Voterpalooza encourages students to vote >>See page p g 2
Llama races are coming >>See page 5
Vols prepare for Bulldogs >>See page 10
A groovy goodbye Disc Exchange: More than just a record shop Mary Beth McCauley Contributor
Knoxville lost a huge part of its history last weekend. The Disc Exchange, a staple of Knoxville’s music scene since 1987, permanently closed its doors on Sunday, Sept. 25. The Disc Exchange was originally a mailorder service that co-owner Jennie Ingram ran out of her house. Ingram and her business partner, Allan Miller, would hand deliver CDs to customers. When business continued to grow, they eventually moved into their Chapman Highway location in 1991 and set up a physical music store. Ingram’s store was more than just a record shop, though. It was a place to see a local band play, a place you went to with your parents as a kid and a place where there is no such thing as bad music. Customers could find old and new CDs, vinyl records, tapes, band t-shirts and show posters, among other music-related merchandise. Many noteworthy bands have performed at the Disc Exchange throughout the past 25 years, such as Shinedown, Foo Fighters, Wilco and Kid Rock. “People didn’t go to the Disc Exchange just for a CD; people went to the Disc Exchange for the experience,” Joe Sexton, a former customer of the Disc Exchange, said. “It was a place you could go to find unique merchandise that you couldn’t get anywhere else.” Overall, the news about its closing hit the Knoxville community pretty hard. For many, the Disc Exchange was a huge part of their childhood. “When I was a kid, my stepmom used to take me to the Disc Exchange,” Amanda Alarcon, a UT graduate student, said. “I lived off Chapman Highway this past year, so I always drove by there and remembered the trips I used to take down there. It’s definitely a place of nostalgia for me.” Another fan of the store, Mark Mohundro, is also sad to see it go. Mohundro worked at the Disc Exchange’s Kingston Pike location Amanda Collins • The Daily Beacon
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People didn’t go to the Disc Exchange just for a CD; people went to the Disc Exchange for the experience.” Joe Sexton, former customer
back in 1997. “I hate seeing any independent record store close. There are so very few now,” he said. “There is something about going to independent record stores that you don’t get by going to places like Best Buy or Target.” It is no secret that the digital age has severely affected independent music stores all over the world. With easy accessibility to entire discographies of music online, sometimes for free, the need to purchase music in brick-andmortar stores is mainly a concern of music collectors. Even with vinyl records becoming more and more popular, it isn’t always enough to save an independent music store from closing down. “It’s sad, but I can definitely see why places like the Disc Exchange are going out of business, especially with the accessibility of iTunes, Spotify and other online music services,” Alarcon said. “Regardless, Knoxville has lost a cultural landmark.” Though Knoxville will mourn the loss of the Disc Exchange for years to come, the store will always be remembered for its contributions to Knoxville’s music scene and the experiences it provided for music lovers all over town. See DISC EXCHANGE PHOTOS on Page 8
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Voterpalooza engages students in politics Sean Kennedy Contributor
Voterpalooza kicked off Thursday night at the Howard Baker Center, giving students, faculty and members of the Knoxville community a chance to engage in the political process and learn more about the upcoming election. It began at 6 p.m. with a political engagement fair that included booths dedicated to various political issues. Ginger Treece, an advocate for the Tennessee Right to Life booth, was among those present at the event. Treece’s organization informs people about different aspects of abortion, arguing that abortion should be outlawed nationwide. “We are here to make the community aware of right to life issues in East Tennessee,” Treece said. “And, because pro-life views tend to be on the conservative political platform, we are siding with Trump.” Deonna Williams, junior in political science, ran the booth for Student Political Alliance.
Student Political Alliance seeks to engage students in political issues that relate to student life on campus. “We engage students in issues that are much broader in nature,” Williams said. “We recently addressed the controversy over the second amendment as it relates to carry permits on campus.” Around 7:30 p.m., attendees gathered in the Toyota Auditorium to listen to the political debate. The debate had four speakers that represented each of the political candidates for the 2016 election: Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Gary Johnson and Jill Stein. All four speakers addressed different issues related to the upcoming election, such as illegal immigration, national security, race relations and military spending. Trump was represented by Duncan Ing, sophomore in political science and history. Reid Guthrie, sophomore in public relations, spoke for Hillary Clinton. James Gang, a UT graduate, represented Gary Johnson. Jordan Welsh, senior in history, was the spokesperson for Jill Stein.
