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New task force to address safety concerns in the Fort Kelsey French
Contributor It isn’t news to UT students that the Fort has a bad reputation — but the newly formed Fort Sanders Task Force isn’t just an answer
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to a Joan Jett song. UT’s student legislators have determined an unregulated Fort Sanders, which is plagued by a history of sporadic shootings and shady drug dealing, may compromise the safety of university students. SGA has approved of the Fort Sanders Task Force by partnering with UT
Police Department, the Knoxville Police Department, City of Knoxville officials, graduate students and neighbors in the Fort Sanders community to improve safety and enhance communication between Fort Sanders and the university. Over the course of the next two semesters, the task force, compromised of seven stu-
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dents and seven non-students, is scheduled to hold three meetings that will devise a plan to present before the UT administration that will include solutions to improve relations between the Fort Sanders neighborhood and UT. See FORT SANDERS on Page 3
Wednesday, October 7, 2015