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Three wounded in Ft. Sanders shooting Police Department issued a UT Alert at 8:25 p.m. describing the shooter as a “black male accompanied by three other black males, all wearing dark hooded sweatKnoxville police shirts.” are investigating Aside from those a shooting that We kind of ducked on the listed in the alert, occurred Tuesday night at an apart- ground because we didn’t know KPD did not reveal any more specifics ment complex in how close they were. There regarding potential the Fort Sanders neighborhood that was someone out on the ledge, suspects.

Currently, DeBusk left three victims pressed against the railing laid said police are workwounded. against his back and from there ing to obtain a search Officers respondwarrant to investied to the shooting they took two people down on gate the apartment at the Highland stretchers.” where the shooting Terrace apartment complex on -Chandler Rasnake, occurred.

“It’s still very the corner of 13th junior in business early,” DeBusk said, Street and Highland “and we’re still tryAvenue at 8:11 p.m. and found two victims, one male ing to gather together exactly what and one female, shot more than one everyone saw.”

Based on information collected by time inside one of the apartments, according to KPD spokesman Darrell KPD, DeBusk indicated the shooting was not a “random event.”

DeBusk.

“We have developed some inforA few moments later, Knoxville police located another male victim mation, at this point,” DeBusk said, at 21st Street and Highland Avenue “that would indicate that the victim suffering from at least one gunshot and suspects know each other.”

Chandler Rasnake, a junior in busiwound.

DeBusk said all three were trans- ness, was visiting a friend’s apartported to the University of Tennessee ment in the Highland Terrance comMedical Center and are expected to plex when he heard “10 or so” gun shots and peeked outside. survive their injuries.

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Troy Provost-Heron Sports Editor For two consecutive games, the Lady Vols were in desperate need of an offensive spark coming out of the locker room to start the second half.

Both times, Cierra Burdick answered the call.

The junior forward scored 16 points – 10 of which came in the second half – against Arkansas on Jan. 30 and oneupped herself in the Lady Vols’ second half comeback against Alabama.

Burdick poured in 14 of her career-high 21 points in the decisive half and was the key factor in Tennessee’s win streak increasing to four.

The present couldn’t be any more different than the past for the Charlotte, N.C., native who struggled mightily for the Lady Vols to begin the season.

“I thought I started to gradually progress as far as hitting shots starting at Texas, and then I kind of had that breakthrough moment against Arkansas,” said Burdick on when she felt that her game was starting to turn around. “I think I just realized that I love this game and I want to have fun doing it and for a while at the beginning of the season I wasn’t having fun.

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little more muffled, and we thought they were like fireworks,” Rasnake said. “They were all really fast, like really close together, and then the last couple ones were louder.

“We kind of ducked on the ground because we didn’t know how close

they were. There was someone out on the ledge, pressed against the railing laid against his back and from there they took two people down on stretchers.

“They were both talking, one was a girl and one was a guy and they

were both conscious.”

Nick Looney, a senior in political science who recently moved into the apartment complex, said he knew of at least three domestic disturbances in the Highland Terrace complex since Jan. 7.

Haslam’s ‘Promise’ could affect UT financed through a substantial depletion of the Tennessee Lottery Fund, leaving $110 million in the fund to ensure R.J. Vogt continuation of the HOPE and Editor-in-Chief other scholarships.

Despite this loss, Haslam In his fourth annual State of the State address on Monday maintained that residual funds night, Gov. Bill Haslam will remain at a “healthy” size. unveiled the “Tennessee The first-term governor noted Promise,” a program that will that he is currently asking offer two free years of com- nonprofits and private corpomunity college or technical rations to cover administraschool to all of Tennessee’s tive costs of the program.

“Net cost to the state, zero,” graduating high school Haslam said. “Net impact on seniors.

Haslam’s “Promise” will be our future, priceless.”

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Katie High, the vice president of Academic Affairs and Student Success for the UT system, said the “Tennessee Promise” program would have a “big, big” effect on nontraditional students, though she admitted that only time will tell the impact on incoming class sizes and average ACT scores.

“I think, at the Knoxville campus, you might see a small change,” High said. “But we may see a larger change at UT-Chattanooga or Martin.

But we may not.”

High said it is important to understand that the “Promise” money will be “our last dollar spent.” Students will only receive the money after consideration of their other financial aid, including federal money such as the Pell Grant and academic scholarships.

For many of the students targeted by Haslam’s program, the price of four years at UT may not be much greater than the free cost of two years at a community college.

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Two Knoxville Police Department officers examine the crime scene outside of the Highland Terrace Apartment Complex on the corner of 13th Street and Highland Avenue.

Staff Writer From last semester’s Yoga-athon to Earth Bound Trading Company’s growing line of meditation enhancers, yoga – a popular exercise based on meditation, flexibility and strength – is everywhere.

UT is no exception to this trend.

TRECS offers at least one yoga class nearly every day, and specialized studios are popping up all around Knoxville.

Taylor Drake, freshman in geology, tries to work some form of meditation or yoga into her schedule around four times a week.

After working on a more health-conscious lifestyle three years ago, she decided to try yoga based on the benefits she heard came with the exercise.

After trying it with a friend, she said she was hooked.

Students participate in Yoga Fest, a new program put on by the Safety, Environment and Education Center, in the Humanities Plaza on Oct. 2, 2013.

“Yoga has helped me tremendously with that and is a huge reason why I continue to do it.”

