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INSIDE THE DAILY BEACON News Page 2 Arts & Culture Page 3, 5 Opinions Page 4 Sports Page 6

Thursday, January 30, 2014

Issue 16, Volume 125

Staff Writer

Emilee Lamb Assistant News Editor As large food corporations continue to absorb much of America’s agriculture, many local planters continue to maintain independence.

But freedom comes at a price.

Owners of Beauchene’s Berry Farm Alice Beauchene, 82, and husband Roy, 88, have operated their 10.66 acre farm in West Knoxville for 30 years.

“We are retired codgers and it keeps us busy,” Alice Beauchene said. “We usually lose money on the farm but we write that off as a service to the community – ask our good customers – and as something to keep us active.”

Both Alice and Roy Beauchene are former UT employees. While Alice worked in the computing center, Roy was a professor in the nutrition department.

Beauchene’s Berry Farm produces blueberries, blackberries and some vegetables.

Customers of the farm are able to pick their purchases straight from the field.

“By patronizing us,” Alice Beauchene said, “our customers know where the produce comes from and how it was grown.”

Olivia Gross, sophomore in social work, affirmed Beauchene’s view.

“I think it’s really important that people know exactly where their food comes from,” Gross said. “And I think it’s really important that the people that are providing the food are getting the cut they deserve.”

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Stacey Campfield’s vision for student group funding distribution worries some, particularly given his past criticism of student activity with group funds.

Senate Bill 1608, created by state Sen. Stacey Campfield, R-Knoxville, of District 7, would revolutionize the way UT grants funding to student organizations.

Given that every student must pay student activities fees at the beginning of each semester, Campfield believes funding should be distributed based on organizational membership, as

explained in the bill.

“It pretty much says if we are paying speakers, that the funding for speakers should be divided up evenly among clubs, based on membership for the clubs themselves,” Campfield said. “Everybody would have a fair shot at the money they pay. ... It just

makes the distribution more fair.”

Currently, the university uses student requests as the basis for funding through the University Programs and Services Fee Allocation Board. The UPSF board consists of students, faculty and staff. However, the board is mostly student-run and chaired by the Student Government Association president. In other words, the board is advised by faculty, but student-run.

The creation of SB1608 was due in part to Campfield’s concern that the UPSF board grants funding with a bias toward liberal-leaning guest speakers.

“The current system has

routinely shut down conservative speakers from being presented,” Campfield said.

“They dole out the money however they see fit, and they are cheating some clubs and giving preferential treatment to others.”

Associate Dean of Students Jeff Cathey said he agrees that while there may be more liberal student groups applying for funding, the general process remains fair.

“I don’t have that perception that the process is biased,” Cathey said. “The board welcomes all proposals. ... If anything, maybe our students with a more liberal perspective tend to be a bit more active in wanting to bring things to campus.”

Roughly a year ago, Campfield began auditing the process of granted funds as discussion around the bill grew.

“For the past year, we do not have documentation of really any, if there were any in the past three years, conservative-based interests being denied,” Cathey said.

Brandon Chrisman, junior in political science and member of the Tennessee Intercollegiate State Legislature and President of College Republicans, asserts that his organization hosts a conservative speaker once a month, an event always open to the public.

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• Photo Courtesy of Stacey Campfield

Knoxville Campfield’s bill could alter student group funding policy farms dig Bradi Musil in to keep pace with corporate growth

Vols stifle Henderson, stomp Rebels, 86-70 Dargan Southard Assistant Sports Editor His Knoxville debut was a riveting one; nearly an entire 40 minutes worth of jaw-dropping threes doused with a large amount of brash trash-talking and unforgettable antics.

So naturally, he wanted to make sure everyone was aware of his return.

“He texted me about Sunday and told me he was gonna be down here,” UT guard Jordan McRae said, “as if I forgot.”

But while Ole Miss guard Marshall Henderson’s first trip to Tennessee served as a gateway to college basketball’s biggest stage, it was McRae who took the upper hand in the 2014 rematch.

McRae, a roommate of Henderson’s at the Kevin Durant Skills Academy this past summer, poured in a team-high 26 points – including six 3-pointers – as the Vols routed Ole Miss 86-70 Wednesday night at Thompson-Boling Arena.

“I thought Jordan settled down in the second half,” UT head coach Cuonzo Martin said.

“Early, I thought he was shooting leaners and floaters, and didn’t like the flow of the game.

“I just had to go tell him go straight up and down, shoot the ball, catch and shoot the three.”

Henderson, who torched the Vols for 32 points in an 18-point Rebel victory last season in Knoxville, posted 26 points while shooting 41 percent (9-of22) from the field and 42 percent (8-of-19) from downtown.

Despite all the attention, Henderson’s return to Knoxville was nearly derailed in the opening minutes as the Rebel senior exited the game with an apparent hip injury just 32 seconds in.

As Henderson writhed in pain on the Ole Miss bench, the Vols took command early, knocking down a slew of 3-pointers en route to quick nine-point lead.

As a team, UT finished 11-of20 from deep.

“Coming into this game, they didn’t expect us to shoot the way we did,” said UT junior forward

Jarnell Stokes, who finished with his 29th career double-double (13 points, 14 rebounds). “I have to give our guards a lot of respect because after the Florida game they didn’t get discouraged.

“They got somewhat angry because of how bad they shot from the field.”

McRae and Josh Richardson — who failed to score in UT’s loss at Florida — led the charge in the opening period as the duo combined for 20 of UT’s 41 first half points.

