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This paper is the last one you will hold this semester and maybe the last one you’ll hold as a student. In this issue, you’ll find plans for our SGA executives, campus construction, UT athletes and our new chancellor. Look for advice for grads and tearful goodbyes from Daily Beacon staff members journeying out to the real world. For those of you staying, we’ll be online this summer and back in print this fall. We hope to see you soon.

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THE DAILY BEACON STAFF

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Editor-in-Chief: Bradi Musil Managing Editor: Megan Patterson Chief Copy Editor: Hannah Moulton News Editor: Alex Holcomb Asst. News Editor: Annie Tieu Sports Editor: Trenton Duffer Asst. Sports Editor: Rob Harvey Engagement Editor: Millie Tunnel Digital Producer: Altaf Nanavati Opinions Editor: Presley Smith Special Projects Editor: Jenna Butz Photo Editors: Laura Altawil, Adrien Terricabras Design Editors: Lauren Ratliff, Caroline Norris Production Artists: Laurel Cooper, Rachel Incorvati, Hannah Jones, Oliva Lichterman, Jenna Mangalindan, Lauren Mayo

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Moving forward by cutting back Bradi Musil

Editor-in-Chief UT is an institution built on traditions, but as a university and its campus respond to change, these traditions too must evolve.

And The Daily Beacon is about to bring its own 50-year tradition to a close to welcome a new era of journalistic style for its student members.

Starting in Fall 2017, The Daily Beacon — UT’s editorially independent student newspaper, which currently distributes 6,000 copies five days a week — will be decreasing its print frequency to just two days and focusing instead on its 24-hour, online presence.

The change comes as a result of a quickly and drastically changing media industry as well as the financial burden presented with daily print costs.

Rachel Wedding McClelland, the Director of Student Media, explained that print costs eat up a majority of the newspaper’s budget.

“When we looked at our budget for a year’s time and what we can’t control the costs of — you know we can control costs like how many days a week we print, but we can’t control the cots of how much it costs us to print,” McClelland said.

The staff began looking into how many newspapers were left on the stacks at the end of the day and surveying what the Beacon’s readership wanted from the student publication, inquiring about what they wanted to read about, how and where they wanted to get their news and what media platforms they preferred, which McClelland said all had to be taken into account before administration was willing to “buy the idea of reduced print.”

Of a survey conducted in fall 2016 which asked students “would you prefer The Daily Beacon either print a daily newspaper with corresponding online content or print a weekly newspaper but provide updated daily content and breaking news online,” 62.8 percent responded that they would prefer less physical papers and more online coverage.

The spring 2016 Beacon staff also conducted an audit to see how many newspapers were being picked up each day and found that, on average, 6,000 copies of 10,000 were left unread daily.

“It just became clear that moving to two days was the thing to do in terms

What we’re trying to do is prepare students for anything they might face in terms of a news related job, and the experience that we give them will provide access and training they need to make those kinds of shifts into the professional world.”

Rachel Wedding McClelland, Director of Student Media

of a business decision, in terms of the way the industry is headed and in terms of what students on campus are reading and how they’re turning to the Beacon,” McClelland said, admitting that the change was long overdue.

Claire Dodson, a 2015 UT graduate and former Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Beacon, said even when she worked at the newspaper two years ago, the Beacon staff was already looking for ways to improve their digital platforms and differentiate between their print and online products.

“It looked not great,” Dodson said, laughing about the outdated appearance of the former utdailybeacon.com. “And it wasn’t super user friendly.”

While the staff worked to develop the website, cleaning up its overall look and making it a more navigational space for readers, Dodson said she and the former Managing Editor Hanna Lustig simultaneously looked for ways to begin distinguishing between the website’s feel and the print product.

“Print and digital have such unique things that journalists can do with them that I think it’s worth making them into more distinct products,” Dodson said.

“We were really interested in magazine, so we really liked that aesthetic for print and then making online more of a place for breaking news and multimedia content.”

In the hopes that the print frequency would be decreasing in the fall, the Beacon staff this year hired a digital production and engagement staff — the digital production staff focusing on web exclusive content while the engagement team focuses on the Beacon’s social media accounts.

The Beacon will transition from

Monday through Friday print to printing just on Mondays and Thursdays, with the projected plan of producing a typical newspaper on Monday and a more specialized, themed issue on Thursday.

Dodson said she thinks the twiceweekly print schedule gives Beacon staffers much needed flexibility to experiment with what they can do differently with the two mediums.

“That’s a good pacing to get to sample around with longer-form stories and other things besides just the day-to-day in print,” she said. “You can have tiny little things and longer things, and just have a more well-rounded experience.”

While the Beacon’s main function is to provide relevant, accurate, timely and well-written news to UT’s campus, it — like any other student group at a university — is chiefly concerned with equipping the students who are involved with the tools they need to be successful after graduation. The reduction in print days and the opportunities for students that it brings with it, McClelland said, ensures just that.

“If you understand social media, if you can take video, if you can edit video, if you can work your way around a camera and know how to write a news story, you’re going to be more valuable to that news organization,” McClelland said. “What we’re trying to do is prepare students for anything they might face in terms of a news related job, and the experience that we give them will provide access and training they need to make those kinds of shifts into the professional world.”

Alexander Holcomb contributed to this article by interviewing Rachel Wedding McClelland.

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Blood, sweat, tears and a whole lotta wine later Bradi Musil

Editor-in-Chief My career at The Daily Beacon can all be traced back to (like the origin of so many unhealthy and toxic relationships for me) a little too much red wine.

I was planning my freshman college schedule, sipping Greg Norman with my mom on our back patio and telling her how I planned to take it easy for my first semester. I signed up for an english class I knew would be a cakewalk, an art history class with my best friend and—hilariously I thought— beginner’s jiu jitsu.

Well, I was wrong about at least two things that day: signing up for jiu jitsu was not funny (I didn’t last beyond the first week), and I wouldn’t be taking it easy in college—not freshman year or any year after, all thanks to The Daily Beacon.

Although I didn’t last in jiu jitsu, I met a girl there who worked for the student newspaper and urged me to stop by during the Sunday, weekly meeting and meet the other editors.

Four years later and I’ve published over 170 articles at the Beacon, worked from contributing writer to Editor-in-Chief, gained approximately 200 pounds from stress eating and made friends I consider closer than family.

Like a stupidly loyal pet, I’ve gotten in fights

over the Beacon (all verbal), defended its many slip ups, cried over it, stayed up whole nights over it and prioritized it over my own health and happiness. I’ve had some of my highest and lowest moments in the newsroom and all around it.

I wrote pieces I felt made a small but genuine impact. I teared up looking at the Sexual Assault issue, feeling like we’d done something truly important that really would affect UT students.

But, I also threw up, painfully hungover in the hallway bathroom more times than I care to admit. I chain-smoked twelve dozen (cartons of) cigarettes on the stairs outside. In what is now the multimedia room, I let someone take and publish a picture of me in my bra. I answered a thousand angry emails. I found out my parents were getting divorced while sitting on the hallway floor. I spent countless hours on the executive lounge couch, laughing so hard I thought my ribs would split (or, by some miracle, form abs), skipping class, writing papers, avoiding responsibilities, squeezing in naps and becoming at home in one of the worst-lighted, probably asbestos infected, orange-painted dungeons on UT’s campus.

Simply put, every important moment and at least all my favorite moments happened at or because of this newspaper.

