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TN lawmakers move to cut diversity funding Staff Report

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Quidditch team makes fiction a reality Bryanne Brewer Contributor

The Time Turners practice in the dark, the cold and the mud.

This team may have drawn their name from a fantasy children’s book, but don’t be fooled — Quidditch is not a leisurely sport.

Inspired by the flying version of the

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sport portrayed in J.K Rowling’s Harry Potter series, muggle Quidditch is a gender inclusive, full contact sport.

Essentially it’s rugby and dodgeball on brooms. The rules are fairly simple.

According to US Quidditch and International Quidditch Association rules, each team has seven players on the field and there are four balls in play at any given time. A typical team has one seeker who chases and catches the snitch (a run-

ner dressed in all yellow), three chasers who score points by kicking or throwing the quaffle (a volleyball) into the goals and two beaters who use bludgers (dodgeballs) to disrupt the chasers.

The quaffle is worth 10 points per goal, and the snitch is worth 30 points. Plus, the snitch’s capture ends the game.

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The Senate Education Committee unanimously voted to strip UT’s Diversity Office of its funding during a meeting Wednesday meeting.

Sen. Delores Gresham proposed the amendment to the university’s system budget that would effectively remove all state funding for the Knoxville campus’ Office of Diversity and Inclusion.

“Only federal funds shall be expended to support the Office for Diversity and Inclusion at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville,” reads the amendment.

The amendment also rerouted millions of dollars within UT Knoxville’s budget to go towards rural outreach programs in Tennessee.

According to estimates from the university system, efforts spent on diversity issues amount to $5 million annually, less than 1 percent of UT’s system wide $2.1 billion budget. The Office of Diversity does not receive federal funding, according to UT officials.

A final budget bill in April must first be approved before the changes take effect.

UT President Joe DiPietro made the case for the necessity of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion twice Wednesday, once in a joint hearing with the two House education committees, and again with the Senate Education Committee.

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Migrants on Greek border get bad news from European officials Almost 10,000 migrants are now stuck on the border of Greece and Macedonia, as many struggle with the current migrant crisis in Europe.

Austria’s Chancellor said Tuesday that the country would not be a “waiting room” for the rest of Europe while negotiations are held on how to manage the crisis. Greek officials have largely closed their borders to these migrants. As few as a dozen or less of the thousands of migrants on the border are processed each day. Many recently walked up to 20 miles along Greece’s northern highways hoping for a breakthrough. Approximately 2,000 migrants are still being added daily to the thousands already in Greece. Government bodies in Greece are asking for millions to support the roughly 300,000 stranded refugees now in the country. The U.N. Refugee Agency says the European continent is facing its worst immigration crisis since the end of World War II.

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Top national attorney hired in Ooltewah rape case

Atlanta Falcons release Roddy White

The family of the Ooltewah basketball player allegedly raped by his fellow students has hired one of the nation’s top attorneys specializing in cases of school violence. Douglas Fierberg’s practice School Violence Law is the only national law office specializing in representing victims of violence in school-related tragedies. Fierberg is best recognized for representing over 20 victims of the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007, which resulted in a settlement with the Commonwealth of Virginia. The assault occurred last December when a freshman on the high school basketball team was sexually assaulted by three other teammates with a pool cue during a school trip to Gatlinburg. The incident resulted in the boy’s hospitalization after his colon, bladder and prostate that were ruptured in the attack. The school’s head basketball coach, assistant coach and athletic director were all charged with failure to report child abuse in the aftermath of the attack. All three boys related to the attack are scheduled to appear in court March 15.

The Atlanta Falcons have decided to release all-time leading wide receiver Roddy white. The wide receiver had two years remaining on his contract. White, 34, was due to make $4.25 million in 2016 with a high salary-cap figure of $6,137,500. He previously said he didn’t want to take a pay cut. His release provides a cap savings of just $2,362,500 in 2016.

White is a four-time pro bowler and has snagged 808 career receptions for 10, 863 receiving yards and 63 touchdowns. If White decides not to retire, he will likely have options on where to finish his career. His former offensive coordinator in Atlanta, Dirk Koetter, is the head coach in Tampa Bay. And his former wide receivers coach, Terry Robiskie, is the offensive coordinator in Tennessee. Both franchises might be interested in signing a veteran receiver for their young franchise quarterbacks.

Turtles are key as Kenya balances ecology and development Associated Press

WATAMU, Kenya — A turtle drags itself along a white sandy beach, splashes through the gentle warm Indian Ocean and then vanishes with a plop, becoming one of 13,750 turtle success stories on a stretch of Kenyan coastline facing pressure from developers.

Kenya is striving to strike a balance between developing its 330 miles (530 kilometers) of coastline for a billion-dollar tourism industry that employs a half-million people and preserving the environment that attracts those visitors. As the East African nation does so, some experts say that turtles are key, because they are so picky when it comes to laying eggs that if the right environment is maintained for them, then things are going well.

Kenya’s record is mixed in protecting endangered turtles, but is going pretty well, a top

wildlife official says.

One of several sore spots for conservationists and locals — and not least of all, the turtles — is a hotel of former Renault F1 tycoon Flavio Briatore, 25 kilometers (16 miles) north of here.

The dispute centers around Briatore’s Billionaire Resort on Malindi beach and its 100-meter concrete seawall to protect the property and guests from the elements.

