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Issue 62, Volume 127

Just dance

Movement an integral part of life for team at Circle Modern Dance Move

Hannah Zechman Staff S taff Writer (@HannahZechman_)

Sharon Soper White has a favorit favorite memory in a collection of many.

While in a performance with Circle Modern Dance, she grabbed dance an audience member to danc with her. She made her he mirchoice and began the mir her roring dance with he moment pick. It was a momen that Soper White will never forget and one tha will always hold joy in her heart.

Circle Modern Dance is about creating love those magical moments, full of only lov annual and happiness. Celebrating its 24th annua dance season, the organization’s mission for still states, “to provide an opportunity fo musicians area choreographers, dancers, musician their and performance artists to showcase thei work.” The philosophy states everyone iis a dancer and every body has the right to dance. one Soper White, a core member for on for year and dancer with Circle Modern fo

three years, wanted to join because of the eclectic group of people.

“We are not a regular studio,” Soper White said, “because we have people who haven’t danced in years that come.”

Busy choreographing and teaching a piece that will be in this December’s “Modern Dance Primitive Light” performance, Soper White does this because of the motto: “every body has the right to dance.” She marveled at how much the company has grown through its variety of different core members and fundraising.

Fundraising growth makes everything run much more smoothly for the company.

A non-profit, Circle Modern needs every bit of donations and fundraising it can get to continue its passion. The group does multiple events for fundraising each year, such as a wine night.

“We’re not out to make money,” Soper White said. “We just want to dance.”

Circle Modern works delicately to perfect its art and will showcase this at the next performance – Circle Modern’s 24th annual “Modern Dance Primitive Light.”

The annual show will be held in the Laurel Theater, a church that now serves as a renovated performance art center. Preparations

began in August for around 20 members, ages 14 to 65, to be selected for different numbers in the show.

Sarah Whitaker, a core member for three years, explained how the dancers go through an audition and are picked by choreographers for the show. Each individual choreographer has his or her own voice and will teach the class according to how he or she wants a piece to be performed. Along with live musicians, the nine-piece show will include everything from a hip-hop performance to Soper White’s hoop piece.

Whitaker is thankful for Circle Modern, claiming it allows her to keep dancing in a semi-professional setting and still have a day job.

“Circle is a wonderful ability for creating the work that you want to create,” Whitaker said. “There is a little more autonomy through Circle.”

Circle Modern also has big plans for the upcoming year. It will be the organization’s 25th anniversary, and members are planning a season full of new and original performances.

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One (more) for the money Vols one win short of bowl berth after 50-16 victory over Kentucky Troy Provost-Heron Sports Editor (@TPro_UTDB)

Tennessee’s matchup against Kentucky was much more than just another regular season game in Butch Jones’ eyes.

With the Volunteers two wins away from being bowl eligible, and only three games remaining in the season, UT’s second-year head coach declared Tennessee’s final set of games a three-game playoff series.

Following Saturday’s contest, the Vols now find themselves one game away from winning that series after cruising to a 50-16 victory over the Wildcats inside Neyland Stadium.

“It was huge to start off on the right foot,” sophomore quarterback Joshua Dobbs said. “It’s huge to get that fifth win. We’re one win away and we all know that, so we are definitely going to enjoy this fifth win, and get ready to get the sixth.

“We got two games to get to six — and potentially seven — so we just have to take it one game at a time.”

The Wildcats struck first with a 32-yard field goal by Austin MacGinnis on the opening drive of the game, but shortly after, the Vols responded with a 21-yard touchdown to junior wide receiver Von Pearson from Dobbs to cap off a five-play, 73-yard drive that lasted 1:21.

On the ensuing drive, the game’s complexion changed when Kentucky’s sophomore quarterback Patrick Towles

Sophomore quarterback Josh Dobbs leaps over a Kentucky defender during the Saturday’s contest.

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was forced out of the game with an ankle injury.

With Towles out, the reigns of the Kentucky offense were handed to Reese Phillips, who had only thrown five passes coming into the game.

Tennessee’s defense capitalized on the signal caller’s inexperience, forcing him to go 0-for-4 passing, including a 23-yard pick-six by redshirt junior safety Brian Randolph that gave the Vols a 14-3 lead. “(When he came out there) we kind of pinned our ears back more,” redshirt junior linebacker Curt Maggitt said.

By the time Towles could get back under center, it was

too late, as the Vols had jumped out to a 21-3 lead and had all the momentum on their side.

But while Kentucky’s quarterback was forced to miss action, Dobbs did not miss a beat as Tennessee’s signal caller. The Alpharetta, Georgia, native followed up his 467-yard performance in the Vols’ 45-42 overtime victory at South Carolina with 297 yards and two touchdowns on 19-of-27 passing.

VolCard expansion likely to exclude alcohol Tanner Hancock Copy Editor

It looks like UT won’t be picking up your bar tab any time soon.

While he could not confirm it at this time, Jeff Maples, senior associate vice chancellor for the Finance and Administration, expressed his doubts that the VolCard would cover alcohol-related purchases when it eventually expands to restaurants on Cumberland Avenue.

“In all probability, no,” Maples said of possible student alcohol purchases.

“That’s all being worked out.

If you’re asking me right now, then my guess would be no.”

Maples said he believes the VolCard will make its appearance on “The Strip” sometime between late spring and early summer, despite the fact that “there’s a lot that’s got to happen between now and then” in preparation for the student payment expansion. These measures include purchasing equipment compatible with the VolCard, securing contracts with third party vendors, creating new policies and more.

The University of Kentucky, which is also a dry campus, already has restrictions on its student Plus Account card that prohibits the purchase of alcohol or tobacco related products.

Yet for in-state rival school and “wet campus” Vanderbilt University, students of legal age are free to purchase alcohol at off-campus sites with their student payment card.

Bo Korpman, a junior in political science and philosophy at Vanderbilt, said the convenience of using his student card to purchase alcohol off campus has improved his student experience.

“If you’re 21, and you want to go to a restaurant that serves alcohol of some kind … as long as you’ve got the money, they’ll take it,” Korpman said, noting Vanderbilt’s Commodore Card is accepted at many popular restaurants and bars in the Nashville area. “It’s really convenient, and it’d be stupid to have any restrictions on it.”

Around Tennessee’s campus, however, local vendors largely agree with the idea of restricting the VolCard’s use.

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Tenn. lawyers petition for same-sex Supreme Court hearing Hannah Marley Staff Writer

Following a circuit court decision upholding the same-sex marriage bans in four states, including Tennessee, a team of lawyers from across the state filed a petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the United States last Friday in

order to appeal the ruling.

The majority opinion, written by Judge Jeffrey Sutton and published on Nov. 6, covered all six cases in Tennessee, Kentucky, Michigan and Ohio and ruled that marriage equality and recognition should be decided either by popular election in each individual state or by the Supreme Court.

Sophie Jesty, one of the Tennessee plaintiffs and a

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professor in the UT College of Veterinary Medicine along with her wife Val Tanco, said she disagreed with Sutton’s opinion on the grounds that marriage is a fundamental right guaranteed to all citizens, not just the majority.

“There are plenty of issues which are appropriate to vote on and allow for a majority decision, but whether to grant people constitutional rights isn’t one of them,” Jesty said. “These

rights are guaranteed to all people in this country, regardless of whether that person is a minority of any kind.”

Maureen Holland, a civil rights attorney in Memphis and one of the lawyers arguing the Tennessee case, agreed with Jesty, stating civil rights are not appropriate items for the ballot.

