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Hike the Hill rasies awareness on campus Alex Harward Staff Writer
Last Friday, the Center for Health Education and Wellness kicked off Sexual Assault Awareness Month with their second annual Hike the Hill in Heels event. Students, faculty, and staff hiked campus in high heels, starting at HSS and ending at Ayres Hall. Ashley Blamey, director for the Center for Health Education and Wellness, explained that the center was responsible for coordinating and planning sexual assault awareness month for the campus. “We coordinate sexual assault awareness month from our office, but it’s also in partnership with SGA, students groups, and sports teams,” Blamey said. “We just take the leadership role.” Blamey stressed the importance of students speaking up on sexual awareness this month. See HIKE THE HILL on Page 3
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Kamasi Washington plays at The Mill and the Mine on Saturday, April 2, as a part of the Big Ears Festival. Justin Keyes • The Daily Beacon
Big Ears bring the avante-garde to Knoxville Megan Patterson Arts & Culture Editor Eight venues, hundreds of attendees, four days, one city. The most unassuming music festival took Knoxville by storm this weekend. If you didn’t notice Big Ears Festival 2016 was underway downtown, then you wouldn’t be alone. However, don’t take this to mean Big Ears was insignificant; it’s actually one of avant-garde music’s most celebrated festivals. Internationally renowned musicians filled our scruffy little city, and hundreds of music-hungry fans flocked to the various theaters and venues downtown to get their fill of anything and everything off the wall in music. From the zen and hypnotic Lou Reed’s Drones
to Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith’s polished and awe-inspiring Bijou Theatre collaboration, Big Ears offered something for everyone – and something for everyone to try. The First Annual Big Ears Indie Poetry slam brought the festival to the public with open admission in the Square Room, and the Drones jam Friday night allowed any musician — no matter their skill level — to play with a rock star. Big Ears evoked every emotion, from joy and connectedness at Drew Drake’s poetry and song performance to angst and passion at Circuit des Yeux’s Standard appearance. As any festival should, Big Ears went out with a bang — a bang that took the form of soft percussion in the woods. Ijams Nature Center hosted Inuksuit, a percussive piece played by tens of musicians dispersed throughout the woods. Each musician played a small part of the symphony
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that developed across the rock quarry. While this performance was a spiritual journey in itself, the literal physical journey to Ijams heightened the sense of stepping into another, more mystical world. As cars lined up to a standstill on the two-lane road to the nature center, attendees began pulling off to park and walk the remaining half mile to the quarry site. This pilgrimage to the meditative, musical forest captured the spirit of Big Ears. Placing a festival in the middle of a city did nothing to kill the community spirit which forms at these events. Waiting in line was never an ordeal and more often it turned into a meet and greet with fellow music lovers. For more detail on what the weekend had to offer, go to utdailybeacon.com to read full reviews of artist performances and a Q&A with festival founder Ashley Capps.
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Route Talk: The T, fare-free transportation Alex Harward
Staff Writer UT’s Parking and Transit services are in charge of the main transit system, “The T.” The T provides students, staff and visitors with campus-wide transportation. The service The T provides is fare-free for all passengers, a different service than the trolley and KAT bus. Parking and Transit Services said their buses have recently gone under a bit of a make over. “Each new bus incorporates clean design and interactive technology,” Parking and Transit Services said. “Features include USB charging stations, real-time GPS tracking, front-of-vehicle bike racks and disability accessibility.” The T provides routes throughout campus and portions of the Fort Sanders neighborhood. There are four specific routes including The Hill Route, The Fort Route, Neyland Express and the Late Nite. Aside from The T, transit services also provides the campus with the T: Link and T: Access services. Communications and customer service manager of parking and transit services, Moira
Bindner, explained that T: Access is a demand response service available to handicapped students. T: Access operates weekdays on a pointto-point service system on UT’s main campus, Agricultural campus and facilities in Fort Sanders. The T: Access does not run on Saturday and Sunday. The only UT transit that operates fully at night on the weekends is the T: Link. “The T: Link operates nightly between 6 p.m. and 7 a.m.,” Bindner said. “We want to be out there, especially late at night.” Although the T: Link operates throughout the night the phone lines are often very busy and it may be affecting students’ methods of late night transportation. Braden Burns, a senior in supply chain management, explained his struggle using the T: Link services. “I haven’t used the T: Link in a while since I have my car here now, but I remember trying to call it all the time freshman and sophomore year and never having much luck,” Burns said. “My friends and I used to try to call it to get home from a party or from being at the library late and night, and a lot of the time the line would just ring and ring and ring and we would just walk back.”
