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Club offers ballroom dancing and good times for everyone Sam Kennedy

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Around twenty students on campus spend multiple nights a week practicing their rumba, cha-cha, fox trot and other ballroom dancing styles with the Ballroom Dance Team.

While this team usually just dances for fun, the social and supportive atmosphere of the practices keeps the students entertained while also teaching them how to dance.

The Ballroom Dance Team was founded by Lara Garty, who was inspired to start a team at UT because of her own background as an inter-

collegiate DanceSport competitor. Garty also had prior experience founding and coaching the ballroom dance team at Michigan State before coming to UT. “Our ultimate goal is to have fun and make friends while developing our members into confident individuals who can hold their ground on the competitive dance floor and in life,” Garty said.

The president of the club, Amy BodinHenderson, joined the team two and a half years ago and fell in love with it. Although she did not have prior ballroom dance experience, the instructors taught her everything she needed to know.

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“I really love being president of the team because I love being able to create a fun and inclusive environment for all members,” BodinHenderson said. “I also like being able to form relationships around dance, because it is one of my favorite things to do.”

The team has been fortunate enough to draw in ballroom instructors from the Knoxville community and from as far away as New York. The current instructor, JW Becker from Champion Ballroom, has been helping the team choreograph their routines and touch up their figures and techniques.

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Run D.M.C. first rap act to receive Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

Cumberland University in Lebanon launched a national project Monday set on publishing over 13,000 documents of former president Martin Van Buren. The process includes transcribing and posting many of Van Buren’s former speeches and letters in their present microfilm state.

Much of the work will involve organzing and translating the documents, most of which are in the original handwriting. The country’s eighth president, Martin Van Buren was originally Andrew Jackson’s Vice President before serving in his own right. A native of New York, Van Buren is credited with helping found the Democratic Party, as well as helping to shape the modern political campaign.

The University of Tennessee is itself home to the Papers of Andrew Jackson Project, created to transcribe and publish Jackson’s entire written record. Working in conjunction with The University of Virginia, the papers will be accessible after publication at VanBurenPapers.org.

At the 2016 Grammy Awards, Run D.M.C., along with Herbie Hancock, Jefferson Airplane, Celia Cruz and others, will receive the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. The Recording Academy gives this award to “performers who, during their lifetimes, have made creative contributions of outstanding artistic significance to the field of recording.” This differs from the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in that it honors individuals rather than recordings. Run D.M.C can add this to their list of rap group firsts — including first certified gold and platinum, first to have a Billboard Top Ten single and first on the cover of Rolling Stone. Although the original group disbanded in 2002 after the death of member Jason “Jam Master Jay” Mizell, remaining members Joseph “Reverend Run” Simmons and Darryl “DMC” McDaniels have reunited multiple times for festival performances.

Hernandez settles in civil suit Former Florida and New England Patriot tight end Aaron Hernandez settled with Alexander Bradley, a former associate, in a civil lawsuit for an undisclosed amount on Friday according to a report by the Boston Globe.

The report states that Bradley claims Hernandez shot him in the eye in 2013 after the two had an argument at a Florida nightclub. Hernandez is currently serving a life sentence, after being convicted of first-degree murder last April. He was convicted of killing Odin Lloyd in 2013. Hernandez tallied almost 2,000 receiving yards and grabbed 18 touchdowns in three seasons with the Patriots, helping lead New England to an appearance in the 2010 Super Bowl. The report states that Hernandez is still facing wrongful death lawsuits from three other families.

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Peyton Manning’s past once again up for debate Tanner Hancock New Editor

Alahnah Ligon

Asst. News Editor Super Bowl 50 is in the books, yet rain is already falling on Peyton Manning’s parade.

Less than a week after Peyton Manning celebrated what may have been his final NFL game, six anonymous women and former UT student athletes filed a lawsuit against UT claiming the university has “deliberately created (and creates) a hostile discriminatory sexual environment for female students.”

The lawsuit cites Manning as one of 10 former athletes accused of sexual assault whose case was not properly handled by the university.

In 1996, Manning was accused of placing his genitals on the face of former female trainer Jamie Naughright during a physical examination in a team locker room. Manning has denied the incident, claiming that it was instead a “mooning” prank gone awry.

Naughright left the university per the conditions of an out-of-court settlement, though she sued Manning again in 2002 for allegedly misrepresenting the incident in his book “Manning: A Father, His Sons, and a Football Legacy.”

The incident again came to the forefront after an article in The New York Daily News detailed sworn testimony from Naughright, shedding a negative light on Manning as the author Shaun King argued the former quarterback attempted to downplay the event and effectively ruined Naughright’s career as a trainer.

In documents published by Sports Illustrated on Sunday, it was revealed that the legal battle between Manning and Naughright continued for years after the initial settlement, with several lawsuits and counter lawsuits filed by both parties until 2005.

