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See Smokey sled >>See page 4 Chris Salvemini Staff Writer

Boxing Weekend is drawing near, and it stands to be a knockout. Thursday marks the first night of the 35th annual Ace Miller Memorial Boxing Tournament, a charity event in which fraternity members sign on for three days of intense physical strain. Distributed across 11 weight classes are 59 boxers from 13 different fraternities who have all been rigorously training since at least early January. To prepare, boxers undergo a two-hour training regimen on four nights each week with assistance from professional trainers at the Golden Gloves Gym. During these sessions, boxers work on everything from increasing their speed to bolstering their strength. “They can put on 15 to 30 pounds during training,” said John Scolisi, a director for the tournament. “Mostly they put on the weight towards the end.” After training, boxers are weighed and placed in the tournament bracket accordingly. Weight classes range from featherweight, which allows a maximum weight of 127 pounds, to the super heavyweight division, which can include people over 200 pounds.

“So what could be wrong with buying into the new coffee craze?” >>See page 6

Veggie Tales: Volunteer Vegans share their stories >>See page 10

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DISPATCHES Martin investigation finds ‘insufficient evidence’ The Justice Department announced Tuesday that the investigation into the shooting of Trayvon Martin in 2012 found “insufficient evidence” to charge George Zimmerman for “federal civil rights violations,” USA Today reports. Zimmerman, who formerly served as a neighborhood watch volunteer, shot Martin in 2012 after a confrontation with the black teenager. Attorney General Eric Holder, whose days in office are coming to an end, said that the evidence procured by the investigation was not sufficient to meet the high standard for federal hate crime prosecution. This charge requires concrete proof that the shooting was racially charged. Holder stated, however, that this ruling should not block further efforts to investigate racial tensions in the judicial system.

Obama vetoes Keystone Pipeline bill President Obama vetoed a bill Tuesday that would approve the construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline. This bill, supported by Republicans and some Democrats, attempted to force the president to allow the controversial pipeline construction to move forward. Obama’s use of a veto allows him to maintain control of legislation surrounding the pipeline. It marks the first time Obama has used his executive power on a piece of major legislation and is particularly significant now that Republicans hold the majority in both chambers of Congress. In defense of the veto, Obama wrote that the bill “attempts to circumvent longstanding and proven processes for determining whether or not building and operating a cross-border pipeline serves the national interest,” the New York Times reports.

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OUTreach celebrates five years of impact Tanner Hancock Copy Editor

Turning five years old, this is one birthday worth celebrating. This Wednesday will mark the fifth anniversary of the founding of UT’s OUTreach Center, a facility that has provided LGBTQ education as well as a safe environment for the university’s LGBTQ student population since 2010. The Center will host an open celebration Wednesday from 4 to 6 p.m., with a larger Lavender Graduation celebration ceremony planned for Wednesday, April 22. For director of the OUTreach Center, Donna Braquet, the first five years of the Center’s existence has been one of

milestones both at the university and the nation at large. “If you look at it from where we started, this place was just an old dorm room office,” Braquet said of the center’s space in Melrose Hall. “The spirit of the center wasn’t here yet.” Other than Vanderbilt, the OUTreach Center is the only LGBT based community center in the state of Tennessee. Rather than feeling content with the Center’s progress over the years, Braquet said she hopes to expand the center’s role in expanding social justice on campus by one day adding an LGBT studies minor to UT’s curriculum and also offering LGBT-based scholarships to incoming students. “So many LGBTQ students have to

overcome so much already just to get into college,” Braquet said, citing bullying and being disowned from parents as too frequent issues among LGBTQ youth. As a part of their fifth anniversary, the OUTreach Center is sponsoring their Five for Five charity fundraiser in an effort to gain $5,000 to go towards center operations and expansion. For Genevieve Jeter, a senior in BCMB and OUTreach ambassador, donations garnered from the fundraiser will hopefully help realize the center’s much needed expansion or possible relocation. “It’s probably one of the biggest dreams right now at the OUTreach Center,” Jeter said of the desire to a gain larger space for UT’s LGBTQ community. “It would be

like Christmas if we could just get another room.” Acknowledging the many students that “support equality and social justice” on campus, Braquet said she hopes all those who give will realize the importance of their contributions to the OUTreach Center’s growth and survival. “We do the best we can with what we have, but there’s so much more that we could be doing with more funding,” Braquet said. The center is asking supporting students to donate $5, while faculty and alumni are encouraged to donate $50, $500 or $5,000. Those interested can donate on the UT foundation website or in person at The Outreach Center.