Minta Chaiprasongsuk, a graduate student in plant sciences, was working in Thailand when she first discovered yoga.

Often involved in sports, she realized that even after a tiring workout, she would be unable to sleep due to stress. After trying yoga, she realized she slept significantly better, a reason she decided to continue on with the exercise.

She also noticed her instructor looked miraculously young for her, and upon further research, discovered yoga improves blood flow, causing skin to retain elasticity and vitality. It was then she says she fell in love with yoga.

“I could not help myself,” Chaiprasongsuk said. “I kept going back to the class.”

Now, she even seeks to prac- offers. tice outdoors, further adding to “I used to suffer from extreme the element of relaxation yoga anxiety and stress,” Drake said. See YOGA on Page 3

Residents, faculty not fazed by Andy Holt’s asbestos Tanner Hancock Contributor

Don’t lick the walls.

For the students of Apartment Residence Hall, commonly known as “Andy Holt,” living amid asbestos and lead paint is simply part of the college experience.

Constructed in 1973, ARH stands as a memorial to outdated and potentially hazardous building practices. Throughout the building, walls are laced with lead paint. In other areas allegedly beyond student reach, the walls are lined with asbestos; a notorious substance known to cause several serious lung conditions.

During housing registration on move-in day, residents are warned of these documented hazards and asked to sign an acknowledgement of these risks.

Although sophomore engineering major and ARH resident Tor Vorhees does not perceive any immediate danger to his well-being, he expressed no desire to live in a “decrepit” building marked by “poor engineering practices” for an extended period.

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CAMPUS NEWS continued from Page 1 In his third annual State of the State address on Monday night, Gov. Bill Haslam unveiled the “Tennessee Promise,” a program that will offer two free years of community college or technical school to all of Tennessee’s graduating high school seniors.

Haslam’s “Promise” will be financed through a substantial depletion of the Tennessee Lottery Fund, $110 million of which he originally offered to ensure continuation of the HOPE and other scholarships.

Despite this loss, Haslam maintained that residual funds will remain at a “ healthy” size. Haslam noted he is currently asking nonprofits and private corporations to cover administrative costs of the program.

“Net cost to the state, zero,” Haslam said. “Net impact on our future, priceless.”

Throughout his approximately 40-minute address, Haslam alluded to his “Drive

ASBESTOS continued from Page 1 Asbestos is a fire-resistant substance that, when made into a fabric, can be useful for insulating purposes.

However, long term inhalation of the substance has been shown to yield a myriad of health complications, including mesothelioma, lung cancer and other pleural complications.

Despite the proven link between asbestos and incurable lung diseases, no ban on the substance exists today. Rather, regulations are designed to limit contact.

The same cannot be said, however, for lead paint. Due to its toxicity and relation

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to 55” initiative, a policy unveiled last year which aims to provide some form of higher education to 55 percent of Tennesseans by the year 2025.

He said only 32 percent of Tennessee citizens hold any form of secondary education.

Professing the economic benefits of a well-educated population, Haslam’s “Promise” would seal Tennessee as the first state to offer free tuition to high school graduates.

Aside from $63 million earmarked for capital maintenance and $13 million designated for the Complete College Tennessee Act, which distributes funding to universities based on their number of graduates, Haslam mentioned no additional financing for traditional four-year universities.

Within the 1 million Tennesseans with only a partial college education, Haslam asserted the existence of “untapped, unrealized potential.” Citing the success of Erika Adams, a single mother who went back to complete her bachelor’s degree in 2002,

Haslam reported Adams is now working on her doctorate degree at Northeast State Technical Community College.

“This isn’t just about higher education,” Haslam said. “It’s about better jobs for more Tennesseans.”

Other notes: Fiscal Year 2015’s biggest financial commitments will be toward education and TennCare, the medical program that has absorbed an increasing portion of state budget at a rate of 3.5 percent annually.

Although Haslam praised the program as one of the best managed in the state, he admitted TennCare has increased to comprise more than 30 percent of the state budget, a significant rise from the low of 25 percent in 2009.

While state revenues have thus far fallen below expectations (collections from the state Franchise and Excise Tax are about 13 percent beneath predicted earnings), Haslam championed the state’s recent tax cuts to the applause of legislators.

to nerve and kidney damage, lead paint was banned in the United States in 1978.

Before moving in, ARH residents are given formal warnings detailing the widespread presence of lead paint within the building. While harmless under normal circumstances, it is toxic if ingested or inhaled.

Residents have reported that while moving in, they were – perhaps jokingly – advised not to lick the walls.

“It’s upsetting that you move into a dorm in 2013 and you’re given a warning on lead paint,” Vorhees said, “because you’d think that would be something that was fixed long ago.”

Rather than deny the presence of these materials within

the residence hall, Dave Irvin, associate vice chancellor of Facilities Services, sought to allay fears.

“The Apartment Residence Hall does contain asbestos, but it does not represent any health hazard as it is nonflyable, stabilized and not in student areas,” Irvin said.

Irvin added: “The asbestos in the building would only need to be removed when the building is demolished.”

The worry-free sentiments expressed by Irvin are shared

by ARH resident Ryan Silva, sophomore in accounting, who said he feels no concern over the presence of asbestos.

“I feel totally safe working here,” Silva said. “I have no worries about the building crumpling down.”

