Opinion: “For now, I just can’t shake that schadenfreude.” >>See page 6
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Dobbs ready for first season opener as starter Jonathan Toye Sports Editor Tennessee head coach Butch Jones called the Vols’ season-opener against Bowling Green a “game of unknowns.” That’s why he is happy that Tennessee has a proven commodity in junior quarterback Joshua Dobbs. “There are less of unknowns with having Josh Dobbs as our quarterback, and he understands everything we are trying to accomplish,” Jones said. “He understands the in-season routine. “It is great, going into a game, knowing that (Dobbs) has been through it and understands it.” It’s a different situation than last year, when the Alpharetta, Georgia native was behind both Justin Worley and Nathan Peterman on
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the depth chart at the beginning of the 2014 season. So Dobbs thought he was going to redshirt in 2014. But even when the prospects of seeing the field looked dim, Dobbs still prepped as if he was the starter. “You never know when your number is going to be called,” Dobbs said. “You have to be ready at any moment to play and be productive.” When Dobbs’ opportunity came, he was more than ready. He became Tennessee’s starting signal caller for the South Carolina game last season, leading the Vols to a 4-1 record and to their first winning season since 2009. He averaged 279.2 yards per game last season and revitalized a stagnant offense. He entered spring as the starter, helping teach the system to the early-enrollee freshmen quarterbacks, and was a steady presence
in the fall when some of his offensive weapons were hampered with injuries. Now, Dobbs is entering new territory for 2015: he is the undisputed starter to open the season. He also faces high expectations for the first time in his career, as his name was included on four preseason award watch lists (Maxwell Award, Wuerffel Trophy, Davey O’Brien Award and the Manning Award). Dobbs is ready for the moment, and it is his duty as the starting quarterback to ensure that his teammates are ready too. “The biggest (responsibility) is making sure everyone is ready to play,” Dobbs said. “Obviously it’s a long training camp. It’s a long month before the game, and I guess the tensions are high because people are tired of hitting the same color, they are ready to go after someone. See DOBBS on Page 11
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A red carpet acts as a runway for famous celebrities, designer stilettos and paparazzi photo-ops— it’s rarely used as a medium to spread awareness on systemic issues. But that’s exactly how UT’s Center for Health Education & Wellness used one Monday afternoon. To promote the upcoming Red Zone panel, Center for Health Education & Wellness wellness coordinator Rebecca Juarez watched as students inspected the long, red carpet winding around the Presidential Courtyard and signed their names in support of increased awareness on sexual assault issues. When students stopped to stare down at the signatures, Juarez said it was an opportunity to test pedestrians on their knowledge of sexual assault issues and encourage attendance for Red Zone events. “When we explain,(the Red Zone) to (students), most of them are very much on board and they want to find out and get involved,” Juarez said. The Red Zone campaign’s name stems from a recent statistical trend on college campuses that identifies the first six weeks of the academic year as the time when students are most likely to be sexually harassed or assaulted. The events planned for the week were organized and sponsored by Sexual Empowerment and Awareness at Tennessee (SEAT). Center for Health Education & Wellness director Ashley Blamey said now that UT’s interim policy on sexual assault is finalized, clarification on the policy’s various components will be a primary focus for her as a participant in Red Zone’s first event: Having the Talk: A Dialogue with Administrators on Campus Sexual Assault. “(Sexual assault) is an issue that is not new to higher ed, and it’s not something that’s going to be resolved overnight,” she said. “The only way to solve a community issue is a community solution, and we’ve got a really good foundation that we need to keep building on.”
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DISPATCHES Brain-eating amoeba kills teen- President to visit Alaska amidst Four bomb threats in Middle Tennessee high schools proved age athlete oil, mountain controversy hoaxes President Barack Obama will begin a three Michael John Riley Jr., a 14-year-old athlete and Houston native, became the latest victim of a rare but deadly brain-eating amoeba this Sunday. Riley had qualified for the Junior Olympics three times in track and is believed to have contracted the amoeba while swimming with his teammates at Sam Houston Park. The Naegleria fowleri amoeba is rare, but is frequently found in hot and stagnant pools of fresh water. The amoeba enters the body through the nose and then proceeds to the brain. Early symptoms include mild headaches that eventually progress to a fatal brain infection. While only 133 cases have been documented, only 3 of those with the amoeba survived. Last summer, a nine-yearold Kansas girl fell victim to the amoeba, while an Oklahoma man met a similar fate earlier this month after swimming in a lake outside the town of Ardmore, Oklahoma.
day visit to coastal Alaskan communities threatened by climate change starting this Monday. The president hopes to connect with and address issues facing indigenous Alaskans, an effort highlighted by his recent decision to rename the continent’s tallest peak from Mt. McKinley to Denali, which translates to Great One in the native Athabaskan language. Many indigenous Alaskans expressed frustration with Obama’s supposed commitment to combating climate change after he allowed the Shell Corporation to search for oil off of Alaska’s shores. That decision came only weeks after Obama signed an agreement pledging to cut carbon emissions from power plants across the nation. The president defended his decision to allow drilling off coast, stressing that the country’s economy was still dependent upon domestic oil.