The Beacon made me rethink everything I thought about the world and myself. It taught

me to be my own person, to ask difficult questions, pitch stupid ideas, disagree with people I respect, ask for things I want and unapologetically reject the things I don’t.

Because of the Beacon and the unbelievable, absolutely incredible people who I’ve met working here, the woman writing this column is barely recognizable to the girl who thought she could take it easy just four years ago, and I like her so much better.

Not everything has changed—I still drink too much red wine (just now it comes out of a box), and I still make a lot of stupid decisions that seem hilarious at the time. But, I’m leaving UT with a confidence and self-assurance I never thought I was capable of and a family of kindred spirits made up of such fierce, complicated and brilliant women I never thought I would be so lucky as to meet, let alone call my mole women.

I think life at The Daily Beacon can be summed up pretty accurately with one of my favorite Harry Potter quotes: “There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.” Covering news on this campus has been our twelve-foot mountain troll, and maybe we didn’t always knock the quaffle out of the pitch, but we always had something worth fighting for. Always.

Bradi Musil, the Editor-in-Chief, and her dog Gregg Norman, who she would routinely sneak into The Daily Beacon newsroom to help her edit the news. • Courtesy of Bradi Musil Bradi Musil is graduating with a degree in English with a concentration in technical writing. She can be reached at bmusil@vols. utk.edu.

It’s always dark in The Daily Beacon office Megan Patterson

Managing Editor For my first few weeks as an editor here, everyone called me “Faith.”

Faith was the only reason I got my position as Arts & Culture Editor when she transferred out of UT last minute, leaving me as the next in line.

I hadn’t set foot in the Beacon office more than a dozen times. I had met no one on staff.

And, as a microbiology major, I felt grossly under-qualified to ever be given an editorial position at a newspaper.

Now, no one calls me Faith anymore (except Jonathan Toye), I’ve logged more hours in the office than I could possibly count and the staff members here have become some of my best friends.

It would be easy to write 500 words on how much working at the Beacon has changed my life, because I imagine it’s almost as much of a paradigm shift as having a child. Your perspective changes, your priorities realign and each day all of your thoughts, energy and emotions are poured into this one thing that is entirely yours.

They say it takes a village to raise a child, and

after two years at the Beacon, I can say with certainty that no one could go through this alone.

Having a staff of writers behind you and a group of editors beside you still wouldn’t be enough to make this job bearable. For me, all the late night deadlines, the daily stress of putting out a product, the pain when someone tears down something you worked hard to publish and the sometimes seemingly senseless hatred directed toward the Beacon are worth it for one reason only: my Beacon family.

So, I want to say thank you.

Thank you for the games of crab soccer with a giant inflatable ball in the office, for shouting “CHOCOLATE” whenever someone dares ask “what,” for twizzlers in the executive lounge and for shamelessly making sexual puns in headlines.

Thank you for giving me a home on campus where I can be myself, obvious comments and all. Thank you for putting up with my childish pranks like putting your pants in the freezer and constantly changing your desktop background.

Thank you for celebrating the holidays with “Friendsgiving” and Secret Santa parties and for celebrating any given weekday night at our corner table in the Yacht Club.

Thank you for believing in me and helping me to believe in myself when I was a highly under-

qualified editor who wasn’t Faith.

The Beacon has changed my life by giving me the confidence to consider journalism as a future career. But, the people at the Beacon have changed my life even more by showing me everything that a team of talented individuals can accomplish when they throw themselves into their work with as much passion and dedication as the people I’ve met in this office.

When I look back at all we were able to do as full-time journalists and full-time students just trying to graduate, I feel overwhelmingly grateful for any part I have been able to play. You all welcomed me, inspired me and have changed me (for better or for worse) into the person I am today. How appropriate that a tribe of mole women were born from an underground office.

Thank you for your friendship and for showing me that true friends push each other to the boundaries of what they can do and beyond and never settle for less. Look at all we have accomplished. I can’t wait to see what we do next.

Megan Patterson is graduating with a degree in biological sciences with a concentration in microbiology. She can be reached at mpatte34@ vols.utk.edu.

Megan Patterson, Managing Editor, standing outside of the Beacon office acting as Adele saying “Hello.”

• Courtesy of Megan Patterson

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This is so sad, I need a stiff drink Hannah Moulton Copy Chief

When I think back to my life four years ago, it’s crazy how different things were.

I was a very quiet, very anxious freshman spending my days going to class and then watching Netflix alone in my dorm room. Any kind of small talk in class or in an elevator sent me into a panic. I was self-conscious of everything I did and said.

See, I grew up in a small town and had been around the same people my entire life. I had never had to make new friends or adjust to life at a new school until UT. I was struggling.

Then I went to my first journalism class, JREM 175, the intro class for journalism majors, which required students to sign up with a campus media outlet for the semester. That day members of The Daily Beacon came to give their pitch for new recruits.

Something clicked, and I knew I wanted to work there.

Walking in to the Beacon office for the first time was absolutely terrifying. The office walls were plastered with Beacon front pages and movie posters. I was nervous but ready to write, and I took my first story that day.

Now, four years later, things have changed for the Beacon and me. The walls in the Beacon office are orange; the paper is now in tabloid

format; and we’ve got office TVs. And I’m not a shy, quiet 175er anymore. Instead, I’m a very proud member of The Daily Beacon’s editorial staff (still anxious, though).

And, as cliché as it sounds, I can’t imagine my life without The Daily Beacon; because to me, it’s so much more than just a newspaper.

Without the Beacon, I wouldn’t have the confidence to walk up to a complete stranger and ask them a question. I wouldn’t have the practice to churn out a 500-word story in 30 minutes. Hell, I wouldn’t even know how to write a decent article.

But, thanks to the Beacon, I have learned more than I ever would have from just taking journalism classes (Side note: UT needs to do some serious revamping of the journalism school.

I can count on one hand the actually useful journalism classes I’ve taken in my four years here). I have learned how to be confident in myself and to accept that you can’t please everyone. I’ve learned how to pour my heart into something and let criticism roll off my back.

But the Beacon isn’t just something that taught me how to be a journalist or a more professional person. It’s a support system. The Beacon has connected me with the most amazing, intelligent and hard-working people I’ve ever met. The best friends I have ever made are the friends I made at the Beacon. The Beacon has been home to me for four years, and these people are my family.

I will miss this office and the people in it more

Hannah Moulton, Copy Chief posing with her fur baby Kovu.

•Courtesy of Hannah Moulton than I can put into words. I’ll miss the obnoxious orange walls, the printer that never really works and the couch that always smells like syrup. I’ll miss walking into the office and being greeted by a chorus of “Hannah’s” and getting spammed by Slack messages.

But most of all, I’ll miss making a paper with some of the greatest people I’ve ever known.

Thank you, Beacon. Thank you for everything.

Hannah is graduating with a degree in journalism & electronic media with a minor in cinema studies, and she can be reached at hmoulton@vols.utk.edu.

Goodbye my Beacon, goodbye my friend Caroline Norris

Design Editor The Beacon has been the most trying lovehate relationship I have ever been in. Just kidding, I love this place. Damn, it has not always been easy, but it’s going to be even harder to leave.

On one hand, you have so much creative freedom and learn so much (i.e. how to eat a burrito while simultaneously laying out a paper is probably my most noteworthy skill). On the other hand, you are basically signing up to be very poor and most likely disliked by your peers for being a part of the hated media. Man, people really love to hate on the Beacon.

