A few weeks ago, a French professor at UTK was having her students write essays when from the nearby stadium came blasts of “Sweet Home Alabama” and the Alabama fight song, followed by the sound of loud cheers. It seems, as part of their game preparation, the football team tries to run plays with the loudest possible simulated noise; which of course, means it is more than audible across much of the Knoxville campus.
The French professor gave, Hart, the new AD at Knoxville, an earful at a recent faculty-senate meeting; to which he responded: “We will discuss it”, a response unsatisfactory to both the French professor and other professors who have complained.
See, faculty senates really do take up important work. 
