Cheek delivers last lecture
Courtney Ferrell Contributor Former Chancellor Jimmy Cheek delivered his last lecture Monday evening at the Baker Center after eight years as UT’s Chancellor. The lecture consisted of a questionand-answer portion with preselected interviewers –– engineering student ambassadors William Fredebeil and Abby Link asked questions before audience members were given a chance to ask their own. Cheek was the seventh chancellor of UT and began in 2009 after spending four years as the senior vice president at the University of Florida. His goals were to become a Top 25 school, improve campus infrastructure and promote research. The lecture opened with a brief account of Cheek’s history in academia and dreams as a child. He recollected wanting to be a rancher when he grew up, his time at Texas A&M as a student, all
the way to his 34 years at the University of Florida. Cheek will be a distinguished professor in the College of Education, Health and Human Sciences. He will teach classes on educational leadership that involve his tenure. He will also be a chancellor emeritus, giving him the opportunity to work for the campus as a whole. “I want to remind you that I am a Vol for life, so we will stay in Knoxville. I will go back on to faculty. I’m looking forward to that. We plan to be actively involved in the University of Tennessee, the community and the state for many, many years to come,” Cheek said. Cheek offered advice regarding overcoming tough obstacles in life, the importance of having mentors for guidance and growing in the face of skepticism. “I came (to the lecture) because I thought Dr. Cheek would have a lot of valuable advice for someone just starting out professionally,” Avinash Prabhu, a graduate student in materials science, said. “Being in the very early stage of my career, I could use and learn things he
might have to share.” UT’s new chancellor, Beverly Davenport, stepped into her new role Feb. 15. Cheek said the transition between chancellors went smoothly and without much issue. Davenport was previously the interim president of the University of Cincinnati where she focused on faculty diversity and addressing sexual assault, as well as raising academics ratings. Davenport has said she will bring those values to UT as well. Mickayla Stogsdill, a Baker Center ambassador, has enjoyed Cheek’s time at UT. She attended several Cheek events but found this one to be special because of his unusual vulnerability. “I thought it was really interesting. Normally, Cheek doesn’t give personal answers. Normally, he is very reserved when it comes to stuff like that, and in this last lecture he wasn’t,” Stogsdill said. “He really talked about some things, especially vulnerability, which he rarely does. So that was something that I had never heard before.” Alex Phillips • The Daily Beacon
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Tennessee hires new athletic director
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Asst. Sport Editor After six months of searching, the University of Tennessee has settled on a new athletic director. On Tuesday, Feb. 28, Chancellor Beverly Davenport named 45-year-old UT graduate John Currie as the school’s new vice chancellor and athletic director. Currie has spent the last eight years as the athletic director at Kansas State. “We are extremely pleased to announce John as our new vice chancellor and director of athletics,” Davenport said in an email addressed to the UT community. “This is truly an exciting day for the University of Tennessee and our athletics department. As I said when we began this process, we were looking for the best candidate, and we feel strongly that we have him in John Currie. John exemplifies all the qualities we were seeking in an athletics director.” See ATHLETIC DIRECTOR on Page 6
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DISPATCHES over armed, 2. 1. Tworacistsentenced threats to Georgia family Jose Torres and Kayla Norton were sentenced Monday after threatening a black family at a child’s birthday party in Georgia. They will serve 13 years and six years, respectively. Torres and Norton were members of the group Respect the Flag, who were charged over an incident in Douglasville, Georgia where cars were driven past the party flying the Confederate flag. Torres was sentenced for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and violating Georgia’s street gang and terrorism prevention laws. Norton was charged for the same crimes and sentenced for threatening behavior.
Nature photographer curating a ‘Photo Ark’
Joel Sartore, a contributing nature photographer to National Geographic, has been photographing various animals for the past 11 years in a 25-year endeavor to visually document every captive species on the planet. So far, he is about halfway into his goal, with 6,000 species remaining. The project has the goal of ensuring that his subjects will not go extinct; many of them are critically endangered species. Some of which are the very last of their kind. The entire collection will be published into a book titled “The Photo Ark,” to forever immortalize the animals.
to become 3. Vikings’ Peterson free agent The Minnesota Vikings announced Tuesday that the team will not exercise Adrian Peterson’s option for 2017, making the star running back a free agent. Peterson would have counted $18 million against the salary cap. General manager Rick Speilman said that the organization will still have conversations with Peterson’s representatives moving forward in order to find the best solution for both parties. Peterson ran for just 72 yards in three games last season before being placed on injured reserve with a torn meniscus.
