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Dear Readers, It is Thursday, Oct. 29 as I write this, and I have no idea what I am being or doing for Halloween. I have entertained the idea of being Meg White (to another’s possible Jack White), the stereotypical “sexy” cat, a witch decked in lace and I am currently settled on Tina Belcher from “Bob’s Burgers.” Except I don’t have a blue skirt, high socks or even a hair clip. I have also considered going to Nashville to see Pretty Lights or Diarrhea Planet or to Chattanooga to see Moon Taxi. Unfortunately, money is a thing, and neither barista-ing or journalism fully supports personal entertainment, especially when it involves traveling and more than $10 concert tickets. I even thought about just going home to hang out with my parents (and my neighbor who turns his house into a reenactment of the “Halloween” movies every year, complete with strobe lights and music). What I’m trying to say is that Halloween seems way harder as an adult than when we were kids. Part of me wishes I could still dress up as Jasmine from Disney’s “Aladdin,” knock on strangers doors for candy then come home, divide them up by type and then fall asleep with a Tootsie Pop in my hair. Now, it’s a real event that our parents aren’t planning for us, and we now know that Party City costumes are way too expensive but in a cheap way. Also, I am not crafty enough to DIY anything, but kudos to anyone who is. Halloween must be your time to shine. People also thinks it’s creepy for 20-somethings to trick-or-treat, which is a real shame. Don’t they know we need to diversify our diets past ramen and Cook Out? Halloween is hard now, but the Daily Beacon hopes this issue will make Halloween adulting a little easier (except for the sports section because football and soccer are still things that don’t pause for creepy fun). We have last-minute costume ideas that are sustainable and relevant. We’ll help you be not racist or offensive because, despite what costume stores sell, someone’s culture is not open to use for your own fun. You can read up on different hauntings, mysteries and events happening to help you feel slightly terrified and then celebrate accordingly. Or if you’re really concerned about planning your future this very weekend, which is fair because college, then our version of MASH (monsters included) is waiting for you. Use Halloween as an excuse for a chance to have some good ol’ fashioned scary fun. “Hocus Pocus,” “Halloweentown” and “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown,” plus caramel apples and candy corn are the Halloween staples of childhood. And with finals right around the corner, you deserve some time to relax and ignore your impending doom for a while (or all night cram sessions at least). Don’t make Halloween as complicated as I have. Having fun should be easy. Also, if you want to go trick-or-treating, you do it. Free candy is for everyone.
NETFLIX PICKs Our EIC is a wimp, but here are the scary movies she’ll actually watch. “The Babadook” It’s scary, deep and beautifully done.
“The Blair Witch Project” The one that started the shaky camera trend.
“The Exorcism of Emily Rose” I’m really into movies with demons.
“Rosemary’s Baby” Please see above.
“Scream” Where wit is scary and funny.
“The Sixth Sense” Because it’s a classic.
“American Horror Story” In case you can’t commit to full movie.
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Students discuss cultural appropriation in Halloween costumes Alahnah Ligon Staff Writer
For Aditi Rambani, graduate student in plant molecular genetics, costumes can be “cute, funny and downright scary.” Rambani, an Indian student at UT, said Halloween is her “favorite U.S. holiday” because she enjoys the creative spirit in each participant’s outfit of choice, but “to wear cultural attire of any country as a ‘costume’ on Halloween,” to her, is scarier than ghouls and zombies. “It is delightful when people dress in our traditional clothes (and) join us in our cultural events and celebrations of India,” Rambani said. “There is nothing wrong with accepting clothes and practices from other cultures, but there is a time and place for it.” While Rambini discourages appropriating Indian culture on Halloween, she said she welcomes students to join her in dressing up for cultural events. Kelly Moore, freshman in art, identifies with her Chinese culture as a biracial — half-Chinese, half-Caucasian — student. While Moore said she hasn’t noticed , many stereotypes in costumes from Chinese culture,
Moore explained that Japanese culture contributes to multiple stereotypes for Halloween costumes, including geisha, samurai and ninja personas. Moore remembered wanting to dress as a geisha for Halloween one year, but said, she couldn’t find any costumes that weren’t “sexualized.” Growing up, Moore said she experienced little discrimination for her heritage, other than
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There is nothing wrong with accepting clothes and practices from other cultures, but there is a time and place for it.” Aditi Rambani, graduate student
the occasional comment of “ninja-chopping” from her friends. “There is a stigma that all Asians look the same, but I was often told I wasn’t ‘Asianlooking’ enough,” Moore said. “So I’ve never really thought of myself as Asian.” In the spirit of Halloween, Moore said she takes little offense to stereotypical costumes. “It’s a time to just be whoever you want to be,” Moore said. “(People) just buy something that looks exotic, that looks sexy.” For Jau’Quan Wells, an African American student and freshman in public relations, people mimicking African American culture happens for reasons other than them just wanting to look exotic or sexy. “Everybody loves attention — that’s all it is,” Wells said. “You get attention by being controversial.” The controversial costumes Wells is referring to are those portraying “the rapper persona — gold chains, baggy clothes and dreadlock wigs.” “It’s not a true representation of our culture,” Wells said. Victoria Ruiz, graduate student in English and Mexican-American student, also gave “explicitly” stereotypical examples of costumes, like “the poncho, the sombrero and the tequila girl costumes.” For Ruiz, the racism in these costumes have
negative and widespread implications for her culture. “(Costumes) reduce an entire culture — an entire segment of the population,” Ruiz said. “It’s not even appropriation — it’s just blatant racism.” Ruiz said there is one costume that represents her culture in a positive light — the sugar skull. The sugar skull mimics a candy given on Día de los Muertos in Mexico, and event that celebrates life by remembering those who have died, Ruiz explained. She said the costume symbolizes the “vibrancy” of Mexican culture. Still, Ruiz said most people who don the sugar skull costume do not recognize its origins. “I think it’s a shame when people dress up this way and use these type of images, not knowing what is behind them,” Ruiz said. “I would just like for people not to slap on the paint and leave it at that, but maybe look up a little on what’s behind the tradition.” Ultimately, Ruiz said she “likes to give people the benefit of the doubt” on Halloween, but appreciates the recent retaliation against racist costumes. “People think that it’s okay to dress up this way for Halloween because it’s light-hearted and it’s fun,” Ruiz said, “but I’m glad people are calling others out and saying, ‘You know what, dressing that way is actually racist.’”
