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Smartphone app sparks romance Victoria Wright Editor-in-Chief The setting of a crowd of people clustered in a single, social setting and searching for a mate is not a new concept—it’s the scene of many twentysomethings’ Friday nights.

But a free dating application called Tinder, which brings that common dating ritual to a phone interface, has steadily gained popularity.

The method is as simple as the app’s aim. Using Facebook to pull user profile pictures, a person’s image appears on a user’s phone. If you like what you see, you swipe right. If you don’t, then you swipe to the left. The pattern continues until one fateful moment when two people like the one another’s pictures and they have an opportunity to share an online conversation.

Android and iPhone users who use the app receive pictures of people in their area, and swipe decisions remain anonymous. The app is comparable to the early days of hotornot.com, which compiled pictures of people and allowed users to judge their attractiveness based simply on their image.

Since its inception last September, Tinder has logged 2.4 billion profile ratings and 21 million matches.

Essentially the app tackles what many humans are afraid of: the shallow reality of denying the advances of someone based upon their physical appearance.

“I think it’s cool how if the other person likes you too it tells you you but if they don’t it’s not going to tell you they rejected you,” said Madison Ricks, senior in audio and speech pathology.

Ricks has only had the app for a couple of days and said she’s still getting acclimated to the process. While she hasn’t received any strange messages via her matches yet, her friend, who suggested she try the app, received some pretty forward responses.

“My friends have gotten people planning out dates and (the other person) hasn’t even talked to them (my friends) before,” Ricks said.

“It’s entertaining because people say some weird things.

“That’s the only real thing you have to go off of—just off looks,” she said. “Personally I don’t think anybody on it has taken it seriously. I just think it’s more of a game than actually dating. If you really wanted to do that, I think you would just make a profile and do online dating.

Amberly Kelley, graduate student in recreation therapy, said she is not surprised by the popularity of the program because of the large amount of social media dating applications on the market.

She said frequent use of such technological avenues is having an impact in how we socialize.

“I think it’s probably good for people who are a little shy and maybe they’ll be more willing to talk to somebody and put themsleves out there in a way that they couldn’t before,” Kelley said. “A lot of our generation is becoming way to dependent on social media See TINDER on Page 2

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Jones revels in first SEC Media Day Coach continues consistent ‘brick-bybrick’ message as offseason winds down Steven Cook Sports Editor Fourteen head coaches, 42 student-athletes and 1,239 media members can make it awfully tough to concentrate on one subject.

But on Wednesday at the 2013 SEC Media Days event, Tennessee head coach Butch Jones had one simple message.

“We have to focus on the process,” Jones said. “We can’t worry about the end result right now. We have to be a better football program minute by minute, hour by hour, day to day, month by month.”

Jones was one of four coaches who experienced the three-day event for the first time.

In his opening statement, he weighed in on the circus-style theme of the unofficial kickoff to SEC football.

“The most asked question so far is ‘how has your first SEC Media Days been?’” Jones said. “I’ll say what I’ve always said. When the SEC does something, it’s truly something special. It’s a spectacle, and that’s what makes it the best conference in the country.”

Jones called the off-season’s coaching transition “extremely seamless,” and said the stability from his coaching staff played a big role when comparing his new job to his last two stops, Cincinnati and Central Michigan.

“Well, the circumstances are different,” Jones said. “The situations are different,

but the process and how you develop your football team doesn’t change.

“I think that’s a great thing, not only for myself, but our entire staff. This is our third time taking over a football program.”

Jones’ assurance that his staff has been here before is unquestionably relieving, considering UT’s fan base has endured four losing seasons in their last five. The Vols will face road tests in consecutive weeks as they travel to Oregon and Florida on Sept. 14.

Week-by-week improvement will be essential if the Volunteers are entertaining the idea reaching a bowl game after missing out on postseason play the past two seasons.

“The big thing again for us is constant and never-ending improvement,” Jones said. “We have to be a better football team week one, two, three. Those steps may be small, but we have to continue to progress.”

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Baker Center hosts lecture on GEA Hayley Brundige Contributor

The wooly adelgid, pictured above, burrows into the branches of the Eastern Hemlocks in the Smoky Mountains.

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Invasive species threatens trees McCord Pagan Staff Writer

likely brought in by hikers on their firewood, resulting in the current firewood ban in the forest.

Currently, it can take up to a decade for a tree to die from the adelgid. More than 95 percent of hemlocks have already been infected, and there is little one can do to save the tree after that happens. While there are methods such as removing branches, or spraying and injecting the tree with chemicals, the sheer scope of this project remains daunting.

For comparison on how destructive this species can be, the Shenandoah National Park discovered to have the aphid-like creature in the 1980s, and three decades later, four out of five hemlocks in that forest have already died.

The Eastern Hemlock, native to Eastern North America and the state tree of Pennsylvania, provides vital services to the forest that any other species would have a hard time

For some, a hike in the Great Smoky Mountains may have been as early as last week; others may have never gone at all. But nearly everyone, no matter how often they frequent the mountains, can appreciate the natural beauty that is a part of the region.

However, in the next few years, the mountains that are known so well may no longer look so glorious.

