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Protestors gather in opposition to white nationalist event A protester leads several chants in front of Strong Hall on the way to the Hill on Feb. 17, 2018.

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John Orona

Contributor About 250 UT students and community members marched Saturday to protest a white nationalist event held by Matthew Heimbach, founder of the Traditionalist Worker Party (TWP).

The march was organized by UT student groups, including the Progressive Student Alliance, Sexual Empowerment and Awareness at Tennessee (SEAT) and the Women’s Coordinating Council.

The protest began with a rally at the HSS Amphitheater. The group then marched through campus and toward Ayres Hall before entering the protest zone set up by various law enforcement agencies and taking up residence on the steps of Hoskins Library.

Officers enforced the clear bag policy in the

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protest area. Organizers said the protest area could be a potential safety hazard, and many complained on Facebook that they wouldn’t have adequate access to water or their personal belongings.

Helen Law, junior in ecology and member of SEAT, said it was important for her to protest because of protesting’s efficacy in fighting fascism.

“Different ways of resisting these types of groups have been tested throughout history, and so far the most effective one is massive condemnation in the form of protest,” Law said. “They would feel empowered if we were not here.”

Others wanted to say public that TWP doesn’t have popular backing.

“I would really just like to show everyone that not all of Knoxville supports what’s happening here,” Gina Carvagno, senior in psychology, said. “I hope it makes people think and start figuring out their own values and what they truly stand for.”

Senior lecturer in psychology Beth Cooper weren’t sure if protesting was the right choice but felt moved to do something in response to the event.

“Maybe it will embolden them. Maybe they’ll be happy about the press,” Cooper said. “There is no perfect response, so I’m willing to follow the advice of people who know better. I at least want them to know they don’t have support here. Maybe they’ll try to set up shop somewhere else, and hopefully, wherever they go, they will never find support.”

Junior in political science Alejandro Hodge said he did not expect to change Heimbach and his supporter’s ideas but wanted to send a broader message to the campus.

“I want to be here to make it clear that there are people willing to say that they’re not accepting this,” Hodge said. “I don’t think this will have any effect on (the white nationalists). They’re not gonna change their minds from seeing people protest them, but it’s more for the com-

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munity and to show support.”

After a few hours at the library, the protesters marched again before lining the sidewalks underneath the pedestrian bridge on Cumberland Avenue that connects Buehler Hall with the UTPD building and parking garage where TWP members exited.

The opposing groups shouted at each other, and protesters chanted slogans like “Nazi scum” as TWP members left.

“I hope UT administration takes a risk in the future and disallows someone who has shown to have incited violence and is trying to do that here,” Cooper said. “That’s grounds for not having them here, and that’s not disrupting their free speech.”

Lacey Parunak, freshman in business, said she hopes UT will reevaluate its free speech policies in the future.

“I don’t think (the white nationalists’) beliefs are gonna change,” Parunak said. “I’m more here to make UT’s policies change.”

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Retiring English professor acts as voice for unheard Annie Tieu

News Editor Walking into Marilyn Kallet’s office, it becomes clear it is the space of an English professor who finds her passion through creativity and teaching.

Shelves of books line the walls, art hangs from the ceiling and sits on tables, and Kallet offers chocolate and granola bars to students while there.

Born in Montgomery, Alabama, Kallet grew up in New York with her mother and father. Kallet earned her bachelor’s degree in English and French from Tufts University in Massachusetts and her master’s and doctorate in comparative literature from Rutgers University in New Jersey.

Although Kallet has won numerous awards and has published 18 books so far, her success was not cultivated overnight, nor were her skills as a writer. Kallet’s eventual career as a poet and professor was partly inspired by her parents.

Both raised during the Depression Era, her mother was a teacher who went back to college in her sixties and her father was in advertising.

“He was really good with language, my father, so he could do advertising,” Kallet said.

“So I think I got the love of words from him, and the teaching was my mother. My grandmother on my mother’s side, too, was always a teacher.”

Kallet got more involved with literature and poetry as an undergraduate at Tufts, where she had poets as professors, many of whom she developed strong relationships with, like Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress Maxine Kumin and X. J. Kennedy.

Kennedy and Kallet are still in correspondence, and Kallet recalled one particular exchange with Kennedy during her junior year at Tufts when she studied in Paris.