However, this paper and the people that work so freaking hard to make it happen have become a dysfunctional family of sorts. My best friends work at the Beacon, and I have made some of my favorite memories with them. We have worked our asses off to provide something of value for our campus, and I have learned so much from this place.

I have never had a job where I have been challenged so hard, because no matter how bad

things seem to be going, we have to make a paper. I am lucky to have gotten the privilege to work with so many bad-assed, talented people in this newsroom and am so grateful for that opportunity.

While all of us seniors talk about how relieved we are to be done and pass on the torch to our awesome replacements, (‘cept we’re irreplaceable in the wise words of Queen B) what in the world are we going to do now with all this free time and lack of anxiety? We’ve put so much of ourselves into this place, so it’s going to be hard to say goodbye.

This place and these people are great, and while we may not always get it right, we tried our best. Keep that in mind next time you pick up a paper or read an article online, and let’s all work to spread less hate and realize we are all just people trying to do our best. It’s been the hardest job I have ever had to date, but I would do it all over again in a heartbeat. Thanks for reading my sentimental ramblings and good luck next year.

Y’all got this.

In the great words of the infamous James Blunt: You have been the one.

You have been the one for me.

Here awkwardly leans Caroline Norris, Design Editor against a random tree.

•File Photo Caroline Norris is graduating with a degree in business management and international business with a minor in English. She can be reached at carmnorr@vols.utk.edu.

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The Beacon: Never for money, always for love Jenna Butz

Special Projects Editor Four years and 272 articles later, here we are.

Here we are, and all I can do is keep singing Talking Heads’ “This Must Be the Place.”

“Home is where I want to be/But I guess I’m already there.”

And, for the entirety of my college career, The Daily Beacon has been the place. It’s been my place on this great big campus of nearly 30,000 people—and here, I found four years of my people.

At first, all I could think about was how many stories I wrote or what I could do to get a headlining story (we were still broadsheet that year).

But, then it became about the people. Writing for the Beacon, I’ve met poets who tape typewritten notes on walls under pseudonyms, environmentalists fighting to protect Mother Nature and women who are changing the beauty game by growing their natural and organic ingredients right in their own backyards.

But, working here, I’ve also met people that have educated, pushed and guided me through any obstacle life’s thrown at me.

So, thank you to Claire, Courtney, Hanna and Emilee for teaching me what being a journalist even means that first year and giving me oppor-

tunities to build this paper—and again to Claire for always pushing me to a new position, a new obstacle at this paper, even if it wasn’t what I had planned on doing. Without that, I don’t know if I’d be writing this column right now.

Thank you to Hannah and Katrina for showing me that there’s never an easy way out, that risks are always worth taking and to keep working for the best, to produce the best arts section I could every night no matter what else was happening. Thank you for showing me what it means to be fearless, kind, inquisitive, stubborn, patient, creative, etc etc etc.

Thank you to Bradi for being the best right hand woman I could have dreamed of and for always having my back when everyone else wanted us to back down.

Thank you to Hannah for showing me what is means to be unapologetically yourself and for teaching me when it’s okay to say “screw you.”

Thank you to Megan for always saying yes to a challenge and for listening to any issues, big or trivial, I could ever want to share.

Thank you to Caroline for bringing me back to reality when I felt too far gone and for being the voice of reason we all need in our lives.

Thank you to every other Beacon employee that I’ve ever worked with. Having a community where we push each other to take chances and

be better than we ever knew we could be.

Now, this is the last issue of the Daily Beacon I’ll see my name in. The last one I’ll ever write for or edit content for or just be in the newsroom to see the pages sent off to the printer.

Right now, I wish I could say I’m sad, but I’m really just tired. Working at a daily newspaper basically every day for all four years of your undergrad career is pretty exhausting, and it brings on a tiredness that only months of sleep could probably shake.

But, in a week or a month or maybe not even for a year, I think it’s all going to hit me. I just know there’s going to be that moment where I’m going to miss these orange walls or taking a between class nap on that grubby couch or playing crab soccer with a giant beach ball in the ad office to work off some steam.

It’s going to hit me, and I’m going to lose it over the people and little dungeon office that got me this far.

So, after this issue hits stands, that will be 275 articles (including this goodbye) with my name on them in the Beacon archives—and someday, I think I’ll being sitting around wishing I could write that 276th.

Jenna Butz is graduating with a degree in creative writing and a minor in women and

Jenna Butz, Special Projects Editor, and a bottle of “Lazy Bones” wine, the only image that has ever accurately represented her personality.

•Courtesy of Jenna Butz gender studies. She can be reached at jkw546@ vols.utk.edu.

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Leaving home base Altaf Nanavati, Digital Producer, in his favorite shirt.

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Digital Producer Lauren Ratliff, Design Editor, posing in the UT Gardens.

• Courtesy of Lauren Ratliff

Make no bones about it, saying goodbye is hard Lauren Ratliff,

Design Editor My time at The Daily Beacon began with me searching for the university’s yearbook.

I had been one of the co-editors at my high school’s yearbook and thought UT would have one, like other universities. We didn’t. So, I ended up meeting the then Editor-in-Chief and Managing Editor of The Daily Beacon, who convinced me to swing through the Beacon’s orientation the next week.

I had originally interviewed as a sports writer (sorry Troy) but quickly changed to design once I met Katrina. She ushered me into her staff of editorial production artists, and a few short months later, she promoted me to the Design Editor position, where I have remained.

Over the past eight semesters, my life, as well as the other staff members’ lives, have unfolded in the Beacon office. I don’t know how many times I’ve received bad news while sitting at the Design desk. I had Skype dates at my desk. So many papers and reports have been written and printed here. I’ve missed deadlines and events to pump the Beacon

out. But, all of this was worth it, because just like the paper and the office, I’ve changed for the better.

I honestly don’t know what to say or feel right now. This piece of my life won’t be there next year, and it’s sad. I won’t receive the 8 a.m. press notes with the following day’s pages, try to stay awake in classes following a late night at work, lay out dummies around 3:30 p.m., attend the afternoon Beacon meetings, make pages or graphics, edit, send and post the paper, go home to study and sleep or then repeat it all the next day. While this may seem monotonous to most (and it was most days), it was nice knowing what I would be doing.

But, like so many of you, I’m off to my next great adventure. I’ll be at Texas State University studying Biological Anthropology studying under one of the best forensic anthropologists. And, while I’m excited for my future, I’m also excited to see where everyone else (Beacon included) are headed.

Lauren Ratliff is graduating with a degree in anthropology with a concentration in disasters, displacement and human rights. She can be reached at lratlif1@vols.utk.edu.

I was always bad at writing a lede, so I’m just going to get right into it.

Three years ago, I visited The Daily Beacon office for the first time as a JEM 175 student because we were required to pick some form of student media to be involved in outside of the classroom. This was the journalism department’s way of making sure that we were, you know, learning valuable things for our future.

Anyway, I chose the Beacon just to see what it was like, and I had even decided beforehand that I would probably not stay there. I thought it would be smarter for me to explore my options before I made an actual decision.

However, that all changed within the first 30 minutes I was in the office.

Before I go into details, let me give you some context. Throughout my four years in high school, I never really found a place for me. There were no classes that I felt I belonged in, and when it comes down to the people, I would always feel as though I could not connect with anyone.

