Friday, March 28, 2014
Issue 51, Volume 125
Faculty senate passes Big Orange Orchard resolution senior in chemical engineering, and UT alumnus Chris Staff Writer Weller, the Big Orange Orchard would establish a Liz Wood series of edible, self-sustainStaff Writer ing gardens across campus; the entire Knoxville commuOn the way to class, students nity would be welcome to may soon pass an orchard lush munch. Tuesday, the Student with fresh fruit, ripe for the pick- Government Association ing. Senate passed a resolution Conceived by Neil Brown, in unanimous support of
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this concept, placing the project under the jurisdiction of an SGA committee on environment and sustainability. Their next steps? Finalize the design, calculate a total budget and present the proposal to Facilities Services for final approval. Also working to evaluate student support, landscape architecture students pre-
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sented orchard design ideas for McClung Plaza and the green space beside it. While Brown and Weller will likely combine the designs along with their own ideas for the final presentation, Julianna Burchett, junior in environmental science, believes the project will help showcase UT’s efforts to ‘Make Orange Green.’ See ORCHARD on Page 2
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Crime Log: unpaid cab fares, pot in Clement Hall, and a stereo theft
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No vodka here – read why one Knoxville liquor store is protesting NEWS >>pg. 3
Everything you need to know about Big Ears Music Festival ARTS & CULTURE>>pg. 6
Senior forward Jeronne Maymon rallies his teammates during Tennessee’s Sweet 16 open practice at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Thursday. The Vols will take on No. 2 seed Michigan tonight at 7:15 p.m.
UT, Michigan’s post game becoming X-factor for Sweet 16 matchup Steven Cook Copy Editor INDIANAPOLIS—Glenn Robinson III wasn’t four months old when his father and Cuonzo Martin were in their collegiate glory days. Two decades ago this month, a 22-year-old Martin and a 21-year-old Glenn Robinson Jr. led Purdue’s topseeded 1994 squad into the NCAA tournament. The duo combined for nearly 64 percent of the Boilermakers’ points in three tournament games before being upset by Duke in the Elite Eight. Fast-forward 20 years. Martin has coached the Tennessee Volunteers into the Sweet 16, where they will face Robinson III and the second-seeded Michigan Wolverines at Lucas Oil
Stadium in Indianapolis tonight at 7:15 p.m. ET on CBS. Having known the youngest Robinson since he was born, Martin couldn’t help but gloat about the son of “Big Dog” as he embarks onto college basketball’s biggest stage. “He is a great kid, and his family has done a great job of raising him,” Martin said Tuesday during his press conference. “I am happy for him and the success he is having.” Martin’s relationship with the Robinson family, however, transcends the hardwood. Evidence of that was seen Thursday when Robinson III’s first thought of Martin wasn’t about basketball. Rather, it regarded family. “He’s a great family friend,” Robinson III said. “I know my mom and my grand-
ma are all close with him and his family.” Robinson III, though, has a ways to go before matching his father’s 30.3 points and 11.2 rebound average from his final season at Purdue. After all, Martin still calls his former roommate “probably the best I’ve ever played with and against.” But the sophomore, who puts up 13.1 points per game, still poses a unique match-up problem for the Vols. At 6-foot-6, 220 pounds and boasting an athletic frame that works from the perimeter in, Robinson III’s playing style clearly differentiates from Jeronne Maymon — the 260-pound Vol he will go up against Friday. That’s an advantage, however, that could teeter in favor of the Vols just as easily.
Spring has sprung on Rocky Top. Or at least, it has been planted. As the weather warms, Vols Educating about Growing Garden and Inspiring Environmentalism (V.E.G.G.I.E) has begun planting and tending to their community garden. Candice Lawton, senior in sustainability and French, started Project V.E.G.G.I.E. two years ago when she and fellow student Neil Brown, senior in chemical engineering, decided to bring a garden to UT’s main campus. After approaching administration and Facilities Services, the group received a plot of land beside the Andy Holt parking garage and became an official UT organization. “Project V.E.G.G.I.E. started as an idea among strangers and grew into a mission among friends,” Lawton said. “Co-founding Project V.E.G.G.I.E. has been one of the most challenging and rewarding experiences of my college career, and it helped me discover my interest and passion for sustainability.” Since its first days, Lawton has seen many improvements in student involvement in the garden. Project V.E.G.G.I.E. has also been able to prepare and plan what changes need to be made as the seasons change, resulting in better scheduling abilities, something Lawton said has impacted the number of students that participate. Justin Leduc, senior in plant science, found Project V.E.G.G.I.E. while “pursuing different environmental-minded” organizations across campus and said the garden project “grew on me right away.”
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Competition for starting spots up for grabs as spring practice gets heated SPORTS >>pg. 8
UT’s female writers celebrate their craft Claire Dodson Arts & Culture Editor In celebration of Women’s History Month, the Commission for Women highlighted three of UT’s most successful female writers: Marilyn Kallet, director of creative writing, Margaret Lazarus Dean, associate professor of English and Stephanie Dugger, Ph.D. student in English.
Wednesday night’s event in the Mary Greer Room, Women Writers at UT, gave these women the opportunity to share their creative work with students and faculties, all in the name of promoting women in a field where they are often not taken seriously. Stephanie Metz, graduate assistant for the commission, introduced the writers and said she was excited for the work
they are doing at UT. “We wanted to celebrate this group of writers,” Metz said. “I think a lot of times women have been shut out of the canon. People read their work, but we don’t always think of them as the greatest writers in our culture. “It’s great to support (women) and show how great women writers are.”
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IN SHORT continued from Page 1 “UT has continuously said that they’re pushing for sustainability,” Burchett said. “It’s such a sustainable campus, and yet we appear relatively barren of really sustainable projects compared to other campuses. Speaking from the aesthetic side, UT was named one of the ugliest campuses. “If we do this, we won’t be on the top 10 list of ugliest campuses. It’ll make the campus a beautiful place to be.” If the orchard cannot be placed along main walkways in its first year, Brown and Weller plan to pursue other options, like space on the Agriculture Campus or near Project V.E.G.G.I.E.’s current garden next to the Andy Holt
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parking garage. Ideally, the gardens will be designed, planted and cultivated solely through UT students and staff. Throughout the year, students will be welcome to participate in upkeep. “I think in the past UT has really called upon outside developers and organizers to come in and make changes,” Burchett said. “This project is internal to UT.” Brown estimates the undertaking will require three years of maintenance labor on two sites, amounting to $36,000 not including the salaries of maintenance employees. “This is better than sustainable,” Brown said. “It’s regenerative, it’s putting something there like it used to be before humans came and knocked it down.”
