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Friday, August 31, 2012 Issue 8, Volume 121

Vols prepare for brush with the ‘Pack on Page 6

Students meet employers at cookout David Cobb Assistant News Editor

Sarah O’Leary • The Daily Beacon

Students stop near Dunford Hall for the 6th annual kick-off cookout event sponsored by Career Services Thursday.

If you were on campus around lunchtime yesterday and didn’t eat for free, then you missed out. UT’s Career Services hosted its sixth annual cookout on Thursday, grilling enough hotdogs and hamburgers to feed between 1,500 and 1,700 people, while hoping to provide more than just a lunch. Career Services representative Mary Mahoney said that the goal of the cookout is to raise awareness about the assistance that Career Services can provide to students of all ages. “This is our sixth year doing it,” Mahoney said. “And the idea when we started it was just to do something to kind of say thank you to students and say ‘hey, we’re here. This is career services. We want you to see where we’re located, we can help you.’ ” She said that an event like Thursday’s

will increase traffic through Career Services, but that it’s still a resource which students underutilize. “We really wish we had more students come in to make appointments with us, come to the workshops and come to our job fairs,” said Mahoney. The first on-campus job fair of the 20122013 year, the Greater Knoxville Job Fair, will be Thursday from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. in the University Center Ballroom, but even Thursday’s cookout provided students with an opportunity to meet with potential employers. “Corporate sponsors get involved and help underwrite the cost,” Mahoney said. “And they’re all employers that hire UT students. So we kind of did it just to reach out to the students, but again to make students, staff, and faculty aware that Career Services is here and something can really help students find a job.” See CAREER SERVICES on Page 3

Market offers healthy options Victoria Knight Contributor Buying fresh food doesn’t have to be a hike for students. Held every Wednesday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the UT Gardens by the UT Veterinary College of Medicine, the UT Farmers Market features a wide variety of local businesses and farms who are dedicated to bringing the freshest and most wholesome products possible to the UT community. Fiona McAnally, the market’s manager, said there is always a wide variety of food depending on whatever produce is in season at the time. “The things available here are healthy options that students can pick

up and bring back to their dorms to eat,” she said. Items that are currently in season include squash, tomato and watermelons, while pumpkins are soon to follow. Students can find most products found in a grocery store, with almost all of the products locally and organically grown or made, said McAnally. One company, Greater Growth Aquaponics, sells leafy salad greens that have been watered with filtered water previously used to raise tilapia at the market. Mountain Meadows Farm boasted 11 different types of tomatoes, each with a different name such as “Orange Blossom” and “Rocky Top” to symbolize the varying colors. Moondog Medicinals, a traditional

Around Rocky Top

herbal remedies vendor, provides natural healing products and special blended teas. Holly Hayworth, the company owner, said she utilizes medicinal properties of plants to make her remedies. “People have been healing themselves naturally for thousands of years and it’s a skill I want to bring back and share with others,” Hayworth said. Sevier Blumen, a florist vendor from Sevierville, offers beautiful justcut-this-morning bouquets of zinnias, sunflowers, comphrena and tuberose, to name a few. Robin Yeary, UT alumni and business owner, said even his flowers have a sustainable component. Chris Elizer • The Daily Beacon

See FARMERS MARKET on Page 3

The Walk provides chance to worship David Cobb Assistant News Editor

Marigrace Angelo • The Daily Beacon

Students gather to learn more about CPC during an interest meeting held in the UC Wednesday evening.

Members of the Knoxville community visit local vendors for fresh produce at the UT Farmers Market at the UT Gardens on Wednesday .

According to Tim Miller, The Walk began in 2004 with a typical turnout of 40 to 50 college students. Less than a decade later, the event has grown so large that this year’s inaugural rendition of the weekly contemporary Christian worship service could hardly be contained by the amphitheater at World’s Fair Park — even in the midst of a rain shower. UT sophomore basketball standout Jarnell Stokes was among the estimated 1,000 college students coming from as far as Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City who converged on downtown Knoxville on Wednesday to enjoy free barbeque and take part in the event. “There’s just nothing else like The Walk to me,” said CarsonNewman student Amanda Kidd. “It’s just so upbeat and everything is totally different here than it is in a typical church.” Kidd said that around 50 students from her school travel nearly an hour each Wednesday to attend the service that is typically

held at Sevier Heights Baptist Church weekly during the academic year. Though the event draws attendees from many colleges, UT students may have noticed concentrated promotional efforts by The Walk in recent days, such as the distribution of t-shirts and ice cream across campus. Miller is the teaching pastor at Sevier Heights and lead speaker at The Walk. He said that the promotions are part of a bigger picture than simply filling seats. “We just know it’s important to get the word out,” Miller said. “And we have to use whatever method and means possible. Sometimes we use Twitter, Facebook, t-shirts, but we’re not doing it so that we can get more numbers as much, ... it’s that we understand that numbers represent names and each name matters.” Miller credited his church with being generous in allotting funds for the ministry to expand and engage college students through related means, such as providing food each week for those who attend. “We do all that we can to get

the word out so that people can come and experience The Walk,” Miller said. “And in so doing, hopefully see the personality and purpose of Jesus. So that’s why we do just whatever it takes to get them there, and then when they come our goal is to teach them Jesus.” Though The Walk may not vary from other Christian services in the core of its message, Tyler Quisenberry, who is a part of the group that attends from CarsonNewman, said it differs from other churches in the way it delivers that message. “You don’t get to experience stuff like that every day,” Quisenberry said. “It’s tough to find a place for a bunch of college kids to gather and worship with that style of worship. “It’s not just sitting in a sanctuary with older people,” Quisenberry said. “Not that there’s anything wrong with that. But it’s being around kids your age and being in an atmosphere where (you know) people want to be there.” More information on The Walk is available at www.insidethewalk.com


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