Public policy challenge takes on juvenile system Hannah Marley Staff Writer

If you had the chance to change one aspect of Knoxville or UT, what would it be? Thirteen groups of students had the opportunity to do just that, competing in the second Howard H. Baker Center Public Policy Challenge. Beginning last semester, each group was given the task of identifying a need in the Knoxville community and designing legislation to address that specific issue. Nissa Dahlin-Brown, the associate director of the Baker Center and primary organizer of the policy challenge, said that the competition was designed to help students with diverse passions and experience levels create change in their community. “Everybody can have an impact,” DahlinBrown said. “It just takes some work.” With topics ranging from education equality for undocumented immigrants to the elimination of plastic bags on campus, students from various majors rose to the challenge. The teams were evaluated by five judges from the Knoxville area in seven categories, each used to determine whether or not the team’s policy was practical and worth pursuing on a larger scale. Ultimately, “Pay Now Pay Later,” a policy project designed to require mental health screenings in all Tennessee juvenile detention centers, took home the first place prize of $3,000 and the ability to help implement their policy initiative.

The policy, explained Hannah Jones, the leader of the team and a graduate student in social work, would help identify kids with mental health problems after they are taken to a juvenile detention center. Jones said that they hope these screenings will help get kids the psychiatric and community help they need so that they aren’t incarcerated multiple times. “We hope the discussion will continue to raise awareness of delinquent youth’s needs for therapeutic interventions rather than imprisonment,” Jones said. “This type of support can strengthen families and allow youth to overcome many obstacles that stand in their way of becoming successful and productive adults for our community.” The “Pay Now Pay Later” team will be working with Senator Doug Overby from District two to use the $3,000 to begin implementing the program in two Smoky Mountain youth detention centers. Dahlin-Brown said she saw “Pay Now Pay Later” as a primary example of how the competition can be beneficial through allowing students to get real world experience in a field they are passionate about while making contacts and making meaningful change. “You learn research techniques, you get to learn from people who are interested in the same things you’re interested in, and you get to make contacts, whether it’s a person who is working in that field or someone who can help you continue to learn more, and make a change that is going to make this campus better,”DahlinBrown said.

Dahlin-Brown added that while the policy challenge spanned two semesters, in the following years they will restrict it to one

semester so professors can include it in their curriculum.

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It’s snow joke, the Vols love it

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(Left to right) Wesley Slaven, junior in BCMB, Jordan Roach, junior in biochemistry and Cory Walker, senior in computer engineering, pose for a picture with Smokey in front of Ayres Hall. Kristen Bright • The Daily Beacon

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Alex Gregory, freshman in psychology, Maggie House, freshman in architecture, and Brooke Conners, sophomore in marketing, make a snowman in Massey’s courtyard. Hannah Cather • The Daily Beacon Kelsey Fleming, senior in political science, snowboards down the Hill with Smokey. Kristen Bright • The Daily Beacon Jordan Roach, junior in biochemistry, snowboards down the Hill. Kristen Bright • The Daily Beacon

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UT law students earn top spot at New York City court competition Altaf Nanavati Staff Writer

Three UT students, representing the University of Tennessee’s College of Law, won the Harrison Tweed Bowl for best brief at the 2015 National Moot Court Competition in New York City on Feb. 20. Graduate students John Baxter, Jarrod Casteel and Kaitlyn Holland took home the top national prize for the first time in UT’s history. John Sobieski, one of the team’s advisers and the Lindsay Young Distinguished Professor of Law, said the award represents a major victory for the College of Law. “The National Moot Court Competition is considered to be the most prestigious moot court competition held in the United States,” Sobieski said. “Writing the top-ranked brief in the competition means that Tennessee law students can compete successfully against students from some of the best law schools in the United States.” The competition, sponsored by the New York City Bar and the American College of Trial Lawyers, began at the regional level with over 175 different teams from all across the U.S. The participants were asked to submit a brief and participate in oral arguments against the other schools. The top two teams from each region qualify for the finals in New York City. The participating teams present their issues, which usually involve constitutional questions and questions pertaining to federal statutes, in the form of an appellate argument before the

