for the kids participating to meet new people.

“We want every to come out this week and have fun with the Q’s.”

Omega Psi Phi to host annual egg hunt, give back to communityBy ASHLEY AYUBBeat Reporter

93 p.m.Commission on the Status of BlacksBlack Cultural Center, RUC Room 258

7 p.m.Simply Unique Fusion Fashion ShowRUC Multipurpose Room

11NoonTech Women’s Club LuncheonRUC Tech Pride Room

Ben Vaught uses the new printing system in the library. The Pharos system is now reporting to the Bursar’s Offi ce in phase two of three phases.

Kaylee Gentry

more paper, ink and toner.”Littrell said at the end

of the semester the Pharos system will be moving into phase three. New printing features will become avail-able during the summer.

The billing system will be live and students will be able to print from their per-sonal devices when they re-lease a print job.

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- March 26 - 1:00 a.m. Charges: Disorderly Conduct Location: Parking lot west of Henderson Hall- March 28 - 4:31 a.m. Charges: Simple Assault Location: Commuter lot North of Ellington Hall

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Poll of the WeekWhat do you do when you go to big parties?

Rick Santorum’s bitter fi ght to the end

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I don’t like the idea of paying more and more every year.

Since entering grad school, I’ve started to accumulate

some debt. You got to do what you got to do, though.

“Josh Roberts, engineering graduate studentin reference to the proposed increased student fees

Quotable Campus

Santorum makes a rare public appearance without his sweater vest.

Look, I’m just going to put it out there: I’ve never been a Rick Santorum fan.

My reasons are multi-faceted. First of all, I desire to see a Republican victory this November, and Rick Santorum lost his last Senate race by double-digits. If he were the nominee, Santorum risks pulling an Al Gore and losing his home state in the general election, and that’s just embarrassing.

Additionally, despite unemployment rates consis-tently above 8% and a $15 trillion debt, Rick Santorum is seemingly fi xated on the social issues. In campaign interviews, he offers quick talking points on jobs and the economy and devotes great lengths of time to ex-plaining, in sometimes un-necessarily graphic detail, his position on topics such as mothers in the workplace, access to contraception and gay marriage, which he has previously equated to “man-on-dog” sex.

I’m a social conservative too, but tacky analogies such as that won’t earn Santorum much support among inde-pendent and moderate vot-ers—and really, who wants to hear that while they’re watching the “Today Show” and eating their breakfast?

Then there are the sweater vests. This isn’t prep school,

Rick. And you’re running for President, not hall monitor. Our Democratic opponent, while terribly incompetent, croons Al Green songs at his rallies and is friends with George Clooney.

Meanwhile, you show up to campaign events and television interviews looking like a cross between Dwight Schrute and a 1970’s-era tel-evangelist. We’re going to have to up the “cool” factor a bit.

And we won’t even talk about his “Google problem.”

But perhaps my great-est frustration with Rick Santorum stems from his re-marks last Thursday, when he said that if Mitt Romney is the Republican Presidential nominee, which simple math dictates to be an almost in-evitable outcome, “we may as well stay with what we have.”

Every other GOP candi-date for President, including both the candidates who re-main on the ballot and those who have already dropped out, has expressed the impor-tance of uniting behind our party’s eventual nominee to work together and end the failed Presidency of Barack Obama. Rick Santorum’s shameful remarks now make him the exception, and reveal a candidate who is much

more concerned with raising his own profi le and advanc-ing his personal agenda, than working towards the good of the party and, ultimately, the country.

Moreover, Santorum’s remarks are just not true. In contrast to President Obama, Mitt Romney offers the pri-vate sector experience need-ed to rebuild our economy. He has owned a business, created jobs, balanced a bud-get every year as Governor of Massachusetts without raising taxes, set aside $2 bil-lion in the state’s rainy-day fund, and is the only candi-date running for President who didn’t take part in run-ning up the $15 trillion tab in Washington that we’re saddled with today.

Santorum would have to win 69% of all remaining delegates to win the GOP nomination, which the New York Times calls “something that is close to impossible.” Additionally, odds betters at Intrade.com rate Santorum’s chances of clinching the nomination at 1.2%. Despite this, he charges on, reck-lessly mischaracterizing Governor Romney’s record and increasing President Obama’s hopes of reelection every step of the way.