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According to Ukraine’s Interior Ministry, hundreds of nationalist protesters were wounded during a clash with eastern “separatists” outside the Parliament in Kiev on Monday. During the clash, a grenade exploded and killed one officer. The protest, compromised mostly of members in the nationalist party Svoboda, arose after a legislative decision to give more power to Ukrainian separatists. The incident marks the worst widespread violence experienced by Ukraine since February 2014. This decentralization of power was a condition demanded by Russian officials in a truce at Minsk last year and sought to end conflict between Ukrainian government troops and Russian-backed separatist units.
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Bomb threats in four Middle Tennessee high schools were determined to be hoaxes after each school evacuated students and faculty within a hour. According to a report from the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office, Holloway High School received a bomb threat at 11:15 a.m. Resource officers in Rutherford County cleared the premises before students returned to school later that afternoon. Brentwood High School in Williamson County, Elzie Patton Elementary School in Wilson County and Howard Elementary School in Sumner County also received threats within the next hour. Howard Elementary School principal Cindy Swafford commented on school personnel’s preparedness for the emergency situation, stating they all “did a beautiful job” removing students from danger. All schools returned to their normal hours once the threat was lifted.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — President Barack Obama brought the power of the presidential pulpit to Alaska on Monday, aiming to thrust climate change to the forefront of the global agenda with a historic visit that will put the state’s liquefying glaciers and sinking villages on graphic display. During his three-day tour of Alaska, Obama planned to hike a glacier, converse with fishermen and tape a reality TV show with survivalist Bear Grylls — all part of a highly orchestrated White House campaign to illustrate how climate change has damaged the state’s stunning landscape. The goal at each stop is to create powerful visuals that show real-world effects of climate change and drive home Obama’s message that the crisis already has arrived. Stepping off of Air Force One, Obama was greeted by Alaska’s leaders and the U.S. Army Alaska’s commanding general. Small crowds gathered along the streets as Obama made his way through downtown Anchorage, where he planned to meet with Alaska Natives before addressing a U.S.-sponsored summit on climate change and the Arctic. Later in the trip, Obama will become the first sitting president to travel north of the Arctic Circle when he visits Kotzebue — population 3,153 — to address the plight of Alaska Natives, who face dire economic conditions amid some of the worst effects of global warming.
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“They don’t get a lot of presidents in Kotzebue,” Alaska Gov. Bill Walker quipped as he joined Obama for the seven-hour flight from Washington. Aboard Air Force One, the White House unveiled a new National Park Service map bearing the name Denali where Mount McKinley used to be. As a prelude to the trip, Obama announced his administration was renaming the tallest mountain in North America and restoring its traditional Athabascan name. The move drew applause from Walker and other Alaska leaders, but harsh condemnations from Ohio politicians angry that Ohio native and former President William McKinley’s name will be erased from the famed peak. “You just don’t go and do something like that,” said Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a Republican presidential candidate. The White House said it planned to work with Ohio officials to find another way to honor McKinley’s legacy. As he traverses Alaska this week, Obama has two audiences in mind: Alaskans, who are hungry for more energy development to boost the state’s sagging oil revenues, and the broader public, whose focus Obama hopes to concentrate on the need for drastic action to combat global warming, including a climate treaty that Obama hopes will help solidify his environmental legacy. Whether Obama can successfully navigate those two competing interests — energy and the environment — is the prevailing question of his trip.
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MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday ruled against the Kentucky county clerk who has refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses, and the clerk will arrive at work Tuesday morning to face her moment of truth. Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis will have to choose whether to issue marriage licenses, defying her Christian conviction, or continue to refuse them, defying a federal judge who could pummel her with fines or order that she be hauled off to jail. “She’s going to have to think and pray about her decision overnight. She certainly understands the consequences either way,” Mat Staver, founder of the law firm representing Davis, said on Monday, hours before a courtordered delay in the case expired. “She’ll report to work tomorrow, and face whatever she has to face.” A line of couples, turned away by her office again and again in the two months since the U.S. Supreme Court legalized gay marriage across the nation, plan to meet her at the courthouse door. Davis stopped issuing all marriage licenses in the days after the landmark decision. Two
gay couples and two straight couples sued her, arguing that she must fulfill her duties as an elected official despite her personal religious faith. A federal judge ordered her to issue the licenses, and an appeals court upheld that decision. Her lawyers with the Liberty Counsel filed a last-ditch appeal to the Supreme Court on Friday, asking that they grant her “asylum for her conscience.” Justice Elena Kagan, who oversees the 6th district, referred Davis’ request to the full court, which denied the stay without comment. Kagan joined the majority in June when the court legalized gay marriage across the nation. As the clock wound down for Davis on Monday, the tension intensified between dueling groups of protesters outside her office window on the courthouse lawn. Hexie Mefford has stood on the lawn waving a flag nearly every day for more than two months. The flag is fashioned after Old Glory, but with a rainbow instead of the red and white bars. Mike Reynolds, a Christian protesting in Davis’ defense, shouted at her that he found the flag offensive: He is an Army veteran, he complained, and they had desecrated the American flag. The two groups roared at each other. The Christians called on the activists to repent; the activists countered that their God loves all.
