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French fries are a campus cafeteria staple.

Jenna Butz Staff Writer Everything has a price.

After recent controversy regarding a proposed mandatory meal plan, certain complaints regarding campus food have risen as justification for adamant refusal to purchase dining dollars.

Although the proposal has now been retracted, discontent remains.

Lauren Thomsen, a senior in English literature, lives off campus and did not purchase a meal plan for this year.

Thomsen said she tries to avoid campus food when possible.

“I eat on campus only when I work, and usually I’m dis-

satisfied because the food is either super unhealthy or just not very tasty,” Thomsen said. “It’s no walk in the park buying all my food from the grocery store and motivating myself to fix something to eat, but I can eat much more cheaply at home and at least give myself the illusion that I’m eating healthier.”

Addressing these concerns, Neil Brown, president and co-founder of Project V.E.G.G.I.E., advocates for greater incorporation of locally-grown produce.

“The reason it’s so hard to get good fruits and vegetables on campus is the provider,” Brown said. “At some point, they were talking about doing more with local foods, but I

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Andelyn Barclay Staff Writer Every year, the Clarence Brown Theatre brings a little bit of Charles Dickens to Knoxville’s Christmas celebration.

The tradition of “A Christmas Carol” continues this year.

The show will run from Nov. 27 through Dec. 22 as part of the Schaad Mainstage Series. Even though performances will run for just a few weeks, the preparation has taken months of collaboration between directors, designers, actors and many other contributors.

“It is really a team effort,” said Micah-Shane Brewer, an MFA student playing Bob Cratchit in the production. “It is all about community. I think part of the magic of theater is working with a group of people that you may not have worked with before or may not have ever come in contact with throughout your life, and you come together to work to bring something bigger than yourself alive.”

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At least 1 percent of the American population will be homeless sometime within the next year.

Of the 7,770 homeless people in Knox County, 3,905 are chronically homeless: 3 percent with a chronic illness, 13 percent with alcohol or drug abuse issues, 34 percent with mental health issues and the other 50 percent with varying disabling features. In October 2005, Knoxville’s Ten Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness was created to combat this problem.

Commissioned by former Mayor Bill Haslam and Knox County Mayor Mike Ragsdale, a task force comprised of 15 community leaders sought to implement a nine-step program to end chronic homelessness in Knoxville in 10 years. In recent years, the plan has seen little progress, but, under the supervision of Mayor Rogero, commitment has been renewed.

While homelessness itself can never be “cured,” chronic homelessness is a specific form in which the individual harbors a debilitating condition or substance abuse issue and has been living that way continuously for a year or more or undergone four occurrences of homelessness in the last three years.

In 2012, homelessness in Knox County dropped 14 percent, but the number of per-

sons served in homeless shelters rose by 4 percent.

Mike Dunthorn, member of the original task force that created the first “Ten Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness,” and current project manager for the City of Knoxville’s Office on Homelessness, attributes the stagnation to controversy within the community.

“So the biggest hurdle in overcoming the adversity that arose around the old plan has been effectively communicating with the general public about the issue,” Dunthorn said. “And to understand, address and allay fears, in order to build public support around coordinated efforts to more-effectively address homelessness.”

Due to community backlash and the lack of available funding, the graduated system repeatedly failed. Task members attribute the failure to the plan’s most crucial element: housing.

Cities across the country have demonstrated success with similar housing programs, boasting a retention rate of 90 percent and reducing the chronically homeless population by 18 percent since 2007.

Before community members could protest, two housing units were built in the Knoxville area. Minvilla Manor and Flenniken Landing, both housing about 50 residents, have exceeded national retention rates among the homeless.

“The community also has

to support it,” said Elizabeth Hagler, a graduate assistant at the Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. “Knoxville citizens would rather see downtown revitalized and the homeless relocated rather than dilapidated buildings downtown renovated and reformed into permanent supportive housing.”

Under current Mayor Madeline Rogero, the project has taken on new life. Last week, a homeless leadership council was formed to represent those the community hopes to aid.

A community group, Compassion Knoxville, has resolved to quell concerns that crippled the original plan.

Through panels and meetings across the Knoxville area, Compassion Knoxville plans to increase dialogue and awareness about the new plan.

Other Knoxville area charity organizations are also joining the fight. Eddie Young, a figurehead in the plan to end chronic homelessness, directs one such organization, Redeeming Hope Ministries.

“We advocate for change in our community to those who need it and will work to push change forward,” Young said.

“We want people to appreciate them as human beings and as people who have merely had struggles and need hope. We have to break the barriers of this negative stereotype.”

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don’t know how serious they were.”

Affording benefits to the local economy and the university, eating local costs less in terms of transportation and offers a longer period of ripeness, given food can be delivered in a matter of hours, rather than days.

But, according to Mary Patterson, Aramark’s marketing director, locally grown food is already a central component of Aramark menus.

Currently, UT’s campus dining website provides a map of Tennessee showing locations of the locallysourced foods which Aramark claims to provide.

“We are always working to provide students with quality,

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Campus dining still under scrutiny from student body convenience, value and variety,” Patterson said. “Our dining hall menus are designed to provide a diverse assortment of food options that easily allow students to select a healthy and well balanced diet. Our menus are created by our team of professional and certified chefs and are created based on feedback we receive from students.

“In general, our menus feature a variety of whole foods that are raised, grown, harvested and produced locally and in a sustainable manner,” Patterson added. “We purchase and provide fresh fruits and vegetables when in season.”

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1.Move people into housing first 2.Stop discharging people into homelessness 3.Increase coordination and effectiveness of service

4.Increase economic opportunities 5.Implement new data collection methods 6.Develop permanent solutions 7.Strengthen partnerships with faith-based organizations

8.Recognize homelessness as a community challenge

9.Prevent homelessness

David Cobb Sports Editor The last time Tennessee lost to both Vanderbilt and Kentucky in the same football season was 1964, four years before Butch Jones entered the world.

A loss for the Vols (4-7, 1-6 SEC) in Lexington, Ky., on Saturday would change that.

However, none of UT’s previous 116 teams have ever lost eight games. Though the motivation of playing for a bowl appearance vanquished with a 14-10 loss to Vanderbilt Saturday at Neyland

Stadium, a pair of UT seniors said Monday that plenty of incentive remains to avoid a loss against the Wildcats (2-9, 0-7).

“I’ve already had a lot go wrong in this career, and I don’t want to be that low, to be that team,” senior right tackle Ja’Wuan James said with a chuckle at Monday’s football press luncheon. “We just want to be 1-0 this week.”

Jones cited winning a road game as “the next step” for the program throughout the season and reiterated that Monday, as did senior kicker Michael Palardy, who – along with UT’s

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Tennessee senior running back Rajion Neal prepares to lower his shoulder against Vanderbilt’s Andre Hal during the Commodores’ 14-10 win at Neyland Stadium on Saturday.

other seniors – boasts just two road wins in his career.

Those victories came against Memphis and Vanderbilt in 2010.

UT is 1-15 outside the state of Tennessee since 2010.

“It’s been a while since we’ve won a road game, a true road game,” Palardy said. “We’ve got to finish 1-0, so we can start a streak for teams to come. That’s kind of the biggest thing. The most important thing is to show that we’re not giving up on each other, the coaches or on this team.”

The trip up Interstate-75 also

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offers a chance at redemption for UT’s upperclassmen. With a bowl berth on the line in 2011, the Vols lost to Kentucky for the first time since 1984. Kentucky played wide receiver Matt Roark at quarterback in the contest and threw for just 15 yards in a 10-7 victory.

