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UT employee killed in parking garage accident Victim served as supervisor in College of Law since 1979 the corner of 16th Street and White Avenue on her way to work early Monday McCord Pagan morning. Copy Editor According to a Knoxville Police Department report, A University of Tennessee Phyllis Carter, 60, parked employee was killed in the her Toyota Prius in the parking garage located on garage but accidentally
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left it in neutral, and the car began to roll down an incline inside the garage. Carter chased after it in an attempt to stop it but was crushed between a wall and the car. After her fellow employees realized that Carter, who went by Sally, had failed to show up for work, they started calling around, according to KPD spokesman Darrell DeBusk.
The employees contacted her husband and when he couldn’t reach her via cell phone, he began to search for her with another UT employee. Authorities determined that the victim “had not been there long ” before her body was found. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Carter was a supervisor in the UT College of Law
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Library and has worked at the university since 1979. “Sally was a treasured and valuable member of the law school community who contributed so much to make the College of Law a better place,” said Doug Blaze, dean of the College of Law, in a statement. “She will be sorely missed. Our thoughts and prayers are with her entire family.”
ing. “The adrenaline you get from a sparring match is just so fun,” Adkins said. “It really is. It’s just ecstatic.” In January, Adkins began a low-carb diet to drop 21 pounds, permitting him to box as a Junior Welterweight. Adkins recommends “cutting.” Otherwise, he believes, boxers face serious disadvantages. “I would have to go up and fight people who probably cut and made the weight,” Adkins said. “So they would be bigger, taller with longer reach and more power.”
The elephant in the room has hardly been brought up all season long. On Monday, it could no longer be ignored. Coming off another bad loss to Texas A&M and sitting at 16-11 in what many pegged as a makeor-break season for Tennessee basketball, the embattled face of the program was prodded by question after question from reporters over his job security. And Cuonzo Martin, like practically everything else the third-year coach has faced since arriving in Knoxville on March 2011, handled it with a business-like, no-nonsense approach. “Don’t waste time and energy on it,” Martin said of how he deals with outside criticism and pressure. “The next game presents itself and you move forward.” Pressure is nothing new to Martin, who played four years at Purdue, two years in the NBA and had two years of head coaching experience at Missouri State before arriving on Rocky Top. But with the tough spell UT has fallen upon as a program in this past half-decade, pressure and negativity has reached another level as of late on Rocky Top. That has only intensified with each loss this year.
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After weigh-ins on Sunday, Golden Gloves Gym management hold a mandatory meeting for boxers participating in the upcoming Ace Miller Memorial Boxing Tournament. The majority of the boxers in the photo raised their hands to signify they have no prior experience in the ring.
Boxers ready to trade blows After months of preparation, annual Boxing Weekend nears closer Hanna Lustig News Editor Standing in line on Sunday, Elliot Watson knows he has made his weight class. He’s already been to the sauna and he’s been training for two and half, maybe three months. Watson, senior in Supply Chain Management, is a two-time veteran and champion of the Ace Miller Memorial Boxing Tournament. A ravenous one, at that. “I can’t wait to eat,” said Watson, a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. “... I’m really more excited about drinking
a lot of water. I can’t wait to down a good Gatorade because I’m a little dehydrated.” The feeling, among boxers waiting for their final weighins, is mutual. Before a swarm of eager spectators fill the Jacobs Center or a single jab is thrown on Thursday night, the Ace Miller Memorial Boxing Tournament has already begun. It started weeks, even months ago. It started beneath the lights of the Golden Gloves Gym with sweaty T-shirts and sparring. It started with forgoing Cookout burgers and whiskey to stay trim for weigh-ins.
Every match fought on Boxing Weekend is prefaced by tireless, bloody practice. Every match is won long before the boxers step inside the ring. “I’m at Golden Gloves a lot when they’re training,” said Holt Edwards, senior in political science and tournament executive director. “They’re not joking around. They take it very seriously.” Taylor Adkins, sophomore business analytics and member of Sigma Chi, is another of these serious boxers. For him, that training period stretches back to May, with conditioning and mastering technique. This year’s tournament will mark his first year participat-
‘Vagabondia Castle’ a haven for artistic roots
Tennessee forward’s increased “selfishness” Overlooked Knoxville fortress housed children’s author Frances Hodgson Burnett in 1800s could be the difference write beloved children’s classics herself that she had,” Jones said. has long since splintered away exception. Liv McConnell “I’d been here quite a while including “The Secret Garden” “You can tell this by the name she and with it most of its modern in late season NCAA run Copy Editor The year is 1865, only two years after the bloodshed of the Campaign, and the city >>pg. 6 Knoxville is struggling to resurrect itself. Rising from crumbled foundations and carnage is a new breed of Knoxvillian – freed blacks and immigrants flood the city in expectation of opportunity. An imaginative 16-year-old girl, INSIDE THE DAILY BEACON packed onto a ship from England following her father’s untimely In Short Page 2 death, is one such lowly dreamer. News Page 3 Made to marry a man she didn’t love and forced to move from Opinions Page 4 shack to shack, she reinvented Arts & Culture Page 5 her humble prospects and drew Knoxville’s budding artistic circle Sports Page 6 to her riverside refuge, known to all as “Vagabondia Castle.” Scribbling stories in ledger books since girlhood, she would go on to
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and “A Little Princess.” Her name – one that has since become as shrouded and obscure as her literary garden – was Frances Hodgson Burnett. “Burnett is a well-hidden secret in Knoxville,” Whitney Jones, lecturer in children’s literature, said. “Very few people know about her presence here, which is unusual because I think we know a lot about the other authors who’ve had histories here. Maybe it’s because she left here and never came back.” As a girl from impoverished origins with a heart fixated upon far more worldly prospects, Burnett felt “almost imprisoned” by the poverty of her Knoxville life. “Having to live in dirt-floor shacks, it just wasn’t the image of
gives to the shack on the river, Vagabondia Castle. She had these illusions of grandeur and decided to make this shack into some kind of artistic refuge for the highthinkers of Knoxville.” Jones describes “a pretty large community” of artists inhabiting mid-19th century Knoxville, a city rife with historic transience due to its river location and recent installation of a major railway line. Burnett hosted musicians, bartenders, philosophers and artists of all stripes in her ramshackle home. “It was very poor, very dilapidated,” Jones said, “and she sort of recolored it through her imagination into this artist’s refuge, this salon for philosophical and artistic thinkers, and held court there.” Today, the rickety shanty
remembrance. An unobtrusive rock, its gray slate inscribed with a commemorative paragraph about the author, serves as sole sentinel to Burnett’s memory. Swallowed by the shadow of Calhoun’s On the River, the location historians believe to have once been the site of Vagabondia Castle, Calhoun’s manager Steve Fletcher has walked past the stone tribute countless times without paying mind to it. “I’ve worked at Calhoun’s since ‘98 and walk by (the rock) twice nearly every day on my way in and out of work,” Fletcher said. “It’s right next to the dumpsters.” Fletcher, who has never heard anyone at the restaurant mention the land’s literary significance, read the rock’s engraving out of idle curiosity but believes he is an
before stopping to read it and learning of Burnett’s presence,” he said. “It’s a strange thing, realizing such an interesting and valuable bit of local history could go so ignored. “The rock is hardly visible and doesn’t do her story or memory justice.” “She often said she started really writing, or getting the ideas for, ‘The Secret Garden’ here in Knoxville because of the outdoor, wilderness feel,” Jones said. “In her memoir, she talks about this little bird leading her off into the fields and woods of Knoxville, and that’s when she has these hugely transcendent moments where she realizes how connected she is to nature.”