Richardson finished with 16 points, his highest scoring total in almost a month.

“It is just waiting for them to fall,” Richardson said. “Florida was a bad game for everyone, I think we can agree on that.

Shots were falling today.”

The Vols led by as much as 19 in the first half, but a late 11-4 Ole Miss run — fueled by a revamped Henderson — cut the Rebel deficit to 41-29 at the break.

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Tennessee senior guard Jordan McRae drives through the lane and attempts a layup over Ole Miss’ Aaron Jones in the Vols’ 86-70 victory against the Rebels at Thompson-Boling Arena on Wednesday. McRae scored a team-high 26 points.

Claire Dodson Arts & Culture Editor Millennials comprise a generation that is constantly critiqued with words like “entitled,” “lazy” and “selfcentered”. UT students are a microcosm of a generation, and it’s easy to generalize college kids -- we look the same, talk the same and act the same.

But we are not the same.

The diversity of perspective here is astounding, and it is a diversity encapsulated in the spring 2014 issue of the Phoenix, UT’s literary magazine. The latest issue features eight writers and artists who brought their unique style and appreciation of art to the literary table.

One of the first pieces in the magazine is Victor Medina’s short story, “Eugene, Meet Leebo.”

Medina, a senior in English, created this story to bring the realities of life as a young, gay man to the open.

“As a gay man in his early 20s, I wanted to write a story about a gay man in his early 20s,” Medina said. “I wanted to hint at certain aspects of young gay culture: going out, drinking and drugs, sleeping with strangers, feeling remorseful, thinking too much.

“My main interest in writing the story was crafting a simple, yet complex story about a young gay man who feels lost.”

In the story, Medina recreates the experience of youth

through Holden Caulfield- esque Eugene and his search for belonging. Underneath our clothing choices and Friday night plans, this feeling of being out-of-place is one that college students share. “ ( E u g e n e ’s ) being forced in directions he’s never been before,” Medina said. “He is a person who doesn’t know what he wants yet.

“For me, feeling stuck and lonely

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Phoenix exhibits snapshots of millennial reality

The Spring 2014 edition of the Phoenix Literary Arts Magazine features eight student writers and one artist.

seems very human, very relatable and very 20-something.”

To generalize students is to overlook them, but to look at every 20-something as isolated entities renders us unable to see the feelings that connect us together.

The ideas of the rebelliousness of youth are echoed in Brian Hooyman’s poems “Invocation For My Muses” and “Quicker Road Trip.”

Hooyman, a freshman in kinesiology, started writing poetry after being dared to enter a high school slam contest.

“As a joke I was like, ‘Hey, I’m gonna enter the contest and kick some butt,’ and my friends were like ‘No you’re not, you suck at poetry,’” Hooyman said.

“I was like, ‘Oh yeah?’ and then

I ended up winning.”

Some of this brash selfassurance is woven through “Invocation,” with lines like, “My confidence will be my downfall and I will find solace in the insults of my friends.”

The poem brings to the forefront the writer’s struggle between cynicism and idealism.

“Quicker Road Trip” takes on a more narrative style as Hooyman recounts a summerbefore-college trip to see a friend who would otherwise spend his birthday alone.

The trip served as a symbolic reminder of the transition between high school and college and all the emotions that go along with it.

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Thursday, January 30, 2014 Editor-in-Chief R.J. Vogt

IN SHORT FARMS continued from Page 1 However, Alice Beauchene said owning a small farm is not always idyllic. Property taxes are discounted for farms that reach a 15-acre minimum, a size beyond Beauchene’s reach.

“That prime piece of property on Middlebrook Pike – a farm of 102 acres – paid only $98 more than we and it will probably be sold for about $11 million,” Alice Beauchene said.

Statistics from the United States Department of Agriculture show a national trend toward fewer farms with a corresponding growth in the size of large farms, illustrating a consolidation of the nation’s food production.

In 2012, 34 percent of the

CAMPFIELD continued from Page 1 However, the university does not sponsor these speakers. Chrisman said all speakers for College Republicans visit for free.

“We, as long as I’ve been present, haven’t had to pay for a single speaker,” Chrisman said. “I don’t know of any, since I have been a freshman here, that we have had to pay for.”

Chrisman said he does feel UT generally hosts a disproportionate number of liberal speakers, however.

“If you look at some of the speakers that have come,” Chrisman said, “most of them tend to be liberal.”

Much controversy surrounding Campfield’s bill stems from the suspicion its policy seeks to undermine Sex Week, an event series hosted by Sexual Empowerment and Awareness at Tennessee, or SEAT. When university funding was abruptly pulled before last year’s Sex Week, Campfield publicly supported this administrative

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nation’s farmland was owned by farms making more than $500,000 per year.

Ironically, these large farms make up 6.2 percent of the total number of farms. Farms making less than $10,000 in sales, on the other hand, constitute approximately 53 percent of U.S. farms.

Despite the growing clout of large food corporations, David Cantrell, owner and operator of Black Oak Farms, a local beef and fruit farm, said he believes small, independent farms can still thrive.

“With experience, the ability to learn, attention to details and willingness to change, anyone can compete with corporate America,” Cantrell said. “We learn to grow crops and livestock. The key is to market them at a profit.”

While farming for a large

distributor offers certain advantages, Cantrell does not concern himself with the implications of contract farming such as filling a quota.