Malindi resident David Kirk said the resort has been an “absolute environmental disaster,” in which forests full of nesting birds were destroyed and soil erosion because of the seawall had stopped turtles from coming ashore to lay eggs.

Resort general manager Stephanie Ravessoud said the seawall was built following all government requirements and respects the environment.

“Erosion has been there for decades.

Everybody knows that sand in our area is

being washed away long before the building of our wall,” she said.

Marine biologist Casper Van de Geer said turtles need quiet, sandy beaches to lay eggs and large tourist resorts or housing developments disturb that process.

“Light and noise scare them off,” he said.

“They lay their eggs above the high water mark. The nest has to be warm and above the water, so erosion affects that.”

Local Ocean Trust runs a rehabilitation center in Watamu that Van de Geer manages where sick or injured turtles are nursed back to health. The group also compensates local fishermen for turtles caught in their nets or found sick or injured.

“A big adult turtle can fetch up to $500 on the black market,” Van de Geer said.

“Fisherman earn about $100 a month, in a good month. So one turtle is almost half a year of work

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United Nations approves toughest sanctions on North Korea in 20 years Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council on Wednesday unanimously approved the toughest sanctions on North Korea in two decades, reflecting growing anger at Pyongyang’s latest nuclear test and rocket launch in defiance of a ban on all nuclear-related activity.

The United States and China, North Korea’s traditional ally, spent seven weeks negotiating the new sanctions, which include mandatory inspections of cargo leaving and entering North Korea by land, sea or air; a ban on all sales or transfers of small arms and light weapons to Pyongyang; and expulsion of diplomats from the North who engage in “illicit activities.”

South Korea’s Defense Ministry said North Korea fired short-range projectiles into the sea just hours after the sanctions were approved.

The U.S., its Western allies and Japan pressed for new sanctions that went beyond the North’s nuclear and missile programs but China was reluctant to impose measures that could threaten the stability of the neighboring country and cause its economy to collapse.

Nonetheless, Beijing did agree to several measures aimed at shutting down financing for nuclear and missile programs.

“The international community, speaking with one voice, has sent Pyongyang a simple message: North Korea must abandon these dangerous programs and choose a better path for its people,” President Barack Obama said in a statement.

North Korea started off the new year with what it claims was its first hydrogen bomb test on Jan. 6 and launched a satellite on a rocket on Feb. 7. The launch was condemned by much of the world as a test of banned missile technology.

North Korea ignored the chance to address the Security Council and a spokesman for the country’s U.N. mission did not immediately respond to a request for comment. But South

Korea’s Defense Ministry said North Korea fired several short-range projectiles into the sea on Thursday, just hours after the sanctions were approved.

The North’s launches also came shortly after Seoul approved its first legislation on human rights in North Korea. The South Korean bill’s passage was ahead of the Security Council’s approval of the sanctions.

Defense spokesman Moon Sang Gyun said the projectiles were fired from the eastern coastal town of Wonsan, and authorities were trying to determine whether the projectiles were missiles, artillery or rockets.

On Monday, the official KCNA news agency published a commentary saying “it is nothing but a pipe dream for the U.S. to expect the DPRK to collapse due to ‘sanctions.’ This is as foolish as waiting the missions of the sun and stars to come to an end.” DPRK are the initials of the country’s official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

China, Russia and others expressed hope Wednesday that the sanctions will lead to the immediate resumption of six-party talks aimed at the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. North Korea withdrew from the talks in 2008.

Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said that “by shutting down, as much as possible, the financing of DPRK’s nuclear-ballistic programs, the idea is to ensure the return to the table of negotiations all the interested parties.”

The resolution bans the export of coal, iron and iron ore being used to fund North Korea’s nuclear or ballistic missile programs but not for general economic use. It prohibits all exports of gold, titanium ore, vanadium ore and rare earth minerals and bans aviation fuel exports to the country, including “kerosenetype rocket fuel.”

U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power said it’s estimated that the DPRK earns approximately $1 billion annually from coal — a third of its export income — and at least $200 million a year from iron ore exports.

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Gov. Haslam takes issue with Trump on immigration, abortion Associated Press

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam said Wednesday that Donald Trump would need to make major policy changes before he could consider supporting the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination.

Haslam endorsed Marco Rubio before the state’s Super Tuesday primary, but the Florida senator came in third behind Trump and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.

“I’d love to see a blatant disavowal of white supremacy groups. I’d like to see him address issues like respect for life,” Haslam told The Associated Press at the state Capitol. “And is there going to be a religious test to get in to this country?”

According to exit polls Tuesday, about seven in 10 Republicans said they support temporarily banning Muslims who are not citizens from entering the United States. But Haslam said he disagrees with that approach.

“Protection of religious freedom has been one of the foundations of this country,” Haslam said. “Once you say we’re going to start excluding that group, how long is it until your group gets excluded?”

Haslam also criticized what he called a lack of education proposals from Trump other than a promise to dismantle Common Core education standards.

“Common Core was ended last year,” Haslam said. “It’s gone. There’s no such thing the president needs to come in and end.”

The record turnout of 1.2 million for both the Republican and Democratic primaries was nearly 50,000 more than the number who voted in the 2008 contest.

With all Republican precincts reporting, Trump had 39 percent of the vote, compared with 25 percent for Cruz and 21 percent for Rubio. Trump won every Tennessee county

except Williamson, where Rubio won.

And on the Republican side, 9 in 10 voters said they were unhappy with the way the federal government is working, with close to half characterizing themselves as “angry.”

