Issue 120.13
Friday July 13, 2012
Michael Phelps 7-13
Matthew DeMaria • The Daily Beacon

Michael Phelps perfects his butterfly stroke at Allan Jones Aquatic Center Thursday. Phelps and the rest of the US Olympic swim team have practiced on-campus for the past week.

U.S. Olympic swim team trains at UT
Lauren Kittrell, Sports Editor and Matt Dixon, Sports Editor
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Locals woke up before daybreak Thursday morning to witness an event that hadn't occurred in Knoxville since 1996.

Arriving as early as 4 a.m., spectators, including many UT students, waited in the rain outside the Allan Jones Intercollegiate Aquatic Center to watch the U.S. Olympic swimming team train for the upcoming London Olympics. The team arrived in Knoxville on Sunday and will practice on campus until leaving Knoxville on Saturday for France. The U.S. squad previously trained in Knoxville before the Atlanta Summer Games 16 years ago.

Thursday was the only opportunity for the public to ...

UT to build ‘One Stop’ center
Wesley Mills, News Editor

It can be draining to pay your parking ticket at one location, your tuition at another location and go grab your financial aid

In fact, for some, not only is it taxing on the body, it's also hard to remember exactly where you pay for everything and register for everything.

In the attempt to be in the top-25 list of public universities, UT will start building a One Stop student services center that will cater to the needs of students, all in one place. Starting in the summer of 2013, One Stop will be open for use.

The goal of the center is to create a wireless network where one can have everything from financial aid to tuition, common enrollment and payment services readily available.

Wireless as it may be, the ground level of Hodges Library will be the physical, central location where the One Stop will be stationed ...

Entertainment
Doctor Zhivago 7-13

The Daily Beacon Weekender
Preston Peeden, Associate Editor

Rising — School anxiety

With only 41 days of the summer holidays remaining, many students are starting to feel the pressure to eke out the most relaxation they can before they have to return back to campus for another year. Be ...

Sports
Davis Tarwater talks to crowd 7-13

Local Olympians experience ‘homecoming’
Matt Dixon, Sports Editor
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If Davis Tarwater and Claire Donahue seemed more excited than the rest of the U.S. Olympic swim team Thursday morning at the Allan Jones Aquatic Center, it's because those two had a good reason to be.

If being ...

Opinion

Rose-colored glasses of social media
Lauren Kittrell, Sports Editor

Social media.

It's fun. Beautiful when it wants to be, fascinating at times, full of information (true and false), impressive and entertaining.

Then again, it might be the devil.

There's something so addictive about it.

It can be ...