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Issue 29, Volume 125

Haslam’s initiatives ‘Promise’ change in lottery scholarships McCord Pagan Copy Editor Starting in fall of 2015, students will begin cashing in on Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam’s “Promise.”

In tandem with Haslam’s proposed “ Tennessee Promise” program, an initiative slated to grant Tennessee high school graduates two free years of community college or technical school, the HOPE scholarship will also undergo transformation.

Once implemented, the proposal will guarantee all

qualifying students $3,000 a year during their freshmen and sophomore years, regardless of in-state academic institution attended.

Upon reaching their junior year, students will receive $5,000 a year, guaranteeing students who attend traditional universities a $16,000 cumulative scholarship. Moreover, HOPE will provide funding until the student has taken eight full-time semesters, or attempted 120 hours, whichever occurs last.

Currently, students receive a yearly $4,000 in

HOPE aid capped at 120 credit hours, a limit frequently met prematurely.

Community college and technical school students receive just $2,000 per year in HOPE dollars.

According to Tim Phelps, associate executive for grant and scholarship programs with the Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation, the adjustment isn’t solely meant to keep the “Promise” affordable and fiscally stable. It will serve as an appealing economic alternative for students not academically

prepared for a four-year university.

“By providing the same award amount for all entering freshmen, the less academically prepared student may be incentivized to attend the community college because of a lower cost,” Phelps said.

Announced at Haslam’s annual State of the State address on Feb. 3, Haslam proposed financing his “Promise” with roughly $300 million in excess Tennessee Lottery Fund money. Designed as a last dollar scholarship,

“Promise” will fund only the remaining balance after other financial aid has been applied, excluding Pell grants and loans.

In his address, Haslam called the remaining $110 million in lottery funds a “healthy” amount to continue support for traditional university students.

According to the “Tennessee Promise” website, the $300 million transfer will be supplemented by a $47 million authorized by the state legislature in 2013.

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SEE Stokes, Barton help Vols breeze past UGA, 67-48 Steven Cook Copy Editor

Up to Us campaign to illustrate national debt through giant cardboard box fort NEWS >>pg. 3

Olympic art exhibit brings slice of Sochi to McClung Museum

ARTS & CULTURE >>pg. 5

After a weekend of chaotic cancellations, Vols set to host Mountaineers

One Tennessee Volunteer had his coming out party about four months late. Another went on with his regularly scheduled parade.

Backup point guard Antonio Barton drilled four 3-pointers, Jarnell Stokes scored a predictable, game-high 20 points and Tennessee sprinted past Georgia, 67-48, on Tuesday night in Thompson-Boling Arena.

Barton has come off the bench in the Vols’ last seven games after freshman Darius Thompson took his starting job, but the senior proved to be UT’s hot hand from the outside Tuesday.

He buried four of the Vols’ six shots from beyond the arc to finish with 12 points and three assists.

The Memphis transfer has underperformed one too many times this season, leaving a gaping hole in the Vols’ lineup that head coach Cuonzo Martin was ecstatic to see filled — at least for a night.

“It takes us to another level,” Martin said, “because now you have five guys out there. Jeronne (Maymon) and Jarnell do what they do around the rim, you have three perimeter guys that can make shots and also have the ability to drive the basketball.

“It just takes you to another level.”

The Vols (16-10, 7-6 SEC) shot 47.2 percent on the night and were eventually able to distance themselves in a back-andforth first half thanks to Stokes’ early emergence. The junior forward hit his first four shots from the field en route to 13 first-half points.

Stokes finished nearly as hot

as he started, going 9-for-13 from the field with 20 points, 11 rebounds, three assists, three blocks and a steal.

The SEC’s leading rebounder made it clear how he wants to be recognized in the wake of one of his most balanced performances as a Vol. “I don’t want anyone saying I did a good job scoring the ball,” Stokes said of his stuffed stat sheet. “I want you to say I did a good job creating offense for the rest of my team.”

After the Vols’ loss at Missouri on Saturday in which Stokes went 6-for-7 but failed to see the ball down the stretch, it was all but understood the talented junior would see an added number of looks.

But according to Martin, that’s always the plan.

“The key is always to get him the ball,” Martin said. “It’s no different than any other game.

It’s just a combination of having better opportunities to feed him the ball but also him posting aggressively.”

Stokes received a resounding ovation from the crowd of 13,852 after subbing out with just more than a minute left after logging his 33rd career double-double.

The lead changed six times in the first 12 minutes of a back-andforth first half that UT eventually ended with a six-point lead. The Bulldogs (14-11, 8-5) quickly cut it to three early on in the second.

Then, a spread-it-out offense pointed the momentum in UT’s favor for the rest of the way. Five different Vols scored the team’s next five field goals throughout a 12-3 run that transformed a Tennessee junior forward Jarnell Stokes fights past 38-35 game into a 50-38 lead that defenders in the lane while putting up a layup in the looked to be impenetrable.

Vols’ 67-48 win over Georgia at Thompson-Boling Arena on Tuesday. Stokes finished with 20 points, 11 See BASKETBALL on Page 6 rebounds, three blocks and three assists.

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Unusual classes allow students to dance, drink, be merry Melodi Erdogan Managing Editor Next to the Mary Cox Auditorium in Alumni Memorial Building is a large, empty room unlike the adjacent lecture halls and classrooms filled with seats. This room boasts mirrored walls, a wooden floor and a surround sound system blaring Madonna’s “Like A Virgin.”