David Randolph Smith, the attorney representing the six “Jane Does” in the lawsuit against UT explained that the reference to Peyton Manning is just one small part of a much larger case against what he sees as a rape fostering culture at UT. “It’s just a part of the history of how the university has handled sexual assault as a reference in the lawsuit. It’s just one paragraph,” Smith said.

“Peyton Manning was just a small (part), literally, a few sentences, in the 64 page complaint.

We were just aware of it historically. Whether her story is that relevant today, that’s just part of the case.”

The larger point of the lawsuit, as Smith

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Peyton Manning calls time out during a play against UNLV on Aug. 31, 1996.

• File Photo explained, is to point out UT’s failure to adhere to Title IX and their “deliberate indifference and unreasonable response” to matters of sexual assault when it conflicts with the interests of the athletics department.

In a statement from Bill Ramsey, counsel for the University of Tennessee, he maintained that UT has always strived to provide a supportive environment for individuals who come forward in cases of sexual assault.

“Any assertion that we do not take sexual assault seriously enough is simply not true,” read the statement, clarifying that the university will provide a more detailed response to the lawsuit allegations in the future.

“To claim that we have allowed a culture to exist contrary to our institutional commitment to providing a safe environment for our students or that we do not support those who report sexual assault is just false.”

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Left: Jordan Welsh, senior in history, attends the UT Outsourcing Protest at the Haslam Business Building on Monday.

Right: Around 35 protesters met in order to plan against Gov. Haslam’s privatization plan.

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Rally highlights student opposition to outsourcing Travis Dorman Staff Writer

About 35 campus workers, students and community members met in the Haslam College of Business building Monday afternoon to share information and further organize the movement against Gov. Bill Haslam’s privatization plan.

Ben Bergman and Sawyer Smith, UT students and members of the Roosevelt Institute, gave a brief presentation that summarized the perceived consequences of Haslam’s proposal to outsource campus jobs to private corporations.

“When Governor Haslam and his administration went to these huge companies and said we can offer you a 10 year $4.5 to $5 billion contract if you can save us money across the state and on UT’s campus, obviously they said

of course,” Bergman said. “But what the state realized after they went through with that was that these companies couldn’t actually save as much money as the current Facilities Services offices are now. So they had to go back and reassess what Facilities Services really meant so that they could find those extra savings.”

Bergman went on to explain that because the Facilities Services office is already as streamlined and efficient as possible, the $12 million the proposal claims to save would have to come from program cuts.

The Neyland Stadium turf management team, sustainability and recycling programs, the team who sets up and cleans after events in Thompson-Boling, the Special Team to Assist Research and the UT call center would all be eliminated, and heating, ventilation and air conditioning would only be guaranteed at locations that the state deems critical, Bergman said.

Bergman and Smith cited a United Campus Workers memo and an interview with Associate Vice Chancellor for Facilities Services Dave Irvin, in which he set himself apart from the administration by saying Haslam’s privatization plan would be a “disaster” for the university.

After the presentation, United Campus Workers organizer Cassie Watters opened the floor up for campus workers, students and community members to speak out against privatization and outsourcing.

Tom Anderson, a central supply buyer in Facilities Services, expressed his support for Dave Irvin and called for unity during a challenging time.

“I want everybody to know that we’re all in this together. We are standing on that ledge with Dave Irvin, and we’re going to fight with him to the end,” Anderson said. “This is not just about my job or my family or all of my coworkers’

families, it’s about all of us together.”

Tami Schultz, a member of the custodial staff, also thanked Dave Irwin and said that she depends on the benefits she receives from working at the university.

“I know I myself, I need the insurance here.

I take care of my mother. She has dementia… If I don’t have that insurance, I’m not going to be able to take care of her. And then I don’t know what would happen,” Schultz said.

Ed McDaniel, a locksmith at UT, spoke next and argued the value of campus workers as people that truly care about the university.

“We are people; we’re not throw-away people.

If there’s something wrong that they’re losing money on … Let’s fix it here. Let’s not throw us away,” McDaniel said. “Let’s not bring in another company. If you’re saying that we’re failing, then apparently the governor and his cronies are failing.”

Experts discuss likelihood of Zika virus in Knoxville Tucker Shull

Contributor

SARS. West Nile virus. Mad cow disease.

Bird flu. Swine flu. Ebola. Over the past several years, there have been several examples of diseases causing a media panic after they gain a degree of deadly traction, before being forgotten.

However, reports of the Zika virus trickling out of Latin America have struck many as deeply disturbing. Does this pandemic have the potential to become widespread and dangerous in the United States in a way that the previously mentioned diseases? More specifically, is East Tennessee a region with factors conducive to the spread of the Zika virus?

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention provides several important facts

about the disease. It has chiefly been known to spread by way of mosquito bite, though infections facilitated through blood transfusion and sexual transmission have also been reported.

