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KNOT FOR PROFIT UT student Harrison Collins is trying to save the world, one bow tie at a time.

Troy Provost-Heron Sports Editor The Lady Vols have seemingly found themselves. The month of January saw Tennessee seesawing, never able to get any momentum going. That is, until they met up with the Florida Gators on Jan. 23. The Lady Vols chalked up an 89-69 victory against UF, followed by a 76-55 win over Texas A&M on Sunday. This marked only the second time UT had won consecutive games this month. Shockingly, the Lady Vols have been able to figure it out without their floor general, Ariel Massengale, who left the Florida game in the first half after suffering a facial injury. Her replacement, Andraya Carter, has been sound at the point for the Lady Vols in their last two contests, posting a 14:5 assist to turnover ratio while playing the quality defense she is known for. “I think I’ve gotten a lot more comfortable with it, especially with those practices after the Florida game and just relying on my coaches and teammates who have given me a ton of confidence,” Carter said. “I know they have faith in me, so it’s hard to not have faith in myself.” The redshirt freshman guard also has a new-found confidence in her offensive game. Carter averaged 4.3 shots per game as the reserve point guard, but as the main ball handler, she has averaged seven a contest and is shooting six percent better from the floor. “I feel pretty good,” Carter said. “A good friend of mine actually told me ‘confidence is repetition,’ and I’ve really been sticking with that. Just being in the gym extra has given me more confidence and then talking with my teammates and coaches, knowing my role, knowing the game plan, I think all of that helps with confidence so I just got to keep it going.” Even though Massengale remains injured, Carter names the Bolingbrook, Ill., native as the main reason for her success since stepping into the new role. “Ariel has been so much help these last games, but really for the whole season,” Carter said. “Like I said after the Texas A&M game, I wouldn’t have had near as much confidence if it weren’t for Ariel. I was playing because she was out, but the reason I was playing well was because of her, as well. “She has helped me so much... We compete when we are on the court in practice together but she has my back and I know that.” See CARTER on Page 3

Jenna Butz Staff Writer TivaTies aren’t merely a fashion statement — they’re a statement of values. In November, Harrison Collins, junior in marketing and entrepreneurship, capitalized on a goal set the previous year: designing and selling bow ties to raise money for charity. His nonprofit business, “TivaTies,” benefits TivaWater, an organization providing water filters to underprivileged families in developing countries. In keeping with his personal style, Collins chose the accessory for its novelty.

“I’m a big bow tie guy, and I wear them all the time,” Collins said. “You couldn’t tell I like to dress up because I’m normally pretty rugged, ragtag and thrown together. But, if it’s a nice occasion, I love to dress up for it. I think a bow tie says a lot about a guy. It’s sort of quirky and confident.” An unusual choice, the ties depart from more predictable products like water bottles. Collins said he

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believes this will work to increase their popularity. “It was just an interesting way to raise money,” Collins said. “They seem completely unrelated: bow ties and clean water. But I like that, ‘How do these two relate?’ It’s a good conversation starter, and it can get people talking about how they can help.” Not one for resolutions, Collins welcomes each new year with a list of accomplishments he hopes to meet.

In 2013, Collins’ 13 goals included designing a charitable bow tie; a vision now becoming a reality. He said he woke up inexplicably in the middle of the night with the thought to design one and admits initial uncertainty as to how to implement this epiphany. After talking to a family friend involved with TivaWater, Collins met the organization’s owner. This encounter solidified his selection. “I heard their mission, their vision, everything about what they do,” Collins said. “No questions, this is who I want it to be.” See BOW TIES on Page 3

“It’s the best work

environment that I’ve ever been in, where I feel invested in,” Collins said. “And they’re teaching me a lot about being a responsible and honest businessman.”

TIVAWATER’S MISSION: A team of social entrepreneurs who strive to deliver the world’s best at-home water filter to those in the developing world.

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UT officials lobby to win super CPU ownership Liz Wood Staff Writer Recreating the explosion of a star in deep space – just another phenomenon supercomputers are able to simulate. Useful across a range of scientific fields, supercomputers can be used to study drugs, climate change, and even national healthcare. With Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) and the Joint Institute for Computational Sciences (JICS) in close proximity to the university, East Tennessee is a global center for such technology. In fact, ORNL’s National Institute for Computational Sciences is one of the largest computing centers on the planet; the ORNL and JICS’s Intel Parallel Computing Center being one of only five such institutions in the world. The world’s four other IPCC’s are located in Italy, Germany, Purdue, and the University of Texas. Tony Mezzacappa, named director of JICS last year, leads the university’s campaign to win a new supercomputer. “We here at the university, we here in Knoxville and East Tennessee, are very proud,” Mezzacappa said. “This is one of the things that makes us arguably the best place in the world for computing. When we talk about computing here at the university, there’s so much to talk about. “It’s really phenomenal to talk about supercomputing on campus.” See SUPERCOMPUTER on Page 3