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R.J. Vogt Editor-in-Chief After the State House of Representatives passed a resolution Monday, the legislative outcry against Sex Week became official. The condemned now walk UT’s campus. Rep. Richard Floyd, R-Chattanooga, sponsored House Joint Resolution 661, a bill that condemns Sex Week’s organizers. After unanimous approval in the House Education Committee and despite the UT administration’s attempts to discuss the bill in the Senate Education Committee, the House passed the resolution by a vote of 69-17. Originally, the language of the bill condemned administrators, but an amendment in the House Education Committee changed that wording to read “organizers.” In a phone interview Monday
afternoon, Floyd admitted that the nonbinding resolution might not have direct ramifications. When asked if the condemned students would be eternally barred from participating in the Tennessee legislature, he said he did not know if it would have that effect. “I just want to send a message,” he said. The message, however, did not seem to faze Sex Week’s co-founders, Briana Rader and Jacob Clark, both seniors in College Scholars. “Our attention has been focused elsewhere,” Rader said late Monday night. The language of the resolution does not specify the scope of its condemnation; Sex Week has 16 members on its executive board, and conceivably, all are now condemned. The volunteers and supporters of Sex Week could also be included. Floyd said that former professors have called his office to thank him for the resolution –
which has no legal power and will not obstruct the event itself – and added that he had received “10 times” more support than criticism. He went on to say that Sex Week’s programming was perverse and representative of a political agenda, but did not indicate which particular events earned his “outrage.” The language of the bill, however, specifically mentions the aphrodisiac cooking class, drag show and condom scavenger hunt as justification of the condemnation. Floyd did not comment on the more conservative events, including the religion and sexuality panel, abstinence discussion or art show, pointing instead to a letter he received from a current UT senior thanking him for his support. He also recommended simply holding the event off-campus, repeatedly saying that Sex Week was dragging UT’s name “through the mud.”
Gov. seeks to expand Medicaid Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Republican Gov. Bill Haslam said Monday he has asked U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to make a counterproposal to Tennessee’s efforts to carve out a special deal for Medicaid expansion. Haslam told reporters he had met with Sebelius twice during a Washington visit, and that she was aware of the state’s requests to use the federal money to subsidize private insurance and promote healthier lifestyles through a series of incentives. The governor last year declined to accept the Medicaid money without special arrangements for the state. Negotiations have so far been fruitless. “We’ve had a lot of conversa-
tions about what won’t work,” Haslam said. “And I said, ‘You know what we need to make a plan work. Why don’t you come back to us with a proposal that you think will work?’ “So that’s where we left it,” he said. The Haslam administration has said expanding Medicaid under the federal health care law would cover about 180,000 uninsured Tennesseans. Democrats have criticized the governor for not releasing specifics of his Medicaid proposal. The governor said he has not given up on a special deal for his “Tennessee Plan” for Medicaid expansion. “I think it can happen,” he said. “Usually if something should happen, and both parties are really trying to work toward that, then I think it’s possible.”
Haslam has pledged that he would seek legislative approval for any potential deal to expand Medicaid in Tennessee. The state House nevertheless voted 69-24 on Monday evening in favor of a bill to write a requirement for legislative approval into law. “The last thing we want to do is automatically approve something the federal government does,” said Rep. Jeremy Durham, R-Franklin, the bill’s main House sponsor. House Minority Leader Craig Fitzhugh criticized the measure as counterproductive. “This General Assembly has tied the hands of its governor,” said Fitzhugh, D-Ripley. “It sends a message that we don’t trust this governor, and don’t trust him to negotiate in good faith a deal ... that is in the best interest of Tennessee.”
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Students mingle and enjoy refreshments during an event entitled "Sex, Love, Relationships, and Pizza" hosted by the OUTreach Center on Feb. 20. Students also participated in a Q&A with Shane Bierma, a UT doctoral student who spoke about love, marriage and everything in between.
