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University prepared for Ebola outbreak Copy Editor
It hasn’t reached Knoxville, but if it does, UT is prepared. The university, along with the Center for International Education and Office of Emergency Management, is monitoring the presence of the Ebola virus in the United States to prepare for possible infections in the Knoxville area. The Student Health Center sent an email Oct. 29 alerting students
of the university’s pandemic plan that has been created in case of an outbreak of a deadly disease on campus. Dr. Spencer Gregg, a physician at the Student Health Center, is working in conjunction with the Knox County Health Department to ensure the risk of Ebola infection on campus and in the surrounding area remains highly unlikely. “One of the things we’re tasked with at the Student Health Center is to be a part of those contingency plans (for diseases),” Gregg said. “When it
has to do with an outbreak of a medical illness, we take more of a front role.” While Gregg said the pandemic plan has a wide scope, he stressed his desire to avoid causing unnecessary panic amongst the local populace. “What we’ve done at the university is to try to put the information out to the campus community that we understand that nervousness, that anxiety,” Gregg said. The outbreak of the Ebola virus has claimed the lives of
iting, is contracted through contact with the bodily fluids of infected individuals. “The type of response that we’re able to mount from a public health standpoint makes the potential for someone in the United States to contract Ebola to be exceedingly small,” -Brian Gard Gregg said. For Brian Gard, director of UT Knoxville Emergency nearly 5,000 individuals worldManagement, the plan was wide, and only one American created primarily in response to has died as a result of the disease. public pressure. The virus, which exhibits symp“It was time to let (the public) toms of fever, diarrhea and vom- know ‘we are watching this, we
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have a plan,”’ Gard said. “If it was more of a concern, you’d be hearing more from us.” Attributing much of the Ebola scare to media “hyping,” Gard views influenza as a far more immediate concern to students sitting in close quarters on a daily basis. “Seasonal flu is always a problem for a place like a university,” Gard said. “Any place where people gather in large groups on a regular basis, seasonal flu is a problem.” See EBOLA on Page 2
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The long, skinny rectangle on the far left of the blue print of McClung Museum shows the space used as a fallout shelter. Hannah Cather • The Daily Beacon
Adam Prosise’s Knoxville roots exposed him to stories about nuclear bomb drills that had been passed down from his parents, who both attended Oak Ridge There might be a bomb Elementary. shelter underneath your “[The fear] was really sort classroom. of omnipresent back then,” With Oak Ridge National Prosise said. “I remember Laboratory just 30 minutes my parents telling me about away, the Knoxville area the ‘duck and cover’ drills contains its fair share of where you would watch fallout shelters -- some of the films in class, and they them still present on cam- would do drills by hiding pus today. under their desks. It was For those living in just expected because it was Knoxville post-World War II, in the back of everybody’s the threat of nuclear attack mind in that area.” was very real. UT alumnus A brother of UT’s Kappa
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Sigma chapter, Prosise recalled how the fraternity house’s basement once served as a nuclear fallout shelter. He speculated that the shelter would have been open to both students and non-students in the event of a nuclear attack. Though no signage exists today at Kappa Sigma’s house, Prosise said the architecture of the house itself is a nod to the attackreadiness present in the nation during the ‘50s and ‘60s. “You can tell it’s meant to be very futuristic,” Prosise said. “Back in ‘54 when it
was built, the [shelter] was just another feature to make it the latest and greatest thing. If you didn’t have to have a fallout shelter in your backyard, it was nice to know that they had one right there.” Similarly, McClung Museum Director Jeff Chapman also recalls the bomb drills in his grammar school days. “I don’t know how aware I was of the threat other than the fact that we had drills,” Chapman said, “They actually issued metal dog tags that had your pertinent information like your home
address---in case something really happened, if they had to identify a body or a lost child.” Morbid musings aside, McClung Museum also holds a remnant of Cold War paranoia in its basement. Chapman said water canisters and leftover packaged supplies were found in a tiny crawl space during the building’s construction in 1961, later becoming part of the museum’s current storage space underneath McClung Auditorium. See BOMBSHELTERS on Page 2
Last weekend, two Daily Beacon staff members, Claire Dodson, editor-in-chief, and Hanna Lustig, managing editor, traveled to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to attend the National College Media Convention. The convention gathered more than 2,000 student journalists and advisers who engaged in workshops, critiques, special events and awards ceremonies. One of these award ceremonies, the College Media Association’s Pinnacle Award recognized two Beacon staff members, Liv McConnell, special projects editor, and Dillon Canfield, graphic designer, for their individual contributions to the newspaper. Liv McConnell, second place in Best Arts and Entertainment Story: McConnell’s coverage of the history of the Vagabondia Castle was honored for its originality of content, high quality of writing and thoughtful reporting. In the story titled, “Remains from ‘Vagabondia Castle’ still guard Knoxville’s historic, artistic roots,” McConnell chronicled the time author Frances Hodgson Burnett spent in Knoxville and the legacy she left in her wake. Dillon Canfield, second place for Best Editorial Illustration: The front cover of the Feb. 21, 2014, issue of the Daily Beacon featured an illustration from Canfield that paired with the article on last year’s Boxing Weekend. This award recognizes the excellence in the design and original artwork.