Here, social dance meets twice a week. A physical education class offered within the department of kinesiology, recreation and sport studies, the objective of social dance (PYED 235) is to “have fun with dance and show respect to your partner,” according to Hope Parks, social dance teacher and professor in kinesiology.

“A lot of times it starts out with logistics, like steps and footwork, and then from there we build on the attitude of the dance,” Parks said after one of her classes.

“At that point, that’s where it becomes fun; when you become confident and have fun with the attitude of things.”

While Parks calls out dance steps like “roll, pivot, step” to roughly 40 students in the Alumni Dancer’s Studio, neighboring professors discuss the importance of Greek philosophy during the Medieval Renaissance or the use of percentages in statistics.

Amid a catalog of typical courses, social dance and other classes like it are conspicuous. Even next to tennis and soccer, Parks admits the class is unusual.

“Putting dance in that category makes it stand out as unconventional when you’re looking at the undergraduate catalog,” Parks said.

Usually weighted at one or two credit hours, bowling (PYED 206), ice skating (PYED 213) and scuba diving (PYED 261) are just a sampling of the eccentric courses offered. Others include history of opera (MUCO 420) in musicology and history and culture of food (FDST 150) in world civilization, each counting as three credit hours.

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SGA launches two petitions responding to activity fee bills SPORTS >>pg. 6

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Effortless love in ‘Labor Day’ redeems otherwise anticlimactic storyline

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The Student Government Association launched two online petitions on Feb. 9 in response to Senate Bills 1608 and 2493. Both bills, written by State Sen. Stacey Campfield, R-Knoxville, would alter the way student activity fees are allocated at all public institutions of higher education in Tennessee on the basis that the current process is biased and unequal.

SB 1608 would divide and distribute student fees among student organizations based on the membership of the groups requesting funding for speakers and other programming.

On the other hand, SB 2493 would completely prohibit the use of institutional revenues for visiting or guest speakers.

The SGA petitions advocate for the retention of the current student fee distribution process, which allows students on the University Programs and Services Fee funding board to determine which groups and events recieve money from student fees; currently, 5 percent of student fees are used for programming.

One petition is open to all students and faculty at Tennessee Board of Regents schools, including state universities and community colleges and can be found on the SGA website. An additional petition open to the general public was created on change.org.

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OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — The FBI on Tuesday was helping investigate who tied a noose around the neck of a University of Mississippi statue of James Meredith, who, in 1962, became the first black student to enroll in the then all-white Southern college.

University police on Sunday morning found the rope noose and, on the statue’s face, a pre-2003 Georgia state flag with a Confederate battle symbol, said campus police Chief Calvin Sellers. Two men were seen near the statue early Sunday and investigators were looking at surveillance footage.

“It’s a racial hate crime,” Mississippi NAACP president Derrick Johnson said Tuesday after a news conference at the state Capitol in Jackson. “At what level do they get prosecuted? I don’t know.

But as long as we tolerate hate, we will continue to revisit history and the past of this state, and at some point we must move forward.”

In a statement , Chancellor Dan Jones condemned the action as contrary to the beliefs and values of the university community.

“ These individuals chose our university’s most visible symbol of unity and educational accessibility to express their dis agreement with our values,” Jones said. “Their ideas have no place here, and our response will be an even greater commitment to promoting the values that are engraved on the statue — Courage, Knowledge, Opportunity, and Perseverance.”

University police asked for the FBI’s help, said Deborah R. Madden, a spokeswoman for the Mississippi FBI office in Jackson.

About 150 Ole Miss students, black and white, rallied around the Meredith statue Tuesday to protest the vandalism, according to Charlie Mitchell, a journalism professor who attended the event. They held posters with several handwritten slogans, including, “Justice for AfricanAmericans,” ‘‘Respect the Students” and “This is Our University.” One poster said: “The actions done in the cowardly dark will never diminish the light of James Meredith’s legacy nor our creed.”

Johnson said there is a problem with Old South imagery at Ole Miss.

“You cannot have a university where, when you

turn down the main drag, it’s called Confederate Drive. ... At some point, we’re going to have to reverse course on the image of Ole Miss so we can reverse course on the image of the state of Mississippi,” he said.

The Ole Miss Alumni Association is offering at $25,000 reward for information leading to an arrest.

When Meredith tried to enter Ole Miss in fall 1962, Mississippi’s governor tried to stop him, and that led to violence on the Oxford campus. U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy sent 500 U.S. marshals to take control and days later, Meredith was allowed in the school.

Though he faced harassment during his time at the school, he graduated with a degree in political science Assistant to the Chancellor for Multicultural Affairs Don Cole reiterated the creed that the university stands by.

“This is particularly painful because the James Meredith statue has become a gathering place for students to discuss many things, including the tenets of our creed, which calls for dignity and respect for all people,” he said.

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IN SHORT Noose tied on Ole Miss integration statue

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Henry Fribourg, emeritus professor of plant sciences, hosts an informal author chat about his personal account of the Holocaust in France from his memoir, “Escape to Freedom,” on Feb. 12.

Beacon Flashbacks Feb. 19, 1975 In the 102nd issue of its 10th volume, The Daily Beacon reported that the Faculty Senate may study price limits for textbooks. The University Book and Supply Store’s then-textbook manager Mitch Borden suggested placing a monetary limit on the total price of the books required for one course to help combat the burden on students as textbook prices rise. The article reported some professors had mixed reviews, some in favor of the policy, and some very opposed to it for fear that it would infringe on their academic prerogative.

