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Issue 26, Volume 127
Redefining right: sexual assault policy under revision Hayley Brundige News Editor (@hayleybrundige)
Week two: laying the foundation. After meeting last week for introductions, members of the Sexual Assault and Misconduct Task Force convened Tuesday to examine UT’s current sexual assault and misconduct policies and begin crafting a new, more comprehensive policy.
Made up of more than 20 UT students, faculty, staff and UTPD officials, the task force will meet a total of seven times this semester. The meetings are open to the public and feedback from the university community is welcome as the task force reviews the interim policy currently in place. Nickie Hackenbrack, a senior in biological sciences and co-chair of Sexual Empowerment and Awareness at Tennessee, is one of the four undergraduate students on the task force.
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Hackenbrack stressed the importance of students contributing to the conversation. “This is directly involved in students’ college experience,” Hackenbrack said. “Any student can be a victim of sexual assault and any student may have to be an active bystander ... So, this is important for everyone to understand what we expect of our students.” During its second meeting, the task force discussed the policies and provisions that are required by law to be
included in the final product. Matthew Scoggins, an attorney and general counsel for UT, outlined the basic sexual assault regulations set by Title IX, Title VII, the Clery Act, FERPA, the Tennessee Public Records Act and regulations from the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault. Scoggins has been working to implement policy changes since 2011 in response to increased national emphasis on campus sexual assault,
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and said the university is changing its policies proactively, not in reaction to a lawsuit or investigation. “It’s important for people to understand that we’re not acting so that we don’t get audited but that this is an important issue that needs to be addressed,” Scoggins said. “The federal government certainly has put it in the spotlight and so we’ve been using their guidance as well as we go through this process.” See UPDATE on Page 2
‘Looser’ Vereen looking to continue improvement with Georgia matchup
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Dargan Southard It’s a story more than a billion years in the making. Home to more natural diversity than the entirety of Northern Europe and home-away-from-home to more than 9 million visitors every year, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park’s hazy peaks stand at the summit of the United States national park system. Since the early 20th century, the nation’s most widely visited recreation area has rested in Knoxville’s backyard, begging residents to come out and play. “Being able to experience this great, eastern forest is just such a unique experience,” Dana Soehn, park spokesperson, said. “You almost just feel like you’re enveloped in this cathedral of trees that you may not experience at some of the other parks out west. It’s just a different sort of a place.” Established in 1934, the current 800 square mile park encompasses a section of one of the oldest mountain ranges in the world. The Appalachians stand sentinel along the eastern coast of North America, stretching 1,500 miles from Newfoundland to Alabama and climbing to 6,684 feet at their highest peak on Mount Mitchell in North Carolina. The mountains tell stories of geological metamorphosis, earthshaking crust movement and battering forces of erosion. The 30,000 to 80,000 plant and animal species scientists estimate reside in the Great Smoky National Park tell the story of life seemingly uninterrupted by modernity. For Collin Bell, staff member at the UT Outdoor Program, this biological story is what brings the beauty of the mountains to life. “Take a look at this ceiling here. It’s all painted just one color,” Bell mused. “If you go outside you can see each individual blade of grass and that blade of grass has taken literally millions of years to evolve. You see the history of the world in everything you look at.”
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Sterling Goller-Brown is a senior in 2D studio art. Hannah Cather • The Daily Beacon
Student exhibit to express vulnerability, ambiguity Kelsey Cotton Contributor On the fourth floor of the Art and Architecture Building, some of UT’s most creative minds are hard at work. The floor and walls of Studio 419 are littered with empty tubes of paint, while the walls are lined with brightly colored canvas. This is where Sterling GollerBrown, a senior in 2D studio art, develops his artistic vision. Like most college freshman, Goller-Brown entered UT without a clear idea of what he wanted to study. In fact, before coming to UT, the last art class he took was in elementary school. Instead, it was his adolescent love for street art which
eventually led him to UT’s art program. “I was into street art and graffiti and stuff, like just on my own,” Goller-Brown said. “That kind of was the avenue that led me to start noticing fine art and what would be considered real painting.” Goller-Brown will display his work at Gallery 1010 Friday along with art by his studiomate, Ian Cato. The show is entitled “Boomslang,” an invented term describing the pair’s focus on exposure. “I don’t really know the origin, but the meaning that we’ve assigned it -- it’s like a metaphor for being vulnerable and like exposing yourself to people maybe in a way that you’re uncomfortable with, but
