An update on the Campaign for Tennessee, a new Warhol exhibit at UTC, A look at this year’s Haslam Scholars—these stories and more in the latest installment of UTopics.
It was an evening of orange at Thompson–Boling Arena, where 850 people from near and far brought enough passion and “Rocky Top” to pack Neyland Stadium on game day. With blinking future pendants circling their necks and colorful streamers and confetti falling at their feet, UT loyalists had no doubt that the university’s billion-dollar capital campaign goal would be reached, if not exceeded.
High-school juniors and seniors are all about first impressions. They know in a nanosecond whether a cellphone makes it or is way less than cool. The look of a backpack or a pair of jeans can divide the known world. And at first blush, the gateway of a college campus can immediately put off any further discussion or begin an affair of the heart that lasts a lifetime.
Bristol Motor Speedway, the AT&T (Batman) Building in Nashville, the Knoxville Convention Center, and UT’s Neyland Stadium are familiar Volunteer State landmarks. As different as they are, the structures share at least one important common denominator—the entrepreneurial Jim Powell of tiny Limestone, Tennessee, whose company built these facilities.
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