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Video game event to benefit cancer research Emily DeLanzo Design Editor Video games are known to have negative side effects: lower grades, sleep deprivation and hostile, jealous girlfriends. One organization on campus is working to justify spending hours with a game controller through a tournament to benefit cancer research. On April 20 and 21, students are welcome to play their favorite video games to show off their mad skills and benefit a good cause. The Apartment Residence Tenants’ Association (ARTA) will host the Frag for a Cure event with help from companies like Sony, EA Games and Ubisoft. This event is not limited to UT students; anyone may participate. Josh Campbell, junior in mathematics and vice president of ARTA, gathered inspiration to organize this event from personal experiences. “During my junior year of high school, I lost two close uncles to cancer,” Campbell said. “It was a really rough time for me personally and experiencing this made me wonder how hard it must have been like for families whose children have cancer. As a result, I ended up wanting to try to help those families out. Frag for a Cure will be the perfect opportunity to make a difference.” ARTA asks for a $5 donation from each participant per tournament. All proceeds will go to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Several video game companies and representatives will be at the event to promote new products and give away prizes. On Friday, the event will start in the UC Down Under at 5 p.m. and will continue until midnight. The Down Under will have nine Xboxes and several PlayStations and a Wii for tournament use. On Saturday, the tournaments will resume at noon and will continue until completion of all games. Featured games include “Halo Reach” (4v4), “NCAA Football ’12,” “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3” (4v4), “Super Smash Brothers Brawl” (Solo), “Starcraft II” (1v1), “Ghost Recon: Future Soldier” closed Multiplayer Beta and “MLB: The Show Home Run Derby.” “I am excited about Frag for a Cure and grateful that UTK Ubisoft could come take part in this event,” T.J. Stephenson, a senior in anthropology and the student representative of Ubisoft, said. “I hope that having the exclusive ‘Ghost Recon: Future Soldier’ closed Beta at Frag for a Cure will help bring out people and raise a lot of money for St. Jude so they can continue to help children.” This is the first video game tournament at UT striving to benefit a charity. Campbell stressed the importance of students coming together to benefit St. Jude while enjoying themselves. “We’re here to have fun and help children in need for families that may not have the money for treatment,” Campbell said.
Campaign highlights bullying rience.” “oUT of One, Many” began by symbolizing the theory that out of one small idea, something great can emerge. He lowercased the “o” Lauren Kittrell of “oUT” to highlight UT, and make it specific News Editor to the community. “Teen suicide is an issue that should not be “oUT of One, Many” has a mission. overlooked,” Azariah Parfite, freshman in aniIts goal is to bring awareness to the issue of mal science, said. “I am glad that someone is bullying and youth suicide. taking a stand and trying to make a differRoger Curry started the campaign to ence.” protest a current bill in the Tennessee state The campaign, adapted from the Trevor legislature that is referred to as the “Don’t Say Project (the leading nonprofit organization Gay Bill.” Curry feels the bill will essentially providing crisis intervention and suicide premake it legal for children to be bullied in vention services to the LGBTQ community), schools as long as they requires signatures stating are being bullied for relithat individuals will help gious beliefs. spread awareness about “The fight against teen the issue. Thus far, the suicide is a very real campaign has collected issue for youth in our over 760 hand-written sigcountry and my goal for natures and 1,200 online the awareness campaign signatures from students, is to simply highlight the faculty and staff across issue,” Curry said. “I campus. hope someone gets some Curry hopes to take the small benefit from the signatures to UT adminiscampaign I have started. tration to be used as a To anyone struggling, we symbol of progress UT want to send the messtudents have made in sage to never give up. It bringing awareness to the does get better.” issue of teen bullying and In December 2011, suicide. 18-year-old Jacob Rogers “I feel strongly that killed himself as a result bringing awareness to the of bullying. Fourteen• Photo courtesy of Rick Curry issue is the first step in year-old Phillip Parker A screen shot of Rick Curry’s “It creating change,” Curry hung himself in January said. “If enough people Gets Better” video. after complaining of conrecognize how serious the stant bullying. After issue is, they will demand more from their these events, Curry began to wonder if he local and state politicians. They will also do could make a difference by highlighting the more to help others who may be impacted by issue. bullying. If everyone remains silent, the issue Curry believes teen bullying and suicide has will continue with America’s youth killing risen due to the usage of social media. themselves because they feel they have no “When I was growing up and being bullied, hope of their lives getting better. By refusing to the bullying stopped when I got off the school remain silent, we can change that.” bus. I had the safety of my home to run to. Curry wants to continue the campaign in Now, that’s no longer the case,” Curry said. the fall and even have some focus groups of “Thanks to Facebook, Twitter, etc. … the bullystudents, staff and faculty on campus. ing follows the kids home. They no longer To get involved, contact Rick Curry at rcurhave any space safe from the reach of those ry4@utk.edu or view his “It Gets Better” bullying them. I really think this adds to the video at itgetsbetter.org. feeling of hopelessness that many youth expe-
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Anna Clark, freshman in studio art, examines pottery for sale during the semi-annual pottery sale Thursday. The public sale is held by the UT ceramics club every semester in the Art & Architecture Building.
Mulch fire rages along I-40 The Associated Press KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Dozens of firefighters directed streams of water onto piles of mulch burning near downtown Knoxville for a third day Tuesday. The local health department issued a warning that the smoke was unhealthful for anyone in the immediate vicinity. Knoxville Fire Department spokesman Capt. D. J. Corcoran said a half-dozen pieces of fire equipment and 25-30 firefighters were at the site overnight Monday. Firefighters periodically put a clip on their fingers to monitor their pulse rate and carbon monoxide levels. High readings would mean the firefighter would be taken from the area to recover.
The Red Cross opened a shelter for residents who could not keep the smoke out of their houses. A fish kill was found in a creek bordering the nine-acre brush-shredding operation. The Knoxville News Sentinel (http://bit.ly/IEi8mK) reported a berm had since been repaired, directing runoff from firefighting away from Third Creek. Firefighters had been pumping 90,000 gallons of water per hour onto the burning mulch since shortly before noon on Sunday. The runoff of tainted water into the creek deprived fish of oxygen. Few flames were visible Tuesday, but thick smoke continued to rise and early morning commuters on Interstate 40 could see patches of a red glow. See MULCH FIRE on Page 3