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Downtown West to host Knoxville film festival

Issue 21, Volume 124

Constitution Day reaffirms rights Clint Shannon Contributor

Andelyn Barclay Contributor

What happens when you attempt to fit 75 movies into four days? A first for the city of Knoxville. The first film in the Knoxville Film Festival opens on Thursday. The festival, which will run from Sept. 19-22 at Regal Downtown West Cinema 8, will feature independent films with a variety of lengths and topics. “We screen independent films from all over the country,” Keith McDaniel, executive director and co-founder of the festival, said. “There are narrative features, documentaries, short films. All over the course of one weekend.” However, movies are not the only item on the festival’s schedule. “In addition to the films, we also offer workshops on Saturday,” McDaniel said. “We have four workshops that are free to the public that are about the different aspects of film-making.” At the end of each feature film will exist an opportunity for a question and answer session with the filmmaker. “It’s fun to hear filmmakers talk about how they went about making their movies, we don’t get a chance to do that very often,” Charles Maland, English and cinema studies professor, said. See FILM FESTIVAL on Page 5

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Professor Michael W. Berry of UT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, speaks at the Constitution Day Panel on the Fourth Amendment at the Howard Baker Center on Sept. 17.

After 226 years, the Constitution remains as the nation’s governing document. But some Americans question whether we still abide by its rules. UT students and Knoxville citizens gathered Tuesday to celebrate Constitution Day in the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy, where they could sign a copy of the Constitution and hear a panel discussion centered on Fourth Amendment issues. The Fourth Amendment states that citizens and their property cannot be searched or taken without probable cause. Glenn Reynolds, a professor of law and the creator of Instapundit.com, led a discussion about the Fourth Amendment, privacy, security and transparency. This amendment, he explained, is unique. “The Fourth Amendment was actually unlike much of the bill of rights,” Reynolds said. “It was a big departure from the English custom in that it was specifically a response to the English custom of the general warrant.” General warrants allowed English officers to perform unprovoked searches for criminal evidence. The Fourth Amendment repudiated this, allowing no search without substantial cause for suspicion. In Reynolds’ opinion, the current government has returned to the ways of our British ancestors, citing the National Security Agency’s technique of gathering and storing masses of information for potential investigative use. See COMSTITUTION DAYon Page 2

Disability transportation a work in progress at UT Bradi Musil

Contributor Delicately placed amid mountains, going to class at UT is hardly a walk in the park. This complaint holds particular importance for students with disabilities. Established in 2012, Campus Disability Advocates seeks to voice this concern and make campus more user-friendly. Founded by Lindsay Lee, a senior in math and science, CDA grew out of a longing to gather and empower students with disabilities, as well as their advocates. “I’m a wheelchair user myself and I came to UT and saw that there were a lot of ways that UT could improve the ways it treated people with disabilities,” Lee said. “There was a lot of room for improvement. It lacked a forum where students with disabilities could meet. Other minority groups have that, but we don’t.” On Tuesday at CDA’s weekly meeting, the group hosted Christina Moore, project manager for the grant on Inclusive Transportation Planning with the Community Action Committee. Attendees discussed what they found to be most challenging with Knoxville transit. Knoxville is currently one of the only big cities without a taxi service specifically for disabled persons. Without this resource, students must rely on vans or buses that require reservations to be made at least three days prior to their ride, making scheduling around jobs and classes difficult.

“People’s lives don’t run like that,” Allison Gose, a junior majoring in history and political science, said. “But for some reason, these buses do.” Beyond inconvenience, these buses pose even more challenges. One member stated that once she had been so poorly strapped into the bus that her wheelchair tire became unhooked from the floor and she went skidding across the bus aisle. Another student mentioned she has not ridden the buses since a bad experience with the wheelchair lift. “The lifts that you’re supposed to drive out onto, they were so old and not well maintained,” Gose said. “Most of them slanted downwards and it’s not a comfortable feeling driving out on midair onto something slanting downwards.” As Moore noted, the Community Action Committee shares many of CDA’s goals. “One bad experience and you’re never going to use public transportation again,” Moore said. “But, if that’s your only option of getting around that is a huge problem.” Above all, the committee promotes a dialogue about these issues. Through discussion and collecting data though their survey, CAC hopes to apply for a grant, which would fund a yearlong project to improve Knox County transit for disabled students. Not to discount existing options for disabled persons, CAC emphasizes the resources already at student’s disposal. “I feel like someone should have told me a long time ago that there are all these

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options,” Lee said. With the continued support of faculty, CAC has suggested several improvements, such as better sidewalks or more strategically placed ramps. “The biggest problem is there being a lack of knowledge or a lack of communication about there being an issue in the first place,” Lee said. “But after you make that clear, everyone seems to want to fix things and every time I come back to campus they have always fixed some problems. It’s definitely getting better. They have been nothing but supportive.” Stressing the importance of friendship, Lee said she believes the network developing within the committee provides more than advocacy. “One of the things we really struggle with is that people with disabilities have a hard time seeing disability as something they should work with other people with, they see it as something shameful so that prevents people from working with other people,” Lee said. “We have been trying to grow for a really long time, but it’s a slow process because people with disabilities grow up not knowing other people with disabilities and hasn’t had these relationships. So, it’s been really great.” For more information about Campus Disability Advocates, visit www.ods.utk. edu/announcements/index.php. To take the Inclusive Transportation Survey online, visit www.surveymonkey.com/s/tp4all.

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Vols see importance of rivalry, SEC play Patrick MacCoon Staff Writer

While it is Butch Jones’ initial season in the SEC, the first-year UT coach understands what is on the line for his Tennessee Volunteers when they travel to Gainesville, Fla. on Saturday to take on the Florida Gators. Not only does he realize the importance of starting off conference play on the right note, but also the great tradition that SEC play entails. “It’s a great rivalry, but in order for us to continue to make this rivalry we have to start

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winning some of these football games,” Jones said of the Tennessee-Florida game, which the Vols have been on the losing side of for the past eight seasons. This week Jones gave Team 117 an early look at what they will come up against in the Swamp this weekend. Game week preparation at Haslam Field has consisted of not only the Florida fight song playing on the loud speakers, but of the scout team wearing blue jerseys with a Gators decal on their helmets. See FOOTBALL PRACTICE on Page 6


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