Rising — Graduation Stresses

Maybe you forgot to visit the UC last week and pick up your cap and gown. Maybe you forgot to apply for graduation. Or even worse, maybe you forgot to fill out your petitions and turn them in by last Friday's deadline. Maybe you have sent ...

An alleged sexual assault took place in a study room on the third floor of Hodges Library on the evening of Saturday, Oct. 27. My staff and I have reviewed the police report, and are choosing to withhold the name of the victim and the suspect for their privacy.

It ...

Rising — Ramen purchases

As money runs tight towards the middle of the semester, students begin to wonder where their allowances and refund checks went. Hypotheses include: booze, threads and women. With homecoming festivities on the horizon, students have turned to the conventional strategies for conserving cash. Namely, Ramen. This cheap ...

Rising — People assuming they're experts on all political matters

With the election less than a month away now, scores of people have taken to their social media sites of choice to illustrate their own quasi-expertise in any and every political matter. Just a quick glance at your Facebook news ...

Rising — Cost of America's favorite cola

Back in the good old days, a refreshing ice-cold bottle of Coca-Cola would run you about a nickel, maybe a dime in your pricier districts. Flash forward to 2012, and in some of the markets around campus, Aramark is charging $1.59 for ...

Rising — School Anxiety

Honestly, this can be said for every day, but that's only because with each passing moment we become one day closer to school, and one day closer to a near total breakdown from the pressure of classes.

Classes start the 22nd, which is only 15 days ...

Rising — Olympic fervor

The summer games are here and the biggest stage in global athletics is set for another thrilling round of upsets, gold medals and obscure sports.

Questions abound surrounding these Games: can Michael Phelps right the ship and start winning again, will the U.S. basketball team wear ...

Rising — Random Ashton Kutcher appearances

    
In the past few weeks, Mr. Kutcher has appeared in not only episodes of “Two and a Half Men,” but also made a guest showing at the Academy of Country Music Awards, where he sang bits of George Straits’ “I Cross My Heart” before introducing ...

Rising — UT’s ability to reach top research university goal
   
According to a university press release, the University of Tennessee has reached its multi-year goal of becoming a top-46 public research university in the nation, according to rankings by U.S. News and World Report.
    
“Yes, it’s true,” said ...

Since their occupation of then-named Gaylord Entertainment Center in 1998, the Nashville Predators have never had a better and more realistic shot at bringing home the historic and highly coveted Lord Stanley’s Cup.
    
After a so-so start to the year that saw the Predators slide to the underbelly of ...