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Fiji cyclone kills six, leaves hundreds displaced

Republican Candidate Kasich defunds Planned Parenthood

Uber driver kills six in shooting spree

An out-of-control cyclone in Fiji killed six and destroyed several hundred homes this weekend. Approximately 80 percent of the 900 thousand people in the area are without power, but officials are scrambling to perform rescue operations and general clean up as well. 483 people were evacuated from their homes and 32 are currently staying in emergency shelters.

A declaration of state of natural disaster is still in effect in the area, allowing police officials to make arrests without warrants. The cyclone tore through the area reaching the speed of 177 miles per hour making it the strongest storm ever in the Southern Hemisphere.

Ohio Gov. and republican presidential candidate John Kasich signed a bill Sunday prohibiting the state from contracting for health services with any organization that performs or promotes abortions. This bill effectively blocks governments funds to Planned Parenthood.

Although Planned Parenthood isn’t explicitly named in the bill, the law will prevent more than $1 million in funding from the state health department from going to the nonprofit to fund programs such as HIV testing, health screenings and prevention of violence against women. Kasich has projected a more moderate image while campaigning, and his spokesperson said this move is consistent with Kasich’s interest in funding health services for expecting mothers and newborn babies.

A seven-hour shooting spree in Kalamazoo, Michigan that left six people dead and two others injured Saturday evening with the arrest of Uber driver Jason Brian Dalton. The 45-year-old was reportedly picking up customers and collecting fares between killings, according to passenger Matt Mellen who was driving with Dalton before his arrest. According to Uber officials, Dalton passed the mandatory background check from the company before being hired. The victims include a father and son shopping at a car dealership, as well as four people in a Cracker Barrel parking lot. Two others, a 14-yearold girl and a mother of three, are listed as being in critical condition.

St. Louis archbishop seeks to cut ties with Girl Scouts Associated Press

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ST. LOUIS — St. Louis Archbishop Robert Carlson is urging priests to sever ties with the Girl Scouts, saying the organization promotes values “incompatible” with Catholic teachings.

The open letter to priests, scout leaders and other Catholics was posted Thursday on the archdiocese website. It urges parishes that host Girl Scout meetings to consider alternative programs for girls that are more Catholic- or Christian-based.

“We must stop and ask ourselves — is Girl Scouts concerned with the total well-being of our young women? Does it do a good job forming the spiritual, emotional, and personal well-being of Catholic girls?” Carlson wrote.

The letter stops short of demanding an end to Girl Scout meetings at parishes, a common gathering site in the heavily Catholic St. Louis region. Brian Miller, executive director of the Catholic Youth Apostolate, said Friday that the letter is not meant to pressure priests into pushing out Girl Scouts.

“We’re asking parishes to evaluate and review what they can do to form the faith of young women,” Miller said.

Carlson’s letter said the archdiocese and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

have been investigating concerns about the Girl Scouts of the USA and the parent organization, the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, for several years.

Carlson worries that contraception and abortion rights are being promoted to Girl Scouts. The letter also said resources and social media “highlight and promote role models in conflict with Catholic values, such as Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan.”

Steinem, 81, is a feminist, journalist and political activist. Friedan, who died in 2006 at age 85, was a feminist and writer.

“In addition, recent concerns about GSUSA and their position on and inclusion of transgender and homosexual issues are proving problematic,” Carlson wrote.

Girl Scouts of the USA said in a statement that it “looks forward to extending our longstanding relationship with faith-based organizations, including the Catholic Church and Catholic communities, throughout the country.

As the pre-eminent leadership development organization for girls of every faith and background, we remain committed to building girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.”

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops began investigating the Girl Scouts of the USA in 2012, not long after lawmakers in Indiana and Alaska publicly called the Scouts into question, and after the organization was berated in

a series aired by a Catholic broadcast network.

The Archdiocese of St. Louis is particularly powerful in the region given that nearly a quarter of the area’s population — about 520,000 people — is Catholic.

Its leaders have never been shy about addressing politically and socially sensitive matters. During the 2004 presidential campaign, then-Archbishop Raymond Burke made national news when he said he would deny communion to Democratic candidate John Kerry, citing his stance on abortion.

Carlson asked each pastor at parishes where Girl Scout meetings occur to meet with troop leaders to review concerns “and discuss implementing alternative options for the formation of our girls.” He said several alternative organizations with Catholic or Christian backgrounds can be offered.

His letter also hinted at increased scrutiny of the Boy Scouts of America.

“While the new BSA leadership policy currently offers some protections to religious organizations, I continue to wonder in which direction this once-trusted organization is now headed,” he wrote.