In 1925, a small bug called the woolly adelgid made its way from Asia to the U.S. and now threatens one of the most important tree species in the Smokies, the Eastern Hemlock.

According to Emily DeLanzo, a 2013 UT graduate in environmental studies who works for National Park Service in Eastern Sierras, California, the adelgid was See TREES on Page 2

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Dr. David McCollum, a UT alumnus, gave a lecture Wednesday in the Baker Center on the Global Energy Assessment, a project aimed at providing universal energy and planning for a sustainable future.

The GEA project was initiated in 2006 and took six years, €6 million euros and more than 500 people to complete.

According to David Greene, who works jointly as a senior fellow at UT and a corporate fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the GEA is “the most comprehensive study to date” regarding worldwide energy use.

The project was managed by the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), a think tank based in Laxenburg, Austria where McCollum is currently a research scholar. The 25-chapter assessment is sectioned off into four clusters. The first section outlines the energy challenges that society currently faces. McCollum said that the four major challenges are a lack of access to energy, climate change, air pollution and energy security.

The second cluster involves the knowledge and technology now at our disposal, including renewable sources like wind and solar energy, nuclear energy and fledgling technologies such as carbon capture and storage.

Next, the assessment provides potential scenarios of transformational change.

At IIASA, McCollum carries out scenario analyses that calculate the global consequences of various factors such as consumer behavior, the swiftness of political action and the geophysical elements of Earth and its climate.

The final cluster offers policy guidelines that would help incentivize energy change in countries around the world. The United Nations has already set the standard for other policymakers with its “Sustainable Energy for All,” a campaign that draws largely from the information collected in the GEA. Throughout McCollum’s lecture, he stressed that “there is no time to waste if society is serious about mitigating climate change.” IIASA claims that we need to phase out the use of oil completely, be reliant on renewable sources for 50 percent of our energy by 2050 and eventually reduce carbon dioxide emissions to zero.

These goals may seem out of reach for the average citizen, but McCollum said they are “relevant to anyone who votes.”

In 10 to 20 years, the younger generation of students will be in mid-level management positions, own companies and be policymakers. His advice to UT students is to stay informed of the issues.

“Try to add to the global conversation in some small way,” he said to the small audience gathered in the Toyota Auditorium.

Greene remembers reading about climate change as a student at Columbia University in 1968. At that point, he See LECTURE on Page 2

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continued from Page 1 and attached to our phones.”

Ricks said the use of social media sites for dating has created a superficial outlook on relationships and inevitably hinders people from connecting to others.

“We instantly go look at Facebook and form our own judgement (on people),” Ricks said. “People already have things figured out before they even meet someone face to face. I don’t think that’s fair.”

LECTURE continued from Page 1 recalled there was no real understanding of what the consequences would be.

Today, the “Millennial Generation” of people born from 1980 to 2000 are more informed about energy use and climate change.

According to a study conducted by Frank N. Magid Associates, 79 percent of millennials agree that it is “my responsibility to improve the environment.”

Victoria DiStefano, a UT graduate student studying energy science and engineering with the UT Bredesen Center, attended the lecture. She named several simple actions to improve the future of energy, such as taking public transportation whenever possible, reducing meat consumption with “meatless days” and being careful of excessive water usage.

It may be true that the Millennial Generation has the privilege of being the most informed about energy use, but Greene’s lecture suggested that only through decisive action can it be the generation that does that privilege justice.

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THIS DAY IN 1799: Rosetta Stone discovered

HISTORY

On this day in 1799, during Napoleon Bonaparte’s Egyptian campaign, a French soldier discovers a black basalt slab inscribed with ancient writing near the town of Rosetta, about 35 miles north of Alexandria. The irregularly shaped stone contained fragments of passages written in three different scripts: Greek, Egyptian hieroglyphics and Egyptian demotic. The ancient Greek on the Rosetta Stone told archaeologists that it was inscribed by priests honoring the king of Egypt, Ptolemy V, in the second century B.C. More startlingly, the Greek passage announced that the three scripts were all of identical meaning.

The artifact thus held the key to solving the riddle of hieroglyphics, a written language that had been “dead” for nearly 2,000 years.

1879: Doc Holliday kills for the first time Doc Holliday commits his first murder, killing a man for shooting up his New Mexico saloon.

Despite his formidable reputation as a deadly gunslinger, Doc

Holliday only engaged in eight shootouts during his life, and it has only been verified that he killed two men. Still, the smartly dressed ex-dentist from Atlanta had a remarkably fearless attitude toward death and danger, perhaps because he was slowly dying from tuberculosis.

1991: Mike Tyson rapes a Miss Black America contestant Notorious boxer Mike Tyson rapes Desiree Washington, a contestant in the Miss Black America pageant, in an Indianapolis, Indiana, hotel room. At a time when the issue of date rape was entering the country’s consciousness, Tyson’s attack became a national sensation.

Tyson, who had lost his heavyweight title in February 1990 to James “Buster” Douglas, was preparing for a chance to win it back later in the year. However, Tyson’s behavior had become increasingly erratic. His marriage to Robin Givens had fallen apart amid accusations of domestic violence. Furthermore, there were multiple reports that Tyson was known for unwanted, crude, and sometimes violent advances toward women wherever he went.