Speech impediment is inspiration for Vawter in ‘Paperboy’ Katherine Nanney Contributor For most people, speech impediments are nightmarish, causing awkwardness or embarrassment even in short conversations. For novelist Vince Vawter, however, they are source material. UT’s Center for Children’s and Young Adult Literature partnered with the Knoxville Public Library to bring Vawter, author of the Newbery Medal winning children’s novel “Paperboy,” to campus Monday night. “Paperboy” is set in Memphis, Tenn., and follows an 11-year-old boy named Victor who struggles with a stutter. Victor pitches for his baseball team, and he does well when he doesn’t have to speak to people. But in the summer, Victor takes over his friend’s paper route and must learn to communicate with some of the not-so-easygoing customers. “Talking for everybody is not so easy,” Vawter said. “It’s pretty complicated if you really think about it.” The story is largely based on Vawter’s own experiences as a child with a speech impediment. Growing up in Memphis, he said he had a very difficult time with the disorder. He said he wrote on his typewriter because he felt that, although it was difficult and even painful

to speak aloud, he could always get the right words out on paper. Vawter said because he based the protagonist off himself, the writing process brought up some very painful and emotional memories. “There is a lot of my life in this book,” he said. Vawter even told the audience that as he was writing the novel, his family noticed his speech seemed to be getting worse, almost as if he was reverting back to his days in Memphis as a lonely 11-year-old with a stutter. “I still have a speech impediment,” Vawter said. “But it doesn’t stop me, and I think that’s important.” Vawter said all the characters of the novel were based off of people from his past except for one man, whom he said he based off his 65-year-old self. Vawter said he wanted there to be a character that helped to foster the growth and development of the 11-year-old protagonist. However, Vawter readily admitted the novel didn’t have the kind of resolution children’s novels often have. “I won’t make it a fairy tale,” he said. “Victor doesn’t miraculously stop stuttering at the end Newbery Honor award winner and local author Vince of the book.” Vawter discusses his novel “Paperboy” in the CCI See VAWTER on Page 8 Auditorium on Monday.

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Tuesday brought heavy snow to Knoxville – if you call 1-2 inches heavy. Students took to the streets for snowball fights and snowman building, and the Daily Beacon took to their Tweets to document the adventures of a student population that has yet to have a snow day this year. Some teachers cancelled class, but for most of campus it was business as usual. In the snow.

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Jordan Carter, a junior in retail and consumer science, plays with her dog, Denali, in the snow near Neyland Stadium on Tuesday.

Snow blankets the South The Associated Press Atlanta highways instantly became clogged with commuters who left work at the first sign of snow, bronze statues of civil rights heroes were encrusted, and snowplows that hardly ever leave the garage were sent rolling through the city. At one point, traffic in the business capital of the South was so bad that security guards and office doormen took to the streets to direct cars amid a cacophony of blaring horns. A winter storm Tuesday that would probably be no big deal in the North all but paralyzed the Deep South, where folks have little experience driving on snow and ice. “My family is from up north and we’re use to driving in the snow and stuff, and seeing everyone freak out, sliding and stuff, it’s pretty funny,” said Alex Tracy, a Georgia State University student who was watching the gridlock in downtown Atlanta. Many cities across the region don’t have big fleets of salt trucks or snowplows, and it showed. Dozens of wrecks happened from Georgia to Texas. Two people died in an accident in Alabama. “As I drove, I prayed the whole way,” said Jane Young, an 80-year-old pastor’s wife who was traveling in Austin, Texas, before dawn on her way to volunteer at a polling station when sleet began falling. “I said, ‘Lord, put your hands on mine and guide me. This is your car now.’” As many as 50 million people across the region could be affected by the time the snow stops on Wednesday. Up to 4 inches of snow fell in central Louisiana, about 3 inches was forecast for parts of Georgia. Up to 10 inches was expected in the Greenville, N.C., area, and along the state’s Outer Banks. On the Gulf Shores beaches in Alabama, icicles hung from palm trees. Hundreds of students in the northeastern part of the state faced spending the night in gyms or classrooms because the roads were too icy. Four people were killed in a Mississippi mobile home fire blamed on a space heater. New Orleans’ merry Bourbon Street was oddly quiet as brass bands and other street performers stayed inside.

