Coming back from Winter Break is hard. The weather’s a little colder, the hills feel a little steeper and your bed looks a little more comfy. But with a new semester comes a slew of new oportunities. Change your hair, organize your backpack or try to boost that GPA. This semester is a new start, and the Beacon is here to give you a lift. So, cheers to the new year and the 2016 spring semester! Hayley Pennesi • The Daily Beacon
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Dear reader,
Is it harder to come back from summer or Christmas break? August means the end of tans and no responsibility, but January means the end of gingerbread and the brief appeal of cold weather. Both mean back to exams, tuition and, of course, the Daily Beacon. Two are bad and one is good (Or it’s supposed to be. I like to think it is). Part of me wants to tell you to think of us as your relief from the stress of class and general college life, but the news isn’t always fun. Sometimes it’s hard and frustrating. But it’s our job to keep you informed and angry about the issues surrounding our campus, city, state, country, world. I hope you get mad when you hear about news like state politicians threatening to decrease our university’s diversity spending, and I hope you take action. A society doesn’t function without informed, passionate citizens who can participate in the democratic system, and as a newspaper, our
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Scandals showcased in Tennessee General Assembly Staff Report
Conflict within the House Republican caucus overshadowed the meeting of the 109th Tennessee General Assembly, which reconvened at noon CST for its second session. The Republican conference meeting, which began at 1 p.m., was open to the media until Rep. Sheila Butt, R-Columbia, motioned to close the meeting in response to questions raised regarding Majority Whip Jeremy Durham, R-Franklin, by fellow House Republicans. In a statement to the Tennessean, House Republican Caucus Chairman Glen Casada anticipated the move, saying “The meeting is open, though some members have expressed their desire to have it closed. It is likely a
motion is made to do exactly that, which would turn the decision over to the caucus as a whole to vote on.” Rep. Butt argued that because caucus members elected Durham as Majority Whip in 2014, the meeting questioning Durham should be conducted in private. The motion came in response to mounting criticism of Durham over a string of recent scandals. In 2013 Durham evaded indictment after being brought before a grand jury for accusations of prescription drug fraud. Durham garnered publicity again in 2014 after writing a character reference letter for Joseph Todd Neill, a youth pastor who had admitted to committing statutory rape and possessing child pornography. Following an investigation, the then 37-year-old pastor was also found guilty of
having a sexual relationship with a 16-yearold girl from his church. In his letter, Durham failed to state his relationship to Neill, but claimed the publicity surrounding the investigation negatively affected his family, stressing the importance of second chances. Details of the closed-door caucus meeting are unclear, but the House Republican Caucus voted to keep Jeremy Durham as Majority Whip. House members submitted bills concerning local control over country roads and bridges and rules for municipal annexation. The Senate saw legislation concerning motor vehicle emissions testing and deluxe theaters that serve alcohol. No Representative or Senator representing the University of Tennessee or Fort Sanders neighborhood submitted legislation.
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Troy Lane assumes new role as associate vice chancellor for public safety
Tanner Hancock
I’ve already started to see some things where we can be more efficient. I found that while we were working on issue A, so was this other department, and now we have an opportunity to work together to accomplish the same goal.
News Editor
Troy Lane, police chief for the UT Knoxville campus, was appointed to the dual role of associate vice chancellor for public safety effective January 1. To help understand what this new position means, The Daily Beacon sat down with Chief Lane to get a better understanding of what campus safety will look like in 2016. Daily Beacon: What makes your new position different from Chief of Police? Chief Lane: What we’re trying to do is create true public safety on campus. Traditionally, we’ve had a police department and an environmental health and safety emergency management (department) and other programs, so the attempt here is to put that all into one department. Not necessarily a single department, but a single entity, or division, that coordinates public safety for our campus. DB: What are some of the unique challenges providing safety to UT? TL: In some ways, I think we have an
DB: How do you view violent crime in Fort Sanders neighborhood? • Chief Troy Lane advantage because we’re a fairly tight knit community. I feel as much a sense of community on campus as I do in a small hometown. On one hand you can argue that it’s a very diverse population, but it really isn’t because we’re predominately working with faculty, staff, and then a lot of students in a particular age range. DB: What areas can you improve, and in what areas have you succeeded in the past? I don’t think I’m alone in believing there are areas where we can be a little more efficient — ways that we can coordinate our efforts a little bit. Being forced to take a look from a much broader perspective than I have in the past where I focused just on the police department,
We still operate with mutual jurisdiction with the city in Fort Sanders, though they will take priority in terms of serious felony offenses like shootings and robberies. I’ve said it before I’ll say it again: a common thread that we see with some of the serious crimes in The Fort revolves around drugs, drug sales and drug transactions. I know a lot of folks that spend three or four years in The Fort and never have a problem. We had a shooting there a few months ago, and I don’t mean to sound flippant, but someone asked me and I mentioned that I didn’t really see a legitimate reason for anyone to be out at 4:50 in the morning unless they’re out delivering newspapers. The people that are out are probably up to no good, and if you’re involved in that kind of culture, that can be one of the consequences. DB: What has stood out as a chief safety issue among UT’s students and faculty?