But rather than an opportunity to correct the past, all those who have spoken on UT’s behalf since Saturday’s heartbreaker have made it clear: Saturday’s contest is important because of what it means for the future.

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Bradi Musil Staff Writer Before Christmas, there was Chanukah.

On Tuesday, Dec. 3 at the UC, Jewish student organization UTK Hillel will sponsor its annual Chanukah party.

“The whole holiday of Chanukah is really about religious freedom,” said Deborah Oleshansky, director of UTK Hillel. “So everything that we do, all the songs will be religious freedom songs. As we light the candles, instead of saying the traditional Hebrew prayers, we are going to actually do readings of religious freedom. In the same way that we like to be respected and not assume any particular religion, I want to be respectful in the same way.”

Although the party falls on the seventh night of Chanukah, Hillel will be lighting all eight candles at 6:30 in the UC Plaza. Dani Rosenberg, a newly-crowned Homecoming Highness and member of Hillel, will be honored at the Chanukah Party as one of the eight candle lighters.

“I have never lit the candles on campus before, but simply at home with my family growing up,” said Rosenberg, a senior in retail and consumer science. “I feel so honored to be lighting the candles this year for Hillel. Each year, Hillel chooses a leader for this honor and I can’t believe that they chose me this year.”

Chanukah is celebrated in Judaic tradition by lighting a candle on each of the holiday’s nights in commemoration of an ancient miracle in which one day’s supply

FOOD QUALITY continued from Page 1 Despite Patterson’s claims, Elias Attea, a senior in plant science, said he sees Aramark’s company policies as a roadblock for smaller, local farmers.

“In order to be registered as a reliable producer, Aramark demands that its food providers have an insurance liability of something like 1 or 5 million dollars,” Attea said, “which limits many producers in this area to provide fresh, high quality food. Think about it. If you were a small farmer, would you be able to afford even a $1 million insurance on your crops that year?”

Attea also asserted that purchasing local produce would maintain or decrease food prices for the university.

“According to studies, purchasing local would not increase meal plans, if done in gradual integration,” Attea said. “And at the rate of fuel costs, sometimes local foods are cheaper than shipping tomatoes from Mexico.”

Laura Beth Hirt, a freshman in economics and business analytics, has multiple special dietary problems that restrict her food choices. After moving

of oil kept the menorah, a candelabrum, lit for eight days.

While the candles are being lit during Hillel’s celebration, songs of religious freedom will be led in English by a small choir of school children while music sheets are handed out so everyone can sing along.

Following the songs and candle lighting, guests will be invited inside for traditional Chanukah desserts, including latkes – or potato pancakes – and jelly doughnuts. Meanwhile, guests are encouraged to play “jewpardy” and spin the dreidel.

UTK Hillel is the Knoxville chapter of the international organization which unites campuses and students all over the world in the practice of Judaism.

Although the majority of Hillel members are UT students, any college-age, university-attending student is welcome to become a member.

Liz Spencer, a sophomore at Pellissippi State Community College majoring in production and photography, makes the commute as often as she can to participate in UTK Hillel events. “(Oleshansky) recruited me right when I got here,” Spencer said. “Every time I’ve come it’s been awesome.”

Oleshansky described the small percentage of Jewish students on campus as “shocking” and stated the population of Jewish persons in Knoxville is approximately 1,400. Currently, Hillel is the only representation of Judaism on campus, and there is not a synagogue present or building associated to the Jewish faith.

Rosenberg said she feels that if to campus, she found few foods on campus she could digest, causing illness and forcing her parents to repeatedly contact dining services.

“My diet often consists of potatoes, both sweet and baked, which was not an option here for the first few months,” Hirt said. “Now, we have baked potatoes and sweet potatoes daily. I really didn’t mean to make a permanent change to the dining system. I would have been fine with being handed raw potatoes to cook myself. I just was getting sick once every few days because I had to eat what was offered to me in the dining hall.”

Patterson said dining works hard to understand student needs through feedback.

“Student feedback is extremely important to us,” Patterson said. “We survey students every semester to better understand their needs and preferences and implement changes based on the feedback we receive. We meet regularly with the dining committee and SGA to obtain feedback and ideas about the dining program.”

As UT strives to improve its national rankings, students have argued that improved food quality is a necessary initiative.

“If UT is trying to make its

Judaism were better represented on campus, more students might feel comfortable to practice their faith.

“I strongly believe that we need a large presence on this campus because there are hundreds of Jewish students that are unaware that we have such an organization,” Rosenberg said.

“The University of Tennessee prides itself in diversity, and having a temple on campus would only encourage that.”

This will be the first in a number of years that the Chanukah festivities will be hosted on campus. Previous parties were almost exclusively attended by organization members, but this year, Hillel members hope to introduce the themes of Judaism and the Chanukah holiday to a broader audience.

“There are so many people that stop me, whether it’s a friend or they see my shirt that has Hebrew writing or stuff like that, and they stop me to ask me about the religion,” said Emily Roberts, a junior in human resource management and member of Hillel. “So, (the Chanukah party) is honestly a really great way for people to learn about it, and it’s not going to be weird.

They won’t feel like the only non-Jewish person there. That’s the point of this, everybody is coming and learning. You have fun and you learn about it in a really great way.”

To find out more about the Campus Chanukah Party, visit www.utk.edu/events/index. php?eID=54852.

To learn more about UTK Hillel, visit web.utk. edu/~uthillel/. way to a Top 25 public university, you would think that they would provide nutritious foods to their students, considering food is basically a medicine that keeps the body running,” said Jackson Bogach, a freshman in geology. “However, it doesn’t seem the university cares about our health in regards to food.”

As a result, student organizations are garnering support for this movement.

“The food quality on campus is not the best that it could be,” said Candice Lawton, vice president and co-founder of Project V.E.G.G.I.E. “And there are students who are working to improve that through a lot of initiatives like Project V.E.G.G.I.E. and a food forest initiative that’s coming about.”

An improvement in communication between students and campus dining could also engender a more fruitful relationship.

“There are students, faculty and staff that are demanding higher quality foods whether that be better tasting, better quality ingredients or more accurate labeling,” Attea said.

“Perhaps it is not what is wrong with the dining services but why UT’s campus hasn’t taken a greater stand to communicate our interests in better food sooner.”

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Students watch “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” as they write letters to promote change through the activity, Write for Rights Global Write-a-thon on Nov. 21. The event was held in honor of International Human Rights Day in December.

Inmates learn tech sector from Silicon Valley experts pioneers in the 1990s, and they tap their many high-level connections to help with the prison program they started the program after Redlitz was invited into San Quentin in 2011 for a guest lecture and was overwhelmed by the inmates’ desire to learn.

“I figured, ‘We work with young entrepreneurs every day.

Why not here?’” he recalled.

After discussions with prison administrators, Parenti and Redlitz decided to add a prisonbased firm to their portfolio, naming it for the precarious journey from prison to home: The Last Mile.

Now, during twice-a-week evening lessons, students — many locked up before smartphones or Google— practice tweeting, brainstorm new companies and discuss business books assigned as homework.

Banned from the Internet to prevent networking with other criminals, they take notes on keyboard-like word processors or with pencil on paper.

The program is still “bootstrapping,” as its organizers say, with just 12 graduates in its first two years and now a few dozen in classes in San Quentin and Twin Towers. But the five graduates released so far are working in the tech sector.

They are guaranteed paid internships if they can finish the rigorous training program, which requires prerequisite courses, proven social skills and a lifetime oath to lead by positive example.

In one recent class, while thousands of inmates exercised or played chess in San Quentin’s prison yard, students worked their way through a business model, pitching different technology concepts.

