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Johnson, Williams accused of forcible rape Troy Provost-Heron

Sports Editor (@TPro_UTDB)

Two Tennessee football players, senior linebacker A.J. Johnson and redshirt sophomore cornerback Michael Williams, are currently under investigation for an alleged forcible rape that occurred at The Woodlands of Knoxville

apartment complex early Sunday morning. According to a Knoxville Police Department report obtained by The Daily Beacon on Tuesday afternoon, one 19-year-old woman, who is a UT student, told police she was raped by Johnson and Williams at 1:45 a.m. She said the attack lasted 45 minutes. The other victim in the report, also a 19-yearold woman, claims that

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Williams sexually assaulted her, but also stated that she will not pursue charges, according to a KPD press release that was released Monday. The woman has since returned to Florida, where she attends another university. The woman who said she was raped was transported to UT Medical Center, according to the report. No charges have been filed against either player. On Monday, Johnson and

Williams were suspended from all team-related activities, approximately three hours after Tennessee head coach Butch Jones announced at his weekly media luncheon that the investigation did involve football players. The investigation began at approximately 2:57 a.m. Sunday when officers and investigators responded to White Avenue to look into a rape and sexual assault allegation.

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O f f i c e rs obtained a search warrant and searched the apartment at The Woodlands on Sunday night as part of the investigation. The investigation is ongoing. This is not the first legal incident Johnson has encountered in his time at UT.

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Forum to reveal first hand Ferguson experiences Tanner Hancock Copy Editor

Carrie Bilbrey works on some denim pieces in the Marc Nelson Denim shop. Hannah Cather • The Daily Beacon

Knoxville denim shop nurtures local art scene Liv McConnell Special Projects Editor

Marcus Hall is a man who knows his roots. When deciding where to establish the flagship store of his Knoxvillebased clothing line, Marc Nelson Denim, he didn’t go far from home. “This is the neighborhood I actually grew up in,” Hall said. “My grandparents lived two blocks from here, and that was one of the places I considered home. So to actually be able to open up a storefront and start doing productions right here, it is a dream come true.” The interior of the Warehouse District store, now in its ninth week of operation, holds true to the American-made standards Hall and his denim line embody. Classically masculine elements make

up the décor, including a cowhide rug, a case of old Coca-Cola bottles and the flag that flew above Hall’s first Knoxville business. “Everything is very, very Knoxville and very local,” said Andy Jones, public relations head of Marc Nelson Denim. “All of the shelves, counters and benches came out of a single cherry tree we bought here locally on Craigslist. All the wood you see we cut, made and finished right here in this space.” Equally local is the interior bricking. The exposed brick walls are the salvaged remains of the McClung Warehouses, which burned down in February. Most other architectural features, like the tiled walls and dressing room doors, are the handiwork of Warehouse District businesses, like forK design across the street.

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Marc Nelson uses Smooth Ambler Whiskey to custom color their Whiskey Stained Jeans. Hannah Cather • The Daily Beacon

Jones maintained that a number of the neighborhood businesses have reported positive changes since Marc Nelson opened its doors. “I really think we’re leading the charge here in the Warehouse District by saying, ‘We’re doing this here,’ and other local businesses are coming out and being a part of it,” Jones said. “We’re hearing from the local neighborhood telling us how positive the impact has been here.” For Hall, one of his favorite aspects of the

new space is its potential for entertainment. The store has already been transformed on several occasions into an offbeat venue, hosting local bands like The New Romantics for Halloween. “There’s a lot of cool things happening in this area,” Hall said. “We’ve got Saw Works next to us, which is cool because when we’re having a party you can go right next door and get beer if your keg runs out, which we did Friday night. It was a real party.”

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Immersion into Knoxville’s art and music scene is a goal of Hall and Jones, and one they have already made significant progress toward achieving. “What we’re really hoping to do with this space is showcase a lot of great indie, local music and local art,” Jones said. “We really feel that with what we do, we are a real part of the arts community in Knoxville.”

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Ferguson, Missouri, was once an obscure St. Louis suburb. Now the town is associated with police brutality, American racial tension and a widely-supported social movement. Several UT students and Knoxville residents recently traveled to Ferguson to protest the Aug. 9 death of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African-American man who was fatally shot by Darren Wilson, a Caucasian police officer. On Wednesday night in the Alumni Memorial Building, they will share their experiences in Ferguson and discuss the broader political situation underlying the highly-publicized death. The Tennessee-based Highlander Center selected the participants to travel to Ferguson in order to participate in the area’s social activism. The center works to promote “grassroots movements” in the South to promote widespread social justice and equality. Ann Richardson, a lecturer in the history department and a member of the planning committee responsible for the forum, hopes the event will highlight connections between Ferguson’s racial climate and that of Knoxville. “This is Missouri, we’re in Knoxville -- what do these two things have to do with each other?” Richardson asked. Richardson said she sees the death of Michael Brown at the hands of a police officer as a symptom of larger racial issues in the nation, citing the death of AfricanAmerican teenager Vonderrit Myers last month in St. Louis as evidence to that effect. “It feels like an epidemic,” Richardson explained. “How many more young people or young men in this society are gonna die before we all just step back and say ‘Wait a second, what’s going on here?’” Richardson ultimately sees the forum as an opportunity for students to discuss the controversial issues surrounding Brown’s death. Having lived during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, Richardson said the next generation is responsible for continuing the legacy of improving race relations. “These shootings are an indication that there is more work that needs to be done (by America’s youth),” Richardson said. See FERGUSON on Page 2

