Monday, September 14

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Campus News, Faculty, Music

Dean Diehl Leaving Trevecca To Go Back To Provident Music Group


by Stephen Rudge The director of Trevecca’s music business program is headed back to the label where he worked for 20 years before going full time in the class room. Dean Diehl will become Senior Vice President of Provident Music Group, effective at the end of the semester. Provident is a division of Sony Music Entertainment focusing primarily on Christian music. (more…)
Brittany Eller Spikes Tumor
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Brittany Eller Spikes Tumor

By Tyler Comer Brittany Eller is making her way back to the court after being diagnosed with a benign brain tumor. Last season, Eller, junior, was one of the best players on the Trojan’s volleyball team, leading the team in kills and total attack attempts. However, at the conclusion of the season not all was well. “After Thanksgiving, I started noticing my hair was thinning out, I was having three to four headaches a day that lasted for three to four hours at a time,” Eller said. When the symptoms didn’t subside, Eller chose to see a doctor and was then referred to a neurologist who, after an MRI and other tests, diagnosed her with a benign brain tumor in the pituitary gland on her brain. After receiving the news, Eller attempted to continue playing volleyball only to find that physic...
How safe is Trevecca?
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How safe is Trevecca?

By Brennen Finchum & Justin Cockrell In the summer of 2006, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department got a call that there were two armed men in Benson Hall. It was while Trevecca was hosting a singing group with a couple hundred guests on campus. One family was staying in Benson when their son ran into the room and said there were two men with guns in the hallway. The mother immediately dialed 911. Metro police then notified campus security. Norm Robinson, chief of security, said he told one of his employees at the time that it was probably some students playing assassins, a game where students dress up in black and shoot people with a non-lethal gun (airsoft, water, Nerf, etc.). (more…)
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ASB officer bios; Kristin Lester

ASB officer bios Name:  Kristin Lester Position:  Director of Student Services Age:  20 Major:  Applied Mathematics Hometown:  Tulsa, OK How should students contact you? The best way to contact me would probably be to send me an email (kalester@mail.trevecca.edu), to message me on Facebook, or to find me on campus! (more…)
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Lent: self-examination and repentance

By Brennen Finchum Coffee for water. Facebook for real conversations. TV time for prayer time. No more snooze button. These are some examples of how Trevecca students are disciplining themselves right now in preparation for Easter. Lent is a time when Christians fast as part of self-examination and repentance in order to prepare for celebrating the resurrection. (more…)
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A closer look at “Ring By Spring”

By Katie O’Connell Nationwide, the overall number of marriages has been decreasing, but you might not think so if you go to Trevecca, where the paper features newly-engaged couples and the very president of the college references it at freshman orientation. (more…)