Issue 5, Volume 122
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Former UT student shot in Fort Sanders
Blair Kuykendall Editor-in-Chief Gunshots rang out in the Fort once again on Saturday morning at 5:30 a.m. when Turner Mull, age 22, was shot at
1623 Forest Ave. The shooting was originally reported to The Daily Beacon Monday afternoon by a concerned parent. No official UT Alert was issued by the university. KPD is heading the investigation with the assistance of UTPD. “We’re still searching for a suspect,” said KPD officer Darrell Debusk. “At this point we are analyzing evidence and conducting interviews.” Abigail Delvaux, a graduate student in education, shared her concerns as a resident of Fort Sanders. “I had no knowledge of this shooting and was not sent a UT Alert text about
it either,” Delvaux said. “It is hard for me to feel safe when I do not know when and where crimes are occurring. I wonder if there have been other crimes that have not been reported. As a student of UT, I feel as if my safety is being jeopardized.” UT’s administration did not believe a UT Alert was necessary given their knowledge of the situation. “The university did not issue a UT Alert because based on the information that we received there was no ongoing threat to the campus community,” Karen Simsen, director of media and internal relations, said in a statement. Title 20, section 1092, subsection f of the Clery Act states that the campus community must be informed of any “serious or ongoing” crimes that threaten safety. Mull is a graduate of Independence High School near Franklin, Tenn.
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Over the weekened, Turner Mull was shot in the Fort. UT Medical Center declined to comment on his condition.
Knoxville empties over break, businesses suffer R.J. Vogt News Editor
The winter holidays are a welcome break for most UT students, but Knoxville area businesses dread the loss of their biggest customers. “When the students aren’t here, business is cut down by probably a quarter. We actually close every Christmas for 10 days because there’s just no customer base,” said Karen Strang, the manager at Golden Roast. “We have to, it costs us more to be open with labor and electricity and everything else.” The small coffee shop is just a short walk from the library, and on a typical Tuesday morning, students and professors can be found perusing the news or typing out morning emails Parker Eidson • The Daily Beacon while sipping their morning Jeremiah Welch, junior in music, performs in his junior recital on Sunday evening. Welch played pieces from Bach, joe. Once the last finals are Rachmaninoff and Elgar. There are several junior and senior recitals from the School of Music each month. View over, however, The Golden Roast’s mornings dry up. the schedule at http://www.music.utk.edu/events/. Of UT’s 27,379 students, both undergraduate and graduate, only 26 percent are from Knox County, according to UT’s Office of Internal Research and Assessment. This suggests that almost three out of every four students are likely headed somewhere other than Knoxville for the holidays. Every year, this loss of business affects businesses up and down Cumberland Avenue, known to students as “the Strip.” Even the ubiquitous Cook-Out suffers. The popular campus hangout and latenight munchies cure saw a dip in sales over the break, said Cook-Out co-manager Jason Stidham. “Oh yeah… it was very slow,” he said. Stidham said that instead of trying to increase advertising, Cook-Out management simply plans for the dearth of business and budgets accordingly. They swallow the losses as part of operating in a college community and await the return of the Parker Eidson • The Daily Beacon hungry twenty-somethings. Although many of these busi-
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nesses close for a few days or cut hours, staff is still needed to run the business when it is open. Some students, like undecided sophomore Julie Mrozinski, stay in town to make the extra cash. Mrozinski works at The Mellow Mushroom, and she said Knoxville over the holidays is a strange world. “It was very eerie and scary. It was just us and the crazies,” she said. “The energy was gone, it was almost post-apocalyptic.” Mrozinski lives within walking distance of her job, and the commute to work every day was noticeably quieter than during the semester. She recalled the empty streets. “There’s usually so much flow going on, so much energy, so many people with stuff to do, so many cars going around … I would see one car on my walk to work. And all that came into (work) were families, not a single student,” Mrozinski said. “The only people still here were people that were working, and I only saw them at work. Nobody was around.” Mrozinski did not recommend working during the break, unless alone time or money were sorely needed.
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