Opinion: “... football... its beauty and its violence, have felt me conflicted.” >>See page 4
“War Dogs” brings bro comedy, nothing new >>See page 5
Vols soccer scores first win in season >>See page 8
The fall 2016 freshman class is the biggest in more than 30 years. Peyton Gupton • The Daily Beacon
Class of 2020: Largest, smartest in 30 years Kaylie Hofer
Contributor The Class of 2020 is setting records at the University of Tennessee in both size and incoming academic excellence. 4,825 incoming freshmen are calling UT their home for the next four years. This is the largest freshmen class the university has seen in 30 years and marks the sixth year of freshman growth. The Office of Undergraduate Admissions had over 17,500 applications pass over their desks for this school year. “One of the big challenges every year for every university in the country is to increase the number of applications,” Director of Undergraduate Academic Advancement Thomas Broadhead said. “And to do that we have to increase our ability to share great news
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about UT’s academic programs, new facilities on campus, just kind of the culture of the university with more and more people.” UT administration credits the higher numbers to more recruitment efforts, including introductory and follow-up emails, as well as speaking with potential students in-person. “Last year, we really increased our e-mail, not only initial but follow-up, communication with students, some of whom may have never heard of UT before.” Broadhead said. “The percent of those who reply may be small but every response counts.” About 18 percent of the 2020 class is made up of students coming from 41 states and 11 countries. The other 83 percent are from Tennessee. “In-state applications were not too much different from the previous year. Out of state applications were way up,” Broadhead said. “That can be attributed to our recruiters,
emails are nice, sending brochures are nice, but when you actually get to sit with somebody face to face who can talk to you, and answer your questions; that is where it really matters.” Coming to a new campus can be daunting for incoming students, so Broadhead offered some advice for the freshman. “Really get to meet your professors,” he said. “Professors all have office hours but sometimes they sit there and wait for students to show up. UT faculty are very responsive to you going up after class and saying can I meet with you about a question or to talk about an interesting topic. “That is one thing I would really love to see every student step out and make those connections.” Nearly half of the new class, 49 percent, have high school GPAs of 4.0 or higher. The class average on the ACT is 27, and ten percent of the students are enrolled in honors.
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“I’m from Louisiana majoring in aerospace engineering which isn’t offered at any of the colleges there. I wanted something close and still southern, but not too close. My grandparents live in Tennessee, and suggested looking at the University of Tennessee,” freshman in aerospace engineering Arianna Worthy said. “So I looked at the campus and the engineering program, and liked what I saw. I applied and got in.” College admissions applications and acceptances are growing nationally. Many colleges, such as University of Texas at Austin with an incoming freshmen class of more than 8,500 and Cornell University with 6,277, are also seeing their largest freshmen classes this year. “I’m excited about my engineering classes, and I was a very busy person in high school, so I’m wanting to find my passion here and hoping to join two or three different organizations,” Worthy said.
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Transgender bathroom guidelines blocked by Texas judge
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Judge Reed O’Connor of the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued a 38-page ruling on Sunday, stating that the administration had not complied with federal law in its extension of Title IX and Title VII protections to transgendered students. This decision is unlikely to have a widespread impact, as many higher courts have agreed with the current ruling that extends anti-discrimination laws to LGBT individuals attending public schools. However, the United States Supreme Court has blocked a Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals decision that required Virginia public schools to allow transgender students to use the restrooms of their choosing, adding yet more uncertainty.
For the first time since the founding of the United States in 1776, a total solar eclipse will take place on Aug. 21, 2017. A solar eclipse happens when the moon gets in the way of the light of the sun. The eclipse will start in Oregon and make its way to South Carolina, going over such places as Idaho Falls, Kansas City, Nashville and Charleston. Many cities are planning events for this solar eclipse and the next total solar eclipse, which will take place on April 8, 2024.