“When you have constitutional rights as an issue, waiting for a much slower

“I wish to stress the inclusive nature of these family-stlye restrooms.”

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and not necessarily predictable process is not helpful,” Holland said.

Regina Lambert, an adjunct professor at the UT College of Law and one of the lawyers representing the Tennessee plaintiffs, said the decision reflected the conservative nature of the 6th Circuit.

“The 6th Circuit has a reputation for being a much more conservative circuit than a lot of others,”

Lambert said. “We were aware that it was going to be an uphill challenge, and when the opinion came out we were disappointed, but not shocked.”

The 6th Circuit decision deviates from the other four circuits that have heard cases pertaining to same-sex marriage and ruled bans on same-sex marriage unconstitutional.

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DISPATCHES Ferguson shooting case awaiting indictment decision The fatal encounter that ended with the shooting of Michael Brown by officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, lasted less than two minutes, officials report. Brown, an unarmed black teen, was shot by Wilson, a white police officer on Aug. 9, an incident that has led to months of protests in the St. Louis suburb. Protesters are currently waiting for a grand jury to decide whether to indict Wilson in the case, a decision that could be announced at any time. The new information on the shooting, compiled by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, comes from interviews and analysis of police records as well as the police station surveillance footage.

Health care law draws controversial remarks A controversy surrounding the comments of an MIT professor and former top adviser to President Barack Obama about the Affordable Care Act has arisen this week. Jonathan Gruber’s explosive remarks, captured on video, suggest the “stupidity of the American voter” contributed to the passage of the law.

In addition, Gruber said in 2013 that the lack of transparency surrounding the law was politically advantageous.

Obama spoke out on Sunday, claiming he did not intentionally mislead voters on the law. Gruber’s comments have led to Republicans in Congress talking about a new round of hearings on the Affordable Care Act.

Though UT fans love a win, they also love their mascots. Pictures of Smokey bundled up for the Kentucky game went viral last night and were parodied across

Bill Cosby’s lawyer speaks against rape allegations One of Bill Cosby’s attorneys, John P. Schmitt, called the rape allegations against Cosby “decade-old” and “discredited” and said Cosby will not be speaking out against the accusations.

Cosby showed this silence first hand during an interview with NPR host Scott Simon. When Simon questioned Cosby, Cosby remained absolutely silent, leaving Simon to tell listeners he was simply “shaking his head no.”

The resurfaced sexual assault allegations against Cosby date back to the mid-2000s.

ISIS Beheads Another American Former American solider and aid worker Peter Kassig was beheaded by ISIS, as confirmed by the White House on Sunday. The 26-year-old had converted to Islam during his captivity and been renamed Abdul-Rahman Kassig.

After a tour to the Middle East during his time as a solider, Kassig returned as a medical worker in Syria where he was captured and held as a hostage for over a year. The beheading video was different than the four previous as Kassig was not allowed a final statement and the video was 16 minutes long. Kassig is the fifth hostage beheaded by ISIS.

Around Rocky Top

Lauren Woods @lauren_mmarie Smokey is the cutest dog in the world

ben s! @catfoodparty Smokey in a blanket is in the top ten best things to happen ever list.

Annie Carr @idealisticannie These pictures of Smokey wearing a blanket are killing me in the best way possible.

Rachel Coleman @r8chull Smokey wrapped up in that blankie is the cutest thing ever!!

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House votes in favor of Keystone oil pipeline Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress inched closer to a possible showdown with President Barack Obama over the Keystone XL oil pipeline as the Republicancontrolled House approved the project. Supporters in the Democratic-run Senate predicted they will get the 60 votes needed to pass it next week.

The House vote was 252-161 in favor of the bill, which was sponsored by Rep. Bill Cassidy, R-La., in an effort to boost his chances to take a Louisiana Senate seat away from Democrat Mary Landrieu. The two are headed for a Dec. 6 runoff and have been touting their energy credentials in the oil and gasproducing state.

Should the Senate send the bill to Obama for his signature, he would face a decision that pits some of his environmental concerns about the pipeline, mainly its consequences for global warming, against potentially helping a fellow Democrat making a longshot bid to retain her Senate seat.

The House bill was supported by 221 Republicans, with not a single GOP lawmaker voting

against it. Thirty-one Democrats backed the bill, while 161 rejected it.

“This will make it easier for the Senate to do right by the American people and finally vote on building the pipeline,” Cassidy said Friday in a statement after the vote.

The bill’s passage marked the ninth time the House had passed a bill to speed up the pipeline’s construction.

Landrieu pushed the Senate to hold its upcoming vote on the measure. In a call with reporters from Louisiana, where she was campaigning, Landrieu called herself the “sparkplug” to get the Keystone bill through Congress.

The House bill is identical to one introduced by Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., and Landrieu in May. “This bill was drafted to go the distance,” said Landrieu.

As of Friday, supporters of the measure appeared to have at least 59 of the 60 Senate votes they would need for approval next week. That included all 45 Republicans and 14 Democrats.

Landrieu conceded, though, that it is unlikely the Senate or House will have the two-thirds majorities that would be needed to override an Obama veto of the bill. She said she did not know

Obama’s plans.

“He most certainly understands my position,” Landrieu said. “He understands that there are 15-plus Democrats in the Senate that really want to build the Keystone pipeline.”

If the bill fails to pass the Senate next week, Hoeven said he would reintroduce it next year when Republicans will control the chamber. That would make it one of many showdowns expected with Obama over energy and environmental policy after Republicans take full control of Congress in January.

The $8 billion pipeline has become a symbol for the divisions on the country’s energy and environmental policy.

Environmentalists have framed the issue as a significant test of Obama’s commitment to address climate change. Republicans and other supporters say it is necessary for jobs and energy security, because the U.S. would be importing oil from its neighbor, not the Middle East. Still others have criticized the project because some of the product refined from the oil could be exported to other countries, instead of used here.

The project has been stalled by environmental reviews, by objections to the route it would take and by politics for six years.

While the White House has issued veto threats on similar legislation before, it had yet to formally do so Friday.

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said it was time for Obama to listen to the American people, especially after Republican gains in last week’s midterm elections, and sign the bill.

“The president doesn’t have any more elections to win, and he has no other excuse for standing in the way,” Boehner said.

Obama, questioned about the issue while traveling on the other side of the globe, said the administration’s long-stalled review of the project cannot be completed before knowing the outcome of a legal challenge to the pipeline’s route through Nebraska. He also reiterated that he will ultimately judge the project on its impact on climate change and energy prices.

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VOLCARDS continued from Page 1 Helen Morton, owner of University Liquors, views the restriction of alcohol purchases by students as more important than turning a profit.

“It boils down to responsibility and accountability,

SAME-SEX continued from Page 1 By deciding to uphold the ban, the 6th Circuit caused a “split” in the courts and therefore, Lambert said, increased the likelihood the Supreme Court will decide to hear any combination of the cases involved in the 6th Circuit decision.

Chris Geidner, legal editor at BuzzFeed and award-winning journalist on LGBT issues, said based on comments from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the differing opinions in the circuit courts, a Supreme Court case is almost inevitable.

“Justice Ginsburg said that there was no urgency for the court to take it unless there was a circuit split, and they have a circuit split now,” Geidner said. “There’s very little question about whether the court will have to take this up.

The only question is whether they’re going to take it this term or next term.”

