University of Tennessee Knoxville - Volunteer Yearbook (Knoxville, TN)

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DATELINEDATELir HandcLapping 10 ihc ryihym of ihc music. Teresa Copeland, a senior in management, was one of many who found that jaz crcisc was a fun way to stay in shape. Jazzed-Up Exercise The beat of music quickened and the steps became livelier as the song shifted to one by the Go- Go’s. Over 40 women, including students, a few men and even some children danced their way to fitness in a jazzercise class at John XXIII Catholic Center. The class was also given at the Wesley Foundation by instructor Karen Noli. Nolt was one of 22 certified jaz crcisc instructors in the Knox- ville area. The classes were set up to meet twice a week for an hour each time. They cost $16 per month, or for students. $37 per month. Participants in the program ex- ercised by dancing to contem- porary music led by an instructor. The dancing was designed to ac- company the tempo of the music being played. The jaz crcisc program was designed by Judi Sheppard Missett. a California native who called it a wild and woolly- workout.’’ Missett choreographed all of the routines and each in- structor across the nation was taught how to do them. This past fall, a ja zercisc album by Missett was released with music and voice-over instruc- tions for home use. Missett refer- red to both the album and the ja zercisc program as “a jazz- dance fitness program that condi- tions your body, lifts your spirit, puts a smile on your face and a bounce in your step! Accounting Credit Accounting professor Dr. Jan Williams was awarded the Ernst Whinncy accounting professor- ship, funded by a SI00,000 gift from the partners of Ernst Whinncy. an international public accounting firm and the Ernst Whinney Foundation. The professorship was the first one established in the department of accounting and business law and provided a salary supplement to Williams and financial support for travel. Williams, who came to UT in 1977, has served on faculties of the University of Georgia and Texas Tech University. He has served as director of continuing education for the American Ac- counting Association. He also was associate dean for graduate studies at Texas Tech University. Solidarity Squelched Polish Communist Party leader Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski invoked emergency constitutional powers on Dec. 13 to declare a state of war and impose what appeared to be a military government in Poland. The emergency powers also gave the government the right to make summary arrests, try of- fenders before military tribunals and take other steps to ensure law and order. Before making the an- nouncement, Jaruzelski had ar- rested people he claimed were responsible for leading the coun- try into crisis. Among those ar- rested were the prime minister, a member of the Politburo and two former party leaders. The state of war. w hich was in- terpreted as being equivalent to a state of emergency, was provoked by a meeting of the leaders of Solidarity on Dec. 12. At the meeting, the union decided to conduct a nationwide referendum on establishing a government out- side the jurisdiction of the Polish Communist Party, and to conduct a general strike if the government imposed a state of war. Claxton Adds On Construction for the new education building started in the spring of 1980, with the comple- tion date set tentatively for September and definitely before December of 1982. Due to the little amount of cold weather in the winter of '80. con- struction for the outside of the building was permitted. This enabled workers to begin on the inside of the education building during below—zero temperatures in the winter of ’81-’82, so that the building was basically on schedule for completion. The estimated cost of the new education building was around $3.3 million, which also included some capital goods. The new building was designed with special laboratories for art, vocational, technical, and reading education purposes. Solidarity leader Lech Walesa was put under house arrest soon after the emergency was declared. In the meantime his wife had a daughter, whom Walesa was not allowed to sec until the christening in March. President Reagan responded to the military takeover in a televised address Dec. 23. Announcing economic sanctions against the Polish government, he also warn- ed Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev that if the crackdown in Poland continued, the U.S. would take concrete political and economic measures against Moscow. The Place To Go For Halloween Fun Batman, Superman, cavemen, ballerinas, werewolves and even Miss Piggy—all of these and many more congregated at the Halloween party sponsored by the Morrill and Reese Hall Resident Associations at The Place. Eddie Tate, senior in advertis- ing, said the party was a typical Reese Hall function—very suc- cessful. We’re the best dorm on campus and everybody has a good time.” David Benham, senior in ar- chitecture, and Nancy Kim Teasley, senior in fashion mer- chandising. were only one of many couples there. They were dressed as babies, complete with bottles, bibs and diapers. As The Time Warp” blasted out of the stereo system, people- jumped out on the floor to dance. Terri Tipton, freshman in finance, was sitting in a booth near the dance floor. “This is the wildest party I've ever been to. Everyone participates in everything. The DJ’s great and he plays the best music. This rates a 10,” Tipton said. Mark Shelby, senior in com- puter science and president of R.H.R.A., said they had a great turn out.” Walking out the door, one could see Abe Lincoln and Betsy Ross boogeying down as the party was still going full force. 28 The Year

