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5/5/2012 |
Courtney Childers’ Advertising/Public Relations 490 class spent the semester creating social media campaigns for Dell’s XPS 13 ultrabook. The class not only worked on these campaigns for a grade, but to present them in a contest for a panel of judges that included Adv/PR’s Margaret Morrison and Michael Palenchar, alongside Melissa Lentz from NYC-based marketing agency Mr. Youth and Adam Brown, executive director of social media for Dell and a ’94 UT Adv/PR alum.
These teary-eyed students (minus the one on the far right: that’s Adam Brown) are Social Impact, the winners of the contest. The judges said they were able to squeeze past their competition by focusing on the ultrabook’s long-lasting battery life with encouraging consumers to share battery-life stories and utilizing hashtags like “#itsalive.” Guess with their fancy new ultrabooks they took home as prizes they won’t need to be tweeting #itsalive anytime soon. |
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4/21/2012 |
Sally Parish, assistant director of student orientation and leadership development, only has one priority: students.
Parish has worked in the Office of Student Orientation and Leadership Development for a little over two years. Her position takes her all over campus, working with students and doing different things every day.
“No day is the same,” said Parish. “Some days I’m on Pedestrian Walkway, and sometimes I’m teaching a class, but then some days I’m cleaning whip cream out of someone's hair because they got pied in the face . . . that's what makes it exciting.”
A native Tennessean, Parish graduated from the University of Memphis with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. She then moved to Florida, where she received her master’s in higher education and administration with an emphasis in leadership development.
“I loved the journalism classes I took,” said Parish. ”But i couldn't see myself necessarily being good at being a journalist; but I knew I was good at being a student leader. [I] knew that my true passion was working with students, and so I knew that I would find my way back to a college campus."
Whether it’s teaching a First Year Studies Seminar, overseeing several student leaders, or just having lunch, Parish always finds herself face-to-face with dozens of students daily.
"I'm never without a student when I'm on campus,” she said. “I almost always have a student in my office, or I’m teaching a class, or I’m in a student meeting. I truly do what I do because I love working with students. And so, a good day is a day that I get to spend surrounded by students at the University of Tennessee."
And several University of Tennessee students have noticed her influence in just her few years of being on campus. |
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4/21/2012 |
Watch out: Tyler Allen will inspire you, make you laugh, draw a picture for you and beat you at Mortal Kombat all in the same breath.
Major: Business Management with a concentration in Entrepreneurship
Hometown: Nashville, Tennessee
Dream vacation: Jamaica
Biggest art influence: Murakami Takashi
Favorite song: Quiet Storm - Smokey Robinson
Think of a catchphrase for yourself: Keep Life Extraterrestrial.
Last weird dream you had: I was in the middle of a fistfight with a walrus.
Tell us a joke: Two clown cars get into a head-on accident. 30 clowns were injured. |
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4/18/2012 |
A Survivor-ship Story: The Snuggly Sidekicks Journey to Defeating Childhood Cancer
At first glance, these cute plushies appear to be out of place at EUR?CA, the Office of Undergraduate Research’s yearly research exhibition. However, upon further inspection a poster declares, “Cancer affects every 14 out of every 100,000 children in the U.S. each year.”
These dolls were actually a part of a graphic design students Diana Lowrie, Simon Sok and Rachel Landrith’s winning project, entitled, ”A Survivor-ship Story: The Snuggly Sidekicks Journey to Defeating Childhood Cancer.” The dolls were created with the mindset that young children battling cancer need something to comfort them throughout the harsh process. Each hand-crafted doll represents a different form of cancer, and the team designed both booklets and posters to go along with their display. |
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4/18/2012 |
There’s that group project with that girl who hasn’t been to class since spring break. That meeting with, wait, what is that meeting even about anyway? Five club meetings. Three tests. Two papers. The presentation. The banquet. The bake sale. The –
Stop.
You’re already panicking and you haven’t even started yet. Whether it’s by conspiracy or just consistent bad luck, it’s inevitable that college students will find themselves tackling more than seems reasonable near the end of the semester. Now, breathe. We will get you through this.
Don’t party the weekend before
You may feel like your imminent death is near, but partying like it’s the end of the world is only going to further hinder you. You have to actually do work come Sunday night. Let’s say you go out Friday night. Well first, your body has to go into overtime to push out all the alcohol, and the more you drink the harder your body is going to have to work.
On top of that, when you sleep with alcohol running through your system you might as well not be sleeping at all. Despite the fact that you, “sleep like a rock,” you’re still not getting the full amount of rest because alcohol disrupts your sleep patterns. So even if you go out Friday night and don’t drink anymore for the rest of the weekend, it’s likely that you still won’t be at 100 percent until well into Sunday afternoon or evening. This gives you absolutely no time to prepare for the week ahead of you.
