Issue 119.31
Thursday February 23, 2012
Mitt Romney 2-23
Photo courtesy of Gage Skidmore

Mitt Romney

Romney camp forms at UT

While some students won’t participate in the upcoming Tennessee Primary by doing anything more than casting a vote, four students at UT are getting much more involved.

Alexander Waters, Leandra Varney, Nigel Vorbrich, second year law students, and Sarah Davis, sophomore in public relations, are all working deep within the Mitt Romney campaign.

Waters and Varney are both working as co-coordinators for the Knox County area. Vorbrich is working as an events coordinator for the East Tennessee area and Davis is co-coordinating in non-Knoxville counties.

Waters has always had an interest in politics. Both his mother and grandfather worked ...

Gosh 2-23
George Richardson • The Daily Beacon

Gosh gives window to Ethiopia

There are two types of attitudes that people have when going out to eat.
    
Half of the time, people go out simply to get some food, regardless of whether or not they could have made it at home. These people go to restaurants not because of some flash or flair that the place offers, but rather due to the convenience it can give.
    
For the other half, going out to eat means so much more than just convenience. Instead, for these people who are not motivated by the ease of getting food, eating out at a restaurant is supposed to ...

Chancellor Jimmy Cheek speaks 2-23
George Richardson • The Daily Beacon

InShort

Chancellor Jimmy Cheek answers questions from students during the Student Leadership Dinner on Monday. Cheek handled questions students covering a wide range of topics including the new branding campaign and budgeting plans to help UT continue improvement towards the goal of becoming a top 25 public research university.

Holy Land 2-23

Market’s restaurant also shines

“Holy Land has a restaurant?!”

These were the first words to leave my mouth after my editor handed out restaurant assignments for the Dining Guide. I had only been to the Sutherland Avenue market specializing in Middle Eastern and European ...

Nori 2-23

Nori offers ‘casual extravagance’

Like light, clean Asian cuisine with a French and Vietnamese flair and sushi in a lounge setting so exquisite you’ll feel dirty? You need to increase your patronage of Nori on Cumberland Ave. in between the Gnome and the ...

Knoxville offers diverse dining options

At first glance Knoxville is a metropolitan sprawl made of fast food joints and strip malls, so much so that per capita we were once the city with the most restaurants. As the country looks to service-based jobs to fill ...

Niro's 2-23

Niro’s expands tastes beyond gyros

If you’re looking for a good gyro in the Knoxville area, Niro’s Gyros may be your best bet for a number of reasons.

Located just off campus, next to Goodwill on 17th Street, Niro’s Gyros is within ...

Dim sum tops Little Szechuan fare

Most people associate Chinese food with fried rice and takeout, but Little Szechuan is a great option for authentic Asian cuisine. Little Szechuan serves authentic Szechuan food and dim sum.

Little Szechuan has reasonable prices, great service and delicious food ...

Aegean 2-23

Aegean serves traditional Greek

When the average UT student hears the word “Greek,” the first thoughts that come to mind are fraternity guys and sorority girls. Due to the thriving Greek life of our campus, the word has become synonymous with images of Uggs ...

Cairo 2-23

Looks deceive at Cairo

Catercorner from the Bijou Theatre, the First Tennessee Building and, er, a parking lot, the Mirage of Gay Street is not the most opulent attraction in the early dinner hours, despite what the name might bring to mind. Once inside ...

Osaka 2-23

Quick Hits

What: Harby’s Pizza
Where: 3718 Walker Blvd., Knoxville, TN 37917
What to Get: Voted “Best Pizza in Knoxville” by four local critics, so the pie is a must.
Price Range Per Person: Most entrees come in at under $9 ...

Players react to dunk 2-23

Bench play key in Vols victory

Trailing 14-2 midway through the first half, Tennessee needed a spark.
    
It came in the form of Jordan McRae and Dwight Miller. The duo combined for 26 points, helping the Volunteers (15-13, 7-6 SEC) overcome a slow start to defeat ...

Brandon Fickey against Michigan Sate 2-23

Fickey learning as year goes on

When a tennis player hears that his playing hand is broken, one can assume that the player will not be playing tennis for a long while. Last year when Brandon Fickey broke his right playing hand in the middle of ...

Ymi Makanjuola against LMU 2-23

Makanjuola drops soccer for basketball

Although much of the hype around this year’s Tennessee men’s basketball team has been centered on Jarnell Stokes, there is another freshman making an impact on the team as well. That is 6-foot-9, 244-pound center Yemi Makanjuola.
   
 Born ...