“What are the distribution channels?” challenged seminar leader Andrew Kaplan, a product marketing manager at LinkedIn. “What platforms or networks do we need to think about? Who are we trying to engage?”

Tommy Winfrey, 35, who is serving 25 years to life for second-degree murder and hopes to be paroled in 2018, adjusted his eyeglasses and raised a tattooed arm. “I think an important part of our brand is going to be to give our customer a voice,” he said, suggesting they share ideas on social media.

On a Silicon Valley-style Demo Day, the startup students present ideas to investors, a demonstration that convinced former California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation director Matthew Cate he made the right decision to approve the training course.

“This program will go a long way to not only providing these guys with jobs, but it is my hope that they hire people like them who have changed their lives and are now ready to contribute to society, pay taxes, follow the law, support their families. All those things contribute to the economy,” he told participants after watching the 2012 Demo Day.

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secluded in our bubble.

Whether a person helps by providing a meal, buying a newspaper or just stops to have a conversation — each part makes our community grow as a whole and benefits someone in some way.”

Associated Press SAN QUENTIN, Calif. — The budding entrepreneurs wear blue sweat pants labeled “prisoner” and huge, flapping blue shirts. Their doors are triple locked, and lunch is a stale peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Complicating matters, participants in this growing Silicon Valley startup incubator are barred from the Internet.

Nonetheless, the program, launched by successful tech entrepreneurs for inmates north of San Francisco in the decaying San Quentin State Prison, has expanded, and a new session began this month in the gritty, downtown Los Angeles Twin Towers Correctional Facility.

The reason they’re growing is simple: Graduates, now trickling out of the penal system, are landing real jobs at real dot-coms.

The rigorous, six-month training teaches carefully selected inmates the ins and outs of designing and launching technology firms, using local experts as volunteer instructors.

“We believe that when incarcerated people are released into the world, they need the tools to function in today’s high-tech, wired world,” says co-founder Beverly Parenti, who with her husband, Chris Redlitz, has launched thriving companies, including AdAuction, the first online media exchange.

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An ode to Rhodes Scholar Lindsay Lee Saturday afternoon, at exactly 5:28 p.m., I received a text message from one of my best friends saying she was named a Rhodes Scholar — the first one from UT since 1995.

Lindsay Lee has been making noise at UT since she got here in the fall of 2010.

In her last three and a half years at UT, Lindsay has accomplished more than I can probably recall at once.

She led two SGA campaigns that drastically changed the way student government functions at UT. She founded Campus Disability Advocates and loudly voiced the need for equality for all people. I’ll spare you the rest of her extensive laundry list of achievements. What matters most in Lindsay’s successes, what makes her exemplary, extraordinary and extremely deserving of her most recent award, is that she’s done it all with genuine sincerity and deep humility.

We don’t see Lindsay’s kind of honesty much anymore. The kind of success we see today is too often born of cheating and lying to win elections, of competing to earn a coveted graduate school spot, of cooking books to turn sickening profits. Surrounded by these examples of “success,” it’s easy to become cynical, easy to give up on our goals because they seem too daunting to achieve without placing the proverbial knife in someone’s proverbial back.

Despite the cynicism that surrounds her daily, despite the grandiose nature of her goals and despite the 22-hour semesters she’s taken on, Lindsay has never lost her integrity, her kindness or her honesty. She would never hurt a fly — literally; when we were freshmen in Morrill, she asked me to kill bugs that had taken up residence in her room. Everything she does, she does with empathy for others and with an acute awareness for the needs of the world around her.

Lindsay’s dedication and grit manifest themselves in everything she does. When we worked on organizing the Redeeming Hope 5K together, I often allowed small adversities to frustrate me; Lindsay never lost sight of our goal, even when it felt like we were doing it by ourselves. When we traveled to South America together, she embraced my family and my culture in a way that made me proud to be her friend. Throughout the last few months, despite her Rhodes interviews always looming ahead, she always had time to spend with her friends, to sell water bottles on freezing game days to raise money for our Haslam Scholars service projects and even to drive to Nashville with me to see one of our favorite musicians. She doesn’t take anything she does lightly — not even her love for Lil Bub. Lindsay is fearless in the true sense of the word.

Where others would back down from goals as daunting as hers, she continues to reach for them relentlessly.

She does this because she cares deeply, and because she believes she can make a difference in this world. She proves herself right.

I can’t name anyone who deserves the Rhodes more than Lindsay. She’s a perfect example of what success should look like, of the path we all should take to get to where we want to be, of the value of honesty and good intentions. She’s proof that hard work pays off, that despite what headlines might read, the world can become a better place. She’s proof that good deeds do not go unnoticed.

Lindsay is the friend who drove 16 hours to and from St. Louis to see Bon Iver with me. She’s the friend who watched a solar eclipse from the street outside of a hotel in Tokyo. She’s the friend who brought me candy during a long night in studio. Now she’s a Rhodes Scholar. The Rhodes Scholar that will continue to blow away those around her with her passion and drive.

I couldn’t be more proud — and humbled — to call her my friend.

Marianela D’Aprile is a fourth-year in architecture.

She can be reached at mdaprile@utk.edu.

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Sarah Hagaman I started listening to Christmas carols a month ago.

I confess, the holiday season comes a bit early for me; most of my friends refuse to deck the halls or even talk about gift shopping before Thanksgiving.

My eagerness to celebrate Christmas, however, doesn’t go without its reasons.

The holidays brim with memories of past years and of times spent with loved friends and family.

The smell of a fresh Christmas tree fills me with excited expectation; strains of the “Nutcracker” take me to my family’s home when the soft echoes would fill our house on calm, dark December nights.

Holidays are all about celebrating and creating memories.

Memories play a powerful role in how we perceive others and ourselves; our minds teem with thoughts of the past, and these very remembrances have enormous power.

Memories, when woven together, create the very fabric by which we define ourselves.

Our understanding of our lives and our ideas about future events come from a projection based on past experience.

Memories can be really beautiful. Holidays

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product of the past; some people will choose to move towards a different destination, despite past experience.

Admittedly, not all can be forgotten; the person I am today, along with everyone else, is a very intricate compilation of many different factors, including internal scars — the carefully hidden secrets, the moments that make us cringe. But that shame, depending on a person’s mentality, will contribute in varying degrees to the most important opinion of all: our opinion of ourselves.

Our attitudes about what we can and cannot do, based on our memories, powerfully shape our actions — also known as the “self-fulfilling prophecy.” Expecting a bad outcome, therefore, tends to result in a bad outcome; anticipating a good outcome can often generate a good outcome.

We live according to our perception of our capabilities, based upon our memories and subsequent conclusions. This can either be extremely helpful or utterly incapacitating.

As Christmas approaches, the days will be full of tradition and reminiscing. Embrace the past, for it offers a lot of lessons and reminders, both pleasant and painful — but don’t remain stuck in the moments that cannot be changed, and don’t let past failures hold you back from the opportunity to forge wholeheartedly into the future.

And have yourself a merry little Christmas.

Sarah Hagaman is a sophomore in English. She can be reached at shagama@ utk.edu.

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Jan Urbano When we hear about the success of others, especially friends and family, we say we feel happy and fortunate for them.

Whether it’s prestigious scholarships and awards or finally getting jobs, the first thing that most people do is send congratulations and good wishes.

At the same time, however, we can’t help but feel at least a little envious and down. Each of us craves success in our own endeavors.

When we begin to envy others’ success, however, we compare ourselves to them.

We look at their personality and their traits, trying to see how they’ve managed to be so successful.

