utdailybeacon.com
@utkdailybeacon
Volume 137, Issue 4
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Despite rainy weather, many people attended the Women’s March in Chilhowee Park on Jan. 19, 2019 Caitlyn Jordan / The Daily Beacon
Knoxville Women’s March participants brave weather to ‘Agitate, Educate, Elevate’ Valerie Lick
City News Editor
Gabriela Szymanowska
Campus News Editor Despite heavy rain, the third annual Knoxville Women’s March took place Saturday as East Tennesseans took to the street to “Agitate, Educate, and Elevate” -- the local march’s 2019 theme. The march and rally featured local speakers like former congressional candidate Renee Hoyos, Beck Cultural Exchange Center Director Rev. Renee Kesler and transgender rights activist Emma Frye. Final speakers from the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy called attention to a local movement petitioning the Knoxville Utilities Board to lower its fixed energy fee. The Women’s March is a national movement, with sister marches taking place across the United States. Kimberly Peterson, spokesperson of the Knoxvillebased Women’s March Coalition of East Tennessee, said that sister Women’s Marches help call attention to local issues. “There are local organizations that you’ll see here today -- we’ve got about 40 local organizations that need volunteers, that need money to support their missions,” Peterson said. “So we continue to have a Women’s March so we can showcase all the work that’s being done in our local community to help on issues of social justice causes.” Peterson said that the march, which
began after the 2016 presidential election, has continued into 2019 because of ongoing legislative action against women and several minority communities. “The first Women’s March in 2016 was created because of the frustration with the incoming administration, knowing that there were going to be threats to certain communities,” Peterson said. “So when the election happened, it was a reaction to the results -- that women would be targeted in legislation, and the transgender community and immigrants and working-class people. What we’ve seen is a continuation of the legislation that has targeted those communities.” The national leadership of the Women’s March has faced criticism after several members of its leadership were accused of making anti-Semitic remarks. Peterson said that the Knoxville organization does not tolerate anti-Semitism. “We feel that those national members have spoken for themselves,” she said, stating that the organization has communicated with Jewish community members regarding the criticism. “(The Women’s March Coalition of East Tennessee has) shown up for the Jewish community, for the Muslim community, for the folks in all of our targeted and marginalized communities and all of our faith-oriented organizations and backgrounds. We condemn any sort of antiSemitic rhetoric or behavior.” Peterson said that the local marches have faced counter protestors in past years due to the organization’s commitment to inclusivity.
“We had a large counter protest against us last year because we have been inclusive and loving and embracing. So we’re gonna continue doing what we’ve been doing,” Peterson said. Eight speakers brought different interpretations to the local march’s theme of “Agitate, Educate, Elevate”. Frye, also a member of the Tennessee Transgender Political Coalition, asked audience members to be aware of the rates of arrest, unemployment, homelessness, and assault faced by transgender Tennesseans. She ended her speech by challenging audience members to include transgender individuals in their activism and communities. “If you want to be welcoming to everyone, then let people be all of who they are. Their whole selves, all their strengths and experiences and concerns. And when issues come up that you’re not used to thinking of as your own, you show up and fight alongside them like someone who cares,” Frye said. Hoyos also took the stage. She spoke out about environmental, educational, and political concerns, urging protestors to vote in the 2020 election. “We are in a time of great challenge. This is a moment in history where we decide whether we remain a democracy, or slip into oligarchy,” Hoyos said. “This is our time to sound the bells of justice. Today we march. Tomorrow we work. And we work until our labor is done, until we have equity in this country, until we have peace in this country, until we have the promise of the Constitution that we have a more perfect
union.” Kesler spoke about the historical role of African-American women in activism, especially the first African-American women to vote in Knoxville. “I thought, ‘How do I transform this anger into action?” And so I began to look for women who did that,” she said. Kesler told the audience about an unnamed African-American woman in Knoxville who refused to be turned away at the polls after she gained the legal right to vote. “Ladies, African-American women and (all) women have been standing up for their rights since the beginning of time,” Kesler said. Other speakers included local feminist activist Sarah Baker, Centro Hispano Executive Director Claudia Callabero, spoken word poet Eliza Croom and Caroline Mann of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy. After the rally, Kesler spoke on the ongoing necessity for the event. “I think we’ll always need the Women’s March. Because there is something about fellowship among women -- it’s sort of a sisterhood,” Kesler said. “So it’s like saying ‘How long will we need to have a sisterhood?’ It’s always there, because we encourage each other, we inspire each other, we lift each other and we empower each other. So you always have to have it. And I think that’s what this is all about”. An estimated 1,500 attendees braved the pouring rain to walk in the Knoxville Women’s March.
