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Thursday, October 3, 2013
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Street Fair alleviates midterm stress stand, a therapy dog and suicide prevention training. Booths from a slew of difAs midterms approach, the ferent organizations lined the opportunity to unwind could edges of the walkway, featuring not have been more timely. one stand representing the UT The eighth annual VolAware Counseling Center. Here, stuStreet Fair took place dents could make stress balls Wednesday on Pedestrian out of balloons and sand. Walkway, offering a variety of Ashley Wilson, a doctoral activities designed to reduce intern in clinical psychology, stress and promote mental supervised this booth. health, including a “makeWilson said school brings a-friend” ball pit, a popcorn stress to students for a number
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of reasons. “Students are coming in and they often experience a lot of depression or a lot of anxiety around school related stuff,” Wilson said. “Being a college student is really hard because there’s a lot of work involved, but it’s also a big transition for a lot of people too. It’s very different from high school; a lot of people are away from home, away from family, so there’s a lot of stress that goes in that
too.” Wilson also provided some advice on how students can combat stress. “We have these stress balls here that can be very helpful, something to kind of squeeze and feel the difference between tension and relaxation in your body,” Wilson said. “Another thing that students can do on their own is practicing deep breathing and other self-soothing strategies like going for a
walk, or baking. “Anything that you can do to help yourself feel like it’s relaxing … The best things you can do to stay mentally well – get your eight hours of sleep a night, exercise, and eat well.” Another booth, hosted by the Human-Animal Bond in Tennessee, allowed students to interact with a therapy dog named Shelby.
Play puts focus on real-life struggles Liv McConnell Staff Writer The Clarence Brown Theatre company will raise the curtain on its newest theatrical endeavor, “Our Country’s Good,” for a preview performance this Thursday prior to opening night on Friday. Both shows start at 7:30 p.m. and are located at the Carousel Theatre stage. The play, which is centered around a group of British convicts who are sent to settle an Australian penal colony in 1788, explores themes not only of the transformative power of theater, but also of the human experience. “It’s a good play in that it shows people who are striving for something,” Neil Friedman, Clarence Brown’s resident actor, said. “The government is striving to be more humane with these convicts while the convicts are trying to figure out what to do with their lives now that they’re 15,000 miles from everything they know. “It’s a very human play, to see people going through their lives and trying to figure out which direction to go.”
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Senior Kimberely Burley tries her luck at a zorbing race during the VolAware Street Fair on Wednesday, Oct. 2.
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Sibling rivalry Final Student Life candidate speaks hits home for two Lady Vols Emilee Lamb
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but I want to beat her really bad,” Caroline Capocaccia said. “I need that bragging right because I don’t have another chance.” Despite all three being involved with soccer for much of their lives, the age difference between Caroline and Melissa has prevented them from playing each other before. However, sophomore Suzanne has squared off against Melissa in her clublevel days prior to college. “We’ve always been so competitive with each other, but we’ll talk to each other a little bit,” Suzanne Capocaccia said about her sibling rivalry on the field.
For one family, the result of this Friday’s soccer match between Ole Miss (9-2-1) and Tennessee (6-3-2) goes far beyond a win or a loss. A sibling rivalry will take center stage at Regal Stadium on Friday at 7 p.m. as Tennessee defenders Caroline Capocaccia and Suzanne Capocaccia take the field against their younger sister and Ole Miss defender, Melissa Capocaccia. Caroline is a senior for the Lady Vols, so Friday’s matchup against Melissa — a freshman — is her only opportunity to claim soccer supremacy within the family. See CAPOCACCIA on Page 6 “I’m real excited about it,
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That’s all, folks. UT hosted an open forum for it’s fourth and final candidate for the position of vice chancellor of Student Life on Wednesday in ThompsonBoling Arena where Vincent Carilli, Ph.D., attempted to show a group of faculty and students why he is the man for the job. The potential UT administrator unveiled his ideas for propelling UT toward Top 25 status. “Pretty impressive group that we’re chasing,” Carilli said. “As I look at this group, I’m pretty hopeful and excited that Tennessee can reach this metric, and move the agenda forward if you will. I think that that’s certainly doable.” Because the U.S. News and World Report rankings of public higher education institutions rely heavily on graduation and retention rates, Carilli provided theories regarding how to motivate students.
“(Students) who identify with a group of peers persist at a higher rate and graduate more quickly than those who do not,” Carilli said. “It’s pretty simple. We have to make sure that they get in here, that we work through the transition, we get them comfortable in their environment and then we get them interacting with their peers as quickly as possible.” Kelsey Theodore, a senior majoring in history, said she related strongly to Carilli’s statements about a student’s first semester. “I really liked how he kept talking about the freshman experience, and how a lot of times it’s those first six weeks of a freshman’s semester that they decide that they want to transfer,” Theodore said. “I’m a senior now, so it’s been a while, but when I was a freshman, my first six weeks I decided I was going to transfer to a different university and just decided to • Photo Courtesy of Scranton University stay here because I got plugged Vincent Carilli, the fourth candidate for the vice in pretty soon after that.” chancellor for Student Life, spoke to students and faculty in the Ray Mears Room of Thompson-Boling See VC CHANCELLOR on Page 2 Arena on Wednesday, Oct. 2.
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