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The editorially independent student newspaper of the University of Tennessee Issue 01, Volume 123

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Author preaches environmental awareness to Class of 2017 Hanna Lustig News Editor Some say the world will end in fire; some say in ice. But, more likely, the end of the world will be caused by something far more insidious. A conspiracy, if you will, of people complacently expending what remains of our natural resources, all while continuing to release large quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

Bill McKibben, award-winning green journalist and noted environmentalist, does not wish to sugarcoat the reality of climate change in his book “Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet.” Serving as this year’s Life of the Mind guest author, McKibben suggested the class of 2017 reconsider the urgency of global warming, not as a mathematical abstraction, but as an issue of individual health and safety.

Director of First Year Studies, Joe

Mastrogiovanni, elaborated on the strange title of McKibben’s latest book.

“He’s basically saying we’re no longer a part of the same world, Earth, that we have in our mindset,” Mastrogiovanni said, “We’re part of Eaarth, with two As. We’re part of this new world. And we have to adapt.”

As the founder of 350.org, McKibben is no stranger to the possibility of mobilizing individuals for the greater good. Dedicated to “solving the climate crisis,” the group gets its name from the calculated upper limit of carbon dioxide parts per million our atmosphere can support, a number McKibben calls “the most important in the world.”

In 2009, through over 5,000 simultaneous displays of support in 181 countries, the organization achieved “the largest ever global coordinated rally of any kind,” according to Foreign Policy magazine. People in Addis

Ababa chanted, while students in the easilyflooded Maldives held class in the water, referencing the rising tides as a result of melting ice caps. American soldiers overseas built an oversized “350” figure out of sandbags which British citizens assembled on Brighton Beach. In 2011, McKibben led a protest of the Keystone XL pipeline, for which he was arrested and imprisoned for three days in Washington, D.C. McKibben added that climate change will have a great impact on students in their lifetime.

Jonathan Hughes, freshman in food science and technology, is worried about the impending consequences of environmental abuse.

“I just hope we can turn around soon before things get completely out of hand,” Hughes said.

Please see LIFE OF THE MIND on Page 3

Organizations aim to ease college transition Cortney Roark Assistant Arts & Culture Editor In the midst of the flurry of new classes and opportunities this fall, two UT organizations are already extending opportunities to get students involved in the early stages of this academic year.

The Center for Leadership and Service (CLS) and the Central Program Council (CPC) both provide essential resources to the university and give students the experience needed after graduation that can be hard to get in a classroom setting The CLS is home to many programs and classes that strive to “educate and engage all students to lead and serve the global community,” according to the center’s mission statement.

“Without the Center for Leadership and Service, I think freshmen students, especially, would suffer,” Brooke Bowman, a senior in nursing, said. “They would not have a support system entering the university. They would not be

provided with easy ways to get involved.”

Ignite, a three day retreat for upcoming freshmen, is one of these programs.

Due to positive feedback from previous students, Ignite expanded to include six total programs, according to Bowman, who also serves as Ignite student co-director.

Bowman also took part in the alternative fall break trip to Louisville, Ky. and said that the leadership developed and service provided through these CLS programs help uphold the Volunteer name.

“CLS really creates these strong bonds and without that, I think there would be a lack of unity within people on campus,” Bowman said.

CLS also teaches classes on leadership skills and selects student ambassadors, such as Kristin Kennedy, senior in history and political science, to take leadership positions within the CLS office.

“It’s important for us as college students to look outside our time on campus,” Kennedy said. “The Center for Leadership and Service

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Butch Jones points out the intricacies on UT’s new “smokey” colored jersey. The Vols will wear the new uniform in one game during the 2013 season.

Jones installs ‘Smokey Gray’ into UT wardrobe David Cobb Sports Editor Hannah Cather • The Daily Beacon

Eric Hampton, a freshman in computer engineering, moves dirt for the construction of a path at Odd Fellow’s Cemetery on Aug. 15. has given me a way to connect with my fellow students in order to fulfill a bigger picture.”

Being influential on campus is part of the CPC mission, which acts as the

umbrella organization for six committees on campus, such as Film Committee, Cultural Attractions Committee along with four others.

Please see LEADERSHIP on Page 5

Torch Night illuminates first-year students on Volunteer traditions Emilee Lamb Assistant News Editor Thompson-Boling Arena rang with chants and cheers on Sunday night as members of the class of 2017 gathered for the annual Torch Night welcoming ceremony.

Animated chatter rose from the audience while freshmen filed in to their seats for an hour of Tennessee tradition, during which the seniors symbolically pass on the Torch of Preparation to a new crop of students.

As the program commenced, students were urged to “take a deep breath and relax,” as the night’s first speaker came to the podium. Student Government

Association President Jake Baker encouraged the incoming class of Volunteers to seize the years ahead of them.

“These four years are something you’ll never forget,” Baker, a senior in political science said. “Take it for all it’s worth.”

Baker also expressed his excitement to be a part of 80 years of tradition at UT. “It’s a great opportunity for me to literally pass the torch on to you,” he said.

Baker was followed by Chancellor Jimmy Cheek, who began by welcoming his audience to their new home.

“Isn’t it great to be a Tennessee Volunteer?” he asked. “You are now part of the Big Orange family.”

The address that followed was a plea to his listeners to take advantage of the

opportunities that UT offers for the betterment of self and school, as well as praise for the incoming freshmen. With more honors students than ever before, Cheek said the class of 2017 shows great promise.

“I encourage you to dream, and dream big,” Chancellor Cheek said. “You will have big ideas that will change the world.”

Immediately following the Chancellor’s speech, Baker took his place at the podium once again to conduct the ceremonial passing of the torch.

Due to the unexpectedly large turnout for the event, many students stood emptyhanded as their classmates held battery powered flames aloft, reciting a pledge of loyalty to the university.

Please see TORCH NIGHT on Page 8

On Halloween night 2009, the UT football team needed a boost. Coach Lane Kiffin’s team was sitting at 3-4 (1-3 SEC) and pitted against No. 21 South Carolina in Neyland Stadium.

So the Vols played a trick on the 96,263 attending when they busted onto the field, minutes before kickoff, wearing black jerseys after going through the warm-up period in regular orange.

It was the first time since 1921 the Vols had worn black, and the result was a 31-13 drubbing of the Gamecocks.

But since that game – and Kiffin’s abruptly distasteful departure – UT has worn only traditional orange and white.

For one home game in 2013, that will change.

Though a photo of UT’s new “Smokey Gray” uniform had already been obtained by Volquest.com and made its way around the Internet earlier in the day, it didn’t stop UT from putting on a show at last week’s football media day on Aug. 15 to officially unveil UT’s new alternate uniform.

In a room, complete with orange-tinted lighting, artsy music and a podium turned into a runway, junior linebacker Curt Maggitt modeled the

jersey and pants set to the tune of rapidly clicking photo shutters and silence from seated media members.

First-year coach Butch Jones said it has not been decided which game the Vols will wear the uniform, but he did offer plenty of reason why UT traditionalists should embrace the new addition to the Tennessee wardrobe.

“One of the top three questions we’re asked in recruiting are about our uniforms, our jersey colors,” Jones said.

“It attracts the best studentathletes. To me, it’s a pride of who we are. We have the best colors in the country and now, with the smokey gray jersey, that just adds to it.”

