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Issue 49, Volume 124

Volunteers improve APR, avoid penalties David Cobb Sports Editor Derek Dooley excelled at teaching players personal hygiene during his time at UT, but the performance of his teams on the field and in the classroom left issues for Butch Jones.

Less than 10 months into his tenure as Dooley’s successor, Jones announced Tuesday that the Academic Progress Rate of UT’s football program is no longer an issue.

“I think it is probably one of the greatest victories that we have had in Tennessee football,” Jones said Tuesday of UT’s progress in the APR, which is a metric developed to track the academic achievement of teams each academic term.

During Dooley’s tenure from 2010-12, UT’s football APR number fell from 937 to 924, which placed the Vols at risk of ineligibility for the postseason, per NCAA rules which state that any score under 930 is a failing grade.

Jones said the Vols finished the 2012-13 year with a score of 962, which would bring their four-year average to 938.5 and keep them punishment-free.

“Maybe you guys don’t understand the magnitude of it,” Jones said. “It’s huge, and that is one of the things we have fought in the recruiting process.”

Jones said the football team posted a perfect score of 1,000 for the spring semester. The numbers will not be officially released until the spring of 2014, but senior kicker Michael Palardy juxtaposed Jones’ mindset towards academics compared to Dooley’s.

“Huge emphasis,” Palardy said. “It is always, ‘You are here to get your degree, you are a student-athlete, not athlete-student.’

School is first, your education is first and Coach Jones always preaches it to us.”

Jones credited the Thornton Athletics Life Center and its new director, Joe Scogin for aiding in the cultural shift.

By comparison, senior defensive tackle Daniel Hood said Dooley’s academic strategies lacked in execution.

“It just seemed like there was always an issue when Dooley was here,” Hood said. “The class checkers didn’t know who they were looking for and there were so many different things. I think the Thornton Center wasn’t operating as good as it is now.”

Although Tennessee’s 2014 recruiting class is nearly full – and ranked No. 2 in the country

by Rivals.com – Jones emphasized that putting the potential of APR-related punishments will be an aid to the Vols in attracting high school talent.

“That is one of the things that we have fought in the recruiting process,” he said. “As you know, opponents, they’re going to look and read everything and going to try and throw everything at their competition.

“Moving forward with the recruitment process, I thought it was critical at this stage of the game to announce that.”

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Lakeshore Mental Health Institution was shut down in June 2012. Witnesses and paranormal enthusiasts say visitors brave enough to enter can still hear voices from patients who once resided within the asylum.

Vacant insane asylum houses dark past Old mental hospital spanned decades of maltreatment before becoming therapeutic Clint Shannon Contributor An abandoned asylum standing empty on a 100 acre park. Scared yet?

Despite closing permanently last year, Lakeshore Mental Institute still stands in the midst of Lakeshore Park, located at 6410 South Northshore Drive.

Most of its buildings have decayed into shambles and ruin.

With a history of dark, mysterious procedures and happier practices in equal measure, the complex first opened in 1886 as the East Tennessee Hospital for

for the mentally disabled, whether sentenced, admitted or sent away.

“It was a place you went and you stayed and you didn’t want to be there,” Roller said.

In 1927, the center was renamed the Eastern State Psychiatric Hospital.

Following the 1955 invention of the tranquilizer, the hospital adopted a new form of treatment. In 1960, they introduced the $2 million Therapeutic Village, which included cottages, a store, a clinic, a coffee bar, a chapel and a pool.

Roller said he believes this lifestyle greatly improved the happiness of the patients.

“People were a lot happier coming out of Lakeshore,” he said. “Lakeshore was a model institution for other facilities.

From what I’ve read, people would just come there to see how Lakeshore treated its patients in this new way of treatment.”

For Roller, Lakeshore’s evolution

embodies the development of the mental health care system in America, from dark, experimental days to more effective, humane treatments.

“You see the times where we kept them in dark rooms and brick walls, and then you see the times where we let them roam around free and it was encouraged that they actually get out and do things,” Roller said. “It was encouraged that they learn things—that they learn a trade.”

In 1977, the hospital’s name was changed to Lakeshore Mental Institute.

Shortly thereafter, in 1980, the state began their plan to shift the patients at Lakeshore to community sustained help until the hospital closed in 2012. Not much later, in the spring of 2013, a former employee found patients’ records laying in one the buildings, which contained case numbers, dates of birth and Social Security numbers.

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Celtic Thunder ‘captivates’ crowd with Gaelic atmosphere and song Hannah Cather Photo Editor The first few rows of the audience cheered with exuberance as the show began.

Bright voices of the six men in Celtic Thunder rang out through the Tennessee Theatre.

After the first song was finished, the predominately female section shouted in approval.

With appreciative smiles, the ensemble launched into their two-hour performance.

Tuesday night’s concert was put on by UT’s Cultural Attractions Committee.

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Ghost tales creep around corners of campus Hannah Moulton Contributor It’s that time of year. People everywhere are searching for haunted houses, both fake and real.

For frightening tales, UT students need to look no further than their very own campus.

Structures more than two centuries old are bound to accumu-

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The Irish singing ensemble Celtic Thunder performed Tuesday at the Tennessee Theatre.

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Blake Roller, junior in journalism and political science, first encountered the mental hospital as a freshman while visiting a friend. After the complex closed, Roller researched and explored the facility.

In the institution’s early days, Roller explained, patients came from families who could not or would not provide care.

These patients would spend the bulk of their lives on this plot of approximately 100 acres.

“Throughout history, people with mental disabilities have always been frowned upon,” Roller said. “They were considered a threat to society and someone that you disposed of, you locked up, and there was no treatment for them.”

Psychological testing was conducted, much of which would be considered unethical by today’s standards. Roller said the institute was basicalyl a prison

late their share of ghost stories.

The fact that UT is built on an Indian burial ground and Civil War battlefield, certainly influences the idea that campus is haunted.

Google “UTK ghosts” and it will bring you to the school’s official “Ghost Stories” webpage.

The page tells of haunts at different areas on campus.

The Hill is reportedly haunted

by two separate spirits. One is a man dressed in 1930s attire and is reportedly the ghost of a heartbroken former student who committed suicide after his girlfriend ran off to marry another man.

He wanders aimlessly around the Hill, giving him the name of the “Walker on the Hill.”

Another entity supposedly located on the Hill is a large, spectral dog.