that’s okay,” Goller-Brown said. “It’s not a bad thing. Generally, people are afraid to be uncomfortable and put themselves in strange situations, and that’s what we’re trying to do. Just put ourselves out there.” In relation to their art, Boomslang also represents the mix of underlying themes present throughout Goller-Brown and Cato’s work. “Boomslang is also this metaphor for sex,” GollerBrown said. “It has all of these sexual connotations. There’s this species of snake called the Boomslang Snake that’s like one of the most venomous in Africa. So it’s like this dichotomy of sex and death.” See GOLLER-BROWN on Page 3
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When Corey Vereen checked the film following his four-tackle performance at Oklahoma, the sophomore defensive end liked what he saw: a vast improvement from his opening performances against Utah State and Arkansas State. “In the first two games, I was a little bit too robotic,” said Vereen, who’s racked up six tackles and two quarterback hurries in 2014. “I was trying to think too much. But then I just played football at that point (against Oklahoma). I knew what was going on, and I just watched my keys pretty much. “I feel a lot better now. I feel looser, just more locked in knowing what I can do. Knowing what’s not working so well. Just knowing what I need to do on a down-to-down basis to be successful.” That correction couldn’t have come at a better time as Vereen and company are now tasked with slowing down Georgia potent running attack, spearheaded by junior superstar Todd Gurley. “Pretty much just getting off blocks,” Vereen offered up a solution to halt the Bulldogs’ ground attack. “Holding points and tackling well. Gurley likes to break tackles, and pretty much every one of their backs and receiver like to break tackles. They get a lot of yards after contact. So basically just tackling, being physical at the point of attack and winning the juncture point.” So far, though, the Georgia matchup has been a promising one for the 6-foot-2, 253 pounder. Last year, as a freshman, Vereen racked up a key sack of ex-Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray —the takedown nearly propelling the Vols to an upset of then No.6 Georgia. “That was a stepping stone for my career and really the defense as a whole,” Vereen said. “Getting off (the field) on third down, fist up, all the fundamentals, swarming to the ball — everything like that was at the center of our defense.” See VEREEN on Page 6
Kelsey Bawcombe growing into lead role for the Lady Vols SPORTS>>pg. 5
“ ... I want to see more drag again, more daring to be unique, more caution thrown to the wind ... ” VIEWPOINTS >>pg. 4
Vols hoping that consistency on the offensive line produces better results SPORTS >>pg. 6
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Environmental forum to talk Former secretary of labor discusses steps to economic success fracking benefits, effects Tanner Hancock Copy Editor Drill, baby, drill. Jacob LaRiviere will present “Quantifying Environmental Benefits of Fracking,” as this semester’s first Energy & Environmental Forum Thursday, at 1 p.m. in the Toyota Auditorium at the Howard H. Baker Center for Public Policy. LaRiviere, University of Tennessee associate professor of economics, will examine the economic benefits and environmental effects of hydraulic fracturing, the process of drilling and injecting fluid into the ground to fracture shale rocks and release natural gas. “Fracking has received a lot of attention because people are worried about what the (negatives) are,” LaRiviere said,
referencing the controversies surrounding the drilling process as people are concerned it pollutes ground water and increases earthquake frequency. However, for LaRiviere, the positive effects of the technique vastly outweigh the negative. “(Fracking) technology has probably been the biggest discovery in the energy industry in 50 years,” LaRiviere said. “There’s been a change in how electricity is produced in this country.” The economic and environmental advantages of fracking have the potential to reshape the energy industry entirely, LaRiviere said. “Fracking has made natural gas cheap,” he said. “Natural gas has then displaced coal, natural gas is cleaner than coal in terms of electricity produc-
tion, so as a result the air is cleaner than it used to be.” Christopher Clark, associate professor in agriculture and resource economics, said he sees much of the criticisms surrounding fracking as largely unfounded. Although he dismisses anecdotes that victims of fracking “turn the tap on and light their water,” Clark recognizes much about the effects of the practice are still largely unknown. “There’s sort of a disconnect at the national level when talking about natural gas,” Clark said. “Can we frack safely or not? We don’t really have the answers to those questions yet.” Clark sees the public’s negative view of the drilling technique as premature. He said the potential of mining natural gas needs to be explored with more depth before passing judgement. “We need play this out, we need to understand it, we need to do a lot more research.” Paul Armsworth, associate professor in ecology and evolutionary biology and one of the co-organizers of the forum series, sees the event as an opportunity to examine the controversial topic from a different angle. “It is that broadening of the lense to which we look at environmental and energy policy questions that we want to share with our participants,” Armsworth said. “It really is also about bringing the community together and enabling them to meet one another and interact and trade on some of these topics.” More information on the event can be found at http:// bakercenter.utk.edu/newsevents.