March 12 8:31 a.m.: Victim reported burglary of her iPad and keyboard from her office. Victim stated the items were left charging in her office overnight. March 19 9:42 p.m.: While riding a police bicycle, officer observed a vehicle at a stop sign on 14th and Highland Avenue that was emanating music that was audible at a distance greater than 50 feet. Upon stopping the vehicle, the officer arrested the driver by misdemeanor citation for possession of unlawful drug paraphernalia. March 23 12:58 a.m.: Officer responded to the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity after a cab driver contacted the police regarding an unpaid cab fare. Further investigation of this incident resulted in the issuance of one misdemeanor citation for underage
The orchard is inspired by existing gardens at other universities, such as the University of MassachusettsAmherst, where multiple gardens supply a significant amount of food to dining halls. Similar efforts are taking place at schools in Utah, Indiana and Canada. Before and after the gardens are established, Neil and Weller believe students of every major can benefit from the Big Orange Orchard and the educational opportunities it would afford. “One of the thing keeping us from Top 25 is retention rates,” Brown said, “and I think this is something that will keep students here, because they can interact with this and learn from it just by default.”
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consumption. 9:56 p.m.: Officers conducted a walk-through of Clement Hall and smelled a moderate odor of burnt marijuana as they were walking toward Room 436. Officers made contact with the occupants of the room. A misdemeanor citation was issued for simple possession and drug paraphernalia. March 24 9:27 a.m.: Victim reported her vehicle was burglarized and the face plate from her Alpine stereo system was taken from the White Avenue garage. Victim was issued a UTPD case card. Crime logs are compiled from records of the University of Tennessee and Knoxville Police Departments. People with names similar or identical to those listed may not be those identified in reports. All persons arrested are presumed innocent until proved guilty in a court of law.
Robert Lehman, sophomore in kinesiology, spray paints a button down T-shirt that reads “acid” on March 27. The idea came from an art project he saw online and found interesting.
V.E.G.G.I.E. continued from Page 1 While Leduc enjoys working in the garden and being outdoors, he said his favorite part of work days is “meeting the interested students who come out to help and who show just as much passion for our cause as we in the leadership do. “It feels great to be connected through the garden to what will become a real community more and more as V.E.G.G.I.E. really comes to maturity,” Leduc said. Project V.E.G.G.I.E. tries to focus on local and regional plants, which have the best chance of thriving, and make the garden as low-maintenance as possible. Leduc stressed there is an “ecological balance that we strive to uphold in an effort to make the garden be self-sustaining.” Aesthetically, the introduction of a raised garden bed layout and the construction of permanent pathways have made the area more pedestrian friendly. Muscadine plants, a variety of grape, were also planted. Perennial plants such as the endangered Cumberland rosemary have been added in addition to plants with a more perma-
nent root structure. “It’s all about making the right choices so that all can enjoy the Project V.E.G.G.I.E. garden indefinitely and have it be sustained for, heck, longer than the buildings on campus if we’re lucky,” Leduc said. “Natural horticultural landscapes were here prior to even the city, and we as humans are as much a part of them as air is to our breath.” Brown said he sees the garden as an educational opportunity to support both personal health and sustainability, by teaching students how to grow their own food in a noncommittal environment. “If you go and have a house and have a garden before it, and you go out there and plow up a spot of your yard and plant a garden, the first year is a lot of work,” Brown said. “But, if you go out there and don’t have any prior experience and you fail, you’re going to be completely demoralized. So, we want to give them an intro to it. We don’t want to tell them that it is effortless, but we want to show them that it’s not impossible or maybe as hard as they think.” Despite greater involvement and improved planning, Lawton said she hopes to see the garden become friendlier for the UT
community. “The garden plan we are following now will definitely enable our community to access and explore the garden more, as there will be larger and more defined paths,” Lawton said. “I think incorporating visually pleasing yet functional components will enhance the garden and make it more community-friendly.” To help reach this goal, Project V.E.G.G.I.E. members will have a garden day to create and implement art, animal habitats and planters from recycled and reused materials. Despite an urban campus and fast-paced student schedules, Leduc said he believes a key component of Project V.E.G.G.I.E.’s mission is reminding students and the rest of the community that nature is accessible and important. “We are not separate from any of this,” Leduc said. “We are so intimately tied into the entire thing – the air and sunlight, the clay and the concrete, as well. “The garden is a place where you can set aside the stress of everyday life in the city and find a healthy way to reconnect with your roots as a creature that has as much a place in nature as every other living thing.”
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Former Obama cabinet member brings ‘nuclear option’ to Tennessee
Ron Kirk, former U.S. Trade Ambassador in President Obama’s cabinet gives a seminar about nuclear energy in UT’s Bredesen Center with CASEnergy Coalition on March 27.
Emilee Lamb Assistant News Editor Former U.S. Trade Ambassador Ron Kirk visited UT’s Bredesen Center Thursday to discuss nuclear energy and its future as a boon for the U.S. economy. After the lecture, which drew approximately 40 graduate students and faulty, Kirk and fellow lecturer Scott Peterson fielded questions regarding federal regulations and public opinion. Kirk, a member of President Obama’s cabinet from 2008-2013, began his public service career as the Texas secretary of state under Gov. Ann Richards before becoming the first African-American to be elected mayor of Dallas in 1995. During his time working for the federal government, Kirk forged Free Trade Agreements with countries including Columbia, Panama and South Korea. A lawyer by trade, Kirk left the White House in 2013 to become a legal strategy advisor and a co-chair for the Clean and Safe Energy Coalition. CASEnergy is a national alliance of more than 3,400 members from diverse sectors of the economy, united in their desire to discuss nuclear energy and its proliferation. For Kirk and Peterson, nuclear power will not only power the country more cleanly and efficiently; it will give the U.S. an economic advantage amid booming global trade. Following his seminar, Kirk sat down for a brief interview with The Daily Beacon regarding his personal experiences in the political world and his jump into the green energy world. Daily Beacon: How did you begin your career in policy and why did you choose that career? Ambassador Ron Kirk: “All of us are a product of the times we’re born in.” Growing up in the segregated South, Kirk said his parents took pains to give their children lives “ not restrained” by prejudiced perceptions of what African Americans could or couldn’t do. “I was never motivated by a desire to be in public service as much as I wanted to be a lawyer, because
Thurgood Marshall was my hero. I also felt an acute sense of responsibility to reward and honor my parents’ sacrifice, and those of their generation, that made all these opportunities possible for me by always being civically responsible. So the idea of not voting, not participating, in our sort of civic debate was just something that was foreign to me. I believe that it’s part of our duty of being a good citizen.” DB: How did you make the leap from dealing with issues of intellectual property as U.S. Trade Ambassador to issues of energy as co-chairman of CASEnergy? RK: “Probably a third of the countries I visited as our trade ambassador, I was never allowed to take an elevator by Secret Service because the power supply was so unstable. So that sort of hits you in the head, ‘Wow. Energy is important.’ I talk a lot about my work as a mayor, first of all, I think really served me well in my work as U.S. (Trade Ambassador) and my work as co-chair of Clean and Safe Energy Coalition, because mayors really are at the forefront of economic development, job creation, working with business. So this was not an issue foreign to me... My deciding to become affiliated with the Clean and Safe Energy Coalition was really returning to my roots.” DB: Where do you think nuclear energy is headed in the next few years? RK: “The purpose of this whole CASEnergy Coaliton is to do several things. It’s to get Americans thinking about where our energy comes from, and to try to educate more people about the reality that our country benefits from having a diverse supply of electricity...Part of what makes our system work is that we’re not putting all of our eggs in one basket, and nuclear energy has the added benefit of being the only sort of base electricity supply system that can operate every day, all year round... It produces 60 percent of our clean air emissions that don’t degrade the environment. What we want to do is get that message out and then raise the policy considerations that are involved in making sure nuclear energy stays a part of that portfolio.”