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New Ocean Wave founder Chris Martin and rowing partner Mick Dawson complete their 2009 row from Japan to San Francisco.

Salty Vols prep for crossPacific voyage in 2016 Bradi Musil Staff Writer Four UT students will join an exclusive club in 2016, adding their names to the list of fewer than 50 Americans to have rowed across an ocean.

After Ryan Worth, a UT graduate student in sports psychology, rowed across the Atlantic Ocean in 2011 from Morocco to Barbados with a 15-member international crew, he has yearned to create a team of Tennesseans for a second oceanic expedition.

But Worth isn’t the only dreamer.

Worth has since been joined

by Matt Guenther and Jennifer Bailey as fellow crew members, who together compose the current Salty Vols crew.

Although the Salty Vols’ original goal was to participate in the Great Pacific Race of 2014, the team has postponed its journey until 2016 due to unexpected circumstances.

This delay, however, has not stopped them from campaigning and training for the daunting task ahead.

“It’s going to be better in the long run,” Guenther, a junior in environmental science who rowed in high school, said. “If it is two years away, we will be able to have a more solid team and a solid financial plan.”

The Great Pacific Race of 2014 will mark the first oceanic race across the Pacific Ocean, starting from Monterey, Calif., and finishing in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Run by New Ocean Wave, the race is inspired by founder Chris Martin’s experiences as an international athlete.

Martin currently shares a

Guinness World Record with Mick Dawson for being the first team to row across the North Pacific from Japan to San Francisco in 2009. The trip required Martin to live on the water for nearly 200 days.

“We saw so much more wildlife, and the welcome into California was far beyond what we expected and could have hoped for,” Martin said.

“The start and finish venues are unparalleled.”

The race currently consists of 15 teams, comprised of crews of one, two or four members. Teams represent eight different participating countries including the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK, the Netherlands, Ireland and France.

Team Salty Vols is currently searching for a fourth crew member for the 2016 race.

As this is the first Pacific race, participants may set records by default. Trophies offered by New Ocean Wave include the Fairfax-Cook Trophy for the fastest classic pair, a trophy for the fastest open-class pair, the Pete Bird Trophy for the fastest single, and a trophy for the first fourcrew team to complete the route. This trophy will be named after its winner.

“You can’t put a number on it, because no one has ever done it,” Guenther said. “No one knows what can be done, and no one knows what to expect.”

Worth, the Salty Vols’ team leader, admitted he fears the psychological toll of an oceanic race after having spent 53 days on the ocean during his 2011 trip.

“Rowing for two hours a day, six different times a day, every single day with only two hours of rest in between is very mentally draining,” Worth said.

On a solo trip in 2005, Martin spent 68 days on the Atlantic Ocean as a part of the Woodvale Atlantic Rowing Race. The race from California to Hawaii could take anywhere from 30 to 60 days.

“I found that being away from land, I felt a lot safer,” Martin said. “The boat floats and the boat takes care of me. “... I think it just broadened my horizons. It opened up my view of the world and what was possible. It was incredible.”

Jennifer Bailey, graduate student in Kinesiology and the third Salty Vols teammate, holds eight years of rowing experience.

“It doesn’t really matter what type of boat you’re in,” Bailey said. “Anytime you’re on the water you get a different perspective of the world and you see things that you would miss otherwise.

“I realize it won’t be all sunshine and roses, but it’ll be new and eye-opening and that’s what I’m looking forward to.”

During the race, Worth hopes to film a documentary.

Both he and Guenther have considered using the trip as a research opportunity.

Although the Great Pacific Race of 2014 is set for early June, the date is subject to change depending on weather conditions. New Ocean Wave will provide a constant live stream throughout the event, with weekly race updates.

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Jonathan Garner Contributor In a nut shell, “The Nut Job” is a movie that is constantly full of giggles and plot twists, especially towards the end.

This movie follows the travails of Surly (voiced

by Will Arnett), a mischievous squirrel, and his rat friend Buddy (voiced by Robert Tinkler) who plan a nut store heist of outrageous proportions and unwittingly find themselves embroiled in a much more complicated and hilarious adventure.

No, this movie is not on the same playing field as Pixar animated movies such as “Cars,” “Brave” and the like, but that’s irrelevant for an animated movie to still be considered good.

The movie finds its strengths in the detailed heist that takes up the majority of the movie. This sort of storyline might seem unoriginal, but considering the context of animation, new ideas and a fresh take on the genre, this film shouldn’t be discounted.

One especially interesting aspect of “The Nut Job” is how the animals’ heist is juxtaposed with a human heist; as the story progresses, the heists become increasingly intertwined.

The movie finds some humor in the personalities of the characters themselves. Grayson, voiced by Brendan Fraser, spends most of the movie stuck in his own goofy reality.

Liam Neeson plays the villainous Raccoon, which is funny in itself.

Some weaknesses of the movie include the beginning, which was slow and mundane for the first five

YOGA continued from Page 1 After moving to the United States to pursue her education, Chaiprasongsuk attended yoga classes at TRECS and aspired to be an instructor there, as well.

With the support of a friend, she became certified and now teaches at TRECS regularly.

“Yoga is exercise that lets you study about your mind and body,” Chaiprasongsuk said. “Every single practice, you will learn more about yourself. Let your mind relate to your body. Learn to listen to what your body is telling you.

“Learn to be in the present and have a good time with your life.”

Yoga can be practiced in many different forms.

