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LETTER FROM THE SGA PRESIDENT “Don’t let classes get in the way of your education” When I came to orientation for the University of Tennessee three years ago, I was overwhelmed with the size of the campus, the class schedules being made, and the amount of names that I couldn’t remember within two days. I recall meeting our orientation leaders and being surprised by how much enthusiasm they had. I was worn out from two days; they chose to do this all summer?

My orientation leaders, Bridgette and Evan, stressed the importance of getting involved. They explained that their UT experience was defined by what they did outside of the classroom. This is to be expected, yeah? Surely every orientation leader says this so students will become active and our university will be better off as a whole, right?

Let’s forget about this great school for a second and be extremely selfish. Why should you, an incoming student, be concerned with the different opportunities UT has to offer?

For me, these opportunities have made all of the difference. In my short three years on Rocky Top, I have found that the memorable moments have stemmed from the times when I said, “Yes.” Whether that was answering if I would go to a program, if I would join an organization, or even if I would grab lunch with a friend to catch up, it has been the reason I have fallen in love with this campus and these students.

Dr. Teeter, a journalism professor I had my junior year, said a lot of great things in his class, but the quote that stuck with me the most was, “Don’t let classes get in the way of your education.” While

I’m not able to remember as much of his advice on Media Law, this phrase stuck with me. Most of us come to UT to grow academically, but I think we deserve more than that. Fortunately for us, we have access to more than that.

I can’t tell you a whole lot about the biology I learned my first year here, but I’d love to tell you all about the friends I made and the times I had in Freshman Council. I never thought I would join a Greek organization, but the guys I’ve met through that will be standing beside me as I get married. Most people don’t want to spend their summer at school, but some of my best memories have been at UT this past summer when I met the 4,500 incoming students as an orientation leader like Bridgette and Evan, and now I can comfortably say that they suggested branching out because it really is the foundation of a successful college experience.

Unfortunately, I still can’t help you remember the names of the other students you meet while you’re here at orientation. If you are wiped out at the end of the day and someone asks you to go grab milkshakes, though, I trust that you’ll know what the correct answer is.

Welcome to UT and Go Vols, Will Will Freeman is a junior in agricultural communications and the 2015-2016 academic year’s Student Government Association President.

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From the Editor: present

I have started writing this letter four times.

It’s not like writing an article where I know exactly what the story is and can pump it out in roughly an hour depending on the story length and my tiredness level. No, this letter is completely from scratch, boys and girls. I have debated discussing procrastination, homesickness, mental health, campus food. Just anything that could help prepare you for this upcoming year.

But, let’s be real. All the advice you’ve received thus far has been cheesy as hell, right? You’re tired of hearing about how these are going to be the “best years of your life” and to call your mom often and to go to the gym and eat right to fight the Freshman 15.

No one’s telling you that there will be nights when Netflix is definitely more important than homework or that you’ll actually call your parents way more than you ever thought you would or that sometimes going to TRECS will make you feel more selfconscious than not going at all (I swear that everyone at TRECS has been working out since they were like three).

Advice is easy to give and even easier to ignore. But what sort of (almost) upperclassman would I be if I didn’t at least try to give you a tool for making the most of college?

I keep thinking of one of my favorite books, Donald Miller’s “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years.” It’s about Miller shaping his life into a story worth telling. As a writer, my favorite thing is a good story. And that’s exactly what you have the chance to create.

What will you say about your time at UT when you’re finished? That you just spent every weekend studying and never had fun? That you had too much fun and didn’t really accomplish what you wanted to?

Miller writes that we base our story, our lives, on what we believe is

Jenna Butz is a junior in English and the Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Beacon for the 2015-2016 school year. Send your stories, questions, comments and concerns to her at jkw546@vols.utk.edu.

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important, “so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important.”

“And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can’t go back to being normal; you can’t go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time,” Miller wrote.

I’m not saying every minute of your time at UT is going to be a good story.

Some might be sad, others embarrassing. Sometimes it won’t even be a story. But once you know you’ve made a story worth telling, you’ll seek to create more and more, and once you put all those together, that’s your entire college career and later your entire life.

And The Daily Beacon is here to help share those stories.

You know that scene in “13 Going on 30” where Jennifer Garner’s character (appropriately named Jenna cough, cough) is pitching her magazine’s redesign and says she wants to see her best friend’s big sister, the girls from the soccer team, her next door neighbor in it? At The Daily Beacon, that’s exactly what you’ll get. You’ll get the stories created by your friends and peers told by your friends and peers.

Sometimes the stories are heartbreaking or frustrating or joyful or funny. We’ll provide stories that you might never see anywhere else or have seen a million times but aimed at you, the college student. They might introduce you to your new favorite brunch spot. They might show you an issue you’ll become incredibly passionate about. They might rally you to support a Lady Vols volleyball game.

Whatever it is, whatever feeling it invokes, we are here to tell it and to share it.

We at The Daily Beacon invite you to share your stories with us. Tell us when a student or faculty member is creating a story, when an event is happening, when there’s an issue you just have to talk about (letters to the editor can be sent to letters@utdailybeacon. com).

You create the stories. We’ll tell them.

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From the Editor: past

Claire Dodson When I stepped into the office of The Daily Beacon in August of 2011, I was just short of terrified.

I felt as though my insecurity must have been written all over my face – my status as “freshman” emblazoned in the way I stumbled over my words when asking where the entertainment section met.

Somehow, I made it through the excruciating awkwardness of that first meeting with a story assignment in hand – I was to cover a controversial Knoxville environmentalist group’s meeting at Barley’s in the Old City. When that Tuesday came, my mom dropped me off in her minivan, and I entered the bar, reporter’s notebook in my pocket and pen tucked behind my ear.

I was no inexperienced, shy freshman – I was Claire Dodson, journalist at The Daily Beacon, the editorially independent student newspaper at the University of Tennessee. I had a purpose. I had an identity.

In high school, I had many identities – writer, mediocre basketball player, decent student, church kid and my personal favorite, “that tall girl.” But in college, we start back at square one. We are nobody.

We are everybody.

Come August, you’ll walk aimlessly to your first classes, confused and disoriented by the sheer size of a campus you are expected to cross in less than 15 minutes. You might be homesick, you might be

insecure, you might be terrified.

My promise to you as a I ready myself to leave this place after four years is this: it won’t get easier. But it will get better.

You’ll never stop having to put yourself out there, to make friends, to ask questions when you don’t understand. You’ll never stop experiencing that shiver of doubt before you enter a job interview or a class that seems difficult or a party where you know no one.

This is a good thing. College forces us to constantly make ourselves new, to adapt, to change our values and minds and then change them back. This is the time when you are learning who you are and who you will become.

A controversial former state senator once told me that the purpose of college is to get a job. He could not see any other reason a university should exist, could not see why diverse speakers or campus concerts or late nights with friends could be equally as integral to the college experience.

He was wrong.

What you do here matters, in and out of the classroom. Yes, it does affect your job prospects, but more importantly, it determines the kind of person you’ll be in that elusive real world.

You may not spend the rest of your life in that first post-grad job, but you will spend the rest of your life in the body you’re in now, with the mind and heart you have now. Use these years to take risks, to be bold, to ask questions about things that make you uncomfortable.

And when you make that last sweaty trek up The Hill for your last final, you’ll look down at the sprawling campus before you and know you did it right.

Claire Dodson was the Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Beacon for the 2014-2015 school year. She can be reached at pdodson@vols.utk.edu.

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Meet your SGA Representatives

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President vows to bring students together Hannah Marley Staff Writer

Will Freeman, an agricultural communication major and the new SGA president who was sworn in April 14, likes farms.

And not only farms, but the people who work on them — people like his family.

Freeman said growing up on a farm has inspired his love not only of agriculture, but of representing groups who might otherwise be overlooked in order to make their voices heard.

“I think a lot of people aren’t entirely educated on what goes into putting food on people’s plates, so I want to use my knowledge of the background work that goes into it along

with my communications skills to advocate for the people who aren’t always represented,” Freeman said.

It’s this same desire paired with a healthy belief in hard work and perseverance Freeman said is crucial in farm life, that drove him to run for Freshman Council three years ago and SGA president this past year.

Freeman is a three-year SGA veteran, former orientation leader, member of the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity and the former director of the Student Affairs committee within SGA. He noted that each of these experiences have helped mold his drive to be a representative and continue to strive toward his ultimate goal of connecting students to the administration.

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VP looks to continue to ‘strengthen’ SGA culture shift Joe Garlington Contributor

“There are two types of vice presidents: Door mats and matadors.”

These words, spoken by the fictional politician Frank Underwood in “House of Cards” could be applied to the situation SGA Vice President Madison Kahl now faces as she decides what kind of leader she will be in the coming year.

SGA’s new VP knows exactly which one she will be.

Kahl, junior in biochemistry and cellular and molecular biology, has been involved with SGA since her freshman

year at UT, when she elected to freshman council.

“That was really where I found my niche and home at UT,” Kahl said.

Kahl continued to invest in the council by serving as the Freshman Council adviser during her sophomore year and as the Executive Treasurer in her junior year.

This experience, Kahl said, gave her the leadership skills and eagerness for productivity needed to run for SGA Vice President.

“We have a lot of really good ideas and a lot of passion behind them, and when those two things combine that’s when the organization does what it’s supposed to and actually has an impact,” Kahl said.

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Beane finds comfort in improving students’ experience Jennifer Webb Contributor

Mariah Beane is “kind of a nerd,” so she says.

A junior double majoring in business analytics and economics, Beane said she hopes to bring positive changes to UT’s student life with her new job as the director of Student Services.

Student Services is the branch of SGA that is responsible for programming and policy-making. Students who are involved in one of the committees organize events that are designed to bring awareness to issues students on campus face.

Beane, who has been a part of Student Services since her freshman year, said she ran for the position because Student

Services is where she feels comfortable.

“I’ve always really felt at home within student services and kind of its mission of outreach,” Beane said. “And benefiting the student body through initiatives that aren’t just clearly stated necessarily in the bill, but really how do we want to enhance people’s experiences here.”

Student Services isn’t the only place Beane said she feels comfortable — comfort was also the main reason she chose to attend UT. “I was one of the advantageous high schoolers who went on about 11 college visits,” Beane said. “Ultimately it just kind of came down to where I felt most at home whenever I was on a visit. UT really had that passion from the ambassadors and students.”

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FREEMAN continued from Page 6 “One of the biggest goals on our mind this upcoming year will be connecting with students who aren’t normally represented, but I don’t think the way to do that is by putting down other communities on campus,” Freeman said, referencing the negative attention his campaign received for being involved with Greek organizations.

“If we ever start thinking that one community is more or less important than the others, then there will be issues,” he said.

Freeman listed several groups he hopes to incorporate into SGA, including the engineering colleges, who currently have no representatives, the African American community and the Muslim Student Association.

He added that his strongest mentors were members of his fraternity, one of whom, Ben Sanders, is a former SGA vice president himself.

Through Sanders’ guidance and encouragement from his brothers,

KAHL continued from Page 6 Former SGA Vice President Connor Dugosh, senior in English, said he is optimistic about Kahl’s future.

“I think we have prepared the next SGA with a much stronger foundation,” Dugosh said. “This entire year has been evaluating our structure for SGA and figuring out where we can go for the future.

“It really has been brick by brick. I think that definitely applies to SGA.” Kahl said one of the ideas that she and her team are excited about is the addition of ten “at-large” members to the 50-member student senate. These senators will be appointed by the Vice President, rather than elected by the student body, and will be chosen from communities that are underrepresented in the current student senate.

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Freeman said that he knew he was passionate and determined enough to be a strong candidate for president.

“He told me not to think that my one year will be the be all end all of SGA, you’re not going to step in and make every issue perfect, but as long as you work hard on it, people will be able to respect that,” Freeman said.

“He said I needed to understand what I was getting myself into, because it takes a year of passion. You can’t just do it for a semester and get burned out, because you represent this university and this organization, and through hard work you can be proud of what you’ve done.”

Through his leadership as president, Freeman said he hopes that when he leaves one year from now, and the next president is sworn in, that the students of UT will see the new SGA as a “helping hand,” connecting students to the administration.

“If I want to be remembered for anything,” Freeman said, “I want it to be for getting students to rally behind this organization.”

entire student body.

“It’s a tricky gray area for SGA to take a stance, but we want to be being advocates on your (students’) behalf,” Kahl said. “Will, Mariah and I are not afraid to take on those bigger issues.”

One of the ways that Kahl and her fellow SGA executives Will Freeman and Mariah Beane will be better equipped to take on those bigger issues is by being more connected to the student body, she said.

Starting next year, there will be several new positions in SGA designed to do just that. These positions will include a director of communications, a videographer, web master and press secretary.

“We will have a group of students whose sole job is to get the message across” Dugosh said.

Kahl said she is very much looking forward to leading these innovations in the SGA infrastructure as student government vice president.

“This year I think there was a real culture shift in SGA,” Kahl said, “and I want to continue to strengthen that.”

Will Freeman, Madison Kohl and other campaign members hug after the SGA results were announced on April 1. Justin Keyes • The Daily Beacon

BEANE continued from Page 6 Those college visits are also part of the reason why Beane became interested in government.

“My dad turned on his Sirius Radio and would have the news on constantly when we drove anywhere in the car, like those 11 college visits,” she said. “We would listen to the news. So, I was always just kind of interested in what happened in the state and on the federal level.”

Outside of her role in SGA, Beane is a member of the Leadership Scholars Program, the Business Analytics Society and the Chancellor’s Honors Program.

Beane said that as Student Services director, one of her goals is to make sure that the people who are in leadership roles of the committees are the best fit for those jobs.

“I’ve heard it a lot in the past, and I’ve experienced it slightly, where people who are involved in committees don’t necessarily feel like they’re being able to impact anything or make their voices heard,” Beane said. “ Just making those people at that level internally feel involved and feel important as well as making sure that the leadership is the most effective that it can be in terms of making everyone feel involved as well as getting the job done.”

Beane said her second goal is to find outlets on campus to better serve the student body.

“Whether it be through programming or different initiatives that need to come about, like really seeking it and asking people ‘how’s your day to day life on campus here,’ but going within the avenues of each committee, whether it be diversity or sustainability or academic life,” she said.

Connor Dugosh, current SGA vice president, said he was able to work closely with Beane this past year and that he believes that she will excel in her position as Student Services director.

“She’s really experienced, not just in student services but all across SGA,” Dugosh said. “She definitely has a really strong know-how of how to get things done within the organization, and she also has really good ideas.”

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Construction carries over to ‘Strip’

Tanner Hancock Copy Editor

As of April 6, the construction process of the two year Cumberland Avenue Corridor Project was officially underway. Combine that with VolCard payment options making their way to vendors on the Strip, and you have a recipe for major change.

Here’s a quick guide of the changes you can expect to see coming your way.

Cumberland Avenue Project: Anne Wallace, Cumberland Avenue Project manager, answered questions pertaining to the project during an open meeting at the UT Visitor Center on April 3.

Citing problems with left turns and general pedestrian safety issues with the current Cumberland Avenue setup, Wallace said she hopes the plan, which was originally drafted in 2007, will improve the overall economic and aesthetic layout of the area.

“The key to all of this is to plot a course for a more attractive, economically successful and vibrant Cumberland Avenue,” Wallace said.

With a projected completion date set for Aug. 31, 2017, construction for the project will be split into four phases focusing on utilities installation and streetscape restoration.

The first phase of the project will last from April 6 until June 6, consisting of gas, water and sewer line installations by Knoxville Utility Board workers. Two lanes of traffic will be maintained on Cumberland Avenue during this time.

While at least two lanes of traffic will be maintained on Cumberland Avenue for the majority of the construction process, commuters can expect several temporary closures of Cumberland Avenue over the course of the project, including a six-week closure that will require a detour by way of Volunteer Boulevard and Neyland Drive.

Wallace also addressed questions pertaining to the potential environmental impacts of the project. There are two, 18-feet deep storm water filter devices positioned on a hill above Third Creek near Cumberland Avenue.

“It will actually slow the water volume down and increase the cleanliness of that water before it hits Third Creek,” Wallace said. “We actually should see some improvements to Third Creek before the project is finished.”

The beginning of construction on Cumberland Avenue on April 6.

Taylor Gash • The Daily Beacon VolCard Coming to the Strip: In a meeting with members of the Cumberland Avenue Merchants Association April 1, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration Jeff Maples laid out the university’s plan to extend the VolCard to vendors on the Strip. The approximate start date is set for June 1 for all vendors who wish to participate, marking the first time the university has extended that payment option beyond campus grounds.

“For most of y’all here, especially the longtime merchants on Cumberland Avenue, this is a long time coming,” Maples said of the financial move. “We had to determine a policy (for the Volcard) for what can be used, what it can be used for, so we’ve been putting all that together.”

Vendors wanting to accept the VolCard at their establishments must pay a $250 activation fee for payment equipment compatible with the VolCard, as well as a transaction fee of 22 cents for non-food purchases made with the card.

Dining Dollars will not be extended to mer-

chants on the Strip given that they are part of Aramark’s financial plan. Despite several merchants’ complaints that their inability to accept Dining Dollars puts them at a competitive disadvantage, Maples maintained that the university’s contractual obligations to Aramark were not unusual.

“We’re not off on some island by ourselves,” Maples said. “Most every university has an agreement with a provider for dining services.

Ours happens to be Aramark.”

Currently Papa John’s is the only non-university affiliated location accepting Dining Dollars as a form of payment, due to a 2001 student appeal for a pizza program.

Alcohol, tobacco products and lottery tickets cannot be purchased through the VolCard, with university officials conducting secret shopping measures to ensure vendors are complying with the rule.

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Cheek addresses weather policy, UTK Senate passes ‘GenderNeutral Bathrooms’ bill budget, upcoming changes Hannah Marley Staff Writer

At the spring “Cheek Speak” forum, students had the opportunity to sit down with Chancellor Jimmy Cheek and ask him about any subject, like the inclement weather policy, changes to housing and construction and the effects of the Tennessee Promise.

BUDGET Chancellor Cheek kicked off the night with an update on the pending budget, which will allot $6 million to UT on top of the current budget.

This increase will allow UT to provide a 2 percent increase in faculty salaries, as well as partially paying for the two science buildings next to Jesse Harris, which will cost an estimated $7.5 million. Cheek also predicted that UT will receive an estimated total of $200 million in private money for academics.

The chancellor expressed his concerns that the increasing cost of Medicare at the state level will lead to more cuts in higher education. However, he reaffirmed his faith in the governor’s understanding of the importance of higher education, citing funding for the business building and gift money for the new engineering building planned to be built across from the existing Tickle Engineering Building.

Cheek stated that he has no plans of eliminating majors in order to function within potential budget cuts, but instead has advocated for the reallocation of funds between departments.

INCLEMENT WEATHER Cheek, with the help of Chris Cimino, vice chancellor of finance and administration, explained UT’s inclement weather policy in detail, addressing concerns about how UT decides to close or remain open and which dining halls are available.

Cimino said that he looks at the National Weather Service days in advance to allow the university to make the proper arrangements before a snow or ice storm is expected. These arrangements include having maintenance and dining workers stay overnight to ensure that UT will open if the roads are decent.

Cimino added that UT does not close whenever Knox County closes because the county covers a larger area of Knoxville and will close with the slightest amount of snow. The university, however, has a responsibility to remain open for its faculty and students.

Should UT delay, Cimino said, the buses will begin running 30 minutes early to ensure students can get to class.

HOUSING DEFICIT While student recruitment is up, many are concerned about the lack of housing to accommodate

the large influx of students, mentioning how many students will be displaced with the demolition of Apartment Residence Hall and the imminent destruction of Presidential Court.