I don’t mean to cop out here, but I truly believe that we have a pretty safe campus. Occasionally we’ll have a sexual assault or an assault of some sort, but those are pretty rare really — especially when you compare them to a large, highly populated geographic region outside of the campus area. I think a lot of large cities would be tickled to have the low crime rates that we have. There seems to have been an impetus in the last year or so regarding sexual assault in particular, but I don’t know whether that’s the university seeing that trend or because the federal government has been putting a lot of mandates on college campuses that have forced a lot of this dialogue. The issue has become much more transparent to the campus and to the outside world, so anytime we see it we think ‘oh this is a huge problem.’ To be honest, I’ve been in campus law enforcement for 20 years now, and I don’t think there’s any more of a sexual assault issue now than there was 20 years ago. I think we’re just much more educated about it, and campuses have become much more transparent about the issue. So, while it may seem like its a bigger issue, but to me I don’t think it is. It’s just now it’s become transparent and people know about and putting forth an effort, so in a way I think we’re actually getting better.
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Activist Miranda Gottlieb seeks to end war on drugs
Grant Currin
Contributor
In this week’s installment of “Activists on Rocky Top,” The Daily Beacon sat down with Miranda Gottlieb, senior in political science and Hispanic studies, who is also the founder and president of the UT chapter of Students for Sensible Drug Policy. The Albuquerque, New Mexico native developed an interest in the War on Drugs after losing peers from her hometown to heroine abuse. Now, Gottlieb uses that same drive to help facilitate change in the movement against substance abuse and the negative stereotypes surrounding it. Daily Beaon: How are you involved with campus activism? Miranda Gottlieb: I started the chapter for Students for Sensible Drug Policy, and I’m working to educate and mobilize the campus community to end the War on Drugs and employ science-based and reality-based legislation for transforming the way in which we view currently illicit substances in our society. Being an activist in something that you care about means that sometimes you don’t win. It
doesn’t mean you lose, but sometimes you don’t win in ways you want to. And sometimes you have to accept that not everyone is going to be as enthusiastic or passionate. That disappointment of seeing other people not being as supportive will either build you up and make you fight harder or get you down and keep you from achieving what you want to achieve. Being an advocate for drug policy in the South has distinct challenges that make me more dedicated to fighting to bring about the Utopian reality that I hope for. DB: How do you work toward those goals? MG: We work on a number of different platforms: education, working to change legislation and advocacy on behalf of those who have been affected by the War on Drugs. Specifically, we have worked on a couple of different social media campaigns, written letters to the editor, have been in contact with our state and federal legislators and engaged with the community on issues such as mass incarceration, overdose and the legalization of marijuana. DB: How did you come to this topic? MG: A number of my peers from New Mexico (overdosed) on heroin, and I became interested in not only the politics of that but also the phar-
macological effects of drugs and why they might have overdosed. While I was in South America, I was able to visit Uruguay during the legalization of marijuana and it had a profound effect on the way I view the role of drugs and the role of politics in public health. DB: Have you encountered any backlash to your advocacy? MG: A common response is the framing of people who are involved in drug organizations as drug users, which is an unfair assumption. I don’t think there has been anyone who has targeted me directly, but the organization itself has certainly come under scrutiny by those who do not understand our position or why we feel that these current drug policies are ineffective. The way we normally feel backlash is exclusion from events or from advertising. For example, we’re often screened from certain publicity because we’re talking about drugs and we aren’t talking about criminalizing drugs. We’re excluded for being an organization that promotes drug use where, in reality, we neither condone nor condemn drug use. We’re interested in policy. DB: During your time as an activist, have you experienced any transformative moments?
