UT professors explore myth behind General Custer >>See page 5
Racial slurs still a reality for minority students >>See page 7
DeBord defends game-losing decision >>See page 10
“I always vote in the election. I just always do.
THE VOTES ARE IN
As of Sep. 22, the Knox County Election Commission documented 74,650 residents as registered voters within Knoxville city limits for the city council primary this Tuesday. Those registered to vote for in the Tennessee House rang in as total of 40,069. Though student turnout fizzled into a new low, Scruffy City’s 51 precincts made their choice on who will be on the ballot for the general election on Nov. 3. The primary winners are as follows: Tennessee House of Representatives - District 14 Winner: Jason Zachary - won unopposed with 100% of vote Mayor Winner: Madeline Rogero - won with 98.78% of vote City Council at Large Seat A Winner: George C. Wallace - won unopposed with 100% of vote City Council at Large Seat B Winner: Marshall Stair - won with 78.53% of the vote City Council at Large Seat C Winner: Finbarr Saunders - won with 64.09% of vote
I use that right. These are the people that I know. I know what they stand for, what they’re doing, and what they’re going to try to do so I can say I voted.” -Lewis Harding, UT housing employee
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Low student voter turnout characterizes city council primary Heidi Hill
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Kelsey French
Contributor Andrew Blansett has worked as an election official for Knox County since 2004, but low voter turnout from UT students is still a chronic sign he witnesses when a local election rolls around. Final voting for the primary city election took place on Tuesday, Sept. 29, and for Blansett, a UT graduate in political science, that meant serving yet again as an election official for the 10 North precinct at the Fort Sanders School. For a seasoned election official like Blansett, a smaller voter turnout proved to be true for another election day, citing a total of 10 people who visited the precinct site to place their vote — a five percent decrease from the site’s standard turnout. One of the reasons for this, Blansett said, is the student demographic, coming in at a total 1,214 registered voters, that encompasses the 10
North precinct. “With students, we try to educate them. We try to teach them about registering to vote and actually practicing it, (but) a lot of students are very apathetic,” he said. Another barrier in student participation Blansett emphasized was confusion surrounding how to register in a new county when students become effectual residents of Knox County. “They’re registered in Memphis, Chattanooga, or Nashville, so they think that they can vote in Knox County because they’re registered to vote, but that’s not the case,” Blansett said. “We end up turning a lot of voters away.” In the past, Blansett said, voting poll for 10 North had been held at the Carolyn P. Brown University Center, now reduced to a dirt lot to make room for the second phase of UT’s new student union. This change in location may be another reason why this election’s student turnout proved lower than previous years, Blansett said. The Fort Sanders School will remain the primary location for students in the city’s Nov. 3 general election as Blansett and other election
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officials hope the construction process will move quickly to regain a premiere voting location to increase student turnout. Clifford Rodgers, chair of Knox County’s Election Commission said, the Panhellenic Building and the Howard Baker Center Jr. for Public Policy are a few locations in mind. Rodgers also commented that next year’s presidential primary and general election point to the need for a new location and one that students recognize within the geography of campus. “Last year, when I spoke with UT officials about setting aside the Panhellenic Building, they agreed that would be an ideal place for students to vote,” Rodgers said. “But when we saw the Baker Center, it’s really so much nicer and so much more accessible, especially if there was someone in a wheelchair or using a walker.” While Rodgers argues that the Baker Center is a more convenient location, Blansett maintains the locale is better suited for city elections as opposed to a presidential election where hundreds more voters from across the county are expected to cast a ballot. “There’s just not a lot of space,” Blansett said.
“In a presidential election, we could see 900 voters in a day. I’m not sure if we would have enough room in that location.” Still, an older generation of voters that showed up for Tuesday’s election said they believe voting remains a vital part of participating in local affairs and as a resident of Knoxville. Lewis Harding, an employee in UT housing, voted at the Fort Sanders School on the day of the city election, claiming his choice to vote rests solely in its habitat of voting and civic duty. “I always vote in the election. I just always do. I use that right. These are the people that I know,” Harding said. “I know what they stand for, what they’re doing, and what they’re going to try to do so I can say I voted.” While Rodgers maintains that a drop in civic understanding characterizes the college-age voter, he cites his nine years as undergraduate and law student from UT as the reason he pushes students in particular to participate in local government and elections every year. “I’d like to think that the right to vote can’t be overlooked either,” Rodgers said. “It’s a privilege, that’s how I look at it.”
DISPATCHES U.S. conducts airstrikes against major Afghan city In cooperation with Afghan government forces, the United States conducted airstrikes against the Afghan city of Kunduz Tuesday after Taliban forces took control of the city. The fifth largest city in Afghanistan and the capital of the province with the same name, the capture of Kunduz represents the largest Taliban victory in the country since the arrival of American forces in 2001. The United States handed over combat duties to NATO trained Afghan forces last year. There are currently around 10,000 U.S. forces stationed in Afghanistan there primarily to train, assist and advise government troops in their efforts to fight the Taliban. Gen. John Campbell, the top commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, will testify before a U.S. Senate committee next week concerning the situation in Afghanistan and what the future role of U.S. forces should be.