Fewer than 1 in 10 said they were satisfied with the government. About 6 in 10 said they feel betrayed by Republican politicians.

Tom Ingram, a longtime Republican strategist and adviser to Haslam and U.S. Sens.

Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker, said the frustration among GOP voters has been growing in recent elections.

Candidates in upcoming elections for the state Legislature, Congress and governor will have be able to manage that anger, Ingram said.

“You’ve got to understand the frustration, and you’ve really got to tune into it,” he said.

“You’ve got to be really authentic in your response to it, but be true to who you are and not pander to it.

“At the end of the day I think people respect that,” he said.

Alexander ran into a similar anti-incumbent sentiment when he survived a stiff challenge in the 2014 primary from little-known and underfunded state Rep. Joe Carr.

Ingram said that internal polling by Alexander’s campaign showed that more than 40 percent of those who voted for Carr in the primary didn’t know who he was.

“They’ve gotten more and more frustrated,” Ingram said. “They tend to tar-and-feather the status quo and incumbency.”

Alexander ended up winning that primary by just 9 percentage points, a surprisingly narrow margin for the former governor who also ran for president twice.

Haslam said it’s unclear what effect the Trump vote will have on Tennessee’s next statewide elections for governor and senator in 2018.

“Every election is somewhat of a reflection of the election before that,” Haslam said.

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House Democrats propose free community college tuition Associated Press

FRANKFORT, Ky.— The Democratic majority in Kentucky’s House of Representatives wants to offer free community college tuition to all of the state’s high school graduates, signaling a likely confrontation with new Republican Gov. Matt Bevin over state spending.

Bevin, who took office in December, has proposed slashing $650 million in state spending over the next two years, including cuts of 4.5 percent this year and 9 percent in each of the next two years for the state’s colleges and universities.

Bevin wants to use the money to begin paying down the state’s $36 billion public pension debt, which he and other Republican leaders say could bankrupt the state if left unchecked.

College presidents have pushed back, promising tuition increases and academic program cuts if the reductions stay in place.

On Wednesday, House Democrats said their budget proposal will take as much as $33 million from Bevin’s pension plan over the next two years and use it to pay the tuition for all Kentucky high school graduates who can meet certain standards.

It is modeled after a similar program in Tennessee that was enacted by a Republican governor and state legislature.

The new program, dubbed Work Ready Kentucky Scholarships, does not replace other local, state and federal scholarship programs. Students must still apply for those.

But this new program will pay for whatever cost those programs do not cover. To qualify, students must have a high school diploma or GED by the time they turn 19.

They must enroll in the Kentucky Community and Technical College System immediately after high school, take at least 12 credit hours per semester and maintain at least a 2.0 grade point average.

“Before the naysayers might come forward

and say, ‘That’s too much to spend,’ I would say, that’s not spending, that’s investment,” Democratic House Speaker Greg Stumbo said.” That’s an investment Kentucky must and can make. The dollars are there.”

House budget committee chairman Rick Rand of Bedford would not say Wednesday if the House’s budget proposal would include Bevin’s proposed cuts for colleges and universities.

Kentucky Community and Technical College System President Jay Box has said Bevin’s budget cuts would force him request a raise hike of 8.8 percent. Wednesday, Box said the new scholarship program could bring in as many as 4,000 new students who otherwise would not have enrolled.

Box said that would help tuition revenue, but said he did not know if it would be enough to prevent a tuition increase if the budget cuts go through.

Hal Heiner, Bevin’s education secretary, said “there appears to be significant common ground” between Bevin and the Democrats on this issue. But he said the goals can be achieved “without robbing” from the money set aside to pay down the pension debt.

“We would like to see the House proposal expanded beyond (community colleges) to give more opportunity to our students,” Heiner said in a news release without elaborating on how the state could pay for such a program.

Bevin has not backed down in the face of intense criticism from the higher education community. Last month, he spoke to a rally of community college supporters at the Capitol, telling them “the cuts have to come from somewhere.” And over the weekend, he posted a video to his Facebook page indicating he would not compromise on his proposal.

“I want to be very clear. There is no chance I am going to sign a budget bill that borrows money from our children and grandchildren to take care of today’s problems,” Bevin said in the video. “That is immoral, it is irresponsible.”

Clarification In yesterday’s issue of The Daily Beacon, several photos were misattributed. The photos of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump on page 1 were credited to Flikr.com, but that is incorrect. The credit for the photo of Clinton should say “Courtesy of Gage Skidmore,” and the credit for photo of Trump should say “Courtesy of Michael Vadon.”

Two photos on page 5 were also not attributed correctly. The photo of Donald Trump should be attributed to Michael Vadon, and the photo of Dr. Ben Carson was taken by Gage Skidmore.

“I’m the co-president of SHAG, which aims to create an educational space on campus to discuss healthy sexuality and stuff. I really like teaching and it’s something I’ve always been passionate about and, I mean, everyone on the planet is either going to have sex or know someone who’s had sex at some point, so why not be prepared and be knowledgeable about it, right?”

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DIVERSITY continued from Page 1 On both occasions, DiPietro defended the need for a diversity office at UT, citing past instances on campus where minorities were made to feel like outsiders at their own university.

“In recent years, we have had incidents in which fraternity members have paraded to party locations in ‘black face,’ bananas thrown at a group of prospective black students, cotton balls strewn across the lawn of our black cultural center, racial and homophobic slurs written across campus walls and doors at residence halls,” DiPietro said, as reported by The Knoxville News Sentinel.