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DISPATCHES 5 dead in attack on Jerusalem synagogue

Keystone pipeline could stall in Senate

Peterson suspended for remainder of season

Ferguson decision expected to incite violence

On Tuesday morning, two Palestinians armed with a gun, knives and axes stormed a synagogue complex in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of West Jerusalem and killed four men in the middle of their morning prayers, the Israeli police report. The two assailants were killed at the scene in a gun battle with local police that left one officer killed. The incident marks the deadliest attack on Israeli citizens in more than three years. The overtly religious aspects of the attack elicited horror from witnesses and Israeli leaders. Specifically, the assailants killed the men in ritual garments and spilled blood on prayer books in the synagogue.

Supporters of the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline face tough odds on Tuesday in passing a bill through the U.S. Senate to approve the project. The pipeline, which would stretch from the oil sands in Alberta, Canada, to the Gulf Coast, needs 60 votes in favor to pass in a 100-member chamber. While the bill sailed through the House of Representatives last week, one lawmaker that supporters hoped would vote in favor of the proposal has now said he will vote against it. The removal of his support brings pipeline advocates one vote short of the needed majority. President Obama is reportedly likely to veto the measure on the grounds that an environmental review of the process remains incomplete.The Senate is expected to vote as early as 5:30 p.m. EST on Tuesday.

It was announced Tuesday that Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson will be suspended without pay for at least the rest of the 2014 NFL season, according to an NFL statement. Peterson was indicted on felony charges of reckless or negligent injury to a child in September, to which the 29-year-old pleaded no contest earlier this month. He will not be considered for reinstatement before April 15, 2015, because he violated the league’s personal conduct policy “in an incident of abusive discipline that he inflicted on his 4-year-old son last May,” NFL officials report. The National Football League Players Association has criticized the NFL for the decision, which it calls an “arbitrary disciplinary proceeding.”

As a St. Louis County grand jury concludes its investigation of the shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown by police office Darren Wilson on Aug. 9, authorities are preparing for social unrest. On Monday, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency and the FBI issued a bulletin warning of likely violence across the country. Under a state of emergency, Nixon is allowed to mobilize the state’s National Guard to keep order. This decision has added to the growing anxiety in greater St. Louis as the city braces for the news, especially as it has been widely speculated that Wilson will not be charged in the fatal shooting. The FBI bulletin warned law enforcement agencies that “extremist protesters” are likely to attack police officers and federal agents after the decision.

Students push to change Tenn. capital punishment laws

Hannah Marley Staff Writer

Some say an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. But in the American justice system, this mentality can lead to wrongful accusations and innocent individuals paying the ultimate price. On Monday night in the University Center, the libertarian organization Young Americans for Liberty at UT hosted “To Honor Life: An Evening on the Death Penalty,” an event focused on exposing the deep-seated problems that lie at the heart of capital punishment in the United States. The event featured a talk by Ray Krone, the 100th death row inmate exonerated in the U.S., on his 10-year struggle in the

FERGUSON continued from Page 1 Josh Inwood, associate professor of geography and Africana studies and moderator for the forum, sees the death of Michael Brown as a “tragic situation,” yet admits the truth behind the inci-

This evidence, Rector explained, includes personal testimonies that demonstrate the fallibility of the courts and the enormous cost of continuing to support the death penalty. The court processes, Rector explained, take six times longer than the average criminal trial, with appeals that can last for decades and housing for death row inmates that can cost twice as much as general housing. “So in the end, if you look at what happens in states like North Carolina, you’re going to save yourself several million dollars per case,” Hyden said. Stories like Krone’s and facts about capital punishment are what initially led Kenny Collins, a junior in political science and member of Young Americans for Liberty, to begin to research and

courts to prove his innocence, as well as a discussion panel with Stacy Rector from Tennesseans for Alternatives to the Death penalty and Marc Hyden with Conservatives Concerned about the Death Penalty. Convicted of killing a Phoenix bartender in 1991, Krone was sentenced to the death penalty and spent 10 years fighting the court system with evidence of his innocence, including shoe prints smaller than the size of his actual foot and handprints and DNA evidence from the victim’s body that did not match his own. Despite the evidence in his favor, Krone spent two years on death row and 10 years total in prison after being found guilty twice and refusing to mitigate, or show remorse, for a crime he did not commit.