2
CAMPUSNEWS
The Daily Beacon • Tuesday, January 22, 2019
The Baker Center hosts C-SPAN bus at UT
DAILY BEACON STAFF AND Jake Yoder POLICY INFORMATION EDITORIAL Editor-in-Chief: Kylie Hubbard Managing Editor: Tyler Wombles Copy Chief: Paige Greene Campus News Editor: Gabriela Szymanowska City News Editor: Val Lick Sports Editor: Blake Von Hagen Asst. Sports Editor: Will Backus Engagement Editor: Jared Chadwick Digital Producer: Kelsey French Asst. Digital Producer: Elexis Houston Opinons Editor: Margot McClellan Photo Editors: Emily Gowder, Megan Albers Design Editors: Elisa Razak. Grace Atter Production Artists: Lauren Mayo, Emily Gowder, Meliya Evans, Catherine Fei, McLane Zaitz, Jeremiah Pham, Meg Kiestler, Leah Gardner
ADVERTISING/PRODUCTION Advertising Manager: Zenobia Armstrong Media Sales Representatives: Hailie Hensley Advertising Production Artists: Kinsey Johnston
CONTACTS To report a news item, please e-mail editor.news@utdailybeacon.com or call 865-974-2348 To submit a press release, please e-mail pressreleases@utdailybeacon.com To place an ad, please e-mail beaconads@utk.edu or call 865-974-5206 Advertising: (865) 974-5206 beaconads@utk.edu Editor-in-Chief: (865) 974-3226 editorinchief@utdailybeacon.com Main Newsroom: (865) 974-3226 editorinchief@utdailybeacon.com LETTERS POLICY: Letters to the Editor must be exclusive to The Daily Beacon and cannot have been submitted to or published by other media. Letters should not exceed 400 words and can be edited or shortened for space. Letters can also be edited for grammar and typographical errors, and Letters that contain excessive grammatical errors can be rejected for this reason. Anonymous Letters will not be published. Authors should include their full name, mailing address, city of residence, phone number and e-mail address for verification purposes. Letters submitted without this information will not be published. The preferred method to submit a Letter to the Editor is to email the Editor-in-Chief. CORRECTIONS POLICY: It is the Daily Beacon’s policy to
quickly correct any factual errors and clarify any potentially misleading information. Errors brought to our attention by readers or staff members will be corrected and printed on page two of our publication. To report an error please send as much information as possible about where and when the error occurred to managingeditor@utdailybeacon.com, or call our newsroom at (865) 974-5206. The Daily Beacon is published by students at The University of Tennessee on Monday and Thursday during the fall and spring semesters. The offices are located at 1345 Circle Park Drive, 11 Communications Building, Knoxville, TN 37996-0314. The newspaper is free on campus and is available via mail subscription for $200/ year or $100/semester. It is also available online at: www.utdailybeacon.com
The Daily Beacon is printed using soy based ink on newsprint containing recycled content, utilizing renewable sources and produced in a sustainable, environmentally responsible manner.
Staff Writer The C-SPAN Bus visited UT’s campus on Thursday as part of its Southern Swing tour to engage with UT students, faculty and staff. The bus, first parked outside of Neyland Stadium and then the Baker Center, was a way to get out of the rain for a few minutes and learn a little about politics. C-SPAN is a private, not-for-profit television network based out of Washington, DC, that deals mostly with politics. The main goal of the network is to provide unfiltered and unbiased news about what is happening in the United States government. They live stream meetings in the House of Representatives, Senate and Congress, as well as conduct interviews with government officials from a nonpartisan perspective. They are mostly funded by cable companies, getting about $0.06 a month from each cable user. This allows them to be confident about their claim to be unbiased
as they are not funded by the government. The C-SPAN Bus is designed to help visitors get a taste of what C-SPAN has to offer as a network. The bus is full of tablets which give access to some of the most recent videos that C-SPAN has to offer on their website. The tablets give only a small taste of C-SPAN’s online video library, which has over 250,000 hours of documented content dating back to 1987. The topics of the videos ranged from “White House” to “Pop Culture.” The bus not only featured videos, but also employees such as Jenae Green, C-SPAN marketing representative, who greeted guests as they entered. “One thing that I love stressing to our college students is that if you’re up at 3 a.m., living on Redbull and coffee … you can use our transcribed video library to get direct quotes for research papers,” Green said. The bus also has a mobile studio which is used to conduct live interviews with elected officials, allowing them to speak to the public directly. One of the reasons that the C-SPAN Bus
made a stop at UT was its connection to the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy located on campus. “We were happy to host the bus … Senator Baker was a strong proponent of transparency in government and advocated for C-SPAN to have access to televise the Senate,” Dr. Katie A. Cahill, associate director at the Baker Center, said. “The Center thinks that it is vitally important that students and the community are informed about the issues confronting the nation. We hope that having the C-SPAN bus on campus will spark curiosity about the governing process.” “Howard H. Baker Jr. helped get the cameras in the Senate that we use on C-SPAN,” Green said when asked why they decided to stop at UT. “He was a great friend of our founder Brian Lamb when he was in D.C.” The C-SPAN Bus visited Central High School on Friday after leaving UT. Following that, it will continue its tour around the country, hoping to spark interest in politics and the government in every person who steps in its doors.