Currently gentle, hot and power yoga are the most popular.

Gentle yoga is used as an introduction to yoga or as a less strenuous way to receive the relaxation benefits. In this type, posture and breathing are the main focuses. It is also done at a slow pace, which can be inviting to those with rushed lives looking for a minute to slow down.

Hot yoga has recently come to mainstream fitness, with studios popping up solely for this form. One such studio is Real Hot Yoga on Kingston Pike.

At their studio, Real Hot Yoga takes the detoxing and calorie-burning benefits of high heat and combines them with the traditional strengthening and relaxing benefits of traditional yoga.

The heat also helps your body to loosen up, improving your flexibility.

Sitcoms more than light-hearted humor start to feel as though the characters are real. If the writers are good enough, we feel as though we know these characters personally. This is because every person can relate to Cory Matthews or Ted Mosby in some way. Everyone has a Shawn Hunter or a Barney Stinson. If you’re lucky, you have a Topanga Lawrence or a still unnamed “Mother.” To see these characters live their scripted lives is to see yourself do the things Arts & Culture Editor you always wanted to do and say the things you were never witty In today’s world, a sitcom is no enough to say.

To see a show end is to see the longer something television viewers plan their week around. Now, eventual end of certain chapters we can watch an entire series on in our own life. As sad as this is, Netflix within one extremely non- it is the truth. It is human nature productive week. This, however, to relate fiction to reality, which does not change the fact that the makes for personal sadness in end of a television show marks show finales.

I am in no way a true fan of the end of the viewer’s life as they “Friends,” yet I cry each time know it.

Last Monday, I sat with my the camera zooms in on that silly purple frame roommate as we hanging on the watched the most door. I don’t pivotal moment mind that the in “How I Met o see these show ended. It’s Your Mother” an out-of-chronhistory. It wasn’t characters live their ological- order the finale, yet it scripted lives is to see rerun, anyway. was eight seasons What I do mind of endless quesyourself do the things is the fact that, tions answered. some day, I will My roommate is you always wanted to shut the door on more emotional do and say the things something that than the average meant to me human, and as I you were never witty what that apartwatched her cry I ment meant to realized this was enough to say.” those characnot just because ters. our favorite show When Ted was ending. It finally meets the was because sitcoms like this represent much mother, I won’t be sad because more than 30 minutes of laugh I can’t live without a television tracks and under-appreciated show, I will be sad because at actors. They represent our fear some point there will be no more question marks in my own life. of change.

Whether or not you are a The dynamic of this sitcom, “Friends” or “Boy Meets World” specifically, is mystery. What is fan, chances are you’ve seen the the end to the story? Ultimately, finale of at least one of these that is what we all wonder about sitcoms. Unlike dramas, sitcoms our own stories. To know that are made to take you to a place someday we’ll know the answer of pure bliss. “Boy Meets World” is exciting, yes, but it also means taught us that the world isn’t things are going to change drastieasy, but every bad event comes cally; eventually, there will be no with a life lesson to make every- more mystery.

Maybe I’m reading too much thing good again. “Friends” did the same thing, only with older into the depth of sadness around sitcom finales. Maybe people are characters and less mush.

The question is, why are the just too emotionally invested in finales of these shows so heart- a simple production, but I don’t breaking? “Boy Meets World” think so. I think people watch shows a teacher saying good- these shows and see them as bye to the dream trio of friends. some version of their own life, or “Friends” shows the dream at least how they want it to be.

So, when these comedic sitgroup of friends parting ways.

The inevitable finale of “How I coms end, it is this version of Met Your Mother” will finish the their life that is ending. And the nine-year title story. All of these truth that change is unavoidable finales changed the course of the slaps you in the face. characters’ lives. The writers of Cortney Roark is a junior in these sitcoms know what a person loves, what a person wants and journalism and electronic media.

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minutes. Another weakness was in one of the supporting characters, Andie, as voiced by Katherine Heigl, who nagged throughout the entire movie. While not quite on a Jar Jar Binks level of annoyance, I felt it detracted from the film.

But even if the movie doesn’t fit what certain people want, it will definitely

“I find it really relaxing,” Drake said, “and you get an even better workout.” Power yoga, which can be done on its own or combined with hot yoga, is the most common form, focusing mainly on calorie burning and core strengthening. The goal of this type is to use your body weight as your equipment, resulting in sweat and that coveted “workout burn”.

Here, participants explore inversion poses that can involve headstands. This form can be difficult at first, but it eventually leads to greater overall strength.

Specialized yoga studios, such as The Glowing Body on Irwin Street, offer focused routines based on the needs of the participant.

Instead of a general class, you can choose to attend one based on your needs.

The Glowing Body offers classes that can improve spine alignment, gentle ones that center on breathing and relaxation, and even meditation classes to sit and reflect on your own.

However, even with student discounts, paying for a studio membership is a pricey option. And since you already pay tuition, attending yoga classes at TRECS is manageable for students of all income and expertise.

“You don’t have to know anything about yoga and you can join the class,” Chaiprasongsuk said. “I try to make my class suited to everyone and offer them many different levels where they can challenge themselves.”

While yoga has a wide array of physical benefits, its mental benefits are more often cited as reasons to participate. As a source of meditation, breathing is just

impress in regards to its animation, which is original and visually striking.

This film was moving at times. The moral of the movie is to look beyond yourself and not just focus on your wants; people around you need you. But it wasn’t done in a cheesy way. Rather, it was executed in such a way that

genuinely hit home to your emotions.