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Jenna Butz Staff Writer UT Recycling and Up to Us has beaten a world record. Besting last year’s record of 4,123 boxes set by the University of Texas-Austin, UT’s box fort topped out at 4,800 boxes while promoting environmental and financial sustainability. Up to Us used the event, sponsored by Net Impact, to demonstrate the size of the national debt through the visualization the boxes created. Kayla McMurry, senior in economics, explained how Up to Us’ message of “fiscal sustainability” relates to Net Impact’s message of “global sustainability.” “Fiscal sustainability is just as important as environmental sustainability,” McMurry said. “We’re just trying to raise awareness. Most people know what ‘Making Orange Green’ is, but they may not know what lowering the deficit and lowering the debt is.” Bea Ross, UT Recycling Outreach coordinator, stressed that while the boxes were collected in one month, the collection was “about the equivalent of about four days of cardboard on UT
campus.” “We’re trying to raise awareness for not only the increasing national debt, but also how we as a university can raise our own financial status by decreasing our ‘needs’ and finding more sustainable ways to do things here at the university,” Ross said. Promoting more than just environmental responsibility, Ross said she believes all forms of sustainability are essential to overall workability. “Our main goal here is to really push how developing a sustainable community will not only help us grow socially, it will help us grow financially and help our environmental impact,” Ross said. “Those are three things that really can’t be separated.” The boxes, Ross said, represented consumerism effects of both the university’s and individuals’ purchasing habits. She said she believes that smarter shopping could help both the environment and the economy. “If we shop smarter, our economy is going to grow,” Ross said. “I’m really trying to show students how their personal waste reduction can
help our society grow. It all starts with us.” Jesse Farber-Eger, freshman in sociology, came to the fort after hearing about the event through a variety of clubs he works with. Following the conclusion of his classes, Farber-Eger went to work contributing to the event’s sustainable message. “We’re reusing materials that would have been just thrown away or left,” FarberEger said. “We’re doing the step before recycling, which is reusing it to create this symbol of our university. I think in doing so, we’re spreading that message of reduce, reuse, recycle and being sustainable and making something of what we have. It’s a good thing.” Travis Stockinger, a freshman in physics, also stopped by after his last class and left briefly for lunch before coming back. While he appreciated the messages of financial and environmental stability the fort worked to send, he said he had another purpose for joining the event. “The reason I came here was because, I don’t know if you watch Community, but they have a pillow fort,” Stockinger said. “So, this how I’m trying to do that.”
Google HR partner to speak on campus Katherine Nanney Contributor On Thursday, the UT Society of Human Resource Management will host Justin Angsuwat, a Google human resource business partner. Angsuwat will present on his career history in human resources and how it led him to a career at Google. The event, free and open to everyone, will begin at 11 a.m. in the Cox Auditorium of the Alumni Memorial Building. Angsuwat, a native Australian, lived in both Sweden and New York City before he moved to San Francisco to work at Google. While in New York City, he worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers, a multinational professional services firm where he led human capital consulting teams for Fortune 100 clients. In Australia, he was the HR chief of staff for a com-
BOXING continued from Page 1 Having also wrestled in middle and high school, Will Coker, member of Sigma Nu and sophomore in finance, is no stranger to the “cutting” process. But, already in good shape, Coker did not cut any weight, choosing instead to increase his physical fitness and perfect his technique through pad work, circuit training, heavy bag work, movement drills and shadowboxing. “You can try to cut like 25 pounds in a week and a half or two weeks,” Coker said. “But that’s not really realistic. Sometimes people are able to do it, but by the time they do it they’re dehydrated, their body’s fatigued, they don’t really have any energy. Its just not a good situation.” Most people, Coker noted, eventually give up the diet and resign themselves to a more realistic weight class. Others, however, take more extreme measures. These boxers forgo food and water before the weigh-ins, and then pack on those lost pounds immediately after weigh-ins.
pany on the Fortune 500 list. Angsuwat holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science, a master’s in human resource management, and has received a handful of awards and honors for his work in HR as well, including the title of Australian Human Resources Rising Star of the Year by the Australian Human Resources Institute. He has also served as the chair of the Society of Human Resources Management Young Professionals Board. Courtney Bowditch, a human resource management major and chapter president of SHRM, said she thinks Angsuwat’s experience will make his presentation one worth attending. “Justin has a very unique background in HR,” Bowditch said. “All students would do well to hear his experiences and setbacks in his career and in moving across the world to pursue his career.”
Last summer, some student’s in SHRM traveled to the organization’s national conference in Chicago. Debbie L. Mackey, SHRM’s faculty advisor and director of the Human Resource Management master’s program, traveled with the students and said it was on this trip the group was introduced to Angsuwat. “We met him in Chicago at National SHRM and networked with him throughout the year to bring him to Knoxville,” Mackey said. Both Bowditch and Mackey expressed excitement to hear what Angsuwat will have to say when he arrives. “It will be a rare and unique experience having Justin here to share what he does in one of the top companies in the world,” Bowditch stated. “He has a worldly view of HR and will share his advice about the profession.”
“What happens is their body bloats up because they cant adapt to their diet,” Coker said. “And then all that binge eating they’ve been doing. So they tend to get weeded out the first couple rounds of the tournament.” The fighters aren’t the only ones working hard, though. As executive director, Edwards oversees a team devoted to the tournament’s finances, merchandising and ticketing. Edwards estimated he has clocked in more than 100 hours work in the last year – hours that yielded an online ticketing option, more merchandise and marketing aiming to draw spectators from other, nearby SEC schools. The men behind the weekend permit themselves only about a month of rest after each tournament. However, the sacrifice is about to yield results. “This year our presales are actually up about 40 percent so our revenue this year will be the highest in history,” Edwards said. “Which will be something great for me to leave on. A great legacy for me.” Last year’s tournament averaged approximately 3,000 spectators each night, a drastic
increase from the first tournament 33 years ago, which drew 250 attendees. Yet, with several fraternities unable to put forward boxers, many believed the tournament would suffer a blow. However, the 57 registered boxers nearly max out the limits of Edwards’ “golden number.” Still, with some fighters just one or two matches away from championship glory, Coker projected “fierce” competition. “I know there’s a lot of people that have been training really hard,” Coker said, “and there’s going to be a lot of guys out for blood out there.” Boxing Weekend lasts from Thursday through Saturday, but even after the tournament ends the tradition lives on. Proceeds from the tournament benefit the Golden Gloves Gym, formerly owned by much-lauded trainer Ace Miller who passed away in 2012. Today, Miller’s daughter, Tracy, remains an integral part of the tournament. Tickets will be sold from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Pedestrian Walkway today and Wednesday. Single Night Passes can be purchased for $20 while Weekend Passes can be purchased for $40.