“How do you mitigate something you didn’t do? How do you show remorse or regret for an act you never committed?” Krone asked the audience. “They weren’t interested in the truth, folks.” Krone’s experience is just one story in a prison system that has wrongly sentenced 147 people to death. These examples, Rector said, are convincing people from different areas and political parties to band together against the death penalty. “There are more and more voices from a variety of backgrounds and perspectives who are now speaking out and who are sharing their concerns about Tennessee’s death penalty, because the evidence continues to mount that the system is too broken for us to fix,” Rector said.

dent may never be fully understood. “I don’t think at this point any of us have a full appreciation of what went on in Ferguson and there’s a good chance probably we never will,” Inwood said. Citing statistics from the Malcolm X Foundation, Inwood said the fact that a person of color is killed every 36 hours by a law

enforcement official fits into a larger, more troubling context of racial violence in America. “(Racial violence) fits into a broader pattern, and that’s where it becomes more troubling,” Inwood said. The event will take place from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday in Chris Salvemini Room 27 of the Alumni Memorial Contributor Building.

think twice about the death penalty that he once strongly supported. “I supported it because growing up, you think the death penalty, that’s the right thing to do to people who have done wrong,” Collins said. “Especially here in the South, people expect you to support the death penalty.” After learning about the innocent people who have been wrongly accused, as well as the failure of the death penalty to deter crime and prevent murder, Collins said that he could no longer justify the use of capital punishment. “After I did a lot of research, I realized that I couldn’t support it,” Collins said. Hyden said that capital punishment is contradictory to many tightly-held conservative views,

including the importance of prolife legislation and limited government. “It’s not pro-life when it risks killing innocent lives, it’s not fiscally responsible because it costs millions more dollars to try to execute someone than to keep them in jail for the rest of their lives,” Hyden said. “And I don’t think that giving the government the power to kill you is a form of limited government.” Rector said she urges Tennesseans to write to their state representatives and Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam in order to bring awareness to the many flaws associated with capital punishment and stop 10 executions scheduled to take place in 2015. “We need Tennesseans to come together to help make that happen,” Rector said.

Professor to lecture on challenges faced in Eritrea Forced military service or exile: this is a decision many citizens of Eritrea face. On Wednesday, Tricia Hepner, associate professor of anthropology, will present on one of the biggest refugee producers in Africa: Eritrea. The small African nation is notorious for its brutal treatment of enlisted soldiers, many of whom are destined to serve in the country’s military for their entire lives as part of an economic development campaign. To avoid this fate, citizens tend to leave the country in droves and seek asylum in nearby Israel. “Warsay-yika’alo” or forced conscription, has created an environment of marginalization for the nation’s citizens. Originally designed by the dictator to improve the small country’s economy, it involved six months of military training and one year of service for all men and women between the ages 18 and 45. A two-year war with Ethiopia, however, caused political unrest in the region and the mass arrests of many dissidents. As a result, the

limit on military service was removed, forcing Eritreans to serve indefinitely. In her lecture, Hepner will discuss the country, the refugees and the disenfranchisement of asylum-seekers through the policies that have been put in place to handle them. “She will talk about how marginalization and militarization in Eritrea generate refugees, and how international and domestic migration policies can work against vulnerable people claiming the basic human right of asylum,” said Michael Schilling, Club Geography president and senior in geography. As part of the “Perspectives on Structural Violence” event series that was started by the Student Sociology Committee, Club Geography and the Global Studies Club last September, the event will explore the complex relationship between international influence and the creation of migration policy and law. The series aims to address the multifaceted issue of structural violence, or the phenomenon in which social structures and institutions can act against those participating in them, preventing them from

reaching their basic human needs. “Our hope in sponsoring this series is to create dialogue and inspire action around the often silent issues that impact our communities and the world around us,” said Colleen Ryan, co-founder of the Global Studies Club and undecided sophomore. Hepner, who received a Ph.D. in anthropology from Michigan State University and a certificate in forced migration and refugee studies from the Center for Refugee Studies in York University, has had extensive experience with Eritrea and similar cases of forced migration and refugees. She researched the nation for more than 20 years and assisted in more than 300 cases of refugees from the country. Additionally, she has published several books and articles in this field, including a book titled “Soldiers, Martyrs, Traitors and Exiles: Political Conflict in Eritrea and the Diaspora.” The event will be held at 4:30 p.m. in Hodges Library, Room 213. There will be a presentation as well as an open discussion where attendees can ask Hepner questions.

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Staff Writer With hundreds of thousands of fans around the country in a frenzy, One Direction is arguably one of the most popular boy bands ever (at least for the current generation). The popular London– based boy band released their fourth studio album “Four” in the United States on Monday, and it has already sold thousands of copies and rushed to the top of countless charts. The album follows the release of the band’s first single off the album “Steal My Girl” in September. One Direction’s latest album boasts a more rock sound than their previous music. Songs like “Change Your Ticket” have a classic feel and may remind the listener of ‘90s rock. Other songs like “Fireproof” have a more modern rock sound, with a steady, soft drum beat in the background. “Four” is much more influenced by the band members as well, with each having more songwriting credits than on previous albums. While One Direction’s third album “Midnight Memories” was composed of mostly upbeat, pop sounds, the songs on “Four” are much more mature and even somber. Much of the album focuses on love and relationships,

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which is not anything new for the boy band, but the songs are less upbeat and more about losing a loved one or dealing with heartbreak. “Spaces” has lyrics like “The spaces between us/ Keep getting deeper/It’s harder to reach her/Even though I’ve tried,” which describes the ending of a relationship and the feelings that ensue during a break up. The song, “18,” which was written by well-known musician Ed Sheeran, is one of the album’s stand out songs. With lines like, “And all I can do is say that these arms were made for holding you/ And I wanna love like you made me feel/When we were eighteen,” it focuses on being in love with someone and knowing that fact since you were young.