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UT professor bridges home, hospital to burn survivors with app Tom Cruise Staff Writer
A UT professor was inspired by burn survivors to develop an app that will aid in the physical and mental healing process of people who experience intense burn related injuries. Thereasa Abrams, assistant professor in the UT College of Social Work, developed a mobile app, “Bridge,” to give burn survivors a means of rehabilitation after they have left the hospital. Once survivors arrive home, treatment becomes more crucial. “Once a patient leaves a burn unit, they are left with a load of responsibility,” Abrams said. “This app will give them the proper direction for themselves and for their caregivers.” Once a patient decides to download the app, they can personalize it to their needs. As different injuries require different treatments, the patients will have videos of their specific dressing procedures to have a reference for their own care. Caregivers outside of the burn unit will be able to perform the dressings. Exercise will also play an important role in the app. Patients will receive daily reminders to do different exercises to ensure proper healing. Additionally, there will be quizzes and questions to allow the patient to rate their current pain and healing process. Dr. Karen Rose, the McMahan-McKinley
Endowed Professor in Gerontology in the UT College of Nursing, organized CRNA Masters Program students to be involved in the app process. Students are paired with Abrams to aid her in writing proposals for the Institutional Review Board as well as focusing on the nutrition aspect of the app. “Burned tissue requires a very high calorie diet to properly heal,” Rose said. “The students are ensuring that patients are getting and remembering the adequate nutrition they need.” Rose also stressed the importance of the continued care that the app will provide. Having worked with burn survivors in the past, Rose understands the importance of care once the patient has left the hospital. “When daily lives start to seep into the clinical care, patients often need reminders and guidance,” Rose said. “I feel that this app has hit all the major aspects from a clinical standpoint.” Another element of the app will consist of self-motivation. As a burn survivor herself, Abrams recognizes the difficulty patients have mentally to overcome their injuries. “Once the pain subsides, (patients) will still have to re-emerge back into society and this can be a difficult process in itself,” Abrams said. Abrams’ motivation for the app began during her time as a peer counselor for burn survivors. After attending a conference and viewing
a demonstration for an app titled, “Text for Babies,” Abrams became inspired. Now, after various trials, Abrams has partnered fully with UT to fund, design and develop the “Bridge” app. Although the app is not yet available, Abrams is aiming for a release date during 2017. The app will first be available to patients visiting the Firefighter Burn Center in Memphis, Tennessee, and will be available on Android and Apple devices. Eventually, Abrams will involve military organizations in phase two of development. Abrams noted that the app will need some re-adapting to the military’s style, but hopes to aid those who are currently recovering. Aside from Abrams, people involved with the app include Professor Carolyn Staples of the UT School of Arts and Sciences to oversee the app’s design. Li Xueping of UT’s Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering will develop the necessary software in hopes of ensuring smooth accessibility. Tami Wyatt, professor of nursing, and Dawn Coe, professor of exercise physiology, will be creating the videos to educate the survivors. With the app, Abrams looks to promote a positive outcome into a world of resilient individuals. “I always asked myself, ‘What could I do to help?’” Abrams said. “Through this app, we can now ‘bridge’ the hospital directly to the home.”