After attending a Johnny Gill concert that night, Tyson found himself without a date. He called Washington and convinced her to join him so that they could talk and get to know one another. At his hotel, Washington agreed to accompany Tyson to his room so that he could pick up something he claimed to have left in his room. Surprising her as she came out of the bathroom, Tyson pinned Washington to the bed, telling her to relax as he forced himself upon her.

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time trying to replicate. It mainly helps to keep streams cool, assisting trout and other temperature-sensitive species in maintaining a stable home.

According to Matthew Reed, a graduate research assistant in the Department of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries, a decrease in the number of hemlock in the forest would have a direct impact on the ecosystem.

“There are a lot of things that they do for forested environments that are invaluable that we really don’t even know the extent of at this point,” Reed said.

In addition to their importance on habitat and soil stabilization, the hemlock also prevents the native rhododendron from spreading out of control, giving other wildflowers a chance to grow. However, the loss of these trees to the woolly adelgid could change all that.

“It’s all connected, that’s what everyone has to remember,” Reed said. “One little thing like that can lead to a myriad of terrible things that are impossible to see all of. The woolly adelgid is intolerant to cold weather, so as minimum temperatures rise… they’re fine.”

The hemlock species is unique to the region, as it was mainly left alone by early settlers as wood was not useful for lumber. As a result, the Smokies contain some trees up to 500 years old. The hemlock provides excellent tree cover, and its low branches also provide a way for smaller animals to climb to the top of the canopy.

Michael McKinney, professor of geology and researcher of conservation biology, said the woolly adelgid kills the hemlock by burrowing into the phloem layer of the tree, the area that transports the nutrients, weakening the tree.

“It stresses the tree out,” McKinney said. “It reduces the immune system, and makes it a lot more liable to other diseases, drought, things like that.”

The aphid-like creature feeds on the sap, essentially starving the tree. The aphid covers itself in a white, filmy structure, giving it the appearance of cotton balls and can be easily seen on the needles of infected hemlocks.

The solution to the problem, sadly, is rather mixed. McKinney said the best chance for survival is creating a hybrid version of the tree with its Asian relative. The adelgid co-evolved with the Asian hemlock, giving the latter more of an evolutionary defense against the bug.

“You can’t really contain it at this point,” DeLanzo said. “They have certain treatments like a topical spray that kills the insect on impact and a fluid injected into the tree to make it resistant.

“These are unfortunately temporary solutions to a permanent problem.”

Other methods such as cutting off infected limbs and introducing a predator, a beetle from Asia, show promise, but the long-term outlook remains somber for other reasons.

“I hate to say this, but I think the hemlock is going to disappear anyway from the heat stress,” McKinney said.

Excessive heat due to climate change has hurt several aspects of the forest, and the rising temperatures suggest that eventually the region will likely have a climate more similar to southern Georgia in about 200 years.

“At this point, all we can do is educate others on the importance of never introducing firewood,” DeLanzo said. “You never know what’s on it.”

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What: Bethany Hankins When: 9 p.m.

Where: Bistro at the Bijou Price: Free Melodi’s Take: Got a hot date this weekend? Stumped on where to go on a budget?

Why not opt for Bistro at the Bijou; not only does this restaurant have an amazing menu, but its prime location sharing a wall with the Bijou Theatre also lends to their encouragement of having artists perform on their own stage. Although exponentially smaller, it still provides for great acoustics and an intimate setting. Bethany Hankins will be performing jazz standards with her backing band, and this event sounds like a perfect date for some young, summer love.

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SATURDAY JULY 20 What: Jason Isbell with St. Paul and the Broken Bones When: 8 p.m.

Where: Shed Price: $20 Melodi’s Take: With his new album “Southeastern,” former Drive-by Truckers songwriter and guitarist Jason Isbell is continuing with his prospering solo career o a national tour. The tour has dates almost every week until November where his last concert is scheduled in Miami, but there’s no doubt his unique and creative sound will be impressing fans all over the country. “Southeastern” chronicles Isbell’s struggle with alcohol addiction but also turned over a new leaf for this musician, as his career is only moving forward.

What: Pilot Light Record Show and Sale When: Noon to 5 p.m.

Where: Pilot Light Price: Free Melodi’s Take: The Daily Beacon Weekender mainly focuses around performances and shows that may catch the eye of any person who picks up the Friday edition of our paper. But once in a while, we feature events that aren’t always live performances and exhibitions of shows. Pilot Light this Sunday is having a major crate sale, where tons of vinyl and records will be available for purchase. Since the sale is sure to have some amazing finds both old and new, music fans will be nerding out and art fans will probably be scoring some new pieces to frame. Check out this sale for an enjoyable Sunday afternoon.

Soul artist’s third release experiments with new genres MUST STREAM: •Back Seat Lover •Robot Love •Corsican Rose “Problematization,” is a 15-second recording of what sounds like two high schoolers making the most of their prom night in someone’s dad’s car, complete with a muttered reminder that the hook-up must remain secret.

The brief intro leads gleefully into the highlight of the album, “Back Seat Lover,” an anthem of teenaged lust and empty promise. The thumping bass line can be easy to focus on, but the pop of “cheap backseat lover” grows unforgettable by the end of the song. This is Hawthorne in his comfort zone, creating the baby-making music we expect with the cheeky playfulness we crave.

