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Vols school Wildcats in historic win Troy Provost-Heron Training Editor

The countdown to National Signing Day had already begun.

Kentucky had jumped out to as much as a 21-point lead with five minutes, 46 seconds left

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and Tennessee fans’ thoughts drifted toward a fax machine.

The Vols, though, had the crowd’s full attention as the final buzzer sounded after mounting a comeback and holding on late to secure an 84-77 victory over the No. 20 Wildcats inside Thompson-Boling Arena on Tuesday.

“I think our guys really deserve all the credit in the world, the way they hung in and hustled,”

UT coach Rick Barnes said. “They weren’t playing very well early, but they stayed with it. There wasn’t one person that played that game that didn’t help us some way, somehow.”

Shortly after the opening tip, Kentucky (166, 6-3 SEC) got to work on building their lead scoring on an Alex Poythress layup after two offensive rebounds. With 10:21 left in the first half, the Wildcats had a 22-11 lead and contin-

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At the time, Kentucky took its 34-13 lead with 5:46 left to play, the Vols (11-11, 4-5) were shooting just 5-for-22 (22.7 percent) and being out-rebounded 17-9, but Barnes never counted his team out.

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Yahoo lays off 15 percent of staff

First confirmed report of Zika virus in Texas

More TN lawmakers back Ted Cruz

Yahoo recently announced a $4.4 billion loss last quarter, leading to its shedding of 15 percent of its current workforce. In addition to a 1,500 reduction of staff, Yahoo’s new plans will include focusing on its core services, including Search, Mail and Tumblr, while shuttering its less successful services, including games, smart TV and scripted TV shows. Describing the new direction Yahoo plans to take its business in the future, CEO Marissa Mayer explained the transition phase to “modest to accelerating growth” the company will take in the future. w“Yahoo cannot win the hearts and minds of users and advertisers with a complicated portfolio of products and assets,” said Mayer.

The first reported case of the Zika virus in the continental U.S. was contracted through sexual transmission as reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The patient contracted the disease after having sex with a person who recently returned from Venezuala. CDC officials maintained there was no risk to a developing fetus in this particular case. The Zika virus is typically spread through blood by mosquitoes, yet CDC officials are uncertain how long the virus may remain in the semen of infected individuals. The CDC said they will continue instructing on the best methods to avoid sexually transmitted diseases.

Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz released an updated list of 18 endorsements from Tennessee lawmakers, nine more than were previously listed before Cruz’s Monday victory in the Iowa caucus. Cruz now has more Tennessee lawmaker endorsements than any other presidential candidate, with Marco Rubio in second with 8. Jason Zachary of Knoxville is the only local representative to give Cruz his support. The endorsements contrast sharply with last week’s statewide MTSU poll, which showed Donald Trump as the Republican favorite among Tennessee voters. The Tennessee Republican primary is scheduled for March 1.

Former DA says he believes Cosby can’t be prosecuted Associated Press NORRISTOWN, Pa. — The former district attorney who declined a decade ago to bring sex-crime charges against Bill Cosby testified Tuesday that he believes his decision shields the comedian from ever being prosecuted in the case.

Former Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce Castor took the stand at a pretrial hearing in a bid by Cosby’s lawyers to get the case against the TV star thrown out because of what they say is a non-prosecution agreement with Castor.

The current district attorney has said there is no record of any such agreement.

Castor admitted the only place the matter was put in writing was in the 2005 press release announcing his decision not to prosecute.

Under questioning, he acknowledged that he didn’t draw up a formal immunity agreement filed with a judge because, he said, Cosby was worried that would make him look bad. Also, Castor said, “It was unnecessary because I concluded there was no way the case would get any better.”

The proceedings will resume on Wednesday, when Common Pleas Judge Steven T. O’Neill

said he hopes to rule on whether to throw out the case.

Cosby, 78, was arrested and charged in December with drugging and violating former Temple University athletic department employee Andrea Constand at his suburban Philadelphia mansion in 2004. He could get up to 10 years in prison if convicted.

Castor said Tuesday that he believed Constand’s story but that proving it would have been problematic because of serious flaws in the case, and so he declined to bring charges.

He said that he made the decision as a representative of the state and that it was intended to last in perpetuity.

“For all time, yes,” Castor said when pressed.

And he suggested that Cosby and his lawyer at the time had the same understanding, because Cosby later agreed to testify without invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination in a lawsuit brought against him by Constand.

“Cosby would’ve had to have been nuts to say those things if there was any chance he could’ve been prosecuted,” Castor said, referring to the damaging testimony unsealed last summer.

Castor said he hoped — correctly, it turned out — that the decision not to prosecute would prod Cosby to testify in the lawsuit and help Constand win damages. She eventually settled

for an undisclosed amount.

“I thought making Mr. Cosby pay money was the best I was going to be able to set the stage for,” the former DA said. He added: “I was hopeful that I had made Ms. Constand a millionaire.”