Much of state lawmaker’s criticism for the office stem from two posts made to the diversity website last year.

In September, a list of suggested gender

neutral pronouns, written by Pride Center Director Donna Braquet, garnered outrage from state representatives, with Tennessee’s Lieutenant Governor Ron Ramsey referring to it as “political correctness run amok.”

The posts were later removed from the website.

Again in December, the office gained the ire of the lawmakers after a holiday inclusivity post suggested ways to “ensure your holiday party is not a Christmas party in disguise.”

That post was later removed as well after similar criticism from Nashville.

The senate committee decision comes one day after Chancellor Jimmy Cheek and Vice Chancellor of Diversity Rickey Hall met with the UT Diversity Matters coalition to hear a list of demands pertaining to issues on campus.

The story is still developing, and an updated version will be published in Friday’s Daily Beacon.

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QUIDDITCH continued from Page 1 In addition to playing matches against Tennessee Tech, Virginia Tech and other schools, the Time Turners also participate in national or regional Quidditch tournaments. This year the team attended the South Regionals in Auburndale and played against Miami’s team, where chaser Tyler Campbell said one player left the match with a broken thumb.

“It’s a tougher sport than you’d think,” Campbell said.

Although the novelty of Harry Potter initially draws some players in, Quidditch isn’t about drawing lightning bolts on foreheads and shouting “Wingardium Leviosa.” “(Quidditch) is not just a fantasy sport. It’s a real sport, and people don’t realize that until they get out here and play,” defensive chaser Rebecca Shrem said.

The Time Turners coach Evan Parsons said that while the “nerdy stuff” lures most players to the game, it’s the “sports stuff” that keeps them there.

Aside from the grueling physical work required, Quidditch is mainly about creating bonds with fellow students. Whether it’s through practices or playing at tournaments, first year chaser Megan McCarty said the team members become close friends.

Thursday, March 3, 2016 • The Daily Beacon “You fall in love with the people, then you fall in love with the sport,” McCarty said. “The team is just a place where people of different backgrounds and areas can get together and play. It’s a place to feel welcome.”

Campbell shares the same sentiment.

“Every tournament is a blast, we spend weekends in hotels or at someone’s house, and it’s great to just bond,” Campbell said. “Outside of the game a lot of us have the same interests.”

For those who are interested but unsure of how to start, chaser and occasional seeker Ryan Pardue said that Quidditch has a low entry level that makes picking up the sport accessible to all.

“It sounds ridiculous, but it’s worth coming out and trying it once,” Pardue said. “People come by and see us practice and then they try it and get hooked.”

Although the team currently practices in front of the Humanities and Social Sciences building, the Time Turners are hoping to gain recognition from TRECS and get the green light to officially practice on a field. The team also hopes to gain funding from the university to help pay for transportation and equipment.

However, for the Time Turners, Quidditch is not about fancy fields or funding; it’s about friendship and the love of the sport.

The Time Turners practice every week, from 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. on Mondays and Thursdays and from 2 p.m. - 4 p.m. on Sundays. For more information on the team go to https://www. facebook.com/QuidditchUTK/.

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UT Quidditch Team is back at it.

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Travel away from your comfort zone My older brother and several friends of mine are studying abroad in places such as London, Australia, Spain and Paris through UT. Sitting here in my tiny apartment room and typing this column after another long day of classes in my monotonous college life, I can genuinely say I wish more than anything I was in any of their shoes right now rather than here.

I am a strong advocate for traveling. And no, I don’t mean being a tourist and hitting the highlights of popular vacation spots with your patterned fanny pack and Chacos. I mean being a true traveler — someone who goes anywhere and everywhere organically, someone who steps out of their comfort zones and meets people and makes connections all over the world. A true traveler doesn’t worry about taking pictures and later shoving them down the throats of everyone on Facebook, but simply breathes in the moment and keeps it close to their heart for the remainder of their life. By traveling, one becomes a wellrounded, cultured and intelligent person. In my short life, I have learned more valuable life lessons by saying yes to adventures than 15 years of sitting in classrooms.

This is why I am challenging you to go to at least five new places in 2016. People don’t under-

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stand that traveling doesn’t have to include buying an expensive plane ticket and staying in fancy hotels. Is traveling more difficult for college students? Yes, of course. Money, time and resources are scarce for us and the majority of our free time is used to sleep and work on maintaining at least a scrap of our sanity. But it is not impossible.

Don’t buy into the perception that, as a college student, you can’t travel. It is as simple as packing your backpack with some clothes, renting a tent and sleeping bags from UTOP for $9 to $16 total, pocketing some extra cash for food and hitting the road for the weekend. I guarantee Knoxville alone has five new places you could explore.

The magnificent thing about traveling is that, whether it’s within your own state or half way across the world, it’s just about getting out of your comfort zone and discovering the world you live in. So if you have no choice but the cheap route, take this chance to get to know Tennessee. Spend a weekend camping in a local place you have yet to see. Invite your friends and your fellow campers for s’mores to get out of your comfort zone.

If you absolutely refuse to go as cheap as possible because nature is repulsive to you, then take the other route. By rounding up a big group of people to travel with you, you can cut costs of gas,

hotel and food down to a minimum.