The album “Four” is similar to past efforts, but slight differences and a more mature sound show the band members are growing up. The sound is less happy than previous albums and lingers more on how things change or have changed in the members’ lives. One thing that the album solidifies is that One Direction has made itself a staple in the world of boy bands. The group will be talked about for years to come, as each album it releases delivers. The group remains true to itself and provide fans with fun songs that range over different topics and emotions. “Four” is no different, and fans are sure to find a few new favorite One Direction songs to sing along to with this new release.

A brave group weathered the cold and gathered in Lindsay Young Auditorium on Monday night to hear author David James Poissant speak during the semester’s final “Writers in the Library.” The finale to the lecture series was sponsored by writer and graduate student Matt Brock. Brock said the first story he read by Poissant was “Lizard Man,” and that it is a terrific piece. “Poissant is an amazing young southern writer,” Brock said. After discovering Poissant, Brock shared one of his own stories with the author, which is how they came into contact. Brock mentioned to Poissant that he should do a reading at the University of Tennessee because it would be a great experience, thus leading to Monday’s reading. Poissant is the author of “The Heaven of Animals” and many other published essays. His writing has become increasingly popular, and his essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Chicago Tribune and various other outlets. Poissant has also been awarded The Matt Clark Prize and the George Garret Fiction Award. Yet with all the acclaim for his previous works, Poissant decided to stray from his more popular works and read two new essays along with one short story from his short story collection “The Heaven of Animals.” His first essay was called

Author David James Poissant read from his essays during the semester’s final Writers in the Library event on Monday. Kristen Bright • The Daily Beacon

“Nathan,” which will be published this winter. Poissant explained that he based the story off a bet he made with his friend, and it chronicles a man’s life and how he happens to always have good fortune despite the disapproval of some of his actions by his family. David’s reading of this story demonstrated his ability to shock with the introduction of an unexpected narrator at the end of the piece. He then read “What the Wolf Wants” from “The Heaven of Animals,” a piece about how hospitality isn’t always returned. Stephanie Dugger, a graduate student in English, found the story to be the most appealing reading of the night. This story was my favorite one that he read,” Dugger said, “and it is a fantastic piece.” To close the evening, Poissant read “The Story of the Year,” a tale about the events that took

NELSON continued from Page 1 A rotating selection of local art is continuously featured, and the month of December will include live, in-store music by local musicians every day of the week. Hall and company have also held a range of events benefiting local organizations, including raising more than $1,000 for the Clarence Brown Theatre one night. “For us, we feel this is a hub, if you will, for Knoxville to come be a part of it in a lot of different ways,” Jones said. “Whether it’s through playing your music, showing your art or just whatever.” But music and art aren’t the only ways Marc Nelson Denim is contributing to the Knoxville community. Over the summer, the company debuted a noncredit UT class, Introduction to Fashion Design, which meets in the space. “Part of the Marc Nelson lifestyle if you work here is that you have to want to give back to the community, and UT is obviously a huge part of our community,” Hall said. “They actually called us, and we jumped at the opportunity to do the class right here on site.” Currently teaching the second installment of the class,

The new Marc Nelson shop is on the corner of Depot Avenue and Randolph Street. Hannah Cather • The Daily Beacon

which meets once a week on Wednesday nights, Hall said students are instructed in “a little bit of everything.” “We do sewing, drawing, trending and photography,” he said. “It’s been really successful.” Ally Ellin, junior in retail and consumer sciences, is one UT student who has benefited from the company’s inclusion of fashion business hopefuls. She has been interning for Marc Nelson Denim since August. “I’ve worked in retail before, and I just saw the storefront side of it,” Ellin said. “But here

you get to see clothing from the start to the end. For my major, I think it’s really important to see how stuff literally starts from scratch and then goes out the door being sold.” Although the prices of Marc Nelson’s jeans can run a bit steep for the average college student -- a standard pair sells at $175 -- Ellin believes it’s important that quality, not quantity, is the deciding factor. “There are some things that I definitely buy cheaper, but you need key pieces, and I think denim is a good investment piece,” she said. “Everyone

wears denim. It’s a staple piece you can wear literally every day, either dressed up or down.” And if Hall has his way, soon more consumers will be purchasing his Knoxville-made denim across the country. “We’re now in the next phase of the dream,” he said. “The phase after this will be opening several stores around the country that look just like this.” To stay informed about upcoming entertainment events and sales at Marc Nelson Denim, visit their website http://www.marcnelsondenim. com or Facebook page.

