The Daily Beacon

Issue 57, Volume 122

Monday, April 8, 2013

Baker-Atchley takes election, hope to make SGA relevant again R.J. Vogt News Editor

Preston Peeden Associate Editor For Baker-Atchley, the SGA election results were well worth the wait.

After Thursday’s technology snafu, which delayed the results announcement to Friday, the Baker-Atchley campaign took the offices of SGA President and Vice President, with Jake Baker and Paige Atchley winning respectively, while Engage UT’s candidate Grant Davis won the position of Student Services Director.

Running under a platform of Janie Prathammavong • The Daily Beacon simplified transparency, BakerWill Logan, election commissioner, announces results Atchley won those two major for the 2013 SGA election on April 5.

positions by more than 300 votes in each instance.

“It feels unreal. I don’t think it’s hit me yet,” Baker, a junior in political science, said of the win.

The pair hope to bring in a breath of fresh air to SGA. “We’re going to bring a lot of different perspectives into this organization,” Baker said.

“Paige and I, our campaign was completely focused on making SGA relevant to this campus because a lot of students don’t really care that much about SGA anymore.”

This fresh perspective can also be seen in the voter turnout, as 4,887 total votes were cast. Of that number, 4,710 were from the undergraduate student body, which represented nearly 25 percent of their population.

After counting votes from graduate students, 19.2 percent of the total student population participated in this year’s election.

Despite losing the presidential race, Lindsay Lee, junior in Spanish and math and Amplify presidential candidate, had only positive things to say about her former opponent and now president, Jake Baker. In a phone conversation Sunday afternoon, Lee expressed hope for SGA’s future.

“Even though we disagreed on some stuff, we all want to make UT’s SGA much better than it is right now,” she said.

“So I look forward to working with them. They’re going to do some really good things.”

In other positions up for grabs, Martin Walker was

voted Graduate Student Senate President and Damien E. Pitts was elected GSS Vice President.

Both ran unopposed.

The senate seats, filled by representatives from residence halls and colleges, will be occupied by candidates from all three campaigns. Of 73 possible seats, the Engage party won 38, Amplify won 19 and Baker-Atchley won 13. There were three seats unfilled because the Massey, Reese and Clement residence halls all lacked enough candidates.

The Responsible Investment Referendum was passed by a count of 3,590 to 860.

“The conversation about SGA has changed this year,” Baker said. “And we’re hoping to continue with that progress.”

Prominent Students work to ratify Equal Rights Amendment architect Emilee Lamb to speak on campus Staff Writer

Claire Dodson Copy Editor World-renowned architect Billie Tsien will visit McClung Museum at 5:30 tonight to discuss her style of architecture and the work of her award-winning firm, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects.

The event is sponsored

by General Shale Brick and is part of the College of Architecture and Design’s Church Lecture Series.

Tsien, an Asian-American woman, is widely regarded as a pioneer in the field of architecture and is known for her modernist style of simple lines and clean considerations of space. She and Tod Williams, her husband, like to work on public spaces, places that people interact with every day.

Amanda Gann, master’s in architecture candidate, served as the graduate member of the lecture series committee last semester and assisted with planning Tsien’s visit to Knoxville. Since she was first introduced to the firm’s work five years ago, Gann has professed her desire for Tsien to speak at UT. “Billie Tsien is one of the most highly regarded architects in the profession,” Gann said. “Her firm has been recognized nationally and internationally, and she is also a masterful speaker.

“She crafts her words as she would a building, with precision and poetry within each strand or sequence.”

Gann spent time in Philadelphia last summer and had the opportunity to see one of Tsien’s firm’s works, the Barnes Foundation, being built. Tsien received the 2013 AIA Honor Award for Architecture for this 93,000-square-foot museum.

“Each day I would sit on the low wall by the reflecting pond and enjoy a quiet lunch in the warm sun as I watched the work of art take shape,” Gann said. “The spaces they create are breathtaking. It was an incredible experience.”

