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Monday, February 17, 2014

Issue 27, Volume 125

‘A really painful process’

Stress of freshman year leaves some students vulnerable to depression, suicide Emilee Lamb Assistant News Editor Depression often goes undetected. And, when it does, grave consequences can ensue.

In January, a male UT student was found dead on campus from what is believed to be suicide.

Although UT has released no official statement on the inci-

dent, the death was confirmed by an employee of the counseling center, a resident assistant and a campus minister.

The subsequent news of suicide by University of Pennsylvania freshman spurred questions about the psychological toll of the freshman experience.

Olivia Gross, sophomore

in social work, said her freshman year was filled with “hard” struggles relating to a long-distance relationship. Although her experiences were tied personal issues, Gross held that isolation among freshmen is a widespread and insidious problem.

“I think that a lot of freshmen struggle with loneliness,” Gross said, “and I think what makes it

even worse is that nobody lets on that they’re lonely, and they think that everyone else is having fun and they’re the only one that’s not, when in reality, a lot of people are sitting in their dorm room by themselves watching Netflix.”

While each psychologist views clinical depression differently, Dr. Sarah Park, coordinator of

the Stress Management Clinic at UT’s Student Counseling Center, suggested a link between this diagnosis and what she termed a “needing disorder.” In other words, depression arises when a person loses connection with the knowledge of what makes them happy or unhappy.

See RECAP on Page 6

See CINEMA STUDIES on Page 3

Matthew DeMaria • The Daily Beacon

‘The Elixir of Love’ opera displays more honesty as entertainment than an evening on the Strip ARTS & CULTURE >>pg. 3

Tennessee sophomore forward Bashaara Graves attempts a shot against the Kentucky Wildcats at Thompson-Boling Arena on Sunday. The Lady Vols lost to the No. 18-ranked Wildcats, 75-71.

Kentucky slips by Lady Vols down stretch, 75-71 Wildcats snap 29-year road losing skid to UT Patrick MacCoon Staff Writer

Opinion: last-second losses prove there’s no such thing as coincidence for Vols hoops this season SPORTS >>pg. 5

The No. 8 Lady Vols saw their six game win streak come to a close Sunday afternoon as the No. 18 Kentucky Wildcats beat UT at Thompson-Boling Arena, 75-71.

Despite solid contributions from post players Bashaara Graves and Isabelle Harrison, who combined for 40 points and 23 rebounds, Tennessee simply couldn’t hold on to the ball and execute when it needed to most.

Election Commission tightens rules for 2014 SGA campaigns Hayley Brundige Assistant Photo Editor

Turnovers betray the Lady Vols despite another dominate post performance SPORTS >>pg. 6

The Lady Vols (20-5, 9-3 SEC) had four of their 22 turnovers in the last six possessions of the game and were unable to get a shot up after they had a chance to tie with 5.4 seconds remaining in the game.

“Down the stretch we were throwing the ball away,” UT head coach Holy Warlick said. “We threw it away on transition, we had an illegal screen called and we threw it over our post players’ heads at one point.

“I’m sure (Kentucky’s) defense had something to do with it, but it had more to do with us not executing.”

While the Lady Vols shot 46.3 percent

In anticipation of the 2014 Student Government Association elections, several additions and modifications have been made to last year’s election packet.

The Election Commission, comprised of the current highest elected SGA officials and four additional students appointed by SGA President Jake Baker, met and targeted areas of the previous election packet they felt needed revision.

Before approval, the tentative 2014 packet was debated and voted on twice by the SGA senate. Although the Election Commission proposed the modifications, senators could reject any changes or add amendments.

The final product, a 42-page document, adds a cap to campaign finances and execu-

tive campaign members, alters the election season timeline and restricts self-promotion via social media.

Previously, campaigns were permitted to jointly spend $7,000 in cash and accept an unlimited number of donations. The new election packet stipulates that campaigns cannot spend more than $12,500, with a maximum of $5,000 in cash — a limit Baker said he believes reasonable and necessary.

Next year, Baker anticipates an even lower budget limit.

“Last year, Paige Atchley and I were able to win president and vice president with a campaign valued at approximately $2,500,” Baker said. “One of our opponents had a campaign valued at over $24,000. Election Commission agreed that our elections needed to be changed.”

See ELECTION on Page 2

Cortney Roark Asst. Arts & Culture Editor

from the field, they were just 1-of-5 on 3-point shot attempts and had three players commit five turnovers.

“They are very strong post players,” Kentucky senior forward DeNesha Stallworth said in reference to Graves and Harrison. “Their guards do a great job of looking for them. I think our guards did a great job on ball pressure, which helped us.

“We played tough in there and came out with a victory.”

See FRESHMEN on Page 2

INSIDE

ARTS & CULTURE >>pg. 3

Claire Dodson Arts & Culture Editor

“Maybe it’s just me, but I’d much rather be a poor filmmaker than a rich engineer.”

This is the mindset of Matt Miller, a junior hoping to change his major to the brand-new cinema studies program.

His reasoning reflects the filmmaking interests of UT students, and starting fall of 2014, those interests will be acknowledged with the interdisciplinary program.

While UT has had a cinema studies minor since the 80s, Charles Maland, J. Douglas Bruce professor of English, has spearheaded the effort to bring the major to campus because he says it will be “more practical to include a major with cinema history and production.”

Currently, the cinema studies minor includes courses spread across multiple departments, including the College of Communication and Information and the College of Arts and Sciences.

The new major will build on the minor, and students pursuing the minor will be able to count all of their cinema courses toward the major.

“We had talked about it but didn’t really have economic support,” Maland said. “A couple of years ago, Sam Swan in JREM and I started talking about it. We had always had some students who would’ve liked to major in cinema.

“We thought it would be nice for the students who really knew that’s the focus they wanted to have.”