Out of Commission Justin Worley to undergo surgery on torn labrum and will miss rest of the season
Troy Provost-Heron Sports Editor (@TPro_UTDB) In the final three games of his collegiate career at Tennessee, Justin Worley will sport street clothes, not a helmet and pads. Following Tuesday’s practice, head coach Butch Jones
announced the senior quarterback will undergo surgery to repair a torn labrum in his throwing shoulder and miss the rest of the season. “I give Justin Worley all the credit in the world,” Jones said. “He tried anything and everything to rehabilitate his shoulder back, but he just could not get the velocity he needed.”
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Worley started the first seven games under center for the Volunteers this season, completing 62.3 percent of his passes (157-of-252) for 1,579 yards and 12 touchdowns while throwing also throwing eight interceptions. He also rushed for three touchdowns on the season. The injury, however, has not prevented the 6-foot-4, 220-pound signal caller from hanging around his teammates, as he was in atten-
dance during the Vols’ 45-42 victory over South Carolina – his home state – in Columbia, as well as during Tuesday’s practice. The injury likely ends Worley’s career as a Vol, in which he played in 24 games – starting in 17 of them – and threw for 3,556 yards and 23 touchdowns with a career completion percentage of 59 (329-of-558). See FOOTBALL on Page 6
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Justin Worley, left, high-fives LaDarrell McNeil before Saturday night’s game against South Carolina. Worley is officially out for the season with a torn labrum in his throwing shoulder. Hannah Cather • The Daily Beacon
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Campaign aims to replace bottled water on campus Erin Wright Contributor
Why buy a bottle when you can sip water from your faucet for free? “Take Back the Tap” is a national campaign aimed at reducing the consumption of single-use plastic water bottles on college campuses. Erica Davis, junior in sociology, brought “Take Back the Tap” to UT’s campus in the 2014 spring semester with the mission of raising awareness of water conservation on campus. Davis is currently collaborating with the Environment & Sustainability Student Services Committee, the Office of Sustainability and the Student Government Association to get the campaign off the ground, but said she hopes for more administrative involvement in the future. “It is extremely important for us as college students to wield our power where we have it and to make a positive change on our campus and community,” Davis said, explaining what urged her to bring the national campaign to campus. “There is
EBOLA continued from Page 1 While Gard plans to follow Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines in the case of both Ebola and the flu, he believes an emergency scenario for either disease to be unlikely. While many Americans
enough energy in the production and transportation of bottled water to fuel 1.5 million cars for an entire year -- an inexcusable waste of resources.” The exact dates for the campaign are currently undecided, but it will likely last throughout this semester and spill into others. Food and Water Watch, an organization that primarily provides resources for campus coordinators as they work to debunk myths about tap and bottled water, is a partner of the national campaign. The organization is currently working with over 60 colleges across the United States to encourage students to make a habit of choosing tap water over bottled water. Katy Kiefer, a representative from Food and Water Watch, explained the types of advantages that come with this switch. “Bottled water is thousands of times more expensive than tap water, creates mountains of garbage and causes other major environmental problems,” Keifer said. Take Back the Tap’s ultimate goal is to restructure the campus’ infrastructure to allow for increased use
of tap water by positioning refill stations around campus and providing reusable bottles to students and staff. Davis noted an important component to this movement is student and faculty support, adding she has made a petition to collect signatures from student advocates, another effort she has made to collaborate with student organizations. The petition, Davis said, is not only aimed at promoting tap water on campus but also encouraging students to recognize that bottled water is a waste of money and is also not a healthy alternative to tap water. According to a recent study cited on the Food and Water Watch website, 38 different harmful chemicals were found in ten brands of bottled water. Davis said that, ultimately, the “Take Back the Tap” committee hopes to rally campus-wide support to pass legislation implementing a partial ban of bottled water on campus. “Water is a basic human right, but private interests are bottling it up and selling it,” she said. “Tap water is safer, cheaper and better for the environment than bottled water, which belongs in the hands of the public.”
focus on the possible outbreak of Ebola at home, Gregg reminds his countrymen of those suffering abroad. “What we really need to be thinking about is the countries that are truly affected by this outbreak,” Gregg said. “Our thoughts and prayers need to be directed in that area.”
For Tiffany Wood, a junior nursing major, the fear surrounding Ebola has been overstated. “I do think the media has kind over exaggerated it,” Wood said of Ebola. “It could be a problem, but I think a lot of people do know to take precautions to prevent it.”