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RED ZONE continued from Page 1 Other UT administrators planning to speak on policy changes and sexual assault issues include Title IX Coordinator Jenny Richter, Theresa Lee, dean of the College of Arts & Sciences and Vincent Carilli, Vice Chancellor for Student Life. Blamey said she is particularly interested in discussing the changes in the final policy which address amnesty and consent, both which are components that directly affect students and can often spur the most confusion. Futher, Blamey said clarifying these points only encourages an important conversation on campus that could help in preventing assault. “I think those pieces stand out for me and it will be interesting to see what stands out for other people ... ” Blamey said. “We never want alcohol or drug use to impact a student’s process of reporting.” According to the new university bylaws, consent must meet four critical adjectives for both partners: obtained, affirmative, voluntary and continual. The policy’s amnesty section,
Blamey explained, also protects victims and witnesses who are under the influence of illegal drugs from university consequences during the reporting process. SEAT co-chair Colleen Ryan, a junior in global studies, said incorporating faculty and administration into the campus-wide conversation on sexual assault is one of the best ways to create a more accepting atmosphere at UT. “One of the most important things an administrator can do is take a strong stance against sexual assault and make it clear that there is no tolerance for it on campus,” Ryan said. “They work directly with students and making resources available to them, but even those not involved directly still have responsibility in making this campus a safe one.” Ryan reported overall positive feedback when administrators were asked to participate. Ultimately, Ryan said the Red Zone campaign is just one “facet” of sexual assault prevention and promoting sex positivity on campus. “We wanted to create more spaces for conversation between administrators and students about sexual assault because the safety of our campus community should be everyone’s top priority,” Ryan said. “An issue that we work to combat together.”
Communication innovation aims to improve healthcare in East Tennessee Tanner Hancock News Editor In East Tennessee, poor healthcare is an unfortunate staple of rural communities. Thankfully, UT’s College of Nursing is working to bridge the health gap between metropolitan cities like Knoxville and the surrounding hills of Appalachia. Earlier this month, UT’s College of Nursing received a $2 million grant from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration to improve clinical education for family nurse practitioner students. In conjunction with rural clinical practice partners in Monroe County and nearby LaFollette, the grant will help train UT students to better serve rural communities while simultaneously providing those areas with updated medical equipment. For rural communities, understaffing can often create issues for practitioners faced with rare or uncommon medical conditions. By providing Telehealth technologies to partnering rural communities, which allow for advanced communication between medical professionals, the college of nursing hopes to mend at least some of the issues frequently plaguing outlying community healthcare. “They’ll try to provide as best care they can within the scope of their practice, but then also refer them back to more regional centers if people need more intensive care,” Victoria Niederhauser, dean of the College of Nursing, said of the benefits of Telehealth.
Money from the grant will also be directed toward training UT nursing students to better interact with and operate within rural medical facilities. Explaining that over half of all UT nursing students go on to work in rural areas following graduation, Niederhauser believes the grant will fully prepare students to operate in areas outside the metropolitan norm. Echoing that sentiment, clinical instructor Katie Morgan shares the hope that both UT and partnering communities will benefit from the grant. “We’re trying to create a win-win situation where we enhance their (rural communities’) ability to provide excellent precepting for students, and they enhance our ability to provide sites for the students to be trained,” Morgan explained. Over the past several years, Morgan and Karen Lasater, clinical assistant professor, have made it a point to travel beyond Knoxville and work in the field with rural partner communities around East Tennessee. In Appalachia, medical professionals are often left to deal with populations that are either under-insured or lack insurance of any kind, placing further strain on funds that are often hard to come by outside of larger cities. “They are held accountable to do more for their patients, just as every practice site is, with less resources,” Lasater said of the issues facing East Tennessee medical professionals. Appalachia’s poor healthcare conditions recently became the subject of national attention, as Daily Show correspondent Aasuf Mandvi profiled Third World Health Care’s efforts to care for peoples living outside of Knoxville during a segment last year.