Though envy is problematic, the real problem isn’t the envy – it’s our reaction to our envy. When we see others thriving and fulfilling their lives, we look at our own lives and ask: “What have I done so far?”

You may end up over-criticizing yourself.

You realize your own achievements may not be up to par to those of others with much more distinguished accomplishments.

In a way, this makes sense. We need to care

about how well others are doing, because this influences our own success, either directly or indirectly.

Equivalent to how a professor may curve his grades in a class, the amount of curving that occurs depends on how well others do.

The more well-off the overall class grades are, the lower amount of “curved” points that are added to your grade. Consequently, the lower the overall grades are, the more points that are added to your grade.

Expanding from this analogy, the same applies to almost everything that requires competition. If many others have extremely competitive resumes, the less chance that we’ll have enough ‘leeway’ points to make it anywhere.

That being said, when we find ourselves envious of others in any manner, we must realize what we should and shouldn’t do.

We will be envious of others, and we will compare ourselves to others, but that does not mean that we should act on our impulse to exert revenge on those who are more successful than us. For some, when they see others doing well, they have a tendency to act on their jealousy and bully them.

In their minds, it seems unfair that they weren’t bestowed with such luck and opportunity. They would rather drag others down and make them suffer in the same pit of self-torment and hate they are in. I’m sure many of us have felt the urge to do the same, especially to those that we deem as enemies or undeserving of anything good.

Instead of letting ourselves become consumed with jealousy and hate, we should channel such raw and strong energy into making ourselves better. If we put the time and energy that we spend wishing for successes into working for it, we would have such fulfilling lives. In actuality, we shouldn’t even be like that – we’re wasting precious resources that could be put into building roads to our goals in life. I’ve spent a good portion of my life grudgingly hoping I have what others have.

However, I’ve gathered enough experience from mistakes, first-hand and from others, that I should be concentrating on the important things at hand.

Although we should pay attention to how others are doing, we must also focus on our own lives. A delicate balance exists between the two. We can spend all day wishing we had an “A” like that mind-bogglingly smart kid in our chemistry class, but that won’t improve the “C-” you have in the same class.

On the other hand, if we ignore the grades others have, it’ll be difficult to gauge our own ranking in a class.

The next time you find yourself wasting hours of your life being jealous of what others have, remember this: You don’t have enough time to give to them. You only have enough for yourself. Use it wisely.

Jan Urbano is a senior in biological sciences. He can be reach at jurbano@utk.edu.

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are perfect for reminiscing over the happy times you’ve spent with people you love.

Not all memories, however, recall warm smiles and laughter. Our pasts don’t consist solely of happy times. In fact, it sometimes seems the painful memories—the moments we paused, the opportunities we lost, the things we said, the things we didn’t — are the memories that stick. Our memories compose our ideas about our limitations, our fears and ultimately, our future.

I find myself deeply aware of those past times more than I’d like to admit.

If the events of my life are like a film, then I tend to rewind. I slow down at the parts I’d rather forget, pause, and imagine all the other things I could have done. It’s as if I believe that analyzing the past will somehow change it.

Honestly, I think I spend way too much time worrying about things that have already happened.

The past is unchangeable, but the future is full of opportunity. Remaining mired in the things we cannot change does little service to ourselves, and can greatly impede our progress into the future.

Literary theorists often discuss the importance of what our past does to our mental psyche; F. Scott Fitzgerald, in The Great Gatsby, contends that our strivings into the future render us “boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” People seem allegedly unable to break free of the bonds we create within our memories.

I think we have the power to decide.

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THE DAILY BEACON • 5 Arts & Culture Editor Claire Dodson

ARTS & CULTURE CHRISTMAS CAROL cotinued from Page 1

Director and Dialect The first step in the collaboration process begins when the director first meets with the designers to get a basic format for the production. “I feel like my job is to present an idea, a kind of framework for the play that doesn’t tell the designers how to solve the problem of the play, but gives them enough information for them to direct their design in a particular way,� Casey Sams, director of this year’s rendition of “A Christmas Carol,� said.

After the designers have begun their work, Sams then begins to incorporate the actors. “With the actors, it is really about helping them understand what the parameters of the world are that they are going to be living in,� Sams said, “... so that they know what they can do and what they can’t do, so that they are free to make the choices that will support the story that we are trying to tell.�

Sams also works in collaboration with the music director, Rachel Schlafer-Parton, and the young performer director, Jess Milewicz, who directs any performer under the age of 18.

Milewicz said where Sams is responsible for making sure the entire production comes together, she is able to assist by providing extra direction for the children. “My work is there to supplement and support Casey’s work,�

Milewicz said. “... I kind of come in and sort of fill in the holes of specific character work or moments.�

Milewicz also assists Carol Mayo Jenkins, the dialect coach, in working with the actors on their ability to fill the space with their voice.

As dialect coach, Jenkins sets up 20-30 minute sessions during the rehearsal process with each actor to go over the main dialects found in the play: Standard RP, Cockney and a mixture of the two. “There are two things that are important,� Jenkins said. “One, that it is clearly English and not American, and two, that the delineations of class are clearly made ... the play has a lot to do with who has money and who doesn’t.�

Set/Props

After the initial design meeting, Sams first visits the scenic designer, because he creates the physical world that holds all of the other pieces.

For “A Christmas Carol,� this means creating a set that can

handle the many scene changes in the play while still maintaining the play’s themes. “I study the script, I think of something,� said Chris Pickart, scenic designer, “and when I have some sort of unique idea, then I will start putting together the visual pieces that that idea is leading me towards.�

Pickart said when designing a set, his goal is not to be noticed but to help the play be successful. “Usually, I feel best if there is not a lot of hoopla about the set, but about the show, because that is really what we are trying to do,�

Pickart said. “We are all trying to contribute and make everybody have the best experience for this play.�

Once the set has been designed, it is up to the prop shop to fill the set with everything from carpets and curtains to picture frames and furniture.

“W

ith the actors, it is really about helping them understand what the parameters of the world are that they are going to be living in,�

Sams said, “... so that they know what they can do and what they can’t do, so that they are free to make the choices that will support the story that we are trying to tell.�

-Casey Sims

“What I start from is starting to read the script and talking with the director and the designers ... so everything is period specific,�

Christy Fogarty, prop shop supervisor and prop master, said. “Then I take that information and figure out what we have in stock.�

If they do not have something in stock, the prop shop can chose to purchase a new prop, redesign an existing one through painting or reupholstering or build, sew or craft one.

For “A Christmas Carol� alone, there are more than 230 props.

While many of these are left over from last year, many more are brand new and unique to this production.

Costumes

Once the physical world of the play is established, the next step is to focus o n the appearances of the actors, Sams said. “They are really directly addressing the look and shape and feel of each of the characters that live within that world,� Sams said.

After the costume designer, Bill Black, has created the designs, it is up to the costume shop to bring

his ideas to life. “As soon as we have casting for the show, we start to look at what we have, what we used last year, what we can use again, and what we might need to rebuild and reimagine or switch around,� said Melissa Caldwell-Weddig, costume design coordinator.

The Clarence Brown Theatre has a large supply of stock costumes, and many of the pieces in “A Christmas Carol� have been used for years, while others are new and specific to this production.

For costumes that just need tailoring, alterations can take as little as a few hours, but for new costumes that are being built, the process can take two or three weeks.

Lighting/Sound/ Projections

When costume designs are finished and work has begun, it is time to establish the mood and atmosphere of the production. “Then, I usually go to the lighting designer because they are the one who is creating the shading and sort of creating the overall mood and quality,� Sams said, “defining where and how the space moves and where my eye goes and what the tone of it is.�

Lighting designer Catherine Girardi said once she gets the set design, she begins working on the lighting plot. “The lighting plot is basically a ground plan of where we are putting all the lights, what they are doing, how they are going to be plugged in, what kind of color they are going to get, all that sort of thing,� Girardi said.