McClung Museum director Jefferson Chapman kneels in the fallout shelter located in the museum’s basement. Hannah Cather • The Daily Beacon
BOMB SHELTERS continued from Page 1 The original blueprint of McClung also includes a layout of the fallout shelter, although it was not designated as such at the time. “It’s pretty much exactly what you’d expect from a fallout shelter,” said Brian Gard, the director of Knoxville Emergency Management for UT. “It’s in those older buildings (that) are built with a lot of concrete, and in the very bottom, low ground section there is a small space with low, overhead ceilings and it’s dark and damp.” Like the Kappa Sigma house, no signage survives as evidence for the crawl space’s original purpose. However, Chapman said the Civil Defense Institute had in fact placed signs designating the fallout shelter’s presence. Created by Eugene Wigner, the Civil Defense Institute positioned its home base at Oak Ridge in 1963, focusing its research on emergency strategies for urban populations and the development of urban tunnels designed to resist nuclear heat and blasts in
such events. Though the task force proved unfruitful, the laboratory at Oak Ridge would continue to improve emergency technology, particularly for efficient evacuations and chemical hazards. Gard said this shift into a civilian-focused security paved the way for the modern field of emergency management. “It’s actually grown to look at all types of threats,” he said. “I can’t say the threats themselves necessarily grew, but the impacts that come from weather are more drastic because of our construction and our population. Now, a few people in our field look at climate change and how climate change could potentially increase weather events and increase the threats of places like campus.” Though the threat of nuclear attack largely disappeared at the close of the Cold War, Gard explained that his department must monitor a variety of potential emergencies, including chemical-related hazards, but stated that these emergencies are not limited to accidents in a classroom laboratory. Gard also explained that in the event of a large-scale chemical
release, the best defense is to seek shelter inside an unaffected building and prevent the chemicals from entering the premise -- a protocol not so different from those established 50 years ago when a fear of massive nuclear fallout permeated the United States. “The initial radiation is like an X-ray,” Brian said. “It goes through most material. But the fallout that would come from those radioactive particles being stuck in the air would be similar to an airborne chemical.” Prosise, a recent graduate in economics, said this heightened sense of preparedness extends beyond the physical security that so greatly concerned American citizens 50 years ago. “Maybe I don’t think about a nuclear bomb going off everyday, but I really do believe that attitude has kind of reared its head in other areas,” Prosise said. “After the financial crisis (in 2008), a lot of people’s savings weren’t ready and that left an impression on a lot of people. On the other side of coin, though, I think people are preparing not for an economic calamity, but just the fact that you just don’t know what tomorrow brings.”
Many questions still unanswered in spaceship crash Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Federal accident investigators have an early sense of what went wrong before an experimental spaceship designed to ferry tourists beyond the Earth’s atmosphere broke apart during a test flight. But they still don’t know why the craft prematurely shifted its shape prior to the deadly crash. And another question looms: How far will the accident push back the day when paying customers can routinely rocket dozens of miles into the sky for a fleeting feeling of weightlessness and a breathtaking view? National Transportation Safety Board investigators worked Monday at the main wreckage area where Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo fell to the ground in the Mojave Desert, but also collected tiny debris 35 miles away. The accident killed the co-pilot and badly injured the pilot who parachuted out of the ship Friday. Acting NTSB Chairman Christopher Hart said cockpit video and data showed that the co-pilot unlocked SpaceShipTwo’s unique “feathering” system earlier than planned. The system works somewhat like the wing flaps that airplanes use to slow for landing — except that SpaceShipTwo’s twin tails rotate up at a far more extreme angle, to a position that creates strong resistance and slows the descent. But while the co-pilot unlocked the system before planned, that action alone should not have been enough to change the craft’s configuration. Activating the feathering system requires the pulling of a lever, not unlike a gun fires only when the trigger is pulled, not just because the safety has been
disengaged. Questions abound: Why did the co-pilot activate the system at that moment? Why did the tails begin to rotate without the copilot starting that process? NTSB spokesman Peter Knudson said Monday that investigators believe once the feathers were unlocked, “aerodynamic forces” buffeting the craft as it hurtled along about 760 mph caused the feathers to start rotating. Within a few seconds, the craft began to disintegrate, NTSB investigators determined. The main wreckage was spread over a 5-mile area, but Hart said Monday that parts have been recovered up to 35 miles away. He said they could have been carried that far by the wind. SpaceShipTwo is carried aloft on the underside of a jet-powered mother ship. It then drops from that ship and fires its own rocket to head higher. The feathers are not supposed to engage until the craft reaches a speed of Mach 1.4, or more than 1,000 mph, the NTSB’s Hart told reporters. Knudson stressed that a final cause will take months to determine, and that investigators were looking into other factors, including pilot training, mechanical failure and design flaws. Passenger jets typically fly about 7 miles high. Virgin Galactic envisions flights with six passengers climbing to more than 62 miles above Earth. Seats sell for $250,000 and the company says it has booked passengers including Justin Bieber, Ashton Kutcher and Russell Brand. The ultimate goal of Virgin Galactic co-owner Richard Branson is to create an industry that can move people around the globe in a fraction of the current time it takes passenger jets, by rocketing them into space and back down.
