Last week, the Starbucks on Merchants Drive voted to unionize their store, making Knoxville home to the first unionized location of the coffee chain in the South.
As the semester draws to a close, a consistent wave keeps crashing over me. It’s a wave filled with nostalgia, anxiety and optimism as the realization that I’m graduating takes hold of me. It’s hard for me to fathom that I will be finished with school in under three weeks.
It’s hard to believe that my time as Editor-in-Chief — and my time as a college student — is finally coming to a close.
Graduation is in 17 days, and I am not sure how I feel but it definitely includes a mix of excitement, anticipation, fear and sadness.
The K-Pop band BTS has skyrocketed in its popularity in just the past few years. While most people probably know who you’re talking about when you mention the band, there are fewer people who actually know their songs and would label themselves a fan. Those fans, though, are truly loyal and …
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In a statement posted to its social media pages on Wednesday night, the Evolve SGA campaign announced that it had requested the removal of a senatorial candidate over the candidate's arrest by the Knoxville Police Department for animal cruelty at Volunteer Hall on March 15.
As this year’s Earth Month kicks off, there’s much to be looking forward to on Rocky Top! The days are warming, tulips are blooming and robots are zooming while we celebrate what it means to Make Orange Green all throughout April.
When the Mu Rho chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi was suspended for five years on March 10, it became the 17th fraternity chapter at UT to face disciplinary action.
When Abbey Lawrence, a junior geography major, began her freshman year at UT, she and some of her friends decided to go to a student organization fair on Ped Walkway. It was there she decided to apply for the Student Government Association’s (SGA) first-year leadership council (FYLC), which …
The Tennessee River has long been viewed as the immovable southern boundary of UT’s campus. But on Feb. 25, the board of trustees approved the expansion of the campus boundary to include a narrow parcel of land on the south shore of the river along Scottish Pike and W. Blount Avenue.
‘Putin is the aggressor; Putin chose this war’: President Biden addresses Russia’s attack on Ukraine
On Feb. 24, Russia began a large-scale invasion of Ukraine with missiles and bombers, which could potentially lead the two countries and NATO allies toward a war.
When you think of Knoxville’s history, you might automatically jump to the 1982 World’s Fair that earned the city its “scruffy” label. Maybe you think of James White who settled here in 1786 and was around for the naming of the city five years later. Or, maybe you turn to one of Knoxville’s …
The University of Tennessee will celebrate Frederick Douglass Day during the week of Feb. 14.
The Knox County Health Department is now offering free COVID-19 testing to anyone that wants one, starting today.
Effective immediately, all mask and vaccine requirements at UT have been lifted.
After months of petitioning and rallying for increased safety measures against COVID-19 on campus, representatives from United Campus Workers (UCW) and the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) were able to meet with Chancellor Donde Plowman on Oct. 7.
In a White House speech on Sept. 9, President Biden announced a plan to require every employer in the U.S. with more than 100 employees to ensure that their workforce is either vaccinated against COVID-19 or provides weekly negative COVID-19 tests. The plan could affect 80 million workers an…
It seems that the university will do just about anything to convince students to get vaccinated against COVID-19 — short of mandating that students get the jab.
On Sept. 7, Chancellor Donde Plowman met with UT President Randy Boyd and other chancellors from across the UT system and decided to extend the current mask policy, which requires masks in all indoor public spaces on campus, except when eating or exercising.
Well into the third school year with the pandemic, COVID-19 has remained a large concern for a majority of students. Its lasting impact on the world and the community continue to be seen as cases continue to rise.
Every Monday, the university publishes updated COVID-19 monitoring data to its website and this week, the data indicated that there is now a greater reported COVID-19 case load on campus than at any other point in 2021.
Thousands of students have celebrated a return to campus after a year of isolation by filing into campus bars and house parties in pre-pandemic numbers. But with a rise in cases, unclear mandates and the Delta variant, many students are concerned about the University of Tennessee’s response …
At the beginning of this semester, UT policy required that masks be worn in all classrooms, with optional masking in other spaces. This Monday, UT expanded its mask mandate to include all indoor spaces, with the exception of private offices and dorm rooms.
