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Issue 23, Volume 127
Diversity enrollment program receives second life Hayley Brundige News Editor (@hayleybrundige)
The University of Tennessee Lead Summer Institute is back in business. In early August, administrators told institute members the program that brought them to UT would no longer exist. The program conditionally admits students to the university from underrepresented high schools and was cut in order to concentrate state funding on programs that impact a larger amount of students, said Provost Susan Martin. However, on the morning of Sept. 18, top administrators announced that funding for the program would be reinstated. Students in the fivemember UTLSI Committee immediately opposed the cut, swiftly organizing a forum to inform the community about the program and its impact on their lives. Last Thursday, the committee and administrators, including Martin and Chancellor Jimmy Cheek, discussed the cut during what Martin called a “much anticipated meeting.” “Our focus was on listening and hearing their concerns,” Martin said. “I found their arguments to be very compelling, and in addition, I felt that we needed to give more reflection to our overall programming to enhance diversity at the university.” The committee’s presentation centered on one statistic: African American enrollment at UT is currently at 7 percent, less than 1 percent higher than it was 14 years ago, and down from the alltime high of about 10 percent in 2010. Rilwan Balogun, a senior in journalism and electronic media and a member of the UTLSI Committee, argued that this statistic should encourage the university to reassess its approach to diversity. Balogun said Cheek agreed that in five years, when they returned as alumni and alumnae, they should see a university that has upheld its commitment to diversity. “Once Chancellor Cheek said this, it reassured me that he actually wants to help,” Balogun said. Admitting that student recruitment and diversity at UT is a “big and complex picture,” Martin said she plans to enlist students, including the members of the UTLSI Committee, to help guide future programming decisions. “I think the key is we also want to engage the students who represent our access and diversity programs,” Martin said. “Certainly the students we met with would be wonderful to have a discussion about the bigger picture of enhancing our diverse student population at the university.” See UTLSI on Page 2
Students roam the “Red Zone Bye Week Workshop” hosted by Sexual Empowerment and Awareness at Tennessee in the Baker Center on Sept. 20. • Photo courtesy of Nicky Hackenbrack
Between blurred lines UT student group hosts workshop combatting sexual assault, rape culture
Zone Bye Week Workshop” hosted by Sexual Empowerment and Awareness at Tennessee, which offered a full day of panel discussions about topics like conThe Howard H. Baker Center for Public sent, rape culture and alcohol and assault. “We hope that, throughout this day, you Policy doesn’t usually see much traffic on see how you can prevent sexual assaults Saturdays, especially in the morning. However, on Sept. 20, that was not the on our campus and how you can apply case. Forty students attended the “Red this to your life,” said Nicky Hackenbrack, SEAT co-chair and senior in biological
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science. Representatives from the Sexual Assault Center of East Tennessee Jill Akin and Kiley Compton prefaced the workshop with a Red Zone 101 presentation, familiarizing all attendees with a few basic concepts. After defining terms like consent and assault, they displayed a sexual assault pyramid that conveyed assault is perpetuated by attitudes, beliefs
and norms. Compton said everyday occurrences like catcalling are indicative of a larger societal problem: rape culture. Rape culture defines the way society normalizes, rationalizes and even condones rape. “It’s like saying, ‘Well one in four women get raped so carry pepper-spray.’ It’s just part of life,” Compton said. “We trivialize it and really downplay what’s happening.” See RED ZONE on Page 2
Lady Vols salvage weekend with twogame sweep Wes Tripp Staff Writer (@wes_tripp)
Natalia Jerzak, a fourth-year student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland, stands in front of one of her paintings at Gallery 1010. Hannah Cather • The Daily Beacon
Opposites attract Polish artists debut printmaking exhibit at downtown gallery Sage Davis Contributor
Light and dark. Structured and disorderly. Jerzak and Łubinski. Gallery 1010 opened the “Polish Printmakers” art exhibit Friday night, displaying the techniques of two art students from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland. On one side of the gallery hung works by Natalia Jerzak, a fourth year student at the academy. Instead of revealing her print-making pieces, however, Jerzak displayed her paintings. Her artwork mixed watercolors and acrylic paints to showcase Sebastian Łubinski shows off his main piece, “Event Horizonsimilar patterns in varying colors. Ripped,” in Gallery 1010. Hannah Cather • The Daily Beacon “I’m in the beginning of my artistic way,” Jerzak said. “I would like my works color: The Pink One. and for me, we are made of them. At first to be more complicated in the foreseeable “It’s a kind of self-portrait, and for me, glimpse it doesn’t look like cells, but to future.” it resembles biological cells, and we are all me it does.” Jerzak did not title any of the paintings, like that,” Jerzak said. “We are pink inside, See ART GALLERY on Page 5 but she did identify her favorite by its
The Lady Vols volleyball team ended their three-match losing streak this weekend by winning a Saturday doubleheader match inside Thompson-Boling Arena. On the final day of the “DISH Lady Vol Classic,” Tennessee first defeated Mercer 3-2, in a back-and-forth, five-set thriller: 25-21, 20-25, 25-20, 22-25, 15-13. The Lady Vols then ran away with the nightcap, sweeping Montana State in straight sets: 25-17, 25-15, 25-23. After dropping contests to Austin Peay and Memphis on Thursday and Friday respectively, Saturday’s effort helped UT (7-7) salvage a 2-2 record in the weekend tournament. “We’ve been using some lineups we’ve never used before due to some injuries and other things,” head coach Rob Patrick said following the doubleheader sweep, “but we did a lot better job today of being comfortable playing next to somebody new.” In Saturday’s opener versus the Mercer Bears, UT freshmen Kelsey Bawcombe, Kendra Turner and Kanisha Jimenez led the way as the trio pelted Mercer with 44 of the team’s 55 kills. “In that sense the freshmen did a fantastic job of bringing energy to the match today,” Patrick said. “We haven’t had a lot of that, but we’ve needed it. They were fearless out there today and did a great job of playing the out-of-system balls and being aggressive with them.” See VOLLEYBALL on Page 6