Sole woman on Georgia’s death row to receive lethal injection Despite pleas from the Pope and the children of Kelly Gissendaner, the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles denied her request for clemency from the 47-year-old inmate. Gissendaner was placed on death row after she was convicted of murder for convincing her then-lover to kill her husband in 1997. Gissendaner is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Tuesday at 7 p.m. Her attorneys are making several appeals, but if the decision carries out, she will become the first woman to be executed by the state of Georgia in over 70 years. One of the attorneys, Susan Casey, said Gissendaner’s children and relatives were “heartbroken” when they received news of their mother’s conviction. Casey also stated that their request for an additional 24 hours to visit Gissendaner was denied by the board.The hearing was closed to the media and a spokesman from the board denied to make any comment regarding its decision.
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TN non-profit tackles public record access then and now Connor Barnhill
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It takes more than a penny to read the thoughts and records of your city government. With Knoxville and the rest of Tennessee debating access to public records, the efforts of organizations like the Tennessee Coalition for Open Government (TCOG) may become more and more prevalent. Recent hearings have been held on a bill that proposes charging citizens for examining public records, which include any documents open to the citizens of Tennessee can choose to view whenever and for whatever reason. Currently, it only costs money to copy public documents or if the records requests require significant time to access and compile. While the bill, originally proposed by State Senator, Jim Tracy, R-Shelbyville, has been taken off notice, the proposed measure has nonetheless spurred a dialogue within the state as to the true nature of government transparency. Deborah Fisher, the executive director of Tennessee Coalition for Open Government, said maintaining an “open” government means preserving that transparency, a task the organization considers to be its main mission. Lately, reaching this goal translates into
organizing groups to speak at and attend the hearings. “Information is the currency of democracy,” Fisher said. “If you understand what your government is doing, then you can better participate.” Traditionally, the non-profit organization receives donations from newspapers and news networks that frequently use public records as a source for stories. But for Fisher, that access to public records is a right given to every citizen, and should be protected for every citizen — not just those involved in the world of journalism. “There are lots of groups and individuals who use public records to their benefit,” Fisher said of advantages of all-citizen access. “For example, there was one group of individuals that wanted the zonings for construction in their town (because) they were worried the proximity to a local river might pollute it.” From the efforts of Tennessee Coalition for Open Government, the availability of public records have come a long way since the passage of the Tennessee Public Records Act in 1954, which paved the way for greater transparency in government. In its early development, Tennessee Coalition for Open Government led a statewide audit that examined public record accessibility to the average citizen in order to determine just how open local governments were to those citizens seeking
Modern Japanese literature teacher illuminates complex Asian culture Tanner Hancock News Editor
n total, over 6,700 miles of land, sea and people lie between Knoxville and Japan. To the average observer, it may seem like a no-brainer to mark these two cities as totally distinct. But for Noriko Horiguchi, UT’s associate professor of modern Japanese literature, the opposite rings true. A native of Kobe, Japan, Horiguchi originally took a position at UT in 2002, before which she spent 10 years in the northeastern United States. Like many visitors to the U.S., Horiguchi initially assumed America’s culture was synonymous with its big cities. Yet, after interacting with southern hospitality, its politeness and the general “indirect manner” with which Knoxville residents speak, Horiguchi came to discover that the American South was much closer to Japan than she originally believed. “It’s sort of strangely familiar when I encounter people here, and so I’m comfortable with that,” Horiguchi said. “I
thought that [Northeast] was the American culture, and it’s not. I’m much more used to the way it is here.” As associate professor in the department of modern foreign languages, Horiguchi’s journey to Knoxville was not something she originally envisioned growing up in Kobe. The youngest of three children, Horiguchi spent much of her youth between the big cities of Tokyo and her hometown, spending less time studying and more time on athletics. See JAPANESE on Page 4
public information. Dorothy Bowles, a former professor of journalism at UT and founder of Tennessee Coalition for Open Government, recalls the results of the audit, for which she was a primary researcher. “We sent out auditors to records custodians in all ninety-five counties in one day so as to avoid the custodians learning about it and changing their method of handling strangers,” Bowles said. The results were disheartening. At the research’s conclusion, Bowles and her team reported a third of the records custodians failed in following the Tennessee Public Records Act while some auditors were outright denied access to public records or harassed into leaving by law enforcement. “One of the problems with the Public Records Act is that there are no penalties for not following it, besides suing the record custodian or board responsible,” Bowles said. Under the act’s active version, records custodians can charge not only for the expenses related to the copying or printing of records, but also for labor associated with those actions. This allows record custodians to delegate the task to their highest-paid employee, and therefore demand full price due to time the employee “lost” while redacting, copying and printing the records needed.
Such circumstances where price gouging inhibits access, Fisher said, are common when searching for information on controversial or sensitive subjects such as drug or alcohol abuse, vehicle accidents, homicides and crime reports. “When one newspaper group tried to get information on the death reports of about 200 minors in Tennessee, the custodians claimed the total cost for gathering the information would be $55,000 dollars,” Fisher said. For individuals that cannot afford the hefty price tag or lawyer to hear their case, Tennessee Coalition for Open Government created the Office of Open Records Counsel in which a select committee offers free legal advice to citizens who run into access barriers while searching for public records. Though this presence eliminates cost for an attorney, Fisher and her Tennessee Coalition for Open Government peers said that monitoring accessibility to records will continue to be thorn in the side of transparent government. To combat this, Fisher commented that her organization is currently working against a recent proposal to bar citizen access with a multitude of organizations and groups from all political ties. “Observing all who attended the hearings, it’s pretty obvious that, regardless of your political standings, we can all agree on an open government,” Fisher said.