This moral isn’t just intended for the kids watching the movie, but also for the adults.

The movie itself is set perfectly at 85 minutes, so if you don’t end up liking it at first, stick to it and you’ll probably learn something worthwhile.

as important as the moves themselves. Proper breathing can lead to a more relaxing experience that can improve daily lives beyond the time spent in yoga class.

“When I first started, I did yoga strictly for fitness reasons; now, I do it solely for relaxation,” Drake said. “After finishing yoga I always feel more balanced and relaxed. My stressors seem to not be as important, and I enjoy life more.”

Jen Schappel, a yoga instructor at The Glowing Body Yoga Studio, said that out of yoga’s benefits, its ability to increase attentiveness is her favorite.

“Yoga helps us to pay attention,” Schappel said.

“With our stressful, really fast lives, we often don’t pay attention and miss many details. Yoga helps us to slow the brain down. It helps us relax a little and push many stressors away.”

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Johnson one of few student allies in Nashville Tuesday, I had the unfortunate and bizarre experience of reading Mr. Brandon Chrisman’s smear piece about state Rep. Gloria Johnson, D-Knoxville, and her record.

Though the author left plenty of opportunities for people to be utterly misled and confused, most confusing of all was Mr. Chrisman’s ridicule of Rep. Johnson’s concern with reducing unemployment.

She was elected in part to promote job growth in a state that hasn’t seen much of that in a very long time, a responsibility she takes seriously; indeed, she is currently sponsoring a bill to require the state to hire at least 80 percent of its contractors from here in Tennessee to help put our citizens back to work. Pretty straightforward policy, right?

This is contrasted with Mr. Chrisman’s favorite senator, Stacey Campfield, R-Knoxville, who is spending his time trying to dictate to students how they should spend their own student activity fee.

Priorities, anyone? To criticize Johnson for pushing greater job growth in Knoxville and Tennessee is inexplicable; nearly as inexplicable as acting like there isn’t a need for job growth in the first place.

Tennessee’s unemployment rate is a whopping 7.8 percent, one point higher than the national rate. In fact, we are one of only nine states to have an unemployment rate higher than the national average, ranking 8th in statewide unemployment overall. For the people who can manage to find honest work, we are ranked as the 48th worst state for median income.

What little job growth we have seen has occurred mostly in our cities; meanwhile, our rural communities are facing appalling conditions.

The unemployment rate for some rural communities is a jaw-dropping 16 percent. We haven’t seen rates like that nationally since 1938, in the middle of the Great Depression. On top of scarce jobs, Gov. Haslam has also consistently blocked Medicaid expansion. A chief result of this policy is the blocking of healthcare access for over 100,000 people, the closing of hospitals and clinics which results in further job loss, and an indiscriminate tax hike on Tennessee businesses.

I would not call our current unemployment rates, stagnant wages and tax hikes on small businesses “incredibly successful” economic policies.

The letter claims that Rep. Johnson is overly partisan, unwilling to meet with constituents and stridently antistudent. I could not help but see the irony in Chrisman’s attack on Rep. Johnson given his full support for Sen. Stacey Campfield who, among other things, is notorious for helping raise UT’s tuition and take student choice away from student activity fees.

I had to see what Rep. Johnson thought about these claims; needless to say, she was surprised.

“I have never turned anyone away from my office,” Rep. Johnson said Tuesday. “I had two drop-ins just today that I happily met with. My staff know to never turn a constituent away.”

I then spoke with members of the Government Affairs Committee – the chief student organization tasked with legislator interaction – to see how their experiences with Rep. Johnson matched up.

“I met with Gloria Johnson yesterday in the Capitol,” said Jordan Frye. “She was more than willing to support any legislation in support of UT Students.

“I don’t feel that Chrisman’s article accurately reflects Rep. Johnson or the work she does for UT students at all.”

Fellow committee member Blake Tate added: “(Rep. Johnson) was the most open-minded and attentive representative I met with Monday,” fellow committee member Blake Tate added. “From Sex Week to Student Fees, she took notes on everything we were discussing. But more importantly, she showed an interest on the issues happening between the State Legislature and our university.”

“She was exceptionally well-informed on a range of issues important to students,” said member George Shields.

“I left our meeting convinced that Representative Johnson not only wants to make sure our students’ voices – regardless of politics – are heard, but also that students’ interests are respected in Nashville.”

Daniel Lawhon is a junior in physics. He can be reached at dlawhon@utk.edu.

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What I learned from a week in the Alcoa psych ward The Jeremiad by

Jeremy Brunger For reasons I won’t divulge, I recently spent a week in a mental hospital located near Knoxville.

The facility is well-designed, clean, staffed with sympathetic people and filled with a range of interesting patients.

If you have ever felt like university life is making you crazy, it probably is. So it goes, as Vonnegut was fond of saying.

I met a federal bounty hunter; a participant in the 1960s’ race riots; a man recently laid off from work; an elderly lady whose power of attorney was leveraged against her; an English major deep in debt; a pregnant woman withdrawing from heroin; a well-read hipster; a toothless minister; life-long addicts; professionals, wives, husbands, epileptics, paranoiacs, and most of all, the sane. And, I learned poker.

Several patients resembled characters from “One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest” in thought, deed and appearance. I met Nurse Ratched. Jack Nicholson drinks a lot of milk.

