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Tara Sripunvoraskul • The Daily Beacon

Jesse Hawkins, senior in graphic design, helps himself to some food at the Varsity Inn buffet in Gibbs Hall on Sept. 22.

Dining hall closes, angers students Lauren Kittrell Editor-in-Chief Varsity Inn at Gibbs Hall is officially closing its doors. Unfortunately, that leaves numerous students on a meal plan that no longer includes the menu previously offered by Varsity Inn. Shaun McNeely, senior in logistics, said that the change in dining will greatly affect his lifestyle and eating habits. “(Varsity Inn closing) means I won’t be able to eat real and healthy food anymore,” McNeely said. “I’ll have to eat the fake eggs

at Presidential. My diet is Paleo-based — where you eat no bread, grains or pasta — and that is all Presidential has to offer. It means I’ll never leave the cafeteria full because there is nothing to eat.” There are legitimate reasons for the cafeteria’s close. SGA president Adam Roddy said the average loss for operating Varsity Inn over the last three years ranged between $750,000 to $800,000 per year. To appease the uproar arising mainly on social media, the university has offered a special dining option. Students who have already signed up for the Varsity-Inn plan will be allowed to stay on the same plan,

Obama campaign sues website over illegal use of logo The Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign is suing a website that sells T-shirts, bumper stickers and buttons with the campaign’s signature “O” logo, claiming the store is infringing on its trademark. In a lawsuit filed Friday in federal court in Washington, the committee says Demstore.com is illegally selling products with two of its logos. The first is the campaign’s socalled “rising sun” logo, a blue “O” with red and white stripes at the bottom. The other is a 2012 logo that includes the “O.” Lawyers for the campaign are asking the court to stop Demstore.com from using the logo and award damages. The lawsuit says the campaign is being harmed by the sale of the competing items. That’s because the campaign makes money from merchandise sales on its own website and doesn’t get that money, which is considered a campaign contribution, when people buy the items on another site. The campaign also misses out on a chance to get the contact information of people buying the merchandise — information that is used for future fundraising efforts. Steve Schwat, the owner of Washington Promotions & Printing Inc., which runs

Demstore.com, said he was disappointed by the lawsuit. He said hundreds and maybe even thousands of companies make similar products and that he has never had an issue before. “We have always cooperatively worked with Democratic campaigns,” he said. Schwat said his company, which is based in Washington, has been providing Democrats with political materials since 1985 and worked with the presidential campaigns of Bill Clinton, John Kerry, Al Gore and Howard Dean, among others. He said state and county groups rely on his site, which supports only Democrats, to get materials. And he said those groups don’t want to go to Obama’s website and pay more. For example, a white T-shirt with the Obama logo is $30 at the campaign’s site, but a group that wants to buy in bulk can get 500 from Demstore.com at $5.49 each. “I think people prefer to have the freedom to buy the merchandise where they want to,” Schwat said. Obama’s campaign filed a nearly identical lawsuit against Demstore.com in October 2011 in Chicago, but that lawsuit was voluntarily dismissed in January. Washington Promotions & Printing had argued the lawsuit was improperly brought in Illinois.

but it will become the campus-15 plan. “Those in University Housing and UT Dining were quite accommodating to students in how they allowed for the affected students to change their meal plans and housing options,” Roddy said. “The Dining Services even went so far as to grant the students on the Varsity Inn Meal Plan a more encompassing meal plan at the same price.” Unfortunately, the plan failed to have the desired effect. Few students are satisfied with the substitute plan. See VARSITY INN on Page 3

It was just a party where Jennifer Smith’s hobby turned into a reality. “I don’t know how to make a graph, do numbers, or anything,” Smith said. It was just a purchase Zach Linn bought to support a friend that sparked innovation. “I thought it was poorly designed and it was hard to hold, but I realized when I was holding that water bag, I realized I could make it out of silicon,” Linn said. Both Linn and Smith placed first with their Squish Bottle design in their respective categories this past month at the fifth annual Business Plan Competition sponsored by the Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the College of Business Administration. Twenty-three-year-old Linn, who just graduated in retail and consumer science, received $5,000 for winning, complimentary start-up accounting services by Brenda Boyd, as well as a one-year membership in Estrada Strategies business coaching network. Linn has become quite the expert in entrepreneurial work. As a sophomore, he placed third in the Business Plan Competition with a battery-inclusive backpack

which could charge laptops on the go. This past fall, Linn won the VolCourt Competition with the simple idea of a doit-all water bottle. He wasn’t prepared for the success. “It was crazy because it went from the Knoxville News Sentinel to the AP newswire,” Linn said. “I got press as far as Hawaii in some travel guide and in California. It went so big so quick.” Linn said his water bottle has four important features: insulation, replaceable filter, collapsibility and durability. Made out of silicon, the water bottle doesn’t contain something brand new, but rather combines unique features of all different kinds of water bottles into one. The major publicity came in a wave that Linn wasn’t expecting. “I really missed the ship,” he said. “I didn’t have any images or anything to back it up. I didn’t have the website for it. It was totally just the idea. So in time, I’ve been developing it and now I’ve got a website and designs for the bottle.” Missing the cut by fivehundredths of a point into the college of business, Linn was determined that GPA wasn’t going to define his success in college and after. See BUSINESS PLAN on Page 3

Shooting incident on the Strip Staff Reports The Knoxville Police Department is currently investigating a shooting incident involving a 21 year old male UT student who was grazed by a passing bullet while walking on 19th Street near Cumberland Avenue early on the morning of June 3, 2012. According to a release from the University of Tennessee Police Department, officers responded to a call at 2:40 a.m. about a possible altercation

at a club on Cumberland Avenue, more popularly known as the “Strip.” A witness on the scene reported seeing a black male fleeing the scene, described as being around 5’11” in a gray tank top, following hearing either fireworks or a gunshot. No firearms were reported by the witness. The victim was identified as Kwame Tyhee Willis, who had sought medical attention at approximately 4:40 a.m. Knoxville Police Department officers spoke to Willis at 4:49 a.m. and reported

in a release that Willis said he had been wounded while walking across Cumberland Avenue in front of New Amsterdam Bar and Grill. Willis was treated for his wounds and released. A student body wide e-mail was sent out by UTPD as a Safety Notice. UTPD urges students to not walk alone at night, and if the need arises for assistance, to contact the police or to use one of the over 100 blue light phones on campus.

Tia Patron • The Daily Beacon

A car leaves the White Avenue garage onto an empty street, due to "No Parking" bags placed on meters along White Ave. Several streets in the Fort will be repaved during the next couple of weeks.


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