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Issue 12, Volume 122

Friday, Jamuary 25, 2013

Gender-neutral housing bill advances beyond SGA Justin Joo Staff Writer The bill that would allow gender-neutral housing at UT has now passed on from the hands of students to the administration.

Bill 0113, named “Bill to Promote Gender Neutral Housing at the University of Tennessee,” was written by Jacob Clark, a junior in College Scholars. Clark represents the College of Arts and Sciences and sits on SGA’s Diversity Affairs Committee.

Bill 0113 was passed by SGA on Nov. 20 with a margin of 27-18, with two abstentions.

Since it has been passed by SGA, it is now in the hands of Dean of Students Maxine Davis.

Clark has limited knowledge on where exactly the bill currently stands with the administration, but he does know that the issue has been brought up with several of the vice chancellors.

“So what we do now is kind of wait for a response and see what they say,” Clark told The Daily Beacon. “If we feel it necessary to push for more, we’ll push for more.

“And if we’re happy with the results, we’ll send them a thank you,” he joked.

The bill doesn’t call for any changes to be made in housing until fall 2014, but Clark expects to hear a response much earlier than that.

The bill has even gotten some

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A student works a fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity in Massey Hall on Oct. 29, 2011. Dorms like Massey could offer gender-neutral housing if Bill 0113 is accepted by UT’s administration. national attention, with The Huffington Post covering the bill on Jan. 16.

Clark was somewhat surprised by the HuffPost article.

He presumed the bill would get more local attention from the community and be implemented before any national coverage would come about. He was pleased with what he called the

positive coverage as well as the mostly supportive comments that readers had made about the article.

Clark said the most popular concern from those hesitant about the bill is the fear that couples will abuse the genderneutrality. “(That’s) not what it’s intended for. It’s not meant for

couples to live together,” Clark explained. “Honestly … when we first were writing the bill, that’s not something we even thought about as a reason for it.”

Clark said that the research he and his colleagues collected showed what other schools with gender-neutral housing had done to avoid such abuse and

that those schools have been successful in doing so. He’s confident that such abuse won’t be an issue.

The other concern Clark has come against is people concerned about students who don’t want to be in a genderneutral dorm, which Clark said is a “moot” issue because the bill leaves living in a gender-neutral

dorm strictly optional.

As for how the university will eventually respond, Clark is hoping for an entire dorm to be gender-neutral. However, just getting a few floors would meet his satisfaction. Clark figured the ideal result for everyone would be to set aside gender-neutral housing based on the amount of demand for it.

“So if there are only five people on campus who want that option — I suspect it’s more — but if there are only five people, then only meet the needs of those five,” said Clark. “ … And if there’s enough people who want it that it requires using an entire hall, then I think that need should be met.”

Clark is hopeful that the bill will go through the administration. During the bill’s writing phase, Clark and his colleagues brought the bill to the attention of both UT Housing and United Residence Halls Council, with both groups giving support.

Tracy Trentham, junior in food science and technology, and secretary of URHC, was part of the research process for Bill 0113 and helped get it approved by URHC. Trentham recalled there being very minimal controversy surrounding the bill as it passed through URHC. She said most if not all hesitation came about how to implement the bill rather than what the bill entailed.

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Energy forum hosts expert on urbanization in China, India Blair Kuykendall Editor-in-Chief Gifted with the rare ability to engagingly present complex research, Karen Seto led students and faculty through the backstreets of urban development in China and India on Thursday in the Baker Center.

“I’ve been working in China and India for about 15 years, and what I have been doing is ... a lot of it is footwork,” Seto said. “What is happening in China is very, very different from what is happening in India. In India, urban development is mainly driven by population growth. In China, we see economic growth driving urbanization.”

Seto, a professor of the urban environment at Yale, focuses her research on the intersection of urbanization and sustainability in the presence of global change. Her field of study is geography, and she uses empirical models to predict the potential expansion trajectories of urban developments.

She believes modern industrialization must be viewed through a different lens than the industrialization of OECD nations.

“What drives land use changes is no longer local,” Seto said. “Across both countries, it’s not local actors, but global actors. We’ve been able

to see that cities are in a competition for urban development. One firm comes in, and there’s a domino effect.”

In addition to her lecture, Seto took time during her stay to brainstorm with faculty members. She hinted that she might be working with UT faculty on new projects in the future.

“It was great intellectual fun, sitting around discussing things … it was very stimulating for us,” Carol Harden, professor of geography, said.

Much of Seto’s research relies on activity across different disciplines to understand changes in urbanization.

“We develop a lot of models, a lot of land-change models, to find if population drives these changes ... or policy,” Seto said. “These methods are field based, and they’re lab based.

We do a lot of interviews with the public and the private sector. Most of my research has been in Asia.”