BOXING WEEKEND continued from Page 1 On the day of their fight, though, weight isn’t their main concern. Each match consists of three 90-second rounds, during which time boxers employ the methods and tactics they learned during the nearly two months of training. “The first round is usually the most exciting,” Scolisi said. “You don’t know what to expect from each fighter. Then they start thinking about strategy.” After each match, judges convene, consult their scoring system and choose a winner. That victor moves on to face another match’s winner, until only one champion per weight class remains. As the boxers move through the tournament, they are often forced to adopt a new style of fighting based on their opponent. The champions receive belts and vic-

United States Supreme Court. Though the competition is heavily focused on the oral arguments, the brief writing portion makes up 40 percent of the team’s overall score in each argument round. Each team is presented with a problem and they must draft a brief, no longer than 15,000 words, arguing one side of the problem. The students representing UT were given four weeks to research their problem and write the brief. This year’s problem consisted of two separate issues, one dealing with a juror who was allegedly stricken from the jury because he was gay, and the other dealt with the application of the United States antitrust laws to conduct occurring in a foreign country. Casteel said that while the competition wasn’t by any means easy, it provided him with a substantial amount of experience for the future. “Being on the College of Law’s National Moot Court team was an exceptionally challenging and rewarding experience,” Casteel said. “From writing the brief to oral argument practice, there wasn’t a day that went by that I didn’t learn and grow as a law student and a future lawyer.” Baxter also said he believed that the competition gave him plenty of valuable experience, adding that the program also served as an opportunity to connect with future employers. “Moot Court seemed to be a marketable extra-curricular activity that would appeal to my competitive side, while also allowing me to show future employers that I have the requisite skills to make a worthwhile associate once I graduate,” Baxter said. tory for their fraternity. Fraternities earn points for each win, and the fraternity with the most points at the end of the tournament wins bragging rights until the next year of match-ups. Director of Marketing David Meeham said the point system is a way of rewarding the most physically fit fraternity. “It lets them showcase their athleticism,” Meeham said. Outside of the ring, the Golden Gloves Gym wins as well, raising more than $190,000 from last year’s tournament. “This year, we are expecting over 1,000 people a night,” Meeham said. Charlie Lindeman, director of the facility, said the Golden Gloves Gym offers anyone the chance to train and learn the craft. They are, however, particularly passionate about training young boxers. “It’s all about the cause,” Lindeman said. “It helps unfortunate youth get through.” For more information, visit acemillerboxing.com.

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Keurig is brewing trouble for the environment

Kevin Ridder The Compass

From good ole’ fashioned drip blend to a venti nonfat triple skinny caramel macchiato with extra whip, there are countless ways to enjoy your morning cup of Joe. But in recent years, a new brew has surfaced that spells bad news for the environment. Keurig released its signature singleserving brewing system in 1998 in an attempt to capitalize on an American version of the popular European Nespresso system. Today, millions of Americans have traded in their old fashioned drip makers for a shiny, ultra convenient coffee-bot which can spit out that ohso-precious liquid awareness in under a minute. As somebody who has difficulty even crossing the room before my morning coffee, I know how mind-numbingly slow my little drip maker seems to be when I start my day at 5:30 a.m. So what could be wrong with buying into the new coffee craze? Faster is better, right? I’m only one person, my caffeine addiction can’t have that big of an impact.

“Today, millions of Americans have traded their old fashioned drip makers for a shiny, ultra convenient coffee-bot which can spit out that oh-so-precious liquid awareness in under a minute.”

Maybe not by myself, no. But when 13 percent of the U.S. population tosses one or two of those little plastic cups into the trash every single day, it starts to become a big problem. In 2013, Keurig Green Mountain