(Left) The Center for Health Education & Wellness’ red carpet spanned Presidential Court for all of Monday to promote Red Zone events. (Top) Pedestrians signed their names on the Red Zone carpet in support of sexual assault awareness. • Photos courtesy of Ashley Blamey
Weekly LGBTQ+ sex-ed discussion to start at Pride Center Kirstin Pereria Contributor Public school sex education tells middle schoolers where babies come from in a few awkward 45 minute sessions. But for some UT students, the answers to more complex issues on gender and sexuality may lie just a few feet from their dorms. Hosted by the Pride Center in Melrose Hall, inQUEERies is a three month series designed to facilitate peer-led discussion groups with topics chosen by students. Although the series focuses on LGBTQ+ issues, the Pride Center faculty said any and all respectful participants can join the discussion. The weekly series will cover a range of topics including asexuality, HIV/ AIDS, non-binary genders and other relevant topics. Session leaders are students who have been trained to teach on these topics, allowing for an open environment to discuss various topics on sex and relationships. More than 25 people showed up for each of the first two sessions earlier this year, and Pride Center organizers hope to see that number grow as interested students contribute to the dialogue. Thomas Tran, junior in anthropology,
attended last week’s session and said he was happy to connect with the participants by sharing his knowledge on relevant LGBTQ+ issues. “I’ve been involved with volOUT for three years, so I was able to share my experience on the importance of being involved on campus and help guide other students to different avenues where they can look into getting involved,” Tran said. This week’s series is entitled “SexEd Queered,” a weekly program that will begin its regular meetings as of Monday, Sept. 14, and will continue every Monday from 6-7 p.m. in HSS 103B. For Director of the Pride Center Donna Braquet, the events will serve as an excellent opportunity for new students to become acquainted with the Pride Center and those who call it home. “Our main goal is to provide a welcoming space for LGBTQ+ and ally students,” Braquet said. “The Pride Center works to provide a safe and welcoming environment for UT’s diverse lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex and asexual communities.” For a list of scheduled events and more information, visit http://pridecenter.utk.edu/.
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Maps Need Reading brings ‘art rock’ to Knoxville Ana Tantaris Contributor
Knoxville’s local music scene has very quickly become something to marvel at. Venues are acquiring more foot traffic, making it more competitive for artists to get a slot, and Knoxville even has its own music festivals like Big Ears and Rhythm N’ Blooms. The growth of Knoxville music has made it possible for local artists to be more daring and experimental with their music, allowing artists to develop their own sound as well as influence other local artists. Artists have started to create new genres to fit their music instead of writing their music to fit a genre in the hopes of discovering a sound that makes them unique. Local band Maps Need Reading has done exactly that. Chris Burgess, Nathan Patterson, David Webb and DJ Young are the creative minds behind the quirky, jazzy-progressive-indierock sound that is exclusive to Maps. Maps Need Reading has officially been together since 2011, but their music dates • Photo Courtesy of Maps Need Reading back to their high school days. “Me and David used to jam in high “We just thought that Maps Need school after class, just the two of us, guitar and drums, and then me and Chris lived Reading was the catchiest and also was together for a year in an apartment in the the easiest to attach some sort of meaning Fort right behind the *Pickle Mansion*, to, even though there wasn’t a real specific which is the name of one of our songs,” meaning to it initially,” said Webb. Young added, Young said. “That’s art.” At the same time, Maps Need Burgess and Patterson Reading draws influplayed in a cover band ence from artists together which Webb like Radiohead and occasionally joined in David Bowie. Their on before he became a influences evolve as staple of the band. their musical career As the band continprogresses, as they ued to progress, Young are continually trying filled in for their drumnew things and develmer periodically before oping their sound he ultimately replaced into something fresh him to complete the and exciting. group. “I think that’s what “We played a lot but we are always striving didn’t really take it that for, is to not settle for seriously, just for fun,” a sound,” Young said. said Webb, “but when “And I think that’s we got DJ last year, we why it’s hard to label started to get a differDJ Young, drummer ourselves because we ent sound and started are constantly changtrying to take it someing or trying new where.” things.” The name Maps While their genre Need Reading came from a list of dozens of band names the is difficult to categorize, Young describes it as “art rock.” This indicates their masterful group compiled.
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ability to combine a variety of genres while maintaining a solid sound—accurately noting that the Maps sound is art. “Other bands are just really straightforward, and we’re constantly trying to push the envelope, constantly trying to just do something different,” Patterson said. Maps’ effort at continually evolving is what sets them apart from other artists. Not only are they trying to make something cool and different, but they also try to change it and make it better. Their commitment to their art is how they are going to make their name outside of the local music scene. “We’ve come to the point in our lives specifically that we look at the band and if we don’t go any further then it’s just a waste of time,” said Patterson. “So, I would say yeah we are trying to make it, but at the same time we’re not trying to sell out. We’re trying to still have a really, really good time.” While they work hard, Webb suggests that people shouldn’t take the group too seriously. “We take what we do very seriously, but we’re also very relaxed in nature about it,” said Young. “It’s about having a good time as much as it is (work).”