As the way people make movies has changed, the “economic” aspect of filmmaking has changed. These changes have made it less expensive for UT to offer production classes.

“When courses were taught on 16 mil(limeter) film, the courses were expensive,” Maland said, “and it was hard to do production courses because you had to send out film for development. As we moved more and more to digital production, it’s gotten more efficient to teach those kinds of classes.”

SEE

Bijou audience could ask for a little more after Edwin McCain’s performance Saturday

UT officials to introduce new cinema studies major for fall 2014

Dates to

Remember

Feb. 21

Candidates must submit all petitions and qualification forms.

Feb. 23

March 31

Political signs may be staked in the ground on and off campus. First Campaign Value Report must be submitted.

April 2

Second CVR must be submitted.

April 2-3

Mandatory SGA kick-off meeting for every candidate. Campaign websites and social media sites may go public. Voting is online.

Feb. 24

April 3

Candidates may begin speaking engagements.

Election results announced at 6:30 p.m. in the UC Shiloh Room.

March 7

April 4

Ballot posted on SGA website (votesga.utk.edu).

Final CVR must be submitted. Campus clean-up day of all campaign materials.

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Andrew Berry, a Harvard professor in life science, gives an informal talk on Charles Darwin and evolution at the UC Auditorium on Feb. 11.

FRESHMEN continued from Page 1 “If you think about it, when you stop sort of tuning in to what you want and what you need, then you don’t know how to do things that make you feel good,” Park said. “I think that can be a big cause of depression is that disconnection from what you need and what you want.”

Park explained that while depression and anxiety can be exacerbated by any number of experiences, the college transition in particular thrusts young adults into an unfamiliar environment.

Such immediate freedom can lead to mental distress.

“I think a lot of times — not always — but home provided some sort of structure,” Park said. “Here all of the sudden nobody’s there to wake you up when you have an eight o’clock class. Nobody is there to stand over you and say, ‘No you have to finish this assignment.’

“College is a place where people are often figuring out who they are, and I think that can be a really painful process sometimes.”

A resident assistant in Morrill Hall stated housing employees are instructed to pay attention to mood changes following winter break, as seasonal depression grips many students during this time.

Sammy Alayli, an R.A. in North Carrick Hall and sophomore in biochemistry and cellular and molecular biology, expressed his belief that this gloom could be associated with the confined space of the college dorm room, with cold weather keeping many students indoors.

“Sleeping where you work and where you play and when you do everything in one room makes a huge difference,” Alayli said. “I found myself always wanting to leave my room and be somewhere else, just because I can’t stand being in one room for too long.”

Catherine Hester, female staff of Reformed University

Fellowship, affirmed Alayli’s claims, saying the weather can largely impact emotions.

“It’s also that time in between: it’s not the excitement of just starting, and it’s not the light at the end of the tunnel,” Hester said, “and so things can seem to be a little bit bogged down.”

Seemingly radical, Park regards thoughts of suicide as an ordinary response to distress.

“I think suicidal thoughts are pretty common,” Park said. “I think it’s a pretty human thing to think, ‘Hey this is pretty painful, I wish I could go to sleep and never wake up again.’”

Yet, Park encouraged students in distress to seek counseling, as this service can often aid in coping with depression and anxiety, regardless of perceived severity.

“I think the counseling center, if they’re involved here it’s one time a week that they at least have to come and see someone and check in,” Park said.

“There’s something about that, that another human is there.”

“If you think about it, when you stop sort of tuning in to what you want and what you need, then you don’t know how to do things that make you feel good,” Park said. “I think that can be a big cause of depression is that disconnection from what you need and what you want.”

Park explained that while depression and anxiety can be exacerbated by any number of experiences, the college transition in particular thrusts young adults into an unfamiliar environment.

Such immediate freedom can lead to mental distress.

“I think a lot of times — not always — but home provided some sort of structure,” Park said. “Here all of the sudden nobody’s there to wake you up when you have an eight o’clock class. Nobody is there to stand over you and say, ‘No you have to finish this assignment.’

“College is a place where people are often figuring out who they are, and I think that can be a really painful process sometimes.”

A resident assistant in Morrill Hall stated housing employees are instructed to pay attention to mood changes following winter break, as seasonal depression grips many students during this time.

Sammy Alayli, an R.A. in North Carrick Hall and sophomore in biochemistry and cellular and molecular biology, expressed his belief that this gloom could be associated with the confined space of the college dorm room, with cold weather keeping many students indoors.

“Sleeping where you work and where you play and when you do everything in one room makes a huge difference,” Alayli said. “I found myself always wanting to leave my room and be somewhere else, just because I can’t stand being in one room for too long.”

Catherine Hester, female staff of Reformed University Fellowship, affirmed Alayli’s claims, saying the weather can largely impact emotions.

“It’s also that time in between: it’s not the excitement of just starting, and it’s not the light at the end of the tunnel,” Hester said, “and so things can seem to be a little bit bogged down.”

Seemingly radical, Park regards thoughts of suicide as an ordinary response to dis-

tress.

“I think suicidal thoughts are pretty common,” Park said.

“I think it’s a pretty human thing to think, ‘Hey this is pretty painful, I wish I could go to sleep and never wake up again.’”

Yet, Park encouraged students in distress to seek counseling, as this service can often aid in coping with depression and anxiety, regardless of perceived severity.

“I think the counseling center, if they’re involved here it’s one time a week that they at least have to come and see someone and check in,” Park said. “There’s something about that, that another human is there.”

Lindsay Lee, another member of the Election Commission, said changes to the budget were motivated by the abuse of non-monetary donations.

“The sheer quantity of free stuff being handed out was taking away from the actual issues at hand,” Lee, senior in Spanish and math, said.

