April flowers

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 [...]

UT Martin Homecoming 2008

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 [...]

UT Martin Communications Department celebrates 30 years

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 [...]

August hangover

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 [...]

Briefly back in Martin

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 [...]

Trading jogging for Shakespeare?

Samantha tells me that I can graduate in May under the 2005-06 catalog because tons of elective hours were cut out of the program to fit it in under the 120-hour mandate issued a year ago. I kind of relate it to the finish line being moved up. At this rate, graduation could come as [...]

Issue zero

I’ve been thinking about making a list of stories waiting to be written this summer. If nothing else, being here has opened my eyes up to a very busy campus, even though it feels like there isn’t a soul around. So, for humor and to get a bit of “news” out of my system, here [...]