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Nunley hailed from Students will explore Those who have had cities through Dyersburg, Tenn., and different Freshman student recent contact with had not declared a speakers in the Honors Jacob Nunley passed Nunley are encouraged College fall lecture se- away around 8 a.m. major. to go to Student Health Check mtsusidelines. ries that began Monday. Monday at Vanderbilt Services in the Recre- This semester's University Medical conm for more informa- ation Center for a free tion. = series, titled "The City," Center due to bacterial antibiotic pill. focuses on how the dif- meningitis, MTSU of- ferent places played a ficials confirmed. key role in the lives of According to sev- authors, TV shows and eral students on Twitter, cultures. Nunley was participat- "I saw this theme as Phillips began the fall lecture series by an analysis of Poe and ing in a Greek celebra- a way to pull in differ- the city of Boston. Photo by Kyle Kline. tion known as Alpha- ent speakers and offer a gammaroo at the Sigma wide range of topics," "'Dr. Who' is huge [he changes] the year he Alpha Epsilon house on said Philip E. Phillips, here now for the first was born from 1911 to Greek Row last night associate dean of the time," Lavery said. 1914," Bray said. "He before being taken to Honors College. "The "Dr. Who spends an does this because there Vanderbilt. theme came about as I odd amount of time in was a writing contest to "Mouth and nose flu- was doing research on London, and the city of be able to qualify." ids in close contact are Edgar Allan Poe and his London is like another Bray will cover Wil- a vehicle for bacterial city of birth, which is character in the show. It liam's homosexuality meningitis to spread," Boston." isn't just contemporary and the symbiotic rela- said Tom Talbot, chief Phillips kicked off London, either, as he tionship between him hospital epidemiologist the series Monday with goes back in time and and New Orleans. at Vanderbilt Medical his lecture, "Edgar Al- stays in the present." "He got to New Center. lan Poe and the City of After living in Orleans, particularly the Talbot said there is no Boston." London for two years, French Quarter, [and] indication that alcohol From the Middle East Lavery went through he was thrust in this consumption can make world with French and to the French Quarter of the city and retraced the disease more severe, Louisiana, the series in- the steps of the main Spanish architecture and and the only possible JacoD Nunley, Tresnman, passea away early tnis weeK. rnoto cludes an eclectic group character on the show. food, but it was really connection to drinking courtesy of Facebook. of MTSU professors He currently plans to the lifestyle," Bray said. and outside guests who teach a class about "Dr. "He came from a con- are exploring different Who" in London De- servative Midwestern Meningitis is a bacterial infection of the membran cember 2013 for MTSU city. When he got there, cities across the globe. 6 ing the brain and spinal cord. , V,.~ English professor students. he had not consummat- English professor ed his homosexuality David Lavery is bring- - - - -- ing something different Robert Bray visited the but had an affair with to the literature-heavy sights and sounds of this guy while he was series, speaking on the his lecture topic, which there. It was integral British TV show "Dr. proved to be an easy and forming his sexual Who" and the city of task, since Bray hails identity." London. from New Orleans. The Monday lectures "Dr. Who" is a sci- Bray's Oct. 8 lecture begin at 3 p.m. in the ence-fiction show that focuses on Tennessee Honors Building Am- has been airing for the Williams and the city phitheater, room 106, past 50 years, and the of New Orleans, where and will run through recent reboot has drawn Williams eventually Dec. 3. Next week's attention of American settled. lecture is from professor viewers. The plot deals "I will mainly talk Robb McDaniel called, with the main character, about that along the "Thought Polis: Ancient an alien referred to as way from St. Louis Athens and the Urban "The Doctor," travel- and from Memphis, he Imagination." All the ing anywhere in time to changes his name from lectures are free and save the universe. Tom to Tennessee, and open to the public. a SIDELINES I Sept. 12, 2012 j www.mtsusidelines.com _ __ COVER STORY Immigrants become citizens, population more diversified inericans read, write Ellis Island between Percentage of Immigrants of Rutherford Co. an N-400 form, which By Alex Hubbard ad speak English and is ten pages long. The 1892 and 1954, accord- and Emily West e knowledgeable of fee of the application is ing to the National Park News editors [.S. government and $595. The TIRRC holds Service. istory. workshops four times a But this system, To prove their knowl- based on its action and The university will year to help immigrants dge about the U.S. and fill out their paperwork. efficiency, had strains. celebrate the 225th an- leir English-speaking "The heartbreaking niversary of the United "Workshop is one day bilities, United States with trained volunteers thing about the Ellis States Constitution and litizen and Immigration Island experience is that naturalization of 240 that help people com- ervices test all the ap- plete their applications," if people were ill they new citizens Sept. 17 licants through a civics got sent back," said in Murphy Center, an Gutierrez said. "The xam. volunteers help fill out Martha Narkunas, an occasion that highlights The civics exam is the historic and contem the forms and translate. MTSU history professor 00 questions, and ten We also have attorneys who specializes in oral porary difficulties of f the questions must history. "Single women achieving citizenship. who do legal screenings e answered verbally to make sure the people often weren't allowed at 1English. Applicants haven't violated any of some point because they How residents re required to answer thought they were become citizens the requirements." going ix of the ten verbal The next workshop to be prostitutes." After holding a greel uestions correctly. The from TIRRC is slated Modern air travel card for a minimum of :maining 90 questions for November in Nash- and an interconnected five years, lawful per- Graphic by Christopher Do .re in a testing format. ville. global economy has manent residents who In addition to the transformed the tradi- wish to become a natu- immigrant has to be- ing out the application. civics exam, future Immigration tional point of entry, but ralized citizen of the come a resident and that They must also live in citizens must fulfill the throughout history despite calls from across United States have to go is the hardest part.