In September of 2013, The Daily Beacon reported that Jim Stovall, professor of journalism and electronic media, said when one considers what they get out of a good textbook, students are getting a good deal. Phillip Kravstov, CFO of PostYourBook.com, disagreed with Stovall and said that the many factors between the author of the textbook and when a student finally buys the book drives the price up. Krastov said everyone who touches the book marks the price higher to eventually make a profit.

This Beacon Flashback was compiled by Online Editor Samantha Smoak.

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

THE DAILY BEACON • 3 News Editor Hanna Lustig

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Victoria Brown Staff Writer UT’s Economics Club is in its final leg of involvement with the Up to Us Program, a nationwide campus campaign seeking to educate on economic and fiscal issues.

Members of UT’s Econ Club have worked to bring the campus a variety of events raising awareness regarding the federal budget as well as the long-term fiscal and economic outcomes.

Jessica TenBroeck, senior in economics, views her involvement with the Up to Us Campaign this year as a rewarding and informative experience.

“With economics as my major, I believed that I knew quite a bit about the national debt,” TenBroeck said.

“However, I have learned so

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Econ Club wraps up national debt awareness campaign much more while participating in this program.”

The Econ Club has prepared numerous events for the Up to Us Campaign, including conducting a federal budget simulator in conjunction with the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center and the Concord Coalition, painting the rock, and holding discussion panels with professors and senators.

UT’s campaign began Jan. 21 and will end Friday. The last four events of the campaign include a movie showing of “Inequality for All,” which was held Monday, the ongoing “Lift the Debt” campaign, a federal budget “Lift the Debt” is painted on the rock on Feb. 10 by the simulator to be held today Econ Club. The club will host a national debt budget simulation tonight where students will discuss and at the Howard H. Baker Jr. share their results on how they dealt with the budget.

Center, and “Fort Box,” a dis“Fort Box,” organized est event of the campaign. play to be held on Pedestrian Walkway Friday from 8 a.m.-4 in partnership with UT More than 5,000 boxes will Recycling, will be the larg- be used to create a box fort. p.m.

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The construction will visually represent the U.S. national debt as well as demonstrate the huge amount of recycling conducted by UT in the span of one month.

Kayla McMurry, senior in economics, said she is excited about the last week of events and interacting with UT students about these issues.

“During our last week, we hope to finish our campaign strongly and continue to educate students on the national debt,” McMurry said.

TenBroeck said her favorite part of the campaign has been the “Lift the Debt” event, a debt calculator based on student’s online submissions recording calories burned and weight lifted over the past five weeks.

“It is really fun to see the debt ‘disappear’ by tracking weight lifted and calories

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PROMISE

Tibetan monks put the finishing touches on a sand manadala on Feb. 11 at the UC. The sand mandala was officially finished on Feb. 14 and was shortly deconstructed after its completion, which symbolizes the impermanence of life.

continued from Page 1 The “Promise” is part of Gov. Haslam’s Drive to 55 Initiative, which seeks to help 55 percent of Tennessee residents acquire some form of secondary education certificate by 2025. Haslam cited only 32 percent of Tennesseans as currently meeting that standard.

The “Promise” is also expected to motivate high school guidance counselors to encourage students who would not otherwise further their education to enroll in the program.

Estimated to cost $34 million a year, “Promise” also accounts for an extra semester, given the 70 percent of high school graduates who will require remedial coursework.

burned,” TenBroeck said. “It’s amazing how much a person can lift in one gym session and then see how little that affects the national debt.”

Samuel Rule, junior in economics, participated in the Up to Us campaign this year.

“The campaign has had its challenges and barriers to cross here on campus,” Rule said, “but it’s definitely been a worthwhile opportunity for me.”

Rule said he believes the campaign succeeded in raising issues of national debt and economic problems on campus.

“Overall, I think our team put in a tireless effort and achieved these main campaign goals,” Rule said. “We have students talking about the issues, and that is what this campaign has been about.”

By providing a cheaper avenue for students to graduate from a four year university by way of community college, many expect a rise in transfer students coming to UT to finish their degree.

While Gina Stafford, vice president of communications and marketing, said it is “too soon to know” how the “Promise” will affect transfer rates at Knoxville, she stated all schools in the UT system will be studying the possible benefits and drawbacks of the change.

Phelps said the governor’s office does not anticipate fluctuations in enrollment at four year universities, only the stabilization of the HOPE’s fiscal health.

“The hope is that changes to the HOPE,” Phelps said, “will remove the disincentive for students to attend a two-year institution.”

Nun gets nearly 3 years in prison for nuke protest Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — An 84-year-old nun was sentenced Tuesday to nearly three years in prison for breaking into nuclear weapons complex and defacing a bunker holding bomb-grade uranium, a demonstration that exposed serious security flaws at the Tennessee plant.

Two other activists who broke into the facility with Megan Rice were sentenced to more than five years in prison, in part because they had much longer criminal histories.

Although officials claimed there was never any danger of the protesters reaching materials that could be detonated or made into a dirty bomb, the break-in raised questions about the safekeeping at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge. The facility holds the nation’s primary supply of

bomb-grade uranium and was known as the “Fort Knox of uranium.”