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The Germans have a word. They have lots of them, but they have one in particular that I really like (besides schmetterling, which means butterfly). This word is schadenfreude, a word that is popular but not popular enough to be recognized by spell check. Like a lot of German words, it has no direct translation to English because they tend to be disgustingly long, but this one most closely corresponds to the joy you feel when watching someone else’s misfortune. If you’ve ever watched The Office, you’ve felt schadenfreude. If you’ve ever watched me try to cook, you’ve felt schadenfreude. It’s an inherently contradictory feeling. It tends to make us feel a little bit bad as human beings, especially when it’s directed at someone we know in real life. And yet I have been a fountain of schadenfreude ever since Ashley Madison was hacked, and I’m still trying to come to grips with whether I should feel bad about it. If you’re not familiar, Ashley Madison is a “dating” site where the only option is married looking for married. It is an affair facilitator for the bastards out there that can cheat on their spouse without the kindly old grandpa who runs eHarmony making it feel alright. The site is so comically evil that its slogan is literally “Life is Short, Have an Affair.” For compari-
son, Jet’s Pizza’s slogan is “Life is Short, Eat Good Pizza.” I do not know who likes good pizza (hopefully everyone), but thanks to a group of intrepid hackers, we now know who likes to have an affair. Among those people are Josh Duggar, who previously headed an anti-gay rights group and also happens to have sexually molested his young sisters but was “forgiven” for that by Mike Huckabee. There is also Hamza Tzortzis, a British Imam who spends much of his time calling for those who leave Islam to be put to death and advocating for an ISISlike global caliphate. There are also a few minor Christian YouTube celebrities caught up in the mix. Schadenfreude is really all I have for these horrible, massively hypocritical people. It is one thing to cheat on your spouse. It is another thing entirely to present yourself as a standard of righteousness and fight against the rights of others to get married while you cheat on your spouse. It will never cease to amaze me how scores of moral leaders who profess to know the right way, even claiming to know the will of God, are invariably shown to be the exact thing they rail against. Bill Cosby, Ted Haggard and Josh Duggar; how they sleep at night I’ll never know. Or maybe I will, because ... I think I’m a hypocrite too. Let’s put aside our schadenfreude for these types of people. Take it all the way back, and realize
what this is. This is an insanely massive breach of privacy. Put aside the trappings of sex and infidelity, and what we have is a bunch of people on the Internet stealing the personal information of other people and putting it up for everyone to see. In any other context, this is horrible. Our teapot has amendments for this kind of thing. We have a right to privacy in this country and things like this are unquestionably illegal. I hate the NSA, the Patriot Act and all those other Big Brother-like encroachments on the American people’s privacy. I’m all for getting #Snowden2016 trending. And yet ... I’m more and more elated with every single Ashley Madison story I read. I feel like there is a clear line here. Someone out there has to be able to build the wall and tell me why it’s okay that I’m a strong defender of the right to privacy but love seeing all this dirty, sexy laundry aired. I just haven’t been able to draw that line myself. And if that line can’t be drawn at all, what does that say about humans and society in general? Are we all capable of such hypocrisy? For now, I just can’t shake that schadenfreude. Jarrod Nelson is a sophomore in public relations. He can be reached at jnelso47@vols.utk.edu.
The effects of Hurricane Katrina, then and now
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This Saturday marked the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which destroyed the city of New Orleans and devastated people across the country who viewed the misery through TV screens and newspaper headlines. The disaster emblazoned itself in the American psyche, making its mark as one of the worst natural disasters witnessed in recent history. We remember how people risked their own lives to try to save strangers, and how neighbors who lost everything made valiant efforts to rebuild what was left behind. We remember the people begging for help, and the deceased bodies drifting through the streets made of muddy water and trash. We also remember that the people of New Orleans didn’t receive the help they needed. Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown, who in no way was equipped to run the disaster relief efforts, even blamed the people of the Gulf Coast for making their own predicament worse by not fully complying with evacuation orders. Fox News host Bill O’Reilly called them addicts who refused to abandon the source for their drugs. The fact of the matter is the people of New Orleans deserved to be rescued, but they weren’t — and that made them angry. Michael Brown. Injustice. Media. Anger. We, as Americans, all remember Katrina, but it is inarguably impossible for us to remember the disaster in identical ways. In particular, sociologists agreed that
Katrina was a cultural trauma that stabbed black political consciousness in its beating heart and left the scar of a bitter legacy. White people denied the racial divide then, and I’m sure they will continue to do so (even though Kanye West himself said, “George Bush don’t care about black people,” and I’m confused that anyone would argue with Kanye). But readers, of course everyone knows that not only black people suffered from Hurricane Katrina. The entire nation grieved; however, it is true that environmental racism is a prevalent reality in our society. When natural disasters like Katrina happen — disasters, which will increase in frequency and intensity in coming years due to the effects of global climate change — environmental racism strikes in typical fashion. The racial divide was, and remains, brutally real. The Black Lives Matter sentiment was born in the ravaged neighborhoods of Katrina in 2005, emerging from a place of neglect, devastation and social chaos. Ten years later, we hear the same themes and even the same names in a different context. Michael Brown. Injustice. Media. Anger. How many times are we going to remind black Americans that the system we are all embedded within is indifferent to their lives? How long can we pretend that the harms we inflict upon our planet aren’t disproportionately distributed in our society? If “All Lives Matter,” why are white victims of Katrina praised by
the media for “finding food” amongst the mayhem but black refugees are framed as criminals for “looting” local businesses? And why are people still living in FEMA trailers laced with formaldehyde? This weekend, I drove through the night to go to New Orleans for Gulf South Rising. One goal of this movement is to highlight the effects of climate change throughout the Gulf region. In commemoration of the 10-year anniversary of Katrina, Gulf South Rising also “demands a just transition away from extractive industries, discriminatory policies and unjust practices that hinder equitable disaster recovery and impede the development of sustainable communities.” The seas are rising and so are we, together, in one united front against the inter-sectional injustices we are all a part of. Bias keeps us divided, even in the midst of tragedies when we should come together to create a better America for all its citizens. For the 10th anniversary of Katrina however, we come together to look at where New Orleans stands today in the wake of the hurricane and the progress that remains to be made. We should do the same when it comes to race relations and environmental justice in our nation.
