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A LOOK AT BOXING WEEKEND 2015

What the legalization of marijuana in D.C. REALLY means >>See page 7

Kacey Musgraves brings “astoundingly fresh” sound to Tennessee Theatre >>See page 5

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Seniors lead Lady Vols past Vanderbilt 79-49 Taylor White

Assistant Sports Editor (@T_Dub98) Three seniors were honored before the No. 6 Lady Vols’ contest with in-state rival Vanderbilt.

With Isabelle Harrison out for the season with a torn ACL, that left only Ariel Massengale and Cierra Burdick in the lineup for Tennessee.

The duo made the most of senior night in Thompson-Boling Arena, as they combined for 38 points to lead the Lady Vols to a 79-49 rout of the Commodores in Tennessee’s regular season finale.

“I wish every night was senior night,” head coach Holly Warlick said. “We just did some great things, and it was a great team effort. We played hard, and we were tough down the stretch … I’m really proud of the effort of the whole team.”

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Massengale opened the game with a three from the left wing, and never slowed down, scoring her team’s first 11 points of the contest on her way to 26 total points.

The senior tied a school record for triples, set by former Lady Vol Meighan Simmons, by hitting 8-of-11 shots from behind the 3-point line, passing her career high of six.

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SGA to host annual open forum with Chancellor Cheek Hannah Marley Staff Writer The chancellor will see you now.

Monday evening, UT students will have the chance to ask questions and voice their concerns to Chancellor Jimmy Cheek during Cheek Speak, an event put on by the Student Government Association Government Affairs Committee every semester. The event will take place at the Howard H. Baker Center starting at 5 p.m.

For Greg Butcher, a second-year member of the Government Affairs Committee and a sophomore in marketing, Cheek Speak represents the primary goal of SGA: connecting students to the university.

“It is important to SGA because a part of our goal is to foster communication between the students and the administration,” Butcher said. “As student leaders, we get a lot of direct access to the administration to ask our questions. It’s very important that we also make opportunities like that available to the rest of the student body.”

Jared Eisenhower, fifth year in architecture, plays kickball with other architecture students for the College of Architecture and Design’s TAAST week.

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While Cheek Speak is an opportunity for students to learn more about the administration and decisions made regarding the university, it can also serve as a way for administrators to keep in touch with the thoughts and feelings of students.

Kelsey Keny, the president of SGA and senior in journalism and electronic media, said the purpose behind Cheek Speak is to provide an environment for open communication on both ends.

“On the flip-side, it allows administrators to hear how students feel about things happening at UT, which they can use in consideration of their decisions,” Keny said. “Increasing opportunities for that two way street of communication between students and administrators is the point behind Cheek Speak.”

For Butcher, knowing that the chancellor is open and willing to connect with students is the biggest benefit from hosting similar events every semester.

“I hope that the students that come to this event can take that away that we do have a chancellor that cares,” he said. “He may not always give the answer that the students want, but he always gives an answer.”

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Forum triggers reflection on ISIS-Western world relationship Hannah Marley Staff Writer In a round-table discussion held Thursday night, a small group of students had the opportunity to voice their thoughts and concerns about the terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and speculate about the motives and ideology behind their attacks.

Rebecca Harman, a graduate assistant with the Office of National Scholarships and Fellowships that coordinated the event, said she wanted to offer an environment for students to openly discuss global issues.

“It really felt like with what’s happening in the world with ISIS that there was a need to discuss,” Harman said. “The students we were

advising were bewildered that they couldn’t communicate freely in any peer group about the political situation, about the violence, about the ideology, about ISIS in general.”

The hour-long conversation was unstructured and open for debate. Students voiced their opinions on the role Islam plays in ISIS’ ideology, potential reasons for its appeal in Western countries and the extent to which the United States is responsible for the social and political climate that has allowed ISIS to grow.

For Summer Awad, a Palestinian-American and sophomore in College Scholars, the most noteworthy topics of discussion centered around recognizing the inherent complexity and diversity of the region and the problems it continues to encounter.

“I think just discussing the fact that ISIS is not necessarily representative of Islam in

general and that we should view the Middle East as more than just the Middle East, but we should view it in terms of different countries and peoples, and different conflicts that have gone on historically is important,” Awad said.

“Looking at it as more than just a monolithic region.”

While the round table was generally focused on ISIS, discussing the terrorist group and the role of the U.S. in combating it led to a short but relevant discussion of how Americans perceive the US and its actions overseas. The majority of students spoke critically about the idea that America is somehow inherently justified in its motives and actions concerning the Middle East.

For Awad, listening to others and attempting to remove our own biases when considering global issues is an important step in mov-

ing away from American exceptionalism and toward a more comprehensive and understanding view of current events.