While UT currently has around 7,000 beds, Cheek said the university will not be able to house that many students again until 2019.

Cimino also said UT is working on providing two new parking garages in order to meet increased commuter needs. These “smart garages” will have LED screens indicating which spaces are taken and which are available and will come with a phone app so students can instantly see which garages are at capacity and find parking faster.

Cheek added that with several new apartment complexes near campus, students should be able to find housing, even if it is not necessarily on campus.

Cheek also cited increased four-year graduation rates as a factor when considering housing, saying that with 43 percent of students graduating within four years, housing will be opening up more quickly than in recent years.

MANDATORY MEAL PLAN While meal plans may be mandatory, Cimino explained that they do not come without added benefits. Many vendors along the strip will be able to accept dining dollars beginning May. UT will also be providing a “Flex Plan,” in which students get a $300 meal plan and can claim any unused dining dollars at the end of the year.

When asked why this is necessary in the first place, Cimino explained that the campus food provider Aramark’s business plan depends on estimates of how many students are buying and how much they will spend. In order to allow for more flexibility with dining dollars the university must meet Aramark in their existing business model, Cimino said.

LADY VOLS While Cheek confirmed that the famous Lady Vols basketball logo will remain unchanged, he said that many female athletes and coaches prefer the solidarity that comes with the “power T” and the immediate recognition it brings. Cheek said these changes were brought on partially by a brand audit by Nike, who suggested moving to one logo.

“We think it’s best for the long term future of the university that we need to use it,” Cheek said.

“We’ve been looking at how we brand ourselves better.”

Cheek appeared to be in favor of the simplified design, saying that it will not only brand our athletic teams but serve as a way of building the reputation of the University of Tennessee under one consistently recognizable symbol. For Cheek, the transition is less about losing our identity but solidifying who we are and what we stand for under one image and one color — orange.

Hannah Marley Staff Writer

Gender-neutral bathrooms will come to a University of Tennessee building near you.

Actually, every building on campus by 2019.

The SGA Student Senate passed two bills, including the revised version of a bill mandating the designation of at least one gender neutral bathroom in every building on campus.

“Despite knowing that I am safe, even going to the bathroom made me feel really uncomfortable.”

-Thomas Tran “The Gender-Neutral Bathrooms” bill, which passed with 47 votes for, 10 abstaining and 12 against, will require one gender-neutral bathroom in every UT building, excluding Greek life and newly constructed buildings like the Fred D. Brown Residence Hall.

In compliance with the bill, one women’s restroom in each building will be converted to a gender-neutral restroom by adding a lock on the door and a sign indicating its new function.

The cost of these changes will be covered by funds from the Americans with Disabilities Act. Leala Marlin, sophomore in communication studies, who co-wrote the bill with SGA senator Blake Tate, said she believes the bathrooms will be an inexpensive, unobtrusive way to promote acceptance on campus.

“I originally wouldn’t have thought of gender neutral bathrooms in that way, but when it was brought to light, I was like ‘yes, this is something that can be considered inclusive,’” Marlin said.

Thomas Tran, a sophomore in anthropology and member of OUTReach, recently experienced a difficult situation when using the restroom at the “HalloQueen

Drag Show” while dressed in drag.

“I really wasn’t sure which one I should go to because I was in drag,” Tran said.

“Despite knowing that I am safe, even going to the bathroom made me feel really uncomfortable because I wasn’t sure how someone in that bathroom would react.”

The visitor’s section of the chamber was filled with supporters of the bill, including members of the OUTReach Center and Students with Disabilities and Diversity Affairs, the group which first approached SGA about the bill.

“All of the OUTReach Center is super pumped about the idea of having genderneutral bathrooms on campus,” said Robin Lovett, student worker at the OUTReach Center and senior in Hispanic studies.

“So we wanted to come and show all of the student leaders that their constituents really want and need this.”

Lovett added the gender neutral bathrooms will provide a safe, comfortable place for transgender students to use the restroom without feeling obligated to make the often difficult decision of which particular bathroom to use.

“I know a lot of people who have had problems with people doing things like staring, or maybe giving them slight verbal harassments, micro-aggressions or people who face a lot of problems with feeling uncomfortable with having to go into the restroom that they are the most physically safe in,” Lovett said.

Small acts of aggression like these, Lovett said, contribute to a general atmosphere of fear and mistrust for transgender individuals.

“I think that the idea of forcing someone to conform to a certain kind of gender expression plays a large part into transphobia,” Lovett said.

Freshmen Lucille Greer, a senator who voted in favor of the bill, said she thinks it will help change the perception that UT is a campus that is not friendly and inclusive toward the LGBT community.

“UTK was recently ranked as the 14th most unfriendly college campus to LGBTQ students by the Princeton Review, and I think that rating is unacceptable,” she said.

Marlin noted the passage of this bill represents a step in the right direction and away from these negative statistics.

“Even though this does not directly affect everyone, it is important to remember that we are all students here, and we are all volunteers,” Marlin said. “And we need to make sure that this campus is in fact welcoming to everyone, because that is what we stand for as volunteers.”

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Interpreting major explores deaf culture on campus and beyond Heidi Hill

Copy Editor Just give me a sign.

On the second floor of the Bailey Education Complex, students in UT’s educational interpreting program make the most engaging conversations effortless with an array of facial expressions and body movements.

Amid a few unusually silent hallways, Maggie McLaughlin, junior in interpreting, spends her days with her interpreting peers practicing and perfecting an alphabet known as American Sign Language.

“Before I thought it was just English translated, but it’s really not,” McLaughlin said. “It’s a whole other language just like you would be translating Spanish or French.”

The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders describes ASL as “separate and completely distinct from the English language.” Interpreters like McLaughlin emphasize facial expressions and visual cues to converse fluidly with others.

“In English, people can raise their voice or they can lower their voice or change their pitch. The way they talk changes the meaning of what they say,” McLaughlin explained. “The expression in ASL really translates the meaning

through your body and you can just reverse a sign completely by doing your eyebrows differently or your mouth. You have to use that with everything.”

Due to this heavy reliance on visuals, McLaughlin said most within the Deaf community evoke a characteristic candor in conversation.

“It’s really just a whole culture shift, so the way they describe people, what they’re thinking, anything that might be awkward, they’ll sign it,” McLaughlin said. “I think it’s just their way of having full communication. It is very normal for them to ask a very personal question or comment on how you look.”

Carol LaCava, coordinator for UT’s educational interpreting program, has an extensive knowledge of this intimate method of communication, coming from 25 years of interpreting experience and as a graduate from Maryville College — the first college to develop a bachelor’s degree program for educational interpreters in the United States.

Today, Maryville College and UT are currently the only four-year interpreting programs offered in the state of Tennessee.

LaCava said she has witnessed a greater integration of the Deaf community from residential schools like Knoxville’s Tennessee School for the Deaf into the local, public education in the last 20 years.

“Since an interpreter is in the classroom everyday and all the other hearing students are seeing this and hearing this and learning from the interpreter, there’s just a lot more awareness,” LaCava said. “We get students that grew up with a deaf student and an interpreter, so they knew early on that interpreting was a profession, [that it’s] an option.”

Like most interpreters, LaCava can work professionally in a variety of settings including hospitals, nursing homes, mental health facilities, business offices, courtrooms, schools, universities and entertainment venues, like Clarence Brown Theatre.

An interpreter’s flexibility in such environments, LaCava explained, makes for the most successful interpreting in these professional fields.

“You can find yourself in any number of situ-

ations,” LaCava said. “You can be in an emergency room with blood and guts everywhere and then you’re gonna go interpret for the governor or interpret for a class.

“It’s always challenging. It’s never boring, but you do have to be very flexible and get along with people because things change at a moment’s notice.”

Among these challenges is the delicate process of earning the Deaf community’s trust as an interpreter and mediator between the hearing and deaf realms.

For Calvin Farley, an ASL instructor and member of Knoxville’s Deaf community, establishing a fundamental trust between a Deaf person and interpreter is necessary to ensure the best results.

“When an interpreter comes in, I may think they’re strange, but I need to trust them,” Farley said. “There’s that leap of faith. You’ve got to be able to trust the interpreter, know that what they’re saying, what the hearing person is saying is properly interpreted.”

Farley, however, noted that an interpreter will never be able to fully integrate and understand the Deaf culture while still being a hearing person.

“Even a child like [my son] a CODA, a child of a deaf adult, they will understand about 90 percent, but they will not fully understand because they are hearing,” Farley said. “They will certainly understand the signing aspect of it, but a hearing person, even a CODA, they aren’t as dependent on things like sight like a hearing person is.”

For McLaughlin, the gap can be bridged with available technologies like Video Relay Services, a Skype-like program that connects Deaf individuals and interpreters, as well as long-term friendships within the Deaf community.

“I think you just kind of realize it’s happening when they start seeing you not as one of them, but as a part of their culture,” McLaughlin said.

“I don’t think they would ever say ‘I appreciate you talking with me,’ but it’s a trust that’s implied.”

Special thanks to Mallory Corzine, sophomore in educational interpreting, and Victoria Baker, junior in educational interpreting, for assisting in the interview with Calvin Farley.

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Monday, June 1, 2015 • The Daily Beacon President Obama visited Pellissippi State Community College on Jan. 9 to talk about education and his America’s College Promise proposal.

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Obama presents plan for higher education Bradi Musil

Assistant News Editor When the President of the United States entered the auditorium of Pellissippi State Community College’s Clayton Performing Arts Center on Jan. 9, political views and opinions aside, not a soul in the room could stay seated or keep from cheering in admiration of the leader who was prepared to make a bold proposal for the future of American education.

But as much as Tennessee is a fan of Obama, Obama is a fan of Tennessee.

“I hope you guys aren’t getting tired of me,” the president started. “I’ve been coming around a lot lately because there’s a lot of good stuff happening here.”

After visiting the state on Dec. 9, the president made his way back to Tennessee in January to address a room full of students and professors alike to announce his new initiative for American education, America’s College Promise.

Modeled after Gov. Bill Haslam’s own Tennessee Promise, which made Tennessee the first state in the nation to guarantee every graduating high school student free tuition for two years of community college or technical college, America’s College Promise would eliminate two years of tuition costs for students at community colleges.

This initiative would demand an increased partnership between four-year universities and community colleges to make a college education more accessible and affordable for all Americans.

“Today I’m announcing an ambitious new plan to bring down the cost of community college tuition in America; I want to bring it down to zero,” Obama said. “I want to make it free.”

Present with Obama was Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill.

Joe Biden explained that at the White House, education and community colleges are known as “Jill’s Territory.” As an English professor at a community college outside Washington, D.C., Jill Biden’s excitement for the possibility of free higher education was evident.

“As an educator, I am grateful and tremendously proud to work for a president and a vice president who are committed to starting the promise of an American education,” Jill Biden said. “Community colleges have entered a new day in America.”

Calling community colleges the “best kept secret in America,” Joe Biden said they are one of the swiftest avenues for becoming part of the middle-class. Since the president and Joe Biden entered the White House in 2009, Joe Biden said one of their primary goals has been to reestablish the footing of middle-class America to stay competitive with a global economy.

“The middle-class is the vehicle that built this great country,” Joe Biden said. “It was built on the shoulders of hard working, middle-class people.”

Along with his announcement, the president also gave a preview to his State of the Union address dated for Jan. 20. After outlining some of the advances the nation has made since he took his seat in office, Obama explained how passing America’s College Promise was conditional based on Congress’ vote.

He stressed America’s College Promise should be a bipartisan program that doesn’t lean left or right.

“I hope that Congress will come together to support it because opening the doors of higher education shouldn’t be a Democratic issue or a Republican issue,” he said. “This is an American issue.”

Ultimately, the president said this initiative is in sync with “the promise of America,” that everyone should be guaranteed equal opportunity, regardless of race, gender or socioeconomic class.

“That’s what America is about,” Obama said.

“We can make of our lives what we will. And there are going to be bumps, and there are going to be challenges. And we’ve come through some very hard times ... but we have overcome discouragement and we have overcome division and, sometimes, some discord. And we don’t give up. We get up, we fight back. We come back stronger than before.”

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Haslam family donates $50 million to UT Hayley Brundige News Editor

Bradi Musil

Assistant News Editor Big orange, big ideas sometimes needs a little help from big donations.

Chancellor Jimmy Cheek announced the Haslam family donated $50 million in gift money to the university, at the monthly Board of Trustees meeting in Hollingsworth Auditorium Oct. 3.

James A. Haslam II, founder of the Pilot Corporation and UT alumnus, made the donation to the College of Business Administration to develop the college by attracting approximately four to six new distinguished faculty members, providing scholarship money and improving the quality of the program.

“The future of our state really lies here, at the University of Tennessee,” Haslam said at the meeting. “If we’re going to have a vibrant economy we must have an outstanding College of Business.”

After being put to a vote by the 26-member Board of Trustees, the College of Business Administration was officially renamed the James A. Haslam II College of Business. While the Haslam name is already prominent on many buildings and structures on UT’s campus, this naming marks the first time in UT’s history that an entire college has been dedicated to an individual.

Haslam, who graduated from the college in 1952, said he wanted to bolster the program that started his subsequent career with Pilot.

“Thank you, the University of Tennessee, for making us the family we are today,” Haslam said.

UT system President Joe DiPietro thanked the Haslams for their generous donation, and stressed the impact of their many contributions over the years.

“I often say that we want our graduates to emerge from any of our campuses or institutions feeling like they owe the institution a debt they can never repay,” DiPietro said, addressing the Haslams. “Jim and Natalie, I think you’ve repaid it.”

During the monthly board meeting, DePietro explained that a recent decrease in state funding has placed more emphasis on private donations such as Haslam’s.

“Our system will continue to need even more people like the Haslam family to make us the institution -- collectively, across all components -- to be exceptionally excellent and exceed everyone’s expectations,” DiPietro said.

In his President’s Report, DiPietro detailed UT’s increased emphasis on fundraising in response to the declining state financial support for higher education. Cheek echoed this sentiment, stating that UT’s budget for the development of alumni networks has been increased by 65% since 2005.

Events like the Big Orange Give, which has a goal of $250,000 this year, bring in a large sum of outside funding for the university.

In addition to fundraising, DiPietro stated that UT’s new “business model” to generate revenue independently of the state will also put more focus on improving UT’s reputation as a research institute, increasing graduation rates to 85 to 90 percent and growing outreach.

“It’s pretty evident that we have to change,” DiPietro said. “We can’t be the same in five to 10 years, and while we’d love to count on increased state resources ... we need to be able to move forward regardless of whether it does or not.”

Steve Mangum, dean of the newly dedicated Haslam College of Business, was thrilled by the news.

“In terms of naming the college you really do have to think about the generations of students that pass through the institution in the future and it’s extremely important that the name that goes over the door be a name that we can be proud of and students can look up to and can be inspired by that name.

“And that’s certainly the case today.”

Community members silently march down Andy Holt Avenue during “Take Back the Night,” which was organized by UT’s Women’s Coordinating Council on Oct. 30.

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Violence, abuse awareness event takes to streets Hayley Brundige News Editor

Bradi Musil

Assistant News Editor You could hear a pin drop.

As more than 150 students silently marched down Andy Holt Avenue, onlookers came to standstill.

Organized by UT’s Women’s Coordinating Council, “Take Back the Night” was an evening of peaceful protest and solidarity aimed at ending all forms of sexual and domestic violence and abuse. The night began with a silent march and ended with the testimonies of survivors Oct. 29.

Diarra Smith, co-coordinator for WCC and psychology major, said the participants remained silent as a symbolic gesture. “(It’s for) the voices that we don’t hear,” Smith said.

“Like for children who can’t speak up for themselves or people who are afraid. People who pass away from it, and they have no voice anymore.”

The march began on Pedestrian Walkway, where male and female students gathered, wearing free Take Back the Night T-shirts and carrying signs with messages such as “Real Men Don’t Rape,” “My Body, My Rights” and “Break the Silence.” Smith noted that the event drew a larger crowd of male participants than in years past, reflecting the heightened emphasis of awareness on campus.

“Our main focus this year is really to get men involved so they know this is not only a women’s issue,” Smith said.

“That it’s also a man’s issue. It doesn’t matter what your sexual orientation is, what race you are, nothing like that.

It’s very inclusive.”

One male attendee, Corey Hodge, agreed that domestic and sexual violence cannot be eradicated without cooperation and support from members of both genders. The senior in African studies said he feels strongly about the impact of the march, and has been participating in Take Back the Night for six years.

“I would argue that this is one of the most powerful events UT has to offer because domestic violence is something that is swept under the carpet way too often,” Hodge

said. “This is not a gender thing, this is a human thing that can affect us all equally.”

After the march, students gathered in the UC Ballroom to hear a presentation from Sil Lai Abrams, a domestic violence awareness activist, inspirational speaker and model. Abrams shared her personal experiences dealing with assault and abuse. She described her journey to recovery and self-acceptance, encouraging victims to “find their voice,” the way she eventually did.

“I am not alone,” Abrams said. “I thought I was the only woman who had ever had a problem with drinking, or a problem with self-esteem or who had been sexually assaulted or battered.

“I was shamed, I was damaged goods and I didn’t think I deserved any better.”

Abrams challenged the narrow definition of “victims” and the idea that rapists are solely strangers who “jump out of the bushes.” She urged those in attendance to be vigilant, telling them that if “you see something, say something and do something” instead of being an inactive bystander.

“You’re never too old or too young, too sober or too drunk to be a victim,” Abrams said. “By using you’re voice, you have the power to create change.

“Seek help. Change can’t occur in isolation.”

Amirah Anderson, a senior in biology and first-time participant in Take Back the Night, said the recent spike in sexual assault notices on campus made her realize the importance of the event. She said she hopes to witness a culture shift on campus with the way sexual violence is approached.

“People just shouldn’t be afraid to talk about it,” Anderson said. “The more you talk about it, the more you know and the more you can get solutions and move towards a better environment where people feel safer.”

Abuse can only end if the root of the problem is exposed, Abrams said, claiming that society misplaces the responsibility of sexual violence and domestic abuse.

“We need to stop the shaming of victims once and for all,” she said, “and put it squarely on the shoulders where it belongs—the perpetrators and any segment of our society that supports and perpetuates victim blaming and rape culture.”

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Mayor Rogero discusses women in politics, her journey to office Hayley Brundige News Editor

Mayor Madeline Rogero was once heralded as a ‘road warrior.’

It was 1994, and she was driving home to change clothes for the following hours of door-to-door campaigning for Knox County commission re-election. She noticed that the woman in front of her was driving recklessly.

Without a cell phone, Rogero had to wait for the right moment to box the woman in with her car, preventing her from driving any further.

The story was picked up by the local news outlets and gave Rogero a ready answer to her opponent’s question, “What has Commissioner Rogero done for you recently?”

“I said, well, I saved your life,” Rogero told a group of more than twenty students in the Women’s Studies 340 class she visited last Oct. 23.

Students in the “Women, Politics and the Law” class, taught by Rebecca Klenk, were given the opportunity to hear about Rogero’s personal experiences and challenges as a prominent woman in Tennessee politics.

“Mayor Rogero’s journey to political office is truly inspirational,” Klenk said. “She has con-

sistently greeted the twists and turns of politics and life with energetic perseverance, creativity and verve. And, as a leader, she is committed to finding common ground.”

Born in Jacksonville, Fla., Rogero took a circuitous path to her current position as mayor.

After graduating from Furman University with a degree in political science in 1979, Rogero worked with César Chávez’s United Farm Workers, a labor union advocating for better wages and conditions for migrant farm workers.

In 1980, she moved to Knoxville and attended graduate school at UT. She obtained a master’s degree in urban planning and immediately started working with community-based organizations, addressing issues related to sustainability, housing and social justice.