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Market Square on the weekend is a fun place to be, activists gathered there Friday night for more than just a good time. Several graduate students spent the evening promoting the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.

The Equal Rights Amendment, if added to the U.S. Constitution, would make legal provision to prevent discrimination based on gender.

While to some this may seem like an irrelevant issue in today’s society, Jenna Hippensteel, a second year master’s student in social work, would disagree.

“We believe that adding the ERA to the constitution is invaluable to men and women alike because it guarantees equality for everyone,” Hippensteel said. “Passing the ERA at the national level could be a step toward gender equality whether in workplace leadership, the wage gap between men and women, or in congressional

“W

Pilgrimage explores biodiversity of Smokies Staff Reports Sixty-three years ago, Bart Leiper had a big idea that’s blossomed into one of the area’s most-loved spring rituals: the Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage in the Smokies.

Back then, Leiper, general manager of Gatlinburg’s Chamber of Commerce, wanted to develop an event that showcased the vast amount of flora and fauna in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

He wrote to Samuel Meyer, then head of the botany department at UT, requesting the department arrange a spring flower jubilee.

Seeing the opportunity to turn the park into a giant outdoor classroom for students, botanists and nature-lovers alike, Meyer agreed.

Meyer recruited UT professors Fred Norris and Royal Shanks to work alongside Great Smoky Mountains National Park naturalist Art Stupka and the city of Gatlinburg to organize the first

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Friday’s Market Square and (that) there are only 100 dents,” Hippensteel stated. event focused its efforts on female congressional repre- “We also have a Facebook page that we encourage stuinforming the general public sentatives out of 538.”

Despite small numbers, dents to visit titled “Passing about this amendment and encouraging citizens to take Hippensteel deemed her the Equal Rights Amendment — Advanced Policy Practice group’s event a success. action.

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ever Wildflower Pilgrimage.

Today, the Wildflower Pilgrimage attracts more than a thousand people from thirty-five states and other countries. The four-day event features more than 140 guided walks and indoor presentations that cover the region’s rich wildflowers, fauna, ecology, cultural and natural history. More than a hundred leaders from UT and surrounding states take part.

“This is a unique opportunity to experience the most biologically diverse area in the continental US,” Ken McFarland, chair of the Wildflower Pilgrimage organizing committee and lecturer in the biology department, said.

Participants can learn about edible, medicinal and otherwise useful plants, photograph wildflowers and see some of the grandest wildflower displays in the Smokies.

This year’s event will be held April 23 through 27.

Online registration is now open.

Project.”

Although Friday night’s event was the last the team had planned to raise awareness about the issue, Hippensteel is optimistic that the impact of their actions will continue to resonate.

“I would really like to encourage students to get involved in this issue,” she said. “If students are from one of the states that haven’t passed the ERA — particularly Florida, Georgia, Illinois or Arkansas — it is really important for them to express their views about the ERA to their legislators, as these states are closest to ratification.”

At least one UT student feels that the efforts of Hippensteel and her colleagues is worthwhile.

“I think that by continuing to raise awareness among college campuses, such as UT, students will realize that their opinion matters and they can take part in the ratification of the ERA,” Caitlin Evans, a freshman in anthropology, said. “This would be good for our generation to step up and have a voice.”

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Monday, April 8, 2013 Associate Editor Preston Peeden

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Senator Campfield wrong about ‘Sex Week’ To Senator Campfield: As of late, UT’s “Sex Week” has become a hot topic on both national and statewide stages. One side of this issue takes the stance that this event will be an effective foray into university-level sex education and a dialogue on admittedly uncomfortable topics; the other side seeks to dismiss the event as a parade of perversion on the taxpayer’s dime.