“I was miserable, and I would write poems on the toilet paper they had there (France); it was like hard paper. So I would write on the toilet paper and send him the poems and say things like, ‘If you don’t like this you know what you can do with it,’” Kallet said. “He’d write back, and he would say, ‘I absolutely wouldn’t do that; I think this poem is wonderful.’ He was always like that, always loving and supportive, and he still is.”

However, Kallet said she did not start writing seriously until graduate school after she noticed her classes had a void in the narratives they studies. She sought to fill that void.

“I started writing seriously because there was nothing in the program that spoke to me,” Kallet said. “There were no women teachers; we didn’t read women writers, and I couldn’t find myself. So I would write, and then that was my place. I gave myself permission to be in those poems.”

Later, Kallet wrote about these experiences at Rutgers in “Sleeping with One Eye Open: Women Writers and the Art of Survival,” a

collection of essays published in 1999 that highlights positive stories of women writers.

Other than love-based and more light-hearted poems, Kallet often writes poems bearing witness. She has written about the Flint, Michigan, water crisis and the November 2015 Paris terrorist attacks, as she was there.

“It’s very different from doing the love poems and the imaginary poems, playful poems. When you’re writing that sort of thing, you’re more like a reporter,” Kallet said. “You need to be able to be accurate. You need to report what you’re seeing. You need to get other people’s voices and stories and to be concise.”

Among these poems of witness, Kallet, whose mother’s family was caught up in the Holocaust, has written about the effects this has had on her family history.

“Those poems have to be accurate because you’re telling someone else’s story as well as your own,” Kallet said. “So that’s more like reportage than imagining. But it’s still imagining, because like what did those people go through? You have to have empathy for all of it.”

Although Kallet has been published numerous times, she said, sometimes, writing is more about breaking the silence and about simply putting the words down.

“I hope it (her writing) gives other people permission to tell their stories and sing their songs. I try to be honest in the work, and sometimes there is a breaking silences element to it,” Kallet said.

Kallet will even be presenting a workshop for the Arts and Culture Alliance in Knoxville on Feb. 20, titled “Breaking Silences.”

“There are no guarantees (to being published), but there is a guarantee that if you do not write those stories, you block whatever else is there, and you do not want that,” Kallet said.

“So I am teaching people how to open up as well as teaching people the craft of poetry.”

Outside of UT, Kallet teaches summer poetry workshops for the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts at Auvillar, a village in France.

The upcoming edition marks her 10th year holding them.

“People get far enough away from their own places (there) that suddenly things begin to make new sense, and the senses are stirred by all the newness,” Kallet said. “So some really good writing’s come out of it. (It) makes me very happy.”

At the end of the semester, Kallet will be retiring from UT after 37 years. During her time at the university, Kallet published 15 out of her 18 books.

“UT has provided me with a superb teaching career and has offered continuous support for my writing over the years,” Kallet said. “I often say that UT has created me as a writer.”

But Kallet herself has created other writers through her career as a professor.

“I have taught not hundreds, but thousands of poets here, many of whom have gone on to write and publish poetry and books of poems.

Courtesy of Norman Griffith Some of them have outstripped me,” Kallet said.

Among these former students is Bobby Caudle Rogers, UT alumnus and professor of English at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. Rogers’ poems have been published in numerous magazines, and he has also won various awards for his work.

“Marilyn is the most dynamic and inspiring teacher I’ve ever had. Stepping into Marilyn Kallet’s classroom when I was 19 years old is the best thing that ever happened to me, artistically and professionally,” Rogers said. “She taught me what a poetry workshop could be. She taught me what poetry could be.”

Rogers said that as a professor, he strives to model his classroom attitude after Kallet, further extending her legacy.

“Has there ever been a creative writing professor like Marilyn Kallet at UT? The legacy of Marilyn Kallet gets passed on every time I meet a class,” Rogers said. She taught me how to teach. I am constantly trying to pass on the excitement and dynamism she brought to the classroom, and I like to think that my students who have become professors and teachers are doing the same thing.”

For her retirement, Kallet said she and her husband, director of the Institute for Environmental Modeling (TIEM) at UT Louis Gross, plan to build a studio on their property where Kallet can continue her writing.

“In sixth grade, our school asked us what we wanted to be when we grew up. I said, ‘a writer, teacher and policewoman decoy.’ I have fulfilled two of those ambitions,” Kallet said. “Teaching and writing have offered enough excitement in my life, so I never needed the third job.”