pumped out 8.5 billion K-cups; enough to wrap around Earth’s equator ten and a half times. That’s a heck of a lot of landfill space just to shave a few minutes off of your morning routine. What’s worse, 95 percent of K-Cups are composed of no.7 composite plastic, a type few recycling centers will accept. And even if the average, blurry-eyed American were willing to take off the aluminum lid and scrape out the coffee grounds in the wee hours of the morning, the small few that are able to be recycled would likely be rejected due to their small size. But it’s okay. Keurig is addressing that problem. According to their website, they plan to have 100 percent of K-Cups recyclable by 2020. Only five more years. Only around 42.5 billion more pieces of plastic tossed in a landfill, assuming they meet their 2013 sales numbers each year. However, there are environmentally conscious options for the consumer who enjoys the irrefutable convenience of the coffee-bot. Third-party producers have managed to create recyclable, biodegradable and reusable cups. Keurig, on the other hand, is focusing on far more important features. The new Keurig 2.0 comes with a fancy and hardly advertised digital rights management (DRM) system in their machines, fighting the good fight against the onslaught of coffee pirates by only allowing Keurig branded and licensed cups to work with the machine. For a company whose product’s main selling point is convenience, why Keurig thought driving people to need to hack their coffee maker to produce a non-K-Cup of coffee would be a good idea continues to evade me. Hopefully, after being slapped with a $600 million lawsuit, receiving enormous consumer backlash and having their sales drop 12 percent in a single quarter with Darth Coffee 2.0’s release, Keurig will realize the fault in their actions as well. Until then, I’ll happily spend an extra few minutes each morning listening to my archaic coffee maker gurgle away. Kevin Ridder is a senior in environmental studies. He can be tweeted at @redinthehead99 or emailed at kridder2@vols.utk.edu.

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Released about a year ago, the animated movie “Frozen” has invaded pop culture-even among twenty-somethings. In the wake of a series of winter storms over the last couple of weeks, UT students used Twitter as a platform to make “Frozen” jokes about the weather.

Elle Johnson

@ellepeg

How does Elsa walk on ice in heels when I can’t even do it in boots

Alexa Moon Wolfe @UTalexa88 Frozen pellets falling from the sky. I’m soooo ready to let this go!

Madison Kinney @madisonkinney The cold bothers us anyway Elsa

Travis Cabage

@Travis_Cabage

Elsa can’t just freeze things anytime she gets pissy.....

Kayley Green

@UTKayley

If anyone elsa makes a Frozen reference regarding the weather...

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Box office numbers don’t buy awards

Jonathan Martin City Cents

In the wake of Sunday night’s Oscar ceremonies, conversation has swarmed around which films were surprise winners, as well as which films were snubbed and not chosen for specific awards. These types of conversations are relatively inevitable following any large awards ceremony. Those who were expecting or wishing for different results voice their displeasure in a makeshift rally cry for artistic justice. So, when Monday morning came around, I woke up fully prepared to read plenty of compelling arguments for some of the year’s best films that underperformed at the Oscar’s this year. After all, “Boyhood” took 12 years to shoot, and it essentially ended up losing to a Michael Keaton comeback story, albeit a beautifully orchestrated one. However, when I logged onto my computer I saw that it was actually “American Sniper” that was garnering the largest attention. The Clint Eastwood-directed film was nominated for six different Oscars, and only took home one award for Best Sound Editing. Apparently, many were expecting it to win Best Picture. I went online to find out what argument was being brought to the table only to find an over-

whelming amount of people throwing around the movie’s box office numbers to argue that it should have won more awards. It is true that the film has made much more money at the box office than any of the other movies nominated for Best Picture. In fact, as of the night before the Oscar’s, it had made over $428.1 million already. Nevertheless, my response to this argument is one of sheer amazement. Box office results, no matter how staggering, do not equal Academy awards. If we were to limit the Oscar winners down to a simple schema based on box office blockbusters, then we would be including top-grossing films like “Maleficent” and “Transformers: Age of Extinction” in the category for Best Picture. It wouldn’t make any sense at all. After all, two-thirds of all Best Picture recipients since 1979 actually lost at the box office according to data collection by Box Office Mojo. This shows how popularity is a proper measure of monetary value, but not of artistic value. If monetary gains were indicative of true artistic value, then we would arguably have to contact Stephanie Meyer and let her know she deserves the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature for her record sales of the Twilight series. I’ll let you decide if

that should be the case. Studios often throw large amounts of financing at their films to create something visually stunning. “American Sniper” achieved record feats at the box office for its studio. It achieved an even greater feat in portraying the story of Chris Kyle: a man whose courage and sacrifice I could never hope to match or deny. Also undeniable is the elegance and courage with which Chris Kyle’s widow, Taya Kyle, has been handling the media’s spotlight. Hence, it’s not hard to understand why the film is so popular and heartfelt in the first place. These are the arguments I was surprised were not as frequent, as they were replaced by irrelevant references to the film’s revenues. Maybe I just have a problem getting over the fact that “American Sniper” visibly used a fake baby during shooting. It isn’t the biggest deal in the world, but it certainly seems more relevant than waving around box office numbers as though you have a winning lottery ticket.