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Cuban spice meets Irish fare in unmatched food truck Courtney Whited Copy Editor Knoxville and its surrounding areas feature multiple Cuban restaurants and Irish pubs, but there is only one Cubish food truck – a mix between the two seemingly incompatible cuisines. With an Irish mother and a Cuban father, Eric Sanchez grew up with the food from both cultures, which led to the idea of opening his food truck. “No one in the United States – when we Googled it – is doing it,” Sanchez said. Prior to opening Cubish, Sanchez worked as a truck driver for more than 15 years, during which he met his wife, Hannah. “When I met Hannah, she said she was not going to be a truck driver or a truck driver’s wife, and we needed to decide to do something else,” Eric said. “We had already discussed doing a food truck because I had a culinary degree from years back, and then I started to take the legal steps while we were still on the road.” The food truck began serving custom-
ers in May 2016. Eric explained there were multiple reasons why they wanted to open a food truck rather than a restaurant; one reason was to not be tied to a location that may fail depending on the area’s popularity and another was to be involved with the local breweries, with the belief that Cubish cuisine complements beer. Hannah and Eric were buying a house at the same time as buying the food truck, so instead of the traditional food truck, they opted for a portable hot dog cart that is modified to cook the food they serve. With health code rules in place, Eric worked with the Knoxville Health Department to design and approve Cubish’s menu, following all the guidelines for serving food in an open space. Although Eric admits there were some difficulties in opening, he is passionate about meeting people as he serves good food, saying he and his wife want to do this more for the joy they get out of it than for money. “Since we serve at breweries, the diverse amount of people we’ve met while doing this (is my favorite part),” Eric said. “Everybody gets really chatty when
they have a 10 percent beer in them, and we’ve met some really cool people.” Eric said he met a lot of Cubans and Irish people in Knoxville, all of whom are surprised when they see the cuisine he makes. He also gets a lot of people who are new to both types of food, though. “Most of the staples in (Cuban and Irish food) are stuff that people have already eaten, but they don’t know what the origins are,” Eric said. “A lot of people think that Cuban food is spicy, but it just has a lot of spices in it … that doesn’t have heat to it. So you have to convince somebody to try something.” Eric said he typically sees people going straight for the Cubish sandwich, since they typically have an idea of what a Cuban sandwich is and tastes like, but he recommends the bangers and moros, which is a combination of black beans and rice with sausage. Hannah, on the other hand, recommends the ropa pie – Irish potatoes mixed with a Cuban stew. For more information, check out the Facebook page at https://www. f a c e b o o k . c o m / p g /c u b i s h f o o d t r u c k / events/?ref=page_internal.
The Cubish Food Truck provides food that is a blend of both Cubish and Irish cuisine. Courtesy of Cubish Food Truck
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Jamie Nared, junior forward
LADY VOLS SEASON RECAP
Lady Vols statistically-stuffed season overshadowed by bad losses Written by Trenton Duffer, Sports Editor Multiple bumps in the road
UT’s “Big Three” of Deshields, Nared and Russell have scored 1,376 of the Lady Vols’ 2,152 points this season. That equates to 63.9 percent of Tennessee’s total scoring offense.
Trying to make sense of the Lady Vols season up to this point isn’t easy. In fact, it’s nearly impossible. After Sunday’s win over No. 3 Mississippi State, head coach Holly Warlick could only reference Forrest Gump to describe the Lady Vols season thus far. “Sometimes, it’s like Forrest Gump. You don’t know what you’re going to get. We got the good chocolate today,” Warlick said. “If I could bottle it, I’d bottle it.” The anomaly of the Lady Vols season can best be described as confusing. Finishing the season at 1910 overall and 10-6 in conference play, the season started with three double-digit wins over James Madison, Navy and East Tennessee State. Each game had at least three Lady Vols players scoring double-digit points. But then, the Lady Vols’ boat started sinking, as the team lost two straight games to unranked Penn
State and Virginia Tech. The Lady Lions finished the season at 19-9, but the Hokies dropped to 1712, marking not-so-nice losses on the schedule. After a 50-point beatdown of Tennessee State, the Lady Vols lost two more against then No. 4 Baylor and No. 17 Texas. Six straight wins later, including two against No. 10 Stanford and No. 17 Kentucky, and the Lady Vols would lose three of their next four games. That wouldn’t be so bad if two of those three loses hadn’t came to 17-13 Auburn and 17-12 Ole Miss. And to make matters even more confusing, the lone win in that four-game stretch was against No. 4 Notre Dame. After the Auburn loss, the Lady Vols would lose three more games to unranked opponents (Georgia, Alabama and Texas A&M) and beat two top-five teams in No. 5 South Carolina and No. 3 Mississippi State.