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Large teeth and claws, bright red eyes and a piercing howl are features of the ghost canine.

Referred to as “Bonita,” she is supposedly the pet of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Tyson who was buried on the lawn of the Tyson House. The story goes that she prowls campus searching for her masters.

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Founded in 1971 by William M. Bass, UT’s Forensic Anthropology Center was the first of its kind.

More colloquially referred to as the “body farm,” the center was designed as a research facility for studying human decomposition.

Here, undergraduate and graduate student volunteers work alongside anthropology professors and facility staff.

“We have students involved in a little bit of everything,” said Dawnie Steadman, Ph.D., and director of the Forensic Anthropology Center. “They are part of placing bodies when they first come in, they also excavate the bodies, put down grids and treat each corpse like a crime scene.”

Corpse donations to the facility are primarily done through a registration process completed by a donor while he or she is still living.

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BODY FARM continued from Page 1 “When you’re first walking in there’s a path lined with bodies, but when you start really going up, the bodies are kind of just scattered in there,” said Kortney Williams, a senior in anthropology who works both in the William M. Bass Forensics Building and on the facility grounds. “Sometimes the bones will be everywhere or the tarp won’t be on, or the skull will be way far away because it rolled down a hill or something. They

INSANE ASYLUM continued from Page 1 In Knoxville lore, the asylum is considered haunted, with reports of screams, apparitions and disembodied voices. It is also rumored that employees physically abused patients in the 1960s, although this has not been verified as fact.

Stephen Hannah, an aspiring artist who moved to Knoxville four years ago, once filmed his exploration of one of the buildings with some friends.

“I think the creepiest thing I saw was in the basement,” Hannah said.

“It was pitch black, so we had to use our phones as flashlights. There were old paintings, most likely reprints, and frames along with an old disassembled upright piano. It was damp, chilly and it was very eerie.”

Hannah, however, was doubtful of any paranormal activity in the buildings.

“I have not heard of any hauntings at the asylum, unless you count the medical records they found unsecured a few months back,” Hannah said. “I bet that is haunting someone. I am

will be everywhere.”

Once a donor is declared deceased, the body is retrieved by facility workers and volunteers or delivered to campus for evaluation and processing, during which students use a toothbrush and water to scrub off anything remaining on the bones, like tissue, dirt, bugs, skin or toenails.

Jake Smith, second year graduate student in anthropology and staff member at the facility, admitted the handling of human remains can be difficult.

“I guess people can be squeamish about it, and it does get difficult when the loss is difficult,” Smith said. “When

I’m talking to the parents of someone’s child that’s passed away and they want to donate a 30-year-old child or a 9-month old child, it just brings it all back.”

Still, Smith knows his work serves a higher purpose.

“It’s to do enough research, in decomposition, postmortem interval and time since death, to be able to give all these missing individuals who don’t have a name, to be able to give them a name,” Smith said. “What we do here has got to help us find their identity and give them back to their family.”

UT anthropologists and students at the facility also work with law enforce-

Double, Double, Toil and Trouble.

That’s the primary focus for Maria Stehle’s Witches: Myth, Reality and Representation class.

Observing the rise and fall of the witch, the class presents a historical exploration of witchcraft. Stehle, Ph.D. and assistant professor of modern foreign languages, said the class was a reaction to the prevalence of witches in pop-culture.

“One of my goals in this class is to give students the tools to critically dissect these pop-culture representations,” Stehle said.

In addition, the class addresses the mechanisms and dangers of using fear to socially and politically mobilize people.

“We focus on the Central European and then, more generally speaking, Western cultural context,” Stehle said. “We trace the images, myths and the actual persecution of witches from the early modern times in Central Europe to the context of colonial New England – Salem Witch Trials – and then into the fairy tales, mainly of the Brothers Grimm, in the 19th century.”

Stehle encourages her students to psychologically analyze

ment agencies to assist with human remains recovery, bettering the identification of bone findings or missing persons and aiding when fingerprints or DNA identification is impossible.

“Life is too short; help who you can, when you can and while you can,” Smith said. “It’s going to help a lot of people, and it’s already helped a ton of people.”

Today, the center is one of the leading research facilities in forensic anthropology. The Bass Donated Skeletal Collection currently stands at more than 1,200 remains used in scientific research, with an estimated 3,300 pre-donors, according to Steadman.

economic backgrounds, revealing why certain historical events took place.

Amy Bejenini, senior in geography, appreciates the incorporation of film in the class.

“The best part about the class so far has been the documentary clips we watch,” Bejenini said.

“The class has a large emphasis on the Salem Witch trials, which is a topic I’ve wanted to learn more about for a while.”

Stefan Brudige, senior in German, said the course gives a detailed examination of a topic not typically discussed in the classroom.

“I took this class because it’s something more exciting and fun than your typical history or culture class,” Brudige said.

With many of the myths and traditions having strong ties to German culture, the class is sponsored by the department of Modern Foreign Languages.

Nathan Farcasin, junior in chemistry, said Stehle’s class was a great change of pace from his major.

“It’s definitely very diverse from my science classes, and that’s probably why it is so interesting to me,” Farcasin said. “The class isn’t just about witches, it additionally highlights important events in history and culture that aren’t typically taught.”

Although other forensic facilities have recently been established across the nation, Steadman feels the long-standing reputation and innovation present at UT’s facility will always prevail.

“It’s the interest that we have from the public and the scientific community and people that cause so many people to want to donate bodies here and do research here,” Steadman said, “because of the long-term relationship that we have with the community.”

For more information about the Forensic Anthropology Center, visit www.fac.utk.edu/.

not 100 percent convinced that the place is haunted. I’m not saying I don’t believe in ghosts or the supernatural, but I didn’t encounter anything except an old decrepit building.”

With conversion into a city park being the ultimate goal, the city plans to tear down all but one of the facility’s buildings, which may be declared a historical site.

A former employee of the asylum, who requested to be nameless, heard of hauntings during their time at Lakeshore, but “never believed them.”

The employee, who worked in the medical records department 22 years ago, lamented the loss of the facility.

“It is sad that it closed, especially for the long-term patients. It was their home.”

Hannah supports the plans to convert the area into a city park, believing the transformation will put the vacated buildings to use.

“As far as the plans to tear it down, I think the space could be used for something productive,” Hannah said.

