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Issue 11, Volume 127
Thursday, September 4, 2014
Commuters frustrated by campus parking Copy Editor
Hannah Marley Contributor The drive from The Woodlands apartment complex to campus takes about 10 minutes. Last week, Caroline Norris left her apartment at 9 a.m. and searched for parking for an hour. She was ultimately forced to park in a staff lot to make it to her 10:10 a.m. English class, putting herself at risk for a parking ticket. “It was incredibly frustrating that I paid so much for parking and am still not being guaranteed a spot,” said Norris, sophomore in business management. Norris’ story is not unique. Seeking to bring student complaints about
parking to the attention of UT administrators, sophomore in psychology Chantel Harris created a petition on MoveOn.org called “Add More UTK Commuter Parking.” As of Wednesday, the petition has acquired over 630 signatures. “It’s not just parking,” Harris said. “If you can’t find a parking spot you’re late, and when you’re late (professors) start taking off points and counting up absences. That can hurt your grade. “That doesn’t need to be happening, especially when we pay this much money (for parking permits).” This fall, University of Tennessee Parking and Transit Services turned the Lake Avenue parking garage, originally reserved for staff, commuters and non-commuters, into a solely non-commuter lot. The change was made in response to an influx of non-commuters after the opening of the Fred D. Brown Jr. Residence Hall. Additionally, this fall UT welcomed the largest class of fresh-
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-Chantel Harris men in 30 years. Although UT Parking and Transit added commuter spots to the White Avenue parking garage to balance out the numbers, student complaints about commuter parking have abounded. Becky Shields, manager of communications
and customer service at Parking and Transit Services said after noticing the “tight” situation on campus for commuter students, Parking and Transit added 180 commuter spots. See PARKING on Page 2
Create UT library ranks 24 in US, Canada to ‘exist’ Hannah Moulton
Student uses social media as artistic platform
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UT has added a new title to its belt. Every year, 125 of the largest research libraries in the U.S. and Canada are ranked by the Association of Research Libraries. This year, UT’s library system ranked in the top 25, holding the 24th spot. “If I had to boil it down to one thing that it demonstrates to me, it’s the level of commitment that this university has in academics,” Dean of Libraries Steve Smith said. “If the university wasn’t investing in the library, we wouldn’t be 24th.” UT has been a member of the Association of Research Libraries since 1962 and has been surveyed each year since. From the list of 125, 68 libraries at public universities made the cut. Among SEC public universities on the list, UT is level with Texas A&M for third. Several factors are taken into account when ranking the libraries. Each year, the university reports a list of data to the Association of Research Libraries which includes how much money is spent on materials for the library, how many volumes are locat- Nicholas Rhodes • The Daily Beacon ed in the library, how big the staff is UT’s library system ranked in the top 25, holding the 24th spot this year. and how many reference questions are answered each year. This data is “These are all kind of different doing and how we’re doing things Regina Mays, an assessment plugged into a formula which gives librarian, comprises the data which ways to compare these libraries who differently.” each library an Investment Index is sent to the Association of Research are our peers and similar to us,” Mays score. said, “(So we can) see what we’re See LIBRARY on Page 2 Libraries.
Jenna Butz Arts & Culture Editor (@butzjenna)
The last time Zea Askew was featured in The Daily Beacon, she wore her hair in a pin-straight, platinum blonde bob, dressed in “girly” clothes and had just won an award for the best visual art performance in her intro to 4-D class. Now, the senior in studio art with a concentration in 4-D has shaved her head, gone casual in her attire choices and come to terms with personal struggles she’s been battling. Yet, she hasn’t stopped winning the awards. In May, Askew won best performance at the UT School of Art’s Handheld Festival. There, she expanded on her “Wi-fi Princess” visual art performance. Askew tied her hands and feet with USB cables and created a joint Twitter account where the audience could tweet what they wanted to see her do. Some had her draw and write on herself. Others told her to scream, sing Taylor Swift or twerk. Creating what she calls “social media art,” Askew uses social media platforms such as Snapchat, Instagram and Facebook to create and share her art. Preferring Snapchat, she’s used it to create short art films. Over the summer, she broke up with her boyfriend of a year and a half at the same time she was having issues with her father. Taking items of theirs, she smashed and burned them in the video she posted. “I really like Snapchat because it’s a combination of performance and video because it’s temporal and doesn’t last very long. I’ll film myself doing things, and it’ll be experimental video and performance, and just these few people can see it,” Askew said as she described her preference for the social media platform. “I really like doing that.” See ASKEW on Page 3
Running backs look to refine approach for Vols Dargan Southard Assistant Sports Editor (@dsouth16)
Samantha Smoak • The Daily Beacon Senior running back Marlin Lane carries the football in the Vols’ 38-7 victory over Utah State on Aug. 31.
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Marlin Lane tried to maneuver left. Jalen Hurd attempted to scamper right. Over and over, the Volunteers’ run game did its best to penetrate the Utah State defense during Sunday’s season-opening victory over the Aggies. The end result? Nothing too positive as Tennessee mustered just a 2.8 yard per carry average on the day. And although UT head coach Butch Jones stressed he doesn’t buy into the concept because of the possible distorted figures, the second-year coach found an
alternative route for displaying his running game frustration. “I am more interested in realistic statistics, and that is run efficiency,” Jones said. “And I didn’t think we did a very good job there. We have to be able to run a little bit more. “…What is the definition of an efficient run? An efficient run is four yards or more, or if it is second-and-short or third-andshort, you get the first down. Your average rush or yards per carry could be misconstrued because you could have one 80-yard run, and then the rest you are below average. But when you look at the average, it looks good.” Either way it’s sliced, the ground game was rather ineffective. In the backfield spear-
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headed by Lane and the heralded freshman Hurd, UT’s ball-carrying duo struggled to break loose, combining for only 70 yards on 22 carries. As a team, the Vols failed to produce a run longer than nine yards all evening and racked up their lowest yard per carry average since Nov. 26, 2011, — when UT averaged 2.5 yards per rush in a 10-7 loss to Kentucky. “I’d just say hitting it and go,” Lane offered up as a solution for the ground game’s immediate improvement. “No thinking. No being hesitant. It’s just the first game, and we got that game under the belt. We are just ready for this week.” See RUNNING BACKS on Page 5
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