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William Caswell: Knoxville’s 200 year old murder mystery Tanner Hancock News Editor
The night of Aug. 6, 1862 must have seemed business as usual for General William R. Caswell. A veteran of the Mexican-American War, Caswell spent the early stages of the Civil War persecuting Union sympathizers in East Tennessee, having been named brigadier general of Tennessee’s provisional forces by then governor Isham G. Harris. Despite praise received from the governor and his superiors, Caswell opted for a private life and retired to his home several miles outside Knoxville in October of 1861. On the grounds of his plantation home, Caswell may have thought himself safe from the carnage of the battlefield, yet by the end of that August night, the general lay dead with his throat slit ear to ear, the victim of an assailant still unknown to this day. That Caswell met his gruesome fate in relatively war-deprived Knoxville is ironic, especially given the nature of his past military service. Born on Oct. 22, 1809 in Rutherford County, Caswell, in many ways, epitomized the stereotypical Southern aristocrat. A descendant of North Carolina’s first governor Richard Caswell, William’s resume was impressive even by the
standards of his day. Aside from his military service, Caswell served as attorney general for Tennessee’s Twelfth District, held a position on the board of directors for the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad and worked as a cashier for the Dandridge Bank, all while managing his farmland estate outside Knoxville. An active member of the state’s militia throughout the 1830’s and 1840’s, Caswell joined the surplus of 30,000 Tennessee volunteers swept up in the excitement of the MexicanAmerican War. That excitement proved to be short lived; a fact Caswell soon discovered working as the aide-de-camp to Major General Gideon Pillow, a man best known for the national scandal surrounding his falsification of battle reports and public clash with Winfield Scott, then commander of the American forces in Mexico. Before Pillow gained international infamy, his force remained in the occupied Mexican city of Camargo for much of 1846, where Caswell spent his time filing reports rather than engaging the enemy. Through a series of correspondences with his wife, Elizabeth Gillespie, Caswell made his frustration and boredom evidently clear to his family in Russelville. “Instead of being in the invigorating atmosphere of the mountains, of being in the battle
if there is one, I must remain in this hot climate with the sick, the dying, the debilitated soldiers who are left behind but constitute a large army,” Caswell wrote in a September letter to his wife. Missing the birth of his firstborn son while away at the front, Caswell made no effort to hide his frustration with the war to his family: “I am no hero, and have no hopes of becoming one in this war.” Tired of the war’s monotony, Caswell resigned as Pillow’s aide-de-camp in October 1846 and was elected captain of a regiment of the Tennessee mounted Volunteers. He would go on to see action in the battles of Vera Cruz and Cerro Gordo, but his role in these conflicts was limited --- he would later admit to his wife that the enemy was “routed” before his company even made contact at Vera Cruz. At the end of his 12 months of service in the Mexican-American War, Caswell returned to his family and home in East Tennessee, serving as both a lawyer and banker until the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861. Still, his legacy remains tied up in his assassination, originally reported by The Knoxville Register, which remains an unsolved mystery to this day. According to the original article, Caswell’s servants reportedly witnessed him struggling
with an unknown assailant on a road near his home, but were unable to catch a clear glimpse of the attacker before they fled the scene. A postscript note to the article further suggests that he was attacked by a party of men firing from the woods, who subsequently mangled him after he fell from his horse. While the true cause of Caswell’s death can only be guessed at, his close ties to the Confederacy would have made him few friends in what was largely a pro-Union city. In the months leading to Tennessee’s secession, East Tennessee twice voted against leaving the Union, once in an 1861 February vote and again in the final June referendum of that same year. With a slave population of less than 10 percent (compared to 34 percent in West Tennessee), it should come as no surprise that East Tennessee was home to the single largest civilian uprising of the “War Between the States”. In the month following Caswell’s retirement, thousands of East Tennessee unionists erupted in violence across the state on the night of November 8, burning five bridges and skirmishing with confederate troops in preparation for an invasion that would never come. See MURDER MYSTERY on Page 5