“Hearing perspectives from people who are from all over the world and don’t necessarily adhere to that idea of American exceptionalism can help get us to look at where that comes from and why we think that way,” Awad said.

While students may not be able to consider these questions in depth on a daily basis, Harman said she thinks that is the most important reason why scheduling events that allow students to engage in discussions is valuable.

“The average college student doesn’t have time,” said Harman. “The average student doesn’t have time to read articles and be reflective, be still and actually consider what is happening and that it is far more complex than we could imagine it to be.”

Panel discusses past and present social justice Heidi Hill Copy Editor On February 1960, a student-led demonstration at the segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, sparked anti-segregationist protests at campuses across the southern United States.

One such protest was the Alabama State College demonstration, where Eleanor MoodyShepherd, St. John Dixon and James McFadden refused to leave their local courthouse diner

“It was very easy for me to make a decision to join a group of students who were willing to take a chance with their life,”

-St. John Dixon

until they were served.

More than 50 years later, these three civil rights activists sat alongside three UT students on Thursday night to discuss the motivations and critical experiences that mold roles as student leaders.

Organized by the Educational Leadership and Policy Studies program, the panel was moderated by Moody-Shepherd, dean of students of the New York Theological Seminary

and the only female participant of the 1960 Alabama State College sit-in. She opened the discussion with a question of what constituted a comprehensive definition of “social justice.”

Dixon, one of nine students expelled from the university under orders from Gov. George Wallace for participation in the protest, said identifying the injustice taking place in the 1960s was simple.

“It was very easy for me to make a decision to join a group of students who were willing to take a chance with their life,” Dixon said.

“It wasn’t just a local decision. It was part of a national discussion.”

Dixon further explained that he believes everyone has an internal responsibility for activism.

“We must answer the call wherever we are,” Dixon said.

Rilwan Balogun, senior in journalism and electronic media and student panelist, said his call for activism was born out of the events of Ferguson, Missouri, and the court’s refusal to indict Officer Darren Wilson last fall. Balogun recalled his experience alongside fellow UT students as they blocked Cumberland Avenue traffic for over 40 minutes in support of the idea that “Black Lives Matter.”

“During the protest, I didn’t just see people who looked like me who were in support with us,” Balogun said. “I saw there were a lot of people in solidarity with us.”

Panel attendee and junior in human resources Drew Vaughn said his new leadership studies minor provides him a more balanced eye when analyzing social justice issues on campus.

Leadership skills are essential, Vaughn said, but the most important skills to maintain when trying to correct a social injustice are communication and an eagerness to understand other

people’s perspectives.

“One of the biggest aspects of [leadership] is modeling the way where you need to have the numbers, but you also need to have the information to understand where people are coming

from,” Vaughn said. “With those three words ‘Help me understand,’ you can get a bigger picture of their perspective and you have more vantage point of similar issues from different periods of time.”

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Boxing Weekend: I go where my camera lens leads me

Hannah Cather Photo Editor

With one swift blow to the head, he was down and out.

For only four seconds. Then he stood up and wobbled back and forth a bit like a toddler standing for the first time.

But it didn’t matter that he eventually found his balance. The referee called the match, and the fraternity brother’s chance for glory crumbled. It was only Thursday night, but Boxing Weekend was already taking its toll.

I didn’t enjoy watching this man fall

“The night some of the football team would show up and almost steal the show.

The night I would see a grown man cry because his fraternity brother was victorious.”

on his face, potentially sacrificing his dignity. I didn’t like witnessing countless noses and lips break or bust, leaving smears of bright red blood on the opponent’s boxing gloves. The shouts of “He’s a p***y!” and “F*** him up!” sounded excessively crude, especially

after the spit of one spectator sprayed my cheek. I didn’t like walking through the crowd of what seemed to be a thousand people, most of whom were intoxicated to some degree, hoping no one would fall on me or my camera.

I didn’t like any of it, but I went again on Friday.

When I couldn’t find a parking spot close to the building, I realized the previous night had simply been a mild taste of Boxing Weekend. The Expo Center smelled of sweat, spilled airplane bottles of Fireball Whisky and nacho cheese.

The SAE gentlemen looked eager for another night of fights. Of course they did – this was their charity event and attendance was record-breaking.

An hour later, I left hoping one of the 600 photos I took would be worth the torture.

I braced myself for Saturday, the night 11 fraternity men would be presented with giant champion belts. The night some of the football team would show up and almost steal the show.

The night I would see a grown man cry because his fraternity brother was victorious.

I drank some espresso and put on my lucky socks. I carpooled with Hayley Pennesi, a fellow photographer, in solidarity. I even brought two extra memory cards in case of emergency.