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JAPANESE continued from Page 3 “I didn’t have too much pressure from my parents, really no expectations to become anything,” Horiguchi explained of her upbringing. After college, Horiguchi began work with a Japanese insurance company, yet it only took one year for her to abandon the business altogether and begin her studies anew. “I did that (insurance) for one year, and it was just so boring and tedious and monotonous that I wanted to go back to studies.” Since coming to UT, Horiguchi has assumed responsibility over a variety of courses, ranging from modern Japanese literature, contemporary Japanese film as well as a host of Japanese language courses of varying levels. Still, she feels her true passion lies with literature. Acting as an intersection between politics, history and culture, the written word, Horiguchi said, contains power as unmistakable as it potent. “By participating in studies of literature, I’m most interested in identifying how literature depicts conventions, how literature challenges oppressive institutions and practices and how literature explores new possibilities in creating our reality,”
Horiguchi said. Specifically, Horiguchi studies and teaches extensively on Japan’s literary body, both before and after the end of World War II in 1945. In 2002, Horiguchi’s book “Women Adrift: The Literature of Japan’s Imperial Body” was published by the University of Minnesota Press. In it, she explores the complex relationship women had with the Japanese imperial government, as many prominent female writers initially offered dissenting views to imperial Japan’s damaging dialogue towards women while living in Japan, yet chose to endorse the government’s nationalistic sentiments once they moved outside the country to Japanesecontrolled territories. The book acts as a criticism not only of Japan’s aggressive foreign policy before 1945, but also addresses the gender issues then present in the country at a time when the country adopted a “good wife, wise mother” policy towards its women. Even today, Japan is ranked 104th out of 136 countries in terms of gender gaps based economic, political, educational and healthbased criteria, according to 2014 Global Gender Gap Report. In class, Horiguchi strives to elicit reflections and responses from her students to better understand the complexities that comprise Japanese literature.
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Humans of Knoxville What has been your favorite memory or something that sticks out from your time here at UT? “I worked three jobs to get here, and it took me a while but I got here, and I think that first semester was so overwhelming and so many teachers really shaped my education that semester. I think that was my defining moment from UT.” - Holly Hayes, 5th-year senior in management and entrepreneurship Alyssa White • The Daily Beacon
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New York UT journalism professors to publish book on Custer architect ties Megan Patterson identity to design Arts & Culture Editor
Jared Sebby
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Jerry van Eyck • Photo Courtesy of !melk How can a park or public space become a greater part of the city around it? For Jerry van Eyck, founder of the !melk, a design group in New York City, identity comes from the landscape surrounding him. In a lecture at the UT School of Architecture and Design on Monday, van Eyck discussed his approach to identity and talked about a few of his recent and ongoing projects. “I think you are always influenced by the place where you grew up and the way that you grew up. In my case, (it was) in the Netherlands,” he said, “So dealing with the land and understanding that there’s a threat of water has been a part of my background.” As a result, many of van Eyck’s parks are built along coasts or in areas where climate change is expected to cause significant sea level rise over the next century. However, more recently, he’s turned his attention to the desert, trying to create an identity for the Las Vegas strip. After recently being approached by MGM Grand Resorts, which owns many of the casinos and hotels along the Vegas strip, van Eyck has focused on creating a more accessible, pedestrian-friendly space along the boulevard. Part of this project will involve building the first ever public park on the Las Vegas strip. “What we try to do, and it’s tough, but we force ourselves to have a clear, empty mind and think of nothing and try to listen to people and feel the site. It sounds abstract, but it is abstract,” van Eyck said. “Don’t imitate the environment. That’s what a zoo does. Identity should reflect a place subconsciously.” See ARCHITECTURE on Page 8
Who was Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer? Some say he was a heartless butcher of the west, while others place him on a pedestal of American heroism. Two journalism professors at UT, Edward Caudill and Paul Ashdown, teamed up to co-author their new book, “Inventing Custer: The Making of an American Legend,” to crack the myth of Colonel Custer and to reveal the man hidden inside. Caudill and Ashdown have previously co-authored several historical nonfiction books examining cultural mythic figures, like Nathan Bedford Forrest and William Tecumseh Sherman among others. The pair formed due to a mutual interest in American and journalistic history, with Ashdown holding more expertise in the Civil War era and Caudill focusing on newspaper history and trends of ideas throughout U.S. history. “I’d say we had similar writing styles, and we both enjoyed editing — and cigars — so we were able to write with a common voice and improve each other’s work,” Ashdown recalled. The thought to pursue the myth surrounding Custer originally came to Caudill on a fishing trip in 2013. While on his way to the Snake River watershed in Idaho, Caudill stopped by the Little Bighorn Memorial site. Intrigued by the story, Caudill brought the idea up to Ashdown, who initially refused the project. “The next morning Paul showed up to the office with this stack of books he had gotten from the UT library and said ‘Now here’s just a few of the good books on Custer. This doesn’t even cover all of the bad and mediocre ones that are out there,’” Caudill said. “And I said ‘OK, OK I get it. I’m convinced.’ Then he pulls out of his coat pocket an outline while saying ‘This is how we can do this.’” To take on a story as well-known Colonel Custer’s, the pair decided to find an angle no one had examined yet. They avoided looking directly at The Battle of Little Bighorn or pursuing a full biography. In the end, the co-authors chose to examine how Custer became a legendary figure, both by his own hand, by the media and the American public. Custer’s self-promotion began with his writing — or, more accurately, his storytelling. “The way stories, or narratives, evolved fit a kind of pattern,” Ashdown said. “The motivation was simply to tell a good story. Sometimes a good story overruns the truth of the story, and when that happens it becomes myth.” Custer’s stories, despite potential embellishment, received credibility due to his flamboyant and intriguing personality. “He seemed to be the type of person in
high school that everyone likes for some reason even though they find the person kind of obnoxious,” Ashdown said. “I think it’s just a simple fact that we tend to gravitate to people who are interesting, and he made himself interesting.” Custer may have used his infectious personality to make a name for himself throughout his entire career. Despite graduating last in his class at West Point in 1861, Custer moved up quickly in the field during the Civil War, becoming an officer within two or three years. But, as Caudill said, “the Civil War defines Custer’s life and the Battle of Little Bighorn describes his legend.” Custer went from famous to infamous with the story of the 7th Cavalry Regiment’s last stand. The most interesting part of the last stand myth is that there are no legitimate accounts of its existence since no American soldiers survived. According to Caudill, a few Native American accounts exist, but they are unreliable. So what is the truth about the myth of Custer and his last stand? Caudill said it depends on how you choose to look at it. “A myth can be something that’s untrue, or it was a larger truth, a larger insight into something,” Caudill said. “So when you are talking about a mythic figure you might be talking about someone who never existed or something who is larger than life.” Custer has certainly become larger than life in American culture. After his death the public revered him as a war hero until the 1930s, when he became what Caudill called a “homicidal, glory-seeking, maniac” in film and books. For Caudill, the public myth may hold more interest than the real man himself since it reveals the viewpoint of an era.
“You have to rewrite history for every generation because the insights, the knowledge, the prejudices of every generation change,” Caudill said. Ashdown and Caudill said they view this constantly evolving myth surrounding Custer as an inseparable facet of his factual history. “In Custer’s case, the myths are a part of the story, and all the layers have to be peeled away to get at the ‘facts’ (which are in dispute),” Ashdown said. “The way we remember the past is conditioned by the way we encounter the past … that doesn’t mean it’s ‘false,’ or inferior to history. “It gives us a character who then becomes part of a story.”
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President DiPietro, our case for opting out of Haslam’s privatization
Roosevelt Institute Fireside Chatter
“(Haslam) is going against what we need in East Tennessee,” said Jean Allred, a custodial services worker. “He’s just out to make a dollar. He doesn’t care about the people.” If Governor Bill Haslam successfully privatizes the management of state buildings, workers like Allred face slashed benefits, reduced hours and impersonal corporate treatment — if they keep their jobs at all. The United Campus Workers Union estimates that privatization could impact over 1,000 jobs with benefits at UT alone. This isn’t just speculation — we’ve seen how these plans have affected workers in the past. In 2013, Haslam made a move to privatize Tennessee’s facilities services. In a scheme ultimately mired in controversy, Haslam outsourced the management of a few state buildings to third-party corporation Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL). A total of 126 state workers received just sixty-days notice that they would be out of a job. Haslam had assured Tennesseans that most workers would be rehired through JLL. However, of the 107 former state workers who applied for jobs with the service provider, only 37 were rehired. In contrast, at UT, custodial services had been outsourced since the late 1990s. In 2012, the university moved back to in-house custodial services, resulting in the hiring of 120 employees. Following the transition, Dave Irvin, associate vice chancellor of facilities services, noted several benefits of insourcing, including “increased service, better cleaning and more responsiveness to the needs of the university.”