“It would be painful to have to purchase 1,000 bushels of peaches and sell them at a loss to fill a contract,” Cantrell said.

“This is what can happen when a summer hail storm wipes out their crop and they experience a total loss.”

Notably, locally grown foods are typically pricier than produce shipped to supermarkets like Wal-Mart or Kroger. But students like Emily Hoffman, junior in graphic design, see the value in purchasing from area farmers.

“The food tastes better and there’s no concern about harmful chemical pesticide residue,” Hoffman said. “Additionally, buying locally keeps the community unique and distinctive.”

decision.

Despite such notions, Campfield stated his bill is not an attack on SEAT. “(This bill) has been percolating for a while,” Campfield said. “It presented itself most full in (Sex Week). The speakers were all one point of view.”

Brianna Rader, senior in college scholars and one of the co-founders of SEAT, does not see the bill as an attack on SEAT specifically, but rather a provocation toward organizations in general.

“Stacey Campfield isn’t directly attacking Sex Week; he’s directly attacking every student organization on this campus,” Rader said. “This bill is not necessary. It will only be an obstacle for student organizations. Funding will become focused on membership instead of content or quality.

“The university will have poorer programming as a result of this bill.”

Chrisman, however, said he sees merit in Campfield’s idea.

“From everything I have heard about the bill, I think

it is pretty common sense,” Chrisman said. “Large organizations that have broad emphasis and broad topics that they cover, they probably are going to need more money to bring people in, but at the same time, I don’t think the College Democrats should be disenfranchised.”

Still, Cathey said he fears that SB1608 could foster a campus saturated with homogenous speakers.

“I think it could end up causing even more bias,” Cathey said. “I would be concerned that it would end up yielding a culture of groups collecting members.

We don’t have a clear definition of what you have to do to be a member, and we are not interested in trying to monitor this or collect this.

We try to let our student organizations be independent. ... Being a member could be as easy as singing up to be on an email list.

“If things gravitated over time to be the big general majorities of East Tennessee, well, fundamentally then, our underrepresented groups aren’t hardly going to get any funding.”

In Case You Missed It: Tuesday, President Obama delivered the annual State of the Union Address.

The event inspired more than 1.7 million tweets from Americans across the country, and UT students readily voiced their own opinions.

Editors here at the Daily Beacon selected our favorites in today’s “In Case You Missed It.”

Branch Banking and Trust(BB&T) Enterpise Holdings

Penske Truck Leasing

Altria Group

Fed. Bureau of Investigation(FBI) PepsiCo

Auto-Owners Insurance

First Tennessee Bank

PerfectServe

BMW

INROADS

Pet Smart

Bridgestone Retail Operations

Knoxville Utilities Board (KUB)

Save-A-Lot Food Stores

CGI

Kohl’s

Sherwin-Williams

Cherokee Health Systems

Macy’s

Target Corporation

Cigna Corporation

Marathon Petroleum Company

U.S. Navy

CINTAS

Mondelez International

UTK, Army ROTC

Clayton Homes/Vanderbilt

NACCO Materials Handling Grp. UTK, Human Resources

Mortgage

Norfolk Southern Corporation

WDSI Fox61

ConAgra Foods

Northwestern Mutual Financial

Wyndham Vacation Ownership

Denso Manufacturing

Peace Corps

YES Prep Public Schools

AND MANY MORE!

Thursday, January 30, 2014

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Assistant Arts & Culture Editor Cortney Roark

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Southern hip-hop artist draws upon roots, storytelling During the past few years, Top Dawg Entertainment has established itself as the gold standard for hip-hop labels, following in the steps of predecessors such as Aftermath Entertainment and Cash Money Records. By providing a slew of artists who have not only provided the genre with great music, but have also helped define the culture through artists such as Kendrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q and Ab-Soul, it is safe to say they have what it takes to break a new act.

This leads to the newest member of the collective, Chattanooga’s own Isaiah Rashad, who with his debut effort “Cilvia Demo” delivers on the promise Top Dawg gave us when they first announced the signing. Rashad, originally known for his video “Gusto,” has since transformed himself into one of hip-hop’s rising stars since his signing to Top

Dawg.

From causing a social media firestorm with his cypher at the BET Hip-Hop Awards to the buzz generated from his newest single “Ronnie Drake,” it is clear that through his new album “Cilvia Demo,” he is ready to reach the next level.

The album begins with the track “Hereditary” where Rashad talks about everything he learned from his father and also paints a picture of the environment where he was raised. With this short offering, Isaiah gives a preview of some of the major concepts to expect for the rest of the album. “Cilvia” then continues with the next standout track, “R.I.P Kevin Miller,” where he allows the audience to pick his brain on multiple levels.

Ever since southern hip-hop began to hit the mainstream, it has been hard for the world to relate to such acts because the environment is so different.

Whether it was Outkast’s early work not receiving the respect it deserved or just a lack of

just short-lived fads like most perceive them. They are the reason he raps.

The album continues with the aforementioned “Ronnie Drake,” which features fellow Top Dawg newcomer SZA. On this track, Rashad changes style from the beginning of the album, switching from rapping about himself to speaking for his culture. With lines such as “Don’t call me a n*****, unless you call me my n*****” or “There ain’t no getting money on that conscious s****, I just might load up my gat on some survival s****,” he is showing off his Chattanooga native Isaiah Rashad dropped his debut lyrical ability and at the same EP, “Cilvia Demo,” on Tuesday with the label Top Dawg time speaking for a lot of the young people who come from Entertainment. a similar background.