There was never an emergency.

There was an obvious desperation in the undercuts and left hooks of boxers fighting their way through 270 seconds. There was disappointment in the referees’ eyes every time they needed to interject. There was fury in the formidable faces of state troopers as they tried to keep the chaos of the crowd to a minimum. There was pride and passion in the kiss Trenton Elsten shared with his fiancee after he became the Junior Middleweight Champion.

There were a lot of things I’ll never see again. Things I never expected to see in the first place. And that’s why I went back each night: it was a spectacle, a glimpse into a world that I do not belong in.

A world I would re-enter as long as I could take my camera as a shield.

Hannah Cather is a senior in journalism and electronic media. She can be reached at hcather@vols.utk.edu.

Junior Trent Bibee (left) from Alpha Gamma Rho and freshman Austin Christopher (right) from Alpha Tau Omega during a match on Friday night. Bibee won the championship for his division. Hayley Pennesi • The Daily Beacon

Senior Drew Marini from Kappa Sigma gets a pep talk during a match. He won the championship of his division.

Hayley Pennesi • The Daily Beacon

Dimitriy Petrov of Sigma Phi Epsilon is announced the winner of the Crusierweight Division on Saturday. Hannah Cather • The Daily Beacon

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FRONT ROW REVIEW

Country star revitalizes genre with inspired lyrics, second album Claire Dodson Editor-in-Chief

In 2012, “Slate” asked if Kacey Musgraves was “the future of country music.”

If Friday night’s sold-out Tennessee Theatre show is any indication, the answer is a resounding “hell yes.”

I am admittedly cynical about contemporary country music. Bro-country stars like Luke Bryan and Florida Georgia Line are irrelevant and uninteresting to me---poor, repetitive songwriting compounded by an objectification of women and fetishization of the good ole days.

Twenty-six-year-old Musgraves, however, is astoundingly fresh. She combines the best of traditional country aesthetic (a la Alison Krauss and Glen Campbell) with cultural commentary and empowering lyrics that set a new standard for country music radio.

She arrived on stage after a solid opening act from the charming, folky John & Jacob, who Knoxville last saw at Remedy Coffee and the Pilot Light during last year’s Rhythm N’ Blooms Festival.

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Award winning country artist Kacey Musgraves performed a sold out show at the Tennessee Theatre on Friday. Cameo Waters • The Daily Beacon

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Check your privilege

Hawa Henderson Real Reflections

Being a black student at a predominantly white university, I have pretty much heard it all.

You have the people who just automatically assume every black person they see is here on a financial or athletic scholarship. You have the occasional, “You probably only got in because you’re black,” or “Don’t worry, you’ll get in. Grad schools always want diversity.”

For some reason almost no one really understands what affirmative action is. One half believes affirmative action still exists to give minorities an unfair leg up on white people. The other half believes that affirmative action has solved all of our problems and we now live in a post-racial society. Obviously, neither of these are true. I’m not going to give y’all a history of affirmative action — that would make this article entirely too long.

However, I do have an issue with people who don’t acknowledge their privilege.

For some strange reason, a lot of people think racism doesn’t exist anymore. Some of your teachers would have you believe we all start on a level playing field and equal opportunity is actually a thing.

I’m sorry, but no.

Tell that to the people of color that get turned down for jobs they are qualified for because they have an “ethnic” sounding name. If you’re white you

might be thinking, “Well, slavery was hundreds of years ago, why do I have to pay for something that my ancestors might have done?”

First off, slavery did not end that long ago.

The first African slaves arrived in Virginia in 1619. The Emancipation P ro c l a m at i o n was only signed 152 years ago.

You know what that means?

That means that the Americas have existed longer with slavery than they have without it.

Second, no one wants you to “pay” for anything, just check your privilege. Acknowledge that if you are white living in the United States you are indirectly benefiting from slavery. Let me break it down for you. After black people were “freed,” the jobs they could do were still very limited, they lived in segregation and they couldn’t go to school.

Eventually, the Civil Rights Movement came along and these limitations were deemed illegal, and here we are today. One hundred and fifty-two years later and 7 percent of the student body here at UT is black.

That’s what I call progress.

Even though February, the shortest month of the year and Black History month, has just ended, check your privilege in whatever form it may come in — race, class, gender — and stop telling yourself that you “don’t see color.”

Yes, you do. We are all different colors. It is okay to recognize our differences, as long as we acknowledge the advantages or disadvantages we may have because of them.

“Acknowledge that if you are white living in the United States you are indirectly benefiting from slavery. ”

Hawa Henderson is a senior in microbiology. She can be reached at hhender7@vols.utk.edu.