Over $11,000 in promised funding have already been pulled from “Sex Week;” The Tennessean reports that the university will allow $6,700 in student fees to continue to fund the event. The Huffington Post notes that you, however, are seeking to have these funds pulled as well, as you believe “It’s the same as tuition dollars because the students cannot opt out.” According to UT’s website, the university has a student population of “over 27,000.” Some simple division quickly shows that the bill in student fees for “Sex Week” comes out to a whopping $0.25 per student, an iota of the $1,290 I paid in various fees over the 2012-2013 school year. Ten dollars of those fees (forty times the fee money used for “Sex Week”) were Undergraduate Study Abroad fees — what a shame for students who do not wish to study abroad. The fact of the matter is that all students will partially pay for events and programs they will not or do not wish to utilize. Unless, of course, we should decide that the study abroad program suddenly needs new scrutiny as well.

Furthermore, very few “Sex Week” events have objectionable-sounding titles, with the number of educational events far outnumbering the lighter events (a calendar of events can be accessed at http://sexweekut.org/schedule/). Even suggestively named events have merit in terms of edu-

cation and empowerment — “Bow Chicka Bow WOAH!” for example, includes the issue of communication with one’s partner and “not-alwaysimplied consent,” according to the organization’s website. Other events address more serious topics including “Sex, Gender, and the Law,” “The Birds, the Bees, and the Bible,” “How Can UTK Stop Sexual Assault?” and an open table with the Student Health Center. All of these address serious topics whose educational merits are self-evident — these events make up a majority of the programming.

Still others may object to the inclusion of events regarding the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community — such as “Loud and Queer” and a drag show. However, “Sex Week” is about exploring sex and sexuality, and the American Psychological Association (APA) takes a firm stand that “both heterosexual behavior and homosexual behavior are normal aspects of human sexuality.” Both have been documented in many different cultures and historical eras.

Despite the persistence of stereotypes that portray lesbian, gay and bisexual people as disturbed, several decades of research and clinical experience have led all mainstream medical and mental health organizations in this country to conclude that these orientations represent normal forms of human experience. Lesbian, gay and bisexual relationships are normal forms of human bonding. This also goes for transgender individuals, about whom the APA states that, “A psychological state is considered a mental disorder only if it causes significant distress or disability. Many transgender people do not experience their gender as distressing or disabling, which implies that identifying as transgender

does not constitute a mental disorder.” An organization of psychological professionals says that LGBTQ individuals are expressing normal variations on human sexuality and gender, which academically legitimizes their inclusion in “Sex Week.”

Regarding the reporting that, according to your blog, sparked your concerns: the Town Hall piece about so-called “lesbian bondage expert” (whose workshop is about sexuality in writing and poetry, according to “Sex Week’s” schedule) and the Fox News story “verifying” it, as the Metro Pulse points out, are the same Todd Starnes piece, cross-posted on two different websites. Moreover, The Daily Beacon’s editor-in-chief, Blair Kuykendall, called the piece “one of the most flagrantly irresponsible pieces of journalism (she has) ever laid (her) eyes on.” Kuykendall goes on to say that, “Instead of accurately reflecting ‘Sex Week’s’ goal, Mr. Starnes completely ignores its holistic approach to a topic that is specifically relevant in a college setting until the very last paragraph of the article. UT Media Relations director Karen Simsen clearly states that the week’s content will have a broad scope.” Given that the title of the article in question is “University of Tennessee Uses Student Fees to Host Lesbian Bondage Expert,” rather than something more neutral and accurate (i.e. “University of Tennessee to Host First-Ever ‘Sex Week’”), it is clear that Mr. Starnes’ intent was not to inform his readers, but to inflame their emotions.

During a phone conversation I had with you previously, you expressed concerns about minors attending “Sex Week” events — you cited high school-aged students attending dual enrollment courses at UT as an example of this. Yet

even your infamous SB-49, the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, allows topics other than heterosexual sexuality to be taught in high school settings. Moreover, if the parents of said minors are concerned, it is their responsibility to know where their children are and what kind of events they are attending, not “Sex Week’s.” And, speaking as an individual who was a high school student not so long ago, I can assure you many high schoolers are well aware of the realities of sex and sexuality.