Jaime Nared ranks 11th in the NCAA in free throw percentage this season, hitting 129 of her 146 attempts (88.4 percent).
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Incorporating the “Big Three” A simple look at the layout of the schedule is enough to make anyone’s head spin. After the Mississippi State win, redshirt junior guard Diamond DeShields said that the win was just about “reestablishing what we (the Lady Vols) are.” “Like I said earlier in the season, we’re not afraid of anybody, and we’re going to keep on coming and just moving forward,” DeShields said. DeShields was slated to be a team leader this season, and she’s done just that. Playing in 26 of the team’s 29 games, DeShields averaged a team-high 17.3 points per game, which ranks as the fourth-highest total in the SEC. However, two other members of the Lady Vols stepped up to form a “Big Three” squad that rivaled other sets in the SEC – Mercedes Russell and Jaime Nared. The duo are the only two members of the Lady Vols that started all 29 games this season. Each has played different roles, but when the pair works well with DeShields, the “Big Three” forge a formidable force. Russell has been a double-double machine, racking in 16 such achievements this year. She’s currently two doubledoubles away from tying Isabelle Harrison’s junior season record for most double-doubles in a season. The redshirt center has scored 20 more points than anyone on the team, but since she’s played in more games than DeShields, her average sits at 16.3 points per game. Russell has also been formidable on the boards, pulling in an average of 9.4 rebounds per game. That total is good enough for fourth in the SEC. Her 1.4 blocks per game is also fourth in the conference. Nared, on the other hand, has been more of an all-around threat, including hitting a few game-winning shots this year. Having an average of 15.6 points per game, the best freethrow percentage in the SEC at 88.4 percent, a team-high 36 steals and 6.7 rebounds per game has set the junior up for a
successful season. But the “Big Three” have had help at the point guard position from Jordan Reynolds and off the bench from Alexa Middleton. Reynolds has started all but one game this year and has a team-high 126 assists. Middleton started 10 games this season and has the best 3-point percentage on the team at 40 percent and had a career-high 29 points against Troy. The team has also seen progressive strides with players such as Meme Jackson, Kortney Dunbar, Schquilla Nunn and Kamera Harris. As a team, the Lady Vols rank third in the SEC in points per game with 74.2, first in rebounds with 37.8 and fourth in assists with 14.9. Despite all the losses, the Lady Vols found a balancing act with their players to average out an above-average season. “I want everybody to be a threat because I think they can (be),” Warlick said. “It’s just a matter of, ‘Do they want the ball in their hands?’”
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Sometimes, it’s like Forrest Gump. You don’t know what you’re going to get. We got the good chocolate today. If I could bottle it, I’d bottle it.” Holly Warlick, head coach
Onward to the postseason With the regular season over, the SEC Championship will have its opening round this Wednesday. The Lady Vols are the No. 5 seed in the tournament and won’t play until Thursday. Ironically enough, Tennessee has beaten the four seeds ahead of them – South Carolina, Miss. State, Missouri and Kentucky, respectively – in the regular season. However, the Lady Vols have lost to five of the six seeds below them. Simply put, out of the 10 other top-11 seeds in this year’s SEC Tournament, the Lady Vols have beaten No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 4 and No. 7 while losing to No. 6, No. 8, No. 9, No. 10 and No. 11.
To finish strong in the SEC Tournament, the Lady Vols need only one thing – consistency. “What we took away from this game (Mississippi State) is how capable we are of playing with each other,” Nared said. “We show up to big games against top-ranked teams and play our hearts out. But then, against the teams that aren’t ranked as high, we don’t play our hardest. “I think we finally figured out how to play hard for every single step on the court, and I think we’ll take it to the SEC Tournament.”
Diamond DeShields, redshirt junior guard
The Lady Vols are one of only five teams in the NCAA that have three wins against top-10 teams this season.