Take a good look at your post-snowpocalypse portfolio The stock market has become a launching point for movies, T.V. shows and Ivy League graduates’ drug habits. Today, in The Vol Street Journal, we will take a look at the different markets that make up our campus and using pinpoint accurate analysis, track whether you should buy, sell or hold the “stocks” that make up your campus portfolio.

Hold: The Oscars

Rob Graham The Vol Street Journal

Full disclosure: I didn’t watch the Oscars, but, knowing the readership of the Beacon, you did.

I’ve been boycotting the awards show ever since 1994. “Pulp Fiction,” “Shawshank Redemption,” and “Forrest Gump” are all up for Best Picture? Cut the statue into three parts and send everyone home a winner – that’s the only fair option.

My real problem with the awards show comes down to this: why spend four hours watching a room full of celebrities fake clap after some committee tells them which movies were good this year? The last time I checked, this was America. The only opinion I need is my own, and we will rank the movies based on ticket revenue. Let the free market speak! Some Californian in skinny jeans with an English degree and a trust fund isn’t going to tell me what to watch on Netflix. That’s North Korea’s job!

Buy: Chris Cimino We were a bit harsh on you last week, but you came off the bench like an all-star and made the right call.

Sell: Tuesday/Thursday classes’ syllabi Go ahead and just rip them up, at this point they’re useless. If you’re a U.S. history professor, just skip the Gilded Age all together and move straight into Teddy Roosevelt with the time you have left. Every historian knows the Gilded Age is the least important time in history. I mean, an era with devastating social problems where big business has uncontrollable power in political outcomes and monolithic mergers and monopolies leave the consumer with few desirable options? Pssh, like that’ll ever happen again. *Goes to pay Comcast bill* Buy: VOLstarter Normally, I’m not a huge fan of crowd funding for the simple fact that I’M NOT PAYING FOR YOUR “SOUL REVIVAL TRIP TO SWITZERLAND,” KELLY!!! But this website gives students the ability to raise funds for various projects, scholarships and events with a simple link that can be shared through social media (and email if you ever want to contact the people that have the money to donate).

“Some Californian in skinny jeans with an English degree and a trust fund isn’t going to tell me what to watch on Netflix.

That’s North Korea’s job!”

I will be starting my own project to buy each member of the UT grounds crew a six pack (of…coke) and a weekend getaway at the Sun N Sand resort in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. After the past few weeks they’ve had, Lord knows they deserve it. Go check out the website and see if there’s anything that’s of interest to you #VolshelpVols.

Rob Graham is a senior in accounting. He can be reached at rgraha12@vols.utk.edu.

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In defense of the man bun

Sarah Hagaman Turn of Phrase

This isn’t a wet combover that haunts the memory of your elementary school days.

The bold trend growing across the country with increasing speed and intrigue has captured the public eye—and, as a female, I’ll be the first to confess: I love man buns.

To be honest, I’ve always been an enormous fan of men who could pull off long hair—remember the childhood days of Orlando Bloom’s dark locks in “Pirates of the Caribbean?” Heath Ledger’s edgy curls in “10 Things I Hate About You?” Or even Sunshine’s gold, surfer-esque mane in “Remember the Titans?”

Exactly.

Man buns, or “muns” have recently become extremely popular because of man buns worn by celebrities like Bradley Cooper, Harry Styles and Chris Hemsworth. Sure, they’ve existed before—but the trend has begun to appear all across Europe and much of the United States in unprecedented numbers.

What makes the man bun irresistible isn’t anything special—in fact, it’s pretty simple: the ‘mun’ projects confidence, masculinity and independence. A guy who’s willing to grow his hair out and defy the clichéd buzz cuts, Bieber-esque swoops or the classic wet

“the ‘mun’ projects confidence, masculinity and independence.”

combover stands apart from the pack.

Of course, not every woman swoons at the sight of a mun. Many of my friends completely agree with the long-hair trends; it’s one of the first things that gets our attention. Yet women, like men, have different tastes. No two men look quite the same in different

hairstyles. Yet, when worn correctly, and confidently, man buns seem to have a pretty consistent appeal.

Maybe a motivating factor is this: man buns, unlike a quick trim at Great Clips, have to be earned. The time it takes to grow one’s hair requires a new sort of dedication. When one of my friends decided to take the plunge and grow his hair out, the process became meticulous; he groomed his hair with new dedication and carefully monitored the way it grew out. He loved his long hair—and wore it confidently.

Some men probably dislike the ‘mun,’ and prefer to keep hairstyles more conventional. But for any guy who has ever wondered how many women feel about man buns, I will be the first to say: we notice, and most of us definitely like it.

