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Hey reader, this one’s for you!

Right now, you are bogged the f down. I know I am.

You want someone to make you a home cooked meal, do your laundry, finish that research paper and tell you you’re pretty. I know, I know. We at The Daily Beacon feel your pain (I mean, I’m writing this letter as a break from homework, so we all know where I’m at.)

But what you really want is a little appreciation. You want someone to pat you on the back and congratulate you on a job well done, whether it’s for that A on your Medieval civilizations midterm, because you landed that highly competitive summer internship or simply because you washed your hair this week. Whatever it is, you just want a small notice that you’ve accomplished something you’re proud of.

I want you all to know that we notice. The Daily Beacon notices, and we are constantly amazed by the stories we are told about students who are making an impact on this campus and in Knoxville.

So here is the Student Appreciation issue, where we take some of these stories and turn them into features on students who are at the front of protests or behind the scenes of some of your favorite social media posts. Some

of these students were nominated by you all and some have made too big of an impact to even pretend to ignore.

You’ll also notice “flash features,” where we tell you “why they’re cool.” Unfortunately, 16 pages doesn’t fit everyone, not even everyone we wrote about for this issue, but we tried our best. But there is more online — more students, more stories.

As always, we are here to hear more about the students who are making their mark on campus. Know someone that we missed? Shoot us an email at editorinchief@ utdailybeacon.com, and we’ll keep telling these stories.

It’s our job, after all.

Jenna Butz, Editor-in-Chief

We love our students, but...

News happens, and as excited as we were to fill up a whole issue with stories exclusively about you and your classmates, duty calls. Below are some updates of Wednesday’s events.

SGA voting deadline extended due to technical difficulties SGA Election Commissioner Mariah Beane sent an email to the student body Wednesday addressing concerns about the technical difficulties that prevented students from voting on the first day of SGA elections. Beane said the commission has opened a new portal to allow students to vote and she encouraged students who had difficulties yesterday to vote again. “Any votes that occurred prior to 2 p.m. on Tuesday, April 5, are not included in the new election,” Beane said in the email. “I have emailed all of these students to inform them about their original vote not being counted, and I requested that they resubmit a vote in the proper election.” The Election Commission also agreed to extend the voting hours from 5 p.m. 7 p.m. on Thursday.

TN legislators vote on amendment to diversity bill Tennessee legislators in the House Finance, Ways and Means Committee passed an amendment to house bill 2248 which extends the reach of the original bill. The original bill aimed to

defund the university’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion, and the amendment passed today further prohibits state funds from being used to promote the use of gender neutral pronouns, to promote or inhibit the celebration of religious holidays or to fund or support Sex Week. The amendment deletes all language from the original bill but still includes a clause which states that funds budgeted for the Office of Diversity and Inclusion would be reallocated for the fiscal year 2016-2017 to fund a national motto decal program to distribute decals for law enforcement agencies.

Protests erupt on Pedestrian Walkway amid Sex Week Students gathered on Pedestrian Walkway to protest a non-sponsored group with heavy religious demonstrations. The group, “Bible Believers,” arrived late Wednesday morning and left before 5 p.m. that evening. Bible Believers said their intention is to “bring a loving message of Jesus Christ” to campuses and events nationwide. The group held signs reading “Homos are full of demons,” “Love Jesus Obey Jesus” and signs with various Bible verses. The man ripped and stomped on a copy of the Quran

as well as a pride flag to protest a Sex Week supporter handing out condoms. With SGA candidates feet away, students asked why they weren’t getting more involved. The candidates said they were against the group, but remained at their booths.

Will Freeman vetoes smokingfree campus bill Student Body President Will Freeman vetoed the resolution calling for the ban of smoking and tobacco use on campus. The resolution narrowly survived a general vote and an amendment eliminating any reference to tobacco products last week, but awaited the signatures of both the student body president and vice president before it could become valid. That process stopped with Freeman, who vetoed the bill this week. Student senate arts and science senator Morgan Hargrove initially presented the resolution, claiming the university is “behind the times” of other SEC schools. Across the SEC, eight schools outright ban both smoking and general tobacco use on campus, including in-state neighbor Vanderbilt and nearby Kentucky. Twelve of the 14 schools prohibit smoking use, but allow the use of smokeless tobacco products on campus.

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Junior designs fantastic features for athletic department Jenna Butz Editor-in-Chief Evan Ford has “always been a doodler.”

“The margins of my notebook in high school have always been filled with all kinds of stuff,” the junior in journalism and electronic media said.

Now a student graphic designer for Tennessee AGE: 18 Athletics, Ford’s doodles have found a home on MAJOR: POLITICAL the social media accounts for UT sports.

SCIENCE Knowing he needed a creative outline in WHY HE’S COOL: college, Ford emailed everyone in Tennessee Currently works for Tennessee Athletics he thought would need a graphic Athletics in the VFL Films designer.

“Anybody that looked like they had a title division, assists on projects for that would need a graphic designer, I just the SEC Network and produces sent them an email,” Ford explained. videos for the non-profit Eliminate Ford eventually landed his first gig the Digital Divide, which aids in when he received a response from the giving laptop computers and internet men’s basketball team. Ford created a services to children and families in social media graphic that combined need, and teaches computer literacy. then men’s basketball player Jordan McRae’s face with LeBron James after What mark do you McRae was accepted into the LeBron hope to leave on campus or in Skills Academy.

Knoxville when you graduate?

“I took a chance by emailing “When I graduate from Tennessee, a bunch of people and when I I would hope to have left a positive switched over to not just doing impact on the individuals I have met basketball but all the sports,” during my time here.”