Knoxvillian does his part to protest ‘Russian aggression’ Hayley Brundige Staff Writer Three weeks ago, Knoxville native Bob Gilbertson walked into a parking lot and smashed bottles of Stolichnaya, an imported Russian vodka, on the concrete. He did it for Ukraine. Gilbertson, who opened Bob’s Wine and Liquor in West Knoxville in 1970, sold the remaining thirty cases of Russian vodka at cost, making no profit. The bottles flew off the shelves within a few hours. Where they once sat, there is now only a sign citing “Russian aggression” as the cause. “It’s about all I could do to show my displeasure,” Gilbertson said. “I’m alarmed at what is going on in Ukraine and Crimea.” The Ukrainian Revolution began in November 2013 after its government decided to abandon a deal with the European Union in favor of strengthening ties with Russia. President Viktor Yanukovych was expelled as a result. Already a region of great dispute between world powers, the sovereignty of the Crimean Peninsula has become a point of contention between Ukraine and the neighboring Russian Federation. Pro-Russian forces wearing unmarked uniforms began invading Crimea on Feb. 26. The Crimean parliament officially requested to gain independence from Ukraine on March 17 and the next day, Putin reclaimed the region as part of Russia. When put to a vote via referendum March 11, nearly 96 percent of voters in Crimea supported joining Russia, although many Tartars (an ethnic group indigenous to Crimea) and pro-Ukrainian citizens in the region boycotted the vote. Because these groups were not represented, the European Union released a statement March 16 stating the referendum was “illegal and illegitimate” and the outcome will not be recognized by the EU. Natalia Pervukhin, a professor in the Russian department , discounts the vote, claiming those who voted to
rejoin Russia are “mostly former Communist Party members with a severe nostalgia for the Soviet Union.” The Tartars, however, were exiled to Crimea by the Russians in the 1940s after the fall of the Soviet Union. The absence of such a perspective likely skewed the vote’s results. “It was completely fake,” Pervukhin said. “For example, only about 1,000 Tartars of almost 300,000 voted. It is a statistic that has no relevance, zero.” Born in Moscow, Pervukhin immigrated to the United States in 1979 when she was 36. Having spent her summers in Crimea, she has witnessed the political struggle surrounding the peninsula and the corruption of the Russian government. “There is a long-standing ideology in Russia that started long before the Revolution – some messianic drive,” Pervukhin said. “Russia is supposed to spread all over the world.” The international community has denounced Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula. The United States imposed economic sanctions on Russia while the European Union suspended economic dialogue with the country. Stephen Blackwell, professor and chair of the Russian department, believes Western attitudes will heavily influence the conflict’s outcome. “The behavior of the West towards Russia – our foreign policy – will have a major effect on whether the world heads toward more conflict and possibly war, cold war, economic war or, possibly, an eventual era of cooperation,” Blackwell wrote in an email. Pervukhin echoed Blackwell’s comment, saying Crimea’s “only hope” lies in the West. Otherwise, it will be “swallowed up by Russia.” Russians who speak against the annexation, she added, will “immediately lose their jobs.”
“In Russia, it’s like people are drugged,” Pervukhin said. “People became so insanely patriotic and Putin’s popularity grew. Even recently when people say they don’t like Putin, they say ‘At least we have Crimea.’” An open forum to discuss the political situation in Russia and Ukraine will be held April 8 in Hodges Library Auditorium. The panel will include Alexandra Sviridova, a New York based writer, journalist and filmmaker originally born in Ukraine when it was still part of the Soviet Union. Denis Osipov, a first year Ph.D. student studying electrical engineering, was born in eastern Ukraine and hopes to see major change in the country where his family still lives. “I would like to see fair presidential elections on May 25,” Osipov said. “In the future I hope to see us joining European Union to improve our economy and decrease corruption and also NATO to protect our territory from future invasions.” Anna Mislitskiy, senior in kinesiology, was the first child of her family born outside of Ukraine. “Keep up with the news,” Mislitskiy said. “Use Ukrainian news channels and translate them because there are lots of differences between what Ukrainian media says and U.S. media.” But for now, the Stolichnaya shelves in Gilbertson’s store will remain empty, collecting only dust. Even small acts of protest, he believes, speak volumes. “I don’t really think my two cents will change anything much, but I just had to do something to protest what was going on,” Gilbertson said. “If this continues to go on, we are going to have to do something. I don’t know what’s going to happen, but it should be alarming to every person in western civilization.”