I realize a large majority of people have had bad high school experiences, so you’ve probably heard all of this before. Trust me, I don’t want to play a violin for myself. All I am trying to say is that after going through those four years, I just didn’t know how I would get through the next round, especially in a campus as big as UT’s.

The Daily Beacon changed all of that for me.

Within the first 30 minutes, I met people that were interested in what I had to say, and, even better, for the first time I actually felt that I was surrounded by people who were just as scared, anxious and passionate about everything as I was.

Also, it turns out that I wasn’t the only one who was terrible at simple algebra and heavily

judged for choosing journalism as a major.

After leaving the newsroom that day, feeling very overwhelmed, I promised myself that until I left UT I wouldn’t leave The Daily Beacon.

Don’t get me wrong, every year after that there was a little part of me that said, “this could be my last year.” Due to the stress of school and, honestly, the lack of actually having a life outside of the office, it was not very glorious every day.

However, what prevented me from leaving was, once again, the people. It was always fascinating to me that, no matter how frustrating it got for us, at the end of the day we would come together and talk about what stories were going up for the next day.

You might say that that’s just part of the job. Let me make one thing clear: this is not a normal job. Along with working at the Beacon, we also had to worry about classes, grades, friends telling us that we are being stupid for doing so much and our parents not understanding what we were doing.

So, the fact that, despite juggling all of that and more, everybody would still put in the work and effort at the end of the day to produce something kept me going.

While most of the staff who are writing farewell columns are graduating UT this year, even though I am not graduating, I will not be returning after this semester.

I’ve only told a few people about this, and most of them have asked me whether or not I will miss UT. I don’t really think I will miss the campus that much. It’s not that I hated it, it’s just that it wasn’t really memorable to me. However, no matter what I do or where I am in the future, I will never forget what, to me, was the home base of this campus, The Daily Beacon newsroom.

Altaf Nanavati is a junior in journalism.

He can be reached at ananavat@vols.utk.edu.

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Currie already filling Hart’s shoes, still has issues to face Trenton Duffer

Sports Editor Fan Day is something that has always preceded the Volunteer football team’s spring Orange and White game each year. Fans line up, before 5 a.m. in most cases, to meet and greet Vols players and coaches and for autographs and pictures.

But, at last Saturday’s Fan Day, as lines and lines of fans stretched around Neyland Stadium, they were met with handshakes from Tennessee’s athletic director John Currie.

This is something that former athletic director Dave Hart never participated in, and some fans took notice.

“When you go out to an event like this, expecting to see players and coaches, and then you get the AD walking around and shaking hands, it’s pretty awesome,” UT fan Adam Bostitch said.

“This is the guy who rules UT’s roost, and I got to meet him.”

Currie began “ruling UT’s roost” on April 1, and the new director hit the ground running. The former Kansas State AD made his first staff hire this Tuesday, April 25, bringing in Reid Sigmon to be Executive Associate Athletics Director and chief operating officer.

Sigmon has spent the past four years as the College Football Playoff’s chief financial officer, meaning that the Vols have brought in some help from the higher up’s. Sigmon will start at UT on May 15 with a salary of $285,000.

Sigmon was also Currie’s first hire at Kansas State, where he worked with financial and legal matters as well as day-to-day matters for the university.

“It is with great enthusiasm that I welcome Reid Sigmon to the Tennessee athletics family,” Currie said in a statement on Tuesday. “He has earned national credibility as part of a visionary leadership group creating the College Football Playoff organization for the last four years, and his tremendous integrity and understanding of college athletics make him a perfect addition to our Tennessee leadership team.”

As aforementioned, Sigmon’s former position was as chief financial officer, indicating that Currie is focused on fixing the financial issues at

Tennessee first and foremost.

However, that is nothing new for Currie. When he took over as associate athletic director of UT in 2002, Currie provided hundreds of millions of dollars worth of renovations to Neyland Stadium and Thompson-Boling Arena, along with tens of millions of dollars worth of construction projects to new buildings on campus.

After he was hired as athletic director at Kansas State in 2009, Currie helped the university raise more than $200 million in cash contributions for the athletic program, which was more in one year than the school saw over its past 48 years combined.

But, finances aren’t the only thing Currie has done to improve the UT athletic program’s standing. Over his first month, Currie attended multiple seminars on issues ranging from faculty senate meetings to sexual assault awareness programs with players, coaches and administrative members.

The Wake Forest alum still has a lot on his plate going forward. Deciding whether or not Butch Jones is the answer for the football team or whether or not Holly Warlick is the answer for the women’s basketball team will be two of the biggest coaching decisions that Currie will have to make.

Other coaching decisions will need to be made as well, and with spring athletics coming to an end soon, those executive decisions may be carried out sooner rather than later.

There’s also the matter of renovations to Neyland Stadium and getting the UT athletic program back in good light after allegations of its having a “hostile sexual environment” in a federal Title IX lawsuit that was settled for $2.48 million last July.

However, Currie has already put his qualifications to work and seems hopeful of his ability to lead the university going forward.

“I do passionately believe in how the University of Tennessee under Joan Cronan and others has been setting the example for intercollegiate athletics through the years,” Currie said at his introduction ceremony on March 2. “We’ll do some things here over the next little bit from an athletics’ perspective to ensure that the Tennessee faithful and the whole Tennessee family feel like they have a good opportunity to share their personal feelings.”

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SGA executives dis Alex Holcomb

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Now that the Morgan Mickey Hunter campaign won, Morgan Hartgrove, Michael “Mickey” Curtis and Hunter Jones are beginning their year in SGA office with plans to fulfill their campaign promise by making more happen. Hartgrove is a senior in college scholars and the president. Curtis is a junior in nursing and vice president. Jones is a junior in animal science and student services director.

The Daily Beacon sat down with the team to see exactly what plans they have for campus.

n What are your main focuses for the year?

Morgan Hartgrove (MH): We are looking to push some new policy that we started during the campaign season. So, we’ve been fortunate enough to already start having some conversations. I have already talked to faculty and senate about expanding OERs (Open Educational Resource), and they seem to be really receptive to that ... I met with Moira Bindner from parking services today. She is absolutely amazing, and we wanted to see the feasibility of getting that community service to pay for a parking ticket started. So she seems to be receptive to it, so we’re excited to see where that goes.

Hunter Jones (HJ): From a student services standpoint, we’re actually looking at bringing in a lot of fresh perspective. I can say that we have a lot of new people coming into leadership roles and these committees to ensure that we are accommodating the student population as best as possible.

Mickey Curtis (MC): My favorite part right now is that I’m already meeting up with students right now. Those students whom we had talked to during those speaking engagements, saying, “Hey, this is a topic that they had mentioned,” and I said, “Alright, go ahead and send me an email.” So, I just go ahead and speak with those students and hear their stories and figure out how unique they are.

n What are you learning from that?

HJ: It’s overall amazing how you can see everyone has a different perspective about campus, and it kind of opens up my mind to different things ... One thing I like to say: alone, I know little; but together, we know all. And so, that’s one thing I know that Morgan, myself and Hunter, we are going to do. Listening, active listening, and really try to be receptive to what’s going on.

n What are OERs, and why do you want them?

MH: It’s just basically this database of textbooks, online peer review journals and things like that. And so, our goal right now is hoping that teachers pick that instead of the traditional textbook route; so that way they could have more resources, and they’re also free. So that way, instead of getting locked into using one textbook a semester, then they can use multiple authors and sources and publishers.

n Communication was a hot topic during the campaign season. What will you all do to improve inclusion and communication?