Ford said. “Those were things I

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Evan Ford Katrina Roberts • The Daily Beacon was kind of nervous about and didn’t really know if that’s what I should do and I did it and it worked out … You always hear stuff like that where people just tell you to go for it and I think that’s good advice. And even if it doesn’t (work out), it’s better knowing that you went for it even if you didn’t make it.”

After that first graphic, Ford worked with basketball exclusively for two years before transitioning

to athletics’ media relations department this academic year. There, he works with Bekah Bennett, a Tennessee Athletics media relations graphic designer, on all UT sports and recruiting projects outside of football. Ford is responsible for assisting with social media graphics, recruiting materials, publications and special events promotions.

See FORD on Page 15

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Payton Miller’s idea to paint the Rock came after an intramural flag football game during her sophomore year.

Her team had just notched a victory, and she and her teammates were searching for ways to celebrate. They had never painted the Rock, and realized it was past time they crossed that tradition off their undergraduate to-do list.

The next step was to decide what image Miller and her friends were going to paint on the massive boulder. At the time, Tennessee’s “Third Down for What” anthem, a Volunteerized version of Lil Jon’s popular hit “Turn Down for What,” was at the apex of its popularity. Miller’s friend Blake McDonald suggested they paint a portrait of the artist and showed her a picture of Lil Jon on his phone.

“I thought, ‘Well, that would be a great idea to put on a rock,’” Miller, junior in biochemistry, said. “It was our first time painting (the Rock), so I didn’t really know what I was doing.”

Her first painting was essentially a trial by fire. Miller and her friends stopped at Walmart to purchase cans of orange and black spray paint and then ordered a pizza. They arrived at the rock at 11 p.m., and Miller got to work. Her

finished product was Lil Jon wearing shades and donning a Tennessee cap.

She didn’t foresee what would come next.

Tennessee fans embraced her portrait of Lil Jon. The painting went viral on social media, with multiple Twitter accounts, including Tennessee football’s official account, tweeting a photo of the painting, leading to thousands of retweets.

Her paintings only became more popular.

The Lil Jon portrait spawned 10 more masterful paintings that captured essential Tennessee traditions, and they quickly became important components of the game day experience.

She has painted images of the Vols’ mascot Smokey on a checkerboard background, Pride of the Southland Drum Major Andrew Vogel, the Tennessee Walking Horse, seniors running out of the tunnel for the final time and Tennessee folk hero Peyton Manning.

“I think (her paintings) are really cool,” Tennessee sophomore defensive tackle Kahlil Mckenzie said. “My favorite one would have to be (the painting) for the Georgia game or the Walking Horse — those two were just awesome.

“It’s a really cool thing because the Rock is in front of Thornton Center so everybody sees it ... (It’s great) knowing someone would take that much time (to paint the Rock).” Her See MILLER on Page 15

Student filmmakers take their art to festival screens Megan Patterson

Arts & Culture Editor

Seven days from now, the Nashville Film Festival will begin, and two UT students will experience their films’ world premiere.

Caroline Knight, junior in cinema studies and journalism and electronic media, and John McAmis, junior in college scholars, both began work on their films, “Visionary” and “The Van,” in Paul Harrill’s non-fiction cinema production class last semester, but the inspiration behind their projects goes back much further.

Knight drew from her long-standing relationship with the founder of Knoxville’s Club Vibes for material, and McAmis pulled from his own past and memories of his parents’ divorce. While Knight takes a more traditional documentary approach to her film, McAmis broadens the category of non-fiction film to include biographic animation.

A career in animation has always been McAmis’ lifelong dream — and an artistic necessity.

“I physically have to make work or else I become sick,” McAmis said. “I can’t just not draw and make films. I made it to my standards, which are pretty high of myself.”

Despite his already high standards, McAmis created an additional challenge for himself by pursuing a non-fiction work representing his parent’s divorce through animation.

“I started doing sketches and mock-ups for it, and it was going nowhere,” McAmis said. “It was so vague and so broad.”

He originally planned to visually represent the divorce through a transition of houses and cars but eventually settled on one key item: the van.

“It was this van that was super clunky and just weird,” McAmis said. “The backseat folded down to a bed, and it just had a bunch of weird idiosyncrasies that I knew would be cool to center a film about.”

From there McAmis interviewed his father (the van’s owner) and his two brothers to sift through stories and material for the film. He used a simple form of digital animation which involved scanning hand drawn sketches into Photoshop for manipulation.

Throughout the editing, McAmis said the most difficult part was making sure the film would be relatable.

“You could make a documentary about anything, but if no one can relate to it, no one is going to care to watch it,” he said.

McAmis knew he had achieved this goal when students at the UT Handheld film festival approached him with stories of their own personal items tied to periods of their lives.

Although this was the first film for which McAmis is receiving widespread recognition, he has produced several others over the past year.

Through film, McAmis discovered an outlet for expression that he never imagined.

“I had no idea when I started making films that that would happen,” he said. “I started inserting myself into these very public things.

I’m a very introverted, quiet, stay-in-the-corner person, but when I got my hand on a camera, I started completely broadcasting stuff that had been inside me for years.”

John McAmis Katrina Roberts • The Daily Beacon

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Caroline Knight Alex Phillips • The Daily Beacon

McAmis used “The Van” to give his inner self a voice, but Knight used her film “Visionary” to give a voice to others in the community.

Knight first met Sue Buckley, founder of Club Vibes, through the philanthropy events of Delta

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already decided on pursuing documentary work.

“We’ve always drawn stories for people from real life, even fictional stories we’ve drawn from our own experiences, and so I think telling other people’s stories who might not have as

I physically have to make work or else I become sick.”