Mosquitos test positive for West Nile Virus in North Knoxville The Knox County Health Department has been trapping and testing mosquitos for the West Nile virus in Knoxville. Some mosquitos trapped in the Fourth Avenue area of North Knoxville tested positive for the virus. While many have been concerned about the threat of the Zika virus being found in Knoxville mosquitos, the Knox County Health Department is encouraging citizens to take the right precautions to protect themselves from mosquito bites. If weather permits, the Health Department will be spraying for Culex mosquitos on Tuesday night between 9 p.m. and midnight. They ask people to stay indoors, along with their pets. There will be follow-up spraying for Culex mosquitos in September.
Turkey vows to ‘cleanse’ border of IS after deadly attack Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey vowed Monday to fight Islamic State militants at home and to “cleanse” the group from its borders after a weekend suicide bombing at a Kurdish wedding, an attack that came amid recent gains by Syrian Kurdish militia forces against the extremists in neighboring Syria. The bombing Saturday in the southern city of Gaziantep, near the border with Syria, killed at least 54 people — many of them children. Nearly 70 others were wounded in the attack, the deadliest in Turkey this year. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but officials said it appeared to be the work of the Islamic State group. Authorities were trying to identify the attacker, who President Recep Tayyip Erdogan initially said was a child. However, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said Monday that it was unclear whether the bomber was “a child or a grownup.” “A clue has not yet been found concerning the perpetrator,” Yildirim told reporters following a weekly Cabinet meeting. He said the earlier assertion that the attacker was child was a “guess” based on witness accounts. At least 22 of those killed were children younger than 14, according to a Turkish official who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with Turkish government rules.
The attack came after the Syria Democratic Forces, a coalition led by the main Kurdish militia groups in Syria, captured the former IS stronghold of Manbij in northern Syria under the cover of airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition. “It appears to be an act to punish the PYD,” said Nihat Ali Ozcan a security and terrorism expert at the Ankara-based Economic Policy Research Foundation of Turkey, referring to a Syrian Kurdish group whose militia is fighting IS. “It’s the cross-border settlement of scores by two actors fighting in Syria.” Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told reporters Monday that Turkey would press ahead with its fight against the Islamic State group inside Turkey and support efforts to remove IS fighters from its borders. “Our border has to be completely cleansed of Daesh,” Cavusoglu said, using an Arabic acronym for the extremists. IS “martyred our ... citizens. It is natural for us to struggle against such an organization both inside and outside of Turkey.” Cavusoglu said Turkey had become a main IS target because of measures it has implemented to stop recruits from crossing into Syria to join the fighting, as well as hundreds of arrests of IS suspects in Turkey. “Turkey has always been Daesh’s primary target, because Turkey has dried out the source of Daesh’s supply of foreign fighters. ... It has stopped them from crossing into Syria,” he said.
The deadly attack also came amid ongoing struggles between the government and Kurdish militants linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, known as the PKK, and as the country was still reeling from the aftermath of last month’s failed coup attempt, which the government has blamed on a U.S.based Muslim cleric, Fethullah Gulen, and his followers. The bombing follows a suspected IS attack in June on Istanbul’s main airport that killed 44 people; a double suicide bombing blamed on IS at a peace rally in Turkey’s capital, Ankara, in October killed 103 people. Ozcan, the security expert, said Saturday’s attack was likely carried out by a local IS cell whose members would have known the wedding was a Kurdish one and targeted the wedding party for the “shock” value. The bride and groom, who survived the bombing, urged authorities to act to prevent future bloodshed. “They turned our best day to hell. We have no relatives left. They all died,” said the groom, Nurettin Akdogan. “I hope this will be the last one. Let no one else get hurt.” “From now on, find a solution,” added the bride, Besna Akdogan, sobbing. One of the wedding guests, Nursel Saglam, was on a rooftop overlooking the outdoor celebrations when the bomb went off. When she looked down after the explosion, everyone below was hurt or dead, she said.
