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Students say tuition increase too abrupt Preston Peeden Managing Editor

Lauren Kittrell Editor-in-Chief University of Tennessee students’ wallets got a little bit lighter with the approval of an 8 percent tuition increase Many students were taken aback by the abruptness of the increase, after receiving an announcement from Chancellor Jimmy Cheek regarding the decision from the Board of Trustees on June 21. SGA vice president Terry Nowell, senior in biological sciences, said the increase had been in the minds of administrators and trustees for months. “We had a meeting with the Chancellor and the Vice Chancellor of Finance and Vice Chancellor Rogers in the middle of May,” Nowell said. “We talked about how tuition was probably going to go up, which didn’t really catch us off guard because it hadn’t gone down in the past 15 years.” Despite Nowell’s concerns, for many students the first notice of a possible

tuition increase came less than two months before classes begin. Lee Campbell, senior in marketing, said the abruptness of the announcement was disconcerting. “I just think it’s outrageous,” Campbell said. “If I had more time to let it sink in, I might feel better about it. But it’s a month and a half before school starts.” Even more concerning to students was the possibility of future tuition increases. Nowell said the SGA’s major concern was the need for predictability in tuition increase. “(Students) don’t know if (tuition increase) is gonna be 4 percent or 10 percent and because of that, that’s a $500 discrepancy per year and it can mean an extra job during summer,” he said. “We saw that as a big problem and we addressed that with him.” Despite the reassurances from the SGA over the stability and predictability of the tuition increases, many students, like incoming freshman Lexie Barton, still feel uneasy about the increases. See TUITION on Page 3

• Photo courtesy of Dr. Fritz Polite

TEAM UT students stand with representatives of M Scenic Group Studios while working at the Kentucky Derby. TEAM UT is also the group responsible for sending students to the Super Bowl.

Students work Kentucky Derby Wesley Mills News Editor The sharkskin suits, the sun-blocking hats and the pinnacle of horse racing greeted UT students this past spring as TEAM UT worked the 138th Kentucky Derby. The trip came about through a long-standing relationship between UT’s recreation and sport management program and M Group Scenic Studios. For the past eight years, Fritz Polite, clinical assistant professor of sport management,

has led a team to work at the Super Bowl. Lori McAllister-Antol, president and executive producer of M Scenic Group Studios, liked the idea of TEAM UT helping out with the Kentucky Derby because of how well it performed at the Super Bowl. “She wanted to have our group more involved with the preplanning stages of the Super Bowl,” Polite said. “At the same time, she had the Kentucky Derby coming up and her company has the rights to that as well. She said she also thought it would be really good to have TEAM UT come up and help with the event.”

While at the Kentucky Derby, the team experienced a lot of work in the event management industry. “We assisted with the setup and operation of the Oaks and Derby races,” said Candice Greene, senior in recreation administration. “The operational duties were crowd control, venue setup, venue appearance and cleanliness throughout the entire day, and essential communication between the team, M Scenic Group Studios and other staff that was working at the event.” See DERBY on Page 3

UT interviewed ‘unacceptable’ police chief candidates The Associated Press

Taylor Guatier • The Daily Beacon

Students walk around detours near the hill on June 15. Summer is a popular time for construction, and this summer it continues with the temporary closure to the entrance of Middle Way Drive.

UT funds student businesses Staff Reports A snack dip company, an import distribution business, a children’s fitness initiative, and an information portal for fraternities and sororities will continue to grow, thanks to an infusion of dollars from a UT grant. The four student-owned businesses were recently awarded a total of $20,000 from the Boyd Venture Fund. The fund aims to propel student entrepreneurs before they graduate. It is administered through the Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in UT’s College of Business Administration. As part of the grant, the center also connects each winning enterprise to a mentor.

Since the Boyd Venture Fund’s inception in 2011, six UT student companies have received a total of $42,500 in seed money to invest in their businesses. Grants are available to any student-owned business and are awarded each spring and fall. The spring 2012 winners are: SummerSett Foods, a company that develops, markets, and sells high-quality snack dips. Jake Rheude, of Cincinnati, a management major, and Cedric Brown, of Columbus, Ohio, an accounting major, founded the business after they were frustrated by the lack of a frozen, pre-packaged buffalo chicken dip available in grocery freezers. They eventually sponsored a successful buffalo chicken dip recipe competition. A website is not yet available.

“We’ve received great mentoring through connections we’ve made through other Anderson Center competitions,” Rheude said. “The award will allow us to move forward with establishing a website, designing packaging, and meeting labeling requirements.” Grassroots Uganda in North America (GUNA), an import and distribution company allied with a women’s empowerment organization in Uganda. It was founded by Jennifer Smith, of Maryville, a Russian/global studies major. The organization reaches out to homeless and HIV-positive women, teaches them how to make jewelry and handicrafts, pays them for their work, and gives them the opportunity to improve their health and well-being.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The University of Tennessee spent $2,200 to bring two finalists for police chief to the flagship campus for interviews although reference checks had revealed questionable backgrounds. The Knoxville News Sentinel obtained hundreds of emails, memos, resumes and other documents about the effort to find a new chief. The university eventually hired Troy Lane from the University of Wyoming, and he started at UT on Monday. The former chief, Gloria Graham, left to become assistant chief at the University of Chicago. According to the documents, search committee members began making reference checks on four finalists and four alternates in early March. Those checks found that candidate Carey Drayton had resigned from Florida State after an extramarital affair and paternity suit while candidate Adam Garcia’s leadership of the police department at the University of Nevada-Reno had been faulted in an external review. UT Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration Chris Cimino said late last month that after calling current and previous employers, examining public information, and talking to other people in the industry, UT officials decided Drayton and Garcia were “still viable candidates.” Those two and the other finalists visited campus for two-day interviews in April

and May. UT spent $992.40 in transportation, hotel and meals to bring Drayton, director of public safety at University of Southern California, from Los Angeles. The travel costs for Garcia were $1,213.22 to bring in Garcia from Reno, Nev. UT spent $1,343.15 to bring in Lane and $311.27 in meals for local candidate Gus Paidousis, a deputy chief with Knoxville Police Department. The search committee met on May 14, after all interviews were complete, and assessed whether each candidate was acceptable or unacceptable. Drayton was rated as unacceptable. The reference check notes reviewed by the newspaper found that while at Florida State he was investigated twice and forced to resign in 2005 when a union representative found out about a sexual affair with another university employee that led to a paternity suit. Garcia was rated as acceptable, although the notes said he would likely bring “controversy” and “bad press.” A letter of no confidence in Garcia was signed by 10 of the department's 16 officers and four sergeants shortly after a string of sexual assaults and the highprofile kidnapping and murder of a 19-year-old girl near campus. The university ordered an external review of the department, which described the department as “nearly crippled due to internal dysfunction,” according to the Reno Gazette-Journal.


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