In order to better their chances of being chosen this upcoming term, Lambert said she and the team of Tennessee lawyers pushed to have their petition for writ of certiorari in by last Friday. Tennessee joined Ohio as the first two states to file petitions to the Supreme Court in regard to the 6th Circuit decision.

Geidner said Michigan and Kentucky will likely follow on Monday.

The petition reads that the state of Tennessee is violating the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses in the U.S. Constitution by refusing to recognize same-sex marriages from other states, which the plaintiffs include as a larger violation of the plaintiff’s right to marry.

“The couples in Tennessee who are married elsewhere are being penalized by the state of Tennessee for exercising the right to marry,” Geidner explained.

This, along with the claim that Tennessee is violating the plaintiff’s right to interstate travel by refusing to recognize their out-of-state marriages, forms the basis of their peti-

Katie Pavlich, second from the right, sits on the set of Fox News’ show “Outnumbered.”

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treated fairly in the 2008 presidential election -- a claim that Pavlich disagreed with, but no one in the class rebutted.

“Then we spent the rest of the semester slamming Fox News while either staying quiet about MSNBC or glorifying their coverage despite MSNBC openly admitting that they are not a news organization,” Pavlich said.

Pavlich said she was judged harshly by her professors for being “too political,” and nearly lost two awards for her work because of the expression of her unconventional views.

“I never got political until they got political inside the classroom,” Pavlich said. “I did that because it seemed like the college atmosphere was a place for open debate, but apparently you’ll get your awards swiped if you try to do that.”

When Pavlich transi-

tioned into the professional world, she said she noticed the same left-leaning biases at news outlets that “claim to be neutral.” For example, Pavlich said contrasting the news coverage of the rise of the Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street movement reveals a hidden bias. Created by libertarian and conservative activists, Pavlich said the Tea Party movement caused Democrats to “panic” and immediately label them as “extremists.”

“Meanwhile, true extremists began to pitch their tents, smash the windows of banks and rape women,” Pavlich said. “This movement was known as the Occupy Wall Street Movement and was openly embraced by Nancy Pelosi, President Obama and (Democratic National Committee) chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz.”

Pavlich pointed out the Tea Party movement has

and being a positive force in this community as opposed to a negative,” Morton said.

“The VolCard should not be spent on alcohol or cigarettes.”

As a parent of four, Morton sees the VolCard as a way to create “a positive college experience” for students rather than a way to make alcohol easier to

access.

For some, like Scott Frix, general manager of Moe’s Southwest Grill on Cumberland Avenue, the news has little effect on his business.

“I don’t think it will affect us at all,” Frix said, stating only a small portion of the restaurant’s profits come from beer purchases. “It’s

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about whether the court will have to take this up. The only question is whether they ’re going to take it this term or next term.

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Seek the truth and report it, minimize harm, act independently and be accountable and transparent.

To conservative journalist Katie Pavlich, these four tenets of the Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics have been broken.

Pavlich, news editor for Townhall.com, author and frequent television commentator on Fox News, CNN and other networks, visited UT last Thursday night to give a lecture entitled “Media, the Left and your government: why your mainstream news is propaganda.” Hosted

by Issues Committee and the Young Americans for Freedom, Pavlich shared her experiences with bias in American journalism.

“We all have biases as human beings,” Pavlich said. “Bias can come in many forms when it comes to choosing stories for a newscast, choosing stories to write about.”

To illustrate her point, Pavlich recounted her early experiences with bias in journalism while attending the University of Arizona.

She recalled one of her journalism professors declaring that Sarah Palin had been

-Chris Geidner tion.

However, while the Tennessee petition addresses the larger violation of the right to marry, all of the plaintiffs in the Tennessee case are already married, while plaintiffs in Michigan and Kentucky are not.

In order to ensure that the Supreme Court addresses the larger issue instead of choosing to focus on marriage recognition alone, Geidner said he thinks having plaintiffs with marriage and marriage recognition claims should both, ideally, appear before the Supreme Court.

“Having both of those arguments forcefully and directly in front of the justices,” Geidner said, “I think that is the most clear and complete presentation of the issue.”

Holland, however, said beyond the legal ramifications of the case, many citizens are being negatively affected by the 6th Circuit decision in Tennessee.

“It’s not so much necessarily about an obligation to address certain legal concepts as much as it is the importance of looking at the impact it has on individual’s lives,” Holland said.

“That’s why we immediately decided to appeal, because our clients are suffering irreparable harm.”

This harm, Holland notes, includes being unable to make private medical decisions for one’s spouse or own property.

For Jesty, Val and their daughter Emilia, the decision provides many difficulties unique to LGBT families with children.

“The decision keeps our family, and many other families in the state of Tennessee, legally divided and therefore unprotected in thousands of ways,” Jesty said. “I cannot make health care decisions for Emilia or Val, Emilia doesn’t have a right to my social security benefits, the list goes on and on.”

Donna Braquet, director of the OUTreach center at UT, said she has experienced similar difficulties in her own marriage of 17 years.

“When we got married in San Francisco, we somehow felt different, we felt like we were full citizens,” Braquet said of her marriage, which isn’t recognized in Tennessee.

“Like our government said ‘yes, you’re just as important as everyone else.’ And then when we came back to Tennessee, we felt that discrimination again. We’re not treated like everybody else is.”

Despite these circumstances, the Tennessee lawyers and plaintiffs involved view the 6th Circuit decision and subsequent circuit split as a silver lining.

“The silver lining is that the Supreme Court might take this case and might make an affirmative decision,” Holland explained.

For the Tennessee lawyers, the possible opportunity to argue for marriage equality in front of the Supreme Court of the United States is an honor and a challenge.

“It’s exciting, it’s daunting, it’s humbling, it’s hopeful,” Lambert said. “All of these things.”

not been associated with any rapes or arrests since it was created, yet the media has denounced the political movement and had “no questions” about the president embracing the Occupy Wall Street protests.

“When you contrast that to scandals that actually involve the deaths of Americans, for example Operation Fast and Furious or Benghazi, the press doesn’t have as many questions for President Obama,” Pavlich said.

Similarly, Pavlich noticed a stark difference in the coverage on the recent midterm elections and the same elections in 2006. In a study by the Media Research Center, it was found that three big broadcast networks -- NBC, ABC and CBS -- aired a total of 159 news stories on the 2006 midterm elections, while those same networks only aired 25 election-related stories this year.

The difference, Pavlich said, is that Democrats were expected to take control of Congress eight years ago, a very different story from this year’s “transfer of power” to the Republican party.

“Liberal democrats were polling very poorly,” Pavlich said. “Democrats have the lowest approval rating they’ve ever had in 80 years, and they just didn’t want the general public to know that.”

Natalie Bennett, a sophonot what people come in here for.”

Frix said he sympathizes with the university’s potential decision and understands its hesitance to “enable” alcohol consumption so close to campus.

Frix said: “I don’t think it’s a bad thing that they’re not allowing alcohol.”

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W hen you don’t have an open

press, when you don’t have a free press that is willing to actually ask the hard questions of both parties, there’s a lot of corruption that happens.

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Hayley Brundige

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more in College Scholars and vice chair of the Issues Committee, said Pavlich had a unique perspective on taking news from sources on either side of the aisle with a grain of salt.

“We wanted to bring a speaker regarding an issue that many students do not think about,” Bennett said.

“Many young people take news at face value, so it is important to evaluate it carefully, regardless of political opinion.”

