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The fact that the Suntrust Room in the Business and Aerospace Building was largely empty during the Student Government Association candidate debates on Feb. 22 really wasn’t very surprising.  After all, the few people in the room either felt a ...

By: the Sidelines Editorial Board

A room full of eager listeners awaits audience with one of the founding sisters of American feminism. Suddenly, a radio segment with Gina Logue is the only thing left to remind you that you are even here to see Gloria Steinem....

By: Nate Bernardini

Having English as a first language is by no means a negative attribute. However, according to the U.S. English Foundation, there are 322 languages spoken in America and only 1 percent or more of all Americans can speak two or more of these. We are not nec...

By: Pearl Howell

Last summer, my family and I went on a vacation to Florida.  We stayed on the beach for a few days, visited several theme parks, attended a dinner theater, bought a ridiculous amount of souvenirs and ate some incredible foreign food.  One of the...

By: Sidney McPhee

By now, most of the campus community is aware that the university has accepted the applications of 122 MTSU employees who decided to participate in our Voluntary Buyout Program. While we are pleased with the response to this program, we recognize that the...

By: the Sidelines Editorial Board

There are four candidates running for the role of president of the Student Government Association, and we want to see them take a clear stance on some hard-hitting issues MTSU is facing....

By: Jay Bailey

The story of MTSU’s financial crisis has been unfolding for quite a while now and has taken many interesting turns. With college restructuring and faculty buyouts taking place, the budget cuts have kept faculty and staff members on their toes....

By: Paul Bernardini

Exploration is absolutely the pinnacle step in a country’s onward pursuit for developing new technologies, maintaining a distinguished presence on the international stage, and ensuring advancements for the future....

By: the Sidelines Editorial Board

With a student population as big as MTSU’s, crime is going to happen. There’s simply no way to prevent it all....

By: B.E. Meadows

Man, Sarah Palin sure has changed in the last few years....

By: Kenny Torrella

Thank you for the feature on the new bakery in Murfreesboro, Get Sconed (“Locals go home, ‘Get Sconed,’ Sidelines, Feb. 3)....

By: Guy Anderson

It seems that it has always been the case: People hold interpersonal behaviors to a general standard that their society upholds, and those that do not fit these standards are usually ostracized from whatever society that holds them....

By: the Sidelines Editorial Board

In the midst of all of the superfluous services, amenities and buildings that we, as students, have been recently forced to pay for, and with the recent buyout situation, it comes as a complete shock that MTSU is spending such a large sum on the removal o...

By: Jessica Harris

How often do you look up and see or hear your race’s voice equally represented in the media? For some, it may not be that often or almost never....

By: Richard E. Morris

I commend Nate Bernadini for his thought-provoking column on language translation (“Specifics within languages sometimes lost in translation,” Sidelines, Feb. 18).  Nate is absolutely right about the inherent imprecision in translating fr...

By: Kevin J. Donovan

I enjoyed Scott Henry’s piece on the perennial problem of students shuffling papers, books, etc. with five minutes of class time remaining (“Be patient, wait five more minutes,” Sidelines, Feb. 18). The best words on the subject that I&r...

By: Nader Hobballah

Israeli Defense Forces Reservist Ronny Simon came to MTSU on Jan. 28, to present a history of Israel. Before starting, Simon stated that he would be as objective as possible and present only things that could be proven as fact.   His presentation, th...

By: Nate Bernadini

“Enthnologue,” an encyclopedia that categorizes all the languages in today’s world, is currently working with a list of 6,909 languages. Even though it is impossible for us to understand all of them, many of us are still curious to know ...

By: Scott Henry

Before I approach the point, allow me to offer a little perspective.   At age 31, I’m a junior in college for the second time. My first attempt was at Purdue University in my hometown of West Lafayette, Ind.   During my first semester ther...

By: Jay Johnson

I am writing to let you know about an issue that I think needs discussing.  The amount of sexual abuse that is allowed to happen to women in the military is appalling and more attention needs to be made to this issue.   There is a Facebook group...