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Bringing these employees onto the UT payroll also provides them with better wages, benefits and continuing education opportunities.” Dave Irvin
“Bringing these employees onto the UT payroll also provides them with better wages, benefits and continuing education opportunities,” Irvin said. “As we move toward our goal of being a Top 25 university, one of our commitments is to help improve employee compensation wherever we can, and this helps us do that.” Allred began working for UT in 2012, just as the university was
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switching back to in-house staff. She witnessed a marked difference in the quality of the work. “When I first came, the trash wasn’t being emptied, the bathrooms weren’t getting cleaned, the floors weren’t being mopped — it just wasn’t an appealing place to work,” Allred said. She added that things got “100 percent better” when the university moved away from the outsourced company. The truth is that outsourcing to a private contractor makes it more difficult for workers to do high quality work. By limiting employees to part-time shifts, companies can cut wages and avoid paying for benefits. These shorter shifts make it hard to finish jobs, and a lack of communication between shifts can lead to confusion about what needs to be completed. Aside from the sacrifice of service quality, the state doesn’t even stand to save money by privatizing. An outsourcing consultant hired by the governor’s office found that privatization of UT’s facilities management would be more costly than maintaining state employment of workers. On average, it costs about $5 per square foot to maintain UT’s campus with the current labor force. According to Haslam’s consultant, the cheapest third party company would charge $6.20 for comparable services. The dangerous assumption underlying Haslam’s privatization plan is that state workers are over-paid and bad at their jobs. In reality, the services currently performed by campus workers at UT cost less and are of better quality than those offered by third party companies. Fortunately, UT is in a special position to avoid Haslam’s plans: Joe DiPietro, president of the UT system, has been given the opportunity to opt out of privatization by early October if he finds it to be in conflict with the well-being of the university. DiPietro’s decision won’t be easy. Higher education facilities are predicted to make up as much as 70 percent of the new outsourcing, so Haslam’s privatization initiative relies heavily on the cooperation of the UT system. With so much hinging on his decision of whether or not to opt out, DiPietro is sure to be under plenty of pressure from the governor-appointed Board of Trustees that oversee him. While recognizing the difficult position he’s been placed in, we appeal to President DiPietro to put the University of Tennessee first. President DiPietro, stand with UT workers and students: opt out of Governor Haslam’s privatization initiative. Sawyer Smith, Hayley Brundige, Patrick McKenzie and Ben Bergman are members of UT’s chapter of the Roosevelt Institute. They can be reached at ricnutk@gmail.com. This piece is the third of a series highlighting the potential damages of privatizing state services.
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Unacceptable racial slurs occurring on campus
Maria Smith
Bleeding Orange, Being Different
Almost a week ago, one of my friends was called something other than her name while walking home from an on-campus event. Even if it were appropriate to say what she was called in this publication, I would still not dare to type it, because there’s always that one person who thinks anything published is okay to say. When my friend, an African-American female student, and two other African-American students were in the process of crossing the street, a car drove by and yelled out a racial slur. At first, they thought nothing of it because the event was so random, but then, it happened again. They were unsure if it was two different cars or the same one. Regardless of how many cars there were, the fact remains that an incident of blunt racism occurred here on campus. Hearing about this incident caused my flesh to crawl out of discomfort, especially after another one of my friends, also an African-American female, said that a similar incident happened to her last year while she was out with a group of friends. After the main conversation, I talked to one of my Indian friends about all I had just heard. In response to everything I had told her, she responded by saying the same thing had happened to her as well, while on campus. All of this was blowing my mind. Everything we had just discussed was unfathomable to me. Who, in 2015, is still anonymously and purposefully being
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racist, and what would I do if, or when, it happens to me? Even though I shouldn’t have been surprised, I still most definitely was. Even though you hear about these things happening, it becomes more realistic the closer the event occurs to you. After the shock was over, I was angry. Out of all things, the commonality of the conversation is what made me full of rage. I couldn’t, and still can’t, understand why these secretive acts of discrimination are able to slide through the crevices of campus consciousness as a normal action. The fact that more than one person can say that this event in particular has happened to them is a problem. If we are all Vols, why am I at risk of spitefully being identified by my skin color with the worse words possible? There is a reason why specific terminology is limited to certain groups of people to use. Because there is so much associated with certain words, even mouthing it with your lips can be seen as offensive if your heritage does not embody the struggles that
On traffic rules, pedestrians and vice Clint Graves
If I’m Honest
I, like most people I assume, know the rules of the road pretty well. They can be easily condensed into two phrases: try not to hit anything, and don’t be a tool. From there, it can be a bit dicey figuring out which rules actually matter and which apply in what situations. In theory, they should all apply all of the time. I understand that. But that simply isn’t practical. What, for example, are you supposed to do when a traffic light turns yellow? Quite a few of you probably believe the answer is slow down, prepare to stop. But you’re wrong. Clearly, you must speed up to avoid sitting, pointlessly burning fuel and going nowhere. With each passing second, you pump more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, murdering mercilessly yet another polar bear cub in vain. Way to go. Even this one simple situation, which occurs constantly, can cause the population to develop a case of Dissociative Identity Disorder en masse. But I guess that’s better than the total psychic shattering that occurs when Knoxville drivers encounter that humblest of traffic patterns: the roundabout. Yes, it’s called a roundabout. No, it’s really not that difficult to navigate. As with most colleges, getting in is the hard part. From there it’s fairly straightforward. But without fail, people seem to have no clue what they’re doing. It’s as if entry into a simple, one-lane
roundabout teleports people to the west end of the Champs-Élysées. And the rules of the road occasionally just don’t make any sense. Why in the world do pedestrians have the right-of-way? That sounds like a rule added by a mass murderer. It simply makes more sense to give the car the right-of-way; it’s bigger and more inconvenient to move than a human. Pedestrians should be paying attention to their surroundings and crossing when it’s smart, not assuming cars will stop. Plus, there is nothing more annoying than driving about campus, minding one’s own business, only to be stopped by a herd of zombie students, fresh off an all-nighter, unable, apparently, to function with any measure of intelligence. Even more ludicrous are speed limits in school zones. I am in a machine that registers the ability to do 165 mph. I have to drive it at 10 mph. In case of what, a kindergartener losing her will to live? She made her decision. Let me drive. But this gets me to the main point of this column. I can’t stand speed limits. They exist for government revenue and that’s it. The legislation that sets the limits doesn’t care about public safety; the bottom dollar is all that matters. “But an accident at 45 mph is much safer than one at 70 mph,” you may say, and I agree. That’s a
come along with it. A racial slur is identified as a slur for a reason; it is often used maliciously to offend or cause discomfort to the person on the receiving end. If we are at an institution to educate ourselves, why are some people still oblivious as to how to treat others and create a unified campus body? For those who might be left in the dark, a better campus life does not include “jokingly” throwing around offensive language. This is a problem. Being a Vol should not consist of dealing with being called outside of one’s name by the majority nor other minorities. When things of this nature occur, we need to address it, even if there is no campus-wide UTPD notification sent out. Being different is inevitable. No one can control the color of his or her skin, his or her sexual orientation or anything else of that nature. The one thing that everyone on this campus has decided to do is to attend or contribute to this university in his or her own way. By being at this university, everyone has unanimously decided to bleed orange. So, if we have chosen to be a successful educational unit, why are there still issues of respect towards people’s differences? Maria Smith is a sophomore in journalism and electronic media. She can be reached at msmit304@ vols.utk.edu.