While she “can’t talk too much” about her own employer, Fox News, Pavlich admitted that “across the media spectrum, there is sensationalism,” noting that Shepard Smith “got really upset with the entire network over the Ebola coverage.”

In addition to partisanship and the influence of money on large television networks, Pavlich said the Obama administration’s “lack of transparency and access” has contributed to biased reporting.

“When you don’t have an open press, when you don’t have a free press that is willing to actually ask the hard questions of both political parties, there’s a lot of corruption that happens,” Pavlich said.

This lack of transparency, Pavlich said, is the root of many problems in Washington and can lead to unchecked government power.

“If we don’t know what’s going on in government, we don’t know how to change government,” she said.

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Letter to the

Editor

Dear Editor, Social media has recently been abuzz ever since students from the Student Government Association’s Diversity Affairs Committee passed a bill in the Student Senate on Nov. 4 for one bathroom in most UT buildings to be converted to gender neutral/family style.

Noting the ambiguity of this proposal in the media, I write in an effort to merely present the facts so more people can thoroughly understand the matter and make a well-informed judgment.

The bill asks for at least one bathroom to be converted to gender neutral/family style in public areas frequented by students, faculty and staff. In other words, most buildings would have a bathroom with a lock on the door and a sign indicating its new function. Specifically, public areas include residence halls and academic buildings but exclude parking garages, staff-only areas and fraternity and sorority housing. Because most campus construction is projected to end by 2019, the bill proposes 75 percent of the aforementioned buildings have one gender neutral/family style restroom option by the summer of 2019.

In addition to some newly constructed buildings like the Natalie L. Haslam Music Center, the following buildings on campus already have at least one family style restroom: Alumni Memorial Building, Austin Peay, the Carolyn P. Brown Memorial University Center, the College of Social Work in Henson Hall, Hodges Library, Melrose Hall, the Student Health Center and TRECS. Furthermore, most future buildings like the new Student Union will include a gender neutral/family style restroom.

The bill recommends, for buildings currently under construction or renovated before 2019, to have at least one restroom converted to family style, which will optimize cost efficiency. Other recently built buildings, such as Fred D. Brown Jr. Residence Hall and newly renovated Hess Hall, will not be required to comply with this proposal until they are slated to undergo renovation.

The bill offers two suggestions to help finance this project, namely through the Americans with Disabilities Act and leftover funds from other construction projects. UT is annually given ADA funding, which could be an appropriate financial source since these family style restrooms would adhere to and, in the case of future construction, exceed ADA guidelines (“Exceeding” translates to having one single-occupancy, stall-less restroom).

In addition to this, most construction projects on campus are completed under budget; a portion of the leftover money could pay for locks and signs to designate a bathroom “family style.” For example, Humanities and Social Sciences alone had roughly $28,000 remaining.

Finally, I wish to stress the inclusive nature of these family-style restrooms. For example, a restroom option adhering to ADA guidelines ensures that more than 1,200 students registered as having a disability on campus have a comfortable, accessible space. In addition to giving privacy to those with disabilities and various gender identities, a restroom with a lock promises that parents can care for their children without interruption. These scenarios underscore the importance of creating a safe space to use the bathroom.

Found in most public spaces today and in more than 150 U.S. universities, a family-style restroom is the evolving standard, respectful of human needs.

Alina Clay is a second-year student in College Scholars. She can be reached at aclay6@vols.utk.edu.

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Thomas Carpenter I recently had dinner with a girl. It was a little awkward, as first dates always are, but we got along okay. At least, that was until I broke one of the most obvious rules of first dates and meeting new people in general: I brought up politics. Yeah, I’m that guy. I couldn’t help it. It’s what I love to talk about, and I was running out of preconceived conversation topics.

Without hesitation, she told me how much she hated politics, but she was nice enough to indulge me for a little while.

Maybe she was out of things to talk about as well. We quickly learned our values didn’t exactly align, and I hate to say I would make politics a deal breaker, but there are some issues that are just too close to me to make an exception.

Even though her ideology wasn’t ideal, that wasn’t what bothered me the most.

She made it very clear she thought politics bring out the worst in people, a valid concern, but because of this, she refused to spend any time thinking about them.

She said she won’t even vote because of

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this sounds like a left/right, Democrat/ Republican issue, it’s very telling when you compare all numbers to the United Kingdom. I’m not surprised, really; rejection of taxes is in our blood, our history.

It’s the reason we declared our independence in the first place. But we are in a very different place than we were two and a half centuries ago.

The mindset of the American people needs a change. We have reached a point where it is necessary for us to think more about the welfare of our nation. This can be accomplished in many ways. For example, those that are paying unfairly low taxes need to offer more to their country. Voter turnout, likewise, needs to drastically improve (the midterms saw the lowest voter turnout in 72 years, sitting at 36.3 percent).

The last one is a little more complicated: we need to look out for each other.

And not because Jesus told you to or because you need to get all your service hours. We all need to be aware of the problems of those around us and always strive to make our society just and equitable. This starts with looking out for our neighbors and accepting the true idea of what it means to be an American.

Thomas Carpenter is a junior in classics. He can be reached at ThomasCarpenter@utk.edu.

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Kenna Rewcastle Baby ran her first marathon this weekend. The week leading up to my commute to Richmond, Virginia, and my tour of that city on foot during the marathon had me attending classes and meetings like a zombie. For once, the culprit of my zombie-like state wasn’t because I chose coffee and textbooks over sleep one too many times as I tend to do, but rather due to my anxiety as the marathon loomed in the ever-approaching future.

Twenty six miles is a lot of distance, and doing anything for 4+ hours is a lot of commitment. I’ve been training for six months, and I’d be conquering this monster with one of my best friends, but no amount of rationalizing and talking myself down from the tower of nerves seemed to have made a difference. I kept asking myself “Why am I afraid? Why am

I nervous? Who am I afraid of disappointing?” Ultimately, I think the answer was rooted in a fear of letting myself down, of not being able to finish, of feeling weak.

I didn’t sign up for a marathon to gain a few points on the “hardcore or nah” scale in my friends’ eyes. I didn’t commit myself to months of training, hours of racing and days of recovery for a 26.2 sticker for my car. Running a marathon is the ultimate test of perseverance and mental toughness for myself. The entire concept of a marathon terrifies me, and that’s exactly why I signed up.

In willingly confronting and conquering that which scares you the most, you’re essentially preparing yourself for the world-shattering events the future will inevitably hold. You’re polishing your mental and emotional armor, and you’re learning how to cope with the toughest thing life can throw at you by drawing on an inner strength. You’re protecting a calm space alongside the busily spinning gears of your mind that you can return to when the going gets rough. The reward waiting for you at the end of the tasks you challenge yourself to are lessons of mental ability and serenity,

self-control and dedication.

You see, running for me is the ultimate form of meditation. I can physically handle way more than my mind thinks I can, and long runs where everything is left on the pavement are the only way for me to access this restricted corner of my mind; to push its outer limits, to trust myself to know when to stop and when to dare to continue.

Maybe you can find this enlightened high in some other medium. In fact, most of you probably do not need to run around a strange city for four hours while sucking down 100 calorie packets of goo every forty-five minutes to prove something to yourself. Yet we all have ‘marathons’ that terrify us at the back of our minds. Don’t wait for them to find you, but look them in the eye and sign up. Issue that challenge to yourself and revel in a newfound source of power that can propel you through nearly anything.

