Leaders at the school claim this decision is not a political one. Right.
Campus Reform reports:
U. Memphis football team to wear ‘BLM’ helmet decals
Memphis University Tigers football head coach Ryan Silverfield announced in a Tuesday tweet that his team...
Samantha wrote about the spike in anti-Jewish violence in the wake of George Floyd’s death. It has not stopped.
Someone sprayed anti-Semitic messages on a bedsheet and spread it over the Nashville Holocaust Memorial at the Gordon Jewish Community Center on Saturday during the Jewish Sabbath.
Today’s Wuhan Coronavirus update will start with a brief review of failed press narratives concerning President Donald Trump’s handling of the national emergency.
Law enforcement in Johnson City, Tennessee, responded this week to a possible hate crime. Someone carved the words ‘white pride’ into the sidewalk in front of a black-owned gym. Ultimately, a suspect was arrested.
Oddly enough, the person who was arrested is a woman of color.
A retired NYPD detective in Nashville said a woman punched him at his birthday party over his MAGA style birthday hat.
Republicans would be wise to start pushing this more aggressively in more states. If only as push back to what is happening in Virginia.
Campus Reform reports:
This state could be next to pull the trigger on campus carry
Students in Tennessee may soon be able to conceal carry on campus if a bill...
This is being done by the school’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion. Anyone surprised?
The Vanderbilt Hustler reports:
University holds unconscious bias trainings for high-level administr...
Luckily, wildlife experts rescued the bear, and it was unharmed.
FOX 17 in Nashville reports:
TWRA: Bear stuck inside University of Tennessee baseball stadium rescued
A 200 lb sow black bear made its way through the University of Tennessee campus before getting stuck inside the Vols’ baseball stadium early Sunday morning.
The Tennessee Wildlife Resources...
The drama continues within the chicken sandwich wars!
A Tennessee man sued Popeyes for running out of its popular new chicken sandwich. He accused the fast-food restaurant of false advertising and deceptive business practice. He complained the shortage caused him to waste his time because he had to drive...
How cool is this? Vanderbilt University found a flag missing for years that served as the backdrop during MLK and RFK speeches. From The Tennessean:
More than 50 Reserve Officers Training Corps staff and students gathered in the Library Lawn at Vanderbilt University to unfold a 150 foot American flag.
The flag once...
On January 7, 2007, Channon Christian, 21, and Christopher Newsom, 23, were kidnapped, beaten, tortured, raped, and murdered in one of the most heart-wrenching and purely evil crimes in my memory. The fifth person to be tried in relation to these heinous crimes was found guilty Tuesday, August...
Another one bites the dust. This is happening at a rate of two or three per month now.
WATE News reports:
Students grappling with next moves as Hiwassee College set to close at end of semester
Hiwassee College will close at the end of the spring 2019 semester due to financial reasons.
According to a...
Free tuition is a misleading term. Shouldn’t it really be called taxpayer-funded tuition?
The Hill reports:
University of Tennessee announces free tuition for lower-income students
The University of Tennessee will begin providing free tuition to students from low-income families, the school’s president announced Thursday.
The Associated Press reported the university’s interim president Randy Boyd as...
The very concept of isolating free speech to certain areas is insulting. We need more representatives to speak up in this way.
Campus Reform reports:
Congressman breathes fresh air into campus free speech debate ahead of Trump’s exec. order
Rep. Phil Roe (R-Tenn.) is seeking to remove free speech zones on college campuses with...
Now that schools are folding and downsizing on a weekly basis, some of this lavish spending on frivolous events may come to an end.
Campus Reform reports:
REPORT: UT spent over 100k in student fees on ‘Sex Week’ since 2013
A new report by the Tennessee Comptroller’s Office reveals the University of Tennessee spent...
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) announced today that he will not seek re-election for a fourth term in 2020. From Politico:
“The people of Tennessee have been very generous, electing me to serve more combined years as governor and senator than anyone else from our state. I am deeply grateful, but now it...
The heart-wrenching, tragic final hours of Channon Christian (21) and Christopher Newsom (23) haunt me even today, almost twelve years after they endured an almost incomprehensible level of abuse, rape, and torture before finally dying at the hands of their brutal killers.