Ing and Guthrie clashed during the debate, especially when discussing race relations related to law enforcement in the United States. “I think it’s necessary to say that the police do a thankless job in our communities, and we cannot let a few bad apples spoil the whole bunch,” Ing said. “Police officers protect us, and we must support them with everything we can.” Guthrie rebutted by scorning Ing for referring to police officers whose actions have come under investigation as merely being “bad apples.” “I wouldn’t say murderers are bad apples, they’re murderers,” Guthrie said. The debate was moderated by Diana Howell, co-president of the Pi Sigma Alpha chapter at UT. Howell organized the event, along with copresident Morgan Chance. Voterpalooza also held a mock vote for the 2016 election, with attendees of the event choosing between the different political candidates. Stein received 5 percent of the vote, Trump received 24 percent, Johnson received 17 percent and Clinton with 50 percent.
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Architecture faculty named Affiliated Fellows, Design Medalists Libby Dayhuff Contibutor
Some married couples do their best just to get along with their spouse, but for some, it’s a different game when you work with your significant other. The husband and wife team of associate professors Ted Shelton and Tricia Stuth added two more accomplishments to their resume this summer, in addition to numerous awards and fellowships. As a team, they recently participated in two highly competitive programs: the Affiliated Fellowships of the American Academy in Rome and Virginia Design Medalists for the Hanbury design firm. The Affiliated Fellowship is a six week summer program spent in Rome. It allows a UT faculty member to conduct intensive research in any field of discipline eligible for the Rome Prize, which is the premier prize awarded by the Academy. Shelton and Stuth’s discipline is architecture, and as affiliated fellows, they studied how a society’s cultural and historical background affects its architecture and infrastructure. In Rome, they focused on
the Testaccio district. Shelton described their experience as “transformative in a really profound way because you are part of a world-class community of scholars.” The Virginia Design Medalist program is also a summer research program. It is hosted by the Hanbury design firm.
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couple. In addition to teaching in the same department, they have worked on projects together before the Affiliated Fellowship and Virginia Medalist program. Shelton said the two programs allowed him and Stuth to step back from “teaching … practicing … (and) raising a four-yearold” in order to specifically focus on their
The professors’ work in Rome is very important to the architecture department. Many of my teachers talk about their observations in class.”
As Medalists, professors work on current projects, assess the firm’s work and give lectures. Stuth and Shelton spent their time discussing and elaborating on their work in Rome while also presenting lectures about the practice of designing the modern academic campus. Working together is not new for the
Lexi Oran, freshman in architecture
work. He also said that it allowed him and his wife to be able to collaborate on their work together as they did in earlier years. Any outside research that the couple conducts influences their students’ academic experience, such as presenting their findings and applying the knowledge they
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gained towards student projects. Because of Stuth’s experience in Rome, her students are currently focusing on Lenior City’s downtown area. They are examining the architecture and infrastructure at a cultural perspective, like Stuth’s research in Rome. Lexi Oran, a freshman architecture student who is familiar with the research of Shelton and Stuth, shared her views of their work in the architecture department. “The professors’ work in Rome is very important to the architecture department,” Oran said. “Many of my teachers talk about their observations in class.” The Affiliated Fellowship and the Virginia Design Medalist programs are only two of the professors’ accomplishments. Stuth is a member of the American Institute of Architects. She has been awarded the Young Architects Award, ACSA/AIAS New Faculty Teaching Award and the ACSA/AIA Housing Design Education Award. Shelton is also a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. Additionally, he was a Fulbright Fellow, a Dudley Faculty Scholar, a Fellow of the Institute for Urban Design, and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.
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Pirate Fest set to sail into Knoxville Eric Bailes
Staff Writer Landlubbers and seadogs of Knoxville, rejoice! Pirate Fest is coming to Knoxville. Located in Harriman, Tennessee, East Tennessee’s first pirate festival will transport people of all ages to the fictional town of Port Royale in the Tortugas and will allow people of all ages to see what pirate life is like. The festival will have everything that one would expect to be in a pirate festival, including a giant gate that will be decorated with a skull to greet guests. Once inside the town, street characters like one would see in Treasure Island will greet people. There will be plenty of music, costumes, contests, games, treasure hunts, shows and many other events. Classic sea shanties and steel drums will provide the background music, while vendors will have items like chain mail and henna tattoos to provide to attendees. Like most festivals, patrons are encouraged to dress up. While costumes can be extremely extravagant, homemade costumes also work just as fine. Even Jerry Seinfeld’s iconic puffy shirt would fit right at home here. The upcoming Pirate Fest will actually
Do what you do well. You need to focus on (a) regional, adultfocused, family-friendly, daytime, costumed, themed event, that isn’t being done here.” Barrie Paulson, manager and coordinator