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New app maps Smoky Mountain species Dylan Wes Bellah Contributor
Pokémon Go is not the only app getting people out of their homes looking for animals. A new app called “Species Mapper” allows people to track animals in the Great Smoky Mountains. Through a partnership with the Great Smoky Mountains and the University of Tennessee, the app predicts where animals may be found using models based on where their location has been observed in the past. “I think it’s a great way to get people engrossed in the park,” Sam Burford, freshman in architecture, said. “It’s a real-world way of seeing the natural world.” The map in the app overlays where species can be found in the mountain ranges. The likelihood of finding species in a certain location is shown with purple dots. The more purple a location is, the more likely a user is to find a certain species. Users can view the map of the park using
a computer or their phones, but that will need to access the app through a web browser. The map also allows users to view the model’s confidence, or how likely it is that the map is correct. A higher confidence means a person is more likely to find the species they are looking for. “It would get people to hike more, rather than just view the park from the road,” Jonathan Winfiele, avid hiker and outdoor enthusiast, said. “I think the app would be beneficial to people seeing the wildlife. For example, I only saw two bears once in my last 12 trips to the park.” Winfiele, who enjoys photographing the wildlife during his frequent hikes of the region, also believes the app could “suggest trails to visitors in the hopes that they will see wildlife and also help warn people about wildlife located along various trails.” With everything from wild turkeys, Appalachian Bunchflowers and Broad Shouldered Water Bugs mapped out, the app aims to bring more people to the Smoky Mountains to explore nature.
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Humans of Knoxville
Community Feature: This is Dylan Bradley. He’s a Senior Firefighter with the Knoxville Fire Department with six years of service to his city. Bradley works out of Fire Station 9 in Fort Sanders. Q: What’s your favorite part about working on campus? A: All the sports, getting to interact with the students and all the activities that happen on campus. Q: Would you like to give any advice to the students who will see this? A: Make good decisions. Be careful. This is a busy campus and there are a lot of pedestrian accidents. Don’t be out drinking and walking around on campus. Just make smart decisions. Tyler Warner • The Daily Beacon
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OPINIONS
The Daily Beacon • Tuesday, August 23, 2016
A broken football spirit Don Black
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Football is a beautiful sport. The long, looping passes that fall into desperately outstretched hands, the dramatic comebacks and heartbreaking defeats, the grit, relentlessness and effort. Football is a violent sport. There are bone crushing hits, and brain destroying concussions. And now, as we recently learned, there is CTE. Chronic Traumatic Ecephlaopathy, also known as CTE, is a degenerative brain disease most commonly found in athletes with a history of repeated brain trauma. This disease was recently discovered by Dr. Bennet Amalu, a Nigerian immigrant to the United States. While Dr. Amalu’s personal story is remarkable, and I’m excited to hear it from him when he comes to campus Aug. 31 at 7:00 p.m. in the Alumni Memorial Building, the story of the discovery of CTE is perhaps more so. CTE was discovered while analyzing the brain tissue of Mike Webster, a retired football player for the Pittsburgh Steelers who died of a heart attack in 2002. During his playing career, Webster was involved in many violent collisions, with some doctors estimating that he had been in the equivalent of 25,000 car crashes while on the football field. After retiring, Webster’s behavior grew more and more erratic. Soon, he was diagnosed with dementia, amnesia, depression and acute bone and muscle pain. Webster began living out of his truck, and as he grew closer to his death, unable to care for himself, he moved in with his teenage son who was forced to act as his caretaker. Six months before he died, when he was 50 years old, his wife divorced him and upon his death, his erratic behavior was determined to be a symptom