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Michad Mmiai Above: A tree growing out of the wooden floor at Desperado' ported the skull of a cow to set the atmoipherc. Below: Danny Dawson, Mike Sizemore. Larry I laganum and Mike Raulston are in the heat of a game of football at The i:nd Zone. Meanwhile, Back At The Ranch Wall-to-wall people in Stetson hats and cowboy boots could have been the scene at any of Knox- ville’s western-style nightclubs each night of the week. The cowboy-type clubs became a craze following the immense popularity of the movie Urban Cowboy” starring John Travolta. The trend was slow to catch on in Knoxville, but it caught fire with the opening of Sam Houston’s, a nightclub featuring live country- western music. Although Houston’s closed at the beginning of fall 1981. it had already been replaced by numerous country-western style nightclubs. Desperado’s, which opened in June 1981, featured programmed music and an extremely large parking lot. The reasons for the sizable lot were obvious every night, expccially on weekends when a short hike to the club was standard operating procedure. We try to keep attendance below 750. Sam Young, Desperado’s manager, said. The Outlaw Dance Hall With Fine Vittles did not open until August, but quickly built a reputation with the slogan. “Peo- ple know who you are at the Outlaw.” The Outlaw featured a live disc jockey, concentrating mostly on country-western music, with some disco and oldies thrown in occa- sionally. A special attraction for students was a drink special every night of the week. One of the Outlaw’s big events for Fall Quarter was a visit by Mickey Gilley after his Knoxville concert appearance. Gilley came prepared with the mechanical bull actually used in the filming of “Urban Cowboy.” The Urban Cow Palace, which advertised the biggest dance floor in Knoxville, also opened at the beginning of the fall quarter. A visit to any of these nightclubs was a good excuse for students to dress up and do the two-step. ---------Randy Weaver After Hours 27 SIk-KkI Mcv'in

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EDATEDATELINEDA1 Goodbye To Familiar Faces William Holden, who had been planning a wedding with Barbara Stanwyck for New Year’s Eve, was found dead in his bedroom Nov. 21. Examiners said that Holden bled to death from a cut he received in the forehead caused by a drunken fall against his bed- side table. He had been dead for three or four days before his body was discovered. Holden first achieved stardom in the movie “Golden Boy. His co-star in the movie was Stanwyck. Some of Holden’s best films were “Sunset Boulevard, “Stalag 17.” The Wild Bunch. and Network. His final perfor- mance was in the 1981 movie, S.O.B. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was assassinated Oct. 6 while viewing a military parade in Cairo. The parade was a celebra- tion of the eighth anniversary of Egypt’s strike on Israeli positions across the Sue at the start of the Yom Kippur war. While air force fighter planes were flying low enough over the crowd to cause some people to cover their ears, a truck left the parade and pulled up in front of the reviewing stand. One man jumped from the cab of the truck to toss a grenade at the stand. Three other assassins quickly started firing automatic weapons from the back of the truck before they jumped out to rush the reviewing stand. All of the assassins were members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. As a security precaution. Presi- dent Reagan did not attend the funeral. Former Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter attended the funeral. John Belushi, who rose to star- dom following the success of Saturday Night Live, died on March 5 in a rented bungalow on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood. Although he was thought to have died of natural causes at first, an autopsy revealed that Belushi had ingested enough alcohol, cocaine and heroin to cause his death. Belushi was in Hollywood to work on a movie. “Noble Rot, a comedy about the wine industry. He was well-known as the character he created for the movie Animal House,” the beer- guzzling Bluto. He co-starred with Dan Aykroyd in the movie The Blues Brothers. Belushi made his first attempt at serious acting in Continental Divide, in which he played a journalist. His final movie was the comedy Neighbors, in which he again starred with Aykroyd. Natalie Wood, whose acting career spanned 39 years, was found drowned in a rocky cove off Santa Catalina Island Nov. 29. The 43-year-old actress had left the yacht. Splendor, the previous evening in a small, in- flatable motorized dinghy follow- ing an argument between her hus- band. Robert Wagner, and Christopher Walken. Walken had joined the Wagners for dinner during a break in the filming of Brainstorm, in which he was co-starring with Wood. She made one of her most- remembered movies, Miracle on 34th Street,” as a child in 1947. She was nominated for three Academy Awards for her perfor- mances in Rebel Without A Cause” in 1955, Splendor In The Grass in 1961. and Love With the Proper Stranger in 1963. Violence In El Salvador Atlanta Murder Case Closed Wayne Williams, accused of two of the murders in Atlanta’s two-year string of 28 slayings, was convicted on Feb. 27 and sentenc- ed to two consecutive life terms in prison. Authorities said that they had evidence linking Williams to 26 of the killings, all of which involved young black persons. The only murders not attributed to Williams, according to the in- vestigators, were the two female victims. Williams, who said through his lawyer he would definitely appeal the decision, said that he was disappointed that the investiga- tion of the murders was concluded soon after his conviction. Williams said that the only way he could be definitely cleared was if the real murderer was found. Lines started forming at the polls before dawn on March 28, the day of first free elections in El Salvador since 1977, despite threats of violence from leftist guerillas. Staunchly backed by the U.S. government. the Christian Democrats claimed to have won between 26 and 29 scats out of the 60-member constituent assembly. The assembly was empowered to name an interim president, write a new constitution and form a pro- visional government until elec- tions could take place, possibly sometime in 1983. Violence marked the day, with guerillas battling government troops in an effort to stop the election. Citizens were unable to vote in some leftist-controlled areas of the country, while battles took place in some cities within blocks of polling places. Charismatic leader Roberto d’Aubuisson, 38, of the right- wing Nationalist Republican Alliance,- was named interim president. D’Aubisson replaced President Jose Napolean Duarte, leader of Democrats. the Christian Think, of me pD35iBiut|e5- pore 6ner. ihe cars The Pcxice-du here’ at the fair The Year 29