“I think it would be neat if they converted part of it into a haunted house • Photo Courtesy of Blake Roller • Photo Courtesy of Blake Roller for Halloween. That would probably generate some chatter and a lot of A ramp lies in ruins where it was once traversed by “Turn Back” is painted on the wall of a room in the revenue if they market it properly.” patients at the Lakeshore Mental Health Institute.

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Beacon Correction In the articles “Fashion teams to introduce affordable campus styles,” published in the Daily Beacon on Monday, Oct. 28 and “Victoria’s Secret struts out cost-savvy fashion show at UT” published on Wednesday, Oct. 30, the staff made several mistakes: The event was not run by Victoria’s Secret, but was primarily organized by Rent the Runway, an online website that allows women to rent designer dresses at a fraction of the cost. Rent the Runway provided all of the

dresses in the show.

The Beacon also reported that all the models were from sororities. In fact, the models were from all walks of campus life, and only some of them were sorority members.

Finally, the picture by Hudson Forrister depicts Jamelia Hatchett wearing a dress called “diving in the deep” by designer Badgley Mischka. Dresses like this one can be rented, not bought, from Rent the Runway at a price 90 percent off retail.

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Lewis O. Powell IV is a ghost researcher and founder of the blog site Southern Spirit Guide.The blog provides information and research of hauntings in the Southeast region.

South boasts rich tradition of spooky sightings, legends Bradi Musil Staff Writer The South is a mecca for paranormal investigation.

With a rich history from the Civil War era, the legends of fallen soldiers have nearly become a cultural identity, with rumors of hauntings prevalent throughout the region.

“The South has a mix of religious influences, Roman Catholicism, deep seeded Protestantism and a foundation of Native American beliefs along with the African and Caribbean beliefs brought in by slaves,” Lewis Powell IV, ghost researcher and founder of the blog site Southern Spirit Guide, said. “All of these mixing together brings a lot of the oral tradition of ghosts and ghosts stories.”

Powell said Tennessee is considered one of the most haunted states, boasting 158 paranormal societies primarily focusing on East Tennessee.

“Ghost hunters are investigating everything from Knoxville all the way up to Johnson City,” Powell said. “East Tennessee State University is another university just crawling with ghosts.

A lot of these towns and cities have at least a handful of fairly well-documented hauntings.”

Chris Harder, a member of Appalachian Paranormal

Investigations, agrees that Tennessee is brimming with mystery for the avid ghost hunter. Conducting free investigations of ghost legends and modern hauntings of families and buildings, the Appalachian Paranormal Investigators perform 10 to 20 explorations per year.

But Harder acknowledged that classic ghost legends have become greatly exaggerated over time.

“The older a place tends to be, the less accurate the story is because it’s been passed down from generation to generation,” Harder said.

Often, Harder confessed, his team concludes the suspicion of a supernatural presence was caused by an ordinary source of noise or disturbance. However, Harder maintained that evidence supporting ghosts or hauntings, if collected, is irrefutable.

“The best way to get a response is to ask questions with an electromagnetic field detector, because anytime something can manipulate a magnetic field that’s not normal, it’s paranormal,” Harder said. “Every living being, humans and animals, give off a slight magnetic field. Once you are no longer in a body, you can then start to manipulate that field to make it grow bigger or thicker.”

To combat skepticism, Harder and his team are care-

ful to ensure that the source of the magnetic field is not coming from a living presence in the room. By asking a series of repetitive questions at different intervals, API monitors the type of magnetic field produced in response. Theoretically, this method allows the investigators to carry a conversation with haunting spirits.

Although Harder’s team remains unsure about the actual cause of paranormal activity, he noted the validity of popular theories.

“There’s some belief that it may be a different dimension that we are dealing with,” Harder said. “Other beliefs are that these people just have unfinished business and there’s something keeping them here, nagging at them to stay.”

Torn between devout religious beliefs and a fervor for ghostly tales, Harder said he finds the South a perfect location for investigating the paranormal.

“Everybody knows everybody, and everybody knows everything about everybody,” Harder said. “The stories are so amazing in the South and that just makes the heritage so much greater. The people around here make it more interesting than the actual stories, because they know the names and the entire history behind any legendary ghost.”

On this day in 1967, the 28th issue of volume three of the Daily Beacon featured a story on the naming of Hodges Library. The $2,477,000 building was under construction at the time, and UT President Andrew D. Holt announced that the library would be named in honor of Dr. John C. Hodges, a longtime UT English professor and library benefactor. In his will, Hodges left UT a percentage of royalties on his English textbook, “Harbrace Handbook,” the first continuously published English grammar handbook.

The 18th edition is currently used in English classes on this campus and many others across the country. On the bottom left side of the page, the headline “Buses To Be Painted,” refers to UT’s decision to paint the campus bus service vehicles in orange and white. At the time, the Knoxville Service Company operated the bus system in conjunction with the city bus system; this year, orange and white buses returned to the streets under the official moniker “The T.” The picture at the bottom of the page depicts Vol football coach Dough Dickey looking on from the sideline as UT beat the LSU Tigers, 17-14. The Vols went on to win the SEC with a record of 9-2 before losing to the Oklahoma

Sooners 26-24 in – appropriately – the Orange Bowl. Center Bob Johnson was drafted second overall in the 1968 draft and played 12 seasons for the Cincinnati Bengals. He is one of

the SEC-leading 22 Volunteers in the College Football Hall of Fame.

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Corporate-state spying medium: Facebook Guest Column by

Matt Rowland Inherently anti-subversive, Facebook represents a humiliating, ideal acquiescence to power.

You are holding an antique medium: the newspaper. Print culture favored dispassionate, dialectic discourse where the words conveyed the message and one’s argument depended on the rational use of language. Today, outside of academia, corporate-state propaganda has almost totally subsumed public discourse.

In 1964, Herbert Marcuse warned of the dangers of this corporatestate in his book, “One-Dimensional Man” – a polemic of capitalist and communist societies. Yes, capitalism is a collectivism, just like communism; both share an obsession with productivity of industry to meet the demands of scarcity, with differing ideologies of political economy.

We are collectively hurtling along a double-helix of circulation – the two interdependent strands of profit and technology.

As global techno-capitalism intensifies its need for growth to sustain itself, so must technology increase our connectivity and the circulation of information and transactions. These two all-encompassing, twin compulsions of profit and technology feed off one other.