place over the past year of his life. The story is about a family and all the daily tasks that they go through each day and discusses love, faith, mortality and loss. The story proved to be a stark contrast to the first reading focusing on perpetual luck, as opposed to the final one exploring everyday misfortunes. Despite the hard lessons Poissant sometimes shared from his works, there were many laughs in the crowd as he read his works. “I was always attracted to funny stuff, and I like to make people laugh,” Poissant said. David chose the three pieces he thought were on the weirder side, and he explained .he writes the weirder stories as a release valve, allowing a less controlled prose to emerge. “Poissant’s diction was very poetic,” Dugger said, “and that it was in some way magical.”

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Stop the sexual assault shame Chiefly Speaking by

Claire Dodson

After every sexual assault email this semester, the social app Yik Yak has exploded with activity. The victims, thus far, have each chosen not to file charges, leading many a yakker to wonder: why have these female students declined to take further legal action? Early Sunday morning, a female alleged victim of rape came forward and named her alleged attackers -- one of whom is UT’s star linebacker A.J. Johnson, according to the Knoxville Police Department police report obtained by The Daily Beacon on Tuesday afternoon. The other alleged attacker, sophomore cornerback Michael Williams, was further accused of sexually assaulting another 19-year-old woman at the same location. Neither player has been charged as of Tuesday evening. The Yik Yak, Facebook and Twitter communities responded as usual. While many commenters applauded Butch for suspending the two players, far too many (read: any at all is too many) opposed the decision. And while some made solid arguments against jumping on a bandwagon to convict someone who wasn’t even an official suspect at the time of the posts on Monday, far too many accused the female student of lying about rape. When several commenters correctly confronted this insensitivity, they were called “feminazis.” I wasn’t going to write a column about these activities, until I saw a particular post written by a female Facebook friend. She wrote about the incident, “Girls are such liars and want to play innocent the next morning … Be a big girl, suck it up and keep your mouth shut! If you want to party and play with the big dogs at night then say (you) feel bad the next morning, go to church. (Don’t) risk an innocent football player his CAREER!” I stared at the screen for a solid five minutes, appalled and concerned. Whether Johnson and Williams committed these crimes or not, that post distills every reason rape and sexual assault victims don’t come forward. While concrete statistics about false rape allegations are difficult to find, the number is generally pegged between 2 and 8 percent of rapes reported, according to a Slate article titled “Crying Rape.” As a member of the media, I firmly believe in fair and objective reporting. Based on the legal principle of presumption of innocence until proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt, we cannot assume that Johnson and Williams raped a classmate -- but it’s extremely dangerous to assume the girl is lying; and more dangerous, to assume that girls are liars and attentionseekers by nature who want to “play with the big dogs” but then can’t handle the consequences. I’m speaking to every student at the University of Tennessee when I say we may never know what happened that night. But consider this -- it was enough for a woman to implicate a popular and influential football player. After doing so, she was likely asked to relive humiliating, terrifying moments and then go to UT Medical Center, where she probably underwent a rape kit procedure. Then, she was subject to critical commentary from her campus community. If Johnson and Williams are arrested, her name will most likely come into the open, leaving her even more vulnerable to the crass stupidity many of her fellow Vols exhibited this week. I realize I am speaking to one particular woman who wrote a careless Facebook post, but I’m also speaking to every person who posted cruel things on Monday in any public forum. Every time you used the word “feminazi,” every time you used #saveaj, you contribute to the culture of guilt and shame that surrounds sexual assault. Every time you imply that she should have kept her mouth shut, not gone to the party or not “played with the big dogs,” you imply that rape is an appropriate consequence for a person’s behavior. You were saying we deserve it -- for having a little too much to drink, for teasing him with our outfits, for being a “#drunkslutlyingaboutrape” (Yes, this was an actual post on Yik Yak Monday). We deserve to have our breasts and asses groped, our bodies reduced to fodder for another’s orgasm, our vaginas forcibly penetrated by mouths, fingers, penises. Every time you talk about Johnson and Williams in the next few weeks, you are shaping how we discuss women and sexual assault -- what do you really want to say? Claire Dodson is a senior in English and the Editorin-Chief of the Daily Beacon. She can be reached at pdodson@vols.utk.edu.

Columns of The Daily Beacon are reflections of the individual columnist, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Beacon or its editorial staff.