All in all, I understand why people are passionate about this topic. Sex is difficult to talk about. It touches nerves

that span into a number of areas — health, family, religion, morals, love. But this does not change the fact that sex and sexuality are issues nearly everyone faces at some point in his or her personal life. Poorly informed decisions can literally cost lives — diseases like HIV, hepatitis B and syphilis are serious public health threats that often show no symptoms. This is why “Sex Week” is important: if problems surrounding sexuality and sex are to be resolved, they must be discussed. UT’s mission states that it seeks, “to move forward the frontiers of human knowledge and enrich and elevate the citizens of the

state of Tennessee, the nation, and the world.” We cannot move forward until we talk about these issues in the light of day — discomfort aside.

Moving forward, I entreat you to tell the whole truth about “Sex Week,” do some research, and talk to the university’s student body, and then allow those factors to inform your decisions as a legislator. If you find yourself unable to do this, the solution is simple: resign your seat and make way for someone who will.

— Caleb Cook is a freshman in theatre. He can be reached at ccook34@utk.edu.

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‘Sex Week’ rightly defunded As a proud alumnus of UT and a former columnist for this publication who stays abreast of the goings on at UT, I came across Professor Jeffrey Kovac’s recent letter, “Administration errs in defunding ‘Sex Week.’” This letter deserves a response, which can be summarized as follows: (i) Chancellor Cheek acted inappropriately in banning state funds for “Sex Week;” (ii) “Sex Week” is an immature waste of money; and (iii) American higher education has disturbing academic freedom issues unrelated to this incident.

I appreciate the unenviable situation of faculty at public universities. Academic freedom, an idea enshrined in Western academia since Plato’s Academy and central to the mission of the university, is in natural conflict with the harsh reality of state funding and the attendant responsibility of public officials to ensure state funds are spent in a manner that is responsible and in accord with the wishes of the public. While I do not purport to resolve this inherent tension, I do know that the proper forum of debate is via the revenue, budget and appropriation processes of the state of Tennessee.

If the state wishes to revisit the strings attached to certain appropriations next year, it may do so, but for Chancellor Cheek to interfere with the funding of “Sex Week” at the eleventh hour on a noncontent-neutral basis is a gross violation of academic freedom. Having said that, “Sex Week” strikes me as an immature, asinine idea. As “Saturday Night Live” writer Anne Beatts once said, “you can only be avant-garde for

so long before you become garde,” and “Sex Week” is decidedly garde.

Even before the first “Sex Week” at Yale University in 2002, the principles of open sexual dialogue, reception of others’ sexual expression regardless of personal views, and inclusiveness of “nontraditional” sexual preferences had become established campus orthodoxy. “Sex Week,” far from living up to Professor Kovac’s moniker of “edgy,” is passé – an excuse for aging professors who never got over the ‘60s to imagine that they are still Castro in the jungle instead of the President’s Mansion and a chance for their acolytes to create a lineitem for med school resumes.

The “edgy” lectures are not edgy. The “Sex Week” website tells us that “How Many Licks Does It Take . . .” will discuss “oral sex and more.” I’m not sure what there is to discuss about oral sex at UT other than that it occurs frequently to varying degrees of success.

If this lecture is a “how to,” I have always believed that fellatio and cunnilingus were, like any discipline worth learning, better developed via hard work and practice than classroom instruction. Nor does it change the calculus that there are conservative options. It just makes “Sex Week” equal opportunity stupid. I’m not arguing that there is zero value in all of these activities, but it is difficult for me to imagine that these funds could not serve some purpose (bonuses to incentivize faculty to teach night classes and lessen overcrowding, scholarships for needy students, etc.) that is closer to the school’s core mission.

Finally, not only is

Professor Kovac mistaken in seeing creeping McCarthyism around every bend when his ilk are now “the man,” or in assuming that all opposition to “Sex Week” is rooted in moral opprobrium, but he fails to address the real problem of academic freedom in higher education – total intolerance of dissent from the far left orthodoxy of the university. Far from being an arena for open debate, the university has adopted speech codes, lower standards of due process for males accused of sexual assault, and, anecdotally, eye-rolling contempt for the expression of libertarian or conservative student ideas.