Ultimately, this total hyper-networking of all people, places, things and information constitutes an overwhelming technological intrusion on day-to-day life in the name of pure profit and increased circulation for their own sake.

Enter Facebook.

Facebook exemplifies how the “content” of social media is defined by the medium of transmission itself. Firstly, Facebook represents a revolution in technology, which always accompanies profit. Because Facebook is profitable, our profit and tech-centered world automatically welcomes it with open arms; this column will probably be shared on someone’s newsfeed.

Facebook’s design, however, represents a “public opinion” data tunnel between power and the public; the corporate state’s ability to acquire massive amounts of data on public attitudes, preferences, locations, behaviors, images and ideas, makes possible the micromarketing to and micro-monitoring of huge numbers of consumer citizens. Facebook users render up everything personal to the military-industrial complex – for free.

The recently-released Grand Theft Auto V video game contains a hilarious Facebook parody, called “LifeInvader.” Appropriately, LifeInvader’s slogans include revealing, observations of Facebook as a medium: “Inflate Yourself Online,” “Broadcast Everything” and “Where your personal information becomes a marketing profile (that we can sell).”

All these slogans signify critical, insidious aspects of our postFacebook “reality.” The exploitation of our personal data moved CNN contributor and self-proclaimed “Antichrist of Silicon Valley,” Andrew Keen, to write that we – its users – are Facebook’s data.

“That is why the seven-year-old company realized $3.71 billion of revenue in 2011,” he wrote.

Techcrunch.com reports how Facebook has removed the option for users to be unsearchable by name, characterizing Facebook as “low-level surveillance of everyone.”

Facebook – and other tech companies large enough to have data on nearly everyone in the developed world – are natural conspirators with “control-minded” organizations, such as the NSA. Facebook mines not only the data users voluntarily submit, but also non-users: “Chances are someone you have corresponded with — by email or mobile phone — has let Facebook’s data spiders crawl through their correspondence, thereby allowing your contact data to be assimilated entirely without your knowledge or consent,” Keen wrote.

With technology like Facebook’s facial recognition feature, the eye of surveillance only becomes more ubiquitous.

What’s more, Russia Today reports that now law enforcement organizations like the Chicago police are working with Facebook to combat social protests by blocking users by their individual account, IP address or device, such as a cell phone or computer.

Aside from the micro-monitoring and micro-marketing intrinsic to the medium, Facebook also encourages, an anonymous, agnostic mode of “discourse,” resulting in alienation, bullying, dissociation, voyeurism, “hate speech,” etc. – the most barbaric levels of which often victimize children.

Bullying is built into Facebook in that the medium is hyperpersonal, and at the same time distanced. The net makes it much easier to be cowardly.

Facebook offers an enticing credo: “Making the World More Open and Connected.”

What we become are billions of users now more closed and disconnected. Rather than making our lives “better,” social media like Facebook reveal a trend toward digital prison in so many ways – substituting actual life for virtual life, substituting the prison of the body and the real for the synthetic substitution of the “falsely free” avatar.

For now, this narcissistic, simulated self serves primarily the corporate-state’s twin compulsions of technological growth and profit.

Facebook helps people share stuff, coordinate events and “stay connected.” So you and Aunt Sally can keep in touch by browsing each other’s “selfies.”

But, ultimately, our “selfies” make our “selves” less free.

Matt Rowland is a pre-medical undergraduate whose smartphone is still registered to its previous owner. He can be reached at mrowland@utk.edu.

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Willful ignorance diminishes chance for civilized debate Uncommon Sense by

Evan Ford What does it mean to believe something?

We believe the world is round and that God does or doesn’t exist (or that we can’t know). We believe our friends when we ask them questions, and we believe that our bed is wherever we left it at home. We even believed Tennessee could hold its own against Alabama last Saturday.

At first glance, beliefs may seem like only positive things, but that’s false. Strongly (and falsely) held beliefs cause terrible things.

Parents don’t vaccinate their children for fear of autism. Religion, racism and other ideologies have motivated centuries of slaughter.

Our government shut down for a few weeks due to differing beliefs about what is good for this country.

How does this happen? We believe plums are purple, but no one ever kills each other over something like that. Rather, if someone says, “All plums are green!” you can just find a plum together and look at it. Maybe the person was thinking of grapes, or unripe plums. Regardless, you’d call them crazy if they still said all plums are green when holding a purple plum.

The broadness of our beliefs complicates things, especially in political matters. But

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cally renowned as a breeding ground for new ideas and social improvement — college.

But when we won’t listen to the facts, how do we reach any consensus on reacting to climate change? How do we treat those in our population who are in desperate need of healthcare, jobs or community? How do we do the right thing to promote job growth and a better standard of living for all Americans?

The reason we don’t like considering others’ arguments against our own is because we’re afraid we might be wrong and humiliated. Sadly, I do it too — write someone off as ignorant because I don’t agree with them.

I’m scared I’ll lose.

But if our beliefs about these things are so strong we refuse to respond to evidence, rejecting science and facts because they don’t align with our beliefs, we all lose. We will not have compromise, consensus or a country without strong hatred for one another.

If college should teach us anything, it would be how to learn. Learning requires listening to opposition, and every major improvement in the world has disagreed with everything that came before it. Remember when everyone believed the earth was the center of the universe?

We could all rethink the role of our beliefs.

Should they be something we genuinely want to be correct, or should we just want to be right?

We already know the answer – hopefully we’ll learn to accept it.

Evan Ford is a junior in philosophy. He can be reached at eford6@utk.edu.

Comfort food: Tips for finding culinary success Knight Errant by

Victoria Knight Ask any college student and they’ll tell you: grocery shopping and cooking are both hard.

For many of us, this is the first time in our lives we have had to figure out how to gather and prepare food on our own.

Before college, most likely, your parents bought all of the food – and even if they didn’t make dinner every night, they had a bunch of other options readily available for you to eat in the fridge and pantry. Then, once you got to college and past your freshman year meal plan, you discover cooking is not the easiest task. Not to mention grocery shopping, which is overwhelming to say the least.

But for most of us, it just isn’t realistic or affordable to eat out the majority of your meals.

Through helping myself and my roommates cope with the difficulty of cooking and grocery shopping, I have finally accrued some basic tips to help us make it through the week

without starving and/or spending our entire paychecks on food: Simple is best.