The Vols also unveiled slightly tweaked versions of their typical orange and white uniforms, colors which Jones emphasized are not going anywhere.

“Everything is about a tradition because that’s who we are,” he said, “but it’s also building on that tradition.”

UT players reacted with jubilance when shown the uniform for the first time.

Maggitt kept it a secret following a meeting with Jones where he was told about the gray uniform and his role as the model.

Please see NEW UNIFORM on Page 12

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Wednesday, August 21, 2013 News Editor Hanna Lustig

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Assistant News Editor Emilee Lamb elamb1@utk.edu

Campus food programs provide healthy alternatives Hanna Lustig News Editor

Dillon Canfield • The Daily Beacon

An American College Health Association survey found that the majority of college students – 60 percent of males and 56 percent of females – only eat two to three servings of vegetables each day.

A boy, a girl and a garden.

That is how Project V.E.G.G.I.E. began in 2012 – with a desire to provide high quality produce and a passion for sustainable living.

Although it was officially founded last year, the idea behind Project V.E.G.G.I.E. – which stands for Vols Educating about Growing Gardens and Inspiring Environmentalism – has been evolving for much longer. Inspired by the documentary “Food Inc.,” Neil Brown started growing tomatoes in his backyard after his freshman year.

Brown, a chemical engineering major, met Candice Lawton, who harbored a similar interest – as she puts it – in “working with nature and its devices.”

Since then, the organization has grown in every sense of the word, gaining members, space and influence. Today, the fresh food revolution continues, still lead by the same boy and girl.

In its plot beside Andy Holt Apartments, Project V.E.G.G.I.E. farms a variety of crops, working nearly yearround to prepare the land, grow fruit and vegetables and harvest them. With work taking place on the weekends, the

organization functions solely on student labor and determination. However, this operation is by no means inconsequential, yielding a diverse array of berries, legumes and squash from a 3,000 square foot area.

Brown and Lawton, president and vice president respectively, plan to add new features to the garden this year.

The group plans to add 500 feet of planter boxes, create a large mural next to the garden, develop a web application to more directly reach the community, construct a rainwater harvesting system and implement a worm composting system as an alternative to throwing out viable fertilizer.

Brown said winter gardening may even be on the horizon, but long-term the group aims for widespread involvement.

“We hope to become so integrated with campus that we can eventually supply a portion of the food that is served in the dining halls,” Brown said.

“Additionally, we hope to have enough students join up that each year we graduate at least 10 people who will eventually go out into their future communities and start their own community gardens.”

The garden, then, acts not only as a source of nutrients, but also as experiential learning. Brown said the value of

such initiatives cannot be underestimated.

“If we are to make due with our dwindling fuel supply, as well as turn around our health trends, we must make some changes,” he said.

For Project V.E.G.G.I.E., educating its members is essential.

“The organization serves as a critique to current food production methodologies,” Lawton said. “The U.S., the wealthiest nation in the world, is feeding its citizens a diet that evolution has not equipped us for, using methods of food production that poison and undermine the Earth’s soil, water and air with unsustainable quantities of chemical fertilizers and pesticides.

“The population and the healthcare system are threatened by a crisis of diet-related illness, millions of acres of damaged farmland and chemical runoff spilling into waterways.”

Project V.E.G.G.I.E. is not the only organization looking to make reforms within the subject of sustainability. Elias Attea, leader of the UTK Food Policy Council and a senior in plant sciences, said she was left wanting more from the ARAMARK supplied dining services on campus. Nearly devoid of locally and sustain-

ably-sourced foods, Attea said the group saw a need to establish a megaphone for the consumers and participants in a food system.

The Food Policy Council was formed along with its central campaign, the Real Food Challenge, which was passed last spring with the support of SGA. “The intention is to reduce food miles, support Tennessee and sustainable agriculture, promote the farm-to-table connection, introduce food labeling and transparency and so on,” Attea said.

The most recent data released by the Harvard School of Public Health advises between five and 13 servings of fruits and vegetables per day, whereas the 2012 American College Health Association’s survey reports that the majority of university students eat only one or two servings.

It is this disparity that merits each program’s concern.

For those interested in joining the movement, Project V.E.G.G.I.E. can be liked or joined on their Facebook page, www.facebook.com/ ProjectVeggie, through their email, veggie@utk.edu, or by attending an upcoming interest meeting. The Food Policy Council can also be contacted on Facebook.

Sorority rush week arrives on campus, allows student involvement Emilee Lamb Assistant News Editor As the new school year begins, hundreds of girls across campus have begun the weeklong process of Panhellenic Formal Recruitment.

Saturday marked the first day of Rush Week during which undergraduate females meet and evaluate all of UT’s 13 Panhellenic sorority chap-

ters, each hoping to end the week by pledging to the Greek organization of their choice.”

Katherine Sargent, sophomore in kinesiology, serves as a Gamma Chi Recruitment Counselor during this year’s recruitment process.

Voluntarily relinquishing their affiliations for the summer, these sorority women train to shepherd potential new members, referred to as PNMs, through Rush.

“As a leader in recruitment, we prepare through a semester-long counseling class and a three-day retreat to focus solely on the coming days,” Sargent said. “We learn as much about each chapter as possible so we can answer any tricky questions a PNM might ask.”

Despite the long preparation process and the isolation from her own sisterhood, Sargent regards the purpose

of a Gamma Chi as an essential part of the recruitment process.

“My role is to be the PNM’s go-to girl for anything and everything,” she said. “I can be there to help her decide what outfit to wear, to help her understand what to expect, to help her eliminate sororities and to be there for any emotional support that might be needed.”

The overwhelming majority

of women going through formal recruitment are freshmen students at UT. In addition to adjusting to college life, the ladies are thrown into socially demanding situations.

“At times it can be surprisingly emotional for first timers,” Sargent said, “but, overall, it is a great opportunity and a perfect way to meet other girls who typically share interests.”

The camaraderie formed

between PNMs during this emotional week only adds to the allure of the Rush process.

“You make a lot of friends in your Gamma Chi group,” said Cara Sanders, a veteran of Panhellenic Recruitment and a sophomore in public relations. “You just meet a lot of really smart, intelligent girls that are really fun to hang out with.”

See RUSH on Page 3

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

CAMPUS NEWS

THE DAILY BEACON • 3 News Editor Hanna Lustig

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Assistant News Editor Emilee Lamb

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LIFE OF THE MIND continued from Page 1 McKibben outlined Iowa farmers’ struggle to fertilize corn by describing the negative effect of gratuitous carbon dioxide on temperature and food growth.

“Human beings are on one hand and physics on the other,” McKibben explained. “Physics don’t compromise.”

McKibben did not downplay the progressive actions of UT students, noting the mandatory campus environmental fee and last year’s demand that the UT Board of Trustees end their holdings in fossil fuels. However, he stressed that students have an obligation to do more. For those who care to preserve “civilization of the sort we’re used to having,” McKibben emphasized the importance of action.

“I do not know if we are going to win this fight, but there is going to be a fight,” McKibben said. “ We are not going to go down easily.”