MG: I recently went to the international drug policy reform conference where people from seventy-some countries came together to talk about drug policy. The speakers who had firsthand been negatively affected by mass incarceration, cartel violence and by stigmatization gave me kind of a new energy in continuing the fight to end the prohibition of drugs. DB: What’s your ultimate goal? MG: Ending prohibition of all drugs. DB: What do plan to do after you graduate? MG: I plan on working in drug policy reform, continuing on to my graduate school education after I take a year or two off. I ultimately hope to work in international drug policy reform efforts to ensure that our policies are both equitable and socially just for all. DB: How can interested students engage in this sort of work? MG: They can first email us at utk@chapters. ssdp.org to get on our email list and find information about our social media accounts.
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Princeton professor to talk Chinese poetry Abby Bower
Contributor
Princeton professor Martin Kern claims there is “nothing exotic” about being a Chinese scholar. On January 14, Kern will offer a glimpse into the complicated beginnings of ancient Chinese verse to take the subject out of the realm of the exotic and into academic normalcy. His lecture, titled “The Origins of Chinese Poetry,” will examine its topic through a variety of lenses. “I wish to introduce the origins of Chinese poetry from several perspectives: its place in the religious rituals of antiquity, its role in both moral philosophy and social and political communication, and its function for the identity and memory of ancient Chinese civilization,” Kern said. Kern’s discussion of origins will include analysis of an early anthology of Chinese poems, “The Classic of Poetry” and the basics of what con-
stitutes a poem. He will also explore a concept that may be unfamiliar to modern, Western readers: the idea of early Chinese poetry as what Kern calls a “repertoire” or “collection” as opposed to individual poems attributed to known authors. “My explanation is that it is fundamentally considered a communal, even universal expression,” Kern said. For audiences unfamiliar with this notion, Kern encourages people to remember that “it’s important that we understand not only differences between our time and antiquity, but also differences in the choices that different ancient cultures made for themselves.” The lecture itself will also act as exposure to a branch of literature that has been academically overlooked in the past. “Among educated people, it is not acceptable to confess that one has never read a line of Homer or Shakespeare; but it is completely acceptable to say something outrageous like that about a line from Chinese literature or philoso-
phy,” Kern said. “Today, we no longer live in the 19th century where whatever happens in China, or whatever is in the mind of a Chinese person, doesn’t matter to us. It matters a great deal.” Kern will be the fourth of 10 visiting scholars to take part in the UT Humanities Center’s distinguished lecture series. The Humanities Center itself is “a unit of the College of Arts and Sciences that brings together faculty members and graduate students and provides yearlong fellowships for them to complete their research projects,” according to the center’s director, Thomas Heffernan. This series specifically features experts from around the world nominated by UT faculty, chosen for their prominence on their subject. “We get a lot of these (nominations) in, and then we select ... the ones we think are the very best,” Heffernan said. The lecture is open to the public and will take place Thursday, Jan. 14 at 3:30 p.m. in the Lindsay Young Auditorium of the John C. Hodges Library.
Today, we no longer live in the 19th century where whatever happens in China, or whatever is in the mind of a Chinese person, doesn’t matter to us. It matters a great deal.” Martin Kern, Princeton professor
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New Year, New You? Elle Johnson
I Learned Something Today
Did you make a New Years resolution? That’s pretty likely. The better question is if you’ve kept your New Years resolution so far. The arrival of January 1 makes us crave change. Sure, we could make small life changes for the better at any moment if we really wanted to, but there’s just something about the dawn of a new year that gives us the strike of motivation to believe that “new year, new me” is the best way to go. There are self-enhancing goals, such as working out more and eating healthier, in comparison to self-changing goals, like falling in love or being more likable. Then, there are the really simple general goals, like walking into your new semester of school with an Elle Woods attitude after Warner told her she wasn’t smart enough for law school. Admittedly, I got that last one straight from Twitter. But it’s a pretty tempting goal to strive for, nonetheless. However, by now, over a quarter of those who made New Years resolutions have already dropped those goals. Studies have shown that out of those who make resolutions on January 1 of any given year, only 71 percent will still be pursuing that goal after two weeks — and only 8 percent will rise to the challenge and achieve their goal by the end of the year. Guess January 1 isn’t such a magical date for change after all. Originally, I had planned to focus this week’s column solely on the absurdity of ideal change being made from a New Year’s resolution, but looking at the numbers brought a greater issue to mind: why are we so centered on changing who we are? I see a lot of merit in goals meant to simply improve your well-being, such as reading more books, saving more money or quitting smoking, and I fully encourage those goals at anytime, not just New Year’s. However, goals meant solely to change yourself to improve others’ perceptions of you, and not solely how you feel about yourself, seem a little problematic from my perspective. For example, to fall in love is currently the ninth most common New Year’s Resolution. But should we be willing to adapt and change ourselves to please someone else and find love within a year’s time? Unless our lives follow the plot of a typical romantic comedy, I’m going to have to say probably not. Why isn’t being ourselves simply enough? I believe the answer is fear — fear of not fitting in, a fear of standing out and a fear of being anything but normal. It’s rare to find anyone that does not have a fear of being fully honest
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Resolutions are made to find a better satisfaction with our lives, but you can’t expect to find any real contentment without being true to yourself.”
