The year is 1931. Clark Gable watches as a young Joan Crawford sits behind a piano and begins to play. Her arresting, sharp features defined by MGM’s Max Factor draw in the audience, seizing attention as she opens her signature hunter’s bow lips to sing. The director zooms in, exploiting the actors’ chemistry. Audiences sit just as the film’s title suggests: Possessed.
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Twenty years ago, Michael Bishop (MS ’83) stumbled on police records about the murder of UT freshman Paula Herring in Nashville in 1964. A man was convicted of the murder, but the more Bishop researched, the more he realized that something just wasn’t right.
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For 25 years, visitors to Hodges Library have been transfixed by what appear to be the bones of a mythological creature. The installation, a work of art, reminds viewers to remain skeptical of what may appear to be true.
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In September 1922, the Vol football team boarded a logging train and retreated to the Great Smoky Mountains and Elkmont’s Wonderland Hotel to train with long hikes in the woods and dips in the ice cold river.
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She plays the piano, loves to read, wakes up at 4 a.m. every day, and says her biggest influence was her father. Find out more about our ninth chancellor, Donde Plowman, and see what she did on her first day back on Rocky Top.
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Ten new statues of Smokey were unveiled on campus in April—one to represent each of our beloved dogs. To honor our good boys, here’s a tale about each one of them.
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If you went to elementary school in a certain era, you might have seen a map of a fictitious place drawn to illustrate all the basic geographic features. UT’s campus…