When you’re on your death bed, what will you have to look back on? The hours of social media and spending your money on useless items with minimal people standing beside you because you refused to step out of your comfort zone? Or will you have an uncountable amount of memories and experiences to speak of and reflect on with people all over the world by your side?

After participating in a home stay in Catalonia, Spain, the realization that all people across the world are equal hit me hard. Georgina, the girl I stayed with — and to this day still keeps in contact with me three years later — had the same school complaints, boy problems and friend drama as anyone I have ever known. Surrounded

by Americans and Catalans, we spent hours trying to find major differences among us—and never found a thing. I encourage each and every one of you to take the time to really absorb the world and take the time to travel and meet new people.

Emily Moore is a sophomore in journalism and electronic media. She can be reached at emoore52@vols.utk.edu

On childhood dream jobs, résumés and career advice

Clint Graves If I’m Honest

In my younger days, I wanted to be a dentist.

That’s a pretty boring career decision for an elementary school student — especially compared to the choices of my classmates, which included an aspiring famous outlaw-country superstar, an independently contracted shinobi warrior and an eminent scholar in the budding field of biotechnology. I went to school with some weird people.

More to the point, I decided upon this somewhat mundane career based on the advice of my parents and their friends and co-workers. That advice, in turn, was based on perceived practicality.

And by that measure, it’s excellent advice.

Dentists make six-figure salaries, work only four days per week, require their own special type of insurances and do, as far as I can tell, absolutely no work at all. Every time I’ve gone to the dentist (at least twice a year for as long as I’ve had teeth), the hygienist does all of the torture while the actual dentist just walks in after it’s over, pokes your gums a couple of times, chuckles and tells you to floss.

I’m great at chuckling and telling people what they should do. I’m also driven to lead an incredibly expensive lifestyle. It seems like an all-around win.

Until, of course, you start examining the details of the arrangement. Schooling to become a dentist,

as I understand, takes quite a long time. You also have to join professional dental associations, which presumably convene yearly to talk about tooth decay or flossing. And worst of all, occasionally I would have to chuckle while poking a child’s gums.

And children, as is well documented, bite people.

My point: career advice isn’t always worth listening to.

As a communication studies major, I’ve spent a lot of time in several classes learning to write résumés and cover letters. This is perhaps the most direct form of career advice I’ve ever received.

Here is the sum total of what I’ve learned from my classes: the résumé is an incredibly important document that puts your entire professional life onto one page. And absolutely no one knows how to do one properly.

There are exactly as many ways to write a résumé as there are people willing to tell you how to do it.

Should you include an objective statement?

Should you make a right-aligned or left-aligned column for your dates? Do you put “references available upon request?” No one really agrees on anything. As a result, writing the document for a potential job is a total crapshoot.

Let’s take the objective statement for example.

If an employer is a bit of a traditionalist – the

sort of person who wears his Tuesday belt with his Thursday socks for fun – and you’ve left off the objective statement, then he will haughtily scoff and toss your résumé in the garbage. Along with your dreams.

If the employer is, however, a bit younger and hipper – if they’re the sort of person that casually addresses their boss as “dude” or wears a t-shirt and jeans to work – and you leave the objective statement on, you’ll be laughed at. They’ll offer you a job, perhaps, but will certainly make a point of laughing at your formality. At that point, you’ll have to live in the shadow of that objective statement. They may even taunt you with nicknames, perhaps: “objectionable” or “objectivity man” or “asshole.”

With that kind of uncertainty hanging in the balance, it would seem prudent to have a standard of practice upon which we all agree.

But as I said, it’s really just a total crapshoot.

As a result, I can really only offer the following as solid career advice: hope you don’t roll snake eyes. Or boxcars. Try for a 7 on your first go. And never bet the hard way.

Clint Graves is a junior in communication studies and English. He can be reached atbhr713@ vols.utk.edu

Columns 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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Piano professor leaves behind classical legacy Jesse Brewer

Contributor

Who run the world? Girls. March is National Women’s History Month, and these songs celebrate womanhood in all its different backgrounds, shapes and styles. So, here’s to you, ladies!

“I Hate Myself for Loving You” Joan Jett

“Man, I Feel Like a Woman” Shania Twain

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David Northington, professor of piano for the School of Music, will be leaving after a 40-year career.

Northington first started taking piano seriously in high school during a summer piano program.

“I realized that if I wanted to be a professional pianist that I would have a lot of catching up to do and I would have to work very hard to prepare for college,” Northington recalled. “I came back to high school and I started practicing six hours a day. My friends didn’t know what happened to me.”

Northington continued to play and practice through college and afterward began to teach as well as perform in over ten countries. Combining performing and instructing allowed Northington to become one of a handful of performers who could “make it” as classical pianists.

He earned many awards and praise from critics for his performances in some of the most-renowned recital halls in the world, including the Carnegie Recital Hall.

“I was not dissuaded from the career path because classical music was not as popular as it use to be. It was almost like a challenge for me,” Northington said. “How could I show people who haven’t experienced classical music what a great musical experience can be?”

After a few stints at preparatory schools and smaller colleges, Northington made the move to UT where he has continued his mission of sharing his love of classical music with others.

As his teaching career at UT reaches a close, Northington is still trying to get people interested in classical piano.

“There is a great communicative power of classical music and that’s something our culture does not promote as much,” he said. “I haven’t given up.”

According to one of his graduate students, Ruixi Niu, Northington’s passion is evident in both aspects of his career — performing and teaching.

