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‘Sidelines’ 2024: A year in review

Bailey Brantingham, Managing editor December 15, 2024
A collective list of the most important Sidelines stories to come out of 2024.
MTSU President Sidney McPhee joined the joint Senate-Freshman Council meeting on Oct. 3, 2024, and took questions from SGA members. (Photo by Siri Reynolds)

Sidney McPhee discusses Forrest Hall with SGA: ‘We have not given up’

Jenene Grover October 4, 2024

Feature photo by Siri Reynolds Story by Siri Reynolds MTSU President Sidney McPhee addressed questions from Student Government Association members about Forrest Hall, faculty salaries, and other...

Tennessee Historical Commission once again denies MTSU waiver to rename Forrest Hall

Tennessee Historical Commission once again denies MTSU waiver to rename Forrest Hall

Noah McLane, Lead news reporter June 26, 2024
The Tennessee Historical Commission denied Middle Tennessee State University’s petition for a waiver that would allow the University to rename Forrest Hall on Friday, June 21, making this the university’s second failed attempt to change the name in accordance with Tennessee state law.
Tennessee Historical Commission’s hearing on Forrest Hall delayed until June

Tennessee Historical Commission’s hearing on Forrest Hall delayed until June

Noah McLane April 27, 2024

Featured photo via Sidelines Archives Story by Noah McLane If you want more news like this, sign up for the Sidelines weekly newsletter here! Find it in your inbox every Thursday afternoon. The Forrest...

Sign of MTSU Forrest Hall with creation date (Taken by Noah McLane)

MTSU students to speak at Tennessee Historical Commission meeting about Forrest Hall

Alyssa Williams February 13, 2024

Featured Photo from Noah McLane Story by Noah McLane MTSU students will give public comment Friday, April, 19 at a Tennessee Historical Commission meeting in regard to MTSU’s appeal of a state law...

MTSU is renewing efforts to change the name of Forrest Hall. Photo by Noah McLane.

MTSU has initial hearing with Tennessee Historical Commission in second attempt to rename Forrest Hall

Kailee Shores October 24, 2023

Featured Photo by Noah McLane Story by Noah McLane Middle Tennessee State University continued its efforts to change the name of Forrest Hall Friday morning, Oct. 20, with an initial hearing in...

MTSU is renewing efforts to change the name of Forrest Hall. Photo by Noah McLane.

Why, in 2023, does MTSU still have a building named after a Confederate icon?

Kailee Shores September 1, 2023

Story and photo by Noah McLane Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general in the American Civil War, still holds a presence at Middle Tennessee State University as long as his name remains on the...

Renaming Forrest Hall: An Update

Renaming Forrest Hall: An Update

Matthew Giffin July 22, 2022

Story by Matthew Giffin | News Editor Four years after the Tennessee Historical Commission denied Middle Tennessee State University’s request to change the name of a building dedicated to the Confederate...

Board Backs McPhee in Renaming Forrest Hall

Board Backs McPhee in Renaming Forrest Hall

CIM Digital September 16, 2021

On Tuesday, the Middle Tennessee State University Board of Trustees voted unanimously to "support efforts to gain permission from the state" to remove Nathan Forrest's name from MTSU's ROTC building,...

MTSU Community Supports Sidelines Request for Renaming of Forrest Hall

MTSU Community Supports Sidelines Request for Renaming of Forrest Hall

CIM Digital September 6, 2021

Photo via Pexels For decades, Sidelines, students and the faculty of Middle Tennessee State University have fought for equality and equity for African American students. In 1968, Sidelines published...

The Klu Klux Klan marching on the Murfreesboro Square on July 4, 1987. (Photo published in Sidelines on July 9, 1987)

Persecution and progress: A look at Rutherford County’s troubled past of hate crimes, racism

Sidelines April 18, 2019

Story by Madeline Quinby / Studio M  History shows Murfreesboro and Rutherford County, Tennessee, are not strangers to hate crime. From when the Ku Klux Klan first came to Murfreesboro in 1868 to a planned...

Tennessee Historical Commission denies MTSU’s petition to rename Forrest Hall

Tennessee Historical Commission denies MTSU’s petition to rename Forrest Hall

CIM Digital February 17, 2018

Photo by Sarah Grace Taylor  / MTSU Sidelines Archive  After a rigorous hearing in the William R. Snodgrass Building in Nashville on Friday, the Tennessee Historical Commission voted to deny MTSU’s...

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