President Barack Obama discussed plans for boosting the American economy, job creation, and better education and opportunities for students Tuesday night during the annual State of the Union address.

"The state of our union is getting stronger," Obama said. "And we've come too far to turn back now.

As campus enrollment grows, more construction projects are beginning to materialize, leaving students frustrated as they fight for parking.  President Sidney McPhee and Parking and Transportation Services Assistant Vice President of events and transportation Ron Malone explain the importance of the new changes on campus.

The 2012 presidential race steadily gains momentum as the Republican primary candidates separate themselves apart from one another, while President Barack Obama's campaign lies dormant.

Hidden among an overlapping white blanket of cotton fields, down a red Georgia-clay dirt road, a white wooden farmhouse sits next to a pond shriveledinto a crater of dried dirt puzzle pieces. Lodged beside a 6-foot-high white dock, sits an old, rusted, pine green two-man boat.  Once used by a loving family man for lazy days of fishing for spike-finned perch and long-whiskered catfish, now a relic, abandoned and forgotten.

The music industry is a farm. It's a cold and muddy affair where the favorite cows stay fat and the milking's done early. Rows and rows of pop hits sprout like indiscriminate stalks of indiscriminate produce, despite an apparent drought.

Many of you may know the Tumblr blog, "Yo, is this racist?" For those of you who aren't Tumblr-savvy, the creator of this blog fields questions from average people who ask if certain aspects of their lives are racist or not.

Of course, parking is terrible. Presumably by design the situation on campus is simply awful and continues to degrade every semester– lots are systematically closed either entirely or at least to students because I can only imagine that buses aren't cheap and neither was the Rutherford lot. 

The eyes of those committed to the progression of LGBT rights will be on the state of Tennessee this legislative session. Due to a Republican majority in the Tennessee General Assembly, we have seen a major regression when it comes to reaching equality in this state.