When it was suggested that she run against 24-year incumbent Jesse Cawood for a seat on the Knox County commission, Rogero was skeptical.

“My first reaction was I’m not sure I’m qualified,” Rogero admitted. “But they said ‘oh, no, look into it and you’ll see you’re very qualified.’”

Rogero attended every community event she could, while her opponent felt less pressure to show up. She opened a campaign office, knocked on doors and reached out to contacts in the five Roladexes she had built up over her decade of community involvement. She raised

• Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero about $6,800, a “fortune back then.”

It was obvious to Rogero that her opponent did not take her seriously. He often introduced her as his “purdy” challenger.

“So what do you think I did?” Rogero asked the class. “I smiled as pretty as I could. I thought as long as he thought I was this pretty little girl, he wouldn’t really do much to oppose me. And that’s what happened.”

In the end, Rogero won by a “landslide.”

“My opponent was quoted as saying, ‘Well, we just don’t know what happened,’” Rogero said, inducing laughter from the class.

When she ran for city mayor in 2003, she lost to now-Governor Bill Haslam by six percentage points. Rogero said the attitude toward female politicians in Knoxville shifted after that election, and a woman mayor no longer seemed improbable.

Rogero, who is running for re-election in 2015, said she is proud to have been the first female mayor in Knoxville and the first woman to hold that office in any of the “Big Four” Tennessee cities. However, that’s not what she wants people to focus on.

“Don’t vote for me because I’m a woman,” she said. “Vote for me because I know the job, because I have a vision that you believe in.”

Since her inauguration in 2011, that “vision” has included revitalizing Knoxville’s infrastructure and downtown area, supporting local businesses, focusing on the city’s environmentalfriendliness and increasing the legal rights of same-sex partners.

“I’ve really tried to balance the neighborhood interests, the business interests, the environmental interests – all that,” Rogero said.

“It’s all a balancing act, and the more you bring people together and move them along together, the more successful you’ll be.”

Rogero, who has made progress for gay rights on the municipal level, said she hopes to

be able to officiate a same-sex marriage during her tenure as city mayor.

“I’m not afraid of taking on controversial issues, but I do pick my battles,” she said.

Currently, one woman serves on the 11-member Knox County Commission and one woman is on the nine-member City Council.

Rogero attributed this absence of female representation, in part, to a lack of women running for election, not a lack of success by female politicians.

“Times have changed, and women really do have a great opportunity,” Rogero said. “If you do your homework, you run a good campaign and you present yourself well, you have a good chance of winning.”

Often, Rogero explained, qualified women decide not to run for political office because they dread facing the public exposure and criticism that can come with campaigning. Rogero, who often avoids the negative comments on blog posts, advises women to focus on the issues that matter. When people criticized her hair and clothes, instead of her political platform, Rogero reacted with a humorous attitude, joking that they should create a game called “Dress Madeline Rogero.”

“If you want to make a difference in your community, you have to toughen up,” said Rogero, who is now 62 years old. “You have to be prepared to take the criticism and to learn to not let it slow you down.”

Headway still needs to be made for women in Tennessee politics, Rogero told the class of young women and, as she called them, “enlightened men.” She pointed out that the state has not seen a female governor or U.S. senator and gave encouragement to those in the room who might have political aspirations.

“Unfortunately there are a lot of ‘firsts’ that need to be done,” she said. “But it is possible today.”

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New parking garages to feature LED technology Hannah Marley Staff Writer

As UT faces increasing enrollment and the demolition of old residence halls, university officials in parking and transit face the question of where to put all these students — and their cars.

The answer lies in the university’s development of new “smart” parking garages that will result in more than 1,000 parking spaces added for students, faculty and staff.

These garages will also include an LED screen at the entrance, allowing drivers to see how many spots are available and where they are located in the garage.

Students will also be able to access this information through an app on their phone, making it easier to find parking quickly rather than guess which lots are full or vacant.

The garage currently under construction costs approximately $28 million, with $200,000 paying for the new “smart” technology, said Jeff Maples, senior associate Vice Chancellor of finance and administra-

tion.

The expensive price tag, however, doesn’t necessarily indicate an immediate increase in rates for parking permits.

Vice Chancellor for finance and administration Chris Cimino said funding for the current garage has already been absorbed

rates across all categories in the coming years to gradually pay for the cost of the new garages.

Cimino said the decision to add 3,000 total parking spaces through the new lots is the result of student opinion as well as a recent six-month capacity and enrollment

“We looked at where is enrollment going and where are the constraints, and we know that parking is going to be an issue.”

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by revenue from current parking permit sales.

However, the university is not allowed to allocate state funds for the construction of parking garages, and will increase permit

study conducted by university officials.

“We looked at where is enrollment going and where are the constraints, and we know that parking is going to be an issue,” Cimino said. “That’s a problem that has to

play out over the next 30 years because that’s how long it will take to pay for one of these buildings.”

Despite the expense, Maples said the new lots are not only a necessity in light of the recent study and projected increase in enrollment, but a direct response to one of the student body’s greatest concerns.

With parking permits currently sold at $1.85 per spot for commuters and $1.25 for those on-campus, there is already a parking shortage on campus at any given time.

“Students consistently ask for more parking availability and convenience and these new garages, over time, should alleviate congestion and provide more options across the entire campus community,” Maples said.

The first of these garages is scheduled to be completed by the fall of 2016. It will be located next to the new residence hall currently under construction at the corner of Volunteer Boulevard and Pat Head Summitt Street.

The other two garages will be located on the agriculture campus and Lakeview, respectively.

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UT students witness Ferguson protests firsthand Hayley Brundige News Editor

Hands up – don’t shoot.

Students and staff packed into a lecture hall in the Alumni Memorial Building on Nov. 19, filling every seat and lining the walls, to hear the experiences of six Knoxvillians who recently traveled to Ferguson, Missouri.

The group drove seven hours to the St. Louis suburb to take part in the social movement protesting the death of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black man who was killed, unarmed, by a white police officer Aug. 9.

Josh Inwood, associate professor of geography and one of the event’s organizers, said the underlying economic, racial and social causes of poverty and violence are grossly under-scrutinized in the U.S. “Rarely, if ever, do any of these broader structures of violence register in the politically-infused, media-driven agenda,” Inwood said. “A legacy of racism, prejudice, intolerance and discrimina-

tion pales in comparison to the vivid video images of ‘rampaging AfricanAmericans.’”

Coy Kindred, the executive director at The FLOW, a grassroots organization dedicated to changing the perception of hip-hop, said the constant presence of protesters in Ferguson was impressive and she wished she could have stayed longer.

“These people were sleeping in the streets,” Kindred said. “They were going non-stop. When we got there, they had been there, camped out, fighting every day, spending more time in jail than Darren Wilson.”

Jasmine Taylor, junior in political science, the opportunity to meet and protest alongside Ferguson natives still grieving over Michael Brown’s death was a powerful experience.

“Hearing his mother at the front of the crowd, talking about how she was looking forward to her son being a success ... and how that was just shot down in the middle of the street and how devastating that was for the community – it humbled me as an organizer,” Taylor said.

For sophomore Katie Myers, who grew up in an affluent suburb in Maryland, said she decided to go to Ferguson to “look for the truth” about police brutality and social inequity.

“When I went there, and I heard the stories, I realized that I had been lied to all my life about how the world was,” Myers said. “And that made me really, really angry.”

In Ferguson, protesters are caught between the anger they long to express and the peaceful response they believe will prove more effective long-term.

Taylor described one situation she witnessed in front of the police station in which protesters were peacefully voicing their concerns to officers. One woman was “beside herself,” Taylor said, and the protesters became concerned her anger would get out of hand.

“There was a moment when everyone was like, ‘let her voice how she feels, she has the right to do that’,” Taylor said.

“But then it became a question of the integrity of the movement if she took too far, if she got too close to a police officer’s face.”

André Canty, a UT graduate who now works at the Highlander Center, said he was moved by the resiliency of the protesters he encountered during the trip.

“People were calm,” Canty said. “And I think it’s because they’d been through

a lot worse before we came down there.

When you’re facing rubber bullets, mace and pepper spray and being beat down, a little guy with a megaphone is nothing.”

Despite the snipers placed atop the buildings above the non-violent protest and occasional provocation from outsiders, Myers said the participants in the movement knew their ultimate goal could only be achieved through peace.

“When we got there, they had been there, camped out, fighting every day, spending more time in jail than Darren Wilson.”

-Coy Kindred

“People understood what was at stake,” Myers said. “They understood that if something was provoked that police reaction would be stronger and that would lead to violence.”

Kindred said the trip offered a chance to step outside her comfort zone and bring her findings back to Knoxville.

“We kind of live in these bubbles, and until something happens to us, it doesn’t matter,” Kindred said. “I felt like I had the opportunity to go and make a difference. And even if it was just my body being there, I had to believe that it meant something.”

Ultimately, Taylor said the experience proved to her activism does not need to be put off until graduation.

“What I would take back from Ferguson is that Millennial activism does exist,” Taylor said. “The youth do care and are engaged.

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Printmaking program offers small size, big ideas Megan Patterson Staff Writer

Where can one find the third best printmaking program in the nation?

Some might be surprised to learn it’s here at UT. The printmaking studio rests on the second floor of the Art and Architecture Building, tucked into the back right corner with a cutout arrow suspended from the ceiling to announce its presence.

After filing past the numerous art displays and curious works-in-progress that line the walls and fill the spacious main lobby of the building, the wooden doors enclosing the printmaking studio hold the promise of further surprises within.

In this room, numerous students work on communal presses as a soft hum of activity fills the air. Associate professor in the School of Art, Koichi Yamamoto, can be found in his office, not grading papers but in an apron contemplating his next work.

Yamamoto has his own description for the scene taking place here. It’s a jam session, and he said it’s quite fun.

“There’s a great energy here. I think this

program -- we are ranked nationally No. 3 -- has contributed,” Yamamoto said. “It had a lot to do with gathering the right people and putting them in the environment to create the dialogue.

Also, there’s some healthy competition a little bit, especially among the graduate students.”

Despite the mild competition, the communal nature of printmaking leads to a close knit community among the students.

“I think that’s the thing, that the studio is a communal studio,” Yamamoto said. “It’s not like it’s a ‘your’ or ‘mine’ own studio; it’s our studio which forces us to interact and communicate and share and also take care of the studio too.”

An interactive spirit among the artists seems to be a part of printmaking itself. Due to its interdisciplinary nature, printmaking serves as what Yamamoto described as the “crossroads” of the art disciplines.

“People from different backgrounds such as illustration, comics, public arts to performance arts even come to printmaking,” Yamamoto said. “I think that’s the unique nature of this medium— the diverse disciplines that people bring. It’s kind of like a campfire setting.”

Three professors run the extensive program, and each of them began their art careers specializing in a different medium. Yamamoto

Koichi Yamamoto, associate professor of printmaking, works with a print in the studio. Tiara Holt • The Daily Beacon and Beauvais Lyons got their start in ceramics, while associate professor Althea Murphy-Price was in three-dimensional media.

Yamamoto described their shift to printmaking as “a lot of 3D elements crashing into the 2D as a final product.”

The art of printmaking has a long history of a wide range of applications and influences.

Dan Hood, senior in printmaking, spoke on his view of the diversity of printmaking.

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Streets speak through poetry of JETO Jenna Butz

Arts & Culture Editor It started with a dream, a typewriter and Banksy.

Lauren Madewell, better known by her tag name JETO, took her poetry to the streets after a series of events led to the creation of her literary persona and a writing revolution.

JETO’s art began as abstract paintings, but after her original plan to became an air traffic controller caused mental strain, writing took center stage.

“I couldn’t do it, man. It wasn’t in my heart,” JETO said. “I was having anxiety attacks. I just said no to it and literally started going through this wild, spiritual awakening where all I could do to cope with it was write it out.

Things were coming out beautifully, and it’s just evolved since then. Now, I’m a writer for life.”

During that awakening, a dream led to the creation of her new persona: JETO, or Join Each To One. “I’m off the earth, past the moon, past all the planets, ripped out of the solar system, and so I’m just floating there in space looking at my own solar system,” JETO explained. “Then, all of a sudden, it starts spinning, and it spells out,

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all the stars spell out, the letters J-E-T-O, and I immediately woke up. “ “So, I started signing my paintings that way, and then, when I finally had the vision to start doing this, this literary graffiti stuff, I was like, ‘Oh, that’ll be my tag name.’”

From there, a love of Banksy and a gifted typewriter stirred JETO’s love of writing, encouraging her to find a new way to share her art.

“I had this typewriter, and I wanted to do something crazy, and all of a sudden, it was like both just overlapped. Tag my poems in public places,” JETO said, reenacting her look of awe and surprise at this revelation. “ … I was just like, why are artists the only ones who aren’t asking for permission to show their work in public? I didn’t want to wait for submissions, publishing. I didn’t want to wait to hear back from people. I’m just going to put my work in people’s faces, period, point blank.”

Since beginning her literary graffiti, JETO quit her day job as a bartender after saving enough money to travel and tag her work both nationally and internationally, having hit 17 states and four countries thus far. For her, not asking permission to share her work is a movement other writers should embrace instead of Lauren Madewell, also known as JETO, and Genna Gazelka, with_a_gg, take waiting for acclaim. their writing to the streets in the form of literary graffiti.

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A backpacking weekend My qualifications to go on this trip include my oh so informative five years in Girl Scouts, owning a pair of hiking boots (thanks, Mom) and having written my Common App essay about hiking the same mountain every year with my dad.

So naturally I was feeling pretty confident about signing over my life and $40 at UTOP for a backpacking weekend in North Carolina. Silly freshmen, so naive.

All positive excitement left me when we got our rented gear: a backpack as big I am, a zero degree sleeping bag I just knew was still never going to fit and a headlamp.

“Well, shoot,” I thought. I don’t know anything about camping. Heck, I don’t even know if I’ve ever carried my own bag up a mountain before, always opting for my dad or a guy friend do it for me.

“My toes are going to freeze and my pack is going to tip me off the side of the mountain and I’ll die.”

I am happy to announce that none of those things happened, here’s what did:

is refocused because that stranger you met three hours ago isn’t a stranger anymore and the nothingness around you becomes the best sound you’ve ever heard.

There’s something in the woods that brings us all together.

We hiked on up, reaching Shuckstack Fire Tower in time to devour a pack of tortillas and too many blocks of cheese, stare in awe at the expansive beauty that lies just a couple hours from Knoxville and make our way through no less than six freezing creeks barefoot along the Lost Cove Trail before setting up camp for the night.

In just nine miles we’d become a little, temporary family complete with our Mama and Papa Bear leaders. Tents were set up, a hot pot of who knows what was made next to the fire, and we were at peace.

Some think it’s uncomfortable to sit in silence with people you’ve just meet. But it didn’t feel that way. What else is there to do in the woods but talk and listen and learn? And so we did, all the way up, absorbing tidbits of “Leave No Trace” principles and information from the Bears about any and every form of outdoor activity imaginable.

So when night fell and the coveted Oreos were passed around and our sole mission was to make sure our toes didn’t fall off, the silence which filled the campsite was golden.

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Two UTOP leaders and seven vastly different students set out to Fontana Dam to go backpacking. Two hours driving up a windy road called “The Dragon,” and we’d made it.

We were climbing the Appalachian Trail.

Calves were hurting, backpacks were heavy and who knew when we were going to get “there,” wherever there was.

But all those thoughts lasted maybe five minutes, then everything changed. You’re looking at the ground, but your heart is looking up. You forget about the boy, you forget about the test and your entire mindset

We made it back to the dam the next day so happy. Unexcited about returning to school, Papa Bear looked out over the vastness of Fontana Dam and said, “It’s amazing the borders we have to put up to keep nature out.”

Maybe that’s why everyone didn’t sign up for this tripa they’d put up a border, a reason not to go out. But you have to embrace nature. Because for an activity that’s so focused on leaving no trace on the area, it sure leaves a big one on you — no qualifications necessary.

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UTOP leader and senior Shawn Morgan assists the group across slippery and freezing creeks which blocked the paths to the campsite.

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WHERE TO GO FOR YOUR JOE Emilee Lamb

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There’s more to Knoxville’s coffee scene than Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts. In fact, the Scruffy City is home to an array of independent coffee shops. On the hunt for your brew spot? The Daily Beacon can guide you on your way.

K Brew

Emilee’s Take: Sitting just on the outskirts of the adorable Fourth and Gill neighborhood, this tiny coffee shop boasts some bold atmosphere. So if you don’t mind perfect strangers unavoidably listening in on your coffee shop conversation, then head to Historic North Knoxville for a K Brew cup, but I’m sure the only thing you’ll be able to talk about is the perfectly crafted cup of coffee resting on the wooden bar in front of you.

1328 N Broadway

Jenna’s Take: One of Knoxville’s newer additions, this little blue house turned coffee shop seems quaint on the outside, but the drinks pack a huge punch. Pair your favorite espresso drink with any of their homemade pastries, and you’ve got a match made in coffeehouse heaven. When the weather’s nice, snag a spot on the front porch for fraternity and warm drinks.

2920 Sutherland Ave.

Old City Java Jenna’s Take: It’s easily the quietest coffee spot in town, making it perfect for studying. Even better, the coffee is always on point. Strangely though, the non-coffee based drinks are what makes them stand out. Java’s hot tea always gets rave reviews. Next time you’re looking for somewhere to caffeinate and get some work done, make the trip to Old City Java.

109 S Central St.

Coffee and Chocolate Cafe de la casa Jenna’s Take: Smaller than most of the other shops out there, it’s difficult to grab a seat. Luckily, it’s location right on Market Square makes it an ideal first stop before wandering the city. True to their name, anything they make with chocolate is worth your time. Personally, I grab a peppermint mocha with one or two of their housemade chocolates, and I’m ready to take the town.

327 Union Ave.

Emilee’s Take: There’s no place like home … for a great cup of coffee. As wonderful as coffee shops are, it’s also nice to curl up in your own chair with your favorite mug and a cup of coffee that only cost you about 15 cents. Invest in a pourover brewing cone (around $5 on Amazon) and some good grounds from your local grocery store for a delicious single cup.

So help yourself to a cup of the day’s select blend and relax. This one’s on the house.

Wherever you call home

Golden Roast

Emilee’s Take: Home of the king of all coffee cakes, The Golden Roast is a convenient campus oasis to recharge between classes. What’s more, this coffee shop doesn’t stop at coffee; the lunch menu is superb, with daily soup specials and sandwiches that could compete with Panera. The Golden Roast has been sating the needs of caffeine-addicted college students and professors seeking a change of scenery for 19 years, so it must be doing something right.

825 Melrose Place

FLOW: A Brew Parlor Jenna’s Take: Adding more options to downtown outside of Market Square, this coffee shop mixes your caffeine addiction with a college student’s blossoming love for alcohol. You can grab just a plain ole latte (which is delicious, by the way), or they can make you a latte with chocolate stout. If you’re 21, love coffee and love alcohol, FLOW’s the after class coffee place for you.

603 W Main St.

Remedy Coffee Emilee’s Take: Grab your favorite flannel, your favorite beanie and your favorite friend. Spacious by coffee shop standards, Remedy is a great place for conversation over a cup of Joe without feeling like you’re disturbing the deep, philosophical thoughts of the hipsters around you. Grab a spot in one of the cozy armchairs close to the windows, order a latte, pretend it’s raining and enjoy.

125 W Jackson Ave.

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Hot Horse record store combines vinyl, charm Megan Patterson Staff Writer

Within three miles of UT’s campus, a store exists with a collection of music, clothes, shoes and a good mix of other odds and ends, and it’s not the new Wal-Mart.