But the company now lacks not only a craft to fly, but also an understanding of what caused the crash. Though rival companies also are pushing ahead, the dawn of space tourism seems to have been pushed beyond the horizon yet again. SpaceShipTwo has been under development for years, and Branson originally predicted passengers would be enjoying the wonders of flight by now. In the weeks before the crash, he said he hoped to fly in 2015. Branson still plans to be on the maiden voyage, with his family. He said that day will not come before a new round of crew-only flights. “We need to be absolutely certain our spaceship has been thoroughly tested — and that it will be,” he said. “And once it’s thoroughly tested, and we can go to space, we will go to space.” Friday’s crash could trigger increased government regulation. To give the fledgling commercial space industry space to innovate, the Federal Aviation Administration has not overregulated test flights during the past decade, according to Diane Howard, an assistant professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University who specializes in space law. But the crash could allow the FAA to propose new rules that would affect future Virgin Galactic flights, and “it will be very interesting to see how Congress and the FAA and industry respond,” Howard said. The FAA did not immediately comment Monday. The agency is able to initiate a rule-making process that would affect the design or operation of a spacecraft involved in a fatal accident, but is unlikely to do so before the end of the NTSB’s investigation.
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EYES ON KNOXVILLE
Hot Horse record store combines vinyl, charm
Megan Patterson Contributor
Within three miles of UT’s campus, a store exists with a collection of music, clothes, shoes and a good mix of other odds and ends, and it’s not the new Wal-Mart. Though the front room proudly displays mostly music wares, its unusual collection of merchandise makes it hard to define Hot Horse simply as a record store. Jason Boardman, owner of the Pilot Light, opened the store in 2009 after recognizing the growing music scene in the previously neglected part of town
known as the “Old City.” Charlie Finch, who has been with Hot Horse since its conception, said the store has been an eclectic mix from the very beginning. “This is the only store in Knoxville where you can come in and have a person who is interested in musical equipment but not really vintage stuff, and they can sit down and pick at a guitar while someone else is looking at the clothes,” Finch said. “Then somebody else is filing through all the records, and maybe someone who’s not into records but is into old TVs and things is shopping around up front.” One glance around the store confirms Finch’s assertion that
there is something there for everyone. Collections of records, racks of vintage clothing, instruments and assorted antiques are comfortably mingled in the shop. Amanda Jones, a senior in communication studies, recalled her first impression of the store. “They’re unique. It’s not something that you’re going to find at a normal record store,” Jones said. “They have stuff other than just records and various music equipment. They have a unique blend of items and also have a pretty nice and personable staff.” Hot Horse contains odds and ends as obscure as a paintby-number of the Stars Wars original trilogy or a stack of decorative vintage belt buckles. The store also keeps a variety of
musical instruments from a 1964 Fender Mustang to a hammer dulcimer. Finch enjoys seeing all the new musical equipment come through and often tests out especially tempting arrivals. He lets customers try out the guitars as well. “Oh, we encourage it. I tell people to turn it up as loud as they want to,” Finch said. “I know it bothers some people at other places, but I love to hear that stuff.” This type of personal interaction distinguishes Hot Horse from their conglomerate counterparts. “I think it’s really important for people to go around to small businesses,” Finch said.
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Lady Gaga, Tony Bennett get jazzy in recent album Reid Hartsell Contributor
Lady Gaga, a pop star who needs no introduction, has now surprised us once again by releasing -- that’s right -- a jazz album. After the somewhat disappointing release of her latest album, “ARTPOP “(which still reached number one), it seems that Gaga needed to take some time to recharge. “Heaven. I’m in Heaven,” she sings on the title track of the album titled “Cheek to Cheek,” and you can hear that she really is. Returning to her jazz roots and partnering with fellow New Yorker Tony Bennett, a famed jazz veteran, the duo swings their way through the Great American Songbook. The album was released at No. 1 last month, and it could not have picked a better time, for it fits a chilly autumn morning or a relaxing evening like no other. At 28 and 88, it’s true that Gaga and Bennett make an odd couple, but it shouldn’t be any other way. The age difference has no effect on the singers’ chemistry, as you can hear the two having a ball in the studio on tracks such as the upbeat and brassy “It Don’t Mean A Thing” and the electric, lively “Firefly.” The live studio band adds another level to the album, presenting beautiful instrumentation which avoids sounding cheesy or stale. The album achieves a nice balance between slow and swing, and Gaga shines on the tracks “Ev’ry
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Time We Say Goodbye” and “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered.” Bennett defies his age on “Goody Goody” and “On A Clear Day,” a song about waking up and feeling optimistic. While Gaga definitely proves herself as a jazz singer on the album, there are points where she could stand to prove it less, sometimes belting a little too hard. Both performers, however, deliver memorable performances. The melancholy “Lush Life” is one of Gaga’s most impressive performances to date, and her cover of Cher’s “Bang Bang” made the front page of Reddit.