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Katie Vanlandingham, right, senior in English, browses class rings in the UC Ballroom during the Grad Finale event hosted by the Volshop from Feb. 18-20.
UT language program starts conversation between American, international students Jenna Butz Staff Writer Ellen Ford and Poliana Espindola chat over coffee, go to First Friday together and chat about what’s going on in Knoxville. But these casual meetings aren’t merely good conversation; they are good practice. Ford and Espindola are part of the English Language Institute’s Conversation Partners Program, which pairs international students with native English speaking students to expand their English vocabulary and learn more about American culture. Ellen Ford, a senior in College Scholars, found the program through her Portuguese class last year. After visiting Brazil twice for research, Ford wanted to maintain her skills after returning home. Now, she meets with Espindola, from Brazil, who is working to improve her English to study nutrition. Currently, Espindola only studies English at ELI. International students work with the ELI if their TOEFL score, the exam testing mastery of English as a foreign language, is too low to enroll in degree classes at the university. While involved with the ELI, students can live in dorms, get a VolCard and use all campus facilities. However, they cannot receive degree credit. “In the fall, I’m going to take classes at UTK,” Espindola said. “So I need to be prepared, and I would like to get English influence, make friends and to be immersed into American culture.” Beyond academic benefits, the program pushes students to bridge the gap between American and international students. For ELI students, that gap can be particularly wide. “In past semesters, I’ve met and hung out with many of the undergraduate international students who attend university classes,” Ford said. “But the students at ELI are more isolated. Poliana mentioned that within ELI, students typically get to know others who speak their native language but don’t get the same opportunity to meet American students.” For many ELI students, the nuances of “street” English necessitate interpersonal practice.
“In the classroom, you’re practicing mainly academic English,” said Erin Smith, the Conversation Partners Program coordinator. “They’re reading textbooks and focusing on grammar a lot. With a conversation partner, they get to learn how people their own age talk. It’s much different from what they learn in the classroom. They get a lot of really useful vocabulary that way, I think.” The international student isn’t the only beneficiary. When interested volunteers email her, Smith sends an application requesting the candidate’s hobbies, availability and preferences regarding their partner’s cultural background. She then compares these applications with the ELI’s current pool of students and matches students accordingly, allowing both students access to a fluent speaker. “Sometimes, I get people who are also practicing another language,” Smith said. “So, maybe a French student would want to be matched with a French speaker, and then they can split the time: half in French and half in English. It’s up to them what they want to get out of it.” Smith mentioned hearing of a student attending Thanksgiving dinner with his conversation partner. “He came back with all these stories about all these things he had learned about American culture and American families that he would have never have learned without conversation partners,” Smith said.
Similarly, Ford and Espindola communicate outside meeting times, drawing them closer over the last month. “We also share music on Google docs, which has become a sort of homework for me. We’ve only known each other for a few weeks, but we’re definitely friends.” Ford has become an outlet for Espindola to speak plainly about her difficulties with English and ask questions without embarrassment. “It isn’t monotonous or mechanical when we hang out,” Espindola said. “Every time we meet each other is different and adorable. I do feel comfortable to ask her my doubts and questions about the idiomatic expressions or grammar, for example.” Ford expressed similar relief, having found someone to help improve her Portuguese before future trips to Brazil. The multiple connotations of certain words, for example, are not always included in university curriculums. By speaking with Espindola, Ford learned words and concepts she hadn’t realized she might need to know. “Speaking one-on-one with a native speaker for an hour forces you to stop worrying about constantly making mistakes,” Ford said. “Conversation really fills in the gaps that typical classes leave. “I really like this program because I can learn not just about the language but about culture and history and politics from someone who grew up surrounded by it.”
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Stigmas on prostitution enable sex trafficking cycles to continue Guest Column by
Liv McConnell By the time you are done reading this column, three to four children will have been trafficked for the purpose of sexual exploitation in the U.S. alone. This is according to statistics from the U.S. Department of Justice, citing that every two minutes a minor is trafficked; this alarming quota doesn’t even touch on the legions of those above age 18 suffering the same fate. For many, sex trafficking is an appalling and disconcerting subject, but one that is far removed from the spectrum of our daily lives. People convince themselves that human trafficking is something that happens abroad, probably in lesser developed areas of the world. Not near us, and certainly not in Knoxville. Wrong – Knox County was one of 78 Tennessee counties – collectively comprising 85 percent of the state – that reported at least one case of human sex trafficking in a 2011 investigative report conducted by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and Vanderbilt Center. “Human trafficking and sex slavery in Tennessee is more common than previously believed possible,” Mark Gwyn, TBI director, said in the report. “Tennessee, simply because of its geographical position to Atlanta and the large number of interstates that cross the state, is conducive to a traveling business.” With numbers like these in mind, it is time Knoxville starts taking a more active approach to combating the atrocious pervasiveness of sex trafficking, particularly through preventive measures. One significant way this can be accomplished is through a radical reevaluation of how we as a society view prostitutes. Prostitution has long been a stigmatic way of life and placed in an entirely separate sphere from sex trafficking, although in reality the line between the two is blurred and often nonexistent. The term “sex trafficking” immediately elicits cries of enraged protest and a sympathetic attitude toward victims. Now think about the last time you saw a woman who was presumably a prostitute on the street – to those unaware, they do exist in Knoxville. Did you feel sympathy for her? Chances are, no, you didn’t. We are socially conditioned to wrinkle our noses at the sight of women working the streets, to judge them and assume they chose their degrading lifestyle for themselves. The reality is: most did not. Last spring, I had the opportunity to see Theresa Flores’ lecture “Sexualization of the 21st Century: A Human Trafficking Epidemic,” brought to UT by the Women’s Coordinating Council. Flores, an escaped sex slave herself, provided eyeopening facts and insight that made me realize I, too, had been habituated to view prostitutes as almost less than human and consequently judge them for their “choices.” As Flores taught me, for the overwhelming majority of girls and women, prostitution did not begin as a choice. A staggering third of women in the sex trade were sold into it by their families (again, this is in America we are focusing on), with the average age for entry into prostitution being 13 years old. Sixty percent of trafficked girls are tricked into the business, like Flores herself was. These “tricks” are executed in a variety of ways – in Flores’ case, she was drugged and raped by multiple men at the age of 15. Video footage of her gruesome assault and threats on her younger brother’s life were then used as leverage to coerce her into joining her rapists’ “business.” A substantial number of prostitutes are sourced from the enormous number of runaway children in the U.S., which hovers at nearly half a million. TBI’s investigation revealed that one in four children who run away from home are approached for commercial sexual exploitation within 48 hours of leaving home. In order to aid victims currently suffering from forced prostitution and prevent those at-risk from being sucked into the trade to begin with, we need to change the way prostitutes are socially construed and stop criminalizing them, especially legally. One of the most alarming statistics Flores provided was that in cases of prostitution-related arrests, 90 percent are the prostitutes themselves. That leaves only 10 percent of customers, or “johns,” and pimps incarcerated – both groups the very reason prostitution exists to begin with. Society blames the women, arrests them, then throws them back out into the world with a criminal record, no support, no sympathy and nowhere else to turn but back to the lifestyle they’ve known. It is likely for this reason that most women will not survive lives of prostitution for more than seven years. By criminalizing prostitutes, we take away their only chance at salvation – our empathy. Liv McConnell is a junior in journalism and electronic media. She can be reached at mmconn12@utk.edu.
