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Letter to the Editor
As an alumna of UTM, and one of the founding members of the Black History Matters Coalition, I can and will say that Jenniffer Greene’s statement, “ Barber made it clear to me that he was more qualified than members of the black faculty to address the needs of black students and that he made…
Read MoreFaculty and alumni respond to People for Black History
Story by Shannon Taylor, Senior Investigative Reporter A few weeks ago, the group “People for Black History” (PFBH) demanded action from UTM’s faculty senate to condemn what they coined “recently enacted White Supremacist education laws” that the group claimed banned teaching critical race theory in Tennessee and prohibited higher education from taking certain actions regarding…
Read MorePeople for Black History at UTM collaborates with UTM Student Government on resolution
Story by Shannon Taylor, Senior Investigative Reporter David Mason, Senior at UTM and representative for the newly formed campus organization ‘People for Black History’, says that the group has been petitioning at UTM for the last several weeks to demand action from the faculty senate in condemning the “two recently enacted White supremacist “education” laws…
Read MoreUnknown person sends mass email threat to UTM students
Story by Shannon Taylor Senior Investigative Reporter UTM students received an alarming email Wednesday morning, March 1 from a former student. An offensive email reply to an announcement sent out about a Google account policy change was sent out to UTM students. IT services responded with, “IT Services has notified UTM Public Safety and provided…
Read MoreMissing woman found safe in Weakley County
Story by Senior Investigative Reporter Shannon Taylor The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) and Metro Nashville Police Department put out a silver alert for Nancy Griffith on Nov. 1. The alert said that Griffith, an 89-year-old woman from Davidson County, suffered from Alzheimer’s and was last seen around 2:30 p.m. in the area of Highway…
Read MoreRonald McDonald House gets boost from ADPi
Story by Senior Investigative Reporter Shannon Taylor The University of Tennessee at Martin’s Alpha Delta Phi (ADPi) chapter has partnered with the Martin McDonalds to do a fundraiser for the Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) chapter in Memphis. ADPi’s philanthropy states, “From the time of our founding, Alpha Delta Pi has believed in the importance…
Read MorePETA protests UTM Board of Trustees meeting over ‘pig mutilation’
Story by Senior Investigative Reporter Shannon Taylor The University of Tennessee has not operated on live pigs since 2018 when Robert C. Fore, interim dean for the medical school at UT, said that the college would no longer use live pigs to teach surgical skills to students and instead use simulators of human bodies that…
Read MoreA trip to Italy: lost in Florence
By Ethan Tester Special to The Press A partnership between the University of Tennessee at Martin and the Dante Alighieri Society in Siena, Italy, has made it possible for UTM students to take part in an ongoing study abroad program. Six students through Dr. Jeff Longacre’s “Creative Non-Fiction: Travel Writing” class are a part of…
Read MoreESPN hires Ryan Leaf as analyst
By Randy Cavin Press Sports Editor Former NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf is a good example of how a person can go from the bottom of the barrel into turning his life around for the good of others as well as himself. Leaf went from playing in the Rose Bowl to becoming a Heisman Trophy finalist,…
Read MoreRyan Leaf speaks to UTM audience about his troubled past
By Randy Cavin Press Sports Editor There was a time Ryan Leaf had it all and now he is trying to get a bit of it back and give some to others. The 43-year-old Leaf was at Watkins Auditorium on the campus of UT Martin and spoke to several hundred people in attendance Friday afternoon…
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