Here’s the top 10 songs from 2006. Are you feeling old yet? “Bad Day”
Daniel Powter
“Temperature” to themselves in all situations, but earlier this week, we lost a legend who would have came very close. Through his music, fashion and even sexuality, David Bowie was a true revolutionary and artist who defied all labels to present the image he saw as most true to himself. From Space Oddity to Ziggy Stardust and the later years as an expressive rocker, David Bowie exhibited a pure gift of being himself and continued to share that strength with others as well. This year, I didn’t set a New Years’ resolution, but today, I’m choosing to pursue a slightly different goal: cultivate a strength for being myself and encouraging others to do the same. Resolutions are made to find a better satisfaction with our lives, but you can’t expect to find any real contentment without being true to yourself. This grows especially important in our day and age, when the world is filled with constant change and pain, the only thing we can rely on to stay truly constant is ourselves. While David Bowie’s journey was cut much too soon, his music and message can continue forever. Farewell, Starman. Elle Johnson is a sophomore in College Scholars. She can be reached at ejohn100@ vols.utk.edu.
Sean Paul
“Promiscuous” Nelly Furtado feat. Timbaland
“You’re Beautiful” James Blunt
“Hips Don’t Lie” Shakira feat. Wyclef Jean
“Unwritten”
Natasha Bedingfield
“Crazy”
Gnarls Barkley
“Ridin” Chamillionaire feat. Krayzie Bone
“Sexyback”
Justin Timberlake
“Check on It”
Beyonce feat. Slim Thug Columns of The Daily Beacon are the views of the individual and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Beacon or the Beacon’s editorial staff.
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Time to talk: a call for a meeting with legislators and students
Tanner Hancock News Editor
This past December, the University of Tennessee once again made national headlines as Rep. John J. Duncan (R-Tenn.) publicly criticized on Fox News a memo on the university’s office of diversity and inclusion for attacking Christianity. The post, which in part suggested students and faculty make sure that “your holiday party is not a Christmas party in disguise,” was immediately decried by the state’s Republican political majority, with some even calling for suspension of state funding to the university’s diversity office. Everyone’s shouting, but no one is talking. Over the past week, I’ve had the pleasure of covering the latest in a string of controversies between the Tennessee legislature and UT’s Office for Diversity and Inclusion. If you’re not already aware of what’s going on, here’s the short version: our state legislature is angry with our Office of Diversity, and many students are angry that they’re angry. Simply put, everybody’s angry, yet strangely enough, there’s been no dialogue between the students and the
people who represent them in government. And that needs to be fixed. So here it is: I’m proposing a face-to-face meeting between the students of the University of Tennessee and those Tennessee lawmakers who have taken issue with the Office of Diversity, specifically: • State Rep. Micah Van Huss, R-Jonesborough • Dolores Gresham, R-Somerville, Senate Education Committee Chairwoman • Mike Bell, R-Riceville, Senate Government Operations Committee Chairman • Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey, R-Blountville • State Rep. Sheila Butt, R-Columbia • State Sen. Mae Beavers, R-Mt. Juliet • Congressman John J. Duncan, Jr. Should any (hopefully all) of these representatives agree to meet face-to-face with UT’s student body, The Daily Beacon will personally organize it, proctor it, cater it or do whatever it takes to make this important conversation happen.