of CTE. For years now, these two seemingly contradictory feelings about football, of its beauty and its violence, have left me conflicted. In 2009, I watch Brett Favre throw a wobbly, hopeless, last second pass against the San Francisco 49ers while being destroyed by a defender. His pass, miraculously, is caught at the edge of the end zone as time expires, giving his team, the Vikings, the win. Just a few years later, I watch Favre, since retired, be interviewed by the Today Show. Favre, who was known as football’s iron man, began to describe the toll that his career had taken on him. He admitted that, in part due to all of the hits that he’s taken, he couldn’t remember parts of his daughter’s childhood or certain words in a conversation. Occasionally, he said that he wouldn’t be able to finish sentences that he’d started and also wasn’t sure if he would be able to let his own son play football and follow in his footsteps. While devastating, CTE, violent collisions and concussions also aren’t football’s only problem. For instance, after Ray Rice, a running back for the Baltimore Ravens, was indicted in 2014 for domestic violence, the NFL suspended him from playing for only two games. It was only after the release of a security video of the incident and public outcry that his suspension was made harsher. In some college football programs around the country, student athletes who gave their all for their school have found their scholarships revoked after they were seriously injured during a practice or a game, leaving them with no money to attend college or pay for their
medical bills. For some players, this all has added up to a tipping point. Recently, Chris Borland, a 24-year-old linebacker for the 49ers, retired after just his first season deciding that football was no longer worth the risk to his health. But Borland has seemed to be the exception, rather than the rule. Even Brett Favre has said that, if given the choice, he would do it all over again. And in some ways, from my safe seat on the sidelines, I feel the same way. I read these stories of Mike Webster and of Brett Favre and my heart breaks. How can I support this industry, which churns up and spits out even its most dedicated and toughest athletes? How can places of higher learning, like the University of Tennessee, facilitate and encourage their own students to go through this? And then my mind drifts back to moments like that Brett Favre touchdown pass, the tension and the competition. The players born into poverty who, upon signing their first contract, buy their mom a home. I honestly don’t know what the answer is. But if the past is an indicator of the future, on Sept. 1 I will probably be colored orange, gray and white, cheering in Neyland Stadium. I’ll jump out of my seat as I see someone that I recognize, someone who I’ve had a class with, make a superhuman play. I’ll hold my breath as I watch him take a big hit and fall to the ground. And I’ll pray. Don Black is a junior in business analytics and can be reached at dblack17@vols.utk.edu
On cherry icees, Hello Kitty and prison Jarrod Nelson Socialized
The other night I got a headache for the first time in around a year. In spite of the fact that I stare at screens more than I sleep, my head is surprisingly resilient when it comes to small problems that can be solved with Advil or Adderall. No, it takes something emotional to split my eyes in two. I hadn’t been so lucky though. I felt a little guilty and while that is familiar to someone as white as me, this kind of guilt eats through your head and down into your stomach, where it wrangles up your intestines and lining and pulls it all into a hangman’s noose that dangles in front of you like a hook with the wrong kind of bait. See, I might have broken the law. It’s possible I read a sign wrong, and chose the literal only other option when going down a one-way road that isn’t the right option. I chose the wrong option. Down the street I went, a flagrant pirate of the streets, not even realizing it. But no one caught me. That’s what played Boy Scout camp with my intestines. This pirate sailed away to a night of Greek yogurt and Mad Men. Let’s say I hadn’t though. Let’s say I get stopped, and I don’t like the officer’s Hello Kitty forearm tattoo and I tell him that. So the officer does what any self-respecting Hello Kitty fan would do and hello kitties me all the way into county
for the night. Who knows what could happen in-county. Maybe someone there has a Hello Kitty pen they’re making into a shiv, and I just can’t help myself. Now all of a sudden, I’m a felon and I’m full of stab holes. At this point, someone can start making some money -- and you thought “Intervention” was the only thing allowed to profit off of others misfortunes. In Tennessee, there are six prison facilities run by private companies. To be more accurate, there are six prison facilities run by one private company. Corrections Corporation of America, born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee by the former chairman of the Tennessee Republican Party and a mighty good bad idea. It went something like this. Offer to run the government’s prisons for them, and make a fine profit doing it by not being restrained by all of the accountability that comes with being a government agency. Like Voldemort, it’s terrible, but great. Of course, you need to ensure that you’re making product. Every company does. And when your product is criminals, it’d probably make sense to lobby the government to ensure that it is much easier to become one. Hence my Hello Kitty shiving. And millions of other peoples’ insane sentences for marijuana possession. Oh, and as a side-note, there is a company that