completely factual statement, demonstrable by an elementary understanding of physics. But physics isn’t what’s being questioned here. Legislation is. Speeding is a vice. Speeding is like alcohol, gambling, sex and heroin. It’s great. And as a vice, speed cannot be legislated. It’s ridiculous to try because people are just going to ignore the law, and no one can do anything about it. Just look down I-40 anytime it isn’t rush hour. Everyone, except the police, is doing 8,000 mph. And the only reason they aren’t doing 8,001 mph is because that’s what the police are doing. We had to amend our constitution twice when we had this same conversation about alcohol. The Supreme Court of the United States had to slap down a similar contention about legally making exclusive our gay sex. Monte Carlo does a roaring trade. And heroin addicts abound. The solution is simple. Go around to every speed sign in America with a can of spray paint, cross out the word “limit” and just scrawl the word “minimum.” Not only will this solve traffic and cost next to nothing, but I’d never be late to a meeting again. Barring the occasional pedestrian-related accident. Clint Graves is a junior in communication studies and English. He can be reached at bhr713@vols. utk.edu.
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ARTS&CULTURE
The Daily Beacon • Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Stand-up comedian Julia Prescott returns to Knoxville
In addition to touring, Prescott has also performed at many different festivals, such as the Hell Yes Fest in New Orleans and the Cape Fear Comedy Festival. However, Prescott’s comedic interests expand beyond just stand-up. She co-hosts a podcast all about the Simpsons called “Everything’s Coming Up
Podcast!� and writes for different television shows including: “MAD� on Cartoon Network, “The Aquabats! Super Show!� airing on Discovery Family, the upcoming Disney XD show, “Future-Worm� and the second season of “Mutt & Stuff� on Nick Jr. Occasionally, Prescott finds time to write columns for VICE and contribute to Nickelodeon’s “Awesomeness TV.� Matthew Chadourne, local comedian and founder of QED Comedy Laboratory, will be the host of Prescott’s upcoming show. “Julia came through Knoxville last year on her ‘I Just Wanted to Go to Dollywood’ Tour, and it was hilarious,� Chadourne said. Prescott also holds fond memories of her last visit to the city. “I ended up having a great time in Knoxville and was instantly smitten by the downtown scene and the local comics,� Prescott said. “I wanted to make a real effort to come through Knoxville again and experience that tremendous hospitality.� This time around, Prescott will be recording the whole performance to feature on her new album called, “Every Joke on This Album Kills (because I took out the ones that didn’t).� Prescott will be at the Pilot Light on
Wednesday, Sept. 30, from 8 p.m. – 10 p.m. The show is 18 and up, and tickets can be purchased at pilotlight.com for $5 online or $8 at the door.
you should embrace that,� van Eyck said. “Design is a creative process that comes from mysterious places within you.� Gale Fulton, associate professor in the school of landscape architecture, chair of the Graduate Landscape Architecture Program and co-chair of the Church Lecture Series — which brings architects and designers to UT — offered a glimpse
of what to expect with the series as it continues. “We have a diverse lineup. So you’ll see additional perspectives from different kinds of designers, so architects, interior designers will be in the mix,� Fulton said. “You’ll see more perspectives and different techniques for different kinds of design. “Students get, from this lecture series,
ideas about design process, they get a lot of ideas about how to communicate,� he added. The Church Lecture Series is free and open to the public. The next lecture is on Oct. 12, and will feature Wendell Burnette’s “Dialogues in Space.� All lectures take place in Room 109 of the Art and Architecture Building.