From there, the songs seem to open the titular door, venturing cautiously into this musician’s genre-bending flavor. There’s no doubt that • Photo courtesy of Mayer Hawthorne Hawthorne’s first recording experience outside of the producer’s chair has led him further away from Smokey R.J. Vogt Robinson and deeper into the mainstream. Turning Managing Editor things over to Pharrell Williams and a host of other There are entirely too few soul musicians in this big-name producers supposedly allowed Hawthorne world of pop and circumstance, a fact that has led to to explore his own artistic psyche, but it feels much a unique niche for the music of Mayer Hawthorne. more like a radio ploy.

In “Crime,” Hawthorne tries to evoke the “just In the Michigan native’s third studio album, “Where Does This Door Go,” Motown is alive again, wanna party” atmosphere of Miley Cyrus and Ace but this time Hawthorne infuses the sounds of mid- Hood, just without the underwear and Bugatti.

‘90s rap and Steely Dan-esque yacht rock. Despite When Kendrick Lamar comes storming in for the Hawthorne’s misguided attempt to bring his roots third verse, you’re left wondering if Ludacris could into the mainstream with electronic hooks and one start giving lessons on hook-up rap. Hawthorne hilariously bad cameo from Kendrick Lamar, the might consider leaving the door to party songs record still hearkens back to the subtle sexual ener- firmly closed.

He fares much better in “Allie Jones,” nailing gies of the 60s and 70s.

Not so sexually subtle, the first track, an airy reggae that veils a true set of lyrics. The

tragic meditation on a woman’s life dilemma is kinda heavy, but the decision to temper it with whimsical synthesizers and his trademark falsetto makes the track one of the most mature on the whole album.

In the accompanying commentary album, available for streaming on Spotify, Hawthorne reflects on his decision to keep the name “Allie Jones” rather than listening to executives who advised changing the title of the song to something generic. He says the track is based on a girl he knew in Michigan, and he felt that preserving the name preserved the story’s authenticity. He also admits that the aching saxophone hook at the start of the track is in fact a toy megaphone, one of the many interesting insights afforded by releasing a commentary album alongside “WDTDG.” The title track and first single off the album

doesn’t appear till the last third of the 15 song collection, providing a dreamy soundscape that wouldn’t be out of place on a Southern California yachtsman’s boating playlist. It’s easily overshadowed by the next song, however, when the quirky “Robot Love” begins to lay electronic counter-melodies over the funky rhythm section. “When we’re making love / don’t just treat me like a sex machine,” Hawthorne begs, reminding his fans that he has his own love to make.

That is really what the whole album boils down to; Hawthorne has released two albums that fit a unique caricature of bespectacled soul revival, and now he wants to play. Although a few of his experiments come off as forced, “WDTDG” nevertheless serves as a testament to a retro artist who is not afraid to open new doors.

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SINCE A YOUNG BLACK MAN’S DEATH on February 26, 2012, 666 men, women and children have been murdered in the streets of Chicago.

An overwhelming majority of them were also black.

Ever heard of Marissa Boyd-Stingley? She was a 19-year-old black girl who was shot and killed at a stoplight near her Chicago home during the early hours of June 25, the second day of a murder trial going on in Sanford, Fla. “Why doesn’t anyone care?” her mother asked in a story in the Chicago Tribune.

What about Darryl Green? He was 17 years old when he was gunned down on July 12 in an alley of West Englewood, another South Side neighborhood of Chicago. Not far away in Austin, an 8-year-old girl named Gizzell Ford was strangled and beaten to death that same day.

They were both black and both forgotten the next day when a man named George Zimmerman was found not guilty on charges of second-degree murder.

We all know the story. In March of 2012, Zimmerman killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in a gated community of Florida.

The case gained national relevance as an issue of race relations, and when Zimmerman was acquitted, nearly every major news network discussed the verdict.

The controversial Zimmerman trial lasted 19 days, during which 40 people were murdered in Chicago; 37 of them were black.

Weeks after the shooting, even President Obama reportedly weighed in, saying that if he had a son, “he’d look like Trayvon.”

The rest of his quote -- “... all of us as Americans are going to take this with the seriousness it deserves, and we are going to get to the bottom of exactly what happened” -- is less reported.

It is also less reported that nobody has gotten to the bottom of exactly what happened in the deaths of Marissa, Darryl and Gizzell.

Mr. President, what of the seriousness they deserve?

Debate on our television screens and amongst our Facebook friends focused instead on Martin, and whether he was a criminal with a history of violent behavior or an innocent child who smoked a little weed; media sources battled over whether Zimmerman should be described as “white,” “Hispanic,” or my personal favorite amalgamation, “white-Hispanic.”

As the national media hijacked a young man’s death in order to generate higher ratings and more online hits, an intricate system of discrimination was oversimplified into an all-too-easilydigested white vs. black episode.

The deeper problems are much more difficult to stomach.