Mothers can also give the disease to their infants through childbirth, and some children born to mothers with Zika have been stricken with microcephaly, a serious birth defect.

The disease itself is comparatively mild, and the CDC points out that those afflicted “rarely die of Zika.” Most who have it do not even display symptoms. At this time, however, there is no cure or vaccine for the Zika virus.

Suzanne Lenhart, a chancellor and professor in the Math Department and the associate director for Education and Outreach at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) at UT, stresses that the spread of mosquitos in certain areas is a factor that must be examined.

“We haven’t actually begun to study that yet on Zika because it just came out,” Lenhart said.

Lenhart sought to put the Zika virus in the larger context of diseases that have similar transmissions but are not focused on in the news — including malaria, which affects far more people globally than Zika.

Suzanne O’Regan, a postdoctoral research fellow also at NIMBioS, noted that while the prime source of the Zika virus’ spread, mosquitos, are present in this area, there are obstacles to its potential for becoming widespread in East Tennessee.

“One of the things that has to happen for forward transmission is that there has to be importation of the virus from elsewhere,” O’Regan said.

“There has been no local transmission (of the Zika virus) reported so far in the United States,” O’Regan stated. However, she does postulate

scenarios that hinge on people going to Zikainfected regions and not reporting symptoms, and also mentions that many who may carry the virus are asymptomatic.

Even then, O’Regan feels it would be unlikely for such a scenario to take place and lead to a pandemic.

“I think in East Tennessee, multiple factors need to be aligned for an epidemic to take off for Zika virus,” O’Regan said. “One of the things that I think will prevent that from happening is because the United States has the public infrastructure to deal with this.

“Everybody is aware — awareness of the virus is high, so people who are visiting these areas know that the Zika virus is there. Generally, we hope.”

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New Zoolander movie falls flat Nathan Smith Contributor

In 2016, movies (and moving images) surround us. Unfortunately, for every good movie at our fingertips, a dozen bad ones are just as accessible, and watching a bad movie at home is nowhere near as difficult as watching a bad movie in a theater.

Watching good movies in a dark room with total strangers can be transcendent; watching a bad movie in a dark room with total strangers can be claustrophobic.

I had the latter experience last weekend while watching Zoolander 2, the Ben Stillerdirected sequel to his 2001 comedy about idiotic male models and the even more idiotic things they do.

After hiding for fifteen years from a world that has forgotten them, super models Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller) and Hansel (Owen Wilson) are invited to walk the runway in one of the world’s premiere fashion events. There they discover and attempt to defuse a conspiracy to secure the waters of the Fountain of Youth, led by the sinister designer Mugatu (Will Ferrell).

Stiller uses Zoolander 2 to work through what seems to be a personal mid-life crisis in the same way that, within the film, Derek and

Hansel struggle with their own (ir)relevancy.

Coincidentally, Stiller and Wilson are more like Mugatu in this scenario, misguided in their conviction that another Zoolander movie will serve as their own personal Fountain of Youth.

But Zoolander 2 never actually confronts this existential conundrum; instead, it chooses to lash out against young people through misplaced comedic bits.

Often this humor is implemented in ways that come off as transphobic, homophobic and racist. As a young person myself, it feels not just a little insulting but also tired.

Zoolander 2 also doesn’t seem to have a grasp on comedy. Admittedly, humor is generally more subjective than anything else, so writing away a comedy by saying “it isn’t funny” typically doesn’t work as criticism.

But many of the “jokes” in Zoolander 2 aren’t jokes at all, just paid product placement and labored celebrity cameos. The first Zoolander had its share of appearances from famous figures, but they were unobtrusive and relevant to the film’s absurd premise in the “real world.”

However in Zoolander 2, people like Keifer Sutherland and Susan Boyle appear on-screen without context or motivation.

Watching the first Zoolander triggers a fondness for the early 2000s. I can’t exactly say what future viewers of Zoolander 2 will think about our own day, but it probably won’t be kind.

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Knoxville searches for its first poet laureate McKenzie Mitchell Contributor

New York has Yusef Komunyakaa to bask in the glow of Manhattan city lights.

Dana Gioia gets to run his literary fingers through the Malibu sand.

Tennessee has Margaret Britton Vaughn to ride the waves of country music pouring out of every window.

And this summer, Knoxville will be recognizing its own poet laureate for the first time.

From now until April 1, Knoxville residents over the age of 18 can nominate anyone to be the first poet laureate for the city.

The idea resulted from discussions within Mayor Madeline Rogero’s office.

Jesse Mayshark, Communications Director for Mayor Rogero, said that the idea behind this is to “encourage a diversity of voices.”

Usually, state poet laureates remain in their positions for years at a time. For instance, Margaret Britton Vaughn has been Tennessee’s poet laureate since 1999.

However, in the interest of diversity, Knoxville has decided to stray away from that tradition and has instead set its own rules.

Each laureate will have a one-year term with an optional second year term.