CCA often contracts with to “feed” (read: get sued for literally malnourishing) their prisoners. That company is Aramark. You should be hearing the Orange is the New Black theme when you walk into Presidential Court Cafe. On Thursday, the Justice Department announced it would be ending its use of private prisons due to their ineffective and unsafe nature. Nothing about the inherent moral toxicity of setting up incentives to jail people for money was mentioned, but it’s a start. This means the problem is over though, and that justice has been restored. Batman can hang up the cowl. Squirrel Girl can hang up the cheeks. Oh wait, I just read that last part on Facebook. The Justice Department’s ruling affects 13 prisons only. Which translates into roughly 22,000 prisoners. In Tennessee, a state with roughly 2 percent of the US population. There are 8,239 beds in private prisons, and given CCA’s practices, they’ve probably got people sleeping on couches. I don’t know if I believe in trickle down morality. Maybe it won’t be a matter of believing for very long. Jarrod Nelson is a junior in public relations and can be reached at jnelso47@vols.utk.edu
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Tuesday, August 23, 2016 • The Daily Beacon
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Festival highlights variety of talent Anu Kumar
Staff Writer This Friday through Sunday, everything from local musicians to burlesque performers will be shown at the third annual Blankfest. “It’s basically a big party for Knoxville,” Rusty Odom, publisher for Blank News, said. “We try to celebrate the entire entertainment culture.” Blankfest is a “take-all” kind of festival when it comes to entertainment in the scruffy city. “Knoxville has a good music scene, but some people don’t know how to approach it,” Odom said. “Blankfest is a ‘one-stop-shop’ for people to experience the entertainment scene here in Knoxville.” With a more than 40 band lineup, around a dozen comedians, an improv group and a dozen burlesque performers set to take the stage this weekend, the festival falls nothing short of a party celebrating the local creative culture. Local band Southern Cities will be performing their new concept album “Give In to the Machine” for their set and are first timers at Blankfest. Luke Brogden, the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the group, is excited about the amount of talent around the city. “Knoxville has a ridiculously amazing scene, and we are happy to be a part of it,” Brogden said. “Blankfest will be a great celebration of what this town has to offer.” Cocoa Moon will host all the comedy and dancers on “The Fringe Stage” and all the music will take place in Market Square. Some featured artists for Friday night’s performance include
Trae Pierce and the T-Stones, Electric Darling and Perpetual Groove. “It should be one of the coolest and biggest productions done on Market Square,” Odom said. “We’ve got some special surprises planned that are going to happen … sporadically throughout the weekend.” Some of those surprises have already been generally announced, but the details have been kept a secret. One of the planned events includes a jam called “The Taco Pony Midnight Snack and Songwriters Ball.” Time Sawyer, another band performing at Blankfest, has a side project called “Taco Pony,” which is essentially a set where the band covers multiple songs. Blank news coordinated the festival with the start of UT’s fall semester. “That’s why we do it when we do it,” Odom said, “so that the students … can have access and have fun as well.” There have been some changes to the festival over the years, including the number of days of the festival itself. The previous two years it had been held over one day, but this year it spans three days. “We just decided we really wanted to go out with a bang,” Odom said. “It’s grown very organically over the years, but this year especially I’m very proud of the lineup that we’ve put together.” Odom didn’t divulge more about future plans for Blankfest, but he said to expect more things in the years to come. “If you want to go to Blankfest, then this is the year to do it.” Odom said, “I encourage
Jenna Brotz • The Daily Beacon (everyone) to get there early. The people who are playing early (are) phenomenal. They need to be seen.” Tickets can be purchased now at scruffycity.
com. The Headliner show is free, but if you want to experience the entirety of Blankfest, a weekend wristband is $25 or a day pass is $10. Blankfest will be held from Aug. 26-28.