Lee added: “Also, if there is no cap, then campaigns feel as though they need to try to get as many donations as humanly possible and hopefully get more than the other campaigns. Getting donations distracts from other important parts of a student government campaign, like policy development and communication with voters.”

To track spending, campaigns must submit three Campaign Value Reports, a requirement carried over from the last election.

“Submitting CVRs with receipts is a pain, and Election Commission knows that,” Lee said. “But it’s important that we make sure the campaigns are fair and ethical, and keeping track of campaign finances is part of that.

“While it might be a pain for the campaigns, it’ll also help them stay more organized.”

The packet now accommodates a new position available on the ballot: Board of Trustees Representative.

While the Board of Trustees Representative must meet the same requirements as other elected officials, including a minimum 2.75 cumulative GPA, the student must also remain enrolled at UT for at least two years following election. This mandate is designed to ensure completion of the position’s two year service commitment.

In addition, the election

packet defines the 2014 campaigning timeline. Social media and website campaigning, for example, are restricted until Feb. 23, after petitions to run for office have officially been submitted. Partisan emails are prohibited until March 31.

Pre-election campaign rules are now more clearly defined, specifying that on- and off-campus campaigning is governed by the same restrictions detailed in the packet. Candidates will not be able to stake out political signs until March 31 at 7 a.m.

The locations of these signs must also be submitted to the Election Commission before any signs are posted.

Another change in the election packet involves the number of Executive Committee members on a campaign, defined by the packet as “a member of a political party with control, in part or in full, over the financial and ideological directions and decisions of the political party.”

In the 2013 race, campaigns were allowed to have unlimited Executive Committee members and General Campaign members. Now, campaigns are limited to submitting 20 Appendix K forms for executive members. However, there are no restrictions on filing Appendix L forms for general members.

“This year we didn’t think that was right because those people are just general campaign members, not ‘executive’ members,” Ryan Ray, senior in accounting and Election Commission member, said.

“We wanted some sort of delineation so people wouldn’t be able to just kind of file everyone that they know as an executive member and get a leg up.”

Any violations to the rules are filed as complaints to the Election Commissioner, John Keny, senior in political science, who presents them to the Ethics Committee. The committee then decides appropriate punishments.

Several ideas were left out of the packet, including converting the voting system to a ranked choice system. Still, Baker said he views the accepted alterations as significant improvements.

“We are really proud of the 2014 election packet,” Baker said. “We believe that all of the changes made this year will have a positive impact on the election and campaign process.”

To read the 2014 election packet in its entirety, visit sga. utk.edu.

Chelsea Clinton says gay rights have made progress Associated Press Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton said Sunday that the gay-rights cause made “incredible progress” on political and legal fronts in 2013, but progress should not be mistaken for success.

Clinton called lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues “the unfinished business of the 21st century” in an address at a national conference in Las Vegas where actress Ellen Page came out as gay days earlier in an emotional speech that’s stirred a

social media outpouring.

Clinton urged a crowd of 600 professionals who work with children to become more sensitive to the needs of LGBT youth, saying the deck is stacked against them because of bullying, rejection and other harassment.

“I’ve often been asked why issues of equality are so important to me. Frankly, I don’t know why they ask that question,” Clinton said. “This is about the premise and promise of our country. (It’s) always marching forward to a more perfect union.

I was raised in a family where

inertia is not an option.”

The Washington, D.C.-based Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s inaugural conference, which was designed to promote the safety and welfare of LGBT youth, honored Magic Johnson and his wife, Cookie, former ‘N Sync singer Lance Bass and writer Robin McHaelen for their support of gay rights.

The Johnsons’ son, E.J., who accepted the award on their behalf, praised his parents for giving him unconditional love after he revealed that he was gay.

During the three-day confer-

ence that ended Sunday, Betty DeGeneres, mother of Ellen DeGeneres, stressed the importance of parents in giving support to LGBT children, and Candace Gingrich, the openly gay half-sister of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, served as a moderator for a panel discussion about LGBT youth issues.

On Friday, Page, 26, whose role as a pregnant teenager in the 2007 film “Juno” won the hearts of moviegoers and earned her an Oscar nomination, came out as gay at the conference, saying, “I feel a personal obligation and

social responsibility” and that she was “tired of lying by omission.”

Clinton praised both Page and Jason Collins, the NBA player who announced he was gay after last season.

“Now others have followed his (Collins’) courageous example, and I hope later on this year, we’ll be cheering for the first openly gay player in the NFL,” Clinton said, referring to Missouri AllAmerican Michael Sam, who came out this month.

She noted how 17 states and Washington, D.C., recognize

same-sex marriage and how the U.S. Justice Department recently instructed all of its employees to give lawful same-sex marriages sweeping equal protection under the law in every program it administers.

“With all the incredible progress we had in 2013, it’s easy to think progress marks success,” she said. “We certainly shouldn’t take anything away from the historic victories in 2013 ... But we should not mistake progress for success. We need to continue to push for progress in communities, states and the country.”

Monday, February 17, 2014

THE DAILY BEACON • 3 Arts & Culture Editor Claire Dodson

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Assistant Arts & Culture Editor Cortney Roark

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Chelsea Faulkner Contributor

was mad in the first place.”

McCain ended the show with covers of Bob Marley’s “No Woman No Cry,” and Earth, Wind & Fire’s “Let’s Groove,” which brought the audience members to their feet, while some even danced in the aisles.

“Shows like this are definitely worth paying the twenty bucks,” Alex Reynolds, long time fan of the band, said.

“The talent is through the roof.”

Touring for 23 years, the Edwin McCain Band is a group of competent, talented and decently entertaining musicians with a solid following of dedicated fans, most knowing every word to each song played.

However, the concert flowed almost too smoothly at times, lending itself to the monotonous.