When it comes to personal style, the ability to pull off a man bun—and to do so with a sense of confidence and masculinity—is always a good idea. Not everyone can do it, which perhaps makes the ‘mun’ even more intriguing.

As a college girl, I’m happy to admit it: ‘muns’ are manly.

Sarah Hagaman is a junior in English. She can be reached at shagama1@vols.utk.edu.

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Thomas Carpenter The Workshop

As of last Thursday at midnight, marijuana is legal in the District of Columbia. This measure came into effect after D.C.’s city council decided to move forward with Initiative 71, which was approved by 70 percent of voters in D.C. last November.

Initiative 71 is what’s called a “citizen initiative” and by definition cannot alter the expenditure of city funds, meaning it could not establish any type of regulatory system for the sales and distribution of marijuana. This makes D.C.’s law a much more strict and watered down law compared to the similar one in Colorado and the other states where it has been recreationally legalized.

The details of the law are fairly brief but are not very straightforward. They reveal some of the legal gray areas that are popping up in the places where marijuana is legalized.

1.You cannot smoke pot in public. Anywhere.This means bars, sidewalks, restaurants or even your car.

2.You are allowed to carry up to two ounces of marijuana on your person, except on federal land, where it is still very illegal.

3.You can smoke in your own home, if you own the land or if your lease says nothing about complying with federal law.(See where this is getting iffy?)

4.You can give away up to one ounce of pot, but you can-

not exchange it for any money, goods or services.

5. Because the new law doesn’t establish a regulatory system allowing the sale of marijuana, you can grow up to six cannabis plants in your home, with only three of those plants being mature.

6.These rules only apply to people age 21 or older.It is still illegal to consume marijuana if you are underage.

D.C. is the first place to legalize marijuana recreationally east of the Mississippi River, and south of the Mason-Dixon line at that. This law is nothing short of extraordinary, and it has not been left uncriticized by some very important people.

When D.C. voters passed the initiative in November, members of Congress threatened to pull funding from the city if the mayor and city council moved forward with it. Even though Initiative 71 couldn’t mandate it, the city still wanted to create a regulatory system that would allow the sale of pot, but this was blocked by Congress, although this didn’t stop the majority of the law from going into effect.

Republican members of the House have been most critical of this law, which doesn’t affect anyone in their constituency. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, a Republican from Utah, even threatened jail time for D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and her colleagues on the city council, to which she responded that she is “acting lawfully.”

In short, the future is very murky for marijuana in D.C. With all its uncertainties, it will be interesting

to see how it plays out, especially since the federal government has a hand in all of this. And they still have not removed cannabis from the list of Schedule 1 drugs, placing pot above cocaine in regards to health risks and addiction.

What happens in D.C. could shape a large part of how cannabis is legalized, especially in more conservative areas like the East Coast and the South.

Thomas Carpenter is a junior in classics. He can be reached at ThomasCarpenter@utk.edu.

“the future is very murky for marijuana in D.C. ”

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MUSGRAVES continued from Page 5 They adjusted to the bigger venue easily, trading their festival get-up for matching maroon tailored suits and engaging the crowd with the hit “Be My Girl,� from the television show “Nashville.�

After intermission, Musgraves’ band struck up an ambient Wild West groove on the set decorated with electric neon cacti. She emerged, clad in a sparkly pink and blue cowgirl mini-dress with glittering tights and light-up cowboy boots --the country version of Katy Perry (who, coincidentally, she toured with last year).

Musgraves opened with the mid-tempo “Silver Linings,� also the first track on her 2013 debut album “Same Trailer, Different Park.� She then played her way through most of the album, interrupted

by a variety of covers from Dolly Parton’s “Here You Come Again� to early 2000s hits like Britney Spears’ “Toxic� and TLC’s “No Scrubs.�

While her music can easily be enjoyed s i tt i n g d ow n , Musgraves was able to rouse the crowd through the covers and her few up-tempo country rock songs, like “Blowin’ Smoke� and “Mama’s Broken Heart,� which she wrote for Miranda Lambert.

The audience, made up of a broad range of ages, sang along heartily, especially during the encore when she

sang her inspirational, do-what-you-want anthem “Follow Your Arrow.� She also treated the crowd to her new single “Biscuits,� off a new album she said would be released in May. The hook?

“Now that Swift has abandoned country entirely for pop, popular country music needs artists like Musgraves to enliven a genre whose top-selling records come from mainly white men.�

“Mind your own biscuits, and life will be gravy.�

Even with just one album, Musgraves has joined pop singers like Taylor Swift and Lorde in an era of relatable, powerful women who are writing about love, heartbreak, society and what it means to be a young woman. Now that Swift has abandoned country entirely for pop, popular country music needs artists like Musgraves to enliven a genre whose topselling records come from mainly white men.