Undecided freshman Logan Kennedy echoed McKibben’s sentiment, endorsing a call to

Samantha Smoak • The Daily Beacon

Bill McKibben, this year’s Life of the Mind author, addresses the freshman class in Thompson Boiling Arena on Monday, Aug. 19. action.

“Our planet’s not going to be like this forever,” Kennedy said.

“We have to change. We have to change it before it gets worse.”

Closing his speech, McKibben asked the freshman class to evaluate what truly makes them happy. Citing the vast sprawl of large suburban houses, McKibben offered instead the closeness of a community eating

“in common,” and residing in small quarters, as university students do. Although many graduates hope to never live this way again, this lifestyle conserves financial and natural resources.

“That’s what’s so interesting about college,” McKibben said.

“You may discover that you like something a little different than the American dream.”

RUSH continued from Page 2 For the first two days of Rush, titled the Go-Greek round, the women were taken to visit each chapter for 15 minutes in order to begin the elimination process.

Some participants of formal recruitment would regard this as the most nerve-wracking event of the week.

“It is the first official day of completely working together and it takes some trials to get everyone and everything moving smoothly,” Sargent said. “On top of the typical challenges, this year we faced rain and an open football scrimmage, so that definitely added to the stress.”

The days and nights that follow progressively limit the number of chapter houses that PNMs are allowed to visit, while also increasing the amount of time that ladies get to spend with each sorority.

On the final night of Rush, girls will be allowed to visit up to three chapters before making their final decisions on the following day. This round of recruitment is known as Preference Night.

“This is the most serious round,” Sargent said. “Cocktail dresses are worn and sisterhood is the topic. Strict silence is also enforced to ensure the ladies do no change their mind based on their friend’s opinion.”

After a week of meet-andgreets with various chapters and stressful nights of dissecting every social encounter, PNMs gather to receive their invitations from sororities who want

to bring them into their chapter.

The expected size of the pledge class for each chapter is between 50 and 60 women.

“My favorite memory is pretty cliché,” Sargent said, “but it would have to be opening my Bid Day card and seeing which sorority I received and running

up to my new chapter. Everyone is yelling and cheering and then all 900 PNMs are standing with their new chapter as they hear their first Roll Call.”

For more information on Rush Week and sorority profiles, visit go.utk.edu.

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Wednesday, August 21, 2013 Editor-in-Chief R.J. Vogt

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Editor’s Note R.J. Vogt Editor-in-Chief

This paper is about the relationship between you and your truth.

You readers, you students, you professors, you administrators, you athletes, you employees, you fans, you Vols.

You. And your truth.

Maybe you remember orientation leaders describing campus traditions such as yelling “Big Orange County!” and hearing a resounding “Go Vols!” (Not true, if you’ve ever tried it.)

Maybe you remember the first time you sang “Rocky Top, you’ll always be/ home, sweet home, to me” with more than 100,000 fellow bearers of The Orange and White. If you’ve yet to make that memory, maybe you’re hungrily anticipating the day you do (Aug. 31, 2013 vs.

Austin Peay: I’ve got it circled on my calendar.)

Maybe – surely – you’ve seen the phrase “Big Orange, Big Ideas,” a branding campaign that has received criticism and praise for its single-minded approach to life on campus.

With all these mottos, you may have forgotten the official motto upon which UT is founded. Maybe you’ve never even heard it.

“Veritatem cognoscetis et veritas te liberabit.” It’s okay – I don’t know Latin either.

Thankfully, The UT official school motto can be easily translated into English: “You will know the truth and the truth shall set you free.”

Whether an apprehensive freshman or an even more apprehensive senior, these words should strike a chord within all of us. They should not sink into the forgotten crevasses of our over-stimulated minds, but instead settle deeply into the daily ritual here on Rocky Top. At a school that promises to unchain its students from lies, then, The Daily Beacon is the key to the lock. We are your truth-seekers, an editorially independent media outlet that has existed through the students and for the students since 1871.

We are the diligent fingers on the campus pulse, checking daily on the life-blood of a campus community nearly 40,000 strong.

We are also your crossword puzzle provider and the fodder of countless homecoming floats; without this newspaper, what would protect our floors from all that glue?

As editor-in-chief this fall, I will devote myself to consistently bringing your news and your truth to 10,000 papers a day.

And as the Internet continues to grow, the Daily Beacon website will simultaneously continue to evolve, bringing your news and your truth to the web, worldwide. We’ve never competed well in the 24-hour Social Media Age; this year, we start. And you can tweet that.

On @UTBeacon_Sports, sports stories will break; from there, the stories will evolve on our website and within our printed pages. Using a more analytical approach than years past, the sports staff will accurately cover UT’s 18 men’s and women’s NCAA Division I teams.

On the Arts & Culture pages, our writers will continue to collect interviews and feature stories on a wide variety of artists, both locally and nationally renowned. Music, art,poetry, film, comedy… you name it, we’ll write it.

Also new this year, the opinions section will look different, with a stronger fleet of columnists and a re-dedicated commitment to student and faculty perspective. If a newspaper is a medium of information, then our opinions page will communicate ideas.

As for News, we will bring you every story we can find.

Whether a simple lecture review or a more in-depth investigative piece, our news will be your news, the truth you need to know from the brand you trust to write it.

It’s a tradition at The Daily Beacon, covering the truth.

Last year alone, this paper covered three national news stories and worked alongside ESPN and CNN. In years past, we have served as the launching pad for the likes of Woody Paige (The Denver Post, Around the Horn) and Gene Wojciechowski (ESPN). Despite our long and noteworthy history, however, our duty lies in always leaning forward toward the next big story on the horizon. We aim to reliably outline tomorrow in ink and journalistic integrity.

We aim to set you free.

If you’re reading this wondering, “with what chains am I enslaved?” then be sure to read every Beacon you can get your hands on, cover to cover.

The chains you don’t know endanger you; they are the chains we seek to destroy.

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

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Get a grip: A brief lesson on Handshaking 101 In Rare Forum by

Julie Mrozinski Welcome back fellow students and salutations to all incoming cohorts. All is a bustle in our city of orange. Excitement is in the air: coffee is being brewed, textbooks are in the mail, people are settling in and then getting out to party, reconnect and meet that “new-new.”

During the fall, an explosion of new faces arrive and a typical night includes more than a dozen handshakes.

They are the conception of a new relationship; nearly all greetings, both male and female, begin with a handshake and the introduction of names.

This ritual dates back to 5th century B.C. when soldiers used to grasp one another’s forearms to confirm they concealed no weapons up their sleeves and consequently create a friendly environment for interacting.

The modern handshake has become widespread only in the last hundred years, starting in the 19th century when palm-to-palm handshakes sealed business transactions between men of equivalent status.

Even in the last 50 years this process has transformed radically. Handshakes are now the globally acceptable medium for greeting and departing in all business settings – and increasingly in social events – by both men and women.

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order to create equality.

Keep in mind, gentlemen, that males can grip twice as hard as women, so take this into account if you’re attempting to create equality. And ladies, studies show that women who initiate a firm handshake are considered more open-minded and make better first impressions.

Now, let’s step outside of Knoxville and even America and note the cultural differences that you might encounter studying abroad during your career at UT. In Germany, they pump their hands only two or three times, much less than the American average of five to seven. Muslim countries have yet to bring women into this greeting and a customary head-nod is preferred, but in Switzerland, it may be expected for the women’s hand to be shaken first. In the Middle East, China and Japan, a strong handshake is considered to be rude, so weak handshakes are preferred.