Lee and Virginia Holt of Wayne, Pa., walked into Cafe du Monde — a New Orleans landmark known for its beignets and cafe au lait — after finding the National World War II Museum closed because of the weather. “We understand they don’t have the equipment to prepare the roads,” she said. Her husband added: “Nor the experience.” At a hardware store in the Georgia town of Cumming, snow shovels were in short supply, but manager Tom Maron said feed scoops — often used in barns — could be substituted. Popular warm-weather tourist destinations — Charleston, S.C.; Savannah, Ga.; Pensacola, Fla.; Virginia Beach, Va.; and New Orleans — where visitors can usually golf and play tennis in shirt sleeves or light jackets this time of year were expecting ice and snow on Tuesday and Wednesday. Meanwhile, in the Midwest, dangerous cold continued to grip the region even as the storm moved south. Many schools closed for the second straight day. In Minnesota, forecasters said wind chills could reach 35 to 50 degrees below zero. In Savannah, Ga., residents braced for a winter whiplash, barely 24 hours after the coastal city hit a T-shirt-friendly 73 degrees. Less than a quarterinch of ice and up to an inch of snow were possible in a city that has seen very little snow on its manicured squares in the past 25 years. Savannah had 3.6 inches of snow in December 1989, a dusting of 0.2 inches in February 1996 and 0.9 inches in February 2010. Phil Sellers leads walking tours rain or shine of Savannah’s oak-shaded squares, bronze Civil War monuments and Victorian neighborhoods. But come ice and snow — both rare visitors here — he will stay inside. “Usually what happens in Savannah is everything stops immediately when you first see a snowflake,” he said. “Everyone’s jaw drops.” At grocery store across the region, shoppers mostly cleaned out shelves of bottled water, bread, milk and boxed fire logs. Nationwide, nearly 3,000 airline flights were canceled.

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SUPERCOMPUTER continued from Page 1 The new supercomputer, allocated by the National Science Foundation, will cost around $20 million; approximately $10 million to manufacture and another $10 million to operate for the next few years. Competition will be nationwide. Mezzacappa will compete alongside a team of UT faculty and staff, many whom are joint staff with ORNL and JICS. A winner will be determined based on how the given institution plans to utilize the resource. With the computational expertise and infrastructure of Oak Ridge, Mezzacappa said he is confident in the university’s chances. “I look forward to competing for this new supercomputer and winning it,” Mezzacappa added. “We’ve got a great track record; we’re going to go after

Harrison Collins, a junior in marketing and entrepreneurship, poses for a photo highlighting his work with his non-profit business, TivaWater. The business is predicated upon selling bow ties – and using efficient business principles – to provide water for countires who do not have any readily available via wells, streams or springs.

BOWTIES continued from Page 1 Delivering directly to developing nations like Haiti, Guatemala and Uganda, each TivaWater filter costs $100. About the size of water jugs seen on sporting event sidelines, each filter contains 20 pounds of sand. This layer creates a living biological filter for harmful bacteria. One filter can serve up to 15 people. “You pour the dirtiest water in,” Collins said, “and you’re going to get nothing but clean water that’s safe to drink when it

comes out.” Reflecting TivaWater’s primary commitment to aiding African nations, Collins’ bow tie design sports a motif of the continent over navy and red stripes. After sending his sketches to Gitman Bros., a tie company based in North Carolina, Collins ordered 200 self-tie and 200 pretied bow ties, pricing them at $40 each. “That was totally a blessing,” Collins said. “I’m ordering such a minimum amount of bow ties compared to what they’re used to, so really my business is not important to them. They shouldn’t have taken me on, but they did. Not because they were

going to make money off of it, but I guess they just believed in it, too.” TivaTies has since been featured in the Torchbearer, the University’s alumni magazine. Despite making no monetary profit from the sale of his bow ties, Collins’ partnership with TivaWater is valuable nonetheless. “It’s the best work environment that I’ve ever been in, where I feel invested in,” Collins said. “And they’re teaching me a lot about being a responsible and honest businessman.” More information about TivaWater can be found at tivawater.com.

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it, and we’re going to win.” If victorious, Mezzacappa plans to name the new supercomputer “Firefly” after Tennessee’s state insect. He said the name also refers to the synchronous fireflies in Elkmont, Tenn., a display that occurs in only one other place in the world. Mezzacappa pointed out that much like the synchronous fireflies, the proposed supercomputer will “light up the world of science.” If the new supercomputer makes its home in East Tennessee, it will join the existing family of supercomputers, including Darter, Beacon, Kraken and Titan — the second fastest supercomputer in the world after China’s Tiahne-2. Many faculty from UT’s math and science departments have conducted research using the supercomputers at ORNL. In assisting these professors, graduate and undergraduate students have accessed the state-of-the-art machines.

Mark Kaltenborn, senior in physics and math with a focus in astronomy, has worked with several different computers since he began research with a group of undergraduates two years ago. Now leading his own project with guidance from a research mentor, Kaltenborn uses Titan on a weekly basis to model exotic matter configurations in proto-supernova stars and neutron stars. “No other computers can tackle the scale of my project,” Kaltenborn said. “Despite the cost of supercomputers, they are more than worth the investment. Supercomputers let us physicists delve deep into the universe that otherwise would be completely beyond our grasp.” Technology, Mezzacappa asserted, merits sizable investment. “If we think about the university and we think about being top 25,” he said, “computing is certainly going to be a big part of that.”