She differentiated the development trajectories between nations.

“Urbanization in these nations, the process of urbanization … is fundamentally different from other places.

China is in an intensive infrastructure development phase.

India is just now beginning its urban transition, and its transition is supposed to peak in the second half of the 21st century. The drivers of devel-

opment are very different.”

Seto sees much of modern development as a grassroots phenomenon.

“People tend to think that the government decides how cities are developed … but we have also found that in both of these countries there is little government capacity to affect how development will occur.

In some parts of India, we have seen ... more small-scale urban development.”

When asked for her normative thoughts on sustainability, Seto demurred.

“My job as a researcher is to provide information on the trade-offs,” Seto said. “I have opinions, but that’s for me to think about in my own time.

The moment I say ‘you should do this,’ I lose credibility and access.”

Word of the lecture had clearly spread across the geography, economics and science departments, as extra seating had to be brought into the auditorium to accommodate the crowd. “(It’s) wonderful to see a full house,” Matt Murray, director of the Baker Center, said.

Her lecture was part of the Baker Center Energy and Environment forum, co-sponsored by Tennessee Solar Conversion and Storage • Photo courtesy of International Human Dimensions Program using Outreach, Research and Karen C. Seto of Yale University presented a lecture on the urbanization of China and Education (TN-SCORE).

India in the the Baker Center on Thursday.

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Around Rocky Top

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Wesley Lawrence Taylor, as Malcolm X, and Jeff Robinson, as Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., perform “The Meeting” as part of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebration at the UC Auditorium on Jan. 21.

Crime Log January 17 12:51 a.m. An officer observed a vehicle with improperly working lights over the license plate. The driver was found to be driving on a revoked license and placed under arrest.

2:00 p.m. An officer responded to Hodges Library in reference to a suspicious person. An officer made contact with the individual and performed a records check. The individual, who is not an enrolled UT student, was warned in 2008 and 2009 not to be on UT property. The officer arrested the individual for criminal trespassing.

4:30 p.m. Two officers responded to Reese Hall in response to vandalism. Occupants of a room stated that an unknown person or persons threw an unknown object toward their window, causing it to break.

January 18 1:19 a.m. Members of the Knoxville Fire Department responded alongside officers to the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house in response to an active fire alarm. It was discovered that a fire pull station was activated without cause. An individual who evacuated the building was uncooperative with officers and found to be consuming alcohol under the age of 21. The individual was charged with an underage consumption citation.

2:56 a.m. An officer was dispatched to Middle Way Drive in refer-

ence to an intoxicated person. The individual was placed under arrest.

11:15 p.m. An officer was working a concert at Thompson-Boling Arena. During this event a female subject was charged with public intoxication and resisting arrest. The suspect had been ejected from the concert and tried to return when the incident occurred. The subject was transported to the Knox County Intake Facility.

January 19 2:33 p.m. An officer was dispatched to the Presidential Court Building in reference to a male subject who had been panhandling at the ATM machine. Upon arrival, the officer located the subject and he was ultimately placed under arrest on a charge of criminal trespassing.

2:41 a.m. Officers were dispatched to Humes Hall for a report of an intoxicated female. Hall staff advised that a female student was intoxicated and verbally threatening staff members. The subject was arrested for public intoxication, underage drinking and resisting arrest and taken to the Knox County Intake Facility.

lobby. The complainant reported that they were the victim of an assault.

According to this person, the assault occurred between 4 and 5 p.m. on Jan. 11 inside Morrill Hall’s kitchen area. Both the victim and the suspect work together for Aramark Food Services. The officer explained the legal options to the alleged victim.

2:00 p.m. A complainant reported the theft of his bicycle that had been secured to a bike rack and damage to his combination lock.

7:32 p.m. An officer was dispatched to Clement Hall in reference to a theft that had occurred there.

8:30 p.m. An officer received a report of possible gun shots being fired in the Cumberland Avenue area, near Starbucks. Further investigation revealed that a shooting had taken place in the west parking lot of Zaxby’s Restaurant. Two male are (or were) being treated at area hospitals for gunshot wounds sustained during the incident. None of the subjects involved in this incident are affiliated with UTK.

January 22 2:50 p.m. An officer was dispatched to Hess Hall in reference to a stolen bicycle. The owner of the bike stated that she saw her bicycle the January 20 9:12 p.m. An officer was advised of a suspicious person in Buehler previous evening, but that when she looked for it that day at 11 a.m. she Hall. As the officer was driving to Buehler, he noticed a male matching found that the chain had been cut and the bicycle was missing.

5:46 p.m. An officer was dispatched to Clement Hall. Upon arrival the description of the previously stated person. The subject was checked through dispatch and found to be in master names for trespassing on he met with the hall director, who stated she had confiscated drugs and drug paraphernalia from room 457. two prior occasions. The subject was placed under arrest.