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Robert Reich once dated Hillary Clinton. And he was the former secretary of labor under her husband, helping usher in an era of American economic growth. Now a “New York Times” bestselling author and political economist, Reich presented his case for economic reform at the fifth annual Anne Mayhew Distinguished Honors Lecture in Cox Auditorium Tuesday night. His lecture, titled “Inequality for All: Bipartisan Solutions for America’s Economic Future,” sought to explain the current economic situation and emphasize the importance of the middle class and higher education in long-term economic success. “I think that one of the main reasons that the economy is having such a hard time getting out of first gear is because the middle class doesn’t have the purchasing power to get the economy going,” Reich said. Since the housing market crash of 2008, Reich said Americans “have had to face the reality of flat or declining wages.” He explained that declining middle class wages since the 1970s have been caused by increased productivity which resulted in more money generated for for wealthy entrepreneurs and CEOs in the top one percent of
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Americans. H o w e v e r, t h e s e Americans, Reich said, don’t have the purchasing power to put their income back
into the economy. “People at the top are not going to spend nearly as great a percentage of their income as people in the middle and bottom,” Reich said. The solution to this economic disparity relies on an understanding of several trends, including globalized industry, changes in technology, retirement and politics. With the inclusion of these factors, Reich said the middle class “standard of living depends increasingly on what we add to this increasingly integrated system of global economics.” Instead of regarding the global economy in terms of corporate competition for cheap wages, Reich argued the United States should instead invest in lowering the cost of higher education and providing high quality technical schools. Gus White, a freshman in global studies and public health who attended the lecture, said he felt Reich’s points were relevant to the current economic climate. “Globalization can be oversimplified a lot,” White said. “For us, as a country, to continue being competitive and produc-
POLICY UPDATE continued from Page 1 After an hour of establishing the basics rights associated with sexual assault, the task force got its first taste of policy development. Defining the terms “sexual assault” and “sexual contact,” each only one to two sentences, turned into a 45 minute debate over the impact of each individual word. Delving into the specific language of each definition is crucial, especially when dealing with the often ambiguous situation of sexual assault, said Jenny Richter, UT’s Title IX Coordinator. ”I wish it could be easy,” Richter said. “I wish that students could understand what was
tive we are going to have to focus on those technical skills and really re-brand ourselves to be more appealing in the international market place.” By allowing more access to university and technical training, the U.S. could develop a skilled and educated workforce that would allow the U.S. to be competitive on a global scale and increase mobility for working and lower class Americans. “We’ve got to think about competition not with regard to our companies,” Reich said. “We’ve got to think about competition in terms of the value that we add that comes from our ability to be inventive.” As people in the workforce began to work longer hours without increased wages, Reich fears the anger and frustrations American workers felt was channeled into politics and fueled animosity between political parties, causing a gridlock in Congress. This lack of communication, Reich said, is detrimental to the nation’s ability to work through the complex problems needed to be addressed to promote economic recovery. “The only way we learn anything is to talk to people who disagree with us,” he said. “Inequality, stagnant wages, creating an educational system that works, generating another generation that can add value. We can do this ... We have done this before.”
acceptable behavior and what wasn’t. It’s not easy. Because you’ve got two people coming into a situation with two perspectives, two beliefs about what’s going on.” Despite the difficulty of synthesizing the perspectives of more than 20 individuals from different backgrounds, Richter emphasized the value of evaluating each term fully. “I was very pleased that people were so willing to point stuff out today,” Richter said. “I sat there and within just a few minutes of the discussion I heard things I had never considered.” The task force will meet next on Sept. 29 at 3:30 p.m. in Thompson-Boling Arena Dining Rooms C and D and will focus on the definition of consent. Read next week’s Daily Beacon for coverage and updates on the meeting.
Engineering students, alumni aid in 3D printed car creation McCord Pagan Social Media Editor A new car built in a matter of hours. Strati, an electric 3D printed car, was created over 44 hours at the International Manufacturing Technology Show, a bi-yearly manufacturing trade show in Chicago, Sept. 13. Five UT students were involved in the creation of the car and its assembly in Chicago, including James Earle, a May 2014 graduate, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory interns Kyle Goodrick, Andrew Messing, Aaron Young and Alex Roschli. The creation of the Strati
project was led by Earle, himself a former ORNL intern and current employee of Local Motors, a company which plans on mass producing the cars for sale to the public and has a local office on Market Square. “He spearheaded the development effort at MDF for Local Motors and worked closely with the students,” Taylor Eighmy, vice-chancellor for research and engagement said via email. The other four UT students intern at the Manufacturing Demonstration Facility, an annex of the main ORNL campus and a place where private companies can test their additive manufacturing technology. “Both ORNL and Local Motors were so impressed with
the four,” Eighmy said. “This is but one example of our engagement with a national lab and corporate partner.” No longer working in a laboratory, Earle is glad to finally be working on a project he feels is applicable to the rest of the world. “It was really cool to transition from building a part that wasn’t really going to be used, to a part that at the end of the day is going to transport people and had to be reliable enough to do that,” Earle said. UTDAILYBEACON.COM STORY: Read more about the 3D printed car online.