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Handling this and that, an 18-hour credit load and part-time work, temporary poverty, inexperience being away from home, issues with sexual orientation, and yes, drinking, were common experiences among some of my friends. And for all of these they needed either psychology or psychiatry to support them in their university endeavors.

This is the human condition, or at least a novel part of it. Americans consume antidepressants and other psychiatric medications at the highest rates in the developed world, work the longest hours and regularly report some of the highest levels of stress. The do-or-die attitude of the workforce reinforces this dependence — the safety net is small and full of holes — and university is nothing but a microcosm of the workforce.

Pessimism is the science of reality but it need not be the defining condition of our country, either for its youth or its establishment.

UT offers psychological and psychiatric counseling on campus at the Counseling Center. And may I recommend Julian Jaynes’ book “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”?

Jeremy Brunger is a senior in English.

He can be reached at jbrunger@utk.edu.

Don’t underestimate the rewards proper of social etiquette In Rare Forum by

Julie Mrozinski Social etiquette: it’s a catastrophe and a masterpiece, a game at best and a prepared script at worst; it’s a breeze on a good day, and a formulated equation for most; it’s conducted in groups of hundreds and intimate gatherings of two.

Thankfully, social etiquette can also be simple.

During the 16th century, social etiquette books were all the rage, teaching things such as how to be a “Lord” or a “Lady.”

People soon got tired of being told how to conduct themselves, however, and self-help books became a fad of the renaissance.

That is, until Dale Carnegie gave some brilliant advice. The year was 1936, and “How to Win Friends and Influence People” sold more than 15 million copies worldwide.

The book addresses exactly what the title indicates and although it might be a mouthful to say, it takes no time at all to read, being 261 pages short. Perhaps that’s 200 pages over your budget, but just think:

it is going to tell you how to win friends and influence people. All that knowledge can fit in your hand!

This newspaper also fits in your hand, and if you already know you’re not going to read Carnegie’s advice, I’ll give you the highlights.

How to win friends: If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive. We all know what it is like to be condemned or criticized. It doesn’t make you want to work harder and it doesn’t give you good vibes towards the person it came from. Benjamin Franklin said, “I will speak ill of no man and speak all the good I know of everybody.” Don’t criticize or condemn – do it like Benny.

Everyone thinks Sigmund Freud only pointed at the libido for motivation, but it turns out he was really pointing two fingers because he said, “Everything you and I do springs from two motives: the sex urge and the desire to be great.” Let people know you genuinely think they are great.

Now, think of the most popular girl or guy on the street. Do they get really excited when they see you? Do they almost jump out of their skin to greet you? Do they have any alternative motives for wanting to love you? A cute black lab is the most popular gal on my street, so be a pup – we are interested in people who are interested in us.

Showing interest comes first in the form of being a good listener. Ask people questions and encourage them to talk about themselves. Talk to people about themselves and they will listen for hours.

Influencing people: It starts with choosing your battles wisely. Once you have chosen, begin in a warm and friendly manner; a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.

Never tell the other people they are wrong and show respect for their opinions.

Stand back and let the other person do a great deal of the talking. Listen and honestly try to see things from the other person’s point of view. Be sympathetic with the other person’s idea and desires, and then appeal to their nobler motives.

Finally, admit – quickly and emphatically – when you are wrong.

These tidbits are pulled from the spine of the book, but they barely scratch the surface of depth within its pages.

Social interaction is what drives us everyday. It is what lands us a job and then helps us keep it. Social knowledge might be the most important thing you take from college because it offers opportunities for practice around every corner.

Cheers to socializing.

Julie Mrozinski is a junior in English.

She can be reached at jmrozins@utk.edu.

Get Fuzzy • Darby Conley

Non Sequitur • Wiley

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What I noticed most about these people was their overarching condition of sanity.

It used to be a mainstay of mental health that people are sane but the world is crazy.

Now things are a bit different.

Most of these patients are normal people – albeit from the entire spectrum of socioeconomic class – whose lives simply reached a crisis, the definition of which is the collapse of a system.

Stress, acute poverty and actions wholly external to themselves landed them in the psych ward — not innate dysfunction.

At least this is true for most of them.

The man who thought I was Jesus Sensei Divine probably had a chronic mental disorder. The rest did not.

Any of these people could have been UT students.

As we graduate into a recessed workforce amid a climate of talk saying the graduate degree is worthless and the debt pool is massive, the stress of being a student could land almost anyone at that small, private hospital.

When I was visiting UT’s counseling center, I would regularly see my friends in the waiting room — these were people whose minds, I thought, were solid, integrated, stress-free. And they usually were.

When I asked them why they needed counseling, their replies went along the lines of “things just get tough to juggle.”

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Comedian-songwriter Cledus T. Judd to unveil new material in Knoxville Contributor Cledus T. Judd, a comedian who sings parodies and original songs, is coming back to Knoxville.

Judd fits into the genre of country music, as he has done parodies of songs by country artists including Toby Keith, Shania Twain and Brad Paisley. Some of his songs have even made it to Billboard’s Hot Country Songs charts, including hits “My Cellmate Thinks I’m Sexy� and “I Love NASCAR.� In his biography on Country Music Television’s website, he is called the Weird Al Yankovic of country music.

Daily Beacon contributor Kelsi Walker got the chance to talk to Judd about his upcoming shows and his thoughts about coming back to Side Splitters.