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Despite its importance, political correctness can be infectious Cullenary Arts by
Cullen Hamelin Racism, prejudice, sexism and all other types of judgment serve as ingredients in a subjugation of expression and the oppression of individuality. For the most part, our community warns us about these devices and deters us from ever becoming subject to them. However, as the world is not a perfect place, many people become victims or followers of these tools of confinement. That’s where “We the people” becomes the hero to those who suffer losses at the expense of prejudice. Governmental policies have the power to forcibly make bigotry hide in the shadows and are an important part of the melting pot that comprises America. Being a country of such diversity, and so many cultural differences, it is fundamental to our nature to use law in the name of overcoming cultural, racial and sexual obstacles. However, this power, exacerbated by the media, has developed victimizing, and overuse has manifested sensitivity to a point where political correctness becomes an irreversible social law. For example, consider the coming out as LGBT of Michael Sam, a former Missouri defensive end headed into the NFL draft. He
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Where media and policies are the utility for strength in the outside world, overcoming criticism punctures the feeble insults thrown to each individual and can gain respect from others regardless of the prejudicial category one feels imprisoned in. Victimizing a group of people hinders this important aspect of life that every person must come in acquaintance with. The news may rightfully look down on a bigot who crosses a deleterious line, but it also encourages people to blame the society they live in as the source of their problems. While some problems may be a result of the society, there is no light shown on the cure. If one learns to overcome their stereotype and the criticism given upon them, then these obstacles become mere hurdles in the overall conquest for an individual’s ideal life. Whether you’re black, white, blue, green or are attracted to men or women or both, you will always encounter adversity. We shouldn’t shine the light on what makes us different. We shouldn’t advertise racism or sexual discrimination through a TV, and we shouldn’t blame society for the fact that we are discriminated upon for being different. We should all focus on what makes us all human. Understanding is an important step, but respecting another is not won by blaring news and viral articles. One will receive it by overcoming differences, hurdling life obstacles and learning to love one another. That is what we should advertise. Cullen Hamelin is a junior in chemistry. He can be reached at chamelin@utk.edu.
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Jan Urbano As people all over the world have celebrated and enjoyed watching the 2014 Sochi Olympics, not even the world’s oldest international celebration has hidden the chaotic and tragic reality we live in. Not far from the games, protesters clashed with police in Ukraine, angry over the actions of a deceiving government and a scheming president with ties to Russia and Putin’s own ambitions. According to BBC News, “The bloodshed in Kiev on 20 February was the worst so far. The health ministry said 77 people had been killed in 48 hours, with nearly 600 wounded.” At the Olympics itself, violence too could be found. Al Jazeera reported that Pussy Riot, a punk group that has opposed Putin and his prejudiced-influenced regime, was beaten by Cossack security patrols in Sochi as they began making a protest video. The violence and chaos isn’t limited to the European continent, however. In Istanbul, tensions between demonstrators and Turkish police have also hit a boiling point. Reported by Euronews, citizens have taken to the
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has had an incredibly challenging life, with many obstacles to overcome on his way to football fame. His recognition as a football player is undoubtedly the product of his hard work, determination and will to succeed. However, his coming out has overshadowed his accomplishments through his upbringing and his motivation on the field, and been the head story for the upcoming NFL draft. The attention brought to this issue may be a positive influence for some, but it also boldly establishes a claim that there is still a crippling problem. Equal opportunities as an American, in reference to jobs, marriage, schooling and ability to make money and do with it what he or she pleases (within the confinement of the law), are a no-brainer. Those should always be granted to citizens of this country. For newly oppressed groups, or seriously hindered prejudices that limit a person’s opportunities in America, political and media attention are helpful to emphasize the American ideal of justice and equality. However, after countless propagation and policies to level the opportunistic playing field, the media still labels one man’s sexual identity as “breaking news.” Maybe the coverage of stories like Sam’s are a response to cultural criticism, itself a response to the fact of human differences. Through the flesh and bones that we all share, we all are different people. Being various in natures, we all learn to criticize one another. But just like political correctness, criticism is a double-edged sword: useful but detrimental in abundance. It causes self-reflection and strengthens inner confidence when overcome.