After a flawless special on PBS last week, which can be seen online, and a number of upcoming European concerts, the duo continues to radiate class around the world. The album comes in several different editions, but the one to buy is the Target Deluxe Edition with two extra tracks, which deserve to be on every copy. Also worth checking out is the duos 2011 duet “The Lady is a Tramp.” With the Grammy Awards coming up, we will see if Bennett and Gaga can bring jazz back into the limelight in 2014.
“Especially ones that are competing with big companies like Amazon and Target or something that’s a one-stop place where you can stop and get everything and it’s done.” At Hot Horse, it’s less about knocking items off a list and more about the experience of searching for the perfect find. “They have so much interesting stuff to look at that you can’t help but go in and kind of poke around,” Jones said. “Especially the back room, I love all the random old clothes and shoes that they have back there.” Despite the wide range of merchandise offered at Hot Horse, it remains relatively undiscovered. Finch expressed a hopeful outlook as the rebirth of the Old
City continues. “I want to see this place blossom into a great store. I mean, I think it has, but you know I’d like to see it busier more often,” Finch said. “But you know that will come. Give it time.” No matter what your taste in music or apparel may be, Finch assures that the universal appeal of the store is the diversity. “There’s that special little connection with weird clothes or little knick-knacks that you’re not going to see anywhere else because they’re just random and little old things and just aren’t in circulation anymore,” Finch concluded. “I think it’s important to support those little places in your town because that’s what makes your town interesting.”
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Shaking off Spotify City Cents by
Jonathan Martin
If she were able, Taylor Swift might go back and add a passive-aggressive song about the increasingly popular music streaming service Spotify. The polarizing artist, whose latest album “1989” released last month, decided to completely remove all of her albums from Spotify this week. This was most likely a definitive response to Spotify’s reported efforts to get Swift’s album released on their service. As with most popular artists, initially withholding an album from online streaming allows Taylor to reap much larger revenues from album sales in the first few months. The decision by Swift’s label, Big Machine, is one that has been used in the past by other groups in order to bring to light the poor compensation artists receive from Spotify. Thom Yorke, frontman for Radiohead, pulled his songs from the service last year in order to protest against the poor royalty payments many bands receive. Similarly, Ed Droste of Grizzly Bear has tweeted that bands benefit from number of Spotify plays no more than if their songs were downloaded illegally. Despite past criticisms, Spotify’s revenues and number of users have seen significant increases over the past year. Obviously, the problem of artist compensation has and will continue to become much more polarizing than in the past. However, the conversation about this issue currently has a misplaced focal point. One misleading point of contention with Spotify is that the service pays artists between $.006 and $.008 per stream of one of their songs. This highlights the poor amounts that artists might be paid, but unnecessarily makes Spotify look like they are offering some low, flat rate to bands. In reality, Spotify’s royalty payment model makes perfect sense. They pay out approximately 70 percent of their total revenue to bands’ labels as royalties. Then, each band’s stream totals are calculated as a percentage of total streams, ensuring that each group is given a royalty share based on the amount of usage they actually brought to the service. This isn’t a formula that unfairly benefits Spotify at all. In fact, the company has reportedly lost $200 million since its founding. The real problem with Spotify, one that will not easily be remedied, is where its revenue is actually coming from. So far in 2014, Spotify has reported a total of 40 million users. Nevertheless, only 10 million of these users are using the paid, premium service, while 30 million are taking advantage of the free service, which generates revenue from ads. The problem with these numbers is that Spotify is making significantly less money from free users than premium ones, even though there are three times as many present. In an ever-evolving world of online music access, this represents an industry-wide issue that needs to be addressed. As customers’ demand for streaming services has increased, album sales have suffered. While Spotify and other competing services don’t want to lose customers by restricting free access, the money lost from album sales needs to come from somewhere. Ad sales from free users will not be a way to make up for this loss in the long run. The part of the industry currently flying under the radar is the label paying a percentage to its artists from royalties. Some artists can be paid single digit percentages of royalties, making the small Spotify royalty payments even smaller than before. These percentages are based on costs labels have to cover before paying their artists. However, as physical CD production and other expenses decrease, accountability on how much money it will actually cost a label to put out a new album is needed. Although it’s a tough pill to swallow, access to millions of songs standardizes music industry revenues, cutting out the money smaller bands might already be making from fans who would otherwise buy their album. The answer has to come from our pockets and eventually from the labels. Hopefully, if bands follow the lead of Thom Yorke and Taylor Swift, we will see this change sooner rather than later. As conversation surrounds Spotify this coming year, make sure your perspective is backed by more than the latest pop sensation. Jonathan Martin is a junior in finance and economics. He can be reached at j92mart@gmail.com.