Gamma. Club Vibes provides a resource and a community for people who are blind or visually impaired in Knoxville, and Knight knew after meeting Buckley that she wanted to share her story.

“I think it was lucky that we found each other,” Knight said. “I’m just glad that I had the opportunity to do this for her.”

The film follows James Garnigan, a newly blind member of Club Vibes, in his journey to adapt to the blindness lifestyle and find a place in the Club Vibes community.

“He came to us at around the same time that Caroline came to us asking to do the documentary,” Buckley said. “So I was like ‘Well this is perfect’ because you can see how we start working with somebody. It’s a good real experience of filming it from the start.”

The film shows a lot of Club Vibes one-onone instructional time with Garnigan, involving everything from labeling his kitchen, hanging up clothes and riding a bike. However, Buckley’s work among the visually impaired community in Knoxville remains the focus of the film.

“Just because you have a disability doesn’t mean you can’t help someone else,” Buckley said. “It’s a great message to the community.”

Knight also provided an audio-described version of the film to enable the community that Buckley serves to experience her work. Sharing stories like Buckley’s is the reason Knight had

John McAmis, junior in College Scholars much access to a lot of people (is important),” Knight said.

Although Knight’s film subject isn’t as immediately personal as McAmis’s, Harrill said both students show a unique passion in their work.

“The success of Caroline’s film owes a lot of its success to Caroline’s great eye as a cinematographer and her ability to get people to tell her their stories. John’s film is animated and has a very gentle sense of humor that’s very much like who John is,” Harrill said. “But even though they’re really different, they’re both very personal films, and they both tell stories that the filmmakers were passionate about.”

Distinguished lecturer in the English department Bill Larsen had both McAmis and Knight in his screenwriting class last year. He said both students distinguished themselves from others in class with their commitment to their goal.

“You could see their approach to it, the thing they brought to it, was they wanted to be filmmakers,” Larsen said. “So you could tell they were thinking visually. They were thinking in terms of sound. They weren’t thinking like the fiction writers I get where it’s like ‘No, no you can’t tell that. How are you going to show that?’”

In March, Knight was invited to the College Media Association’s convention in New York to accept an award for “Visionary,” and McAmis has submitted “The Van” to 20 additional film festivals, five of which are international.

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Veteran student strives toward living his dream Alahnah Ligon Asst. News Editor

Some kids grow up wanting to be a doctor, a firefighter or an astronaut. Gregg Crawford wanted to be a Marine.

Crawford, a 24-year-old junior in business management, grew up in a small town in northwest Michigan with only 23 students in his graduating class. In his town, stories traveled fast.

“Everybody had a story about a Marine — how courageous or how crazy they are,” Crawford said. “If they were a Marine, they held them to the highest standard.

“I took from that — that the few and the proud was an actual thing. So that’s what I wanted to be.”

Crawford maintained his mom was apprehensive but supportive of his dreams of becoming a Marine.

“My mom thought that it was just a phase ... but mine never phased out,” Crawford said.

“She had to come to that realization that something was going to happen. She realized she wasn’t stopping it. She didn’t attempt to stop it.”

As a 5th grader, a moment of terror for the nation brought even more confidence to Crawford’s decision to serve his country when the twin towers were attacked on September 11, 2001.

“That cemented the idea that I (had) to become a Marine. That’s just what I had to do,” Crawford said.

Crawford is one of over 900 student veterans and dependents on campus.

He served as a Sergeant in the Marines for four years and traveled across the U.S. working on amphibious assault vehicles to be used in combat, though Crawford never got a taste of the frontline himself.

Crawford eventually found UT through a member of his platoon from Athens, Georgia.

“He begged me to go to UT,” Crawford said.

“This was a stretch for me. It was just on a

whim. I knew nobody here, (but) I knew I liked the Smoky Mountains.

“I called UT up. They told me about the fee deferment and the priority registration. It seemed like it was very friendly.”

Crawford said he was pleasantly surprised to find the Knoxville community as a whole was largely veteran friendly as well.

His first month at a local church, several elderly woman gathered pots, pans and furniture for his apartment — an apartment Crawford said he wouldn’t have if the Knoxville community wasn’t so supportive.

“I probably shouldn’t have had that apartment, but they said, ‘Oh, you’re a veteran, we’ll make sure that you get the lease,’” Crawford said. “I recognized that the community was very veteran friendly just in my first monthhere.”

Crawford said the hardest part of transitioning on campus was maintaining his physique while avoiding any unnecessary attention he might get for being a veteran.

“While I was in, I regularly worked out three times a day. I came to campus and didn’t have time to work out. I gained a little weight,” Crawford said. “Plus, not being a combat veteran, I didn’t want to blast it out that I was a Marine. So, my first semester I kind of held back. I just wanted to be like every other student.”

Teresa Gilbert, management specialist for the Office of the Registrar noticed Crawford’s reservations while working with him in his first year, but said he quickly grew out of it.

“He was so shy. I was afraid he wasn’t going to make it,” Gilbert said. “(But) I’ve seen him gain quite a bit of confidence. I’m very pleased to watch him blossom as a young man.”

Since his first year, Crawford has participated in two work studies and several leadership positions on campus, including three positions with the UT chapter of Student Veterans of America, Vol Fighters.

He began as the group’s social media coordinator but quickly tackled more leadership as vice president. After just one year with the group, he became president of the UT veteran

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Crawford has sponsored several events and fundraisers as president of Vol Fighters, including executing plans for a central veteran space to serve as a “Green Zone” for student veterans.

Crawford said he mirrored the “Green Zone” after the Pride Center’s “Safe Zone” initiative.

“A veteran can go there and recognize

that’s a safe place,” Crawford said.