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MURDER MYSTERY continued from Page 4 Confederate reprisals were swift and harsh, with five suspected bridge burners hanged in the aftermath with reports of several other shootings and hangings occurring in East Tennessee. Given Caswell’s role in repressing unionists in the early stages of the war, his list of enemies would have certainly been a long one. Thomas William Humes, a Knoxville clergyman and staunch unionist, further clouds this issue when the author suggests in his 1888 Civil War history “The Loyal Mountaineers of East Tennessee” that Caswell was “endeavoring to arrest” a fugitive when he was murdered outside his home. If Humes’ account can be trusted, it would mean Caswell’s murder was the result not of a Union act of vengeance, but a random act of violence from a slave in search of freedom. As grisly as Caswell’s death proved to be, it served as only a taste of the violence destined for the city in the months following his assassination. By September of 1863, Union troops under Ambrose Burnside reclaimed Knoxville from the Confederacy, only to be besieged by rebel forces looking to take it back in the aftermath of Chickamauga. Even thousands dead on either sides in the following battles if Campell’s Station, Fort Sanders and Bean’s Station, the city itself would remain firmly in Union hands until war’s end. Today, monuments to those battles lie scattered across Knoxville, yet only one for the ignominious end to General Caswell. Tucked away in a quiet corner of Old Grey Cemetery, the final resting place of William Caswell speaks of a crime unsolved by time and a preamble to a city later claimed in the violence of war.
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Local haunted house to be renovated Connor Barnhill Contributor
Only two blocks behind Clement Hall, the dilapidated Fort Sanders Hall on Clinch Avenue might give some trick-or-treaters a fright this year when they pass by its eerie rubble. But the former 19th century mansion won’t be a source of nightmares for much longer. Built in 1899 by General Pickle, the mansion was reduced to its current state after a fire in 2003. Pickle was a former Confederate soldier in the Civil War, but never achieved the rank of general, instead receiving his title from his position as Tennessee’s Attorney General after studying law at Princeton University. But after 2003, the mansion was never renovated and for the next 12 years, it sat on the same property, its roof removed by the fire and its interior exposed to the elements. Still, the house’s most frightening aspects do not stem from its appearance alone, but by its stained past as a silent witness to Knoxville history. Long before Pickle Mansion’s construc-
tion, the Fort Sanders area was the site of intense skirmishes during the Civil War, killing hundreds of Confederate soldiers who fought Union forces in a conflict lasting under 45 minutes. After more than 200 years, the home caught the public’s attention in 2003 when a local renovator fell strangely ill and died before he could finish his renovation project. J-Adam Smith, paranormal investigator and director of operations at Haunted Knoxville Ghost Tours, said such a strange set of circumstances could mean that the site is haunted. When investigating for paranormal activity, he said trauma is always the first aspect to be examined at the site in question. “Paranormal investigations should always be based on unfinished business, so if there’s been trauma there, then it’s something to check out,” Smith said. Now considered a “paranormal historian,” Smith’s years of research have taught him that a place’s history reveals critical information when an observer wants to explore any kind of paranormal activity. For Smith, the deaths of young Confederate soldiers and the site’s 2003 renovator could leave behind spirits with
“unfinished business,” strengthening his claim that the Pickle Mansion does, in fact, retain some connection to the paranormal world. Despite the mansion’s spooky history, the site’s current developers, Jon Clark and Ron Turner of Brighton Developers LLC, took on the task of renovating the mansion in 2013 and, most recently, announced their plans to destroy the property. While some view the string of failed renovations as a curse, Clark attributed careless upkeep as the major reason behind the difficulty of past renovation plans. “By the time we had gotten to it, the structure had been exposed to the rain and sun for so long that what’s left of the structure couldn’t support any of the new additions we were going to put on it,” Clark said. Without the proper funds or tax breaks from the National Park Agency, which rejected the application for Fort Sanders Hall, Clark and Turner cannot draw from any resources they need to save the spookfilled site. “It’s a real shame, because a $2,000 roof in 2004 could have made the difference for whether or not we could salvage this building.”