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Photographer to discuss fairy tale inspired, story driven art Marina Waters Contributor Once upon a time, a young photographer named Brett Warren took the fairy tales of his past and made them a reality. Thursday night in the McCarty Auditorium, Warren will share the story behind his fantasy influenced photography as well as his journey to becoming the photographer he is today. Warren is a graduate of Middle Tennessee State University, where he majored in dark room photography and graphic design. He has worked as a graphic designer for Country Music Television, in addition to collaborating on projects with Jack White and Taylor Swift. Warren is currently working with numerous clients while also pouring himself into his personal projects. But this star-studded artist was once small town boy from McMinnville, Tennessee, who set out to express his version of an escape from reality. “I’ve always been a fan of theatre and escapism in movies and things like that,” Warren said. “So I’m always a fan of filming something, a life escape, so I try to do that in my pictures. I wanna create an atmosphere that people can escape into. Even if it’s just for a minute, they can think about this other place that maybe exists.” After discovering photography as a portal into his escapism wonderland, Warren found work after college as a graphic designer for CMT. However, a certain beloved element seemed to be missing for the photographer. “It did certainly send me in a different direction because it was all about marketing, and it wasn’t necessarily about beauty or the aesthetics,” Warren said. “It was about these methods that you were sort of proclaiming really loudly — and it may not be very pretty.” That’s when Warren discovered it was beauty he wished to see thrive within the work he would create. “It just kinda sent me down this rabbit hole of, ‘Well, I’m gonna make a world where what I do is what I think is beautiful and people can enjoy it or not,’” Warren said, “but it just encouraged me to explore more, be a little more thoughtful, with what I was putting out there.” To accompany his extravagant photos is another fairy tale element. Warren often uses moral takeaways throughout his photographic stories in a way similar to his favorite childhood tales, similar to Aesop’s Fables. His work includes photo shoots with titles such as, “Midas Touch,” “Ugly Duckling” and “Robotic Girl,” which have story-telling undertones. “I’ve kind of tried to make some sort of a moral come through, like ‘The Ugly Duckling’ is about transformation and worrying about yourself,” Warren said. “That was right after I got back from New York and it’s about, figuratively, pretty much the transition I went through. I was still the same person, but there was just this whole new side of me and I learned so much. Something was different.
continued from Page 1 Although the artists have made the present themes in their work clear, this doesn’t mean the artwork shown Friday night will be pictures of skulls and genitalia. What Goller-Brown hopes to achieve with his artwork is probing ambiguity. “Pretty much what we’re both trying to do is not necessarily create something that has like a straight up answer to it,” Goller-Brown said. “I think most people that don’t see a lot of art see something that they can understand and think we’re trying to maybe push that and create something that’s asking questions
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Warren’s photo story of Charlie Chaplin is one of many in his portfolio of fairy tale inspired photos.
One of Warren’s photos representing his interpretation of Hitchcock. • Photos Courtesy of Brett Warren “Every personal project has its own personal experiences and sort of morals woven throughout.” Though his work is laden with elaborate props, make-up and many theatrical themes, one of Warren’s main objectives is to shoot a story or moment. In addition to this storytelling style of photography, Warren has high hopes for his future work. “I really want to make something that is longstanding and something that someone can look at and sort of make their own story or try to figure more about this person,” Warren said. “As long as someone can try and make a story or learn something from it, that’s what I like.” To hear more about Warren’s photographical “happily ever after,” check out his Art Talk presentation tonight in Room 109 of the Art and Architecture Building at 7:30 p.m.
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Hazy mountains surround the summit of Max Patch, a popular bald in the North Carolina mountains near Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Emilee Lamb • The Daily Beacon
shit, there’s something in there.’
instead of giving answers. I want people to be taken aback. And if they don’t want to figure them out then, that’s fine. I paint these things because I feel like I have to.” The effect of this show will mirror the creation process of both Goller-Brown and Cato. The pair hopes the audience will enter the gallery with a general expectation and, upon leaving, find themselves filled with questions not only about
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the art but also about themselves. “Most of the time I start painting, I don’t usually think super hard about what it’s supposed to be or what it’s going to be about,” Goller-Brown said. “I usually have a general idea. Like, for the most part, subconsciously, it’ll bring itself together without me even thinking about it. I’ll step back and realize, ‘Oh shit, there’s something in there.’”