Lauren Daudelin, a senior in early childhood education and development, also recalled that she had ongoing issues with utilizing the T: Link. “I had walked to the library once but by the time I needed to leave it was really cold and rainy,” Daudelin said. “I tried to call the T: Link to come pick me up but no one ever answered the phone. I eventually got a friend to come and get me.” Bindner explained that Parking and Transit Services has a new solution to this consistent problem. “We have a new solution but there is a challenge because it is not widely known,” Bindner said. “For the service at night when the T: Link is operating there is an app available where you can request the bus’s assistance.” The UT mobile app has integrated the T transit system. The app includes GPS, route stop information, updates on routes and service changes. The app had been in its trial phase during the fall semester but is now currently active. For more information on transit and parking services and to see the full bus routes the website is http://ridethet.utk.edu and the office phone number is 865-974-8474.
Student Government election week has finally come, here’s a list of events to expect this week leading up to the big reveal. Monday: SGA Debate, 8:30 p.m. in the Howard Baker Center Tuesday: Challenge campaign, Pedestrian Walkway and Presidential Courtyard 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Patterson-Hollingsworth Cookout, 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. in Presidential Courtyard Patterson-Hollingsworth pizza giveaway, Hodges Library 8 p.m. - 10 p.m.
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SGA Profile: Challenge Campaign Alayna Cameron Contributor
This year’s “Challenge” campaign, sponsored by juniors in supply chain Alex Pennycuff and Fuller Edwards, said they hope to see a major shift in SGA and campus issues. Pennycuff said given the vast changes in student climate and issues on campus, he felt compelled to better represent the student population by running for Student Body President. “If you would’ve asked 3 months ago if we ever saw ourselves running for these positions, we would have said, ‘No way,’” Pennycuff said at SGA’s Meet the Candidate’s event in early March. “But, over the course of the semester we saw a lot of things happen and a lot of things that we felt that we could help with.” As a result, Pennycuff and Edwards united under the “Challenge” banner to run for SGA Student Body President and Vice President. One of Challenge’s campaign goals is to create a shift in student government where SGA is not a “voice from the administration to the students,” but a “voice for the
students,” Edwards said. Edwards said Challenge has prioritized monitoring tuition spending, reforming the current alcohol policy, student safety and bettering transportation system at UT. “One of our biggest policy points is advocating for efficient spending,” Edwards said. “We want SGA to release an annual waste report where we go through and look at how the administration has spent our money and outline how money has been wasted.” “SGA needs to be a watchdog for tuition dollars because if SGA is not watching out for students, nobody is,” Pennycuff added. In regards to alcohol policy, the Challenge campaign is advocating for a wet campus. “All students of legal age can responsibly drink in their dorm, private room, or apartment on campus,” Edwards said. “If a student organization wanted to hold an event and serve alcohol (to) students of legal age, they could do so by submitting a site permit.” Pennycuff said he believes that by pushing for a wet campus policy that is in affect all week, his campaign will serve to make student safety a priority not just on weekends, but all year round. “By making UT a wet campus, it brings a lot of traffic from the Fort during the night back onto campus,” Pennycuff explained.
As for campus transportation, Challenge seeks to ensure student safety and improve the transportation system through implementing lights, shelters and maps at every Late Nite bus stop. “We really want to challenge the administration,” Edwards said of his campaign’s overall strategy. “When a bill passes in Senate, and the administration says ‘No, we don’t agree with that,’ we’re not just going to back down.” Edwards and Pennycuff said they believe their “Challenge” campaign will best represent the student population by “accurately and passionately” defending the “student voice.” Pennycuff cited the campaign’s opposition to the recent SGA resolution to prohibit smoke and tobacco use on campus as a way largely of representing the student voice. Pennycuff said he believes the resolution is a misguided measure that is not representative of the student will. Drawing from their campus experiences in Greek Life to peer mentorships and other programs, Pennycuff and Edwards said they believe there is no way to truly represent the student body without surrounding themselves with a diversity of opinions. “We are not the typical SGA groomed candidates,” Pennycuff said.
