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Security guard talks Denver Broncos and professional football on podcast

21Feb

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Security guard talks Denver Broncos and professional football on podcast

By Wes Sharpe Staff Writer Photo courtesy of Isaiah Henderson Isaiah Henderson has been serving and protecting the Trevecca community for over a year as a member of the security team. But when he’s not on campus patrolling, he spends his time podcasting about his favorite NFL team, the Denver Broncos. “I started off podcasting doing an online ministry and had the tools set up. I had the idea to launch this podcast with [Jonny Baki], and we have been doing it for a little over two years now,” said Henderson. The podcast is called “Nothing Rhymes Podcast,” which he co-hosts with his best friend, Johnny Baki. Both friends are huge fans of the Denver Broncos and decided to share their passion with the world. “This podcast has made it possible for us to create new friends who...

Trevecca biology student wins national award for cancer research

21Feb

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Trevecca biology student wins national award for cancer research

By Abigail Allen Staff Writer Photo courtesy of Allie Blount With excitement, Allie Blount, junior biology major, hopped off the plane at LAX last November—no doubt with a dream and a cardigan—with months of research and experimental data she had gathered in a laboratory. She was on her way to present her findings to a panel of medical experts and biologists at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists research conference. Blount became the first Trevecca student to win the “Research Excellence Award for Cancer Biology” for her research. “I have never won an award like this. This is my first time doing research on a national scale,” said Blount. Blount was among seven undergraduate students in a summe...

New dorm with several amenities will open in fall of 2023

20Feb

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New dorm with several amenities will open in fall of 2023

By Emily Gibson Staff Writer Photo courtesy of Trevecca Marketing A new dorm that will house nearly 300 male and female students is on track to finish on time and budget to open in fall 2023. “We have talked about doing this for years and the need to do this for years, so it’s wonderful to see it come to pass,” said Ronda Lilienthal, associate dean of students for residential life. The new 112,000 square feet residence hall is the first dorm to be built on campus since Benson Hall was constructed in 1974 and will be open to students who have completed 50 or more credit hours by the end of this semester. The residence hall features seven floors with apartment-style rooms; a lobby space on each floor; six study rooms; a rooftop terrace with ...

Tutoring center working to meet the needs of students

20Feb

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Tutoring center working to meet the needs of students

By Lauren Steinbok Staff Writer Parker McClellan took Chemistry II in the spring of his freshman year. Up until then, he had been getting good grades, despite missing out on the last couple years of high school. He got back a test that he made a “C” on and thought he could probably benefit from tutoring. “It kind of freaked me out,” said McClellan. “I wanted to actually figure out what was going on. So, I started to get individual tutoring.” Photo by Miriam Rixon Experts call it “the COVID generation.” Essentially, this year’s freshman class missed nearly two years of in person high school classes because of the pandemic. Now, colleges around the county, including Trevecca, are finding ways to help them catch up and succeed at the college level. “Virtual learning...

Trevecca students waiting for Supreme Court hearings concerning the federal student loan debt relief program

17Feb

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Trevecca students waiting for Supreme Court hearings concerning the federal student loan debt relief program

By Abigail Allen Staff Writer Photo by Claire Anderson Trevecca students with federal loans, like senior elementary education student Bethany Maynard, are waiting to hear whether a plan by the Biden administration to forgive those loans will happen. President Biden’s student loan debt relief program has been blocked by courts due to multiple lawsuits against the program. The Supreme Court will hear arguments in February about the legality of the program. Six states—Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and South Carolina— asserted that the Biden Administration overstepped its authority with the program, claiming that it would take away states’ future tax revenue. Other individuals also filed lawsuits against the program. “I was a little bit disappointed because, onc...

New clubs offer students opportunities for community

16Feb

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New clubs offer students opportunities for community

By Sol Ayala Online Media Writer K-pop Club during Club Rush - photo courtesy of K-pop Club Photo courtesy of Lightsaber Club Trevecca students had four new clubs to choose from this year: table- top club, Trevecca full gospel, neuros, lightsaber club and K-pop club. Campus now boasts 24 active clubs for students to find community. Diversity among campus clubs has been growing over the past few semesters, with several making their official debut last fall at Club Rush. The lightsaber club is a unique new club formed out of the mutual passion for the Star Wars movie series as members find community through lightsaber fighting. Sophomore Nathan Tramel is the lightsaber club president, and junior Aaron Margerum is vice-president, or as they like to call themsel...

Trevecca men’s basketball player’s high school jersey number retired

16Feb

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Trevecca men’s basketball player’s high school jersey number retired

By David Elvir Senior Sports Writer Photo courtesy Gus Davenport Photo courtesy Gus Davenport Gus Davenport’s jersey was retired from Cannon County High School after leaving with record numbers. Davenport, a 6-5 guard from Woodbury, Tenn., was recognized by his high school with his jersey retirement, a practice done once an important figure in their team leaves. Davenport, or “Mr. Basketball” as recognized by the TSSAA, left as the all-time leading scorer in Cannon County history with 2,130 career points, making him the only player on the men’s team to surpass 2,000 career points. Davenport broke the school’s career scoring record (1,719) on a night in which he bagged a single-game scoring record 52 points. In that game, he also had a single-quarter...

Non-traditional chapel services offered for personalized chapel experience

15Feb

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Non-traditional chapel services offered for personalized chapel experience

By Mia Agee Copyeditor In the four years Erik Gernand has served as the university chaplain at Trevecca, almost every semester has been “non-traditional.” Since last school year, he has been dreaming up creative ways for students to gain chapel credit other than the “worship and word” structure they are accustomed to. Prior to this semester, there were few to none non-traditional ways for students to gain chapel credit, said Gernand. Now students will have several opportunities for credit through dialog series, small group discussions, a service project, and a movie night for Black History Month. Out of the 52 chapel opportunities for this semester, 17 do not include a typical worship chapel service. Three or four of these scheduled chapels will be small group discussions...

University responding to ‘Covid gap’ as more freshmen face academic probation this semester

14Feb

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University responding to ‘Covid gap’ as more freshmen face academic probation this semester

By Grace Beckner Editor-in-Chief Students who spent nearly one-third of their critical high school years impacted by a global pandemic have just finished their first semester of college. As universities across the United States begin to wrestle with what this “learning loss” means, Trevecca is finding itself facing an increase in freshmen on academic probation. “There are students that come to me and say, ‘I don’t feel like I’m prepared for college. I don’t feel like my high school prepared me for college,’” said Michelle Gaertner, associate dean of student success. “So I get individual conversations with students like that.” The National Assessment of Educational Progress reported declines in American students’ knowledge and widening gaps between the highest and ...

Campus adjusts to library closure due to flooding

14Feb

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Campus adjusts to library closure due to flooding

By Michelle Loria and Grace Poole Staff Writers Photo courtesy of Trevecca Marketing Waggoner Library will likely be closed the rest of the semester after a burst pipe flooded parts of the building over Christmas break. The closed space, which included a coffee shop, has limited places students have on campus to study and hang out, but Trevecca President Dan Boone said administration is working with the insurance company and contractors to get the space fixed, and possibly even reconfigured to better serve students. “We’re doing a significant study to see if we’re going to reconfigure the library for student use,” he said. Some of the questions Boone said his team is asking include exploring if there is a way to do a better set up for the coffee...