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Think outside the box - don’t label us Fifty Shades of Wade by
Wade Scofield Every time I meet someone new, I can’t help feeling boxed in. “Good to meet you, Wade. What kind of things are you involved in on campus?” “Well, I’m a member of a college fraternity...” “You’re a frat guy? You’re a buttchugging, womanizing, racist, patriotic, drunk, Republican frat guy! During the week, you take Adderall to stay awake, haze pledges and make them do your homework. You’ve never had to work for anything, and you drive a jacked-up pickup with ‘Salt Life’ tattooed across the back window. Fraternities use philanthropies as a disguise to have parties and put roofies in girls’ drinks.” “...I’m also really involved in my church...” “Oh no, not one of those Christian types. Telling gay people they’re going to hell, passing judgment on others and being literally holier-than-thou. If I don’t believe the Bible word-for-word, you think I’m damned. Come on, man. What has religion ever done for anyone? I thought you were smarter than that.” “...and I’m a senator in SGA...” “You’re one of those resume-building rats who comes out once a year during campaign week to pretend to care about the student body. You tell freshmen how much their vote matters to ‘change’ (always ‘change’) the university, and you’re the campaign to do it! You don’t even go to the senate meetings. You just do what the administration says. You’re one of those involvement types. UT loves those people. They’re puppets.” “...I’m also a member of the Cultural Attractions Committee...” “Dude, what’s that? Oh yeah, one of those things we have to pay money for. I don’t agree with that. Isn’t that like Sex Week? We shouldn’t have to pay student fees. Why do you do that? Oh, you brought Esperanza Spalding to campus? Who cares? Like why do we need a Women’s Coordinating Council? Or a Film Committee? Waste.” Not only does this sort of reactionary discourse about our fellow students represent an unwillingness to appreciate the sort of myriad of interests our university seeks to foster, it reveals an arrogant and insular ideal about the way we want people to conform to our own versions of them. Here’s one thing about college that we all need to realize: we like to put each other in these neat little boxes where we can say, “This is Mike, my hipster friend,” or “This is Kelly, my athlete friend,” instead of “This is Holly, my friend, who has lots of interests.” Why do we do this? I think it’s because sometimes, we want to seem well-rounded ourselves. If we have connections to people around us who themselves have connections to a specific, diverse box of people around them, we, by extension, promulgate the illusion of feelers all around our community. More importantly, we do this because it’s easy. We have these rigid, planned-out conversations. “How are classes going?” and “How is the (insert club here) going?” are the starters. Then, we name drop, “(Insert name here) has told me a lot about it,” when really, they haven’t. Then we say “See you later!” and walk away. This isn’t to say people can’t have a short, meaningful conversation about the daily routines of each other’s lives, but it enforces the boxes. Without these boxes, we can have a healthier campus community, one that seeks to acknowledge the individuality of all its students and appreciate how that individuality contributes to a more vibrant UT. We can’t change it all in one night, but it starts with thinking about the implications of categorizing people based on one of their traits or talents or interests. We’re all more complicated than that, after all, and the next time someone we’ve just met tells us one of their interests, it is in our best interest to try to value it. Wade Scofield is a senior in Latin and religious studies. He can be reached at wade@utk.edu.
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Entertainment culture reinforces stereotypes Crossing Cues by
Marianela D’Aprile When Sofia Vergara started her acting career, she was a natural blonde. After a number of auditions that failed because casting directors “didn’t know where to put” her, she decided to dye her hair dark. Suddenly, she was “the hot Latin girl” — less of a challenge to work into a TV show or movie than a lighthaired girl with a Spanish accent. Vergara is most notably known for her role on “Modern Family,” where she plays the role of Gloria Delgado-Pritchett, a Colombian woman married to an American man. Gloria’s personality is largely defined by a lot of yelling, a lot of crying and a lot of mispronouncing words. She wears colorful, revealing clothing and always styles her hair in long, dark waves — even when she’s about to give birth. She’s loud and unconfined in almost every way. That is, until her “fieriness” gets out of hand, forcing her much older, wealthy husband to calm her down or shut her up. Unfortunately, “Modern Family” isn’t the only place that this flat, simplistic image of the Hispanic woman is found. Gloria’s character reflects a widely accepted stereotype
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might seem like a minor sacrifice to make in exchange for a job, the change points to a deeper problem: we are only happy seeing minorities in the media as long as their presence is unchallenging. While Vergara seems totally in control of her image, even empowered by her sexiness, her success exists only as it fits within — and perpetuates — a harmful stereotype. When a Hispanic girl sees Vergara on a commercial, shouting that “you can’t draw a woman with straight lines!,” she learns that if she grows up to be anything other than dark and buxom, she’ll be abnormal, uncategorizable and unacceptable. When she sees the “Ugly Betty” tagline, “From Poncho to Honcho,” she learns that she has to shed her culture if she’s to ever find success. It’s a shame that we continue to accept this “entertainment” without question. It’s a shame that a hilarious, talented woman like Vergara felt that she had to fit into a stereotype in order to gain success. It’s a shame that any Hispanic actress would agree to act in a TV show in which all the lead Hispanic characters are maids. Most of all, it’s frightening that someone like Vergara, even after her wild success, still has no other choice but to confine her image to a stereotype in order to remain successful. Marianela D’Aprile is a fourth year in architecture. She can be reached at mdaprile@utk.edu.
Your hangover: The cause and effect Working Out Happiness by
Andrew Fleming Health – in and after college – is a multifaceted affair. Getting the right portions of the right foods is a feat of nutritional discipline, one that even the most healthminded individuals struggle with when Insomnia Cookies is just a phone call away. Hitting the gym can also be difficult, especially when the weather is leaving icicles on your car’s tailpipe. However, one of the most misunderstood parts of most young peoples’ lives is also one of the most common – the mystical elixir known as ethanol. Ethyl alcohol (read: booze) is ubiquitous in the college student’s life, especially when you live in the land of the SEC. Every night of the week, some bar will have a drinking special, one that is often very, very convincing. Whether it’s trivia night, wine night, pitcher night or pint night, there’s alcohol, and it’s cheap. So, besides making you the best dancer on the dance floor, how exactly does alcohol affect your body? (Disclaimer: this is not an anti-drinking
ad. Everything in moderation, including moderation. However, there are some surprising physiological effects that you may not be aware of. This column is merely exploring them.) First of all, Ethanol acts a glutamate antagonist. Glutamate is an important neurotransmitter in your brain; an antagonist essentially down-regulates the activity of a neurotransmitter. All of that is to say, alcohol makes your brain less stimulated (not permanently, obviously). You know the nights that you drink a few and immediately pass out? Not enough glutamate is binding to the correct receptors. The alcohol has down-regulated part of your brain. The most interesting part of this is the opposite end. After a night of heavy binge drinking, you’ve really trashed a huge amount of your glutamate receptors. Your brain responds in a panic: “There’s not enough glutamate! We’re getting really sleepy! Wait! I know what could fix this: more glutamate!” Boom – your brain cranks out glutamate, and around 7 or 8 a.m., you wake up. You’re exhausted, you’re still drunk, and you can’t fall back asleep. Instead, you do the sleepy shuffle to the fridge and grab whatever leftovers are left over and sit on the couch and feel really awkward because everyone else in the house is so thoroughly passed out. All that glutamate stimulates
you out of your fatigued stupor and leaves you that way for the duration of the morning. It’s called a hangover. Another thing ethyl alcohol can do is really mess with your long-term memory, for a very long time. In fact, ethanol can affect what’s known as long-term potentiation, a process that occurs when you make the same connections in your brain over and over. Basically, your circuits rearrange to enable ease of connection the next go around. This process is accomplished by what’s known as “mushrooming” of the receptive side (when a receiving neuron gets larger), as well as the movement of more receptors into the vicinity. It’s like the cell does everything it can to ensure that the signal is easily repeatable. A single binge-drinking episode can partially inhibit the long-term potentiation process for up to a month, which is an absurdly long amount of time. It’s easy to think that drinking heavily a couple weeks before an exam wouldn’t really be an issue, but it turns out it is. So what’s the solution? It’s more of finding a balance. Again, everything in moderation, but it’s important to be aware of what you’re doing when you do it. Andrew Fleming is a junior in neuroscience. He can be reached at aflemin8@ utk.edu.