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“As we begin Sexual Assault Awareness Month, we are asking all volunteers continued from Page 1 to pledge, reach out and speak up about this important issue,” Blamey said. “We raise money for the Sexual Assault Center of East Tennessee, (but) the goal is also just to raise awareness about campus resources, support options and those sorts of things.” At the end of the hike, participants were able to socialize, take photographs with a giant balloon high heel and take part in a series of competitions. “Up at Ayers we do a runway competition, a shoe decorating competition and a competition for the largest team and most funds raised,” Blamey said. Wilson Wade, freshman in forestry, explained why he chose to hike the hill in heels. “The majority of this event is fun but I also think it really is important to raise awareness for sexual assault,” Wade said. “Anything to get the word out is good. I’m not an expert, but awareness can always help.” Wade was one of over 150 participants to take part in the hike. Craig Brooks, sophomore in kinesiology, said he participated in the event in part to support the Sexual Assault Center of East Tennessee through the Beta Theta Pi philanthropy efforts. “I think it’s important to get the word out about his type of thing because (on campus) we get emails about stuff like this all the time and we know it’s an issue,” Brooks said. “It’s not just protecting women but men too. Everyone needs to be careful about what they’re doing in certain situations and protect themselves.” The Center for Health Education and Wellness will be hosting events all month for sexual assault awareness.
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Gwen Stefani—“This Is What The Truth Feels Like” Anticipation: 4/5 Since the days of the ‘90s rock band No Doubt, Gwen Stefani has been one of the most off-the-wall superstars in music. So you can expect this to be a little left of center and totally Gwen Stefani-like. During: 3.5/5 There are some strong emotions and so much honesty in this album. Not to mention, the whole record is infectious. Make sure to check out “Make Me Like You” (cause it’s such a jam, y’all). After: 3.5/5 Stefani’s ability to come back after a decade and create an album that is not only interesting and new for her but also is true to her style is the only answer you need for her relevancy. The outlandish pop queen who helped us all spell bananas back in the early 2000s is back with her third solo studio album, “This Is What The Truth Feels Like.” After going through a divorce and starting a very public relationship with fellow *Voice *co-star and newly divorced country superstar Blake Shelton, Stefani has been through some tough times as of late. This album is totally a testament to all of that. Tracks like the breakup-theme song “Used To Love You” delve into Stefani’s divorce from English rocker Gavin Rossdale. The lyrics reveal the realizations of the end of a relationship with lyrics such as “I don’t know why I cry/ But I think it’s ‘cause I remembered for the first time/ Since I hated you/ That I used to love you.” But it’s not all sad divorce songs from the blonde pop queen. Most of the album is made up of upbeat, new love songs such as Stefani’s first single from the record and total fun pop jam “Make Me Like You.” New themes can be traced through the album along with new-age electronic melodies, but Stefani’s musical style shows through in her chant-like rapping on songs like “Red Flag” that are reminiscent of her 2004 hit “Hollaback Girl.” The album is a fun, pop album that does all that pop music is supposed to, but more than that, it’s a truth telling about what Stefani has been experiencing in her personal life as well. It also proves how a solo artist can stay this relevant in the music industry for this long.