Liza Zenni, Executive Director of the Arts

and Culture Alliance, expressed excitement over the upcoming appointment.

“We have a lot of wonderful writers and poets in Knoxville,” Zenni said. “I think the Mayor wanted to celebrate that by creating a platform in which poets can share their work and illuminate the times in which we are living.”

Residents can expect to see their new poet laureate on Knoxville’s 225th birthday, at Festival on the Fourth and at Christmas in the City, among other events.

The winner will also travel to schools, colleges and neighborhoods, and host a variety of workshops. Along with these responsibilities, the new laureate will be required to produce a body of work that reflects on the life and culture of the city.

In addition to the honor of representing the city’s cultural core, the poet laureate will receive a $3,000 annual stipend for their position.

With the assistance of the Poet Laureate, Knoxville residents will be able to look back and see the various shapes and forms their city took, and how they did or did not fit into them.

“There aren’t very many cities who have somebody who is specifically hired to give thought and expression to who and what we are right now,” Zenni said.

For those who want to nominate someone they think is fit for the job, applications can be found at http://www.knoxvilletn.gov/government/mayors_office/poet_laureate_program.

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An open letter to UT President DiPietro on privatization

Franco D’Aprile

Erica Davis

Two Treehuggers with an Ax

Franco: Governor Haslam wants to privatize our campus operations and facilities.

Erica: That’s really not a funny joke, Franco.

Dear UT President DiPietro, Surely you have heard this several times in the past weeks, but we request that you listen one more time as we ask you to opt out of privatization.

We understand that with administrators’ positions of power also come great responsibilities. But as you mull this decision over, keep in mind what the students want and what is best for them. After all, what is a university without its students?

We know we are young and can sometimes be naive to the complex structure of which our university is a part. But our naiveness, just like the innocence of children, knows how to recognize injustices better than most adults. And this is an injustice.

It is not just about the incomes of men and women who work hard every day; it is also about the jobs that these people hold, jobs that make them feel like they are part of something greater.

Jobs that they are happy to do to help us reach our goals and facilitate our lives. Jobs that we as students value. And jobs that make our campus a better place for ourselves and for those who interact with the University of Tennessee.

Privatization would harm our campus on a widespread scale, and one area that would be significantly hampered is sustainability. We hope to express to you just how much sustainability means

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This is a chance for our university to be on the right side of history, to not make a mistake and erase a part of our campus that does one hundred times more good than bad.”

to us all — whether we’re interns at the Office of Sustainability, regularly oversee the routes for recycling collection, write policy to affect long-lasting change or even if we just benefit from avoided costs and a cleaner campus.

As far as avoided costs go, the Office of Sustainability and UT Recycling have helped the university save almost $6 million between the 2009 and 2014 fiscal years — $6 million! The Switch Your Thinking campaign reminded us that environmentally friendly behaviors can be as simple and easy as turning off the light when you leave the room, and the 2011 Chancellor’s Challenge offered tips and incentives via email and website updates. Each year, campus residence halls take part in the P.O.W.E.R. Challenge (which stands for Program On Water, Energy, and Recycling), through which students have fun and compete with each other while going green. Initiatives like the Power Down Pledge and the Green Revolving Fund provide motivation and monetary support to make these programs and more self-sustainable.

The Office of Sustainability and UT Recycling do more than save the campus money. They are there whenever a student, staff or faculty member wants to do something environmental. They help establish contacts, work out logistics and apply for grants.

Over the years they have helped the environmental projects of professors, students and staff alike become realities.

Avoided costs and individual support aren’t the only benefits directly stemming from the Office of Sustainability and UT Recycling; aside from research, this field engages the highest number of students in its activities, giving students a chance to apply knowledge from classes and gain real-world experience in data collection, planning, communications, design — the list goes on and on.

We are writing to stop privatization and to prevent the elimination of a vast and diverse array of sustainability initiatives on campus. Perhaps it is not the highest draw of your attention, but it is something we want you to care about. This is a chance for our university to be on the right side of history, to not make a mistake and erase a part of our campus that does one hundred times more good than bad.

Our lives wouldn’t be what they are today if it weren’t for the environment-related programs we’ve been apart of during our time at UT. As Franco pursues graduate school for sustainable development and Erica begins seeking her degree in Environmental Law in the fall, we shudder at the thought that future students at the University of Tennessee might not have the same chance we did to find our passion and act on it every single day — with institutional support along the way.

Opt out, go green and go Vols.

Franco D’Aprile is a senior in political science and sustainability, and Erica Davis is a senior in environmental sociology. They can be reached at fradapr@vols.utk.edu and spz839@vols.utk. edu, respectively.

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The Powerpuff Girls return

Elle Johnson I Learned Something

Get ready to contain your nostalgia, everyone.

The Powerpuff Girls are returning from their decade long hiatus and hitting the small screen again this April.