ties fighting for freedom from former U.S.-backed dictators/oil/saving the world from supposed weapons of mass destruction. While the number seems low compared to past ventures (58,000 in Vietnam, 36,000 in Korea) and exceptionally low compared to the Iraqi civilian tolls (around 500,000 according to a 2013 PLoS Medical Journal article). The war on terror stands to be the first war in contemporary U.S. history whose military might is derived solely from a volunteer force, meaning our generation was the one of the first to be spared active duty in a war zone despite engaging in a 14-year war that cost more than its Korean and as much as its Vietnam counterparts. Without obligatory service, the nation’s military has become evolved into a separate entity from the American people, isolating those who risk the most from those who gain the most. As these voluntary veterans return, they are often met with ineffective psychological care leading to a suicide rate of one veteran taking his or her life about every eighty minutes, according to a 2012 report from the Department of Veteran’s Affairs. The comprehensive study lead to the bipartisan passing of the Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention Act signed into law by President Obama two weeks ago. Essentially, the law extends access for veterans to mental health services through a new website and entices no more than 10 psychologists currently in med school to work for the VA through structured loan deferrals. President Obama has cited supporting military veterans and their families as a central point

in his presidency, and as he signed the bill was quoted saying, “(America) will never stop doing everything in (its) power to get you the care and support you need.” Pretty words, but when veterans are killing themselves at a greater rate than soldiers are dying in direct conflict, I can’t help but be fearful that the law is a little more than thinly-veiled putrid phlegm convulsing out of inflated congressional egos. The fact of the matter is that as American military lost the need for forced service, the American people lost their empathy for those who served. Just by the nature of what I am studying, not a day goes by that I am unaware of the immense privilege I have, and it strikes me as so cruelly arbitrary that I should be gifted with so much when I have done so little. I hope I will never be called upon to serve in our military, not just because of the risk during the war but rather the treatment by the people I swore to protect after the fact. The draft does not look like it’s going to be employed anytime soon, but 22 veterans a day are committing suicide, and I think it very telling that our national policy response is a whopping ten psychiatrists and a website. At least I can rest assured knowing that my FAFSA’s in on time.

Jonathan Martin is a senior in finance and economics. He can be reached at j92mart@gmail. com.

Draft dootie

Adam Weatherell Dreaming of Dolly

In honor of the FAFSA deadline having come and gone without me having any knowledge of how the FAFSA works, I would like to delve back into the dream that was my first student financial aid application, which in all honesty I also remember nothing about. What I do remember is that in order to be eligible for financial aid I, along with every other U.S. male between the ages of 18-25, had to register with the selected service. OMG, I had to sign up for the draft. As for me, I’d never given much thought to joining the military outside of the recognition that I would be absolutely terrible for the military. I just always figured that the military had no need for my piss poor eyesight, reluctance to adhere to authority and flowery disposition — which is awesome because it has allowed me to focus my time on other things like Dolly Parton and vision correction. Sure, I’ve lost and won my fair share of Call of Duty online battles**, but signing up for selective service was the closest I have ever come to serving in the military. Not to say that the military is a bad thing, it’s just not a good thing for me. For 180,000 new recruits a year who are not me, the military fosters a lifestyle that empowers its soldiers to learn and develop while protecting United States’ interests both domestically and abroad — abroad in this case meaning risking life and limb. In fact, since the U.S.’s “preemptive war” in Iraq and Afghanistan began in 2001, the United States military has suffered around 6000+ casual-

**This isn’t true. Not at all. Adam Weatherell is a sophomore in political science and Africana Studies. He can be reached at aweath10@vols.utk.edu.