On Aug. 23, when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was the first COVID-19 vaccine to gain the agency’s approval, there was a rush of new vaccine mandates across the country.
On Aug. 23, the Office of Chancellor Donde Plowman emailed the UT community to announce that masks will now be required in all indoor public spaces on campus, except when “individuals are actively eating, drinking, or engaging in fitness activities.” The new policy does not require masks in …
There has been some confusion regarding the mask policy at the University of Tennessee.
In an email sent to UT students, faculty and staff on August 2, Chancellor Plowman announced that the fall 2021 semester will begin with "limited mask requirements."
On July 1, Dr. Spencer Gregg, director of the Student Health Center at UT, sent an email to UT students, faculty and staff stating that although being vaccinated for COVID-19 is not required to return back to campus in the fall, it is highly recommended and encouraged.
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, UT students have now been given the opportunity to sign up and be vaccinated. There are currently a few possible options of vaccines, such as 2-dose vaccines like Moderna and Pfizer, or a 1-dose vaccine, Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen.
As a year has passed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, many individuals across the world have been greatly affected. One aspect in particular that has been a prominent issue is that of the mental health effects that have occurred due to the pandemic.
A year ago, Knoxville had only just begun to face the first wave of COVID-19. When the university rushed to send Volunteers home in March of 2020, students and staff could only imagine what the following school year would look like.
It has been over a year since students received an email from Chancellor Donde Plowman on March 11, 2020, with the subject line “Urgent Message Regarding COVID-19 Response.” The email announced what students had already known for days and even weeks would happen: classes were moving online u…
As everyone continues into what are still uncharted waters, it is more important now than ever to be familiar with the most crucial COVID-19 resources available on UT’s campus, including testing and quarantine resources as well as mental health support.
Last November, when administration announced that UT would not be providing hazard pay or a higher minimum wage for frontline campus workers, Brandon Risley, who works as a custodian in Hess Hall, was in disbelief.
The UT Board of Trustees held a public rulemaking hearing Friday morning to hear proposals for permanent adoption of federal changes to Title IX policy and for adoption of new system-wide immunization requirements.
The active COVID-19 case counts and self-isolations for the University of Tennessee have dropped significantly in the past week.
Chancellor Donde Plowman’s COVID-19 updates for Tuesday, Sept. 8 were, as she described in the livestream, “short and to the point.”
The Student Health Center is known for their many resources.
Of all student organizations, fraternities and sororities may stand to lose the most due to COVID-related conduct policies.
According to the most recent COVID-19 active case numbers on Aug. 30, cases have risen by 57 since Aug. 28, just two days prior.
According to an article from WBIR-TV, the second COVID-19 cluster has been discovered as two members of the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority at the University of Tennessee have tested positive for the coronavirus.
In her COVID-19 update livestream on Aug. 18, Chancellor Donde Plowman discussed the data related to case counts, the first identified cluster of cases and how the university is dealing with rooms being cleaned as a result of possible COVID-19 cases.
Tuesday afternoon, UT announced several changes made to the fall 2020 academic calendar in response to the coronavirus outbreak.
It is hard to imagine now exactly what facet of our lives at UTK — hasn’t — been impacted by the COVID-19 outbreak.
The Volunteer nation was rocked with the news of then Interim President Randy Boyd’s announcement to move all classes online on all UT campuses on March 16, 2020.
The Sunrise Movement has never been shy about what it wants. Think youth activists occupying the hall outside House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office demanding action on climate change. Think elementary schoolers defiantly telling Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California that the planet is dying and …
“Reduce, reuse, recycle” is a saying many American children grew up with, repeated verbatim to encourage more environmentally friendly mindsets. But what if that adage is wrong? What if recycling isn’t as beneficial as we once supposed?
The first line of a public health notice from 1918 eerily resonates in today’s world, as parallels have been drawn between the Spanish influenza and the modern coronavirus. Almost exactly 100 years apart, both outbreaks reached pandemic status and created international crises.
The Fort Sanders neighborhood, located adjacent to UT, is the home of many UT students due to its walkability and close proximity to campus. However, with an area highly populated by college students and therefore partying, the neighborhood is also subject to great deals of pollution.