— Compiled by David Cobb. Crimelogs are compiled from UTPD January 21 10:00 a.m. An officer met with a complainant inside the UTPD records.

Friday, January 25, 2013

THE DAILY BEACON • 3 News Editor RJ Vogt

CAMPUS NEWS GENDER-NEUTRAL continued from Page 1 “It was by like 75 percent for it. … It was more controversial because they were kind of trying to plan it out,” Trentham said. “They were like, ‘Oh we want to do this, we want to do that.’ They were pretty excited about getting started with it.”

In terms of the bill’s progress through the administration, Trentham is also hopeful. UT Housing was notified about the bill before it was voted on in SGA, and they were supportive

of it from the get-go.

Daniel Honeycutt, senior in psychology and vice president of URHC, was instrumental in communicating with UT Housing, specifically with executive director, Dr. Frank Cuevas, who gave Honeycutt the impression that if it’s something the student body wants, it’s something Housing will look into.

“There was no detection of any sort of hostility toward it,” Honeycutt said. “I can’t say (Cuevas) was all for it, but you could tell he wasn’t going to be like, ‘No, no, no we can’t

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do that.’ It’s not an impossibility for him, it was something they’d be able to address.”

Now it’s just a matter of time to see what the higherups of UT will decide. Like Clark, Trentham is optimistic, although she expects controversy to eventually come about.

“I think eventually it will be successful,” she said. “I think there’s going to be quite a bit of backlash because we are in Knoxville ... But I could see it eventually being successful, especially if it’s gone about the right way from here.”

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A lithograph depicts Union troops led by General Burnside fighting Confederates during the Battle of Fort Sanders on Nov. 29, 1863.

McClung Museum celebrates Fort Sanders anniversary Beacon Staff Reports Although Fort Sanders frequents the headlines due to its notoriety for violence, the occasional shooting that occurs in the neighborhood today pales in comparison to the violence that occurred on its streets on Nov. 29, 1863.

The year a2013 marks the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Fort Sanders, where 137 soldiers on both sides were killed as Union forces refuted a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet.

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Becca Milroy, freshman in psychology, and Scott Carlew, freshman in BCMB, sled backward down a slope near Haslam Business Building on Jan. 17. Freezing temperatures and rain will hit Friday with the weekend expected to be partly cloudy.

An additional 463 troops were wounded in the battle.

In commemorating the anniversary of the battle, UT’s McClung Museum is hosting a series of lectures starting Sunday at 2 p.m. in the museum’s auditorium.

McClung’s Civil War curator, Joan Markel, will lead the opening lecture entitled, “Could it be a National

Treasure? Seeking the Story of a Sword.”

Additional festivities regarding the battle’s anniversary will be ongoing throughout the year around the Knoxville area.

A re-enactment of the battle is set for October, along with other festivities. More information can be found at battleoffortsanders.com

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Dry campuses invite risk Emily DeLanzo Managing Editor Fat pants, “Toddlers and Tiaras,” hairy legs.

Throw in some Jack Daniels or pad thai and you have my average Friday night. Either that or an episode of “To Catch a Predator.”

By the time Friday finally rolls around, I’m normally too exhausted or too hateful to go out and interact with people. I’d much rather lounge in my apartment where no one can judge me for binging on Cheetos and trash television.

A week ago, I decided to try something different, though, and break out of my hobbit habit and live large. My social interaction over the past few weeks has consisted of dancing at the Beacon and bro-ing it up with some imaginary friends. It was time to take a shower for the first time in days, drink some cheap wine, throw on some glitter and have a good time.

Or something.

I am in my seventh and final semester of school at UT. My three-and-a-half year nightlife experience mainly deals with the Old City at places like Barley’s and Jig and Reel where they can’t judge me for my wobble or my love of hops. Last Friday, though, my roommates decided on a place on the Strip.

Fast-forward a few hours and I am quickly reevaluating my decision to take ballet instead of hip-hop classes for ten years. Is grinding really hip-hop though? My experience at the Strip most weekends is limited to late night people-watching at Cook-Out and the only time I went to Tin Roof which resulted in me vowing never to return.

The first part of my evening I stood pressed up against a barrier, just observing it all.

Beautiful underage girls dressed in short, tight dresses grinding on each other or strangers.

Blank eyes that show no form of life or intelligent thought of fathers’ daughters. I watched

as random people partnered up and some men preyed on these unsuspecting ladies.

Honestly, there wasn’t enough booze in the world to prepare me for the stripper pole or the squawking of excited people. The flat bills or the unnecessary number of vests. I felt like I was standing in a walking Forever 21 campaign — either that or Rush Limbaugh’s worst nightmare.