McCain’s two No. 1 hits, “I’ll Be” and “I Could Not Ask for More,” carried the show, while breezy 90s soft rock refrains and quick interludes of domestic humor filled in the remainder.

While not a life changer, Edwin McCain’s relaxing vibe made for a good evening.

Matt Cikovic • The Daily Beacon

With the group’s breezy melodies, stonewashed jeans and Kenny G-type saxophone solos, the Edwin McCain Band gave a performance that any lover of Dawson’s Creek and Doc Martens would relish Saturday night at the Bijou Theatre.

That being said, the group is comprised of five talented, seasoned musicians who effortlessly proved they have been playing together for an extended period of time.

McCain kicked off the concert with his sappy “Walk With You,” a song reminiscent of Bob Carlisle’s “Butterfly Kisses,” that he wrote about walking his daughter down the aisle some day in the future.

“Everyone thinks I sit around writing wedding songs ... and I do,” laughed McCain.

After the uncomfortably sentimental opener, the concert quickly picked up momentum with McCain’s more uptempo “Shooting Stars,” and “Gramercy Park Hotel,” in which saxophone player Craig Shields featured his proficient

abilities on five different types of saxophones.

“Saxophones are sexy,” McCain said. “Just say the word ‘saxophone’ and the temperature rises 5 degrees.”

Nearing the middle of the concert, McCain satiated his fans with competent performances of his two most famous songs “I Could Not Ask for More” and “I’ll Be,” receiving a standing ovation for both.

“OK, I played them. You guys are welcome to leave now.

I swear I won’t be offended,” McCain candidly joked.

Staying seated, however, the audience enjoyed five more songs, all similar in tone and tempo that, while decently enjoyable, were not memorable or particularly distinguishable from each other.

Oddly, McCain didn’t divulge any information on his writing process or the background of his songs. Instead, with a quick wit and charm, he kept the audience laughing in between numbers as he relayed the humor of his offstage, domestic lifestyle.

“Every time my wife gets mad at me, I just go on tour,” McCain joked. “When I get back, she’s forgotten why she

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Well, ‘I’ll Be’: Edwin McCain brings back 90s feel to Bijou

The Knoxville Opera presented “The Elixir of Love” on Feb. 14-16.

Knoxville Opera’s ‘Elixir of Love’ showcases why opera still matters d’amore,” centered on a classic love story. A country boy named Nemorino, sung to buffoonish perfection by Joshua Kohl, falls hopelessly in love with a wealthy landowner named Adina, sung by the sexily coy Stefania Dovhan. In order to woo her before she marries Sean Anderson’s dreadfully pompous Sergeant Belcore, Nemorino buys the titular “elixir of love” from Dr.

When Kohl sings a heartwrenching aria in the second act, the entertainment is intentional. The symphony We watch YouTube clips echoes his trailing melodies, and listen to Katy Perry the lighting shifts to a more singles, but judging by the somber blueish hue and the audience in the Tennessee stage empties so that his Theatre Friday night, our grief may have room. You generation does not, usually, don’t need a translation to go to the opera. tell you he’s broken-hearted I know this because I – you can hear it in the was there at the Tennessee tenor’s lament.

Theatre Friday night, excited When you see that lonely to see the Knoxville Opera heart at the bar drinkpresent Donizetti’s ing himself under the “The Elixir of Love.” table at Hanna’s or Considering the chasing freshmen girls Valentine’s Day timat Rumorz, you see the ing, the romantic comhave been to Tin Roof, same sadness. It just edy drew an unsurprissounds better sung. ingly large crowd. and I have been to the opera.

That’s the power of But as the lights But contrary to what you an opera – it exaggerwent down and the ates the reality around curtain opened, I may think, the two are not us so as to more deepcouldn’t help but so different – both provide a ly expose the reality notice the lack of stuof ourselves. It puts spectacle.” dent patrons. Sure, a score to the heartthere were a few breaks and an extrava-R. J. Vogt kids from the United gant costume on the Residence Hall’s livbackground characters ing and learning comof our lives; when munities scattered throughout, and I spotted Ducamara, a sketchy travel- Sergeant Belcore continually a handful of students from ing salesman sung by Rod fails to keep his troops from the Chancellor’s Honors Nelman. The elixir is actu- bumping into each other, it Program. The rest of the ally not an elixir at all – doesn’t make you laugh – audience struck me as decid- Nemorino simply gets drunk it tells you that you’re supedly more sophisticated than on Bordeaux wine, and the posed to.

I’ll probably keep watching the college-aged crowd you subsequent comedy drives the rest of the show.

YouTube clips and listening might have encountered that A guy relies on liquid courto Katy Perry singles, and same night at Tin Roof.

I have been to Tin Roof, age to talk to a seemingly I’ll certainly keep going to and I have been to the opera. unattainable girl? The story Tin Roof, but I hope I get a But contrary to what you may play out differently in chance to see another opera, may think, the two are not the bars on the Strip, but the too. “Elixir of Love” demonso different – both provide a central theme remains the strated things I encounter in same as it did when “Elixir real life, interpreted plainly spectacle.

Directed by Brian of Love” first hit the stage and expressed directly in a very fictional one.

Deedrick and conducted in 1832.

And the similarities run It’s honest entertainment,

by Brian Salesky, Friday’s through more than plotlines. the opera. performance of “L’Elisir

R.J. Vogt

Editor-in-Chief

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Singer-songwriter Edwin McCain performs at the Tennessee Theatre on Saturday. Mallary Hope served as the opening act.

CINEMA STUDIES continued from Page 1 With courses in cinema history, screenwriting and production, the major attempts to give students a broad education in cinema while preparing students to take their next steps if filmmaking is a career goal. And though cinema studies can be used as a student’s sole major, Maland said he encourages students to use it as a second major to flesh out their degree. “(Cinema studies) isn’t necessarily going to guarantee a job in the production side.