HJ: That starts with student services committees, and my philosophy in student services is it really hits home with the student experience. If you look at the typical UT student and what makes up their entire student experience, it’s several different elements. And so, having student services be that group that has several different committees each that focuses on one certain element that makes out the everyday life of the UT student (and) ensuring that those committees are being open and inclusive to everyone to be best serve the students.

MH: Last year, we had a communications director, but this year we will have a communications director and committee. So, that way it will just be more perspectives in the room, so it’s not just one person’s opinion. But, hopefully, with that committee, we can get better ideas of how to reach out to students, and then what methods to convey through the materials.

n Mickey, during the debate, you were asked about how you would be able to handle your involvement with different organizations and still give your all as vice president. What steps have you

Hunter Jones (left), Morgan Hartgrove (middle) and Michael “Mickey” promises. Altaf Nanava taken to be more available?

MC: I’ve been resigning in my leadership in other organizations. For example, I’m with Brothers United for Excellence, an organization that me and a couple others, we founded it together. That organization I serve as president, and I already have plans to step down. So, next year, I’ll just be a regular member. I’m also in the NAACP, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, as vice president; next year, I will be a regular member. I really want to place all of my focus on SGA, especially on senate, first-year council and even in any way possible I can assist Morgan and Hunter, because this is going to be a very pivotal year. We have a

new chancellor. A lot of things are going on.

You never know what’s going to happen, and I want to be sure I won’t be distracted with any other type of business I am apart of.

n How will the new chancellor make a difference in SGA? MH: I’m really excited to see what we’re going to bring to the table with Chancellor Davenport, because I hope that she will be a receptive to SGA as chancellor Cheek was.

So, I think that we will be in a good position.

I have had a couple of conversations with her, and she does have Friday walks with the chancellor, and she’s very sweet and she’s very open to what the students have to say.

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scuss future plans several times, and I think that was brought up just because of what’s going on in the state. We read articles, and we hear about it. But what’s actually going to happen?

n What are your plans to promote diversity?

MH: We really try to make sure that we reach out to different types of people when we bring them on executive (staff). So, people with different experiences, different walks of life, they come from different backgrounds.

That’s one thing we’ve already started to do, and I think it kind of starts at home before you take that out and expand it.

HJ: The biggest thing is, first and foremost, we have to create understanding on campus.

We have to create a bridge and understanding between the different walks of life students come from. Not every student is the same, and every student is unique. And creating that understanding is more important than anything because if we don’t understand each other, we can’t make things happen.

n What are your feelings on outsourcing?

Curtis (right) have already started working on fulfilling their campaign ati • The Daily Beacon HJ: We’re going to be very open and very transparent about what we feel that we should portray to her. So, I will say just setting the tone and making sure that she knows that this university is home to thousands of students; and she really matters, and she must reciprocate. And same thing, we must reciprocate also.

n What is your biggest focus going into the Fall semester?

MH: I plan to kick off the year by hosting open town halls, things like that and being at orientation. We’ll be at all the orientation sessions, we will be at the Welcome Week events, we’ll be able to really see what this great

group of students wants from us and expects from us, because every year, it’s something different ... To answer that, we have to wait and see what the upcoming students want.

n What are some of the big issues that you heard about from students, and what do you plan to do about it?

MH: I heard a lot about the proposed bus route. We had several speaking engagements where they were just up and arms about how they felt SGA hadn’t reached out to them about that. So, that’s one thing we’re lucky enough to actually do get to vote and have that conversation.

HJ: The word diversity. We heard that

MH: I am against outsourcing. I’ve seen the workers and how hard they work and what they do to make our lives as student’s easier and how they create that space for us to live and work. I can’t imagine not having their back through this. I know that our SGA and all the UT System’s SGAs came together to write the joint statement opposing outsourcing, so we want to carry that sentiment.

MC: These people do all they can to make sure our space is clean. They do all they can to make sure we have a safe space on this campus to study, to do activities. It would be a shame if we don’t their have their back when they have ours ... Personally, I consider facility workers as people instead of commodity. They’re not anything that can be simply thrown away or sold or given away instantly without any type of thought of who they are as people.

n How do you plan to work with senators who were elected with other campaigns?

MC: In Senate, I know for sure that all of the senators who ran for a position embody

the passion to represent students. So, regardless that you have varying perspectives and varying campaigns, I know the thing that’s going to connect us is that sentiment that we want to do what’s best for the betterment of the university.

MH: I was in Senate for two years, and I think some of the best bills and changes to bills come from those different perspectives.

Once students are in Senate, they quickly realize tat they’re all there for the same reason.

They all ran to represent students and make this campus better, and so we all have that in common. But, when it comes to those different opinions, sometimes being on different campaigns, I think it’s nice to hear what students bring up. I really do think it makes legislation better.

HJ: I think it’s important to note that we’re reaching across to other campaigns and also students who weren’t really affiliated with a campaign and bring them in various leadership roles throughout the other branches of SGA.

n What are you most excited for in the upcoming year?

MH: Besides getting to work, I’m really excited to get to know a lot of the members that we appointed this year. Some of them, I don’t know well that we picked, but they have really good track records, so I’m excited to get to know them and their personalities and see what we can do when we all come together.

MC: I’m very excited about just newness just in general. I enjoy the fact that I can walk down Pedestrian Walkway and get to speak to students in general without any type of acknowledgement about who they are. It’s just a, “Hey,” and they look at me like, “Who is this guy?” And I’m like, “Hey, I’m Mickey.” I don’t even tell them I’m vice president ... I think it’s going to be amazing the impact it’s going to have on my life and also the university just by being able to listen and get all the different perspectives.

HJ: For me, it’s plain and simple. I really want to work on building this understanding between students and the various different communities on campus ... I really look forward to working to help increase that understanding so that maybe in the future we can have these positive and productive conversations that are bringing together the entire campus.

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Derek Barnett during the spring Orange and White game at Neyland Stadium on April 22, 2017.

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Barnett drafted in first round Rob Harvey

Asst. Sports Editor For the first time since 2014, Tennessee football fans will hear the name of one of their own at the 2017 NFL Draft.

In fact, the Vols are projected to have at least five players drafted this year.

It has been a tough road for Vols fans since the Vols streak of 51 consecutive drafts with a player from Tennessee getting drafted was snapped in 2015.

However, this year the Vols are on the verge of having one of the highest numbers of players drafted.

Here are the prospects who could make that happen.

Derek Barnett: Barnett is the most notable of the Vols prospects and, on Thursday, became the Vols first first round draft pick since 2014 when Ja’Waun James was selected 19th by the Miami Dolphins. Barnett was selected 14th by the Philadelphia Eagles. He was the lowest pick of a Vol since Eric Berry was drafted

fifth by the Kansas City Chiefs in 2010.

Barnett, a consensus All American in 2016, left after his junior year but not before making a huge mark on the Tennessee program. In his last game as a Vol, Barnett broke Reggie White’s career sack record at UT as he recorded 33 sacks. In 2016, Barnett recorded 13 sacks, a career high, and he is second on tackles for loss at UT with 52, one behind Leonard Little.

Barnett has made a name for himself with national analysts as well.

“Derek Barnett will lead the league in sacks before Myles Garrett,” nfl.com writer Bucky Brooks said in an April 22 post.

Garrett is the projected number one pick in the draft.

He had a slow day at the NFL combine due to a stomach virus and then was hampered with a hamstring injury at Tennessee’s pro day. However, he still managed to put up decent numbers.