He said he and Cosby’s then-attorney, Walter Phillips, did not have an actual agreement that Cosby would testify in exchange for not being prosecuted. Phillips has since died.

Kevin Steele, the newly elected DA who is pursuing the case, has said Cosby would need an immunity agreement in writing to get the case thrown out. He has said he has no evidence one exists.

Prosecutors on Tuesday pressed Castor on numerous, seemingly inconsistent statements he made over the years on whether Cosby could still face charges. Castor sparred with prosecutors, parsing the language in his press release and in various emails sent to his successor.

He said he was referring in some passages to bringing charges against Cosby in connection with other women and other crimes — but not in connection with the Constand encounter.

While Castor was called as witness by Cosby’s side, the former DA said he is rooting for the prosecution.

“I’m not on your team here,” Castor told Cosby lawyer Brian McMonagle. “I want them to win.”

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African American Trailblazer Indiana lawmakers abandon effort to strengthen gay rights Series showcases diversity Maria Amalla

Contributor

With diversity issues recently taking the forefront on campus, the Commission for Blacks and the Office for Diversity and Inclusion will host this spring ’s first event in the continuation of the African American Trailblazer Series.

The keynote speaker for this semester’s event will be Don Frieson, whom, along with his twin brother, Ron, donated $1 million to the Frieson Black Cultural Center last October.

Don Frieson, a UT alumnus, is currently executive vice president of operations for Sam’s Club and has collaborated with Wal-Mart as senior vice president for supply chain.

The event will shed light on his life experiences, ranging from international business in sub-Saharan Africa as well as his philanthropy work with the Amazeum Children’s Museum.

Robert Nobles, who serves as chair for the Commission for Blacks, hopes

the event will serve as “kind of the hallmark” to represent the diverse ethnicity that makes up UT. “(Students) will start to identify with somebody else that they didn’t have any possibility of being in the same room as,” said Noble.

As an “intersect between the university and their ethnicity,” Noble predicts this spring ’s inaugural Trailblazer Series will continue to enlighten students on diversity issues as it has done in years past.

Mariah McClerkin, a sophomore in finance and volunteer for the Trailblazer Series, anticipates that the event will showcase several of the struggles and triumphs that make up the story of minorities.

“It should definitely show the African American success from UT students,” McClerkin said.

This spring ’s African American Trailblazer Series will take place on Wednesday, Feb. 3 at 5:15 p.m. The event is free and will be held at the College of Communication and Information Scripps Lab.

Associated Press

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana Republican lawmakers abandoned efforts to strengthen protections for lesbian, gay and bi-sexual people on Tuesday, opting not to vote on a measure designed to restore the state’s reputation following a national boycott over a religious objections law last year.

Republican Sen. Travis Holdman, who had sponsored the gay rights bill, said on Tuesday that he was “greatly disappointed” but realized there wasn’t enough support for it to pass.

Efforts to find a balance between the civil rights for the LGBT community and religious liberty had satisfied no one, said Sen. David Long, leader of majority Republicans.

“We took a beating from all sides in trying to do this,” Long said. “This effort was unfortunately hampered by well-organized extreme messaging from groups representing both sides of this discussion — many of them from out of state. Neither of those sides were truly seeking a solution.”

The Indiana Chamber of Commerce warned that the failure to act leaves businesses in the state at a disadvantage competing for talented employees.

The backlash last year over the religious objections law may have contributed to the loss of a dozen conventions costing Indiana some $60 million, the tourism group Visit Indy said in a report last month.

The gay-rights group Freedom Indiana said it was disappointed that Republicans decided not to take a vote on the issue.

“We’ve said from the outset that doing nothing was not an option,” the group said in a statement. “Today, lawmakers did nothing to help protect LGBT people in our state, but our work is only just beginning.”

But LGBT groups said it was too early to say if calls for a boycott would resume, although they were not aware of any efforts to do so.

The measure Republicans abandoned was faulted by Democrats and LGBT rights activists for not including transgender people and allowing broad religious exemptions. Religious conservatives said it would still require people to provide services for same-sex marriages even if they had religious objections.

Some evangelical Christians welcomed its demise, saying it would have whittled away religious freedoms. American Family Association of Indiana director Micah Clark said the bill was a “fatally flawed concept.”

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International House hosts World Culture nights Nathan Smith Contributor Studying abroad is not the only way to get a taste of other cultures in college; UT’s International House is hosting an event series that offers students the chance to culturally cross the globe without even leaving campus.

The International House’s Bangladesh World Showcase includes several main events designed to celebrate Bangladeshi culture and broaden students’ international perspectives. This includes a special “coffeehouse” on Feb. 3 from 1-3 p.m. in the Mary Greer Room on the second floor of Hodges Library.

The celebration ends with a main culture night from 6-7 p.m. Wednesday night in the International House Great Room. The final event will feature traditional Bangladeshi cuisine and dance performances.

UT’s Bangladesh Student Association and the I-House joined to organize this week’s festivities. Bangladesh Student Association President Ifana Mahbub said the organization includes between 40 and 50 members who will cook, perform and staff the events.