Don’t run from the unknown -- run directly into the heart of it.

Kenna Rewcastle is a senior in college scholars. She can be reached at kenerewc@vols.utk.edu.

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All hope was lost at this point for any chance of a romantic relationship, but the conversation got me thinking. Can I really blame her? Is she any different than most college students? I’m not one to subscribe to the idea that millennials are lazy and selfish, so I set out to find why so many people my age are civically unengaged.

As millennials, ever since we’ve been old enough to understand and think about politics, there has been gridlock. The recession happened just as we were learning about how the government works in high school; not exactly a great foundation for a positive outlook on politics. So I don’t blame millennials for their lack of faith in the system. Up to this point, the system has not been all it’s cracked up to be.

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‘Whiplash’ takes dramatic Navy SEAL who shot bin approach to jazz culture Laden was at war for years Sage Davis

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Contributor Blood, sweat and tears.

It’s not the usual comment you would hear regarding jazz music, but director Damien Chazelle illustrates the “rough� side of the smooth jazz we are accustomed to in “Whiplash.�

Winner of two 2014 Sundance Film Festival awards, “Whiplash� sees Chazelle turning an 18-minute short into a gripping, entrancing featured drama.

Rising star and funny guy Miles Teller plays Andrew Neiman, a loner who goes through torment and angst to please his instructor Fletcher, played by J.K. Simmons. Like Rocky Balboa training for a fight in the ring, Neiman pushes himself and trains obsessively to be the core drummer of the elite jazz ensemble at his cutthroat music conservatory. Going through Fletcher’s physical and verbal abuse while also enduring public humiliation, Neiman stops at nothing to be, as he says in the film, “one of the greats.�

Simmons plays the fearsome instructor Fletcher, who terrorizes his band for the purpose of what he considers “pushing to their potential.� His idea of pushing his students involves cursing at them, shouting homophobic insults and throwing chairs in their direction. He adds insult to injury by yelling at Neiman about why his mother left him, which makes the viewer immediately hate him for making Teller’s character cry. Fletcher only wants perfection in his jazz band, and if it causes his students to have mental breakdowns, then so be it.

Before Fletcher, however, Neiman was only a page-turner to a drummer, not yet aware of his budding potential.

Catching the ear of Simmons’ intimidating Fletcher, he goes through hell to impress him, sacrificing his social life by dumping his girlfriend to focus on drumming. Neiman

Whiplash Cast: Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons Director: Damine Chazelle Genre: Drama, Music Rating: R practices the tune “Whiplash� for a month to be rewarded with blistered, bloody hands as he curses and cries to become perfect.

Competing with two others for the spot, viewers witness extreme angst and commitment from Teller’s dedicated Neiman, who longs to reach his dreams even when it causes psychological trauma.

Chazelle shows the audience that jazz is not just smooth sailing and background music for candle-lit dates. Instead, he proves jazz can be as competitive and rough as any athletic sport. He shows this through the ruthless men-

tor’s insufferable demands to push Neiman’s mental state, almost killing himself to earn the part. The final scene ends the movie flawlessly, mesmerizing viewers with the mentor vs. student conflict on stage.

Events unfold to lead to a dramatically fulfilling but slightly disturbing ending.

Miles Teller shows raw, inspiring talent through this psychological drama from beginning to end and proves he isn’t just a comedic actor anymore. “Whiplash� is currently playing at Regal Downtown West Cinema 8.

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WASHINGTON (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Former Navy SEAL Robert Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill, who says he fired the shots that killed Osama bin Laden, played a role in some of the most consequential combat missions of the post-9/11 era, including three depicted in Hollywood movies. And now heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s telling the world about them.

By doing so, Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill has almost certainly increased his earning power on the speaking circuit. He also may have put himself and his family at greater risk.

And he has earned the enmity of some current and former SEALs by violating their code of silence.

But Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill, winner of two Silver and five Bronze Stars, makes no apologies for any of that. In a wide-ranging interview Friday with The Associated Press, he said he believes the American public has a right to more details about the operation that killed the al-Qaida leader and other important military adventures. And he insisted he is taking pains not to divulge classified information or compromise the tactics SEALs use to get the drop on their enemies. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The last thing I want to do is endanger anybody,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think the good (of going public) outweighs the bad.â&#x20AC;?

Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill, who last week began discussing his role in the bin Laden mission, was in Washington for a round of television and media appearances that drew both praise and criticism.

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floor, where a CIA analyst had told Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill that bin Laden would be. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill followed an unnamed point man into bin Ladenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bedroom, he told the AP, and the point man tackled two women, believing they had a bomb, in what Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill calls an incredibly selfless act. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A few feet in front of me, on two feet, was Osama bin Laden,â&#x20AC;? Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I shot him three times in the head and I killed him.â&#x20AC;?

Many are impressed by the deed, but not everyone is impressed with the telling. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We work in secret and we pride ourselves on that, so if somebody comes out and spills this much, it angers the rest of us,â&#x20AC;?

Jonathan Gilliam, a former SEAL, said in an interview.

But Debra Burlingame, whose brother Charles Burlingame was the pilot of the hijacked plane that crashed into the Pentagon, has said that Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neillâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s descriptions were gratifying to the relatives of victims at a 9/11 museum ceremony where he donated the uniform he was wearing.

Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neillâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s key role in the 2011 bin Laden raid was hardly his only brush with a high-profile mission. He was on the 2009 mission to rescue the captain of the merchant ship Maersk Alabama, who taken hostage by Somali pirates. That episode was featured in the Tom Hanks movie â&#x20AC;&#x153;Captain Phillips.â&#x20AC;?

And he was part of the group that helped retrieve Marcus Luttrell, the sole survivor of a four-man team attacked in 2005 while tracking a Taliban leader in Afghanistan. The Luttrell episode was featured in the 2013 film â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lone Survivor.â&#x20AC;?

Long before those operations, Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill came to embody the dramatic trans-

formation of the role of U.S. special operations over the last 13 years.

Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill joined the Navy in 1995, and in those pre9/11 days, the SEALs did a lot of training with foreign militaries. High-risk operations in remote locations, let alone gun fights, were few and far between.

After the U.S. went to war against al-Qaida, the SEALs and other elite units were called upon for one combat mission after another â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill believes he killed more than 30 people.

His most fulfilling time as a SEAL, he said, came in Iraq in 2007, when he was going on multiple combat missions a night, stalking and killing insurgents and bomb-makers.

One current and two former SEALs, declining to be quoted talking about a sensitive matter, say it is not disputed that Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill shot at bin Laden. But Pentagon officials say itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not clear whose shots were the lethal ones.

Another SEAL, Matt Bissonnette, wrote a book about the raid, â&#x20AC;&#x153;No Easy Day.â&#x20AC;? Bissonnetteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s account suggests the point man fired the fatal shots, and that he and a second SEAL, presumably Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill, shot bin Laden when he was already down.

Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill disputed the account of his former teammate, whom he calls a hero.

Everyone who was a part of the bin Laden operation and others like it deserve recognition, he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I got there because amazing men did amazing things,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These are real people that have real families â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that mow their lawns, can barely pay their mortgages and then they get called.â&#x20AC;?

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Say ‘Yes Please’ to an insightful Subtle Clutch plays expertlook into Amy Poehler’s psyche level folk despite young age Contributor

Amy Poehler’s first book “Yes Please” is everything a Poehler fan should expect or hope for.