Though the front room proudly displays mostly music wares, its unusual collection of merchandise makes it hard to define the shop simply as a record store.

Jason Boardman, owner of the Pilot Light, opened the store in 2009 after recognizing the growing music scene in the previously neglected part of town known as the “Old City.”

Charlie Finch, who has been with Hot Horse since its conception, said the store has been an eclectic mix from the very beginning.

“This is the only store in Knoxville where you can come in and have a person who is interested in musical equipment but not really vintage stuff, and they can sit down and pick at a guitar while someone else is looking at the clothes,” Finch said. “Then somebody else is filing through all the records, and maybe someone who’s not into records but is into old TVs and things is shopping around up front.”

One glance around the store confirms Finch’s Records in the musical section of Hot Horse.

Cameo Waters • The Daily Beacon assertion that there is something there for everyone. Collections of records, racks of vintage clothing, instruments and assorted antiques are comfortably mingled in the shop.

Amanda Jones, a senior in communication studies, recalled her first impression of the store.

“They’re unique. It’s not something that you’re going to find at a normal record store,” Jones said. “They have stuff other than just records and various music equipment. They have a unique blend of items and also have a pretty nice and personable staff.”

Hot Horse contains odds and ends as obscure as a paint by number of the Stars Wars original trilogy or a stack of decorative vintage belt buckles. The store also keeps a variety of musical instruments from a 1964 Fender Mustang to a hammer dulcimer.

Finch enjoys seeing all the new musical equipment come through and often tests out especially tempting arrivals. He lets customers try out the guitars as well.

“Oh, we encourage it. I tell people to turn it up as loud as they want to,” Finch said. “I know it bothers some people at other places, but I love to hear that stuff.”

This type of personal interaction distinguishes Hot Horse from their conglomerate counterparts.

“I think it’s really important for people to go around to small businesses,” Finch said.

“Especially ones that are competing with big companies like Amazon and Target or something that’s a one-stop place where you can stop and get everything and it’s done.”

At Hot Horse, it’s less about knocking items off a list and more about the experience of searching for the perfect find.

“They have so much interesting stuff to look at that you can’t help but go in and kind of poke around,” Jones said. “Especially the back room, I love all the random old clothes and shoes that they have back there.”

Despite the wide range of merchandise offered at Hot Horse, it remains relatively undiscovered. Finch expressed a hopeful outlook as the rebirth of the Old City continues.

“I want to see this place blossom into a great store. I mean, I think it has, but you know I’d like to see it busier more often,” Finch said. “But you know that will come. Give it time.”

No matter what your taste in music or apparel may be, Finch assures that the universal appeal of the store is the diversity.

“There’s that special little connection with weird clothes or little knick-knacks that you’re not gonna see anywhere else because they’re just random and little old things and just aren’t in circulation anymore,” Finch concluded. “I think it’s important to support those little places in your town because that’s what makes your town interesting.”

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Big Ears mastermind shares passion Sterling Martin Staff Writer

A profound passion for music paired with determination to share that passion contributed to the creation of one of America’s most prominent music production and promotional companies.

Ashley Capps—the ‘AC’ behind AC Entertainment—started the company in 1991 after being involved on the business side of numerous music projects and ventures.

“I started promoting concerts for fun, and I did it more or less as a hobby for several years.

But I found that it was very inspiring and engaging,” Capps said. “I loved bringing people together as well as presenting music, and it just got into my blood.”

In just more than 20 years, AC Entertainment has become one of the top promoters in the industry and is responsible for numerous large-scale festivals including Forecastle, located in Kentucky at Louisville’s Wa t e r f r o n t Park, Asheville’s Mountain Oasis Festival and the local Big Ears Fest. Most notably, however, the compnay is one of the creators of the Tennessee-based camping festi-Ashley Capps val Bonnaroo, approaching its 14th year this summer.

Even through school, Capps always expressed his interest in music—especially live music.

“I hosted radio shows—jazz, rock, classical—on WUOT while I was at UT,” Capps said. “I started promoting concerts while still a student at UT as well, back in 1979.”

Capps graduated from UT, and not long after started his own nightclub called Ella Guru’s, which opened in 1988 and was located in the building that is currently inhabited by the Melting Pot in Old City. The club was forced to file bankruptcy after just two short years and closed its doors for good in 1990.

One year later, Capps would play a hand in creating two successful major league companies, one being AC Entertainment. Then, with Capps and a handful of others at the helm, Metro Pulse, a weekly newspaper with

“I loved bringing people together as well as presenting music, and it just got into my blood.”

a heavy focus on entertainment and the arts, was also started in Knoxville. The widespread popularity of the publication continued until it was abruptly terminated in 2014 by the E. W. Scripps Company, who gained control after buying the paper in 2007.

But Capps’s brainchild, AC Entertainment, is where his success awaited.

The company hasn’t always been popular for extravagant multi-day festivals, though.

Starting with the Tennessee Theatre, AC began to work closely with venues around the region.

“We strive to develop strong relationships and be great partners with everyone that we do business with – from the artists and their teams to everyone else that helps make what we do possible,” Capps said.

As the company began to grow, it spread throughout the region tapping various venues and amphitheaters like the Bijou, the Orange Peel in Asheville and more recently, Chattanooga’s Track 29.

Then came 2002 and along with it, the first Bonnaroo festival. Co-produced by the Superfly company, the festival was a new venture after seeing success with other outdoor events throughout the region such as the “Hot Summer Nights” series in World’s Fair Park, a precursor to the “Sundown in the City” concerts hosted in Market Square. Today, it has grown to be one of the world’s top rated music festivals and continues to sell out year after year with more than 80,000 attendees.

AC Entertainment continues to push forward exponentially with local and regional venue booking. Knoxville’s somewhat-kept secret, Big Ears Festival, takes place just minutes from UT’s campus. The smaller, avantgarde festival is known for creating a collaborative environment for fans and artists alike and has generated an increasing amount of publicity over recent years.

“The growth is really about that --- seizing opportunities to be creative and to do more of what we love,” Capps said.

Today, AC Entertainment is preparing for its biggest year yet.

“We’re launching three new festivals this year—Wayhome in Toronto, Sloss Fest in Birmingham and Afropunk in Atlanta,” Capps revealed. “Each of them is unique and aligns us with great partners who bring both expertise and a fresh perspective to the table.”

With the company’s launch of ConcertWire. com, AC Entertainment is making it easy for fans of live music in Knoxville and around the Southeast to connect in one place, using their partnered venues and various other connections to thrive as a community.

“I love the social aspect of festivals and concerts, how music brings people together and creates meaningful, memorable experiences,” Capps said. “Being able to share a musical experience with another person or group of people can also form a powerful bond … it’s like social glue.”

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OliBea brings artful breakfast to Old City Hannah Cather

Photo Editor Close your eyes.

Now, imagine the most adorable little restaurant that only serves breakfast and lunch. It exudes coziness and warmth with a max capacity less than 50.

If your imagination produced a picture including sea foam green walls, light wood tables and bar stools, Mason jars with flowers and artwork done by creative locals, you succeeded.

Enter OliBea: the Old City’s one and only breakfast place. Sure, The Crown & Goose serves brunch and all the coffee places offer pastries, but none of them could serve you The OliBea Plate offers eggs, potatoes, meat and bread. This plate has poached poached eggs and sage sausage on a eggs, squared potatoes, sage sausage and a biscuit.

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Hannah Cather • The Daily Beacon For the last seven years, a bear-sized man ran the kitchen at The Crown & Goose. Jeffrey DeAlejandro didn’t flinch during shifts where he oversaw the preparation of hundreds of plates for dinner, but he always had his mind on serving breakfast foods for fewer people.

“I’ve wanted a smaller, 40-seat feel for a long time,” DeAlejandro said.

“It’s one thing to go from cooking 200 to 300 covers a night to 80 in a day. I get to touch more – actually put something on the plate.”

So, he opened his dream spot on Central Street and named it OliBea after his two children, Oliver and Beatrice.

DeAlejandro and his sous chef Winter only needed three weeks to decide what they wanted to put on the plates at OliBea. The two share a love of breakfast and Mexican foods, which explains classic tacos with house-made chorizo and the breakfast burrito of Manchamanteles marinated chicken.

“We got together and we were both like ‘What about this?’ ‘What about that?’”

DeAlejandro said. “It might not be the right way; it’s not ‘what would the customer want?’

It’s what we would eat.”

The customers obviously want what OliBea offers; the almost 900 likes on OliBea’s Facebook page accumulated in a little over a month shocked DeAlejandro. Ginger McKay, an Oregon native who has lived in Knoxville for a year, is thrilled about the new restaurant.

“I think it’s a god-send,” McKay said. “I always thought that it was so frustrating that Knoxville and the surrounding area have such beautiful farms with people growing really good food, but there were never any restaurants in the city to showcase the quality of the produce that comes out of this area.

“They do that here.”

At the top of the OliBea menu, customers can find a list of partners, like Circle V Farms and Willy Butcher Shop, that provide locally sourced ingredients.

On the counter sits a pastry case where Stephanie Russo sells her macarons, brownies and cookies. Russo also bakes the sourdough bread, bagels and English muffins for OliBea. “I knew Jeffrey -Jeffrey DeAlejandro from around in the chef world,” Russo said. “I think he’s an amazing cook with a great vision, and I really liked what he’s doing here. It’s very much my style: locally sourcing and cute. OliBea is bringing a lot of different flavors to Knoxville that we haven’t seen yet.”

The grilled cheese sandwich is a perfect example of new flavors: local sourdough, Butterkase cheese, local oyster mushroom duxcelles, topped with a fried duck egg. Molly Mullin, a local photographer, approved of the sandwich.

“It’s just so nice to have well-made breakfast food that is still very simple.” Mullin said.

“We got together and we were both like ‘What about this?’ ‘What about that?’ It might not be the right way; it’s not ‘what would the customer want?’ It’s what we would eat.”

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Knoxville native Marcus Hall sets the standard for local fashion Liv McConnell

Special Projects Editor Marcus Hall is a man who knows his roots.

When deciding where to establish the flagship store of his Knoxville-based clothing line, Marc Nelson Denim, he didn’t go far from home.

“This is the neighborhood I actually grew up in,” Hall said. “My grandparents lived two blocks from here, and that was one of the places I considered home. So to actually be able to open up a storefront and start doing productions right here, it is a dream come true.”

The interior of the Warehouse District store, now in its ninth week of operation, holds true to the American-made standards Hall and his denim line embody. Classically masculine elements make up the décor, including a cowhide rug, a case of old Coca-Cola bottles and the flag that flew above Hall’s first Knoxville business.

“Everything is very, very Knoxville and very local,” said Andy Jones, public relations head of Marc Nelson Denim. “All of the shelves, counters and benches came out of a single cherry tree we bought here locally on Craigslist. All the wood you see we cut, made and finished right here in this space. “

Equally local is the interior bricking. The exposed brick walls are the salvaged remains of the McClung Warehouses, which burned down in February. Most other architectural features, like the tiled walls and dressing room doors, are the handiwork of Warehouse District businesses, like forK design across the street.

Jones maintained that a number of the neighborhood businesses have reported positive changes since Marc Nelson opened its doors.

“I really think we’re leading the charge here in the Warehouse District, saying, ‘We’re doing this here,’ and other local businesses are coming out and being a part of it,” Jones said. “We’re hearing from the local neighborhood telling us how positive the impact has been here.”

For Hall, one of his favorite aspects of the new space is its potential for entertainment.

The store has already been transformed on several occasions into an offbeat venue, hosting local bands like The New Romantics for Halloween.

“There’s a lot of cool things happening in this area,” Hall said. “We’ve got Saw Works next to us, which is cool because when we’re having a party you can go right next door and get beer if your keg runs out, which we did Friday night. It was a real party.”

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Good Golly Tamale wheels out unique cuisine Hannah Moulton Copy Editor

Walk down Market Square during the Saturday Farmers Market and you’re sure to see a vintage tricycle pulling a stainless steel cart carrying an unexpected treat – tamales.

Good Golly Tamale, owned and operated by friends Chris Watson and Matt Miller, grew out of the duo’s desire to set up shop on a budget.

“It became a cart for practical reasons because we didn’t have money to open a restaurant or to buy a truck,” Miller said.

After acquiring the tricycle and cart, the next step was to decide on the food they would serve.

It had to be portable and easy to store. Miller said the first choice was burritos, but after some digging, they found a connection between Knoxville and tamales.

“Back in like the 1800s--actually right down here in the Old City--a couple of warehouses were tamale manufacturers,” Watson said.

“There was a history there, and we’re kind of picking up where they left off.”

One hundred years ago, the tamale manufacturers served their tamales “full house” style with a mesa shell stuffed with ground beef and sausage, covered in chili and served with onions and mustard.

Good Golly Tamale doesn’t serve their tamales “full house” style though. Instead they decided to try some recipes of their own like Thai chicken, sweet -Chris Watson potato and pulled pork.

They don’t follow strict guidelines for preparing the tamales either, as it’s about feeling things out and following their intuition.

“Matt and I would just sit around and try different recipes and tweak them, and we finally settled on what we have now,” Watson said.

“It’s like ‘Oh, we have them hot and ready!’ and you still have options.”

Sheila Moyer of Pennsylvania digs into a beef tamale at the farmers market on Sept. 20.

Hannah Cather • The Daily Beacon The cart has been operating for a little over a year, and Watson said he’s rolled around “tens of thousands” of tamales. On a weekly basis, Watson and Miller roll between 500-700 tamales.

Since Good Golly Tamale uses a cart instead of the typical food truck, the tamales are prepared in a kitchen at Aisle Nine Grocery and stored in the cart. The tamales are wrapped in foil and handed to customers where they can prepare their tamale with the hot sauce of their choosing.

“It’s nice because it’s quicker for people, instead of like, you know, ordering a hamburger somewhere,” Watson said. “You’re not going to have to wait 10 minutes. It’s like ‘Oh, we have them hot and ready!’ and you still have options.”

Watson said the response to the cart has been extremely positive. Locals and visitors alike seem to love the taste and exotic flare of the tamales. “(A customer from Mexico) was like ‘Alright, I’m a little skeptical, like tamales in Knoxville by these two white guys,’ but she was like ‘They’re really good’ and they tasted authentic to her,” Watson said.

Good Golly Tamale stresses the importance of fresh, local and organic ingredients. The pork and beef come from two separate organic farms: JEM Farm and Strong Stock Farm. The mesa, which is the main ingredient in the shell of the tamale, is non-GMO (genetically modified organisms) corn, something Watson and Miller felt was important in the creation of the tamales.

Good Golly Tamale isn’t restricted to Market Square. The duo can be found serving tamales with black bean soup and salsa at Aisle Nine on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. The cart also makes trips to Hops and Hollers on Monday nights in addition to the Market Square Farmers Market on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

On Tuesdays, Watson and Miller sell their prepackaged tamales to Holly’s Corner, where they are served for lunch. They have also begun to cater weddings and other special events.

Despite the success of their cart though, the pair still has bigger plans for the future.

“In the future, I would love for it to eventually become a brick and mortar,” Miller said, “like an actual storefront.”

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Carrie Bilbrey works on some denim pieces in the Marc Nelson Denim shop. Hannah Cather • The Daily Beacon

HALL continued from Page 27 Immersion into Knoxville’s art and music scene is a goal of Hall and Jones, and one they have already made significant progress toward achieving.

“What we’re really hoping to do with this space is showcase a lot of great indie, local music and local art,” Jones said. “We really feel that with what we do, we are a real part of the arts community in Knoxville.”

A rotating selection of local art is continuously featured, and the month of December will feature live, in-store music by local musicians every day of the week. Hall and company have also held a range of events benefiting local organizations, including raising more than $1,000 for the Clarence Brown Theatre one night.

“For us, we feel this is a hub, if you will, for Knoxville to come be a part of it in a lot of different ways,” Jones said. “Whether it’s through playing your music, showing your art or just whatever.”

But music and art aren’t the only ways Marc Nelson Denim is contributing to the Knoxville community. Over the summer, the company debuted a non-credit UT class, Introduction to Fashion Design, which meets in the space.

“Part of the Marc Nelson lifestyle if you work here is that you have to want to give back to the community, and UT is obviously a huge part of our community,” Hall said. “They actually called

us, and we jumped at the opportunity to do the class right here on site.”

Currently teaching the class, which meets once a week on Wednesday nights, Hall said students are instructed in “a little bit of everything.”

“We do sewing, drawing, trending and photography,” he said. “It’s been really successful.”

Ally Ellin, junior in retail and consumer sciences, is one UT student who has benefited from the company’s inclusion of fashion business hopefuls. She has been interning for Marc Nelson Denim since August.

“I’ve worked in retail before, and I just saw the storefront side of it,” Ellin said. “But here you get to see clothing from the start to the end. For my major, I think it’s really important to see how stuff literally starts from scratch and then goes out the door being sold.”

Although the prices of Marc Nelson’s jeans can run a bit steep for the average college student -- a standard pair sells at $175 -- Ellin believes it’s important that quality, not quantity, is the deciding factor.

“There are some things that I definitely buy cheaper, but you need key pieces, and I think denim is a good investment piece,” she said.

“Everyone wears denim. It’s a staple piece you can wear literally every day, either dressed up or down.”

And if Hall has his way, soon more consumers will be purchasing his Knoxville-made denim across the country.

“We’re now in the next phase of the dream,” he said. “The phase after this will be opening several stores around the country that look just like this.”

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“Printmaking started out as a means to reproduce text. It started out that way and has a lot of history in industry and in being able to create multiples and disseminate information,” Hood said. “So printmaking is one of those disciplines in which it has to take from other disciplines because its process is based in matrices ... It offers so much because you can create so much.”

This begs the question: what is the process behind printmaking? Yamamoto compared it to a cross-country road trip. There are many different routes to the final print and many possible stops along the way, and in the end it’s the journey that shapes the finished product and not the destination. There’s a delay in the production from the beginning to the end, Yamamoto said.

“For instance, painting or drawing — pretty immediate. You have paint and a paintbrush.

Apply it on the canvas and you make a painting out of it, but this process in printmaking, there’s a lot of filters you go through,” Yamamoto said.

“Some are kind of indirect. Some people it will drive crazy to do that, but at the same time this can be a wonderful opportunity to make strange things happen in between. It’s very process oriented, and this process can change the content.”

Printmaking is built on the foundation of other forms of art that help make the layers of the process. Painting, drawing, sculpture and other

Monday, June 1, 2015 • The Daily Beacon skils may be necessary to finish an artful print.

“It takes from so many different practices while still encouraging growth in those areas as well,” Hood said. “The history is so rich and so multifaceted in terms of art it makes sense that printmaking is so interdisciplinary.”

What distinguishes printmaking is the continual evolution and life in the program. Students and professors alike are continually working and pushing the boundaries of their field.

Lyons was unavailable for an interview because he has been in Poland for the past week, meaning he’s also been away from his students.

However, they don’t seem to mind.

“It’s frustrating and awesome that Beauvais is out of town for the week in Poland doing this artist-in-residency thing,” Hood said. “How cool is that? A professor is out actually doing stuff.”

The professors share equal admiration for their students.

“I’ve been doing printmaking for 20 some years, but when I see young people come up with some brilliant ideas and do some fascinating idea process of many combinations, it’s a wonderful learning experience,” Yamamoto said.

Then there are the students with a dedication to the art. Hood’s personal goal is to perfectly capture the versatility and vision of printmaking.

“My kind of philosophy with making art is learn as much as you can to figure out how to utilize your artistic vision in a way that satisfies what you are trying to accomplish,” Hood said, “whatever that may be.”