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Stop complaining and start doing Scarlett’s Web by
Scarlett Miles This is not a column encouraging you to step out of your comfort zone. Nor is it a column devoted to telling you that you should have a positive attitude about things that may discourage you. This is a column devoted to telling you that you are capable of making all the changes you want to be made in the world around you. This is a message to stop complaining and to be a leader in your community. Last week I attended Lori Hart’s “Make Greek Great” presentation. The Alpha Omicron Pi alumna’s presentation focused largely on alcohol awareness within the Greek community and how our decisions impact our image. As Hart was sharing her experience as a member of the Greek community at Auburn University, one point she made stuck with me for the rest of the presentation. If you don’t like the way something is, change it. How often do you find yourself complaining or disliking things about your organization? Not solely in Greek communities, but in organizations and groups
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doing them. So, I filled out the application and had my interview. Don’t get me wrong; it was the most nerve-wracking day of my life. The hours that I spent waiting for my interview were spent failing to focus on homework and pacing around the living room. But some of the most rewarding things we pursue in life will be the ones we are the most apprehensive about. How rewarding is a life that is spent thinking about the differences you could make? If we pursue what we are passionate about, we have all the capability in the world to make huge changes, and we’ll never have to ask, “What if?” So, this week, stop complaining about things you don’t like and start making the differences that you want to see throughout your organizations and communities. Rather than pointing out all the negative aspects of what is going on around you, take the initiative, pursue what you are passionate about and make those changes. Sure, you may spend the day pacing around your bedroom waiting for an interview, but wouldn’t you rather have made an impact on the people around you than continue to listen about the same complaints you had yourself? Scarlett Miles is a sophomore in public relations. She can be reached at qrc969@ vols.utk.edu.
Chivalry isn’t all that great anyways Sacred and the City by
Merry-Reid Sheffer “Had I become so jaded that I didn’t recognize romance when it kissed me on the lips? Modern women need a cheatsheet to remind us romance isn’t dead.” (Sex and the City: Season 3, Episode 6, “Are We Sluts?”) I often find myself frustrated by people who deny the existence of beauty and romance in today’s culture, like the social media protestations about the death of chivalry (who really needed that anyway?) and the constant slew of slighted people claiming the world is no longer a welcoming place to be alive. Basically, we wish we could go back to a time when everything seemed so much more romantic -- and not just in the significant kind of way. I’d like to include a reminder here that though many of the quandaries from the show I reference deal with romantic relationships, I am not a romantic relationship expert. I often apply these examples to relationships with friends, family, coworkers, exes, pelicans, professors and local business owners; the point being, you should
see my columns as commenting more on every relationship in your life, not just your relationship with a significant other. Whenever I get a letter, my friends are always in awe of the romance associated with letters. To put this in general terms, everyone is like, “OMG how sweet! I wish someone would send me a letter… All I get are texts.” I love a good letter. They are often the highlight of my week, but sometimes, I would so much rather get a phone call or Skype, charmless as it may seem. Meanwhile, my best friend had a meaningful conversation with his significant other on the phone in Wal-Mart, another best friend had a deep life talk with a friend on the front porch of a house party and a guy in my class came to a personal realization during discussion; but no one’s screaming about its “adorability.” I’m no optimist, but I can wholeheartedly admit that I see value in seemingly insignificant places. I can derive substance from a good cry with my roommate over some Cook Out, and I can guarantee that no literary or cinematic romance ever included a scene like that. What is it about antiquity that everyone takes to mean as romantic or beautiful? In a self-deprecating culture, we suck the meaning out of everything just for a laugh. Don’t get me wrong, I love to make fun of myself and the situations in
which I find myself, and I prefer to surround myself with people who don’t take themselves too seriously. I view humor as a healing tool, but what is there to heal when the affliction is just living in a modern world? Carrie says romance is not dead, but it’s because she’s found someone who embraces old-fashioned principles regarding the appropriate time to sleep with someone. Must we return solely to traditional ideas to find meaning? Modern men and women seem to treat powerful experiences as something that can only be encountered occasionally, as if something special cannot happen every day or it becomes inconsequential. The challenge we face is not to return to conventional ideas of glamor and whimsicality, but rather to making every encounter one that changes you for the better. Just because you may have some honey mustard on your lip during a conversation, or your main source of laughter for the day came from a Snapchat, does not imply that your life isn’t filled with delight and importance. It is not where you find significance each day- it’s that you find it at all. Who could ask for more? Merry-Reid Sheffer is a senior in English. She can be reached at msheffer@vols.utk.edu.