In December, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, the nation’s second-largest Lutheran denomination, ended its official relationship with the Boy Scouts over the organization’s decision to allow openly gay Scout leaders.

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Monday, February 22, 2016 • The Daily Beacon

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Construction, parking make biking on campus difficult Alex Harward

Staff Writer

Bikes can frequently be seen as a popular mode of transportation on UT’s campus.

Students utilize regular road bikes, as well as the newly prevalent electric bicycles.

However, since the onset of the Student Union’s new policy regarding the use of wheeled or mechanical forms of transportation, bicycles have been prohibited from the Student Union and Panhellenic Building.

Ryan Forsthoffer, senior in economics, said maneuvering his bike to class became more challenging than just dealing with Knoxville’s hills when the SU posted signs limiting bike travel in the area. “(The sign) says that you have to walk bikes by construction, so there’s no point to even ride on that part of campus,” Forsthoffer said.

Forsthoffer also mentioned the obstructions by vehicles in some areas of campus that also limit bike riding.

“Biking may make it easier and faster for me to get to campus,” Forsthoffer said. “(But) it has become more difficult. I used

to ride in the bike lane by the library but people keep parking their cars there.”

Although bikes have been banned from certain areas, the SU policy did not stop some students, faculty and staff from joining forces to incorporate more bike racks on campus.

The initiative, begun by Chris Cherry, professor of civil engineering, would help keep the bike-parking situation under control while also promoting a greener campus.

Without enough racks, cyclists tend to park their bikes wherever they want, sometimes in inadequate places.

With the help of the Office of Sustainability, the team was able to install 70 new bike racks throughout campus in just over a year.

Still, not all students believe that the campus is a bike friendly environment.

Fern Carpenter, senior in communications and video production, believes that there isn’t really any place to ride a bike safely.

“The sidewalks are usually crowded,” Carpenter said. “So it forces you to ride on the street. On several occasions I’ve nearly been hit by a car or bus trying to get to class.”

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Biking may make it easier and faster for me to get to campus, (But) it has become more difficult. I used to ride in the bike lane by the library but people keep parking their cars there.”

Carpenter also noted that the risk of hitting someone with a bike is always an issue due to busy sidewalks.

UT’s website offers an interactive map with bike routes to make it easier for members of the university who utilize biking as their way of getting to class.

Ryan Forsthoffer, Senior in Economics

The map shows miles of bike routes along the Greenway and within the campus. It also allows bike riders to see construction zone areas, road closures, landscaping, sidewalk closures and surface parking.

To see the map firsthand visit http:// www.utk.edu/maps/.

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The Daily Beacon • Monday, February 22, 2016

Study proves that all-nighters can have negative consequences Heiler Meek

Contributor

Sleep can be taken for granted by American professionals and students alike. They work long hours and sometimes neglect the quality and duration of sleep to keep up with the demands of daily life.

“There have been nights when I haven’t gotten enough sleep and fell asleep in class. That caused me to miss some important notes during lecture,” said Ben Sweely, an undergraduate junior in the aerospace engineering major.

However, the harm of sleep deprivation goes far beyond short-term effects like accidental naps at work or oversleeping for class.

Ralph Lydic, a distinguished professor in UT’s Psychology and Anesthesiology Departments, delivered a lecture last Friday on sleep in the perspectives of modern medicine, neuroscience and society.

Professors, students and members of the Knoxville community gathered in the Thompson-Boling Arena Café to learn about sleep’s great importance to both human health and public safety.

Lydic revealed that lack of sleep is a huge issue in our country. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, about 70 million Americans suffer from chronic sleep problems. The National Sleep Foundation found that 33 percent of Americans get less than 6.5 hours of sleep per night.

Lydic explained that it was only recently that the great power of sleep to alter human physiology and biology was understood.

“You need sleep,” Lydic said. “Without sleep, you die.”

Sleep disorders, Lydic said, have high comorbidity with other diseases and disorders. He listed diabetes, stroke, anxiety, hypertension and other disorders as conditions whose likelihood increases with the presence of a sleep disorder.

Lydic cited insomnia and sleep apnea as the two most prominent and degenerate sleep disorders.

Additionally, he pointed out that sleep apnea affects 4 percent of adult males and 2 percent of adult females, deeming the disorder as more than just a “mere

nuisance.”

Lydic explained that people who suffer from sleep apnea stop breathing multiple times during a night’s sleep, which can cause fatigue during wake hours.

“It’s not just the snoring,” Lydic said.

“This is a life-threatening disorder.”