At this time in 2008, Mitt Romney had dropped out of the Republican Presidential race to help the nominee-to-be better prepare for his fi ght against President Obama. It’s time for Rick Santorum to conjure up the class and common sense to do the same thing.

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Offending college students is unavoidable

If there’s one thing I’ve learned during my time at Tech, it’s that everything you do or say is going to offend someone.

It doesn’t matter if you help a blind man cross the road, kick someone’s pet dog or simply wear high-waisted jeans. You’re going to make someone furious.

It all boils down to the fact that college students are insane.

We get about four hours of sleep each night, survive on a diet of cheese puffs and coffee and spend fi ve days a week memoriz-ing and regurgitating facts about symbolism in poems about tigers.

Is it any wonder that we’re all giant buckets of crazy?

At the same time, every college student has at least one subject that they feel very passionately about. It could be politics, fash-ion, celebrities, a television show, etc. You can never tell what that area of im-portance will be. Say that you can’t drive a car with a stick shift, and the person sitting in front of you may end your life.

Like I said, every-thing will be offensive to someone. Maybe it’s be-cause they’re experts on the subject. Maybe it’s because they’re passion-ate people who were fed misinformation.

Or maybe it’s because they just stood in line at Mondo’s for thirty min-utes and the toaster broke as soon as they placed their orders.

Whenever I think about students at Tech getting of-fended over nothing, there are always two situations that come to mind.

Guys, if you hold doors open for girls, nine will thank you and one will assume you’re calling her weak.

It doesn’t matter if she holds doors open for other people all the time and she doesn’t think twice about it.

You held that door open specifi cally because you believe she’s incapable of doing it herself. You might as well have turned around and told her she should be barefoot and pregnant.

How dare you insult all of womankind? Holding that door open was clearly to send her the message that you don’t respect women.

You probably think that they should never have been given the right to vote. It’s written all over your face, you sexist.

Girls, if you turn down ten guys who ask you on dates, then nine will gra-ciously accept your deci-sion and one will whine to his boys about the friend zone and say you led him on.

It’s not a possibilitythat you simply don’t wantto date that person. Youhad the audacity to be niceto him on a daily basis and trick him into liking you.

Then you stomped hisheart into the ground likethe tease you are. Youfriend zoned him.

After all, no girl hasever dated someone shewas friends with. It’sagainst the oath we take atthe annual secret girl meet-ing we don’t tell the menabout.

These are just two ex-amples that most of ushave encountered. There are a million others.

Maybe you bought ashirt from Kohl’s because itwas on sale and you need-ed it for a job interview. There’s going to be at leastone person on campus whoaccuses you of supportingchild labor.

Maybe you’re eatingan apple. Someone’s going to be angry that it’s a gala apple and not a golden delicious.

See what I mean? It doesn’t matter what you’redoing. You’re followingthe crowd. You’re pretend-ing to be something you’renot.

You know what? Howdare you read my article. I bet you’re just reading it ironically.

Look at you sittingthere judging my writing. You think you’re better than me, grammar Nazi? What, you think you’recool because you read TheOracle?

What a poser.

Multiple personal records set at last weekend’s Vanderbilt meet

The Tech track and fi eld team set eight new personal records March 24 at the Van-derbilt Black and Gold, the 2012 outdoor sea-son opener.

Six of the eight records came from the mid-distance and distance events, split evenly between the 800-meter and 3000-meter runs. Senior Leah Bradley set two new personal bests in the 800 and 1500. Her performance in the 1500 beat her previous outdoor record by more than 10 seconds.

“This was huge meet to open our season,” Bradley said. “Even with the terrible rain we still had some great performances. I think the stiff competition defi nitely pushed us to com-pete at a higher level and set new personal records.”

Senior Emily Weinzetl led the Golden Eagles in the 800, posting a time of 2 min-utes, 25.94 seconds. Kara Webb and Kendale Caldwell both set new personal records in the 800, with times of 2:28.30 and 2:34.76. Jenna Philpott also improved her previous personal record in the 400-meter dash, making it the only Tech personal best in a sprint event.

Rebecca Cline led a pack of Tech runners to three new records in the 3000. Cline crossed the line with a time of 10:49.98, followed closely by Meghan O’Donoghue (11:26.24) and Brittney Brown (11:33.79).