Throughout the process, Girardi said she collaborates with the other designers to help achieve the necessary effects. “With sound and projections, during the technical rehearsal process, we work very closely together,� Girardi said, “because a lot of the times you want the lighting and the sound and the projections to sort of meld together.�

The projections and sound are the last piece in the design elements of the production. “Oftentimes, the sound designer is who I end up coming to last in the process, but that often ends up being the most immediate relationship,� Sams said. “Oftentimes the sound and the lights are what stitch the whole production together.�

For “A Christmas Carol,� the sound designer and the projections designer are the same person. “I am in charge of the aural environment of the show,� sound and projections designer Joe Payne said.

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Payne said part of his job as sound designer is coordinating the sound of the actors, musicians, environment, sound effects and transition, as well as amplifying the live musicians and the ghosts’ voices. “There are hundreds and hundreds of sound effects,� Pickart said, “all kinds of magical little whooshes and bells chiming.�

Stage Management/ Crew Once all of the designs have been finalized, it is u p to the stage management team to make sure the production actually runs.

Deya Freidman, stage manager for “A Christmas Carol,� said her job entails “communicating and coordinating of the personnel, the schedules, the spaces and the materials necessary for every rehearsal and every performance.�

Part of this includes making sure the rehearsal or performance area has all of the necessary requirements, sending out the daily call to all cast and crew, making sure the rehearsals operate on schedule and keeping up with all documentation needed.

During rehearsals, Friedman keeps track of progress and documentation of what has or still needs to be covered. Once the performances begin, the stage manager will take up a position in the booth for the next part of the job. “I will call all the cues of every performance,� Friedman said. “Nothing will happen unless I say go.�

To do this, Friedman will be communicating with a backstage crew of 26 people who are in charge of all executing all the technical elements of the production. “They are what brings the magic to it, what makes it come together technically, so when you see Jacob Marley appear out of the trap floor, it took four crew members to make that appearance happen,� Friedman said. “They may not realize as individuals what effect they are having, when all they are doing is pushing a crash bar that opens a door or pushing a button on a fogger or dropping dry ice into a fogger.

Without them, the machine does not function.�

“F

an is kind of my wishful thinking of what it would be like if I could go get my brother right now and bring him home for Christmas.�

-Juliet Sutphin

Cast While all the designs are important, it is the cast who ultimately makes use of them. They utilize the director’s instruction, live on the set, handle the props, wear the costumes, see because of the lights and are affected by the sound.

Auditions for this year’s show were held Aug. 24 while results were posted on Aug. 27. The cast picked up their scripts on Oct. 15.

Many of the cast members for “A Christmas Carol� will be playing multiple roles, called tracks, which makes learning the lines quickly that much more important. “Once I got the script, I just started reading and reading and reading them over and over,�

Juliet Sutphin, a senior in theater and elementary education, said.

Sutphin is playing Fan, Sophia and a narrator in the production.

For new cast members like Sutphin, being in the cast is exciting. For others, it’s like coming back to an old friend. “It’s my third time in a row doing it,� said David Kortemeier, who will be playing Ebenezer Scrooge. “I’m so grateful to have that honor. It’s a rare gift for actors professionally to be able to return to a production year after year.�

Before rehearsals began, actors researched information to help their role. Brewer said the important things are “knowing about the time period, knowing about the relationships with the other characters and just going back to the original work.�

Sutphin, who has not seen her brother for over a year, said she can relate to Fan’s desire to bring her brother, Scrooge, home for Christmas. “Fan is kind of my wishful thinking of what it would be like if I could go get my brother right now and bring him home for Christmas,� Sutphin said.

On Oct. 22, the cast began their six-night-a-week rehearsal schedule of working with the director on lines, musical numbers, blocking (an actor’s placement on the stage) and run-throughs. “What I enjoy about Casey (Sams) is that she is open to possibilities,� Brewer said. “She is open to ... thinking about it in a fresh way versus sticking to what was done last year.�

For undergraduate performers, the amount of rehearsal time required can make keeping up with classes difficult. Sutphin said it is necessary to use every possible break to catch up on work. “My planner and I have a great relationship,� Sutphin said. “If that weren’t the case, then I could very easily see my grades dropping, just because you have no time.�

However, Sutphin said having the opportunity to be in the production has boosted her confidence as an actress. “I’ve learned a lot that I probably wouldn’t have learned had I not done this show,� Sutphin said.

Audience

When the rehearsals are over and it is time to put the production before the audience, all of the hard work is finally realized. “It is important to always remember that we are doing this for the audience,� Brewer said. “They are the final piece of the puzzle.�

This year’s show promises to excite and please those in attendance. “You will leave singing Christmas carols,� Sutphin said, “and you will feel like you are in a snow globe of Christmas wonder.�

Tickets are available now in the Clarence Brown Theatre box office and can be purchased online as well.

“Y

ou will leave singing Christmas carols,�

Sutphin said, “and you will feel like you are in a snow globe of Christmas wonder.�

-Juliet Sutphin

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Residence hall art One Direction ditches boy band sound in ‘Midnight Memories’ show funds charity, creates community Hannah Moulton Staff Writer

Jenna Butz Staff Writer Sharpen your art skills, ladies.

South Carrick is preparing to hold its annual art auction to support Habitat for Humanity as residents work to raise enough funds to build a house.

UT Housing requires all residence halls on campus to hold fundraisers for the charity. The goal is to be able to build a house as often as they can to give back to the Knoxville community.

“We built a house the year before last, so we don’t have enough money right now to build one,” said Devon Adams, a South Carrick resident assistant. “This year, we’re really pushing hard to fundraise so we can build a house in either 2014 or 2015.”

South Carrick RAs said they hope that by allowing the girls to gather while they work on their canvases, a sense of community will form along with an appreciation for their hall. For freshmen in particular, which the hall mainly houses, working toward community is an important step in their transition to college.

“It gets them out of the room,” Courtney Henderson, another South Carrick RA, said. “It gets them socializing, and painting lets people express themselves.”

Using community and creativity to raise the funds, the South Carrick Residence Association purchased the paint, brushes and canvases to make this event free for residents.

“It’s an easy way for them to get involved,” Adams said.

“They literally have to come to the lobby, sign their name and they get to paint a canvas.”

With unrestricted creativity, the hall turned their lobby into an art studio Friday night to begin their collection of paintings. They covered tables with paper and set brushes and paint along the front desk to create a community atmosphere.

Girls could be seen sketching serious pieces to handwriting quotes and finger painting as they covered their canvases.

“I definitely think it’s a great way to get residents involved in supporting Habitat for Humanity,” Jessie Hamby, freshman in linguistics, said.

“Who doesn’t like to paint?”

So far, 45 canvases out of the 55 purchased have been painted by both residents and RAs. The finished products will be hung in the South Carrick lobby following Thanksgiving break, then each painting will have a number beside it. Residents can then bid at the desk for their favorite.

“The art is impeccably awesome this year,” Henderson said. “Everybody had a different style, and it definitely expresses throughout the hall. These pieces are gorgeous.”

Typically, residents buy their own, but prospective owners are able to purchase anyone’s art. Students outside South Carrick are also welcome to bid on their peers’ works to include the rest of the UT population on the effort to raise money.

The auction is a hall favorite each year, and this year hopes to create the same feelings, RAs said. In the end, South Carrick hopes to promote charity in its residents while providing them with an event they can feel good about participating in.