UT professor talks journalism education ahead of retirement Gareth Frymier Staff Writer
The former director of UT’s School of Journalism and Electronic Media and current professor is retiring at the end of January after a career that spans decades across several different countries. Dr. Peter Gross has taught in UT’s School of Journalism and Electronic Media for the past 12 and a half years and acted as the School’s director from 2006 to 2016. Prior to teaching at UT, Gross’s career had seen him traveling across the world, lecturing on journalism. Despite the variety of the countries Gross has taught in, he stresses that it is ethically important that the core lecture content remain consistent. “It’s very important that we tie whatever lectures we do internationally on journalism to the notion of a working democracy,” Gross said. “A working democracy is based on liberal values, so the outcome of your presentations is based on what journalism is and how to perform it in a democratic society … If you begin to tweak your lectures on the subject to adapt to a particular country, then you’re really unmooring the values that you ought to be talking about from a liberal democracy.”
One example of his lecture abroad includes Gross being the keynote speaker at a Polish Communication Association conference where he spoke about the media and the path to democracy and European integration. Gross has also seen several changes to the platforms by which journalism is executed during his life, such as the advent of the internet. While these changes do affect the format that gets taught, Gross said, they don’t really impact the core principles of the industry. “The internet is a platform, no different than television or print media,” Gross said. “If we’re going to practice journalism on the internet, it shouldn’t lose the basic ethical principles that serve a liberal democracy. ” Gross added that the experience gained in student media, such as The Daily Beacon, is instrumental in helping young journalists build their career early on. “As individual faculty members, we have always tried to help students understand that the sooner they get their hands dirty, so to speak, the better,” Gross said. “You get more practice reporting and doing your writing, so the better off you’ll be. It’s not only a manner of getting practicums or internships, and ultimately it serves you well throughout your career to start as early as possible and accumulate as much experi-
ence on the reporting and writing side as possible.” Gross also gave some parting words of advice to journalism students seeking to enter the industry, including to read as much and as widely as possible so as to improve their writing and increase their understanding of different topics. He also encouraged students to understand the ethics of journalism. “It’s very important that they familiarize themselves with how to do ethics in this field,” Gross said, “They need to internalize the fact that good journalism is an intrinsic part of liberal democracy, and you endanger that democracy when you practice unethical journalism.” Current director of the School of Journalism and Electronic Media Dr. Catherine Luther remarked on Gross’s retirement, thanking him for his service and contributions to the school. “I thank Peter for all of the contributions he made to the School of Journalism and Electronic Media during his time as school director,” Luther said. “His international connections were especially helpful in setting up new exchange agreements with academic institutions in Europe. Although he has retired, I am sure he will continue to generate valuable research and have an impact on our understanding of global
CAMPUSNEWS
Tuesday, January 22, 2019 • The Daily Beacon
3
Igniting interest in STEM fields through hands-on math program, Chem-E-Car Bailey Fritz
Staff Writer UT has many connections with local schools to help engage students in higher level curriculums. Recently, one of these programs has developed at Austin East Magnet High School. Since the beginning of the pre-college summer program in 1997, the Tickle College of Engineering at UT has provided a summer engineering experience to over 1000 middle and high school students. Titled E-VOL10, the purpose of this program is to help rising 10th graders understand the definition of engineering, provide introductions to chemistry and engineering, foster awareness on engineering careers and offer ACT preparation. Jalonda Thompson, assistant director at the Tickle College of Engineering, has worked on developing this program. “Through the E-VOL10 program, our goal is to provide earlier engineering awareness to students and equip them with the skill sets and knowledge to be successful in college and in the field of engineering,” Thompson said.