I could distinguish between the underage and legal the majority of time. Legal had less makeup and less worries. The wristband and lack of marker on their hands helped, too.

Regardless of their arm decorations, I felt like I was the most sober person when I entered.

By no means am I accusing this establishment of serving alcohol to minors. In fact, I saw otherwise. I saw bartenders turn away their underage friends.

No matter, though. Pre-gaming does wonders.

I have no proof these young men and women drank on campus, but I would bet my entire college education that at least one or two of the countless underage patrons took a few shots of cheap vodka in their dorm room before stumbling their way to the Strip. Getting there is only part of the battle.

As a dry campus, UT puts its students at risk. I’m not implying that the big orange screw drives us to alcohol addictions or that drinking is encouraged by any means by the administration. However, underage girls and boys do not see organizations such as UTPD as a positive resource.

Stumbling back to Presidential Court with little to no help unless that of a stranger, underage students put themselves at risk more often than not. Dry campuses do not teach responsibility or accountability.

Living on a dry campus teaches students how to finish a bottle of Barnett’s before your RA suspects trouble, not how to enjoy a glass of wine and drink responsibly.

No recipe for today. Sometimes all you need is a glass of wine.

— Emily DeLanzo is a senior in environmental studies. She can be reached at edelanzo@ utk.edu.

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Research culture should be shared Chaos Theory by

Sarah Russell Much has been made about Chancellor Cheek’s efforts to revamp UT as a Top 25 public research institution. With the barrage of “Big Orange, Big Ideas” posters and videos, it is easy to forget what the primary goal of this campaign actually is. It is much more than a not-so-pithy slogan, some monstrous orange banners and video montages celebrating the accomplishments of select students.

It is a university-wide endeavor to realize the full potential of a public state university in the modern age: to make UT a leader in discovery and exploration.

As long as I have been at UT, I have been continually impressed at the culture of research that exists on campus, especially that of undergraduate research. The school goes to great lengths to celebrate the achievements of its undergraduates who have engaged in original, cutting-edge research in an enormous variety of fields -- the humanities, agriculture, engineering, science, architecture, mathematics and many others. Students present their research at symposiums, during Research Week and at nationwide conferences. They publish their work in journals, including Pursuit, the undergraduate research journal at UT. They talk about the importance of undergraduate research with Tennessee legislators at the state capitol each year, and they often go on to graduate school and pursue these research projects even further.

Research at the undergraduate level is seen as an exciting opportunity, one that is encouraged by faculty and staff and eagerly pursued by students.

As with any initiative, however, there is always room for improvement and expansion, especially in the pursuit of a goal as lofty as becoming a Top 25 public research institution. Several studies have shown a disconcert-

ing lack of support from the public toward funding state universities, including research, because the public cannot see a positive return on their investment into public higher education. Private universities have replaced public universities in the world of discovery and innovation, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to demonstrate the relevance of a public, land-grant institution in the world of cutting-edge research.

There are many ways to address this issue, but I believe the first and most important is to continue to foster the culture of research that is already strong here at UT. We need to continue to celebrate research achievements and to more easily facilitate student-faculty mentor relationships so that every undergraduate can readily find a faculty member who is working on a research project in which he or she is interested. Getting undergraduates interested and excited about research will translate down the line into more students going on to graduate school and pursuing their research areas even further. And above all, it is critical to engage with the community by giving the public opportunities to see and read about the many exciting projects that students participate in at UT. The culture of research that is fostered among the student body needs to extend beyond campus in order to convince the public of the importance of research.

We live in a world of new technology, new ideas, and new global communities, all of which require the work of innovative young thinkers engaging in projects that seek to build upon existing research to improve and change the world in which we live. By convincing the community that state universities are just as capable at developing these new ideas as private institutions, UT will be able to accelerate itself into the Top 25. The key to this is to develop the ability to show and explain the research that goes on every day to the public at large and to show them how important and exciting research can be.

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Sarah Russell is a senior in history. She can be reached at srusse22@utk.edu.

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Wiley Robinson Despite the ubiquitous physical luxury and respite from the chaos of the elements that the lucky majority of us enjoy in the industrialized world, we pay for it with the severe consequences of the powerful technology we employ.

It’s the heavily swinging pendulum that brings an unknowable blessing and curse with every movement, which also describes how we all ultimately pay for the power of knowledge in general. Or for some of us, how hard we fight against the conclusions of that knowledge to preserve our own, less painfully aware truths.

Things like fundamentalist religion and the much more recent but equally uncritical cultural myths of human progress that we’ve enjoyed for so long.

We find ourselves at the beginning of 2013 still in a stupor of distractions regarding the viability of our culture in the very near future.