This poses danger not just for apneasuffering individuals, but also for the public. Lydic reported there were 212 million drivers in America in 2013, and there were 32,719 traffic fatalities that year. Ten percent of those 212 million drivers, Lydic said, reported having fallen asleep at the wheel.

The National Sleep Foundation found that the statistics for drivers putting themselves at risk of falling asleep at the wheel is much higher than Lydic predicted. According to its report, sixty percent of Americans confessed to having driven when sleepy.

Lydic equated drowsy driving to drunk driving. 17 consecutive hours of wakefulness causes a level of performance impairment equivalent to having a 0.05 blood alcohol content, which is the legal amount for intoxicated driving.

“If you’re fatigued and your blood alcohol content is high, the effects (on driving performance) are profound,” Lydic said.

Lydic said that physicians and researchers are actively trying to better understand and improve the symptoms of sleep disorders. To do this, he said, they must also consistently seek better understanding of how the human brain works.

“In neuroscience, mechanisms of the brain are important to understand,” Lydic said. “That’s how we intervene.

That’s how we make things better.”

Lydic’s lecture “Sleep: Neuroscience, Medicine, and Society” was presented as part of the UT Science Forum lecture series.

The talks are on Fridays from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. in Rooms C and D of the Thompson-Boling Arena Café. The lectures are followed by an opportunity for audience members to ask the speaker questions. Attendees are encouraged to bring a lunch to eat during the talk.

You can find more information about The UT Science Forum and a complete list of speakers for the semester at: http:// scienceforum.utk.edu/events/.

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Monday, February 22, 2016 • The Daily Beacon

Bela Fleck and Abagail Washburn performed at the Bijou Theatre on Saturday, Feb. 20.

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Grammy-winning folk duo bring authenticity, tradition to Bijou Elyse Kolbaba Contributor

What comes to mind when you recall past Grammy winners? Maybe it’s Taylor Swift or another one of Billboard’s top 100 pop singers; maybe it’s the type of large commercial venue where they typically perform.

Either way, you probably didn’t picture a Grammy winner performing in Knoxville’s Bijou Theatre.

However, this past weekend the Bijou was privileged to host Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn — this year’s Grammy winners for Best Folk Album. And believe me, there is not much more fascinating than two folk musicians sitting alongside seven banjos.

This sight may be slightly familiar to the Knoxville area but it was like nothing I have experienced before or could have anticipated.

Fleck and Washburn have quite the musical repertoire, playing several different types of songs — murder ballads, gospel and calland-response — while ending with bluegrass alongside clogging.

The married couple is what hipsters could only dream of becoming. They looked straight out of a thrift shop ready to take on the world, and contrary to popular banjo belief, there was not a dull moment during the performance.

There were points where the performers’ hands were moving so fast, I felt like I was watching someone fast forward through the performance.

Washburn’s powerful voice carried the concert through with eloquence and flair. Her range is so remarkable that at some points it

sounded like she could pull off a new genre of angelic folk-yodel. If anyone could do that, it would be Abigail Washburn.

Some highlights of the night include watching the clogging and learning about different banjo styles. The clogging was unanticipated but amusing to say the least.

Another perk of the concert was that Fleck explained the two very different styles of banjo playing which they were using.

Scruggs style, the technique used by Fleck, involves the thumb, pointer and middle finger rolling and alternating with the strings – a famous banjo technique adapted after the famous bluegrass player Earl Scruggs.

In contrast, Washburn was using the clawhammer banjo style famous among Africans who took the style to America during the time of slavery. This method involves a fingernail plucking style (hence the name clawhammer), which I’ve learned is frequently used in folk music.

Both of these playing styles, combined with bluegrass and folk music, create a special musical mix that represents the genre of Fleck and Washburn.

The duo is just about the coolest couple you will ever see. The musicians were asked to play in South Africa when Nelson Mandela was the first democratically elected president, frequently travel to China and recently won a Grammy.

Fleck and Washburn do what they love and only hope others see the value in it too.

The night was calm but enrapturing. Like nothing I’ve ever seen before (which is the appeal of these two). Fearlessly authentic— if only everyone could be like Fleck and Washburn.

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Opening up is not as easy as it sounds

Kimberly Bress Real World Problem Solving

Why don’t victims of sexual assault come forward and tell someone?

The only way to answer this question is by asking another: why is the response to cases of sexual assault so inadequate and unjust?

According to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, nearly one in five women will be sexually assaulted while attending a university in the United States. If this statistic holds true to our campus, there are 2,155 women at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville who may identify as victims of sexual assault upon their graduation. How then can it be true that only 24 cases of sexual assault (including both rape and fondling) were reported to UTPD in 2015? Does our campus radically defy the national statistic of perpetrated sexual assaults?