As news editor for the school paper, one of the standards I’m expected to uphold is objectivity in my reporting, and I don’t plan on breaking that here. I am not promoting a liberal agenda. I am not promoting a conservative agenda. What I am promoting, rather, is a chance to bridge the disconnect between the people in Nashville and the students of our state’s flagship university. If our state representatives are serious about upholding their responsibility to all Tennesseans (as I’m confident they are), then they should jump at the chance to listen to the voices of those Tennesseans who just happen to be in school. So give the politicians a call, shoot them an email, spam their Facebook page, whatever it takes to get a response. It’s time to stop complaining to the middleman (see: Chancellor Cheek), and voice your concerns directly to our representatives. Tanner Hancock is a senior in journalism and electronic media and can be reached at thancoc7@ vols.utk.edu.
UT’s I-House provides friendly service for all students Mustafa Sadiq Aljumaily Guest Column
The International House, in its current location near Hodges, was opened to the public on Dec. 18, 1995. Since then, it has been the friendliest, most peaceful and diverse place on campus. It is not just another building, but it is indeed a second home for me and hundreds of the other international and American students at the University of Tennessee. It was exactly one year ago when I entered that place for the first time, and our story started then. As a newly-arrived international student, I went there to attend the orientation lectures and lunch after that. At the beginning, it was just another building for me where I met official people who talked about official stuff like the visa, taxes and the expected challenges of living abroad. Then, with time and because of its strategic location near Hodges and Melrose (where some of the English Language Institute ELI classes are hosted), its role in my life increased gradually. It was not just the front desk with friendly people who are willing to help all the time, and it was not just the hot coffee and tea, nor the peaceful, quiet rooms that are ready all the time for studying or relaxing that made me like the place. It was all of that together and more. It was the best place to meet friends, ask for help, relax from academic hard times and enjoy continuous events year-round. It was also the gateway to knowing more about other cultures and to express myself and my culture to the people from other countries. At that place, I met some of my best friends from different countries where we played together, chatted for a long time and exchanged information about special things in our countries. It was there where I realized that humanity and wanting the best for all humans is the most important aspect by bringing together all human beings from different languages, religions and races. Besides all of that, the language tables in the I-House were
one of the best parts while being there. There were language learning and practicing tables for English, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese and other languages, which furthered my personal English improvement. These tables were the perfect place to meet native language speakers from around the world, and it was not just learning and practicing a new language, but learning a lot about different cultures, cultural differences and origins of some of these differences. These tables allowed me to get closer to many people where I realized that it
realized that there are too many students (Americans especially, as well as some international students) who do not know anything about this fantastic place and what it offers: great opportunities for all to meet and know more about the others. It is supposed to be a place for all to meet and get to know each other, but it is not in the way it should be. Even with the friendship programs, there are still too many students, whose majors are close to international and multicultural studies or those who simply are inter-
“So I hope that more (both American and international) students will know about this building, and will take advantage of it more than what is happening now.”
is totally wrong to follow the common stereotypes and try to classify people accordingly. Instead, I found out that people are just unique and different and you need to know people well before judging them. So, it was a benefit and fun time together at these language tables. All of that is just part of the fun and precious time I spent in that house, and I am sure that there are many other students who share the same or even better experiences as me within the I-House. The only problem is that when I was a student at the ELI, I thought that the I-House was a well-known place on campus. Later, when I started my academic study, I
ested in knowing more about different cultures who can make use of such place to acquire a kind of knowledge that cannot be acquired in the classroom. So I hope that more (both American and international) students will know about this building, and will take advantage of it more than what is happening now. And I hope to see more and more friends who share the same joy and happy time in that building as me. Mustafa Sadiq Aljumaily is an international student from Iraq and a PhD student in computer engineering. He can be reached at mlatief@vols.utk.edu.
