{"id":640,"date":"2019-02-22T18:17:37","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T18:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/utccismcc.utk.edu\/?p=640"},"modified":"2019-02-22T18:17:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T18:17:37","slug":"ut-sex-week-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cci.utk.edu\/ric\/2019\/02\/22\/ut-sex-week-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"UT Sex Week Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/utccismcc.utk.edu\/people\/graduate-assistant\/\">James Zhang<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sex week, which is as a comprehensive, entertaining, and week-long, sex education event that aims to foster an inclusive and intellectual discussion on sex, sexuality, and relationships to educate the University of Tennessee Knoxville student body and the Knoxville community, has been under fire for allegedly receiving \u201cthe highest allocation of student activity fee funds\u201d in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvlt.tv\/content\/news\/State-to-investigate-UTs-Sex-Week-506053111.html\">past three academic years<\/a>. State lawmakers have started to think about how state funds were being used at UT. With ongoing controversies, people begin to talk about Sex Week on social media.<br \/>\nOver the past week, 635 social media posts have discussed controversial UT sex week. The conversation reaches its peak on February 21, when Interim University President Randy Boyd announced to show attitudes toward UT sex week on behalf of the school. The social media conversation volume was around 300 on that day.<br \/>\nIn terms of trending words on social media, state\u2019s report, students\u2019 right, and funding issues have been discussed the most on social media platforms.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-641\" src=\"https:\/\/utccismcc.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-22-at-9.30.26-AM.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nAs far as top influencers on social media are concerned, three leading local news agencies, Knoxnews, WTVC News Channel 9, and WVLT news have been driving the social media conversation regarding UT\u2019s sex week. For instance, Knoxnews kept updating news stories of UT\u2019s Sex Week on its official Twitter account. WVLT tweeted its published story about National Free Speech Watchdog\u2019s reaction to UT\u2019s action after state Sex Week report. Both of those reports achieved high influencing scores.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-642\" src=\"https:\/\/utccismcc.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-22-at-9.43.40-AM.png\" alt=\"\" \/>The overall sentiment on social media regarding the topic of UT\u2019s Sex Week is negative. Specifically, the negativity has reached more than sixty percent. Social media users were very much concerned about the state lawmakers\u2019 decision on UT\u2019s Sex Week would infringe upon UT\u2019s students\u2019 free speech rights.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-644\" src=\"https:\/\/utccismcc.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-22-at-9.56.59-AM.png\" alt=\"\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-645\" src=\"https:\/\/utccismcc.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-22-at-9.57.07-AM.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-648\" src=\"https:\/\/utccismcc.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-22-at-9.57.11-AM.png\" alt=\"\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-643\" src=\"https:\/\/utccismcc.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-22-at-9.45.58-AM.png\" alt=\"\" \/>Without UT\u2019s Sex Week controversy being settled, UT\u2019s students, news agencies, and Knoxville community will continue to keep their eyes on the issue, since it highly regards to the free speech rights of college students.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-646\" src=\"https:\/\/utccismcc.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-22-at-9.57.21-AM.png\" alt=\"\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-647\" src=\"https:\/\/utccismcc.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-22-at-9.57.32-AM.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by James Zhang Sex week, which is as a comprehensive, entertaining, and week-long, sex education event that aims to foster an inclusive and intellectual discussion on sex, sexuality, and relationships to educate the University of Tennessee Knoxville student body and the Knoxville community, has been under fire for allegedly receiving \u201cthe highest allocation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-absmcc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UT Sex Week Controversy - CCI Research &amp; 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