ATLANTA – When Rebecca Paul quit her Georgia job last fall as the nation’s highest-paid lottery director to become Tennessee’s lottery chief, she left with a check for $125,139. The three lottery vice ...

On Thursday evening, the School of Journalism and Electronic Media hosted Pulitzer Prize finalist Roy S. Johnson in Hodges Library to speak on his experience of being a journalist and “shouting truth ...

You know, sometimes I wish Pepsi would just give up. It isn’t that I don’t like their products or anything, it’s just that they will never, not in a billion years, be as good or better than Coca-Cola, ...

It’s not always easy being a mother or a student, but to be both is nothing short of a challenge. To help make it easier for those mothers who attend Tennessee’s campus, lactation rooms for nursing ...

The Tennessee football season continues to rage on. After an electric win in Neyland Stadium on Saturday against South Carolina, head coach Josh Heupel joined the weekly “Vol Calls” to take some ...

The writing of the NBC award-winning comedy “30 Rock” has series scribe Tina Fey’s fingerprints all over it. It’s not difficult to piece together the similarities between Fey’s past gig, writing and ...

It is April, and I realize that the semester is almost over. Exams are approaching, and I have but a few more weeks left to publish my column here in The Daily Beacon for this year. So now, I believe, ...

Alumni Memorial Gym — that is not a typo. The building all University of Tennessee students now know as Alumni Memorial Building was once a gymnasium. Originally built in the early ’30s, the building ...

Disclaimer: Over the last two decades, America has experienced a growing number of women who choose to become single mothers without a spouse because they a.) want a child and b.) can more than afford ...

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, and people everywhere will be convinced to go out and buy their loved one some fantastic present, share dinner and watch a nice romantic comedy. These are ...

Some moviegoers looking to fill the gap in their fantasy-loving hearts until “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” comes out in July may be tempted to see “Inkheart.” They should strongly fight ...

I am addicted to Bravo’s reality TV shows. I rarely miss an episode of “The Real Housewives of Orange County” or “Millionaire Matchmaker.” Yes, reality television is about as anti-intellectual as it ...