The lands of Great Smoky Mountain National Park have borne witness to stories of hardship and struggle in a challenging landscape. They’ve set the scene for characters akin to fairy tale actors in their place in the American imagination – the mountain folk. Today, the park exhibits more than 100 historic buildings and sites, harkening back to the area’s time as home to the Cherokee and the settler alike. This rich cultural resonance creates “a feeling of going home,” Soehn said. Cades Cove, a former settlement home to 708 citizens in 1900, allows visitors to step into another place and time and is one of the most popular destinations in the park. Of the approximately nine million annual visitors to the park, Cades Cove welcomes 2 million into the valley alone. “I think the Smokies really does a great job of preserving the history of the area,” said Xan Pitzer, UT senior and communications director for the Outdoor Program. “It’s clear that Appalachian culture is very important to citizens of eastern Tennessee, western
North Carolina and along the Appalachian Mountains.” Unlike many of its western counterparts, Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a year-round recreational hotspot for activities including hiking, backpacking, camping, kayaking, skiing and mountain biking. The park receives most of its visitors in the months of June and July, 1.3 million and 1.4 million respectively in 2012. It is the fiery autumn displays of red, orange and yellow, however, that lend a special attraction to the park. And as the leaves begin to turn, and the anniversary of last year’s government shutdown approaches, Smoky Mountain lovers are reminded of the 16-day October period when the park’s story was silenced. October 1, 2013, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and every national recreation area in the country, shut its gates to the public. At the outset of the third busiest month of the year for the park, with an estimated 1.2 million visitors in October 2012, park officials like Soehn were forced to turn natureseeking travelers away. “As a Park Service employee, that was probably one of the most terrible experiences any of us will go through because we are used to inviting people into the park and sharing this special
place with them,” Soehn said. “It goes against our nature to close people out and tell them that they cannot come in and enjoy the park, because this park is for the people, for their enjoyment.” Congress has passed a continuing resolution to fund the federal government until December, so Smokies lovers need not fear missing the fall foliage this year. In fact, in a budget proposal for fiscal year 2015, the House Committee on Appropriations has recommended a small increase in federal spending for the National Park Service. The suggested $2.27 billion would increase spending by $31.8 million as part of the Service’s ongoing “Centennial Initiative.” The National Park Service will reach its 100th birthday in 2016. For those like Soehn, Bell and Pitzer, the stories the Great Smoky Mountains have to tell are varied, but invaluable. They speak of a time passed when life was literally carved from the mountainside. They speak of the solitude of nature. And, as the federal government prepares to recognize the importance of these stories through what the Obama administration calls an “historic effort to revitalize national parks,” it seems the park will tell continue to tell its stories for generations to come.
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Obama’s economic recovery efforts should offer relief Guest Column by
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The United States is in a very vulnerable economic position; our current level of growth may be unsustainable. While the economy has undergone unprecedented improvement after the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression, polls continue to show the majority of Americans disapprove of the way President Obama is handling the economy. Five important economic indicators suggest we are in a historic recovery: real GDP (measure of economic output adjusted for inflation), manufacturing activity, stock market conditions, unemployment level and the federal budget deficit. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, our real GDP took the greatest hit between the fourth quarter of 2007 and the second quarter of 2009. During this period, real GDP dropped from 14,991.8 to 14,355.6. In the second worst financial crisis of American history, our real GDP only fell by a relatively meager 4.2 percent. In comparison, this figure fell by 30 percent during the Great Depression. Another important economic indicator is a country’s level of output from the manufacturing sector. A study released by the U.S. Department of Labor shows our level of manufacturing activity has steadily increased since we hit rock bottom in 2009. Currently, we are poised to regain the level of manufacturing we had during the record breaking year of 2007. Due to the fact most people’s retirement is directly linked to the conditions of the stock market, it is invaluable to determining the economic landscape of our nation. Two of the major stock indices in the United States are the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average. Since the beginning of 2013, both have consistently hit all-time record breaking numbers. One of the biggest concerns to American families is our unemployment rate. While the Department of Labor recently reported our unemployment rate is still hovering above six percent, it is important to remember we have not dipped below this number since July 2008. The year following the stock market crash that started the Great Depression, the unemployment rate was just below 10 percent. The level of unemployment did not fall below the 10 percent mark again until 11 years later in 1941, when the United States entered WWII. In a Congressional Budget Office report published less than a month ago, the nonpartisan agency reported “The federal budget deficit has fallen sharply during the past few years, and it is on a path to decline further this year and next year.” However, the publication warns deficits would grow in the long-term if spending and taxation do not change. When leaders cannot agree on a budget and members of the opposing party are completely opposed to raising taxes, it is nearly impossible for President Obama to fix our long-term debt crisis during his term. After examining these five factors, it is absolutely astonishing our people continue to disapprove of the current president’s performance in the economy. Nearly every month since President Obama took office, Gallup has conducted public opinion polls to find out if people approve or disapprove of the way the president has handled the economy. Ever since September 2009, a majority of people polled have disapproved. The most recent poll reports 61 percent of people polled disapprove. These figures tell two different stories. President Obama has led an unprecedented economic recovery, and the citizens still find him unconvincing. This leaves us incredibly vulnerable to another potentially fatal financial crisis. The financial crisis occurred because a large bubble (unsustainable growth) continued to grow in our economy. While several people warned of the implications of this bubble, many were hopeful the growth was sustainable. Unfortunately, the bubble eventually burst. In contrast to the pre-recession boom, the majority of our citizens today fail to recognize our economy has made enormous improvements. When a weary public loses confidence in our economy while it gradually improves in an unprecedented fashion, we are more vulnerable to another crash because fewer people will be able to warn about the onset of a bubble. Even when the confident American public of the previous decade witnessed all of the signs of an incoming crisis, there were not enough warnings to enact effective legislation to reduce risk. If we entered into a bubble in the near future, fewer warning calls would be made because people do not forecast unsustainable growth when they feel like the economy is weak. Ultimately, more people need to recognize the fact that President Obama has led one of the greatest economic recoveries in the history of our nation. If we realize this, we might be able to make sure no president has to dig us out of another historic financial crisis ever again. Samuel Henninger is a sophomore in economics. He can be reached at shenning@vols.utk.edu.