JETO continued from Page 20 “More people want more, and the writers are just sitting back in their notebooks or on blogs or behind books, and I’m just like, ‘Okay man, we were like the first artists,’” JETO excitedly explained. “We need to stimulate people, and I think this is a chance to not only stimulate other writers to just share their work anonymously but the public too. You don’t see words taped on walls randomly very often.”

JETO and her partner Genna Gazelka, an English lecturer at UT who tags her works as with_a_gg, have taken their anonymity and used it to encourage other writers to participate in their movement, an idea with_a_gg quickly got behind.

“I really like that idea of a literary revolution,” with_a_gg reflected. “I just don’t think people are really thinking and just put whatever our thoughts are up online. We post these rants, and we don’t really think about, reflect on what we say, how it affects people. I thought that — I’m a little bit of a rebel without a cause, so this was a good cause to fall in line with.”

With this inspiration, with_a_gg even took the project to her freshman English composition classroom, encouraging her students to analyze JETO’s poems and write their own pieces to go out and tag.

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As the duo has spread the message and encouraged other artists to join them, they have a laundry list of goals for 2015. They want to collaborate with photographers, graffiti artists, illustrators and other writers, host poetry contests, group literary graffiti nights and use news sources as an outlet to share their story.

Now, one year after their adventure began, JETO is looking to shake up Knoxville’s writers community.

“There hasn’t been a literary revolution or the writers haven’t stood up and shook the world or really, really impressed or inspired the world since the Beatniks back in the 50s, and I want that again. I want the writers to take over again. The musicans are awesome.

They’re showing their colors. The artists, the street artists, they’re awesome. They’re showing their colors. Everybody is growing off the fruits of other’s imaginations, and writers need to freaking bloom,” JETO urged.

“Everybody else has taken to the streets.

Why haven’t we?”

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Quarterback Josh Dobbs runs down the field during the Vols’ game against Vanderbilt on Nov. 29.

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Dobbs gives Vols solid signal caller heading into spring practice Taylor White

Assistant Sports Editor Butch Jones is in uncharted waters as he enters his third round of spring practice at Tennessee.

He has a starting quarterback.

After an open competition in his first two years, Jones is excited to start practice with a proven signal caller in hand, since rising junior Joshua Dobbs took the SEC by storm last fall.

“The great thing is, we know who our starting quarterback is and he’ll gain valuable repetitions,” Jones said in an interview with the Daily Beacon.

After struggling through much of fall camp, Dobbs seemed to be buried on the depth chart.

Then senior Justin Worley tore his labrum in a loss at Ole Miss in October. Nathan Peterman, who has since transferred to Pittsburgh, started the next game against Alabama, but struggled to direct the offense over the first few drives.

Jones then turned to Dobbs midway through the first quarter, and the Alpharetta, Georgia native finished the game with 192 yards through the air with two touchdowns and 75 yards on the ground, despite the loss.

It was in his first start the next week, however, that Dobbs began turning heads. He led the Vols to an improbable comeback against South Carolina, overcoming a two-touchdown deficit with less than two minutes on the clock to win in overtime.

He finished the game with 301 passing yards and two touchdowns and broke the school record for rushing yards in a game with 166.

Dobbs went on to achieve a 4-1 record as a starter last season, including a blow-out win over Iowa in the Taxslayer Bowl.

Now that Dobbs has taken hold of the starting job, he’s focusing on the leadership role that accompanies it.

“There’s always a responsibility to be a leader,” Dobbs said. “I’ve taken that responsibility upon myself to be a leader since the day I got here … My goal is to push this team and lead this team through spring and into the fall.”

The mental aspect of the game is important to every position on the field. For quarterbacks, though, the mental part of the game is just as important as the physical part, something Dobbs has no problem with.

Coaches and teammates praise the junior’s mental ability. He was originally committed to Arizona State before Jones took over at Tennessee in December of 2012. Jones quickly

made the then-high school senior a high priority, gaining the cooperation of Tennessee’s engineering department to ink his signature on signing day.

Dobbs is majoring in aerospace engineering at UT and chose the Vols over offers from the likes of Duke, Harvard, Princeton and Yale.

While Dobbs’ teammates see him as a leader, it’s clear the coaching staff does as well. When former offensive coordinator Mike Bajakian left for the NFL, Mike DeBord was quickly identified as the main candidate for his replacement.

When Jones sat down to interview DeBord, he brought Dobbs along with him so the quarterback could get his own impressions and even give his coach input on the hire.

“It was great,” Dobbs said. “It was great to sit down and speak with your future coach, potentially, and it was great to get in his mind and understand how he looks at football, different things and different concepts. We still talk about that first interaction today.”

For Jones, the decision to bring his quarterback in for the interview was an easy one, thanks to Dobbs’ ability in both leadership and mental aspects.

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Jones leads Vols to top-five 2015 recruiting class Taylor White

Assistant Sports Editor Butch Jones was able to put together a top-10 recruiting class in 2014, despite only achieving a 5-7 record on the football field.

After a more successful campaign on the gridiron in his second year, Jones was able to ride the momentum of a winning season, leading Tennessee’s 2015 signing class to a consensus topfive ranking for the first time since 2007.

“With this class we had to go coast to coast,” Jones said. “I think we’ve proven that we have the respect around the country for what we’re building here at Tennessee, but we still have a long ways to go.”

On Feb. 4, UT welcomed 17 signees and three preferred walk-ons to the program, joining the 10 early enrollees who arrived in January, putting the 2015 class at 30 total members.

Highlighting this class is five-star defensive tackle Kahlil McKenzie of Walnut Creek, California, son of former Vol Reggie McKenzie.

When McKenzie committed to Tennessee

in 2014, he adopted the role of peer recruiter, encouraging other high-profile players to join him.

“Kahlil helped us immensely, and it was all his doing,” Jones said. “He took great pride in this recruiting class. He forged relationships with every single individual … You could feel closeness and that bond.”

Jones’ main focus since taking over as head coach is convincing the state’s talent to stay home.

This year Jones signed the top-three players from Tennessee: five-star defensive end Kyle Phillips of Nashville and four-stars, offensive tackle Drew Richmond from Memphis and quarterback Jauan Jennings of Murfreesboro.

The Vols were able to add nine in-state players to the roster, capitalizing on the influx of high school talent Tennessee has seen recently.

“We’re gonna start first and foremost with taking care of home,” Butch said. “We were able to do that. That’s extremely gratifying.”

Adding depth to the roster was a primary focus of this recruiting class, and the Vols were successful in taking care of needs in the trenches.

Tennessee added six defensive linemen in the 2015 class, and many of them will be expected to contribute immediately.

McKenzie is rated as a top-five prospect in the nation, but he is the tip of the iceberg. Phillips and four-star defensive tackle Shy Tuttle were able to enroll at UT in January, allowing them to compete

in spring practice.

The Vols added a pair of four-star defensive ends Andrew Butcher and Darrell Taylor, and three-star defensive tackle Quay Picou rounds out the highly-touted class for Tennessee.

“The thing we have been missing from our defense is an overall edge presence,” Jones said.

“If you look at the big bodies in this recruiting class, we wanted length … We wanted to make sure we had that addressed and obviously Kyle Phillips ... Darrell Taylor addresses that.

“Then you look at our size inside with Shy Tuttle and Kahlil McKenzie, those two big defensive tackles, and then you have the quickness from Quay that he’ll bring inside.”

While there was relatively little drama around signing day, Tennessee was able to add one last piece as Richmond flipped to the Vols from his commitment to Ole Miss, putting a 6-foot-5, 310 pound ribbon on the 2015 class.

High expectation comes with a top recruiting class. There are several players expected to contribute right away, but Jones wasted no time pumping the brakes on the Vol signees.

“These are still 17 and 18 year old individuals,” Jones said. “(Who) are gonna develop at their own pace, and things don’t get changed overnight. We’re going through a process, but I thought today was a great, great step in the right direction.”

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Butch Jones played quarterback at Saugatuck High School in Michigan.

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Jones’ former high school mentors praise his mental toughness Jonathan Toye

Sports Editor

For Tennessee fans, Oct. 4, 2014, will always be a day drenched in disappointment.

It was supposed to be the day the Vols finally defeated their most hated rival. Instead, the day ended with the Gators claiming their tenthstraight victory over the Vols. A day that was supposed to be heralded for the fan-initiated checkerboard in Neyland Stadium was remembered for a vulgar chant from Vols’ fans in the waning seconds of yet another heartbreaking loss to Florida.

That day was the lowest point of the season for Tennessee fans.

Yet, if the 10-9 loss to Florida was rough on the fans, it was especially difficult for Tennessee’s head coach.

“If you were to say, ‘give me one defining moment (of a difficult situation)’ that was after the Florida game,” Butch Jones said in an interview with the Daily Beacon. “Obviously, we were all disappointed, everyone in our football organization was extremely disappointed. But you couldn’t allow the outside noises to creep in.”

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DOBBS continued from Page 34 “That is the first time I have done that,” Jones said. “I thought Josh, first of all, had earned the right to sit in that interview. I wanted that feedback, as we all know Josh is very cerebral.

“I wanted his input on some of the things and I also wanted to see kind of the chemistry, the mesh that those two individuals had.”

While Dobbs is heading into his third year at Tennessee, this will be his first without Bajakian calling plays. Dobbs said the interview with DeBord allowed him to get a feel for his new coordinator, making the transition a little easier.

While the coordinator may be different, the basic idea is the same. Play fast.

“Every coach has their own style,” Dobbs said.

“Overall, our offense stays the same. Same lingo and everything, and our goal is to move fast and just pump it down defenses’ throats, through the air and on the ground.”

While Dobbs’ leadership and mental characteristics are important, his physical ability should not be overlooked.

For the first time at Tennessee, Jones has a true dual-threat quarterback who can make plays with his arm and his legs, fitting Tennessee’s fastpaced spread offense.

Dobbs completed 112 of 177 passes in six games last season for 1206 yards, nine touchdowns and six interceptions. He also carried

the ball 104 times for 469 yards and eight touchdowns.

His ability to make plays with his feet also helped out his struggling offensive line as he was sacked 12 times in six games while Worley was sacked 29 times in seven games last season. “(Dobbs) does a lot of the things that we want to take advantage of from the defense,” Jones said. “We don’t ask the quarterback to hit the home run every time he runs the football. We just want an efficient run.

“When a quarterback can create plays with his legs, it adds a whole other dynamic that the defense has to be accountable for. It may not even be designed runs, it might just be scrambles.”

While Dobbs has gotten a lot of attention after his strong end to last season, he’s taking a dutiful approach to this spring practice. DeBord has already pointed out a few errors in Dobbs’ mechanics and the quarterback has been working to become more polished for the upcoming season.

“We just worked on little things,” Dobbs said.

“In the pocket just not getting too wide of a base, staying narrow … That helps with throwing the ball and just staying compact in the pocket and quicker movement in the pocket.

“That’s something he came in and talked to me about from day one, and that’s something I corrected day one. As we go, obviously more things will come up, but coach DeBord, me and him have a great relationship and it’s definitely growing.”

Josh Dobbs looks to pass the ball down the field during the Vols game against Alabama.

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JONES continued from Page 37 Butch Jones and his football team ultimately tuned out those outside noises, winning three of their last four games to earn bowl eligibility.

Tennessee’s first trip to the postseason since 2010 culminated in a dominant 45-28 victory over Iowa in the TaxSlayer bowl.

According to Jones, the Vols’ mental toughness allowed them to overcome the Florida loss.

“I knew with team 118 that if we kept our composure, kept our focus, if we were able to persevere and show resiliency, our efforts eventually would be rewarded and they were rewarded on Jan. 2nd. I think all of that was very important and that will be a great illustration for many years to come.

“But it’s all part of the business. You have to be mentally tough to be able to block all that out and be able to focus and put all your attention in the development of the football program.”

Jones is right.

Mental toughness is an attribute all teams need. It allows the players to remain focused on their jobs while enduring intense scrutiny from outside parties like fans and the media. It offers the tools to solve various problems that arise in a football program during the season’s course.

It’s safe to assume that the 2014 Tennessee football team acquired its mentality from its head coach. After all, it’s no secret that a team reflects the personality of its coach.

Yet, where did Jones learn mental toughness? Look no further than his hometown of Saugatuck, Mich.: a small picturesque resort destination situated next to Lake Michigan.

Jones treasures his upbringing in this town so much that he and his family travel to the lakeside community every summer.

He doesn’t take the trip to escape his job or football; he goes because he is grateful for the town and the lessons he’s learned from its residents, lessons that have guided him in his massive rebuilding project of the Tennessee football program.

“You have to have points of your schedule where you are able to have a great balancing act,” Jones said. “Being able to go back to Saugatuck with so many friends, it’s a resort community, it’s a vacation. But also to be around your family and so many people that were instrumental in your growth and development at an early age, it can really set the temperament for years to come. It’s always great to be back.”

Jones has another reason to be excited about his annual homecoming: Saugatuck now dons Tennessee orange.

The Tennessee head coach said Vol fans now vacation in his hometown. Several of the town residents, friends and family who are proud of Jones’ accomplishments, have a collection of Tennessee memorabilia.

“We had to get rid of a lot of Cincinnati stuff,” Saugatuck resident Mark Bekken joked in a phone interview.

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JONES continued from Page 38 Bekken serves as a city council member for the less than 1,000 population town. But long before he was recommending city policies, he was offering advice to Jones on the football field.

Originally, Jones’ junior varsity coach, Bekken became the offensive coordinator for the varsity team the same year Jones advanced to the varsity ranks. Bekken was also Jones’ high school varsity position coach for four years.

Even though Bekken admitted Jones no longer needs football advice from his old high school coach, he and Jones still maintain a close relationship today as Bekken has attended multiple Tennessee football games, including the most recent one.

“I am looking at a picture of him and I holding the (TaxSlayer bowl) trophy,” Bekken said during the phone interview.

Bekken’s relationship with Jones enabled him to readily provide an explanation to the origins of Jones’ mental toughness.

According to Bekken, Jones mastered mental toughness when he mastered commitment, a virtue he had to learn at an early age just to hold a job in Saugatuck.

Jones worked at the Coral Gables, a resort complex on the waterfront in downtown

Head coach Butch Jones during the Vols game against Georgia on Sept. 26.

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Tourists flock to the Coral Gables for its scenic location. With the influx of visitors, the complex needs people to work in the restaurants and bars. There are dishes to clean, food to cook and vacationers to serve.

Attached to these jobs are long hours, Bekken said, with the shifts starting early in the morning and ending late at night.

Also, the environment complicates work at the Coral Gables to a greater extent as it’s difficult to stay focused when recreational activities always remain within eyesight.

Jones learned to ignore these distractions while also balancing his job with playing three sports in high school. He also held managerial responsibilities at the complex.

Yet this commitment at an early age might have established the building blocks for Jones’ current coaching philosophy: a philosophy that emphasizes hard work as a key component to success.

“It’s hard to say learning how to wash dishes and learning how to cook and tend the bar and things like that can formulate how you coach in the SEC,” Bekken said. “But I think it’s just the piece of the puzzle. I think it is the concentration and the commitment, you’re involved in a lot of things.”

Jones’ employment at the resort complex not only helped forge his mentality, but it also strengthened his social skills. Skills that might have played some part in Jones landing back-toback consensus top-10 recruiting classes in his first two seasons at Tennessee.

“When you are working in a resort business, you learn how to deal with the public,” Bekken said. “I think the development of his people skills started when he was young.”

While working in the coaching industry, Jones also interacts with the public. It’s another example of how his experiences in Saugatuck shaped his coaching capabilities.

Jones’ coaching skills didn’t just develop in the workplace. His high school athletic director Dan Wilson, now retired, said via phone that Jones’ managerial skills were apparent when he was in sixth grade.

Wilson recalled a story that involved an adolescent Jones as a manager for the high-school varsity basketball team. Even then, Jones was

making sure players were well prepared before the upcoming game.

Wilson said he walked into the locker room before a varsity basketball game one day. Every single uniform was meticulously laid out in order, all folded the same, and all the towels were next to the uniforms.

“You just knew he was into athletics,” Wilson said. “(He was) organized, thought everything through, that kind of thing.

“There has been no doubt in my mind for a long time that he would be somewhere in that kind of athletic mode.”

As spring practice winds to a close and the summer approaches, Jones will need that razorsharp focus on details when preparing for the upcoming football season.

The depth is not where he wants it to be.

He will have to determine which player fills the fifth spot on the offensive line. And all he can do is hope that the players injured in the spring fully recover in the summer.

He’s also tasked with managing the burgeoning expectations of fans yearning for a return to ten-win seasons for the 2015 Tennessee season.

Jones will likely suffer more frustrating losses like the 2014 Florida game in the future. And once again, he will have to make sure his team tunes out detractors.

His former hometown mentors, however, are confident that the teenager they witnessed transform into a Division I football coach will always have a solution to the next problem.

“He’s got an inner toughness about him, a real competitiveness about him, and it is all genuine,” Bekken said. “It comes out; you can see that on the sideline at times. He can be a little more demonstrative and that can surprise people at times, but it’s genuine. And he always plays best in the biggest games. Butch has a way of getting the best out of people and that goes back to leadership, leading by example.”

Wilson echoed similar statements, praising Jones inherent ability to always remain focused at his responsibilities.

“He just had that mental toughness that you see coaches say, ‘you can’t coach that, you either got it or you don’t’ and Butch has that,” Wilson said. “And he doesn’t let outside distractions bother him in anything.”

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Intramurals allow students to further athletic careers in college Lucas Hunter

Contributor If you walked through the TREC, you might notice a curtain down on the basketball courts.

Behind the curtain lies the intramural basketball courts, where friends and teammates play the sport they enjoy.

Intramural sports present an opportunity for all students, regardless of skill, experience, gender or disability to participate in the sport of their choosing in a variety of leagues, ranging from men’s, women’s and coed for every sport, along with a mix of other leagues, such as a fraternity league in basketball and softball.

The attraction of the intramural leagues lies in the freedom they offer. Most leagues are free to join and open to anyone, as long as the student is up to date with his or her student fees.

For some students, intramurals offer a chance to learn something new or continue the sport they played in high school. But most often, students simply want to have fun with their friends.

“I’ve met one of my best friends through intramurals,” said senior Cory Wilhite. “It’s a good thing to get involved in and having people who have the same interests as you, and it’s a good opportunity.”

Intramurals advocate opportunity, which is the reason behind opening leagues for multiple skill levels. Recreation leagues offer a more laidback environment, while competitive leagues play with the intention of winning every game.

“Getting a chance to meet new people on the intramural field is always a good thing,” said Jerrod Edwards, a senior in mechanical engineering. “I always played sports in high school, so it’s a good way to get out there with competition and still meet new friends.”

Intramurals also allow students to stay active and spend time with friends they have already made as they compete for the coveted “Intramural Champion” t-shirt.

If your team is one of the best at UT and ready for the next step in competition, extramural sports are also available, where the best teams from universities from around the U.S. compete in tournaments.

Intramurals also presents employment opportunities. The intramural offices pay officials and scorekeepers, require no previous experience and offer training.

To participate in intramurals, students can register online through the University of Tennessee website. Students can create their own teams with their friends.. If they don’t have a team, they can sign-up as a single. The season dates for the fall have not been released at time of print.

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Rick Barnes ‘energized’ to be Vols’ new head basketball coach Troy Provost-Heron Staff Writer

Two days after being fired from his position as the head coach at Texas, and four days after former Tennessee head coach Donnie Tyndall was terminated amidst a NCAA investigation, Rick Barnes was once again behind a podium.

This time, however, there were no watery eyes, just smiles and excitement as Barnes was introduced as the 20th head basketball coach in Tennessee history inside Pratt Pavilion on Tuesday.