streets in response to “authoritarian new laws” introduced by their prime minister and stricter regulation of the Internet. In Venezuela, protestors have also taken up arms against a tyrannical, incompetent government. According to the New Republic, the movement began due to an overreaction by the authorities against a protest in opposition of widespread crime in San Cristobal. Students came together to bring attention to the rape of a freshman at a university. The response: “five students were detained following a protest and sent to a jail hundreds of miles away … stoking anger even further.” I bring up these events to provide a spotlight on what is occurring in the world. We live in a world that is ripe with wrongs, with horrible injustices occurring just beyond our grasp and slightly out of our sight. While we indulge in life’s pleasures, we’re being deceived. There are people who will not hesitate to pull a blindfold over our eyes, trying to tell us that everything is OK when in actuality, things are far from it. All too often, we’re eager to embrace care and comfort when someone else offers it – a place where the world’s problems won’t touch us and opposing beliefs are just an afterthought. However, at the end of the day, those problems will still be there. We must recognize that we shouldn’t shy away from the world, but instead face it. We need to educate
ourselves and be aware of what’s around us, both at the local and international level. Being complacent and ignoring the world doesn’t make anything better – it just makes it better for us to be controlled and manipulated. In these aforementioned situations, people recognized the tyranny that was occurring to them and fought back. In UT’s own Sex Week, we see how others are trying to arbitrarily control how we think and act. Tennessee state Sen. Stacey Campfield has lead a hate-filled agenda to suppress the event, a discriminatory plan to make sure that we do not empower ourselves and remove the blindfold of ignorance from our eyes. His recent refusal to negotiate over a meeting to answer student questions illustrates his lack of ability to compromise. While we can respect his own opinions, we cannot respect backing out of an event that is made to educate and empower students. We must fight injustices wherever they occur. If we don’t oppose those who try to arbitrarily thrust their laws and opinions on us, we’ll soon find ourselves as pawns of others, blindly obeying others without a second thought. Though the stakes are high, it is worth it. These protestors understand it, and anyone else who fights against such oppression. Jan Urbano is a senior in biological sciences. He can be reached at jurbano@utk.edu.
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Jenna Butz Staff Writer St. Paul and the Broken Bones will kick off the band’s spring tour at the Bijou Theatre Wednesday to promote its new album. As the group’s first fulllength album, “Half the City� is the follow-up to the EP it released last year. Browan Lollar, the band’s guitarist, said the traditional soul-fueled album is meant to be relatable for listeners with St. Paul and the Broken Bones’ eagerness to capture a certain moment. “We played the whole thing live in the studio to capture the band and (lead singer) Paul (Janeway) live in a room,� Lollar said. “Most of the songs are about love, heartache, loss, but with a positive outlook. It’s about somebody who’s not going to wallow in the sadness.� While soul music is often associated with an older generation, the band has members in their early 20s, which Lollar admitted he believes is a testament to their “fresh take� on
St. Paul and The Broken Bones, a six-member band from Alabama, will be playing at the Bijou Theatre on Wednesday. The band has made trips to Knoxville before, playing at Barley’s and The Valarium previously. However, this tour marks the beginning of a big venue and location change for the band. The group’s Knoxville performance is the beginning of its tour to promote the new album. Then, the band will travel up to the Northeast before heading west and ending the tour in
soul. “In the band, we talk a lot about how soul music got really split in production and got away from the classic sound,� Lollar said. “We wanted to do a continuation of that era. In the 60s and 70s, that was young people’s music. It translates the same way. It’s picking up energy from the stage. We all wanted to be in a band like that.�
Folk singer strikes emotive chord in new solemn album Chelsea Faulkner Contributor Indie folk-rock singer-songwriter Angel Olsen released her second full-length album last week to much acclaim. Her newest compilation, “Burn Your Fire for No Witness,� is a solemn, haunting roadmap of heartbreak that weaves sarcasm through a series of simple, retro-style melodies. Throughout the album, Olsen’s voice is rarely heard in its purest form. On almost every track, it sounds as if her voice was recorded in a well or through the hazy speaker of a transistor radio. A choice made by producer John Congleton, this old-fashioned sound adds to the restless poignancy of Olsen’s melodies. In “Burn Your Fire for No Witness,� the twangy indiepop of Olsen’s previous album is missing entirely, replaced instead by stark, captivating moaning that resonates throughout the entire record. That being said, Olsen’s music is not the type you dance along with in the car. It is a deep, existential and searching response to emo-
tional pain that seems to have been written more for the artist than the listener. At times, the album’s restless heaviness becomes monotonous, but a few gems do shine through Olsen’s often-bleak catatonia. The second track “Forgiven/Forgotten� is one of the only semi-upbeat tunes of the collection, channeling artists such as Icona Pop and Blondie with its doubled voice, grungy undertones and “independent woman� subject matter. Similarly, the following track, “Hi-Five,� juxtaposes a moderate tempo against an oddly melancholy refrain. Set to a 70s rock groove that highlights her vocal trills, Olsen croons, “I feel so lonesome I could cry, but instead I’ll pass the time.� “Lights Out,� the album’s sixth song, uses Olsen’s highlonesome vibratos to deliver a retro-country type ballad that encourages the listener to “stand your ground,� touting that “all you need is one good thought strong in your mind� in order to do so. The remainder of the album’s 11 tracks are slow and thought provoking, cap-
turing all the bleakness of a hot desert sunset. These songs, along with others on the record, allow the listener to wade with Olsen through the depths of her heartache, yet provide no resolution. By mingling mundane melodies with heartbreaking lyrics, Olsen creates a distinct disconnect between song and meaning, almost trivializing the depth of her writing. Other songs on the record include the inaugural angsty track, “Unf***theworld,� the bizarrely depressing “Dance Slow Decades� and “Iota,� and the break-up tune “Stars.� If you are a fan of staid, indie melodies and retromodern beats, then Angel Olsen’s new album “Burn Your Fire for No Witness� is probably for you. Although by no means warm or exciting, Olsen’s newest compilation is a testament to the fact that heartbreak can help create the most interesting music. Designed by a female artist who is rarely seen smiling, “Burn Your Fire for No Witness� reflects Angel Olsen’s unusually detached nature through a compelling collection of songs.