Tracks such as this showunderstanding of 2 Chainz’s such as “Like when Percy (aka case his storytelling ability, a slang, there has always been a Master P) was the king, back trait that has been a staple in when Juvie (aka Juvenile) was great southern hip-hop. disconnect.

On this track, Rashad the great,” or to a new age Probably the best examallows his new international of Southern MC with “Free ple of the potential Rashad fan base to get a small taste Guwop (aka Gucci Mane) if possesses is the 12th track, of what inspired southern hip- he in jail,” he shares that in “Heavenly Father.” On this hop artists such as himself. his world, these artists are not track, Isaiah puts it all togethWith references to legends

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ACM nominees announced; stars prepare for awards show Associated Press Want to clean up the Academy of Country Music Awards nominations? This year the best way was to put together a killer guest list and go for the Vocal Event of the Year award.

Lead nominees Miranda Lambert, Tim McGraw and Keith Urban, Taylor Swift and Blake Shelton all tallied nominations in that category Wednesday when nominations were announced via videos on social media.

Lambert appears in the field twice and leads all nominees with McGraw at seven nominations apiece. Urban is also nominated twice in the category and is next with six nods.

When McGraw invited Swift and Urban to join him on “Highway Don’t Care,” he said he wasn’t thinking about nomination day. But he knew he had a strong song, and “that sort of inherently comes along with a project like that,” he said with a chuckle. “Any time when you have Keith and Taylor and myself doing a song together, you’d sort of be a dummy... to think that it wouldn’t get some sort of nomination.”

Lambert teamed up with Urban on “We Were Us” and husband Shelton and her trio Pistol Annies on “Boys ‘Round Here.” Urban said he sought out Lambert because of her artistry, something reflected in the range she shows from one nominated song to the other.

“She’s an artist, she’s not an act,” Urban said. “There’s a lot of acts in all genres, and then there are some artists... who clearly have a vision of who you are as an artist.”

Lambert will be going for her fifth straight female vocalist of the year campaign and along with her husband Shelton is nominated for the top honor, the fan-voted entertainer of the year, against two-time winner Swift, 2013 winner Luke Bryan and previous pick George Strait.

PHOENIX continued from Page 1 “It’s kind of about the process of driving down there and realizing, this is the end of something great,” Hooyman said. “It’s a sentimental look at the relationships we have.”

The art in the 2014 Phoenix was created by Colby Sirbaugh, a sophomore in advertising, whose collage-esque pieces range from dark to sublime and inadvertently highlight the major themes in the magazine: youth and relation to the outside world.

In Sirbaugh’s piece, “Punk,” he superimposed two pictures of a friend who had a massive

“As a female artist, it has been a longtime goal for me to be in this category,” Lambert said in a statement.

“And such great company too!”

The nomination continues something of a victory lap for Strait, who is wrapping up his final tour this year. He’s a former winner in the category who recently won the rival Country Music Association’s entertainer of the year trophy.

While McGraw technically has as many nominations as Lambert, he joked that he considered Lambert the leader because three of his seven nominations come from categories — including album of the year — that also recognize producers.

“It’s four, but then you turn it into seven,” McGraw said. “To me it’s four, but I’ll take it when they say seven.”

Kacey Musgraves’ Grammy Award-winning “Same Trailer Different Park” also is up for album of the year and she’s tied with Swift, Shelton and Lee Brice with five nominations. Shelton’s “Based on a True Story ...,” Bryan’s “Crash My Party” and FGL’s “Here’s to the Good Times” round out the album of the year category.

Jason Aldean is nominated for male vocalist of the year with Lee Brice, Urban, Shelton and Bryan.

Lambert received her eighth nomination for female vocalist of the year, joining Swift, Musgraves, Carrie Underwood and Sheryl Crow. Shelton and Bryan will return to co-host the April 6 awards show at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas The nominations come in the midst of an extraordinary week for Urban. He spent the weekend in Los Angeles where he performed his new single “Cop Car” on the Grammys with Gary Clark Jr., joined with John Mayer to salute The Beatles and was prepping to play Madison Square Garden on Wednesday night before finishing his tour Saturday in safety pin through his lip due to “drunken misjudgement.”

“We went through a whole ordeal to try and find him a healthier alternative to the pin; finally, one of our friends found a spare nipple ring in her purse,” Sirbaugh said. “What you see in this piece is that transition. I didn’t have my camera. The piece is just two overlayed images I took with my iPod Touch. I’m often inspired by spontaneity and this sort of gnarly imagery is something that attracts me.

“I like to photograph subjects that some people may not want to see.”

And if people don’t want to see the idiosyncrasies of individuals in a larger group, well, you need only point them to the Phoenix.

Nashville.

The “American Idol” judge said the significance of the nominations wasn’t lost in the shuffle.

Asked which nomination meant the most, he said, “Oh, God, all of them. I really take issue with people who think it’s a bunch of nonsense to say it’s an honor to be nominated. That seems such a cynical and jaded comment.

My experience has been fully that it’s a huge honor to be nominated because it’s the first award given.”

er as he shows off both his lyrical and storytelling ability.

He becomes his most vulnerable when he asks the people “And if I get my story to the world, I wonder if they’d book me for a show” and his most self-conscious when he says “I smoke too much the problems of twenty-something, I drink too often, there’s liquor pouring from the faucet.”