It’s a very competitive world,” Maland said. “That’s one reason why we thought about double majors because for those who are especially interested in production we’d actually encourage like the JREM

and a cinema studies major.

“I think the more courses you can have in actually making digital video, the more experience you get and the more flexibility you have in doing different kinds of it – news reporting, documentary making, fiction film – that’s going to enhance your chances.”

On a university level, having a cinema studies major speaks highly of UT’s academic programs, according to Paul Harrill, associate professor in the School of Art. “There are a lot of ways having a major like this is good to have at the flagship school in Tennessee,” Harrill said.

“The film and TV industry are a major part of the state’s economy. A lot of students don’t know know that there a ton of TV jobs; Knoxville is a major hub, thanks not only to

Scripps but to smaller companies making entertainment here.”

For Miller, the experience of filmmaking goes beyond getting a degree and a steady post-college job.

“There’s something about film and cinema that draws people in and being a part of creating something like that is pretty incredible,” Miller said.

“I think colleges have started to move away from what their students actually want to do and have been pushing them to study majors that will ‘help them get a job out of college.’

“Though that may be true, I think college is a time for students to find what they love and try to make a living at it.”

For students interested in the cinema studies major, an interest meeting will be held today at 3:30 p.m. in Hodges Library Room 253.

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Monday, February 17, 2014 Editor-in-Chief R.J. Vogt

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Letter to the Editor

Sex Week responds

The Tennessee state Legislature has proposed “a resolution condemning the administration of the University of Tennessee for permitting ‘Sex Week’ to be held on the UT-Knoxville campus.” In summary, the resolution expresses official “distress” over the “atrocious” program called Sex Week, which, according to the proposed resolution, “fits nowhere within the mission of the University of Tennessee, nor should it ever.”

On behalf of Sex Week, our student organization SEAT and our supporters, we would like to express disappointment in the state Legislature’s proposal and would like to offer an alternative perspective. There are facts that we cannot ignore. By the age of 22, 92 percent of Tennesseans are sexually active, according to the Kinsey Institute. While we make no effort to disrespect the decision that some have made to remain abstinent until marriage, we recognize that most have not.

Because we live in an abstinence-until-marriage education state, most students arrive at UT with insufficient knowledge to make healthy sexual decisions. Tennessee has some of the worst statistics in the country for sexual assault, STIs and unwanted pregnancies. SEAT and Sex Week are working to correct for a disparity in sex education on campus. The state Legislature may be “distressed” about Sex Week – we are equally distressed about the poor state of sexual health in Tennessee.

We are committed to comprehensive sex education.

Comprehensive sex education requires in-depth discussions about different sexual choices and the associated physical and mental health repercussions.

This exchange of knowledge must occur in a sexpositive manner, meaning we regard all consensual sexual activities as fundamentally healthy and embrace sexuality as primary to the human experience. This must include a conversation about pleasure because that’s a part of sexual health. Holistic sexual health has to be a respectful and positive approach to sex — inclusive of pleasure and safe practices and free of coercion, discrimination and violence.

Sex Week is not atrocious; we have a mission that serves an undeniable public health need.

The University of Tennessee, similarly to many of the nation’s universities, suffers from a sexual culture fraught with stigmatization resulting in dangerous silence on health issues, severe sexual and gender oppression and violence. While we understand that our titles and marketing devices, openness and audacity may be discomforting, we are far from atrocious.

We choose to give the benefit of the doubt to our state legislators and believe they have the capacity and compassion to understand the importance and need for comprehensive and positive sex education. It appears to us that the motivation behind this resolution is related more closely to politics and power than substantive reasoning or values.

Sex Week was built and is reevaluated regularly to contribute to the mission of UT. Like the university at large, we wish to “move forward the frontiers of human knowledge and enrich and elevate the citizens of the state of Tennessee, the nation, and the world.” Furthermore, a university is meant to function as a marketplace of ideas where thoughtful discussions can occur, and that includes important topics like sex and sexuality.

The resolution claims Sex Week “is an outrageous misuse of monies.” As the editor of this publication has already calculated, Sex Week uses, at most, 0.27 percent of student fees. We can specify – UT collected $17.6 million in student fees in 2013, so Sex Week actually costs less than 0.15 percent of all student fees.

Does preventing sexual assaults, unwanted pregnancies, and STIs not deserve 0.15 percent of student fees?

We’re sorry to be the ones to have to inform the legislators of this, but your children, your neighbors’ children and the college students of Tennessee are having sex. Someone has to stand up for their health, and Sex Week is willing to do so.

Unfortunately, the state is putting Sex Week and the university in a vulnerable position because of threats to cut the university’s budget. Sex education and conversations about sexuality are important on college campuses, and the state representatives must realize the need for this type of programming. We ask our supporters to please express your disappointment with the state legislators — call them, email them, write statements. If you do not, then Sex Week will suffer, the university will suffer, and the health of Tennesseans will suffer.

Brianna Rader and Jacob Clark are Co-Founders of SEAT and Sex Week. They are both seniors in College Scholars and can be reached at brader1@utk.edu and jclark91@utk.edu respectively.

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Why I’m OK with being bad at being a girl School of Sarcasm by

Kaila Curry It happened at work when one of the servers was flashing her engagement ring to me.

I asked if the wedding would be soon, and she said she had to sort some things out and then she told me, “It won’t be hard because every girl has their wedding planned out from when they are a little girl.”

She then proceeded to tell me the colors of her wedding – champagne and silver – and the dress she had had circled in a catalog since the seventh grade.

This was all news to me: that girls are supposed to have their weddings planned out before the guy even kneels down and pops the question. To be truthful, I had never really thought about it. I never put much thought into anything like this, whether it’s marriage or just what I’m wearing in an hour.

It was this occurrence that led me to the realization that I suck at being a girl.