Not just the American culture, however disproportionately influential we are, but the more basic culture in the context of industrialization.

All too subject to the short term error of human motivations, now suddenly with the tragically unthinkable power to collectively sicken the global conditions we have flourished under. And unlike the unthinking forces of evolution and nature, we’re the only ones screwing up and complicating our lives by not doing what’s in our power to do.

I’m sure you’ve heard that sentiment before, but it only becomes more sickeningly ironic as this thing becomes more real. The reality of

hydraulic fracturing makes climate change all the more relevant. And the knowledge I could do without is the reality that our leaders will do nothing, and worse, dare to pay lip-service and hold false debate about the known dangers, as if to mock the significance of truth in relation to their power. All the while, science is unanimously declaring how screwed we are that we didn’t act decades ago. That is a realization no less somber than the bitterness of mortality itself.

For all the suffering and anxiety we undergo for our awareness, an overload of knowledge for power over our environment, be it over other people or nature, we have no choice but to look on and watch as the power elite do what’s counter-productive to our and our descendants’ survival to protect today’s status quo myth of progress. To keep expanding and growing even though there’s nowhere left to.

An unprecedented increase in the availability of oil and natural gas by fracking is something the power elite simply cannot resist for its short term slant in this gleefully suicidal global economic trend. To know that particular truth is to know the casual insanity, free of all reason, that is at the basis of so much in culture that we take so painfully for granted.

“We must transcend our evolutionary history. We’re Ice Age hunters with a shave and a suit. We are not good long-term thinkers. We would much rather gorge ourselves on dead mammoths by driving a herd over a cliff than figure out how to conserve the herd so it can feed us and our children forever. That is the transition our civilization has to make. And we’re not doing that.” -Ronald White —Wiley Robinson is a senior in evolutionary biology. He can be reached at rrobin1@utk.edu.

Friday, January 25, 2013

THE DAILY BEACON • 5 Arts & Culture Editor Victoria Wright

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Step Afrika! brings dance, culture to Bijou Theatre “Since this event combines music and dancing, it will be different from the other events I’ve attended, but in a good way,� Mcbride said. “The CAC does a great job of showcasing events that are not only entertaining, but promote diversity and different cultural experiences as well.�

The African-American fraternity Phi Beta Sigma will be opening for Step Afrika!.

Also performing a dance routine, Wright said the fraternity will add more to the night’s events. “We really were looking for a good dance group that we thought had a good connection here on campus and obviously by having some traditional African-American fraternities, stepping is a big part of their culture and a big part of African-American culture in general so we thought that was something that was a part of this community,�

Wright said.

In the past, the group has performed on many different stages including the Lincoln Center in New York City and even the White House.

Mcbride said she is most looking forward to the dancing and the music. “My high school had a Step Team, and I always enjoyed watching them perform, but since these guys are professionals, I’ll be expecting some awesome dances,� she said.

Wright said that this event will be comparable to the CAC’s event for the Pacifico Dance Company, a traditional Mexican-American dance group, from last semester. “Our last event with The

Melodi Erdogan Assistant Arts & Culture Editor The Cultural Attractions Committee is hosting an event to showcase the talents of the professional dance company, Step Afrika! The dance group is currently on a 50-city college tour and will be stopping in Knoxville for UT students on Jan. 30 at the Bijou Theatre.

Sean Wright, the CAC’s press secretary and senior in history, said that the committee was initially drawn to the dance company by research on their previous performances. “We looked at some of their videos from their previous events and we were really impressed with what we say,� Wright said. “It’s really energetic and really exciting and has some traditional step dancing with some modern things so we thought that it’d be something great that the students at UT and the people of the Knoxville community could really enjoy.�

Originally f ro m Washington, D.C., Step Afrika! is the city’s first and only Cultural Ambassador who is presented to audiences around the country and around the world. Their stop in Knoxville is a part of their goal to encourage teamwork, broaden education and exemplify themes of acceptance of different cultures.

Kathryn Mcbride, freshman in biology, attended the WannaBeatles event hosted by the CAC last semester.

Mcbride said that because of how well that event went, she has no doubt that Step Afrika! will be successful.

WannaBeatles was pop culture-y, a throwback to the ‘60s, but it was something that a lot of people knew, the Beatles and their music,� he said. “(Step Afrika!) represents a culture that a lot of people aren’t exposed to or haven’t seen or experienced and so that way it definitely fulfills our mission to broaden the cultural horizons on campus.�

CAC events normally have a ticket price, but the committee decided to make them free for students so as to attract more of them, said Wright.