Mitigating the madness of Black Friday City Cents by

Jonathan Martin Although it’s still over a week away, Black Friday is already in the front of many shoppers’ minds. During a time of year when money is tight for many, sale promotions are an enticing and irresistible opportunity. Many retailers are aware of this, and have already begun to release the specifics of the deals they will offer on the day after Thanksgiving. Other stores have had their promotional offers “leaked” online beforehand due to the eagerness many shoppers have to find the best deals. To get the most out of the early hours spent running around shopping centers, it might help you to take a closer look at what the retailers themselves value. For instance, most people are aware of how frequently stores push their customers to sign up for loyalty programs or membership cards. Obviously, this is a great way to help reinforce brand or store loyalty and maintain a long-term relationship with a customer. However, many stores, such as Sears and Toys “R” Us, actually allow their members to have early or exclusive access to Black Friday prices. I have never been so passionate about

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If you don’t want to wake up on Nov. 29 to an empty bank account, it’s generally best to avoid this line of thinking. If you hadn’t planned on buying a new TV before you went out on Black Friday, then you haven’t really saved $500. In reality, you’ve only ended up losing the amount that you pay for that plasma screen, deal or no deal. The safest way to safeguard against impulse purchases is viewing Black Friday through such a practical lens. Make a shopping list beforehand, whether it’s for yourself or your loved ones, and stick to it. As I said, we’ve got awhile before the madness begins. So before you go crazy pushing through the crowds, try to remember the infamous Tickle Me Elmo craze from 1996. In that specific instance, people offered as much as $1,500 for the plush toy by the year’s end. Needless to say, sanity is not always the prevailing characteristic of this holiday. In light of the ridiculous history Black Friday has garnered for itself, it’s important that we keep perspective. Hopefully these tips help both the meticulous planner and the impulse buyer from foregoing any opportunities, or making any mistakes. As for me, I’ll be sitting on my couch with leftover Thanksgiving food, counting down the days until Cyber Monday. Jonathan Martin is a junior in finance and economics. He can be reached at j92mart@gmail.com.

Stop and smell the roses Scarlett’s Web by

Scarlett Miles A friend asked me how my day was today, and I replied, saying it was fabulously normal. But then I started thinking. Sure, it was normal. It was routine. It was full of classes, speeches and assignments. But, then I focused on the little things I may not have appreciated in the moment. My day was also full of wonderful people and wonderful weather. I was able to spend time in Circle Park writing a paper. Circle Park is probably one of my favorite places on campus; the openness, the trees and the way the sun seems to hit it just right. This made my day so much more than normal, and it only lasted a little over half an hour. But what really stood out to me today was when I left my speech class and pointed out to a friend how the flowers were blooming. Instead of saying something expected, he told me to close my eyes and smell.

So, I did. It’s funny, but the floral scent actually overpowered my senses with my eyesight gone. It was amazing and beautiful, and it made my day. Maybe it’s kind of silly for the smell of flowers to make someone’s day because you can smell flowers anytime in the grocery or in a garden. But how often do you take a single moment of your busy day to really stop and smell the roses? How often in our incredibly busy lives full of classes, work, sororities, fraternities, clubs, organizations, family, homework, cooler painting, errand running and other commitments do we really just stop and appreciate all of the little things that the world has to offer? I’ve had plenty of weeks where I went nonstop. We all have those weeks. Papers, tests, coolers, speeches, meetings, philanthropy events, sleep(if I was lucky) -- It never seemed to end. I didn’t stop, I didn’t write, I didn’t take notice of the things I needed to have gratitude for. Amid all those philanthropy events and meetings, I was with my closest friends. Amongst all the papers and tests, I was getting an education. The speeches -- well, that’s the area I want to work in. Just being in Circle Park, at the Communications Building, makes me the

happiest person ever. Smelling those flowers didn’t just remind me of the beauty that surrounds me every day, that I often overlook. But it made me think of how grateful I am to have a friend that notices the small things as well, one that I can have the most interesting conversations with, like the ones that last seven hours. It’s one thing to have friends you can go to about anything, you can have fun with and you love with all your heart. But it’s also amazing to have one that notices all of the incredibly beautiful things around them on a daily basis, and isn’t too busy to point them out and take the time to appreciate them. So pick your busiest day of the week; maybe that’s every day. But one day, when you’re rushing to class or work, or even when you have a spare moment, take a look around you. And I mean STOP - stop walking, stop talking, stop doing whatever it is you’re doing. Notice the small things you don’t notice when you’re rushing to get to your math class or your anthropology class. Because in some places, they don’t have flowers. Scarlett Miles is a freshman in communication studies. She can be reached at qrc969@vols.utk.edu.

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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

THE DAILY BEACON • 5 Sports Editor Troy Provost-Heron @TPro_UTDB

SPORTS

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UT defense carrying ‘next man up’ approach in Johnson’s absence Patrick MacCoon Staff Writer (@PatrickMacCoon)

Junior defensive line Curt Maggitt eyes the field during football practice on Tuesday. Samantha Smoak • The Daily Beacon

World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. payed a visit to Knoxville, performing in Thompson-Boling Arena on Tuesday night. Here’s what the campus community had to say about the “Smackdown.� Craig Bates @cbaestn Kelli and I are at Thompson Boling Arena to take the kids to @WWE event in #Knoxville tonight. Words are beginning to fail me already.