“It’s for a good cause,” Henderson said. “So, it makes you feel good about yourself while having fun with others.”

Say goodbye to the bubblegum pop band that once was One Direction.

The group’s new album, “Midnight Memories,” strays away from the pop hits the band is known for, which is to be expected since the members of One Direction are nearly all in their 20s now.

It’s no surprise they’re maturing their sound.

The boys, Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik, all took part in the writing of 15 of the 18 tracks featured on “Midnight Memories.”

Although the band is claiming its new album is a bit more edgy than previous albums, which featured singles like “What Makes You Beautiful” and “Little

Things,” it’s not to say there aren’t some pop tracks on “Midnight Memories.”

“Best Song Ever,” the first single to come out of the album screams “boy band” with an upbeat, and overly repeated chorus of “We danced all night to the best song ever.”

However, the track seems a little out of place when listening to the rest of the album.

After the first track, the rest of “Midnight Memories” seems to take a complete 180-degree turn with the second single to be released, “Story of My Life.”

With an almost Mumford & Sons sounding rhythm, the new sound is a refreshing change for the boy band. Styles carries the chorus, with the other four harmonizing with near perfection in the background.

The next two tracks return to the catchy, fast-paced lyrics found

at the beginning of the album.

That is until “You & I,” with its ballad-like sound and admittedly cheesy lyrics.

“Not even the gods above can separate the two of us,” being the most cringe-worthy.

The British pop rock band, McFly, assisted with the lyrics of “Don’t Forget Where You Belong,” a song that seems to emphasize that the boys of One Direction are staying true to their home roots.

“Through the Dark” is another Mumford & Sons sound-alike, complete with a stomping rhythm and multiple guitar riffs.

“Something Great” is another slow ballad which is altogether forgettable.

With a more mature sound, more mature lyrics follow. “Little Black Dress,” “Little White Lies” and “Why Don’t We Go There” strip the boys of their innocent

teen heartthrob personas. Forget “the way that you flip your hair,” they “wanna see how you move” in “Little Black Dress,” which features a guitar solo reminiscent of 80s rock.

The standard album stops at “Better Than Words,” an infectiously catchy tune, with techno like beats. The deluxe version features four more songs, and if you’re already a fan, it’s well worth the few extra dollars.

All in all, One Direction’s attempt to grow up doesn’t fall too short. The group might not have completely dropped the boy band sound, but its music is maturing.

“Midnight Memories” is a welcome change from the band’s previous albums and showcases One Direction’s vocal talents in ways that almost make you forget the group is a boy band.

Knoxville, WIVK prepare to usher in holiday spirit through 41st annual Christmas parade Jenna Butz Staff Writer It’s the most wonderful time of the year.

Friday, Dec. 6, WIVK’s 41st annual Christmas parade will make its way through Knoxville to bring holiday spirit to its attendees.

The parade began in 1972.

Before then, the City of Knoxville presented the parade, but unforeseen problems threatened the end of the holiday favorite. To save the tradition, WIVK took the parade over.

Now, the two work closely together to provide citizens with this beloved event.

“I think part of its draw is the history,” Cindy Arnold, WIVK’s promotions director, said. “It’s right through the heart of downtown. It’s televised. It’s huge.”

Working closely with WIVK, the City of Knoxville still helps to

present the annual parade. The city assists with logistics such as making sure the street is closed and clean.

“We work to provide a safe, family-friendly environment,” Kyndra Brewer, deputy director for the City of Knoxville’s Office of Special Events, said.

Reaching beyond Knoxville, the parade is a staple in East Tennessee as a whole from its rich and beloved Knoxville history.

“It’s been going strong for over 40 years,” Brewer said.“It’s a family tradition. It’s a Knoxville tradition. It’s bright, it’s fun, it’s festive.

It really helps you get into the holiday spirit.”

While it is impossible to gather an exact estimate of how many attendees watch the parade, the city believes last year’s parade exceeded 45,000 people.

Never wanting the parade to seem stagnant from year to year, Arnold oversees the parade

to keep it an exciting event for attendees.

Last year, parade officials extended the parade into the Old City, allowing for more participation. This is a change that will continue this year.

“Every year, we try to make it better,” Arnold said. “We try to keep it as commercial free as possible because it’s about Christmas. Every year, we work to organize better, to flow better.”

Nearly 100 organizations will send floats, cars, dancers and marching bands down the route.

This includes businesses, churches and high schools for the enjoyment of those gathered. Sponsors expect the parade would be much longer if it were not kept at an hour for the TV broadcast.

“It has a little bit of everything,” Brewer said.

Last year, a large pirate ship float became a crowd favorite. This year, Arnold said she expects something just as elabo-

rate.

“A lot of the floats, we don’t know what they are until they get there,” Arnold said. “We have some pretty interesting things in the parade usually.”

WVLT hosts Alan Williams and Heather Hayley will broadcast the event on the station while Dino Cartwright on Local 8 Now will announce floats to the crowd live on Gay Street.

Occurring the weekend in the middle of exam week for UT students, Arnold said she believes the parade is an ideal way to take a break and get into the holiday spirit despite the stress.

“If you come out to that parade, if you’ve never experienced it and you get out into the streets, you see people with camping chairs and blankets, and they bundle up their kids. They just line the streets, and it’s beautiful,” Arnold said. “You can’t come and not be in the holiday spirit.”

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

THE DAILY BEACON • 7 Arts & Culture Editor Claire Dodson

ARTS & CULTURE Jessica Karsten Contributor When four Hollywood film producers, including Matt Milam, visited UT in October, the event highlighted a marked change in Knoxville film culture.

This progression toward higher appreciation and creation of movies is reflected on UT’s campus as film students complete their final projects and become more knowledgeable about what it takes to create entertaining films.

Film has become a considerable part of Knoxville culture, giving students numerous opportunities and inspiration to write, direct and edit their own short films and mini series. With the 4D arts program and cinema studies courses, students are able to learn these methods and utilize them for their final film projects.

Paul Harrill, associate professor in the School of Art, teaches courses that include the essential techniques of film production. With his extensive background in film as a writer and director, he said he is able to teach his students the knowledge he has gained through his work.

“In my narrative film class, the students start off writing screenplays,” Harrill said.

Then, we work on the essentials of directing which are: where to put the camera, how to guide performance with the actors and how to tell a story.”

Ben Murphy, junior in journalism and electronic media, is in Harrill’s narrative film class and is currently working on his final project.

“I started making movies when I was young on my VHS recorder,” Murphy said.

“I have always loved watch-

ing movies and became interested in making entertaining stories.”

Murphy said his passion for making movies comes forward in his filmmaking process as he collaborates with others who want to bring a story to life.

“It all starts with a great story or idea,” Murphy said.

“You need to bring in passionate people to help you shoot the project. For me, all that matters is that the people I bring in are having fun and enjoying what they are creating.”

Andrew Dudenbostel, junior in English, said he also understands what it takes to fulfill his creative vision.

“There’s always things that have to be done, including running auditions, scouting locations, setting up schedules, rehearsing with actors and setting up lighting,” Dudenbostel said. “It takes a lot of people to make a film, just to handle the workload.

“Working on a film, you get to work with all sorts of talented people, and you all work together to make this piece of art and fulfill this collective creative vision,” Dudenbostel added. “While it is often incredibly stressful to make films, the payoff is tremendous.”

These filmmakers are able to extend their work beyond UT’s classrooms as Knoxville offers a variety of film festivals, including the Knoxville Film Fest, the Knoxville Horror Film Fest and the Knoxville 24-Hour Film Fest.