Mcbride said she is pleased with the free ticket prices and the location for the show. “I think if an event is free it gives students more incentive to attend,� she said. “The fact that it is at the Bijou again is also really nice. That theater is a great place for events like this because it is small, yet comfortable.�

Students will take on a new appreciation for cultural heritage and the traditional form of step dance from this event, said Wright. “I think a lot of people maybe don’t know about step dancing and so I think that this will be something that people will see and think it’s really interesting and exciting,� he said. “It’s always good to exposure yourself to things you may not be familiar with.�

The event is free for students with their student ID at the UC Central Ticket Office, and $10 for faculty and staff at the same location. The general public can purchase tickets for $15 online at knoxvilletickets. com.

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Step Afrika! performs live in Washington in May of 2007. Step Afrika! is the first professional dance company dedicated to educating the audience about stepping and will be performing at the Bijou Theatre on Jan. 30.

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6 • THE DAILY BEACON

Friday, January 25, 2013 Arts & Culture Editor Victoria Wright

ARTS & CULTURE Student fashion changes

vwright6@utk.edu

Assistant Arts & Culture Editor Melodi Erdogan

merdogan@utk.edu

Alumnus paints for Summitt, potentially for Obama Molly Loftus Contributor

Imagine an individual’s sixth grade art teacher insists that he had an undeniable gift. Carl Hess, an established portrait artist and 2009 UT alumnus, says that’s where it all began.

Hess said that he “probably wouldn’t have” pursued art had it not been for the encouragement of his sixth grade art teacher.

At the mere age of 11, Hess and his parents were called into a meeting to discuss his artistic talent and the prospect of sending him to the Memphis • Photo courtesy of Oscar de la Renta College of Art on a scholarship.

“This is where I developed A model wearing Oscar de la Renta’s fashion line of fall 2011 walks down the runway. my basic skills as an artist,” Designers like Oscar de la Renta break the barriers in fashion.

Hess said. “I wish I paid more attention though. We spent a to me.”

Samantha Coley lot of time drawing and paintHowever, not all campus wear is in bad taste.

Contributor ing hands which is coincidenSmith said she is a huge fan of the peplum trend. tally a weakness of mine. As a “Peplum flatters everyone and can be incorSome students are desperate for trends of young boy, I didn’t understand seasons past to die while others are hoping for porated in many different types of clothing, like the importance of that.” a revival of fashion to come with the return of shirts, full-length skirts and dresses,” Smith Hess said that he has always said. “There are still a number of other ways preferred portrait art to spring.

Lindy Smith, undecided sophomore, said designers could use peplum that have not been abstract forms of art because there are certain trends that need not stick done yet.” he enjoys “making things come She also hopes that more traditional colors, to life” with his paintings. around another season.

“The mixing of patterns is tacky and then such as black and blue, be infused more in Hess’s best friend from high there is too much going on in the outfit,” Smith designer’s collections, as well as some designers school, Harisson Crite, a fashbreaking past the fashion stigmas. said. ion photographer in New York “That is why I love fashion,” Smith said. “I City, contends that Hess “has Smith said that lace is a fabric she would like love that designers, like Oscar de la Renta and an innate ability to look at picto see hibernate as well.

“I used to love lace, especially when it first Cynthia Rowland, created a line of all winter tures and create life for his was high fashion, but I hate to see the elegance white clothing in the fall making white after portraits.”

Among the numerous menof lace be taken away when it’s in lower end Labor Day acceptable again. Designers just stores,” she said. “It should just be done away continue to break the rules and think outside tors in Hess’s artistic journey, the box.” he considered his high school with.”

Walker has many trends in mind that he art teacher to be “the most Fred Walker, senior in journalism and elecinfluential” to him. tronic media and member of the People for would love to see come back this season.

“Trends that I have to see re-emerge are the “He catered to my interest in Style and Education club, said he’s tired of the animal coat allure that seemed to be a major leather pants for guys, sneaker wedges for girls portrait painting which wasn’t and layering with over-sized scarfs,” Walker really the case with other teachtrend last year.

“I am not a fan of fur,” Walker said. “I’m not said. “Especially in the winter these items look ers,” Hess said.

Several others pushed him exactly an advocate for PETA, but fur makes a very good and trendy when people put their to explore all realms of art. person look burly and not very fashion-forward own style on it.”

In the single fine art course Hess took in college, he was challenged to “think outside the box,” a lesson that he now values. Despite the diverse collection of impacting teachers in which he encountered, Hess said that he has a special place in his heart for the one who instigated his interest in art, his grade school teacher.

“I called her up two years ago,” he said. “I told her, ‘If I go to the White House, I’m bringing you.’”

Hess is currently being considered as a candidate to paint the official portrait of the president. This wouldn’t be the first time he and his art paid a visit to the White House, nor would it be the second.

“The first time I went to the White House I was presenting a portrait to President Obama,” Hess said. “The second time, I was getting it signed by him.”