Clean
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4/11/2012 |
Okay, so you didn’t win the Mega Millions.
However, if saying, “I’d like to buy a vowel,” is on your bucket list, you might want to scurry down to Turkey Creek Public Market April 14 and 15 for a chance to audition for a taping of Wheel of Fortune.
Yes, Wheel of Fortune.
The Wheelmobile, a giant yellow RV that travels the country in search of contestants, is making a weekend stop in Knoxville. Everyone who attends will be able to fill out an application to be part of the event’s six audition “shows.” Applications will be picked by drawing. If your application is chosen, you’ll be interviewed and also get to participate in a version of Wheel of Fortune resembling the final spin round.
In true game show spirit, there will be prizes for everyone who makes it to the stage. So get your Vanna White smile on and we’ll see you at the wheel, collegiettes! |
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4/7/2012 |
Plants: the only thing harder to care for than small children and angst-ridden teenagers, right?
Wrong.
Well, mostly wrong.
The truth is, that yes, some plants are practically impossible to keep alive. They’re the ones you see in pictures on Pinterest that look absolutely stunning, that is, until you get one of these beautiful flowers into your clutches. Unlike kids and teenagers, plants don’t cry or steal the car in the middle of the night when they’re vying for attention. It is solely up to you to make sure they are healthy and happy.
But that doesn’t mean you should give up on trying. Plants have been reported to be good for your health, as they make air cleaner and their presence alone can make you feel more relaxed. This is essential for many of the cramped dorm rooms and apartments college students find themselves spending four to five years in. |
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4/5/2012 |
Jimmy Jones is that guy in the library and the gym with the awesome curly hair. Yep, that’s a small rodent in his pocket.
Major: Civil Engineering
Hometown: Nashville, Tennessee
Favorite activity: Driving
Favorite food: Sandwiches, of course.
Favorite saying: “I mean, but I’m old fashioned.”
Favorite movie: A 4-way tie between Zoolander, Hot Tub Time Machine, Donnie Darko and Cruel Intentions.
Favorite animal: Dachshund (he used to have one named Beef, which must have been interesting for the neighbors when Beef occasionally got out and Jimmy had to go searching for him, screaming “Beef!”)
Favorite childhood story: I didn’t like to talk when I was in kindergarten, so my teachers thought I couldn’t read. They had a meeting with my mom, who looked really puzzled and said, ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about, Jimmy sits at the table and reads the newspaper every day.’ |
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3/31/2012 |
The weather here on Rocky Top has been beautiful lately with temperatures well into the high 70s. Naturally, people we haven’t seen in months have finally emerged from hibernation to bask in the sunlight. Outdoor, between-class naps have returned, stores are being ransacked for shorts and flip-flops, and if you don’t get your spot early, the amphitheater on any given weekday is standing-room only.
We all know tanning can be a difficult, sensitive, and if done wrong, painful process. To curb some of the sunbathing woes this pre-swimsuit season, we compiled a list of apps to help you while you’re out there in the sun.
Phone Overheat Alert– Android – Free
Your phone probably gets a little hot even if you’ve been playing Draw Something for a little too long, so imagine taking your phone out into 80-degree weather at high noon. Constant overheating can cause your phone to slow down or even stop working entirely. This free app monitors your phone’s temperature, alerting you if it needs to be shut down and cool off for a while.
Perfect Tan– Apple - $ 0.99
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3/18/2012 |
I once watched Allison Olmstead take scraps of black construction paper, draw what looked like to me random hieroglyphs on them, then cut them out and fold them into a sphere. I stood on a chair across the room, struggling to draw a Pikachu on a giant piece of yellow paper. Before I could even accidentally slice half the tail of my Pikachu off and curse loudly, she had what was basically a paper lantern hanging up in the middle of our cramped room in Hess Hall.
I lived with Allison (or Allllllllllly-son, as I liked to call her, my friends took to calling her Alice) for two years. She would get random ideas in the middle of the night while our clunky air conditioner kept us up; when we got an apartment she kept a huge piece of lime green felt in her room to use as a green screen; she did stop-motion projects just for kicks; she made a light kit out of flood lights from Home Depot; she would stay up for two days straight to work on projects with only soft drinks and macaroni keeping her going; she should have been given an award just for how many things she put in 3D in a semester. Even her careless doodles scribbled on the site of her history notes could outdo some of my most thoughtful attempts.
I would just stare at her, prodding her for information on what kind of creative spirit had so generously kissed the right side of her brain. She would just laugh at me and continue working.
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