“Despite the day’s terrible rainy weather, I feel that our girls did really well,” Cline said. “I’m happy for all of my teammates who set personal records and I know those who didn’t will do well at Austin Peay in two weeks.”

The Austin Peay State University Invita-tional, April 7, is the next stop on the Golden Eagle’s schedule.

Baseball returns home this week-end after road stint

After a fi ve-game road trip, the Tech base-ball team returns home this weekend for a three-game series against Ohio Valley Confer-ence rival Murray State University.

Game one of the series is set for 6 p.m. Friday, with game two following at 1:30 p.m. Saturday and game three following at 1 p.m. Sunday.

The Golden Eagles currently sit at 9-15 on the season, including a mark of 1-2 in OVC play. Tech fi nished 1-2 in its last OVC series, against the University of Tennessee at Martin. The lone victory, however, was an 11-1 win behind eight solid innings from Tech starter Matthew Shepherd.

In their last fi ve games, four Golden Ea-gles have posted at least a .375 batting aver-age, including Dylan Bosheers, who led the team in runs batted in during that stretch. Ben Burgess and Zach Stephens also drove in three runs apiece.

Murray State enters the weekend with a 14-12 record and a 1-2 OVC record.

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SPORTS

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Tech Football | 2012 ScheduleAug. 30 Hampton Sep. 6 North GreenvilleSep. 15 at OregonSep. 22 at SE Mo. St. *Sep. 29 at Murray St. *Oct. 6 Jacksonville St. *

Oct. 20 Eastern Ky. *Oct. 27 at Tennessee St. *Nov. 3 Eastern Ill. *Nov. 10 Tenn.-Martin *Nov. 17 at Austin Peay *

* denotes Ohio Valley Conference game

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Tech’s tennis team began conference play last weekend with wins over Eastern Kentucky University’s Colonels and Morehead State University’s Eagles.

EKU had won 25 consecutive conference matches be-fore going up against Tech Friday. They also won the past three OVC regular seasons in 2009, 2010 and 2011, with con-ference tournament championship wins in 2010 and 2011.

Tech defeated the Colonels 4-3 last Saturday. Senior Justin Kirstein, freshman Alejandro Augusto Bueno and sophomore Vasily Eremeev all won their singles matches. In doubles play, the pairs of Vasily Eremeev and Artem Tarasov, and Justin Kirstein and Alejandro Augusto Bueno won their doubles match.

“The win against Eastern Kentucky was a huge,” Yi-anni Doropoulos, junior tennis player, said. “They’ve won

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Still riding the crest of winning the Ohio Valley Conference championship and making its fi rst appearance in the NCAA FCS Playoffs, the Tech football team has turned its attention to the 2012 season.

And, what a season it will be. Tech faces three tough, non-conference oppo-nents who combined for a 30-9 record last year—including Rose Bowl champion, the University of Oregon—six home games in Tucker Stadium, plus an OVC schedule destined to present challenges every week.

The 11-game Golden Eagle football schedule was announced this week by head coach Watson Brown and Tech Director of Athletics Mark Wilson.

“We need to use that in the right way as a positive, and not with any arrogance, and I’ve seen no signs of that,” Brown said. “It’s been fun with people patting us on the back, but all that is over and we need to put it behind us now.”

Tech opens with back-to-back Thurs-day home games against Hampton Uni-versity and North Greenville University, then faces three consecutive road games atthe University Oregon, Southeast Missouri State University and Murray State Univer-sity.

Other teams scheduled to visit TuckerStadium are OVC foes Jacksonville State University, Eastern Kentucky University,Eastern Illinois University and the Univer-sity of Tennessee at Martin. Tech’s OVC road schedule includes games at Tennes-see State University and Austin Peay StateUniversity, in addition to the early games at SEMO and Murray State.

“The league will be better than lastyear,” Brown said. “I don’t see a weak linkanywhere. All of the quarterbacks are backthis year except one, so all of our defenseshad better get better.”

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the conference the past three years, and we haven’t beaten them for quite a long time.”

Tech took down Morehead State 5-2 Sunday. Junior Syrym Abdukhalikov, senior Alex Chen, Augusto Bueno and Kirstein all won their individual match. In doubles play, the pairs of Eremeev and Tarasov and Kirstein and Augusto Bueno won their doubles match.