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Unorthodox buffet serves food that stares back Jared Sebby
Contributor
Bugs: they’re what’s for dinner. I don’t consider myself a stranger to strange food. I’ve eaten plenty — from surströmming to escargot. Nevertheless, for some reason, I still have a primal repulsion to food that stares back at me while I eat it. And yet, that is exactly what I ate at the Buggy Buffet, a benefit dinner hosted by the University of Tennessee Entomology and Plant Pathology Department, with assistance from freshmen in the First Year Studies 129 class. The menu was fairly normal: tacos, stir fry, meatballs in tomato sauce, muffins and other various sweets. On any other day, it’d be a regular potluck. Then you notice the bugs. Crickets in the cookies, mealworms in the stir-fry, wax worms in the dumplings and dozens of other dishes made almost entirely of insects. I understand why someone would want to eat insects. They’re cheap, sustainable, environmentally friendly and packed with protein.
Many scientists have predicted that in fifty years insects will become a large part of our diets. As of now, already 30 percent of the world’s population eats them. In theory, it’s a foolproof solution to our concerns about the future of agriculture. And yet, there’s something inherently disturbing about it. Because what they don’t tell you is that bugs crunch, and their shells are too tough to break down. Chances are, when you eat a cricket, you’ll be picking its legs out of your teeth afterward. And there’s nothing quite like the sight of a pizza crawling with mealworms or a chocolate chip cookie with wings sticking out. What they will tell you, however, is that bugs work well in a lot of dishes. Cricket flour is being rapidly adopted by the health food industry; the bread it is used in tastes fine, but it’s a bit dry. Crickets and chocolate work really well together, and mealworms make a fine replacement for crab in fried wontons. This event clearly focused on grossing out the people curious enough to try it, putting the bugs front and center. That sense of curiosity drew huge crowds, filling the Hollingsworth Auditorium in the Ellington Plant Sciences Building. Children seemed more excited about the more obviously bug-based food, including jello cubes with clearly-visible insects embedded in them, while the adult audience was drawn to
Mealworms on a log were served at the Buggy Buffet at the Ellington Plant Sciences Building Jared Sebby • The Daily Beacon dishes containing other meats and vegetables to mask the taste. Overall, it wasn’t that different from eating shrimp or other shellfish. All of the insects used in the Buggy Buffet were very mild, and most of them can be processed past the point of recognition. While leaving whole insects in any dish is a purely stylistic decision, I can definitely see protein shakes made of cricket protein or energy bars with worm meal capturing a wide audience. With their fantastic nutritional benefits and incredibly cheap production costs, bug-based foods could easily overtake more expensive forms of supplemental protein. If eating bugs isn’t your thing, collecting them
might be. A silent auction ran the length of the dinner, with various bug-based and bug-themed collectibles available for purchase. And there were fantastic displays of all kinds of insects, from butterflies to beetles, pinned up in shadowboxes. There were even aquariums filled with hissing cockroaches and a sizable tarantula named Rosie. There are some mental barriers that are hard to break, and the aversion to eating bugs is one of them. But I now believe that insects have the potential to become a major force in food, especially in developing nations and places where traditional livestock isn’t readily available. And who knows, maybe you’ll see them on your own plate soon.
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Spooky showcase to rock Knoxville Megan Patterson Arts & Culture Editor
This Halloween weekend, Happy Holler will host an eccentrically creepy crew. Breakdancing puppets and musicians disguised as dead birds will bring the spirit of the spooky holiday to Relix Variety Theatre for “Halloswing,” a Christian Lange production. Despite the décor of the venue and the costuming of the performers and attendees, Halloswing is meant to be anything but frightening or unwelcoming. Christian Lange, member of Swingbooty and founder of “Halloswing,” plans to continue the recent trend of community building in North Knoxville, especially in the Happy Holler area. By integrating different types of music, such as hip hop and hot jazz, with different mediums of expression, including flow art and painting, Lange hopes “Hallowswing” will be an inclusive event for all ages and tastes. “I think the hot jazz movement is important, but I really think what’s even more important is the community that we are building altogether,” Lange said. “The music (VolatomiX Breakdancers) do is completely different, yet somehow or another magically it all falls together.” Benjamin Hoskins, co-host of Halloswing, grew up in Knoxville and is excited about getting involved in the recent growth of a local artistic community in the city. “The whole point of the thing is so my friends can come, but then my parents can also come and everyone have a great time and enjoy themselves,” Hoskins said. The night will start with painters getting a head start on their work before the music starts so that incoming guests will have something to watch and pass the time before dance begins. To officially kick-start the performance, artist Anthony Howard will read some spoken word written specially for the event.
