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Issue 41, Volume 125
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Sousa out as Pride director Hanna Lustig News Editor Twenty-four days remain of Gary Sousa’s 17-year career as the director of bands for the Pride of the Southland Marching Band. Due to acts of insubordination committed in October 2013 and Sousa’s poor standing with “key” university officials, Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor Susan D. Martin issued a letter Thursday
five opportunities for the Pride to perform could be eliminated. Nothing came of Sousa’s plea. But it began a chain of events that would someday appear in a review of actions compiled by Zomchick. Two years later, the roar of change would only grow louder. Dave Hart assumed his post as athletic director in the fall of 2011. Sousa claimed Hart had “shut” him out,
blared throughout the Tuscaloosa stadium during periods typically reserved for band performances. The following week, Sousa sent a letter to SEC Commissioner Mike Slive, asking him to advocate for the preservation of live music on gameday. Sousa wrote to Slive that in the ring of those “artifical noisemakers,” he heard the “death knell of the college marching band.” Under the SEC guidelines for that year, Sousa estimated that three out of
See SOUSA on Page 2
Dave Hart hired as director of athletics.
5: UT-Georgia game: Sousa thinks recorded music reaches “unreasonable levels” 8-9: “No response” policy lifted and student petition created, media interviews begin. 14: Placed on administrative leave.
November Athletic denies band money to travel for first time.
Plans laid to transition from Office of Provost to School of Music.
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Returns to campus.
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Head coach Butch Jones and quarterback Justin Worley run drills during spring practice at the NeylandThompson Sports Complex on March 19, 2013.
Vols start spring ball with uncertainty at QB Troy Provost-Heron Sports Editor Although many questions surround the Tennessee Volunteer football program heading into the first spring practice on Friday, arguably the biggest unknown may rest under center.
Justin Worley, Nathan Peterman and Joshua Dobbs all started for the Vols last year, and all three return – along with redshirt freshman Riley Ferguson – which sets up a four-man quarterback battle for the second consecutive offseason. With a multitude of options at the signal caller position, head coach Butch Jones said
he’s going to let the competition run its course, giving no indication of when a starter will be announced. “There are no timetables,” Jones said Thursday at his prespring practice press conference. “That person will emerge. I don’t know if it is going to be the second week of spring, after the conclusion of the orange and
white game, or a week prior to Utah State. That will take care of itself. “Right now, they just have to work on making themselves better individually every day and being a leader. They have to prove that they can win at Tennessee.” See SRING PRACTICE on Page 6
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Sex Week examines TN sex ed Senior Day gives Vols another opportunity to bolster tourney resume SPORTS >>pg. 7
Knoxville resident finds the right note on NBC’s ‘The Voice’ Claire Dodson
AKA’s ‘AmerAKAn Hustle’ week to end with ‘upscale’ fashion show
Lady Vols begin hunt for 17th SEC Tournament title against LSU
Fired as director of bands, will remain on faculty as tenured professor.
December
Throughout year, travel expenses begin to be cut.
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ARTS & CULTURE >>pg. 3
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After UT-Alabama football game: Sousa sends complaint to SEC Commissionaer Mike Slive about recorded music playing over the Pride of the Southland Band.
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Former Pakistani ambassador talks ‘single-minded global outlook’
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ing “bias” and factual inaccuracies. Despite his protest, Sousa is now solely a tenured professor in the School of Music. Sousa’s “bitter battle” was prefaced by years of smaller skirmishes. He couldn’t hear the bells, only the PA system. After the UT-Alabama football game in October 2009, Sousa was concerned about music. But his concern was not caused by a wayward trumpet or a tuba out of step – it was the recorded music,
Marching to the beat of a different tune? 2009
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stripping Sousa of the title and his “appointment” as a WJ Julian Fellow. After a long period of investigation on the part of the university, a review of actions Gary Sousa of the band of directors was compiled by Vice Provost John Zomchick. Sousa responded to this document, cit-
McCord Pagan Copy Editor Students met in the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy Thursday morning to discuss the sexual education law in Tennessee and how it may be improved. Part of the week-long lineup of Sex Week events, the brunch at Afternoon Delight: A Discussion About Politics and Policy in Tennessee, provided a way for students, faculty and
staff to satisfy their physical and intellectual hunger. The speaker, Tory Mills, the external affairs coordinator for Planned Parenthood of Middle and East Tennessee and 2009 UT alumna, started the event with a discussion about Tennessee’s 2012 revised sex education policy. The Family Life Curriculum has been dubbed by critics as the “No Holding Hands Law” due to its explicit promotion of abstinence-only education.
In her lecture, Mills defended the need for comprehensive sexual education. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Tennessee was the 12th worst state for chlamydia, ninth worst for gonorrhea and 19th for primary and secondary syphilis in 2012. The Planned Parenthood representative encouraged attendees to offer their own thoughts on the legislation, of which few had heard. While
many in attendance expressed concern about leaving teenagers without proper education. The law, like those in other states, requires that any county with a teen pregnancy rate greater than 9.5 births for every 1,000 girls must provide some form of sex education. However, it forces educators to “not endorse student nonabstinence” and “not promote gateway sexual activity.” See SEX WEEK on Page 2
In the summer of 2010, a Gibbs High School baseball star suffered an arm injury that took him away from not only potential college opportunities, but the game he had put all of himself into since he was 8 years old. The months spent in recovery were brutal, the comingof-age phase magnified by the sound of crushed dreams. Despite it all, Morgan Wallen knew it was all part of a greater plan. “I was wondering what the purpose of it was and questioning God,” the now 20-year-old Wallen said in an interview with The Daily Beacon on Thursday. “I dwelled on it for a couple months, but after that I tried to be positive about everything and figured there was a better plan for my life in some way.” And it turned out there was. The injury that threatened Wallen’s youthful aspirations gave him a new one, or rather, an old one: music. Wallen and his raspy country rock joined Team Usher on season six of NBC’s singing competition “The Voice” in the blind audition that aired this past Tuesday night. A Sneedville, Tenn., native, Wallen began singing when he was around 3 years old. His mom recognized his growing musical ability and sent him straight to church, where he sang “Jesus Loves Me,” among other Gospel songs. See MORGAN WALLEN on Page 3
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