A recent survey of professors found that only 11.9 percent would classify themselves as conservative, whereas 62.7 percent would classify themselves as liberal (before you complain that this is because conservatives lack the desire or mental aptitude for academic work, remember that these arguments were once used to justify the exclusion of black Americans from academia). If Professor Kovac wants to start promoting academic freedom, then reducing the social opprobrium for expressing libertarian or conservative ideas would be a good start.

Sincerely, Taylor Tipton B.A. 2008

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Mary Mahoney, assistant director of UT’s recruiting services, offers advice to students on seeking employment during an interviewing workshop offered by Career Services on April 4.

ARCHITECTURE continued from Page 1 Tsien will be the first female speaker in the current series. As a minority in the field of architecture, she brings a perspective that, for Kiki Roeder, director of communication in the College of Architecture and Design, is unique.

“It’s uncommon to see such a successful woman in this field,” Roeder said. “But she is a pioneer and is passionate about what she does.”

Roeder also emphasized the importance of Tsien’s work in that it operates in

the public sphere and has farreaching effects.

“She works with what is all around us,” Roeder said. “We don’t stop to think about an architect’s choice of design or materials or their decisions on how it is built. It’s all around us. Architecture is a part of our everyday life.”

Although mostly architecture majors attend this lecture series, students in various disciplines can benefit from seeing such an important perspective in contemporary architecture. Geneva Hill, a marketing design assistant in the Art and Architecture office of communications, regretted the opportunities to

see influential speakers she missed out on as an undergraduate and highlighted the educational experience that Tsien’s lecture will bring to non-architecture students.

“One of the great things about Tsien’s design and process is the manner in which she addresses all aspects,” Hill said. “Even if you have no background in design, the lessons about how she views human experience in space are applicable to all fields.

“We can all learn about the human mind and about ourselves from it. We spend most of our time in a built environment, whether we realize it or not.”

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‘Sex Week’ highlights problems in higher ed A few weeks ago, UT’s administration pulled funding for “Sex Week” after state legislators took offense with some of the more risqué items on its curriculum. Although the organizers of “Sex Week” have managed to come out on top of this controversy, their struggle sets a new precedent of academic persecution in Tennessee.

When news about “Sex Week” first broke, lawmakers like Stacey Campfield and Bill Dunn were practically foaming at the mouth.

Campfield called for a complete review (and implied reduction) of the UT’s budget, and Dunn is now leading an inquisition into the university’s budget office in an attempt to harass the individual responsible for giving “Sex Week” the green light, all because UT students came together and voiced their desire for comprehensive sex education at the college level. Never mind the fact that “Sex Week” would have cost the state less than Chancellor Jimmy Cheek’s upcoming bonus alone.

What’s worse is that rather than coming to the defense of their student body, UT administrators turned tail and gave in to the state’s demands. This is where the real problem lies: not in the fact that we have a conservative legislature, but in the fact that we do not have an administration willing to assert its autonomy against the illegitimate whims of that legislature. The whole beauty of the university system is that it’s supposed to be able to set its own curriculum. It’s dynamic. It provides students and researchers the ability to address important issues as they see fit without excessive political or ideological oversight.

When the administration failed to stand behind “Sex Week,” it failed to stand behind its entire student body, its research staff and its faculty. More so, it failed to stand

behind the notions of academic freedom and democratic decision making that we were all promised when we agreed to attend UT. It sent the message that we Volunteers are not free to conduct our business in peace, that we must always be watching over our shoulders.

To be blunt, we’ve been had.

As a graduate student and member of the Graduate Workers Organizing Committee (GWOC) – part of United Campus Workers – this is particularly disconcerting, just as it should be for all faculty and staff on campus.

Simply because “Sex Week” managed to make it out of the foray does not mean that the rest of us can breathe any sighs of relief. Now is the time, more than ever, for teachers at UT to stand behind their students and demand the freedom and democracy that we all deserve.

If we do not, then we are ultimately granting state lawmakers the authority to dictate our curricula and persecute one of the last bastions of academic freedom here in Tennessee.