“He’s passionate about his music and his teaching and inspires us a lot and makes us love the music even more,” Niu said. “He always has a childish heart when he plays his music. It’s very natural and innocent and that is very special for a musician to keep that childishness.”

Niu is a student from China who met Northington through one of his former students with whom she shared an instructor in China. Together, Northington’s former student and Niu are setting up a piano music festival at her home university where Northington will give master classes and spread his knowledge

David Northington, piano professor at UT, will be retiring after nearly 45 years of teaching. • File Photo and passion for piano. Niu plans to assist and translate for him.

The special relationships built between Northington and his students are evident not only in his collaboration with Niu but also in the impact that he has had on another of his graduate students, Julian Calvin.

Calvin benefited from a masterclass by Northington when he was in high school in 2007. Years later, after receiving his undergraduate degree from Lipscomb, he remembered the impact that Northington’s energy had on him when he was younger and began to look into coming to UT. “One of the reasons I came here was because he was the only professor out of the three schools that I got into that called me and said, ‘Hey, I really want you to be here.’ So, that really impressed me, and I’m very glad I did come here to study with him,” Calvin recalled.

Coincidentally, both Niu and Calvin will finish their degrees this semester and won’t have to make the difficult transition to find a new mentor before graduation.

“As sad as I am that Dr. Northington is retir-

ing, I’m glad that I don’t have to deal with it,” Calvin joked.

One of the reasons Northington’s students have so much admiration for him is the way he pushes them to do better.

“I have an expectation and a level of quality that I am expecting them to rise to, and I’m not going to be compromising,” Northington said.

“They’ve got to get there, they’ve got to do that and hopefully in the process I inspire them to reach for that goal. To reach for that and go for that and to give up things in the process in order to make it.”

Northington has won the Tennessee Music Association’s Teacher of the Year Award and received the Tennessee Art Commission’s Artist of the Year Award.

Taking up piano was a gamble for him as a young man, but it paid off at the end of a long and successful career here with connections to students all over the world.

Northington plays his last ever recital at UT this Sunday at 2:30 p.m. in the Haslam Music Building.

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Rolling Stones to play show in Havana Associated Press

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HAVANA — The Rolling Stones announced Tuesday that the group will play a free concert in Havana on March 25, becoming the most famous act to play Cuba since its 1959 revolution.

The Stones will play in Havana’s Ciudad Deportiva three days after President Barack Obama visits Havana. The concert is expected to draw a massive audience in a country where the government once persecuted young people for listening to rock music. “We have performed in many special places during our long career but this show in Havana is going to be a landmark event for us, and, we hope, for all our friends in Cuba too,� the band said in a statement.

Along with easing many restrictions on foreign music, art and literature, the Cuban government has increasingly allowed large gatherings not organized by the state in recent years. The Stones concert will almost certainly be one of the largest since Cuba began easing its limits on some nonofficial gatherings in the 1990s. “I’m definitely going to go,� said Ivia Perez, 39. “It makes me think about being in high school, after the period of censor-

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Lady Vols prepare for SEC Tournament Trenton Duffer Copy Editor

JACKSONVILLE, FL- As Tennessee prepares for the SEC women’s basketball Tournament in Jacksonville, they will try to overcome a major team flaw: turnovers.

Turnovers have plagued the Lady Vols throughout the season. There were only four games this season where the Lady Vols had less than 12 turnovers, including the Oregon State win where they had only nine.

However, the Lady Vols have turned the ball over 20 or more times in seven games, the highest being 24 on the road against who else but the Lady Vols opponent on Thursday — Arkansas.

“I think in our first game (against Arkansas) with turnovers we were very casual,” head coach Holly Warlick said before her team left for the Sunshine State on Wednesday. “We had low energy.”

The Lady Vols rebounded later in the season at home against Arkansas, beating the Razorbacks 75-57 in Thompson-Boling Arena.

Tennessee only committed 12 turnovers in that game.

“In the second game, we had more of a sense of urgency,” Warlick later said. “We had, I think, more respect for Arkansas. Arkansas is a very good basketball team, and they’ve been in just about every game they’ve played.

“I think our understanding that we had to play 40 minutes in that second game was a huge difference.”

The Lady Vols (17-12, 8-8 SEC) season has been one for the record books in all the wrong ways. The team’s 12 losses are the most ever in a season. Tennessee lost to Mississippi State for the first time in program history and snapped a 42-game winning streak against Alabama.

Even though struggles have been everywhere

for the Lady Vols this year, the team finished out the season strong on Sunday, beating Georgia 80-60 on Senior Day. The Lady Vols committed only 12 turnovers against the Lady Bulldogs.

Guard Jordan Reynolds feels that the Lady Vols are tough to beat when they limit their turnovers.

“I think we got a lot more shots up than Georgia did just because we took care of the ball so early on,” Reynolds said. “That’s very key for our team right now.”

Tennessee will look to build momentum from Sunday’s win when it takes on the No. 10 seeded Razorbacks Thursday night at 6 p.m. The game will be broadcast on the SEC Network.

If the Lady Vols win, they will take on No. 2 Texas A&M on Friday. The Lady Vols lost in overtime to the Aggies 76-71 the last time the teams played.

The rest of the bracket: The Lady Vols’ half of the bracket shapes up fairly well for the team.