Although some might overlook an album such as “Cilvia Demo” because it lacks the instant Top 40 hit, it is definitely a milestone in the career of Isaiah Rashad.

This album proves that beyond all the hype, Rashad has the ability to put together a solid body of work that can touch people on many different fronts. If you continue to make good music, the hit will come. Just look at the recent success of fellow label-mate Kendrick Lamar.

The “Cilvia Demo” is a good indicator we’ll be hearing a lot more from Isaiah Rashad in the future.

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Cold winter reflects the harsh reality of climate change Knight Errant by

Victoria Knight Have you complained about the cold lately?

With the arrival of the polar vortex weather system twice within the past month, it’s likely you’ve been one of many UT students who have uttered a curse word or two upon the moment of stepping outside your door into the wintry morning air (not to mention the recent #snowpocalypse we had on Tuesday).

Everyone loves to complain about the bipolarity of East Tennessee weather, and yet we don’t really think about the true implications of it past the inconvenience to ourselves. This weather is not normal. And it is just a small piece in the bigger picture of the whole world and its changing climate.

According to Pew Research Center polls, belief in global warming is increasing, with about 69 percent of Americans in 2013 believing, an increase of almost 10 percent since 2010. But many are still skeptical that the warming is going to bring an imminent impact in their lifetime (64 percent in 2013 believe it won’t) and that it is caused directly by human actions.

People like to negate the concept of global warming by saying that if it were true, then how is it that we have had some of the coldest winter temperatures in recent years? But something people don’t always know is erratic weather is also a symptom of climate change. And we’ve had plenty of that in recent years.

Within the past year of 2013, there have been numerous accounts of weather anomalies – strange patterns of weather outside the normal conditions which are native to areas.

Global temperatures have been on the rise, with 2013 on the record as the fourth-warmest year since temperatures were first recorded in 1880. Including 2013, all 13 years of the 21st century have been among the top 15 warmest years recorded.

In the American West, existing drought conditions worsened, with California declaring 2013 as the year with their “worst drought ever” and Oregon proclaiming it as the fourth driest year on record.

The Typhoon Haiyan, which last November hit parts of Southeast Asia, particularly the Philippines, was the strongest storm to ever come onto land. It had wind speeds of more than 195 miles per hour and killed almost 5,700 people.

Perhaps most chillingly (pun intended), the ice in both Antarctica and the Arctic during the melting season reached record low amounts. Antarctica had the sixth smallest sea ice extent on record, and the Arctic had its second lowest ice extent. The extent of Antarctica’s ice losses even stretched into the growing season, when the ice is supposed to accumulate and replenish its melted amount.

A recent National Geographic article even talked about the possibility of certain parts of the United States becoming completely submerged due to melted ice and increased greenhouse gas emissions, the latter of which are proven to cause a rise in temperature. According to models, all of Florida and parts of coastal California would be completely lost.

So instead of spending our time tweeting about the latest antics of Justin Bieber or swiping our way through Tinder hotties, we should spend more time becoming knowledgeable about the changing world around us.

Every little act counts. Not everyone can be environmental lobbyists in D.C. or groundbreaking researchers who try to counteract the effects of global warming, but we can all do something. As corny as it sounds, if we all do the small things, it can become one big movement.

So recycle. Bring reusable tote bags to the store so you don’t waste those plastic bags you just bring home and throw under your sink. Plant some trees.

Read about climate change and then tell others about it. Pass the knowledge on. And maybe next time just think about the real implications of that Eastern Tennessean sunny, 70-degree weather on Monday and icy wintry mix on Tuesday — though feel free to still complain about it.

Victoria Knight is a senior in microbiology. She can be reached at vknight4@utk.edu.

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Want Facebook? That’ll be $9.99/month Uncommon Sense by

Evan Ford The free Internet is at risk.

Comcast can now charge Netflix a fee in order to have good bandwidth for their videos.

Verizon can make Instagram pay to make sure your videos upload quickly. AT&T can make HBO GO play new episodes of Game of Thrones slower if HBO won’t pay up.

How did this happen?

The Federal Communications Commission used to have a rule against this sort of thing called “net neutrality.” Unfortunately, the way the FCC wrote the rule was legally unsound, so earlier this month a federal court decided it was no longer enforceable.

Uh-oh. As lawyer Marvin Amorri reported to Wired magazine, “AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast will be able to deliver some sites and services more quickly and reliably than others for any reason. Whim. Envy. Ignorance.

Competition. Vengeance. Whatever. Or, no reason at all.”

Personally, I think this is a bad thing, but the issue is trickier than it seems. How do we deal with their conflict?

First, the Internet service providers.

Comcast, Verizon and other ISPs have run the wires, built the poles and created the infrastructure that Netflix and Google use to make billions of dollars a year. They feel like they should have a piece of the pie.

On the other hand, websites are in danger of being extorted. Now that net neutrality is no longer a requirement, Comcast can essentially

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2011’s Business Insider list of the Most Hated Companies in America, Comcast, Charter, Cox, AT&T and Time Warner Cable all made the top 20. If competition were going on, all the top companies in an industry wouldn’t be hated.

Beyond the current failure of ISPs, the Internet is just too important to be held hostage by companies with the power to charge whatever they want or else. The Harvard Business School estimates the Internet provides well over a trillion dollars in productivity to the U.S. economy every year.