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ATHLETIC DIRECTOR continued from Page 1 Over the past eight years at Kansas State, Currie transformed the wildcats’ athletic program. During his tenure, Kansas State won Big 12 Championships in football, men’s basketball, baseball and track and field. In addition, the volleyball and
women’s basketball teams made the NCAA tournament multiple times under Currie. In the 2012-2013 school year, Kansas State reached new levels under Currie as the Wildcats became just the fourth BCS school since 1998 to win league titles in football, men’s basketball and baseball. In 2013, because of this achievement, Currie was awarded with the Bobby Dodd AD award as well as the Under Armour AD
award, both are given to the best AD of the year. From an academic perspective, Currie also led a very sound program. While at KSU, all of the Wildcat programs boasted multi-year APR marks of at least .994. Almost one-half of all Wildcat athletes, approximately 450 students, achieved a GPA of 3.0 or higher in the past academic year. Despite his achievements athletically and academically, it is Currie’s ability to fundraise and handle money that sets him apart. Under Currie, Kansas State became the only school in Kansas and one of two dozen schools in the nation to operate without any state tax or university tuition dollars or subsidies. Currie also served as the chair of the Big 12 ADs in 2012-2013 as well as being a member of the NCAA Division 1 Administration Cabinet. This will not be the first time that Currie has been a part of the athletic department at Tennessee. While earning his master’s degree at UT, Currie served in various capacities inside the athletic department from 1997-2009. His former accomplish-
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The Daily Beacon • Wednesday, March 1, 2017
LADY VOLS BASKETBALL
Lady Vols look for togetherness, consistency heading into SEC Tournament Tyler Wombles Copy Editor
After completing a 19-10 roller-coaster regular season that included big wins against highlyranked opponents and devastating losses to unranked foes, head coach Holly Warlick wants her Lady Vols to play as one heading into the SEC Tournament. “I think if you look at the games that we’ve played well, we’ve played together,” Warlick said. Tennessee enters the tournament, which will take place at Bon Secours Wellness Arena in Greenville, South Carolina, as the No. 5 seed and will face the winner of No. 12 seed Alabama and No. 13 seed Vanderbilt in the second round on Thursday. The game will tipoff at 2:30 p.m. and will be broadcast by the SEC Network. The winner of Thursday’s contest will play in the quarterfinals on Friday versus No. 4 seed Kentucky. Warlick will seek leadership from senior guard Jordan Reynolds as the tournament progresses. Reynolds, not typically a big scorer, put up 17 points in the team’s upset of No. 3 Mississippi State in the regular season finale, leading the team at this point in the season. “I thought Jordan Reynolds (against Mississippi State) played one of her best games since her freshman year,” Warlick said. “Jordan’s
been strong for us, but she looked for her shot. She attacked. She passed the ball. She ran the offense the way we wanted, and I was really, really proud of her. “I think Jordan has felt a lot of pressure on her because she’s our only true point guard, but I think Jordan just played the way she knows how to play.” The Lady Vols have an all-time record of 77-20 in the SEC Tournament and lead all schools with 17 conference championships. Tennessee made it to the semifinal round of the tournament last season. Junior forward Jaime Nared emphasized the importance of consistency by the team in order to be successful moving forward into the postseason. “I think we show up to big games against top-ranked teams and play our hearts out,” Nared said. “But then, against the teams that aren’t necessarily ranked as high, we don’t play our hardest … I think we’ve finally figured out how to play hard for every second we step on the court, and I think we’ll take it into the SEC Tournament.” Lady Vols Trio Honored: The annual SEC AllConference awards were announced Tuesday and three Lady Vols made the cut. Junior guard Diamond DeShields was named first-team All-SEC, while junior center Mercedes Russell and Jaime Nared were both named second-team All-SEC.
Diamond DeShields, #11, at Thompson-Boling Arena on Dec. 18, 2016. Adrien Terricabras • The Daily Beacon DeShields leads Tennessee with 17.3 points per game, which ranks fourth in the SEC. That mark is the highest for a Lady Vol since Candace Parker averaged 21.3 points per game in 2007-2008. The Norcross, Georgia, native is also averaging 6.62 rebounds per contest and has recorded 99 assists, 27 blocks and 35 steals on the year. Russell, arguably Tennessee’s most consistent
player this season, has 14 double-doubles this year, good for second in the SEC. She is averaging 16.3 points and 9.45 rebounds per game. Nared is averaging 15.6 points and 6.72 rebounds per game on the season. She was named SEC Co-Player of the Week earlier in the year after aiding Tennessee in its upset of thenNo. 4 South Carolina.