Are we as Volunteers somehow more compliant with the notion of consensual sex than other college campuses?

A scientific study performed by Texas A&M University pleads the contrary.

In an interview on National Public Radio, scientist Shankar Vedantam and economist Jason Lindo discussed the relationship between sexual violence and college football games. By analyzing 21 years’ worth of data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the researchers discovered a disturbing correlation between the reports of rape and college football games. For colleges with a Division I football team, such as ours, reports of rape increased by 41 percent after a home game. The researchers approximated that over 253 additional rapes occur per year when Division I football teams are playing at their respective universities.

“College outreach efforts to limit sexual violence need to focus on days the college football team is playing,” Vedantam said.

This statistical research highlights an undeniable link between an intense university football culture and sexual violence on college campuses. However, UT is already well aware of this dangerous relationship, as there is currently a federal lawsuit filed against its administration for the enabling of sexual assaults by student athletes.

The premise of the lawsuit, previously described in a telling expose by fellow columnist Thomas Carpenter, is the accusation that UT administration and the athletic department have inadequately and indifferently responded to allegations of sexual assault by members of the university’s football team.

Scrolling through the comments section of articles detailing the Title IX lawsuit provides a telling picture of the fallacies and arguments which are deployed to silence victims of sexual assault.

“Could somebody explain to these women that the right to due process trumps Title IX everytime (sic),” one reader wrote.

“Justice is a two edged sword,” another man wrote.

“The accused male students just happened to be athletes. Were the girls suspended from their activities until trial?”

Providing an adequate and just response to allegations of sexual assault does not violate the principle of

“due process.” Just like any other crime, the accused are assumed innocent until proven guilty. However, when little institutional support is provided to sexual assault victims and trials are held behind the closed doors of the university (rather than in front of a jury in a traditional court of law), the assumption of innocence becomes an assertion.

Even more disturbing is the athletic department’s strategic and exclusively defensive response to allegations of assault by student athletes. Despite the numerous indictments of university football players, there has been little effort to prevent or discourage future incidents. Offensive prevention is the only way to address sexual assault, and there appears to be no plan or playbook for this kind of action.

Besides advocating for “due process,” the online comments also reveal illogical and insensitive denial of the reality faced by victims of sexual assault. If the women who report a rape are also “suspended from their activities until trial,” why would they even consider reporting it? About 32 percent of all rapes are reported to police, with only two percent resolving in an actual conviction.

Considering these odds, a victim of sexual assault has little to gain from reporting her trauma. Reporting the incident requires a public admission of violation. If the victim runs in the same circles as the perpetrator, her social life and friendships will be put at risk, along with her reputation. She will be forced to recount the trauma over and over, facing audiences who will deny the assault, or worse, blame her for it.

Many victims wait weeks, months or years to report a sexual assault. It takes time to work up such courage, or move into a place where they feel safe. However, at that point, many are told that too much time has passed to take legitimate action. They are told they should not have dressed that way or drank that drink or gone to that party without a friend. They are told to bear the burden of their own trauma. Such is the case with the women suing UT, and the singer Kesha’s overruled request to be released from a contract binding her to a sexually abusive producer, along with the realities of thousands of college students who will experience a sexual assault on campus this year.

Why don’t victims of sexual assault come forward and tell someone? Maybe the answer to this question is that they *are* telling someone, but that someone isn’t doing anything about it.

If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, please visit the UT Counseling Center on the top floor of the Student Health Center, or call the university’s 24 hour anonymous referral line at 974-HELP. In addition, the National Sexual Assault Telephone Hotline can be reached at 800-656-4673. You don’t have to go though it alone.

Kimberly Bress is a sophomore in neuroscience. She can be reached at kbress@vols.utk.edu

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February weather got you feeling blue? Sob through your Monday morning with some of these sad songs.

“Everybody Hurts” REM

“Voices Carry” ‘Til Tuesday

“Leaving On a Jet Plane” John Denver

“Five Hundred Miles” Justin Timberlake, Carey Mulligan

“Fast Car” Tracy Chapman

“Let Down” Radiohead

“The Scientist” Coldplay

“River” Leon Bridges

“Fare Thee Well” Oscar Isaac & Marcus Mumford

“Blood”

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Monday, February 22, 2016 • The Daily Beacon

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New virus shows that preparation is key

David Garcia Public Scientist

It seems that every year we deal with a new disease capturing the headlines—and our fears.

Last year, Ebola was surely going to end the world. Before that, the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome seemed to be on the same path, and even before that, H1N1 was definitely going to bring the world to its knees.