I love an elaborate meal more than anything else, but as a beginning cook, don’t get crazy. You might have seen this awesome Pinterest recipe that has this delicious raspberry icing and everything else on it, but remember that simple really is best.

You definitely don’t have to splurge to have a tasty and healthy dinner.

Go browse recipes in cookbooks and online and pick ones that have short cooking times and easy ingredients, and then add them to your grocery list. And if you really want to try a more complicated recipe, don’t cook it for a group of people or a first date.

Instead try and make it once, and then if it’s delicious, cook it again for other people.

Make a list of things to get at the store.

This is the most basic and obvious piece of advice in the cooking world, but it really does work.

It happens to the best of us – we all have the good intentions of making our list before we get to the store, but then we forget and when we arrive at the grocery store, we end up just wandering like a lost child from aisle to aisle, putting things in our cart that look good, eventually ending up with nothing that

resembles ingredients that could make up a real meal.

Making a list will also help you remember the one precious item you always forget you need until you get home from the store.

Make it easy on yourself and just put a list in your phone and add things to it as you think of them. That way, it’s readily available whenever you and your roommates randomly decide to venture to the store.

Cook with others.

Having your friends around you always makes cooking infinitely better. If you end up messing up the recipe, then all of you can laugh about it together. It also makes the work load so much easier.

If you have everyone working on different parts of the meal at the same time, the food will be made that much faster, and it will be harder for carelessness to mess up the meal.

Cook as a bonding activity, whether it’s as a date or with your mom; there’s just something about being in the kitchen and being able to casually talk with each other that makes it really memorable.

And remember, if all else fails, there’s always Oscar’s delivery.

Victoria Knight is a senior in microbiology.

She can be reached at vknight4@utk.edu.

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Non Sequitur • Wiley

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first, take these questions, and think hard about how you come up with the answer: do you believe that you have a liver? Do you believe parents should spank their kids?

Let’s start with spanking. If you believe in spanking, how would you respond to the Canadian study showing that physical punishment erodes the IQ of children? If you don’t believe it, what about the study from Calvin College that shows children spanked up to age 6 tend to be better students and workers?

This shows a very important tendency that humans have — we like to be told we’re right.

Let’s say we’re conservative, and someone posts a cartoon making fun of Obamacare on Facebook. What we’re likely to do is laugh, like and move on. A liberal on the other hand, may get angry, look up evidence to back up their claim and post a long, over-serious response. I know – I’ve done it.

Examine the liver question. If your doctor says “You have a liver!” you probably won’t get weirded out and challenge her. If she said you don’t have a liver though, you’d probably find a new doctor. You would refute her claim, confirm you do, indeed, have a liver and tell her she’s a quack.

This phenomenon is known as the “backfire effect,” and was coined by political scientists Brendan Nyhan and Jason Reifler. They found that, “When your deepest convictions are challenged by contradictory evidence, your beliefs get stronger.”

I want to believe we can all argue peacefully, use the facts and find answers that are true and best for everyone. These columns aim to start conversations in the place histori-

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Thursday, October 31, 2013

THE DAILY BEACON • 5 Arts & Culture Editor Claire Dodson

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Assistant Arts & Culture Editor Cortney Roark

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Around Rocky Top

Marvin Gaye’s children sue over ‘Blurred Lines’ Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Two of Marvin Gaye’s children sued Robin Thicke and his collaborators on the hit song “Blurred Lines� on Wednesday, accusing them of copyright infringement and alleging music company EMI failed to protect their father’s legacy.

Nona Marvisa Gaye and Frankie Christian Gaye’s suit is the latest salvo in a dispute over Thicke’s hit and whether it copies elements of Gaye’s song “Got to Give It Up.�

Their lawsuit seeks to block Thicke and collaborators Pharrell and T.I. from using elements of their father’s music in “Blurred Lines� or other songs.

Thicke has denied copying Gaye’s song for “Blurred Lines,� which has the longest streak this year atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart and has sold more than 6 million tracks so far. The suit also accused Thicke of improperly using Gaye’s song “After the Dance� in his song “Love

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Selam Teseman, member of Omicron Delta Kappa sorority, hands out candy to children at Trunk or Treat on Wednesday in Circle Park.

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CELTIC THUNDER continued from Page 1 Celtic Thunder reigns from Ireland, and with the exception of George Donaldson’s Scottish roots, the men represent various Irish cities.

After airing the first special in 2008, PBS has exposed thousands of people to the male ensemble. “I was sitting at home one night, and I was just flipping through the channels when I saw the name ‘Celtic Thunder’ on PBS,� Debi Henley, Knoxville resident, said. “Our ancestry is Scottish, so I thought, ‘Oh, alright, I’ll watch this.’ As soon as I heard the singing, I was captivated.�

When Celtic Thunder made a trip to Atlanta, Henley took her daughter to the show. They found two of the members performing a smaller set in a local pub. Mother and daughter both greatly enjoyed their first experience and have attended multiple other performances since. “The crowd is not quite as

rowdy here as it is in some places,� Henley said. “It’s probably just a lot of people’s first times.�

Each tour, Celtic Thunder offers a different set of songs in order to keep fans interested.

The Mythology tour incorporates more classic Celtic tunes, including the number “Voices.�

The song stands for the historical sounds of the group’s ancestors, evident in the lyrics “Voices call from the old days / voices tell from the past / ancient laws and ancient old ways to recast.�

The set design added to the Gaelic atmosphere. Projected sketch illustrations danced upon two large stones set next to a large Celtic cross during some of the solo songs. Soft, yet colorful, stage lights and a cloud backdrop added to the atmosphere.

Celtic Thunder is an ensemble of soloists, each capable of captivating an audience with one voice. While the solos serenaded distant lovers and lost time, the group performances varied between upbeat, and slow, steady tempos.

Some of the ensemble pieces

were classic Irish folk tunes, yet others came from a more modern time. One of the songs was performed in Gaelic, and the group even featured classic American tunes, including “The Boys are Back in Town.�

Despite the obvious capacity to entertain an entire audience independently, the ensemble benefits from the band tucked behind them. Composed of classic band instruments like drums, guitar and a piano, as well as traditional Irish flutes and string instruments. One of the band members played the uilleann pipes, an instrument that resembles the bag pipes but is operated by elbow, during one song.

