Stephen Yeargin

In a little under 10 hours, we will be well on our way back to Martin, Tenn. for my fraternity‘s Family Day celebration. The trip is mostly for business, but it is always a good chance to see how the dynamics of an organization change after a few years away. A single year is a [...]

Fall weekends are notoriously busy. I had been looking forward to heading back to Martin for homecoming for about a month or two. I serve on my college fraternity‘s Alumni & Volunteer Corporation, so the focus of the day trip was to make it for our annual meeting. We also met with the Communications Department [...]

One of the reasons I am proud of my degree (even when I share a joke or two at its expense) is because the curriculum centers around the emerging Internet medium. I just received a message from our department chairman by way of the Alumni Affairs office. Dear UTM Communications alumni, I would like to [...]

We are heading to UT Martin’s homecoming game in early October. While watching a Skyhawk football game is reason enough for the trip, I have some other matters to tend to while in town. The plan is to rent a car to make the 200 mile trip so we can test drive one of our [...]

Writing has been a fine exercise lately, helping to maintain a relative sense of calm within the constant changes of the surrounding world. I do not feel as if though I have really had a lot of time to collect my thoughts other than sitting down in front of my home computer. At the end [...]

Colleges and universities across the country are beginning their fall semester this and the coming weeks. Most middle Tennessee schools returned to classes a week or so ago, effectively ending what most of us call “summer.” The calendar will hold that summer has more than a month remaining, but the things that define our concept [...]

I have lived at two apartments since moving back to Nashville with swimming pools. The majority of the time at the previous was during the winter months, and the property’s insurance policy probably did not cover hypothermia for residents. We have been at our current residence for over a year and have only ventured into [...]

State Senator Roy Herron (D-Dresden) sponsored a law signed by Gov. Phil Bredesen last week that will require state universities to notify the parents of any student under 21 years of age disciplined for alcohol or drug violations. Herron states that it is the first of its kind in the country. I believe that in [...]

I am attending my first “Family Day” as an alumnus of Sigma Phi Epsilon after skipping last year’s event. Samantha and I drove up this morning for the lunch and had a bit of car trouble. It probably would not be as distressing if we had not just paid for repairs to my vehicle. I [...]

Tonight, The History Channel premiered 1968 With Tom Brokaw, a two-hour synopsis of a year that upended the social and political landscape of the United States and arguably the world. From the Vietnam war, the student protests, the civil rights movement, the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy to the Apollo [...]