Finally, the French win first place in quantity of handshaking, spending a considerable time each day shaking hands: during meetings, departures, all social gatherings and even with children.

If I see you around Knoxville or abroad, my name is Julie and I cannot wait to meet you. And yes, I might over-analyze your handshake, no pressure.

Good luck out there. The power is in your hands.

Julie Mrozinski is a junior in English. She can be reached at jmrozins@utk.edu.

Scientific truth leaves room for improvement Crossing Cues by

Melissa Lee Growing up, science was my worst subject. Nonetheless, I found myself drawn to it because of what I perceived to be stability. It seemed to be the stuff of facts – not just any, old facts, either, but testable, provable ones.

There was an idea, a hypothesis, then an experiment and then there it was—a nugget of solid, unadulterated certainty.

It was that simple. It seemed so safe. I did not understand how anyone could look at a piece of scientific evidence and take it as anything but absolute fact.

When science spoke, the debate for me was over.

It has been six years since I started working in my first real laboratory, and in that time I have come to discover that my conception of science was completely and utterly false.

Now, I’m not saying that science is not an

authority. As far as I’m concerned, it is still the best method of thought that we have, and there are many things for which—barring some earth-shattering discovery—there is enough evidence for us to know pretty conclusively.

Global warming, for example—the verdict’s in on that one.

Vaccines causing autism? We’re pretty sure that’s not a thing.

What we know even more certainly is that science is not some solid, immovable force.

It, like everything else in life, is simply not that simple.

I’m going to talk about evolution (yes, we’ve decided on that one, too) for a little bit. Evolution, coming with the urgency of survival, is situational. It is not intentionally directed towards the formation of some higher, better being. It goes slowly, building on itself in whatever direction is best at the moment, and we happen to get better as a matter of unintended consequence. There is no perfect being that we will one day evolve towards because what works best in one situation will not in the next.

Science works the same way. There is no

perfect, ultimate truth that we are reaching for. We work in environments and in situations, looking for what is currently the best fit, and as these environment and situations change, so will our theories.

The best summation that I have seen of this was posted in an online blog by former New York University post-doctoral fellow, Thomas Schofield.

“Science,” he says, “is about finding better ways to be wrong.”

And isn’t that a safer alternative?

I know that I, at least, have had plenty of practice being wrong. I research science because it is my hope that one of these days – with some systematic, thought-out failing – I can find myself wrong in a way that is just right for the current situation.

When I stepped into my first real laboratory, I was prepared to dedicate myself to the secure pursuit of cold, hard fact.

Instead, I found an even more comforting truth: science is just as human as we are.

Melissa Lee is senior in College Scholars.

She can be reached at mlee48@utk.edu.

Get Fuzzy

Non Sequitur

EDITORIAL

A night out in Knoxvegas will confirm this modern-world tradition. Because the handshake is so popular and practically engaged by all, shaking someone’s hand reflects their personality in a simple, yet complex action.

Timid and forceful personas are the easiest to identify. The finger grasp and limp shake describe a shyer type who is lacking confidence and attempting to keep a greater distance from you. A bone-crushing handshake, however, stresses a dominant, aggressive personality.

More ordinary handshakes hold within them discreet clues into the personality behind the outstretched arm. When you shake someone’s hand, it is natural for one party to position their hand over the others.

In the most dramatic scenario, one palm would be completely facing down, while the other hand faces up. The hand that lies on top demonstrates total control and power over the palm up hand.

The one on top is either a naturally dominant person or one who believes he or she can dominate you. According to the Definitive Book of Body Language, only 31 percent of women will initiate this type of handshakes.

The submissive handshake is one that does the exact opposite by facing up, allowing your hand to dominate them. This could be a personality trait or subtle reminder of their femininity or their willingness to be dominated by you.

Equality is created when both party’s hands stay in the middle with no one’s palm leaning over the other and equal grip strength. If you normally have a firm grip and you squeeze the hand of a weaker grip, back off a little in

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These committees include the Campus Entertainment Board, Cultural Attractions Committee, Film Committee, Issues Committee, Visual Arts Committee, All Campus Events and Women’s Coordinating Council.

Some events hosted by these committees include Welcome Week, Volapalooza, All-Sing, various film viewings and Homecoming.

This number is expected to grow, said Alexandra Chiasson, press secretary for the CPC. “It was sort of an answer to a lot of chaos,�

Chiasson said, junior in English. “There are multiple committees at UT and the CPC makes sure everything is running smoothly with each one.�

Students are able to select an individual committee to join, and later, apply for the Central Program Executive Board, said Chiasson, who originally joined the Issues Committee. She said a big part of the CPC is learning what the students want and catering to that. “[The CPC] is a huge part of campus life,�

Chiasson said. “Concerts, movies, speakers, comedians, dance acts. Especially for younger students who need a way to connect with other students and make friends.�

The Center for Leadership and Service will hold an interest meeting Wednesday, Aug. 21 at 5 p.m. The Central Program Council will hold an interest meeting Thursday, Aug. 22 at 4:30 p.m. All students are welcome to attend.

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Life of the Mind speaker addresses fracking issue R.J. Vogt Editor-in-Chief The man who Time Magazine has called “the planet’s best green journalist� lingered on campus Tuesday morning to eat breakfast in the Baker Center’s Toyota Auditorium with a small gathering of students and professors.

Bill McKibben, the author and lecturer who wrote 2013’s Life of the Mind book, “Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet,� began his visit in Knoxville Monday night, speaking to some of the 4,300 freshmen UT has admitted this year, its largest class in over a decade.

The Monday night lecture focused on the book that all incoming students were instructed to read and discuss with their Welcome Week groups, but Tuesday’s gathering allowed for a more vigorous question and answer session as well as a post-lecture photo opportunity.

Eric McKanly, a co-president of Students Promoting Environmental Activism in Knoxville (SPEAK) and a junior in chemistry, said he hoped the activist’s radical message of environmental activism would resonate on a campus considering a fracking research project on UT property.

The proposal goes before the Board of Trustees at their October meeting. “Whatever decision they make, we just want an opportunity for more voices to

be heard and not swiftly thrown under the rug just to make it happen,� McKanly said.

During his speech, McKibbon briefly addressed the fracking discussion in the air after Nick Alderson, a senior in environmental studies, asked him to “explain why it is a bad idea for our university to conduct a fracking study on public land that was given to us by the state.� “There was a loaded question,�

McKibben laughed.

He went on to explain how fracking was once expected to become a “bridge fuel,� one that would lead to a renewable future. “When you burn it you generate about half as much carbon dioxide as you do when you’re burning coal,� McKibben said, “which would be good.�

Despite the apparent benefit of fracking, McKibben warned of the danger of methane molecules, which are much more potent at trapping heat than carbon dioxide.

He cited a research project in Utah carried out by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that found methane leak rates of 8 percent. “If you do the math, a fracking operation with a leak rate of greater than about 2 percent is worse even than burning coal,� he said to the nearly silent room. “If that research is even close to true, it will be disastrous.�

The brief discussion of fracking was

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Bill McKibben, author of UT’s 2013 Life of the Mind selection, “Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet,� poses with SPEAK co-presidents Eric McKanly and Lindsey Huff after speaking to a small group of environmentally interested students and faculty Tuesday morning. sandwiched between several other questions about environmental impacts through divestment campaigns, which represent student pressure on the university to reinvest money from fossil fuels into more sustainable sources.