Without regulations dictating net neutrality, these companies can essentially look at businesses that require the Internet (all of them) and say, “That’s a nice business you’ve got there. It’d be a shame if something were to happen to it.” Especially when you consider that services like Netflix and Hulu are direct competitors to Comcast and Time Warner’s TV revenue, we’re creating a very scary monster.

We’re legalizing Internet cartels.

Online businesses are a clear example of companies being left to their own devices and fouling up an industry that is irreplaceable in the scheme of the overall U.S. economy (see— the financial crisis of 2007-08). Companies that happen to hold the keys to the main drivers of our lives shouldn’t be given a free pass to hold them hostage.

It is obvious the Internet is a part of our economy’s infrastructure—like our roads, electricity and phone lines—and should be treated as such. Unfortunately, we’ve taken a huge step backward by telling cable companies they have the right to treat the Internet as their own product.

Evan Ford is a junior in philosophy. He can be reached at eford6@utk.edu.

Takeaways from 2014’s State of the Union Dean’s List by

Katie Dean Call me a hippie, but I am a big believer in vibes, and I thought Obama’s speech was generally filled with good ones.

That being said, I wish positive vibes alone could fix all the problems this nation will face in 2014. If they could, I’m sure the ones emanating from Colorado and Oregon right now would last us many years. Unfortunately, what we need this year is serious action and bipartisanship. For me, there were some really high points and some equally low points in the speech. Although this is true of any political address, the State of the Union is especially critical.

This historically important speech outlines what the executive branch plans to tackle in the subsequent year and how they plan to do it. If you’re like me, sitting still for an hour and a half of this stuff can be pretty hard.

In case you missed the speech or fell asleep (did anyone else see Joe Biden looking a tad bored?), here are a couple things that rubbed me the wrong way and a few things I thought were really positive: I love that we are finally taking the idea of

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auction off the highest speeds. Whether Bing or Google is faster at parsing the Internet will have more to do with how much they’re paying off providers than the innovation of their engineers. Whether you can watch Netflix or browse Wikipedia could have to do with which cables happen to run by your house.

There are plenty of points to be made in this dispute. First, the only reason ISPs make money is because people want the Internet.

Wikipedia, Facebook and YouTube are the reason these companies can charge hundreds to thousands of dollars per year for Internet, even when costs to providers are historically low. So saying the ISPs aren’t ‘getting theirs’ is totally false.

Still, the capitalists among us might ask why these companies aren’t allowed to charge customers however much they want for their product. This is a legitimate question, but it both overlooks the monopolistic power cable companies currently have and the structural role the Internet plays in our current lives.

Cable companies have almost no competition. Over-the-air TV has been largely killed off (by cable companies), and almost all markets are dominated by colluding monopolies or duopolies. At my address near the Old City, only two providers are available (Comcast and UVerse), and they are both exactly the same cost after the first 6 months.

The free market is obviously failing in the Internet war, too. The U.S.’s median Internet speed is only 60 percent of the average for the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development. Japan’s Internet is more than five times as fast. Some countries deliver speeds 50 times what Comcast provides at $35 a month.

We’re not even dealing with less bureaucracy with these profiteering companies. In

apprenticeships seriously. I know we like to think every person deserves the opportunity for higher education, but in reality, this avenue is just not right for some people.

There are plenty of jobs out there that pay well and don’t require a college degree, and connecting these jobs with people who don’t want to pursue higher education would be an efficient way to help reduce unemployment and boost the economy.

Also, closing Guantanamo is a must; it’s an international embarrassment contradicting parts of our Constitution that are held in the highest esteem in American courts. “It’s about damn time,” is really the most concise thing I can say about that.

I also think it’s about time minimum wage was lifted. I’m not going to sit here and pretend my parents don’t support me and I struggle to eat every day, but I have worked many minimum wage jobs and, frankly, they all sucked.

I honestly have no idea how people with kids and bills survive on $7.25 an hour.

If you think this is an acceptable minimum wage, I really encourage you to go bus tables for a week. I’m hopeful that raising the federal minimum wage to $10.10 will set the bar for companies all across America.

On a more negative note, I am so frustrated with discussions about “gun violence” that totally lack consideration of mental health.

This country’s mental health system is broken, and if you think people who walk into malls and schools and shoot numerous people

are mentally sound, then you probably need some help yourself. Gun control is not going to pass in Congress anytime soon, and I’m not sure it even represents an answer.

The root of the problem could be treating people with mental illnesses that predispose them to violence; we aren’t going to stop the Sandy Hooks and mall shootings until we address mental health properly.

Secondly, all of the not-so-subtle references to executive power have me a little worried.

They may have been phrased differently, but we all got the point: “I’ll act on my own…I’ll cut the red tape…My administration will keep working…I’ll use my authority.” My personal favorite was the “you don’t have to wait on Congress” jibe. No matter how creatively he said it, Obama was basically telling Congress to either get on board or start swimming.

I’m not sure giving them the verbal middle finger was necessarily the best way to start out a year that desperately needs some bipartisanship and good old fashioned teamwork. I noticed the hints and I know they did too, and it makes me uneasy to think we are starting this year off on a negative note.

Passing the budget was a start, but if they are going to accomplish everything that was outlined in this year’s State of the Union, they need to stop playing word games and figure out how to compromise.

Katie Dean is a junior in political science.

She can be reached at xvd541@utk.edu.