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Why Knoxville needs another gay bar Seven Doctors Say by
Jonathan Burkhalter I’m sure you’ve noticed it. Its black windows stare at you, lifeless and bleak, knowing that people only walk that corner for southern comfort food or a beer from Sam’s. The old Carousel and Deli Market on the corner of James Agee Street and White Avenue sits as a wasted reminder of what is no more. As citizens, there are many ways we can help The Fort better tie into the growing urban scene of Knoxville. One way to do this is for our neighborhood to have places people actually want to go. Run down delis and bars exiled to abandonment are not aiding our community in any way. Last week, there was a meeting with city officials about what to do with the property (unfortunately, I couldn’t attend due to class). As residents of this neighborhood, we have a right to voice our opinion as to what springs up next in that spot. Take a few minutes to think about what you would love to have in your community, be it laser tag, a boutique,
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But even those scenes can get old. Perhaps drag won’t return to the once-magnificent beauty queen hall, but I firmly stand by the idea Knoxville needs another gay bar. No matter your orientation, gay bars can be loads of fun for all sexes. We need less bars with the forced air of sexual tension, waiting for someone to make a move, and more bars where the only required moving is just dancing to fun music and looking like a fool with no pressure to be anything but yourself. Also, I firmly believe the new bar should include a rooftop pool and bar area with great landscaping, lighting and a stage to host jazz bands and blues musicians (you know, since I’m the one designing this place and all). So get moving on contacting companies to take over the prime real estate on the corner of James Agee and White. I know I am. Don’t just imagine what you want in your life; take the steps to make it happen. It isn’t often an opportunity to see a refreshing change in our Fort community comes up, so take advantage of this. If you don’t, you better not complain when there’s a new gay bar. Jonathan Burkhalter is a senior in history. He can be reached at jburkhal@ vols.utk.edu.
Social media is nice, the real world is better Inside and Out by
Katie Grugin As per usual, there is currently a popular story making its rounds on the internet. This one is about a Dutch 25-year-old named Zilla Van Den Born. The story is simple: a university graduate takes a graduation trip to a far away place, has adventures and documents the whole experience for her friends and family. The plot twist comes when she reveals to everyone that, for 42 days, she had been updating her social media with pictures of Thai food and foreign beaches, never actually leaving the comfort of her own neighborhood. Surprise! Everyone had been lied to for over a month, and there are no souvenir presents under the tree at Christmas. The purpose of this young lady’s experiment was to demonstrate how easily public vision can be manipulated through social media. She created an internet persona that did not in any way match who she was while she was at home. But when you think about it, public appearance is something constantly
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a local restaurant or whatever fits your style. It may sound ridiculous, but we can actually have a big effect on what is established in our neighborhood. All we have to do is contact our mayor or the owners of businesses we would like to see there and encourage them to open shop. It’s the consumer letting the supplier know the demand is there. I want to see something a little different. I’m not a fan of The Hill, Tin Roof, Goal Post Tavern (also known as OCI, even though most of the people who call it that weren’t even in college when it was actually Old College Inn) and most of the campus bars in general. In fact, I think I would rather extract my teeth with pliers while sitting naked and alone on metal bleachers in mid-January than spend my weekends frequenting most of the campus bars. I don’t mean to offend any patrons of these institutions, as everyone has their personal preferences. As for me, I want to see more drag again, more daring to be unique, more caution thrown to the wind and replaced with a horror show. I’m talking Rocky Horror. I know I’m not alone in this void of interesting night life. For those of us who don’t spend much time on the strip, the options of night life are slim unless one feels like meandering far from home into Fourth and Gill, Happy Holler or the Old City.
being manipulated. It’s just not always as easily studied as it is on Instagram. Every time we get dressed in the morning, we give off a particular appearance which manipulates each person we interact with into treating us in particular ways according to our cultural norms. Each time we open our mouths and speak, the words we choose affect how we are represented in other people’s minds. Nothing changes in the transition from everyday life to social media, except perhaps the size of the audience; and even that may not be true. Unless you are particularly secluded, we interact with a vast number of people on a daily basis, whether it be the person walking by on pedestrian walk way or the person at the grocery store checkout counter. The cashiers make judgments about what you buy for dinner, too, just without pressing “like.” Science loves the internet because it is quick data. Just about everything on it is preserved for later viewing and research. However, just because it’s trendy does not mean it is any more significant than everyday life. If I wanted to lie to my family and convince them I was in a far-away country, I could do it with a few postcards and some phone calls. I was in Turkey this summer (or was I?). We live in a world that gets to share so much more with each other than any generation before us has been able to. The information and the ability to com-
municate at all times is overwhelming. But is it actually that much more information? Do we share any more about ourselves than past generations did? Honestly, I think it’s just that you can look back over one photo again and again, making it far more significant than it ever would have been in moving life. We forget all too soon there is a person on the other side of the computer screen. While images freeze moments, the life story keeps going on. Zilla Van Den Born performed a neat experiment. However, in all that time she spent pretending she was in Asia, she could have been out actually seeing the world. Facebook does not document actual changes in who you are as a person or how you see the world. It freezes happy moments in time, but it does not reflect how those moments change who you are. What is most interesting to me is the view of every friend you have on Facebook or Twitter or Instagram will shift slightly with each update, but the shift will likely not reflect reality. If who they are as a person is going to be constantly misunderstood by strangers, is it any wonder people like to fill it with safe pictures of normal life like what they are eating for dinner? Katie Grugin is a senior in religious studies and psychology. She can be reached at kgrugin@vols.utk.edu.