After the protest, the complex had to be shut down, security forces were re-trained and contractors were replaced.

In her closing statement, Rice asked the judge to sentence her to life in prison, even though sentencing guidelines called for about six years.

“Please have no leniency with me,” she said. “To remain in prison for the rest of my life would be the greatest gift you could give me.”

Rice, Greg Boertje-Obed (bohr-CHEE’ OH’-bed) and Michael Walli all said God was using them to raise awareness about nuclear weapons and they viewed their break-in as a miracle.

Their attorneys asked the judge to sentence them to time they had already served, about

nine months, because of their record of goodwill throughout their lives.

U.S. District Judge Amul Thapar said he was concerned they showed no remorse and he wanted the punishment to be a deterrent for other activists.

On July 28, 2012, the three activists cut through three fences before reaching a $548 million storage bunker. They hung banners, strung crime-scene tape and hammered off a small chunk of the fortress-like Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility, or HEUMF, inside the most secure part of complex.

They painted messages such as, “The fruit of justice is peace,” and splashed baby bottles of human blood on the bunker wall.

“The reason for the baby bottles was to represent that the blood of children is spilled by these weapons,” Boertje-Obed,

58, a house painter from Duluth, Minn., said at trial.

Although the protesters set off alarms, they were able to spend more than two hours inside the restricted area before they were caught.

When security finally arrived, guards found the three activists singing and offering to break bread with them. The protesters reportedly also offered to share a Bible, candles and white roses with the guards.

The Department of Energy’s inspector general wrote a scathing report on the security failures that allowed the activists to reach the bunker, and the security contractor was later fired.

Some government officials praised the activists for exposing the facility’s weaknesses. But prosecutors declined to show leniency, instead pursing serious felony charges.

At trial and during the sen-

tencing phase, prosecutors argued the intrusion was a serious security breach that continued to disrupt operations at the Y-12 complex even months later.

Attorneys for Rice and Walli, 65, both of Washington, D.C., said the protesters were engaged in a symbolic act meant to bring attention to America’s stockpile of nuclear weapons, which they view as both immoral and illegal under international law.

“What I’m hopeful for is that people really could appreciate what he did and why he did it and who he did it for. He did it for all of us,” Boertje-Obed’s wife, Michele Naar-Obed, said before the hearing.

Rice testified at trial that she was surprised the group made it all the way to the interior of the secured zone without being challenged and that plant operations were suspended.

“That stunned me,” she said.

“I can’t believe they shut down the whole place.”

They were found guilty on May 8, 2013, of sabotaging the plant and damaging federal property.

At the first part of the sentencing hearing three weeks ago, more than 100 supporters filled the courtroom and an overflow room where they watched the proceedings on a video feed.

Friends of the defendants testified to their good characters and kind hearts, saying the three had dedicated their lives to pursuing peace and serving the poor.

That hearing was abruptly shut down when the federal court house was closed because of snow, but not before U.S. District Judge Amul Thapar ruled the three had to pay combined restitution of nearly $53,000 for their actions.

About 75 supporters attended the sentencing hearing Tuesday.

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Wednesday, February 19, 2014 Editor-in-Chief R.J. Vogt

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America’s rite of passage is lame In Rare Forum by

Julie Mrozinski By the time you read this, I will be 21.

I will have glided across an arbitrary line in time that proves I’ve completed 21 cycles around the sun, achieving an effortless rite of passage.

Though I will not experience the typical steps considered to quantify as a rite of passage (separation, transition and reincorporation), I will have gained the right to reap the benefits of a status upgrade. By doing virtually nothing, I will gain the ability to enter into exclusive facilities with “adult” content: bars, liquor stores, nightclubs and smoking restaurants. But this is not all – now, I can legally buy intoxicating substances.

Although we pride ourselves for conquering primal hunter-gatherer lifestyles with warm houses in winter and food in the fridge, we have left behind all that went with them, including ritualistic life transitions. We kept clear distinctions of separation between childhood and adulthood in the past.

We don’t have our bodies tattooed or scarred, and we don’t venture out into the woods on our own. We don’t even go out to capture our own dinner.

I’m not voting to bring these things back, but I would rather accept my adulthood reward with the feeling that I deserved it.

And while the 21st birthday is not highlighted as a rite of passage by society in the traditional sense, adults will implicitly begin seeing me as an equal.

Everyone remembers being called a baby before turning 21. Once you’re allowed the freedom to roam if you want to, your ranking immediately jumps.

You’re now permitted everywhere, unlike dogs and shirtless, shoeless hippies.

Sure, when you’re 18 years old you can enter some clubs, vote, get a tattoo, and sign for yourself, but you’re still separated from some of America’s institutions.

If we return to the rite of passage steps – separation, transition and reincorporation – we can correlate the first and last into our cultural cohesion.

Before 21, I was separated from the older crowd of society, unable to frequent certain places. Then I was reincorporated into society when I turned 21 because my attendance was now permitted.

However, to make it past these two stages of passage, I simply continued to stay put while the earth circled around the sun.

Now, let’s take a deeper look at what our society is incorporating us with — alcohol.

You are allowed society’s privilege, the privilege of being publicly sloppy. You can now buy a substance that tampers with cognition, trips coordination and steals memories.

What kind of privilege is this really? Do “they” figure we are old enough to be stressed out enough over life to be given the privilege to forget it? Is this what we wait for? This – this is the 21st century American rite of passage into adulthood? Not that we went through the unendurable pain of getting our privates cut off to get a glimpse of the suffering of life, or that we went off alone into the woods for a week, becoming one with nature, or that we captured and served our own prey to feed the community.