Near the end of her set, Musgraves discussed the theme of being yourself that often surfaces in her songs --- and offered a critique of her beloved genre. “Country music isn’t always welcoming to different groups of people,� she said. “And it should be, because country music is supposed to be about real life. “I’m gonna change that.�

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Get Fuzzy • Darby Conley

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ARTS&CULTURE

The Daily Beacon • Monday, March 2, 2015

Around Rocky Top

The Russian dance troupe “Vikhr” performs during the International Dance Competition held by the International House on Friday.

Tiara Holt • The Daily Beacon

Leonard Nimoy, famous as Mr. Spock on ‘Star Trek,’ dies Associated Press LOS ANGELES — In 1975, Leonard Nimoy published an autobiography with the defiant title, “I Am Not Spock” — an attempt to show the world he had many more facets than the pointy-eared character that had come to define him.

Yet two decades later, after proving that with a career that became a rich blend of roles beyond “Star Trek” along with directing, writing and photography, he bowed to fate with “I Am Spock,” a revisionist sequel.

Nimoy had come to appreciate Mr. Spock’s enduring legacy and the inspiration the man of logic provided the actor and his fans alike.

“He’s a part of me,” he wrote in his second memoir. “Not a day passes that I don’t hear that cool, rational voice commenting on some irrational aspect of the human condition.”

“And if I’m not listening to Spock’s voice, then I’m listening to the voices of those who know the Vulcan and consider him an old friend. ... It always amazes me and touches

me to discover how deeply the series affected so many people’s lives — people who chose careers in science, astronomy, space exploration, all because of one television show called Star Trek.”

Nimoy had skillfully turned what could have been a caricature into a dignified, inspiringly intellectual and even touching figure, a halfhuman, half-Vulcan who was a multicultural and multiethnic touchstone, well before it was hip.

Nimoy died Friday of end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at his Los Angeles home, with family at his side, said his son, Adam Nimoy. He was 83. His final public statement, last Sunday on Twitter, was thoughtful and bittersweet.

“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory,” he wrote, followed by his customary “LLAP” signoff — shorthand for “Live long and prosper,” Spock’s catch phrase.

The reaction to his death was swift, on Earth and in space.

“I loved him like a brother. We will all miss his humor, his talent, and his capacity to love,”

said William Shatner, whose often-emotional Captain Kirk was balanced by the composed Nimoy.

President Barack Obama said, “I loved Spock.”

“Long before being nerdy was cool, there was Leonard Nimoy,” Obama said in a statement. “Cool, logical, big-eared and level-headed, the center of Star Trek’s optimistic, inclusive vision of humanity’s future.”

“Live Long and Prosper, Mr. (hashtag) Spock!” tweeted Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, aboard the International Space Station.

George Takei, Mr. Sulu of “Star Trek,” called Nimoy a great man and friend.

“We return you now to the stars, Leonard.

You taught us to ‘Live Long and Prosper,’ and you indeed did, friend,” Takei said.

In a 2009 interview with The Associated Press, Nimoy recalled how an early stage role left him “obsessed” with pursuing work that had a social impact.

“I’ve fulfilled that dream, including ‘Star Trek,’ for that matter,” he said. “If that’s part of the legacy, then I’m very pleased with that.

I would hope the work I chose to do had some reason for being done other than just simply being a job.”

After “Star Trek” ended, the actor immediately joined the hit adventure series “Mission Impossible” as Paris, the mission team’s master of disguises. He also hosted the syndicated TV series “In Search of ... ,” which attempted to probe such mysteries as the legend of the Loch Ness Monster.

Other notable roles included Israeli leader Golda Meir’s husband opposite Ingrid Bergman in the TV drama “A Woman Called Golda; he continued to work well into his twilight years, playing wealthy genius William Bell in the Fox series “Fringe.”

He also directed several films, including the hit comedy “Three Men and a Baby,” and appeared in plays and published books of poems, children’s stories and his own photographs.

But that work was always eclipsed by the role of the green-blooded space traveler that took him overnight from bit-part actor to TV star.

SPORTS

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BASEBALL

Diamond Vols outlast Anteaters 12-10 Staff Report

Senior Cierra Burdick looks to pass the ball during the Vanderbilt game in Thompson-Boling Arena on Sunday. Hayley Pennesi • The Daily Beacon

LADY VOLS continued from Page 1 “I just wanted to have a good last showing here in Thompson-Boling Arena,” Massengale said. “And the first time I went down, I kinda started feeling a little bit … I had a pretty decent shoot-around, it was nothing spectacular so I had no idea this was gonna happen.”