be the fifth event Barrie Paulson, manager and entertainment coordinator of Darkhorse Entertainment, has organized. In October 2014, Paulson helped throw the first East Tennessee Renaissance Festival, which was more of a proof of concept at the time. Then the following May, the 2015 Tennessee Medieval Faire had its
Promotional art for Pirate Fest. • Courtesy of Tennessee Pirate Festival grand opening for an estimated 6,000 attendees. The idea to have a pirate festival came to Paulson after a 2015 Halloween event, BooTown, failed to have the turnout that she expected. The following morning while she was trying to go over what went wrong, she had, what she calls, an “angel thought.” “Do what you do well. You need to focus on (a) regional, adult-focused, family-friendly, day-
time, costumed, themed event, that isn’t being done here,” Paulson said. So she thought, “do a Pirate Fest.” Paulson is mostly looking forward to the quality of the entertainment. While there are skilled people doing all of the events, the fact that local students have made their own show for the festival is all the more amazing. See PIRATE FEST on Page 5
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Llamas to run through Knoxville this weekend Staff Report This Saturday, Oct. 1, The Great Llama Race will return to Knoxville’s World’s Fair Park. The event is completely dedicated to raise money for Casa de Sara, a nonprofit organization that provides education and opportunities for at-risk children and their families to improve their lives and their communities in both Latin America and the greater Knoxville area. Casa de Sara, founded in 1987 by CEO and founder Lori Santoro, is currently established in La Guardia, Bolivia, but has plans to expand into the United States this year. Case de Sara began when Santoro and her husband traveled to Bolivia to adopt their first child and discovered the poor living conditions of the children there. They managed to gather donations from family members and friends back home and used that money to fix up a neglected orphanage. When Santoro returned from the U.S., she formally started Casa de Sara and has been hard at work ever since. The Great Llama Race is more than just a walk in the park; this event allows local celebrities to pair up with a local school. Once paired up, they are assigned a llama provided by the Southeast Llama Rescue. The race will then be
PIRATE FEST continued from Page 4 There are two different stage shows and one of them is being helmed by three Pellissippi students. The process of writing and making a play proved to be daunting, but also fun. It gave the three a new perspective of play writers who do it for a living and they also had to balance their school and work alongside this project. Entitled “The Three RRR’s,” the play is about two pirate captains and a girl, whose names all start with an ‘R.’ The girl, Rob, is disguised as one of the captain’s first mates and is looking for her lost fiancée. One of the captains is trying to swindle a man out of a treasure map, who so happens to be Rob’s fiancée. Like a typical pirate romp, the play is all about finding the treasure and is full of “clever quips and fighting, and some pretty cool stage combat moves.” Rob is played by Alex Riggs, a theatre student at Pellissippi, who knows Barrie through Pellissippi’s stage combat program. Apart from playing a love-stricken pirate, Riggs is also using her stage skills as an interactive street character. With pirates tending to be a successful subgenre of action movies and stories, the street
ran in groups, otherwise known as heats, which will determine the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners. The winning schools will win a percentage of the money raised with the rest of the funds benefitting Casa de Sara. The first ever Great Llama Race took place in 2014, featuring more than 25 local schools and just as many local celebrities. This year’s turnout is expected to be bigger than ever; the event’s Facebook page currently has over 1,000 people interested in the event and more than 300 people who already plan to be there. Though the main event is the one mile walk, there will be vendors, food, music, games and even more opportunities to interact with the llamas. This year’s event also features a 5K — the first one ever — called The Great Llama Race 5K Human Edition. The festivities are open to runners of all ages, normal admission is $5 and kids who are five years old and under get in free. The race will take place this Saturday, Oct. 1, at World’s Fair Park from 11 a.m.-4 p.m.. For event information, to purchase tickets or to sign up to volunteer, you can visit their website at thegreatllamarace.com or you can find them on Facebook. For more information about Casa de Sara and their mission, you can visit their website at casadesara.org or give them a call at (865) 690-3323.
performers at Pirate Fest will emulate classic pirates, like Long John Silver and Captain Jack Sparrow. Some of the other characters will be loosely based on characters one would see in a “Pirates of the Caribbean movie,” with a governor and his daughter, to name a few. Alongside her knowledge in theatre and stage combat, Riggs will be able to bring personal experience to her characters through her knowledge of taekwondo. Being a 2nd degree black belt allows her to make her role come alive. “You want to make the hits and everything look realistic and have that intensity there, but you also don’t want the audience to feel like you were actually unsafe up there,” Riggs said. Judging from the previous Medieval Faire, Pirate Fest looks to be a fun event that people of all ages will enjoy. Kids will have a blast, while parents will enjoy the artistry and entertainment. Paulson described the previous events as PG, while the Pirate Fest is a little more on the PG-13 side. The festival will take place on Oct. 8 and Oct. 9 in Harriman, Tennessee. Adult tickets are $13 and parking for the event is free. More information can be found on their website, www.tmfaire.com.