And now the Zika virus has entered the forefront to hold the same attention as those long forgotten fears. It is more than likely that Zika will go the same way that all of the other worldending plagues did: it will simply fade away from the public limelight, thus only adding to the cycle of fear and forget. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

Zika is an interesting case, not so much because the disease is deadly, but because it attacks one of our primal fears: the safety of our children. The reality is that Zika poses little danger to the infected individual. But the possibility that it is the cause of the recent increase in children born with microcephaly is terrifying, to say the least.

When diseases such as Zika become well known, researchers and health officials rally to understand and help prevent the spread of the virus. The attention tends to be short-lived and is reactionary in almost all cases.

Recently, three members of the House of Representatives requested that money set aside for future research on Ebola instead be taken and used to combat the threat of Zika. It is an almost predictable and undoubtedly unwise move given

that new cases of Ebola have emerged as recently as January.

Certainly, part of the problem stems from our distance and relative security from the problem.

Even when large losses of life occur in the U.S., as was the case with the death toll of 12,000 during the H1N1 flu pandemic, our medical system keeps things well contained. As a result, fears of massive outbreaks tend to fall by the wayside very quickly, and there is little to no public pressure to force continued work on last year’s disease. Who even remembers what a prion is anymore?

Our forgetful nature allows effective treatments for diseases to be ignored or underused, giving an outbreak the chance to re-establish itself and cause problems once again. Our collective memory is not something we can really control, but our unmitigated collective fear has far reaching consequences that must be curtailed.

Short-lived attention spans are only part of the issue. As a group, scientists are in constant need of new sources of funding, if they are to keep their jobs. This often forces us to take safe routes and pursue research directions with the greatest bang for the funding agencies buck.

Our utilitarian funding practices often leaves us with an undeveloped knowledge on diseases that have relatively small but still devastating effects on the population.

In the case of Zika, the jury is still partially out as to whether or not it is actually causing microcephaly because there is little to no

research on the virus. This places a large burden on a small number of people to figure out a way to treat the virus for those already infected and go on the long journey of creating a vaccine for human beings.

Even related research on a close cousin of Zika, the yellow fever virus, has a very small amount of funding because it only kills about 40,000 people every year, and mostly in Africa. It is ridiculous to say we should have been funding yellow fever virus research from the beginning, but it is clear that we should have a much more open mind regarding research on diseases with relatively low human impact in the present.

To be fair, in recent years, the National Institutes of Health have promised to increase funding for the study of rare diseases. It comes a little late for the sufferers of Zika, but it should give us hope that a greater body of work may be ready for the next disease that comes our way.

As Zika runs out its course in the coming months and the world inevitably keeps turning, the most interesting story will not be the lack of new infections, but instead the actions we take once the disease has left the spotlight. Will it go the way of polio or get a second act, as Ebola is likely to? Only time will tell.

David Garcia is a first-year graduate student in energy science. He can be reached at dgarcia8@vols.utk.edu

A major can be more than just a preview for a career

Thomas Carpenter The Workshop

What’s a Classics major?

As I draw closer and closer to May 14, I’ve started to reflect on my time here and the impact my academics have had on me. UT has a lot of problems, some of which I’ve talked about in this column, but I will never regret making the decision to attend this university or picking the major that I did: Classics.

Like most freshmen, I came to UT undecided about my major. It’s a tough thing to do, deciding a major, because it dictates a lot of things.

It doesn’t determine everything, but it can certainly guide your life in one way or another.

My third semester of college, after taking a year of Latin, I decided to explore what else the Classics department had to offer. I enrolled in an Intro to Classical Civilization course. While the subject material itself was broad, as it covered ancient history from the Minoans (ca. 3,000 BCE) to the fall of the Roman Empire (ca. 476 BCE), I got a glimpse of a rich and complex civilization that existed long before the modern era. Later that same year, after taking two more courses in the department, I would declare

myself a Classics major. Since then, I’ve always felt it was the right choice to make. The classes were always challenging and captivating, mostly due to the incredible faculty. I always tell my friends to take classes in the Classics department if they have the option because I feel like it’s such a hidden gem that more people need to know about.

What drew me to the Classics major was the variety of subject material. Sure, a lot of it is history, but there is also language, art, architecture, philosophy, archaeology, gender and sexuality studies, military studies, ancient technology and so many other things. Much like Latin gave me skills other than just knowing a different language, Classics has taught me about humanity, specifically through the eyes of the ancients — a people arguably more tied to the earth than ourselves. As we move into the digital age, understanding humans at the rawest points in our history, as civilization dawned and societies were created, gives immense perspective to our collective existence as a species.