The International House hosts a free coffeehouse event every Wednesday afternoon, but three times each semester, a World

Showcase includes a special coffeehouse that is themed around a beverage important to that week’s focal region. The Bangladesh International Coffeehouse will center on black tea and offer dishes like Jhal Muri, a popular Bangladeshi street food.

The main culture night will highlight a more extensive array of Bangladeshi cuisine, including the traditional rice dish Polao, chicken curry and mixed vegetables. A presentation by Bangladesh Student Association members will give attendees an overview of Bangladeshi history and culture.

After the meal, live performances will display an array of classical, folk and modern dance styles, including a traditional dance to a popular song from Bangladesh’s Chakma tribe, one dance representing the country’s film industry and others set to more contemporary Bangladeshi music.

The evening will conclude with an instrumental performance dedicated to students and activists killed in a political rally in Bangladesh’s capital of Dhaka on Feb. 21, 1952. This rally protested the suppression of the Bengali language in Bangladesh by the government of Pakistan, who controlled the country at the time, in favor of the language Urdu, which was only spoken by a minority of the population.

“To honor their sacrifice, we celebrate

International Mother Language Day on Feb. 21 every year,” Mahbub said.

Tamnnet Kidanu, a graduate assistant at the I-House who is organizing the Bangladesh World Showcase, believes that functions like these serve a vital purpose on UT’s campus, encouraging students to get outside their comfort zones and socialize with others while learning about another culture at the same time.

Kidanu said that student programs like those at the International House played a major role in her undergraduate collegiate life.

“We want students to learn about cultures that are not their own. It is easy to get caught up in school and academics, but extracurricular activities are important as well,” Kidanu said.

For Kidanu, events at the International House are as much about socialization and a sense of local community as they are about cultural experience.

The Bangladesh Culture Night costs $5 including a meal and drink. The coffeehouse on Wednesday is free.

For students further interested in broadening their cultural horizons, the International House is hosting two more World Showcases focusing on South Korea in March and Japan in April.

Bourbon, Tennessee whiskey producers toast more strong sales Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Producers of Kentucky bourbon and Tennessee whiskey are toasting another year of strong sales and revenue growth, led by consumers increasingly ordering high-priced, super-premium brands.

Combined U.S. revenues for bourbon, Tennessee whiskey and rye whiskey shot up 7.8 percent to $2.9 billion in 2015, up $210 million from the prior year, the Distilled Spirits Council said Tuesday.

Domestic volume rose 5.2 percent last year to 20.4 million cases, the distilled spirits trade group said.

“We’re living the dream,” Chris Morris, master distiller at Brown-Forman Corp., producer of Woodford Reserve and Old Forester bourbons, said in an interview. “We’re hitting our numbers as we had predicted.”

Bourbon and Tennessee whiskey revenues and volumes outpaced the overall distilled spirits sector, the council said in its annual report.

Rye whiskey amounts to a sliver of those overall revenue and volume figures, but it’s a fastgrowing part of the segment.

The popularity of top-tier products spread

across the whiskey category, with double-digit gains for super-premium Scotch, Canadian and Irish whiskeys as well, the council said.

The domestic numbers reflect sales from producers or suppliers to wholesalers.

Meanwhile, bourbon and Tennessee whiskey exports topped $1 billion for the third straight year, despite challenges caused by a strong dollar, the trade group said. A strong dollar makes U.S. goods less competitive.

Overall U.S. spirits exports have more than doubled in the past decade, from $743 million in 2005 to a projected $1.56 billion last year, the council said.

Top export markets are the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Australia and Japan, it said.

In the U.S., consumers increasingly are reaching for high-end premium and super-premium bourbons and Tennessee whiskeys. Those super-premium volumes rose 25.2 percent in 2015 and revenues were up 26.5 percent. Superpremium brands include Woodford Reserve, Knob Creek and Jack Daniel’s Single Barrel.

In the next category, volumes for high-end premium products rose 6.8 percent and revenues were up 7.7 percent. Products include Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey, Maker’s Mark, Wild Turkey and Jim Beam Black.

“Consumer tastes have changed significant-

ly,” said Distilled Spirits Council spokesman Frank Coleman. “Whiskey in particular, the highest-priced products are flying off the shelves the fastest.”

Meanwhile, demand was slower among lower and moderately priced brands. Volumes for value products rose 4.8 percent and were down 2.6 percent for premium brands, the council said.

The cocktail resurgence has spurred growth in the super-premium category, as bartenders increasingly mix in top-tier brands, Morris said.

The cocktail trend is catching on in overseas markets, which should be another boost for super-premium whiskeys, he said.

Clarkson Hine, a spokesman for Beam Suntory Inc., whose brands include Jim Beam and Maker’s Mark, said demand for high-premium whiskeys was the “mega-trend” in the spirits industry last year. The bourbon sector is still catching up to other whiskeys in the category.

“Premiumization is a relatively young trend in bourbon compared to other categories like Scotch,” he said. “So we see plenty of headroom for future growth.”