As a little girl, my mom put my curls into braids and clothed me in pink frilly dresses, but to her disappointment she would find

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express emotion through crying because that would show weakness. They are told phrases such as “don’t be a girl,” “bros before hoes,” “don’t let a women run your life,” “be a jerk but not too much of a jerk because no one respects a ‘nice guy.’”

Girls are told to be eloquent, courteous and kind. We are told to be princesses waiting for the almighty man to rescue, marry and reproduce with us. We must idolize the women on the cover of magazines. When we eat more than usual we feel the need to make excuses for ourselves by saying, “I’ll start my diet tomorrow.” When we eat healthy we are accused of starving ourselves. There’s no winning.

The molds that society has made for us are too exclusive for anyone to fit in perfectly. When boys are told to not express emotions, they are led to express their feelings through anger and violence. When girls are given these unobtainable images of beauty, they are left with self-hatred for their bodies.

We cannot continue feeding into these gender roles that we’ve created for ourselves. I may suck at being a girl, but I am OK with it. When we realize that gender stereotypes are a scam we will all be better off.

Kaila Curry is a freshman in English.

She can be reached at kcurry6@utk.edu.

Find the feminist in you – we’re not as bad as you think Struggling to be Heard by

Andrea Richardson We really should all be feminists.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie said, “We should all be feminists.” But really? We should.

Come on. Come to our side. It’s cool. I promise that we do not hate men.

However, there are a few things about the society in which we live in that we could do without: There’s the pay gap, which is very truly real and not in some imaginary “meta sense.”

Some argue that this is because women gravitate towards lower paying jobs or that women don’t like money as much as men.

Yes, it’s true that there are more men present in higher-earning, STEM-related careers.

It’s also true that the STEM field has a history of exclusivity and sexual harassment, which is a plausible reason for a lack of women. It is not true that women dislike money.

What is most poignant is that when one controls for the specific job and qualifica-

tions, men make more money than women.

And specifically, as a black woman, the difference in wages is even wider for me.

Guess I’ll just have to pull myself up by my bootstraps, eh?

Then, there’s rape culture.

On this very campus, I’ve heard this said: “Sometimes, you’re both just out of it, and you don’t really know — she’s not really saying anything — but you just go for it because she probably wants it, you know?”

No, I really don’t know.

There’s the notion of “asking for it” and slut-shaming that runs amok in our culture.

If a woman is raped, the blame isn’t placed on her rapist but on her.

In this society, the burden of responsibility falls on the back of the victim rather than the perpetrator. Also, because of the patriarchal tropes of rape culture, there is often no room for the discussion of sexual assault in the LGBTQ community.

The pay gap and rape culture are only two of the injustices that feminists aim to deconstruct. We also strive for reproductive health, education and mental health — for everyone.

Many errantly synonymize feminism with misandry, but feminists don’t seek to subjugate or emasculate men. Feminists support the empowerment of all genders.

Being a feminist doesn’t mean you have

to burn your bra and divorce your husband and stop shaving. You can be a stay-at-home mother and still be a feminist. The main point is that you have the agency to choose what you want to do with your life, when historically women have often been denied this right.

I personally identify as a feminist for a plethora of reasons. One of them is that I know many men who refer to themselves as “men” but to women as “females.”

A female what? A female dog or snake or something?

That may seem small or petty, but I think it is a reflection of our cultural values. There are those who are truly persons with ambitions, dreams, ideas, and values and then there are just “females.”

Feminism, as with all things, has its flaws.

For a long time, feminist academics excluded the working class and women of color. Betty Frieden, author of “The Feminine Mystique,” was homophobic in some of her writings.

However, the many popular misconceptions of feminism are mostly untrue and derail important discussions.

We should all be feminists.

Andrea Richardson is a sophomore in anthropology. She can be aricha43@utk. edu.

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my hair tangled and the outfits covered in splatters of mud from playing with the neighborhood boys by the end of each day. I was signed up for ballet, tap and cheerleading, all of which led to my flat-out refusal to participate, at times even throwing myself on the floor to avoid going.

My mom finally accepted that I was a tomboy, and I’m accepting it too. I suppose I’m considered abnormal for lacking the desire to have kids. People say it will change when I get older, but I just don’t think I’m cut out for it. I don’t romanticize about my wedding. The most thought I’ve ever put into it would be if my husband would be offended if I didn’t wear the ring because quite honestly I hate the feeling of wearing them.

The thing is, I’m over making excuses about the way I am. I know I’m not the only who feels this way. The gender stereotypes that we have created for ourselves are a scam.

From early on we are told that you are either this way or that; there’s no inbetween.

According to Joe Ehrmann, former NFL player, coach and director of Coach for America, “there are three words that have become the most culturally destructive mandates in this culture.”

Be. A. Man. Boys are fed this lie of what it means to be a man. They’re told that they cannot

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Not a coincidence: Late-game choking defines Vols’ season Instead, they came out more than ever.

On Tuesday, Florida’s Scottie Wilbekin and Michael Frazier II nailed 3-point daggers that ousted the Vols with more than two minutes left and followed it up by going 5-of-6 from the line to clinch the win. Those freebies came after UT turned the ball over with a chance to take the lead.

On Saturday, Tennessee turned the ball over with 7.7 seconds left against Missouri, down three points, as Jabari Brown intercepted Maymon’s inbound pass to Jordan McRae. The Vols left Columbia, Mo., with another loss despite being in position to send it to overtime on a last-second shot.

The crunch-time problems do not just exist at the end of games. The Vols have shut down late in halves, too, as UT has turned many last-gasp possessions into points for the opposing team heading into halftime via careless turnovers.

In striking contrast to their late-game struggles, the Vols are also showing plenty of issues in closing out the season. Martin’s golden February record that the Tennessee athletic department totes like precious jewelry at this time of year is quickly turning to rust.