“The win against Morehead State was solid,” Doropou-los said. “They’re always tough, but we always manage to pull out a win.”

Augusto Bueno was recognized as the OVC Tennis co-Player of the Week after his efforts against the Colonels and the Eagles. He fi nished with a perfect 4-0 record winning both singles and both doubles matchups. He shared the honor with Jacksonville State’s Nenad Marcec.

Tech is now 5-7 overall and 3-0 in conference play. The 7-0 win marked Tech’s fourth consecutive victory and the

11th straight win over the Racers and kept Tech’s confer-ence record perfect for the season.

“Now that we’ve started OVC, I think everyone is a bitmore focused, and mentally tough, and ready to do what it takes to win,” Doropoulos said.

Tech poured it on Murray State by prevailing in allthree doubles matches, and taking all but one of the singlesmatches in straight sets.

The only exception was Kirstein, who dropped the fi rstset 7-6 in a 7-3 tiebreaker. He bounced back, however, andtook the second set 6-2 and the third set 10-6 to complete the clean sweep for the Golden Eagles.

Tech continues conference play this weekend against Tennessee State University’s Tigers (0-4) at 11 a.m. Satur-day and against Jacksonville State Gamecocks (7-9) at 10a.m. Sunday.

Tennis team posts strong weekend; beats OVC powerhouse EKUBy JUSTIN DUKEBeat Reporter

2012 Tech football schedule releasedTech visits Oregon, SEMO back-to-back; hosts four OVC contests at Tucker TTU SPORTS INFORMATION

(Left) Junior Syrym Abduhkhalikov serves during his second doubles match of the day against Morehead State as specta-tors look on. (Above) Senior Alex Chen waits for a return as his partner, Abduhkhalikov, serves in the background.

“The Hunger Games” is the perfect combina-tion of action and emotion, with a tasteful amount of brutality.

Panem, the ruins of North America, is divided into 12 districts. A boy and girl between the ages of 12 and 18, called tributes, are picked from each of the dis-tricts, in a ceremony called the reaping, to compete in the yearly hunger games. The hunger games force the tributes to fi ght to the death until only one participant remains.

The hunger games are used as punishment for a rebellion and a reminder to the districts that the govern-ment is in control.

Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) lives in poor, outlying District 12. Katniss has to protect and provide for her sister Primrose (Willow Shields) after the death of their father left their mother in a deep depression. Primrose has nightmares of being chosen as one of the district’s trib-utes, and her nightmares turn into a reality at the Reaping for the 74th annual hunger games.

Overwhelmed with the urge to protect her sister, Katniss courageously vol-unteers as tribute. Paired with Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson), Katniss is

thrust into a fi ght for her life.

Based on the fi rst novel of Suzanne Collins’ sci-fi se-ries, “The Hunger Games” moves slowly in the begin-ning. Getting around to the actual games takes an almost uncomfortably long time.

Scenes building up to the reaping and preparing for the hunger games creep by, but the intensity and ac-tion of the latter part of the fi lm outweigh the boredom of the beginning scenes.

The performances of Lawrence and Hutcherson are admirable. Hutcherson’s role in “The Hunger Games” majorly outshines his role in “Journey 2: The Mysterious Island.” Lawrence’s perfor-mance in the more intense and action packed scenes shines, but she lacks emo-tion in the romantic scenes.

Supporting roles were cast well and added what was needed from the char-acters and more.

Woody Harrelson plays the District 12 tributes’ men-tor, Haymitch, and his role of the drunken celebrity is basically fl awless.

Lenny Kravitz portrays Cinna, the stylist for the Tributes. Kravitz, with his already glamorous rock ‘n’ roll reputation, adds the perfect amount of glam to the screen.

The camera movements are jerky a majority of the time, which has the po-

tential to add intensity to scenes, but it comes across as annoying most of the fi lm.

Awkward close ups on some of the actor’s faces seem like a poor attempt at capturing artist shots. With the actor’s face being off center and slightly out of fo-cus, the close ups only man-age to look terribly cliché.

The movie is insanely

intense and fi lled with emo-tion, and it gives high hopes for the future installments.