In even better news, based on the recently released sneak peek, our favorite little girls made of sugar, spice, everything nice and just a tad of Chemical X are going to be just as amazing as ever.

I heard the news of the revival nearly two years ago, and I was nothing short of skeptical. Sure, it’s just a cartoon, and the revival will undoubtedly bring Cartoon Network back some of the notoriety and income of its early 2000s glory days, but I was troubled by the thought that this revival could ruin something so valuable.

Allow me to explain. In case you’ve lived without a television or Internet for the past 15 years, The Powerpuff Girls focuses on three super powered kindergarteners, Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup, who were accidentally created in a laboratory by their father, Professor Utonium. The girls strive to fight crime before bedtime, holding the roles of superheroes, children and our favorite animated feminists, all within a 30-minute time frame.

I was certainly a Powerpuff Girls superfan, and if the term “fandom” had existed back then to my elementary school aged self, I would have considered myself a member of that as well. I had all the videos,

school supplies, toys and costumes, but even then I would never dare to miss an episode playing on TV. True, the bright colors, vivid action, lively music and great humor would be enough to draw any child in.

But now I’ve realized that the Powerpuff Girls was much more to me than just a cartoon.

Blossom, the commander and leader, taught me to never let my status as a female deter me from leadership, intelligence and determination. Bubbles, with her joy and laughter, showed me that all emotions are important and that spreading positivity is sometimes the best gift you can give. Buttercup, the toughest fighter, certainly cultured my sarcasm and quick-wit, but also exemplified the value of always standing up for what you believe in and who you care about.

The Powerpuff Girls presented me with the lessons and morals I still hold today, and it wasn’t because of the standard cartoon tropes. The success of The Powerpuff Girls was completely developed through their strong female characters.

When I say strong female characters, I don’t necessarily mean “strong” as in tough, buff and ready to kick butt. Rather, I refer more to characters that are strongly written, with real qualities, flaws and a developing personality that girls everywhere can both look up to and sympathize with during the “we’ve all been there” scenarios.

Think Hermione Granger, Leslie Knope, Buffy

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Summers and Sailor Moon. All wonderfully written strong characters who are relatable and worthwhile in a variety of situations.

However, I should not be scratching my head to think of more notable characters to add to this list.

The excess of bland, one-sided, stagnate and generally carbon copied female characters compared to those that are dynamic, well-written, flawed, empowering and relevant is incredibly overwhelming and in need of great change. Strong female characters are not only what young girls want, but also what they need and deserve to feel comfortable in their own skin and develop into strong females themselves.

I am still a bit skeptical of the Powerpuff Girls reboot, as a minute long clip definitely isn’t enough to completely win me over, but I certainly see potential. While the technology and staff working on the project may have changed over the past decade, I am optimistic that the original values will hold true, and that young girls of a new generation have a chance to step into my shoes and experience this cultural phenomenon.

Perhaps the Powerpuff Girls are back just in time to save the day once more.

Elle Johnson is a sophomore in College Scholars.

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

Privatization would signify yet another defeat for UT

Jarrod Nelson Socialized

We open on a young man, sitting at his desk, writing a column. It’s Friday. There’s trail mix by his side and water in the glass next to him. It’s water, he swears. The camera turns to focus on something more interesting than the man, because most things are, and narration starts.

So let’s follow the camera.

We pan out.

It’s 2013, and a bunch of wonderful little angels of education decide to host Sex Week, so that the university can actually educate people about that wonderful little thing pretty much every human being does. Lawmakers in Nashville are enraged that people are acknowledging that humans have sex, and the university defunds Sex Week days before it is set to go on. Nashville then decides that, despite there being no functional opposition to Sex Week, it will allow students to opt out of having their Student Programming Fee go towards Student Programming. You know, the thing the fee is named after. Like how income taxes are taxes on income, but the opposite nonsensical version. It is a blatant attempt to take away the funds enabling students to express themselves, and the University caves.

Zoom in.

It’s the beginning of the fall 2015 semester. The Office for Diversity and Inclusion releases a list of

gender neutral pronouns in an attempt to educate people on the fact that some people don’t identify as male or female. It suggests people ask other people what their pronouns are, so as to avoid any awkward moments. Lawmakers in Nashville are enraged that people are acknowledging that some people aren’t male or female and immediately draw up plans to gut funding for the Office for Diversity and Inclusion.

They demand the list be taken down. It is a blatant misunderstanding and based on a straw man of what the list actually was, but the university caves, and the list is taken down.

Zoom in.

It’s Christmas time of this year. The Office for Diversity and Inclusion releases another document, asking people to be inclusive with their holiday party planning and not exclude people of other religions.

It calls for holiday parties, not Christmas parties.

Lawmakers in Nashville are enraged that people are acknowledging that some people aren’t Christian, and again calls for the Office for Diversity and Inclusion to be gutted and for Vice Chancellor Rickey Hall to be removed. Never mind the fact that plenty of religious organizations on campus still hold Christmas parties. The status of the university’s caving is yet to be determined, but at the very least Vice Chancellor Hall will keep his job.