If you think this is far fetched, think again.

State lawmakers have already expressed disdain for programs on campus promoting climate science, evolution, race and gender equality, etc. Who is to say they won’t use their newfound privilege to silence these issues as well? GWOC stands in solidarity with “Sex Week,” because we realize the threat this issue poses to ALL of us as students, teachers and researchers. This time it was “Sex Week,” next time it may very well be your program on the line.

— St. Thomas LeDoux is an alumni of UT and current MS student in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science. He can be reached at sledoux@utk.edu.

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Julia Ross In this year’s Student Government Association elections, nearly a quarter of the student population voted. This is a second year of increased voter turnout and an affirmation that a cultural shift within SGA, from a résumé filler and social group toward a sophisticated and democratic body, is occurring. Legitimacy is being reestablished, and a sense of civic responsibility is stirring in minds across campus. Though we are free from the limiting dichotomous conversations that judge the merits of “small government” against those of “big government” in campus politics, we have yet to accept, collectively, that the very structure of our “representative” government has erected obstacles to high quality discourse and civic participation in our campus community. Democratic governance cannot be sustained, much less built, without a demanding, attentive citizenry that continues to participate after the election season ends to ensure that their elected representatives are acting well, working toward the greater good of the university, and fulfilling, better yet, expanding, the potential of their office to promote positive change.

In order for students to continue to care about government, they must have access to civic and political education, be encouraged to participate through meaningful and substantive forums, and be provided with expanded democratic spaces. In our context, access to civic and political education means increased substantive communication. I would like to see every senator present his or her constituents with a draft of their policy goals at the start of each semester and hold town hall style meetings at the end of each semester in which they present their accomplishments for critique or approval. Further, I think that whenever a senator is absent without excuse from meeting, his or her constituents should be alerted via email, and reminded under which campaign

that senator ran for office.

When the senate loses quorum, I think it needs to be publicized broadly on SGA’s website, social media, campus press and constituents’ email. Instead of the random proxy system in place now for absentees, I think senators who ran and did not get elected for the seat in question should be made part of a proxy pool and be the first to be called on to refill a seat.

In order for students to feel that SGA is a meaningful and substantive forum through which they can communicate their needs and values to the broader world, significant campaign management reform is necessary. I think that a $7,000 cap on campaign spending is far too high and promotes the common and fundamentally exclusionary system which requires senators and executive members to “pay dues” in order to run on a ticket. Campaigns should only be allowed to distribute their policy plans during campaign week. This would force them to focus on researching and writing policy during campaign preparation weeks instead of fundraising, and to speak with students as responsible, thoughtful adults instead of hungry masses during campaign week.

Finally, in order to expand access to democratic spaces, SGA, as most campaigns would agree, needs to get out of the Shiloh Room.

They should be holding easily accessible office hours and town hall meetings for their constituents, along with sending monthly email newsletters, which include updates on their legislative research and voting record.

This level of accountability may seem radical now, but if we can create a system in which senators have an incentive for productivity and students have tangible items, like an email or physical meeting, to respond to, transparency and legitimacy is likely to improved, a stated goal of every campaign that ran this year. If we want our representative system to work for students, structural obstacles to constituent engagement must be dismantled. Good voter turnout is a start, but it isn’t enough.

— Julia Ross is a sophomore double majoring in microbiology and political science. She may be reached at jross26@utk.edu.

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This past week, I read an article on LinkedIn written by a Yale senior, Bijan Stephen, who believes that those of us the world considers “millennials” are going to have a knock-out, drag-out time out in the real world. Part of me believes him, but the eternal optimist in me hopes we stand some fighting chance.

Stephen’s article uses data from a study of students who graduated during the middle of the recession of the 1980s. The correlations are staggering. Some of what that report says: if you graduate in a bad economy, you’re going to have lower wages throughout your lifetime. There’s also a huge wage loss through each year for the same group.