Godric Figueroa @g_figgs Man I wish I could have gone to @WWE Smackdown tonight

Cox @garrett_vols Just realized it’s GAME DAY baby #RKO @WWE

Jessica @J_Lewelling20 WWE Smackdown tonight!! I’m so excited. #FrontRowSeats

Joshua Bowles @Hoosier43 It’s not gonna be a dull day. Important chat w/ #RSM330 followed by my favorite class activity, & the WWE’s in town tonight. Let’s do it.

Amy Taylor @AmyETaylor

Sierra Darnell @sierra8451 So if #Smackdown is here in Knoxville are all the superstars hiding? @WWE

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The Tennessee football team is taking the “next man up� approach as they prepare for No. 19 Missouri this weekend without one of its most recognized faces on the defensive side of the ball. With the Vols looking to reach bowl eligibility for the first time since 2010, the team did not let the absence of senior starting middle linebacker A.J. Johnson hinder their indoor practice on Tuesday’s cold November evening. “With the way our defense is set up, it’s the next man up,� senior defensive tackle Jordan Williams said. “We have to unite together and stay focused. We had a great practice and are moving forward and playing football.� Filling the void at the spot vacated by the SEC’s secondleading tackler will be three underclassmen in Jakob Johnson, Cortez McDowell and Kenny Bynum. The trio of underclassmen has combined for 22 tackles, compared to Johnson’s 101. “You just don’t replace his (A.J’s) production,� head coach Butch Jones said. “Everyone around our football team has to step up and do their job and not do anymore than what’s required of them. They’ll step up.� Sophomore weakside linebacker Jalen-Reeves Maybin is expected to take over the vocal role that would usually fall to Johnson. Maybin has recorded doubledigit tackles in two games this season and has averaged 8.5 tack-

les per SEC contest. “We will rely on Jalen-Reeves Maybin a little bit more,� Jones said. “He has experience at the second level of our defense.� Tennessee will also look at one more individual on defense to step up for a missing regular in the starting lineup. For the first half of the game, the UT secondary will be without Brian Randolph, who was ejected during the second half of the Kentucky game for targeting. Freshman safety Todd Kelly Jr. filled in after Randolph’s departure and has earned confidence from his teammates and coaches over the course of the season. “He came in and did a great job after Randolph left,� Jones said. “T.K. is a very smart individual. He puts his work in and does his due diligence. I don’t think communication will be a problem, and I expect him to step up and do well.� Barnett wreaks havoc: Freshman defensive end Derek Barnett already broke Jadeveon Clowney’s SEC freshman record for most sacks in a season and will look to add on to his total of nine this Saturday. While he is the first true freshman ever to start a season-opener at defensive end in program history, he is not shocked at the results he has had on the gridiron. For SEC defensive linemen, he ranks third with 56 tackles, tied for first in tackles for loss (18.0), and third in sacks (9). “The numbers don’t really surprise me,� Barnett said. “I’m confident in my talents. God gave me a bunch of talents, and I just try to use them in the right way to help this team and program

out. My teammates are holding me accountable, so I have to do my job.� Barnett along with the rest of the Tennessee defensive line, which has totaled 29 sacks this season, will go head-to-head with a Tigers offensive line that has only given up 15 sacks on the season. The Vols have already surpassed their season totals in sacks for each of the past six seasons. “It’s all about coming in the game with the right mentality and not giving up on plays,� Barnett said. “We’ve missed a bunch of sacks, but we’ve done a good job giving it that extra push. We feel like we can go head-to-head with anybody in the country. Williams remembers: Williams came into Tennessee in 2011 as an undersized 6-foot-4, 240-pound defensive end. However, in midst of his best season yet as a Vol he is now contributing often at the defensive tackle position. “I’m very proud of him,� Jones said. “He’s grown into a team leader and our players have respected him. He’s been a great resource for these young players and mentoring them everyday.� Williams is encouraged to fulfill a goal that has never been reached in his career: to reach a bowl game. “I thought about it last week when the game ended that this week was going to be my last week running off the field,� Williams said. “It’s another opportunity to play football. I’ve really appreciated the fans the last four years and Tennessee football. It’s going to be a fun game.�

the age of 21 and resisting arrest. His resisting arrest charge was later dropped, and his supplying alcohol to minors charge was scheduled to be dismissed if Johnson completed a set amount of community service and attended an alcohol education class. Johnson, an All-SEC linebacker from Gainesville, Georgia, has started all 10 games and leads the Vols in tackles this season.

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Wednesday, November 19, 2014 Sports Editor Troy Provost-Heron @TPro_UTDB