Erica Davis is a senior in environmental sociology. She can be reached at spz839@vols.utk.edu.
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La Flor Mexican Bakery provides authentic cuisine Megan Patterson Arts & Culture Editor La Flor Mexican Bakery sits in an island shopping center with a culture just as isolated as its location. The authentic bakery is paired with a Hispanic grocery and a small diner, a neighborhood establishment to the core. I walked in to the seemingly empty shop and saw shelves full of baked goods and pastries, but I was unsure of how to proceed. Then a bell rang and a woman entered with her daughter. She grabbed a cafeteria-style tray and a pair of tongs that had been resting on the counter and began loading up the tray with various goods from the shelves, immediately making herself at home. I followed her lead, nervously embarking on this unmonitored form of shopping. Just then, a woman emerged from the back and promptly greeted the other customer with friendly remarks and a smile. I say that the remarks were friendly because that was all I could discern. I found myself in a situation most Americans are unaccustomed to: being the black sheep in a culture foreign to you. However, this realization didn’t sway my resolve to sample at least three of the many delicious confections displayed in the glass cases filling the room. None of the shelves’ contents were labeled, but I went by sight and ventured to pick a variety of treats. I proceeded to the cash register with some minor trepidation. As the cashier loaded the items from my tray into a paper bag, I asked for the names of my selections. She smiled back at me and I quickly realized my embarrassing error. Thankfully, another customer stepped up with a sympathetic smile and
offered to translate for me. Together the pair wrote out the names of my purchase and enthusiastically pointed out what each item was in addition to what else they had in the shop. As it turns out, my choices of tostada, empanada and pan de maiz were excellent, and I shamelessly ate straight out of the paper bag on my lap as I drove home. The tostada was a flaky, delicate pastry perfect for a sugary dessert. It made a mess, but the pieces that actually made it into my mouth melted on my tongue in a honey-sweet flavor. The cornbread was dense and moist, and although it was more substantial than the tostada, it still held a hint of sweetness. However, this bread was more suited to a meal than an after dinner snack. The empanada was hands-down my favorite of the three. The round dough was baked with a criss-cross topping of sugar squares, reminiscent of the pattern of a basket. It served to be the perfect medium between purely pastry and purely savory. Overall, this bakery held something different in it not only from the home-baked quality, but also from the inherent cultural differences that gave the bread a slightly novel flavor. Similar to how each family has their own recipe for potato salad — no matter how many of the ingredients overlap, it never quite tastes the same. La Flor gave me something original that I would be hard pressed to find at another bakery around town. It showed me both the unique flavors of Mexican baked goods and imparted in me a reminder that even in America, diverse cultures flourish right in front of us. All we need to do is step outside of our comfort zones and explore them.
(Above) The La Flor Mexican Bakery stands in an island shopping center. (Left) One of the desserts included was the tostada, a flaky delicacy. Photos by Megan Patterson • The Daily Beacon
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Writers in the Library blasts off with science novelist Megan Patterson Arts & Culture Editor Monday evening, the Writers in the Library kicked off its 17th season by saying farewell to one of its most influential contributors. This year, Marilyn Kallet will step down as director of creative writing, and therefore, will no longer run Writers in the Library After guests thanked Kallet for her support and guidance, Amy Elias, a professor in English, went on to introduce the night’s featured writer,
Margaret Lazarus Dean. Elias first met the writer when Dean applied for the position of assistant professor in creative writing at UT, and the two remained close throughout Dean’s time at the university. When Dean took the stage, she shared how Elias was a main source of encouragement behind her newest book, “Leaving Orbit.� After the reading, Elias elaborated on her role in guiding Dean to pursue the book. “She’s a fantastic writer, and she is driven. My impression of her is that she is driven to get to
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Correction: The Daily Beacon has been printing the “I’m Not A Hipster” cartoon with the byline John McAdams; however, the correct artist’s name is actually John McAmis. Cartoons of The Daily Beacon are the views of the individual and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Beacon or the Beacon’s editorial staff.
