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Lab explosion causes evacuation Smedberg takes over as director of Greek Life at UT Samantha Smoak Online Editor
Sage Speaks Contributor UT students are helping to bring health to the Knox County School System. Located in the Vine Middle Magnet School in Knoxville, the Vine School Health Center is a healthcare clinic operating in conjunction with the University of Tennessee’s College of Nursing and the Knox County School System. Although the clinic’s broader goal is to improve the overall health and wellness of Knox County School children, its current mission is to serve students with limited access to health care. For the last six years, more than 1,000 students per year have visited the health center, 90 percent of which were classified as undeserved. Last year, 2,306 patients visited the healthcare clinic to access services such as physical examinations, minor acute illness care, health education and hospital care. Although the UT College of Nursing has helped run this clinic since 1996, associate professor Nan Gaylord is currently the administrator and one of the nurse practitioner providers. See VINE SCHOOL on Page 2
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Firefighters remove their hazardous-material suits after responding to a minor chemical spill in the SERF Building on Tuesday. Four students were taken to UT Medical Center after the spill to be monitored for safety.
Four students hospitalized for possible gas exposure McCord Pagan Copy Editor Four UT students were taken to UT Medical Center Tuesday after their experiment in the Science and Engineering Research Facility exploded. Capt. D.J. Corcoran of the Knoxville Fire Department said the small explosions caused a two-hour evacuation of the building. The transported students were not listed as injured in the explosion, but were taken to the hospital as a precautionary measure. “They’re not having any symptoms, but they went Gage Arnold • The Daily Beacon ahead and transported them Students wait outside the SERF Building while Knoxville just to check them out,” Fire Department officials clean the quarantined area Corcoran said. The boron trichloride gas after a chemical spill on Tuesday.
was in a small, 20-ounce glass tube that exploded after being heated for an experiment. “Most of the gas, the trichloride, burned up with the flame,” Corcoran said. “What that turns into at that point is HCl (hydrogen chloride), which is a chloride, and so we don’t really know how much exposure there was.” Both boron trichloride and hydrogen chloride can be toxic and react violently when exposed to air and water. However, BCl3 is also four times heavier than air, making it possible that contamination was lower to the ground. See CHEMICAL SPILL on Page 2
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With the high availability of free, but often illegal, content on the Internet, college students continue to pursue cheaper alternatives to seeing movies in theater. Resident Life Cinema, a part of University of Tennessee libraries, is giving students a legal way to give their wallets some relief. The program, unveiled this summer, streams select feature films for free from anywhere on campus. This service began in response to student requests, according to Steve Milewski, Resident Life Cinema coordinator. There are more than 30,000 educational video streams on campus, and Milewski said these feature films were added in the hope to improve the quality of student life. Available films vary each month. In September, the most viewed film was “Django
Unchained.” This month’s films included “Insidious,” “Now You See Me” and “Les Miserables.” Karson Marsh, senior in marketing, has watched films, including “Silver Linings Playbook,” through Resident Life Cinema and said she appreciates this new aspect of the library services. “I think it makes this a more socialization-friendly campus,” Marsh said. “Not that we weren’t before, but now the library is promoting things that students can spend time enjoying that isn’t for a grade.” Charles Maland, professor of film studies, said although these films do not directly relate to students’ grades, there is educational gain to many of the films available. Maland is one of the various people who suggest films to feature each month and said he likes to include films that contribute to the history of American art. See RESIDENT LIFE on Page 5
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It may have been the shortest week-long quarterback competition of all-time. One day after Butch Jones said all four quarterbacks on the roster would be competing for the starting job, the firstyear head coach announced true freshman Josh Dobbs will be making his first career start when the Vols take on the Missouri Tigers this Saturday. “It’ll be a great challenge for him in a great venue versus a great opponent,” Jones said. “But I know he is looking forward to it.” The Alpharetta, Ga., native will be replacing Justin Worley, who underwent a successful surgery on Tuesday to repair a torn ligament in his right thumb. The junior injured the thumb in the South Carolina game on Oct. 19 and aggravated it while making a tackle on Alabama defensive back Deion Belue, who was returning an interception, in the second quarter of UT’s loss to
the Crimson Tide last Saturday. “We said it was an everchanging process, so with further follow-up and examination he went in and had surgery on his thumb and he will be out an indefinite period of time,” Jones said. On the timetable of Worley’s recovery, Jones added: “Everything is about how the body heals. It could be two weeks, it could be three weeks, it could be four weeks, so we will see how he progresses.” The decision to start Dobbs over his freshman counterpart Riley Ferguson was due in large part to the game experience the former-ESPN 300 recruit gained in the second half of the Alabama game where he went 5-of-12 with 75 yards passing. Ferguson, however, will be the backup quarterback for the Vols as redshirt freshman Nathan Peterman is not quite ready to return from the broken hand he suffered at Florida earlier this year. See QUARTERBACK on Page 8
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Freshman quarterback Josh Dobbs drops back to throw a pass during the game between the Tennessee Volunteers and the Alabama Crimson Tide at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Oct. 26. Dobbs will make his first career start Saturday at Missouri.
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For the first time in UT’s Greek life, an administrator will directly supervise sororities and fraternities. On Friday, UT Associate Dean of Students Jeff Cathey announced Lindi Smedberg as the director of Sorority and Fraternity Life. After several years of planning, this development is meant to put UT’s Greek system on par with other schools in the SEC, including the University of Alabama and the University of Georgia. Although advisers have guided and directed the Greek community in the past, the new director position is part of department restructuring. Smedberg, who previously held the position as sorority and fraternity adviser for chapters and councils, said she believes having a highquality Greek community is a priority at UT and plans to protect that priority through her new role. “I know that a lot of administrators at the university had to work together in order for this position to be created,” Smedberg said, “and I feel a responsibility to make them proud.” The Office of Sorority and Fraternity Life also intends to hire two assistant directors in the near future. “Working on a team with Assistant Director Jim Harrison, our two graduate assistants Teal and Taylor and the two new assistant directors, we will really be able to make a significant positive impact on UT’s sorority and fraternity community,” Smedberg said. The Dean of Students staff formerly oversaw the Office of Sorority and Fraternity Life, but Cathey said he looks forward to having a dedicated leadership position for the Greek community. As Cathey explained, the director will head the department, leading new staff to engage students in the Greek community and provide them with the best experience possible during their career at UT. The director will also be responsible for encouraging sororities and fraternities to avoid the pitfalls associated with Greek life. In 2012, fraternities Pi Kappa Alpha and Phi Gamma Delta were removed from campus due to alcohol and drug-related misbehavior. This semester, hazing allegations landed fraternities Lambda Chi Alpha and Sigma Chi on interim suspension and probation, respectively. See GREEK LIFE on Page 2