No, our last truly significant age matters because we get to pretend we don’t matter for the night.

We do not have to prove our worth and gain respect from our society – just lose it.

Our society’s rite of passage requires no work at all.

No sacrificing, moments of life or death, no pain, just floating along a lazy river.

And at the end of your cruise through time, you’re allowed to drink some booze, move up in society, be considered an equal and leave your “baby” stage in the current.

Julie Mrozinski is a junior in English. She can be reached at jmrozins@utk.edu.

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Top: Students survive snow-day with zero casualties After a last-minute decision, students rejoiced during a snow day on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014. The extremely packable snow made for great snowballs and snowmen – and on occasion, snow artwork displaying the male anatomy. The fun and games, however, came nearly 50 years after a similar snowstorm left one UT student dead on Cumberland Avenue. Although UT officials kept school open on Feb. 1, 1965, 300-400 students still made their way to the Strip to sling snowballs just as they did last week. Stopped at a red light, produce truckdriver William Douglas Willet, Jr. responded to a student snowball attack with a single .22 pistol shot. The bullet killed Marnell Goodman, an 18-yearold student from Swampscott, Mass.

Eyewitnesses said Goodman was running away, but Willet claimed self-defense, citing students jerking his doors open and threatening to drag him from his vehicle.

Willet’s testimony matched the stories of other snowball victims, including a busdriver who said the horde of students broke a dozen bus windows. After a ground jury declined to indict Willet, then-UT President Andy Holt vowed to hold classes, even in blizzards, setting a potential precedent for the current administration’s reluctance to cancel classes.

Bottom: Legislators may condemn UT

Editor-in-Chief: R.J. Vogt Managing Editor: Melodi Erdogan Chief Copy Editor: Gage Arnold News Editor: Hanna Lustig Asst. News Editor: Emilee Lamb Sports Editor: Troy Provost-Heron Asst. Sports Editor: Dargan Southard Arts & Culture Editor: Claire Dodson Asst. Arts & Culture Editor: Cortney Roark Online Editor: Samantha Smoak

Top: Feels like 1980 In the 34 years since the U.S. beat the Soviet Union in the “Miracle on Ice,” a lot has changed. A certain wall in Berlin came down; Vladimir Putin rose to prominence; the Olympics began to allow professional athletes to compete. Despite all the changes in both global politics and the sport of ice hockey, however, Saturday’s match between the U.S. and Russia had all the crackling energy of a rematch. NHL stars like Alexander Ovechkin, Evgeni Malkin,

Bottom: Smells like Chaco spirit With Tuesday’s 60-degree weather and similarly warm weather forecasted through Saturday, many UT students are hunting through their closets to find the region’s definitive shoe – it’s Chaco time in Tennessee, at least for the next few days.

As pale piggy toes began to emerge from their confinement in Uggs and Bean Boats, however, a certain, unmistakable stench began to waft across campus. With Chacos come a sense of freedom from social expectations, but the liberation has its price. I wore mine Tuesday, and I think the guy next to me in my history class may have suffered. Fear not, fellow history buff – the weather looks to be a bit chillier and wetter Thursday, so I’ll probably put my feet back in my socks.

This week’s Rocky Tops and Bottoms was compiled by Editor-in-Chief, R.J. Vogt.

Poetry paves way to discussion on LGBT issues The Jeremaid by

Jeremy Brunger This Saturday I was chauffeured to Firefly Farms, the brainchild of UT professor Erin Smith, by a kindly man and his guest in a four-door sedan. Along the way I threw up — Valentine’s had been a lonely one — and spent a bit of time collecting myself when we reached the farm.

It is still a work in progress.

Remnants of fixtures lined parts of the gravel driveway as men whose names I did not know sought to repair the basement. The den and kitchen areas, however, were functional and chic in a hipster sort of way (this, here, is no insult) and the company was interesting, to say the least.

Over porridge and poetry we mem-

bers of the workshop wrote down stereotypes of the gay community and discussed them in detail. No topic was left untouched — from the pinnacles of queer theory to the fine details of pornographic representation, we vouchsafed our knowledge of the marginal and reworked our ideologies as they conformed to sometimes-grim realities.

The discussion leader was an adjunct professor and pagan who dressed as fancy as she talked, or as we all talked — we dismantled one certain stereotype in favor of that of the intellectual dandy. Several Ph.D.s sitting in a room together will do that.

I was most impressed by the ease with which people discoursed on sensitive topics. I was a perfect stranger to most in attendance, yet within a few minutes was talking about matters usually best left private. The rhythm of the generative discussion was circular — the woman sitting next to me was attending in lieu of her gay teenage daughter who had to be somewhere

else — and we all passed anecdotes to each other, built upon them, and delivered them anew.

Everyone had some involvement with literature or creative writing. I am a literature major myself. And it is only when immersed in a discussion like we had that one comes to value the insights gleaned and scoured from the depths of literature. The vast disseminations our species has heretofore put onto the page have a curious way of synthesizing: one somehow figures out how to talk about pornography because one can quote Michel Foucault or Judith Butler and come out all the more enlightened for it.

We will meet several times and will deliver to Knoxville a set of performances open to the public as we culminate our discussions. The date for that, UT student, is upcoming.