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Local nurse reminds community of global humanitarian efforts Cat Trieu

Copy Editor Local nurse Saman Perera is fighting healthcare inequality through Doctors Without Borders.

Originally from Hendersonville, Tennessee, Perera recently moved to Knoxville after coming back from a Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) two-month medical mission trip to Bentiu, South Sudan.

At Bentiu, he worked in a refugee camp hospital made up of 130,000 residents. The camp was created after conflict broke out in the area due to civil war.

Although he was born in Sri Lanka, Perera was raised in Hendersonville, and he attended to the University of Illinois for his bachelor’s degree in nursing and Vanderbilt University for his master’s degree. Despite his current dedication to his medical mission work as a nurse, Perera was originally on a different career track.

Before he went into nursing, Perera was a plant biology major. Although he was not planning on going into nursing at the time, he changed his mind when he first heard about MSF in 1999 after they won the Nobel Peace Prize. After doing some research on MSF,

Perera decided that this organization was where he wanted to dedicate his career.

“I wanted to go into healthcare to work with Doctors Without Borders,” Perera said. “I can’t tell you exactly what it was; it was just a feeling.”

Shortly after getting his degree, Perera applied and was recruited to be a nurse for Doctors Without Borders. He was first sent to Haiti after the earthquake in 2010 to help with the cholera outbreak. The next year, he went to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to work in primary care. Perera also worked on the frontlines of Chad, where he treated warwounded victims, and in the Central African Republic, where Christian and Muslim groups were engaged in violent clashes.

Since his trips often take place in volatile and war-torn environments, Perera admitted that adaptation to the new countries can be difficult: Since shelters vary depending on the location, Perera has spent months living in a hut or tents and without running water, taking “bucket showers.” While his living conditions were not what he was used to in the U.S., the hardest part for Perera was dealing with the emotional aspect of his work, especially when he went to the Congo.

“It was hard to see children be victimized, to see elderly being victimized, to see gunshots of civilians that we treated there,” Perera

described. “That was a lot more emotional for me.”

While working in Haiti was emotionally and physically taxing, Perera eventually adjusted as he went on more trips. By his fifth and most recent trip to Bentiu, Perera believes that he has gotten practice dealing with his emotions.

“I am used to coping with it,” Perera said.

“For me, this is just part of what I do now.”

Perera decided that focusing on task-orientation would be more effective for his work in the refugee camp. While he had gone into MSF as a nurse, Perera found himself working several types of jobs, especially in Bentiu. He performed several managerial services, such as helping train local nurses and supervising the malnutrition ward. He also helped the hospital prepare for a cholera outbreak and run malaria points, where locals could come in, get checked and receive treatment for acute malaria. In such intense environments, Perera stressed the importance of mental adaptability, especially when it comes to the emotional toll.

“You can focus on the two babies that do die, or you can focus on the 10 that you saved,” Perera said.

While joining MSF has not been easy, Perera wouldn’t have it any other way and said that the organization has changed his life for the better.

“I started out with Doctors Without Borders

Courtesy of Jessica Brown because I wanted to take care of people medically,” Perera said. “It’s just made me a happier person.”

Much of his happiness comes from his work abroad, but Perera also enjoys being back home, making sure to balance his time abroad and in the U.S. Even as it cures his homesickness, being back in the U.S. can be upsetting at times.

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‘Black Panther’ shows social issues through science fiction Cat Trieu

Staff Writer “Black Panther” might just be the most inspiring Marvel movie yet.

To say that Marvel isn’t the most realistic with its movies would be an understatement.

It’s common knowledge that Nordic gods don’t come and interact with our realm. And we aren’t – as far as I know – technologically advanced enough to make a full-body bulletproof suit.

However, “Black Panther” is as real as a Marvel movie can get. It confronts relevant problems that directly apply not only to America or Africa, but also to the entire world.

The movie’s embracement of African culture gave the Marvel franchise a diverse perspective it desperately needed. The film takes place in the fictional country of Wakanda. The corresponding colorful costumes, the intricacy of makeup and the set design of the village and kingdom make the screen pop out to viewers, conveying African culture in a beautiful light.

It also presents a bold blend of the new and the traditional, especially in lead character T’Challa, portrayed by “Marshall” star Chadwick Boseman. Throughout the movie, rising king T’Challa goes back and forth between his traditional Wakandan wear and his nearly-bulletproof Black Panther bodysuit.

