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Issue 52, Volume 127

University prepared for Ebola outbreak Copy Editor

It hasn’t reached Knoxville, but if it does, UT is prepared. The university, along with the Center for International Education and Office of Emergency Management, is monitoring the presence of the Ebola virus in the United States to prepare for possible infections in the Knoxville area. The Student Health Center sent an email Oct. 29 alerting students

of the university’s pandemic plan that has been created in case of an outbreak of a deadly disease on campus. Dr. Spencer Gregg, a physician at the Student Health Center, is working in conjunction with the Knox County Health Department to ensure the risk of Ebola infection on campus and in the surrounding area remains highly unlikely. “One of the things we’re tasked with at the Student Health Center is to be a part of those contingency plans (for diseases),” Gregg said. “When it

has to do with an outbreak of a medical illness, we take more of a front role.” While Gregg said the pandemic plan has a wide scope, he stressed his desire to avoid causing unnecessary panic amongst the local populace. “What we’ve done at the university is to try to put the information out to the campus community that we understand that nervousness, that anxiety,” Gregg said. The outbreak of the Ebola virus has claimed the lives of

iting, is contracted through contact with the bodily fluids of infected individuals. “The type of response that we’re able to mount from a public health standpoint makes the potential for someone in the United States to contract Ebola to be exceedingly small,” -Brian Gard Gregg said. For Brian Gard, director of UT Knoxville Emergency nearly 5,000 individuals worldManagement, the plan was wide, and only one American created primarily in response to has died as a result of the disease. public pressure. The virus, which exhibits symp“It was time to let (the public) toms of fever, diarrhea and vom- know ‘we are watching this, we

I f it was more of a concern, you’d be hearing from us.

Tanner Hancock

Fallout shelters show Cold War past

have a plan,”’ Gard said. “If it was more of a concern, you’d be hearing more from us.” Attributing much of the Ebola scare to media “hyping,” Gard views influenza as a far more immediate concern to students sitting in close quarters on a daily basis. “Seasonal flu is always a problem for a place like a university,” Gard said. “Any place where people gather in large groups on a regular basis, seasonal flu is a problem.” See EBOLA on Page 2

Beacon claims national awards

Staff Report

The long, skinny rectangle on the far left of the blue print of McClung Museum shows the space used as a fallout shelter. Hannah Cather • The Daily Beacon

Adam Prosise’s Knoxville roots exposed him to stories about nuclear bomb drills that had been passed down from his parents, who both attended Oak Ridge There might be a bomb Elementary. shelter underneath your “[The fear] was really sort classroom. of omnipresent back then,” With Oak Ridge National Prosise said. “I remember Laboratory just 30 minutes my parents telling me about away, the Knoxville area the ‘duck and cover’ drills contains its fair share of where you would watch fallout shelters -- some of the films in class, and they them still present on cam- would do drills by hiding pus today. under their desks. It was For those living in just expected because it was Knoxville post-World War II, in the back of everybody’s the threat of nuclear attack mind in that area.” was very real. UT alumnus A brother of UT’s Kappa

Heidi Hill

Contributor

Sigma chapter, Prosise recalled how the fraternity house’s basement once served as a nuclear fallout shelter. He speculated that the shelter would have been open to both students and non-students in the event of a nuclear attack. Though no signage exists today at Kappa Sigma’s house, Prosise said the architecture of the house itself is a nod to the attackreadiness present in the nation during the ‘50s and ‘60s. “You can tell it’s meant to be very futuristic,” Prosise said. “Back in ‘54 when it

was built, the [shelter] was just another feature to make it the latest and greatest thing. If you didn’t have to have a fallout shelter in your backyard, it was nice to know that they had one right there.” Similarly, McClung Museum Director Jeff Chapman also recalls the bomb drills in his grammar school days. “I don’t know how aware I was of the threat other than the fact that we had drills,” Chapman said, “They actually issued metal dog tags that had your pertinent information like your home

address---in case something really happened, if they had to identify a body or a lost child.” Morbid musings aside, McClung Museum also holds a remnant of Cold War paranoia in its basement. Chapman said water canisters and leftover packaged supplies were found in a tiny crawl space during the building’s construction in 1961, later becoming part of the museum’s current storage space underneath McClung Auditorium. See BOMBSHELTERS on Page 2

Last weekend, two Daily Beacon staff members, Claire Dodson, editor-in-chief, and Hanna Lustig, managing editor, traveled to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to attend the National College Media Convention. The convention gathered more than 2,000 student journalists and advisers who engaged in workshops, critiques, special events and awards ceremonies. One of these award ceremonies, the College Media Association’s Pinnacle Award recognized two Beacon staff members, Liv McConnell, special projects editor, and Dillon Canfield, graphic designer, for their individual contributions to the newspaper. Liv McConnell, second place in Best Arts and Entertainment Story: McConnell’s coverage of the history of the Vagabondia Castle was honored for its originality of content, high quality of writing and thoughtful reporting. In the story titled, “Remains from ‘Vagabondia Castle’ still guard Knoxville’s historic, artistic roots,” McConnell chronicled the time author Frances Hodgson Burnett spent in Knoxville and the legacy she left in her wake. Dillon Canfield, second place for Best Editorial Illustration: The front cover of the Feb. 21, 2014, issue of the Daily Beacon featured an illustration from Canfield that paired with the article on last year’s Boxing Weekend. This award recognizes the excellence in the design and original artwork.

Out of Commission Justin Worley to undergo surgery on torn labrum and will miss rest of the season

Troy Provost-Heron Sports Editor (@TPro_UTDB) In the final three games of his collegiate career at Tennessee, Justin Worley will sport street clothes, not a helmet and pads. Following Tuesday’s practice, head coach Butch Jones

announced the senior quarterback will undergo surgery to repair a torn labrum in his throwing shoulder and miss the rest of the season. “I give Justin Worley all the credit in the world,” Jones said. “He tried anything and everything to rehabilitate his shoulder back, but he just could not get the velocity he needed.”

Queen of Pop and Crooning King unite for unlikely collaboration ARTS & CULTURE >>pg. 3

Worley started the first seven games under center for the Volunteers this season, completing 62.3 percent of his passes (157-of-252) for 1,579 yards and 12 touchdowns while throwing also throwing eight interceptions. He also rushed for three touchdowns on the season. The injury, however, has not prevented the 6-foot-4, 220-pound signal caller from hanging around his teammates, as he was in atten-

dance during the Vols’ 45-42 victory over South Carolina – his home state – in Columbia, as well as during Tuesday’s practice. The injury likely ends Worley’s career as a Vol, in which he played in 24 games – starting in 17 of them – and threw for 3,556 yards and 23 touchdowns with a career completion percentage of 59 (329-of-558). See FOOTBALL on Page 6

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Justin Worley, left, high-fives LaDarrell McNeil before Saturday night’s game against South Carolina. Worley is officially out for the season with a torn labrum in his throwing shoulder. Hannah Cather • The Daily Beacon

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