Black Stone Cherry—“Kentucky” Anticipation: 5/5 They had me at “Blame It On The Boom Boom” so the expectation of hard hitting rock from these guys is well…expected. During: 3.5/5 The band has really stayed true to their sound. They’re rocking on songs like “Soul Machine” but “War” absolutely steals the show. After: 3.5/5 “Kentucky” is full of songs that are true to what hard rock is supposed to sound like. They stay close to their rock routine on this one and it doesn’t seem to be something they aimed to change. The Kentucky hard rockers Black Stone Cherry are still hitting the rock scene with a grungy punch on their fourth studio album, “Kentucky.” The band might have dubbed their latest album after their home state, but the album leans heavier on rock rather than a southern sound, in typical Black Stone Cherry style. The “Blame It On The Boom Boom” songsters don’t venture too far outside of their hard rock ways with songs like “Cheaper To Drink Alone” and “Soul Machine” that could easily fit on previous album with thrashing cymbals and lead singer Chris Robertson’s gruff vocals. However “Longer Ride” shows the softer side of the band with a slower tempo and guitar riffs that flow like the best of rock ballads. “The Rambler” takes a more acoustic approach, telling the tale of a Southern musician making his way through life and love. The hints of the band’s Southern background is subtle, but it shines through on numerous songs such as “Shakin’ My Cage,” with acoustic guitar picking in the song’s intro. Rock with a Southern twist isn’t all the band can do though. They’ve been known to do some fantastic covers (see “Can’t You See” from their album “Between The Devil & The Deep Blue Sea”). Their cover of “War” by soul singer Edwin Starr is no exception; the song is smothered in Robertson’s gravelly yet soulful vocals paired with a horn section and beat-driven melody interrupted by strong electric guitar riffs to give the cover that Black Stone Cherry sound. Rather than plastering the album with screaming hard-hitting rock tunes with little substance, songs like “The Rambler” and the meaningful and inspirational track “Born To Die” are the deeper songs of the album and really prove the band’s ability to be more than just a rock band.
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Restuarant focuses on healthy juice blends Megan Patterson Arts & Culture Editor If you’re like me, you don’t know what coldpressed juice is, let alone what makes it special or more desirable than your average Welch’s. One of Juice Box’s missions is to educate the community on the benefits of health and awareness regarding what we eat. Their main medium for this message is juice. However, the Juice Box’s new location in Knoxville also serves an extensive list of smoothies, wellness and essential oil shots and handcrafted acai bowls. This location’s opening follows the original Juice Box in Maryville which experienced significant support from the surrounding community. The two co-owners of the franchise thought that the North Knoxville neighborhood in particular showed a lot of potential for development, and on April 1, they opened the Juice Box between the old K-Brew location and the Bread Shed bakery. The space was formerly an art gallery and Juice Box retained a layout that is aesthetically pleasing in a very modern, minimalist sense. Fruits and colorful furniture pieces and accents fill the largely white space and virtually all lighting comes from the long windows that span the
front of the store. Our cashier was friendly and knowledgable, and when we informed her that we were inexperienced juice consumers, she suggested a juice tasting. My companion and myself, alongside one other customer, tasted about six different juices that ranged from earthy and raw tasting to sweet with a little bit of spice. My personal favorite was Belize – apple, lemon, cayenne and ginger. It was light but refreshingly sharp from the ginger and cayenne combo. From the earthier juices, I preferred The Dr. — a mix of pineapple, spinach, carrot, cucumber, lemon, parsley and ginger. Though it held more substance in each sip and was much less sweet than Belize, I liked the fresh and plain taste it brought with the same sharpness of ginger. Despite the variety of juices, I ended up opting for a smoothie — more out of appetite than out of dissatisfaction with the many juices I tried. I asked the cashier for her favorite and ended up with a combination of almond milk, almond butter, blueberries, protein and coconut flakes. She assured me that only the items listed on the menu were added to their smoothies. The Juice Box avoids using ice in the smoothies by freezing all of their fruit, enabling them to use
The juice box has a wide range of beverages from smoothies to 100% real juices. Justin Keyes • The Daily Beacon only fruits and vegan products to produce cold, finish my smoothie. fresh smoothies. Whether the Juice Box will have a broad comI didn’t need to be convinced it would be mercial appeal or will simply cater to Knoxville’s delicious — I had already fallen in love with the growing health conscious community remains store during the juice tasting. to be seen, but I think they made a good choice Sure enough it was delicious and it came in a coming to North Knoxville and will certainly be reasonable size (unlike Smoothie King’s “smallâ€? returning. option), so it took me a surprisingly long time to
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The Daily Beacon • Monday, April 4, 2016
SGA election comparisons: Go Vols and go vote
Thomas Carpenter The Workshop