The average math ACT score of students in Tennessee is 19.5, and those involved have a goal for the development of the program. “With a model similar to the one developed by UT mathematics professor Jevena Clark and Austin-East’s Tabatha Rainwater, we hope to train more high school teachers with the training to integrate STEM curriculum into math standards,” Thompson said. “It is our hope that ACT scores for the state of TN improve, thus resulting in more students being eligible for admissions into the Tickle College of Engineering.” In addition to this program, “Chem-ECar” lessons were developed as a bridge to high school mathematics curriculum for the E-VOL10 summer program. The lessons take the model that has been developed over the past decade through UT faculty and staff and connect them to current state standards. The summer component of the program included bringing current research based teaching methods into the summer ACT math classes. Clark and Rainwater, teacher at Austin East, worked on these together, creating programs and instruction for the students. “Our efforts are to engage more students in the engineering process. By covering state tested standards in real world settings, stu-
Students are able to gain hands-on experience for STEM majors in the E-VOL10 program hosted by the Tickle College of Engineering at UT. Courtesy of Jalonda Thompson dents are able to connect with abstract mathematical content in novel ways,” Rainwater said. “Our goal in bringing chem-e-cars into the classroom is simple. We want to make learning fun. Chem-E-Cars spans many mathematical concepts and it can used and refer-
enced through vertical planning for many math classes.”
Story continued online Read more at utdailybeacon.com.
4
CITYNEWS
The Daily Beacon • Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Students respond to Senator Blackburn’s anti-abortion bill Cat Trieu
Staff Writer
Students responded to Senator Marsha Blackburn’s new bill which aims to block federal funding from organizations that provide abortions, including Planned Parenthood. Blackburn introduced her first bill S. 105, the Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act, to Congress on Jan. 10. The bill calls for amending the Public Health Service Act so that federal family planning grants will go towards “entities that certify that, during the period of the grant, they will not perform abortions or provide funds to entities that perform abortions,” with the situational exceptions of rape, incest and mothers’ lives. “Today, I introduced my first bill in the United States Senate, S. 105, the Title X Abortion Provider Prohibition Act, which strips all abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood, of federal funding,” Blackburn tweeted on Jan. 10. The bill has been praised by several prolife organizations, including National Right to Life. “We applaud Senator Blackburn for her long history of protecting unborn children while in the U.S. House and look forward to her continued leadership in the Senate,” Jennifer Popik, J.D. National Right to Life director of federal legislation, said on the organization’s website. Andrew Wilcox, junior in aerospace engineering, voiced his support for Blackburn’s efforts as well. “I think the bill she is presenting is a great start to her time as a senator,” Wilcox said. “I think it is a great initiative and I am hopeful that the bill is passed.” As the president of Pro-Life Collegians at UTK, Wilcox, believes that the bill will be “bringing some of the focus back towards
Kurt Welch, File / The Daily Beacon
the issue of abortion.” “I believe that all people, including the unborn child, have the right to life,” Wilcox said. “I am grateful for this bill being brought up because it is keeping the debate over ideas such as this present at the national level. Hopefully this will also encourage others to do their own research on the topic.” Senior in neuroscience and religious studies and president of Women’s Coordinating Council at UT Amanda Bryant disagreed, saying that Planned Parenthood is purely meant for people’s health care through actions like providing cancer screenings and that defunding the organization would be harmful for women’s health.
Story continued on next page Read more on page 5.
CITYNEWS Story continued from page 4 Senior in neuroscience and religious studies and president of Women’s Coordination Council at UTK Amanda Bryant disagrees, saying that Planned Parenthood is purely meant for people’s health care through actions like providing cancer screenings and that defunding the organization would be harmful for women’s health. “There’s this bizarre right-wing conspiracy about Planned Parenthood that says it is just all about getting many women as many abortions as possible,” Bryant said. “I think that all women should have access to abortion, and that there should be no problem in federally funding abortion; but, the reality is that federal funding does not go to abortion and that all federal funding that goes to Planned Parenthood are for people to receive the health care they deserve.” Bryant noted that Planned Parenthood even affects the transgender community, since the organization helps provide hormones for those transitioning. “For women and all of the people WCC fights for every day, defunding planned parenthood would do a severe disservice to them,” Bryant said. Sophomore in modern foreign languages and personal relations officer of the College Democrats Hannah Bain-Selbo, doesn’t think that Blackburn will get what she hopes to achieve if the bill passes.