Crawford said the event he is most proud of, though, had almost nothing to do with him.

UTDAILYBEACON.COM See the rest of Crawford’s profile on the Daily Beacon website.

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I’ve also never known someone to be so comfortable around huge amounts of people and somehow personally connect with all of them. With almost every person she meets, the first thing she’ll say about them is ‘I like them so much, we should see them again.’”

Daniel Hughes, senior in fine arts Xylina Marshall Travis Dorman • The Daily Beacon

Marshall shows character and personality to all who meet her Travis Dorman Staff Writer Xylina Marshall once received a fortune cookie that said, “Each day, do something you would rather not do.”

This seemingly arbitrary bit of advice stuck with the UT senior, and she has been striving to follow it ever since.

“It is mostly just the idea of doing things that people don’t like,” Marshall said. “If you actually bring yourself to do things, you’ll probably find a way to enjoy them, and the experience will better you in some way.”

The animated 22-year-old certainly does a lot of things.

She’s like a real-life version of Jim Carrey’s character in “Yes Man,” who made a vow to say yes to every opportunity that presented itself. The difference is that while Carrey fought his fate, Marshall, affectionately called Xi by her friends, embraces it with a smile and an infectious laugh.

In addition to majoring in Italian and World Business, Marshall works as an ambassador to recruit students for the honors program, serves as a justice of the Student Government Association’s judicial branch and has an internship with the Office of Special Events.

She also helps plan educational programs as an ambassador for the Center of Leadership and Service. She performed in “The Vagina Monologues,” a play openly addressing women’s sexuality, and she recently led an alternative spring break trip to Greeneville, Mississippi, to help alleviate the stress poverty places on people in rural communities.

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Marshall’s involvement is seemingly infinite. She herself struggles to recall the extent of her endeavors.

“I forget a lot of things that I do,” she said. “It’s not like I do them all the time. I’m just kind of like, ‘oh, today I’m doing this,’ and then I do it.”

While most people would be exhausted if they worked

a handful of jobs while attending classes and volunteering for countless events, it is Marshall’s constant activity that gives her the energy to keep going. She is a perpetual motion machine, and she loves every minute of everything she does.

“Her vast involvement is impressive not because of the quantity of things she is active in, but because of the passion to know and understand people that drives her to be involved,” Alyssa Johnson, senior in studio art, said.

“I think one of the reasons Xylina is so magnetic is because it is extremely rare to see reservation in her.”

Daniel Hughes, senior in fine arts, has known her for three years. He said that a 10-minute walk around campus with her can easily turn into an hour-long ordeal because so many people approach her to make conversation, making magnetic a near definition of Marshall.

“I’ve also never known someone to be so comfortable around huge amounts of people and somehow become personally connected to all of them,” Hughes said. “With almost every person she meets, the first thing she’ll say about them is, ‘I like them so much, we should see them again.’”

Most of Marshall’s activities have something in common: they involve helping people by connecting them to the resources they need. She said her passion for service is why she is interested in helping refugees who don’t always receive the information they need to start a new life after relocating.

One of her ultimate goals is to work as an ambassador to the United Nations, where she hopes to advance from connecting people to connecting countries. In such a situation, the cultural dexterity obtained from majoring in Italian and world business would prove useful for achieving such dreams.

“I started out in Italian because I was like ‘Italian sounds cool,’” Marshall said. “And then I found out that Italian

people are a lot like me.

“They’re stereotypically kind of loud …

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Marshall may have described herself best: “I’m a very large personality.”

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SEAT co-chairs speak out for sex education

Elzabeth Stanfield Katrina Rob

Jenna Butz Editor-in-Chief

Both co-chairs of Sexual Empowerment and Awareness at Tennessee, Colleen Ryan and Elizabeth Stanfield, listed a seemingly never-ending list of accomplishments.

Ryan, a junior in global studies and sociology, also started the Student Peace Alliance on campus, is a student assistant to global studies, started the global studies club, is chair of the Haslam Scholars Programming Committee and is one of the founding members of the UT Diversity Matters coalition.

Stanfield, a senior in anthropology and geography with a global studies minor, is an active member of Alpha Chi Omega, geography club, Progressive Student Alliance, especially against the outsourcing plan, and is the other founding member of UT Diversity Matters coalition.

The co-chairs and close friends sat down to talk small towns, what got them started and everything Sex Week.

Daily Beacon: Talk about the first student organization that you really got into and got really passionate about and why.

Elizabeth Stanfield: I think for both of us it’s probably the Haslam Scholars Program, right?

Colleen Ryan: Yeah.

ES: Which we have both been in since freshman. But, as far as independent student organizations … I was really involved with my sorority freshman year, but then starting sophomore year I joined SEAT at the same time as Colleen joined SEAT. That very quickly became my biggest time commitment, the thing I care about the most, and

has been for the past three years, been the biggest thing that I’m involved in.

CR:For me, SEAT was definitely the first student organization I think I became involved in at all. My first semester of my freshman year I was going to different club meetings and trying to find a place to fit in. I guess I was starting global studies club at the same time as I joined SEAT, so I guess those are even in time I’ve been involved.

But SEAT has been the biggest involvement, and it thrust me into getting involved in campus life.

From SEAT, I started getting involved in sexual assault prevention stuff, started meeting other students in other student organizations and working collaboratively with other student organizations.

ES: That’s really interesting because I didn’t know that SEAT was the first student organization that you joined. Do you think that has affected the way you perceive campus?

CR: I definitely think it has.

ES: Because that was fall of freshman year for you.