There are two types of UT students: those on SGA campaigns (and campaigning) and thus not annoyed by the clogging of Ped Walkway, the busiest student thoroughfare — and then there’s everyone else. I know that most of the people that fall into the former category will read this, but I also hope some students from the latter category will as well and actually vote. Voter turnout is always miserable, and there’s really nothing to suggest that will change anytime soon, but I’ll try to remain hopeful. For the sake of full disclosure, I’ll tell you I have close friends on all three campaigns, so I’m really not predisposed to any campaign in particular like I have been in the past. This also makes it a difficult column to write. I know I won’t make all my friends happy in the space provided here, but I do hope to give some insight on all of the candidates and their policies. This is an opinion column, and these are my opinions. Take them as you will. Let’s start with Hollingsworth-Patterson. These two are some of the most genuine people I know. They are both extremely committed individuals that care about the student body. Their policy platform falls a bit short, however. I think they would do a fine job if elected, but they just haven’t put as much time into new ideas as the other two campaigns. Some notable highlights of their policy include a Styrofoam free campus and more transparency when it comes to where and when you can park, as well as a strong message of outreach. The rest of their policy is simply too vague to talk about here. Now on to the other two campaigns: Hardee/Morris/McCandless (we’ll call them HMM) and Challenge. I’ll tackle this issue by issue. Alcohol Policy: This is the first year that SGA campaigns have taken firm stances on improving the alcohol policy on campus, and they should all be commended for it. Our current alcohol policy is hypocritical and frankly unsafe. We have state legislators drinking beer in the Tyson House and Neyland Skybox, but ofage students have to keep it off campus, leading to a culture that perpetuates binge drinking and drunk driving. These two campaigns have two distinct approaches to solving this problem. HMM wants to open up just weekends for
alcohol on campus, which is obviously when most students would be drinking, especially during football season. On the other hand, Challenge supports a full 24/7 wet campus. I’ve gone back and forth on this issue myself, but I do think the fight for a fully wet campus is a worthwhile one. It may not happen right away, but it is possible. A wet weekend policy just opens up the door for a lot of other issues, but it would be progress — as well as being a good compromise that is more likely to happen sooner. Dining: Everyone’s dining policy sucks. This is because SGA has no real decision making authority when it comes to big money and Aramark. This was made clear to me when the UT admins came to SGA with the mandatory meal plan a couple years ago. The vast majority of senators, including myself, spoke out against it in the beginning. Kelsey Keny, the SGA president at the time it was officially announced, also came out against it. Not only is it a terrible policy, but its implementation further delegitimized SGA to the student body. The mandatory meal plan needs to be eliminated, but that will not happen until students demand to have their voices heard when it comes to non essential student fees like dining dollars. Campus Safety: I really like Challenge’s idea for a new bus route that goes along the perimeter of the Fort. I think that would do a lot to help students that live around Grand and Forest Avenues, which includes Crown, Grand Forest and The Commons. HMM, however, is the only campaign talking about accessibility, calling for an interactive map with construction and other info to help all students get around campus, especially those with disabilities. When it comes to sexual assault, which I believe to be the most important issue right now, HMM trumps Challenge. HMM wants a mandatory sexual assault training class for all freshmen, focusing on bystander intervention. Having seen its impact on other campuses, I believe this is one of the most effective ways at getting all students to be aware of the issue and training them to handle it properly. Challenge’s idea for a task force is a good one, but I’m not sure that it goes far enough. One HMM policy I do have an issue
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with is the open dorm lobbies at night policy. They mean well, but I see it creating more problems than it solves. Like I said, both of these campaigns should be lauded for their effort in crafting new policy ideas for SGA. One must also consider leadership when judging candidates on their merit. This is why I’m endorsing the HMM campaign. Their devotion is not only clear in their policy, but has been shown in the past through the actions of its members, not just the top three. There are equally devoted students on the other two campaigns, but taken as a whole, HMM is the better campaign that I believe would do the most good for students. That being said, regardless of who wins the top spots, all three campaigns will have senators win seats, and they will be forced to work together for the next year. So far, all three campaigns have conducted themselves professionally, and I hope this will continue because SGA will not change for the better if students are divided. We must continue to fight for better student representation, for that is the true goal. Go vote and Go Vols. Thomas Carpenter is a senior in Classics. He can be reached at ThomasCarpenter@utk.edu.