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NOW PLAYING Grab your popcorn, please silence your cell phones and check out these reviews of this season’s most anticipated Hollywood creations. And if these catch your attention, check out more reviews at utdailybeacon.com.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens The hype for this movie rekindled the nerdy cult following of this saga, and I don’t think any of these eager fans were disappointed. Some complained that The Force Awakens was just a reworked A New Hope, but in my opinion these similarities were an intentional effort to tie this new installment to it’s famed predecessor. The First Order rose from the ruins of The Empire, so similarities between the two superpowers are to be expected. And let’s be real... Darth Vader and Luke were not the first famous father versus son struggle. The familial conflict in The Force Awakens has been a com-
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monly used theme since the Ancient Greeks invented theater. At 73, casting Harrison Ford as an actor star should have seemed comical, but the film veteran showed that age is but a number by owning his role as the swaggering interstellar smuggler. The additions of Daisy Ridley as Rey, John Boyega as Finn and Adam Driver as Kylo Ren brought youth to the saga and established a strong new cast. Ridley’s performance gave Star Wars it’s first leading female warrior. Rey holds her own against both leading men and poses a strong contrast to the original trilogy’s introduction of Leia as a damsel in distress.
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Never stopped smiling from enjoyment, even during the sad parts
When the afterglow faded, I spotted a few flaws but still went to see it a second time.
Joy For a drama interpreting the true struggle of a housewife, Joy Mangano, to find commercial success with a homemade invention, this movie could have been a lot worse. The star-studded cast including Lawrence, Robert DeNiro and Bradley Cooper set expectations high, which is perhaps why they disappointed so much. DeNiro played a very familiar role — that of the estranged, erratically-tempered father — and naturally did well. However, Lawrence’s role of a divorced
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mother of two was brand new for her and arguably a bad fit. For most of the movie, she seemed just as lost and uncomfortable with her new identity as the audience was; however there were a few moments where her signature strong and stubborn attitude was able to shine through. Additionally, some overplayed character portrayals in combination with a plot unrealistically stacked against Mangano made this interpretation of an inspiring true story just seem ridiculous.
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Local coffee shop unveils new digs Michael Lipps
Assistant Arts & Culture Editor
From late October to mid to late December, depending upon where you would place the 18 on that spectrum, patrons of local coffee shop Remedy were left without the warmth of their usual latte or pour over in the quaint space Remedy previously occupied on Jackson Avenue. Now located at 800 Tyson Street, the new Remedy has traded in their casual and rustic aesthetic for a much more modern and industrial one. Gray concrete floors meet white walls that rise up to an exposed wooden ceiling dangling with plentiful vintage light fixtures. A mostly glass front wall runs perpendicular to the bar, located to the back left of the entryway. In any other direction, you’ll be pleased to find communal
seating for large groups and extroverts, tables for one or two (from where I write this review) and a comfy looking couch that faces two equally comfy looking lounge chairs. Apart from these interior differences and, of course, the new physical location, not much else has changed. Remedy still partners with Intelligentsia, a Chicago based roaster-retailer, to serve their coffee, and you’ll find recognizable folks behind the counter conjuring up some of the best beverages in K-town. I can easily get behind the new location. The emerging Downtown North area has a lot to offer. I welcome the modern aesthetic. It almost makes me forget that I’m in Knoxville, and I’m a fan of Intelligentsia for many reasons. But what prompted the move in the first place to warrant this directionless piece about Remedy anyway? Well, it seems to partially have come down to money, but another contributing factor seems to be in part due to the ownership of Remedy. The coffee shop is owned by Knoxlife Church,
and is operated by its minister, Sean Alsobrooks and his wife, Sara. Independent from the church, the Alsobrooks have begun their own venture: Makers Donuts. Yes, Knoxville, a made from scratch donut shop is in the works for our happy little city. Seriously though, the donut shop’s latest tweet is about “lots of donut testing” including flavors like matcha green tea with black salt as well as cherry with crushed pistachio. But, I digress. The Alsobrooks were apparently already working to transform 800 Tyson Street into Makers Donuts when they began to entertain the thought of moving Remedy into the same space once their lease at Jackson Avenue ended. So there you have it. Dollars and sense seemed to have largely prompted the move. Despite some clear changes, the coffee at the root of Remedy’s charm is still superb. In fact, I would go as far as to say that (although I can’t quite put my finger on exactly why) I believe the coffee to taste even better at the new locale.