Tuesday, January 22, 2019 • The Daily Beacon “If her goal is to restrict abortions, defunding Planned Parenthood won’t do that, because their abortion services are not funded by the government,” Bain-Selbo said. “Defunding Planned Parenthood will take away low-cost, accessible healthcare for women and men.” Bain-Selbo criticized the senator herself, saying that Blackburn ran her campaign “on fear and scare tactics” and that what the former Congressman has done so far in her time as Tennessee’s senator as not as “intouch” with Tennessee values as Blackburn claims. “I do think it’s conflicting because as women, it’s good to see women represented in politics but when those are women are actively fighting to take away women’s rights, it’s hard to say that having her in office is good for women,” Bryant said. “What she represents is so antithetical to what I think a majority of women would say is good for women.” Wilcox said that while he won’t judge Blackburn too much since she is a new senator, he believes her support for the President on issues like abortion “align well” with the issues he thinks the country needs to have as priorities. Along with believing that no funds should go towards abortion, Wilcox stated that exactly where the funds for Planned Parenthood go remains unclear. “It would be important to note that I do
5
Caitlyn Jordan/The Daily Beacon not know exactly how all of the funds are actually being appropriated through Title X or Medicaid. I found several numbers that don’t exactly line up,” Wilcox said. “Regardless of the actual number, my point still stands that no organization that funds political candidates should receive federal funding. My tax dollars should not contribute to someone’s campaign.” Even with the controversy concerning S. 105, Bain-Selbo believes that in the end, the bill won’t pass. “Overall, I don’t think her bill will ever
make it, but it is extremely disappointing that (Blackburn) hasn’t had the crash course of what (Planned Parenthood) does for its patients and with Tennessee already not having many clinics available, taking away the last few that are left will throw a wrench in thousands of lives,” Bain-Selbo said. S. 105 can be found on Congress’s website. The bill has been read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.
‘The Basement’ a new DIY venue in Fort Sanders Bailey Fritz
Staff Writer
1706 Highland Avenue looks like any other student house in the Fort Sanders neighborhood -- from the outside, that is. Past the little front porch and down the stairs, there’s a hidden gem in the rough: a basement musical venue. With a title none other than “The Basement,” this grungy, low-key venue has only had three shows with a surprising amount of visitors from places like Chattanooga and Nashville. Spray painted phrases left from its frat house days line the walls, with sayings like “Go Vols” and some that could not be printed due to vulgarity. Fabric drapes one side of the wall in order to create a more venuelike feel, and in the corner sits a small setup with a few guitars, basses and amps. The three UT students who live in the house are Aaron Cage, Tyler Cage and Tyler Clark; the first two are actually twins. They moved in two years ago to the old frat house, but only started using their base-
ment for parties and music more recently. “We actually moved all this equipment downstairs because someone reached out to us and asked to play in our house,” Tyler Cage said. Their last show was much more calm than what you would expect from such a DIY venue; someone brought a puppy and it just slept on stage the whole time. Most all of their shows have been very laid back. “People go out at like 8:00 or 9:00; I feel like it would be cool for us to have a space where people can come and stay for an hour or so before they go out,” Tyler Cage explained, ”I would love to have a show every weekend, but we would have to have a lot of traction for that, plus we are also all in a band so we travel and play,” Tyler Cage said. On the side, the three are developing a band together that has been in the works since last summer. It is currently still unnamed. “We just booked a weekend at a recording studio in Atlanta, so hopefully we can have an album out soon,” Aaron Cage said. The next show at The Basement is Feb.
6, and the bands TOPNachos, Future Crib and Vanosdale will be playing. All three bands have a punk rock sound, and they are traveling down from New York to play. “My personal goal is to have some more punk bands in here to where people can go crazy and mosh, but definitely make it as safe as possible,” Aaron Cage said. Although they have gained a bit of a following in a small amount of time, they are approaching struggles with trying to get the venue’s name out there. Additionally, they struggle with maintaining it, as it is a basement. For the first show, Aaron spent upwards of 10 hours trying to clean, organize, and make the basement look presentable. “We’re really just trying to find ways to make this space cooler every time,” Aaron Cage said. Even though The Basement is currently designated for music, the crew wants to expand upon that creative outlet. “I want us to be a space for local and community art, so my hope would be that we have some bigger bands open and give light to the smaller bands in town,” Tyler
Cage said. “I would also love for local photographers to come shoot a show and get some concert experience. Graphic design people can make our posters or maybe put work on the walls, I just want it to be a space that people know and come and be creative.”