In the heart of Kentucky bourbon country, liquor store owner Guthrie McKay said he can’t get enough bottles of super-premium whiskeys to keep up with demand.

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Three Bears Coffee opens storefront JoAnna Brooker Contributor If you are looking for a business that combines a love for good coffee and thoughtful consumption, look no further than Three Bears.

Three Bears was founded by Jeff Scheafnocker, who has a simple mission — roast and sell good, green coffee.

“The main part of the business is roasting coffee,” Scheafnocker said. “Other coffee shops get roasted coffee beans and then make coffee drinks. I buy green coffee and then roast it.

That’s the focus of the business.”

Three Bears Coffee is located in South Knoxville in a small, intimate corner, capable of holding only 14 people at a time. This is because most of the space is dedicated to holding the coffee and the roasting operation within.

What is noticeable upon entering are the large bags filled with the green coffee beans and the machine in the back used for roasting.

The space was intended for people to see the inner operations, and this setup works in its simplicity.

At the counter, there is the option of around five different coffee brews that all fall under the branch of green, fair trade, natural process and organic. Each brew has a different flavor and is

ranked on a scale from light to dark. I chose a cup of the Rwanda Misozi Kopaki, which had flavors of fruit and honey. It was brewed black and handed to me.

And truthfully, it was an excellent cup of coffee. As a lover of lattes and fancy cappuccinos, I did not expect to like a simple cup of coffee tempered with milk and sugar, but I did. I could taste the different flavors, and they offered a complexity and lightness I had not experienced previously in my coffee shop dealings.

This simple cup of coffee is all that Three Bears Coffee offers, which is why Scheafnocker refers to the venue as a “tasting room” instead of a more traditional coffee shop.

Many customers who came in knew Scheafnocker from his truck he would set up in the Market Square Farmer’s Market or from other local vendors who sold his coffee. The static location of Three Bears is new and currently still under construction, but do not let that deter you.

What is still being constructed is just an expansion of what it is now, with a storefront and facade being put up, as well as more tables and chairs. The full space should be done sometime in the coming months.

For more information on Three Bears Coffee and updates on construction visit their website — http://threebearscoffee.com/

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Humans of Knoxville

“See this tree right here? See how you can’t see the roots underneath?

That’s kinda how you are. No one can really see your full potential, but it’s there! It’s underground just waiting to come out of the ground like this beautiful tree here.”

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Jake Albright Contributor

As every student at UT knows, Knoxville has been under some major construction in recent months. But with this construction come significant developments for downtown within the New Year.

With Cumberland Avenue currently torn up, downtown has an opportunity to step in as the go-to spot for many students with its unique variety of local small business alongside big companies.

But, for a period of time, downtown was not as lively and occupied as it is today.

For a long-time, these recent developments are only a continuation of what began almost a decade ago. Rick Emmett, downtown coordinator for the city of Knoxville, spoke about how the progression of city development has come and gone in a series of ups and downs.

Starting in the early 1990s, many retail and commercial employers moved out to the suburbs of West Knoxville. This was the initial moment in which the city began its downfall.

“As recently as 10 years ago or so (downtown) was mostly an office worker environment,” Emmett said. “(There was) very little residential environment, so you didn’t have after hours. At 5 o’clock there was not much alive … (There was) very little retail, so there was really no reason for anyone to be down here.”

As the city has implemented new deals and plans with businesses, the town is significantly growing towards the reputation Knoxville once had. The past few years have seen more and more growth among downtown communities, and as a consequence, retailers, food services and other local businesses are now filling formerly vacant spaces.

One business working to break the image of downtown as

a primarily cuisine- driven area is Maple Hall Bowling Lanes, set to occupy a portion of the former J.C. Penney building on Gay Street.

Knoxville’s J.C. Penney building had stood vacant for decades until early 2015 when refurbishing and construction began to prepare the old space for new tenants. Several restaurants will fill the space, along with more condos, but what is now being constructed in the basement of the building is something the modern downtown has never had before.

Maple Hall Bowling Lanes are set to open sometime within the first few months of 2016, but the owners do not plan for the facility to be like your childhood bowling alley.

Instead of pizza and sodas, the venue plans on providing a full kitchen that will serve small plates and fresh beer. In addition to traditional bowling lanes, there will also be a stage intended to showcase local artists and ultimately bigger bands as well.

Within the same vicinity of the J.C. Penney building, above the new bowling lanes, Babalu Tacos and Tapas just opened as Knoxville’s newest restaurant. Wild Wing Café, currently located in Farragut, will soon open its second Knoxville location downtown in the Kress building, right across the street from Babalu. Another local eatery with multiple locations, Archers BBQ, will open its fifth location directly next door to Babalu.

As a part of the growing foodie movement sweeping Knoxville, coffee shops seem to be the newest craze of downtown life. The city has been home to some well-known and successful coffee shops for years such as Coffee and Chocolates and Old City Java. However, a dominant North Knoxville favorite is marking its territory just a stone’s throw away from campus.