Kelsi Walker: You’re playing five shows at Side Splitters this weekend. What is your favorite thing about performing in the Knoxville area?

Cledus T. Judd: Those are my kind of people. I am from Georgia which is right next door, and I have spent a lot of time up there and they are just my kind of people. They get my humor and they know what they are getting when they come. I am a down-home guy, I get out there and shake hands and hug babies. To be honest, it is like a family reunion.

Cledus T. Judd, comedian and country music parody artist, will be performing five shows at Side Splitters comedy club this weekend. a blast to write. I did it with my really good friend, Chris Clark, and we get together and we get in there and get after it and we try to make the funniest record that we can.

KW:

What should people expect to experience at a Cledus T. Judd show?

KW:

They should expect a lot of improvisation. This will be my first show of the year. I haven’t done a show in about three or four months so I may suck, but you know what, that’s why I come there, I know the people of Knoxville won’t run me out of town because they are just part of the family. Again, it’s just like coming home to a bunch of family members for a family reunion.

I just hangout, sit around, no big super star outing. It’s just a good, fun, relaxed time. I’m also hosting this week. I’ll be like the M.C. and then do some songs and eventually close out the show. I will pretty much be up there all night. I don’t believe in headliners or opening acts. Whether I am the most successful of the comics is irrelevant.

CTJ:

Judd will be performing five shows at Side Splitters comedy club, which is 18 and older, It was a fun process and it was my Thursday through Saturday. Tickets run at $12 12th studio album. I sold about 2.5 and may be purchased at sidesplitterscomedy. million copies and every song was com

I know you have done a lot of parodies of songs by country music stars.

What do you think has been your favorite song to rewrite and make your own?

KW:

Well actually, we just finished up a new song over the weekend and I am really excited about it. We are going to do it in Knoxville for the first time. It’s actually a parody of the pop song “Royals� by Lorde. It will be heard for the first time when I show up in Knoxville this weekend.

CTJ:

I understand you released “Parodyziac!!� in 2012 with Warner Brothers Records. Can you tell me a little bit about that process of writing and releasing that album?

Janie Prathammavong • The Daily Beacon

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Kelsi Walker

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CTJ:

The East Tennessee Chinese Association performs a group string rendition of “Celebration of a Bountiful Harvest� on Sunday in Cox Auditorium to commemorate the Chinese New Year.

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6 • THE DAILY BEACON

Wednesday, February 5, 2014 Sports Editor Troy Provost-Heron

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Garrett Ahmad Contributor Tennessee’s men’s tennis team is undefeated no more.

No. 6 Tennessee fell to No. 50 Oklahoma State in Stillwater, Okla. in their first road match of the spring season after starting 6-0.

The loss dropped them eight spots in the new ITA rankings to No. 14.

Head coach Sam Winterbotham attributed the loss to the team’s lack of humility.

“Being humble is a very, very important part of being a good, successful person,” Winterbotham said. “Our guys weren’t humble. They didn’t give people the respect that they deserved. They think that they are better than people because they are ranked higher.”

Winterbotham was unhappy with his team’s ability to work through adversity.

“When everything started going wrong, they started blaming everybody and everything,” Winterbotham said. “(They said) ‘this shouldn’t happen to me.’ If they were humble out there, they would understand that these sort of things happen all the time.”

Junior Brandon Fickey agreed with his coach’s assessment of

their performance.

“If you looked out on the court, we weren’t really playing as a team,” Fickey said. “We took the rankings for granted, and we walked in there thinking we were going to win.”

For Winterbotham, playing on the road was not at fault for the loss.

“The performance against Oklahoma State was very poor for many reasons,” Winterbotham said. “I don’t think you can necessarily blame it just on being on the road. What we recognized is that it really is important for them to be tested in environments.”

Two days after playing Oklahoma State, Tennessee was in danger of losing their second match in a row.

In their match against No. 30 Tulsa, the score was tied 3-3 with only one man left on the court for each team.

For Tennessee, that man was Fickey.

Fickey delivered under pressure in a hostile environment, securing victory for the Vols in the third set of his match to beat Tulsa’s Carlos Bautista – the No. 71 ranked player in the country – 6-4, 5-6 (3), 6-4.

Fickey drew inspiration from his teammates when he realized their hopes rested on his shoulders.

“I was a little nervous,” Fickey said. “I looked at (my teammates), and they inspired me. I had been in that situation before, and I just drew on those experiences.”

Winterbotham praised Fickey for his performance, however he was not satisfied with his team’s performance as a whole.

“We didn’t play very well in a large portion of the match,” Winterbotham said. “We put it on one person’s shoulders, basically … What was great about it, and it was great, was how Brandon Fickey handled that situation. He was fantastic.”

Tennessee’s next matches are at home this weekend against No. 13 Duke and No. 20 Wake Forest.

Despite the sub-par performances, Winterbotham remains confident in his team.

“I have a tremendous amount of confidence in this team,” Winterbotham said. “I think I have more confidence in what this team is capable of than they do.”

Winterbotham has the team focused on itself rather than their highly rated opponents.

“We’ve got enough to focus on within our program, and that’s what we’re doing right now,” Winterbotham said. “We’re going to get it right. The hope is that it starts this weekend.”

Matthew DeMaria • The Daily Beacon

LADY VOLS continued from Page 1 “I think that was the biggest difference, and one day I woke up and was like look, I enjoy this game, I love it, and I have an extreme passion for it and I want fans to be able to see that.”