“ Past the little front porch and down the stairs, there’s a hidden gem in the rough: a basement musical venue.” Bailey Fritz, Staff Writer
6
OPINIONS
The Daily Beacon • Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Bear the Torch: When trash talking crosses a line
Jake Tidwell
Columnist It is time to say what everyone has known for months: Tennessee is a basketball school now (at least until football season arrives). This Tennessee men’s basketball team is undoubtedly one of the top three teams in the country. It is easy to make the argument that they are simply the best team in the country. On Jan. 12, the Vols went on a blistering 45-second, 9-0 run to end the game at Florida, ultimately winning by 11. But that was not the headline the next day. Sportswriters across the nation, and some in our own backyard, cried out about the Vols’ lack of “sportsmanship” after they did the infamous “Gator Chomp” in front of Florida’s students. Let us establish one thing right off the bat: Florida does *not* deserve your pity. I have been to Gainesville before. At the football game in 2017, I sat on the end of our row. I was 18 inches from the Florida student section. I have heard some Florida fans say some truly horrifying things, to both players and coaches alike. In Admiral Schofield’s own words, the Florida fans behind the Tennessee bench were saying “inhumane” things. Given my personal experience, and Schofield’s propensity to indulge in trash talk, I am inclined to take his side. If it crosses the line for him, then I cannot even begin to imagine how horrid it was. If Florida fans allow themselves to hurl racial slurs at our players for two hours, why are they not allowed to give a 30-second, non-offensive response? If you look closely at the pictures of the Gator Chomp, you will notice a lot of Florida students flashing middle fingers and screaming at Grant Williams, Schofield and Lamonte Turner. And Tennessee comes out of this as the “classless” type? I am in no way claiming this behavior does not happen on our own campus. When it comes to the middle fingers and yelling, I have certainly participated in my fair share. In those situations, I have had players yell back, tell me
to “square up,” and taunt me when they won. Do I think those players were “classless?” No, especially not since it was a mutual affair. Why is it that doing the Gator Chomp is “unsportsmanlike” and “classless” when other teams do it, but Florida could come into Thompson-Boling and do it all day long and no one would bat an eye? If it is still being used to taunt fans, why is it any different? At the end of the day, these are amateur athletes who just got done playing a physical game, talking trash and being harassed for two and a half hours. Who are we to tell them how to celebrate? We demand student athletes pour their heart and soul into their sport, but get upset when their emotions run high. We criticize student athletes for not showing enough passion, but also for showing too much. We expect student athletes to be role models, and guess what? A lot of this basketball team fits that role. I mean our guys work hard, play Settlers of Catan and will stop and help anyone with a flat tire. To call this team “classless” is simply ignorant. It is time to end “fun policing” at any and all levels of sports. At the end of the day, it is just a team playing a game. Let them have their fun with it. And if you want the other team to stop? Try not to lose on your home floor.
“We demand student athletes pour their heart and soul into their sport, but get upset when their emotions run high. We criticize student athletes for not showing enough passion, but also for showing too much. much.”
Jake Tidwell, Columnist Jake Tidwell is a junior majoring in public administration. He may be reached at jtidwe14@vols.utk.edu Columns and letters 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.
PUZZLES&GAMES
Tuesday, January 22, 2019 • The Daily Beacon
STR8TS
LOS ANGELES TIMES CROSSWORD • Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis
No. 1237
Easy
8 9 8 7 5 6 6 1 4 2
Previous solution - Tough
9 8 9 8 7 8 7 5 6 7 4 3 6 5 9 4 2 1 6 1 2
4 3
6 3 5 1
2
8
3
Š 2019 Syndicated Puzzles
9 9 5
6 <RX FDQ ÂżQG PRUH KHOS WLSV DQG KLQWV DW www.str8ts.com
4 2 1 3 3 4 5 2 1 5 3 6 4 2 7 6 6 5 7 7 8
5 4 6 3 2 1
7 6 1 9 8
6 5
8 9 7 2 3 8 3 4 9
How to beat Str8ts â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Like Sudoku, no single number can repeat in any row or column. But... rows and columns are divided by black squares into compartments. These QHHG WR EH ÂżOOHG LQ ZLWK QXPEHUV WKDW complete a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;straightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. A straight is a set of numbers with no gaps but can be in any order, eg [4,2,3,5]. Clues in black cells remove that number as an option in that row and column, and are not part of any straight. Glance at the solution to see how â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;straightsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; are formed.
SUDOKU No. 1237
Tough
1
7 4 3 9 3 5
5 8 7 7
6 2 3
The solutions will be published here in the next issue.