Starting on Feb. 1, 2014, the third-year Vols coach owned a glimmering 13-3 record at Tennessee in February. That was a big plus, considering the month is typically viewed as a make-or-break time for bubble teams. He was nearly able to squeak his first two teams into the Big Dance by finishing strong.

But so far this month, with a tournament appearance yet again very much in doubt, Martin is 2-3. He has as many losses midway through this

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Freshman pitcher Erin Gabriel throws a pitch in the Lady Vols’ 19-1 victory over the Tennessee State Tigers in Lee Stadium on April 2, 2013. Gabriel picked up two wins for Tennessee in the USF Tournament, only giving up two earned runs while striking out 13.

Lady Vols leave tourney undefeated, start 9-0 for fifth time in team history Staff Report The Lady Volunteer softball team continued its undefeated start to the season, going 5-0 this weekend in Tampa, Fla., at the USF Tournament to push the squad’s season record to 9-0.

In their doubleheader to kick off the tournament on Friday the Lady Vols were fueled by back-to-back shutout pitching performances from their top two pitchers, Ellen Renfroe and Erin Gabriel.

Renfroe took to the mound against the Pittsburgh Panthers to kick off the tourney and nearly delivered a no-hitter, as the Panthers failed to pick up their first hit until the seventh inning when Tori Nirschi reached first on a ball that deflected off Renfroe’s leg. The Clarksville, Tenn., native finished with a two-hitter, striking out 12, as Tennessee beat the Panthers, 5-0.

Gabriel followed up Renfroe’s performance with a gem of her own.

The sophomore pitched the best game of her UT career, striking out 11 while throwing her own two-hitter in five innings as the Lady Vols strolled to beat Binghamton, 10-0, in a run rule-shortened game. “You certainly like to see those zeroes because if the other team doesn’t score, they can’t win,� said co-head coach Karen Weekly following Tennessee’s victory over Binghamton in a university release. “I feel really confident in our pitching staff, and I know if we can keep them off the board, eventually our offense is going to come around.�

Saturday, however, proved to be a little more difficult for the Lady Vols.

Tennessee started the day off with a matchup against the USF Bulls and escaped with a close 3-2 victory.

With the Lady Vols down 2-1 in the top of the third, senior shortstop Madison Shipman crushed a two-run home run over the left field wall to put Tennessee up for good.

UT was able to hold that one-run lead due to the relief efforts of sophomore Rainey Gaffin, who made her second relief appearance of the year.

Gaffin delivered four shutout innings, striking out eight, en route to her second win of the season.

The second game in Saturday’s doubleheader came down to the last inning, where an eight-run explosion in the top of the seventh gave the Lady Vols a 10-0 victory over Illinois.

Freshman Annie Aldrete proved to be the driving force behind the offensive outburst, driving in all four of her RBIs in the seventh, including a two-run home run, the first of her career.

Renfroe also continued her dominance in the contest, fanning 12 over seven scoreless innings, allowing five hits, while picking up her fourth win of the season.

In her four appearances, the senior starting pitcher has yet to allow an earned run this season.

With four opponents down, Wright State was the only thing standing in between UT and an undefeated weekend.

The Lady Vols raked in double-digit runs for the third

time in the tournament as they cruised to a 10-2 win over the Raiders in five innings.

Junior Hannah Akamine went 2-for-3 with three RBIs, including a two-run home run, in her first career start at third base, while Aldrete finished with her second consecutive perfect day at the plate, going 3-for-3 with two doubles and two RBIs. Overall, UT hit .380 for the weekend and Tennessee pitchers combined for a 0.90 ERA in the tournament.

The victory over Wright State also marks only the fifth time Tennessee has started 9-0. “We planned to use these first nine games to look at our young pitching staff, evaluate our freshman and evaluate all the players in game situations,� cohead coach Ralph Weekly said in the release. “I liked the way both Erin Gabriel and Rainey Gaffin pitched - it really gives us depth there. It was equally nice that we only had to pitch Ellen Renfroe in four games and Cheyanne Tarango, who is our full-time first baseman, once.

Karen and I were also pleased with the way all of our freshmen performed in various game situations. They logged a lot of innings and we played as many as five at a time. “Most importantly, these nine games told us where we are as a softball team before we start the second part of our non-conference season. We were especially happy with the effort, attitude and chemistry.

We have lot of work to do and are anxious to get home, look at film and begin the process of improving.�

Merriam-Webster’s definition of “coincidence� is as follows: “a situation in which events happen at the same time in a way that is not planned or expected.�

Coincidences are harmless, innocent similarities. But when those unlikely events pile up one after another, and the unexpected transforms into expected, it becomes a problem.

Tennessee basketball’s late-game funk is an alarming, worrisome coincidenceturned-problem that may very well end up defining Cuonzo Martin’s tenure on Rocky Top if it keeps the Vols from the NCAA Tournament for a third straight year.

It began with a bang. Texas A&M stunned the Vols in their SEC home opener on Jan. 11 with a last-second 3-pointer to serve as one of UT’s worst losses this season.

Jeronne Maymon missed two free throws to give the Aggies a chance at the game-winning shot after UT blew a 14-point halftime lead.

Another late letdown came at Vanderbilt on Feb. 5, when UT guard Josh Richardson lost the ball on a potential game-tying drive and sealed another bad Vols loss.

This past week, with a big home game Tuesday against No. 3 Florida and a road test against Missouri, the Vols needed their late-game issues to go away quickly.

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UTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surfacing late-season issues are a microcosm of the Volsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; biggest struggle this season â&#x20AC;&#x201D; if the clock is ticking and the game is on the line, Tennessee is not making the winning play.

The Volsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; last-second problems were looked on as coincidences at one point, but that ship has long sailed.