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— Hispanic women are loud, sexy and spicy. Our society has largely accepted this idea, and TV writers aren’t in the business of challenging preconceived notions about ethnic or cultural identity. It’s no wonder that the only show currently on television featuring a largely Hispanic cast is called “Devious Maids.” Stereotypes of Hispanic people have existed basically as long as TV has been around. Ricky Ricardo, Lucille Ball’s fictional husband on “I Love Lucy,” was a hot-headed, macho man (who also happened to sing and dance, just to round out the image). In the 1983 sitcom “Condo,” famous for being the first television show to feature a middle-class Hispanic family, the Kirkridges were cultured and refined, while the Rodriguezes were rough and uncouth. Thirty years later, we still insist on placing people into their respective stereotypical boxes. Salma Hayek’s short stint on “30 Rock” had her portraying Elisa, a character whose personality barely extended beyond her breasts. Hispanics are not allowed a personality beyond their hot-tempered, hotblooded, hot-bodied stereotype. Stereotypes like this not only flatten TV characters — they flatten real people, too. In Vergara’s case, it was a stereotype that forced her to define her success not on her acting skills or her incredible humor, but on her ability to conform to an image of what she should be — an image that she didn’t choose or define. And while dyeing one’s hair
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Friday, March 28, 2014
THE DAILY BEACON • 5 Arts & Culture Editor Claire Dodson
ARTS & CULTURE WRITERS continued from Page 1 “The Commission for Women basically exists to serve the needs of women at UT, monitor or see if there’s any issues going on with that group,� Metz said. “We report to the vice chancellor of diversity. But our main goal with the event was to celebrate Women’s History Month, kind of bring awareness to that.� The three women brought in diverse subject materials and backgrounds that came through in their writing. Dugger read from a nonfiction piece based on a childhood experience with her father. Dean described her many trips to the Cape Canaveral space launches in a piece from her memoir. Kallet performed a variety of erotic love poems and celebrations of the female body. What the writers had in common, however, was more than their womanhood; it was their purpose of creating meaningful, artistic work that both transcends and celebrates difference in sex. All three explained instances of being singled out based on their sex. For Kallet, it was condemna-
tion for writing about the aging of the female body. For Dugger, it was finding the confidence to read her nonfiction for an audience. For Dean, it was not worrying about being the only girl on the bus to Cape Canaveral. To further illustrate this, during the Q-and-A session Dean cited an experience teaching a male student about writing in a female perspective. “You don’t have to have your character walk down the street in a feminine way, sometimes we just walk down the street,â€? Dean said. “There’s more in common than there is different. ‌ That’s one of the best things that fiction can teach us. “If you try to imagine what it’s like to be another person in a way that will be believable, then you’ve learned something about the commonality of all beings.â€? Her words, along with the words of Kallet and Dugger, served as inspiration for many in attendance, including Miranda Haney, senior in English. “(Writing) is like a release,â€? Haney said. “When you get to see other women’s art, if you’re ever stuck in a rut, they are great inspiration.â€?
Jenna Butz Staff Writer Bombadil, a North Carolina pop and folk rock band, will play Barley’s Tap Room and Pizzeria tonight at 10 p.m. as part of a weekend of regional touring. Stuart Robinson and Daniel Michalak met in college where they began working on music together in 2002. After meeting Bryan Rahija, who left the band in 2011, the trio began working on the songs that would eventually be the substance of Bombadil. In 2007, they brought in James Phillips and began Bombadil. While many bands have one member to play the drums, one to sing and so on, Bombadil has all its members play all its instruments. While Phillips focuses on the drums, they “all switch around� with everyone taking their turn, even on vocals. With their decision to change instruments constantly comes a variety of sounds that Phillips describes as a “buffet of pop music.� However, as each of them are in interested in different genres, they never decided what kind of music they wanted to play. Instead, Phillips sees their creation of music as a “really natu-
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other. While they do collaborate on songs, the past year has seen them on the road which Phillips feels “isn’t the most creative of places.� Despite not typically writing together though, all three of them tend to write around similar topics. “I think the majority of the songs are about each of our experiences in life,� Phillips said. “And probably toward the sad and the incomprehensible because songs are a good way to help you sort out your feelings on a sad or hard to understand subject.� McAnly’s favorite song by Bombadil is “One Two Three� which reminds him of summer and the outdoors. “What’s more simple than counting to three?� McAnly said. “‘One Two Three’ became the song that reminded me of a time of a young, simple love: lawn chairs, a yard, an Indiana summer heat and the periodic mist of her lawn sprinkler. That’s my memory. The song too takes place outside. A boy attempting to win her love as a flower, a bird or just apparently gazing into clouds or passersby, and I can only imagine them in lawn chairs.� Currently, Bombadil is working on their fifth record which will be their third “homemade�
ral process.� Mixing folk and rock along with their brand of pop and whatever other genre fuels their fancy, Phillips is not completely sure what to call it. “Should we give it a really fancy name or should we give it a really simple name? My simple answer is that we play music,� Phillips said. “My complicated answer is that we play multi-instrumental pop from the American South with a gothic heart and a candycovered coating.� Discovering Bombadil though the internet in 2009, what Eric McAnly, junior in chemistry, likes most about their music is “the happiness I feel while listening.� Even when he listens to their sadder, more melancholy songs, he sees a reflection of the piano sounds of Elton John and Billy Joel in their sound that draws him in. “If I’m honest, a strong tug for their music is the essence of heartbreak in their lyrics,� McAnly said. “‘Love is a ruthless stare,’ ‘a voice I once knew,’ ‘I was the fool for starting every single sentence in my head with we.’ “They have a way of churning up the emotions of love lost with the simplest of lyrics.� Each of them writes songs typically independent of each
one. As the band records and produces their own music with Phillips’ equipment, they have the ability to record anywhere based off whatever they feel is best for their music. “This current record we’ve been working on, we’ve been spending time at Daniel’s parents’ lake house on Lake Gaston which is on the border of North Carolina and Virginia,� Phillips said. “The last one we made was in a barn, so I guess it really wasn’t homemade; it was barn-made. Just, we do it all ourselves.� Their stop at Barley’s tonight is a part of their approach to touring where they travel regionally three weekends out of the month. They typically play three to five shows in a weekend; however, they do go on larger tours every few months with April and May seeing them traveling to the West Coast. “We got to keep that up to pay the bills and meet the people and say hello,� Phillips said. Phillips said Bombadil has played in Knoxville “a whole bunch of times.� The last time was November 2013 on WDVX’s “Tennessee Shines� radio show. “It’s been awhile,� Phillips said, “and we have some dear friends there, so it’s always great having to get to go.�
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6 • THE DAILY BEACON
Friday, March 28, 2014 Arts & Culture Editor Claire Dodson
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Assistant Arts & Culture Editor Cortney Roark
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GUIDE TO BIG EARS 2014 Claire Dodson
Arts & Culture Editor
The weekend has arrived: AC Entertainment’s Big Ears Festival is here. With widely respected and legendary acts like composer Steve Reich, Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood and 70s rockers Television, Knoxville will become a veritable hotbed for experimental music. Now comes the trouble with all festivals: which acts do I see and which do I pass up? And what do I do with all the activities? Luckily, The Daily Beacon has you covered.