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The Daily Beacon • Tuesday, September 1, 2015
Art student breaks down barriers with cross-continental art show Michael Lipps Assistant Arts & Culture Editor
Imagine having a quick chat with a man who just one day prior was busy playing polo with Bill Gates. For Dan Hood, senior studying fine art, this random conversation was just one of the many connections made during a summer of epic proportions. But before Hood could embark on a summer spent showcasing his art across North America, he first had to accept putting his work out there — something he only recently accomplished. “A couple years ago, I started really feeling comfortable getting my work out and showing it to people,” Hood said, explaining that he needed the public to be able to access his work to help him grow as an artist. So what started out as a bit of a joke among friends, “Dan Hood Live” soon evolved to an ambitious, traveling, pop-up art show entitled: “Barriers 2015.” Beginning in Bryan, Texas, Hood spent the summer traveling out West, up the coast and even across the Canadian border displaying his art in creative ways and unique spaces. “For me, the whole experience became breaking barriers between me and other creatives and hoping on generosity to do shows,” Hood said. Driving across the country, he confessed, and having no plan about 99 percent of the time was equal parts exhilarating and taxing. What Hood found, however, was that most people who were in a position to help were completely wiling to ensure that barriers, ironically, were no such thing for Hood to contend with. But, like any good story, Hood’s path was not perfectly paved. If unable to find a space for his pop-up instal-
lation, Hood would often take his work to parks or other public spaces. “The times when I was doing them in parks and people were running and walking their dogs past me and looking at me like I was a crazy person were some of the most fun and
playful ones to me,” Hood said. “That was a really fun thing and a good challenge for me to see how my work would be activated at different places and see how the community would respond to it.” Bringing art directly to communities is
Dan Hood’s Barriers 2015 traveling, pop-up art show made its way across North America this summer in a number of unorthodox venues. • Photo Courtesy of Dan Hood
something that Hood is certainly passionate about, even doing so in Knoxville’s own Parkridge neighborhood. Whether near or afar, Hood said he wants to ensure that art is never exclusive. “I think there’s a really big problem with museums and galleries and what we look at as the gatekeepers of the art world excluding the poor, the black, or people who can’t afford or don’t feel comfortable going into galleries,” Hood said. He went on to explain that he doesn’t believe that white pedestals or walls are essential for showcasing art, declaring that pop-up shows and installations are “freeing” and “nomadic” ways to get art out into communities in an impactful way. Beauvais Lyons, a professor of art at UT, commented on Hood’s energy and dedication for his recent projects, calling these attributes “impressive.” “Dan’s ‘Barriers’ project this summer was wildly ambitious, with the objective of traveling to 29 galleries and alternative spaces across the continent this summer,” Lyons said. “This involves both a great deal of planning and an ability to be flexible and work with new communities and spaces.” For Hood, art is everywhere; it would be hard to imagine a world without it. Though he isn’t entirely sure what his post-graduation life will look like long-term, he said he plans to travel to Hawaii and work on a farm for a period, just taking some time to enjoy new scenery. Since much of Hood’s work centers around imposing identity on industrial-type objects, he said he eagerly awaits the inspiration that will likely come while being surrounded by farm equipment. “There are moments of art everywhere …,” Hood said. “You can find it everywhere, you just have to look for it and allow yourself to think of it as art.”
‘Awakenings’ author, neurologist Oliver Sacks dies at 82 Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — There was the blind man who had the disastrous experience of regaining his sight. The surgeon who developed a sudden passion for music after being struck by lightning. And most famously, the man who mistook his wife for a hat. Those stories and many more, taking the reader to the distant ranges of human experience, came from the pen of Dr. Oliver Sacks. Sacks, 82, died Sunday at his home in New York City, his assistant, Kate Edgar, said. In February, he had announced that he was termi-
nally ill with a rare eye cancer that had spread to his liver. As a practicing neurologist, Sacks looked at some of his patients with a writer’s eye and found publishing gold. In his best-selling 1985 book, “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,” he described a man who really did mistake his wife’s face for his hat while visiting Sacks’ office, because his brain had difficulty interpreting what he saw. Another story in the book featured twins with autism who had trouble with ordinary math but who could perform other amazing calculations. Discover magazine ranked it among the 25 greatest science books of all time in 2006, declaring, “Legions of neuroscientists now probing the mysteries of the human brain cite this book as
their greatest inspiration.” Sacks’ 1973 book, “Awakenings,” about hospital patients who’d spent decades in a kind of frozen state until Sacks tried a new treatment, led to a 1990 movie in which Sacks was portrayed by Robin Williams. It was nominated for three Academy Awards. Still another book, “An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales,” published in 1995, described cases like a painter who lost color vision in a car accident but found new creative power in black-and-white, and a 50-year-old man who suddenly regained sight after nearly a lifetime of blindness. The experience was a disaster; the man’s brain could not make sense of the visual world. It perceived the human face as a shifting mass of meaningless colors and
textures. After a full and rich life as a blind person, he became “a very disabled and miserable partially sighted man,” Sacks recalled later. “When he went blind again, he was rather glad of it.” Despite the drama and unusual stories, his books were not literary freak shows. “Oliver Sacks humanizes illness ... he writes of body and mind, and from every one of his case studies there radiates a feeling of respect for the patient and for the illness,” Roald Hoffmann, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist, said in 2001. “What others consider unmitigated tragedy or dysfunction, Sacks sees, and makes us see, as a human being coping with dignity with a biological problem.”