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Intramurals foster fitness, friendship

Gold medalist visits campus

Lucas Hunter

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Contributor If you walked through the TREC this week, you might have noticed a curtain down on the basketball courts. Behind the curtain lies the intramural basketball courts, where friends and teammates play the sport they enjoy. Intramural sports present an opportunity for all students, regardless of skill, experience, gender or disability to participate in the sport of their choosing in a variety of leagues, ranging from menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and coed for every sport, along with a mix of other leagues, such as a fraternity league in basketball and softball. The attraction of the intramural leagues lies in the freedom they offer. Most leagues are free to join and open to anyone, as long as the student is up to date with his or her student fees. For some students, intramurals offer a chance to learn something new or continue the sport they played in high school. But most often, students simply want to have fun with their friends. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve met one of my best friends through intramurals,â&#x20AC;? said senior Cory Wilhite. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good thing to get involved in and having people who have the same interests as you, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good opportunity.â&#x20AC;? Intramurals advocate opportunity, which is the reason behind opening leagues for

multiple skill levels. Recreation leagues offer a more laidback environment, while competitive leagues play with the intention of winning every game. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Getting a chance to meet new people on the intramural field is always a good thing,â&#x20AC;? said Jerrod Edwards, a senior in mechanical engineering. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I always played sports in high school, so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good way to get out there with competition and still meet new friends.â&#x20AC;? Intramurals also allow students to stay active and spend time with friends they have already made as they compete for the coveted â&#x20AC;&#x153;Intramural Championâ&#x20AC;? t-shirt. If your team is one of the best at UT and ready for the next step in competition, extramural sports are also available, where the best teams from universities from around the United States compete in tournaments. Intramurals also present employment opportunities. The intramural offices pay officials and scorekeepers, require no previous experience and offer training. To participate in intramurals, students can register online through the University of Tennessee website, with sports such as softball, dodgeball and 4-on-4 football still open to register without a waiting list. These seasons start in March, along with sand volleyball, tennis, kickball and many more to come throughout the semester.

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PUZZLES&GAMES

Wednesday, February 25, 2015 • The Daily Beacon

Non Sequitur • Wiley Miller

NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD • Will Shortz

Timtation Creation • Timothy Brunson

Cartoons of The Daily Beacon are the views of the individual and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Beacon or the Beacon’s editorial staff.

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The Daily Beacon • Wednesday, February 25, 2015

ARTS&CULTURE

The young and the meatless Vegan lifestyle not easily maintained by campus dining options Hannah Cather

Photo Editor (@hannahcather)

When a vegan walks into the Presidential Court Building Cafe, they only have a few options. They can head for the salad bar to pile their plate with fruits and vegetables, or they can walk through the cafeteria, checking the labels on vegetarian dishes to see if any animal products are listed in the ingredients. Someone who follows a vegan diet doesn’t eat meat. No pork, no beef, no poultry, no fish, nothing. Additionally, they say no to eggs, milk, cheese and honey — no animal by-products. Aden Cunningham, undeclared sophomore, had been a vegetarian for three years when he moved into North Carrick in 2013-2014, his freshman year and had a meal plan which regularly disappointed him. “I pretty much ate terrible salads and really bad pizza because that’s all that they had,” Cunningham said. “They claimed to have a vegetarian section, but it was rice and really awful tasting beans and occasionally tofu that wasn’t cooked well.” During winter break of his freshman year, his girlfriend, Kara Williamson, a sophomore in interior design, decided to become a vegan. “I’ve always considered myself an animal lover, but I never really paid attention to the fact that I was eating animals,” Williamson said. “Then one day it just kind of clicked in my head for some reason. I don’t know what exactly did it. I just decided that I needed to change.” She, like many others, was initially a vegetarian. “I learned how bad the dairy and chicken industry was and that you’re still paying for the deaths of animals if you buy those products,” Williamson said.