UT students passed a referendum in favor of divesting in the 2013 SGA election ballot, and McKibben said that for a major public research institution to do so could make a powerful political impact. “If you really want to keep the conversation going, there has to be something at stake,� he said. “It will be in the context of, ‘are we going to divest our holdings in fossil fuel science or not?’ “If there’s not a fight about that, it

TDOT holds up on final JWP extension plan Associated Press Knoxville’s mayor and people who have worked to build a network of trails in the southern part of the city don’t want an extension of a parkway to be built.

Now, the Tennessee Department of Transportation has eased off the accelerator on the plan and will hold public meetings on a scaled-back design.

The Knoxville News Sentinel (http:// bit.ly/14SvdEj ) reported opponents say the James White Parkway extension is no longer needed at all as a route into the Smoky Mountains because of extensive widening being completed on state Rt. 66.

Mayor Madeline Rogero opposes extending the road. “The Urban Wilderness has already achieved national recognition as an outdoor recreation destination and is a key economic development and tourism opportunity for our city, region and state,�

Rogero said in a statement Monday afternoon. “The proposed parkway will bisect this regional asset and plow through the existing and proposed trail network and wilderness assets.�

TDOT has tentatively scheduled two public meetings in October to discuss that the department called a “Modified Green Alternative.�

But some advocates of the hiking and bike trail system says any road is a probem. “It’s not about the route — it’s about the road,� said Legacy Parks Foundation Executive Director Carol Evans, whose group has spearheaded efforts to assemble a 1,000-acre network of hiking and biking trails that is garnering national attention. “You’re still bisecting the initiative. You’re sort of missing the point. “The boulevard approach doesn’t change our opposition to the road.�

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Wednesday, August 21, 2013 Arts & Culture Editor Claire Dodson

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Assistant Arts & Culture Editor Courtney Roark croark4@utk.edu

Market Square adds new, eclectic venues Claire Dodson Arts & Culture Editor

Downtown has been a source of growth over the last decade in the city of Knoxville.

At the center of this downtown evolution is the Market Square District.

Market Square, which is home to a variety of eclectic restaurants, shops and music venues, has gained at least four new businesses over the past few months.

The Peanut Shop, a franchise of Smithfield Foods, is one such business. John Nolan, assistant manager of the Market Square store, has worked at The Peanut Shop since it’s arrival Hannah Cather • The Daily Beacon to Knoxville earlier this year in April. The store has seen The Peanut Shop in Market Square has sold gourmet snacks since its opening in success in the area even though last spring. it was a somewhat unexpected

addition to the Market Square community.

“I was skeptical myself going into this market,” Nolan said.

“But like most of the other businesses in this area, it is a specialty store, and so it fits in well.

“Everyone seems to like peanuts, except those who are allergic.”

Nolan believes part of this success is due to the lack of traditional advertising the business used.

“We focused more on word of mouth and used free samples and coupons to connect with the community,” Nolan said.

“We just wanted to engage people, and we got a good response from people who just liked being in this atmosphere.”

It is this atmosphere that has made Megan Scheuneman, junior in social work, a regular on the Market Square scene.

Although Scheuneman has lived in Knoxville her entire life, she only started frequenting the downtown area upon her arrival at UT. “In the past few years especially, Market Square is more of a place to do stuff and hang out with friends,” Scheuneman said. “And it’s not just college students, its everybody.

“People want to be downtown more than they did when I was growing up.”

The largest of the recently opened stores in Market Square is Urban Outfitters, which opened in mid-April.

According to Luke LeBoeuf, an Urban employee who has worked there since its opening, the store has seen a lot of success with the UT demographic.

“I recognized the product on people at UT even before the store opened in Knoxville,” LeBoeuf said, junior in psychology. “It’s a good product

for Market Square because it brings in a younger clientele.”

In addition to Urban Outfitters and The Peanut Shop, the Orange Leaf and BlueTique Cheap Chic have also been recent additions to the square. Although this growth is evidence of a positive change, Nolan says he has a bigger vision for the future of Market Square.

“People want to get together and have fun; let’s do something with that,” Nolan said. “I like the direction Market Square is going, especially because downtown has so much to offer. As a community and a business, it is our job to tap this market and get people to come here.”

One challenge to this, according to Nolan, is the issue with parking downtown.

“One of the biggest obstacles to this is parking,” Nolan said.

“A lot of people come to the Market Square garage and if they can’t find a spot, they just decide to go somewhere else.

There needs to be more affordable parking.”

The existence of a parking issue, however, is evidence of the changes taking place downtown. Changes that will continue to impact Knoxville’s economy.

Olivia Wooliver, senior in nutrition, has worked at Rita’s for three years and has witnessed this explosion of growth firsthand. A Knoxville native, Wooliver has also heard the negative perceptions that frequented downtown in the early 1990s from her parents.

“My parents used to tell me how shady Market Square used to be, ten, twenty years ago,” Wooliver said. “No one used to come down. Now it’s the place to be.”

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Wednesday, August 21, 2013 Arts & Culture Editor Claire Dodson

ARTS & CULTURE

pdodson@utk.edu

Assistant Arts & Culture Editor Cortney Roark

croark4@utk.edu

Valley Young to revisit stomping grounds, preform new music Melodi Erdogan Managing Editor

Folk/rock band Valley Young originally formed in the Knoxville area in the spring of 2011 and has been working on their latest EP “Year of the Bear” across a few states including Colorado, New York and California.

Lead singer Artemus James and keyboardist Annabelle LaFoy are revisiting their stomping grounds with a performance at Barley’s Taproom and Pizzeria this Saturday, Aug. 23 beginning at 10 p.m.

Valley Young was created as a result of collaboration between LaFoy and James when they played in the band ‘Cain and Annabelle.’

“I just had written some songs that had been different from what we had been doing and wanted to put together a full band,” James said, “as opposed to a duo so we would have a bigger sound, and that was it.”

According to James, Valley Young’s music draws on the music he heard growing up, such as Neil Young and The Beach Boys.

“I would say it’s moody, it’s ethereal, inconsistent . . . the structure of the songs aren’t traditional, it’s got a lot of layers to it,” James said. “I was always drawn to that reverb, dreamy, ethereal sound.”

The band’s latest piece is their aforementioned EP entitled “Year of the Bear,” containing four original songs that took over a year to finish while James and LaFoy were moving from state to state. Valley Young recorded this EP along with a fulllength album, the working title of which is “Upright in the Sunlight.” This album is due to release early next spring.

“Favorite part: living in Brooklyn while we recorded. Least favorite: feeling the stress of being creative while at the same time knowing every hour you spend doing so is costing money,” LaFoy wrote in an email interview when asked about her favorite and least favorite part of working on the EP. James added that Bryce Goggin, producer of “Year of the Bear,” worked hard to make sure the band was happy with the sound of the album.

“He’s sort of in control, for the most part,” James said of Goggin in the studio.

“The songs were already structured and we

had a really good idea of what we wanted to do and what we wanted it to sound like.