“As I came on campus for the first time today and started walking through here and seeing everything, it was so easy for me to get energized and to step back and realize how fortunate and blessed I am for this opportunity,” Barnes said. “I’m humbled to be here.

“I understand the great traditions that have come before me, and I promise you this, every day I will protect the great integrity of this university, and our basketball program is going to mirror what this university stands for.”

Before his departure from Texas on Sunday, Barnes coached the Longhorns for 17 seasons, amassing a record of 402-108 while reaching the NCAA tournament in 16 of those years. Of those 16 tournament appearances, the all-time winningest coach in Texas history reached the Sweet 16 five times, the Elite Eight three times and the Final Four in 2003.

Other accolades for Barnes include three Big 12 conference championships, the latest coming in 2008, four Big 12 Coach of the Year awards, 96 victories over AP Top-25 teams, perfect single-year APR scores (1,000) dating back to 2005-06 and 23 former players who have been drafted into the NBA. “Rick Barnes is an elite basketball coach in every respect,” Hart said in a university release.

“Rick brings an extremely impressive track record of excellence, as well as much-needed stability, to our men’s basketball program. This is an exciting day for our Tennessee family.”

During his farewell post conference in Austin, Barnes hinted at prior contact with Tennessee, stating that he would be coaching “quicker than you probably think.”

Shortly after uttering those words, Barnes and his wife, Candy, were picked up by Hart and flown back to Knoxville. Over the next two days, the sides were “together around the clock,” and ultimately completed the deal Tuesday morning.

“There was never a hesitancy on my part once I had made contact with Tennessee,” Barnes said. “I love coaching and I love working with young people … Wins and losses are there, but those can fade away, but those relationships you develop never fade and that’s not

• Rick Barnes something I’m willing to give up.

“I’m driven and I’ve had one goal in my life and that’s to play for a national championship, and this a university that provides you with everything you need to do that.”

After completing the deal, Barnes held a meeting around 3 p.m. with the 10 returning players that remain on the Volunteers’ roster and delivered a simple message.

“I told them that the foundation that is going to be laid will be started this year,” Barnes said.

Barnes’ contract with Tennessee is six years with a base salary of $2.25 million per year.

His contract also includes incentives such as $50,000 for winning a SEC regular season title and $25,000 for winning the SEC tournament. Barnes will also receive $50,000 for each NCAA tournament appearance.

In addition, Barnes also set aside some money in order to hire his staff, which will include a few of his assistants at Texas.

“It’s a reflection on who he is,” Hart said.

“He’s one of the most successful coaches in the game of college basketball, but it also speaks to our commitment as an institution.”

Prior to his tenure at Texas, Barnes made head coaching stops at Clemson (1994-98), Providence (1988-94) and George Mason (1987-88), making it to the NCAA tournament six times during that 11-year span. In his 28-year head-coaching career, Barnes has made it to The Big Dance 22 times.

Barnes, though, is not focused on the past.

Those watery eyes that were gleaming on the Longhorn Network on Sunday are now clear and solely fixated on his future at Tennessee.

“I fully expect this to be my last job,” Barnes said. “I promise that we are going to put together a staff and we are going to go at it as hard as we can go at it. We are in a great league and there is a standard that is being set in this league, so I’m excited.”

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Alford-Sullivan crushes barriers as track and field coach Shane Switzer Contributor

Breaking and rebuilding barriers is never easy, but for Tennessee’s first-year director of track and field/cross country Beth Alford-Sullivan, overcoming hurdles has defined her career.

The first hurdle? Becoming the first woman to coach a football bowl subdivision men’s track and field program.

The second hurdle? Facing rebuilding projects at nearly every coaching destination.

Alford-Sullivan graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1989 with a degree in social work. While there, she competed in cross country and track and field under then head coach Gary Wilson, who was coaching a program in the midst of a rebuilding phase.

Wilson’s rebuilding efforts foreshadowed • Beth Alford-Sullivan Alford-Sullivan’s future coaching career.

How did her own coaching career begin? at her high school, Alford-Sullivan knew what she Entering her last semester of college, she had wanted to do. never thought of becoming a coach until a friend “That got me started finding a (Graduate suggested it. At the time, Alford-Sullivan realized Assistantship),” Alford-Sullivan said. “It was realshe had never seen a female coach except at the ly the shoe that fit.”

Division III level and even then wasn’t sure if the Alford-Sullivan spent the next two years at woman was a coach or not. After a discussion Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. with her coach and a stint coaching spring track Following Southern Illinois, she got her first job as

the men’s and women’s cross country coach and assistant track coach at Southeast Missouri State.

Then NCAA Division II school Mankato State came calling.

“It was just the women,” Alford-Sullivan said.

“I debated that, but I took the chance on it and became a head coach. I was probably 27 or 28 years old.”

From there, she spent the next five years at Stanford as the women’s coordinator and had her first taste of a rebuilding job. Hired by Vin Lananna, Alford-Sullivan helped establish the Cardinal as a powerhouse in track and field/cross country.

She coached more than 30 All-Americans and one NCAA individual champion.

“Vin Lananna had a vision for what that place can be,” Alford-Sullivan said. “They had some success in the 80s, but we were in the mid and late 90s and early 2000s. It was a great revolution of bringing back American distance running, bringing back the Stanford program to the level that it was.

“I was there at the highlight of their time in terms of their athletic department being successful and being outstanding. It was almost a Camelot-feeling of time out there.”

Taking what she learned at Stanford, AlfordSullivan returned to the Big Ten to become the women’s head coach at Penn State, where she encountered yet another rebuilding project.

Using her experience at building track programs, she shaped Penn State into a contender on the national level. She coached 158 All-Americans and claimed nine Big Ten team titles in 15 seasons, 88 Big Ten individual championships, 19 Big Ten Champion relays and four individual NCAA champions.

In the summer of 2006, Alford-Sullivan broke barriers for female coaches when she became the director of track and field/cross country at Penn State. In reaching that position, she became the first woman to be the head coach of a men’s program in the FBS. “That was a big step that Penn State took and opened the door for a lot of my colleagues,” she said. “... kind of breaking down some barriers and trying to do some unique things and have had some great opportunities and mentors along the way that have helped facilitate the opportunities that I’ve had.”

Since Alford-Sullivan became director of track and field at UT, seven other women have also reached the same position.

“One of my best colleagues is the director of track and field at Sacramento State,” she said.

“She and I rely heavily on each other in terms of process and support and perception. Over the years, we have definitely had an opportunity to mentor a lot of young women in coaching.”

Alford-Sullivan has watched eight to ten of her former female athletes in her program become coaches in a field that promotes female leadership.

The U.S. Track & Field Coaches Association has taken major strides to aid women in the sport.

At the annual convention, a women’s summit is held with support from the association. The summit, Alford-Sullivan opined, has done a great job of opening the sport up for women and giving them a chance to network.

She is proud that track and field doesn’t have some of the gender stereotypes that other sports have. She said that schools look for coaches who can get the job done and who are resourceful to hire, regardless of gender. Also, the structure of track and field breeds inclusion.

“We are combined in our sport from pee wees through the Olympics,” Alford-Sullivan said. “We are truly the only sport that is.

“We have the opportunity to be exposed to both the men and women as you go through the coaching ranks. I’m really proud that I haven’t faced some of the stereotyping that other sports have to face. Yet, at the end of the day, out of the 320-some Division I track programs ... eight of us have this position.”

In the summer of 2014, Alford-Sullivan was hired by UT Athletic Director Dave Hart to become the new track and field and cross country director. The challenge of the SEC and the chance to once again rebuild a proud track program attracted her to Tennessee.

“The resources are here, the history is truly here,” Alford-Sullivan said. “It is a phenomenal group of alumni that have embraced the change that has happened. The leadership is truly on board with wanting to bring track back and get it rockin’ again.”

Her current student athletes have bought in as well.

“With the new people coming in and the foundation she is building ... we’re really excited to see what happens in the next few years,” pole vaulter Jake Blankenship said.

Captain, junior and shot putter Cassie Wertman said the biggest difference she has seen is that the team has a goal.

“She has made it very clear what her intentions are here,” Wertman said. “Everyone is kind of ramped up and ‘alright we are going for that too.’”

Junior shot putter Cameron Brown mentioned passion several times in describing what AlfordSullivan has brought to the Tennessee. Brown also said she has brought a belief that they can compete and win every weekend.

All three athletes believe Alford-Sullivan will rebuild the Tennessee track and field to a championship-winning program.

“Every job I’ve been fortunate to have, I’ve come into a rebuilding faze of it,” Alford-Sullivan said. “I’ve pretty much taken over when it needed a rebuilding phase. I think that’s my nature of what I experienced as a student athlete and I really feel the reward of taking something from where it is to where you want it to be at the top of the ranks.

“Luckily I’ve had a great stretch of doing that everywhere I’ve gone, and we’re in the midst of doing that here at Tennessee.”

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SPECIAL ISSUE “UT was slowly becoming a nightmare.

People would go on to tell me that the rape was my fault, that I was asking for it, that I’m lucky anyone wanted to hook up with me, that I was a slut and that I deserved what I got.

But I wanted to own my story.”

In the midst of a busy semester, it’s easy to take for granted the city we live in. But Knoxville and the University of Tennessee are more than just the home of the Volunteers. We live in a city rich in history, important people and local enterprise. On pages 4-8 we celebrate the books, bovines, buildings and businesses that keep Knoxville scruffy.

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This semester,The Daily Beacon switched to a tabloid format.

With that change, we decided to create various themed special issues throughout the semester.We successfully completed six: How To Be An Adult, Student Appreciation, The Sexual Assault Issue, Made in Knoxville, Unconventional Knoxville and Vices.

These issues not only allowed us to stretch creatively, but to provide content especially targeted to the University of Tennessee campus community, covering the things we thought students most wanted to read about.We helped you learn practical skills, like taking care of your car, while also showing you the interesting parts and people of our city that can easily go unnoticed.We brought you stories about campus sexual assault in the hopes that you will be more informed and ready to be there for people who are assaulted and recognize that it is a problem UT needs to continue to address.

These pages were silly and serious, probing and funny, curious and creative.The Daily Beacon will continue to make special issues during the fall semester, but we wanted to catch you up on what you missed with a peak into these issues and the relevant topics they provided students.We now present to you our special issues from spring 2015.

Sex, drugs and rock n’ roll

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Megan manages time, you can too Megan Patterson Staff Writer

It happens without fail every January.

Bucket lists of goals and resolutions promise that this year will be different, but how many of these lists are completed by the following December?

Efficient time management and effective goal setting are valuable skills that remain elusive to many college students.

If you can’t manage a 16-hour semester now, how will you manage a 40-hour work week in the future? These skills will take time to build, and if you take a few of these tips to heart now, your future self will thank you for it.

Forbes magazine has published several articles on steps toward productivity, and each piece emphasizes the importance of clear, feasible goal-setting.

Before you can properly manage your time, you have to know what you want to do with it. The first thing on your agenda should be setting goals, both long-term, short-term and daily, to help you stay on track.

Start with the big picture. What do you want in life? It sounds daunting, but it is an image that needs to start coming together in the next few years.

Take it one piece at a time. Do you want a more stable, secure lifestyle or one full of

flexibility? Is a career or a family more of a priority?

Once you’ve found the big goals, decide what smaller landmarks you’ll need to hit in order to reach them. Finally think of what you can do each day to get one step further toward your goals.

Once you have your plan, you need to find a way to stick to it. That is where time management becomes helpful.

Don’t lose sight of your future goals in the clutter of scheduling. Take a half hour at the start of each day to plan out your day and evaluate your progress toward the big things.

Throughout the day take five minutes before beginning a task to decide what you would like to accomplish and take five minutes afterward to review what you have done.

Little moments like these give your mind time to breathe and still use the break productively. They will also help you track your progress and build self-confidence as you go.

Perhaps most important of all is minimizing distractions. Don’t be afraid to ignore your phone. Set a time to check emails or return calls.

Designate different locations for different tasks. Don’t try to get homework done in bed.

Create a study space without distractions for when you need to focus.

Finally, remember that you can’t get everything done, but you’ve got a lifetime to work at it.

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Grocery shopping for beginners Hannah Cather

Photo Editor (@hannahcather) The biggest drawback of moving off campus and into your own, adult apartment?

Figuring out how to fill the fridge with food every week. Little magical elves don’t replace the milk or eggs and you can’t just eat your roommate’s food. You actually have to go to the grocery store and buy things.

Sound scary? Fear not! These eight steps will guide you to grocery success.

BRAINSTORM: Sit down and think about what you would like to eat during the week. Spaghetti and meatballs?

Vegetable soup? Write it down. Aim for two to three meals you can make. Plans keep money in your pocket.

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WRITE IT ALL DOWN: Lists are glorious things. Make one grocery list and one fridge list. The grocery list should outline the departments of the store: produce, aisles, meat, dairy, frozen and other. Healthy people stick to

the perimeters; the processed, not-so-goodfor-you foods are found in the middle of the store. Remember the brainstorming you did?

Put that list on the fridge so it won’t get lost. .DOIN’ THE SHOPPING: Grab your reusable bags - wait, you don’t have a reusable bag? Get one now.

Please. Thank you. If you get distracted easily or dread this part of the process, throw on your headphones and blast some tunes. Avoid the cookie aisle unless cookies are on your list. Then by all means, stroll through the land of baked goodness. If you do wear headphones, take them off when you get to the cashier. You’re an adult with manners, remember? If you’re doing your main shopping on Sunday, but you know you’ll need spinach on Thursday, wait. Make a quick stop at the store later in the week so you don’t waste your money on spinach that goes bad.

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PUT THE GROCERIES AWAY: Do not throw your bags on the kitchen floor and then yourself onto the couch. Put them away as soon as

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THE GROWN-UP GROCERY LIST 1 6 7 2 8 3 9 4 10 5 2 proteins: Select one cooked or prepared protein and a raw protein. Premarinated or prepared meats, such as a rotisserie chicken, help reduce cooking time while bringing home a few fillets of fresh fish allows you to be creative with dinner. .2 veggies: Choose seasonal, fresh produce that can be easily roasted or steamed to serve as a side.

2 fruits: We often purchase too many fruits, and then they spoil.

Pick just two that you’d want to eat with yogurt or to grab for on-the-go mornings.

Herb-du-jour: All you need is a handful of herbs to add a dab of freshness to your morning eggs or to spruce up your choice of protein.

A dozen eggs: Eggs (preferably the pretty brown ones!) are a weekly essential used for breakfast or a midday snack.

Greek yogurt: Aside from being a quick and healthy breakfast choice, we like to use Greek yogurt in creative ways — in place of mayonnaise in chicken salads and instead of sour cream for tacos.

Choice of cheese: Always a fun part of shopping! Pick one cheese that you can add to omelets, mix into a salad, or eat on its own.

Choice of grain: Unless you’re on a carb-free diet, we think it’s always a good idea to experiment with grains, such as Basmati rice or quinoa, to round off a meal and make you feel full.

Granola: Whether homemade or storebought, we love topping our morning yogurt or vanilla ice cream with a little crunch.

Smart snack: Nuts and dried fruit are always a great choice, but we never rule out dark chocolate or popcorn!

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you get home. If you bought items that are already in your fridge or pantry, make sure you put the new things in the back. .PREP WORK PT 1: This might sound horrible, but set aside a couple of hours to do prep work each week. It makes weeknight meals that much easier to come home and prepare when your whole body wants to fall apart. Best things to prep: wash greens and herbs. Chop onions, carrots and celery. If you bought a big bag of chicken breasts, go ahead and freeze some of them.

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PREP WORK PT 2: If you’ve got multiple deadlines approaching, your week is going to be crazy. To help with the insanity, cook things in bulk on your prep day. Grill multiple chicken breasts or make a batch of soup.

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THE WEEK: Don’t you ignore the list you made and put on your fridge. It’s there for a reason! Sometimes it might be good to add a column to your list that includes leftovers you need to eat before

they go bad. This keeps it on your mind so it won’t get rotten. If you can’t eat all of your leftovers, throw some in the freezer! That way you’ll have lunches to take with you.

IF THE PLAN FAILS: Sometimes, life is really, really hard. Sometimes you come home and you’re so exhausted or upset that you can’t even imagine standing in the kitchen. That’s a-ok. Go out and enjoy a meal that someone else made. Can’t even make it outside? This is where the prepackaged bag of frozen food comes in handy. Just breathe and know that it will get easier.

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It might sound hard, but hey, so is being an adult. The more regularly you follow the steps, the easier it gets. The time you spend planning and preparing will pay off when you come home and can get dinner on the table in 30 minutes. Just think, in a month or two, your friends will be asking YOU for grocery shopping advice.

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For those who don’t know ‘jack’ about their car Bradi Musil

Assistant News Editor

When the going gets tough, the tough call Mom. What do I do with my messy desk?

For a perfectly organized and navigable desk, stick to these essentials. First, pick a sturdy organizer to keep all your necessities in sight and at your fingertips. Then, add a three-hole punch because you know you need one to keep those handouts in check. Invest in a reliable lamp, too. You know your ceiling light isn’t cutting it. Also hang a wall calendar within writing reach so you can mark important dates where you see them everyday. Finally, for a truly mature desk, keep some snacks in your drawer. (All adults know that study time munchies are real.)

I don’t sound like an adult. Help?

The first step in learning to talk like an adult is acknowledging that you are one.

Nearly everyone you encounter in the real world will enjoy receiving respect and admiration, but blatant brown-nosing does more harm than good in conversation.

If you remember that, and avoid politically incorrect words and phrases, you will be on your way to talking like an adult. And it should go without saying, but in case it doesn’t, “bae” is never acceptable under any circumstances, including instances of sarcasm and irony. It wrenched our guts just to mention it here. We’re going to need our significant others (hint, hint) to wash our mouths out with soap.

What do I bring to my first adult dinner party?

So, you got invited to a fancy dinner party. You won’t be eating pizza and nachos with your homies. A dinner party means adulthood. This is real. Make sure you’re wearing nice clothes and don’t you dare show up without a gift. Did you think about a gift? Think about a gift. How about a nice bottle of red wine? It should cost at least $15. You can always ask someone at the store for a suggestion. If your host doesn’t drink, consider chocolate or another nice candy. You could also try asking your host if there’s something they would like for you to bring. Oh, and don’t forget your table manners.

How do I dentist?

Let’s be honest. You’ve probably had your teeth cleaned once, maybe twice since moving out on your own, right? That’s what we thought. Wooden teeth aren’t coming back into style anytime soon, so you should probably take care of that. Though everyone needs to go to the dentist at least once annually, how many times you should go beyond that depends on how personally prone you are to decay. In order to figure that out — go to the dentist. In the meantime, floss. That’s a thing.

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You know the feeling: you jump in your car, start the engine, maybe turn on the radio or light a cigarette and suddenly you see it: a miniature wrench lights up bright yellow on your dashboard.

What does it mean? Who is responsible? Is your car going to spontaneously combust if you start driving? If you’re like me, you immediately call your dad.

But, if you’re like practicing adult Lynn White, automotive service excellence master technician and employee of Automotive Solutions, that little wrench would have never appeared in the first place.

For the amateur car-owner (me), White explains the basic ins-andouts of car care.

First, winter care: When cold temperatures settle in as the norm, White said all carowners should have their antifreeze checked, which indicates a car engine’s freezing point. Explaining that cars will most often freeze after a driver has already taken off, White said it is always best to allow your car at least five to 15 minutes for your engine to heat up before starting to drive.

“All the seals and such shrink up in cold weather, so when you start it, you give everything a chance to expand and you’ll know if your car is going to freeze up before you leave,” White said.

What to always keep on-hand in your car: Oddly enough, cat litter.