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Jeremy Brunger Aldous Huxley, the British writer for the counter-cultural milieu, is a name everyone ought to be familiar with. His “Brave New World” is a mainstay within school curricula, his “Doors of Perception” is on the shelf of every LSD-dropping hippie from the 1960s, and his “Perennial Philosophy” is the book of tenets for every amateur explorer of world religions. He was a writer of enormous talent, enormous depth, and enormous productivity. However, while he is recognized often enough as a literary master, most of his works remain unread. His esoteric 1941 “Grey Eminence” is one such ignored work. “Grey Eminence” somewhat novelizes the story of François Leclerc du Tremblay, a man now forgotten but – at least for historians of religion and politics – historically significant and, frankly, impressive. Du Tremblay was a Capuchin monk in the 17th century who operated under Cardinal Richelieu as an intelligence adviser and a Machiavellian ideological guide. This was a man who, due to his regime of religious proscriptions, walked without shoes and did not travel by coach. He scoured Europe barefoot and participated in the Thirty Years’ War; opened a series of churches whose nuns prayed for Richelieu’s success in the war as if they were battery installations; wrote thousands of pages of material and originated the term “l’eminence grise”, or “grey eminence,” which means the real power broker behind the political figurehead. One need only think of Dick Cheney in this regard. Huxley dissects Du Tremblay’s role in the war and extrapolates his function to Huxley’s own time in the early 20th century. “The Grey Eminence”’s ideological role in producing and reproducing consent to a war which decimated France’s population parallels certain catastrophes in 20th century Europe, no doubt. How best can you make people consent to their own destruction? Du Tremblay, though a true-blue believer himself, answered simply: religion. In the 1960s, Louis Althusser, the architect of the French riots of 1968, wrote an essay entitled “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses” that outlined his theory of ideology along structural lines. Althusser, like Du Tremblay, thought ideology can reproduce itself in certain institutions and “recruit” adherents unconsciously. The churches Du Tremblay set up throughout France mirror such ideological apparatuses like no other; extending even further, institutions like UT and schooling in general also function to reproduce dominant ideologies. While I am no conspiracy theorist, I do hold that literature has as much to tell us about ourselves as history, be it our own or that of one whose consciousness must be so alien to the modern mind as to be understood only by prosthesis. Huxley’s book, in the light of Althusser’s theory of ideology, makes me reflect on our own current affairs. Which of our hallowed institutions make us work against ourselves? Which of them implant certain historically contingent ideas into our thinking which we find ourselves unable to excise? The idea of “self-esteem” – now a cultural commonplace that fits in nicely within our capitalist paradigm – was popularized by Ayn Rand’s lover, Nathaniel Branden, a man who renamed himself Branden because it has Rand’s name in it. His bourgeois cult of self-esteem descended throughout our culture: now we feel remiss if we gauge our self-esteem to be low, but we do not ask if self-esteem is a valid ethical and moral category. A strange man invented it and the meme stuck. Doubtless many other commonplaces find their way into the culture in a similar manner, yet we come to think of them as somehow natural, as rigidly set into our collective unconscious to the point we don’t even think of them as produced. Ayn Rand started an entire movement based around her questionable fiction. Du Tremblay maintained a horrible war through his knowledge of how the mind works. If a man in early modern France understood how ideology works and controlled human behavior on a fundamental level, the science of ideology must be much more advanced in 2014. Huxley’s book makes me wonder if we are not all pawns in a gambit larger than ourselves, perhaps ruled over not by overlords, as in “Brave New World,” but rather by our own unconscious habits which, if they do not aid us, must only destroy us, as in “Grey Eminence” and the entire landscape of Huxley’s own century. Perhaps in our own century, we will finally manage to free ourselves of ideology and acknowledge our real conditions of existence, however happy or grim such a portrait might be. Jeremy Brunger is a senior in English. He can be reached at jbrunger@utk.edu.