“He just kind of made that happen with his experience and his studio techniques that he uses.”

LaFoy and James are the two static members of the band, while temporary members have played other instruments for performances.

“We’ve played with a handful of drummers, guitarists, pedal steel players and we’ve been so transient that nothing has been able to stick… I call it ‘musical musical chairs,’” James said.

LaFoy also emphasizes the difficulty of finding creatively dedicated musicians to join the band, saying that finding dedicated musicians to work without pay in the early stages of the band’s career can be difficult.

“Original music doesn’t pay much at first,” LaFoy said, “and it takes dedicated band-mates who understand this concept who are willing to sacrifice a little time to make a solid band into a living, breathing band.”

James said that his favorite part of performing is feeling a connection with audience members.

“Whether it is four people or four hundred people, you know you get in a groove and you feel the energy of the people in the crowd and you feed off that,” he said.

The band is currently touring the nation, stopping at locations such as the Bowery Electric in New York and The Honest Pint in Chattanooga.

Saturday’s performance will be the first at Barley’s for Valley Young. They will be opening for This Mountain, a band from Johnson City.

“We sound really different than any other band that I’ve heard,” James said. “You listen to our music and you’re like, ‘that kind of sounds like this or that, but it’s not folk, it’s not rock, it’s not Americana, but it’s kind of a mish mash of all of that.’”

Future goals for Valley Young include promoting the release of their full-length album, touring and making “a living playing these songs,” LaFoy said.

“We don’t have to be wildly famous,” LaFoy said. “Just being able to pay the bills with original tunes would be nice!”

To listen to and purchase “Year of the Bear,” and to learn more about Valley Young, visit www.valleyyoung.com.

• Photo courtesy of Valley Young

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The ceremony concluded reverently with the singing of the Alma Mater.

As the lights came up in the arena, the night transitioned to the next scheduled event, Night in Neyland.

Normally held on the field in Neyland Stadium, Sunday festivities were held in Thompson-Boling due to threat of inclement weather.

The enthusiastic freshman class roared out a rendition of “Rocky Top,” as well as endless chants of “It’s great to be a Tennessee Vol.” The school spirit of the audience was rewarded with an appearance by UT football coach Butch Jones and members of the 2013 team.

“You made the best choice you could ever make, and that’s to be a Tennessee Vol,” Jones said. “You are the future of the University of Tennessee.”

Entering the arena playing a selection of pep music were representatives from the Pride of the Southland Marching Band.

“It was really cool,” said Summer Earnest, a freshman in architecture. “I liked all the cheering and how everyone was peppy.”

The newest members of the UT family enthusiastically enjoyed their first taste of school spirit coupled with an introduction into the ranks of the Volunteer family.

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THE DAILY BEACON • 9 Arts & Culture Editor Claire Dodson

ARTS & CULTURE

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Assistant Arts & Culture Editor Cortney Roark croark4@utk.edu

Local stores bring increased fashion options

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Bluetique Cheap Chic stores open in college towns to provide school spirit apparel for students.

Gabrielle O’Neal Staff Writer

Melodi Erdogan Managing Editor In Knoxville, the line between local and corporate fashion options is usually set right through UT’s campus – downtown veers more towards the homegrown, and west Knoxville takes the commercial side.

Fortunately for the Knox community, this line is starting to blur.

“Knoxville has grown up a lot more than it used to be,” said Kristen Watt, junior majoring in public relations. “Being in a college town, you see a lot of young people dressing in a way that best represents themselves.”

Watt, a Knoxville native, finds southern elements in a lot of the fashion choices she sees around campus.

“If I had to sum up Knoxville’s own style, I would say it has a lot of Southern style mixed with a lot of natural colors and tones,” she said.

BlueTique Cheap Chic opened a Knoxville location in Market Square on Aug. 14, bringing a fresh look to East Tennessee from the original location in Lexington, Kentucky in 2011.

“BlueTique opens up in college towns,” said Courtney Marchuck, the manager for the Knoxville location. “And of course we’re very connected with the community, so we support the colleges.”

Located in Market Square, the store offers

a number of clothing, shoes and jewelry for women. So far, the only advertising for the store’s opening has been a few flyers.

“It’s pretty cool,” said Caitlin Hairrel, an incoming freshmen majoring in animal science. “I think it’s in a great location and I like that they have a lot of orange. It’s very up-to-date and it’s got a lot of different stuff, like patterns that you don’t see everywhere.”

This BlueTique store is slightly different from the BlueTique locations in other college towns.

“I think the experience in Market Square has been the best part of it,” Marchuck said.

“It’s a very exciting experience for us. The rest of the stores are on campus, so this is their first experience being detached from campus but still being accessible to the college student. We’re excited to be here and we’re very blessed to have this location.”

Another new store downtown is Style of Civilization, which opened in March. The shoe and accessories store is located on Gay Street.

“The merchandise is ever-changing, like style,” said Nina Phanlen, owner of Style of Civilization. “The woman who shops here likes to be in

touch with what is going on in the fashion world, but also likes to have something wearable.”

Phanlen considers Knoxville style to be more relaxed and laid-back compared to cities like New York.

“I try to cater towards the person who can wear a cute pair of shoes to work and also go out to dinner in the same pair,” Phanlen said.

Small boutiques aren’t the only stores opening in Knoxville. The much anticipated Urban Outfitters was introduced to downtown Knoxville in May and Anthropologie is opening in Bearden soon.

“At first I was a little hesitant,” Watt said. “I thought [the store’s opening] would change Knoxville style altogether from what it used to be. However, it hasn’t really made that large of an impact on the way people dress.”

Rebels crouch behind barricades, dodging enemy fire.

Rivers of fire belch from flamethrowers. Women and children dash across bombed-out ruins.

Men pull a corpse out of rubble.

The scenes are as riveting as any Hollywood war movie. But they are snippets of historical footage from the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, enhanced by modern coloring and sound techniques — and turned into a film.

The only purely fictional elements are voiceovers presenting an imagined narrative that stitches together the footage: Two brothers scour the streets of the Polish city tasked with filming the 1944 rebellion of Warsaw residents against their Nazi occupiers, commenting on what they witness, from soup kitchens to scenes of destruction.

It makes for a mesmerizing account of the fierce houseto-house fighting against the German army that began on Aug. 1 and ended 63 days later with the insurgents surrendering, following the deaths of some 200,000 rebels and residents. “Warsaw Rising” is cobbled together from black-andwhite silent footage of crews that the Polish resistance Home Army sent fanning through the city to chronicle the uprising.

Cinematographers hired by the Warsaw Rising Museum

added coloration and sound that give a real-life feel, while modern editing techniques provide a polished, fast-paced narrative.

The museum released the trailer of the film last month as part of the observances of the anniversary of the launch of the doomed struggle. The movie hits cinemas —in Poland and abroad — next year, before the uprising’s 70th anniversary.

Meanwhile, the museum has posted the trailer on its website in an effort to identify people in the movie. Some have already been found, still living. One is a smiling fighter filmed in a trophy German helmet and uniform, toting a captured machine gun and ammunition: Witold Kiezun, now 91, remains active in Warsaw as a professor of economics and management.