Analogously, he also has to make a choice between keeping his country’s tradition of protecting Wakanda alone and venturing out to help the world fight global inequality.

More related to modern America, however,

“The movie’s embracement of African Culture gave the Marvel franchise a diverse perspective it desperately needed.” are the movie’s references to the Black Lives Matter movement. The movie opens with kids playing basketball in a poor neighborhood, and their basketball net has been replaced by an everyday basket, further emphasizing the poverty in which they live.

Courtesy of IMDb T’Challa’s struggle isn’t seen so much in other characters because the movie’s main heroes are born and raised in Wakanda.

Competing for T’Challa’s throne, N’Jadaka, also known as Erik “Killmonger” Stevens, trains and kills all his life just to gain the power to exact revenge against those who left him fatherless, discriminated against and in poverty. Actor Michael B. Jordan does a phenomenal job portraying this complex character’s bitterness and rage.

“Black Panther” also prominently spotlights strong female characters that serve as T’Challa’s main advisors and the main warriors throughout the movie. These include love interest and Wakandan undercover spy, Nakia, and T’Challa’s witty and tech-savvy sister, Shuri.

Overall, the biggest take-home message that “Black Panther” brings is political. It promotes global cooperation. While Africa is typically thought to contain only third-world countries, Wakanda is rich in technological advancement and resources. As we see T’Challa make choices regarding his country’s safety and world unity, Marvel ultimately says that separation is never the answer. The film cleverly weaves the issues in line with the story by clearly stating its message without deviating from the continuous action of the film.

Now, I’m not saying that “Black Panther” didn’t stretch reality a bit. It is a superhero film, after all. But its overall themes hit close to home in a way not found in most actionpacked Marvel moments. From advocating racial harmony to redefining gender roles, the movie intertwined fantasy/science fiction and current social issues with an amazing balance.

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White nationalist speaks at UT after a week of protesting

Alex Holcomb

Editor-in-Chief Matthew Heimbach’s “National Socialism or Death” college speaking tour began Saturday afternoon in Buehler Hall despite opposition and protest from the UT community.

Heimbach is the chairman of the Traditionalist Worker Party (TWP), a white nationalist organization which aims to create a white ethnostate. Heimbach was involved with organizing the 2017 Charlottesville, Virginia, protest supporting Confederate monuments.

He is from Indiana and graduated with a degree in history from Towson University in Maryland, where his involvement in white nationalist and neo-Nazi movements began.

About 35 white nationalists, along with media affiliates, attended the event. No UT students attended. Heimbach said security officials did not allow UT students to attend.

A Knoxville Police Department (KPD) officer confirmed there were no extra security stipulations on students and that they were allowed to attend.

TWP members met in the 11th Street Garage where Heimbach spoke briefly to them and led them in a chant. They marched in formation across the Pedestrian Bridge into Buehler Hall.

After a TWP member introduced Heimbach, the audience stood to clap, and many said, “Heil Heimbach,” while giving a Nazi salute. Heimbach started by discussing his frustrations with the amount of security at the lecture.

“Are you really free if you have to go through a security checkpoint? Are you really free (given) the fact that people want to threaten to kill you, and if they had that ability, they would? We do not live in a free society.

We live in a Lovecraftian horror landscape that LARPs (live action role plays) as a free society,” Heimbach said.

Heimbach encourages his followers Heimbach’s speech focused on TWP’s 25 points, the ideas Heimbach has for a white ethnostate in North America. Points discuss healthcare, national socialism, gun ownership, the media, traditional gender roles and more.

Much of Heimbach’s speech was devoted to encouraging members to continue with their involvement.

“Let’s just choose something different.

That’s what national socialism brings forward.

We’re taking the best parts of both political ideologies, and we’re actually fighting for our people. You don’t have to choose bad. You don’t have to choose evil. You can choose something that actually makes your kids’ lives better,” Heimbach said. “Our party has gone from eight members that met in a Perkins that could almost fit in one booth ... to being

able to have international contacts around the globe.”

While encouraging his supporters, Heimbach discussed protestors and potential backlash.

“They’re (protestors) scared of us. That’s why they’re out there. They’re scared of us.

But a national socialist knows: What’s the worst they can do? Fire you from a 10-dollaran-hour job? Call you names on the internet?

