Pamela Holder, an associate professor in the MTSU School of Nursing and the former director of the statewide Regents Online Degree Program, was sentenced to a year a day in prison last Friday for her part in a multimillion dollar mortgage scheme.
Holder was convicted for bank and wire fraud charges during a trial in April and was originally indicted on four counts for executing a material scheme with intent to defraud and obtain funds from the Bank of Nashville and First Tennessee Bank, as well as obtaining loan proceeds for personal benefit through false pretenses.
Campus organizations, including the NAACP and Intercultural and Diversity Affairs, brought speakers Monday to discuss the current social standing of blacks in America, both in and out of college.
Omega Psi Phi and the Black History Month Committee also sponsored the event, bringing Jeff Reid, who is the executive producer of CNN’s “Black in America” documentaries, and independent filmmaker Reggie Bullock.
Following catastrophic damage from tornadoes last April, residents of Murfreesboro are gathering to restore the Murfreesboro Greenway System close to its original splendor.
In addition to three-dozen homes, and an estimated $40 million worth of destruction to residential property and local businesses, the Greenway also suffered critical damage – damage that can still be seen today.
Pi Sigma Epsilon, MTSU’s professional business fraternity, is hosting its second annual Pink Pancake Breakfast to build awareness and raise money for the Tennessee Breast Cancer Coalition, from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. Saturday at O’Charley’s.
The fraternity that focuses on marketing and management is partnering with Students in Free Enterprise, the Murfreesboro Girl Scouts and Heritage Farms Dairy to host this event for the non-profit organization dedicated to eradicating breast cancer.
The Young Americans for Liberty presented the latest Ben Stewart film, “Kymatica,” Tuesday night, and will be showing it again tonight and tomorrow night in Room 113 of the Business and Aerospace Building at 7 p.m.
“I don’t know what to say, except it is awesome,” said Micheal Hecker, a member of YAL.
Crime Briefs for Nov. 16, 2009.
MT Lambda Association and Amnesty International are hosting two events to discuss civil rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students on Nov. 18.
MTSU chapters of Lambda Association, a gay-straight alliance organization, and Amnesty International, a human rights organization, are working together to host a week of events, including a lecture by Cat Stevens, an LGBT activist from San Francisco and a screening of the movie “Pedro.
MTSU’s Veterans Memorial Committee celebrated its 28th annual Salute to Armed Forces Day on Saturday with a ceremony to honor the completion of its veterans memorial wall outside of the Tom H. Jackson building.
Robyn Kilpatrick, a member of the committee, said the memorial was the idea of Andrei Korobkov, an associate professor of the political science department.
A unified effort of two student organizations brought together a transgender panel on Wednesday to give attendees a brief look into the difficulties that transgender people have during their transition.
The panel, which was jointly hosted by MT Lambda Association and MTSU’s Amnesty International, featured five speakers of various stages of transition.
Bakari Kitwana, author of “The Hip-Hop Generation” and “Why White Kids Love Hip-Hop,” urged students to take an active role in shaping politics and economic policy during a lecture in the Business and Aerospace Building’s State Farm Room Thursday night.
“Economically, more and more young people have enough things in common that they can organize around,” Kitwana said.