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Glenn Reynolds should be sanctioned The facts are undisputed. Last Wednesday, law professor and constitutional law scholar Glenn Reynolds tweeted the words “Run them down” above an article about protestors who were blocking the interstate in Charlotte. Twitter responded by blocking Reynolds’s account and later reinstating it on the condition that Reynolds delete the tweet, which he promptly re-posted elsewhere. Reynolds has since apologized to USA Today, which suspended his twice-weekly column for a month, and, after some delay, to the University of Tennessee College of Law, where he works. He also has offered a series of explanations for the tweet on his popular blog, Instapundit, and here on the Daily Beacon. No one disputes that Reynolds’s choice of words was poor. Although the law school ultimately decided not to take disciplinary action against Reynolds, concluding that the First Amendment forbids it, Dean Melanie Wilson issued a statement immediately following the tweet, calling it “an irresponsible use of [Reynolds’s] platform.” Reynolds himself acknowledged that the tweet “can easily be taken to advocate drivers going out of their way to run down protesters.” That reality ought to end all discussion about whether the tweet is sanctionable. It is. And if the law school cannot take action, then it is the wider law school community that must do so. Chief among the tweet’s apologists is Reynolds, who cites Twitter’s 140-character limit as the real culprit. Reynolds also claims that a history of violence against innocent motorists prompted the tweet, harking back to the 1992 Los Angeles Riots and putting forward Reginald Denny as an example. According to Reynolds, worry about such violence is “fairly common.” To the extent that we should consider extraneous circumstances, the impact of Reynolds’s tweet on students, current and prospective; the reputation of UT Law; and the feelings of fellow faculty members and alumni certainly should be among them. Any one of those considerations might swing the pendulum back to the side of sanction, assuming that anything had moved it away. If all of them support sanction, then the discussion, again, should end. But we should not consider extraneous circumstances. Reynolds is accountable for what he said no matter what he may have meant. He is an intellectual with a public platform; he used that platform to make a statement that was neither academic nor ideological, but violent; and he must now answer for it. If Reynolds did not recognize how “Run them down” could be understood, then he is not fit to retain his position. If he recognized that understanding and made the statement anyway, then he is not fit to retain his position. In all events, his conduct is sanctionable. The optics of the tweet alone are troubling:
Reynolds, a prolific author and blogger with thousands of followers, passing judgment on anonymous protesters. Reynolds, a legal academic, dispensing street justice from the lofty spires of the ivory tower. Reynolds, a white professor protected by tenure, promoting violence against black citizens peacefully protesting the killing of unarmed black citizens. And Reynolds’s explanations add insult to injury. It is ludicrous, for example, to blame the tweet on Twitter’s character limits. First, as one commentator recently pointed out: You get 140 characters per Tweet. “Run them down” is, by my count, thirteen characters. “Blocking highways is dangerous and I don’t think people should stop for a mob, especially when it’s been violent” is 112 characters. So, you
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We need to hear from the people who have taught with Reynolds for decades, and law school alumni, parents, students, and donors also must speak.”
know, Reynolds had a little more room for nuance than he’s claiming. Second, a man who boasts of having 580,000 tweets should know what they can and cannot convey. If Twitter did not allow Reynolds to express himself accurately, then why did he choose that medium? Third, Reynolds since has identified at least two alternatives of fewer than 140 characters—“Don’t stop” and “Keep driving”—that might have served his stated purpose without calling for violence. Reynolds’s invocation of Reginald Denny is a dangerous, ahistorical inversion that deepens the insult: It contorts the L.A. Riots into a cautionary tale about white victimization at the hands of a black mob. But the L.A. Riots, like the Watts Uprisings that preceded them, were a response by black communities beset by decades of corrupt, oppressive, and barbaric police practices. They were catalyzed by two key events: (1) the acquittal of four L.A.P.D. officers, captured on video as they kicked and bludgeoned Rodney King, an unarmed black motorist,
with three-dozen “power strokes” of their batons and delivered more than fifty blows in total; and (2) the shooting death of 15-yearold Latasha Harlins and the light sentencing of her killer, convenience store owner Soon Ja Du, who wrongly suspected Harlins of stealing a bottle of orange juice. Similarly, the present protests in Charlotte arise from the killing of Keith Lamont Scott, shot to death by police last Tuesday. Those who would castigate protestors in Charlotte for resorting to violence cannot avoid the conclusion that Reynolds must be sanctioned. Self-defense is the strongest support for Reynolds’s tweet. But if the protesters are wrong, then self-defense is wrong, and Reynolds was wrong to promote it. If self-defense is right, then the protestors are right, and Reynolds was wrong to condemn them, for opposing unjust action by the state is surely the most American form of self-defense there is. (It was King who said, “A riot is the language of the unheard.”) Reynolds, either way, was wrong. What form a sanction should take is a more complicated matter given UT Law’s conclusion that Reynolds’s tweet enjoys First Amendment protections. Depending on the level of disruption that the tweet is causing, however, those protections may be diminished. Then, too, this situation is not Reynolds’s first rodeo. Just last year, Reynolds came under fire for suggesting that student protestors at Yale, Mizzou, and other college campuses should lose the right to vote. Where, then, is the outcry from Reynolds’s fellow faculty members? Dean Wilson responded within hours, expressly stating that Reynolds’s tweet “do[es] not reflect [her] views and opinions, nor . . . the values of the college and university.” But the dean is new to the law school, having assumed her post barely a year ago. At her last job, she was, in addition to a teacher and administrator, the director of diversity and inclusion. Part of her charge was not to let racist invective stand. And let us be clear— Reynolds’s tweet would be sanctionable even if it were not racist because it calls for violence. We need to hear from the people who have taught with Reynolds for decades, and law school alumni, parents, students, and donors also must speak. No one expects a miracle here. We are, after all, in Tennessee, where the legislature just gutted the larger university’s office of diversity and inclusion earlier this year. But Reynolds’s tweet discredits UT Law’s “commit[ment] to ensuring . . . a welcoming, open, and inclusive community.” Our silence now would do the same. Authors Tayo Atanda and Will Perry are graduates of the UT College of Law.