Jeremy Brunger is a senior in English. He can be reached at jbrunger@utk.edu.

Get Fuzzy • Darby Conley

Non Sequitur • Wiley

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administration Some people just don’t like to talk about sex. So much, in fact, that they don’t even want other people using their own money to have experts talk about sex. No talking dirty, period – or at least, that seems to be the stance of some state senators and representatives. And as UT’s Sex Week begins inviting students to events this week, UT’s administration may face condemnation from the legislature. That’s right – a bill is on the docket in Nashville, to be voted on within the next two weeks, that would officially condemn Chancellor Jimmy G. Cheek and President Joe DiPietro. What exactly does that mean? Will Chancellor Cheek have to wear a cone of shame?

Will Stacey Campfield himself affix a sign reading “I am condemned, kick me” to the back of President DiPietro? No one is yet certain, but UT students should fear severe and drastic results from this bill.

Patrick Kane and Jonathan Quick played for their countries in a fast-paced game that left the score knotted at 2-2 when the final buzzer sounded. There was no shortage of controversy after an American referee disallowed a Russian goal in the third period, claiming the net was off its moorings – many Russian sports critic have cried foul play, pointing to a video clip that shows Quick, the U.S. goalie, crashing into the post a few seconds before. Was it on purpose? Nobody could be certain, and with the score tied, a shootout ensued. Thanks to an Olympic rule that allows a team to send the same shooter more than once, the fate of America came down to the stick of T.J. Oshie – six times. He scored four of his attempts, netting the last after Quick stoned Ilya Kovalchuk. The game lacked the consequence of the “Miracle on Ice,” but none of its thrill.

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Wednesday, February 19, 2014

THE DAILY BEACON • 5 Arts & Culture Editor Claire Dodson

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Assistant Arts & Culture Editor Cortney Roark

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‘Labor Day’ shows believable love story, too much suspense Cortney Roark Assistant Arts & Culture Editor “Labor Day,� directed by Jason Reitman, shines the way a love story should shine, yet falls short of its dramatic potential as an escaped convict story.

Based on the novel by Joyce Maynard, this film tells the story of a depressed single mother, played by Kate Winslet, who falls in love with a prisoner on the run, Josh Brolin, while he hides away in her home.

Suspense is built from the opening scene through a lot – almost too much – of music. As Brolin’s character, Frank, makes his way to the car with Winslet’s Adele, their expressions, compounded by a dark score, prepare the audience for imminent drama.

But this suspense builds continuously, never reaching a climax. The majority of the film is comprised of

DANCE continued from Page 1 Seemingly unconventional in nature, history and culture of food does manage to retain elements of traditional education.

Amanda Bouldin, sophomore in global studies and French, is a current student in the class, now renamed “Eating Our Way Through World Civilizations� by professor Charles Sanft. “In some ways it is unconventional because we have an upcoming project to prepare a meal from before 1,500 C.E., and we learn a lot about specific foods people ate before that time,� Bouldin said. “However, it is a normal lecture class with clickers, and the conventional topics of early world civilizations are still discussed.�

Classes such as these can fulfill credit hours within a major, depending on focus, but most often are taken as electives by upperclassmen like Cade Thompson, senior in Spanish and international business. “It sounds like a lot of fun and I don’t know how to dance,� Thompson said of the social dance class. “I needed an elective, but it’s also kind of fun. It’s a lot more hands on.�

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somewhat uncomfortably long takes. Although the extended takes accurately portray the characters’ discomfort, they also lack dialogue. At times, the film becomes boring.

Yet, “Labor Day� is not without redemption; the use of flashbacks throughout separates it from typical love stories. The cinematography evident in these scenes is just right.

Until a little more than midway through the film, the audience has little idea who is present in these flashbacks.

Mysterious characters are shown in high-key lighting, a departure from the present day scenes that only adds mystery. The editing also keeps this mystery alive, using quick cuts and short takes before returning to present day.

Performances by Winslet and Brolin were another high point. Winslet’s

appearance consists of long, floral dresses and seemingly nonexistent makeup. With expressions sometimes suggesting a lack of will to live, Winslet completely gave in to her role as a depressed single mother .

Brolin, too, makes the perfect escaped convict/ gentle lover. Pairing a stern voice with a soft demeanor, Brolin makes the audience relate to his character on a personal level. The chemistry between Winslet and Brolin was effortless, to say the least. Although the two must fall in love in two days, their intimacy does not come across as forced or rushed. Winslet’s initially blank stare slowly turned into apparent longing for Brolin. Eventually, her eyes held a glow not yet seen by the audience.

Although this film could have been better, it can still go down in the books as a good, believable love story.

by dance, Parks believes, can help in areas beyond the dance studio and beyond college. “Usually many students come in here and they haven’t done ballroom before ‌ so approaching something that is new and to have confidence to do that and then confidence enough to do with another person, your partner, it filtrates into other areas,â€? she said. “A lot of the students are upperclassmen, so they’re doing interviews and things of that sort during the same time and they’ve told me, coming back, that what they gained most from this class was confidence.â€?