MEN’S BASKETBALL
Vols falter early, suffer largest defeat of season Rob Harvey
Asst. Sports Editor Lexington, Kentucky – All season the Tennessee men’s basketball team has struggled to hold on to large leads, blowing five 13-point leads during the season. However, on Tuesday night, the Vols barely had a lead to blow. The Vols jumped out to a 5-0 lead in the first two minutes of the game, but after giving up that lead just seconds later, never lead again in route to a Kentucky 83-58 victory. “We were really just gosh awful,” head coach Rick Barnes said after the loss. “I think from Kentucky’s vantage point, they got everything done that they wanted to get done … I’m just sorry we didn’t give them a better game, because I think we are better than the way we played tonight.” After the Vols led by five, the Wildcats came alive and finished off the first half on a 47-27 run. This run was in large part thanks to their threepoint shooting. In their first meeting, a game in which Tennessee won 82-80, Kentucky made just six
of 24 three’s. On Tuesday night, the Wildcats drained 10 three’s in the first half and 11 three’s in total for the game. Freshman Malik Monk was the star for Kentucky, as he totaled 20 points in the game and made four three’s. Monk now has 15 games this season where he has scored 20 points or more and has yet to score single digits in a game this season. Senior Derek Willis also abused the Tennessee defense as he scored 16 points and 12 of those came off of three-pointers. Willis hit seven three’s last year in Lexington against the Vols and scored 25 points. For the Vols defense, they seemed to have no answer for the Wildcats three-point shooting. “Our key was not to let their fourth (Willis) shoot the ball. I don’t think you’re going to stop Monk as good as he is on a night to night basis,” Barnes said. “If you look back at the game in Knoxville, he (Willis) and Gabriel were not factors. And we said all week that’s what we can’t allow happen, and we let it happen.” The Vols lone bright spot in the game was freshman point guard Jordan Bone. Bone, who had struggled as of late, scored 15 points and hit his first three-pointer in three games. With the Vols getting blown out in the second half, Bone
took it upon himself to attempt to get them back in the game. However, despite his efforts, the Vols were no match for the Wildcats. “I made a couple buckets tonight but just kind of disappointing the way we played tonight,” Bone said. “We’ve just got to get better.” The Vols consistent duo for most of the season, senior Robert Hubbs III and freshman Grant Williams, were for the most part absent in the game. So far this season, when Williams and Hubbs have struggled, the Vols as a team have also struggled. Hubbs finished the game with just seven points and continues his slump. In his last five games, Hubbs has been ice cold shooting, going 14 of 47 from the field. Williams’ struggles, on the other hand, were a mystery as he was coming off a 30-point outburst Saturday against Georgia. Williams seemed overpowered by Kentucky’s Bam Adebayo as he scored just eight points and collected just three rebounds. Williams ended the game with more turnovers than rebounds. “(Hubbs) didn’t make the effort that he has to,” Barnes said. “Robert is better than that. “Granted, to start the game, we knew they
were going to double him, threw a pass that I’m not sure anyone could have caught, and he kept making it much harder than it had to be on himself down there,” Barnes said. The Vols one defensive success in the game did come down low as they managed to contain Adebayo for most of the game. Adebayo took just five shots in the game and scored seven points. However, the Vols focus on stopping Adebayo opened up easy three-pointers for Kentucky. The Wildcats shot 46 percent from the field in the game and held the Vols to 35 percent and just 58 points, 19 points below their game average. “We just weren’t tough enough. We didn’t have enough energy, and we didn’t execute the game plan. Just simple things,” Admiral Schofield said. Schofield was the leading scorer for the Vols, as he totaled 17 points in the game. Most of those points, however, came with the game already decided. The Vols finished the game with just six players scoring in the game. The Vols are back home on Saturday as they take on the Missouri Tigers. That game tips off at 1 p.m. and can be seen on the SEC Network.