Issue 50, Volume 121
Monday, November 5, 2012
Greeks vie in homecoming events Record setting Vols down Trojans, 55-48 Austin Bornheim Assistant Sports Editor
Emily DeLanzo • The Daily Beacon
Chi Omega and Alpha Gamma Rho’s homecoming float turns the corner after judges are able to score the display at the Homecoming Parade on Nov. 2.
Rob Davis Assistant Arts and Culture Editor A week’s worth of hard work culminated on Saturday as Pi Kappa Phi and Alpha Chi Omega were announced as the winners of Homecoming 2012. Second place went to Kappa Sigma and Alpha Delta Pi. Alpha Gamma Rho and Chi Omega finished in third. “For me, it was great to see our hard work pay off,” Cason Hewgley, senior in political science and Kappa Sigma’s homecoming chair, said. “Obviously, we wanted to take first place, but I was proud that we won three events and finished second.” Homecoming week kicked off on Oct. 28 with the banner drop. The banners were displayed all week as they hung on Neyland Stadium. Throughout the week, participating sororities and fraternities competed in various events and were awarded points based on how they finished. At the end of the week, the group with the most points won. Events during the week included a three-on-three basketball tournament,
“Smokey’s Howl” and a float competition. “Smokey’s Howl” is a cheerleading competition where members from both the sorority and fraternity put on a routine to music. “My favorite event is definitely ‘Smokey’s Howl,’” Katie Arnold, senior in nursing, said. “It’s a lot of fun to watch the routines and to see the boys try to cheer.” Semifinals took place on Wednesday and the finals took place Friday. Kappa Sigma and ADPi won first place in the competition. The homecoming parade took place Friday afternoon and started off being led by the parade’s grand marshal, Chamique Holdsclaw. “The parade is my favorite event,” Hewgley said. “We worked really hard on the float and it was great to show off all of our hard work.” Fraternities and sororities showed off their floats, which were categorized as being in the large float category or small float category. Alpha Gamma Rho and Chi Omega won the large float competition and Kappa Sigma and ADPi won the small float competition.
In addition to announcing the winning fraternities and sororities, Saturday also brought an end to the Miss Homecoming competition. After going through multiple applications and interviews, the original group of 21 applications was whittled down to the final five. The five finalists were Katie Arnold, Claire Baker, Chelsea Carter, Brooke Fraser and Becca Keyes. Carter finished second runner-up, Keyes finished as runner up and Arnold was crowned Miss Homecoming. “I didn’t expect to win. All five candidates were really great,” Arnold said. “I think what really pushed me to win was Alpha Chi Omega. They were really enthusiastic about it.” Although the goal of every organization is to win the overall competition, both sorority, fraternity members and homecoming chairs agree, it’s a great opportunity to come together as a university and get to know another group of people. “The best part about this week wasn’t winning second,” Hewgley said. “It was working with Alpha Delta Pi and getting to know those girls better. We came together to achieve a goal and we finished strong.”
It wasn’t pretty, but head coach Derek Dooley and the Volunteers aren’t complaining about coming away with a victory. “There were some hairy moments out there, but we found a way to win. That’s what matters. We won the game,” Dooley said. Tennessee (4-5, 0-5 SEC) was in a seesaw game all day against Troy (4-5, 3-3 Sun Belt), but was able to score the final points of the game. Marlin Lane’s nine-yard touchdown run with 1:25 left on the clock was the deciding play as the Tennessee defense, which struggled all day, was able to stop the Trojans on their final drive. “As bad as we were on defense, and we were really bad, we stopped them on the final two (drives) and
four of the last five,” said Dooley. Offensively, the Volunteers looked as good as they have at any point of the year, carried by a record breaking performance by Tyler Bray. Bray was 29-47 for 530 yards and five touchdowns and had no interceptions. The junior quarterback’s 530 passing yards surpassed Peyton Manning’s school record of 523 single-game passing yards set in 1997, and is the second most by a quarterback in SEC history. “I knew we were down by seven with less than three minutes to go, that’s all I was worried about,” said Bray. “I could care less about the records. I’m just glad we won.” Justin Hunter and Cordarrelle Patterson both had impressive stat lines as well. See GAME RECAP on Page 2
Chris Elizer • The Daily Beacon
Cordarrelle Patterson tries to escape from a Troy defender in Saturday’s game.
Student starts credit business Emily DeLanzo Managing Editor Most students at UT are struggling to decide on a major and eventual career. One student, however, has gone above and beyond the average pupil and successfully launched a business of his own. Nathan Buchanan, a second year MBA student concentrating in entrepreneurship and innovation, caught the business bug the summer before starting his undergraduate career at UT. “My friend and I started a successful driveway-sealing business, and it was at that point that I knew I didn’t want to
spend my life working for someone else,” Buchanan said. “Also, I am a competitive person and I love the challenge of building a business.” His determination helped guide him to pursue his undergraduate degree in business administration and entrepreneurship. Buchanan gained inspiration from his undergraduate housing woes and started his own business, called Credit Virgin, LLC. “I didn’t do anything to build my credit while I was in undergraduate, and I suffered the consequences,” Buchanan said. “In my particular situation it made it harder for me to rent an apartment.”
• Photo courtesy of Nate Buchanan
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Credit Virgin, LLC, is an online platform that assists students in building good credit while they’re in college. “After I had trouble renting an apartment, I set out to learn about building credit. I was surprised to find that no good online resource existed,” Buchanan said. “The two main options that were available to me was to either buy a book or read blogs whose obvious goal was to sell me a credit card and not educate me on building credit. Because of my entrepreneurial background, I saw this problem as an opportunity, and set out to create a business (centered) around solving this problem.” See ENTREPENUERSHIP on Page2
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