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Rising: Big Orange optimism With the No. 4 recruitment class in the nation, according to Rivals.com, the Vols look poised to make a legitimate bowl run in 2014. Monday brought yet another running back in the form of Derrel Scott, a 5-foot-11, 184-pound four-star recruit. The addition augments an already stellar backfield recruiting class that boasts five-star recruit Jalen Hurd and three-star Treyvon Paulk. And despite two decommitments in as many weeks, UT coach Butch Jones has proven himself clutch in recruitment-time situations. Look for Butch Falling: Stokely Athletics Center and to land a few more big names – Adoree’ Jackson out of California would make a big Gibbs Hall Caution tape and orange barrels have impact at cornerback – before signing day barred access to the former athletic dorm and next Wednesday. arena while workers safely remove asbestos Falling: Big Orange confidence from the interior of the buildings. Once the For a group loaded with talent, the men’s asbestos abatement is complete, the buildings will be demolished to make way for a new basketball team has struggled mightily in its parking garage that will hold 1,000 spaces. first set of conference games. Heading into The first phase is expected to be complete by tonight’s game against Ole Miss, the Vols are summer 2015, allowing for more construction only 3-3 in the SEC, with ugly losses at Florida to begin on a new residence hall built close and Kentucky and a heartbreaker against to the current Gibbs Hall location. The new Texas A&M. Coach Cuonzo Martin’s emphahall will have 729 single-occupancy rooms sis on the front court and defense has helped and be open to male and female students; a UT shut down opponents, but the teams that dining facility will also add another dimen- have been able to disrupt Jarnell Stokes and sion to UT Dining, with plans available to all Jeronne Maymon have found success in failed students, faculty and staff. The progress, how- shots of outside shooters. If the Vols play as ever, comes at a cost – the parking garage is poorly against Ole Miss tonight as they did estimated at $31.8 million, and the residence against Florida, March Madness may be put on hold again for the Vol faithful. hall is expected to cost $94 million. Rising: The new Student Union After months of staring down into a hole in the ground, UT students are now craning their necks to see the new Student Union explode out of the depths. Progress is actually on schedule, and phase one of the new building looks to be complete by 2015. The construction has temporarily shut down traffic on Philip Fulmer Way between Cumberland Avenue and Middle Drive, so commuters and visitors are diverted to drive on Volunteer Boulevard.

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Falling: Snow, everywhere After a massive storm blanketed the northeastern United States last week, more winter wonder struck the South Tuesday. As many as 50 million people could be affected in the Deep South region more accustomed to hurricanes and tornadoes, though the snow did not cancel UT’s classes for Tuesday. Interstates were clogged by thousands of commuters leaving work early, and hundreds of flights have been canceled. Hardware stores are running out of snow shovels and snow plows are in high demand. The struggle is real across the country – in the Midwest, wind chill is causing the air to feel like 35-50 degrees below zero. This edition of Rocky Tops and Bottoms was compiled by Editor-in-Chief R.J. Vogt.

Hit that early-semester grind? Grab a cup of coffee In Rare Forum by

Julie Mrozinski Coffee and I go together like ground up beans in a brew. Being the cliché English major that I am, I have been drinking anywhere from one to five cups of coffee a day since freshman year. Upon returning to the daily grind this semester, I became increasingly aware of my dependence on coffee that up until a few hours ago, I knew nothing about . Coffee’s legend starts in Ethiopia where a goat herder took notice of his frolicking goats, which were practically skipping from bush to bush eating cherry-red berries. Curious of the goats’ especially perky demeanor, he too took a handful of berries and was soon frolicking with them in a state of euphoria. Ever since this fateful day, sometime around 800 A.D., humans – and goats – have been consuming coffee to reap its energizing benefits. I don’t have to tell you people around here are keen on coffee – the line at Starbucks in Hodges library is proof enough. According to coffeeandhealth.org, coffee “improves mental performance, especially alertness, attention and concentration by

mildly stimulating the nervous system.” Sound familiar? It has been proven a cup of coffee is as valuable as a 30-minute nap; and while we all love to nap, sometimes we don’t have time. Maybe something you don’t already know is habitual caffeine consumption may slow down age-related cognitive decline, especially in women. Other research links coffee consumers to having a 17-20 percent lower risk of Alzheimer’s. It also may be associated with lowering certain types of cancer such as oral, brain and liver. Understandably, coffee has a dark side as well. Coffee can greatly affect the sleep cycle, especially inhibiting the ability for REM sleep, which is essential to memory consolidation and learning. To avoid this potentially negative effect, it is recommend you do not consume coffee after 2 p.m. if possible. In this case, it is also important to be aware of caffeine content in your coffee. Coffee brands around campus, all in size “medium,” contain different quantities of caffeine: Starbucks is best suited for your morning or only cup of coffee with 330 miligrams of caffeine, followed by Panera at 189 mg and finally, for that late afternoon or evening cup, Dunkin’ Donuts is perhaps the best choice at 178 mg. Caffeine also poses an addiction threat, which I have experienced in the form of migraine headaches after exam week. It’s nice to hear from the scientists at coffeeand-

health.org that if I were to rid myself of this dependency, the withdrawals typically would only last a few days. It is even nicer to read that coffee does not give way to bodily addictions, only mental ones, and daily coffee consumption is considered a habit, not an addiction. Finally, the least attractive thing about coffee is the hole it puts in your wallet. Let’s return to the Starbucks line in Hodges. As a loyal customer, I believe it is my duty to pass on my experienced wisdom to you sad, white chocolate mocha bingers on how to get the most bang for your star-buck. Here’s how you can continue to get your delicious mocha while saving some green. Start with regular coffee, ask your barista to save you room for cream, then ask for 2-3 pumps of white mocha. You will be charged for the coffee ($1.65 for a grande) and the pumps (50 cents), equaling about $2 compared to the $4.45 you would pay for the white mocha. Even better news – white mocha is only one of many pumps offered at Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts vanilla, hazelnut, caramel, cinnamon, raspberry, toffee nut, peppermint, and a seasonal or two (now gingerbread). Sipping on this delicious juice at 8 p.m., I wish this productive potion to be a blessing to you all. Julie Mrozinski is a junior in English. She can be reached at jmrozins@utk.edu.