Who: Marc Nelson Tattoo and Denim Brunch When: 11 a.m.- 2 p.m. Where: Cocoa Moon on Market Square Why you should go: Nelson is a local designer whose denim is becoming well-known all over the world. This event offers two great services: buy local, high-quality jeans and watch people get spontaneous tattoos they might (read: probably will) regret later.
FRIDAY What: Found Sound Nation’s mobile Street Studio When: 1 - 5. p.m. Where: The Tomato Head Why you should go: Get in the Big Ears mood by adding your voice to this spontaneous concert. As mics get passed around, the sounds will loop in order to create truly experimental jams. Plus, the result will be available for download after the festival.
SATURDAY
What: Big Ears Launch Party Who: Steve Reich with So Percussion (and some words from founder Ashley Capps) When: 5 p.m. Where: Knoxville Museum of Art Why you should go: This kick-off will give you a sneak peek of the incredible musician that is Steve Reich as he performs his work “Clapping Music.” Get the weekend started off right with a party (and you may see some famous Knoxvillians, like Mayor Madeline Rogero).
Who: Dean Wareham, Susanna, John Cale When: 7:30p.m. Where: Tennessee Theatre Why you should go: This is the night’s biggest set, and it includes music you won’t want to miss. Wareham and Susanna both bring a unique style of experimental music to the Big Ears table. Wareham has composed music for the film “The Squid and the Whale.” Norwegian songwriter Susanna rarely performs in the U.S., so her performance will be a special treat. Top the night off with Velvet Underground member John Cale – it will be a set to remember.
Who: Oneohtrix Point Never When: 3:30 p.m. Where: Bijou Theatre Why you should go: Another musician who has film on his resume, Brooklyn-based Daniel Lopatin scored Sofia Coppola’s “The Bling Ring.” His ambient, electronic tunes are worth missing some of the afternoon workshops.
Who: Laraaji, Julia Holter, Low, Television When: 6:30 p.m. Where: Bijou Theatre, Tennessee Theatre Why you should go: The Bijou Theatre is the place to be Saturday evening and into the night. Quick and dirty breakdown: Laraaji was discovered by Brian Eno (Coldplay, David Bowie). Low’s experimental rockers have toured with acts like Radiohead and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Television (at the Tennessee Theatre at 10 p.m.) really needs no explanation – they formed during the 70s in New York at what some would call the height of rock ‘n’ roll.
SUNDAY Who: Conversation with Steve Reich When: 2:15 p.m. Where: Knoxville Museum of Art Why you should go: Don’t miss the chance to interact with who the New York Times calls, “Our greatest living composer.” Period.
Who: Bryce Dessner: So Percussion When: 5:30 p.m. Where: Bijou Theatre Why you should go: Dessner is most known for his Grammy-nominated band The National, but he’s also a composer with a wealth of experimental compositions. So Percussion will be performing several of his works, including music for wood and and strings. Late night all weekend: Check out the Hello City Festival, the indigenous companion to Big Ears formerly known as No Ears. The Pilot Light event features post 10 p.m. shows from local artists – just in case you didn’t get enough sweet music during the day.
Friday, March 28, 2014
THE DAILY BEACON • 7 Sports Editor Troy Provost-Heron
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Vols look to make statement in wide open SEC against USC Troy Provost-Heron Sports Editor
to be successful,” Serrano said. “Numbers are numbers. They have good numbers. But we will go out there this weekend and meet that challenge.” Getting good at-bats, however, won’t be the only thing the Vols have to accomplish to be successful over the weekend. Tennessee will also have to contain a South Carolina offense that has six hitters batting over .300, led by Connor Bright, who currently wields a .378 batting average, which is tied for secondbest in the conference. Given the task of limiting the Gamecock limit will be seniors Nick Williams, Hunter Martin and Andrew Lee – UT’s starters on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, respectfully. “I’m just going to take it like I do every game,” Williams said. “Go out there and compete my tail off. Throw the way I throw. I don’t want to throw any different way just because it’s a different team. I’ve got to go out there and compete and contribute any way I can to help the team win.” The Vols will face off against the Gamecocks at 7 p.m. EST on Friday. First pitch for Saturday and Sunday’s contests inside Carolina Stadium will be at 4 p.m. and 1:30 p.m., respectfully. Matthew DeMaria • The Daily Beacon
What a difference a year can make. Last season, Vanderbilt pulled away from the rest of the SEC early, cruising to a regular season championship with a 26-3 conference record. This year, however, it’s been a different story. Two weeks into SEC play, all 14 members have suffered multiple conference losses, with only four teams not having reached the Commodores three-loss mark from 2013. With that said, Tennessee head coach Dave Serrano is correct in saying that the Volunteers are in the midst of 10 challenge-filled weekends. This weekend, though, marks the biggest of those challenges as the Vols travel to Columbia, S.C. to face the No. 2 South Carolina Gamecocks. “It is a good challenge for us,” Serrano said. “… There is no rest, but we know that in this conference. That is what is so great about being a member of this conference, there is never an easy weekend. We have a challenge this weekend just like we will have challenges in the remainder
of the weekends of the season. It will be fun. “It is a great atmosphere to go play. I am sure they are going to be packed in the stadium, 10-12,000 people in there, which is always exciting. It will just be another opportunity for our guys to grow up in a wonderful atmosphere and my hope is we will take advantage of the great atmosphere that they are going to create for us and use it to our advantage and play good baseball.” Tennessee’s bats will have to contend with a South Carolina pitching staff that boasts a team ERA of 1.80, and two starters – Jack Wynkoop (Saturday) and Will Crowe (Sunday) – who will enter the weekend with ERA’s under two. The Gamecocks staff is stout from top to bottom, as they have thrown 10 shutouts to date and have six hurlers in the bullpen who have yet to surrender a run. To combat such a potent group of arms, the Vols will need to grind out their at-bats. “It is going to be important for us to execute offensively and for the whole line up to contribute and for us to take quality at-bats and do the things that we do as a baseball team that allow us
Senior Nick Williams pitches against the South Carolina Gamecocks at Lindsey Nelson Stadium on April 6, 2013. The Vols will face off against the Gamecocks at 7 p.m. Friday.