“The Hunger Games” is rated PG-13 for intense vio-lent thematic material and disturbing images.

By LINDSEY GOREBeat Reporter

fanpopKatniss Everdeen volunteers as tribute for district 12 in place of her sister, Primrose.

“Rot Gut, Domestic,” released March 20, is the latest and most disappoint-ing effort by indie band Margot and the Nuclear So & So’s.

While not completely terrible, the new album pales in comparison to for-mer releases like “Animal!” and “Not Animal” in 2008.

With the release of “Buzzard” in 2010, Margot and the Nuclear So & So’s abandoned the intricate orchestral compositions it had so perfectly produced before and, instead, pur-sued a future in guitar-driven grunge.

“Rot Gut, Domestic” is a continuation of that lazy psych-rock trend, complete with Richard Edwards’ strung-out vocals draped carelessly over distorted guitars.

Among the new re-cord’s best songs is “Frank Left,” which actually does bring back some seeming-ly forgotten elements like light-brushed percussion, acoustic guitar, female

backing vocals and electric piano.

Other strong tracks are “Shannon” and the piano-

driven “Christ.”The album’s mostly-

acoustic fi fth track, “A Journalist Falls in Love

with Deathrow Inmate #16,” is one of the few lyri-cally coherent songs and details a situation similar to that which Truman Capote experienced during the “In Cold Blood” era.

The remaining eight songs on “Rot Gut, Domestic” fl uctuate in in-tensity and energy, but generally remain unim-pressive and forgettable.

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ENTERTAINMENT

Grandma’s Pancake House not only has great pancakes, but specializes in many more breakfast delicacies that are sure to satisfy.

Located on Willow Avenue, near Jackson Plaza, you’ll fi nd this lo-cal eatery open 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. every day of the week.

The service is always friendly, and the chef and customer favorites are

marked on the menu by suns.

My forever favor-ite has been the French toast with hash browns. Making great toast it is an art and Grandma’s Pancake House does it right every time.

The only problem with the place is that the prices are a little high, but appropriate for the qual-ity of the food. It’s not a place I can afford every day, but it’s a nice indul-gence to have every once in a while.

By WILL SHECKLERAsst. Entertainment Editor

Album Review Margot and the Nuclear So & So’s‘Rot Gut, Domestic’

Restaurant Review

Logan’s Rating

With temperatures soaring to seasonably record heights, know-ing how to wear spring clothes during this sum-mer weather is important.

Spring has offi cial-ly sprung and so have the lovely dresses of the season.

Knowing which pat-terns, sleeve lengths and necklines accentuate your personal body shape can make shopping for dress-es easy and fun, instead of stressful and frustrating.

Busty LadiesFor women who are

heavier up top, spaghetti straps and halter tops are just not an option.

With that being said, there are so many alterna-tive options that will let women with this shape enjoy spring dresses. Here are tips to consider when dress shopping:

• Choose a thinner, smaller stripe for dresses

Alternatively, choose thicker, wider straps for dresses to provide support

• Try a pretty neck-line such as sweetheart or a V-neck

• Pick a curve-skim-ming, not clinging dress

Petite and Curvy For women who are

vertically challenged buthave curves, waist ac-centuation is your bestfriend. Luckily, prints andnecklines work to youradvantage. Here are tipsto consider when dress shopping:

• Always, Always,ALWAYS accentuate your waist

• Embrace spandex,but in moderation

• Try a dress with afi tted waist and a full skirt

• Choosing a deli-cate print won’t over-whelm your fi gure

Small on TopFor women who are

small on top, sweetheartnecklines and spaghettistraps can bring attention to your chest.

Not to worry, printsare your redeeming fac-tor. Here are tips for you to consider when dress shopping:

• Choose dresses with fun prints like a zig-zag pattern that gives the illusion of curves

• Try a lower neck-line or halter-top dress toaccentuate the bustline

• Flutter sleeves andruffl es add volume up top

• Dresses with drawstrings help fake curves

By CHRISTINA RIDDLEEntertainment Editor

By LOGAN NICKLESONWeb Editor

Lindsey’s Rating

GoodbeershowMargot and the Nuclear So & So’s release album, “Rot Gut, Domestic.”