Juggernaut South Carolina is in the other half of the bracket, so the Lady Vols wouldn’t have to play the Gamecocks until potentially the SEC Championship game, if the Lady Vols were to make it that far.

Vanderbilt beat Ole Miss on Wednesday, assuring the Commodores a matchup against No. 6 seed Georgia on Thursday. That game will take place 25 minutes after the conclusion of the Lady Vols game. The winner of that game goes on to face No. 3 Mississippi State.

The top half of the bracket shows No. 9 Auburn taking on No. 8 Missouri at 12 p.m. with the winner moving on to No. 1 South Carolina.

Half an hour after the Auburn-Missouri matchup, No. 13 LSU, who beat No. 12 Alabama on Wednesday, will take on No. 5 Kentucky. The winner will take on No. 4 Florida.

All four of Wednesday’s games will be broadcast on the SEC Network.

Lady Vols player, Jordan Reynolds, looks for an open pass.

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Obama honors Alabama’s championship football team Associated Press WASHINGTON — Bellowing out “Roll Tide,” President Barack Obama on Wednesday welcomed the University of Alabama football team to the White House for the fourth time since he became president and said he must have brought it some good luck.

Obama, sounding confident in his apparent positive influence as well as in the Crimson Tide’s athletic prowess, said he’d like to welcome the team back in 2017 — “but we’ve got this thing called term limits.” He’ll be out of office

at this time next year after serving two terms.

Winning four national titles in seven years is historic, said Obama, who compared the feat to “winning a best-of-seven series, except you’re playing 127 teams around the country. The last time a team went on this kind of run was in the 1940s. Back then, folks were still wearing leather helmets.”

“I don’t feel like anybody in a leather helmet would do too well trying to tackle Derrick Henry,” he added, referring to the running back and Heisman Trophy winner who is entering the NFL draft. “Of course, even with modern helmets they didn’t do too well tackling Derrick

Henry.”

Alabama came from behind to defeat Clemson in college football’s national championship game in January.

Obama noted Henry’s SEC record of more than 22,000 rushing yards and 28 touchdowns, but also gave credit for Alabama’s “smothering defense” to center Ryan Kelly, defensive lineman A’Shawn Robinson and linebacker Reggie Ragland.

Obama said the team isn’t defined solely by its on-field performance. Alabama is first in the Southeastern Conference and third among top 25 teams in graduation rates, he said. The play-

ers have also volunteered hundreds of hours at retirement homes, hospitals and schools around Tuscaloosa.

Obama also commended coach Nick Saban for continuing to help Habitat for Humanity build homes to replace those that were destroy after a powerful tornado struck the Tuscaloosa area in 2011.

“Everybody recognizes excellence when they see it and nobody’s had more sustained excellence as a football program at the collegiate level than the Alabama Crimson Tide,” the president said. “Congratulations.”

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Notebook: Early Runs a Gift for Vols so far this Season Rob Harver

Contributor The Tennessee Baseball team has thrived off of early inning runs more than anything this year.

For the sixth game this season the Vols scored runs in the early innings of the game, this time tallying six in three innings Wednesday afternoon in a 7-1 home opening victory over the Cincinnati Bearcats.

The runs started early as the Vols totaled five runs off of three hits in the first inning.

Jeff Moberg and Chris Hall led things off with back-to-back singles. Nick Senzel walked to load the bases, and the Vols got their first run of the game as Vincent Jackson was hit by a pitch.

“Fortunately for us we jumped out early,” Coach Dave Serrano said after the victory. “(Jeff) Moberg led off with a base hit, and then (Chris) Hall with a base hit, Nick walked and the next thing you know we’re up 5-0.”

The rally continued as Jordan Rodgers continued his hot start as he cleared the bases by tripling in three runs.

“I was just trying to get a ball up and he left it up and I went with it,” Rodgers said.

Daniel Neal knocked in Rodgers on a sac fly to close out the runs in the first.

The Vols added on another run in the third when Jordan Rodgers doubled to left and then scored on a passed ball.

“Whenever we jump ahead early it really adds momentum to the pitchers,” starting pitcher Daniel Vasquez said. “It takes some of the pressure off of us so that’s a huge credit to the offense for jumping ahead like that.”

Upperclassmen Leadership Key to Vols Success: The starting lineup for the Vols consisted of seven upperclassmen in the win and their leadership and experience has been key for the Vols so far this season.

Seniors Vincent Jackson and Jeff Moberg have played key roles so far. Moberg has been the perfect leadoff hitter as he is hitting .556 with five RBIs, 16 runs and three stolen bases.

Jackson has been the power in the lineup as he has already totaled three home runs with 10 RBIs including one on Wednesday.

He has also scored 10 runs and has stolen three bases.

Juniors Nick Senzel and Jordan Rodgers have also been a big part of the offensive success so far. Senzel has 15 RBIs already through seven games. He also has two stolen bases and has scored 11 runs.

Jordan Rodgers has also been an RBI machine as he has totaled 16, including three Wednesday night.

“These guys have had a lot of at bats and have played a lot of games,” Serrano said.

“They haven’t had a lot of success but they have had the experience and I think experience is gained through failures. They’re doing a wonderful job in their roles of being good teammates and roll models for their teammates.”

Vazquez solid in First Start: Daniel Vasquez made his first collegiate start Wednesday night and didn’t disappoint.

Vasquez only allowed one run on two hits in five innings. He also struck out seven as he attempts to lock down the starting position for the mid week games.