In true Poehler fashion, almost the entire book has a rushed, sporadic tempo that reads like an episode of “Saturday Night Live,” broken up into chapters instead of sketches.

Poehler’s humor is immediate and constant in her charmingly witty and hilariously blunt recounts of memories and ideas, as well as snippets of life advice featured throughout her book.

She is an ever-flowing source of smart, satirical jokes and anecdotes that can garner a chuckle in nearly every chapter.

Anyone who is a fan of the female powerhouses of comedy has probably anticipated this book for quite some time. After publications like “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?”

by Mindy Kaling and Tina Fey’s “Bossypants,” Poehler did not miss the wagon. With her own published memoir, she preludes with an longwinded lament on how hard it is to write a book.

The title of Poehler’s book “Yes Please” is a phrase she has incorporated into her life as a sort of mantra. Poehler writes, “‘yes’ comes from my improvisational days and the opportunities that come from youth, and the ‘please’ comes from the wisdom of knowing that agreeing to do something usually means you aren’t doing it alone.”

The seemingly manic order in which the book is put together communicates a real sense of Poehler’s deep-rooted improvisational

humor. It includes a collection of random memories from her time on “ S N L , ” a list of comically s u g ge s t e d titles for b o o k s a b o u t divorce, a few sex tips and other life lessons that she has gathered over her years of hard work.

Along with her constant jesting and ability to make light of grave Amy Poehler’s first book “Yes Please” speaks situations, of the humorous life lessons Poehler has Poehler i n c l u d e s acquired over the years. a moving • Photo courtesy of Harper Collins and sincere story of apology and forgiveness in the “demon” breathing over her chapter titled “Sorry, Sorry, shoulder, waiting to tell her Sorry.” she’s not good enough. She Poehler also writes an embraces her self-proclaimed honest and empowering “plain” looks and boasts of chapter on her approach to the advantages they have self-examination and self- provided her. confidence. In the chapter, “I had already made a deci“Plain Girl vs. the Demon,” sion early on that I would be she talks about the “demon” a plain girl with tons of perthat lives in everyone’s mind sonality,” she writes, “and and urges us to examine our- accepting it made everything selves with a critical eye, a lot easier.” to find flaws to be ashamed This book is a wonderful of and to compare ourselves collection of stories, lessons to those around us to see and jokes with a delighthow we measure up. She ful mix of both helpful and lightheartedly addresses her absurd advice. Each chapter “flaws” that have been point- holds true to Poehler’s hilaried out to her over the years ous and delightful personaland how she handles her ity, which is sure to please.

NETFLIX PICKs of the day

Soon, we’ll all be watching Charlie Brown specials and claymation versions of our favorite holiday films.We’ll all want to take a break from learning for a while and just watch movies that make our brains feel like mush.However, if you’re looking for something a little more substantial during your holiday breaks, take these controversial documentaries.You’ll be too intrigued to notice all the information entering your head.

Jesus Camp:

This documentary follows children as they attend a controversial church camp meant to groom them into the next wave of“conservative Christian political activists.”A little disturbing and 100 percent fascinating, it shows there are two sides to every story.

Blackfish:

Tilikum is a killer whale held in captivity, a killer whale who has caused the deaths of multiple people during his life.The film explores the dangers of keeping a wild animal captive for both the animals and its keepers.

Food, Inc.:

As sickening as it is provocative, Robert Kenner’s documentary shows us how the processes of the food industry can actually lessen our health instead of improving it, but also what we can do to fix it.

Into the Abyss:

Following the lives of two murderers and the victims’ friends and family after a triple murder, this documentary has been criticized for provoking sympathy for the killers.You decide.

Subtle Clutch performs songs from its first album “Southern Wind” during a CD-release party on Saturday at Remedy Coffee in the Old City. Cameo Waters • The Daily Beacon

Jenna Butz Arts & Culture Editor (@butzjenna) They walked out to Jack White’s “High Ball Stepper.”

One by one, members of local bluegrass band Subtle Clutch took the stage in Remedy Coffee’s packed back room Saturday night, grabbing their respective instruments to play for their dedicated fans.

With members ranging from 15 to 16 years old, this was the band’s first CD release party, and the boys didn’t disappoint.

Despite the young audience and an oddly shaped backroom, the young band engaged everyone with its own blend of traditional bluegrass and modern folk.

Once the four boys were suited up with their instruments, they launched into the setlist, song after song, playing tracks from their newest release “Southern Wind” as well as their signature covers such as Cage the Elephant’s “Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked.”

“We were all looking for something to puke in because we were terrified,” lead singer Briston Maroney

DANCE continued from Page 1 There will be small, improvised shows throughout the year instead of the two big shows typically put on every year, which include “Modern Dance Primitive Light” and a spring show.

Anyone interested in dance is welcome with open arms at Circle Modern Dance. There are different classes for all levels, including open level classes that require no experience and intermediate/advanced classes on Wednesdays for those who have danced before. There will be an open house on Jan. 4 at Emporium Annex studio for

nervously laughed into the microphone, “but we’re really glad this is happening now.”

At first, you’re struck by the fact that each of them is separate but undeniably together. A theme of blue clothing united the four, yet each has his own version of the uniform. Jonathan Bailey on mandolin presented himself as a growing hipster with a flat-brimmed trucker hat and plaid shirt while Devin Badgett on guitar rocked a sophisticated version of the Canadian tuxedo. Vocalist Briston Maroney kept it simple with a checked shirt and jeans, while banjo player Eli Fox wore an embroidered, Western shirt with a bolo tie.

Each of their diverse styles represented the range of influences each member brought to the performance, evident in the slew of songs played throughout the evening.

There were moments that felt like Mumford & Sonsesque jam sessions while others were reminiscent of Fox’s personal favorites, Old Crow Medicine Show and Carolina Chocolate Drops. While it was clear the band is still searching for a sound that is entirely its own, which is to be expected, Subtle Clutch has already managed

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to break out of the “every song sounds the same” rut and blend a variety of sounds and genres.

Then there’s the songwriting itself. From a quartet of high schoolers, themes ranged from the fear of growing up to the discovery of first love, even mentioning wedding bells.

Here’s the thing about the young men: they make topics they haven’t experienced yet seem completely believable.

Chances are they haven’t spent the night beside a woman, yearning to touch her skin (or at least their mothers certainly hope not).

But you would never, not even for a brief second, think they were lying or being insincere. No, everything they sang about seemed to come directly from the heart.

Honest, authentic and well executed, Subtle Clutch transcended age and genre with both its first record and its intimate show. Despite a packed house, each audience member became enwrapped in the emotions Subtle Clutch presented.

The band presented its hard work and open souls to the crowd, ready for whatever it had to give back, receiving only love.

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interested dancers. Core members will also be teaching different sample classes starting at 1 p.m.

Soper White invites everyone to come out and experience

what she and the other Circle Modern Dance performers are passionate about.

She added: “This is a great opportunity for new people to come and see what we offer.”

Monday, November 17, 2014

THE DAILY BEACON • 7 Sports Editor Troy Provost-Heron @TPro_UTDB

SPORTS

tprovost@vols.utk.edu

Asst. Sports Editor Dargan Southard @dsouth16 msoutha1@vols.utk.edu

FOOTBALL

Jason Croom comes up big for the Vols once again Jonathan Toye Staff Writer (@JonathanToye1)

With Tennessee trailing 42-35 against South Carolina, Tennessee redshirt sophomore wide receiver Jason Croom managed to get wide open in the end zone and snagged the most important reception of his Tennessee career.