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UT Knoxville Chapter of United Campus Workers Stands in Solidarity with the Pride Center and Pride Ambassadors The need for a campus community and culture that values diversity was again made crystal clear last week. Near Laurel Residence Hall, three men attacked a student who is openly involved in the LGBTQIA+ community. The student escaped without life-threatening injuries, in part because bystanders intervened. The attackers were emboldened by the consistent lack of action from campus administrators and law enforcement to the barrage of attacks against diversity and the Pride Center. The administration’s indifference has resulted in a hostile campus culture in which queer and gender nonconforming students, staff, and faculty pay the price. For its entire six-year history, the Pride Center has been a welcoming safe space for LGBTQIA+ students, faculty, and staff at the University of Tennessee. Members of the UTK queer community fought to create this space on our campus. Since its inception, the Pride Center has been under attack from those who feel that members of the queer community on campus should go back into the closet and be silent when attacked. The violence toward this community has garnered little attention from campus administrators or law enforcement, and they have refused to name these incidents for what they are: acts of hate. Last year’s legislative session was especially devastating for the Center and the community it serves. The administration responded to inaccurate media coverage by removing informational website posts on gender neutral pronouns and inclusive holiday parties. They policed the website of the Office for Diversity and Inclusion, and condescendingly “counseled” the division’s Vice Chancellor. This capitulation to partisan critics failed to appease state lawmakers, who overstepped their legislative mandate and interfered with the academic freedom of the University by passing Senate Bill 1912 Gardenhire / House Bill 2248 Van Huss, what became Tennessee Public Chapter 1066. This law prohibits the “promotion of gender neutral pronouns” and other diversitysupporting activities. Close to half a million dol-
lars in funding was redistributed to “scholarships for minorities in engineering.” This money has disappeared into an administrative abyss; it is unclear whether a single dollar has been awarded. This legislative attack and spineless response from administration resulted in the loss of the one administrator who was consistently and actively supportive, former Vice Chancellor Rickey Hall. Although administrators insist that they support diversity on campus, their response to this legislative attack has been unhelpful and often harmful: they targeted the Pride Center specifically by pulling its funding and reassigning its Director over a month before the law went into effect. For all intents and purposes, the Pride Center was to be no more. Yet in the face of the growing number of attacks and challenges, queer students on this campus have continued to stay strong and refuse to back down or be silenced. Over the summer, students, faculty and staff met with administrators, asking them to make sure the Pride Center would have permanent funding and a home on campus - a consideration granted to every other group formerly under the Office for Diversity and Inclusion without question. The students serving their community as Pride Ambassadors have been put in charge of ensuring their own safety and providing their own programming - a responsibility that no other marginalized group on campus has been asked to shoulder. Despite this, they have stepped up admirably, only to be thwarted by administration for insisting on maintaining the integrity of the SafeZone training by including transgender and genderqueer individuals. It has become clear that the administration wants to maintain the appearance of diversity without working to create a safe and welcoming atmosphere for queer students on campus. As an editorial in the *UT Daily Beacon* put it, “Inviting minority students to a University like ours without creating an awareness, space and dialogue about their unique and often marginalizing experiences isn’t diversity, it’s merchandising.”