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Thursday, January 30, 2014

THE DAILY BEACON • 5 Arts & Culture Editor Claire Dodson

ARTS & CULTURE ‘Ride Along’ offers easy, mindless entertainment pdodson@utk.edu

Assistant Arts & Culture Editor Cortney Roark

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Universal Pictures’ “Ride Along� was hilarious, unpredictable and altogether expected.

There has been an outbreak in buddy films in the past few years, with flicks such as “The Heat� and “21 Jump Street,� and “Ride Along� is a continuation of the success of the genre.

Kevin Hart stars as Ben, an avid video gamer striving to become a police officer and earn respect, while Ice Cube plays the jaded, tough-guy cop named James who is bent on aspiring to move up in the ranks.

Unlike the typical buddy flick, Ben and James have a rocky relationship from the start, as Ben proposes to James’ sister and thus has to prove himself to James.

James, however, is faced with the task of deciding whether his potential brother-in-law is worthy of his sister.

At the same time, James also deals with attempting to seek out and arrest a powerful criminal. As you can imagine, both men end up in a whirlwind of shoot-outs, drive-bys and intimidation tactics. The movie harps on both of the main characters’ journeys to gain respect through a series of stumbles and obstacles.

Although the movie starts slow, it quickly picks up pace once Ben and

James begin their “ride along� through crime.

Don’t expect much character growth from anyone in this film, although it does provide an easy plot to follow along. �Ride Along� especially lacks any sort of female character with a dynamic personality, with only one female character in the movie. Shootouts and high-speed car chases keep this film moving as a typical action flick does.

Hart’s humor is what saves the movie from being a standard, thoughtless action film with his signature gags on his own height and unintimidating demeanor.

While most of the funny moments in the movie are revealed in the trailer, they are fully played out in the movie and can bring you to tears from laughing.

All in all, “Ride Along� achieves its ultimate goal of keeping the audience engaged, whether through chuckling at Hart’s comic genius or getting caught up in the “tough� crime world of Atlanta. �Ride Along� has stayed strong in the box office, bringing in an additional $21.2 million this weekend after breaking the January record for highest box office gross with a steady $48.6 million over the MLK weekend. While there may be no substance or clear moral to this movie, one thing’s for sure — Kevin Hart always brings the laughs.

Genre: Action Comedy Director: Tim Story Cast: Kevin Hart, Ice Cube, Laurence Fishburne, John Leguizamo

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Thursday, January 30, 2014 Sports Editor Troy Provost-Heron

SPORTS Lady Vols beginning to Richardson’s defense helps peak as Arkansas visits UT pull away from Ole Miss

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Assistant Sports Editor Dargan Southard

Patrick MacCoon Staff Writer The SEC’s No. 1 scoring offense will go up against the conference’s third-best scoring defense when the No. 10 Lady Vols take on the Arkansas Razorbacks at home tonight.

Tennessee (16-4, 5-2 SEC) will be looking to avenge its home lost last season to the Razorbacks, who won 72-71 in an overtime thriller that brought UT’s 18-game win streak to a close.

After winning its first 13 games of the season, Arkansas has gone 2-5 in SEC play and the squad finds itself nestled in at ninth in the conference standings.

Despite the team’s recent struggles, Arkansas head coach Tom Collen’s team still ranks as the nation’s No. 2 scoring defense, allowing a meager 50.4 points per game.

“They (Arkansas) are playing well this season,” Lady Vols second-year head coach Holly Warlick said. “They went in to Kentucky and gave them a good game.

“Just like any game, this is a big one for us.”

In the team’s matchup last season in Fayetteville, Ark., senior guard Meighan Simmons led the Lady Vols to a hardfought 60-54 victory with 18 points of her own.

“It seemed like we had to pull out all cylinders to win at Arkansas last year,” Warlick said. “It’s a big game for us to see if we can contain what we started and built on.”

The lone UT senior on this year’s squad has averaged 23.3 points per game in her last three contests and scored 26 points in the Lady Vols’ 76-55 victory over No. 17 Texas A&M on Sunday.

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undefeated in conference play.

“I think it shot our confidence up,” Simmons said.

“We knew it was one of those games where we had to come out and make a statement. We knew where we wanted to be toward the end of the season, so it was just a matter of going out there and playing hard.

The Cibolo, Texas native is shooting a c a re e r- h i g h Senior guard Meighan Simmons 43.7 percent surveys the defense during the Lady this season and Vols’ 86-70 loss to Notre Dame at leads the team Thompson-Boling Arena on Jan. in 3-pointers 20. The Lady Vols play Arkansas at made (39) home Thursday at 7 p.m. and points per Jackson leads Arkansas in game (14.8).

Simmons and her teammates scoring (16.7 points per game) will look to bring the Lady Vols, 3-point field goal percentage currently tied for third in the (.439), rebounds (6.0) and conference, their sixth win out blocks (1.4).

The Lady Vols’ defense will of the past eight games when need to key in on the freshthey take on the Razorbacks.

“It’s mental, and it’s physical,” man phenom forward who has Simmons said. “Everything has scored 26 points per game in her to be in one, and then your body last three contests and scored will follow after. I think it’s just a a career-high 31 in Arkansas’ matter of getting out there and 68-65 win against Ole Miss on running. You need to be a men- Jan. 19.

“I think that we have really tal and a physical player going into the SEC and preparing for emphasized for them to communicate with each other on the NCAA.” While UT has had solid con- defense and it’s been big for tributions from its two fresh- them,” Warlick said. “After men — Mercedes Russell and these last two games, we are Jordan Reynolds — this season, building a good solid base and Arkansas boasts the confer- a good trust with each other on ence’s top-scoring freshman in the floor.