“I was going back to base when the chronicle people stopped me and filmed me,” Kiezun, a former U.N. worker in Burundi, told The Associated Press. “I smiled at them because I was madly happy that we won (a battle) and that we had captured this machine gun, a precious trophy. My bag is filled with hand grenades.”

Museum historians and film experts spent two years creating the 90-minute movie. Film director Jan Komasa produced the story line, while sound director Bartosz Putkiewicz oversaw the brothers’ dialogue and the matching sound and music.

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New Vols get first taste of Neyland atmosphere David Cobb Sports Editor Butch Jones grabbed the microphone and paced toward midfield.

It’s not uncommon for the first-year Vols coach to bark instructions to his team over a loudspeaker at practice. This practice was just a bit different.

Instead of just his team and a few reporters hearing his orders – as it was for all of UT’s fall camp – it was an announced crowd of 39,000 in the lower bowl of Neyland Stadium hearing his voice.

And they liked what he had to say.

“It’s officially football time in Tennessee,” the first-year UT football coach shouted, eliciting a thunderous roar from the crowd as an open-tothe-public practice began on Saturday night.

The date marked two weeks before Tennessee’s Aug. 31 opener against Austin Peay, and with Jones poised to play between 13 and 17 freshmen in 2013, he felt it was necessary for them to get experience performing in front of a live crowd.

Although a steady rain-

storm dampened the atmosphere after about 30 minutes of practice, plenty of fans stuck around to provide him with what he was hoping for.

“The crowd, the way they came out, it was a game daylike atmosphere,” Jones said.

UT typically draws upwards of 90,000 for home games, but a crowd of 39,000 is indeed close to game day size at two schools of interest.

At Jones’ previous stop – the University of Cincinnati – average attendance for seven home games in 2012 was 29,137.

Down Interstate 40 at UT’s

SEC foe Vanderbilt, average attendance for six home games in 2012 was 37,860.

So with the band, cheerleaders and Smokey all on the sidelines Saturday night, it was essentially a preseason game for the Vols and the first experience for the freshmen in front of a significant crowd.

“It’s a little bit of an adrenaline rush and you’re not used to that atmosphere,” recalled junior left tackle Antonio Richardson of his freshman year. “So it was good for them to get a taste of that.”

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Settlement reached in Sandusky trial Associated Press

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George Bullock warms up prior to Open Practice on Saturday, Aug. 17.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Negotiations between Penn State and the young men who have accused Jerry Sandusky of sexual abuse have begun to bear fruit, with lawyers involved saying there will be more announcements of settlements in the coming days.

The school’s trustees have set aside some $60 million to pay claims, and on Monday a lawyer working for Penn State said the one settlement so far should be followed by 24 more this week. Thirty-one young men have come forward to Penn State.

Attorney Michael Rozen said the pending agreements include most of the eight young

men who testified last year against Sandusky, the school’s former assistant football coach now serving a prison sentence for child molestation.

Penn State said little over the weekend in response to an announcement by the lawyer for one of the eight, “Victim 5,” that his case was fully settled and he expected payment within a month. The school is paying out the claims through its insurance coverage and from interest revenues on loans made by the school to its own self-supporting entities.

Rozen said all of the deals are expected to include provisions that give the university the right to pursue claims against the university’s insurer, The Second Mile charity

founded by Sandusky and The Second Mile’s insurer.

Sandusky is serving a 30- to 60-year sentence in state prison after being convicted last summer of 45 counts of child sexual abuse. Witnesses testified that he met victims through The Second Mile, an organization established to help at-risk children that ran camps and offered other services.

Rozen said the “value” of the claims depended in part on whether they happened after 2001, when top-ranking school officials were told by a graduate assistant about Sandusky with a child in a team shower, or before 1998, the earliest documented example of a Sandusky complaint.

“It’s what did Penn State

know and what duty did they have?” Rozen said. “What did they know, when did they know it, and what duty — if any — did they have to act, and to what extent?”

He said claims for abuse before 1998 also may fall outside the statute of limitations that put time limits on how long victims have to sue.

Although some lawyers have said they were interested in settlements that require Penn State to make changes that might prevent such abuse from re-occurring, Rozen said those matters have been eclipsed by the widespread reforms the university has adopted or begun since a series of recommendations were made last summer in an internal report.

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BasketVols release 2013-14 schedule Opponent

2013 NCAA Tournament Results Lost in Final Four to Louisville, 72-68.

Lost in Elite Eight to Michigan, 79-59.

Lost in Round of 32 to La Salle, 76-74.

Lost in Round of 64 to Colorado State, 84-72.

Lost in Round of 64 to Temple, 76-72.

Date

December 14 , Away

January 25, Away February 11, Home January 29 Home

February 15, Away March 8, Home December 18, Home

Bringing the Heat Vols impressed by Spoelstra’s visit David Cobb Sports Editor Erik Spoelstra knows what it takes to win championships.

The 42-year-old basketball coach has won two consecutive NBA titles with the Miami Heat and led them to a 144-50 record over that span.

He now also knows a little bit about the Tennessee football program.

On what was deemed “Championship Wednesday” – a two-practice day for the Vols in the heart of fall camp last Wednesday – Spoelstra was the guest of honor, spending the day with his friend Butch Jones and his Tennessee football team.

“Anytime you can bring an individual like Erik Spoelstra to come in and spend an entire day with your football program, it means everything,” Jones said.

For the UT players, it was validation of some big talk from their coach, who shares an agent with Spoelstra.

“At first guys kind of didn’t believe him,” junior wide receiver Devrin Young said of his coach’s insistence that he maintained a relationship with Spoelstra. “But he put it in stone. The man (Spoelstra) is here.”

Spoelstra briefly addressed the team after UT’s morning practice and then received a tour of UT’s facilities from Jones.

“He’s a great friend,” Jones said, “and I’m really indebted, because he doesn’t have a lot of time off, and for him to come to Knoxville and spend an entire day with our football program, it means a lot.”

In a way, it was just the returning of a favor, although Jones certainly received the more notorious end of the deal.

This summer – for the second year in a row – he made a June trip to Miami to see Spoelstra and the Heat clinch the NBA Championship.

For Jones, who harps on “the process” of building a winning program, the Heat’s ascension from the cellar of the NBA is a reassuring example of dedication paying off.

“There’s so many similarities, and I think with the building of the Miami Heat, everyone remembers right now and the

last two years,” Jones said. “But I think a lot of people forget the building process that went through. Prior to (Spoelstra’s) first year with the Miami Heat, they won 15 games.”

As for the UT players, a visit from the coach of worldwide phenomenon athletes LeBron James and Dwyane Wade did plenty to improve their view of Jones’ social status.

“To me, I see it as bragging rights,” Young said. “I feel like ‘my coach is cooler than yours.’

That’s how I see it.”

Young also saw the bigger picture of Spoelstra’s visit and expressed gratitude to Jones for bringing him in.

“It was awesome. I feel like

it’s an honor and a blessing to get to hear from the best,” Young said. “I really appreciate Coach Jones for doing that.

He’s doing all he can to get us prepared and show us what it takes mentally and physically to win a championship.”

Jones saw the opportunity to bring Spoelstra in as simply a perk of the job. His Cincinnati teams received no such visits.