Zoom in.

It’s today, Tuesday, and I am the recipient of absolutely wonderful timing. Today, Tuesday, President DiPietro is going to decide if the university system is going to privatize all of its facility care, and opt into a plan that Governor Haslam has proposed. Never mind the fact that Facility Services already runs a surplus. Never mind the fact that jobs would almost certainly be lost and that services would absolutely be cut. Never mind the fact that the care of all UT facilities would be handed over to a corporate monopoly in a contract locked in for ten years. It was proposed.

And we get to find out if we’re going to cave, again.

Here’s the thing. This movie sucks. There doesn’t seem to be any heroes and all of the villains are old, generic white guys. At least their motivations are clear though. They do not want us to be a Top 25 University. All they want is product they can sell to the world for the lowest possible production cost.

Because that is what we are to them, and they’ve made it abundantly clear that all they care about is packaging us up and shipping us off at a massive profit to them and their ideologies.

Let’s hope the packaging’s comfortable at least.

Jarrod Nelson is a sophomore in public relations.

He can be reached at jnelso47@vols.utk.edu.

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BALLROOM continued from Page 1

The Ballroom Dance Team, founded by Lara Garty, practices multiple nights a week. They practice the rumba, cha-cha, fox trot and other ballroom dancing styles in a supportive and fun atmosphere.

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The team attends two competitions each year, the furthest away being Collegiate Nationals in Columbus, Ohio. Here students can compete at various levels — starting with beginners and going all the way up to the open level — and in various styles such as International Standard, International Latin, American Smooth and American Rhythm, to name a few.

A little closer to home, the team’s second competition takes place this spring in Charlotte, North Carolina. “The competitions have a very supportive atmosphere and are meant to be fun and lowstress for our club,� Bodin-Henderson said. “It’s a really great way to show what we have learned and improve.�

Ballroom dancing has been around since the early 20th century and its core hasn’t changed since then. It can be a competitive or social form of dancing, with every dance falling into one of these two main categories.

The first type, smooth/ballroom style of dance, consists of flowing dances that move around the entire dance floor with smooth transitions between patterns. Examples of this dance would be the fox trot, waltz and tango.

The second type of ballroom dance is called the Latin/rhythm style of dance. This type of is usually very energetic but still reflects the syncopated rhythm of the music.

This style stays mainly in one spot on the dance floor and includes dances such as swing, rumba, cha cha and salsa/mambo.

Most of the dancers, including Ashley Slimp, sophomore in public relations, discovered the Ballroom Dance Team at the Club Fair on Pedestrian Walkway that takes place at the beginning of the year. After signing up for the email list and attending the interest meetings, she decided to stick with it. “I love the community of this team. I love that you can just show up and try out a new skill that you’ve never done before,� Slimp said. “It’s a lot of fun, the dancing is amazing and you get to meet some pretty great people as well.�

There is one graduate who remains on the team: Talon Hill. He has been dancing for eight years and has helped out with multiple ballroom communities around Knoxville. “I heard about the Ballroom Dance Team at UT at a small competition in Knoxville and I just started showing up to the practices,�

Hill said. “I decided that I loved it and stayed on the team. I love being able to come to UT and help out another collegiate dance community. The team has a good foundation and I like being able to help out newer dancers and help the community grow.�

The Ballroom Dance Team meets every Tuesday and Thursday from 5-8p.m. above the Student Aquatic Center. At these practices the team breaks down and works through different routines for upcoming competitions.

Anyone is welcome to join the team and there is no experience required.

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Notebook: Turnovers doom Lady Vols in second half Trenton Duffer Copy Editor

Midway through the third quarter, Jaime Nared threw a bounce pass the left post that was intended for Mercedes Russell. Russell was trying to get around the player guarding her in the paint and couldn’t get to the pass in time before the team watched the ball roll out of bounds.

No one was in the vicinity of the pass, causing the crowd to let out a sad groan and Holly Warlick to throw up her hands in disgust.

This ill-timed give-away was just one of the 19 turnovers the No. 24 Lady Vols committed during the 62-56 loss to No. 3 South Carolina (24-1, 12-0 SEC) Monday night.

“What’s harder are the unforced errors, when you throw it and it goes out of bounds for no reason,” Warlick said after the loss. “I thought that we had some turnovers going into the post, but we didn’t bring the ball down, and you have to make a spectacular pass to be in the position where you’re throwing the ball. Just little things that we need to correct.”

The 19 turnovers immediately turned into points against the Lady Vols, as 16 of South Carolina’s 62 points came from take-aways.

The Gamecock’s 12 turnovers only resulted in six points from the Lady Vols.