CR:I had not been on UT’s campus very long, so when I joined Sex Week, I didn’t really know that much about all the controversy. I was like ‘Oh this sounds like a really cool student organization.

They’re getting so much stuff done. I want to be a part of this.’ And then I joined, and three months later I was condemned by the state legislature and I was like ‘What is this?’

ES: And here we are.

CR: And here we are.

been sexually assaulted during freshman year and I was excited about Sex Week because Brianna had made us all like the Facebook page. So I knew about it but I just happened to wander into the sexual assault round-table the first year and it was like 70 students in a room talking about sexual assault on campus and people sharing their own stories. It was like after ten months of being on campus and you know, hearing about it a lot and having a lot of friends who had been in risky situations and having seen them have no space to talk

ES: I was involved with a lot of different groups of students freshman year and pretty much was trying to meet as many people as I could so by the end of the year I had a lot of friends who had

about it at all or even the words to know how to talk about it, being in that roundtable and seeing people talk about it really had a big impact on me.

I felt like SEAT was the only organization that

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was doing anything about sexual assault in a big way and having a conversation. That was what prompted me to join that next fall.

CR: It’s funny because I joined for almost the exact same reasons. I was approached by Brianna about it so I was like ‘Well I might give this a shot.

They’re doing great things.’ Even just a few months into my freshman year, I had similar experiences with friends who were sexually assaulted. In high school I had friends who were sexually assaulted.

I figured SEAT would be a good place to get

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berts • The Daily Beacon about these very difficult things to talk about and open up about, that’s why I stuck with it.

ES: So, SEAT was one of the first organizations to sign onto the UT diversity matters coalition, so why did we do that? Because I had this idea and you actually really encouraged me that SEAT should be part of it and it should be an organization.

CR: A lot of it stemmed from the gender neutral pronoun post being pulled down. Obviously SEAT being involved in LGBT issues having some of our members who are, we know a lot of trans and non-binary students who were really hurt, really harmed by pulling down the gender neutral pronoun post, and there was really nothing happening in response, no support being expressed toward the students, nothing of that kind. We were talking about what we could do as an organization in that regard to try to make campus a more Stanfield inclusive space and then suddenly, I guess it was the holiday post that exploded and diversity stuff became even more of a hot topic. So, we wanted to be doing something about it, because this is not a campus that is inclusive to all people. It is a campus that is a very dangerous community for so many people, and we love UT— ES: – SEAT loves UT. CR: – And we want to be a part of changing

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campus to make it a better place for all students, not just certain students. That’s why we work so hard with Sex Week to have events for all student, not just sexually active students, not just male students, you know. I think it’s reflective in the way our organization works on the whole that when it came to diversity issues, diversity is what makes this campus great and it is what makes this campus. Without it, the work we’re dong with Sex Week wouldn’t have the same impact, we wouldn’t have the same diversity perspective and voices getting involved in the conversations that we’re creating. Conversations that are just one group of people who all agree with each other aren’t really conversations.

ES: And UT actually did feel like a very progressive place to me freshman year, which maybe says something about UT and maybe says something about where I’m from, but I do also think there are a lot of students who are responsible my freshman year for making me feel that way who are all doing awesome stuff now. Brianna is one of those people, the founder of Sex Week.

Or lot of different friends I’ve had who are doing amazing things now. Because of them I kind of feel a responsibility to do the same thing a little bit. I think a lot of students in PSA feel that way too, of like ‘Someone made campus a little better for me so I need to make campus a little better for someone else.’ I had these people when I was a freshman who were seniors when I was a freshman and they were awesome so now I’m a senior and I have that responsibility. I don’t know, do you have that sense of responsibility?

CR: Yeah, not even just to the students who came before but just to younger people in SEAT

Colleen Ryan Alex Phillips • The Daily Beacon who are putting a lot of time and effort into a cause that they’ve only known about for a couple months or have only been involved in for a couple months.

They’re working really hard and they’re making an impact and so doing the best I can as a leader to guide what we’re doing, to make sure that we’re having the most positive impact that we can. To a certain extent it has translated into a greater obligation not just to UT Knoxville but to the South in general ... The idea of leaving the South, where there is so much potential for great change to lead to a more progressive, more open-minded place where I would feel home, just doesn’t seem fair to the people who’ve come before, who are making the South a better place actively, to live. So being split, trying to figure out where my future with organizing and creating positive change is going.

ES: I definitely feel that same kind of conflict, and I don’t think I felt it as much freshman year.

The more I get involved with stuff, the more I’m like where I’m from needs help. Why would I leave when this place needs help the most and needs people to stay and believe in it. I think that reminds me of a lot of times when people hear about Sex Week either on campus or at other schools they are like ‘What? This is at UT. There’s no way.’ And I think it’s about people having the guts to stay and work on it. You can do really amazing things if you will.

CR: Yeah, SEAT has definitely taught me that no matter how hostile this space can be, if you are dedicated and passionate and work for it, you can make a positive impact.

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Drink, pray, love: Student finds passion for coffee, adventure Bradi Musil Managing Editor Eight siblings, eight countries and 19,341 feet.

Kara Crenshaw’s number of experiences would be impressive for someone at the end of their life, and it seems extraordinary for someone at just 21.

Sitting in The Golden Roast sipping a plain, AGE: 21 no-frills, black coffee, Crenshaw stands out with MAJOR: SOCIOLOGY her fly away, sandy blonde hair and a small WHY SHE’S COOL: Works house tattoo on the inside of her wrist. on the executive board of the “She was in my Welcome Week group ...