Los Angeles. St. Paul and the Broken Bones will also hop across the pond and spend a few dates in London. Lollar said fans should expect a “high energy� show from St. Paul and the Broken Bones as all the members draw off each other for drive. “It’s pretty crazy. Paul is a really energetic guy.� Lollar said. “Everybody in this band has an energy exchange with
BURNETT continued from Page 1 Now enjoyed by barbecue lovers and football tailgaters, Jones said the river view at the site of Vagabondia Castle was nature at its most relatable for Burnett. “It does make for a nice image because rivers lead to the ocean, oceans lead to the rest of the world, and that’s where she wanted to go,� she said. “She always had these visions of a future life outside of Knoxville.� Her vision of escape was finally actualized in her mid-20s when Burnett and her husband moved house to Washington, D.C., where both became involved with politics and Burnett’s celebrity as a writer
Paul, and he feeds off that. It’s like a loop, and I think the audience feeds off that. Our live shows want you to come and have fun listening to music.� Last fall, the band played on WDVX’s Blue Plate Special. Now, they will be playing Bonnaroo in Manchester, Tenn., this June and headlining the Bijou. Despite this growing popularity though, Lollar said the band isn’t aiming for superstar success. “The biggest we ever want to do is like an amphitheater,� Lollar said. “You start losing sound quality and the ability to connect with an audience if you get any bigger.� After having the group on the Blue Plate Special, Tony Lawson, WDVX’s program director, said he sees St. Paul and the Broken Bones as a “dynamic� and “exciting� band with “a lot of potential.� “They have been getting in front of a lot of people over the last two years,� Lawson said. “It’s building a very positive vibe about the band. “They’re writing and arranging some good tunes and have the great ability to deliver them
live.� Actually hailing from Knoxville, Lollar was born at Fort Sanders Hospital to what he calls a “real musical family.� Seeing St. Paul and the Broken Bones’ performance at the Bijou as a sort of homecoming, this performance will fulfill a personal dream for him. “This is an opportunity to come and show them that you can make a living playing music for a living,� Lollar said. “I’m so happy for the opportunity to play the Bijou. It’s been a goal since I was a kid, and I can’t tell you how excited I am to play the theater.� Described by Lawson as a “breakout� band, Lollar said he doesn’t think he can disagree but admitted he credits this success to the versatility of soul music. “It feels like it,� Lollar said. “When you’re standing on the stage looking at the audience, it’s hard to tell a demographic. We have people of all ages and colors. And that’s great. Maybe that’s the point of soul music to begin with, to bring people together. But we’re more popular than we were a year ago.�
flourished. Strained by the burden of keeping up public pretenses, she began acting in ways wholly outside the expectations for her gender at the time, even scandalously divorcing two husbands and allegedly having multiple lovers. “She left her children behind to travel across Italy and Europe and spend large amounts of her time in these other places,� Jones said. “She tried to construct an image of herself as being incredibly motherly, and yet at the same time she could just go off and leave them forever.� Burnett never returned to Knoxville – not even to visit her mother’s grave. Although she “certainly never seemed to look back,� Jones believes it is important that Knoxvillians do, and
that her memory be preserved. By doing this, Jones argues, it can ensured young artists today feel nurtured, not imprisoned, in Knoxville. “Part of the reason she escaped Knoxville, it seems, was because she felt she could never expand here or be an artist; there was little opportunity for a girl with a big imagination,� Jones said. “By remembering her, we can show that Knoxville has plenty of room for ambitious, artistic women. I mean, we have multiple art galleries on Gay Street and really strong music and theater venues. “In many ways, we have sort of become that artistic community that she wanted so badly to create when she dubbed the small house by the river ‘Vagabondia Castle.’�
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Assertiveness key to Stokes’ improvement “Throw it down low!” “Give it to Stokes!” “Feed the beast!” The yells from orangeclad fans sitting in the lower bowl of Thompson-Boling Arena rain down onto the hardwood whenever the Vols are on offense, looking for a basket. Even head coach Cuonzo Martin can be heard from the opposite side of the floor when he’s adamant enough: “Jarnell! Jarnell!” On what seems to be every possession, everybody wants the ball in one player’s hands – Jarnell Stokes. It’s not hard to see why. The junior forward averages a double-double with 14.4 points and 10.4 rebounds per game. He’s scored in double figures in all but two of the Vols’ 14 SEC games thus far and has made six or more shots in six out of the last seven games. What is hard to see, though, is him actually getting said ball. While the 6-foot-8, 260-pounder from Memphis, Tenn., has taken his game to a whole new level in the
second half of this season, the Vols have failed to fully utilize him in some key moments. Most notably was Feb. 15 at Missouri, when Stokes went 6-of-7 but had his only field goal of the second half come with more than 17 minutes left in the game. Martin was far from happy with Stokes’ touches after that loss and promised change — joking he would even do it himself. “We’ve got to get the ball to him,” Martin said in his Feb. 17 press conference. “You have to do a better job of getting it inside to him. “Even if I have to throw it into him inside myself from the sidelines.” All eyes were on Stokes — and his amount of touches — heading into last Tuesday’s game versus Georgia. And in the spotlight, the attentiongrabbing big man looked as dominant as ever. The SEC’s leading rebounder went 9-of-13 with 20 points and 11 rebounds, while padding his stats with three assists, three blocks and a steal. “Dominating,” UT guard Josh Richardson said when asked to describe Stokes’
performance after the game. Once again, the Vols listened to their coach — and the adamant fans. Stokes got the ball virtually every time down. That extra attention had him feeling generous to revitalize an offense that all too often loses its flow. “I feel like we have more fluidity on offense when I get the ball,” Stokes said after beating Georgia. “I am not looking to score on three of four guys. If there is a double team, I am going to pass it to the open man. I think that is what you have to do to be a play maker.” But as the Vols struggled to pull away from Georgia late in the first half, they weren’t turning to Stokes in the hopes of getting the ball back for outside shots. They wanted to watch him do what he does best — outmuscle defenders and finish at the rim. “I wouldn’t say we were trying to get him the ball,” Richardson said, “but after he scored eight straight points, why not?” The Vols have struggled on their own to get Stokes the ball, but Martin was quick to point out that some
of the problem is easily fixable for Stokes if he comes out of his comfort zone. “It’s like I told Jarnell,” Martin recollected, “‘sometimes you have to come off the block and get it. It might not be the deep post that you like, but come off the block. It’s tough, because you have to take on that double-team that’s coming, but just find guys.’” Unselfishness is a sticking point in regards to many players, but not Stokes. Martin wants to see more of a killer instinct from his star big man, even as he tries to develop a NBA-caliber midrange jump shot. “He’s a very unselfish player,” Martin said. “I’d like for him to be more selfish, more assertive, especially around the rim because that’s not his nature, just to shoot balls. “He’s a low-key kind of guy, but just be big, demand the ball, ‘throw me the ball,’ whatever the case may be because he’s done a great job of really scoring around the rim, facing up and knocking his shots down. And again he’s a very unselfish bas- Tennessee junior forward Jarnell Stokes attempts ketball player, but he has to a layup in the Vols’ 67-58 loss to the Florida Gators demand it.” inside Thompson-Boling Arena on Feb. 11.