‘War Dogs’ just another ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ Nathan Smith Contributor
As I exited a matinee showing at the dowtown Regal Theater this weekend, a gaggle of college-aged males stubled out in front of me. One remarked on how “trashed” one of his companions was, despite the relatively early hour. Based on this single interaction, it’s easy to ascertain how the public perceives “War Dogs,” the film that we had all just seen. It’s the latest from Todd Phillips, the director behind insightful and socially concerned classics like the “Hangover” trilogy and “Old School” (sarcasm intended). “War Dogs” is the ripped-from-the-headlines, believe-it-or-not true story of two twenty-something dropouts who, with a lot of guts, greed and THC, landed an incredibly high-profile contract with the U.S. military during the Iraq War. Jonah Hill plays Efraim Diveroli, a variation of his character from “The Wolf of Wall Street,” an ingenious gunrunner with an enormous appetite for money and cocaine and a laugh that sounds like a dying baby. Miles Tiller plays David
Packouz, Efraim’s best friend from middle school and the unwitting, if more reasonable, business associate who joins the arms dealing enterprise out of desperation. “War Dogs” aims for somewhere between Michael Bay’s “Pain and Gain” and Adam McKay’s “The Big Short,” another political left turn from a director typically associated with bro-comedies, but it possesses less flair than either of the two. You can feel that it desperately seeks admittance to the pantheon of dorm room posters: “Scarface,” “Fight Club,” “The Wolf of Wall Street.” What all these films have in common is their employment of satire, tackling the excessive consumption and bad behaviors that can be caused by the “American Dream.” But what makes them so appealing to a college audience is how easy it is to conflate their depiction of debauchery with endorsement. For many of us college students, at least those early on in our academic careers, everything feels untapped and infinite. As Tony Montana reads on the Goodyear blimp, the world is ours. Unfortunately, that optimism and drive is often poured into replicating some of the dangerous
behaviors depicted in movies like “Scarface” and “The Wolf of Wall Street.” Though the messages of these films often go unheard or unnoticed by their biggest fans, they are great films nonetheless, with a distinct sense of style delivered by accomplished directors like Brian De Palma and Martin Scorsese. But Phillips is neither De Palma nor Scorsese, and he seems content to hang in their shadow instead of developing his own unique voice. The poster for “War Dogs” is a facsimile of the “Scarface” poster, and Efraim and Packouz constantly reference it. Phillips’ visual sensibility is ripped from the Martin Scorsese of “GoodFellas” and “The Wolf of Wall Street,” with constant voiceover, freeze frames and dad rock needle drops. Even then, Phillips is not able to conjure the spirit of the artists that he apes, and the result is surprisingly low-energy, especially compared with its trailer. Though Hill plays a man with a large appetite, his consumption of cocaine and other vices is almost an after-thought when compared to how constant it is in “The Wolf of Wall Street.” It’s also a surprise that our primary protago-
nist, played by Teller, is actually likeable. Despite his poor business decisions and thirst for capital, he’s a half-decent guy who doesn’t seem like too bad of a partner or a parent, especially when lined up against the likes of Tony Montana and Jordan Belfort Though these differences could potentially make “War Dogs” interesting, it lacks distinctiveness and a unique directorial voice. There’s little introduction to our characters, no explanation to their motivations other than the fact that they like money, because it’s taken for granted that anyone in America will do whatever it takes to make a few extra bucks. For a film about international arms dealing, it feels surprisingly insular and small in scope, and has little to say about the conflict at its core. Everything here has been seen before: the rapid rise and the just-as-fast fall, the reckless spending, the troops marching in while Creedence Clearwater Revival plays. There’s little to set “War Dogs” apart from a thousand other movies. Maybe frat boys of the future will get drunk to it, but it remains to be seen if “War Dogs” will find a place on their dorm room walls.