Okay. The worst they can do is kill you,” Heimbach said. “There is nothing greater you can do in your entire life ... than to lay down your life for your brother, and we understand that means our people. We need to be able to understand this, so if the worst they can do is kill you, that’s an honor. That’s a privilege.”

Heimbach, who did not serve in the military, said that he would require men to serve in the ethnostate’s military for two years, and 18-year-old, unmarried women would be required to work for two years in healthcare or childcare. Heimbach would require men who had finished military work to keep their guns in their homes.

“An armed man is a free man. No one has the right to take away your ability to defend yourself and your family — no politician, no one but maybe God himself because He gave you those arms in the first place,” Heimbach said. “You have a duty and a responsibility to defend yourself and your family.”

Heimbach’s views on gender and other races TWP members are proponents of stereotypical gender roles and believe only cisgender heterosexual relationships should exist.

Heimbach referred to gay and transgender lifestyles and drug addictions as mental illnesses and antisocial behaviors.

“Antisocial behaviors are actually rewarded in this society. We (society) say being a good citizen and being a steward to your fellow kinsmen, whether man or woman, according to your roles, that is the highest honor of being an antisocial freak,” Heimbach said.

As a white nationalist group, Heimbach said people often believe his group hates nonwhites, but he said this is untrue.

“I was asked by a reporter one time like, ‘What would you do if a black person was coming into your country?’ I was like, ‘Make sure he would get a visa, just like every country does when foreign peoples come into your nation,’” Heimbach said. “There’s a lot you can do with people of color while respecting our racial differences and boundaries.”

Heimbach has plans for the future The ethnostate Heimbach hopes for is one he believes he may not see. Instead, he said he is starting a movement towards making it a possibility for future generations.

“This current system can’t last forever. It’s up to us to work together for our future. We have a fundamental right to organize, survive

Top: Traditionalist Worker Party members prepare to cross pedestrian bridge before Matthew Heimbach’s lecture on Saturday, Feb. 17.

Bottom: Traditionalist Worker Party members chant, “Heil Heimbach” as Matthew Heimbach begins to speak in Buehler Hall on Saturday, Feb. 17.

Photos by Alex Holcomb / The Daily Beacon and build a future for our people,” Heimbach said. “If you want to combat social injustice, you must replace it with actual justice that’s found in a national socialism. Our ideas ... are built upon future. Every other option leads to death.”

Heimbach’s lecture tour is meant to continue on college campuses, and he has not announced the next university he will attend.

He said Saturday’s lecture helped his organization.

“The fact that it (the event) was so over the top that we just wanted to come, talk about positions, what we really believe that we have to bring out one step below the National Guard, it raised a lot of interest. So I think there’s a lot of UTK students, a lot of students in general, that are hearing these ideas for the first time, and I think this is tremendously successful,” Heimbach said.

Davenport responds to the Traditionalist Worker Party Although the university had a designated demonstration area for Heimbach’s lecture which required a security checkpoint and

clear bag policy, members of the UT community gathered in front of Hoskins Library and along the sidewalk across the street from the location of Heimbach’s talk to protest.

UT Police Department (UTPD) Chief of Police and Associate Vice Chancellor for Public Safety Troy Lane estimated that there were 250 protestors. KPD, UTPD, Tennessee Highway Patrol and the Knox County Sheriff’s Office worked on safety and crowd control throughout these areas.

Following the talk and protest, Chancellor Beverly Davenport held a press conference to discuss her values against racism. Davenport repeatedly expressed before Saturday that no one at the university invited the group and that she did not welcome them.

“Our work continues. It didn’t begin today; it won’t end today. It’s a lifelong process to fight for justice, for those values that we believe in,” Davenport said. “Racism is something that we talk about, that we work on, that we study. We’ll continue to work on that.”

Annie Tieu assisted in reporting by attending Davenport and Lane’s press conference.

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Drew and Ellie Holcomb return to the Bijou Emily Lewellyn Staff Writer

Thursday evening, singer-songwriter couple Drew and Ellie Holcomb performed two shows in one night at the Bijou in downtown Knoxville.

The Holcomb duo provided an intimate, entertaining show, filling the spaces between songs with short stories of humorous and heartfelt nature. The stage was comprised of a few varying stringed instruments, a rug and some comforting candles. I’ve attended two Drew Holcomb shows in the past, and I knew each of their shows provides a different experience and varied set list. This show did not disappoint.