“We want as many successful people to come in and be able to have an impact on our players,” Jones said. “That’s part of being Tennessee, is the ability to bring people that are successful to campus like Erik Spoelstra that want to come and want to be a part of Tennessee football.”

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Shortly after the SEC unveiled its 2014 men’s basketball schedule Tuesday, Tennessee released its finalized slate for the 2013-14 season.

As expected, for the first time in 60 years, Kentucky will not travel to Knoxville for a game.

The SEC no longer operates on a two-division format for basketball, meaning that the Vols are no longer guaranteed to play teams previously considered as Eastern Division rivals more than once a year.

Squads appearing twice on UT’s 18 game SEC schedule are Auburn, Florida, Missouri, Texas A&M and Vanderbilt.

In notable non-conference action, UT travels to Xavier on Nov. 12 to open the season, and faces Wichita State – a Final Four team from last year – on the road Dec. 14.

Additionally, the Vols will spend Thanksgiving on a Nov. 28-30 trip to the Bahamas for the “Battle 4 Atlantis” tournament for a game against University of Texas, El Paso and two more matchups in a tournament field including Iowa, Xavier, Kansas and Villanova.

A weak schedule has been a concern for Tennessee the past two seasons when it was passed over in the selection process for the NCAA Tournament.

At least 13 games against teams that finished in the top 150 of the 2013 RPI appear on

the 2013-14 schedule.

In a recent interview with The Daily Beacon, third-year UT coach Cuonzo Martin talked about the importance of performing in the non-conference season.

“That’s probably been a thing that has slowed us up for the NCAA tournament in the last two years,” Martin said. “So you want to get off to a good start in preseason games and we’re going to get off to a good start in preseason and go from there.”

ESPN announced its Super Tuesday schedule for the 2014 men’s college basketball season Monday – showcasing a game from the SEC and Big Ten every Tuesday for nine weeks beginning in January.

The Volunteers’ conference opener at LSU on Jan. 7 and UT’s home game against Florida on Feb. 11, both are 7 p.m. ET Super Tuesday tipoffs. The Vols are one of four SEC teams selected to appear in multiple Super Tuesday clashes this season.

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Wednesday, August 21, 2013 Sports Editor David Cobb

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UNIFORMS

Around Rock Rockyy Top

continued from Page 1 A video by UT showed at the official unveiling captured the players standing and cheering at the sight of Maggitt entering a team meeting with the gray on.

“I was surprised just because this school is big on tradition,” Maurice Couch, senior defensive lineman, said. “But I think it’s good to mix it up here and there.

With coach Jones being a new coach, I think it’s a good thing to start a new era.”

Another thing starting in the new era is remarkable success on the recruiting trail by Jones and his staff.

UT’s current 2014 recruiting class is ranked No. 1 in the nation by Rivals.com, No. 3 by 247Sports and No. 4 by Scout.com.

According to Jones, the new uniforms are already serving as an added tool in recruiting.

“I’ll tell you this, my phone has blown up with recruits across the country very, very excited about that,” Jones said of the new uniform. “This is my first fashion show, but I am ready to play football, to be honest with you.”

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Workers for ServPro Cleanup & Restoration begin repairs on a second floor apartment in the Lake Plaza apartment complex on Lake Avenue late Tuesday afternoon. According to Jay Werner, a junior in economics, one of the sprinkler pipes malfunctioned, sending hundreds of gallons of water into the walls and onto the floors of seven units. “There’s thousands and thousand and thousands of dollars worth of damage already,” Werner said. Chris Reed, a junior in finance and one of the students affected, said Lake Plaza has provided him a hotel room for the night. As the story unfolds, more information will be posted online at utdailybeacon.com.

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THE DAILY BEACON • 13 Sports Editor David Cobb

SPORTS OPEN PRACTICE continued from Page 10 All four of Tennessee’s potential quarterbacks – three of which are freshmen – got plenty of work in the wet conditions.

Though Jones wasn’t happy with the number of dropped passes on offense and an inconsistent pass rush on defense, he was pleased with what the night provided his team.

“That’s the big thing, is being able to practice in this type of an environment,” Jones said. “Two weeks from today it’s for real, and like I told our football team, two weeks from today, there are no do-overs.”

The practice featured scrimmage situations intermingled with a variety of other drills. A handful of high school prospects were in the house to take in the festivities as well.

“I want to thank our fan base for coming out and supporting us,” Jones said.

“If anybody doesn’t realize the magnitude at which Tennessee football is, all you had to (do) is be there tonight and see it.”

Students were sent an email on Monday reminding them that the request period for student tickets to the Austin Peay game begins today. It concludes at 11:59 p.m. Thursday.

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Heartbreaking loss produces focused 2013 Lady Vols Troy Provost-Heron Assistant Sports Editor In 2012, the Lady Vols soccer team took home the award for the most heartbreaking end to a season in school history.

Leading by one goal with nine seconds left against Miami (OH) in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, it seemed as if the Lady Vols were on their way to face Duke in the second round. That is until Redhawk midfielder Kelsey Dinges nailed one into the back of the net from about 18 yards out to tie it up. The Lady Vols wound up losing in overtime and their season came to an abrupt end.

With a new soccer season approaching, the Lady Vols have been hard at work, and the players remaining from last year have learned their lesson from that crushing defeat.

“We learned that it can take nine seconds for someone to score,” senior midfielder Tori Bailey said. “What we took away from that game is that you can’t give up any seconds in a game, and I think this team has come out hard working and resilient and we’re not going to let a goal get us down this time.”

The Lady Vols had their first opportunity to prove they have moved on from last season against No. 7 Duke on Friday. While they did lose their exhibition match 2-0, Bailey said that the team took away a lot of positives from the game.

“We played great,” Bailey said. “We moved the ball around, we got a lot of numbers on the field so we got a lot of girls playing and we got a lot of girls touching the ball.

I think it was really positive, and although we lost 2-0, I don’t think the score reflected how we played.”

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The team exercises during Tennessee soccer practice on Tuesday, Aug. 13.

Now all attention turns to the team’s official season opener against the Oklahoma Sooners at Regal Stadium this Friday at 7:30 p.m.

A big task for the Lady Vols will be trying to replace the holes left by Kylie Bono, Ali Hall and the rest of the graduated seniors in terms of leadership, but coach Brian Pensky also believes it’s just as big to replace their production.

“Those were very good players right up the spine of our

team: center back, defensive center midfielder, attacking center midfielder and forward and so you have to replace that talent and those personalities,” Pensky said. “We have some very good players who are excited and ready to step into their shoes, but what we are searching for right now is who are going to be the voices on the field.

“I think we have a lot of quiet leaders by example, but we all know that when push

comes to shove and life is a little difficult, we need people to rally the team and talk to the team and I think we’re still finding that.”

If the Lady Vols are able to replace the key players from last year and keep their confidence, Pensky believes that his team — pegged to finish tied for third by the other SEC coaches — can contend for an SEC Championship.

“Texas A&M and Florida have had great years the last

couple years so I’m not surprised that they were picked ahead of us,” Pensky said.

“But I think if we stay healthy and the karma and the energy around our team stays good, I think we can be in that top three or four and put ourselves to make a run and compete for an SEC Championship.”

After the Lady Vols homeopener on Friday, the team will travel to Birmingham over the weekend to face Samford on Sunday at 7 p.m.

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