This is where my gratitude to all of my

Classics professors comes in. While I probably won’t pursue a formal Classics career any further than my undergraduate degree, my Classics education has given me a unique foundation to perceive life as I leave for the real world, mostly unsure of where my feet will take me. My Classics education will truly never end unless I let it. The enormity of Classics related literature, both primary and secondary, will last me until the day I die. I plan to take this knowledge of both the mistakes and accomplishments of the ancients and apply it to civilization as I experience it. So many people are unaware of the wisdom available to us from our ancestors that lived over two millennia ago.

So if you’re undecided as to what to study during your four years here at UT, consider a major in the Classics, or enroll in one of the many and varied classes at the very least. An understanding of ourselves is equally as valuable as understanding the physical world in which we live.

Thomas Carpenter is a senior in Classics. He can be reached at ThomasCarpenter@utk.edu

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The Daily Beacon • Monday, February 22, 2016

NEW MUSIC MONDAYS

The Record Company — “Give It Back To You�

Monster Truck—“Sittin’ Heavy�

Anticipation: 1.5/5 Rock and southern rock albums tend to lean towards hokey nowadays and Monster Truck sounds like that kind of band.

During: 3/5 When they said heavy, they meant it. All of these songs rock hard, but “The Enforcer� tears it up.

Reflection: 3.5/5 It’s rock, it’s metal, it’s southern rock and slightly grungy. These elements all come together to make it an authentic rock album.

If you miss grungy rock music as much as I do, then Monster Truck’s latest album, “Sittin’ Heavy� is the answer to your Kurt Cobain prayers.

These Canadian rockers aren’t kidding when they say their sound is heavy. The electric guitar riffs are forever raging and non-stop through songs like the wild rock anthem “Why Are You Not Rocking� and the fast-paced tune “The Enforcer.�

Lead vocalist Jon Harvey sounds like the perfect blend of member of rock royalty Lynyrd Skynyrd’s lead vocalist Johnny Van Zant and Nickelback’s gruff-voiced Chad Kroeger.

Though it’s clear this band’s main goal is to keep rock still rolling, “For The People� takes more of a Southern rock, country twist. This Lynrd Skynrd meets Alabama song blends sweet harmonies with a rocking electric guitar riff throughout the fun tune. And album closer “Enjoy The Time� takes a slower pace but still has a riff-heavy sound.

Showing another side to its music, Monster Truck slows it down on the bluesy, dark jam band song “Black Forest.� Then there’s the optimistic rock-heavy anthem “Things Get Better� to lighten the mood without lightening the sound.

These fellows are out to bring a heaviness that is missing in so much of today’s music and have completely succeeded on “Sittin’ Heavy.� Better yet, the band manages to blend hints of blues, metal and Southern rock into the mix without relying on them to morph their sound into something other than sincerely rock-heavy.

Anticipation: 2/5 Honestly, a total shot in the dark here.

During: 3/5 I haven’t heard a blues record like this in recent years. This album has such an authentic blues and early rock sound. You gotta listen to “Hard Day Coming Down.�

Reflection: 3.5/5 The lyrical content gets a bit lost in the rich sound of the record, but it is still an enjoyable find and full of bluesy gems to get you feelin’ good.

There’s something unmistakably cool about The Record Company’s debut album, “Give It Back To You.�

These rock ‘n rollers have resurrected a retro sound infused with a too cool blues meets boogiewoogie feel. This album will get you feeling like you’re on Beale Street in Memphis listening to the great James Lee Hooker croon over an electric guitar.

This band doesn’t hold back its retro sound on tunes like “On The Move� with lyrics that sound like something straight from a B.B. King tune and embody a funky sound. The song also features a rock guitar riff and blasting harmonica portions. Meanwhile, “Hard Day Coming� stands out from the rest of the bluesy bunch and sounds like an Elvis tune with a rock riff infused between a countyblues melody.

But The Record Company keeps it old school throughout the album on songs such as vinyl-sounding “The Mood For You� and “Turn Me Loose,� which admittedly sounds a whole lot like “Boom Boom� by John Lee Hooker.

The album title “Give It Back To You� is a perfect description of The Record Company’s music.

Its retro sound is fearlessly vintage and reminiscent of the hard-luck themed songs dating back to the very roots of rock and blues music. But the band reminds its listeners that the sounds of yesterday can still get people clapping and dancing along this day in age.

-Marina Waters, staff writer

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The Daily Beacon • Monday, February 22, 2016

Ice skaters join forces to battle cancer Michaela Roach Contributer

These people have more talent in their feet than I have in my entire body, I thought as I saw an ice skater twirl through the air.