His nine-yard touchdown reception tied the game at 42 with 11 seconds left. Tennessee would go on to win the game 45-42 in overtime.

Two weeks later, Croom followed up his clutch catch with the biggest game in his college career.

Croom recorded three receptions for 87 yards and scored a touchdown in Tennessee’s 50-16 victory over the Kentucky Wildcats on Saturday night. The 87 receiving yards was a careerhigh for the Norcross, Georgia, native.

“Jason Croom really, really stepped up tonight,” Tennessee head coach Butch Jones said.

“Jason has been doing it all year.

Sometimes he may not have the catches, but he still impacts the game. I talk about impactful games and you can impact the game one way, shape, form or another, and he has been doing that.

“We have challenged him, Coach Z (Zach Azzanni) has challenged him to play big. He is 6-foot-4, 230 pounds. We have challenged him to play big and he has responded. And that is a tribute to his work ethic. He has shown great consistency in practice, and when you show consistency in practice you are going to perform on game day.”

All of Croom’s three receptions came during critical junctures in the game.

His first reception occurred when Tennessee was leading 23-3 in the middle of the second quarter. When Croom caught the ball at the line of scrimmage, he was greeted by a host of Wildcat defenders. Croom, however, churned his feet and dragged Kentucky defenders past the first down marker.

Croom’s tremendous effort on that play extended a drive that ended in a 9-yard Josh Dobbs’ touchdown run that gave the Vols

a commanding 30-3 lead.

“It was a critical, critical stage of the game,” Jones said. “We thought he was short. He just kept driving and driving the pylon.”

When Kentucky scored a touchdown on its next offensive possession to cut Tennessee’s lead to 20, Croom stepped up and extinguished any sort of momentum Kentucky might have gained when he grabbed a 32-yard pass from the sophomore quarterback.

His catch set up a 21-yard Aaron Medley field goal with 14 seconds remaining in the half.

Croom outdid that reception when he turned a simple wide receiver bubble screen into a 52-yard sprint to the end zone on the Vols’ first offensive play in the second half.

“I just came out of halftime, fresh legs, just got done warming up, and I was able to make a play.” Croom said.

Tapering turnovers: Tennessee’s offense moved seamlessly up and down the field in their win against Kentucky on Saturday, amassing 511 total yards and keeping the punting unit on the sidelines for the

majority of the game. Tennessee punter Matt Darr only saw the field four times on Saturday, with three of his punts coming in the fourth quarter after Jones had given the quarterback reigns to Nathan Peterman.

More impressively, Tennessee avoided turning the ball over for the first time since its season opening win against Utah State and was plus-2 in the turnover battle against the Wildcats. “(We were) plus-2 tonight in turnover margin, and that is usually evidence of winning and losing,” Jones said.” “That is the biggest statistic, along with passing efficiency, for us.”

Jones credited Dobbs as one of the reasons Tennessee was able to take care of the football.

“I think he is doing a great job at distributing the football and making decisions with the football,” Jones said. “I believe we didn’t turn the football over, and the quarterback is the caretaker of the football. And as we talk about, that ball holds all of dreams, goal and aspirations, so he is doing a great job at distributing the ball and taking care of the of the football.”

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Lady Vols get Massengale, Carter back against Oral Roberts Patrick MacCoon Staff Writer (@PatrickMacCoon)

When the No. 4 Lady Vols tipoff with Oral Roberts on Monday night, it will not be their first time facing the Golden Eagles– it will be their third matchup in the past seven seasons.

After facing off in the NCAA Tournament in 2008 and 2013, this will be the first regular season game between the SEC and Summit League programs.

Ariel Massengale, Bashaara Graves and Cierra Burdick all scored in double figures in the Lady Vols’ 83-62 win over the Golden Eagles in their previous matchup.

While Burdick will serve this game as the last of her twogame suspension, Massengale and Andraya Carter will return to action in the second of their team’s first four home games to start the season.

With the return of two point guards that have totaled 99 career starts, they will not put as much pressure on Tennessee’s three freshmen who played 83 minutes in the team’s 97-52 season opening win over Penn.

Alexa Middleton, Kortney Dunbar and Jaime Nared played well in their debuts, tallying 20,

15 and 10 points, respectively.

Their strong performance scoring the ball, shooting a combined 18-of-35, marked the second time in Lady Vol history in which three freshman debuted and finished with double-digit point totals.

The trio will be called upon again against Oral Roberts, especially with Jasmine Jones (head) and Isabelle Harrison (right leg) questionable to play with injuries.

“This has been a positive thing for these ladies who hadn’t played a lot,” Warlick said of the players who received playing time early this season due to the suspension of four Lady Vols.

“Everybody’s stepped up. When Jasmine and Isabelle went out, we had six and never missed a beat.”

Nia Moore received the second start of her career against Penn and will start as long as Harrison is out due to injury.

After putting up big numbers in the Lady Vols’ lone preseason game, Moore once again thrilled the crowd in Thompson-Boling Arena with a game-high 24 points (12-of-18 FG), 14 rebounds, and four blocks in a career-high 31 minutes of action.

“I think Nia (Moore) is successful because she keeps it simple,” Warlick said. “She does

all of her work before the ball gets there. When you do the work before the ball gets there, it’s a simple shot.

She doesn’t wait until the ball comes to her. If she continues to do that she’s going to shoot a high percentage shot.”

Moore will look to continue her strong start against a Golden Eagles team Freshman guard Kortney Dunbar struggles that has four against Carson-Newman defenders during players listed the Lady Vols’ contest on Nov. 9. Hayley at 6-foot-1or Pennesi • The Daily Beacon taller.

“She is a monster,” Graves scored a team-high 14 points, said. “Every day in practice she while 6-foot-7 center Vicky has proven she wants to be out McIntyre posted 10 points and here. She wanted this chance and 17 rebounds to go with three blocks. she is making the most of it.”

Tennessee (1-0) will tip-off The Golden Eagles lost 10160 in their season opener against with Oral Roberts (0-1) at 7 p.m.

No. 8 Baylor on Friday night. EST with the game being shown Freshman guard Jordan Doyle on WatchESPN.

VOLLEYBALL

Vols’ losing streak extends to six games Staff Report (@UTKBeaconSports) The Tennessee Lady Volunteer volleyball team dropped a pair of SEC matchups on the road over the weekend to extend their losing streak to six games.

UT’s weekend began in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where they faced off against the LSU Tigers, eventually falling 3-1 (14-25, 16-25, 25-21, 16-25).

As a team, Tennessee struggled to find its offensive rhythm as it finished with a hitting efficiency of just .052.

LSU, which finished with 15 total team blocks compared to just 2 from UT, closed the match with a .244 attack percentage.

Trailing 2-0, the Lady Vols extended the match behind a gutsy effort in the third set.

Tennessee finally found some offensive rhythm, finishing the frame with a hitting efficiency of .282 — their best in the match to that point.

The offense came to life when UT used a 9-2 run to break open a 12-12 deadlock midway

FOOTBALL continued from Page 1 He also rushed for 48 yards and a touchdown on 10 carries.

“Josh is very intelligent man,” Jones said. “He adds another dynamic. He’s doing a great job of distributing the football and making decisions with the football.”

After going into halftime up 33-13, the Vols offense continued to click in the third quarter, adding 17 more points to the scoreboard before the bench was emptied to begin the fourth quarter.