‘The Hunger Games’: a brutally delicious, theatrical feast

Spring fever: dresses for your body shape

Grandma’s Pancake House

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NEWS

Tech’s Residential Life is hosting Card-board City from 7 p.m. March 30 to 7 the fol-lowing morning March 31 at the main quad.

Cardboard City, co-hosted by Habitat for Humanity, is an event raising awareness about homelessness and hunger. Proceeds and donations for the event will be split between the Cookeville Rescue Mission and Habitat for Humanity.

Participants in the event will build hous-es out of cardboard boxes and then sleep in the boxes for one night. The event’s slogan is “Sleep in a box for one night for those who sleep in one every night.”

“It’s good that we’re doing this because not every one knows how bad it is,” Kimberly

Manning, Habitat for Humanity president,said. “Even though we’re in Cookeville, thereis still poverty, homelessness and hunger.

“It would just be refreshing for people toknow that college students care about those people and are making an effort to spend atleast one night knowing what it feels like.”

There will be cardboard box decoratingand building competitions, music, dancingand giveaways throughout the night.

Admission for the event includes either acanned good, cash donation or tools. Partici-pants must bring tools to assemble the houses,while some cardboard boxes will be provid-ed.

The fi rst 50 participants will receive a freeT-shirt. Soup and drinks will be provided on afi rst come, fi rst served basis.

By SHELBY MCDONALDBeat Reporter

ResLife, Habitat for Humanity host Cardboard City on Main Quad

ONE-STOP THRIFT SHOP

Students browse through donated clothing at the “Red Bus Project,” held March 27 on campus. The double-decker bus is a mobile thrift store that travels from campus to campus, collecting funds and raising awareness for orphan care through clothing donations and purchases made inside.

Melissa Edwards

Tech’s Department of Exercise Science, Physical Education, and Wellness is want-ing to open a center for kids of all ages in youth sports to learn and thrive in life as a person and a player.

The department has proposed to cre-ate a Center for Positive Youth Sports.

This center will be a platform of aca-demic research and instruction, where solutions for positive youth development will be researched, presented and imple-mented.

“We want to incorporate knowledge and leadership in both the practitioners and participators in youth sports,” Michael Phillips, assistant EXPW professor, said. “Winning is not what we want to teach,

we want to teach our youth skills and how to incorporate those skills in life and as a person.”

The proposition for the CPYS has passed through the College of Education and has been approved by President Bob Bell.

The proposal was submitted to the Tennessee Board of Regents for review and is awaiting approval.

The center will be on campus and op-erated in conjunction with the EXPW de-partment, and is being developed to bring a new aspect for youth sports in the Put-nam County community.

For more information, visit Tech’s De-partment of Exercise Science, Physical Ed-ucation, and Wellness’ website at tntech.edu/expw/.

By DREW ELLERBeat Reporter

EXPW proposes youth sports center

The Student Council for Exceptional Children will host Speak Up, a rally that promotes disability aware-ness, March 31.

The rally is scheduled to take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Tech’s campus at Memorial Gym.

According to Katherine Cox, president of SCEC, the purpose of this rally is to raise money for disability awareness, as well as rais-ing awareness about how discriminating words affect people.

“I just hope people lis-ten to what our speakers have to say and how their words can affect people,”

By NICK ROLLINSAsst. Managing Editor

Speak Up rally to raise disability, discrimination awareness

Cox said. “Sometimes you don’t know about people around you, so you never know who can be offend-ed.”

At the event there will be many guest speakers, in-cluding Darius Weems, star of the documentary “Darius Goes West.” The documen-tary is about Weems, who has Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

In 2005, he traveled throughout the U.S. to pro-mote awareness of Duch-enne muscular dystrophy and to raise money for fi nd-ing a cure.

“We wanted a speaker that could relate to what our event is all about,” Cox said. “We couldn’t think of a better person to come

speak on behalf of people with disabilities than Dari-us Weems.”

According to Cox, in addition to the guest speak-ers, there will be children’sactivities, food, door prizes and a silent auction.

“It will be a fun, laid-back atmosphere, but it will be for a great cause,” Cox said.

All of the proceeds go towards Pacesetters, a not for profi t organization thatprovides services for adults and children with develop-mental disabilities, and the Independence Program atTech.

For more information,contact Cox at speakupral-ly@gmail.com.

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