According to a recent Gallup poll, approximately one in four young people today is getting inked.

Matthew Crigger, apprentice at local tattoo studio Synergy Tattoo, said tattoos may be losing their negative stigma, but American culture still has a ways to go.

“Media and television shows have helped to make ...

Though the program is still in its early stages, the Haslam Honors Program has molded a promising inaugural class.

Founded in 2008 with the hopes selecting prominent and talented freshmen and molding them through college careers into well-rounded students and people, the Haslam Honors Program will be graduating its first ...

 On Tuesday, April 17, almost 40 students, faculty and speakers filed into the Shiloh Room at the University Center to discuss the potential and positive effects of a revolving fund.
    
Speakers talked about potential solutions at this forum and collaborative discussion focusing primarily on energy efficiency.
   
 Nick Alderson, junior in ...

 A countdown of 20 minutes was on the projector screen, and the crowd of more than 100 people in the UC Ballroom remained silent the entire time.
    
This was the 17th annual Day of Silence event. The participants’ silence represented the lack of communication, awareness and prevention of bullying toward ...

The first of four student forums was held on Monday at the UC for the new campus chief of police.

Along with a fellow reporter, SGA President Adam Roddy was the only one in attendance.

Roddy said the timing of the release of information on when this was happening didn ...

On a sunny Wednesday afternoon, Andy Pigg is starting the UT campus food compost run.

A UT Recycling intern and environmental studies major, Pigg collects the food scraps from campus dining locations and takes them to the university’s compost site near UT Medical Center.

“We’ll probably get about ...

Today’s best hits don’t include the lyrical flow of Jay-Z combined with the medieval tales of Geoffrey Chaucer or Charles Darwin’s survival of the fittest, but that’s what Canadian rapper and playwright Baba Brinkman does every day.

On April 24, Brinkman will perform for UT students ...

More than 150 UT students will volunteer a week of their time this spring, helping children with multiple disabilities to serve as counselors at Camp Koinonia.
   
 The camp has been put on by Gene Hayes and students in his Recreation and Sport Management class since 1977. Camp Koinonia is the ...

May is full of wonderful things in the Southeast.
    
The spring semester ends, students graduate, summer begins and the weather usually stays in the ’70s, making it hard to be indoors. After classes end and exams are over, UT Outdoor Program (UTOP) is offering three different trips across the Southeast ...

Students gathered in the Baker Center on Thursday evening to discuss the development of the Chancellor’s Honors Program with its director, Steve Dandaneau.
    
Dandaneau opened by taking a S.W.O.T. analysis of the honors program. This technique is commonly employed in strategic business planning to discover an ...

   
College students have never been known for their wisdom, which is probably why young adults are so inclined to the Chimney Tops trail. Chimney Tops is decently common knowledge compared to my past columns about more obscure, lesser-known trails.
    
Chimney Tops is only four miles round-trip and provides some of ...