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The Daily Beacon • Tuesday, August 23, 2016
Rich season of fiction expected this fall Associated Press
NEW YORK — For the weightiest novel this fall, or most any season, Alan Moore has the grandest ambition. “The intention was to somehow combine four or five different books or impulses for books into one coherent whole,� the author known for the graphic novels “Watchmen� and “V for Vendetta� says of “Jerusalem,� a 1,266 page words-only union of science and fantasy that references everyone from Albert Einstein to Oliver Cromwell. Moore worked a decade on his all-encompassing tale, set in his native Northampton, England. “This is the book in which I have written most directly about the things that are most central to my life, these being my family and the place that I emerged from. By making the
narrative so personal and specific I hoped to conjure a kind of universality, an evocation of the families and places that we all come from at some point in our ancestry, irrespective of who or where we are, but the fact remains that the materials of ‘Jerusalem’ come from a source very close to me.� Fall is the time for “big books,� whatever the page length, and some of the top fiction authors from around the world have new works coming, including Ian McEwan, Zadie Smith, Margaret Atwood, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Rabih Alameddine, Emma Donoghue, Jonathan Safran Foer and Michael Chabon. Ann Patchett, owner of Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tennessee, looks forward to selling Jacqueline Woodson’s autobiographical novel “Another Brooklyn� and Colson Whitehead’s celebrated, Oprah Winfrey-endorsed historical novel about slavery, “The Underground Railroad.�
Humans of Knoxville
Faculty Feature: This is Dr. Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius. He’s a decorated author who has taught around the world and been honored for his extensive work in the field of German history. He has been a professor with the history department for 20 years and the Director for the Center for the Study of War and Society for eight years. This lesser known organization found its home on our campus studying how war affects society and how society affects war. They do this by collecting artifacts, documenting interviews and seeking out the oral history in every war this nation has been a part of. Dr. Liulevicius wants to encourage any students reading this to come visit and to feel welcome to utilize the extensive history resources that our faculty members and graduate students have collected over the past couple of decades. The center is located on the 2nd floor of Hoskins Library in room 217. Tyler Warner • The Daily Beacon
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The Daily Beacon • Tuesday, August 23, 2016
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Current, former Vols win medals in Rio Staff Report Former Vol athletes Tianna Bartolleta, Justin Gatlin, Tamika Catchings and Rhian Wilkinson all left the 2016 Rio Summer Olympic Games with medals for their countries. A total of ten current and former Tennessee athletes participated in the 2016 Games and represented five different countries. Bartolleta, formerly Tianna Madison, won gold for team USA in both the women’s 400meter relay and long jump. The team of Bartolleta, Allyson Felix, English Gardner and Morolake Akinosun were initially disqualified in the first round of the relay after a botched baton exchange between Felix and Gardner. The USA was given a rerun after the replay revealed that Brazil’s Kauiza Venancio bumped into Felix prior to the exchange. Team USA ran alone that same night to qualify for the finals and ended up finishing with the fastest qualifying time at 41.77 seconds. With Tori Bowie replacing Akinosun in the final, the USA secured the gold with a time of 41.01 seconds. Bartolleta’s 7.17-meter leap in the women’s long jump was just enough to take the gold from team mate and defending Olympic champion Brittany Reese. Bartolleta also participated in the 100-meter sprint but failed to make the final. Gatlin finished .08 seconds behind Jamaica’s Usain Bolt to win silver for the USA in the men’s 100-meter sprint. Gatlin led the pack for the majority of the sprint, but his time of 9.89 seconds was not enough to best Bolt at the finish line. He finished first overall in the first round with 10.01 seconds and third in the semifinals behind Bolt and Canada’s Andre De Grasse with 9.94 seconds. Catchings left Rio with her fourth and final gold medal as part of the USA women’s
basketball team after a 101-72 victory over Spain. The former Lady Vol, along with team mates Sue Bird and Diana Taurus — who are also expected to retire before the 2020 Tokyo Olympics — are three of only five USA women’s basketball players to accomplish four gold medal wins. Wilkinson helped the Canadian women’s soccer team bring home a bronze medal for the second consecutive time. After losing 2-0 to Germany in the semifinals, Canada beat Brazil 2-1 in the bronze medal match. Rio 2016 was likely the 34-year-old veteran’s last chance at winning the gold medal. Three current Tennessee athletes participated in the Rio Olympics but did not earn medals. Swimmer Kira Toussaint represented the Netherlands in the 200-meter backstroke placing fifth in her heat and 18th overall with a time of 1:01.17, just missing the semifinals. Christian Coleman was a part of the USA men’s 400-meter relay team that won the first round with a time of 37.65. Team USA was disqualified in the finals due to an illegal baton pass between Gatlin and Mike Rodgers. Hannah Wilkinson was also part of the New Zealand women’s soccer team. Former Vol swimmers Molly Hannis and Martina Moravcikova represented the USA and Czech Republic, respectively. Hannis placed 12th in the first round of the 200-meter breaststroke with a time of 2:24.73, but slowed down to 2:26.80 in the semifinals and missed the final round. Moravcikova participated in both the 100 and 200-meter breaststroke with times of 1:08.50 and 2:27.51 respectively, but failed to advance to the next round in either event. Tavis Bailey participated in the discus throw for the USA, but failed to qualify for the final round. He ranked 26th overall in the event with a 59.81-meter throw.