But reclaiming her love of the game wasn’t all that Burdick needed.

She also returned to her old ways, putting less pressure on herself as she looked to better herself from game to game.

“I just got back to a normal routine,” Burdick said. “In the beginning, I was pressed or I was getting on the gun and shooting 700 to 1,000 shots any given night, and that was hurting more than helping me.

Now, on off days I like to get into the gym, just turn on the music, get on the gun and shoot about 250 to 500 shots and I think that has really built my confidence up.”

The change in preparation has payed off as Burdick was named the SEC Player of the Week after averaging 18.5 points, nine rebounds and three assists per game. She shot 68.2 percent from the field this past week, a vast improvement from her early season woes. “(I’ve seen a change in) her focus and her mentality,” head coach Holly Warlick said. “She sees the need of her scoring ability for us and she has been leading off the court and on the court away from her. She has been very vocal and we needed

Tennessee junior forward Cierra Burdick fist pumps during the Lady Vols’ 70-60 win over Arkansas on Jan. 30 in Thompson-Boling Arena. somebody to step up and I think she has done that and I think that takes the tension in her mind off of her and then she relaxes and plays.”

The Lady Vols find themselves back up to second place in the conference standings due in large part to Burdick’s recent success.

Burdick, however, doesn’t take credit for turning her game around.

She bestows that honor to the fans, coaches and her teammates.

“The whole thing to begin the season was something that I have never had to deal with,” Burdick said. “It was probably the toughest time, as far as basketball goes, in my life.

“I wouldn’t have been able to do it without the people around me – that’s for sure.”

Matthew DeMaria • The Daily Beacon

UT splits the weekend in Oklahoma matches

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Senior Jordan McRae shoots over Rebel forward Janari Joesaar during the Vols’ 86-70 win on Jan. 29 in Thompson-Boling Arena.

Martin: Shorthanded ‘Dores still pose threat with Odom Steven Cook Copy Editor Cuonzo Martin smiling in a press conference is about as rare as a Jarnell Stokes 3-pointer in a game. But one specific question-answer exchange had the third-year Tennessee coach grinning from ear to ear.

After talking in detail about the great job Vandy has done handling its current dilemma of only having seven scholarship players, a reporter asked during Monday’s weekly press conference if there was any specific way UT could exploit that advantage when they travel to face the Commodores on Wednesday night in Memorial Gymnasium.

“We’ll see,” Martin answered, followed up by a demonstrative smile.

Tennessee’s rotation is hovering around eight players in SEC play, but the Vols boast a whopping 13 scholarship players on the roster — most of which are thrown into the rotation often.

Vandy lost two starters — including top scorer Kedren Johnson — before beginning the year, followed by the dismissal of then-leading scorer Eric McClellan from the team 12 games into 2013-14.

The bad news piled up, leaving head coach Kevin Stallings with seven active scholarship players to finish out the year.

Having such a huge numbers advantage is welcomed by the Vols, but even Martin sees a silver lining for the

ward leads the team with 14.3 points per game and is playing 35.7 minutes on average, posing as a mismatch on nearly any defender with his 6-foot-9 frame.

“He’s 6-9,” Martin said, “and he can catch and shoot. And he has some physical-ness to him. They put him in positions where if you have a traditional big guy against • Under head coach Cuonzo him, it’s tough.

Martin, Tennessee is 14-3 in the “Watching film, I don’t understand how he month of February. gets open so much, and hopefully I’m not saying • Overall, Tennessee is 113-70 that after we play him. against Vanderbilt dating back to But it’s amazing how he’s so open with the 1922, but are just 28-41 inside way he shoots the ball.”

Memorial Gym. Odom will be among five Vanderbilt starters expected to log ridicu• The strength and conditionlous minutes with such a ing coaches for both teams short bench, but there’s are brothers: Tennessee’s one key advantage the Nicodemus Christopher is the Commodores will have younger brother of Vandy’s Garry — familiarity with the quirky Memorial Gym. Christopher.

Vandy’s arena features benches behind • Freshman point guard each basket, which significantly alters in-game Darius Thompson is a native coaching and makes it of Murfreesboro, Tenn. He was one of the most unique originally committed to Vanderhome-court advantages in college basketball. bilt before signing with UT. Tennessee senior guard Jordan McRae, • A win would give the Vols a who will be making his four-game winning streak in the fourth trip to Nashville, was more worried about series. the Vols’ rare road trip than getting to practice “But they still have the per- on the Memorial Gym floor sonnel to be successful. They Tuesday night after arriving in Nashville. have proven that.”

“I mean, it’s cool,” McRae They have. Despite the disastrous roster turnover, said. “But just being on the bus Vandy is 12-8 and 4-4 in the for three hours, sitting there, SEC. The ‘Dores beat Missouri then you get off to practice. at home on Jan. 16 and have It’s going to be a longer time won three straight heading to warm up, I guess. I’m getinto Wednesday’s rivalry game. ting old.”

Tonight’s tipoff is at 8 p.m.

Rod Odom is a big reason why. Vanderbilt’s senior for- on ESPN3.

Commodores.

“The plus side about having seven guys is you know where you’re getting your shots and your minutes,” Martin said. “I think where it comes into play is when you take the legs from those guys, when you pressure them and you’re moving them to get fatigued late in games.

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