Ellie took the stage in a smart black frock and strappy black heels and Drew in a suit and causal hat. The show was composed simply of the two of them minus Drew’s band, The Neighbors, that usually accompanies him.

They opened with “Another Man’s Shoes,” followed by their newest song, “You and Me.” Drew got three lines into the tune only to stop and announce he had forgotten his harmonica. As he strapped it on, the crowd had a chuckle before they started the song

up once more. Afterwards, they surprised the crowd by performing a cover of the Sting song “Fields of Gold.”

Ellie led one of her most famous numbers, “Hung the Moon,” forgetting the second line.

After laughing to herself, she exclaimed, “I love you, Knoxville.” After regaining her composure, she sung with raw emotion enough to tug the heartstrings of the audience and stealing glances at her husband when she could.

Drew joined in with her on their well known duet “What Would I Do Without You.” They crooned their co-written song “Mercy,” which more explicitly talks about the couple’s faith, notable because Drew does not sing religious music.

Drew told about how he is not the greatest at harmonies, though Ellie can sing them well. Occasionally, she will ask him to stray from his comfortable melodies and try the harmonies. The lighthearted story culminated in the duo singing a short tune they came up with to laugh off their banter of disagreeing about their voices.

Drew took a short break from the stage, allowing Ellie to perform two of her own songs. Ellie spoke on her journey, and how after 8 and a half years of being in the same band as Drew, she quit when their daughter

started to walk. After a bit of time, Ellie started her own band, as she was writing songs for Drew and began writing her own songs on motherhood, faith and life. She sang two songs from her personal record: “Find You Here” and “Red Sea Road.”

The couple then switched places. Ellie took a break while Drew stepped out on his own.

He played “American Beauty” and “Wild World.” The latter song is a form of contemplation about current events and the inability to comprehend what we see in the news.

As Ellie rejoined him, Drew mentioned shoutouts, and people began to interject whatever occasions they were celebrating by coming to the show. “Engagement!” someone threw out, with a congrats from Drew and applause. “Birthday!” said another. Finally, a voice shouted, “Thursday!” followed by laughter from the entire room.

“I Like To Be With Me When I’m With You” was performed, followed by the locallyiconic “Tennessee.” Drew is from Memphis, and Ellie from Nashville, where they currently live. The couple also has significant ties to Knoxville, having both attended the University of Tennessee, where they met.

The song “Tennessee” is a ballad to the many different parts of the state that are meaningful

to couple.

The Holcombs continued the set with “Live Forever,” followed by information about an organization they support, International Justice Mission, which is a human rights organization seeking to liberate individuals from lives caught within modern slavery. Ellie told the story of a young girl in the Philippines who was conned into the sex trafficking industry and how IJM rescued her and people with very similar stories across the globe.

The Holcombs advocated for attendees to get involved and support IJM, giving them the opportunity to do so in the merchandise area with the added bonus of a t-shirt.

To end the night, they began the catchy, swingy “Here We Go,” with the crowd echoing the lyrics back to the singers. After walking off and walking back on the stage, the couple closed with “The Wine We Drink” and a non-microphoned version of “Fire and Dynamite.”

I left the venue feeling not only like I had seen the singers in a new, unique light from past shows but also with the vague sense I had spent two hours listening to them play in their living room. Ellie and Drew have both a knack for songwriting and making concert attendees feel included in the experience.

Drew and Ellie Holcomb performed at the Bijou on Feb. 15, 2018.

Photos by Emily Gowder / The Daily Beacon

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SPORTS

The Daily Beacon • Monday, February 19, 2018

MEN’S BASKETBALL

No. 18 Vols struggle offensively in loss to Bulldogs Staff Report As Rick Barnes met with media for the last time before the game against Georgia, he said this would be as tough a game as Tennessee has played this season.

Despite entering the game with a 14-11 record, the Georgia Bulldogs have been a hard case for the Vols to solve in the past. The Vols entered the game with a four-game losing streak to the Bulldogs, including last year’s SEC tournament.

The Vols were unable to snap that streak as they fell 73-62 to the Bulldogs in Stegeman Coliseum.

After two down performances, Kyle Alexander responded with a double-double of 10 points and 13 rebounds.

Lamonte Turner led the Vols in the scoring department with 14 points but struggled to get his shot going, finishing 4-of-12 from the field.

In the first half, the Vols got off to a slow start, shooting 4-of-17 from the field before finishing the half on a much stronger note.

