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Earth Month commences Various events encourage sustainability around campus
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Justin Joo With the beginning of April, Earth Month is officially under way. Earth Month is sponsored by the Office of Sustainability and lasts April 3-24. Courtney Washburn, sustainability outreach coordinator at the Office of Sustainability, said the focus of the events is to encourage living a sustainable lifestyle. “The theme of Earth Month is keeping our world green,” Washburn said. “The events that we have for Earth Month ... have a wide variety, so we’re trying to reach a number of different people.” There have already been several Earth Month events on campus. First there was the Sustainability Career Panel, which had different individuals discussing how their jobs relate to supporting and sustaining the environment. There was also the Go Green Fair & Bike to Campus Day event with more than 20 local organizations like the UT Farmer’s Market, Campus B, EcoVols, and UT Dining. The next series of events is the Brown Bag Series. Running through April 9-13, the series will feature several presentations on sustainability. The presentations are from 12:15 p.m. to 12:45 p.m. in the UC Room 226.
“We’re really excited about that,” Washburn said. “They’ll be talking about different things from environmental justice to alternative fuel to environmental ethics.” Students and faculty are encouraged to bring a lunch to the presentations. Earth Month will feature a Weatherization Workshop on April 17. Focused primarily for students who live off campus, the workshop will teach participants ways they can weatherize their home and even provide the tools needed to carry out the process. The workshop will be held at the UC Room 217. “These are just going to be simply (tips),” Washburn said. “Everyone who attends will leave with a tool to weatherize their homes.” Washburn said it will definitely be a hands-on lecture. Another major event for Earth Month is the Bike-In Movie. The movie will start at 8 p.m. on April 19 at the Humanities Amphitheater. Students will be watching Pixar’s “Wall-E.” United Residence Hall Council (URHC) is one of the organizations helping with the Bike-In Movie. URHC was one of the main sponsors for the event and will be helping with food distribution and recycling. They will also be promoting all of the other events for Earth Month. See EARTH MONTH on Page 3
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Carnicus celebrates 100th year with throwback presentation Andi Overby Staff Writer
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Saturday will mark the 100th year of the circus that became known as Carnicus. Presented by All Campus Events, the annual skit competition is titled, “The Circus Returns: 100th Anniversary of Carnicus.” A century ago, students held a carnival in the fall and celebrated the end of the school year with a circusthemed activity called June Jubilee. In 1929, the two events were combined, and George Abernathy, a member of the All Students Club, gave it the name Carnicus. In earlier years, Carnicus included a parade, skits, a dance and other student activities. Today the tradition of Carnicus continues to reach the UT community as students perform their skits in front of judges and audiences. “Our programs will reflect the ever-evolving Carnicus through the years,” ACE committee chairperson Lauren Charles said. “As well, there will be another special treat.” ACE committee members hope to include a special presentation during the event in honor of its long-standing tra-
dition at UT. The competition will include eight organizations performing a variety of skits that tie into pop culture and campus life. The groups often include song, dance and college humor in their productions to add comedy and engage their audience. “It was a fun experience, but I did learn an important lesson: Do not bring your 3year-old daughter,” Michelle Garland, former judge and communication studies professor, said with a laugh. The judges vary each year and are often professors and graduate students selected from the UT community. “Judging Carnicus was definitely an eye-opening experience,” Garland said. “I still laugh when I think about everyone in the background waving their arms around.” Various UT organizations competed on March 27 in front of ACE committee members for a chance to participate in the event. Selected teams will advance to compete on stage this weekend with an assortment of themes such as “The Hangover,” “Alice in Knoxland” and “Monsters, Inc.” See CARNICUS on Page 3
John Edwards gambles on NC jurors to avoid prison The Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. — As a young personal injury lawyer in North Carolina, John Edwards earned a reputation for turning down multimillion-dollar settlement offers on bets that jurors would award his clients more money at the end of a trial. “The twelve souls who spend full days, full weeks, or sometimes long months sitting only a few feet from you get to know you almost as well as you know yourself,” Edwards wrote in “Four Trials,” his 2003 autobiography. “They take in every movement, fact, word, hesitation, and glance. My faith in the wisdom of ordinary people took root in the mill towns of my youth. But the juries of my adulthood deepened that faith.” Now the former U.S. senator and two-time Democratic presidential candidate is making the biggest courtroom gamble of his life — that a jury will clear him of alleged campaign finance violations and keep him from being sent to prison. Jury selection for Edwards’ criminal trial is set to begin Thursday in the Middle District of North Carolina. The sprawling 24county federal judicial district includes the town where he grew up, Robbins, as well as dozens of other small communities where old textile mills now sit idle but evangelical churches are routinely full. U.S. District Court Judge Catherine C. Eagles, who was appointed in 2010 by President Barack Obama, will preside. She said she expects the proceedings to last about six weeks.
Edwards, who declined an interview request through his lawyers, was indicted by a federal grand jury last year on six felony and misdemeanor counts related to nearly $1 million secretly provided by wealthy campaign donors to help hide his pregnant mistress, Rielle Hunter, as he sought the White House in 2008. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison and as much as $1.5 million in fines. Before his indictment, Edwards rejected a potential plea agreement with federal prosecutors that would have allowed him to serve as little as six months and keep his law license, according to two people with direct knowledge of the offer. More than a year after his wife, Elizabeth, died of cancer, Edwards is now a single parent of two children, ages 13 and 11, who live with their father at the family’s gated estate outside Chapel Hill. Eldest daughter Cate Edwards, 30, is a lawyer who married last year. A graduate of the University of North Carolina law school, John Edwards made his fortune handling medical malpractice and corporate negligence cases before turning to politics following the death of his 16-year-old son Wade in a 1996 auto accident. Edwards was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1998 and was John Kerry’s running mate in 2004. His law license has been listed as inactive for more than a decade. For his part, Edwards has said he is looking forward to getting back in front of a jury, even though he’ll be the one at the defense table.
Sarah Houston • The Daily Beacon
Lightning strikes in the distance of downtown Knoxville March 15. Knoxville has recently seen several thunderstorms lately that pop up in the afternoon.
Mountain fire destroys condos The Associated Press SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. — A fire that destroyed a significant number of time-share condominiums in the Smoky Mountains foothills was believed to be contained Tuesday, but a wildfire it spawned burned on. Matt Lovitt, a training officer for several Sevier County fire departments, told the
Mountain Press (http://bit.ly/HytwDo) that the fire that began Tuesday morning destroyed four buildings at English Mountain Condominium Resort. Each building contained 24 condos. Firefighters attacking the brush fire were dealing with a lack of water. Steep, curvy mountain roads were hard for tanker trucks to navigate and dry, windy conditions had pushed the flames up the ridge
to near the mountain crest. “The weather isn’t going to be much help,” said National Weather Service forecaster Derek Eisentrout in Morristown, noting west winds of 15-25 mph were blowing in the area. The forecast for Wednesday was much the same — a windy day with little chance of rain. The newspaper reported that a firefighter who was taken from the scene was
expected to recover. No other injuries were reported. Firefighters from several departments fought the blaze. Authorities closed some roads and there were reports of electrical power failing on the mountain. Firefighters were going cabin to cabin, telling people to evacuate. Firefighters said they were completely out of water by late morning.