Candis Boyte, senior in sociology and student in social dance, appreciates the class for its interactive component. “You switch partners every three minutes and you have to introduce yourself,� Boyte said, “so it kind of helps you outside of dance because you become more social and more comfortable approaching people.�

Social dance requires both performance exams and written exams. A student is assigned to a partner, and within a minute, the duo must demonstrate knowledge of three dances. “It sounds nerve-wrack-

ing, but at that moment the purpose is to have fun with what you know,� Parks said. “It’s enough pressure and surprise, to have fun with it.�

Despite being outside her major, Bouldin “loves� the opportunity to take classes outside conventional curriculum. “It allows for an opportunity to learn something different and maybe find something new that really interests you,� Bouldin said. “It can change your perspective and make you a more well-rounded person.�

Parks hopes students leave her class with positive personal experiences similar to her own fond memories. “I’ve had students come back from vacations and say, ‘Oh my gosh, dance is like an international language because it’s so universal,’� Parks said. “Personally, I was in Ethiopia and danced chacha with a guy who was from Germany, in a little hole-in-the-wall in a great country in Africa. “That makes my heart happy to hear... (that students are) able to go out and be confident enough to approach someone and to enjoy it in a context that is different than this classroom.�

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The Art of Winter Olympics Sports, inside McClung Museum, displays sculptures made by R. Tait McKenzie (1867-1938) on Tuesday. McKenzie created nearly 400 works in his lifetime.

Winter Olympics sculptures on display at McClung Museum Contributor The Winter Olympics has come to Knoxville â&#x20AC;&#x201C; in the form of bronze sculptures.

The McClung Museum has pulled three pieces of artwork from storage in celebration of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

The three sculptures all feature some form of winter sport.

Combining his passion for art and sports, Robert Tait McKenzie, a former professor of physical education and a student of sports medicine, created the athletic sculptures. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was not an artist by profession,â&#x20AC;? said Debbie Woodiel, assistant director and museum educator at McClung Museum. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But his favorite avocation was art.â&#x20AC;?

McKenzieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sculptures captured the human body in action.

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Due to limited temporary gallery space, the exhibit will only be on view for a short amount of time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These kind of small, gem-like mini-exhibits that we do are a chance for everyone on campus to see something new out of our collection,â&#x20AC;? said Catherine Shteynberg, assistant curator and web and new media coordinator at McClung. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And of course itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the Winter Olympics and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be ending soon, so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of fun to get in the spirit by coming to see some art that has been inspired by winter sports. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As interesting as football and basketball are, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of fun to see athletes performing different sports and depictions of that as well.â&#x20AC;?

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6 • THE DAILY BEACON

Wednesday, February 19, 2014 Sports Editor Troy Provost-Heron

SPORTS

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Assistant Sports Editor Dargan Southard

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Barton finds his groove against Bulldogs Wade Rackley • Tennessee Athletics

Troy Provost-Heron Sports Editor As the game turned: With 14:25 remaining in the second half, a 3-pointer by sophomore forward Derek Reese pushed the Tennessee lead to 10 points.

Three bad possessions for the Vols, however, saw Georgia creep back to within seven and it seemed as if UT may be in for yet another nail-biter.

Antonio Barton had other ideas.

The following possession the senior guard drained a 3-pointer to push the Tennessee lead back up to double digits with 11:19 left in the game.

The Bulldogs only managed to get it within that margin for a split second, but another Barton three dashed Georgia’s chances of a comeback as the Vols cruised down the stretch to secure a 67-48 victory.

“Not only (were those shots) weight off my back, but it also took a lot of pressure off our bigs and off of Jordan (McRae).”

Barton said. “Jordan comes out and does a heck of a job scoring every night and guys double Jarnell (Stokes) a lot, so me hitting shots is something I have to do.”

Hot Topic: A Tennessee victory usually goes hand in hand with a big performance by Jordan McRae, especially at home.

Coming into Tuesday’s matchup, the senior guard averaged 21.2 points per game in the Vols’ 11 home victories.

McRae, however, didn’t light the Bulldogs up inside ThompsonBoling Arena.

Instead, he scored 11 points,

Tennessee senior guard Antonio Barton drives past Georgia defenders at Thompson-Boling Arena on Tuesday. The Vols beat the Bulldogs 67-48. his second lowest total in a home victory – he had nine against Morehead State, but also played in a season-low 19 minutes in that contest.

Fortunately for the Vols, the Midway, Ga., native’s offense wasn’t needed as Stokes dominated down low to the tune of 20 points and 11 rebounds – his 15th double-double of the season – and Barton snapped out his cold shooting spell.

His fellow teammates, however, were quick to admit the Bulldogs weren’t the ones to slow the All-SEC guard down.

“I don’t think they shut Jordan down,” Barton said. “He wasn’t as aggressive as he’s always been, but he saw that Jarnell was hot and so everyone wanted to feed him the ball. When he’s hot like that we just give him the ball. So I don’t think they shut him down.”

Spotlight: For Reese and Barton, Tuesday’s contest was the end of their troubles from beyond the arc.

Barton shot 4-of-7 from 3-point range, marking his first make from beyond the arc since the Vols’ road loss to Vanderbilt on Feb. 5.

It was also only the second time he had hit multiple threes in a game since UT’s victory at LSU on Jan. 7.

“When you work on your shot and you put the time into it – and he has put a lot of time into it – eventually those shots start to fall,” head coach Cuonzo Martin said. “I think that’s the biggest key for him (turning it around).

“If you don’t put the time into it, there is no need to be upset, but he puts the time into it so that’s probably why he wants those shots to fall and he shows emotion when they do.”

While Reese only shot 1-of-4 from beyond the arc, his one make was his first since Tennessee was defeated by Texas A&M on Jan. 11.