According to Hoskins, Howard’s piece is meant “to get everybody in the right mindset to receive the rest of the evening, to present our message and what we’re all about. We’re encouraging people as a call to action to really enjoy themselves.” The night’s music will begin with Kukuly and the Gypsy Fuego, a hot jazz band featuring heavy Latin influences that often incorporates other styles such as bolsa and flamenco into their performances. Swingbooty, whose members will perform dressed as dead birds, will take over for the second half of the night, with a short intermission featuring a performance from the VolatomiX Breakdancers. Despite common misconceptions of a certain degree of formality inherent in swing music, Hoskins emphasized the classy-yetcarefree atmosphere of the event. “We’re really pushing down that wall and showing people that it can be really hip and cool to do this,” Hoskins said. Helping to break down the wall are the VolatomiX, an on-and-off UT affiliated breakdancing group that has performed at various local events for the past decade. Despite being veterans to the Knoxville dance scene, the VolatomiX have never done an event like Halloswing before. Member Michael Ellison, junior in biological sciences, described the acting element involved in the group’s upcoming performance, which even includes costumes. “This is the first year that we’ve had a theme to most of our dances,” Ellison said. “Most break dance performances are just hip-hop dance, but this year we specifically sought out music that had a creepier vibe to it.” The theme of the 15-minute set will be “Puppets vs. Robots” and features different dance styles for each opposing faction, with puppets incorporating more of a waving base and popping, robotic motions for the robots. Ellison will be the leader of the puppets while other member Dustin Peek, freshman in accounting will head the robots. “The robots in general are more aggression than fearful, but it’s definitely got a very nice creepy vibe all the same,” Peek said.
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Halloween concert event to feature 12 performers Sam Kennedy Contributor
Have you ever seen 12 different performers in one venue on one night? Attendees at The International last Halloween have, and Midnight Voyage Productions hopes to achieve the same feat this Halloween by bringing its second annual Halloween festival, Freakival. “We are excited about doing what we did last year and making it even better,” Andrea Kerns, co-marketing director of Midnight Voyage, said. “We have more local artists this year and awesome decorations to make the atmosphere even better.” In addition to the musical performers, there will also be fire dancers, silk performers, ticket giveaways to upcoming events and a costume contest. Winners of the costume contest can receive money, prizes, gift cards and even a free year of attending any show at The International. Last year, Freakival sold out, with almost 1,300 people in attendance. This year The International is expecting around the same number of people. “I always enjoy seeing the people who go the extra mile for their costume. A life-size Chewbacca and nearly full-size raptor were my favorites from last year,” Jay Harris, comarketing director of Midnight Voyage, said. “I suppose I most look forward to the people watching, and of course the drinks.” The idea of Freakival was brought up by Kerns and Harris during their first year of business with Midnight Voyage. They wanted to recreate the vibe and atmosphere of the original Freakers Ball that took place years
ago at the Valarium, now known as The International, while adding a few aspects to it that made it new festival unique. “Last year, we had a stage in every room and we had different types of music in each room, which makes for a very diverse atmosphere,” Kerns said. “It was absolutely packed and so much fun.” This Halloween’s headliners are nationally known Herobust and Huglife. Herobust is an electronic music producer from Atlanta, Georgia who specializes in “trap music.” Although Herobust has only been around for three years, his hip-hop inspired bass music has already been written about by giant media publications including Rolling Stone, Billboard, Vice, The Huffington Post and MTV. On the other hand, Huglife’s career has spanned close to 15 years and across various genres, including moombah, bass music, trap, electro, mashups, breaks and hip-hop. Another artist who will be performing is Knoxville’s own Paerbaer. He discovered his love for bass music in 2009 and has quickly grabbed the public’s attention. His performances are known to be immense with energy and fluent in bass. “It’s going to be awesome this year and because Daylight Savings is on Halloween, we’re going to get to have that extra hour to party,” Kerns said. Making up the other nine performers are Ede Gee, DJ Fallen, Fishermen, Kwickflip, False Panic, Halcyon, Junkie Christ, Alex Falk, Gregory Tarrants and JMO. The event will take place on Halloween at The International. This event is open to anyone 18 and over, so you must have a valid photo ID for entry. Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 on the day of the show.
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MILEY AND NICKI WHAT’S GOOD
Sustainable Tips for Halloween Carved pumpkins, buckets full of Reese’s Pieces and re-runs of Halloweentown are all staples of the spooky holiday we all know and love. But dressing up like your favorite Harry Potter character, TV icon or meme doesn’t mean you have to break the bank — or waste the environment’s resources. Following the Office of Sustainability’s lead, here are a few tips to create a costume that is creative yet sustainable when you’re swaying to Monster Mash, trick-or-treating or just pulling thrill-inducing pranks on your fellow Halloween companions.
By Altaf Nanavati, Copy Editor
GREEN AND EFFICIENT COSTUMES Instead of spending up to $50 on a costume at Party City, there are, in fact, cheaper and more energy-efficient ways to acquire a costume for a friend’s Halloween party or to trick-or-treat in. Try making a homemade costume out of the clothes and materials already available in your closet. You’ll keep some cash in your pocket, and avoid spending money on superfluous accessories made of plastic, aluminum or other materials. You can also re-use or update a costume that you had worn for last year’s Halloween or visit a local thrift store.
ENVIRONMENT-FRIENDLY PARTIES Believe it or not, Halloween parties can be amazingly cheap in addition to being eco-friendly. To brighten the venue, you can use LED lights, which last longer and use up less electricity. Toss out any plans for expensive decorations and use recycled materials or natural items for spooky decor, like pumpkins, pumpkin seeds or gourds for a festive look. Sending electronic invites in place of paper ones reduces trash, and using recycled paper to make window decorations can add to the sustainable theme of your party scene. If you’re really dedicated, you may even get a few compliments on your cleverly-placed, Pinterest-esque design eye. To make sure that the materials you use don’t go to waste, remember you can always use decorations for next year’s party.
