Rising — UT’s trinket budget

    
Last week UT’s new branding campaign, “Big Orange, Big Ideas” sparked a flurry of excitement, coupled with unique giveaways. Students and faculty received free orange T-shirts, buttons, lapel pins and pamphlets. There were even orange and white M&M’s. Members of the UT ...

Rising — UT student discourse
    
    
The Daily Beacon is excited to announce that there has been a decided upswing in letters and opinions contributed by students. As the primary vehicle for student expression on campus, the Beacon is happy to accommodate publication of various student reflections on either issue content or ...

 Rising— American Cholesterol Levels

    
On Oct. 2, The Ninety Nine Restaurants in Billerica, Mass., created the world’s largest nacho. The final product weighed in at 3,999 pounds and required a 70-foot, custom-made table to hold it aloft. The concoction topped the previous record of 3,555 pounds, which ...

Rising — Waiting times in line at the University Center

Popular dining spots like Chick-fil-A and Subway have lines reaching near maximum capacity. For most students, the time it takes to get a chicken sandwich or a “Five-Dollar Footlong” exceed the allotted time they have for dining. While the reason for ...

Rising — Quality of Lady Gaga albums

Yes, that's right: Lady Gaga's new album, "Born This Way," released May 23, is her best album to date.

Amazingly the worst song on the album is also its third single, "The Edge of Glory." It is a phoned-in power ballad, immensely ...

Rising — Quarterback controversy?!?!?

Oh dear, here we go again. Tennessee football's annual Orange and White Game took place on Saturday, with the White squad earning a victory over the Orange 24-7. Shoddy weather made a bland game even more so, with very little offense to come by for either ...

Rising — Acceptance of Cuonzo Martin

It's been two weeks since the seemingly inevitable firing of Bruce Pearl finally came to fruition on UT's campus. Despite Pearl's NCAA transgressions, the general consensus among the UT student population was for Tennessee to retain Pearl as head coach, a position ...

Falling — Amount of pajamas allowed at Quantico Marine Base

In a move that has either drawn the ire or the chuckles of the majority of the world following politics and news, Bradley Manning, the soldier charged with leaking cables containing sensitive international data to Wikileaks, is now being forced to ...

Rising — Lady Vol victories

This past week was a forgettable one for UT sports. Despite the surprising victory over Vanderbilt — did anyone actually think UT would win in Nashville? — the receipt of the NCAA's Notice of Allegations put a sour taste in the mouths of Tennessee fans amid the ...

Falling — Pearl domination of Florida

Perhaps we jinxed the UT men's basketball team? This is the thought running through the minds of Beacon staffers this week. Frequent readers may recall that in this exact spot last Monday, we wondered out loud about the return of Bruce Pearl to UT ...