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By Gloria Cortes

The Volunteer State Community College Office of Student Engagement and Support is hosting Free Hug Day Jan. 30, from different booths across campus from 7:45 a.m. to 12:20 p.m.

According to https://www.volstate.edu/events, booths will be set up in the, “Wood Campus Center Hallway, SRB 2nd Floor Hallway, Caudill 1st Floor Hallway, Thigpen Library Hallway, Wallace North Hallway.”

At the booths, student leaders, club members and staff from the Office of Diversity and Inclusion as well as the Social Science and Education division will offer free food, some T-shirts, and Hershey Hugs.  

By Erin Holloway

“The Pioneer Pen prints any art forms from poetry to short stories, memoirs, photography, videos, cartoons, and songs,” said Laura McClister, faculty advisor and chair of the English department.

The Pioneer Pen has been Volunteer State Community College since 1995, known as “Squatter’s Rites,” before the name was changed, and every year they print a new issue.

The Pioneers Pen makes its yearly issues from art submitted by Vol State students through the school’s website. To submit, go to www.volstate.edu, go to “Academics,” click on “English” and “Publication,” then you sign a Creative Works waiver where you give Vol State permission to print your work while you still own it.  Then, you leave your name, email address and title of your work(s).

By Gloria Cortes

Construction for a pedestrian sidewalk around Volunteer State Community College was scheduled to begin last fall.  

In an email from Vol State Senior Director of Plant Operations Will Newman, the project has already begun.

Newman wrote, “One of the two crosswalks are under construction at the moment. Once the sidewalk that leads to Nashville Pike is complete the city will complete the crosswalk.”