WOMEN’S TENNIS
UT attempts to carry momentum from Kentucky into weekend Jessica Koralewski Contributor The Lady Vols tennis team will start this weekend’s upcoming matches on an upbeat note after a comeback win against Kentucky on March 23. Tennessee rallied to beat the Wildcats, 4-3, on Sunday in Lexington, with sophomore Tiffany Tavares clinching the win for the second time in two weeks. “It was really exciting to turn around and do it again,” Tavares said. “I was able to do it a week ago or so, and it was just fun to get to do it again. It wasn’t like I had a really long, exciting match. They only had four indoor courts, so I was last match on, but it felt good to pull it out anyway.” In doubles, Joanna Henderson and Caitlyn Williams fell 8-4 to Kentucky’s CeCe Witten and Caitlin McGraw, and Eve Repic and Laurence Guevremont lost 8-3 to Nadia Ravita and Aldila Sutjiadi. Brittany Lindl tied up the score with a 6-2, 6-0 win over Kirsten Lewis. The lead continued to volley between the Vols and the Wildcats, as Tennessee’s Eve Repic scored a 6-4, 6-3 win over Ravita, and Kentucky’s Kelsey Dieters advanced 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 over Guevremont.
The Lady Vols weren’t finished, however, as Victoria Olivarez came out 6-4, 3-6, 6-1 to top Caitlin McGraw. Following her match-clinching victory, Tavares hopes that the team can take the winning mentality into this weekend’s matches against Missouri and Texas A&M. “I think we have good momentum coming out of the Kentucky match,” Tavares said. “I think all of our players showed up and played really hard that day. It’s always nice to play at home, and they’ve never played here. They don’t know anything about our courts. I think that’ll be a huge plus for us.” The Lady Vols take on the Tigers at 4 p.m. today and the No. 7 Aggies on Sunday at noon inside the Goodfriend Tennis Center. Co-head coach Mike Patrick is eager to see what the weekend holds for the team, and Tavares in particular after seeing her level of play the past few weeks. “It’s got to be a big confidence boost,” Patrick said. “She played really smart tennis. She was very competitive in the Vandy match, too. I’m proud of her. She’s improving. The whole team is getting better, you can see them getting better. “We’re getting a lot of experience and it’s a lot of fun for them to see their hard work paying off.”
SOFTBALL
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Senior Madison Shipman bats against the South Carolina Gamecocks at Sherri Parker Lee Stadium on March 23.
Gators to ‘bring out the best’ in Lady Vols Garrett Ahmad Contributor Two of the top four softball teams in the nation will clash this weekend when No. 2 Tennessee (28-3, 5-1 SEC) faces off against No. 4 Florida (31-4, 5-4) in a three-game series at Sherri Parker Lee Stadium. The two bitter rivals will play each other for the first time in history with both teams ranked in the top four. Florida leads the all-time series 43-21, including a 15-11 record in Knoxville. However, the Lady Vols are 11-6 against the Gators when UT is ranked higher. For Tennessee, the Florida series always gets circled on the calendar before the season. “We always get so pumped for this series especially just because of the fan atmosphere, everything,” senior shortstop Madison Shipman said. “All the energy is just brought to the field.” Last season in Gainesville, Fla., the Gators took two out of three against the Lady Vols in the regular season. The series has been tightly contested recently as four of the last five meetings have gone into extra innings – the one exception coming in their final matchup last season. When the two teams met in the Women’s College World Series, Tennessee knocked off Florida, 9-2, en route to the final. This season, the Gators will be looking to avenge their loss in the WCWS after dropping two of their last three SEC games against No. 5
Alabama (28-5, 8-1) in Gainesville. Previously, Florida had been ranked No. 1 for a number of weeks until their recent skid, which included a loss to Ole Miss (19-15, 3-6) at home. Tennessee is coming off of a three-game sweep against South Carolina (19-12, 2-7) at home last weekend. Despite the recent records of the two teams, co-head coach Karen Weekly is hesitant to say that the Lady Vols have the edge coming in. “I don’t know that there is ever a good time to catch anybody like that,” Weekly said. “It’s going to be a great series. We’re always excited to play a great opponent like Florida. Great opponents bring out the best in you, and I know our girls are looking forward to the weekend.” Shipman in particular is excited to face a high level team such as Florida since Tennessee has only played three teams currently ranked in the top 25 so far – none higher than No. 18 – whereas the Gators have faced three of the top six teams in the nation already this season. “They’re always a good team,” Shipman said. “They’re always good competition. They’ve got speed, they’ve got power, and they’ve got great pitching, so it’s going to be a great head-to-head matchup between us two.” The series opener will begin at 6 p.m. Friday, approximately an hour before tip-off of the men’s basketball Sweet 16 game against Michigan. Saturday and Sunday’s game will start at 1 p.m. and can be seen on Comcast Sports South or streamed live on ESPN3. “In my opinion,” Shipman said, “it’s always a good time to play Florida.”
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Friday, March 28, 2014 Sports Editor Troy Provost-Heron
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Despite unorthodox route, Michigan believes Vols ‘deserve to be here’ Dargan Southard Assistant Sports Editor
Redshirt senior offensive lineman Jacob Gilliam blocks linebacker Curt Maggitt during the Vols’ spring practice on March 13.