Cunningham wanted to follow suit nutritionist prior to beginning a vegan but delayed his decision because of his diet may be necessary if you are unsure where to start and how to maintain a options in the cafeterias. “I would avoid animal products,” healthy lifestyle.” For Robert Fischerman, junior in Cunningham said, “but at PCB I would have to be eating dry cereal because nutrition, talking with a vegan friend was what got him started. That friend their soy milk was never stocked.” Elisa Dore, freshman in language and and literature, like the China Study world business, doesn’t bother with the which outlines how the consumption of meat and cancer are directly related, led cafeterias. “I don’t really go to the dining halls Fischerman down a four-year journey of because I can only get salads there. The veganism. “It really helped me to have someone vegetarian section always has meat in it,” Dore said. “It doesn’t make sense, guide me through the process and keep me from making those beginner but it’s always there.” mistakes,” Fischerman said. Instead, Dore buys veg“You have to have a really gie wraps from Field ld strong will because of Greens and stro it is not convesandwiches from nient at all.” Subway. She R e c e n t l y, eats cereal with however, almond or soy Fischerman milk in her stopped being room on cama vegan. He pus. couldn’t get meat Now that c off Cunningham of his mind. “I never felt lives in an apart“ like I was deficient ment residencee as a vegan, hall, sans meal plan, vegan but one day I thought, ‘Damn, I really he is able to cook ok the want to eat that meat. food he wants, like ke quiThat loo looks delicious,’” noa, rice and gyros. os. He Fischerman and Williamson regularly Fischerma said. “It stuck around long enough that I chop up a block of tofu decided there and prepare it with th spices ther must be a reason this is happening.” and seasoning forr supper supper. ha After careful conCunningham also sideration for two drinks juice to • Illustrations by Dillon Canfield weeks, he roasted a ensure he’s getting whole chicken and a sufficient amount of vitamins and mineral — one of the removed the label “vegan” from his main concerns vegans face is maintain- identity. However, he maintains a mostly plant-based diet and still promotes ing their nutritional intake. Madeline Schappel, the student veganism. “Because of all the vegan-ness that nutrition educator for UT Dining, said the micronutrient B12 is the hardest for I learned, I understand how impactful meat is on the environment,” vegans to regulate. “This vitamin is almost solely found Fischerman said. “It plays a huge role in meats/animal products, with the on how it’s grown in an ethical and exception of fortified foods like cere- environmental way.” One of Aramark’s chefs is a vegetarals,” Schappel said. “Seeing a doctor or

“They’re a minority, which isn’t a bad thing, but it’s really hard to cater to two students out of 3,000.” -Mike Firth

ian. Mike Firth hasn’t eaten meat in 12 years, except an occasional shrimp. Firth has been in kitchens for 30 years and the last eight and a half at UT. At the start of each school year, Firth said the cafeterias try their best to cater to vegans, but as vegans grow more comfortable with their surroundings, they find the dining locations that better cater to their taste buds. “They’re a minority, which isn’t a bad thing at all,” Firth said. “But it’s really hard to cater to two students out of 3,000.” In an attempt to show vegans some attention, Aramark has organized a week of vegan food. According to Mary Leslie, senior district marketing director of Aramark at UT, “Viva Las Vegan” will serve dishes like Asian sesame noodles, Mediterranean potato wedges and a chili lime black bean tostada. The food will be served in PCB Cafe this week and aims to show meat-eaters that vegan food isn’t just tofu. “I think there’s a reason for everyone to go vegan,” Cunningham said. “If you found out why you would want to go vegan, it will help you stay vegan and find good vegan food. I’m eating some of the best I’ve ever had.”

ARTS&CULTURE

Wednesday, February 25, 2015 • The Daily Beacon

David Francisco, engineer turned musician, will perform Feb. 28 in the Square Room. • Photo Courtesy of David Francisco

UT graduate switches gears, pursues musical aspirations Megan Patterson Staff Writer

What does one do with a chemical engineering degree? David Francisco started a music career that has brought him to his first EP release this weekend. He graduated from UT with a degree in chemical engineering in 2014. He was offered and took a programming job before quitting after a month. “I realized throughout that month that now is the time to do something that I really believed in, and I was never passionate about engineering,” Francisco said. “I had given in without ever putting up a fight, and I just realized that I was starting a bad habit for myself of making decisions out of fear.” Megan Lange, Francisco’s manager, has known him for three years and fully supports his decision to devote his time entirely to music. “If he was going to pursue music, now is the time to do that,” Lange said. “Living expenses are minimal when you’re a single person. He’s free to be flexible and do what he needs to do to make things happen.” Lange first met him during this exploratory period in his music career where he had started to record for fun in his dad’s small-scale studio. “I just thought he was a very talented musician with an impeccable ear,” Lange recalled. “I saw that he had something special musically and it has just continued developing.” Francisco’s transition from musician to singer-

