Issue 119.50
Thursday March 29, 2012
TeamVOLS 3-29
Photo courtesy of TeamVOLS

Members of the TeamVOLS 2011 Alternative Spring Break trip to Chicago gather downtown after a week of service work. This year students with TeamVOLS traveled to Morgantown, W.Va. to help serve the community and gain a higher sense of social issues that affect all communities.

Students use break for good cause
Steele Gamble, Staff Writer

A handful of students dedicated their spring breaks to a week of participating in multiple community service opportunities in Morgantown, W.Va., as part of TeamVOLS’ annual Alternative Spring Break Trip program.

Trip participants gained a sense of community within the team and a heightened awareness of local social issues as they helped complete daily tasks at a variety of locations.

Mark Moore, program leader and senior in special education, hopes that the experience will continue to benefit students as they return to their everyday lives.

“The biggest goal I had was just making sure the team really came together ...

Parker Wormsley slides against Miss Valley St 3-29
Rebecca Vaughan • The Daily Beacon

Vols take advantage of MVSU pitching woes
Robby O'Daniel, Recruitment Editor

Zero hits after the fifth inning does not sound like a winning formula in a tight game, but the UT baseball team still won over Mississippi Valley State on Tuesday, thanks to plentiful walks and hit batsmen.

UT third baseman Parker Wormsley and designated hitter Davis Morgan provided RBI singles to the outfield to give the Vols a 2-1 lead in the fifth.

From there, the Vols (14-10) had eight baserunners off four walks and four hit batsmen, generating three additional runs and ensuring the Vols’ victory.

UT coach Dave Serrano said taking advantage of mistakes is what successful teams ...

News
Megan Andelloux Fornication 101 3-29

Speaker encourages dispelling tensions about sex, intimacy
Victoria Wright, Arts & Culture Editor

Equipped with bottles of lubrication, high-tech musical vibrators and strap-ons, students received a crash course in sex ... education, that is.

“I’m probably going to make you feel uncomfortable at certain points,” warned speaker Megan Andelloux at the Fornication 101 ...

Fraternity draws awareness to homelessness
Emily DeLanzo, Managing Editor

Come rain, high water or pollen, the brothers of the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity exposed themselves to the elements for an entire night to raise awareness for homelessness.

Sleep Out for the Homeless, which took place in the Humanities Amphitheater ...

Air Force ROTC 3-29
Tara Sripunvoraskul • The Daily Beacon

InShort

Members of the Air Force ROTC program perform a marching drill in the Humanities Plaza on Thursday, March 15.

Sports
Ivy Renfroe against ETSU 3-29

No. 9 softball sweeps Furman
Anthony Elias, Staff Writer

    Tennessee co-head coach Ralph Weekly said the Lady Vols were “a pitching team first and a defensive team second.”

The Lady Vols backed up that message by holding the Furman Paladins to only one hit in 13 innings as UT ...

Opinion

Politicians raise freebies above issues
Preston Peeden, Associate Editor

As I walk down the Pedestrian Mall, my senses are immediately battered as I get closer and closer to the intersection with Volunteer Avenue. From the top of the hill, I can’t really make out exactly what’s happening ...

Nobel Prize winner must give, take
Lindsay Lee, Columnist

 The Nobel Peace Prize has been a little symbol of hope ever since it was first awarded in 1901. The people who are given this prize are supposed to be the ultimate human representatives of good in the world. But ...