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DOBBS continued from Page 1 “(I am just) making sure everyone is prepared to play and making sure everybody understands the importance of the first game and not looking ahead to any other games on the schedule, but focusing on the first game.” A returning starter at quarterback is a luxury that not many SEC teams have for 2015. Only six SEC teams are returning their starting quarterback from last season. Frankly, Dobbs’ experience is a main reason why Tennessee is a trendy pick to challenge for the SEC East. And Tennessee will need him to perform well right away. Jones used his opening statement on Monday to hammer the message that Bowling Green is not a pushover. “(Bowling Green’s) Coach (Dino) Babers has done a very, very good job there,” Jones said. “I’ve known him for a while, and they present many challenges. First of all, their football team, their football program, knows how to win. They’ve had numerous years of eight wins or more. They’ve
Tuesday, September 1, 2015 • The Daily Beacon won championships. They’ve played in big venues. They’re a veteran group.” Jones was especially impressed with the Falcons offense. “I can talk all day about their skill positions,” Jones said. “Their skill positions are very dynamic, and that’s not coach-speak. All you have to do is look at the video, and you see it.” If Bowling Green’s offense is as dynamic as Jones insists, it’s Dobbs’ responsibility to have Tennessee’s offense firing on all cylinders. The Tennessee coaching staff has noted that the passing game has struggled at times in fall camp, which isn’t surprising considering all the factors involved with the passing game. One factor in Tennessee’s passing game might be the most important: an experienced quarterback. And under Dobbs, the offense has improved over fall camp. “The receivers have done a great job, the (offensive) line has done a great job in protection, and the quarterbacks have been able to get the ball to the places it needs to be. “(Improvement) is what you want going into game week. We are excited and we will be ready to play on Saturday.”
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Joshua Dobbs runs the ball during the Alabama—Tennessee game in Fall 2014. • File Photo
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Walk-on linebacker seizes starting position Taylor White (@T_Dub98) Assistant Sports Editor
Many people quickly wrote Colton Jumper off when he was named one of the candidates for Tennessee’s middle linebacker position at the start of fall camp. Even after it was announced that the competition was down to just Jumper and highlytouted freshman Darrin Kirkland Jr., fans and media alike assumed the job was Kirkland’s for the taking. So when the walk-on sophomore was listed as the starter for Saturday’s opener, naturally many people were caught off-guard. “He’s worked very very hard,” head coach Butch Jones said. “He’s one of those individuals who has always worked hard. He doesn’t really say two words. He just takes coaching ... He does have a skill set in terms of speed, athleticism and toughness.” As Jones quickly pointed out, however, a depth chart is ongoing, and being the starter for week one holds no guarantees for the rest of the season. The Lookout Mountain, Tennessee native doesn’t just have the confidence of his coaching staff, however—Jumper’s teammates also have big expectations for him throughout the season. “He never complains about anything, he just comes in grinding,” junior linebacker Jalen Reeves-Maybin said. “He’s been preparing for this since the spring … We’ll all see Saturday that he’s prepared for it, and he’s been working hard for it.” Jumper wasn’t the only surprise on the depth chart, as the offensive line also had some unexpected players listed in key spots. Sophomore Coleman Thomas was listed as a co-starter at center along with senior Mack Crowder, who started 11 games at the position last season. Thomas was also listed along with sophomore Brett Kendrick for the starting right tackle position. Perhaps the biggest surprise was junior Dylan Wiesman being listed as the starting left guard, despite not getting much attention throughout fall camp. Freshmen Jack Jones and Venzell Boulware are listed as Wiesman’s back-ups. “It’s a very fluid situation,” Jones said of the offensive line. “Dylan Wiesman has done a very good job with just a high level of consistency. He’s done a really good job of improving his feet, his hand punching and body position. But he’s really been playing with his eyes. It’s become
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I’ve been in that stadium a lot of times, I’ve been on the field a couple times. I always wanted to have the opportunity to play there, I thought it would be in the NFL but now I get to do it in college.”
Tennessee will face Bowling Green in Nashville’s Nissan Stadium. “It’s kind of like a dream of mine, since I was kid,” Clarksville native Reeves-Maybin said of the Nashville game. “I’ve been in that stadium a lot of times, I’ve been on the field a couple times. I always wanted to have the opportunity to play there, I thought it would be in the NFL, but now I get to do it in college.” Tennessee boasts 16 players on the roster who hail from the mid-state, including key contributors such as Derek Barnett (Nashville), Jashon Robertson (Nashville) and Jalen Hurd (Hendersonville). The Vols’ opener in Nashville allows these players to perform in front of friends and family who normally wouldn’t be able to see them play. “I’m excited to play in Nashville just because I’m from there,” Barnett said. “A few guys on my team are as well, and our family and friends will be there. But preparation-wise, it’s gonna be the same for me … I had to get a few extra (tickets).” Tennessee is 40-20-4 all time in Nashville, with the majority of those games coming against Vanderbilt. Not all players are excited about opening the season away from home, but several are looking forward to the challenges and opportunities the game will provide. “I would always like to open up our season at home, we always wanna play at home” junior cornerback Cam Sutton said. “But it’s another opportunity to showcase who we are as a football team. We’re still in the state of Tennessee … We’re able to get to the middle of Tennessee, where a lot of fans can get to if they can’t come to Knoxville.”