Olympic Gold Medalist Scott Hamilton and 11 other Olympic or World Champions had the entire arena of the Civic Auditorium erupting, even over the sound of three-time Grammy Award winner Michael W. Smith’s live music.

These skaters came from countries around the world, including Russia, Wales and Japan, to perform this show to battle something which affects people around the world — cancer.

The performance was held as a fundraising event for the Provision CARES Foundation and the Scott Hamilton CARES Foundation.

Hamilton was inspired to create events like this, which fund research for cancer treatment and prevention, after his diagnosis of testicular cancer and his battle with two brain tumors.

Although the fundraiser only takes place once a year, the lighting, music and performances were all flawless. The arena had been converted into the most intimate and personal performance floor I have seen to date.

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The ice was not surrounded by glass, a safety wall or even a gate. Those lucky enough to sit in the front row experienced Olympic and World Champions skating just feet from their chairs.

Two-time US Champion Alissa Czisny in particular used this to her advantage, pushing the boundaries of her routine so the blade of her skate was merely inches from the edge of the arena, leaving the crowd in awe.

As the show continued, red, purple and blue lights swirled across the stage in fantastic patterns to the melody of Smith’s hit Christian songs. The skaters glided over the ice, making the most complicated of tricks and flips look simple.

US Champion Ryan Bradley was a crowd favorite, completing a backflip on the ice a total of three times. Couple skaters and two-time European Medalists Sinead and John Kerr also amazed the crowd as John lifted Sinead in the air, twirled her by both feet and supported her as she did a handstand on his legs while he was skating.

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by Hamilton, Smith and those 11 extremely talIce skaters performed in the Scott Hamilton and Friends on Ice event Saturday, ented skaters was inspiring. Hamilton hinted the performance would be returning again next Feb. 20 at the Knoxville Civic Coliseum. year, and I have every intention of being there. Tiara Holt • The Daily Beacon

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Members of UTK’s StudyBreak Cypher pose for a group photo before starting their practice session.

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SPORTS

Monday, February 22, 2016 • The Daily Beacon

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No Punter, no problem: Vols cruise past LSU, 81-65 Troy Provost-Heron Training Editor

Shembari Phillips was aware of the shoes he was going to be asked to fill.

With senior Kevin Punter Jr. out with a right ankle injury, the freshman would have to replace the nation’s 10th-leading scorer and start at point guard.

Phillips didn’t disappoint, tallying 13 points on 5-of-9 shooting, six rebounds and four assists to help Tennessee earn an 81-65 victory over LSU on Saturday in front of a season-high crowd of 19,721 inside Thompson-Boling Arena.

“I was focused, I was locked in to what I had to do today,” Phillips said. “I got to the gym early, got some shots up and worked out a little bit. I was focused the whole day and it paid off.”

Phillips wasn’t the only UT player to step up in Punter’s absence.

Junior guard Robert Hubbs III poured in a team-high 19 points. Senior forward Armani Moore recorded 17 points and 10 rebounds, his second consecutive double-double, and finished three assists shy of a triple-double.

“Honestly, we didn’t make a big deal out of (Punter not playing),” UT coach Rick Barnes said. “I said, ‘This is what we got and we got to go play and we have to believe in each other. We’ve got to play every possession and we’ll guard and we’ll find a way.’

That’s what we did.”

Freshman Ben Simmons, who didn’t start due to academic reasons, scored a game-high 21 points and Antonio Blakeney added 20.

LSU (16-11, 9-5 SEC) led for just three minutes, 10 seconds, the last of which came after a Blakeney three-pointer with 12:35 remaining.

Thirteen seconds later, though, senior guard Devon Baulkman answered with a three of his own that put the Vols (13-14, 6-8) up for good.

After taking the lead, UT limited the Tigers to just seven made shots in the final 12:22.

“We’re thinking really hard on defense,” Barnes said. “We’ve become a really good defensive team.”

The Vols shot 34.4 percent in the opening period themselves, but turned it around the second half with a 20-for-31 (64. 5 percent) frame.

UT built their lead to double digits within the first 2:59 of the half and managed to get up to as many as 19 points with 5:47 left

to play.

“We just said that we can’t let up,” Phillips said. “In the past, we have had leads going into halftime and (have) given them up. At halftime, we made it a point to not let up.

We came out, and I was glad we were able to push the lead up a little bit and not get complacent.”

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I said, ‘This is what we got and we got to go play and we have to believe in each other.

We’ve got to play every possession and we’ll guard and we’ll find a way.’ That’s what we did.”

