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Tuesday, September 13, 2011

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Downtown Knoxville livens with events Market Square features free movie showings, community gathers for various entertainments Wade Scofield Staff Writer For any fans of dogs, cupcakes, classic films and stationary star-viewing, a trip to Market Square on Fridays may be worth considering. On Sept. 9, the much-anticipated outdoor movie series on Market Square made its return to Rocky Top. This eighth annual running of the series kicked off with a showing of Disney’s “Hook,” starring Dustin Hoffman and Robin Williams as an adult Peter Pan who journeys back to Neverland. Sponsored primarily by the Knox County Public Library, the event will run every Friday until Oct. 14. The lineup is as follows: “How to Train Your Dragon” (2009) on Sept. 16, “Lady and the Tramp” (1955) on Sept. 23, “Star Trek” (2009) on Sept. 30, “Footloose” (1984) on Oct. 7, and “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” (2009) on Oct. 14. The movies were chosen through an extensive online voting process that took place for more than two weeks. The spectrum of time and genre only adds to the diversity of the event and draws, as Market Square promotes, “people of all ages.” Pre-show activities featured pet tips and advice, according the Knox County Public Library’s website, knoxrooms.sirsi.net. The event partnered with PetSafe and Petsafe Village to host many other festivities for pets before the shows. The movies will begin playing each week on a large projector screen at 8:30 p.m., or as soon as the evening is dark

enough. “I really look forward to going,” David Best, sophomore in economics, said. “I think it’ll be a nice way to spend a Friday night after a long week of classes. And ‘Hook’ brings back some childhood memories.” One purpose of the series is to demonstrate the Library’s wide collection of movies and music. Just over half of all circulating items at Lawson McGhee Library now are audiovisual with over 454,000 CDs, DVDs and audiobooks checked out last year. Movie goers should bring their own lawn chairs or picnic blankets to enjoy the films and gaze at the stars. Free parking is available at the Market Street Garage, the Locust Street Garage, the State Street Garage and on the streets around Market Square. The Library’s movie series represents just another opportunity downtown’s Market Square represents for UT students. The family friendly park-like area consists of a gamut of restaurants and boutiques. “There are lots of fun things that happen at Market Square,” Parker Loy, sophomore in business, said. “I plan on going to at least one of the Friday movies this fall. Students should definitely take advantage of events in the Knoxville community.” The first Friday of each month, Market Square hosts various music groups, performers and gallery walks. Sponsors for this year’s movie series include PetSafe, Comcast, The Tomato Head, Downtown Knoxville, City People, Metro Pulse, B97.5 and Luner Cinemas. The cupcakes are catered by Magpies.

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Hundreds gather in Market Square to watch “Pretty in Pink” during Movies on Market Square on Friday, Oct. 1, 2010. The family friendly event returns this year to Market Square and features movies every Friday starting at 6 p.m.

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Daniel Justice, senior in psychology, hands out materials about caring for mental and physical health at a booth in Hodges Library on Thursday, Sept. 8. pants and pockets. The suspect was arrested for the theft as well as public intoxication.

Saturday, Sept. 10 3:56 a.m. — UTPD officer requested to assist KPD officers in the arrest of a male subject. The suspect was arrested for aggravated burglary and public intoxication. 6:05 p.m. — Staff at the UT Bookstore notified police regarding a male subject attempting to steal merchandise from the store. The officer met the suspect at the door where it was found that the suspect had several items stuffed into his

Sunday, Sept. 11 3:21 p.m. — Suspect entered the home of a UT student and locked the door behind him, demanding money. The victim stated that after taking $30, the suspect fled the home. Officers were able to capture the suspect based on the description given by the victim and another witness. 7:57 p.m. — Officer dispatched to fraternity house in regard to a possible intoxicated male lying in the front yard. The suspect, who was not affiliated with the university, was arrested and transported to Knox County Detention Facility.

Compiled from a media log provided to the Daily Beacon by the University of Tennessee Police Department. All persons arrested are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. People with names similar or identical to those listed may not be those identified in reports.

GRE revised, more demanding Jamie Cunningham Staff Writer Students wishing to attend graduate school will now have to take a harder Graduate Record Examination (GRE) with some of the biggest changes to the exam in its 62-year history included. The GRE, a standardized admissions exam required by almost all graduate programs, has approximately 700,000 annual test takers from around the world. Lee Weiss, director of graduate programs at Kaplan, said that the test has a big impact on students’ chances of getting into the graduate programs they want. “The GRE was created by Educational Testing Service (ETS) over 60 years ago and it’s a very popular exam,” Weiss said. “Graduate schools say that a good performance on the GRE is one of the most important parts of getting into graduate

school.” The revised test, which was launched on Aug. 1, 2011, makes it more challenging for test takers in a multitude of ways. The new GRE is now an hour longer than the old exam, clocking in at about four hours. Weiss believes that the added time will test the test takers’ mental stamina over long hours. “The GRE has become a lot more rigorous than it has been in the past,” Weiss said. “The fourhour test has become not only a test of reasoning but a test of endurance as well. Students will need to build up their stamina before taking the test.” The test is also more adaptive based on performance: The better a test taker performs in one section, the more difficult the next section will be. Also, the verbal section no longer includes antonym and analogy questions. It now involves in-context questions that test reasoning and vocabulary skills. See GRE CHAMGES on Page 2


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