“As for the film culture in Knoxville, it’s an exciting time to be here,” Dudenbostel said. “The film scene is still in its youth, but with all the film students and independent filmmakers, it is really inspiring to be around.”

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Fit chic: Gym clothes became fashionable Associated Press So long, dingy sweatpants.

Workout clothes for women, once relegated to the back of the closet, are moving to the front of the fashion scene.

Yoga pants are the new jeans, neon sports bras have become the “it” accessory and long athletic socks are hipper than high heels.

“I’ve actually had more excitement buying workout gear than normal jeans and dresses,” says Amanda Kleinhenz, 27, who wears workout gear both in and outside of the gym in Cleveland.

Sales of workout gear are growing faster than sales of everyday clothing — by a lot. Spending on workout clothes jumped 7 percent to $31.6 billion during the 12-month period that ended in August from the same period a year ago. That compares with a 1 percent rise in spending for other clothing to about $169.2 billion.

But these aren’t cheap cotton T-shirts and spandex jumpsuits.

Top designers like Calvin Klein, Stella McCartney and Alexander Wang all rolled out fitness chic clothing lines, with everything from $50 leggings to $125 zipfront hoodies and $225 long john sweatpants. And big nationwide retailers like Gap, Forever 21, Victoria Secret and Macy’s have fitness lines, too.

“Active has become an important part of what customers are wearing,” says Karen Hoguet, chief financial officer at Macy’s, which is expanding its active wear label to 400 stores from 160.

This is the latest evolution in fitness fashion. Sweatpants and tees were the hallmark of athletic clothing for decades. That changed with the invention of spandex in 1959, then again with the aerobics craze of the 1980s when tights, leotards, legwarmers and nylon track suits became popular.

Athletic gear giants like Nike, Reebok and Adidas were popular for years as synthetic material like Gore Tex and Lyrcra gained popularity because of their per-

formance qualities. Then, in the late 1990s, it became cool to wear workout clothes everywhere after the Lululemon athletic chain opened and gained a loyal following of fitness enthusiasts willing to shell out $100 for yoga pants.

Annie Georgia Greenberg, a New York editor for style blog Refinery29, says she noticed the trend at the New York Fashion week in September as more people were choosing shoes like the neon Nike Free Flyknit over designer pumps. Greenberg herself paired a “Gold’s Gym” t-shirt and Adidas Samba sneakers with a two-piece bejeweled suit — something she wouldn’t have done a couple years ago.

“It is almost cooler to be comfortable and athletic and feel like yourself than to be overly glam,” Greenberg says.

Fitness chic also sends a message to others that you are living a healthy lifestyle, says Noreen Naroo, senior creative director for apparel at fitness brand Under Armour. Recently, Naroo did a mile run at her daughter’s ele-

mentary school with leggings, a sports bra, t-shirt and sneakers.

She changed from her sneakers into boots to go to work.

“This is exactly what women are doing — running between work and play,” Naroo says.

Nike says that’s one reason its women’s business has added $1 billion in revenue since fiscal 2010 to reach $4 billion in fiscal 2013.

It’s been fueled in part by demand for fashionable workout gear like its leggings with compression technology that is made to be flattering. Another hit has been its “tights of the moment,” limited edition running tights with geometric or neon prints.

And to capitalize on the popularity of classes like Barre and Pilates in which people usually go barefoot, Nike says it created a lightweight foot wrap called the Studio Wrap which helps with hygiene and slippage, but also looks stylish. “Women don’t want to compromise performance or style,” says Heidi O’Neill, Nike’s vice president and general manager of women’s training.

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James ties all-time UT starts record against Vandy Troy Provost-Heron Assistant Sports Editor There aren’t many positives for UT to take away from Saturday’s gut-wrenching FIRST PLACE 14-10 loss to the Vanderbilt Gage Arnold Copy Chief Commodores, but for senior Tennessee 24 at Kentucky 6 offensive lineman Ja’Wuan Thanksgiving Special: Texas Tech at James, one surfaced the instant Texas he took to the field.

No. 1 Alabama at No. 4 Auburn When the offense broke the No. 6 Clemson at No. 10 South Carolina huddle and snapped the ball two No. 21 Texas A&M at No. 5 Missouri minutes and 9 seconds into the This Year: 47-18 ballgame, the Suwanee, Ga., native tied the Tennessee record SECOND PLACE for the most career starts by an Patrick Lamb Media Specialist III offensive lineman with 48.

Tennessee 31 at Kentucky 14 “I don’t even know how to Thanksgiving Special: Texas Tech at speak about that. I feel lucky, Texas basically,” James said about No. 1 Alabama at No. 4 Auburn the record. “I got an opportuNo. 6 Clemson at No. 10 South Carolina nity when I was young, and God No. 21 Texas A&M at No. 5 Missouri blessed me without me getting hurt over all these games.”

This Year: 46-19 The right tackle who has THIRD PLACE been a fixture of the offensive David Cobb Sports Editor line since his freshman seaTennessee 7 at Kentucky 6 son – he has started in every Thanksgiving Special: Texas Tech at Tennessee football game in his Texas four-year career – even got a surNo. 1 Alabama at No. 4 Auburn prise visit after the game from No. 6 Clemson at No. 10 South Carolina Jeff Smith (1992-95), the man No. 21 Texas A&M at No. 5 Missouri

whose record he tied.

“The cool thing was I got to meet the guy (Smith) whose record I tied this past week after the game,” James said. “He came up to me after the game and said, ‘I appreciate you. I’ve been watching you over the years, and I wouldn’t want to tie with any other guy.’ He feels like I just need to go out here and keep competing, keep playing and one day somebody will break my record.”

First-year head coach Butch Jones praised James as one of the most influential players on the team, and one who has helped lay the foundation for what Jones believes will be the future successes of this program.

“He’s a high character individual,” Jones said. “Football means everything to him. This football team means everything to him ... I can’t say enough about Ja’Wuan.”

North Goes Down: Lost among all the talk of everything that occurred during Vanderbilt’s 12-play, 92-yard game-winning drive was the Vols’ inability to do anything offensively.

Tennessee amassed a grand

total of 53 yards passing in the game and had an even more terrifying total of 16 prior to their final drive.

A sizable part of the Vols’ inefficient passing attack stemmed from the loss of standout freshman wide receiver Marquez North who injured his right ankle in the first quarter.

“That really hurt us offensively,” said Jones following Saturday’s game. “That is our one speed weapon out on the perimeter. When he left the game, that really hurt us in our throw game.”

With a trip to Commonwealth Stadium less than a week away, North’s status remains uncertain and will have to be something that the Volunteer faithful keep an eye on throughout the week.

“He’s day-to-day, and I’ll know more as the week progresses,” Jones said.

Helping Dobbs: In his first three career starts as the Tennessee quarterback, Joshua Dobbs has not only been unable to win a game for the Vols, but he also hasn’t recorded a touchdown.

Even though the Alpharetta,

Ga., native has made more than a few freshman mistakes throughout the past three games, Jones made it clear on Monday that the true freshman will be under center in the Vols’ season finale.

“Josh will be our starting quarterback,” Jones said. “I think Josh has to continue to progress. I thought Saturday he showed his age a little bit. ... But again, Josh has already been in, and that is the maturation phase of a young quarterback playing.”

Jones also added that while he understands the quarterback will always get the blame when an offense struggles, he believes the other 10 members of the offensive unit need to do more.

“Everyone wants to point to Josh with the interceptions, and he’s the quarterback, and you take full responsibility and accountability for that, but it was the other players around him,” Jones said. “It’s up to the receivers and running backs and tight ends to paint clear pictures for the quarterback.