“My energy, I was smiling,” Barnett said after pro day. “It feels good to feel like myself, to have some pep in my step going through these drills. This is a dream come

true for all of us trying to get to the NFL.” Alvin Kamara: Despite his size, Kamara has gotten second and third round talk. Kamara even received some first round buzz but was not selected there on Thursday night. ESPN reporter Todd McShay has Kamara ranked as the 40th player in the draft and the fourth running back, but NFL Network analyst Mike Mayock has Kamara ranked as the 27th player in the draft.

“Unbelievable amount of quickness and explosion,” Mayock said in a post on January 11. “Alvin Kamara is special… at the end of the day this kid has explosion. I think he has first-round talent.”

A junior college transfer, Kamara has done nothing but impress during his two years at UT. Kamara racked up just under 1300 rushing yards in his two years while also totaling 683 receiving yards. He is known for his speed but also his ability to break tackles. Against Vanderbilt in 2016, Kamara broke eight tackles and scored a touchdown.

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Master money management as a post-grad Jenna Butz, Special Projects Editor

For college graduates, there is plenty to be anxious over: never-ending questions about what you're doing next, student loans, how to rent an apartment, how to start saving, how you're going to feed that golden retriever puppy you just adopted. Most of these problems, the big, scary “adult” problems that can't be escaped, involve money. Unfortunately, financial literacy isn't a general education requirement, and many of us will struggle with living better than paycheck-to-paycheck. To make this burden a little easier, though, here's a rundown of some of the most important financial elements to be aware of.

Budgeting Some people argue that it's hard to budget when your income varies paycheck-to-paycheck or that it takes all the spontaneity out of living, but it's also the key to living in one's means and making sure things are paid for when they need to be paid for, like rent or Netflix. Some people prefer an old-fashioned pen and paper, a spreadsheet or there are apps that work as well, such as EveryDollar or Mint. Whatever your method though, start with your necessities (rent, water, electricity, gas, groceries, etc.), count reoccurring charges (Netflix, subscription boxes, etc.), then work into making a budget just for eating out, new clothes, alcohol, basically anything that's a “want.” Now, it'll be harder to choose happy hour over your bills when you see where your money's really going.

Student Loans Before you can save though, you have to pay off what prevents you from putting money away, and for many college graduates, that's student loans. For many, this is what hangs over their head post-grad, keeping them from bettering their credit, getting higher credit limits or even just having more expendable income.

Start by crunching the numbers with your current payment setup and see what the exact date your loans will be paid off is. This creates a tangible goal to work towards instead of a black hole of never-ending debt. This is also where budgeting comes in handy. When you see where excess money is being spent, you could cut down and increase your loan payments to become debt-free faster.

Savings Financial guru Dave Ramsey recommends starting by saving $1,000 for an emergency fund. This can come in handy if your car radiator blows or an unexpected life event puts you in a financial tough spot. With an entry-level job, it can be hard to save that quickly or to decide to put that money away over other expenses, but pick a reasonable amount, even just $20 a week, to put towards this fund. And don't touch it. Otherwise, it won't be there when you need it. From there, as your financial situation gets more and more stable, Ramsey says the next step is saving three to six months worth of expenses, again as a backup in case you were to lose your job or be unable to work for an extended period of time. Remember to include things like gas and groceries, too.

Credit It's a age old conundrum: You need to build credit to get a credit card, but you can't build credit without a credit card. So, what can you do? Credit is important to getting a mortgage, increasing your credit limit, buying a car, etc., and starting early can help you get to a credit card of your own. You can co-sign a loan with someone with established or become an authorized user on someone else's account. If you don't have someone to help you with this, applying for a student or low limit credit card is your best bet, such as a Discover Student card. Make sure to compare and contrast cards though to make sure you're getting the best interest rate and the limit you need. Then, pay back at least the minimum, if not the entire balance, at the end of the month to stay in good standing.

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Construction brings frustration, high hopes Mary Hallie Sterling Contributor

The campus-wide orange cones are proof that administrators are working to upgrade UT’s campus. To the students it may seem frustrating and inconvenient, but there is a master plan.

“What’s so exciting when we’re doing so many things at once is that we have the opportunity to catapult this university above all of its peers and really position us in the 21st Century in a very unique way,” Dave Irvin, Associate Vice Chancellor of Facilities Services, said.

While many of these projects remain ongoing, Irvin said some will be finished as early as Fall 2017.

One of these soon-to-be-completed projects is Strong Hall, which will be open during the summer for students enrolled in summer classes and will be completely finished before the fall semester begins. Once completed, Irvin said the hall will provide advanced labs for science classes.

“We’ve had really terrible teaching labs for chemistry and biology,” he said. “Now we’re going to state-of-the-art labs. Much larger labs so that we can accommodate more students.”

Strong Hall will also offer plenty of study space, and most of the building will be open 24 hours for student use.

Phase One of the beautification of Volunteer Boulevard will also be complete before students return this fall. The landscaping will extend to Peyton Manning Pass.

The next phase of this project will take the landscaping from Lake Loudon Boulevard to Pat Head Summitt Street.

In an effort to make the campus more pedestrian-friendly, Volunteer Boulevard will now include bike lane and on-street parking will be removed up to Pat Head Summitt Street.

Irvin said, however, that the new Lake Avenue Parking Garage, which is estimated to be completed by Spring 2018, would make up for the lack of on-street parking.

The new garage will have eight stories, adding 1,000 parking spaces.

Another large project affecting campus is Phase Two of construction on the Student Union.

The original Student Union — formerly known as the University Center — was built in 1952, when it comfortably accommodated UT’s 7,000 students.

Communications Coordinator for Facilities Services Brooke Krempa said that as of Fall 2016, UT had 28,052 students attending. With almost 30,000 students, UT required a larger and more modern Student Union. The concept of a new structure was derived from a group of students who pushed the project into the hands of the administration.

The six-story Student Union that currently resides on campus was only Phase One of the plan. Krempa said the next phase will give students an additional 251,000-squarefeet for an overall 395,088-square-feet of student space. Its amenities will include a ballroom, dining areas, lounges and meeting areas for organizations on campus.

“The new union will really leapfrog us from being one of the worst unions to one of the best,” Irvin said.

Krempa and the Student Union project managers said the total budget for the project is $182 million, which was funded through a student fee increase.

Funding for other UT construction projects mainly came from the state, and Irvin said they have been very generous thus far.

Projects funded by the state include Strong Hall and the Ken and Blaire Mossman Building, a new engineering building.

Additional funding for construction is provided by UT alumni, donors and federal grants.

Construction around campus but not on UT property, such as the Cumberland Avenue Corridor, are projects managed by the City of Knoxville. Irvin said he hopes to continue the Cumberland Corridor through campus to synchronize downtown Knoxville and UT’s campus.

Fall of 2019 will see the opening of the new Student Union as well as the Ken and Blaire Mossman Building. New West Campus housing and dining will be completed, and the Cumberland Corridor is projected to be finished at that time as well.

Irvin said he and others in Facilities Services sympathize and understand the frustration students feel dealing with construction.

“If all we were doing was building a new lecture hall, it would be nice, but it would be an opportunity missed,” he said.

“We’re really trying to not just build buildings, not just do a pretty landscape, but to completely revision what it means to be the University of Tennessee.

“At the end of the day, your alma mater is positioning itself to be one of the top universities in the country.”