SPORTS ‘Rocky Top’ is on Bulldogs’ playlist, for 1 night only Associated Press

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — For one night, the Georgia Bulldogs are going to be hard-core Tennessee fans. Senior receiver Michael Bennett said Tuesday he may paint a big T and run through it. Junior defensive end Sterling Bailey is even planning to sing Rocky Top, the Vols’ fight song that usually draws groans from Georgia fans. Even Georgia coach Mark Richt joked he might wear orange for the first time since he played for Miami to watch Saturday night’s MissouriTennessee game. The No. 9 Bulldogs play Charleston Southern in an early game on Saturday. If the Vols beat Missouri, Georgia would clinch a spot in the Southeastern Conference championship game. The Bulldogs also would make the SEC title game if Missouri loses to Arkansas next week. Asked Sunday how he planned to watch the MissouriTennessee game, Richt said, “I would hopefully be settled in on my lounge chair and cheering for the Vols. Whether or not I wear orange is still up in the air.” On Tuesday, Richt provided the added detail that he plans to be wearing his pajamas. He said he does not have orange pajamas and wasn’t sure if he even wore orange when his son, Jon, played for Clemson. “I might have one day worn something orange, but it was in private,” he said. “The last time I wore orange was at the U of M back in ‘82.” Georgia (8-2, 6-2 SEC), which closes its regular season against Georgia Tech next

week, capped its SEC schedule with last week’s 34-7 win over Auburn. The Bulldogs beat Missouri 34-0 on Oct. 11 and would win a tie-breaker with the Tigers (8-2, 5-1). Georgia was left looking for help in the SEC East race after losing to Florida on Nov. 1. “We don’t like depending on someone else, as far as destiny, but sometimes that’s just the way things go,” Bailey said. “In the past couple years, we’ve been in this same situation. It’s tough.” Georgia players seem more than ready to push aside their long rivalry with Tennessee and become fans of the Vols for one night. “I’ll probably just turn on the TV and be singing good ol’ Rocky Top,” Bailey said. “I don’t know all the words but hopefully before then I’ll learn them.” Bennett said he planned to watch the game with quarterback Hutson Mason. “It’s kind of cool to be a fan of some other team, kind of like a regular college football fan, so it’ll be fun,” Bennett said. “I’ll probably just paint my T somewhere and run through it. Me and Hutson will be definitely cheering them on.” Bennett would only go so far. The senior drew the line when asked if he would sing Rocky Top. “I don’t know about that,” he said. “I really hate that song.” Georgia will complete its season without junior tailback Todd Gurley. Georgia announced Sunday Gurley will have season-ending surgery for a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee. The loss of Gurley leaves freshman Nick Chubb, the team’s leading rusher, to continue in the role as starter he assumed when Gurley served a four-game suspension.

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VOLLEYBALL

Lady Vols look for conference win over visiting Gamecocks

The Lady Vols volleyball team currently has a record of 8-21 for the 2014 season. Samantha Smoak • The Daily Beacon

Trenton Duffer Staff Writer (@trenton_duffer) With only two home games left this year, the Lady Vols (8-21, 1-14 SEC) look to pull off an upset Wednesday night when they take on the South Carolina Gamecocks in Knoxville. The Lady Vols are coming off back-to-back road losses against LSU and Texas A&M. The Tigers jumped out to a 2-0 lead early against the Lady Vols. However, Tennessee would go on to win the third set 25-21 before dropping the fourth set against the talented Tigers. The Lady Vols couldn’t get it going on offense, posting a hitting percentage of .052 compared to LSU’s .244. The Tigers also slammed home 15 blocks compared to two by the Lady Vols. The Aggies would go on to

sweep the Lady Vols in straight sets thanks to an astronomical .312 hitting percentage. The Aggies also piled on 58 digs compared to the Lady Vols’ 46. “We’ve played a lot better this past weekend when it comes to our passing,” head coach Rob Patrick said. “If we take care of our side of the net and not make a lot of errors, we can play with anybody. We showed that against LSU and Texas A&M.” Now the Lady Vols will have an SEC East rival coming to town with victory on their mind. The Gamecocks (1512, 5-9 SEC) are a formidable defensive juggernaut. South Carolina ranks first in the SEC in blocks per set with 2.44. The Gamecocks also rank third in the SEC in digs per set with 14.64. Patrick thinks superb passing is the key to stopping their blocking barrage. “If we can continue to pass

well, we can split their blocks and do a pretty good job,” he said. South Carolina’s power comes from middle blocker Darian Dozier. The junior ranks third in the SEC in blocks per set with 1.24. Dozier also broke South Carolina’s single-season record in blocks this season and is currently eighth on the career blocking list. Mikael Christiaansen is another player the Lady Vols must keep on their radar. The senior has quietly jumped up to third in the SEC with 4.27 digs per set. The Lady Vols are 19-10 against South Carolina in Knoxville, dating all the way back to 1974. This will be the 36th time Patrick has seen South Carolina in head-to-head action. Patrick is 19-16 all-time against the Gamecocks. “We’re gonna have to really

place the ball in spots and get into the seam of their block with our good passing,” Patrick added. South Carolina has not won on the road since Oct. 5 in a fiveset nail-biter against Auburn. The Gamecocks are also currently riding a five-game losing streak. However, fatigue could play a factor in Wednesday’s matchup, as the Gamecocks have played three straight fiveset matches against Alabama, Arkansas, and Auburn, respectively. The South CarolinaTennessee matchup will take place on Wednesday at 6 p.m. The game will be televised on ESPNU. Fans are encouraged to come out and support the Lady Vols in this game, as they have only one home game left on the schedule after Wednesday’s matchup.

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