TRICK-OR-TREATING Don’t ruin your bank balance by buying Halloween candy sacks from a store — reusable bags and pillow cases make perfect containers when you’re trekking around your dorm or neighborhood. It will save you more money, and allows you to be more creative when decorating your candy-carrying container. If you’re the one giving out candy, distribute sweet treats with recyclable wrapper or wrappers made from recycled materials.
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2015 CULTURAL HALLOWEEN COSTUMES This year instead of opting for a classic spooky get-up or an overused pop culture reference, go for something that might just make a statement this Saturday. 2015 brought forth plenty of costume ideas, whether they’re “punny” jokes or relevant imitations. Check out some of the Daily Beacon’s ideas for inspiration.
TRAP QUEEN This song took over everything from Vine to frat parties. No one really knows if that’s because Fetty Wap doesn’t have an eye or because everyone is secretly dealing drugs. Either way — it’s unforgettable.
NICKI MINAJ & MILEY CYRUS First things first, all hail Queen Nicki. When Nicki called Miley out at the VMAs after thanking her pastor, “Miley, what’s good?” made its way onto Twitter, throw pillows and everywhere in between.
WEST AND SWIFT 2020 When Kanye West broke the news that he’s also going to be running for president during some kind of breakdown on the VMA’s stage, crap hit the fan. Then when Taylor Swift dubbed herself vice president, the world exploded.
ZAYN MALIK Fangirls everywhere fell into a burrito of sadness when this broody god left One Direction, so why not rip that wound back open and become him for Halloween?
WHIP AND NAE NAE This is the perfect group costume if your Bad Blood squad only consists of that one friend you met during Welcome Week because you accidentally rubbed your sweaty backs together. Again, it’s a song that took over the internet and just generally exploded into a dance for people who can’t dance. It’s basically the new Macarena.
POOT LAVATO Oh … You’ve never heard of her? Well, that’s because her twin sister Demi Lovato had her locked away her whole life. This internet meme makes a great costume because you can look cute until you take selfies. Then you’ve just gotta work than under angle.
DONALD TRUMP There really is no explanation. He’s just all the rage trying to become the president and stuff.
NETFLIX AND CHILL I could explain this one, but I feel like you need to figure it out on your own. Just text your S.O. and say “Netflix and chill?” and wait to see what happens.
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Gamecocks crush Vols, 4-0
UT counting on Barnes to provide stability
Trenton Duffer Staff Writer
COLUMBIA, S.C. — There were less than 15 minutes on the game clock when South Carolina seniors Emily Bollinger and Carly Ray knocked in their first three goals of the season on the Gamecocks’ Senior Night. Ray knocked in two goals in a five-minute span between the 9:38 and 14:06 marks of the first half, becoming the first player to score more than one goal in a game against the Vols this season. These three goals helped the Gamecocks secure a 4-0 victory over the Vols on Thursday night in Colombia. Coach Brian Pensky struggled to describe the loss after the game. “If you look at the outset of the first five minutes, we had the ball, and we were okay. Then we had a little bit of a breakdown, a counterattack, and then we’re down a goal,” Pensky said. “It’s 100 percent on our team, on our players, on our coaching staff … This is embarrassing.” This was the second time this season that the Gamecocks had scored three goals in the first half of play. Tennessee’s (7-5-6, 3-5-3 SEC) defense allowed Ray and Bollinger to sneak in seemingly unnoticed when the seniors notched
up the three quick scores. This was a Tennessee defense that had only given up three goals in a game only twice this season. The Vols had only allowed 13 goals in 1,540 minutes played entering the South Carolina match. But in 90 minutes, that total skyrocketed to 17 goals. “We lacked energy, honestly,” senior defender Susan Ferguson said. “There’s not a whole lot you can do if they’re outworking you.” With the loss, the Vols finish the season with 12 points, which keeps them tied for eighth in the SEC standings. Tennessee needs Kentucky, Georgia and Mississippi State to lose on Thursday night for a chance at making the SEC Tournament. Always optimistic, Pensky said that this loss doesn’t define his team. “You come out of Sunday night, and I feel good about our team,” Pensky said. “We let that team guide the game … We’ll see now whether the season is over.” Playoff hopes: As the Tennessee-South Carolina game ended at 9:30 p.m., Georgia lost 3-0 to Florida, and Kentucky was trailing LSU 3-2 with 15 minutes left. Mississippi State was losing to Auburn 3-0.