Strong Hall will house the earth and planetary sciences department, anthropology department and new labs for the biology and chemistry departments. Wyatt Miner • The Daily Beacon

The Student Union is currently undergoing construction as a part of its expansion plan. Laura Altawil • The Daily Beacon

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Davenport looks ahead at future of UT Annie Tieu

Asst. News Editor

In February, Beverly Davenport was sworn in as the eighth chancellor of UT by the UT Board of Directors, replacing former Chancellor Jimmy Cheek. In her short time as chancellor at the university, Davenport has hired a new athletic director and addressed various other issues surrounding UT. On Friday, April 21, Davenport spoke with Alumni Board President Clay Jones about what else she hopes to accomplish as chancellor at UT. First and foremost, Davenport emphasized her plans to build up and reboot the faculty in all departments. With students becoming more technologically advanced, she said there is a need to boost current faculty to keep up with students and competition from other universities.

“We need to re-tool; we have to refine; we have to be nimble and smart and different than when I first became a faculty member.

We weren’t trained to do all those things, and we need to have environments … that match the kind of 21st century learners that are coming to us,” Davenport said. “So, we have to continually invest in the professional development of the faculty that we have.”

On the other hand, Davenport said bringing in new faculty is also necessary to provide students with a progressive educational experience as well as advance the university.

“We need to think about succession,” Davenport said. “We need to think about, ‘How do we recruit? How do we find those next stars, those next greatest people to teach our students and to engage in research that makes a difference and

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improves the quality of our life?’”

In response to Davenport’s emphasis on innovation and constant progress, Jones asked how the chancellor plans to invite more change when university settings are not as open to innovative changes as other types of environments.

“We partner with people who know how to do it … We engage with our cities where we’re situated,” Davenport said. “We have to cultivate that kind of innovative stance.”

The chancellor said she plans to use Knoxville’s assets, such as Oak Ridge National Laboratory, to help with this goal.

She also said she wants to bring in individual scientists, entrepreneurs and students to help.

Next, Clay asked Davenport how she plans to address UT’s aspirations toward the Top 25 and Vol Vision 2020.

Journey to the Top 25 was a goal set by the university to join the ranks of the top 25 public research institutions in the nation. The plan focused on five prioritized areas: undergraduate education, graduate education, faculty, research and engagement and infrastructure and resources. In 2015, under former Chancellor Cheek, Vol Vision 2020 became a part this plan, which added another priority: diversity and inclusion.

“Like any leader, she’s going to come in with a fresh set of eyes,” Jones said. “And then she’s going to do course corrections … to try to achieve similar goals but perhaps update those goals to what she sees is important.”

While Davenport is not against the agenda set forward in Journey to the Top 25, she said she wants to adapt the plan to address to what it means to be a top university in 2017.

“I am in the process of re-imagining what Top 25 could be because nobody that we care about is standing still. Nobody is standing still,” Davenport said. “We need to get

Everyone wants to look at the amount of money a person makes. Well, let’s look at the quality of life that person is able to lead.”

Beverly Davenport, UT Chancellor

Beverly Davenport is the current Chancellor of The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. •Courtesy of John Parker clearer on who we’re going to benchmark and clearer on the criteria by which we’re going to compare ourselves.”

Davenport said she began by looking at UT’s current top programs. Twenty-one of the university’s programs are already among the top 25 in the nation and 13 programs are in the top 10, including the architecture and design program, undergraduate business program and engineering programs, Davenport said.

“Everybody says it’s the top 25, but they don’t know what that means,” Davenport said. “So, I’m on a mission to clarify that, to refine that and to think about what that means. And we’re going to market that and make that message clear … Every program that you lift up and raise up, raises all of us.”

While there are already nationally ranked programs at UT, Davenport said this does not mean there should be a lack of focus on other programs. UT, as an institution that focuses on higher education, still has a responsibility to give its students diverse educational opportunities, Davenport said.

And it takes comprehensive and strategic planning to meet the needs of all programs on campus.

“We are a comprehensive research institution … Who’s to say what we cut out because nobody wants to major in that,”

Davenport said. “It’s a huge, huge challenge to constantly be examining what it means to be a college-educated person. What is it that’s put before our students; how much choice should they have; how much restricted choices should they have?”

Another issue Jones brought to Davenport was about how UT should encourage others, like parents, to understand the value of education and invest in the university for their children. Davenport said she wanted to shift the focus away from applying business models and the idea of a return on investment when it comes to university students.

“For better or for worse, we’ve adopted a lot of corporate language,” Davenport said.

“Everyone wants to look at the amount of money a person makes. Well, let’s look at the quality of life that a person is able to lead.”

While Jones said universities are like businesses, he agreed with Davenport that they also need to address student needs.

“The university has to be run like a business, but it’s not a business. There’s no profit; the stakeholders are looking for different things,” Jones said. “I’ve always said we’re training people to have careers and be good citizens. That’s the output of what a student should be, and I think she gets that.”

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Tips and tricks for graduate school success Graduate school is, for some, just another stepping stone to getting your dream job. It is, however, a completely different animal to tackle than undergrad.

Grad school is much more selective and can be much harder to get into, depending on the steps you take. Here are some do’s and don’ts to get you on the right track.

Written by Presley Smith, Opinions Editor

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1. Choose wisely.

2. Research thoroughly.

1. Procrastinate.

Choosing a grad school can determine where you may work and the opportunities you can find in your career. But start looking early, these important decisions take time. Some sites (https:// www.gradschoolmatch.com/) even offer matchmaking services for students and grad schools. So, it’s a little less sexy than Tinder, but in the end, money is sexy too.

Make sure that you aren’t just choosing the school that you think you’re supposed to choose. Explore every aspect of a school’s program and even talk to some people who graduated from the school in your prospective program. Explore the job opportunities this program may provide and make sure that you enjoy all aspects of the school.

Start looking for the right school and program even a year and a half in advance.

When it comes to these important life decisions, it’s never too early. According to the book “The Thinking Student’s Guide to College: 75 Tips for Getting a Better Education� by Northwestern University associate professor Andrew Roberts, there’s nothing wrong with taking a year or two off, though.

2. Forget about financial aid.

While it’s not available at all schools, many graduate programs offer some help financially for students. Do your research and see what financial aid may be available to you before wasting your hard-earned savings on a school or program. Saving money will prove to be extremely beneficial throughout the graduate school process, so you might as well get a head start.

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New, relocated businesses on Rocky Top Jenna Butz

Special Projects Editor Whether you’re leaving Rocky Top for good after May or you’re headed back in the fall, Knoxville is growing and bringing new reasons to come back for a visit or get excited about next semester. Right now, Knoxville’s working on making it as a beer city, and most of the newest, coolest spots in town cater to that scene. There’s also some changes to Knoxville classics on the horizon. Here are some new places that you may need to squeeze in some time to visit before you leave for the summer or will be up and running by

the time classes start back up.

Hexagon Brewing Co. A little further from campus than other breweries, Hexagon Brewing Co. is located in Fountain City and uses locally sourced ingredients and materials to craft their beers while also supporting the Knoxville community as a whole, both through offering consistent, unique beers, environmentally and economically. Their story started with the hexagon. Founders Stephen Apking and Matt McMillan wanted their name to have meaning behind it, and they found inspiration all around: bee’s honeycomb structures, Apking’s snowboard designs that introduced him to craft beer. After they found their name, the duo planned, raised money, found a loca-

tion and on Saturday, Feb. 18, 2017, Hexagon Brewing Co. brewed their first batch.