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DISPATCHES Lil Jon travels cross-country to vote in hometown Atlanta
Vanderbilt rape trial postponed
Yesterday, Rapper Lil Jon jumped on a plane so he could turn out to vote in his home district in Atlanta. The rapper, whose real name is Jonathan Smith, took a 6 a.m. flight from Los Angeles to Georgia on Tuesday as he announced in an all-caps message on social media. Lil Jon is a spokesman for Rock the Vote, and he appeared in a voting awareness music video, “Turn Out for What,� a remix of his song “Turn Down for What.� Smith attempted to absentee vote, but he claims Georgia never sent him an absentee ballot despite his “numerous calls� about the issue. According to Fulton County Elections Director Richard Barron, Lil Jon’s request for an absentee ballot was received on Friday, Oct. 24. The department sent a ballot to the rapper, but could not confirm whether he had received it. Fortunately, Lil Jon was able to catch a quick flight to his home state in order to vote in person.
The trial of two former Vanderbilt University football players accused of rape has been delayed due to an attorney’s injured shoulder. After 15 months of preparation for the trial, it will be postponed until January 2015. Last week, Cory Batey’s attorney Worrick Robinson injured himself while doing yard work, the Tennessean reports. The attorney visited his doctor on Monday, which delayed the jury selection for the trial by four hours. Robinson’s doctor recommended surgery in about a week. The defense attorney notified the court of the impending medical procedure Tuesday morning and requested the case be delayed or the defendants tried separately. The defense attorneys for Brandon Vandenburg protested the suggestion that the two face trial separately, saying they have prepared for a joint trial and proceeding would jeopardize Vanderburg’s right to a fair trial.
On Tuesday, Tennesseans went to the polls to vote on four state constitutional amendments. One of which, Amendment 1, would take away state constitutional protections for abortions, even in cases of rape or incest. The amendment has been a lightening rod for both sides of the abortion debate and will likely drive voters to the polls. Kleo. @theNadiaAziz Tia Foxx @Tia_Foxx Also you CAN be pro-life AND vote No to Amendment 1
John Pittenger @TooPittToQuit Haven’t done a ton of research on it but it seems to me like you have to be kind of heartless to vote against amendment 1
Thankful Matthew @tennockey Vote YES for Amendment 1...
Erica Davis @ericamechelle Have I only seen one person on social media supporting amendment 1 because everyone else is smart or everyone’s scared of the no on 1 wrath?
Kerry Layne Bond @kerrylaynebond Please vote Yes on Amendment 1 today.
Devon Adams @DevonBAdams Voting “Yes� on Amendment 1 does not make you “for life� just as voting “No� on Amendment 1 does not make you “for death.�
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SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Prosecutors filed charges Tuesday against a driver accused of fleeing in his SUV after fatally striking three Southern California teenage girls as they were trick-or-treating on Halloween. Jaquinn Bell, 31, was expected to be arraigned on three felony counts of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence, one felony count of hit-and-run with permanent injury or death and one misdemeanor count of driving on a suspended license, the Orange County district attorneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office said. Prosecutors planned to ask that Bell, who recently pleaded guilty to a separate hit-and-run,
be held on $1 million bail. If convicted, he faces up to 17 years in state prison. The complaint also included sentencing enhancement allegations of personally inflicting great bodily injury and fleeing the scene after committing a vehicular manslaughter. The victims of the Halloween night crash in the city of Santa Ana were twin sisters Lexi and Lexandra Perez and a friend, Andrea Gonzalez, all 13 years old. Police said the girls were crossing a street in a marked crosswalk when they were struck by a black Honda SUV that left the scene without stopping. Authorities believe Bell fled with his two teenage children after ditching the damaged car in a nearby parking lot. He was arrested Sunday at a motel in the
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Redshirt sophomore quarterback Nathan Peterman runs drills during practice on Tuesday. Samantha Smoak • The Daily Beacon
FOOTBALL continued from Page 1 “He’s been very even-keeled,” Jones said. “Now he goes from Player Worley to Coach Worley. He’s very excited about the victory, and he’s a true team player and a great character young man, as we all know, and it’s very, very unfortunate.” Smith’s surgery(?): Worley’s shoulder was not the only injury to be updated during Jones’
press conference at the conclusion of Tuesday’s practice. On Sunday, multiple reports surfaced saying that sophomore wide receiver Josh Smith was scheduled to undergo season-ending surgery on his ankle, which he injured in the Vols’ Sept. 13 contest against Oklahoma. Jones, however, clarified that report shortly after updating Worley’s status. “Contrary to reports, he is not going through surgery right now,” Jones said. “He’s going
through a full examination in the next couple of days to determine if he needs surgery. If that examination comes to play that it would help his progression, then he will have surgery.” ‘Like a wet noodle’: Before Joshua Dobbs’ insertion into UT’s offense, Curt Maggitt had plenty of opportunities to go against the sophomore signal caller when he lined up as the scout team quarterback. In those matchups, the redshirt junior linebacker also got his chances to bring down
Dobbs, but a lot of times he managed to slip away. “He’s real elusive,” Maggitt said. “He’s like a wet noodle. He’s hard to get a hold of. I remember a few times on scout team he made some plays, and everybody was like ‘That ain’t supposed to happen over here.’” Through two games under center for the Vols, Dobbs has showcased that noodle-like wiggle of his, rushing for 241 yards and three touchdowns on 43 carries. As for the comparison, Dobbs
takes it as a compliment. “I guess it means I’m hard to get on the ground,” Dobbs said. “It’s elusiveness, and that just comes from all the offseason drills we do.” Lightening the load: During Tuesday’s media viewing of practice, the list of players with regular minutes under their belt participating in practice was sparse. After what Jones called a “grinding” six-game stretch, the second-year head coach decided to give most of the first-teamers
– the only listed starter at practice while media was in attendance was freshman tight end Ethan Wolf – a light day at the office. “I’m an older guy now so I’m not going to be like I want to go out and bang people at practice,” senior linebacker A.J. Johnson said. “I want to be smart and get my body right. I’m glad Coach Jones did that. He knows what he’s doing with the team and getting us fresh and ready to go for the game against Kentucky.”