Although he still may be in a slump, Martin said he sees Reese

as somebody who can change the course of a game when he is hot. “(Derek) is not shooting as well as he is capable of shooting,” Martin said, “but he’s one of those guys that can rattle off four to five shots in a row from three so we just have to get him to where he has that confidence to consistently shoot the ball.”

The other guys: Guards J.J. Frazier and Kenny Gaines combined for 25 points on 9-of-15 shooting.

The rest of the Georgia squad shot just 8-for-35 (25.7 percent) from the floor.

Outside the box score: This was the only scheduled matchup between the Bulldogs and the Vols this year, marking the first time the teams won’t play each other twice in the regular season since 1962-63.

Say something: When asked about what Barton said as he stared at the court after he made his fourth 3-pointer of the night, Martin stated it was one simple word: “Amen.”

By the numbers 48: Georgia’s 48 points were the fewest allowed by Tennessee all season.

5: Charles Mann – Georgia’s leading scorer – scored five points. It was Mann’s secondlowest point total of the season.

16: Tennessee outscored the Bulldogs in the paint by 16 points. The Vols scored 34 points down low while UGA could only muster 18.

Up next: The Vols will look to avenge their heartbreaking 57-56 loss to Texas A&M on Jan. 11 as they travel to College Station, Texas, to take on the Aggies on Saturday at 3 p.m.

BASKETBALL continued from Page 1 Georgia would get the deficit back to single digits once more before Barton’s final 3-pointer made it a double-digit UT lead down the stretch.

Barton carried a ghastly shooting slump into Tuesday, only hitting three of his last 29 3-point attempts over his last nine games. But his coaches haven’t stopped telling him to put up shots, and it’s finally paying off.

“It felt kind of good,” Barton said. “They always tell me to keep shooting. I just knew it was going to fall one day or later. I’ve been putting up the shots. I was just waiting on the right time for them to fall.”

Kenny Gaines — one of Georgia’s two notable sophomore guards — got off to a highflying start with five of his team’s first seven points. J.J. Frazier had

10 points in the first half, and finished with a career-high 12 points.

The Bulldogs went 4-for-6 from long range in the first half before cooling off.

“I thought we did a poor job defending those 3-point shots in the first half,” Martin said, “especially on Frazier because he probably doesn’t look like it, but he makes some big shots and he shoots from deep.

“We just did a better job of getting up in those guys, trusting the scouting report and allowing your bigs to help you.”

It wasn’t just contesting shots that propelled the Vols to victory.

They also had seven blocks and seven steals as a team, pestering Georgia’s scorers all game long and giving the Vols some muchneeded momentum.

“Stuff like that as far as momentum plays,” UT junior guard Josh Richardson said, “big blocks, stuff like that, they put a flame under us a little bit.”

48 Georgia

Tennessee 67

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6-13 (.462)

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C. Mann 4

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BASEBALL

Vols prepare for quick turnaround against Appy State Dargan Southard Assistant Sports Editor

Despite a ruthless showing from Mother Nature that forced four unexpected changes to the Diamond Vols’ opening series, Tennessee head coach Dave Serrano was satisfied with just one more modification to the UT schedule.

His squad will now host Appalachian State (0-3) today at 3 p.m. in a contest the was

originally slated for Tuesday afternoon.

The move was made so Tennessee (3-0) would avoid playing four games in three days, a situation the third-year coach didn’t want to see transpire this early in the year.

“It’s tough to play four games in three days, and I don’t want to do anything to jeopardize the marathon of the season,” Serrano said on Sunday. “Luckily Appalachian State worked with us on that and now … the Wednesday will be like a Tuesday game to us

actually where it lines up the pitching well.”

UT will send Andy Cox to the mound in what will be his second outing of the year.

He threw two scoreless innings on Saturday, allowing just one hit in UT’s 20-2 shellacking of Purdue.

In 21 appearances last season, the sophomore lefty was 2-2 with a 5.29 earned run average, surrendering 53 hits and 33 runs (28 earned) in 47 2/3 innings of work. The Vols, however, were 4-2 in Cox’s six starts last year as the UT

offense produced at least five runs in three of those six outings.

With Serrano’s squad coming off a 31-run series against Purdue, solid run support could become the theme of today’s contest as well. Against the Boilermakers, UT hit .388 and slugged .505 as it cruised to an easy three-game sweep.

“It feels like we’re almost in mid-season form mentally,” right fielder Scott Price said after the Vols’ 8-2 victory on Monday. “It’s good to get out here every day and finally put

all the work that we’ve put in through the fall and through the early spring and finally let it turn out for us here in games.”

While UT enters this afternoon’s matchup on a tidal wave of confidence, the same cannot be said about Appalachian State. The Mountaineers were swept on the road by No. 25 Arkansas as the Razorbacks outscored Appalachian State 27-11 in the three-game series.

The Mountaineers won the Southern Conference championship in 2012 and were picked

to finished third this season by fellow SoCon coaches.

The conference’s head men also voted three Mountaineers as preseason all-conference members — senior outfielder Tyler Zupic garnered first-team honors while junior pitcher Jamie Nunn and sophomore outfielder Jaylin Davis were second-team selections.

Zupic and Davis hit a combined .136 (3-for-22) on the weekend, and Dunn only lasted three innings in his 2014 debut, allowing eight runs and eight hits with four walks.