This toxic environment, magnified by the actions of the legislature and tacitly condoned by university administration, demonstrates that there is a dire need for the Pride Center. It creates an environment of impunity for those who do the LGBTQIA+ community harm. Vandalism is an ongoing and escalating problem, with five incidents since September 2015 alone. When administration and/or law enforcement finally acknowledges an incident, they downplay the bigoted nature of the attacks, insisting that motives are uncertain. Meanwhile, the administration has tried to make the problem go away by selectively enforcing an outdated policy regarding flags on campus, calling for the removal of the Pride Center’s flags while banners and flags of all kinds remain on buildings all over campus. This reaction sends a very clear message: the strategy to prevent hate crimes against LGBTQIA+ individuals on campus is to make those individuals invisible. These hateful actions and their increasing frequency testifies to the damage done by Tennessee Public Chapter 1066 and administrative reactions: those on campus who hold bigoted views have seen those views endorsed and are thus emboldened to act on them. The UTK Chapter of United Campus Workers denounces these acts of hate against the Pride Center and calls on the administrators at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville to take strong action against the perpetrators of these vile attacks and discontinue their gas-lighting and victim-blaming rhetoric in their interactions with the Pride Center and Pride Ambassadors. We stand with all queer, transgender, and gender nonconforming students, faculty, and staff at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. We urge administrators to acknowledge the struggle of marginalized students on campus and to work with them to dismantle this hostile environment. Sincerely, UTK Chapter of United Campus Workers
UTK Only Allows Freedom of Speech if one is expressing a message of Bigotry and Hatred toward Oppressed/Marginalized Groups While eating lunch with family in the Marketplace area this year, I saw people holding signs saying “God Hates Fags,” and “Homosexuals will burn in HELL,” and so forth. Although I’ve always respected our country for the way that citizens’ have the right to free speech – my thoughts are that hate speech can be a precursor to violence and that when authorities do not directly address it, it can create a breeding ground for the toleration of a growing hate toward groups of people who simply long to be them-
selves and are not hurting anyone. The message that gays are not to be accepted at UT, came through loud and clear. This freedom of angry speech/expression - was allowed. Later, after diversity funding was cut at UTK – I saw confederate (“rebel”) flags hanging from the ! windows of dorm rooms. It made me realize that the blacks on campus must also feel unwelcome, as well. This freedom of angry speech/expression - was allowed. After Orlando, when so many lives were
tragically lost, the Pride Center placed out the pride flag in memory of those who had been massacred. Over Labor Day weekend, this pride flag was vandalized. Later, it was ordered that all pride flags from campus be removed. This peaceful freedom of speech/ expression - was NOT allowed. Now is the time to stand up for what is right!!! VOLMEANSALL Jamie Oliver
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SPORTS
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FOOTBALL
Vols prepare to take first true road test against Georgia Trenton Duffer
Sports Editor Step one to winning the SEC East has been completed. The Vols beat division-rival Florida last week and with a Georgia loss to Ole Miss, Tennessee is now in the driver’s seat in the wide-open SEC East. And now, the Vols have the chance to possibly put the entire division in their rear-view mirror in their game against the Bulldogs this weekend. According to head coach Butch Jones, it won’t be easy with the game being on the road. “When you go play on the road, it is completely different,” Jones said on Wednesday. “You are creating your own momentum. The entire stadium is against you and you are playing a talented football team that will make you earn everything that you get.” From 2010-14, the Bulldogs-Vols series was all Georgia. The Bulldogs beat the Vols for five straight years before Butch Jones’ squad got their revenge in 2015. After trailing 24-3 midway through the second quarter, the Vols battled back from the 21-point deficit, and the game was tied 31-31 in the fourth quarter. Josh Dobbs took over from there. With 5:48 left in the game, Dobbs ran in a 5-yard touchdown to secure the 38-31 win for the Vols. But this year is different for the Bulldogs. Georgia’s new head coach Kirby Smart is a former defensive coordinator for Alabama and his team is still reeling after getting blown out 45-14 by Ole Miss last Saturday. Smart told media members in Georgia this week that he was excited to be back at home to take on the Vols. “This will be only our second (game at home) this year, and the guys are looking forward to it,” Smart said. “We’re looking to play a more complete game than last week. We have to make corrections and improve. We have to face the
truth and don’t sweep it under the rug. “I did see some good things, and there was some positive reinforcement. There was great teaching from that game.” Although Smart mentioned “positive reinforcement,” an injury to his star running back is far from ideal. Nick Chubb, who suffered a gruesome leg injury in his first run of the game last season against Tennessee, sprained his ankle against the Rebels on Saturday. Chubb’s condition is currently listed as questionable, but Smart has seemed less optimistic as the week has progressed. Regardless of what the scouting report says, Coach Jones said on Wednesday that he “fully anticipates” Chubb to play this Saturday. “I have a ton of respect for Nick Chubb, and we fully 100 percent anticipate him playing,” Jones said. “I would like to play a team at full strength. That’s what it’s all about as these players compete. He’ll be ready to go, we’ll anticipate that.” So far this season, Chubb