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Contributor Julia Prescott, a stand-up comedian from Los Angeles, will be coming to Knoxville armed with Simpson’s trivia knowledge, a sound crew and a comfy rental car as part of her “Please Laugh, This is For My Album� Tour. Prescott became interested in stand-up during college, hosting several on-campus comedy shows for her roommates. “The bug bit me pretty early, and I credit a lot of my drive and focus to the fact that my dad worked as a stand-up comedian throughout the ‘80s and ‘90s,� Prescott said. “I don’t necessarily ‘test’ jokes on him, but we have a great time sharing stage stories.� Although Prescott just hit what she considers her seven-year stand-up anniversary, this will only be her fourth tour as a solo act over the past two years. “A lot of people remark on how ‘scary’ this is — and not to dismiss that, it’s plenty freaky — but it’s not nearly as terrifying as one might think,� Prescott shared. “All it takes is drive, focus and lots and lots of podcasts. A comfy car rental doesn’t hurt.�
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SPORTS
The Daily Beacon • Wednesday, September 30, 2015
FOOTBALL
DeBord offers detailed explanation for lost conversion Jonathan Toye
Sports Editor Shortly after the Florida loss, Tennessee coach Butch Jones explained why he opted to kick the extra-point instead of attempting a two-point conversion when Tennessee scored a touchdown to go up, 26-14, against Florida with 10:16 remaining in the fourth quarter. The decision came under scrutiny when Florida scored two touchdowns to win, 28-27. A successful two-point conversion would have resulted in overtime instead of a Florida win. Jones said he based the decision to try an extra-point on a chart — an answer most Tennessee fans consider unsatisfactory. Tennessee offensive coordinator Mike DeBord also explained why the Vols didn’t go for two. He said there was too much time on the clock to attempt a two-point conversion. “If there was less time, then we would have gone for two,” DeBord said. “But with that much time left, basically you do normally go for one. And I have been in that situation before and that is exactly what we did before too. “It’s a decision that you make at that time, you don’t know what is going to happen 11 minutes later.” A Passing Story: DeBord maintains that each game has an unique story.
An absent passing game, however, has been a recurring story throughout the Vols first four games. DeBord cited a strong running attack — which collected 254 yards on the ground — as a reason for a lack of production in the passing game, saying the story of the game favored the running game. “There were times I probably could have gone to the passing game, but when the running game is going good, you stay with the running game,” DeBord said after Tennessee’s practice in the Ray and Lucy Hand Digital Studio. “When you run for 250 plus yards against that defense, you are being effective, so you stay with that.” DeBord did admit that the wide receivers might be frustrated with the lack of targets, but promised that they will get their opportunity soon. As long as the story of the game dictates an emphasis in the passing game. “We got to get the passing game involved more,” DeBord said. “That day is coming, we are going to get the ball to (the wide receivers) and I told them that today. “Again it’s what happens in a game.” High on Dobbs: Starting quarterback Joshua Dobbs had pedestrian numbers in the passing game last Saturday, completing 10 of 17 passes for 83 yards. That didn’t stop DeBord from praising his junior quarterback.
“How about the effort of Josh Dobbs? I mean, what about that guy?” DeBord said. “He was relentless. He was unbelievable. He made so many plays for us.” What Dobbs didn’t accomplish through the air, he more than made up on the ground. Dobbs ran for 136 yards on 13 carries and had a 58-yard reception on a perfectly conceived pass play. A simple clarification: A fan in the stands might see a receiver open down the field and wonder why the quarterback is not passing to him. DeBord provided some clarity to that question on Tuesday. “If you sit up in the stands and see a receiver open, you might think he is open, but that might not even be in the progression of him,” DeBord said. “A quarterback never goes back and sees the entire field and goes, ‘oh that guy is open over there and that guy is open over there.’ He has to go through his progressions and throw it. “Again, people can sit up there and go, “That’s guy is open” Well, that might have been on the opposite side where we were throwing the ball.” How about that drive: DeBord thought Tennessee had good execution on its 16-play, 70-yard touchdown drive that lasted 7:26 minutes. In truth, the Vols did a lot of good things on that drive. “I thought that people who had the football, they did a great job of moving the ball up the
Junior Jalen Reeves-Maybin focuses on making tackle during the Tennessee-Florida game. Hayley Pennesi • The Daily Beacon/Tennessee Athletics field and making guys miss,” DeBord said of the drive. “I thought our lineman did as well of a job blocking the second level that we have done all year. Guys were down field getting on linebackers and stuff like that. “(That drive) was a combination of a lot of things.”