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The Phoenix Pharmacy and Fountain has moved to Gay Street and is currently expanding its brand outside of just a pharmacy. In addition to offering pharmaceutical services, coowners Charlie Southerland and Ron Shirley plan to set-up an old-fashioned soda fountain.

“The whole idea was a throwback 20’s-40s pharmacy soda fountain combo,” Southerland said. “So, whenever you’re looking from the entrance, you’ll see the fountain on one side and the pharmacy will be the backdrop.”

Phoenix is also working with Covenant Health to bring a walk-in-clinic to provide health care for the city’s tenants along with expanding their products in stock beyond the medical sphere.

“So we’re trying to develop a little bit of a different model … One thing we’re going to do is add a hardware line,” Southerland said. “So that people down here can have hammers and nails and glue and screws and stuff like that that they don’t have. Then on the healthcare side (we’re going to have) a ‘concierge pharmacy.’”

In the future, developers seem have turned their sights outside of downtown proper, toward some more vacant, unrecognized areas of Knoxville such as the South Waterfront, the site of the old Baptist Hospital and a 3-block area just north of where Depot Avenue, Central Street and Magnolia Avenue meet.

Many of these newly announced projects are currently being constructed or refurbished and will be accessible within the next few years.

As Knoxville continues transforming into a dominant metro city, business owners anticipate what will be coming up next.

“As far as what’s happening in Knoxville, I think 2016 is going to be an awesome year,” LaMacchia said. “I think the stars are aligning for several different things to happen.”

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VOLS continued from Page 1 “It didn’t (cross my mind we wouldn’t be able to bounce back), for two reasons,�

Barnes said. “You might think about changes that you want to make, but Armani and Kevin were competitive, and Detrick proved that he wanted to compete. As long as you have guys that are willing to compete, I don’t think that you think that way.�

Punter scored a game-high 27 points and Moore added 18. Mostella (13) and Admiral Schofield (11) also scored in double figures.

Kentucky guards Jamal Murray and Tyler Ulis scored 21 and 20 points, respectively.

The Vols reeled off a 10-0 run after falling behind 21 and ultimately finished the half on 22-8 run to go into the locker room with a 42-36 deficit. “We just talked about whittling it down,�

Barnes said. “I didn’t say a number, but in my mind I’m thinking if we could get it down to around 10 before halftime we got a working number, but we got it lower.�

In between the 16:50 and 14:09 marks of the second half, UT went on a 10-2 spurt capped off by a Mostella three that gave the Vols’ their first lead of the night.

Ulis answered with a three of his own to put the Wildcats back on top and UK held that lead for 2:23 before a Moore three knotted things up at 63-63.

Moments later, Robert Hubbs III hit a jumper that gave the Vols the lead. A pair of

Ulis free throws tied things up at 70-70 with 5:16 left, but that was the only time UT failed to lead after Hubbs’ basket. “I definitely heard Ulis yell at his teammates because a few times I felt like they didn’t know where to go,� Punter said. “I could definitely feel the tension and the frustration.�

UT scored seven unanswered points after Ulis’ free throws tied it up, but Kentucky managed to cut the lead to three twice in the waning minutes.

Hubbs sank a pair of free throws with 30 seconds remaining to give the Vols a fivepoint lead and on the other end Moore sealed the game with a hustle defensive rebound after the Wildcats missed two threes and a layup. “That was a big mental part of the game,�

Moore said. “Coach (Barnes) told us that if we get in trouble we had one timeout left. He told us that in the huddle and I kind of wrote that down, so when I got on the ground, I looked at the ref and called timeout. “The last thing we want is to get a jump ball and it be their ball. I just did what I needed to do.�

The Vols comeback comes three days after they blew a 14-point halftime lead at TCU on Saturday and six days after blowing a 15-point lead with 15 minutes to play at Alabama. “I love these guys,� Barnes said. “If we would have walked in here and lost this game, I would have told you the same thing. I’ve really enjoyed these guys a lot because I don’t think they’ve ever had an attitude of ‘We’re going to quit.’ There’s still a lot of basketball to be played.�

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The Daily Beacon • Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Why young people support Ted Cruz On December 23rd as many as 20 students from the University of Tennessee and other surrounding schools were on hand at Farragut High School as volunteers for a presidential campaign event. It wasn’t the Volunteer spirit that runs so deep in UT students that propelled these young people to choose a Saturday setting up chairs in a stodgy gymnasium over a much needed post finals reprieve with family, but rather a deep allegiance to a certain candidate. It may surprise you to know that this was not an event for Bernie Sanders, but for Texas Senator Ted Cruz. On the surface, this phenomenon is admittedly perplexing. Why are everyday college students flocking to a candidate who is painted by the media as supporting archaic values and as a bulwark of a conservative philosophy that “experts” predict is all but dead? Why don’t these millennials rally behind the likes of Senator Sanders whose campaign is buoyed by lofty promises of free education and other handouts that directly pander to the 18-25 age bracket. To answer this question you must first understand the psyche of this new generation.