Tennessee (25-4, 15-1 SEC) took a 39-24 lead into the half behind 27 combined points from Massengale and Burdick, then used a 20-4 run, with Andraya Carter’s second 3-point shot of the game giving Tennessee a 64-36 advantage, breaking the game open.

While Massengale led the team in points, Burdick made her presence felt in other areas.

The senior grabbed six rebounds and dished out seven assists to go with her 12 points while shooting 6-of-13 from the field, and looking past the emotions of senior night.

“Cierra said she was going to cry (before the game),” Massengale said. “She is emotional, so I was like, ‘I am going to let you handle that, I am going to be strong through all of this.’”

As a whole, Tennessee shot better than 47 percent from the field, including 54 percent from the behind the 3-point line, as the Lady Vols shot 12-of-22 from deep.

Defensively, the Lady Vols held Vanderbilt (14-15, 5-11) to its second lowest scoring output of the season, holding the Commodores

to just 9 percent from beyond the arc, as Vanderbilt came into the game shooting just over 32 percent from 3-point range.

The absence of Harrison showed, however, as Tennessee allowed 32 Commodore points in the paint. Opposing teams have now recorded at least 30 points down low in three of the four games Harrison has missed.

Paris Kea was the only Vanderbilt player who was able to find any kind of offensive rhythm, scoring 18 points on 7-of-14 shooting from the field, while Marqu’es Webb scored 10 points and grabbed five rebounds before fouling out late in the second half.

While Harrison will miss the remainder of the season, Warlick found a way to get the senior on the court one final time in Thompson-Boling.

With four seconds left on the clock and the game no longer in doubt, Andraya Carter intentionally fouled Kea to allow Harrison to check in one final time. Carter found Harrison after the missed the free throw, allowing her to dribble out the remainder of the clock.

“I just thought it would nice for Izzy to hear the crowd one last time for her at home,” Warlick said. “That’s the only way we could do it … Just giving Izzy some great respect that I think she well deserves. She’s been a vital part of this program and this team.”

With South Carolina’s loss at Kentucky, Sunday’s win means the Lady Vols will finish the season as Co-SEC Champions with the Gamecocks, as both teams finished with a 15-1 SEC record.

IRVINE, Calif. -- In the series finale of Tennessee’s weekend series at UC Irvine, the Vols put up a season-high 17 hits en route to a 12-10 win over the Anteaters at Anteater Stadium.

Saturday’s contest put the Vols back at .500 (4-4) on the season, while they also set a new season high for runs scored. Tennessee’s 12 runs mark their most runs scored since May 13, 2014, when the team plated 14 in an extra-innings game against Morehead State at Lindsey Nelson Stadium (W, 14-13).

“This was a great team win,” head coach Dave Serrano said. “The offense picked up the pitching and the defense and that’s what complete teams do. I’m very proud of how we just kept scrapping and scrapping and in those types of games, when you get leads and then you give them up, you get frustrated. But there was a lot of good execution and that’s what happens when you score as many runs as we did today.”

The Vols jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first, with center fielder Vincent Jackson kickstarting a string of four hits in the inning. Jackson and A.J. Simcox reached base safely on backto-back outfield hits before left fielder Christin Stewart belted a two-RBI double off of the right-center field wall. After moving to third on an outfield single delivered by second baseman Nick Senzel, Stewart later scored on a sacrifice fly to right field from designated hitter Andrew Plunkett.

UC Irvine answered in the bottom of the first, plating four runs on four hits, but Tennessee came back swinging in the third. Stewart led off and reached base safely after being hit by a pitch, his fifth of the season. In the next at-bat, Senzel crushed an RBI-triple to the left field wall, scoring Stewart to tie the game at 4-4.

Plunkett gave Tennessee the go-ahead run on a single to left field and reached third thanks to a standup double from third baseman Jordan Rodgers in the next at-bat. Then, on a perfectly executed attempt from senior first baseman Parker Wormsley, Plunkett scored on a squeeze

bunt play to make it a 6-4 UT advantage.

The Anteaters made it a one-run game in the bottom of the third. Tennessee’s bats stayed alive in the fourth as the Vols made another successful squeeze attempt to bring home freshman Brodie Leftridge and later score Stewart after loading the bases via two walks and a hit by pitch for Jordan Rodgers.

In the sixth, Plunkett came through with a huge, two-run home run over the left field wall to further UT’s lead to 10-7. The back-and-forth offensive slugfest continued through the rest of the game, including a comeback sixth frame for the Anteaters to tie the game at 10-10.

In the seventh, UT pushed another go-ahead run across, when Leftridge led off with a double to left field and came across to score on a fielder’s choice groundout by Simcox.

Leftridge then led off the ninth frame with a triple to left field and came in to score on a sacrifice fly to right by Stewart, giving Tennessee the 12-10 lead.