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LET’S TALK ABOUT IT This week is Sex Week, five days filled with events and lectures that promote sexual health and awareness on campus — or, as Todd Starnes refers to it, “five days of depravity that makes Mardi Gras on Bourbon Street look like a Sunday school picnic.” If you’re unfamiliar with the oh-so-charming Todd Starnes, he is the Fox News host notorious for inaccurately reporting on the university’s small moves to create a more accepting and inclusive campus. And Starnes is one of the reasons the university is at risk to lose it’s diversity funding. But, this editorial is not meant to condemn Starnes or the Tennessee legislature — again. It’s meant to salute and support the students of Sexual Empowerment and Awareness at Tennessee, the students who continue to host Sex Week, year after year, in the face of continued backlash. This year, Sex Week will host events that tackle everything from the fun in the bedroom, like BDSM 101 and Butt Stuff, to the educational, like Trans Health and Male Sexual Fluidity. And these classes are something that State Rep.
Kevin Brooks called, “horrifically disturbing,” according to Starnes. “The fact that we are using state dollars and state classrooms on state campuses to promote UT Sex Week is unforgivable (sic),” said Brooks according to Starnes. Do you know what’s truly horrifically disturbing? That April is Sexual Assault Awareness month, and our state legislature is trying to end one of the few resources this campus has to prevent and educate on sex positivity, body awareness and sexual assault prevention. It is horrifically disturbing that our university is under federal investigation and has a Title IX lawsuit filed against it for its mishandling of sexual assault cases, as is the case on many other college campuses nationwide. If anything, tax payer money should be spent on positive, informative safe sex education. We shouldn’t be starting college without knowledge about contraceptives, our own sexuality, consent, proper bodily health and how to look at sex from an empowered stance — and it is horrifically disturbing that our state cares more about being offended by the word “sex” than whether or not students start college with the information to
make safe, informed and empowered decisions about their own bodies. The students who continue to organize and attend Sex Week send an important message to the university and the state — that when something is missing from our education, and when something has the potential to better the lives of students at our university, that those things should be fought for. Those things are worth sticking up for. The Editorial Board is comprised of Jenna Butz, editor-in-chief, Bradi Musil, managing editor, Katrina Roberts, creative director, and Hannah Moulton, copy chief. They can be reached at newsroom@utdailybeacon.com. The views expressed in Daily Beacon editorials reflect the majority opinion of the Beacon’s editorial board and may be supposed to represent the opinion of The Daily Beacon at the time of publication. They are not necessarily representative of any individual member.
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Where will technology take us? David Garcia Public Scientist
In 1997, when legendary chess player Gary Kasparov lost to Deep Blue — IBM’s chess-playing computer — it was a blow to man from machine not felt since John Henry’s heart exploded. On March 15, 2016, another blow was struck when Google’s AlphaGo defeated Go grandmaster Lee Sedol in the game of Go — a task previously thought impossible due to the sheer complexity of Go as a game as well as the intuition that comes along with learning to play it. AlphaGo is certainly far from being the artificial intelligence that forces us to think about Philip K. Dick and his electric sheep, but it is a sobering reminder of how far machine learning has come and the potential it has for automating human jobs. For all of the fear that might be associated with technology like AlphaGo, the reality is a mixed bag of consequences for different people, and we have to be ready for such casualties. During the time between Deep Blue and AlphaGo, the dangers of automation would seemingly affect only jobs and tasks with clear instructions and predictable outcomes. There have been plenty of people that have lost their jobs to simple automation such as bank tellers and assembly-line workers. The costs to human jobs have been relatively small, usually affecting only very simple repetitive tasks. AlphaGo has shown that in some ways even human
intuition can be replicated, and a constantly changing landscape of problems may not always be a barrier for automation. Tasks that would require one to think on the fly and quickly make a decision — such as is done while driving — have become well known and possibly dangerous advances. Google’s self-driving car project, for instance, has long been cited as the next great cause of unemployment among commercial drivers. As the technology becomes more developed and accepted, it certainly might end up being the case that taxis and semis will get rid of the human operator altogether in place of a more reliable and accurate AI. It is a cold and unfortunate fact of our ever changing world that automated functions from the first power loom to modern online banking have undoubtedly cost people their jobs without full recoveries to the injured. As college students, we have some advantages in this respect, as much of our education is seemingly preparing us for tasks that require creativity, entrepreneurialism and interpersonal skills all of which AI seems to be nowhere near being able to replicate. This certainly does not mean that one has to be college educated to be safe from future automation or even that a college grad is safe from all automation. The fact of the matter is that automation in some form or fashion is coming, and while some are safer