Hess said that both experiences were “very cool.”

“As he was signing my portrait, I told him I wanted to paint the official portrait for him,” Hess said. “He stopped signing and gave me a look like, ‘yeah, right.’”

Hess said that this was a discouraging encounter, but he didn’t let it tarnish his dream.

“I was hurt for about ten seconds, and then I moved on,” he said. “I used that as motivation to improve. So I began studying past artists of the official portrait of the president to see what I could do to get up to their level.”

Hess attributes the recent honor of being considered to that determined practice. If he is granted this honor, he will be the youngest artist in history

to do so.

According to long-lasting friend Crite, with Carl, “the sky is the limit.”

Not only is Hess making history in the U.S. capital, he is also doing it right here in Knoxville. His most recent project is a portrait of local hero Pat Summitt.

“I am collaborating with the Pat Summitt Foundation to paint a portrait that will, essentially, commemorate every year she won a championship,” he said.

Hess and Summitt are both “very excited” about teaming up, he said.

“When I met her, I told her I was born the year she won her first championship,” Carl said. “She laughed and said, ‘I’m old.’ I replied ‘No, that just means you’ve been a champion for a long time.’”

The portrait, entitled “Infinite Champion,” portrays the growth of Summitt’s career at UT. Only 100 copies were produced and hand-signed by Summitt, and will sell at the price of $2,000. Half of the proceeds will go to the Pat Summitt Foundation which raises awareness of Alzheimer’s Disease, provides support for patients and families and research to prevent and cure the disease.

“I hope that sororities, fraternities and other organizations will come together to purchase one,” Carl said. “This is a great way to give back to someone who has served our university in a way that has made me proud to be a Volunteer.”

Further information on Hess and the limited edition portrait of Summitt can be found on his website, chessartworld.com.

Friday, January 25, 2013

THE DAILY BEACON • 7

SPORTS

Sports Editor Lauren Kittrell lkittre1@utk.edu

Assistant Sports Editor Austin Bornheim abornhei@utk.edu

Projected Starters Tennessee

Alabama

G Trae Golden G Josh Richardson G Jordan McRae F Kenny Hall F Jarnell Stokes

G Rodney Cooper G Levi Randolph G Trevor Releford G Trevor Lacey C Moussa Gueye Why the Vols will win:

How They Match-up UT

Matthew DeMaria • The Daily Beacon

Trae Golden prepares for a jumper against Ole Miss at Thompson-Boling Arena on Jan. 9.

The Tennessee Volunteers (9-7, 1-3 SEC) want payback after a heartbreaking 68-65 loss to this Alabama Crimson Tide team in Tuscaloosa on Jan. 12th. The outcome of their first matchup was solely based on Alabama’s ability to drain the 3-point shot, as the Crimson Tide was able to shoot 42.9 percent on 6 of 14 shooting from behind the arc, but the Tennessee defense should be ready to defend the deep ball this time around. Trae Golden, who is averaging 13 points per game in Volunteer victories and 8 points per game in defeats, will be the biggest reason the Vols win, as his play has improved as of late and he will be looking to rebound from the previous matchup between these two teams when he scored eight points on 3 of 9 shooting. The Vols will also come away with a victory if they can continue the rebounding success they had in game one when they out-rebounded the Tide 40 to 25.

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Why The Crimson Tide will win: The Alabama Crimson Tide (12-6, 4-1 SEC) will come out firing as they look to complete a season sweep of the Vols. Trevor Releford and Trevor Lacey both lit up the Volunteers for 15 points in game one and should easily be able to duplicate their performances as the Tennessee defense has yet to hit its stride in the SEC season. The Crimson Tide use a four guard lineup which creates matchup problems for the Vols as they are unable to match the speed that Alabama possesses. This was shown in their first matchup when Alabama shot 62.5 percent from the field in the second half against a worn down defense compared to the 26.7 percent they shot in the first half. Their speed of play should once again be able to get the best of the Vols, especially if they manage to get a few Volunteers into foul trouble. The Alabama defense forced some of Tennessee’s better players like Jarnell Stokes and Trae Golden to struggle the first time around, and their defensive game plan for this game will be centered around having the same result.

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SPORTS

Friday, January 25, 2013 Sports Editor Lauren Kittrell lkittre1@utk.edu

Assistant Sports Editor Austin Bornheim abornhei@utk.edu

Swimming faces test against Georgia Basketball alum Matthew Keylon Staff Writer The Lady Vols swimming and diving team is looking forward to its meet with national championship contender Georgia on Saturday. Coming off a big win at Virginia Tech on Jan. 12, the Lady Vols hope to keep the momentum rolling.