Even though many college students have the most empowering information medium in history on our cell phones, we eschew the autonomy afforded by the Internet, choosing instead to regurgitate the watered-down version of events fed to us by the talking heads on T.V. We turn away from the bloody mess in Chicago, where neighborhoods are segregated by racist realtors and hopeless public housing situations. We change the station when NPR’s “This American Life” reports that, at Chicago’s Harper High School, 29 current and recent students were shot and killed in 2012.

Instead, we call a biracial man white and show outdated childhood photos of the young man he killed; we choose good vs. evil, a journalist’s wet dream, over the under-reported reality.

America must stop isolating racism into one incident, one sentence in our future children’s history eBooks. One man’s death is bad, and the hundreds of other African-American murders are worse, but we cannot let the underlying cause of the violence continue to run unchecked in our national institutions.

In Brooklyn’s Public School 67, black and Hispanic children make up 90 percent of the student body. P.S. 67 received a D on its last progress report, one of many majority minority schools that fail to meet basic educational standards.

In our own nation’s capital, three out of four young black men can expect to serve time in prison.

But why, why talk about the mass incarceration of AfricanAmericans when you can bring on another Martin expert?

Why bring up the plight of millions of minority children who may never even finish high school when you can make another clever Facebook status about Zimmerman’s vigilante justice?

The media may never let us forget Trayvon, and we shouldn’t.

But don’t forget about Marissa, Darryl and Gizzell either.

R.J. Vogt is a rising junior in College Scholars. He can be reached at rvogt@utk.edu.

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Turmoil in Turkey brings citizenry together Whispering Sweet Somethings by

Melodi Erdogan While domestic media unearthed every miniscule detail of 2013’s most controversial trial, international affairs continue.

The media, unfortunately, has a tendency to focus on one topic with such microscopic intensity that all other events are rendered irrelevant. Without the media’s x1000 microscope, world news is unfocused and pushed aside in favor of whatever event is deemed more scintillating.

Such is the case with recent developments in the anti-government protests in Turkey.

They may not intentionally create an overwhelming desire to diagnose oneself with information overload, but the media can often go too far with one topic and forget about all others in turn.

My column’s common theme of recent political unrest in Turkey is bound to continue. Demonstrations have exponentially decreased in both numbers and intensity, but Turkish citizens are still dealing with the aftermath of what could have potentially sparked a civil war.

Prime Minister Erdogan’s Islamic regime and authoritarian leadership attempted to destroy Istanbul’s Gezi Park, the last real park in the city filled with high rises, but failed due to the negative response from citizens. In Gezi Park and in parks and cities all over the country, protests had Turks clanging their kitchenware and chanting sayings to express their

Commitee of Infractions by

Greg Bearringer For anyone who has been paying attention to sports this week, you’ve been subjected to the SEC Media Days’ coverage of football news from every angle possible. Before I launch into the real purpose of this column (to throw some props to the three player reps from UT) I want to try to figure out just what all you SEC fans are so proud of.

Look, even as an interloper from the Great White North, I recognize that the SEC is the very best conference in the land. However, I can’t tune into one of the many sports talk shows in Knoxville without hearing this analogy, “Butch Jones as a piece of meat is getting tossed to the wild animal that is the SEC Media Days. Its nothing like he’s seen before!”

Now I am not arguing that SEC Media Days aren’t crazy; perhaps they’re even the craziest. But there is a good reason for the chaos.

Between the Mississippi and the Atlantic, the SEC is comprised of exactly two NBA teams, one pro-baseball franchise, one pro-football franchise, and Florida, only part of which is proper SEC country. So of course the fine people of Chik-Fil-A country are going get in a tizzy every time the head coaches and notable

Melodi is a sophomore in journalism and electronic media. She can be reached at merdogan@utk.edu.

players congregate in one place. But it’s not like it’s exactly the best thing for well over a thousand grown adults with college degrees surrounding about 30 college kids and asking them obvious questions, hoping that one of them is caught of guard and provides a nonobvious answer. Or, for the worst offenders, hoping they do answer obvious questions.

Dear media: If you ask any SEC starting player, “Player x is considered the best at his position. Do you think you can be as good as him?”, you should NOT act like the player casually agreeing to your statement is anything like a controversy.

Johnny Manziel, who recently was asked to leave the Manning Passing Academy after showing up late after a night where he was photographed having a good time with adult beverages, was obviously going to be the center of this frenzy. He also Bucked the obvious conclusion that he is going to either become Art Schlichter or Bernie Kosar. He seemed intelligent, thoughtful and nothing like the prima donna party boy that his image has evolved into.

But, of course, the big news for Tennessee fans was something more generic: the Vols seems to be on the right track. Their players seemed intense, focused, and accountable. They also gave the impression that they are very capable of living life outside of football; they were all intelligent, personable and seem like good people. Butch Jones had more energy than any coach I can remember.

More importantly, they spent time talking about two things: “swagger” and “becoming relevant.” They are talking about a “return” to prominence.

Look, it’s going to be a while before we can look back and see what language like this will be used in a narrative of redemption or a story of over-matched delusion. Since it is mid-summer, and memories of heartbreaking losses are mere specks in the rear-view mirror, it is easy to think that Tennessee just might cash in the promise of frustrating seasons past.