According to White, using cat litter to create traction between your tires and icy or snowy roads can

prove to be very effective. Besides a bag of kitty litter, White also advised drivers to keep road flares and reflectors stashed in your car as well as jumper cables and a mini air compressor.

What to do with jumper cables: Jumper cables jump-start your dead car, in a nutshell. To jump start your car, you will also require another car, not dead. Once you have said car, hook the jumper cables up to the dead car first.

The cables connecting the cars will match positive to positive and negative to negative. White assured that in every car owner’s manual, there is a guideline on how to jump-start your own car, as well as everything else you need to know about your car. But, who knows where that little pamphlet is? An adult, probably.

Say goodbye to spare tires; say hello to air compressors: Ladies and gentlemen, spare tires are a thing of the past. Most new cars, White said, won’t come with a spare tire, or even a place to keep a spare, but instead include a mini air compressor. The air compressor is used to refill the flat with air temporarily and can enable a car to drive up to 50 miles until it reaches a service center.

If your car is an older make, there should still be a placeholder for a spare and White explained that changing a tire the old-fashioned way is made easy with a lugwrench and a jack, or lever to raise the side of your car.

“Every owner’s manual tells you where to place your jack,” White explained. “Break the lug-nuts lose before you raise your car up, lay the tire very lightly on the ground and you can retighten and retort your

lug-nuts and get to a safe place.”

Warning signs your car is in trouble: Your car is going to tell you when it’s in trouble. White said the most common signs of trouble include hearing “belt squeaks,” noticing leaks under your car that leave a brown, greasy mark underneath or smelling odd odors emitted from your vehicle.

The most commonly ignored warnings, White said, are the symbols that light up on your dashboard, like that little yellow wrench.

“A lot of people ignore those which is really not good,” White said. “Some of the things that can cause them to come on are very minor. But, some of them are very major.”

The best tip: Simply put: check on your car regularly. White said things like a lack of oil changes, not checking the antifreeze or regularly getting belt inspections and checking for low-tire pressure most commonly lead to one being stranded on the side of the road. Under your car’s hood, every knob and button has a self-explanatory cap that indicates its function and when it’s safe to drive or needs attention.

Car-owners should be checking under their hood at least once a month, White said, and taking their car to a shop every three months or after 3,000 miles. The big picture: cars take time and care.

Be a good driver, don’t neglect your vehicle.

“Anything mechanical is going to break eventually,” White said.

“But, sometimes you can prevent a lot of stuff by just doing a lookover.”

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Before he could read chapter books, Benjamin Parton could play the violin.

Doing what most young children do, the five-year-old followed in the footsteps of his older brother, who also played the violin at the time. But for Parton, now a freshman violin performance major, playing became more

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than just friendly competition. It became a passion.

That passion would drive him for nearly the next decade and a half to lead the Knoxville Symphony Youth Orchestra violin section, as well as spend two summers with the National Youth Orchestra, an organization which gathers young musicians from around the country to perform concerts across the United States and abroad. These experiences helped shape how Parton played with other musicians,

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especially his time with the national orchestra — a group he said was “unbelievable to play with.”

But then it was back to Tennessee where Parton auditioned for the UT Symphony Orchestra and received the highest position — concertmaster.

To be even a member of the 70-piece orchestra requires a blind audition process and hours of weekly rehearsals. But the responsibilities of the concertmaster go beyond that. Before rehearsals start at the beginning of the semester, Parton has to know each piece of music backward and forward. And during rehearsals, different sections break off for individual rehearsals; Parton leads those as well.

“It’s a community,” he said. “You have to work together. But the leader thing never goes away; it’s a constant job.”

It’s one that he juggles with ease.

Miroslav Hristov, associate violin professor, said Parton “owes winning this chair to his very strong psychological and instrumental stability in his style of playing.” “(Parton) is a player with a lot of commitment and determination. His individuality and talent are clearly part of his overall image as a musician.”

Though the responsibilities of being con-

certmaster can be harrowing, for Parton it’s just another ball in the juggling act of his first semester of college.

“Balancing was really hard,” Parton said.

“I was going into the college environment for the first time and worrying about my grades and trying to be the perfect student all the time.”

But he didn’t drop a ball. Despite the added pressure of being concertmaster, Parton made it through the first semester unscathed with three more concerts under his belt. “(Parton) meets these challenges and high expectations in a very professional manner,” Hristov said, “while still preserving his integrity as a musician.”

And this integrity and determination will serve him well in his future, where he plans to join larger orchestras and keep playing professionally. But no matter the number of performances he logs and the time he spends practicing or the places he plays, Parton said he plays for that one special moment.

“I don’t think there’s a way to describe it that anyone who isn’t a musician could really understand,” Parton said. “You just have to do it to understand. It’s one of those things.”

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Social awareness is paramount for Sex Week organizer Tanner Hancock Copy Editor

Mention “Sex Week” and you’re bound to get a reaction.

Despite the hype and excitement surrounding the event series, it can be easy to forget the students who work tirelessly to make Sex Week a reality.

For Summer Awad, a junior in College Scholars and co-chair of Sex Week’s sponsoring organization Sexual Empowerment and Awareness at Tennessee, the path to activism began in the wake of 9/11. Raised in a Muslim family, Awad began to notice the prejudice her family endured, whether in the form of “random” checks at the airport or jokes about backpack bombs from other students.

Inspired by a desire to promote social awareness in all forms, Awad eventually took up sexual activism after seeing the lack of reliable information surrounding sex education.

“It seemed so taboo to talk about,” Awad said. “I felt like I needed more information, and I felt like I was kind of lost.”

Although she helped educate middle school students on sex education while she was in high school, it wasn’t until she came to UT

and got involved with S.E.A.T. that she realized what positive sex education looked like. Her high school organization had treated sex as a shameful act, Awad said, but Sex Week openly embraced sex as natural while still providing reliable information on safe practices.

“I became really committed to the idea that it’s a human right to know about your own body,” Awad said.

To critics who view sex as a private matter, Awad maintains that sex, while controversial, can only be handled in the light of day.

“In the south, we have a ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy where you can do whatever you want in the bedroom but nobody wants to see it,” Awad said, noting that Tennessee is one of the highest ranked states for both sexually transmitted diseases and pornography consumption.

Lynn Sacco, an associate professor of history and co-faculty adviser for Sex Week, said Awad’s awareness of the program’s importance was evident from the start.

“She quickly realized what was at stake: an opportunity not only to move past inadequate sex education provided by the state, but also a forum in which she and other students could talk openly and together,” Sacco said.

To help remedy Tennessee’s lacking education, Awad has been active in transitioning

Summer Awad Ester Choo • The Daily Beacon Sex Week from a week-long phenomenon to the year-round organization S.E.A.T. Aside from Sex Week, S.E.A.T. has also organized drag shows, sponsored sexual education workshops and theatrical productions with sexual themes held year round.

Even in her personal hobbies, Awad finds time to weave her love of activism and social justice into her interests. Guided by a passion for foreign languages, she has traveled to China, Oman and Jordan to expand her communication skills. During her time in Jordan, Awad found time to interview Palestinian refugees in an effort to create a theatrical production highlight-

ing the injustices Palestinians face at the hands of Israel.

“Palestinians never get to tell their stories in the West, it’s always Western media slanting it a certain way,” Awad said. “I really just wanted to give a human voice to Palestine and show what these people’s lives are like living under occupation.”

Sacco observed that even after returning from the Middle East, Awad’s dedication to S.E.A.T. and Sex Week never waned.

“I would have come back from all that exhausted,” she said. “Summer returned on fire.”

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MSA provides safe haven for Muslim student McCord Pagan

Staff Writer It is just two days after a shooting near the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that left three young Muslims dead, and undecided sophomore Abdalla Husain is visibly nervous.

He sits with his hands hidden in his lap as he readily identifies himself as a proud Muslim and American.

The shooting and his concerns over Islamophobia in America dominates our exchange.

“One family over there realized my biggest fear, which is to lose my sisters or my brother to some ridiculous act,” Husain said.

Husain is a Palestinian-American who was in the West Bank during the war between Israel and Hamas this summer that left thousands dead. He wears a bracelet with the colors of the Palestinian flag on his wrist, a constant reminder of his family in the Middle East.

Though Husain is a born and raised American, he lives in a very different country than his peers.

In Husain’s America, fear and ignorance of Islam is prevalent, forcing him to constantly be on the defense about his faith and culture.

Aside from having a place to connect with many of his friends, Husain said his involvement in the Muslim Student Association is a reflection of his need to tell people what Islam is really about. Much of the media, he said, is biased against Muslims and gives a skewed

picture of his religion.

“It’s unfortunate that I feel like if I fight back against somebody who attacks my sisters (for being Muslim) that I’ll be just perpetuating a stereotype,” Husain said.

A lot of young Muslims on campus like Husain use the MSA as a way to bond and establish an Islamic identity, said Ahmad Alshibi, senior in chemical engineering and long-time friend of Husain.

“It is nice to know that there are people like you who share the same culture, same religion, and same identity as you and that is really comforting,” Alshibi said via email.

While Husain has been spending more time this semester at the local mosque helping with an upcoming youth retreat, Alshibi said his friend still dedicates much of his time to the organization.

“MSA is a constant reminder to our religion,” Alshibi said. “Abdalla will volunteer and help out whenever there is an event like tailgates, cookouts and community service.”

Far from any extremism, the Muslim Student Association consists of regular college students going through typical college problems, Husain said, in addition to answering any questions people may have about what Islam is all about.

“One of our goals is to be an organization people can talk to if they have any questions about Islam,” Husain said. “I never see ignorance as something below me, I never look down on ignorance. I just see it as an opportunity to educate people. That’s what I’ve tried to do my whole life.”

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Blurred lines: defining consent Consent affected by alcohol consumption, impact more concrete in UT policy Jordan Achs

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SPECIAL ISSUE “UT was slowly becoming a nightmare.

People would go on to tell me that the rape was my fault, that I was asking for it, that I’m lucky anyone wanted to hook up with me, that I was a slut and that I deserved what I got.

But I wanted to own my story.”

You’re just waking up after a night out with your friends. A few drinks turned into more than a few, then you roll over and suddenly realize you’re not alone and that you might’ve had sex last night.

For many college students, this scenario is a familiar element of the college party experience. But what many don’t realize is this can be legally considered rape at many universities — including UT. “It is well-established that alcohol inhibits motor function, making it difficult to give consent,” said Libby Hicks, a wellness coordinator at the Center for Health Education and Wellness. “And it impairs judgment, making it difficult to ascertain whether or not consent has been gained.”

Nickie Hackenbrack, senior and co-chair of Sexual Empowerment and Awareness at Tennessee, said the new found freedom that many college students gain when they move away from home can contribute to confusion when it comes to consent.

“Drugs and alcohol are a part of that, and sexual exploration is a part of that,” Hackenbrack said. “So it’s no surprise that these two go hand-in-hand.”

According to The Wall Street Journal, alcohol impairment is determined by a number of factors including gender, weight, amount consumed per hour and factors such as depression and an empty stomach. The Mayo Clinic describes binge drinking as more than five drinks consumed in two hours if you’re male and four drinks if you’re female. These drinks take your body a while to process, which means that alcohol can still enter your bloodstream even if you’ve stopped drinking. It takes your body one hour to process one drink; it doesn’t take long for your body to get drunk and stay drunk. All of these factors affect decision making, and thus consent.

This confusion leads to many perpetrators not knowing they are committing sexual assault and many survivors not knowing their rights and resources.

Because of this, many schools and now states are moving away from the “no means no” standpoint towards an affirmative consent policy, which requires partners engaging in a sexual activity each give an enthusiastic “yes” to every sexual act.

“Right now we need to change the conversation and make it ‘only yes means yes,’”

Hackenbrack said. “It shouldn’t be upon someone to stop something from going further, but it should always be a positive conversation about what you’d like to do next.”

With the introduction of the the Sexual Assault and Misconduct Task Force and policy reform, alcohol and drugs and their impact on consent is now much more concrete in our policy. According to UT’s Sexual Misconduct and Relationship Violence website (sexualassault.utk.edu), “One’s own use of alcohol, drugs, or other substances does not diminish one’s responsibility to obtain consent from the other person. Moreover, another person’s use of alcohol, drugs, or other substances does not diminish one’s responsibility to obtain consent from that person.”

“Right now we need to change the conversation and make it ‘only yes means yes.’”

- Nickie Hackenbrack The interim sexual assault policy, UTPD’s sexual assault alerts and the Hilltopics Student Handbook are some of many places UT’s consent policy is detailed. Included in this policy is a section stating consent cannot be given when impaired by alcohol or other chemicals.

“We want to continue to educate students about how to both gain and give consent, while at the same time encouraging them to take care of each other, not take advantage, when alcohol is involved,” Hicks said.

Despite these newly detailed sections, survivors are still often accused of being merely embarrassed and regretting that they had sex.

Hicks warned that this form of victim-blaming can ultimately disempower survivors, potentially preventing them from seeking help or reporting to the police.

“We should not tolerate these statements and instead be mindful that the majority of cases involve alcohol — it is the No. 1 drug used to facilitate sexual assault,” Hicks said.

“Additionally, according to the FBI, the incidence of falsely reported rape is around two percent — the same as any other crime.”

The interim policy can be found online at http://sexualassault.utk.edu.

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Could sorority parties help discourage sexual assault?

Claire Dodson

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Fraternities at the center of national debate

Abby never attends fraternity parties alone.

The UT sorority member makes sure to always go out with a group of women — at least three or four. They arrive together; they leave together. While there, she never takes a sip she didn’t pour. She doesn’t drink hunch punch.

It’s a safety thing, she said.

“There’s good guys in fraternities, but you just don’t know,” Abby said. “You have to be very careful. We live in a culture where it’s not perceived as wrong to persuade somebody to hook up with you when they’re drunk and don’t have the ability to consent enthusiastically.”

Abby joined a sorority to make a big university feel a little smaller. The group of more than 150 women in her chapter has become her support system, her family.

But still, she has to be on her guard whenever she leaves the safety of Sorority Village.

“It makes me sad and angry,” she said. “I shouldn’t have to watch my back. I shouldn’t have to do that for my friends. Guys should know that you don’t do that.”

Greek organizations have recently been in the middle of the nationwide discussion on what to do about campus sexual assault. In the March 2014 issue of “The Atlantic,” Caitlin Flanagan writes about “The Dark Power of Fraternities,” and their “endemic, lurid and sometimes tragic problems — and a sophisticated system for shifting the blame.”

A statistic from Mother Jones said that before college, sexual assault perpetration rates for frat members and non-frat members are the same. In their first year of college, two and a half percent of non-fraternity members commit sexual assault.

For fraternity members, this number rises to eight percent.

The New York Times argued in a January op-ed that a possible solution could be a change in party host.

“It’s frat members who get to mix the drinks, establish the ‘ambience’ (sticky floors, dim lights, music loud enough to mask arguments or even cries of protest) and determine the guest list,” the NYT op-ed, titled “Sororities should throw parties,” says. “If a frat member

wants to bring a girl back to his bed, all he has to do is get her upstairs — not across campus in full view of other students.”

At UT, fraternities host parties both at campus houses and at off-campus locations in the Fort Sanders neighborhood. But what if sororities hosted the parties, on and off campus?

Elizabeth Stanfield, senior and member of a UT sorority, said the idea has some merit.

“It gives agency to women to control their party environment,” Stanfield said. “It gives them the ability to kick people out who exhibit problematic behavior — that guy who’s being too physical or too pushy. It allows them to bar people from parties who have a history of aggressive behavior.”

But are parties thrown by sororities actually feasible?

When Abby joined her chapter, she signed a statement of obligations that said she would not consume alcohol until the age of 21.

“If that were happening in the actual house, Nationals would go crazy,” she said.

UT is a dry campus, though how strictly that rule is imposed within the Greek system varies.

“There’s been a constant ebb and flow in my time here of how strictly (the rule) is enforced,” one senior fraternity member said. “Right now, it’s very strict.”

This has forced more parties into Fort Sanders, where UT is less able to hold groups accountable. Compared to the mostly well-lit campus with its high-traffic areas, the Fort appears a dim jungle of aging homes and potentially threatening situations.

“Anything is safer than Fort Sanders,” the fraternity member said.

The alcohol ban also poses other problems.

Stanfield argued that it creates an environment of secrecy that makes things “more dangerous.”

If there’s supposedly no alcohol, no reforms can

be made, like those at the University of Virginia where fraternities have agreed to serve beer in cans rather than kegs, among other limits.

But Abby argues the Fort could be a good alternative for sororities, and they’ve already been happening at UT — though they often look different than fraternity-hosted ragers. “(The parties) are usually just more exclusive to the members in that chapter and their friends or boyfriends,” Abby said. “It’s not a whole big thing. They control it and keep it smaller.”

Director of Sorority and Fraternity Life Lindi Smedberg said sorority rules about alcohol are in place “to create a safe and responsible social environment.” And sororities often host events with alcohol at off-campus venues with licensed bartenders.

“Sororities are welcome to host events at their sorority houses,” Smedberg said, “but events where alcohol is present must take place off-campus.”

Sorority parties not an absolute solution But even if sororities hosted a larger proportion of parties, this would not necessarily mean the end of sexual assault.

There are a lot of underlying problems and reasons for why people assault other people.

Stanfield said she hopes fraternities will take their selection process more seriously.

“The guys who are committing sexual assaults shouldn’t be able to get into fraternities,” she said. “If these organizations are upholding their values, they should be absolutely dedicated to creating safe, consensual, respectful environments.

“Sexual assaults will still happen until our campus has a culture of consent and respect, until at any party you go to you can feel safe and secure.”

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LGBTQ+ community faces disapproval, additional barriers Tanner Hancock Copy Editor

For the LGBTQ+ community, sexual assault comes with another set of challenges.

As recognized by Joel Kramer, co-chair for Chancellor’s Commission for LGBT people and faculty staff advisor for VOLout, homophobia and other forms of oppression often cause victims to remain silent.

Kramer said that societal disapproval of LGBTQ+ people adds an additional barrier to sexual assault reporting. In the case of some victims, going to the authorities may mean outing themselves.

“There’s the additional factor that your whole lifestyle and your choices and the way that you live and who you are may be called into question,” Kramer said.

According to data from the National Center for Lesbian Rights, 64 percent of transgender people experience some form of sexual assault during their lifetime, and around 1 in 8 lesbian women suffers the same. According to the Williams Institute, 40 percent of homeless youths served by agencies identify as LGBT, raising the risk of sexual assault in that community tremendously.

As a “more vulnerable population,” the LGBTQ+ community is prone to encounter barriers when dealing with sexual assault, Kramer said.

For Kayla Frye, a junior in global studies co-chair of Sexual Health Advisory Group, progress must come from society’s acknowledgement of all forms of rape, not just the traditional understanding of it. The idea that lesbian sex “doesn’t count,” that men cannot rape other men or even that “corrective rape” among the LGBTQ+ community is credible are some of the ideas Frye sees as damaging the progress and safety of LGBTQ+ people.

“If we’re making sexual assault about only one kind of sexual act, it can be really excluding to people who can have sex in a way that doesn’t meet that criteria,” Frye said, noting the importance of “making sure those experiences are validated.”

Frye said that while UT’s removal of gender pronouns from the sexual assault policy has helped validate all forms of sexual assault on campus, there is still room for improvement. For example, Frye pointed to UT’s lack of any gender-neutral housing as a potential concern, as individuals not conforming to a specific gender are often forced to live in environments they are not

comfortable in.

“They’re being misgendered simply by the housing that they’re in,” Frye said.

