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MTSU student protesters join hands outside of Forrest Hall after their final protest of the semester on Monday, November 11, 2015 (MTSU Sidelines/Meagan White).

MTSU President Sidney McPhee, representatives to testify for name change of Forrest Hall before Tennessee Historical Commission

Angele Latham | Editor In Chief February 15, 2018

Photo by Meagan White / MTSU Sidelines Archive MTSU President Sidney McPhee and other MTSU representatives will be testifying before the Tennessee Historical Commission on Friday in hopes that the commission...

Video: 2018 gubernatorial candidate Diane Black explains political platform, describes qualifications to lead Tennessee

Video: 2018 gubernatorial candidate Diane Black explains political platform, describes qualifications to lead Tennessee

Angele Latham | Editor In Chief February 14, 2018

Photo and video by Caleb Revill / Assistant News Editor Diane Black, a 2018 gubernatorial candidate, visited Middle Tennessee State University on Monday to speak with Sidelines about her vision for the...

Tennessee Press Association hosts gubernatorial candidate forum in Nashville

Tennessee Press Association hosts gubernatorial candidate forum in Nashville

Sidelines February 3, 2018

Photo by Andrew Wigdor, Editor-in-Chief Story by Andrew Wigdor , Editor-in-Chief and Caleb Revill, Assistant News Editor The Tennessee Press Association hosted a gubernatorial candidate forum in which...

Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam spoke on Friday, January 9 at Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville. Haslam spoke on "Tennessee Promise," an initiative to provide free community college to Tennesseans. (Greg French/MTSU Sidelines)

Gov. Bill Haslam announces ‘TN Together’ plan to combat opioid epidemic in Tennessee

Angele Latham | Editor In Chief January 24, 2018

Photo by Gregory French / MTSU Sidelines Archive Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam announced an "aggressive" and comprehensive plan to end the opioid crisis in Tennessee on Monday. The $30 million plan, titled...

Campus Free Speech Protection Act: A look at the new law in effect

Angele Latham | Editor In Chief January 10, 2018

Photo by Sarah Grace Taylor / Sidelines Archive  As the new year rolled in, so did new free speech protections for students and faculty on campuses across Tennessee. On May 9, 2017, Gov. Bill Haslam...

Trump rally Nashville

Recent MTSU survey shows low percentage of Tennesseans trust Trump, lower percentage trust mainstream media

Photo by Sarah Grace Taylor / News Reporter According to a recent survey conducted by the MTSU Office of Consumer Research, low percentages of Tennesseans trust government representatives, such as President...

IMPROVE Act to increase gas tax by six cents, prioritize 962 transportation projects

IMPROVE Act to increase gas tax by six cents, prioritize 962 transportation projects

Photo by Andrew Wigdor / News Editor Gov. Bill Haslam's IMPROVE Act, which went into effect on July 1, will assist in the prioritization of 962 Tennessee transportation projects over the next 15 years,...

Gov. Bill Haslam welcomes the grand opening of the new science building at MTSU on Oct. 15.

Photo by Bing-Nan Li.

AP: Haslam shakeup of public universities gains final approval

CIM Digital April 4, 2016

Story by Erik Schelzig  // Associated Press | Photo by Bing-Nan Li // Sidelines Archive Republican Gov. Bill Haslam's plan to spin off four-year public universities from the Tennessee Board of Regents...

President Barack Obama announced a plan on Friday, January 9 during a speech at Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville. "America's College Promise" will provide free community college education across the country if approved by Congress. (Greg French/MTSU Sidelines)

Photo Gallery: President Obama announces “America’s College Promise”

CIM Digital January 10, 2015

President Barack Obama announced a plan during a speech at Pellissippi State Community College on Friday, January 9 to provide free community college to students across the country. Students would be...

President Barack Obama spoke on Friday, Januray 9 at Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville, Tennessee on a proposal for free community college education. (Greg French/MTSU Sidelines)

President Obama arrives in Knoxville, announces “America’s College Promise”

CIM Digital January 9, 2015

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden visited Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville on Friday to announce "America's College Promise," a plan to provide free community college...

President Obama Arrives in Knoxville

President Obama Arrives in Knoxville

CIM Digital January 9, 2015

President Barack Obama is in Knoxville to speak at Pellissippi State Community College where he will unveil his new initiative to provide two years of community college tuition for free. The president...

Dignitaries at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for MTSU's new Science Building on Wednesday morning.

Photo by Max Smith
MTSU Sidelines
News Editor

Gov. Bill Haslam, President McPhee Open New Science Building

CIM Digital October 15, 2014

On Wednesday morning, more than three hundred people gathered in the atrium of the new Science Building for the ribbon-cutting ceremony during the building's grand opening. Among those present were MTSU...

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