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Tennessee ready to take next step with new defensive coordinator Jonathan Toye
Sports Editor Tennessee football has made significant strides under coach Butch Jones. But Jones himself wasn’t satisfied. As soon as the season ended, he searched for ways to improve the program. Thus, he decided to part ways with former defensive coordinator John Jancek and appoint Penn State’s defensive coordinator Bob Shoop as Jancek’s replacement. Shoop boasts a decorated resume, with all his defenses at Vanderbilt and Penn State finishing in the Top 25 in total defense. Jones twice competed against his defenses at Vanderbilt. Twice, he came away impressed. “We wanted an individual who had a great track record and I think that success speaks for itself,� Jones said Tuesday in a presser at The Ray and Lucy Hand Digital Studio. “The last five years (at Vanderbilt and Penn State) he has produced Top 25 defenses. In 2014 at Penn State, (his defense) was second in the country. Obviously, very highly sought after, and I think that is a direct correlation to him being a great teacher, motivator, leader, recruiter and even better person. “Again, you have to step back and (ask): ‘How can we take the next step? How can we continue to get better?’ We believe coach Shoop helps us in that process.� Tennessee released Shoop’s Memorandum of Understanding Tuesday. According to his MOU, Shoop will make approximately 1.15 million per year at Tennessee through three years. He doesn’t owe Tennessee a buyout if he decides to leave before his contract expires. However, he is solely responsible for his buyout at Penn State. Shoop has coached for 27 years, but he
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didn’t get his first taste of coaching in the SEC until 2011 when then Vanderbilt coach James Franklin hired him to be his defensive coordinator. Shoop followed Franklin to Penn State in 2013, where he commanded defenses that ranked No. 2 in total defense in 2014 and No. 15 in 2015. Now he has returned to Tennessee and is poised to elevate Tennessee football to the next phase in its rebuilding project. He made one thing clear on Tuesday — he expects to win championships. “I think the parts are in place for this to be a championship unit. I really think that,� Shoop said. “We’re here to build a championship-caliber defense, let me be clear on that. From the first time I meet with the unit later on today, we’re going to establish that championship mindset in all that we do. That’s something that’s important to me.� It’s not hard to understand why Tennessee would be interested in hiring Shoop, but Shoop made sure people knew the feeling was mutual. There were numerous qualities about Tennessee
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the unit. He hopes to base his defense on three qualities: pursuit, pressure and solid techniques, and he wants Tennessee to win at the same level it did in the past. “It’s not just about playing well. It’s about playing winning football,� Shoop said. “We want to play our best when the game is on the line. “I can just be a piece of the puzzle and help take (Tennessee) to the next level.� Happy Returns: Jalen Reeves-Maybin made Shoop’s job a little easier on Tuesday. It’s no secret Reeves-Maybin had to make a difficult decision: to return for his senior season or to take a risk and submit his name for the NFL draft to pursue a professional career. Reeves-Maybin shared his decision on Twitter. To use his own words, Tennessee fans get him for one more season and he guaranteed it’s going to be a good one. “As you all know, I have been challenged with making one of the hardest decisions in my life in deciding whether to pursue a dream of mine and enter the NFL draft or to return to school for my final year,� Reeves-Maybin wrote in a tweet. “After much evaluation with the people closest to me, I have finally made a decision. The truth of the matter is, my biggest childhood dream was to be a great college football player. Yea [sic] I’ve had a good career, but I was taught as a kid, ‘good is the enemy of great.’� “With that being sad, my only focus for this season is to great in everything I engage in on and off the field. So y’all got me for one more season and it will be nothing short of greatness.� Reeves-Maybin is the undisputed leader of the defense. He was named Second-Team AllSEC and finished 2015 with 105 tackles, including 14 for a loss and six sacks.