Pour Taproom At Pour Taproom, customers pour their own beers and pay for them by the ounce.

This concept has been a hit in Asheville, North Carolina, and Santa Cruz, California, and now it’s coming to Knoxville. When customers go in, they open a tab, and then can taste as much or as little of the 68 beer, wine and cider options they want. This latest location will fill some space in the Jackson Terminal in Old City. The system works by giving customers bracelets that they load their credit card information on to. The bracelet then uses a chip that tells the tap how much of a beer to pour. This can be an

ounce, a half pour, a full glass or anywhere in between.

The French Market This is a bit of a cheat, as The French Market Creperie has been Knoxville’s first and only authentic French crepe restaurant for several years. But recently, they’ve moved from their Gay Street location to Clinch Avenue — so it still counts. The French Market is a favorite of Knox locals, serving sweet and savory French cuisine like baguette and croissant sandwiches, soups and salads and, obviously, crepes — filled with anything from pork tenderloin to Nutella. They’re open for breakfast and lunch seven days a week but dinner only Tuesday through Saturday nights.

(top left) Pour Taproom will soon be located in Old City, Knoxville, TN. (bottom left) Hexagon Brewing Company is located on 1002 Dutch Valley Dr STE 101. (above) The French Market is located on 412 Clinch Ave. Mary Hallie Sterling • The Daily Beacon

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To go or not to go to grad school, that’s the question Olivia Johnson Contributor

As graduation swiftly approaches and post-grad plans fall into place, there are still those who have no plans.

These soon-to-be graduates may not know what career they want to pursue, feel that a break to figure things out and find themselves is needed or want to do more for others through service before going into the workforce. Luckily, gap years exist so that those new grads have the ability to achieve all their goals before going on to a career.

Graduating senior in public relations Sarah Lutz made the decision to spend her gap year traveling abroad with her family and friends.

“My mom and dad were in the military and had the opportunity to travel and live abroad, and now it’s my turn and I get to share this experience with them,” Lutz said.

She said that growing up with parents

GOING PRO continued from Page 12 Josh Dobbs: Probably the Vol people know the most about, Dobbs has been the face of Tennessee football for the last four years. After his final game as a Vol, Dobbs was in talks for the fifth to sixth round of the NFL Draft. However, after impressive performances at the Senior Bowl, NFL Combine and Pro Day, Dobbs has been in talks for the second or third round.

“He’s incredibly intelligent, great character, classy quarterback, off-the-field leadership, all that,” ESPN’s Mel Kiper said in a conference call on April 5. “I respect everything he has from an intangible standpoint.

Physically, he has the traits you would want as well.”

Dobbs started every game his junior and senior year and finished his UT career with 7,138 passing yards and 53 touchdowns along with 2,160 rushing yards and 32 touchdowns.

“I am excited, really excited about the process,” Dobbs said at UT’s pro day. “It’s been a grind of course, but it’s a once-in-alifetime opportunity so my goal is to make the most of it.”

Cam Sutton: Sutton, a cornerback for the Vols for the past four years, has been a model of consistency for the Vols. Because of this, Sutton has gotten good reviews for the draft. McShay has Sutton ranked as the 94th

that were travelers and had past experiences abroad has given her wanderlust. It’s her passion, she said, and she hopes that one day working abroad and with other cultures will be a possibility in whatever career she chooses.

After her travels, Lutz plans to return to Knoxville to visit with people and to work on having a healthier lifestyle. She said she realized that, after four years of college and active participation in so many organizations, she needs to take time to bring balance to her life.

“I’m taking the gap year because I realized that the next vacation I was going to have would be my retirement,” Lutz said.

A common misconception Lutz mentioned was that gap years are taken purely as a time to have fun and be without responsibilities for a while before finding a job. While this may be true for some graduates, Lutz said she will have plenty of responsibilities, such as taking care of herself and finding a job.

She said she believes that a stigma has been placed on students who take a gap year and that they are defined by these steplayer in the draft while Mayock has him as the 74th player. That would put Sutton around the third to fourth round.

“I am a big believer in him,” nfl.com’s Daniel Jeremiah said in a post on January 28. “Any other year when we didn’t have as much corner depth, he would be getting a lot more talk and a lot more buzz.”

During his four years at Tennessee, Sutton put up very nice numbers. Despite only playing six games his senior year due to injury, Sutton finished his UT career with 127 tackles and seven interceptions and broke the UT career record for passes defended with 37.

Josh Malone: Malone is another Vol who has helped his draft stock thanks to the NFL Combine and Pro Day. Malone was a surprise departure from the Vols after his breakout Junior season but has made a name for himself and is in the talks for a third to fourth round draft pick.

“Malone really came on, and I think he made himself into a potential third or fourth round pick,” Kiper said on a conference call on April 24. “He’s got ability and he was a guy that certainly got in sync with Dobbs and had a really good year. It came out of nowhere, but I think when you look at the wide receivers in this draft, Malone probably helped himself as much as anybody.”

Malone broke out his junior year as he had 972 receiving yards and 11 touchdowns, the most by a Vol since 2006. Malone finished his UT career with 1,608 receiving yards and 14 touchdowns.

I believe people need an opportunity to step back, and we aren’t given that opportunity often, which is why I’m creating my opportunity.”

reotypes. However, Lutz sees taking a gap year as a chance for post-grads to redefine who they are before settling into a career.

“I believe people need an opportunity to step back, and we aren’t given that opportunity often, which is why I’m creating my opportunity,” Lutz said.

There are numerous options for students when it comes to what to do for their gap year. Mary Elizabeth Browder, Center for Career Development college career consultant, said the type of gap year graduates take all depends on their objective.

Whether it’s gaining experience in a

Sarah Lutz, senior in public relations specific area, building a resume to apply to grad school or simply taking time off, there is a gap year option for everyone. Popular gap year options include: working with Teach for America, AmeriCorps or Peace Corps; teaching English abroad; traveling and fellowships or extended internships.

Browder said there is no limit to the time a gap year could extend either.

“The term gap year could mean nine months, a year or even two years,” Browder said “Taking a gap year can benefit grads because they can build a skill and make connections in a career field that they haven’t gotten a foot in while in college.”

Josh Dobbs in an interview during the Franklin America Mortgage Music City Bowl on Dec. 30, 2016. Adrien Terricabras • The Daily Beacon Jalen Reeves-Maybin: If Reeves-Maybin had gone pro after his junior year, he would have been selected higher than what he will be selected now. That being said, ReevesMaybin is still ranked the 134 player in the draft by Kiper, which puts him in the fifth round.

Because of a shoulder surgery that kept him out of all but four games in the 2016 season, not many analysts are talking about Reeves-Maybin, but that hasn’t impacted his confidence.

“That is one of the biggest question marks on me right now, my injury and how I am recovering,” Reeves-Maybin said after his

pro day on March 31. “But I have done a good job of rehabbing with my surgery.”

Reeves-Maybin finished his career at UT with 240 tackles, seven sacks and 27 tackles for loss. Reeves-Maybin was not able to participate in all the drills at the Combine or Pro day but made the most out of what he could do.

Others: Jason Croom, Corey Vereen and Dylan Wiseman are all on at least one analysts top 300 board and have decent chances. If the Vols were to have all nine players selected, it would be the most players drafted from UT since 2002 when they had 10 players drafted.

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