2 7 8 6 9 4 3 1 5
6 1 9 8 5 3 7 4 2
4 8 7 5 3 6 2 9 1
3 9 5 1 8 2 4 7 6
1 6 2 4 7 9 5 3 8
8 4 1 7 6 5 9 2 3
9 2 6 3 4 8 1 5 7
7 5 3 9 2 1 8 6 4
7R FRPSOHWH 6XGRNX ÂżOO WKH ERDUG by entering numbers 1 to 9 such that each row, column and 3x3 box contains every number uniquely.
1 8 3 7
4 8
5 3 4 2 1 7 6 8 9
6 9
6
Š 2019 Syndicated Puzzles
7 9 5
Previous solution - Medium
For many strategies, hints and tips, visit www.sudokuwiki.org If you like Str8ts, Sudoku and other puzzles, check out our books, iPhone/iPad Apps and much more on our store at www.str8ts.com
ACROSS 1 Take to the cleaners 5 Lay low 8 Pretty companion? 14 Windows alternative 15 Drop the ball 16 DragstHU¡s wheels 17 Wedding ring? 18 Class-conscious org.? 19 Charge 20 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wow!â&#x20AC;? (2) 22 Actress Kate (2) 24 Cal. column (2) 25 Univ. aides (1) 28 Damage (1) 30 Helpless? (1) 32 Infamous Amin 33 Constriction of the eyH¡V pupil 35 ASSOH¡V apple, e.g. 39 Hail, to Hadrian 40 All over again 41 â&#x20AC;&#x153;I¡OO second thatâ&#x20AC;? 42 Result of polar ice melt graphically shown by the second part of six two-part puzzle answers 47 IsQ¡t idle 48 Deep blue 49 Track meet segment 50 Authenticity emblem 51 Parlor furniture item 53 Hot time in Haiti 54 Sinusitis docs (2) 56 Author Fleming (2) 57 Sign of nerves, maybe (2) 58 Happy hour spot (1) 61 Many an Omani (1) 63 Remaining loan amt. (1) 65 Individually 67 Dug, with â&#x20AC;&#x153;upâ&#x20AC;? 69 Big times 73 A through E, at times 74 Sprout 75 Courteous 76 Snares with a loop 77 Med. show locales
10/5/18
By Paul Coulter
78 Serve sparingly, with â&#x20AC;&#x153;outâ&#x20AC;? DOWN 1 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Say what?â&#x20AC;? 2 Dedicatee RI /HQQRQ¡V â&#x20AC;&#x153;Womanâ&#x20AC;? 3 McCartQH\¡V title 4 Checkup 5 Applying a temporary tattoo 6 Boiling state 7 Scotch serving 8 Seven Wonders lighthouse 9 One from town 10 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yada yada yadaâ&#x20AC;? letters 11 Jack-in-the-pulpit family 12 Fair 13 First place? 21 Mideast capital 23 FDXONQHU¡s â&#x20AC;&#x153;__ Lay Dyingâ&#x20AC;? 25 Pageant toppers 26 It may be unsolicited 27 Daybreak? 29 Agile deer 31 Norse patron 34 Hard work 36 Fare filled and folded
Thursdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Puzzle Solved
Š2018 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
37 Trattoria desserts 38 With no guarantee of payment 43 Cartography dot 44 Against 45 Reluctant risers 46 BDUDFN¡s 2010 High Court appointee 51 Emphasize 52 That, in Tijuana 55 Snack chip
10/5/18
58 Much more than a sniffle 59 SDPRD¡V capital 60 Purges (of) 62 One may be stored in a barn 64 Advance 66 Sci-fi staples 68 Blacken, in a way 70 Copacabana city 71 Commonly torn ligament, briefly 72 Note
7
8
SPORTS
The Daily Beacon • Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Men’s basketball grades: Vols continue winning Blake Von Hagen Sports Editor
The Tennessee basketball team continued its perfect start in SEC play with a pair of wins this week. After beating Arkansas and Alabama at Thompson-Boling Arena, the Vols moved up to No. 1 in the country when the poll was released on Monday. Here’s how the individual groups performed this week: Backcourt
Grade: B
Jordan Bowden picked up where he left off for Tennessee this week, scoring 19 off the bench against Arkansas and adding 12 against Alabama. Bowden shot 7 of 9 from beyond the arc in those two games. As for the starters, it was a semi-quiet week. Admiral Schofield, who feels like a forward but is listed as a guard, had 17 against Arkansas after a slow start. He followed with probably his worst game of the season, shooting 4 of 17 in Saturday’s game. Jordan Bone did not have a high-scoring week, as he only tallied 18 points between the two games. However, he performed his job as a distributor, dishing out eight assists against
Arkansas and seven against the Crimson Tide. Lamonte Turner came up huge against the Razorbacks with 21 points, but only had six against Alabama. Yves Pons was quiet on offense, as usual, but played decent on defense. Frontcourt
Grade: B-
