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Issue 55, Volume 127

Networking event to provide ‘crucial tool’ for students’ future Tayllor Cochrane Contributor

It’s all about who you know. UT Student Career Services, in collaboration with with the UT Knoxville Alumni Association, the UT Athletics Department and UNITE, will host their annual “Networking at Neyland” event Thursday from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Lauricella Center of Neyland Stadium. The event, meant to increase students’ networking skills and their connections in the Knoxville area, will gather approximately 120 professional representatives from a variety of business, government and non-profit organizations and companies. For Mary Mahoney, UT Student Career Services assistant director, networking is a crucial tool which allows students to expand their circle of peers and potential employers and ease their search for an internship or position after graduation. “Students need to realize how networking can open up opportunities they may never have known about,” Mahoney said. “Many employment opportunities and/or leads come from the connections we have with individuals. “Whether looking for a job or just trying to connect with people in a field of interest to you is made possible by the networking connections we make.” These professionals will give “superior advice” in areas ranging from communication skills to how to make a good impression. Mahoney noted these kinds of tips are crucial and can be applied to any field. “Students will have the opportunity to meet individuals from a variety of career fields, and they will be able to practice how to introduce themselves and what key things to say to start a conversation,” Mahoney said. McKenzie Martin, The Volunteer Channel president and senior in journalism and electronic media, said she knows first hand the importance of networking as she currently works as an intern for Scripps Networks Interactive. Martin explained that, these days, simply having an impressive resume isn’t enough, and that a student will need many connections and contacts who can testify to their personal abilities. “If you want to work somewhere and you know someone who works there, then you have the ability to reach out to them and seek information about that specific job,” Martin said. “Networking is just a nice way of getting to know people and being informed. “It simply helps you get a job.” For questions or concerns, contact mmahoney@utk.edu.

UTK Senate passes ‘Gender-Neutral Bathrooms’ bill

Hannah Marley Staff Writer

Gender-neutral bathrooms are coming to a University of Tennessee building near you. Actually, every building on campus by 2019. The SGA Student Senate voted to pass two bills Tuesday night, including the revised version of a bill mandating the designation of at least one gender neutral

bathroom in every building on campus. “The Gender-Neutral Bathrooms” bill, which passed with 47 votes for, 12 abstaining and 10 against, will require one gender-neutral bathroom in every current UT building, excluding Greek life buildings and newly constructed buildings like the Fred D. Brown Residence Hall. In compliance with the bill, one women’s restroom in each building will be converted to a gender-neutral restroom by adding a lock on the door and a new sign indicating its new function.

The cost of these small changes will be completely covered by funds from the Americans with Disabilities Act. Leala Marlin, sophomore in communication studies, who co-wrote the bill along with SGA senator Blake Tate, said she believes including the bathrooms is an inexpensive, unobtrusive way to promote acceptance on campus. “I originally wouldn’t have thought of gender neutral bathrooms in that way, but when it was brought to light, I was like ‘yes, this is something that can be considered inclusive,’” Marlin said.

Thomas Tran, a sophomore in anthropology and member of OUTReach, recently experienced a difficult situation when using the restroom at the “HalloQueen Drag Show” while dressed in drag. “I really wasn’t sure which one I should go to because I was in drag,” Tran said. “Despite knowing that I am safe, even going to the bathroom made me feel really uncomfortable because I wasn’t sure how someone in that bathroom would react.” See SENATE BILL on Page 2

A party on wheels

Artist Caden Montgomery designed the Big Love Buses with help painting from UT students. Cortney Roark • The Daily Beacon

Big Love Bus provides lively transportation, strives to create happiness Cortney Roark

miss as it carries partying passengers around the streets of Knoxville. Featuring indoor and outdoor stereo systems, coolers and televisions, the series of three psychedelic buses are There’s a new bus in town, and catching it used for everything from tailgating to dancing. “I think it’s perfect for Knoxville,” Renee has never been so groovy. Move over Knoxville Sprouse, owner of the Big Love Bus, said. “I Area Transit. think it’s great for these people and just our Meet the Big Love Bus. Brightly painted with art inspired by albums community. It’s just something different – of the ‘60s, the Big Love Bus is impossible to something to smile about.” Originally from New Orleans, Sprouse has Copy Chief

lived in Knoxville since 1994. She was first inspired to purchase the buses after her two sons, now 7 and 4, started school. Suddenly left with more time on her hands, Sprouse went on a party bus excursion with her step motherin-law in Dallas. A few months later, she had purchased and renovated three school buses, and the Big Love Bus craze was born. See LOVE BUS on Page 2

Theater association to host ‘The Vibrator Play’ Sage Davis

Contributor If you think diamonds are a girl’s best friend, think again. All Campus Theatre, UT’s undergraduate theater association, will present the Tony Award nominated play, “In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play)” in the HSS Amphitheater this weekend. The play was written by Sarah Ruhl, an award-winning American playwright, and her controversial play was nominated for three 2010 Tony Awards. Set in the 1880s, the show displays the early history of the vibrator when it was previously used as a medical appliance used to trigger women to orgasm as a type of therapy for their diagnosed “hysteria.” Summer Awad, junior in College Scholars, portrays Sabrina Daldry, who is sexually frustrated and unhappy in her marriage. This dissatisfaction is mistaken as hysteria, causing her husband to take her to receive vibrator treat-

‘Medea’ goes to UT ARTS & CULTURE >>pg. 6

ments. “She develops a lot through the play,” Awad commented. “Throughout of the course of treatments, she discovers that she can take control over her own sexuality and learns that the situation with her husband is not how a marriage should be. She goes through a lot to figure out her own marriage and sexuality.” Awad, also co-chair of Sex Week and a performer in the annual “Vagina Monologues” production, is no stranger to this risqué topic. “I was extremely excited about the play,” Awad said. “This kind of topic is right up my alley with dealing with women and gender roles and their sexuality. As soon as I heard about (All Campus Theatre) doing a play that covers this topic of hysteria and invention of the vibrator, I was really excited about it since it is really important how women’s roles developed over the course of history.” Ryan Davenport, junior in theatre and mathematics and member of All Campus Theater, plays Leonard Irving, a depressed painter. See NEXT ROOM on Page 6

“Everybody wants a piece. They all want a piece of that delicious ‘Josh Dobbs wins us football games’ cream pie.” VIEWPOINTS >>pg. 4

• Photo Courtesy of “In the Next Room” Facebook page

When: November 7-9. Show Times: November 6,7 & 8:7:30p.m. November 9:2:30p.m.

Price: Free for students who opted-in,$3 for everyone else. Where: HSS Amphitheater

Dobbs turning unlikely moments into stardom SPORTS >>pg. 7


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