Muslim Student Association, And she walked in she had like a few dreads and is also involved with UT in her hair and a nose ring and a Goodwill shirt tucked into her mom-jean shorts, and Diversity Matters events and I remember thinking like, ‘Wow, this girl actions. has to be cool,” said Sarah Marshall, a What is one improvement you junior in public relations and Crenshaw’s want to see occur on campus? best friend.

“UT can be a hostile and difficult “People seek friends who are their ideal selves ... You tend to go towards campus to navigate through for people who are cooler than you are or me and other students who identify people who you wish you were like, with marginalized groups at times. and Kara is definitely my friend who Especially after our diversity programis like my ideal self.” ming was almost defunded, I think we Growing up with eight siblings need to make better efforts to address — two biological and six adopour campus’ problems that go beyond tive — Crenshaw knows how to events that merely talk about how great march to the beat of her own diversity is.” drum.

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Kara Crenshaw Alex Phillips • The Daily Beacon “My house is a nut house,” she said, laughing.

“My older brother and sister both have dogs. I have a dog, and my parents have three dogs. So, whenever we’re all home together, there’s like twelve people in our house and six dogs.”

One of Crenshaw’s first memories is traveling to China in the first grade to pick up her younger

brother and her first adopted sibling. Since then, Crenshaw said her family size and travel experience have been a constantly growing, giving her a passion to work with people and a sense of restless wanderlust.

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Archaeology student combines love of environment, adventure Eric Bailes

Contributor Like Dr. Ellie Sattler from “Jurassic Park,” Anna Patchen plans to be a prehistoric flora expert, paying particular attention to the plants of the southeast.

From the Southeast herself, Patchen is a Knoxville native who said she eventually wants to study the richness of Southeastern prehistory at sites like Pinson Mounds in West Tennessee and Russell Cave in Alabama.

Patchen is a junior in anthropology with a concentration in the archaeology and paleoethnobotany, or the relationship between plants and people. She also works at the Archaeology Research Laboratory on Middlebrook Pike, where she looks at different types of tiny, charred plant remains and sorts them out.

Kandace Hollenbach, an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology, taught Patchen in the fall in the capstone anthropology class.

“She’s a very quick learner, very dedicated student, and very enthusiastic about archaeology,” Hollenbach said. “She’s very

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sharp and has a lot of great promise.”

Specifically, Patchen studies the remains from plants in the Southeast, like acorn, hickory and corn. The plants she examines are typically plants that prehistoric natives of the region would eat or use in daily life.

Patchen said she has been interested in anthropology since she came to UT, but that her interest has compounded since and grown exponentially. Patchen said her interest in anthropology stems from its focus on not only what people have done, but why they have done it.

She said anthropology is about “knowing what has happened in the past and knowing why people have done the things they’ve done before, and how it shapes and improves the future.”

When she is not examining plants, Patchen can be found hiking in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. To celebrate the centennial of the National Park Service, the GSMNP has challenged people to hike 100 miles over the course of 2016. By doing so, anyone that logs 100 or more hours get a commemorative pin for the accomplishment.

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Student’s passion for language stands above the rest Caroline Mulloy

Eduarda Lague Alex Phillips • The Daily Beacon

Contributor If Eduarda Lague were to have a super power, it would probably be the ability to be in two places at one time.

Although this theory has not been disproven, it seems like, for now, the way Lague gets so many tasks accomplished is because of her passion and motivation.

Lague is a sophomore with a double major of political science and Hispanic studies as well as a double minor in Portuguese and Latin American studies.

Born in Brazil, Lague grew up hearing her family speak Portuguese and learning their cultural background. “I was raised learning about Brazilian culture by learning Portuguese, which is still a big part of my life,� Lague said.

Lague’s passion for language and culture followed her into the states and motivated her to become fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

Valuing the idea of community from her Brazilian family, Lague was inspired by the torchbearer when making a decision on college. “I was really inspired by the torchbearer and being able to shadow yourself to give to others, which is something that I live by,� Lague said. “The whole message about what the Center of Leadership and Service preaches and giving back to your community.�

Lague is a part of five different organizations

CHELSEA ALLISON AGE: 28 MAJOR: NUTRITION WHY SHE’S COOL: Involved in Get Fruved!, which is a large research campaign aimed at promoting health and wellness on our campus. Became president of the student organization component of Get Fruved!

on campus, which supports the theory of superhumanism.

When asked how she kept up with all of these different groups, she simply replied with, “I have to go to a lot of meetings.�

Lague stays involved with her sorority, Delta Zeta, by being a part of their executive board.

As academics chair, Lague encourages members whose GPAs have fallen and teaches them about good communication with faculty as well as helpful study methods. “I want to make sure that each member knows that we are here for college first and sorority

women second,� Lague said.

Teresa Ackerman, a junior in public relations and president of Delta Zeta, was extremely pleased with Lague’s innovation and commitment to her executive position. “Eduarda is very hard working, encouraging and is always thinking of new and innovative ideas for her executive position,� Ackerman said. “She has implemented multiple new academic goals and initiatives already just within her first semester as an executive board member.�

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What mark do you hope to leave on campus or in Knoxville when you graduate? “On campus, I hope to leave enthusiasm and a sense of initiative for the Get Fruved! student organization. I think this organization can continue to make strong connections around campus and bring positive change to the students. I hope I had a strong enough impact to help keep it going.�

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PATCHEN continued from Page 11 Having hiked in the Rockies and hiking the Grand Canyon rim-torim, hiking 100 miles in a year is no problem for Patchen. Currently, she sits at thirty-eight miles hiked, which she said is a good pace for the challenge.

The next big thing Patchen has planned is to hike the Appalachian Trail, a 2,190-mile trail that runs from Mount Katahdin, in Maine, to Springer Mountain, in Georgia.