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Tennessee ready to match Georgia’s physicality
Troy Provost-Heron Training Editor
At the midway point of the regular season, Georgia head coach Mark Fox is impressed with what Rick Barnes has been able to do in his first year at Tennessee. “They’re playing extremely well,” Fox said Monday during the SEC teleconference. “If it wasn’t for the job (Frank Martin) is doing at South Carolina, I think Coach Barnes would be a real front runner for (SEC) coach of the year. “I think he’s done a remarkable job getting that team to play like they’re playing, and they can really score it.” With the Vols’ lack of a true point guard and a big man, coupled with a roster that features five scholarship players that are sophomores or younger, from the outside UT’s 8-7 record (1-2 SEC) seems like an accomplishment. But Barnes’ evaluation of himself before UT’s contest against the Bulldogs (8-5, 1-2) on Wednesday (TV: SEC Network, 7 p.m.) inside Stegeman Coliseum, though,
was more critical. “(I haven’t been) good enough because I don’t think we should have lost a game yet,” Barnes said. “We are almost .500. I think we have had some close games. … There isn’t a game that goes by that I don’t look at that tape and see that I could have done something different or something better to help these guys. “You do get frustrated with players during games and the things they are doing, but, ultimately, it comes back to you saying, ‘I have to help them.’ They are young and learning this game. There are a lot of things I’d like to cover with them, but sometimes you can cover too much. I can do a lot better job.” Wednesday will mark the second time Barnes and Fox have matched up. The first was on March 18, 2005 when Fox’s ninth-seeded Nevada team defeated eighthseeded Texas, 61-57, in the first round of the NCAA tournament. “He is a very sound and fundamental basketball coach,” Barnes said. “They could very well be the most physical team that we have played so far this year.” Through the first three games of SEC
Kevin Punter goes for a layup in UT’s game against the University of Alabama-Huntsville Chargers on Nov. 7. Hayley Pennesi • The Daily Beacon/ Tennessee Athletics
play, the Vols have been surprisingly physical themselves. UT currently ranks second in the conference in rebounding at 43.3 boards per game and first in offensive rebounding at 16.7 per game despite not starting a player taller than 6-foot-5 over the past two games. That lineup that features guards Kevin Punter Jr., Devon Baulkman and Robert Hubbs III and forwards Armani Moore and Admiral Schofield is listed as the probable
starting lineup on Tennessee’s game notes. “Height is one thing and quickness is another,” Barnes said. “We have to swarm and go get it. It can’t be just our post guys. Our guards have to be our leading rebounders. We have to run balls down. We have done a better job the last couple of games with staying in front of the ball. Where we are still getting hurt is when we get pushed underneath the basket. We have come up with a lot of the 50-50 balls.”
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Schofield earns SEC Freshman of the Week honors Taylor White
Asst. Sports Editor Admiral Schofield appears to be enjoying the start of the SEC slate. After scoring in double figures in just two of Tennessee’s first 10 games, the freshman forward has scored at least 16 points in all three of the Vols’ conference games, including a career-high 22 at Auburn. Schofield averaged close to 17 points per game in Tennessee’s matchups with Florida and No. 21 Texas A&M, earning him SEC Freshman of the Week honors for his performance. Schofield is the first Vol to earn the award since Jarnell Stokes in 2012, and is the first Tennessee player to take home a weekly honor this year. According to coach Rick Barnes, Schofield’s success as a freshman comes from the culture that he has worked to establish at Tennessee. “We know now that we do have a really good culture in place that when we get done in a couple of months, we are going to get right back here with guys in our program that understand what we want from a com-
mitment and work-ethic standpoint,” Barnes said. “We know that we have that in place now.” The Zion, Illinois, native cracked the starting lineup when Robert Hubbs III was forced to miss time with an injury in December. Schofield got the start in lieu for Hubbs at Butler, and has started all seven games since then, including all three of Tennessee’s SEC games. Averaging close to 11 points and five rebounds over that stretch, including 10 three point shots, Schofield has seen his minutes shoot up, averaging 27 per game in conference play. Schofield isn’t the only freshman who has seen an increase in production, as Shembari Phillips scored a career-high 15 points in the Vols’ loss to Texas A&M on Saturday, shattering his previous high of eight points. Phillips showed an aggressive mindset in the loss, relentlessly attacking the basket and getting to the free throw line 10 times as a result, hitting nine of them. He’s averaging six points so far in conference play and has given the team a much needed spark off the bench. The development of Tennessee’s freshmen
has been key to the Vols’ recent performance, but there are two more newcomers that Barnes would like to establish as the season goes on and that’s freshman Kyle Alexander and junior college transfer Ray Kasongo. Alexander has appeared in two of the three SEC games, while Kasongo has only appeared in one. Neither player has scored in conference play, and with the limited depth Tennessee has in the post, the two forwards could provide big minutes off the bench.
Guard Robert Hubbs III #3 of the Tennessee Volunteers attempts to drive the lane during the game between the Army Black Knights and the Vols on Nov. 24. Hayley Pennesi • The Daily Beacon/ Tennessee Athletics “I still think it’s really important that Ray and Kyle figured something out here,” Barnes said. “We need their length. Those two guys are really important going forward. We need those two guys to help us across the front line. “But if Shembari can continue to grow, and let Kevin get down around 32 minutes, that would help a lot. Especially as we keep getting on in to the middle of February.”
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