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Healthy Harrison bouncing back strong for Lady Vols Patrick MacCoon Staff Writer While many players have stepped up their role on the Lady Vols basketball team this year, which only features one senior, there is one in particular who has truly elevated her game. After an injury-plagued sophomore season where she only started 17 games, Isabelle Harrison has turned in a bounceback campaign this year, no injuries included. The 6-foot-3 junior center has been a dominant force in the post this season and has started in all but one game. With just two regular season games left, she has put up careerhighs in points per game (13.3), rebounds (9.1, 2nd in SEC), field goal percentage (.573), and double-doubles (13). “I think she is one of the best
LUNCHEON continued from Page 1 The overwhelming portion of the fan base unhappy with Martin’s coaching abilities has remained vocal all season, with the Vols not proving able to quiet them with a late-season win streak like in previous years. As angry fans beg for Bruce Pearl’s return, Martin doesn’t see any reason to lose sleep over the hate — even if it’s a level of criticism that has never before been hurled at him. “I’ve been doing it for years,” Martin said of dealing with pressure. “For me, as a ball player and as a coach, I’ve been consumed with what I need to do for years.
post players in the country,” second-year head coach Holly Warlick said. “I have seen her progress and develop. I say that because I see the importance she has placed on this basketball team.” Harrison’s physical play on the court has directly correlated to the Lady Vols’ success of rebounding the basketball, one of Tennessee’s trademarks this season. UT currently ranks fourth in the country in rebounding margin per game (+11.5) as the squad has outrebounded its opposition 1242-932. The only team that outrebounded the Lady Vols all season has been No. 5 Stanford (4340), who beat UT back on Dec. 21, 2013; Chiney Ogwumike’s 20 rebounds played a large part in the Cardinal’s success on the boards as well. In six games this season,
Harrison has recorded 12 rebounds or more and set a career-high with 18 in a win over Georgia Tech on Nov. 17. Perhaps the biggest step the Nashville, Tenn., native has taken this season is in her offensive game, where she has boosted her field goal percentage by .088 points from a season ago. In conference play – where the Lady Vols boast an 11-3 record – she has scored 14.5 points per game. “We (post players) carry a large load on how the games go,” Harrison said earlier in the season. “We have to have a good game and do our part no matter what the guards do just to keep the game steady.” The high percentage looks she has taken are a key reason why UT ranks 21st in the nation in scoring per game (79.5) and 12th in field goal percentage (46.6). “I haven’t seen a player shoot
that well of a percentage in a long time,” Warlick said. “She is taking good looks for her. It’s physical inside. She not only has to be able to make the moves, she has to handle the contact and finish with contact. She is healthy and having a great year for us.” If Harrison can attempt 18 more shots in her final two games of the regular season and complete them at a high percentage, she will be the first Lady Vol since Sheila Frost in the 198889 season to shoot more than 57 percent in one season with a minimum of 250 shot attempts. The Lady Vols leader in the post will be a vital factor as the team nears SEC Tournament play. Although the team is taking things one game at a time, Warlick said Harrison is intent on making it to her hometown to play in the Final Four along with the rest of her teammates.
If you put the work in, everything else takes care of itself. “I don’t have that kind of time and energy. If it’s negative, I don’t consume myself with it.” Martin has certainly experienced pressure before, but his next four-plus games will likely be the biggest of his career. With such a weak NCAA bubble, finishing off these last two weeks with four victories and perhaps picking up another would put the Vols in solid position heading into the SEC Tournament. But this season seems to weigh much larger than the previous two due to UT’s increased talent, experience and depth. The same result — a NIT appearance — as the first two years would not be a good look for his future, much less
his reputation among the fan base. If there is one relationship apparently not yet broken, it’s his with Tennessee Athletics Director Dave Hart — the man who ultimately decides whether he remains on board in 2014-15. Martin said the two communicate frequently. “I talk to Dave all the time,” Martin said. “The thing we talk about, just each particular game and Dave does a good job, win or lose, texting or calling about the game. “But other than that, not at all. We just talk basketball.” The never-ending battle for college coaches when it relates to outside pressure is having your players adopt that same mindset of ignorance to it. From rampant
use of social media to living on campus, it becomes impossible for 18-to-22-year-olds to always turn a blind eye or ear. That’s why Martin makes sure to hammer that point home to his team as well. “We talked in July about not reading and dealing with things like that,” Martin said. “It was before the season even started, because we know that it gets to this point. “But those young guys, they read what they want to read. They will see stuff. I mean, they are on campus. That is part of it. You control it as much as you can control it as a coach and make the guys understand to consume yourself with your teammates and the task at hand.”