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THE DAILY BEACON • 5 Sports Editor Troy Provost-Heron @TPro_UTDB
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Tennessee to host UMass in 2017
Staff Report The Tennessee Volunteers football team will play host to the UMass Minutemen Nov. 4, 2017 inside Neyland Stadium, per a university release issued Wednesday. The University of Massachusetts will receive $1 million guaranteed in compensation. This will be the first meeting between the schools in football. UMass is currently a member of the MidAmerican Conference, but will be competing as an independent during the 2016 and 2017 seasons. The Minutemen were elevated to the Football Bowl Subdivision in 2011 after playing in the Football Championship Subdivision. The schools are linked by the fact they each won their last football national championship in 1998. The Vols won the BCS title while the Minutemen were the champions in FCS (then I-AA). Tennessee last played a school from the state of Massachusetts in the 1993 Hall of Fame Bowl, when the Vols defeated Boston College, 38-23, New Year’s Day, Jan. 1, 1993. That was Phillip Fulmer’s first official game as UT’s head coach. The officials of the contest will be provided by the SEC. UMass will be given a total of 3,000 tickets, with 650 of them being complimentary.
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Bawcombe stepping up ‘sooner than expected’ for the Lady Vols Patrick MacCoon Staff Writer (@PatrickMacCoon) The Tennessee volleyball and football programs are alike in that they both rely on true freshman to not only log playing time, but also start and provide an immediate impact. Usually the transition from high school to college play in an SEC program is not the easiest leap, but for Kelsey Bawcombe, it has come with relative ease. It was the strength she gained during the offseason that allowed Bawcombe such a fluid crossover. “I came from a pretty competitive club background, so that helped a lot,� Bawcombe said. “We got here early in the summer and trained really hard and that helped with the physical side of the college game.� Last weekend the Temecula, California native was named to the DISH Lady Vol Classic AllTournament team, and was a consistent force in Tennessee’s two wins. The Lady Vols outside hitter put forth a career-high 17 kills in a five set win over Mercer and then finished with nine in a victory over Montana State University, giving the Lady Vols a sweep of their Saturday doubleheader. “(Bawcombe)’s stepping into a big role a little sooner than expected,� 17th-year head coach Rob Patrick said. “We really felt like she was going to be a great player for us, but I didn’t realize she would pick up things as well as she has and be as physical as she’s been.� Her final stat line for the tournament, in which she started three of four games, consisted of 35 kills, seven aces, 31 digs and five blocks. “I like to play fearlessly and go after it,� Bawcombe said. “My top focus is to bring the energy to my team out on the court. That can be a big game changer when you bring energy and lift everyone’s spirits up.� Bringing an impressive hitting percentage to the court,
Bawcombe believes she can give her team the points they need. “My passion for the game results from my drive to want to put the ball on the floor and keep it off your own,� she said. “Volleyball has always been fun to me and it’s a challenge as well.� Through her past four games she held onto a 0.260 hitting percentage, a statistic her head coach will happily accept. He wants the team to focus on “low error volleyball.� “We need ten hitters that are going to get some kills for us and not make a lot of errors,� Patrick said. “That’s what Kelsey really brings to our program. Whether she is on the front or back row, she’s taking really good swings and getting kills or putting the defense in a bad position.� Bawcombe has also provided versatility for the team, which finished up non-conference play with a 7-7 record. “She is playing six rotations for us and is doing a very good job of passing and serving,� he said. “She’s been consistent in the back row and has been strong with her blocking as well, which is one of the harder skills to learn and perfect. I’ve been very excited about how well she’s been playing this early in her career.� Although she is a freshman, this doesn’t seem to affect the way she embraces playing time, especially on a 16-girl roster which hosts six freshmen and six sophomores. “It’s definitely different, but you’re out there with a lot of other newcomers,� Bawcombe said. “There’s not a lot of experience but all the girls out on the court are talented volleyball players no matter what their class is. There’s a lot of new energy with this program.� Through 14 contests this season, Bawcombe has been one of four true freshmen to have started in a game, earning the trust of her teammates along the way. “She’s been swinging and doing everything right,� freshman teammate and roommate Claudia Coco said. “She’s
Freshman Kelsey Bawcombe serves the ball during a game against Austin Peay, Sept. 18. Samantha Smoak • The Daily Beacon/ Tennessee Athletics