The Henleys’ admiration for Celtic Thunder is shared throughout Knoxville, and the CAC banked on that fact. “Our focus as a committee is to bring acts we think students would like to see,� said Dylan Liverman, a junior in music. “Even though I’m not the biggest Celtic Thunder fan, I think it was a great decision to bring them here because the theater was pretty much packed.�

Cailtin Rivers, sophomore in forensic anthropology, was unaware of the supposed paranormal happenings on campus. “I’ve been here two years, and I researched the campus and I never came across anything that said it was haunted,� Rivers said.

While some students are a little skeptical about the hauntings on campus, others have been made believers.

Keegan Spraker, sophomore in mechanical engineering, claims to have had a run-in with one of the most notorious spirits on campus. While

After War.�

Much of the lawsuit focuses on claims that EMI should have pursued a copyright infringement claim. It also alleges the company’s executives used intimidation to try to stop the Gaye family from pursuing a lawsuit.

The suit claims EMI, which is owned by Sony/ATV Music Publishing, has allowed a conflict of interest between the family’s rights and the profits it is earning from “Blurred Lines� sales. “This conflict has resulted in EMI’s intentional decision to align themselves with the (’Blurred Lines’) writers, without regard to the harm inflicted upon the rights and interests of the Gaye Family, and the legacy of Marvin Gaye,� the lawsuit states.

Sony-ATV said it takes “very seriously� its role of protecting its songwriters’ works from infringement. “While we have not yet seen the claims by the Gaye family against EMI, we have repeat-

edly advised the Gaye family’s attorney that the two songs in question have been evaluated by a leading musicologist who concluded that ‘Blurred Lines’ does not infringe ‘Got To Give It Up,’� the company said in a statement.

Sony-ATV also said that while it treasures Marvin Gaye’s works and the company’s relationship with his family, “we regret that they have been ill-advised in this matter.�

Thicke and his collaborators filed a case in August asking a federal judge to rule that the singers did not copy “Got to Give It Up� for their hit.

Howard King, who represents the singers, said the Gayes’ countersuit was not unexpected, but he said their decision to sue EMI demonstrates the family lacks the appropriate authority to pursue the case against his clients.

He rejected the notion that EMI turned a blind eye to improper copying of Gaye’s music. “EMI is in the business of collecting money for infringements,� King said.

standing outside Strong Hall, Spraker and friends were telling stories of eerie happenings inside the building. Suddenly a dark silhouette appeared in the doorway casting a shadow on the ground, which Spraker reported, disappeared in an instant. “I’m not one to see things that aren’t there,� Spraker said. “If I see it, it’s there.� “Sophie,� as she is called, is the spirit of Sophronia Strong, whom the building is named after.

Her son, Benjamin Strong, left money in his will for UT to build a women’s residence hall and garden in his mother’s name. While Sophie died 58 years prior to the Hall’s opening, it didn’t stop stories of her

presence from spreading across campus and among the dormitory’s residents.

It is said that Sophie appears in mirrors behind residents on Feb. 17, her birthday. Sophie also acts as a motherly figure who shows up during arguments and other forms of behavior she sees as “unladylike.�

The campus ghosts do not seem to be permanent, however.

New stories seem to spring up with each new generation of students. Jack Neely, Metropulse writer and UT alumnus, said the ghost stories of today were not around when he was a student. “I sometimes heard ghost stories about Fort Sanders,� Neely said, “but I don’t recall any mention of actual campus ghosts.�

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6 • THE DAILY BEACON

Thursday, October 31, 2013 Arts & Culture Editor Claire Dodson

pdodson@utk.edu

Assistant Arts & Culture Editor Cortney Roark

croark4@utk.edu

Knoxville

Local band plans to release debut album at The Square Room Corinne Smith Contributor

Bakery boasts unique cupcakes

AJ Hall • The Daily Beacon

Magpies’ cupcakes are adorned with a witch’s hat and assorted festive holiday icons in lieu of the Halloween season.

Jenna Butz Staff Writer If cupcakes don’t quite mix with your sweet tooth, maybe trying one from the best bakery in Knoxville, as named by the readers of Metro Pulse, will change your mind.

Located on Central Street, Magpie’s Bakery appears cute and quiet on the outside with little quirky black birds on the sign inviting in patrons.

Inside, however, lies the bustle of one of Knoxville’s most popular bakeries.

Boasting 28 flavors, ranging from the classics such as chocolate and vanilla to a tropical mix of raspberries and mango, Magpie’s aims to appeal to a wide range of cupcake lovers.

“Our deluxe flavors are probably the most popular,” store

manager Ryan Huddleston said. “Those are the strawberries, caramels, the red velvet.

Those sell the most.”

The bakery also makes cakes and cookies that even taste like a cupcake themselves.

With the variety Magpie’s provides, it is no wonder the bakery is a Knoxville favorite.

However, the award-winning eatery was not always in its reigning position.

The bakery has much more humbling roots.

“Our owner, Peggy Hambright, started making goodies out of her mom’s house 20 years ago,” Huddleston said.

Now, flavors of the week and happy hours bring those with a craving for sweets into the shop daily to taste how far Hambright has come.

“First of all, it’s delicious,” said Wade Scofield, a senior

in religious studies. “You have to drive, but it’s in a really cool North Knoxville neighborhood.”

Every week, Magpie’s has a special flavor customers may not see again for months.

The week of Oct. 28 features lemon poppy seed while no one knows what could be next.

“Sometimes we ask the girls if there is anything that want to try or sometimes we pick a seasonal flavor,” Huddleston said.

Happy Hour is an even larger draw. Tuesdays through Thursdays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Magpie’s offers cupcakes at a discounted rate, which may be the best news for financially-strapped college students looking to indulge.

“We pick a certain flavor and offer it at $1.50,” Huddleston said. “There’s a limit of two per person, and it comes with

a shot of Cruze Farm milk ... We have parents asking us to deliver to college students too.”

However, the distance has not kept UT students from enjoying the fare. “(Magpies) is its own place that thrives even though it’s not on the Strip or in Market Square where everyone is,” said Jessie Hamby, freshman in linguistics.

And what Magpie’s lacks in convenience can easily be made up by recommendations from some of their clients.

“It’s a successful local business, so that in itself is a great reason to go there,” Scofield said.

“Cuonzo Martin got his birthday cake from there,” Scofield added. “If Cuonzo likes it, it has to be good.”

If you’re looking for “coffee poured over cheesecake,” you’ve come to the right place.