There is but one sin to a millennial, and that is the sin of inauthenticity. Homosexual marriage is permissible to a large segment of the millennial population while their parent’s generation largely finds it abhorrent. They welcome these unions because they see them as a byproduct of an individual’s honesty about what is inside himself. Its supporters sell it as a bold authenticity. This phenomena also illustrates why the very same factor, exorbitant wealth, that was Mitt Romney’s undoing is Donald Trump’s backbone.

Romney was ashamed of his wealth. He felt it was a barrier between him and the common man and thusly tried to downplay and hide it. Millennials perceived this as weakness. Trump is bombastic and proud of his wealth. He doesn’t run from it, he owns it. This is an integral component of his popularity. This philosophy isn’t exclusive to a milleninal’s politics. It permeates every facet of their lives. There is no quicker way for a musician to nosedive in popularity than to “sell out”. The quality of music can remain exactly the same, but if the population begins to believe a musician is being changed by fame and wealth, or is “fake”,

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young people will turn on him/her in the blink of an eye. Just ask Luke Bryan.

These factors illuminate the secret of the Cruz appeal. It’s not so much about his policy, as it is his authenticity. Ted Cruz is a consistent conservative. He is the same man on the stump as he is in the Senate Chamber. He’s so committed to his campaign promises he’s willing to let the federal government shut down in order to return to his state, look his constituents in the face, and tell them he did exactly what he promised he would do. Young people didn’t flock to the Romney campaign or the McCain campaign because they saw them as shrouded in grey. Ted Cruz paints in big bold colors, highlighting the differences between himself and the opposition. Quite simply he leads.

He is committed to his cause in a way that can’t be faked. He is the authentic conservative you’ve been waiting a lifetime for. Unless of course, like many of his supporters, you’ve only lived a quarter lifetime.

Andrew Davis is a junior in public relations.

He can be reached at adavi152@vols.utk.edu

Each culture has history we should learn Maria Smith Bleeding Orange, Being Different

3, 2, 1! Happy Black History Month!

Now would be the perfect time to blow the bullhorn and let down the banner to celebrate yet another appearance by the great culturally based month of February.

As an African-American, I genuinely get excited about February being dedicated to my culture.

It makes me feel special, even if the main point of recognition for my generation is a Snapchat filter rather than actual facts about black excellence, as well as the black struggle.

Often times, there has been controversy as to why the shortest month of the year has been chosen to honor one of the most significantly oppressed cultures in America. In a calendar full of 30 to 31 days, why does Black History Month only have 28? This can be answered and with good reason.

Dr. Carter G. Woodson originally founded Black History Month as Negro History Week.

The week-long holiday started in 1926 and was intended to be celebrated during the second week of February, in honor of Fredrick Douglas and Abraham Lincoln’s birthdays. Woodson’s intention was to give recognition to the accomplishments of the Black American community who received more negative attention than praise.

It wasn’t until 1976 that the U.S. government acknowledged the holiday and had it extended

into a month long affair.

I truly appreciate this recognition of my culture, even if it is not embodied into the educational curriculum of various school systems. It’s always saddened me how the three main subjects of Dr. King, Rosa Parks and Harriet Tubman were the only ones accredited as pioneers in the Black community for almost my entire elementary school career. We don’t all look the same, so just three people most definitely do not define our community and all that we’ve done and came from. Would you define America by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln alone? With that being said, I probably just upset a historian.

Not only does this lack of educational appreciation of culturally diverse histories happen during Black History Month, but it also occurs with the various other cultural appreciation months that many calendars do not remind us of. For example, National Hispanic American Heritage Month takes place from Sep. 15 to Oct. 15, and until I did my research for this piece, I had no idea.

May is Asian-Pacific American History Month, November is Native American History Month, June is Gay Lesbian Pride Month and there are so many others.

I want to be ashamed of the lack of my cultural understanding outside of my own, but how am

I supposed to embrace, appreciate and celebrate other cultures that society does not equally give great amounts of recognition towards, especially when you do not identify with that culture? If you are not aware of when these cultural history celebrations occur, a rather enlightening time can unfortunately be seen as irrelevant. I wouldn’t want anyone to see Black History Month this way, so I would not do it to any other culture’s designated month either.

Although the boundaries set by an arranged amount of days can be seen as limiting to newfound cultural awareness, it most definitely is not. Education goes as far as you will let your mind reach, and the enlightenment that comes from that new knowledge is truly amazing. So, let us open our eyes and not only appreciate Black culture, but also the many others that make up our great big world.

Just like each month has it’s own weather, each culture has its own history that deserves to be accepted, incorporated and recognized. Starting this month, make sure to broaden your cultural and historical horizons, starting with Marjorie Lee Browne, a Tennessee native.

Maria Smith is a sophomore in journalism and electronic media. She can be reached at msmit304@vols.utk.edu

Columns of The Daily Beacon are the views of the individual and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Beacon or the Beacon’s editorial staff.