“So, I think it’s everyone else around him that’s responsible for his performance.”

This Year: 45-20

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Tennessee 23 at Kentucky 21 Thanksgiving Special: Texas Tech at Texas No. 1 Alabama at No. 4 Auburn No. 6 Clemson at No. 10 South Carolina No. 21 Texas A&M at No. 5 Missouri

FIFTH PLACE

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Troy Provost-Heron Asst. Sports Editor

Tennessee 28 at Kentucky 3 Thanksgiving Special: Texas Tech at Texas No. 1 Alabama at No. 4 Auburn No. 6 Clemson at No. 10 South Carolina No. 21 Texas A&M at No. 5 Missouri

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Tennessee 10 at Kentucky 3 Thanksgiving Special: Texas Tech at Texas No. 1 Alabama at No. 4 Auburn No. 6 Clemson at No. 10 South Carolina No. 21 Texas A&M at No. 5 Missouri

This Year: 36-29

Injury doesn’t slow Heeres from leading Lady Vols Wes Tripp Contributor Imagine yourself as a Division I athlete, and in the fourth day of preseason practice, a shoulder injury forces you to sit out the entire season.

Whitney Heeres experienced that and the frustration that accompanied it, but it did not define her as a Lady Vol volleyball player.

Heeres is one of two seniors on this year’s volleyball team, an outside hitter from Flushing, Mich., who started playing volleyball at a young age, following in the footsteps of her older sister, Krystal.

“My sister started playing when she was in the seventh grade and I was in the third grade,” Heeres said. “And I would just pepper around with her in the backyard, and that’s when I started, and I just fell in love with it. When I was finally old enough, I was able to join a team myself.”

As she grew older, her game grew better. She was all-state as a junior in high school and was a nominee for Miss Volleyball in Michigan her senior year.

She decided to attend Ball State but only stayed for two years.

“There were some things that went on there that I didn’t want to be a part of anymore,” Heeres said. “So I decided that I wanted to transfer just for personal reasons. I put my name out there and Tennessee was really interested. I came down for a visit, and I loved it. I loved what the program was about and where they were going, so I decided to come here.”

In Heeres’ first year at Tennessee, in her fourth day of practice, she injured her shoulder and was forced to miss the entire 2012 season.

“It was definitely not what I expected, coming to a school and getting injured right away,” Heeres said.

Through that ordeal though,

Heeres never lost heart.

“I never had to sit out a whole season before,” Heeres said. “I was staying really positive and staying on top of rehab so I could get back this year.”

Though her lone season in uniform with the volleyball team has been a challenging one for the Lady Vols (9-22, 1-15 SEC), the speech pathology major is attempting to spread that same positive energy throughout the team.

“The biggest goal now is trying to finish the season strong and setting up the team for a good start next year,” Heeres said.

Heeres has embraced her role as a senior on this year’s squad.

“I try to look out for everyone else and try to keep the team together and focused on what our goal is,” she said.

Head coach Rob Patrick issued high praise for the 6-foot2 Heeres, who is third on the team in kills with 229.

Patrick said usually when players are injured and have to sit out for an extended period of time, they get lost off to the side.

That was not the case with Heeres, who ended up becoming a captain.

“That tells you a little about her character and the type of person she is,” Patrick said.

“Obviously, she worked her tail off to get back to where she is.

She has given us everything she can this season. She’s a very brave young lady. She is all into what Tennessee volleyball is about, and she has had a really nice senior year, especially if you take it in context with her injury.

“When you think of Whitney, you don’t think of her as a volleyball player, you think of her as a person,” Patrick added.

“The type of character she has, she’s somebody that I’m really proud of, and we’re really fortunate to have her in our program.”

McRae lands first player of the week honor David Cobb Sports Editor “That’s his first one?” UT point guard Antonio Barton asked in a ‘you’ve got to be kidding me’ tone before basketball practice at Pratt Pavillion on Monday afternoon.

The SEC announced UT senior wing Jordan McRae as its player of the week Monday, and despite a standout junior year when he finished as runner-up in the league’s player of the year voting, it is indeed the first time the 6-foot-6 scorer has received the honor.

“Wow, yes, that is surprising,” Barton said. “Seeing the stat-lines he was putting up, even last year, that was kind of unbelievable.”

McRae averaged 22.5 points in wins over Tennessee State and The Citadel last week to pick up the award.

The Midway, Ga., native has led the Vols (3-1) in scoring

during each game so far.

“It’s cool,” McRae said.

“We’ve got some games coming up, so I’m not really too concerned about that.”

McRae drove a late Tennessee push that fell just short of the NCAA Tournament last season by scoring 34, 23, 27, 35 and 21 points over a five-game stretch in SEC play.

To no avail, he failed to garner an SEC Player of the Week honor. But if the award means anything to him, the slight-framed McRae kept it under wraps on Monday.

“I’m just trying to do whatever I can so our team can win games out there,” he said.

“There have been times when we needed to score, and that’s my job out there.”

UT coach Cuonzo Martin offered that McRae’s current average of 21.5 points on the season could actually be higher.

“Jordan is playing well, and

the thing about it is he could be averaging 25 or 26 points a game right now,” Martin said.

“He’s very efficient, passing the ball, not forcing shots, going inside, outside, shooting the 3-point shot.

“And again, he’s gotten to the point where his 3-point shot is almost one of the best in the country as far as a catch and shoot guy.”

Bahamas preparation: The Vols will get an opportunity to test their shooting touch outside the country over the holiday weekend.

Though Martin admitted his tropical wardrobe is limited, his team is focused on its trip to Bahamas for the Battle 4 Atlantis tournament that begins Thursday at 9:30 p.m. with a contest against UTEP. If UT wins, it could face Xavier in the second round for the rematch of UT’s 67-63 season-opening loss. Either way, the Vols will play three games in three days against a field also consisting of Kansas, Villanova, USC, Iowa and Wake Forest.

“It’s going to be fun.

Playing like this, you get to play back-to-back-to-back,” McRae said. “These kind of games, you really kind of find

out what kind of team you’ve got.”

Though the rotation has scarcely exceeded 10 players in the early season, the Vols are confident a deep bench can alleviate some of the potential jet-lag and generally taxing nature of playing a lot of basketball in a short period of time.

“We’ve got depth everywhere,” McRae said. “There’s still guys who haven’t played that are very capable of playing, so I think that’s going to be to our advantage this week.”

Fifth-year senior forward Jeronne Maymon is averaging 25 minutes per contest in his first action since missing all of 2012-13 with knee issues.

Martin said the UT staff is continuing to pay special attention to his conditioning and body language as he readjusts to full-time action.

Things will be no different this weekend.

“Part of his strength is just playing on both ends of the floor and to play hard and rebound,” Martin said. “If he gets exhausted, we’ve got to get him out of there and get him back in.”

FOOTBALL

coaches and how they made it for these seniors, and we just want to go out here and go 1-0 and have fun.”

Another incentive for James and three other seniors along the offensive line is that Rajion Neal, who surpassed 2,000 yards rushing for his career on Saturday, only needs 10 rushing yards to reach 1,000 yards for the season against Kentucky.

“That would be a proud moment for him,” James said.

“He hasn’t run for 1,000 yet in his career, and that would be a proud moment for all of us.”

continued from Page 1 Senior defensive tackle Daniel Hood began the trend of future-focused coaching endorsements after the Vanderbilt loss, and James picked up where he left off Monday in describing why the Kentucky matchup matters.

“There’s different positive things we can take out of this season still and out of this game,” he said. “I wouldn’t change anything about this season. I appreciate these