Issue 119.34
Tuesday February 28, 2012
All Sing Alpha Omicron Pi 2-28
Tara Sripunvoraskul • The Daily Beacon

A member of the Alpha Omicron Pi and Sigma Alpha Iota performance of "Dream Girls" sings a solo during All-Sing on Saturday. This year's All-Sing event had a decades theme, with groups focusing on music from different eras of music, from old spirituals to Whitney Houston.

All-Sing celebrates 80th year
Andi Overby, Advertising Representative

All Campus Events (ACE) began Spring Semester with its 80th annual All-Sing competition Saturday night at the Knoxville Convention Center.

This year’s theme “ACE ACE BABY: All-Sing Through the Decades” was chosen in recognition of the event’s 80th year on campus. The popular ’80s song “Ice Ice Baby” was an inspiration for the title.

“This theme gives lots of flexibility with decades that provide different musicals and movies,” Lauren Charles, ACE committee chairperson, said.

The competition, which was first held in 1932 and titled “Song-Fest,” was originally an initiative by the YMCA and All Students’ Club as a ...

Dave Serrano against Seton Hall 2-28
Rebecca Vaughan • The Daily Beacon

Students should watch Diamond Vols on rise
Matt Dixon, Sports Editor

After a 7-0 start, it’s time for Tennessee baseball fans to make travel plans for the College World Series, right?

Not quite, at least not this year, but first-year coach Dave Serrano has the Vols headed in the right direction. After all, they couldn’t get any worse after the Todd Raleigh era ravaged the program for four seasons.

But seriously, Serrano is the coach who will bring UT back to the level of success it had in the mid 1990s and to an extent in the early 2000s. Back when the Diamond Vols were among the top teams ...

News

Youth step up to help environment
Morgan McConnell, Staff Writer

For UT students like Maria Rosales, green is the new orange, as the search for environmentally-conscious alternatives is taken up by a new, determined generation.

Rosales, a senior in environmental studies, hopes to accomplish her green goals for campus through ...

Alberto Gonzales 2-28
James Hayden • The Daily Beacon

InShort

Alberto Gonzales reacts to a student's question during a lecture in the College of Law Building on Wednesday. Gonzales gave accounts of his time as the former U.S. Attorney General and what impact the job had on his view of world politics.

Entertainment
Kingdoms of Amalur 2-28

RPG disappoints, feels empty
Wiley Robinson, Columnist

“Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning” is exactly the kind of name you should avoid when putting an RPG together. There is nothing even remotely inviting about it. Nobody has any preconceived notions about what “Amalur” is, being a world made up ...

Darkness 2 2-28

Dark game strongly delivers
Chris Flowers, Staff Writer

A quest for vengeance may be the most played-out plot in gaming, but Digital Extreme’s “The Darkness II” uses the tired premise to create one of the strongest narratives in a first-person shooter since “Bioshock.” The storyline delivers the ...

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