That’s one of the more creative ways up and coming local Knoxville band, Maplehurst, has described the band’s unique sound.

Though modern-jazz or indie-jazz may be a more clear description, it’s true the band has a sound that’s hard to put into words.

Composed of cellist Gideon Kein, guitarist David Platillero, drummer Cole Campbell, pianist Will Sliger and lead singer Jenna Weaver, the band will be releasing its debut album after a year’s work on Friday at 7 p.m. at The Square Room. Tickets are $12 at the door.

Daily Beacon contributor Corinne Smith got the chance to sit down with Jenna Weaver and David Platillero to discuss the band, the album and their plans for the future.

Daily Beacon: What is your favorite part of making music and being a musician? Is there one part of it that really speaks to you?

Jenna Weaver: It depends on what style of music really, but the main part is that it’s a different way to express what you’re feeling. When I write a song it’s basically like a journal, so no matter how I’m feeling during that time I use music as my avenue in order to express the way I’m feeling. What I’ve come to find out is that I’m probably not the only person that has those same feelings; it’s just that I put them down in this particular way. It’s really a healing thing for me, and I’ve had some people come up to me and just say, ‘Thank you for sharing that.’”

DB: Do you have a favorite show that you’ve played?

JW: We played at Milligan College just this August. They were a good crowd, and there weren’t really that many people. It’s a small coffee house place, and it’s a small college, but it was a lot of fun to go as a whole band for the first time and we were really comfortable with each other. We weren’t really sure how it was going to go because we had just added Cole to the group, but we didn’t even notice. It felt like he had been there the whole time.

DB: How does it feel to be releasing your debut album?

David Platillero: Awesome. As a producer,

I just really wanted to do this probably the most out of anyone in the band.

I have all the recording equipment and stuff, so I was like, ‘Yeah, let’s do this.

Let’s make it really good.’

I’ve done one before, but this one’s been different because I’m actually in the band. And I believe in this music even more. So for me it has been really fun to capture the sound, that right from the get go, was like, ‘Wow, this could be really cool.’

DB: Was there a specific idea behind the album?

DP: The front of the album has a little emblem on it. It has a similar logo to the sign in the neighborhood. We were just like, ‘Let’s just keep it focused on the neighborhood and the grassroots.’ Actually, I wrote a song a little bit after the band started and I was like, ‘We can all sing.

Why don’t I just write something that we all get to sing on?’ Kind of more folky sounding like the Fleet Foxes. So I wrote a song called “October,” the last song on the album. It’s really fun to sing that one for me because it’s about the band and how it started, and it’s also all four of us singing on it.

DB: Do you have a favorite song on the album?

JW: My favorite is not necessarily the most interesting and intricate because “Papaw” is really neat. We used different instruments and then we also used our voices in a certain way to make the words come alive.

It’s actually a song written about my grandfather who has cancer, and so it’s really cool that the guys really came together and really made it something special.

But, I really like “Next to Me” and “One Dark Night”.

Those are just two that I really, really enjoy and I just feel them every time we perform together.

DB: Do you have any goals for the band, as far as it being long term or not?

JW: It’s definitely not something we’re opposed to as a band. But we each have our own paths. We all have these different backgrounds and different dreams, but we all share that one thing with music.

And so, really at the core of it, it all comes down to God. It’s that type of a thing where if it’s supposed to be something big we definitely wouldn’t fight against it, you know? But, at the same time we understand that it could just be kind of a small thing, but I don’t think we’re dreaming small.

Thursday, October 31, 2013

THE DAILY BEACON • 7 Arts & Culture Editor Claire Dodson

pdodson@utk.edu

Assistant Arts & Culture Editor Cortney Roark

croark4@utk.edu

Creativity abounds in last-minute costume ideas Brittany Harris Contributor So today is Thursday, and it has slipped your mind that it’s Halloween, but don’t let your lack of costume preparation keep you from enjoying a night of candy and shenanigans. While many costumes require money and intensive planning, college students have mastered the procrastinator’s approach to Halloween.

Here are a few last minute costume ideas to get you through the night.

Egyptian God or Goddess Submitted by Donna Saggione, freshman exploratory student Step 1: Find an old bed sheet.

Step 2: Cut it to fit your height.

Step 3: Drape it over your shoulders like a toga.

Step 4: Cinch the waist with a belt.

Step 5: Add jewelry and sandals (Chacos are permissible).

Black Cat Submitted by Nadia Aziz, freshman exploratory student Step 1: Find black long sleeved shirt and black tights or leggings.

Step 2: Apply black eyeliner and facial whiskers.

Step 3: Cut two construction paper triangles and tape them to a headband.

Hannah Cather • The Daily Beacon

Growth Spurt

Adam Young, junior in anthropology, sports his growth spurt costume.

Submitted by Adam Young, junior in anthropology Step 1: Find three T-shirts in varying sizes, ex. youth large, small and medium.

Step 2: Find three pairs of pants with different lengths, ex. long, capri and short.

Step 3: Put on all three shorts and all three bottoms.

Step 4: Remove shirts and pants periodically to give the effect of growth.

Mummy Submitted by The Daily Beacon Editorial Staff Step 1: Get a roll of toilet paper.

Step 2: Wrap it around an unsuspecting copy chief’s face and body.

Step 3: Party on.

Hannah Cather • The Daily Beacon

Hannah Cather • The Daily Beacon

Mummifying yourself, or a friend, can serve as a handy and effective last-minute costume idea.

Adam Young, junior in anthropology, shows off his costume idea – a growth spurt – in its final stage.

Thursday, October 31 What: Halloween Masquerade Show Where: Ironwood Studios When: 10 p.m.

Price: $10 Cortney’s Take: Halloween is here and there is no better night for a masquerade concert. Local bands will perform Halloween cover sets at the Ironwood Studios for its annual Halloween Masquerade Show. Wear your best costume, add a mask and enjoy the music.

• Photo Courtesy of The Pilot Light

Friday, November 1

Saturday, November 2 What: Leah Gardner Where: Laurel Theater When: 8 p.m.

Price: $12, all ages Claire’s Take: Leah Gardner is a former member of the Black Lillies and sings “blues, love ballads, and traditional songs inspired and influenced by bluegrass, country and R&B,” according to the MetroPulse. Gardner’s unique and honest voice will have you welcoming the cold November air with a smile.

Sunday, November 3

What: Abstract Artists Print Portfolio Reception Where: Downtown Gallery When: 5-9 p.m.