Chances are there are going to be moments next season when Tennessee fans are all too reminded that the last five years of Tennessee football have been agonizing, that they can’t look at an Alabama fan without showing begrudging respect. But I do think that there will also be moments to celebrate, to remember how stupid it is to feel so good about your favorite team winning a football game.

More than that, I think Tennessee fans will finally get to feel something that is even more distant in their memories than seeing their team put up more points than the other team: the satisfaction that a well coached 6-6 team is better in the long run than a poorly coached 7-5 team. For the first time in years, losing won’t lead to a debate about who Tennessee is, but rather what their team can become.

Greg Bearringer is a graduate student in History. He can be reached at gbearrin@ utk.edu.

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attempting to create a new government or replace the existing one, their only goal is to keep citizens informed and express opinion, keeping up “the pressure on Mr. Erdogan’s administration.”

Additionally, the protests have not only created platforms of opportunity available to every citizen but also alleviated some prejudice that was once much more prevalent only ten years before.

The first gay rights parade in Turkey was held in 2003 in Istanbul and involved only a small amount of people, according to another one of Arsu’s articles. Erdogan’s Islamic regime put a strain on the benefits that something similar to the U.S.’s D.O.M.A. could provide for Turkish citizens, which could have potentially caused a stir during the parade.

But yet, it was peaceful.

“It’s, after all, not just L.G.B.T. members, but all of Turkey under oppression,” said citizen Meryem Koyuncu Igili in Arsu’s article, who attended her first gay rights parade this year. “We no longer see anyone different from one another, and seek rights for all.”

This union and acceptance among the citizens of Turkey exemplify exactly what is to be gained from the political distress they have experienced. Instead of moving farther away from each other and creating a gap between reality and policy, Turks have joined together with support, recognition and a common goal to return their country to it’s should-be secular state.

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disbelief in the leader who once seemed so promising when he was elected 11 years ago.

Those protests that ended in harsh police response and four deaths might be expected to have broken the traditionally secular state’s people, but it only brought them closer together.

In those same parks where so many people risked their lives demonstrating against Erdogan and his recent political decisions gathers a plethora of Turks who are exercising their democratic rights by speaking in front of fellow citizens and spreading their views on their country’s government.

“After protests, forums sprout in Turkey’s parks,” wrote Sebnem Arsu in a July 7 New York Times article. She described how the forums are not related to any particular political party, but just feature regular citizens and their opinions. Because police (and their boss, Erdogan) forbid loud noises in public areas at later hours, the audiences cross their arms in disagreement with the speaker at the time, shake their arms in agreement or do a circle motion to encourage a conclusion and let a new speaker take the stage. This particular forum Arsu wrote about is taking place at Abbasaga Park, but these types of forums are becoming more and more popular in Turkey now.

And for good reason.

It’s ironic how the revolts and protests of only three weeks ago lead to the innocent, silent sharing of opinions at late hours of the night. What seemed like the end of all government for Turkey actually encouraged citizens, who may not have considered it before , to really examine the government that’s in office and re-evaluate what can be gained from these events. As Arsu writes, these forums aren’t

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Arts & Culture Editor Melodi Erdogan merdogan@utk.edu

Blogs offer everyday users a shot at internet identity Want to blog? Here’s a few places to get started

Gabrielle O’Neal Staff Writer Since the inception of the World Wide Web in 1990, users have been finding different ways to keep up with and document news and opinions.

Blogs have become the simplest way for people to publish their own work. A number of different platforms offer anyone with an email account an opportunity at a free URL and an online space with barely any limitations. Blogs allow for interactivity that allow other users to comment on posts, and they can be used as a means of social networking. Most blogs are typically textual, but they can take on different types of media such as video blogs, known as vlogs, photography blogs and even audio blogs, most commonly known as podcasts. Microblogs, smaller than the typical blog, is something of the Twitter nature.

Many different types of people use blogs, such as politicians, celebrities and even students. There are niche blogs also that span many subjects from fashion, to cooking and entertainment. “I decided to make a blog at the beginning of the summer,� said Jessica Carr, sophomore in journalism and electronic media who writes a cooking blog (www.jesswhatsonthemenu.wordpress.com).

Carr’s blog covers a number of cooking creations as well as restaurant explorations in Louisiana, where she is spending the summer. “I knew that I would have some free time from school to really work on it and devote the time I needed to make it worth reading,� she said.

Blog entries can gain more attention with the help of social media, as they hold more information that a post on Facebook or Twitter could. “I created my blog about three years ago as a way to write movie reviews,� said Zach Dennis, senior in journalism and electronic media who writes the blog www.filmthoughtsbyzach.blogspot.com. “And gain a larger audience to create more interaction.�

There are a number of blogging platforms to choose from each appealing to what type of blog someone wants to create. For example, Tumblr is typically best for photos, gifs and videos while platforms like Blogger and Wordpress are better suited for textual post. “I chose Blogger because it was simple to use and was also free,� Dennis said.

According to critics, Blogger is the most popular blogging platform used today. “The best part of Blogger is how simple it is to use. It is pretty much just point and click and doesn’t take too much knowledge of websites to use,� Dennis said. “The worst part though is also that simplicity. “While it doesn’t hurt my blog, I feel like having it look more like a website rather than a blog would be better and Blogger lacks that.�

Carr’s blog is a part of the WordPress community. She said she opted for Wordpress because of good reviews. “I heard from a lot of friends that use WordPress (say) that it’s easy to use and you can get some good readership without having to pay any money,� Carr said.