Coincidences donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just happen in virtually every key moment during a teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s season. Coincidences donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t pile up over and over until a team with preseason Sweet 16 aspirations falls flat on a NCAA Tournament berth for a third straight year with so many opportunities late in the season to get in.

Sure, Martin still boasts a great record in February.

A 15-6 record in any crucial month is solid.

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SPORTS continued from Page 1 Graves scored 20 points (8-of-11 FG) and came up with seven of her team’s 37 rebounds.

“We knew our post game would be at an advantage against Kentucky, so we definitely wanted to go inside a lot and that’s what we kept doing,” Graves said. “Izzy was in there hitting shots, and I was hitting mine, and we just both happened to score 20 points.”

The scoring output from the Clarksville, Tenn., native was the highest she’s poured in since her 23-point outing in a win against Georgia Tech. on Nov. 17.

“I just came in this game and tried to play as hard as I can,” Graves said. “It really doesn’t matter how many points I score.”

UK head coach Matthew Mitchell and his team have now defeated three top 10 teams this season with the help of junior point guard Jennifer O’Neill and Stallworth.

O’Neill led scorers with 24 points, and Stallworth finished with 17 points, nine rebounds, four steals and two blocks.

Whenever the Lady Vols made an effort to fight back and take the lead near the end of the game, O’Neill answered right back.

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She scored six of her 11 second-half points in the final three minutes of the game as she hit a corner jump shot that banked in and found the bottom of the net on two pull-up jumpers.

“My coaches are being positive with me, but it’s more so my teammates,” O’Neill said.

“To stay consistent, it’s just a matter of coming out strong and playing for my teammates.”

The win for the Wildcats (19-6, 7-5) at ThompsonBoling Arena was their first since Jan. 23, 1985.

“The team believed in themselves today,” Mitchell said. “I’m happy whenever we haven’t done something in a long time. These players have worked really hard over the past few weeks in order to get to where they could win a game like this.”

The Lady Vols next game will be next Thursday at home against the Auburn Tigers.

With just four games until the SEC Tournament in Duluth, Ga., the Lady Vols will look to start a new win streak and possibly even clinch the SEC regular season title in their last game of the regular season against South Carolina, who sits atop the conference.

“We didn’t come out and defend very well,” Warlick said. “Kentucky came out and hit big shots. Defense wasn’t important today.”

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Staff Writer As the game turned: While the Wildcats held the lead for most of the night, the No. 8 Lady Vols made a 17-6 run in the second half that was capped off by a reverse layup from Cierra Burdick to give her team a 69-66 lead with 3:57 left to play. However, there was no slowing down the play of Kentucky point guard Jennifer O’Neill, even with defenders in her face.

With UK desperately needing to answer the run made

by Tennessee, O’Neill had one as she scored on three of her team’s next four possessions.

Her made jumper from the top of the key with 1:39 left to play gave Kentucky a 72-69 lead it would not look back on, as the Wildcats’ defense picked up their effort.

The Lady Vols had the opportunity to either tie or win the game with 5.4 seconds remaining, but Isabelle Harrison was unable to put up a shot as she had the inbounds pass knocked away from her by DeNesha Stallworth. The Wildcats recovered the deflection and hit two free throws to end the game.

Hot Topic: Turnovers.

Yet again this was the kryptonite for the Lady Vols as they turned the ball over 22 times in their 75-71 loss to Kentucky.

While the Lady Vols offense ranks first in the SEC, they continue to turn the ball over at rates that hurt any team’s chance of winning a game.

“I think we were trying too hard,” Warlick said. “I don’t know if we were pressing or what. It’s frustrating that we don’t get the opportunity to at least get a shot off at the end of the game.”

Spotlight: Once again the Lady Vols’ strong post play was on display as sophomore forward Bashaara Graves and junior forward Isabelle Harrison had big nights on the offensive side.

The two combined to shoot 16-of-29 from the court and each scored 20 points on the night for the first time all season.

“They are very tough post players,” Stallworth said. “We wanted to try and do our best to stand between them and the basket. We just played tough in there and came out with a victory.”

The Other Guys: While the clutch performance came from O’Neill, it was Stallworth that finished with the most impressive statistics: 17 points, nine rebounds, four steals and two blocks.

The two were a big part in

Tennessee junior center Isabelle Harrison attempts a layup against the Kentucky Wildcats at Thompson-Boling Arena on Sunday. The Lady Vols fell to the Wildcats, 75-71.

Kentucky picking up its first road win against Tennessee since Jan. 23, 1985.

Outside The Box Score: Both teams’ sported pink jerseys on Sunday afternoon in support of the fight against breast cancer in UT’s annual ‘Live Pink, Bleed Orange Game.’

Before the game Warlick presented former Lady Vol Suzanne Singleton, who played on Pat Summitt’s first four teams at UT from 1974-78, with a game ball.

Singleton is currently battling breast cancer.

Maria Cornelius, a breast cancer survivor as well as

longtime reporter of Lady Vols basketball, was also presented a pink game ball.

Say Something: Kentucky head coach Matthew Mitchell on the effect that Betty Jaynes, the first executive director of the Women’s Basketball Coaching Association who passed away last Monday, had on basketball: “The effort from both teams was a great tribute to Betty James who was a great giant in women’s basketball. We wouldn’t have a game if it weren’t for her contributions. She gave her life, heart and soul to women’s basketball.”

By The Numbers: 1: This game marked the first time all season that two Lady Vols have scored more than 20 points.

22: The number of turnovers the Lady Vols had against the Wildcats.

15,664: The announced attendance for the game.

Tennessee has now surpassed the 9 million mark in attendance for all games in program history.

Up Next: The Lady Vols face the Auburn Tigers on Thursday at 7 p.m. in Thompson-Boling Arena.

The game will be televised on CSS.