Even the simple act of choosing restrooms can become a question of safety when you don’t conform to a particular gender. Although the SGA Student Senate passed a bill during the 2014 fall semester ensuring all campus buildings would have gender neutral bathrooms by 2019, the current lack of such facilities in all buildings creates worry and the risk of sexual assault for certain LGBT students.

“For them, when they look at a bathroom, it’s kind of more a question of ‘I might get yelled at in one, I might get beat up in another,’” Kramer said.

Jessica Labenberg, advocacy coordinator for the Sexual Assault Center in Nashville, helps sexual assault victims on their path to recovery. While Labenberg deals with varieties of sexual assault survivors of all identities, she said she understands that for the LGBTQ+ community, lack of support often complicates the process of reporting rape and ensuring justice is served.

“If (LGBTQ+ people) feel they aren’t supported by their community prior to being sexually assaulted, it creates a barrier for that person to come forward and disclose,” Labenberg said.

In Tennessee, the OUTreach Center is one of only two LGBTQ+ based community centers offered at a university and the only one to be offered at a public university. Frye emphasized the importance of expanding similar LGBT “safe spaces” across campus in order to prevent students from choosing between safety or a welcoming environment.

“If there is some sort of violence within that (community),” Frye said, “they don’t feel like they have to choose between speaking up and losing the only safe space that they have.”

In Tennessee, the legality of gay marriage is not recognized, while the state itself does not prohibit discrimination based upon gender identity or sexual orientation.

While Kramer acknowledges UT’s progress towards equality, he sees the advancement and safety of the school’s LGBT community as ultimately tied to politicians in Nashville.

“On a basic level, UT as a university is still hindered by the Tennessee legislature, so there’s only so far they can go,” Kramer said.

For more information about the OUTreach: LGBT and Ally Resource Center, visit their website at: http://lgbt.utk.edu/

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Knoxville in the pop culture spotlight Whether it is their birthplace, pit stop or final destination, Knoxville has inspired artists of all kinds through decades of work.

From author Cormac McCarthy to director

Quentin Tarantino, these artists have made nods to Knoxville and the things here that inspired them most.

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Borderland Tees provides jobs for local homeless Brittany Rogers Contributor

The idea for Borderland Tees was more than to start a custom T-shirt shop. It was to foster friendship and relationships through a boutique ministry.

Borderland Tees is a local custom T-shirt shop on Sevier Avenue founded by Bob Riehl and Reverend Jenny Arthur in 2008. The business makes custom T-shirts in bulk at cheap prices for churches, businesses, community groups and many clubs and organizations at UT by hiring individuals who are down on their luck, homeless or looking to turn a new leaf.

For Riehl and Arthur, this is more than a job — it is a ministry.

“We offer the opportunity to change,” Arthur explained. “It’s spiritual.”

Borderland Tees currently staffs all males and helps create networks for them to help themselves; however, both Riehl and Arthur spoke about creating a space for women too.

Riehl explained that Borderland Tees has previously employed women, but they never stay for long. The pair said women, especially those with children, have more motivation to get back out there and seek full-time work.

The ministry part of this business is to provide an opportunity for networking and change in these men’s lives and put a spin on their perspectives to go out in the world and help themselves. Yet, for those needing a little more help, Riehl and Arthur assist those who need disability insurance or income apply and receive those benefits.

The owners described Borderland Tees as “capitalism for the common good” where the relationships built are intentional.

“We don’t treat everyone the same because everyone is not the same. Everyone is different and the needs that need to be met are different,” Riehl said. “We try not to plan as much because then we can’t react as much.”

The idea for this ministry came from a young homeless man living in the church that Arthur wanted to find a way to help. Riehl had already been working in custom made T-shirts for many years, and Arthur helped him get hired at Riehl’s job.

One small idea to help a single person has now grown into an entire ministry full of people, each with similar but unique stories.

Many of the “tacky T-shirts” as Riehl puts it, seen in places like Gatlinburg are orders Borderland Tees have filled. Currently they are working on larger orders to send to Florida for vacation and spring break season. They also sell large orders to multiple Southeast gift shops.

“We offer the opportunity to change ... It’s spiritual.”

- Reverend Jenny Arthur All the T-shirts that are printed on are also American made.

Arthur and Riehl are both on board to continue to grow this mission. They are currently playing with the idea of creating a website to sell T-shirts for various local organizations that will make specific T-shirts available to individuals. A higher price would be charged for individual sale, and Arthur said the extra proceeds for shirts purchased online would be given to the outside organizations the T-shirts sell for.

Borderland Tees are $6 a shirt with a minimum purchase of 36 shirts. Smaller orders would put an individual charge of $10, and all you need is an idea and design and they will do the rest.

Borderland Tees offers jobs to those who, like Greg Akins, might not find employment elsewhere for various reasons.

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Over the moon for Cruze Farms

For the Cruzes, the lesser quantity isn’t a compromise because the milk is creamier.

“A lot of people like our milk, and they don’t know why,” Colleen Cruze Bhatti said. “It’s because there’s more fat in it, which is okay The Cruze Farm cows get around — at least, because all the studies have come out saying their milk does. good fat is good for you.”

It’s in grocery stores from downtown to The milk fat content of Holsteins is 3.7 perSeymour to Oliver Springs. Coffee shops and cent while the Jersey cows’ milk is 4.9 percent, restaurants regularly use and serve it. Some of according to a study done by North Dakota the dairy even makes its way to Chattanooga and University. The Cruzes take some of their highNashville. People from around the world want it fat milk, add a culture, pasteurize and bottle in their kitchens. buttermilk.

“That was almost too much exposure,” said Buttermilk is a staple in Southern foods Colleen Cruze Bhatti, who insists her only title like fried chicken and biscuits. Chef Jeffrey is “farm girl,” of the two stories The New York DeAlejandro, of Times produced about OliBea and The their buttermilk. “We Crown & Goose, has were like ‘Come to used Cruze Farm Knoxville, Tennessee.’ dairy since each resThat’s the beauty of taurant opened. While a small business: it’s developing a biscuit local and you have to recipe for OliBea, he come here to get it.” noticed “such a huge For the last 30 difference in flavor years, Earl Cruze and and texture” when his family have been using the Cruze Farm bottling and selling buttermilk. Despite milk. He’s a fourth the price difference generation dairy between it and a farmer, which makes commercial product, his youngest daughter, DeAlejandro insists Colleen Cruze Bhatti there’s no other -Colleen Cruze Bhatti — who returned to option. the farm after graduat“Even with the ing from UT — the added expense, we fifth. know that the money “There’s something really nice about planting is going to a really awesome family with a your roots and saying, ‘this is home,’” Colleen commitment to the stewardship of the land,” Cruze Bhatti said.

DeAlejandro said.

When Earl Cruze was 20 years old, he bought Another Cruze commitment: their ice cream. a little patch of farmland, and now, their 160 They make the classics like vanilla, chocolate Jersey cows roam 550 acres of governmentand cookies ‘n’ crème, but they’re not afraid to protected land. There’s a conservation easement experiment. Their newest flavor “Tennessee on the farm, so it will never be developed. Which Snappin’ Turtle” is a vanilla base with pecans, is a relief to Knoxvillians. chocolate, caramel and a splash of Jack Daniels “I think Cruze Farm is kind of an insti“to make it snappin’,” Colleen Cruze Bhatti said. tution here in Knoxville,” Andy Vinson, UT One summer, a Japanese intern worked on the alum and longtime Knoxvillian, said. “The city farm, and she made vegetable flavors like carrot really prides itself on being able to bring slices and kale. of Southern culture to the masses. Farming has “It was good,” Colleen said of the kale flavor. been a staple of Southern culture since America “But it wasn’t something you were craving. was founded, and I think traditions of being able Normally, you crave chocolate.” to drink local milk has both a nostalgic as well as UT graduate, Mary Ellen Knight, craves the health draw.” cardamom flavors as well as chocolate. While Every morning, Colleen Cruze Bhatti leaves Knight thinks of highly of the dairy, she considher old, white farmhouse and travels five miners the greatest asset of Cruze Farms “how utes to the family dairy where she milks half the personal they are.” cows. The other half are still heifers, cows that “Colleen is a loyal friend and truly a stakehave not given birth and therefore aren’t producholder in the Knoxville community,” Knight ing milk yet. said. “Not only will she remember your favorite Jersey cows are smaller than Holsteins, the flavor, but she’ll ask about your family, your life cows used for commercial milk production, and actually care about it.” producing on average two to three gallons a day.

Hannah Cather

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Colleen Cruze Bhatti, right, sits with her 8-month-old daughter, Amery, and her Jersey cows on their 550 acre farm. Hannah Cather • The Daily Beacon

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Geocaching: the ultimate scavenger hunt Hannah Moulton Copy Editor

When I decided to write this “I tried it,” I had no idea what geocaching was.

So, naturally, I went to Google.

What I found was a whole community of people around the world that hunt and hide tiny containers, known as “caches.” Using a GPS app and starting an account with geocaching.com, you can locate and track caches in your area.

Caches aren’t in close proximity to each other, so you have to drive to most of them and follow the dot on your GPS. The only downside to the GPS is that it doesn’t talk, so you actually have to pay attention to what direction you’re going in and what road you’re on.

Once you get within 30 feet of the cache, the app alerts you. It is then up to you to locate the cache without the help of the GPS. “So it’s like hunting for treasure,” I thought.

My first find was fun and slightly terrifying. I parked under the James White Parkway Bridge and scaled the rocky edge of the river.

After a few strange looks from a man fishing, I returned to the gravel parking lot.

I then discovered the app gives you a description of where the cache might be. It’s like solving a really cryptic riddle.

I was so excited when I found my first one; and no, I won’t tell you where it is. That’s the fun of geocaching.

However, I was slightly disappointed my first cache didn’t contain any gold or rubies.

Instead, it had a tiny scroll of paper where you could sign your name.

I came to learn this was the case with most caches. I didn’t find dice or paper clips like others had reportedly found at other locations, just tiny pieces of paper.

What I eventually came to realize, though, was it’s not what is in the cache that makes geocaching fun. It’s act of finding the cache itself.

Of the four geocaches I located, I could only actually find three.

The Old City cache was to remain elusive.

After parking in a tow-away zone, climbing through a ditch and almost jumping a fence (luckily, I found a way around it), I gave up when a tour group walked past me as I was circling a streetlight.

In spite of getting odd looks and risking getting my vehicle being towed, geocaching was fun. It afforded me a sense of adventure I hadn’t had in a while. It was like being a kid going on a scavenger hunt — only, this scavenger hunt is slightly dangerous if you go alone or at night.

I recommend everyone try geocaching at least once.

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Gourmet pancake place offers unique dining experience Hannah Cather

Photo Editor A thin layer of syrup covers Melody Ratliff’s kitchen floor.

She’s a petite woman with bouncy curls; her 1899 Victorian home has a bright green front door. There are forks scattered in the front yard and coffee cups forgotten on the shelves in the study.

Ratliff makes herself a simple, two-topping pancake, grabs the last of the coffee and joins the remaining crowd on the sunlit front porch.

It’s 2 p.m. and the end of another successful Flip’s Batter Bar breakfast.

In January 2012, Ratliff and her husband, Spencer, were looking for pancake toppings for their guests’ breakfast one day. They found chocolate and butterscotch chips and searched for other mixings. Their pantry raid sparked the question, “Why hasn’t anyone done a make-your-own pancake place yet?”

She remembers telling her friends that night about the idea she had. They encouraged her to pursue it. “‘No, this is actually a good idea,’” Melody Ratliff recalled them saying. “‘You should do something with it.’”

So, she did.

At least once almost every month since March 2014, she has whipped up 11 batches of pancake batter: seven buttermilk, two buckwheat, one whole wheat and one dairy free/ gluten free.

The batter is turned into about 180 specialty pancakes. Some is made into the “Stella” — lemon poppyseed swirl, blackberries and rosemary syrup. Other batter might become Spencer Ratliff’s favorite: the “Mancake,” which has bacon, Heath bar pieces, smoked paprika and whiskey syrup.

“That’s usually my go-to if I’m not in the mood for a plain buttermilk pancake,” Spencer Ratliff said. “It’s a pretty great scenario for me because I absolutely love pancakes. I could eat them all the time.”

It takes multiple trips to different grocery stores and several days of preparation to get everything — like the bottles of homemade syrup — ready.

Melody Ratliff heads to Three Rivers Market for Cruze buttermilk and JEM Farm sausage and then to Costco, where she saves money buying in bulk. She prioritizes spending money on high-quality ingredients over others that aren’t produced locally, like flour

and baking soda.

“I don’t want to become another restaurant that’s too expensive for people to come have breakfast every day of the week,” she said. “I want you to be able to come get a $5 breakfast and still be happy about your food. I don’t want to create this hierarchy of only wealthy people can eat here, I want it to be a healthy mix.”

Currently she doesn’t serve breakfast every day, but it’s in the works. Everything is lined up for Melody Ratliff to open a restaurant.

She has the idea and Joe Petre, president of

“I am interested in investing in good stories behind good products. Once I tasted the product, I realized the product was even better than the story.”

-Joe Petre

Conversion Properties Inc., has signed on as the investor.

“I am interested in investing in good stories behind good products,” Petre said. “Once I tasted the product, I realized the product was even better than the story.”

All they need now is a location.

Melody is eager to move Flips out of her home, but the pair is waiting for the perfect spot — a house that serves as a commercial property.

“There is something about the actual house where it makes it not awkward to sit at the same table with people you don’t know,” she said.

Newcomers and old friends share spaces and conversation over thick, fluffy pancakes.

“Every time I do it, maybe 10 percent of the people are strangers,” Melody Ratliff said. “It’s always fun asking them how they found out.

That’s the most exciting part for me: when it passes my friends’ friends, because then it shows it’s actually a business and not just a supported-by-your-friends thing.”

The Stella, one of many specialty pancakes offered at Flip’s Batter Bar, comes with blackberries, lemon poppy seed swirl and rosemary syrup.

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ADHD medication use puts students at risk for abuse Sterling Martin Staff Writer

Claire Dodson

Editor-in-Chief Is it hard for you to concentrate in school? Is your room often messy? How about your car?

Would you call yourself a thrill-seeker?

These are some of the questions you are likely to be asked if you visit a medical provider in search of an ADHD medication like Adderall or Vyvanse.

But for Steven*, who received a prescription about a year ago, it was easy to “somewhat lie” about his actions and state of mind and get ahold of the pills many college students use as study aids.

“When you look at the risk-benefit, the risk is too high for someone to take it who does not have ADHD. You are exposing yourself to side effects.”

-Reggie Raman

“I’m prescribed both 50mg Vyvanse and 5mg Amphetamine Salts (generic Adderall). I’m supposed to take each once a day, for 30 days.

The Addies are instant release so they kick in

quick, and make you feel, almost like … I don’t know. It feels like being very aware of what’s going on around you. Since they were a bonus anyway, I started selling them for extra money.”

Adderall and its generic alternatives are subtly different from other stimulants like Vyvanse. Reggie Raman, a child psychiatrist in Knoxville, said Adderall has more side effects and that Vyvanse is in many ways a better drug, especially for those who actually have ADHD. “Adderall has a short half-life, so you can take it and abuse it,” Raman said. “Vyvanse has an extended, long-release, so you can’t take it and get the same buzz as Adderall. Adderall has a high abuse potential. Also, Vyvanse has less side effects.”

Full-time college students age 18-22 are twice as likely to have used Adderall non-medically as their 18-22 year old counterparts who are not full time college students, according to a National Survey on Drug Use and Health report released in 2009.

Steven said he does not consider himself a drug dealer, despite profiting from selling the drug.

Aside from the risk of dependency, risk of abuse and various negative side effects, the perceived amount of danger from using these drugs is virtually non-existent in users, though Raman said students need to be aware of the risks.

“If a student has ADHD, it makes sense for them to take (these drugs) because it helps them do well,” Raman said. “If you don’t have it, it can still help you, but it can also lead to abuse. When you look at the risk-benefit, the risk is too high for someone to take it who does not have ADHD. You are exposing yourself to side effects.”

Elizabeth* an occasional non-prescription user, said she believes the widespread availability of ADHD medications like Adderall, Vyvanse, Stratterra and so on, actually begins in high school, where the pressures of standardized testing and college admittance are on the forefront of a student’s mind.

“I had heard of a couple friends taking it in high school to do better on the ACT, so I was naturally curious,” said Elizabeth. “Especially since those grades determined where I even got into school, and how much scholarship money I received … I wanted to do everything possible in order to get a higher score.”

Elizabeth received a 28 on the ACT, up from previous scores, which she attributed to the aid of Adderall.

“Now, I just occasionally use it to study with and test with,” she said. “I honestly don’t know where I’d be without it.” *names have been changed

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The world through the eyes of a straight-edge student Marina Waters Copy Editor

I tell people all the time what I am: I’m a follower of Jesus, a UT journalism student and a country music enthusiast (or at least that’s what my Twitter bio tells me). But I never really get the chance to explain what I’m not.

I’m not a drinker. I’m not a smoker. I’m not a drug user. And I’m certainly not a partier. Don’t get me wrong, I’m always up for a good time, but I’ve come to learn my idea of a good time is vastly different from many of my fellow classmates (who knew that watching “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” and building forts in your apartment living room isn’t everyone’s idea of a wild Friday night? Not me.)

It’s rare that I’m asked why I don’t partake in these typical, alcohol-fueled collegiate pastimes, but I’ll try my best to explain. And though I often feel alone in this choice, I think it’s time someone like me (a.k.a. a “straight edge”) explained just why this kind of decision is made.

As the intro reads, I am a follower of Jesus.

I carefully crafted this statement to reveal my true intentions; I am on a journey to becoming less like Marina Jade Waters and more like Jesus Christ, the best example of a person the

world’s ever seen. I believe in striving to honor and glorify God with everything you do and are, and that includes what you do on Friday nights.

It’s hard, but it’s worth it. After all, God gave his only Son for the very worst in us. Many would

die for the best of someone, but Jesus died for the worst part of me. So for me to be this better person, alcohol simply isn’t involved.

Now, this isn’t to say I’m even close to perfect.

I leave voicemails in a Chandler Bing-like fashion (a.k.a. horribly), and I have a tendency for accidentally poking people on Facebook (it’s okay to be embarrassed for me). And cue the Nick Jonas y’all, because I also get jealous. I think of myself too often, and there’s a lot I need to work on. I’m not perfect. But you lose your way, and you try to get back on track on such an adventure — that’s what it truly looks like to be a Christian. You can only try to get better.

I’ve also seen the scars these substances can leave behind.

There are a number of alcoholics strewn

I’m not a drinker.

I’m not a smoker.

I’m not a drug user.

And i’m certainly not a partier.

throughout my family tree, and because of that I decided a very long time ago I would have very little to do with alcohol. I have seen far too many lives lose their luster and meaning due to alcoholism. I’ve seen the strains alcohol can put on a family, relationships and friendships. I never took alcohol as a joke, a good time or even a small detail. I didn’t see how it could be. To me, it was big and it still is. I learned this lesson too many times, and quite frankly, it hasn’t worn off and it’s unlikely it will.

That being said, I’m just fine with those who choose to drink; don’t get me wrong. But I’ve learned alcohol is something I’d simply rather pass on. I love playing my guitar. I have a thing for antique stores. I love my Jeep, and I prefer my Coke without whiskey. It all goes.

But still, I know there is nothing more unusual than a straight-edge college student. I often overhear the outrageous stories of the partyloving passersby and their wild weekends and think to myself, “I am so very separate from college culture.”

But that’s okay. You have your vices, and I have mine. And that’s a statement I think we could all drink to.

Marina Waters is a senior in journalism and electronic media. She can be reached at mwaters8@vols.utk.edu.

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