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Rising: Suspicions over Syria As the Syrian rebels met with government officials in Geneva to discuss peace, gruesome photos of dead bodies raised concerns over what one expert called “the regime’s killing machine.” The peace talks hit an impasse early Tuesday, as the future role of President Bashar al-Assad proved non-negotiable for the opposition and regime alike. Assad, an Alawite Muslim, has come under fire over the last several years for vicious crackdowns on protests; defectors from the national army have formed the Free Syrian Army, and the Syrian National Coalition for Opposition has earned official recognition as the sole representative of the Syrian people. Though no one has confirmed the authenticity of the photographs released by a team of war crimes prosecutors (Assad’s regime has explicitly refuted the pictures), they paint a vivid scene of violence. Because Syria is not a member of the International Criminal Court, prosecution will only come through the United Nations Security Council.

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Contributor A cheating wife. A dead body. These were the center of attention during author Ja m i e Qu at ro ’s s h o r t s t o r y re a d i n g d u r i n g Monday night’s Writers in the Library event. Quatro read from her debut short story collection, “I Want to S how You More.� The book was well-received and named 2013 New York Times Not able B ook, NPR Best B ook of 2013 and New York Times Editors’ Choice. B e fo re i n t ro d u c i n g Quatro, UT Writer-inResidence Christopher Hebert summarized “Demolition,� one of the stories featured in Quatro’s book. “ D e m o l i t i o n� tells the tale of a deaf man who declares to his c h u rc h c o n g re gat i o n that he does not believe in Christianity. Hebert then discussed the portrayal of faith in the collection of stories. “ T h e re is faith towards God, of course; and then there’s faith we show, or at least try to show, our partners and spouses,� Hebert said. “ The latter kind of fidelity, it seems, is just as frail as the first.� Quatro currently resides in Lookout Mountain, Ga., which i s s p l i t b e t we e n t h e Tennessee -Georgia line. When a member of the audience asked if there was any significance in choosing a divided setting, Quatro said it was not done consciously. “I do think that when you have a split setting like that , like a typo graphical setting, that it

lends itself to thematic splits,� Quatro said about the divides featured in her stories. Those in attendance also commented on the locational and thematic d i v i s i o n s i n Qu at ro ’s work. “ The stories are what we call magic realism,� said Megan Morris, cre ative writing major, “so it is in a really realistic setting but then there’s

“The latter kind of fidelity, it seems, is just as frail as the first.� -Christopher Hebert

a l ways s t ra n ge t h i n gs that happen, so it’s full of surprises.� Q u at ro re a d f ro m her short story “Decomposition: A Primer for Promiscuous Housewives,� which tells the story of a wife dealing with coming clean to her husband about her affair. In the story, the body of the woman’s lover is situated in the center of the couple’s bed. Quatro tells

the story through the stages of decomposition. The couple goes through marriage counseling in hopes of putting the past behind them. However, their efforts fail as the wife has trouble forgetting her lover and b e c o m i n g att ra c t e d t o her husband again. The wife even discusses with a therapist that she might have married the wrong man. During this time, the rotting body never leaves its spot from the bed. After attempting to explain the corpse to their four children, t h e w i f e eve n t u a l l y hides the body in an old playpen in the basement. T h e re a d i n g wa s shocking at times, as Quatro spoke about the wife’s sexually detailed letters to her lover, the harsh words of the woman’s husband, and the deteriorating condition of the body. “ The story was daring,� said Marilyn Kallet , UT ’s director of creative writing. “She took risks reading that here.� Qu at ro said her intentions weren’t to compile her stories into a collection. She didn’t think of publishing her work; she was simply writing for herself. “ O r i g i n a l l y, I d i d n’t know what I was doing.� Quatro s aid. “I wasn’t thinking in terms of doing a book at all.� After the success of her first collection, Quatro said it was quite possible she would “show us more� story collections in the future.

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Alyssa Perrone, sophomore in marketing, said she was pleased with the genuine nature of the author’s presentation and writing. “I really enjoyed Vawter’s presentation,” Perrone said. “He was so sincere, and I felt like his personal connections to the book brought the story to life.” Perrone plans to give “Paperboy” to her newborn nephew when he is older because of its motivating content. “It was inspiring to know he still struggles with his speech impediment but gave a very meaningful and well-delivered presentation tonight,” Perrone said.