Some other trails she is interested in are the Cumberland Trail, the Pacific Crest Trail and, for “Lord of the Rings” fans, to go to New Zealand and hike from the Shire to Mount Doom.

Her father, Allan Patchen, a lab manager at the Science and Engineering Research Facility, has nothing but positive words for his daughter. Whether it be her work with plants or her love for the outdoors, Patchen described his daughter as “diligent and determined to do whatever she wants.”

Overall, Patchen has a deep love for nature, whether it be enjoying it in person or studying how other people have interacted with it in a lab.

CRENSHAW continued from Page 10 After graduating from high school, Crenshaw decided to enroll in a gap year program that allowed her to travel abroad for a year and work with different community service based internships.

She spent one semester interning in Denver, Colorado, before moving on to work in Haiti, Rwanda, India, the Philippines and Tanzania, where she climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, the tallest freestanding mountain in the world and a dormant volcano reaching 19,341 ft.

Crenshaw worked with a coffee exporting business as a marketing intern while in Rwanda, where she said she fell in love with the coffee industry.

“Everything about the coffee industry is very community based,” Crenshaw said.

“On the farmer side, it’s like whole villages working to support this coffee farm, and on this side, people have really interesting conversations over coffee all the time.”

Crenshaw said her favorite part about working with at the coffee exporting plant

LAGUE continued from Page 12 Lague went through sorority recruitment with no knowledge of Greek life, but her motivation for becoming a recruitment counselor, or Gamma Chi, came from her own experience with recruitment.

“My Gamma Chi, Sydney Walter, made recruitment a really great experience, and I ended up falling in love with my chapter and I really wanted to give that experience to other girls and help them find their home,” Lague said.

Sydney Walter, senior in supply chain management, said she believes in Lague’s ability to succeed as a sorority recruitment counselor.

“I know that Eduarda will excel as a Gamma Chi because of her love and dedication for sisterhood, her bubbly spirit and her eagerness to help future members experience the same sisterhood that she is apart of,” Walter said.

Lague is involved with the Me for UT organization as well. She works with admissions events to “show multicultural students that this is an inclusive environment for everybody.”

Lague is also co-president of I Am That Girl.

This organization brings women on campus together to discuss social issues.

“We talk about social issues and personal issues surrounding women, basically making it an open forum,” Lague said. “Instead of encouraging competition, rather (we encourage) working with each other.”

The law fraternity Phi Alpha Delta is new to campus, and Lague jumped at the opportunity to get involved right away as a political science

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I didn’t feel like I had roots. So, I got the house to remind me that I have a home wherever I go.”

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was getting to help write curriculum to teach the coffee farming villages about health, wellness, nutrition, hygiene and family planning.

“In rural Rwanda that information doesn’t flow very well, and it was cool to see how that company built up the communities that they were doing busi-

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I couldn’t do it if I didn’t have a passion for these groups and clubs. It is never a task or a burden for me.”

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major. She was elected communications officer for next semester’s executive board. As a new organization, Lague said campus awareness is a priority for the group.

“We are hoping to host more workshops and getting people more involved,” Lague said.

With all of these organizations and accomplishments, Lague said the way she stays motivated and looking for the next way to get involved is passion.

“I couldn’t do it if I didn’t have a passion for these groups and clubs. It is never a task or a burden for me,” Lague said. “I have met so many amazing people and had so many opportunities.”

ness with,” Crenshaw said. “I had known that I wanted to work with people and it was cool to see how this coffee exporting business, that could be this really sterile, hands-off environment how much impact they could have on these rural villages.”

Now, Crenshaw is a junior studying supply chain management and hoping to work in the fair trade coffee industry, having worked at local coffee shops like Blue Mason and Old City Java for the past few years.

She continues to add stamps to her passport, traveling to places like Italy, Iceland, Canada and the Caribbean since starting college. With so much experience under her belt, Crenshaw said it can be difficult sometimes to feel grounded, but the little black house inked into her arm serves as a constant reminder.

“Jackson, Tennessee, where I grew up, is a really small town, and I never loved it, and I guess I just didn’t click with it” she said. “And since I had traveled so much, I never really felt super connected to one place I guess. I didn’t feel like I had roots.

“So, I got the house to remind me that I have a home wherever I go.”

MILLER continued from Page 4 paintings on the Rock also received acclaim from outside the Tennessee fan base. ESPN contacted Miller and asked for her permission to use her portrait of Peyton Manning on its Twitter feed. The SEC Network pregame show “SEC Nation” filmed Miller painting the Rock when it was in town for Tennessee’s Oct. 10 showdown against Georgia. She watched the five-minute segment air backstage and had the opportunity to meet the SEC Nation crew, which boasts former SEC superstars Tim Tebow, Greg McElroy and Marcus Spears.

Spears even requested she paint a picture of Tennessee alum Paul Finebaum on the Rock the next time SEC Nation visited Knoxville.

“I think it certainly has added to the excitement of game day and has given her some notoriety,” Greg Miller, Payton Miller’s father, said. “I think more than anything it’s fun for a lot of the fans. She gets a lot of feedback, and I think people are at the point where they sort of look forward to what she might put on the Rock. I think it has been fun for our family ...

“And more than anything, as her dad, I like watching people appreciate and admire her work the day after.”

Painting has always been a favorite hobby for Miller. But right now, it’s just a hobby.

Miller, a biochemistry major, is as diligent in her studies as she is in her paintings.

She holds a high GPA, and spends her evenings like any other studious pupil: lodged in the library, reviewing classroom notes and other academic-related materials.

It didn’t take long for Greg Miller to recognize his daughter possessed a special talent.