WordPress is also a popular platform because of its simplicity and the way it allows bloggers to be creative. “The best is being able to create layouts that I want and creatively showcase my restaurant reviews with pictures to help my audience see what foods I’ve reviewed and created,� Carr said.

But like most things, WordPress also has its downsides. “The worst is trying to get the picture layouts just right,� Carr added. “Sometimes it’s hard to do the coding and sizing of the images I want shown on my blog.�

A blog, a contraction of the words web and log, is a discussion or informational site published on the World Wide Web made up from a number of posts which are usually presented in reverse chronological order. Blogging grew out of the late 1990s after the invention of web publishing tools and today there are about 181 million blogs in the world, according to Nielson. There are many blogging platforms to choose from all of which can fit a variety of needs.

Pros: Great for photos, customizable, easy to learn Cons: Not good for large text entries, unprofessional, past problems with spam and security Verdict: This platform has great tools for those who want to share photos and gifs by liking and reblogging, but is not the best choice for a professional website.

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Friday, July 19, 2013

SPORTS

Sports Editor Steven Cook scook21@utk.edu

Opposing lineman continue rivalry Steven Cook Sports Editor

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JONES continued from Page 1 Dealing with another coaching change—UT’s third in five years—was the big theme surrounding the Vols on Wednesday. According to senior offensive lineman Ja’Wuan James, the team has responded much better to their new coach than recently departed Derek Dooley.

“They’re making it easier," James said. "You feel like you’ve known these guys for years. They’ve done a great job of making us feel at home. Just seeing them around the complex, you can tell it’s more of a genuine and personal level.”

“Genuine” was a word used consistently by Tennessee’s student-athletes to describe their new coach. That includes senior defensive end Jacques Smith, who told of his first encounter with Jones.

“I was out in California and it was my birthday,” Smith said. “He calls me at six in the morning and is like ‘hey this is coach Jones, happy birthday.’"

Jones was hired just a week before when he made the call.

“I wasn’t really expecting to meet him until I got back to Knoxville, and he calls me. I was like wow, I love him,”Smith said.

Jones said a priority during his first offseason at the helm of UT has been establishing and impart-

ing a championship standard into the program.

That culture change has required a hefty amount of re-learning for the players, but Jones’ staff also has been included in the re-tooling and learning process.

“I think the challenge of being a first-year head coach in a program is [that] every day is a learning opportunity,” Jones said. “You’re learning more and more about your football program.”

The Vols will have to follow a "brick-by-brick" slogan that has become Jones’ big point of emphasis since taking over the job in December. He used that mindset to elaborate on how UT will get back to the pinnacle of college football.

“We talk about building a championship culture, working to get Tennessee football back to its rightful place among the elite of college football,” Jones said. “We talk about doing that brick-by -brick.

“Every brick is symbolic of every individual in our football family and organization. It’s having clearly defined and articulated standards, expectations and values that are going to guide you on a day-to-day basis.”

The foundation from months of "brick-by-brick" additions will begin to be revealed in two weeks as the Vols kick-off their fall camp on Aug. 1.

The Butch Jones era will officially take flight on Aug. 31 as UT opens up its season against Austin Peay in Neyland Stadium at 6 p.m.

One play between Antonio “Tiny” Richardson and Jadeveon Clowney last season was the talk surrounding Tennessee at SEC Media Days. Trailing 38-35 late in the fourth quarter against South Carolina, the Vols were well within field goal range at the 19-yard line and were driving for a go ahead score. Marlin Lane had just sliced through the defense for a 16-yard run, quarterback Tyler Bray was pushing 400 yards passing with four touchdowns and the momentum was pushing toward UT’s first big win.

Then, defensive end Clowney— the consensus No. 1 overall selection in next year’s NFL draft—juked past offensive tackle Richardson.

The Vols’ massive tackle gave up Bray’s blind side for the first time all season.

He forced a fumble. The Gamecocks recovered. Game over.

“No lie, I watch that film at least once a week,” Richardson said. “I’m not saying that because I’m in front of you guys.”

Senior right tackle Ja’Wuan James was also a part of the Vols’ contingent at the annual event in Hoover, Ala. that hands out 1,200plus credentials. He took Tiny’s talk one step further.

“He thinks about it every day,” James said. “Me and him end up

watching that film over and over.

Any time we’re working out, he’s just working out to let nothing like that ever happen again.”

As reigning SEC Defensive Player of the Year, Clowney came in confident Tuesday and stirred the pot with Richardson. He gave the second-team All-SEC tackle some credit—one of two players Clowney claimed could block him—but fired a jab in the process. “(Richardson) is the best at holding and getting away with it,” he said. “But he does a good job at it, and if you don’t get called for it, it’s not a holding call, so I respect that 100 percent. He did pretty good against me.”

UT’s rising junior admitted, like so many linemen do, that the best guys do it, too.

“I think that some of the best offensive linemen can hold and get away with it,” Richardson said. “I take it as a compliment.

“But sometimes you have to keep crying and move on.”