Miranda Clark, director of CCYAL, heard of Vawter through mutual connections who continue to sing praises of his first novel “Paperboy.” She spoke highly of both Vawter and his writing. “We look for authors like Vince Vawter,” Clark said. “And we look for books like ‘Paperboy.’” Early Monday morning, Vawter got news that “Paperboy” had received the Newbery Medal Award. “It was such a wonderful honor that we were able to listen to his story the day he was awarded such a prestigious title,” Clark said. A humble Vawter said it’d been “quite a day.” “It’s certainly been a lot of fun.”

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Play set to paint redemptive portrait of Civil War, religion Tillman plays a recentlyslaves, also raised in the freed slave named John, a Jewish faith. As the war-torn men cel- character Tillman related to ebrate Passover, they “uncov- in terms of his search for UT’s Clarence Brown er a tangle of secrets and identity. Theatre will host “The “John is smart and sassy grapple with an uncertain Whipping Man” in the Ula future brought on by the end during the turn of a monuLove Doughty Carousel of the Civil War,” according mental moment in U.S. Theatre beginning this History -- the end of the to the theatre’s website. Thursday through Feb. 16. The play, written by Matthew Lopez and direct• When: Feb. 16 at 2 pm ed by John Sipes, tells the story of a wounded Jewish Confederate soldier who returns home only to find it annihilated and deserted • Where: Ula Love -- aside from two former

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Whipping Man

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Assistant Arts & Culture Editor Cortney Roark

Doughty Carosel Theatre

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• Visit clarencebrowntheatre.com for ticket prices and more information

Cast member Tramell Tillman is a third-year MFA student at UT. After being approached by Sipes about “The Whipping Man,” Tillman read the script and was immediately compelled by it. “The plot was complex and demanding; the characters were equally so,” Tillman said. “I knew after reading that I had to be a part of this project.”

Civil War,” Tillman said. “As the Civil War ends and the slaves have been set free, John wrestles with what to do next and questions his upbringing as a slave in a Jewish home. “He finds himself asking questions regarding his identity and his past.” The play, which focuses a great deal on dealing with life post-war, also places emphasis on the Jewish holi-

day of Passover. Steve Sherman, a firstyear graduate student pursuing his MFA in theater, plays Caleb, a Jewish captain in the Confederate army. Wounded from battle, Caleb returns to Richmond and finds his home is not how he left it. Sherman said the historical importance of the play cannot be overlooked. “It’s about an incredible moment in history, and the play parallels the Jewish holiday of Passover to the freeing of slaves at the end of the civil war,” Sherman said. “It’s very powerful and has got some heavy subject matter. “It’ll be very engrossing. From the time the lights go on until they go out, people will be on the edge of their seats.” Sherman said the cast has been working on the play since receiving the script in late December. He called the play “powerful” and praised Sipes’ directorial prowess. Both Tillman and Sherman said they hope UT students come out to support the play. When asked what students can anticipate, Tillman said, “Expect to see a dynamic piece of theater. “This play is about redemption and the responsibility that accompanies freedom,” he said. “It will leave audiences with a powerful, memorable experience.” More information on the play and ticket prices can be found online at clarencebrowntheatre.com.

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

THE DAILY BEACON • 7 Sports Editor Troy Provost-Heron

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tprovost@utk.edu

Assistant Sports Editor Dargan Southard

Matthew DeMaria • The Daily Beacon

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Henderson, antics included, visits Vols again Steven Cook Copy Editor Cuonzo Martin remembers Ole Miss guard Marshall Henderson’s dominating performance inside Thompson-Boling Arena last season quite clearly. And the third-year Tennessee head coach insisted his players would be remiss if they didn’t as well. “If they don’t, something is wrong,” Martin said at Monday’s press conference. “He scored 32 (points).” Henderson enjoyed a then-careerhigh performance in Knoxville the last time the Rebels came knocking, putting up 32 points and hitting 13 of his 14 free throws. His showing led Ole Miss to a 92-74 victory to open each team’s SEC slate. The Vols will aim to keep Henderson from going off again as they host Ole Miss on Wednesday at 8 p.m. inside Thompson-Boling Arena. UT will look to avoid dropping a second straight contest after being ousted 67-41 at No. 3 Florida on Saturday.

Ole Miss handed Tennessee two of its first four SEC losses last season, as the Vols’ first lost at home on Jan. 9 was followed up barely two weeks later by a Jan. 24 road loss to the Rebels. Henderson combined for 60 points in those two games. “He played well,” Martin said. “It actually surprised me because, watching him on film, I thought he was a slight guy. He’s actually a little taller in person. But he takes and he makes big shots, and he plays with a lot of confidence.” Such confidence has made the star Ole Miss guard one of the most polarizing figures in all of college sports. The senior’s usual showboating, trash talk and chirpiness along with stuffed stat sheets allowed him to rise to fame in 2012-13, his first with the Rebels. Along with averaging more than 20 points per game, Henderson’s on-court antics got under the skin of both players and fans. Martin has no problem with how Henderson plays, even commenting on it in a positive light. “I think he does a good job with it,” Martin said. “Because it’s never