Junior forward Grant Williams was the best player on his team this week. The reigning SEC Player of the Year scored 18 on Tuesday and then floated the boat with 21 against Alabama. His rebounding numbers will have to improve, though. Williams did not grab a defensive board against Alabama. Kyle Alexander quietly did his job, scoring a total of 18 points and grabbing 16 rebounds. The frontcourt did not have much help off the bench, as John Fulkerson’s seven points and four rebounds against the Razorbacks was the only substantial production this week. Offense
Grade: A-
It was going to be difficult for Tennessee to earn anything other than an A on offense after scoring 106 points against Arkansas on Tuesday. The Vols did their best to drop that score on Saturday. Scoring 71 points in a game is
Jordan Bone, #0, during game against Alabama on Jan. 29, 2019 at ThompsonBoling Arena. Connor Morss / Contributor right around the national average for a college basketball team, but Tennessee just looked discombobulated in the second half. Shooting 29.4 percent in the second half is not always going to lead to a win. However, it’s tough to be too harsh after the masterful shooting display from Turner, Bowden and others on Tuesday. Defense
Grade: C+
As Rick Barnes mentioned after Saturday’s game, it was the defensive end of the ball that
propelled the Vols to a win against Alabama. It’s strange to say that after allowing John Petty to score 30 points, but he was shutout in the final nine minutes and change of the game. As with offense, the defense was really only good in one—or half of one—game this week. Arkansas had a monster second half against Tennessee, which irked Barnes. Petty’s overall performance against Pons and Bowden has to be accounted for as well.
Story continued online Read more at utdailybeacon.com.
Women’s basketball grades: Lady Vols lose to Alabama Noah Taylor
Contributor The losses continue to pile up for the Tennessee women’s basketball team. After a historic three-game skid, with two of those losses taking place at ThompsonBoling Arena, the Lady Vols continued to make the wrong kind of history in Tuscaloosa last Thursday. Not only did Tennessee suffer its worst loss to the Crimson Tide in program history, an 86-65 drubbing, it continued on the worst losing streak since the 1970 season and lost its spot in the top 25 rankings as well. As you can imagine, the recent results have once again affected the Lady Vols’ grades heading into a Monday night clash with Arkansas: Backcourt
Grade: D-
If we were handing out grades based on individual performance, sophomore guard Evina Westbrook would be passing. In the last four games, Westbrook has accounted for a team-high 78 points and has managed to lead the team in scoring in three of
those contests. Unfortunately, the rest of the backcourt is struggling to contribute. The last time Westbrook scored in single digits was in a 78-69 win over Auburn. Senior guard Meme Collins and freshman Zaay Green both scored in double figures, with Jackson scoring her second-highest point total of the season with 27. Jackson has not scored more than 10 since. But scoring isn’t the only issue. Tennessee committed 14 turnovers, with 10 of those coming from the guards. In turn, the Crimson Tide scored 15 points off the Lady Vols’ mistakes. During this four game stretch, the guards have been responsible for more than 40 turnovers. Add that into their scoring troubles and it is not hard to see why the last few weeks have been trouble for this Tennessee team. Frontcourt
Grade: D
More often than not this season, Tennessee has been the much bigger team than anyone they have faced, and it worked to their advantage early on. Against Alabama, it was virtually non-existent.
Head women’s basketball coach Holly Warlick during game against Kentucky on Jan. 10, 2019 at Thompson-Boling Arena. Caitlyn Jordan / The Daily Beacon
Sophomore forward Rennia Davis, who had been a force down low for the Lady Vols, was held to a grand total of zero points against the Crimson Tide. The rest of the bigs, freshmen Rae Burrell and Mimi Collins, along with sophomore Kasiyahna Kushkituah and senior Cheridene Green, combined for 25 points in the paint, with Burrell scoring 12 of those. Green, the lone senior of the group, has
struggled with consistency all season, especially on Thursday. She only scored four points and grabbed one rebound in 11 minutes of action. While Tennessee outrebounded Alabama, 49-44, it once again struggled to make valuable baskets for the fourth-straight game.
Story continued online Read more at utdailybeacon.com.