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and Jalyn Patterson trimmed UT’s lead down to 11 with 2:31 remaining, but the Vols held them off from there.

The victory gives UT a 4-1 mark against the top four teams in the SEC — Kentucky, LSU, South Carolina and Florida. The Vols also own a 2-3 record against Missouri, Auburn, Mississippi State and Arkansas, the bottom four teams in the conference.

In those previous wins, Punter has had a large role, averaging 29.7 points per game.

However, a lack of support has attributed to those losses.

On Saturday, though, Punter’s supporting cast was more than enough to lead UT to victory. “(Tonight) just shows our potential of what we can be,” Phillips said. “Beating a team like LSU, who is second in our league right now, just shows that if we play like we like we did tonight with KP, the sky is the limit for what we can do.”

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Hubbs’ big game bolsters Vols in blowout win Taylor White

Assistant Sports Editor

Robert Hubbs has been a mystery this season for the Tennessee basketball team, and that mystery continued on Saturday night.

The junior combined for six points in the Vols’ last two games, just after exploding for a career-high 20 in a win over Auburn. Tennessee got the Hubbs it needed on Saturday, as he scored 19 points and grabbed seven boards in an 81-65 win over LSU, the second-place team in the SEC. “I love the kid, but he’s a frustrating kid to coach,” Tennessee coach Rick Barnes said.

“Before he’s done here, I’m going to figure him out. I promise you that. Or he’s going to kill me, or I’m going to kill him. I’m going to figure him out. He’s too good a kid not to help him figure it out. He’s too talented.”

Tennessee (13-14, 6-8 SEC) was forced to play without Kevin Punter and the 22.2 points per game he brings to the game, as the senior sat out with an ankle injury. Hubbs picked up that slack, and he did it by attacking the rim.

The 6-foot-4 guard has turned into a low post threat for the Vols, with the limited number of big men that Barnes has to work with. He opened the game with a turnaround jump shot down low, and attacked the rim from there, finishing several of his shots with emphatic dunks down the lane.

“With (Punter) down, guys needed to step up,” Hubbs said. “We just needed to be aggressive and take our shots. We just had to play defense, get rebounds and just play as a team … We knew that with (Punter) down, we were going to have to be overly aggressive.

“He’s our leading scorer, so somebody was going to have to step up.”

Scoring wasn’t the only area that Hubbs produced in, as the New Bern native grabbed seven rebounds againsts the Tigers (16-11, 9-5), a team that boasted three players 6-foot-6 or taller in the starting lineup.

He was the second leading rebounder on the team, just three behind Armani Moore who grabbed 10. He also dished out two assists and grabbed a steal in a career-high tying 36 minutes, showing why the talented player has caused so much frustration at times this year.

“I told Hubbs the night before the game,”

Moore said. “We’re going to need him to be big tonight. He’s great around the rim because of his athletic ability. He can jump over guys and shoot the ball. I think he had seven boards, also.

If he can do that consistently, then I think we can be a great team.”

The Ben Simmons’ show: Highly-touted freshman Ben Simmons has been labeled as a potential No. 1 draft pick since before he stepped foot on the LSU campus, but fans had to wait longer than usual to get a look at the 6-foot-10 forward.

Simmons came off the bench for the first time in his collegiate career, due to an academic issue. He checked in four minutes into the game. He didn’t leave the court again, as he played the remaining 36 minutes at an up-anddown level.

He scored a game-high 21 points, making the most difficult shots look effortless, but the Australia native struggled to hang onto the ball, committing eight turnovers. When a player of that caliber comes into town, it takes a team effort to try and defend him.

“Five guys guard him is what we wanted,” Barnes said. “He’s a terrific passer and we wanted to fill up the lane and try to take up as

much space from him as we could. We were ready to double-team him more.”

Simmons has been dealing with a finger injury on his shooting hand that has clearly been bothering him, and he played the game with a splint on that finger. He shot just 3-of-7 from the free throw line, but pulled down nine rebounds and dished two assists in the loss.

He got the majority of those 21 points by himself, as LSU didn’t appear to run many plays designed to get him the ball. Tennessee’s physical defense also left him visibly frustrated at times, as he picked up four fouls on the game.

“He’s a unique player,” Moore said. “You don’t necessarily have to run offense for the guy. I think one of his best talents is being able to pass the ball … we just said that we have to defend him and make sure that we don’t let him get out in transition and create for his teammates.”

The other guys: Antonio Blakeley scored 20 points and grabbed seven rebounds for the Tigers, shooting 8-of-15 from the field. Outside of Simmons, Blakeley was the only LSU player to reach double figures. Jalyn Patterson was the next highest with seven points.