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than others, we will all be forced to live in a world where some will fall on the wrong side of the divide. In these cases, our options are limited. Some have suggested banning the use of technologies such as self-driving cars, but that’s a stop-gap at best and at worst a refusal to see the writing on the wall. Others have suggested a universal income to protect people that will become unemployed in the future, but that is such a foreign concept that I would consider it nearly impossible. Our best option might be to make as our ancestors did, and evolve to meet the new challenge by finding new skills that will make those of us in pressing danger of being replaced capable of finding a new purpose. It is neither perfect, particularly satisfying or even an attainable option for some, but it may be the best we can do as far as mitigating the damage that is to come. AlphaGo is unlikely to replace anyone anytime soon, but it serves as a powerful reminder that our ever increasing technological capability is a juggernaut unconcerned with those in its path. With a little foresight though, we might be able to see the beast coming and put aside our pride and our hammer. David Garcia is a first-year graduate student in energy science. He can be reached at dgarcia8@vols. utk.edu.
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The Daily Beacon • Monday, April 4, 2016
Gaulden showing massive potential at safety Jonathan Toye
Sports Editor Bob Shoop always knew Rashaan Gaulden could be a good college safety. After all it was Shoop — then the defensive coordinator at Vanderbilt — who gave Gaulden his first offer to play safety in college. Gaulden, however, chose to go a different route. He signed with Tennessee in 2014 and settled in at nickelback for the Vols. But when Shoop became Tennessee’s next defensive coordinator this January, it opened a window for Gaulden to play safety, admittedly his favorite position. “He felt like (safety) was my niche and he felt like that was a comfort position for me,” Gaulden said Saturday after Tennessee’s student appreciation practice in Neyland Stadium. “I embraced that change. It’s been a good (transition). It’s going to be a long transition. That’s why I get the spring to develop. I got coach on me. I have different guys like Evan Berry on me coaching me up all spring. I am looking forward to the opportunity to transition to safety.” “At the same time, it was a different position that I had to learn as well,” Gaulden continued. “With the learning, it’s an ongoing process.
Having to fill the shoes of one of the most cerebral safeties that we’ve had here in Brian Randolph, that’s pretty tough. But I’m willing to take the change and I’m really excited for it.” His defensive coordinator is also excited to witness Gaulden’s transition to safety. While Shoop admits Gaulden is far from a finished product at safety, he still sees the tantalizing potential that he first recognized when he coached at Vanderbilt. “He has the skills to be an upper-level SEC player,” Shoop said. “He has got a tremendous skill set … He is tall, he is long, he is athletic, he is physical. He has got good ball skills. And he has the desire to be really good. I am very pleased with him.” If events had played out differently, Gaulden might have been an upper-level nickel. He didn’t play much his freshman season in 2014, as Tennessee had an established starter at nickel in Justin Coleman. However, Gaulden had a nice spring in 2015 that drew praise from his coaches. He continued to play well through the fall training camp, positioning himself to be the starting nickelback. The Spring Hill, Tenn. native, however, suffered a season-ending foot injury before he could even play a down in 2015. One of the biggest challenges this spring is simply regaining his old form before he suffered the injury.
Rashaan Gaulden tackles an opponent on Ole Miss. • File Photo “It’s just getting his confidence back,” Shoop said. “Anytime you miss an entire year, you got to scrape the rust off.” “He needs experience,” Shoop added. “He needs reps without me or Willie (Martinez) standing behind him barking at him. He needs to just get out there and gather his experience.” Gaulden also has to understand he is now the last line of defense. Gaulden likes to be
aggressive, but sometimes too much of a good thing can be bad. Shoop said on Thursday that Gaulden has been out of position at times during scrimmages. But once Gaulden learns how to channel his aggression, look out. “Coach told me if I could control my aggression, I will be a really good player at this level,” Gaulden said. “It’s a work in progress.”