In total, UT amassed 511 total yards, piggybacking off the 645-yard performance it had two weeks ago in Columbia against the Gamecocks.

“I feel that as an offense, we

through the set.

The spurt gave the Lady Vols a 21-14 lead and some valuable breathing room as LSU would make a late charge, but a kill from sophomore Raina Hembry eventually settled the stanza at 25-21 in favor of UT. The Lady Vols rode the momentum into the early stages of the fourth set, but the Tigers used a 7-2 spurt midway through the game to propel themselves to the clinching 25-16 victory.

On Sunday, UT returned to action in College Station, Texas, to face off against the Texas A&M Aggies, but once again failed to come away with a victory, losing in straight sets 3-0 (21-25, 14-25, 23-25).

Nine different Lady Vols put down kills on the afternoon, including eight apiece from Kanisha Jimenez and Ashley Mariani, but it wasn’t enough to keep the Aggies from sweeping the season series.

UT (8-21, 1-14 SEC) finished the match with a hitting efficiency of .164 while Texas A&M (17-8, 9-5) turned in a .312 clip.

definitely played a full game of good football,” Dobbs said. “We were able to take care of the football and move the ball very well tonight. We’re clicking on all cylinders, which is very good, and we’ll definitely need to keep this up.”

The Vols will look to extend their winning streak to three games and make themselves bowl eligible when they play host to the Missouri Tigers on Nov. 22.

“You enjoy this win, but you have to come back to work,” Jones said. “We have some challenges down the road. We have a talented football team coming in here next week. We just have to focus and not get ahead of ourselves. It was victory number five, and that is it. I am proud of our guys, but it is back to work tomorrow.”

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Monday, November 17, 2014 Sports Editor Troy Provost-Heron @TPro_UTDB

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GRADING THE VOLS

Remember the heartache

Sports Editor Troy Provost-Heron covered UT’s game in Neyland Stadium against Kentucky on Saturday. He assessed grades for each position based on the group’s performance in the Vols’ 50-16 victory over the Wildcats.

Quarterbacks

A

Running Backs

AWide Receivers

A

Offensive Line

A

Defensive Line

ALinebackers

B+

Secondary

A+

Special Teams

C+

It may not have been a 467-yard performance like the one he had against South Carolina, but Joshua Dobbs once again excelled under center for the Vols. In three quarters of action, the sophomore signal caller amassed 297 yards and three touchdowns through the air (19of-27). On the ground, he added 48 yards and another score on 10 carries.

Freshman Jalen Hurd eclipsed the 100-yard mark for the second consecutive game, finishing the day with 118 yards and a touchdown on 24 carries. After three quarters, Hurd came out, allowing Justus Pickett and Deanthonie Summerhill to combine for 43 yards on 12 carries.

With Marquez North banged up and unable to play considerable minutes, the rest of the Vols’ receiving corps stepped up in his absence. Von Pearson scored two touchdowns and had 44 yards on three catches while Jason Croom had a career-high 87 yards, 52 of which came on his touchdown reception in the third quarter.

The Vols’ unit up front gave up only one sack and helped pave the way for an offense that racked up 214 yards on the ground. The offensive line has undoubtedly benefited from Dobbs’ insertion into the lineup, but after taking a ton of heat for their performance earlier in the season, I doubt they are complaining.

Derek Barnett once again led the way for the defensive line, recording two sacks and four tackles for loss. The line, however, also did a great job in clogging the running lanes, only allowing the Wildcats to gain 94 yards on 34 carries.

Overall, it was a pretty silent night by UT linebacking standards. Jalen Reeves-Maybin and A.J. Johnson only recorded five tackles apiece, even though Johnson did surpass the 100-tackle mark, marking him the first UT linebacker to have three consecutive 100-tackle seasons since Andy Spiva (1974-76). Curt Maggitt added two sacks, giving him eight on the season.

The Vols’ secondary held Kentucky to just 168 passing yards, but the unit also impacted the game with turnovers. Brian Randolph’s 23-yard interception return for a touchdown swung momentum clearly in UT’s favor early in the first quarter and the Vols carried it until the final whistle. Justin Coleman added an interception of his own as well.

Aaron Medley missed his longest attempt of the night — a 48-yarder in the third quarter — but converted on all three of his other field goal attempts. The freshman did, however, miss an extra point. Matt Darr averaged 43.5 yards on his four punts and Evan Berry averaged 30.3 yards on his three kick returns.

Week 10 GPA: The Vols earn a football GPA of 3.63 for their performance in a 50-16 win against Kentucky. Cumulative GPA: Through 10 games, UT holds a cumulative GPA of 2.79.

David Cobb

Sports Columnist (@DavidWCobb)

possibly let them down to a greater degree.

The Vols of recent memoryhave a way of raising hopes only to squash them in inexplicable ways. That was the story of last year’s senior class.

What could be more excruciatingly painful for this senior class and for the fans that have cheered it on than for UT to falter against Missouri (the Tigers are 8-2, by the way) and then lose to Vanderbilt for a third straight season.

There is little evidence from UT’s last two victories to suggest the Vols are capable of allowing that to happen.

Pause, though, and think how many times Tennessee has snagged defeat from the jaws of victory in the last five years before you dismiss it from the realm of possibility.

Reflect on the suffering, the anguish.

This week, instead of musing about who will replace fired Florida coach Will Muschamp, recall the fury you felt when Lane Kiffin deserted Knoxville after the 2009 season.

Recall how an untimed down in 2010 allowed No. 12 LSU to escape an inspired upset bid by the Vols in Baton Rouge.

Allow yourself to remember the Music City Bowl later that season when similar circumstances robbed UT of a win over North Carolina.

Don’t forget about a truly bizarre loss to Kentucky in 2011 that kept the Vols out of a bowl game, a momentum-squashing loss to Florida in 2012 and the embarrassment of a 23-point defeat at the hands of Vanderbilt in Derek Dooley’s last game as coach.

Remember those things this week, because a somber appreciation of the frustration they brought will make the jubilation of Tennessee’s sixth win all the more sweet.

If Tennessee is not careful, it might accidentally make a bowl game and close the 2014 season as an early frontrunner for 2015 SEC East supremacy.

The Vols clicked on all cylinders in a 50-16 thrashing of Kentucky at Neyland Stadium on Saturday and crept within a game of bowl eligibility.

UT (5-5, 2-5 SEC) looked dangerous, nothing like the last three Tennessee teams that faltered in similar late-season situations.

But UT fans should not allow what happened on Saturday, and what happened in an unlikely overtime win over South Carolina two weeks ago, to cure the skepticism they’ve adopted over the last several years to deal with their team’s stomachtwisting shortcomings.

It would certainly be easy to let infatuation with the recent play of Joshua Dobbs and Jalen Hurd break you down into making tentative travel plans for UT’s bowl game.

That infatuation might even persuade some into doing speculative math on UT’s chances of winning the SEC East in 2015.

You’ve been here before, though. You’ve thought the Vols – even these Vols – would cure your heartache and bring lasting jubilation.

Lest you forget how great you felt when UT led Florida 9-0 on Oct. 4: As the afternoon sun beat down on Neyland Stadium, a raucous crowd started to believe the Vols were going to end a nine-game losing streak to the Gators and compete for the SEC David Cobb is a senior in jourEast title. nalism and electronic media. He Instead, fans left in pain, won- can be reached at dcobb3@vols. dering how UT football could utk.edu.