Richardson is coming off a breakout year. He’s projected by ESPN’s Todd McShay as the 16thbest prospect in the 2014 NFL draft for a reason.

His line gave up seven sacks all season, second best in the NCAA. Clowney’s strip-sack was the lone blemish on an otherwise near-perfect season up front.

Having a night to kick around Clowney’s comments in his head,

Richardson wasn’t shy on firing back his own light-hearted jab at the Gamecocks pass rusher Wednesday during the Vols’ session. He put his own asterisk beside Clowney’s perfect 99 rating in NCAA Football 14, the newest EA Sports video game.

“I heard he had a 99. He’s a good player but I don’t know about a 99,” he said.

“Give that young man a 94.”

James had his own personal invitation to Clowney—who won the ESPYs ‘Best Play’ award Wednesday night for his ground shattering hit on Michigan running back Vincent Smith.

“I never get to go against him.

He never came to my side in two years,” he said. “I’m waiting for him to come over and play with me.”

At his first SEC Media Days, Vols head coach Butch Jones echoed that Richardson uses the fateful play that decided TennesseeSouth Carolina in 2012 as daily motivation.

“Tiny talks about that play all the time,” Jones said. “When you want to be the best, you have to think about one or two plays that made a difference.

“One bad play can be the difference between winning and losing.

So we talk about that all the time, and I think that’s added to his overall development as a football player.”

Clowney and the Gamecocks visit Neyland Stadium on Sept. 28.

Storylines abound at Media Days David Cobb Staff Writer At SEC Media Days, the unexpected is expected from characters like LSU coach Les Miles and South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier.

That duo certainly lived up to its hype, but noteworthy remarks rained in from a handful of sources as all the league’s coaches and some of its best players gathered in Hoover, Ala. for the annual preseason meeting.

The biggest war of words actually took place between a pair of the league’s four new coaches.

New Arkansas coach Bret Bielema thinks that no-huddle, hurry-up offenses create a safety hazard for opposing defenses that must remain on the field for several consecutive plays.

First-year Auburn coach Gus Malzahn, who will install a fastpaced offense for the Tigers in 2013, thinks Bielema’s concern is laughable.

“When I first heard that, to be honest with you, I thought it was a joke,” Malzahn said. “As far as health or safety issues, that’s like saying the defense shouldn’t blitz after a first down because they’re a little fatigued and there is liable to be a big collision in the backfield.”

Bielema followed Malzahn at the podium and clarified loudly that he is “not a comedian.”

“All I know is this: there are times when an offensive player and a defensive player are on the field for an extended amount of time without a break,” Bielema said. “You cannot tell me that a player after play five is the same player that he is after play fifteen.

“If that exposes him to a risk of injury, then that’s my fault.”

Auburn’s high-octane attack will meet the Razorbacks’ “normal American football” style on Nov. 2 .

Time to clean it up In his annual speech on the state of the league, SEC Commissioner Mike Slive addressed the recurring off-the-field issues that have plagued the league’s current and former players in the offseason.

Though a saga that has former Florida tight end Aaron Hernandez facing murder charges was not addressed specifically, Slive and current Florida coach Will Muschamp both mentioned the underlying issue of studentathlete behavior.

“At the same time we talk about our successes on the field and in the classroom, we cannot ignore the recent off-the-field incidents involving both current and former student-athletes,” Slive said, before continuing on to mention that the “vast majority” of SEC athletes conduct themselves at a high level.

“We are not naïve enough to think we can put an end to all unacceptable behavior,” he added.

“But that doesn’t mean we won’t continue to try, try and try.”

Muschamp took an opposing view to Urban Meyer—the Ohio State coach who was at Florida when Hernandez played for the Gators—and said that responsibility for player behavior falls on the shoulders of the coach as much as the player.

“I can’t possibly know everything that happens every single night with our football team,” Muschamp said. “You also can’t stick your head in the sand and pretend everything is okay either.

You need to be very aware of the kind of guys your guys are hanging out with.

“But you’re 100 percent respon-

sible for every student-athlete on your football team.”

Meanwhile, Vanderbilt’s James Franklin declined to comment on an ongoing investigation into an alleged sexual assault that has resulted in the dismissal of four Commodores players.

Manziel Mania Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel appeared at SEC Media Days on Wednesday before flying to New York for the ESPY’s.

The Texas A&M sophomore quarterback tried to deflate speculation surrounding his maturity and ability to handle the publicity that accompanies winning the biggest award in college football.

“I’m learning every day,” he told reporters. “There are situations you learn to shy away from. I used to be a person that watched ESPN and Sportscenter all day, every day. I shy away from it now, articles and things on Twitter, I try to shy away from it.”

Oh, Brother The first question that new Kentucky coach Mark Stoops fielded during his time at the main podium stemmed from recent remarks made by his brother and Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops that undermined the SEC’s perceived unquestioned authority as the nation’s premier conference.

“That’s got to be my first question?” Mark Stoops asked rhetorically. “Yeah, I certainly understand Bob defending his conference. I just left the ACC. You know, I think everybody’s going to defend what they’re doing in their conference.

“With that being said, I don’t think any of us need to defend what’s going on here in the SEC. The success we’ve had in the SEC speaks for itself.”