She quickly picked up painting as a child. She

FORD continued from Page 3 “I really love this, and I got really passionate about it,” Ford said. “I’m glad I learned production — I’m glad I know how to write, but graphic design is like my career.”

Even though Ford grew up “a huge UT fan,” he does more than sports graphics. He has done freelance work, including for political campaigns.

He has designed the logo for his high school, which the school still uses.

“I love working with athletics but any sort of design I get to do I really appreciate,” Ford said.

“I love sports, and I’m glad I get to work in that, but I also enjoy doing other projects.”

His favorite project outside of athletics was a graduation card he made for a friend who was about to attend graduate school at Auburn. It was a project where Ford had entire creative control.

“Anytime I get to be hands on with a project, work on the computer and use materials and do nice printing and that sort of thing, those are a lot of my favorite kinds of projects,” Ford said.

No matter how much Ford said he loves

received art lessons once a week in elementary school and took several classes in high school.

But other than that, Miller didn’t receive much formal training. “(Art) was something I enjoyed,” Miller said. “I am little bit of a perfectionist about some things, and art was one of those things.

Growing up, I was pretty meticulous about art, and I would spend a lot of time on it. Even if I didn’t get to practice frequently, the things I did practice, I made them count.”

Greg and Payton Miller have always been close. Greg Miller always tried to take his daughter out to breakfast once a week so the two could spend time together, and Miller usually gave her father a painting as a gift on his birthday or on Father’s Day. So naturally when Miller wants to paint the Rock, she calls her dad. And her dad remains by her side through the entire process.

Miller usually paints the Rock the Friday night before a football game. If she has time, she likes to eat at Copper Cellar before she begins painting, ordering an apple cobbler.

Then she heads to Walmart to pick up around 30 cans of spray paint, spending around $130 each time she paints a picture.

Then it’s time to paint. Painting the Rock isn’t an easy endeavor, as the Rock isn’t a smooth surface by any means.

“I kind of know the lay of the Rock,” Miller said. “I know where the crevices are, I know where the hills are. There is a line of perspective that I paint each of my paintings from. If you notice, if you walk around the Rock, it looks a little bit different from every angle, and then there is one angle, if you stand there, it looks proportional. That’s where I paint it from.”

Miller spray paints the base coat first. She then stands back, and sketches the picture with her finger. This helps her visualize the image

Student Appreciation Day • Thursday, April 7, 2016 • The Daily Beacon she wants to paint. She then paints an outline and starts color blocking.

The task usually takes all night, but Miller either has her brother or her dad by her side the entire night to ensure everything operates smoothly.

“To watch her do it, it’s really hard to imagine how she does it,” Greg Miller said. “If you get up that close to it, it doesn’t look like anything, it just looks like a bunch of colors. Then she will step back and look at it and then step up and paint some more. I am just amazed how it comes out of her head and out of her hand.”

Miller has remained humble throughout the entire process. When she mentioned updating her resume to her friends last Saturday, she hadn’t even thought of including her paintings on the Rock.

McKinsey Patterson, a friend of Miller and a junior nursing, said if someone met Miller for the first time, she probably wouldn’t mention that she paints the Rock before home games.

“And if she did, she certainly wouldn’t give the details on how well (her paintings) do on social media and how much of a hit she has become,” Patterson said.

But her peers have no problem admiring her artwork.

“It’s something none of us can do,” Mckenzie said. “All of the (football team), we see and we appreciate (her paintings). That’s a cool thing.” “(Tennessee) is a school that’s given a lot to me so far in the three years I have been here,” Miller added. “Anyway my painting cans help, I totally love that, and I hope I have given people something to look forward to on game day.”

Miller plans to attend medical school after she graduates, joking that she hopes there is a rock at UT Memphis.

And yes, she also plans on painting the rock her senior year, too.

design though, going to work is still going to work.

“I’ve learned that regardless of what your job is, even if you love your job, there’s days when you’re not going to like your job,” Ford said. “I love showing up to work and I love doing this and I can’t imagine doing anything else, but there’s still days when you’re like ‘this sucks. I’d rather be home doing something else’ … That was a hard lesson for me.”

Instead of eating a whole pizza or sleeping the weekend away though, being bogged down with work simply propels Ford to keep creating — but on his own terms.

“I find that sometimes I have to sit back and do a project for me,” Ford said. “Something that I care about outside of athletics, something that I can have just complete freedom in creating something. That’s really helpful for me.”

Josh Lively, a senior in journalism and electronic media and one of Ford’s best friends since the fifth grade, said Ford is a true campus influencer — even if people don’t know it.

“As a graphic designer, Evan’s work is phenomenal,” Lively said, citing Ford’s work for athletics and ESPN. “… I have heard people talk about the designs he has made, but most of the

time, they never even begin to think about who created them. It’s just not something that comes to people’s minds when they see photos and designs on social media accounts.”

After graduation, Ford hopes his career eventually launches him into a creative director position with an athletic team or brand.

“To control a visual identity of a company, I think that would be really, really cool,” Ford said with a giddy but bashful grin. “Where you’re kind of steering the ship and you’re making the decisions.”

However, his dream job would be to design uniforms with Nike— a job Lively thinks Ford would be perfect for.

“Anytime a college or professional sports team changes their uniform designs, he knows about it. When Nike and Tennessee signed their contract, Evan read the entire thing to find out all the details about what was going to be different,” Lively said. “… By the time we graduated high school, Evan had drawn alternate uniforms for every football team amongst the “Power 5” conference schools. One day, I have no doubt in my mind that Evan will help in designing uniforms for a major company like Nike or Under Armour.”

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The Daily Beacon • Thursday, April 7, 2016 • Student Appreciation Day