has handled the majority of carries, running the ball 83 times for 422 yards and three scores. If Chubb doesn’t go on Saturday, Smart has said that Georgia will turn to Brian Herrien along with additional support from Sony Mitchell and Elijah Holyfield. Herrien has 26 carries for 184 yards and three touchdowns this year, including 11 touches for 78 yards and Georgia’s only two touchdowns against Ole Miss. Coach Jones said that he anticipates Georgia’s running game to be ripe and raring to go on Saturday. “The thing that makes Georgia is that they have a stable of running backs,” Jones said. “When you look at their running back core, it’s depth, it’s competitive depth, across the board. They play a lot of running backs and deservingly so. Any one of the running backs that play for them could be a marquee running back and could be a feature back in anybody’s offense. “It’s great to have that luxury like they do.” Last year when Chubb went out with his leg
The last time the Vols played Georgia, they overcame a 21-point deficit to win the game 38-31. • File Photos injury, Sony Mitchel came in and scorched the Vols for 145 yards on 22 carries. Jones will need to keep that at bay on Saturday if the Vols hope to win. “You’re facing running backs that have different skill sets, so you have to be prepared for the skill set of each and every running back,” Jones said. “I think they do a good job of, whatever back is in the game, of playing to their skill sets.” It doesn’t matter what year it is or how good either team is projected to be, though. Georgia and Tennessee has always been, in the words of Dobbs, a “dogfight.” And it looks to continue that way on Saturday. “Any time you go on the road in the SEC you have to be ready to play a full 60-minute game, and we will be ready to do that,” Dobbs said on Tuesday. “You don’t really know what to expect going into each game. You just have to be prepared to execute at a high level, and so we are definitely expecting a dogfight coming into this weekend.” Tennessee-Georgia by the Numbers: 9-5: The record the Vols (4-0, 1-0 SEC) have against the Bulldogs (3-1, 1-1) when both teams are
ranked. Currently, Tennessee sits at No. 11 in national polls while Georgia is ranked No. 25. 19: The amount of games in a row that the Vols have scored a rushing touchdown. This is the longest streak the Vols have had since reeling off 22 straight games with a rushing score from Oct. 1, 1994 to Sept. 7, 1996. The last game the Vols didn’t score a rushing touchdown was on Nov. 22, 2014 in a 29-21 loss to Missouri. 460,881: The number of fans that have attended the Vols first four games of the season. All four of these contests have been in the state of Tennessee, including the record-breaking game against Virginia Tech at the Battle at Bristol where 156,990 poured into Bristol Motor Speedway. This Saturday will in fact be the first true road game for the Vols. 4: The number of consecutive games that Vols receiver Josh Malone has caught a touchdown pass. Joey Kent currently holds the UT record with six consecutive games with a receiving touchdown. The Vols will kick off against Georgia on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. The game will be broadcast on CBS-WVLT.
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Lauren Ratliff Design Editor No. 7 Stanford — No. 10 Washington No. 8 Wisconsin — No. 4 Michigan No. 3 Louisville — No. 5 Clemson Missouri — LSU No. 11 Tennessee 38 — No. 25 Georgia 24
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SECOND PLACE Bradi Musil Editor-in-Chief No. 7 Stanford — No. 10 Washington No. 8 Wisconsin — No. 4 Michigan No. 3 Louisville — No. 5 Clemson Missouri — LSU No. 11 Tennessee 24 — No. 25 Georgia 17
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Hannah Moulton Copy Chief No. 7 Stanford — No. 10 Washington No. 8 Wisconsin — No. 4 Michigan No. 3 Louisville — No. 5 Clemson Missouri — LSU No. 11 Tennessee 35 — No. 25 Georgia 24
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FOURTH PLACE Megan Patterson Managing Editor No. 7 Stanford — No. 10 Washington No. 8 Wisconsin — No. 4 Michigan No. 3 Louisville — No. 5 Clemson Missouri — LSU No. 11 Tennessee 14 — No. 25 Georgia 21
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No. 7 Stanford — No. 10 Washington No. 8 Wisconsin — No. 4 Michigan No. 3 Louisville — No. 5 Clemson Missouri — LSU No. 11 Tennessee 42 — No. 25 Georgia 21
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DEAD STINKIN’ LAST Trenton Duffer Sports Editor No. 7 Stanford — No. 10 Washington No. 8 Wisconsin — No. 4 Michigan No. 3 Louisville — No. 5 Clemson Missouri — LSU No. 11 Tennessee 37 — No. 25 Georgia 20
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Cross Country gets ready for Louisville Classic Staff Report
With two meets now under their belt, the Tennessee Volunteers cross country team and Beth Alford-Sullivan, director of track and field and cross country, are looking ahead to the Greater Louisville Classic on Oct. 1. “They ran there last year,” AlfordSullivan said. “They were really a group of young freshmen last year, so they have some redemption to come back and continue to improve. They’re much more fit. So the strategy is going to be to be a little bit more front end competitive, to try and get out a little bit earlier, get up in the front top 20 or top 25. Compete from there and then be able to close the race down at the end when it really matters.” One of the younger players on the roster who could make an impact is Gashaw Duhamel. Duhamel, a freshman from the Tennessee School for the Deaf, was recently awarded SEC Freshman of the Week after his performance at the Commodore Classic in Nashville, finishing 74th overall among 228 competitors. “A great performance on his part,” Alford-Sullivan said. “I think you’re going to see a continued improvement in performances, of course I hope for that, throughout the season … I think with someone like Gashaw, he’s very fit, very talented and he ran extremely well at Vanderbilt. But it was also his first time that he ran that distance. So as he gets a little more comfortable with it over the next couple races, I hope to see some continued success from him.”