“Every meet for us is essentially kind of a cumulative effort, so we want to get better every time, and everything that we’ve worked on last meet we want to apply to this meet,” head coach Matt Kredich said.

At Virginia Tech, junior Lindsay Gendron led Tennessee with a pool record in the 1000-yard freestyle and by winning the 500-yard freestyle. Kredich is expecting big things from her this weekend.

“She is a phenomenal racer,” Kredich said. “She’s going to have the chance to go up against an Olympic gold medalist in the 200 free and another number of the top 4x200 free relay that won a gold medal and she loves this stuff. She loves racing the best people so putting her in that situation is really comfortable for her.”

A few freshmen stood out for the Vols in their last meet.

Gustav Aberg Lejdstram won his first ever race at Tennessee, while Sean Lehane won the 200 meter backstroke and finished second in the 100 meter backstroke. Ben Miller placed second in the 1000 meter freestyle, with a careerbest time of 9:27.43, and also finished second in the 500 meter freestyle.

“I think they’re doing great,” Kredich said. “They’ve

been really open and receptive.

They’re showing steady improvement all year long. But my view is it’s time for those guys to start really taking ownership of this team and not being just passengers, they need to start kind of start driving the train and I haven’t seen that as much as I’d like to and these next few meets will give them an opportunity to do that.”

The meet with the Bulldogs is seen as a challenge that both teams look forward to. Senior Kelsey Floyd usually does the butterfly races, but instead won the 200 meter freestyle and finished second in the 500 and 1000 meter freestyle races.

“I expect our team to race really well, get out with a lot of aggressive swims and a lot of energy,” Floyd said. “We have such great competition in Georgia so I’m excited for close races.”

“Their women’s team is a national championship contender this year so Tara Sripunvoraskul • The Daily Beacon they’re going to use this meet to try to take Lindsay Gendron competes in the 400 IM at the Tennessee another step towards Invitational in Nov. 2010. winning a national The Lady Vols are 6-0 in at the top end. Their men are championship,” Kerdich said. probably the most improved dual meets this season and the “So we expect them to be a team in the country from last Vols are looking to improve on great team, really deep, very year to this so far and that’s a 3-3 record. The meet with good at the top and in a numbecause they have a phenom- Georgia will be at noon on ber of events and I think we enal freshman class. I expect Saturday at the Allan Jones can go toe-to-toe with them a lot of those guys to compete Aquatic Center. in a lot of events, especially with a lot of enthusiasm.”

to be bestowed SEC honor Staff Reports

A former Volunteer basketball star will soon become a legend.

Three-time Tennessee firstteam All-SEC selection Len Kosmalski will be UT’s representative among the former greats from all 14 SEC member institutions who will be honored as the 2013 Allstate SEC Basketball Legends at the SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament March 13-17 at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville.

A native of Maple Heights, Ohio, Kosmalski lettered three seasons for the Volunteers and is Tennessee’s No. 31 alltime scorer with 1,212 career points.

Until his recent retirement, Kosmalski worked as a high school and college sales representative for Nike in Beaverton, Ore. A starter on UT’s 1972 SEC Championship team, Kosmalski earned first-team All-SEC acclaim in 1972, 1973 and 1974. The 7-0, 245-pound center averaged 17.7 points and 8.4 rebounds during his days on Rocky Top before embarking on a professional basketball playing career.

In 1974, he was picked in both the ABA and NBA drafts.

The ABA’s Utah Stars chose Kosmalski in the second round (20th overall), and the NBA’s Kansas City-Omaha Kings selected him in the second round as well (24th overall).

He played two years for the Kings, appearing in 76 games.

He then spent the 1976-77 season playing for the Stella Azzurra franchise in Rome, Italy.

Kosmalski wore jersey No. 55 during both his collegiate and professional playing careers.

“The Allstate SEC Basketball Legends Program allows us to honor our past and show everyone why the SEC is one of the nation’s premier basketball conferences,” SEC Commissioner Mike Slive said.

The 2013 class also includes Wimp Sanderson, Alabama; Jerry Carlton, Arkansas; Ronnie Battle, Auburn; Bill Koss, Florida; Tim Bassett, Georgia; Jamal Mashburn, Kentucky; Geert Hammink, LSU; Rahim Lockhart, Ole Miss; Horatio Webster, Mississippi State; Norm Stewart, Missouri; Eddie Fogler, South Carolina; John Beasley, Texas A&M; and Mike Rhoades, Vanderbilt.

Each SEC Basketball Legend will be recognized at halftime of his institution’s first game at the tournament.

Highlighting the schedule of events at the Sunkist Soda SEC FanFare will be appearances by selected legends. FanFare will be open Thursday-Saturday, March 14-16.

This marks the 15th year of the SEC Basketball Legends program.