songwriter came slowly, but he has come to embrace the lyrical portion of his work along with the instrumental structure. “I generally still think about melodies and chords before I think about lyrics, but they’re more important to me now than ever before,” Francisco said. His sound, Francisco said, was created by fusing his technically complex arrangements with meaningful lyricism to create what Lange calls “jazzy folk with a little R&B.” Francisco partially attributes his style to his musical influences “John Mayer meets Ed Sheeran meets John Legend.” Unlike most of these singer-songwriters, however, Francisco’s performances aren’t just limited to him and his guitar. The EP release at The Square Room will feature a seven-piece band including horns, bass, drums and keyboard. Francisco said the EP, “Built for Two,” tracks promise a glimpse into every aspect of relationships. Because of this, Lange assured that the tracks hold a deeper meaning for Francisco. “A lot of his songs talk about the decisionmaking process because he wrestled a lot with whether he should continue in engineering or if he should go for music,” Lange said. Francisco hopes the audience finds something new in his music from the release: “Whether the freshness is in the lyrics, in the melodies or in the arrangement, I want people to hear something where they’re like, ‘Oh … This is different and I like it.’” David Francisco’s EP “Built For Two” will be released at The Square Room Saturday at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door.

ARTS&CULTURE

The Daily Beacon • Wednesday, February 25, 2015

EYES ON KNOXVILLE

Local boutique clothes Knoxville with style Malak Al Duraidi Contributor

Bohemia has come to Knoxville. Bula Boutique, on the 100 block of Gay Street, possesses a bohemian style fusing East and West Coasts together that has not yet been seen in Knoxville. Owners Brandon Randar and Julia Ford opened the boutique in September 2014 and said they are pleased with their progress towards making Knoxville a more fashion-forward city.

“You have to be happy in what you do. Opening this boutique is stressful and my hair is turning gray every single day but we love it so it pays off.” -Brandon Randar

Randar, born in Clinton, Tenn., found a passion for clothing during his Salon Visage internship in New York Fashion Week. “I aged 40 years during my time in NYFW,” Randar said. “It was one of the hardest things I’ve done in my life, besides opening up this boutique, but it prepared me for this moment.” Surrounded by inspiring people, Randar realized that people within the hair industry had to be willing to dedicate their whole life to doing hair. Because of that experience, he realized that if he was not passionate about something he should not do it. “You have to be happy in what you do,” Randar said. “Opening this boutique is

stressful and my hair is turning gray every single day but we love it so it pays off. At the end of the day I feel complete and that is what keeps me going.” Randar met Ford when he worked at Salon Visage and made a connection instantly. When Ford moved to Nashville, she remained in contact with Randar. She eventually moved back to Knoxville after working with designer Jeff Garner at the 2013 Paris Fashion Week and reconnected with Randar as coworkers at Salon Aquarius. It is here where they both decided they were willing to risk failure if it meant they could live their dream. So, they set to work making the shop. “We are best friends,” Randar emphasized. “We play well off of each other. If she doesn’t like something, we talk about it and vice versa. As partners in business you literally become a married couple because you share everything. I guess I got lucky with our friendship because we have been able to work through everything that we have been through.” This closeness is increased by that fact that Randar and Ford are the only employees at the boutique and work 24-hour shifts. “When the lights go out we send emails, process orders, ship, receive, fill out tax forms for that day and for the previous month,” Randar explained. “When the lights are on, we work sales and try to build relationships with our clientele.” In addition to this in-person communication, he stresses the importance of social media and how it has become an important platform for their store. “There is not a lot of foot traffic on the 100th block,” Randar said, “so you have to walk people where you are. Social media has saved us because we market that on Facebook and Instagram with hashtags and pictures to relay what products we have.” Randar said he hopes to be able to expand the boutique and open branches in different cities and countries. They want Bula Boutique to be identified as a brand, but will take their process one step at a time. “I don’t give up on anything and failure comes from giving up,” Randar said. “With this boutique there will not be failure.” Bula Boutique will be holding a fashion show at Coco Moon on March 7 at 7 p.m. Purchase general admission tickets for $10 in-store or call (865) 312-5383.

Owners Brandon Randar and Julia Ford bring forth an East and West Coastfused bohemian style to Knoxville. Cameo Waters • The Daily Beacon

Bula Boutique is located on the 100 block of Gay Street. Cameo Waters • The Daily Beacon