Price: Free Cortney’s Take: The American Abstract Artists are celebrating 75 years with an exhibit of 48 archival digital prints from the past. Begin the holiday season with a little bit of art history.

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Thursday, October 31, 2013 Sports Editor David Cobb

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Assistant Sports Editor Troy Provost-Heron tprovost@utk.edu

Adversity cannot stop Bailey from leading Lady Vols Lucas Cooper Contributor If you have ever been to a Lady Vols soccer match, you were probably curious who the girl that seemed to be “everywhere at once” was.

The answer is senior Tori Bailey, a quick and versatile midfielder who is usually the smallest player on the field.

But size never stopped Bailey from making a significant impact on the team.

She arrived in Knoxville in 2010, clearly the shortest girl on the team at 4-foot-11, but that didn’t stop her from quickly establishing a big role for herself for years to come.

Now, she thrives as the face of Lady Vols’ soccer and a constant fan favorite.

Her freshman year she played in 19 games, starting nine of those contests. Over the next three years, Bailey proceeded to start in all 60 games she has played.

But Bailey not only succeeds on the field; she also received the SEC Fall Academic Honor Roll Award her first three seasons and NSCAA Scholar All-South Region Honorable Mention last year, making her an exemplary student-athlete.

She played for two years under the coaching of Angela Kelly before current coach Brian Pensky came in following her sophomore season.

It didn’t take long for Pensky to recognize Bailey’s role on the squad.

“When I got here spring of 2012, Tori had an ankle injury,” Pensky said. “I remember constantly hearing her on the sidelines (saying) ‘Let’s go Tennessee!’ She loves Tennessee soccer. She knows she is our leader and never wants the season to end.”

Friday at Regal Soccer Stadium the Lady Vols suffered a 3-0 loss to Florida, the last home game for many of the senior’s careers.

But after the game Bailey was already focused on the rest of the season and the importance of her role on the team.

“Actions speak louder than words,” Bailey said. “If I keep my head up, hopefully some of them will too.

“I just have to tell people to fight and keep working for each other. We’re a unit. If one person works hard, we all work hard.”

But naturally, the Fenton, Mich., native still felt bittersweet about her last home game. The Lady Vols’ fan base was present the entire game and stayed in the stands cheering, even as most of the girls went to the locker room afterwards.

“It’s very rewarding getting to play my last home game here,” Bailey said. “It’s just a special moment getting to play in front of fans, friends and family.”

As the season winds down, Bailey is also taking time to reflect on her career up to this point.

“My career to this moment has definitely been hard,” Bailey said. “I just had to learn to be quicker on the ball and be able to be more agile. It has been extremely difficult, but I have loved the challenge every step of the way.”

Although Friday marked the last time Bailey will step onto the field at Regal Soccer Stadium, her legacy – along with the entire senior class’ – will not soon be forgotten by Pensky.

“The kid loves and lives for this,” Pensky said. “The senior girls are collectively the sweetest, nicest, friendliest group of seniors you could want. They symbolize and are sort of a microcosm for what our team is all about.”

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Tennessee redshirt senior forward Jeronne Maymon shoots a layup during the Orange and White scrimmage Oct. 23 at Pratt Pavilion.

UT adjusts to defensive rule changes Steven Cook Copy Editor The 2012-13 college basketball season saw the lowest scoring average among teams in more than 30 years. In turn, the NCAA passed changes in foul calls across the board that will favor offensive players.

It’s no secret that such a change poses concern for Tennessee, who is boasting the motto “Tougher Breed” in representation of the defensive tenacity head coach Cuonzo Martin has instilled in Knoxville.

The changes include extra attention to defensive handchecks and contact with the arms on an offensive player making a play toward the basket. Just as well, defenders have less time to set up for a charge with more calls going the offense’s way.

To combat that, Martin led a scrimmage on Oct. 23 and brought in officials. So far, the Vols’ third-year coach likes the way his team is adjusting to the

new rules.

“We try to defend with arm’s length anyway,” Martin said. “We play a physical brand and try to defend arm’s length without fouling. I thought we did a decent job.”

For a player who struggled at times with foul trouble last season, Tennessee junior forward Jarnell Stokes’ first reaction to the altered rules was concern.

“I’m pretty scared of the new rule changes,” Stokes said. “I was already a guy who gets in foul trouble a lot.”

In his first full season as a Vol, the Memphis native fouled out four times, two of which came in a three-game span against Kentucky and Ole Miss — both losses. In a five-game span of SEC play, he recorded 18 fouls.

Stokes broke down his struggles with adjusting to the new rules in last week’s scrimmage.

“I couldn’t contest shots,” he said. “You know, a lot of times I like to body guys. I felt like I couldn’t do that, just to stay out of foul trouble.

“I don’t know, I guess I’ll get more aggressive. Coach told me to stay aggressive, so I’ll see how it goes.”

Stokes then paused in his doubting, perhaps thinking about a 2012-13 campaign that included success offensively at 12.4 points and 9.6 rebounds per contest.

“I guess it could help me out on offense,” he concluded.

With the impending return of fifth-year senior Jeronne Maymon on the blocks, charging rule changes could have a big impact.

“If you’re a defensive guy like Jeronne, he made a living on taking charges,” Martin said. “So now if you’re a defensive guy, it’s probably tough to take charges.

It should be tough to get charges unless you just bulldoze a guy.”

Despite the issues it poses defensively, Martin sees mounds of promise ahead for his starstudded frontcourt in the wake of these major changes.

His message was clear: the rules can help as much as they can hurt.

“I think the biggest question

mark for us moving forward as a team, and I think for a lot of teams, is how you defend in the post,” Martin said. “Because with guys like Jeronne and Jarnell, they’re going to get fouled every time down.”

Preseason SEC Player of the Year runner-up Jordan McRae said his team needs to walk a fine line to keep the rules from affecting the Vols’ defensive possessions.

“I think they can hurt, if we’re out there pushing and shoving guys,” McRae said. “I mean, we’re going to be as physical as we can be, up to the point to before they can call a foul.”

For McRae, a scorer at heart, the changes could very well help out his cause. Martin described what it would take for the Vols to turn the new rules into a positive on offense.

“One of the things we stress on offense is really keeping your head down and getting to the rim,” Martin said. “If you can do that, you can get to the free-throw line.”

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