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Barbie presents new body images Elle Johnson I Learned Something Today

I was never a “Barbie girl.”

When I travel home on breaks, I often ask my mom what I liked when I was little, hoping to get a little tidbit of information that could have laid the original foundation for who I am now. The answers are a little bit different every time, but her initial response has always remained the same: “You didn’t like Barbies.”

For anyone wondering, I was always much more fond of “Alvin and the Chipmunks.”

However, regardless of toy preference, Barbie is quite hard to avoid entirely. Targeted directly towards girls ages 3-12, statistics show that two Barbie dolls are sold every second and that on average, a young American girl will accumulate seven Barbie dolls throughout her childhood—with the first one coming at age three. Given these rates, Barbie has stood as the number one girl’s toy in the world, only recently being dethroned from that position by dolls in the likeness of Elsa from “Frozen” and ultimately has remained as an unavoidable cultural figure and phenomenon since her inception 50 years ago.

The popular toy’s overwhelming sales aren’t necessarily the problem, however. The issue at hand with Barbie dolls, as you all know, is their horridly unrealistic body proportions.

The original Barbie is described to stand at 5 feet, 9 inches, and to weigh 110 pounds. At this size, if

Barbie were real, she would be so underweight that she would be unable to perform some normal bodily functions and would only have room for half a liver and a few inches of intestine. Additionally, with her size 3 feet and abnormally tiny ankles, real-life Barbie would have no choice but to walk on all fours.

Barbie’s cultural influence has stood so large that her unrealistic body image affected not only those who played with her but those who avoided her as well.

I remember growing up tall, chubby and feeling different than everyone else. Maybe I was just an early bloomer, but I certainly had my daunting days in middle school. And even some later on, where I would stand in front of the mirror and wish that with a click of a button, I could change everything. But more importantly, I remember thinking of Barbie, the ideal image of beauty, and hoping that one day, I would look like that. I, in a sense, wanted to be a “Barbie girl.”

The original Barbie promoted this negative sense of self-image and in turn, discouraged self-love. Sure, I can look back on myself in those earlier days and see that there was nothing wrong with my body at all, but it is undeniable that everyone, male and female, faces these struggles with body image due to cultural forces on human beauty. With this, studies have shown that 42 percent of girls in the first to third grade wish they

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were thinner, half of girls ages 9 to 10 say they feel better if they are on a diet and 4 out of 5 children are afraid of being fat.

However, Barbie’s just got a brand new look. Or rather, looks.

Last Thursday, Mattel announced and released three new body styles for Barbie dolls: curvy, tall and petite. In addition to these new body styles, Barbie is also introducing 7 skin tones, 22 eye colors, 24 hairstyles and a foot molded flat, rather than the permanent high-heeled position that women have cringed about for decades.

Will this change make a difference? Maybe.

Considering that the original body style will still be available, it could easily dominate the other styles in sales and leave the other body types removed from shelves as quickly as they were introduced. However, I hope that is not the case. I hope that more children are introduced to these forms of beauty, that more powerful industries follow suit with this initiative and in turn, we will slowly begin to encourage and develop a new, more empowering, cultural view of beauty.

Let’s work towards a culture where being a “Barbie girl” isn’t such a bad thing after all.

Elle Johnson is a sophomore in College Scholars.

She can be reached at ejohn100@vols.utk.edu

Feminist does not want Hillary Clinton for president

Summer Awad Quite Contrary

I don’t like Hillary Clinton.

Her pro-war, pro-Israel, pro-big business stances go against everything I stand for as a lower-middle class Palestinian-American woman. Although I want to see a woman in the White House as much as the next girl, I have been outspoken against Clinton’s campaign, and feel the Bern even more intensely every day.

After the tie in Iowa on Monday night, I immediately contributed to the Sanders campaign. I will continue to assert that Sanders’ economic and healthcare policies are better for women and that the mere presence of a female figurehead will not usher in an age of gender equality. However, the climate of sexism in politics makes this election tricky for me as a feminist.

There is a new meme circulating on Facebook that pits Clinton and Sanders against one another on various “issues.” One meme’s “issue” is Harry Potter, and it paints Sanders as a well-informed Harry Potter fan, while the text under Clinton’s picture reads, “I’m a Hofflepump!” I’ll admit it—I found the meme hilarious, and I shared it on my Facebook page. But it made me stop to think a little bit.

This meme fits in with a good deal of rhetoric used

by Sanders supporters to paint Clinton as foolish and naïve. Other supporters often use sexist slurs to refer to Clinton or say things like “I know why Bill cheated.”

And of course, although Sanders’ unkempt hair has been a popular topic of discussion, critiques of Clinton disproportionately focus on her appearance, her new status as a grandmother and her private relationship with her famously unfaithful husband. The nature

”We cannot have a political revolution that is built on misogymy and insults.”

of these criticisms has led to a discussion of “Bernie bros,” an overly aggressive and misogynistic demographic of Sanders supporters who disparage Hillary for gendered reasons.