“I see it getting better each Jessica Jackson. game.”

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better time.

Fresh off a 26-point loss at Florida over the weekend, the up-and-down Vols were reeling from what was arguably their worst performance of the season — albeit on national television.

But as the Vols have done after six of their seven losses this year, they bounced back to win the next game.

“It just felt like when we played against Florida, nothing was going for us,” freshman guard Darius Thompson said. “Our shots weren’t falling. It just wasn’t us out there. Tonight, we recovered from it and played a lot better.”

Spotlight: Thompson was picked to start over Antonio Barton Wednesday — the first non-injury-related time the freshman got the nod at point guard.

Thompson scored all seven of his points in the first half and added a careerhigh seven assists. Barton averages 1.9 assists per game and has a season-high of five.

McRae may have a new partner in the backcourt after the freshman’s performance, and the Vols’ leading scorer wasn’t shy on complimenting the youngster.

“Darius is the kind of player who, no matter where he’s at or where the ball is at, you have to be expecting the ball at all times,” McRae said. “He does a great job of getting everybody involved, and that’s what we need from him.”

Martin thought the supporting cast Thompson had on Wednesday was a huge difference, as compared to his usual minutes playing with a plethora of bench players.

“I think it was just time,” Martin said. “A lot of times when he goes into games, you have young guys; you have inexperienced guys who haven’t played a lot.

But out of the gates, you have older guys, and his decision-making put those guys in a position to be successful.”

The other guys: Henderson led the Rebels and tied McRae for the game-high with 26 points.

He shot 8-for-19 from long range, but only made one of his three attempts from inside the arc and had two turnovers.

Outside the box score: Tennessee’s home win Wednesday snapped a three-game losing streak to the Rebels.

Say something: Ole Miss head coach Andy Kennedy on McRae: “I think (McRae) is a player of the year candidate. He’s playing with a lot of confidence. He’s making jump shots. He’s 6-of7 from 3-point range. He was really shooting it well.

When he makes shots like that, because he’s so long and wiry, he has the ability to slide through traffic.”

By the numbers: 1: Henderson had just one less 3-point attempt (19) than UT’s entire team (20).

29: Jarnell Stokes recorded his 29th career doubledouble with 13 points and 14 rebounds.

6: McRae hit six of his seven shots from downtown — a season-high.

Up next: Tennessee will go on the road for a third straight weekend as the Vols travel to face Alabama for a 9 p.m. Saturday tip.

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Jerrone Maymon, who fincontinued from Page 1 ished with 17 points and “(Henderson’s) a threat,” nine rebounds, extended the Martin said. “That’s what UT lead to 48-32, after two he does. He makes them big quick second-half layups. and he keeps guys in games Henderson soon respond-

ed, however, with a trio of 3-pointers, all of which were at least a couple steps behind the arc.

With just under 14 minutes remaining and momentum building, the Rebels trailed by only five.

Then, the Vols firmly shut the door.

McRae drilled two crucial threes as part of an 18-4 second half run, and the Vols held Henderson to just two baskets down the stretch.

McRae, who went a dismal 1-of-15 from the field in Tennessee’s 26-point loss to Florida on Saturday, knew a bounce-back performance was all but a necessity given the consistent toughness of the SEC. “Trying to get wins especially in the SEC (is tough),” McRae said. “Every night is going to be a good game no matter who we play, so we’re just trying to take this win and move on to the next one.”

Copy Editor As the game turned: With Ole Miss sharpshooter Marshall Henderson locked in and a once-19-point Tennessee lead down to seven with 13 minutes to go, UT guard Josh Richardson came up big for the Vols.

Tennessee’s defensive stopper pick-pocketed Henderson, took it coast-tocoast for a contested layup and forced an air ball from the Rebels star the next time down.

Hardly a minute later, the Vols were up double digits for good. They cruised late in an 86-70 home win over the reigning SEC Tournament champions on Wednesday.

Lockdown defense from Richardson and sophomore Armani Moore — who combined for six of Tennessee’s eight first-half blocks — kept the Ole Miss guards flustered.

But the polarizing Ole Miss star still found a way to can eight of his 19 3-point attempts — many of which were errant, off-balanced and heavily contested. “(Henderson is) one of the few guys, probably the only guy in this league in my opinion, that you can’t fall asleep on down 15, down 20,” UT head coach Cuonzo Martin said. “Because he shoots them deep and at any time.”

After Richardson’s steal, Henderson only made one of his final four 3-point attempts despite leading the Rebels with 26 points.

Hot topic: Martin’s 11th wire-to-wire win as Tennessee’s head coach could not have come at a

VOLS

70 Ole Miss

Tennessee 86

Knoxville, Tenn. // Thompson-Boling Arena // 14,341 26-63 (.413)

Field Goals

30-61 (.492)

10-28 (.357)

3-pointers

11-20 (.550)

8-12 (.667)

Free Throws

15-17 (.882)

27-9

Rebounds-Off

45-14

9

Turnovers

12

17

Fouls

15

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Largest Lead

20

Individual Leaders M. Henderson 26

Points

J. McRae 26

A. Jones 5

Rebounds

J. Stokes 14

J. Summers 5

Assists

D. Thompson 7

2 tied, 2

Steals

D. Thompson 2

2 tied, 1

Blocks

2 tied, 3