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Issue 63, Volume 124
Despite budget cuts, students still benefit from Work-Study Liz Wood Contributor
Hanna Lustig News Editor
Evan Ford • The Daily Beacon
431,388 dollars. That is how much the Federal Work-Study Allocation has decreased during the last five academic years. Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Federal Work-Study allows students to work both onand off-campus jobs for up to 20 hours every week at $7.25 an hour, the federal minimum wage. The number of students involved fluctuates with changes in funding, but 333 UT students currently participate in work-study. Depending on the time of application and degree of financial need, students can earn up to $1,500 per semester. Jobs vary from clerical work to customer service. Some work-study locations at UT include campus dining halls, the
UC Down Under, Scripps Lab, Hodges Library and WUTK. Qualification is based on data submitted through FAFSA. Qualified recipients generally come from a household receiving an income of less than $60,000$70,000. But other factors, like number of dependents and siblings also attending college, influence eligibility. Due to a $51 million spending cut enacted March 1, the Federal Work-Study Program has suffered. Work-Study was one part of a $90 million spending cut passed by Congress. Jeff Gerkin, associate dean and director of Financial Aid and Scholarships, said the decreased allocations stem not from a shift in values, but from the lack of governmental funding available. “Obviously, funding is becoming tighter and tighter as we have budget issues, particularly at the congressional level when they’re looking at the federal budget,”
Gerkin said. “I think there’s a commitment to student financial aid there. “What I think they’re doing is really looking at how those dollars are best spent based on the availability of dollars that they have.” Although UT’s allocation money now rests at $1,003,072, falling from $1,258,371 in 201213. Luckily, few students at UT have felt the effects of this slump. “We still have a significant amount even for this year, in terms of a million dollars that we have for federal work-study students,” Gerkin said. “So we haven’t seen any really drastic cuts. We also have not reduced the rate of pay for the students. “We try to stay a little above minimum wage for our students in the work-study program and we’ve not had to reduce that at all.” See WORK STUDY on Page 3
Claire Dodson
Arts & Culture Editor
Copy Editor Parking and Transit Services provides more than pricey parking tickets, expensive tags and headaches. Known as an “auxiliary,” Parking and Transit Services, like the athletic department, is self-funded, receiving no funding from the state government. Its autonomy ensures that all money from Nashville to UT is funneled solely toward new buildings and direct education. But unlike UT athletics, Parking Services has no generous donors. On a space-limited and urban campus, Parking Services brings in 86 percent of its $12.6 million yearly operating budget from selling parking permits, selling parking spots for special events and collecting fees for the new bus system. The annual salaries, payments on loans for existing parking garages and contracts for various services make up more than 70 percent of the yearly expenses. Parking Services permits rake in less than $5.5 million a year, and tickets make up only 10 percent of revenue. Mark Hairr, director of Parking and Transit Services, said the number of citations issued has decreased by 20,000 during the last two years. See PARKING on Page 3
“Football is culturally inherent and seasonally occurring. It’s a cultural vehicle that the whole school can participate in.” Marta Lee, chair of the Visual Arts Committee, proposed Fueki’s visit to UT at last year’s committee planning meeting. She was originally slated to come to UT last spring, but she had to reschedule due to a show conflict. Lee first encountered Fueki when she went to pick up her friend who was a student at Yale’s Norfolk summer residency program, where Fueki was an instructor. After their meeting, Lee was inspired to explore Fueki’s work and propose her to the VAC. See ART TALK on Page 5
“Jackie and Tom” is a painting by Chie Fueki, an artist who will visit UT on Nov. 21.
James serves as cornerstone Students ask faculty for Vols throughout career senate to support David Cobb Sports Editor
Ruth Tedrick • Tennessee Athletics
McCord Pagan
Japanese artist Chie Fueki does not know how the game of American football works. She is fascinated, however, with the symbolic and metaphorical meaning the game presents to art, a fascination that is evident in her football-themed collection from 2006. “I’m interested in athletes,” Fueki said, who grew up in Brazil and then received her MFA from Yale. “Physically, they embody an ecstatic state of being, especially team sports where it’s a communal activity. I see American football as a vehicle for mock war, the symbol-
ism of the mascots as animal spirits, mock warriors warring with each other. I may not understand the game, but I can pick up on the symbolic nature.” Fueki, who currently lives in Brooklyn, will give an Art Talk Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in room 109 of the Art & Architecture Building. The talk will be her second visit to Knoxville, and she said she clearly remembered the amount of orange prevalent on UT’s campus. “There was a lot of orange moving through the space,” Fueki said. “Football is like a cultural event, a festival where the university can come together to celebrate. I’m always interested in recurring festivity symbolism.
• Photo courtesy of Chie Fueki
Parking Japanese artist to talk on work with Services American football-themed collection eases concerns
Raw and possibly two years away from any meaningful playing time. “Look for him to be a two to three year starter with NFL potential,” read Ja’Wuan James’ Rivals.com recruiting profile, last updated in 2009 while James played his senior season of high school football at North Gwinnett High School in Suwanee, Ga. The assessment turned out Tennessee senior offensive lineman Ja’Wuan James, right, celebrates with senior defensive tackle Daniel to be at least somewhat true. James is all but a guaran- McCullers after UT’s 23-21 victory over then-No. 11 teed selection in the 2014 NFL South Carolina on Oct. 19. The victory was the first for Draft. James over a ranked opponent at Neyland Stadium in But instead of having a year, his career. or even a single game to develop, James started at right tackle In a 50-0 season-opening gets like Denarius Moore and for the Vols just moments after victory over UT-Martin, James Gerald Jones. running through the “T” for the protected UT quarterback first time as a freshman in 2010. Matt Simms as he threw to tar- See FOOTBALL on Page 6
divestment campaign Jenna Butz Staff Writer Daniel Lawhon of the UT Coalition for Responsible Investment stood before the faculty senate Monday, asking for a partnership in the coalition’s fight for divestment at UT. After calling for a brief moment of silence for the victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, Lawhon, a junior in physics and electrical engineering, explained how disasters like the typhoon will only increase if global warming is not battled. Lawhon and his coalition are calling for UT to divest investments from companies
associated with environmentally harmful actions. Although UT has already committed to being 100 percent carbon neutral by 2061, Lawhon pushed for another step. “Despite our stance against the long-term use of fossil fuels, our university endowment currently has holdings in a significant number of fossil fuel companies,” Lawhon said. “We own the very companies that we work to reduce our dependence upon. It defies basic financial sense to invest in an industry that we not only see as in decline but the decline of which we actually support.” See DIVESTMENT on Page 3