Vikings’ Peterson avoids jail in plea agreement Associated Press
CONROE, Texas — Minnesota Vikings star Adrian Peterson avoided jail Tuesday by reaching a deal with Texas prosecutors to resolve a child abuse case that revived a national debate about corporal punishment. Peterson was sentenced to a form of probation after pleading no contest to a misdemeanor charge of reckless assault for using a wooden switch to discipline his 4-year-old son. It was not immediately clear how the plea deal would affect his playing status or whether he might be subject to a new NFL policy that calls for a six-game suspension without pay for a first domestic violence offense. The All-Pro running back was indicted in September on a felony charge of injury to a
child after the incident earlier this year in suburban Houston. He has been on paid leave under a special exemption from NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. “I stand here and I take full responsibility for my actions. I love my son more than anyone of you could even imagine and I’m anxious to continue my relationship with my child,” Peterson said outside the courthouse after accepting the plea deal. “I’m just glad this is over,” he added. “I can put this behind me, and me and my family can continue to move forward.” He was not allowed to be near his son while the case was pending, but now can resume having contact with the boy. “Adrian wants to get on with his life and have his relationship with his son and get back to playing football,” Peterson’s attorney, Rusty Hardin, said. NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said the league “can-
not provide a timetable” for that. “We will review the matter, including the court record, and then make a determination on his status,” McCarthy said. Peterson is one of a handful of NFL players who have been involved in domestic violence cases lately, including Carolina Panthers defensive end Greg Hardy, Arizona Cardinals running back Jonathan Dwyer and, most infamously, former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice. After receiving plenty of criticism for initially handing Rice only a two-game suspension, Goodell announced in August that he was toughening the league’s punishments for domestic violence. Attention to the issue rose considerably in September, when a video surfaced showing Rice knocking out his then-fiancee — and now wife — in a casino elevator; he soon was cut by the
Ravens and indefinitely barred by the league. Peterson has said he never intended to harm his son and was disciplining him in the same way he had been as a child growing up in East Texas. The boy suffered cuts, marks and bruising to his thighs, back and one of his testicles, according to court records. Peterson had tentatively been set to go on trial Dec. 1. If he had been convicted of the felony charge, he could have faced up to two years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Instead, he received two years of deferred adjudication, a form of probation. He was fined $4,000 and must complete parenting classes and perform 80 hours of community service. His no contest plea wasn’t an admission of guilt but was treated as such for sentencing. Peterson will have no travel restrictions. If he completes his probation without incident, the
misdemeanor charge will be removed from his record. Montgomery County District Attorney Brett Ligon said he believed the plea agreement was in the best interest of Peterson’s son. “The probation is all about making him a better parent,” Ligon said. Last month, a visiting judge denied a request by prosecutors to have a new judge appointed to the case. Prosecutors had accused Montgomery County state District Judge Kelly Case of being biased against them. The plea deal made moot a pending motion by prosecutors to revoke Peterson’s $15,000 bond for alleged marijuana use while he was out of bond. Peterson will, however, be subject to random drug tests under the agreement. Corporal punishment is on the decline in the U.S. but still widely practiced in homes and
schools. In every state in the country, a parent can legally hit their child as long as the force is “reasonable.” But what’s considered reasonable varies from place to place. The Texas Attorney General’s Office notes that belts and brushes “are accepted by many as legitimate disciplinary ‘tools,’” but “electrical or phone cords, boards, yardsticks, ropes, shoes, and wires are likely to be considered instruments of abuse.” Texas law says the use of nondeadly force against someone younger than 18 is justified if a parent or guardian “reasonably believes the force is necessary to discipline the child or to safeguard or promote his welfare.” Ligon said the decision to indict Peterson was “a reflection that this went beyond what was reasonable in regards to being a parent. I believe Mr. Peterson is accepting responsibility.”