SOCCER
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Volunteer soccer pick up first win of the season Lucas Hunter
Contributor The Tennessee Volunteers soccer team (1-1-0) defeated the Liberty Lady Flames (0-2-0) Sunday night thanks to a goal from redshirt freshman Maya Neal. The lone goal of the game is the first of the season for the Vols, as well as the first of Neal’s career after missing most of her debut season last year because of an injury in her first game. Neal’s goal is a direct result of her teammate Rylie O’Keefe, the sophomore who crossed the ball from the corner to the awaiting Neal and gave Tennessee its first win of the 2016 season. “When I went out there, I looked to drop it right at the back of the six and hope someone will get into it, and I knew someone would,” O’Keefe said. The night will always be remembered as the first game-winner in Neal’s Tennessee career, but it also signaled the first make in many missed opportunities for both teams. Tennessee freshman Mady Hairston missed a one-on-none fast break goal in the 36th minute, failing to break the stalemate after her shot ricocheted off the left post back to her. Likewise, Liberty squandered a fast break in the 70th minute by shooting wide right with only the goalkeeper to beat. Inexperience on the collegiate level is displayed on this occasion, as head coach Brian Pensky is being forced to hand major minutes to freshmen on the roster in light of the recent surge of injuries. “We’re thin right now,” Pensky said. “We’re down to fifteen field players right now, so we had a lot of kids play big
minutes.” Pensky complimented the underclassmen in their ability to juggle difficult positions and play in crunch time possessions, such as freshman Maddie Krejci — who earned her first career start — and Claire Franks — who relieved redshirt junior Michele Christy at defensive center-mid. The game was a statistical tie through the half, but Tennessee revamped their effort and aggression in the second half to set the tone for the eventual victory. The Volunteers managed nine shots in the second half while only surrendering five, but the agitated defense committed eight fouls in the second half after committing only one in the first. “We challenged them at halftime about their mentality,” Pensky said. “Their want to do this, and their want to have to grind through difficult stuff, like I said bouncing back 48 hours later, is tough.” This game is also the sequel to a 2015 draw, where the Volunteers tied 0-0 in Lynchburg, VA after 120 minutes of action. “Liberty is a good team,” Pensky said. “They took us 110 minutes to a 0-0 tie (last season) and we knew that this game was going to be a handful.” The Volunteers will now look to the next game, where they hope to return graduate student Hannah Wilkinson, who has been playing with the New Zealand Women’s national team during the Olympics. The Volunteers will play the third of four consecutive games at Regal Stadium on Thursday, Aug. 25, when they take on the Washington Huskies at 7 p.m. The game will air on both SEC Network+ and the WatchESPN app.
Catchings adds more gold to her trophy case Staff Report
Tamika Catchings, former All-American of the Tennessee Lady Vols and current star of the Indiana Fever, just made history for the fourth time.
Catchings earned the fourth gold medal of her Olympic career during the Rio 2016 Olympics. Fellow WNBA stars Sue Bird of the Seattle Storm and Diana Taurasi of the Phoenix Mercury also earned their fourth gold medals. The trio became three of five USA women’s basketball players in Olympic history to earn at least four gold medals. Lisa Leslie from 19962008 and Teresa Edwards from 1984-2000 are
the other two members of this exclusive list. By extending Team USA’s streak of Olympic Gold in women’s basketball to six Olympics in a row, Catchings cemented her spot as one of the most decorated women’s basketball players of all time. Catchings now garners four Olympic gold medals, a ten-time WNBA All-Star, an MVP award and a WNBA Championship. In the WNBA, Catchings is currently the
fastest player to ever reach two thousand points and one thousand rebounds. She did so in only four seasons. She has also been the president of the WNBAPA since 2012. Catchings has announced she will retire from WNBA and Olympic basketball after the conclusion of this season, closing the book on another noteworthy career for a former Lady Vol.