“Nothing good is going to happen when you turn the ball over 19 times,” Warlick said. “When we’re being aggressive, I can take it. But not the ones where we just throw the ball out of bounds.”

Turnovers have doomed the Lady Vols (15-10, 6-6) all season. Tennessee’s turnover margin currently sits at a -2.75. This means that the team has an average of 2.75 more turnovers per game than their opponents, which is the third most in the conference. The Lady Vols turnovers committed total currently sits at 206. Their turnovers forced total is 173, which is tied with Florida for the lowest amount in the SEC. “I thought we played, and we competed,” Warlick said. “We clean up the turnovers, and we’ll be in business.”

Starting Five Fiasco: Bashaara Graves, who started at the forward position Monday night, racked in a double-

double by shooting 9-10 from the freethrow line and picking up 13 points with 10 rebounds and zero turnovers.

However, the rest of the Lady Vols starting five were sluggish, committing a combined 10 turnovers and scoring 16 points combined on 6-22 shooting from the field and 3-6 from the free-throw line.

Te’a Cooper, Andraya Carter, Mercedes Russell and Jaime Nared all couldn’t seem to find their footing against the Gamecocks. Although the loss doesn’t necessarily rest solely on the shoulders of these four ladies, one could ponder the possibility of a different outcome if the ball bounced a different way.

Still, Warlick stuck by her starting five after the loss and said that turnovers were what lost the game for the Lady Vols.

“We win in most of the categories except for turnovers,” Warlick said. “The margin of error against South Carolina has gotta be really, really small, and we just didn’t take care of the basketball.”

Blocking out the haters: As Monday night’s press conference was concluding, a question was posed to Andraya Carter about the backlashing the team has received from fans this year in connection with the third 10-loss season since 1985-86.

Carter gave a firm answer.

“A lot of fans forget that there was a team that lost 10 games and still won a national championship, and I think, if you look at our schedule and some of our losses, it’s not that we were not giving our all and we came up short,” Carter said. “In a lot of those losses, we’ve beaten ourselves or we were just stagnant or we just didn’t come to play.

Carter later continued, saying that fans and “people on the outside” just see the score.

“They see the L on the score sheet, but they forget there’s still a lot of time left,” the redshirt junior said. “There’s history behind us. We have former Lady Vols supporting us. We have support around us, and we have support in our locker room.

And I believe that’s all we need.”

Up Next: The Lady Vols will host Ole Miss (10-14, 2-9) on Thursday with tipoff scheduled for 7 p.m. The team will then travel to LSU next Sunday to take on the Tigers at 2 p.m. That game is scheduled to appear on ESPNU.

TOP: Senior forward Bashaara Graves contemplates a play during the game against the South Carolina Gamecocks.

BOTTOM: Redshirt sophomore guard Diamond DeShields shoots against the Gamecocks.

All photos by Taylor Gash • The Daily Beacon

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Senior forward Bashaara Graves passes during the game against South Carolina.

Taylor Gash • The Daily Beacon

Lady Vols falter down stretch in loss to South Carolina Jonathan Toye

Sports Editor The scene was eerily familiar.

No. 25 Tennessee held a 3-point lead late in the third quarter, but has proven this season to be dubious with second-half leads. This was the case again Monday night. Untimely turnovers and poor shot selection in the fourth quarter ultimately doomed the Lady Vols in a 62-56 loss to No. 3 South Carolina Monday night at Thompson-Boling Arena before a crowd of 12,014.

Tennessee turned the ball over 19 times, with six coming in the fourth quarter, and shot 34 percent from the floor.

Once again, the Lady Vols struggled against the zone. Tennessee shot 21 percent from behind the arc and committed turnover after

turnover trying to force the ball into the paint.

“When you play a team like South Carolina, your margin of error is very, very small,” Tennessee coach Holly Warlick said. “As we did some really, really great things, that (turnover) stat just (hurt us).

“We just couldn’t get over the hump.”

That’s been a problem all year for the Lady Vols (15-10, 6-6). Their six losses in conference play are the most in program history. In two of the losses, the Lady Vols held double-digit leads entering the fourth quarter.

South Carolina on the other hand has supplanted Tennessee as the premier team in the SEC. South Carolina secured at least a share of the SEC title with a victory Monday night.

A’Ja Wilson recovered from a slow shooting start to score a game-high 25 points for South Carolina (24-1, 12-0). Tiffany Mitchell chipped in 12, and sparked a run that allowed the Gamecocks to seize control in the fourth

quarter.

Diamond DeShields came off the bench to score a team-high 21 points. Bashaara Graves was the only other Lady Vols to score in double figures, adding 13.

The Lady Vols never led in the fourth quarter against South Carolina, but they led at other points in the game. Tennessee led 12-8 after the first quarter and led by as much as six in the first half. The Lady Vols traded leads with South Carolina in the third quarter and led 35-32 with 3:37 left in the third after DeShields hit a pair of free throws.

After that, the game shifted in South Carolina’s favor.