Associated Press Change remains the only constant at Tennessee. Tennessee is on its third coach in as many seasons after NCAA issues caused the Volunteers to fire Donnie Tyndall after only one year. Replacing Tyndall is Rick Barnes, who got dismissed at Texas despite leading the Longhorns to NCAA Tournament appearances in 16 of his 17 years on the job. Barnes has earned NCAA bids 19 of the last 20 years overall and says that remains the goal at Tennessee, even though he’s facing a tough challenge in his debut season. “I do think that we’ve got to give credit to the previous coaches because we walked into a (good) situation,” Barnes said. “I think we’ve got a group of guys that are going to compete. That’s something that you don’t take for granted. The one thing I do think is that they will compete. Our job now is to teach them to play the way we want them to play.” Barnes inherits a roster that lacks size and ball handlers. The Vols must replace Josh Richardson, who earned first-team all-Southeastern Conference honors while leading Tennessee to a 16-16 record last year. SEC media have
picked Tennessee to finish 12th in the 14-team conference. The Vols are hoping Barnes can provide the stability that’s been missing from this program the last couple of years. Last season, Tyndall hadn’t even coached a game at Tennessee when it was revealed that the NCAA was investigating his tenure at Southern Mississippi. Tyndall was fired because Tennessee correctly determined the NCAA would say he’d committed major violations at Southern Mississippi. While many Vols insisted Tyndall’s NCAA issues didn’t bother them during the season — senior forward Derek Reese said he’d actually forgotten about the Southern Mississippi investigation until Tennessee fired Tyndall in March — sophomore guard Detrick Mostella said it “most definitely” was a distraction. “We didn’t try to let it get to us, but I know some of the players let it get to them,” Mostella said. “It was a big distraction for our team. ... It feels much better (now) not having a distraction.” Although Texas is investigating allegations of academic misconduct in its men’s basketball program, Texas officials have said the university “has no information that suggests” Barnes knew of or was involved in any academic improprieties.
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Vols prepared to face challenge in Lexington Jonathan Toye
Sports Editor
Tennessee’s seven games in 2015 haven’t been easy. The Vols have lost four games by a combined 17 points and lost a fourth-quarter lead in three of the four losses. It might be perfect timing then that Tennessee is playing Kentucky on Saturday. No other college football team — not even Vanderbilt — has experienced more futility against Tennessee than Kentucky. Tennessee holds a commanding 77-24-9 lead in the series and has won 29 of the past 30 meetings, with Kentucky’s lone win coming in 2011. Tennessee coach Butch Jones, however, isn’t taking anything for granted when the Vols travel to Lexington Saturday night (TV: SEC Network, 7:30 p.m.). Jones said he hasn’t mentioned Tennessee’s history of success against Kentucky to his players in practice this week, suggesting that what has happened in the past has no bearing on the present. “This is a new year,� Jones said. “This is a
new football team and they are a new football team. And we can’t get ourselves focusing on the past and all that. They are a good football team. We got to focus on the task at hand and that is the most important.� The Wildcats might not be in the same tier as Oklahoma and Alabama, but they have improved in the Mark Stoops’ era. The Wildcats are 4-3, but two of the losses have been one-possession games. With Charlotte and Vanderbilt looming on the Wildcats’ schedule, Kentucky has a chance to secure bowl eligibility for the first time since 2010. “This is a very, very talented football team,� Jones said. “I think their team has gone through a lot of the growing pains — so to speak — that we have gone through: losing some close games at home and being in positions to win some games.� Mobile quarterbacks have given Kentucky problems. In Kentucky’s last game – a 42-16 loss to Mississippi State – Bulldogs quarterback Dak Prescott torched Kentucky with his legs, running for 88 yards on 18 carries. Earlier in the year, Florida quarterback Will Grier rushed for 61 yards on 12 carries. Unfortunately for Kentucky, Tennessee has
a mobile in quarterback in junior Joshua Dobbs. And he has saved some of his best performances for Kentucky. In last year’s 50-16 win over the Wildcats, Dobbs passed for 297 yards and rushed for 48. Jones said on Wednesday that Tennessee needs another good performance from Dobbs on Saturday night. “(He was) effective throwing the football, running the football, putting us in the right situations and being smart with the football,� Jones said of Dobbs’ 2014 performance against Kentucky. “First and foremost, it was just being smart with the football and he has been able to do that. We are going to need that Saturday night. We are going to need that big time.� Kentucky has its own quarterback who has given defenses problems. Patrick Towles has more interceptions (9) than touchdowns (8), but ranks fourth in passing yards (1730). Jones tried to recruit Towles when he was the coach at Cincinnati and didn’t hesitate to praise the quarterback this week. “He is a winner,� Jones said. “He is a leader and you can see that. We knew he could make every throw. He is very, very active. He is athletic, he can make plays with his leg, he can