Competition heats up Left tackle, defensive line spots have several players hoping to start in the fall Troy Provost-Heron Sports Editor
The words “Competition Thursday” rang through the speakers of Haslam Field on multiple occasions during Thursday’s spring practice. The nickname for the Vols’ seventh spring practice didn’t disappoint either. Thursday’s practice saw plenty of “competition,” particularly at the left tackle position. Redshirt senior Jacob Gilliam saw first-team snaps at left tackle, as early enrollee Dontavius Blair has struggled all spring with conditioning and consistency, opening the door for Gilliam to work his way into the rotation. “Jacob Gilliam has been very consistent. Dontavius Blair has not been as consistent as he needs to be, but we’re working at it,” offensive line coach Don Mahoney said. “(That’s why) competition is a beautiful thing. Because Jacob is showing what he’s been doing on film and because of that Dontavius’ work habits have started to improve.” And while a walk-on starting left tackle may not sound as appealing as a top-10 JUCO transfer, Mahoney is more focused on an individual’s play, not their title. “I don’t look at (the titles),” Mahoney said. “I look at the guys
who are here right now and I mean that sincerely… (Gilliam) has been a little bit more consistent as of late. He’s a guy that understand the system from last spring to the fall to now seven practices in, so he’s performed a little bit better. “I could really care less about stars. Some of the toughest guys we’ve coached have been a walk-on, a guy who had one-star that nobody really thought about and those are sometimes the guys who are the gritty ones… I respect Jacob’s play and I don’t look at him any different than the rest (of them).” Competition in the trenches, however, didn’t just occur on the offensive side of the ball. Plenty of players have rotated in and out of the defensive line positions – including players like Jordan Williams and Curt Maggitt – as the Vols have had a culture change in their front four, going from a larger line to a quicker one this year, something that could make UT more dynamic defensively. “I think I see a lot of ability to make more plays,” defensive coordinator John Jancek said. “We haven’t moved as much as we are going to. We just want them to get comfortable right now. We’ve got to move those guys around, keeping people on their toes as far as them being a little bit lighter but able to move better.” The defensive line has also gotten a boost from two members of the
2014 class, who have been taking advantage of the reps they have been given. “Every rep is valuable out there right now, especially with the newcomers,” defensive line coach Steve Stripling said. “Dimarya Mixon and Owen Williams – it’s great to get them out there. They’re getting lots of reps and I’m really excited about those two young men and I think the future’s really bright for them.” Back in his Lane Senior running back Marlin returned to practice this week after being limited prior to spring break due to an injured wrist. And while that wrist is still wrapped up and being rehabbed, the Daytona Beach, Fla. native is still trying to prove himself as a capable replacement to Rajion Neal, who was Tennessee’s first 1,000yard rusher since 2010. “He’s a kid that understands that at the running back position, you have to play through pain and if you don’t, somebody else is going to get your reps,” said running backs coach Robert Gillespie. Even while he was hampered by that injury, Lane proved to one of UT’s senior leaders – and continues to – as he has mentored the young tailback stable that stands beside him. “He’s a veteran guy. He’s played a lot of snaps in this offense,” said Gillespie. “It’s great to have a guy like that to be an extra set of eyes.”
BASKETBALL continued from Page 1 “For them, they think they have a mismatch with Glenn and Jeronne,” UT senior guard Jordan McRae said. “We also think we have a mismatch with Jeronne and Glenn.” Ironically, Maymon overes-
INDIANAPOLIS — The double-digit seed is usually a dead giveaway. Oh they were in the play-in game too? The final conclusion couldn’t be more obvious. If a team bearing these qualities finds itself still alive in the Sweet 16, it’s got to be a Cinderella squad — a bracket wrecker that shocked the country and is now trespassing on unwarranted territory. Turns out there’s exceptions. And when 11th-seeded Tennessee (24-12) trots out onto the raised court at Lucas Oil Stadium for tonight’s Sweet 16 showdown with second-seeded Michigan (27-8), the Wolverines won’t be pinning the Cinderella moniker on the Volunteers. “If they made it here then they’re a great team,” U-M forward Glenn Robinson III said during Thursday’s press conference. “So I think we do a great job not looking at any numbers or anything like that … because every team from now on I believe is going to be a close game. It’s going to be a very interesting game no matter what.” Considering the freshest image of UT basketball is an emphatic romp through the last month of the season — a stretch where the Vols won eight of nine with an average margin of victory exceeding 20 points, one could understand why the Wolverines question the two-digit numeral that rests next to the Tennessee name. “It’s surprising to see them as an 11 seed,” Wolverine sophomore Nik Stauskas said. “They are extremely talented. All of their wings are talented, and their bigs have a lot of length. “They definitely deserve to be here. They have played really well.” The Vols’ tourney surge, however, isn’t an anomaly. Since 2011, UT is one of 13 double-digit seeds — including two others this season — to reach the Sweet 16. But perhaps what sets the Vols’ run apart is the season-long and well-documented criticism and disapproval of UT coach Cuonzo Martin, something U-M head man John Beilein can relate to extremely well. After reaching the NCAA tournament in his second season — U-M’s first Big Dance appearance in more than a decade, Beilein
timated Michigan’s rebounding prowess, or lack thereof (303rd in the NCAA), as he elaborated on UT’s perceived advantage on the glass. “Hopefully we can take advantage,” Maymon said in response to the mismatch at the four-spot. “I heard they’re really bad at rebounding – like 200 something in the nation. And that’s one of our strong
flopped in his third campaign as the Wolverines finished a dismal 15-17 and 7-11 inside the Big Ten. The public outcry for a change was soon nipping at his heels. “When the sky starts falling — we hear this all the time — you lose a couple of games on the road and tough games and the sky is falling,” Beilein said. “It happened to me several times in my career, and that’s just where you hang on tight as a coach and you just got to eliminate those distractions.” For Martin and his players, there’s been plenty. But with a veteran squad — which UT now boasts with five upperclassmen starters — the turnaround hasn’t surprised the seventh-year coach. “I’ve been watching Cuonzo and this team develop over these years, and it’s got such great experience on it,” Beilein said. “It’s something that is frankly so important to the success right now.” No evidence is more telling for U-M’s head man than the two teams’ last matchup, which occurred on March 18, 2011, in the NCAA tournament’s Round of 64. Everyone remembers the 30-point drubbing — a 75-45 Wolverine rout that proved to be the final act in ex-UT head coach Bruce Pearl’s riveting Knoxville tenure. But it was two particular statistics buried deep inside the box score that quickly grabbed Beilein’s attention. “I looked at our game with Tennessee (three) years ago to see if anybody was around,” Beilein said. “(Jordan) McRae played one or two minutes in that game, and (Jeronne) Maymon played one or two minutes in that game and that was a 30-point game.” At the time, McRae and Maymon were scarcely used underclassmen lucky to sniff the court. Now three years later, the duo spearheads the Vols’ graduating class and represents two of UT’s top four leading scorers. “It shows these kids have really worked their tails off to get to this point,” Beilein said, “and that’s really a credit to Cuonzo and their whole basketball program.” “We’re just doing what we’re supposed to do,” UT senior guard Jordan McRae added. “We don’t label ourselves as a Cinderella or all that. “We feel we’re supposed to be here.”
suits, so hopefully we will get a lot of extra shots and take advantage of it.” Putting an extra emphasis on dominating the boards is nothing new for the Vols, who rank 20th in the nation at 38.8 rebounds per game. But with UT’s size advantage at the four-spot, Michigan is still planning on rolling the dice and guarding telephonebooth-sized big men Maymon and Jarnell Stokes one-onone. “They are an inside presence team, “ Michigan guard Derrick Walton Jr. said, “so
our focus in practice has been to guard the post one-on-one.” But as for Robinson III and Martin, the warm and fuzzy talk about family ties will be put on the backburner come tipoff. “I don’t want to see him play well on Friday,” Martin said, “but he is a good kid and deserves everything he gets.” Robinson III, though, has taken to a more lighthearted approach. “It’s just funny how things work out,” he said, “and now we’re playing in the Sweet 16.”