Duhamel, who was born in Ethiopia and moved to America in 2012, was two-time All-State in high school and broke several national deaf high school records. Alford-Sullivan listed a few other Volunteers who have performed well so far this season. “Zach Long was our number one freshman last year,” Alford-Sullivan said. “He’s a sophomore this year. He’s run as our number-one runner this season … He’s in top fitness, looking great. “Wes Robinson, an Oak Ridge grad, is in his sophomore year with us and had definitely stepped into the role. He’s been our number two runner, and I’ve seen dramatic improvement for him ... So we see continued improvement from those two. They’ve really been a lead pack, lead two guys that have been leading the pack this cross country season. I’m very proud of both of them.” Long boasts a personal record of 24:29.40 in the 8K, with a 32:54.45 in the 10K. Robinson’s personal records include 25:15.80 in the 8K and 32:46.24 in the 10K. As the team prepares to compete at Louisville, Alford-Sullivan is confident that her squad can perform well there and throughout the remainder of the season. “This is the start of our seventh week of training,” Alford-Sullivan said. “We kind of eased into this season the first couple of weeks, just ran a lot of miles and got fit ... Now as we move into the end of September, first of October, I think our fitness is pretty high, our athletes are very excited and we look to go into this competition to take it up another notch.”
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Yanez, Volunteers look toward weekend games Tyler Wombles Staff Writer
Perfection. It’s not a term that most athletes can claim about themselves or their performances, but for Tennessee Volunteers sophomore goalkeeper Shae Yanez, she can. Yanez has not allowed a single goal in 237 total minutes through five career games. “Shae has been amazing,” head coach Brian Pensky said. “Shae steps between the pipes. She oozes and bleeds confidence. She’s like, ‘Go ahead and try and score on me. It’s going to take something different and special to score on me.’ “So I think that confidence carries over to the players playing in front of her. Those kids turn around, and they look, and they know they’ve got a kid between the goal that has an amazing level of confidence.” Yanez served as the primary backup through the first eight games of the season, but was granted the first start of her career against Middle Tennessee. She forced a shutout, and has since played in a rotation with redshirt
Shae steps between the pipes. She oozes and bleeds confidence. She’s like, ‘Go ahead and try and score on me.’” Brian Pensky, head coach
senior Jamie Simmons. “It’s nice to know that hard work has paid off,” Yanez said. “I guess it’s just been lucky, too.” The Volunteers will look to capitalize on Yanez’s hot streak this weekend as they host the Vanderbilt Commodores on Friday and the Indiana State Sycamores on Sunday. “We approach every weekend the same in
terms of it’s all about the first game,” Pensky said. “It doesn’t matter who that second opponent is. We could be playing the U.S. Women’s National Team on Sunday, and we’d be focusing on Vanderbilt on Friday.” Vanderbilt holds a 7-4-0 record on the season. The Volunteers will have to be prepared to defend against freshman Grace Jackson, who leads the Commodores in points (14), assists (6) and game-winning goals (3). Indiana State is led in goal by senior Brittany San Roman, who has recorded 63 saves on the year. The Sycamores are 6-7-1 this season. But Yanez is confident in her team’s ability to prepare for the two matchups and play with the intensity necessary to govern a win. “I think it’s just the same thing (as previous weeks), that we need to get recovered,” Yanez said. “On that Saturday, make sure our bodies are ready to go on Sunday. But we still have to fight hard on Friday. “Definitely, we’re ready to get back and get fired up because we lost to Florida and that was a tough game. We played well, but Shae Yanez, #30, kicks the ball from the I think we’re ready to get that win back and goal against Missouri on Sep. 15, 2015. ready to go.” Madison Nickell • The Daily Beacon