FOOTBALL
Vols strive to perfect ‘sense of urgency’ for fourth down defense Taylor White
Assistant Sports Editor
It’s no secret that fourth down has been a problem for Tennessee’s defense. In four games this season, the Vols have gotten a stop 74 percent of the time on third down, as opposed to just 10 percent on fourth. Some teams have a tendency to play tight on fourth down, due to the importance of the situation, but defensive coordinator John Jancek thinks his team has the opposite problem. “We see it as ‘hey this is just another down,’” Jancek said after Tuesday’s practice. “And really it’s not. This is fourth down, all the chips are slid into the middle of the table. You have to find a way to make a play. You have to have a sense of urgency.” In Saturday’s loss at Florida, the Gators converted all five of their fourth down opportunities, including a 63 yard touchdown pass on fourthand-fourteen to win the game. Jancek took responsibility for some of the
calls made during the game, but also referenced the need for players to make plays in critical moments. On several fourth downs, Tennessee decided to rush Florida quarterback Will Grier with just three players, dropping eight into coverage. “What we saw on film is if you matched up the coverages to the routes, the quarterbacks’ first instinct was to run,” Jancek said. “We opted to show a four down look when we were rushing, then we would drop Chris (Weatherd) back once we saw the routes matched up… “It worked great, but I probably went to that call one too many times, and certainly I have to deal with that. But there’s no excuse, we’re gonna get it done.” Defensive line drop-off: Tennessee has sacked the opposing quarterback eight times on the season, but just three of those have come from a defensive linemen with linebacker Jalen Reeves-Maybin and Darrin Kirkland Jr. combining for the other five. This comes just a year after defensive ends Curt Maggitt and Derek Barnett combined for
21 total sacks. Barnett has just one so far this year, while Maggitt has missed the majority of the season so far with a hip injury and did not record a sack before the injury. With one of the Vols’ best pass rushers watching from the sidelines, that’s allowed opposing offensive lines to key in on Barnett. “They always give Derek attention,” Jancek said. “He’s got to find a way to get to the quarterback. He’s had some nagging type injuries, but he’s got to have a break-out game. He hasn’t really taken over a game yet, like we had hoped he would at this stage. “But certainly without Curt on the other side they can focus and put more attention on them.” In every game this season, Tennessee has been matched up against a mobile quarterback who make plays on the ground. Oklahoma’s Baker Mayfield was able to take advantage of an aggressive defense and slip out of the pocket. Because of the struggles Tennessee had containing the quarterback, the coaching staff has worked with the line on containing, as well as pass rushing.
“The majority of the quarterback we’ve played have been able to hurt you coming out of the pocket,” Stripling said. “So we’ve stressed points. It’s a fine line stressing staying in your pass rush point, and creating a move to get a sack.” Another aspect to take into the account is the added depth on the defensive line this season. Defensive line coach Steve Stripling said the Vols are playing up to 10 players up front thanks to the continued progress of several freshmen. Kyle Phillips, Shy Tuttle and Kahlil McKenzie all saw action at significant points in the game on Saturday, and Stripling said the freshmen have worked their way into the rotation up front. “I think Kahlil and Shy have worked themselves to the point where they can play in critical situations,” Stripling said. “They’re in the rotation and really right now we’re playing five tackles and five ends. Really right now, our motto this week is ‘every play is a fourth-andone. This game is a fourth-and-one. So the guys that producing on the field are the guys that are gonna play.”
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Bialczak becoming the big-time player she was meant to be Trenton Duffer Copy Editor
Certain athletes have special items that they use for good luck before every game. Rockies’ first baseman, Justin Morneau drinks a one-half Mountain Dew, one-half red or orange slushee before every game, while LSU football coach, Les Miles eats grass on the sidelines when his team has the lead late. Redshirt freshman, Anna Bialczak, wears certain hair ties when her team goes on a winning streak. “If I start the season with a certain hair tie, I’ll keep that tie until either we lose or something like that,” Bialczak said before last Wednesday’s practice. “It depends on how far of a streak we’re on.” Bialczak began the hair tie tradition at the same time she began playing soccer at the age of five. The redshirt freshman played a lot with her cousin throughout her younger years, as her cousin taught her the tricks and skills she uses today. Although her cousin quit playing, Bialczak kept honing her skills. She didn’t want to play for her cousin, but she used the motivation he offered to get better and earn a spot on
her high school’s varsity team. Climbing the ranks, Bialczak played varsity soccer at McDonogh School, a private school in Owings Mill, Maryland. While there, the former Lady Eagle earned many honors — most notably the 2013 Baltimore Sun Player of the Year award. Ever since the day she began playing, Bialczak strived to improve. She attended Maryland and North Carolina soccer matches throughout her youth, and she soon realized at a young age that she wanted to play college soccer. “That was my dream, and I’m living it,” Bialczak said. “I’d been in Maryland my whole life, and I wanted to get a different scene.” It didn’t take long for the Lutherville, Maryland native to decide to attend The University of Tennessee. Coach Brian Pensky and his staff made Bialczak feel welcome — a lasting impression on the then-18-year-old. Pensky remembers recruiting Bialczak and says that her play is one of the main reasons for his team’s successful record this year. “She’s probably one of our most explosive, powerful kids,” Pensky said. “Knowing that she’s only a freshman, and that we have three-and-ahalf years with Anna Bialczak, she’s going to be
a big-time player in this program.” Bialczak was set to play in the 2014 season but ended up tearing her ACL in the preseason of last year. Now, Bialczak’s play is turning heads across the country. Her five assists are a team-high and are good for a third-place tie in the SEC. At one point this season, her assist total was ranked seventh in all of NCAA women’s soccer. With her goal to ultimately play for the women’s national team, like her idol Abby Wambach, Bialczak wants to play well enough this year to earn All-Freshman First Team or All-American honors. She hopes that these honors won’t just showcase how strong of a player she is, but will also show that her team deserves more recognition. Although she faces many challenges ahead, Bialczak is confident in her ability as a soccer player. “I can live my dream if I really work hard enough,” Bialczak said. “That’s what I’m going to shoot for.”
Freshman Anna Bialczak rushes to dribble the ball during the 2015 Soccer Meet & Greet scrimmage on Aug. 7th, 2015. Hayley Pennesi • The Daily Beacon/ Tennessee Athletics
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