How they match up Ole Miss

Tennessee guard Jordan McRae shoots over Arkansas’s Kikko Haydar during the Vols’ 81-74 win on Jan. 22 at Thomspon-Boling Arena. Tonight, UT hosts the Ole Miss Rebels and star guard Marshall Henderson, whom McRae roomed with at the 2013 Kevin Durant Skills Academy this past summer.

directed toward officials and that sort of thing. It’s almost like he takes the pressure off his teammates and puts it on himself. I have no problem. He’s having success with it. “If you are doing it in a way that you are competing and there is not a technical foul, and it doesn’t take away from your teammates, then I am fine with it.” Coaches haven’t been able to resist, either. Mississippi State head coach Rick Ray apologized after appearing to yell something at Henderson late in Ole Miss’ 82-63 win over the Bulldogs on Saturday. Martin used to enjoy trash talk in his playing days but made it clear there won’t be a repeat performance from Henderson and the opposing coach. “I did it all the time as a player,” Martin said. “That was not a problem because I was always a defensive stopper, so you had to get underneath guys’ skin. “So I did it all the time as a player. Not as a coach.” As if one would expect anything different from a coach who has zero technical fouls in his entire coaching career.

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8 • THE DAILY BEACON

Wednesday, January 29, 2014 Sports Editor Troy Provost-Heron

SPORTS

tprovost@utk.edu

Assistant Sports Editor Dargan Southard msoutha1@utk.edu Matthew DeMaria • The Daily Beacon

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Second-year head coach Holly Warlick has also seen the teachings of Massengale pop up in the young point guard’s play. “Andraya is a team player, and I think she learned a lot from Ariel and she’s taken what Ariel has taught her and what she has seen and put it to work,” Warlick said. “She’s a smart player. She played 40 minutes the other night and we needed her to, so I think the last two games have given her a tremendous amount of confidence. When she’s confident and she plays and works her way out of some things, her mental frame is really good.”

As for the junior point guard, the team doctors are being cautious with the situation, and she is listed as day-to-day. Warlick stated she would like to see Massengale at practice before taking her to the court for game action, but didn’t rule her out for Thursday’s game against the Arkansas Razorbacks. “I’d like too, but I’m not going to push it,” Warlick said. “I’d love to have her on the floor but I’m going to let them make that decision, and we’ll just need to plug away and do what we do.”

Redshirt freshman point guard Andraya Carter drives to the basket during the Lady Vols’ 86-70 loss to No. 2 Notre Dame at Thompson-Boling Area on Jan. 20.

Zone defense working well Troy Provost-Heron Sports Editor Second-year head coach Holly Warlick stresses it in every practice -- defense. In a sport predicated on scoring the most baskets, the Lady Vols’ coaching staff believes in their talent on the offensive end, but the other end has required constant pressing. To change things up, the Lady Vols turned to the 3-2 zone against No. 2 Notre Dame on Jan. 20 instead of the usual man-to-man defense they had employed throughout the season. While the Irish lit up the Lady Vols for a season-high 86 points, Tennessee continues to turn to the zone, using it frequently in their past two contests – wins over Florida and No. 17 Texas A&M. “We just had to change our defense some way, some how,” senior guard Meighan Simmons said. “I think the 3-2 has really been good to us, and I think we have been consistent with it since

the Florida game. “We just want to continue to keep doing it and I think it is going to help us later on for good 3-point shooting teams because we just have to know where the shooters are and get out and rebound.” While the zone has been successful – Tennessee has allowed 62 points per game in their last two -- the Lady Vols believe in their ability to “play the man” and plan on using both, depending on what the situation of the game dictates. “We are capable of playing the man, as well,” Simmons said. “But since the 3-2 has been so effective lately, we might use that, but I know Holly has some tricks up her sleeve so we might go back to man, we might not. It just depends on what coach wants.” Warlick echoed Simmons but stressed the Lady Vols would not be choosing one defense over the other, especially in their upcoming matchup against the Arkansas Razorbacks. “I think it is going to be a solid defense for us,” Warlick said. “We

are not going to go away from the man-to-man, but I think we are going to tweak our zone a little bit. It has a lot of man-to-man principles, so I’m fine with it, but I still think that there is going to be a point where we are going to have to play a solid man-toman defense and I think against Arkansas we are going to have to do both.” The Lady Vols seem to express an evident boost in confidence on the defensive end when in the zone. That confidence may be deserved. In the Florida and Texas A&M games, Tennessee forced the two teams to shoot a combined 38.3 percent, a drastic improvement from the 50 percent the Irish shot against them. “It appears that it has given us confidence,” Warlick said. “When they believe in it and they’ve run it and we have worked on it, they seem to have confidence in it. So if that’s our bread and butter, that’s our bread and butter. As long as we come up with stops, I’m good with it.”

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