On March 7, 1991, Leslie Meredith Williams, a UT student from New Jersey, was struck by a car around 11:00 p.m., as she crossed Cumberland Avenue approximately 40 yards from the Seventeenth Street intersection. According to witnesses, she was standing on the yellow center-street line when struck by a car driven by Kent M. Browning … Continued

Although the Tennessee Board of Regents’ campus crime records were released to the public (ETSU since 1986; University of Memphis since 1989), the UT General Counsel’s Office declined to allow UT records to be released on the grounds that an offense that is both a crime and a violation of student conduct mixes the records. … Continued

Outgoing Student Government Association President Chuck Younce and Treasurer Michael Dunthorn explained the ineffectiveness of the SGA in its representation of student interests in a Daily Beacon article as being a result of administrative pressure from Vice Chancellor Phil Scheurer, as manifested first by SGA Adviser Jerry Askew, dean of students, a member of Scheurer’s … Continued

Led by the Student Senate and Graduate Student Association, students demanded that the $101,611 annual charge to the Student Programs and Services Fee for retiring the construction debt for Stokely Athletics Center be stopped. The student fee had been charged since the completion of Thompson-Boling Arena in 1987. Phil Scheurer, vice chancellor for student affairs … Continued

On Thursday, January 17, 1991, approximately 50 antiwar protestors marched in the Presidential Courtyard at approximately 10:30 p.m., 90 minutes after President Bush’s 12-minute address informing the nation of his decision to attack. A spontaneous counterprotest involving a mob of hundreds of students supporting the president’s decision quickly formed and followed the antiwar protestors down … Continued

The route of the escort van service was extended into Fort Sanders in May 1992, following a concentrated student campaign, led by Daniel Carter, student chairman of the Campus Safety Committee. The committee compiled lists of crimes, street by street, and identified undesignated funds in the Traffic and Parking Authority’s budget to achieve the goal.

Students were incensed at the conduct of Louisiana State University basketball coach in the SEC title game. At the 10:05 mark of the second half, with the Vols down 22, junior Carlus Groves intentionally fouled LSU’s Shaquille O’Neal, grabbing him around the waist as O’Neal was elevating for the slam. O’Neal let fly with an … Continued

More than six hundred UT students, students from Knoxville College, and members of the community demonstrated at a rally that moved from the Volunteer Statue to the university center on May 1, 1992, protesting the April 29 acquittal in a California State Court of four white Los Angeles policemen accused of police brutality in the … Continued

A petition drive in spring 1993 garnered approximately fifteen hundred names in support of the Student Alliance’s proposal to increase the number of personal computers in residence halls. At the time, Hess Hall and Andy Holt Apartments were the only residence halls maintaining computer labs.

During a logistical check being made the week before the annual weeklong conference of the Advanced Training Institute of America (ATIA), conference organizers objected to two works of art that were hanging in the Gallery Concourse and asked Robert Gibbs, UT director of conferences to have them removed. Mark Alexander, director of the university center, … Continued