“I was very proud of him (Daniel),” Serrano said. “He has a good arm and he runs it up there good. He threw strikes and moved the ball in and out. I thought for five innings

he went out there and did a good job.”

“I was really composed and relaxed out there,” Vasquez said. “The confidence that the coaches have in me really relaxed me out there.

Kyle Serrano done for Season: Kyle Serrano will be out for the rest of the season and will most likely need season-ending elbow surgery, Coach Serrano said.

“It’s not torn but if he needs surgery it will most likely be Tommy John surgery,” Coach Serrano said. “His career is not over here at Tennessee. He’ll come back and be at full strength next year. Someone like Daniel Vasquez will have to step up and take his innings.”

Kyle Serrano made one start this season where he gave up five runs in a loss to Memphis.

Up Next: The Vols will travel to Greenville, North Carolina. this weekend as they will play in the Keith LeClair Classic against Maryland, 16th ranked and host East Carolina, and Southeastern Louisiana. The Vols will return home and play Western Kentucky next Tuesday at 6pm.

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Offensive outburst continues as Vols win home-opener Shane Switzer

Staff Writer Supernovas create a “new” bright star that can burn for several weeks before fading away.

Tennessee hopes its new found offense can last a little longer than a few weeks.

Tennessee’s offense certainly didn’t fade Wednesday, as the Vols defeated Cincinnati 7-1 Tuesday in their home opener at LindseyNelson Stadium.

Despite the 30 degree temperature at first pitch, the offense stayed hot.

The Vols opened with five runs in the first and added runs in the third and sixth.

Cincinnati never threatened as the Bearcats lone run came off a solo shot to right center from Ryan Noda.

Back in the fall head coach Dave Serrano said he was changing Tennessee’s approach at the plate. They were going to swing more and bunt less. The Vols were going to try and hang crooked numbers up on the scoreboard early.

Basically Serrano was overhauling Tennessee’s offense.

Through Tennessee’s first seven games, the change has paid major dividends. The Vols tallied 21 runs in their season-opening against Memphis and followed that up by scoring 51 during the Grand Canyon Classic tournament out in Phoenix, Ariz.

So far Tennessee has 34 percent of last season’s total runs scored of 229, including Tennessee’s seven runs against the Bearcats.

Jordan Rodgers has been the guy driving in those runs early for Tennessee.

“I just honestly think we trust each other,” Rodgers said. “We’ve all been together two or three years and there’s really no pressure on any of us to do anything because we really do believe the guy behind us or in front of us is gonna get it down.”

It isn’t just Nick Senzel, Baseball America’s No. 5 MLB draft prospect, getting the job done on offense either. Senior Jeff Moberg

has blossomed as the lead-off hitter. Moberg is hitting .556 with 16 hits, 15 RBI, and 16 runs scored. Rodgers has just eight hits but has knocked in 16 RBI. Vincent Jackson is hitting .474 with nine hits, three home runs, and 10 RBI. The Vols have five batters hitting better than .350 and the top four batters in the line-up are hitting better than .400 thus far in the season.

It’s still early, just seven games into the season but the offense has been clicking for Tennessee.

“They’re getting on base and they’re doing things right,” Serrano said. “Moberg and Hall are doing a great job table setting and Nick (Senzel) is doing his roll and Jackson has had some big games obviously. Jordan (Rodgers) is just cleaning up what’s left out there for him.”

“I was probably more negative with our guys after the game, we talk about laser focus a lot and I felt for the first six games we played, even the game we didn’t play real well … It wasn’t about our focus and our energy it was about physical mistakes,” Serrano said. “I didn’t think that this game … We didn’t sustain that through nine innings. Part of that was probably the coldness. It was cold out there.”

With no outs in the first Tennessee had the bases loaded with Vincent Jackson at the plate but instead of getting to swing the bat Cincinnati pitcher Cam Alldred hit Jackson in the arm to give the Vols their first run of the game. RBI leader Jordan Rodgers then hit a bases-clearing triple to right to run the score up to 4-0.

“A lot of base runners on, I was just trying to get a ball up,” Rodgers said. “He left it up and away and I just went with it.”

Tennessee got one more run in the inning but by then Cincinnati had already pulled Alldred and the game seemed to be going the way every game has gone for the Vols, offense, offense, and more offense.

To think that Tennessee can keep up this torrid pace all season long is a big stretch of

Vincent Jackson, #40, swings and successfully hits a pitch.

• File Photo the imagination but if and when players get into a slump this early season success will give them a major confidence boost.

The one area Tennessee has been lacking in during the first seven games this year has been pitching.

Against Cincinnati the Vols pitching staff seemed to turn it around, only giving up four hits and one run.

“The most important thing for me is we only walked one guy,” Serrano said. “I don’t really care about how many hits we’re giving up it’s about the command of the strike zone.

We walked one guy tonight and that’s what set the tone for us.”

Freshman Daniel Vasquez (1-0) made his

first career start Wednesday night and went five innings giving up only one run off two hits while striking out seven batters.

“He’s a guy that moves his fastball around down in the zone and he’s got a good arm,” Serrano said. “It was his first start here at home and for five innings I thought he went out and did a good job.”

After the game Dave Serrano announced that Tennessee is losing Kyle Serrano due to a ligament injury, possibly for the season, and he said other pitchers will need to step up.

“Someone like Daniel Vasquez and someone else that doesn’t even know yet are gonna have to gobble up those innings and be effective.”