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continued from Page 1 The Trevarris triumph: After re-injuring his surgically repaired right knee during UT’s open practice Aug. 16, it appears redshirt junior defensive tackle Trevarris Saulsberry is now primed to make his 2014 debut despite missing the Vols’ first three games. “He had a good week,” defensive line coach Steve Stripling said. “We just let him go this week and kind of let him manage his own situation. He did great. “I anticipate him being on the field Saturday.” Saulsberry’s Knoxville tenure has been rocky, to say the least. Last season, the Gainesville, Fla., first suffered a knee injury in UT’s 59-14 loss at Oregon – an issue that kept him sidelined for the next six weeks. The 6-foot-4, 296-pounder returned to action for the showdown with No. 1 Alabama but once again did significant damage to his knee, causing him to miss UT’s last four contests. But despite playing in just eight games over three years, Saulsberry’s veteran status is a welcomed sight to a defensive line unit splattered with newcomers. “I think he brings a lot to the table in that he’s an older player,” Stripling said. “He brings some maturity to the room. I think he brings a presence in that he’s a 300pound guy, and we’re a little short on those guys right now. It’s good to see him out there working into the reps.” Maggitt’s maneuver: While most of Curt Maggitt’s offseason was spent transitioning to an unfamiliar defensive end spot, the redshirt junior will likely find himself in a far more customary setting come Saturday. “This is his kind of game playing Sam linebacker,” UT linebackers coach Tommy Thigpen said Wednesday. “Him and (Justin) King are our No. 1 and No. 2 Sam backers, and they do a good job at the point of attack. “It’s going to be a big challenge for those guys because they do a lot with formations. For those guys playing in space taking on the fullback that’s going to be a big challenge for them this week.”
Senior Justin Worley runs with the ball during the game against Utah State on Aug. 31. Samantha Smoak • The Daily Beacon/ Tennessee Athletics
Vols hoping bye week helped prepare offensive line Taylor White Staff Writer (@T_Dub98) After going into Oklahoma with their third different offensive line in three games, the Tennessee coaching staff decided it was done changing things around. Despite a dreadful performance against the Sooners that saw senior quarterback Justin Worley on his back a plethora of times, the Vols are hoping that a timely bye week will help prepare this young unit as it travels to Georgia on Saturday to take on the Bulldogs. “I like the approach they have taken,” said offensive line coach Don Mahoney. “I like the work and the continuity that we’re working to develop. I think we’re on the right track, we just have to grow up in a hurry.” Familiarity with the guys around you is important for an offensive line’s success, and an extra week of preparation
has allowed the current five to grow more and more comfortable with each other. One bright spot from the Oklahoma game was the opportunity to point out areas needing improvement to an inexperienced group up front. “Coming off of that ball game, there are a lot of things to draw from,” Mahoney said. “The biggest thing we stressed is what guys are gonna step up to be guys that can be major factors going forward, and I think some guys have done that.” Things won’t get any easier for the young line this week, knowing that Georgia has recorded eight sacks in three games this year and boasts three of the nation’s best pass rushers in linebackers Leonard Floyd, Jordan Jenkins and Ramik Wilson. Floyd was a pre-season All-American and is second on the team with two sacks, while Jenkins is a veteran player who has recorded one
sack so far this season. Ramik Wilson is the leader of the Bulldog defense, leading the team with 15 solo tackles on the year, four of which have been for a loss. “It starts with Ramik Wilson,” said offensive coordinator Mike Bajakian. “He’s got to be one of the best linebackers in the league. He’s all over the field. (Floyd) is very athletic. Definitely a great pass rusher, while (Jenkins) does a great job rushing the passer too as more of a defensive end.” The offensive line is still a work in progress this season, but the coaching staff believe this group will prove productive going forward. “I do feel better that there were some things that we learned from,” Mahoney said. “There’s some steps that we made in the right direction as the game went on against Oklahoma, but there are still things we have to get better at. We’ll answer that question Saturday of just how far we have come.”
Martinez’s second homecoming: Tennessee defensive backs coach Willie Martinez is in a unique situation, playing back-to-back games at schools where he spent time as an assistant coach. Martinez coached the Oklahoma secondary from 2010 to 2011 and, prior to that, spent eight years serving as the defensive backs coach and defensive coordinator for Georgia. “As a coach, you just concentrate and focus on the next opponent,” Martinez said. “It’s not about me, it’s really about preparing these players and making sure they’re ready to go.” Martinez spent several years coaching under Georgia head coach Mark Richt– an experience that has helped Martinez grow as a football coach. “(The influence) was tremendous,” Martinez said. “He’s one of my exteammates. We have been friends for a long time and it has been very good.”