While the offense struggled, the defense kept the Vols in it, holding the Bulldogs to 28 points at the half.

Down just two at the half, the Vols stayed within striking defense, but they weren’t able to regain the lead.

At one point in the second half, the Vols were trailing by five points, and Alexander did his best impression on the boards to keep them in the game. Alexander snatched three offensive rebounds over a 30-second span, but the Vols were unable to knock down 3-pointers on the two possessions.

For the game, the Vols finished shooting 35 percent from the field and 32 percent from 3-point range on 25 attempts.

SEC leading scorer Yante Maten was a primary focus for the Vols, and they held him in check. Maten finished the game 5-of-14 with an average of 19 points.

One area Maten proved to be a force in was from the free-throw line, earning 12 free throw attempts. Maten’s ability to get to the free throw line played a crucial role in the Vols’ leading scorer Grant Williams being in foul trouble.

Williams’ foul trouble limited him to 25 minutes and five points.

Derek Ogbeide proved to be the difference, scoring 16 points and adding 11 rebounds off the bench.

With the loss, the Vols missed a chance at closing in on Auburn for the No. 1 seed in the SEC after the Tigers’ loss earlier in the day.

However, no team took advantage of the Vols’ loss, and they still remain in sole possession of second place in the SEC. The Vols will return home on Wednesday to a matchup against the Florida Gators.

FILE - Grant Williams, #2, during the game against South Carolina at Thompson-Boling Arena on Feb. 13, 2018.

Adrien Terricabras, File / The Daily Beacon

SOFTBALL

Late-game spark lifts No. 10 Lady Vols over Marshall Staff Report The Tennessee softball team improved to 10-1 on Sunday, using a bottom-of-the-seventh rally to beat Marshall (4-5) in the final game of the Michele Smith Tournament in Clearwater, 5-4.

Senior shortstop Meghan Gregg hit an RBI single to score junior Aubrey Leach in the bottom of the first to put the No. 10 Lady Vols ahead of the Thundering Herd, 1-0.

Senior catcher Abby Lockman added two more runs for Tennessee with an RBI to bring in sophomore third baseman Chelsea Seggern and Gregg to extend the team’s lead to 3-0 in the bottom of the first.

After being held scoreless in the top of the first, Marshall answered in the top of the second with four straight runs to take a 4-3 lead, thanks in large part to three errors committed by the Lady Vols.

Over the next four and a half innings, both teams would be held scoreless as Marshall

held on to a razor-thin 4-3 lead through the top of the seventh. With one last chance to leave Clearwater with a win, the Lady Vols came to the plate, trailing by a run in the bottom of the seventh.

Tennessee loaded the bases with a double from senior C.J. McClain, as well as singles from Leach and sophomore Jenna Holcomb to set the stage for Meghan Gregg.

Gregg, in familiar fashion, knocked an RBI single into right field to allow McClain and Leach to score the tying and go-ahead runs, securing the victory for the Lady Vols.

“It was a tough game,” Tennessee co-head coach Karen Weekly said. “We put ourselves in the hole with the errors that we made. We made it tough on our pitchers, but I like the fact that they hung in there and kept fighting.”

Freshman pitcher Gabby Spring got the start on the mound, recording two strikeouts, allowing one hit and giving up four runs in the inning and a half she pitched.

Sophomore Caylan Arnold (3-0) came in to finish the game in the top of the third.

Arnold allowed no runs and just one hit and seven strikeouts to secure her third win of the season.

“I think Gabby (Sprang) got a little snakebit today,” Weekly said. “It was just a situation where momentum was shifting in their favor with the mistakes we made. She (Sprang) was throwing quality pitches. That pitching change came to try and stop their momentum.”

On the day, Meghan Gregg led Tennessee with three RBI along with two hits and one run in four at-bats.

Next up for the Lady Vols is the Mary Nutter Classic in Cathedral City, California.

Tennessee will take on Brigham Young and Bethune-Cookman in games one and two of a doubleheader on Thursday.

The Lady Vols will also face a familiar opponent in University of California-Davis on Friday, along with Oregon State, No. 3 Oregon and Northwestern in the tournament.

Tennessee finally returns home on March 2 to face Charleston Southern in the Tennessee Invitational.

CJ McClain, outfielder #6 of the Tennessee Volunteers during the game against Delaware at Sherri Parker Lee Stadium on March 5, 2017.

Adrien Terricabras / The Daily Beacon