Issue 119.56
Monday April 09, 2012
Student Health Center Opening 4-9
George Richardson • The Daily Beacon

Students, faculty and staff members crowd into the new Student Health Center after the building's grand opening on Friday, Jan 20. The center collaborated with the College of Nursing to help inform students on healthy living on Wednesday at the "Health Beat" fair.

Health fair held on campus
College of Nursing hosts event to offer free health services, distribute information
Caroline Reinwald, Staff Writer

As part of national “Public Health Week,” UT’s College of Nursing teamed up with the Student Health Center and the UT Medical Center to host “Health Beat,” a free health fair for UT students and faculty on Wednesday.
    
From 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the UC Ballroom, the health fair offered free services such as testing blood type, HIV, bone density, allergies and hearing. Information booths educated people on the dangers of dipping, unhealthy eating, tanning beds and diabetes.
    
Student Health Services and nursing students worked at the various booths and educated people on healthy living ...

Behind the wheel: Boys vs. Girls

Emily DeLanzo, Managing Editor

On campus, battle of the sexes rages on the roadways. Men constantly claim that hormones hinder females’ driving while women say men feel the need to prove their masculinity in the driver’s seat.
    
Who really are the better drivers: men or women?
    
“I definitely don’t think the female drivers I ride with are better than men,” said Daniel Morrell, junior in kinesiology. “I have one that is particularly bad. In fact, I feel like I’m on some freaky deathcoaster when I’m in the car with her.”
    
Even some women believe men are better drivers.
    
“Honestly, I think men are better drivers,” said Sabrina Rhodes, a senior in ecology and evolutionary biology. “I think I am an ‘OK’ driver, but I can’t tell you how many times I have seen girls texting, putting on makeup, and looking in the mirror. The only time I have almost ...

Student Life

Club discusses debt
Andi Overby, Advertising Representative

The UT Economics Club will host its second Debt Event lecture on Wednesday, April 11, at 6:30 p.m. in the Haslam Business Building.
   
 The event will examine U.S. national debt, which currently totals $15.6 trillion. Club ...

Baseball sunset 4-9
Rebecca Vaughan • The Daily Beacon

InShort

As the sun sets in the distance, members of the UT baseball team take the field in the top of the fourth inning during a game against Memphis on Wednesday.

Entertainment

‘Journey’ proves revolutionary, intimate
Chris Flowers, Staff Writer

The rise of the downloadable video game marketplace has become the most significant development since the addition of the third dimension. Video games no longer have to be enormous projects with multi-million dollar budgets. A game can be created by ...

Fiction: The Modern Workspace
Olivia Cooper, Staff Writer

A Nerf dart flew by Jacqueline’s head and landed in her guide’s coffee cup. He frowned at the spot on his shirt the collision created, but laughed halfheartedly and tossed the dart aside.
    
“We’re not like other ...

Sports

Nighthawks bring indoor football to Knoxville
Ben Daniel, Staff Writer

The Knoxville Civic Coliseum is home to a new team that can bring football to Tennessee a little early this year — football with an attitude that brings a totally different atmosphere. It’s the Knoxville Nighthawks.
    
As an expansion team ...

Opinion

Education bill no threat to science
Ashton Smith, Columnist

Nearly 87 years since the beginning of the Scopes Monkey Trial in Dayton, Tenn., the state is once again barreling toward being the battleground state for the debate between supporters of the theory of evolution and intelligent design.
    
Tremors of ...

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