In March 2008 Interim Chancellor Jan Simek informed the vice chancellor for student affairs and SGA officers that the Athletics Department would be charging students for tickets effective in fall 2008. The charges had been approved by Chancellor Simek as part of an overall plan to avoid a shortfall in the Athletics Department’s budget. The … Continued

Bruce Foster studied graphic art and design at UT as a member of the class of 1976. He then worked as a graphic designer and learned his craft of pop-up and movable books by taking pop-up books apart. He began a pop-up book career in 1989 while still juggling a “day job” as graphic designer. … Continued

In 1975 the UT football team scored its 500th win by defeating the University of Kentucky. UT first played football against Kentucky in 1893. In 1920 the Kentucky football game was the last to be played on Wait Field (site of Walters Life Sciences Building).

The Foundation for Interior Design Research and Education (FIDER) is the accrediting agency for interior design programs. The Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC), the American Institute of Interior Designers (AID), and the National Society of Interior Designers (NSID) established it in 1970. (AID and NSID merged in 1975 to form the American Society of Interior … Continued

“Footnotes” was a note-taking project of the Student Government Association begun in fall 1975. The service paid note takers, who were not enrolled in the class for which they took notes, $2 an hour to take the notes, paid for a typist, and used special paper that could not be copied. By spring 1976 the … Continued

Howard Baker Jr. received the first Founders’ Medal in 1996 at a Founders’ Day luncheon. The medal was devised by Chancellor Snyder as a means of recognizing alumni or others connected with the institution whose careers exemplify the founding principles of the institution. Philander P. Claxton Jr. and John Cullum have also received medals.

On October 9, 1991, shortly before Tennessee was to play Florida, Jack Sells, who had been fired by UT on June 7 for recruiting violations and lying to NCAA investigators, faxed pages from UT’s football playbook to his friend Ron Zook, the new defensive coordinator for the University of Florida. The pages were faxed from … Continued

In 1922 a university cafeteria was established in the basement of South College, under the direction of the Home Economics Department. That cafeteria was replaced by the larger one in Sophronia Strong Hall operated by the College of Home Economics’ Institutional Management Program headed by Ruth Buckley. Students both devised recipes for the Strong Hall … Continued

Football Coach Butch Jones announced in September that freshman running back Treyvon Paulk had been dismissed from the team following a complaint to the Knox County Sheriff’s Department from Paulk’s girlfriend that he had struck her in the mouth with his fist during an altercation at a party at Quarry Trail Apartments. The victim declined … Continued

UT Dining Service’s neon green food truck, La Lola Loca, quickly captured a following when it hit the streets (mostly near Hess Hall or Neyland Stadium) in 2012. It offered a wide variety of meat and meatless items, including the popular “lola’rito,” a large burrito with rice, beans, cilantro, tomatoes, and cheese, and packed with … Continued