The Vols’ lineup produced seven extra-base hits on Saturday, led by Leftridge with two doubles and a triple against UC Irvine.

“I’m very proud of Brodie Leftridge,” Serrano said. “We’ve noticed as a coaching staff that he’s worked extremely hard and he’s earned the right to get in there. I told the team before the game, ‘we’re looking for nine guys that are going to give us the best chance to win in this program.’”

Tennessee’s bullpen dealt through tough innings against the Anteaters on Saturday, including appearances from right-handers Steven Kane, Hunter Martin (1-0) and Peter Lenstrohm, who held UC Irvine to preserve UT’s lead and get the save. Lefty starter Drake Owenby received no decision in his third appearance of the year, tossing 3.2 innings and allowing six runs on 3.2 innings pitched.

The Vols look to host Middle Tennessee State on Tuesday and Morehead State on Wednesday upon their return from California next week.

The contests will mark Tennessee’s first home games of the 2015 season due to cancellations from inclement weather.

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

SPORTS

3-point shooting carries Lady Vols past rival Vanderbilt Patrick MacCoon Staff Writer As the game turned: Despite a cast on her right hand, Holly Warlick couldn’t help but clap her hands and give a fist pump towards the Lady Vols’ bench in the first half of their season finale victory over Vanderbilt.

The enthusiastic celebration came after junior forward Bashaara Graves fought through contact underneath the basket, drawing a hard foul and connecting on the layup, hitting nearly the highest part of the backboard and dropping it in.

Graves converted the 3-point play with 26.7 seconds left in the first half to give No. 6 Tennessee a 39-24 lead it would continue to build upon on Senior Day. The storybook finish for the Lady Vols senior gave the eight-time national championship program its best regular season finish since 2010-11 and a share of the SEC regular season title.

Seniors Cierra Burdick and Ariel Massengale combined for 38 points on 15-of25 shooting, and Isabelle Harrison made an appearance on the court for the final 4.5 seconds of play and finished the game with the ball in her hands.

“We come and we want to win championships when we get here,” Burdick said.

“I would rather have to share it than not have it at all. We want a piece of it and we want to have that regular season championship and then we want to have the SEC Championship and we want to have the National Championship and then we can just leave happy.”

Hot topic: Tennessee energized the 13,027 fans in attendance at ThompsonBoling Arena by connecting on a season-high 12-of-22 shots from beyond the arc.

Massengale found her spot early on from the left side beyond the arc, where she hit four of her first five from long range, and left a lasting memory on the court with her former coach Pat Summitt in attendance.

“I texted (Pat) yesterday afternoon just to make sure she was coming to the game and told her we would really love to see her since we were the last class to play for her,” Massengale said. “I gave her a hug before the game and she told me that she loved me. It means a lot and it’s something I will cherish forever.”

The eight threes in the game gave the senior guard a total of 63 triples for the regu-

lar season, which made her the sixth player in Tennessee history to connect on more than 60 threes in a single season.

Massengale’s average of 2.25 triples per game this season is a career-high, and in 18 games this season she has hit two or more threes, and has done so in her last five games.

Andraya Carter added three treys of her own and freshman Kortney Dunbar connected while falling down from right corner in front of the Lady Vols’ bench to give Tennessee its largest lead of the game at 77-42 with 3:57 left.

Spotlight: While South Carolina had the chance to wrap up the regular season championship Sunday, the Gamecocks faltered in a 67-56 loss to Kentucky.

Despite losing last Monday to the Gamecocks in their only matchup of the season, the Lady Vols now have 17 regular season titles.

“It’s awesome,” Warlick said when she learned her team clinched a share of the SEC regular season title. “These players deserve it. They’ve worked hard this season and they’ve worked hard since Izzy got hurt.”

The other guys: Paris Kea led the Commodores with 18 points, three steals, and three assists in 31 minutes of action off the bench in the loss.

After Tennessee committed four straight turnovers, Kea cut Vanderbilt’s deficit to 15-10 on her layup with 12:10 before halftime.

The freshman scored nine points in each half and finished the game 7-of-14 from the field.

Say something: “Burdick, Graves and Massengale have become the Lady Vols’ big three,” Vanderbilt head coach Melanie Balcomb said after the game. “Bashaara is aggressive inside and Burdick and Massengale have stepped up. I don’t think they are better or worse without Harrison.”

By the numbers: 5: Number of games Massengale has hit four or more threes this season 4: Number of SEC games Tennessee have won by 20 points or more 3,143: Points scored by Harrison, Massengale, and Burdick

Senior Ariel Massengale dribbles down the court during the game against Vanderbilt. Hayley Pennesi • The Daily Beacon