Special Issue for :
Issue 119.29
Tuesday February 21, 2012
Jake Baron Casenova Backpack 2-21
Photo courtesy of tntoday.com

Jake Baron is presented a $12,500 grant from Randy Boyd, CEO of Radio Systems Corp, and Tom Graves, director of operations for the Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, on Feb. 6. Baron was given the grant for development of his Casenova line of ergonomic backpacks.

UT gives grant to entrepreneur
Wesley Mills, Staff Writer

Jake Baron was walking back from class one day, and his shoulders were really bothering him. It seemed that this blob of weight on his back was the problem.

Not too long after, Baron ran into a couple that lived in his apartment complex. They had just come back from a jog, but they did not carry their keys and needed someone to let them in.

“I was wondering why someone hasn’t made a real comfortable backpack or backpack that did more than just put weight on your shoulders,” Baron said. “And then I started thinking about that, as ...

Online photos worry students
Caroline Snapp, Staff Writer

According to a recent CNN article, even three years after pictures are deleted on Facebook, they are still accessible via a direct link. This raises questions about the security of Facebook and whether users’ privacy could be jeopardized.

For college students, this also could pose the risk of future employers finding pictures or comments that could damage their reputation. Freshman John Delaney sees the harm in Facebook pictures not being taken down after being deleted.

“If there’s a picture of when you were a freshman and you’re at a frat house and really drunk,” Delaney said, “even when you delete it, it could still pop up after your out of school and you’re trying to get a job, that could definitely be a problem.”

Although Delaney himself has never experienced a problem from something posted on Facebook, he recalls a time in high school when another student ...

Dance Marathon handprint 2-21
Taylor Gautier • The Daily Beacon

InShort

Danielle Howarth, junior in child and family studies, decorates a handprint banner as part of a Dance Marathon fundraiser for the East Tennessee Children's Hospital Hematology and Oncology Department on Feb. 6.

Entertainment

Band delivers in studio
Jake Lane, Arts & Culture Editor

A little known fact: redundancy is the cornerstone of the written word. The whole nature of conveying information is often a restrained process of hearing information you already know and acting oblivious, all in favor of maintaining the status quo ...

Opinion

SGA’s legislative year in review
Blair Kuykendall, Editor in Chief

Having committed this paper to a complete analysis of SGA’s activity this year, I have been conducting a review of SGA’s legislative actions and budgetary performance.
    
To give proper weight to both issues, I will first be sharing ...