Mitchell evened the score with a 3-point shot and gave South Carolina the lead the next possession with a layup. South Carolina went on 12-4 run and led 44-39 at the end of the third.

Tennessee didn’t have an answer for that spurt.

“I think when you have seniors who have

played a lot of basketball for us in a lot of tough environments, (close games) are familiar to them,” South Carolina coach Dawn Staley said. “I think we play our best basketball in the fourth quarter when the game is on the line.

“Fortunately for us, We got players who have been in these type of situations and they execute at the end of games.”

The opposite could be said about the Lady Vols. After they cut South Carolina’s lead to 46-43 in the fourth, they didn’t score for four minutes. Tina Roy hit a pair of 3-pointers to extend South Carolina’s lead to 56-45, sealing the win for the Gamecocks.

“We have been in every single game,” Andraya Carter said. “Every time we have lost it has been a close game or we either had a huge lead and blew it, or we had a ridiculous amount of turnovers. It’s kind of like we beat ourselves in every game that we lost.”

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Basketball sex case to go forward Langer wins PGA Chubb Classic Associated Press

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — A judge ruled Monday there that there was enough probable cause to proceed with charges against three Tennessee high school officials facing allegations they failed to report the sexual abuse of school basketball players by teammates.

Ooltewah High School basketball coach Andre Montgomery, assistant coach Karl Williams and athletic director Allard Nayadley each pleaded not guilty. The case now goes before a grand jury.

“Another court may determine they acted ... completely appropriate,” Hamilton County Juvenile Court Judge Robert Philyaw said.

“That’s not what I’m asked to do today. I’m asked to determine whether probable cause was met, and that’s the ruling of the court.”

The Hamilton County District Attorney’s Office filed an affidavit last week saying “four freshmen basketball players were subjected to assaultive behavior including but not limited to being struck with pool cues and also these four freshman basketball players were subjected to apparent sexual assault.”

The affidavit said one player required emergency surgery.

Gatlinburg Police charged three Ooltewah players with the aggravated rape of one player Dec. 22. The players charged haven’t been named because they’re juveniles. They have a hearing scheduled for March 15.

In its affidavit, the Hamilton County District Attorney’s Office noted that Tennessee law required the school officials to report any suspected child sexual abuse to the state Department of Children’s Services, the sheriff or police chief where the children reside or the juvenile court with jurisdiction over them.

The Ooltewah officials instead took the child to a hospital and contacted police in Sevier County, where the alleged incident took place.

Lawyers representing the school officials noted the ambiguity of the statute and said their clients were being unfairly singled out.

They also pointed out that most of the witnesses at Monday’s hearing said the Ooltewah officials had acted appropriately. Johnny Houston, the lawyer representing Williams, said his client was a volunteer coach who hadn’t received any training on who he needed to contact in this type of situation.

“I don’t think there’s any way you can find fault with these three men in how they reacted to a terrible situation at a Christmas tournament,” said Lee Davis, the lawyer representing Nayadley.

Associated Press

NAPLES, Fla. — Neither age nor a new putting style has caught up with Bernhard Langer.

And this weekend, neither did his PGA Tour Champions foes.

Langer won the Chubb Classic on Sunday for his 26th Champions Tour title, closing with a 1-over 73 for a three-stroke victory.

Seven strokes ahead after opening with rounds of 62 and 66, the 58-year-old German star finished at 15 under 201 at TwinEagles.

He also won in 2011 and 2013, was second in 2012 and tied for second in 2014.

Fred Couples had a 66 to finish second.

Rivals thought they caught a break when Langer had to change to non-anchored putting stroke this year.

The feeling was it would take him awhile to adjust.

It took him just three tournaments.

But Langer had concerns and that showed when he had 15 putters on the practice green this week.

“Whenever you make a drastic change or a change of some sort, you never know,” said

Langer, who used a long putter.

“I’m 58 now, so if you look at the statistics, a lot of guys don’t win when they’re near 60.

But I still think I have some good golf left in me and I’m glad the way I putted this week was probably better than I putted many weeks last year when I was anchored.

“That gives me hope that I can probably pursue with this style and still do very, very well.”

Langer completed his sixth wire-to-wire triumph. He’s second on the 50-and-over tour’s victory list, behind Hale Irwin (45) and Lee Trevino (29).

Using an approach of smart-aggressive, Langer went 1-over through his first 10 holes before getting a birdie on No. 11. He thought he made some solid shots early as he battled a 15-20 mph crosswind.

“I actually played extremely well starting off the first whatever, seven, eight holes, I hit a lot of quality golf shots,” he said.

Couples drew within two shots with a birdie on 17 and Langer’s bogey on 15.

“Well, I played pretty darn well,” Couples said. “I haven’t played in a little while and I hit the ball very, very solid the whole week.

“I needed obviously a better round yesterday, that’s what kind of killed me.”