Torchbearer: Summer 1998

Of Course

Sports is such a big part of life today that it's not surprising it's finding its way into the classroom.

Adam Epstein (Knoxville '89 '93), attorney and former Vol football placekicker, teaches a course at UTK on "sports law," or more formally Legal Aspects of Sport. The class members study sports contracts, Title IX regulations, drug testing, and even read the entire NCAA manual. Epstein says the latter is almost unheard of.

"Most coaches and athletic directors have never read the complete manual. We do."

"The class is extremely beneficial for student-athletes, coaches, sport broadcasting majors, sport management majors, and others who want to work in the sports industry."

The course is offered through the sport and physical activity unit of the College of Education.

Organ donation also is much in the news, and it also has found its way into the curriculum.

Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation in the United States, a course offered in the UTK Department of Philosophy, explores many "hot button" medical and ethical issues such as brain death determination and how transplant recipients are chosen.

Faculty for the course include physicians, ethicists, and representatives of Tennessee Donor Services, an organ and tissue procurement organization.

Learning about issues surrounding organ and tissue transplantation has become more important since a new Tennessee law was passed. As a result of the act, families are being routinely contacted about donating organs and tissues of deceased next of kin.

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