make plays with his arm. He can complete all the throws, but I think he can throw the deep ball very well. “What he has been able to do over a short period of time in his collegiate career doesn’t surprise me. He has a great, great makeup.� Joining Towles in the backfield is running back Stanley “Boom� Williams. Williams has already accumulated 551 yards on the grounds and has averaged 6.8 yards per carry. “We got to stop the run. Their running back is outstanding,� Tennessee defensive line coach Steve Stripling said. “He is a lateral runner and that puts edges on the line of scrimmage and you can’t create any seams in there.� History and the eye test — Tennessee has more talent than Kentucky — suggest the Vols should handle the Wildcats. But combine Towles’ ability to complete the deep pass and Williams’ propensity to rip off big plays on the ground, and anything can happen Saturday night in Lexington. That’s why Jones is preparing his team for a challenge on Saturday. “It’s going to be a challenge for us,� Jones said. “But I know our players are looking forward to it as well.�
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2015 FOOTBALL PICK ‘EMS FIRST PLACE Hayley Brundige Multimedia Editor Tennessee 21 - Kentucky 17 Georgia - No. 11 Florida No. 9 Notre Dame - No. 21 Temple North Carolina - No. 23 Pittsburgh No. 12 Oklahoma State - Texas Tech
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SECOND PLACE Jenna Butz Editor-in-Chief Tennessee 28 - Kentucky 21 Georgia - No. 11 Florida No. 9 Notre Dame - No. 21 Temple North Carolina - No. 23 Pittsburgh No. 12 Oklahoma State - Texas Tech
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THIRD PLACE Taylor White Asst. Sports Editor Tennessee 31 - Kentucky 20 Georgia - No. 11 Florida No. 9 Notre Dame - No. 21 Temple North Carolina - No. 23 Pittsburgh No. 12 Oklahoma State - Texas Tech
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Win over Kentucky would be more than meets the eye
Taylor White Assistant Sports Editor Though nobody within the program will ever say it publicly, there’s one thing the Tennessee football program just doesn’t do: lose to Kentucky. Over the last 30 years the Vols have lost to the Wildcats just once — a 10-7 loss at Lexington in 2011 — and that ended a 26-game winning streak for Tennessee. Tennessee beats Kentucky. It’s just become a given in the college football world. In fact, the Wildcats have beaten Tennessee just 24 times in what is one of the South’s longest football rivalries. Kentucky won the first meeting between the teams 56-0 in 1893 and has been trending downward ever since, as Tennessee has a 77-24-9 record in the series. This year’s game holds a significance for Tennessee that many others in this series have not. Saturday’s matchup provides an opportunity for Butch Jones to take a muchneeded step forward in his third year at Tennessee, a step that it hasn’t seen since Phil Fulmer took the Vols to the SEC Championship game in 2007: an eight-win season. If Tennessee wins its last five games then the Vols will finish the year 8-4, a season that should meet even the highest of preseason expectations despite losing three of their first five games, two of those coming after fourth quarter meltdowns. The Vols first seven opponents hold a 35-9 record, and three of those teams are currently ranked in the top-25. The second half of Tennessee’s schedule shapes up to be a much smoother ride, though, as the last five teams the Vols will play are just 14-22 on the season. Kentucky (4-3, 2-3 SEC) represents the greatest challenge left on Tennessee’s schedule as the Wildcats have shown remarkable improvement under coach Mark Stoops, even if it isn’t obvious by looking at their record.
After a trip to Lexington, the Vols host two teams without a head coach. A South Carolina team led by Shawn Elliott after Steve Spurrier decided to step down midseason amidst his teams struggles. The Gamecocks have lost to Tennessee the past two years in dramatic fashion, but it shouldn’t take a last second comeback for the Vols to get a win this season. North Texas then comes in after firing its coach on the heels of a 66-7 loss to FCS Portland State, and the Mean Green have yet to win a game this season. It’s not that many people were worried about this game to begin with, but it’s now shaping up to be much worse than originally expected. The Vols then travel to Columbia, Missouri for a matchup with the Tigers. Despite the havoc that Missouri has wreaked on the SEC East over the last two seasons, the Tigers just allowed Vanderbilt coach Derek Mason to pick up his first SEC win in 12 games. Missouri has mostly relied on defense since joining the conference in 2012, but defense can only take you so far with an offense as bad as the Tigers. This should be the year that Tennessee gets over the hump with its first win over Missouri. That just leaves Vanderbilt to close out the year, however, the Commodores historically save their best game of the season for the Vols. Even with that, and Vanderbilt’s noticeable improvement this season, the Commodores just don’t have the talent they need at this point. Tennessee hasn’t won its last five games of the year since that 2007 season, but the favorable back half of the schedule, coupled with the improvement this team has shown over the last two games makes this a more than achievable goal . The “one game at a time” mantra that Jones has embraced since he stepped foot on campus may get old to some fans, but in this situation the next game is the most important. Kentucky has the most talent of any team remaining on Tennessee’s schedule. If the Vols can avoid a slip-up in Lexington then Jones has a chance to achieve success that is measured on the football field, not just measured by how many stars a website rates a high school athlete. That’s something Tennessee fans have been waiting on for a long time. It all starts with a task that Tennessee has done without blinking an eye for the last century: beating Kentucky.
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