Some Sanders supporters have called out the Clinton campaign for exaggerating the influence of the “Bernie bros” or even fabricating their existence, citing Sanders’ wide base of female support.

But, whatever your opinion on this issue, one thing is clear: gender does play a role in the dynamics of this democratic primary. Although I disagree with many accusations of sexism by Clinton supporters, I think

it is important for us to listen to these women and be especially careful not to fall into the trap of either conscious or implicit misogynistic rhetoric.

When articulating my support for Sanders, I have to make a conscious effort to confront unconscious internalized sexism, avoid ad hominem attacks against Clinton and stand up against fellow Bernie supporters who make misogynistic comments. We cannot have a political revolution that is built on misogyny and insults, and I think Bernie Sanders himself has been a good example of that.

My six-year-old sister boasted for several months that she was voting for Hillary Clinton because she wanted a woman to be president. Although I won’t be voting for Hillary in the primary, I was proud that my sister understood the importance of female representation in the White House. A few weeks later, she told me that she wasn’t voting (duh, because she’s six) because she didn’t like any of the candidates. Worried that my conservative dad had talked her out of it for sexist reasons, I asked her what changed her mind.

She struggled for a bit, but then she said, “She was on the TV, and she said she wanted to protect Israel from all the Muslims.” Well, alright then.

If even my six-year-old sister has a substantive reason for not liking Hillary Clinton, rooted not in patriarchy but in Clinton’s neocolonial and neoliberal platform, that’s all I need to know. #FeelTheBern Summer Awad is a senior in College Scholars. She can be reached at sawad@vols.utk.edu

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Vols’ win rebounding battle in upset of Kentucky Taylor White

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Much has been made of Tennessee’s abnormal starting lineup this season.

The Vols have spent much of the season with 6-foot-5 Admiral Schofield being the tallest player on the floor, and after getting beat on the boards in each of the last two games, Tennessee coach Rick Barnes made a change.

He inserted 6-foot-9 freshman Kyle Alexander into the starting lineup to try and give the Vols a boost on the boards; it didn’t work. No. 20 Kentucky jumped out to a big edge on the scoreboard and in the rebounding battle.

That didn’t last, though, as Tennessee turned the tide on the Wildcats, overcoming a 21 point deficit to beat Kentucky 84-77 on the scoreboard and 37-36 in the rebounding battle.

“We just said we were going to have to get more aggressive on the glass,” Barnes said. “That was probably the biggest thing. When we got down, they

really had a wide margin on the boards.

When we started working our way back into the game, that was one of the areas that changed a little bit.”

Armani Moore led all players with 13 rebounds, on his way to his third doubledouble of the season. Schofield added eight, while Alexander had just one board in the start. Robert Hubbs responded to Barnes’ criticism earlier this week. He didn’t grab a single rebound in the Vols’ loss at TCU, but had four on Tuesday, all on the offensive end.

It wasn’t the biggest players on the floor that were crashing the glass for Tennessee. With the small lineup, the Vols can’t rely on their post players alone to rebound, and some of Tennessee’s guards also came up big in that category.

“Shembari (Phillips), I saw him come into the game. He was crashing hard, getting rebounds, giving us second chance shots,” Moore said. “We did a great job in that tonight. In the second half, we really did a great job. We recognized what we needed to do to win.”

Hot topic: With time ticking down,

Tennessee held a five point lead, needing a stop to seal the win.

After several missed shots by Kentucky, Moore jumped on a loose ball, calling timeout as he fell on it. The officials granted Moore the call, and the bench ran on to the floor to celebrate, but Lamonte Turner took the celebration too far.

The freshman, who is sitting out this year due to an NCAA eligibility issue, sprinted on to the floor to celebrate with his team. He was assessed just a warning by the officials, but Barnes wasn’t happy with the risk his player took.

“You can’t just run out on the court,” Punter said. “Coach probably almost body-slammed him. I saw Coach grab him, but Coach was into the game and he wanted to win. He understands he can’t do that. He could have easily gotten a (technical foul) where they get one or two shots and the ball back. That quick the game would have swung, just like that.

The other guys: Tyler Ulis and Jamal Murray led the way for Kentucky. Ulis

scored 20 points and dished out five assists all while harassing Punter for much of the night. Murray led the team with 21 points, grabbing five rebounds and recording five assists of his own.

Outside the box score: Tennessee played in front of a season high 19,295 fans, something Barnes said was instrumental to the Vols’ comeback.

Coming into the game, Tennessee had more success against Kentucky than any other SEC school. After the win, Tennessee improves its record against the Wildcats to 68-151, including a 48-52 mark in Knoxville.

By the numbers: 21: The Vols overcame a 21 point first half deficit to upset No. 20 Kentucky.

8: Tennessee turned the ball over just eight times, with four of those coming off simple miscommunications that led to bad passes.

63: Four players combined for 63 of Tennessee’s 84 points. Punter (27), Moore (18), Detrick Mostella (13) and Schofield (11), were the only Vols in double figures.