[404] Outstanding Student Reveals Heartbreak, Hope on WMOT

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 8, 2011
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Gina Logue, 615-898-5081

OUTSTANDING STUDENT REVEALS HEARTBREAK, HOPE ON WMOT
Laurence Tumpag Sought Refuge from Abusers in Scholarship, Social Work

(MURFREESBORO) – A senior social-work major at MTSU who spent his spring break presenting research in India is this week’s guest on “MTSU on the Record” with host Gina Logue at 8 a.m. this Sunday, April 10, on WMOT-FM (89.5 and wmot.org).
Laurence Tumpag will talk about his trip to Chennai, India. He also will discuss how he overcame a traumatic childhood in which he suffered physical and emotional abuse at the hands of his working mother’s male companions.
Tumpag is a McNair Scholar and recently was elected second vice president of Phi Kappa Phi honor society. His collection of Filipino dolls depicting various native tribes is on display outside the Global Studies office in Peck Hall.
To listen to previous programs, go to http://www.mtsu.edu/news/podcast/podcast2010.shtml. For more information about “MTSU on the Record,” contact Logue at 615-898-5081 or WMOT-FM at 615-898-2800.

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Founded in 1911, Middle Tennessee State University is a Tennessee Board of Regents institution located in Murfreesboro and is the state’s largest public undergraduate institution. MTSU now boasts one of the nation’s first master’s degree programs in horse science, and the Council of Graduate Schools in Washington, D.C., acclaims MTSU’s Master of Science in Professional Science degree—the only one in Tennessee—as a model program. Recently, MTSU unveiled three new doctoral degrees in the sciences.



Founded in 1911, Middle Tennessee State University is a Tennessee Board of Regents institution located in Murfreesboro and is the state’s largest public undergraduate institution. MTSU now boasts one of the nation’s first master’s degree programs in horse science, and the Council of Graduate Schools in Washington, D.C., acclaims MTSU’s Master of Science in Professional Science degree—the only one in Tennessee—as a model program. Recently, MTSU unveiled three new doctoral degrees in the sciences.