That should be terrifying. Now, to compare the recession of the 1980s to the one we have been experiencing and to keep them on equal footing, you’d have to discount the whole culture of unpaid internships that has come in recent years and the fact that everyone is almost always working, even when they are off, because of the advances in technology. These two additions make the future our generations face astronomically worse.

Stephen doesn’t going into much discussion about these, so I will.

An unpaid internship is limiting for those who need experience but are also financially obligated to bills. I was an intern during my junior year, and I struggled to juggle work and the internship on top of school. Working full time results in you only having a limited number of hours to fit everything else into the day. I would wake up around 8, go to class until 1 or 2, rush to my internship until 5 and then head to work. I’d finally get home,

then work on my homework if I had anything left in me until 2 or 3 in the morning. Repeat all of that for five days of the week.

I had to work, though. There weren’t any other options. Had the internship paid me, I would have been able to reduce my hours at my full time job, which would also give me more time to sleep and complete my work.

Weekends were spent finishing every assignment I hadn’t been able to complete during the week. I wish I could say this juggling act didn’t take its toll on my grades, but it did.

Those outside of internships and the whole technology issue that speaks for itself, as it causes ridiculous levels of stress that have never existed before, argue that it shouldn’t be that big of a factor for our generation because we were “raised” with it. You can’t assume it’s less stressful. We’ve just gotten really good at either dealing with things or letting them go.

To throw in my final note, I do have hope.

I do, and maybe I should be a little more terrified because graduation is running at me full sprint, and with four weeks left, out of the 24 applications I have sent out and cover letters I have perfected, I have not received one response. I know that my location is fighting against me. There haven’t been many networking opportunities for my publishing dreams in Knoxville.

I’ll keep fighting, though, having already beaten the odds of graduating college in four years, as a financially independent woman raised in a poverty-level income bracket. I fought my way here tooth and nail. I will continue to do so until my dreams are realized.

Dear employers: hire me because I am not afraid of success.

— Kayla Graham is a senior in English literature. She can be reached at kgraham7@ utk.edu.

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Katie Wiggs, a senior in social work, looks over EUReCA Winner Jennifer Grant’s ‘You Know Your Voice is Kind of Nice When Your Mouth Isn’t Screwing it up’ on March 19.

UT organizations engage high schoolers Victoria Brown Contributor High school seniors recently received an idea of what student life is like at UT. The Minority Enhancement program at UT hosted an event Friday entitled “Showtime: All Orange Everything� to display the talents of various organizations around campus.

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ME4UT hosts the event each spring semester. This year’s event was hosted by Paul Troy, junior in history and education, and Diane Tate, junior in communication studies and political science. The performances put on ranged from modeling, singing, spoken word, dance and stepping. Also, to keep the audience entertained, DJ

and senior in political science Jonathan Daily, also known as “John Doe,� kept the music flowing throughout the night.

Tia Shack, junior in journalism and electronic media and ME4UT member, said the organization has changed their message of diversity from last year. “Within the group we have selected members of various

cultures as well as the groups of students that we have coming on the trips,� Shack said. “We have seen more diversity within the students who come on the trip.�

The night started out with an awesome performance from the university’s Love United Gospel Choir (LUGC).

They led the show off with their high energy and enthu-

siasm. People of Style and Education (P.O.S.E.) wowed the audience with their modeling skills and stylish outfits.

At one point, the members even brought audience members on stage to “work the runway� along with them.

Talents in dance were shown by UT dance organizations Allure and Strange Fruit Dance Company. Allure used

hip-hop styles, while Strange Fruit Dance Co. used various methods of dance, ranging from ballet to jazz.

Another dance performance was put on by the Alpha Chi Omega Sorority. In addition to dance, cheerleading was also showcased during the performance.

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• Photo courtesy of NEEDTOBREATHE

Needtobreathe pleases Knoxville crowd Molly Loftus Staff Writer Needtobreathe, a rock band from Seneca, S.C., performed at the Tennessee Theatre on Thursday evening to brighten up a rainy day with uplifting Christian lyrics.

The band features childhood friends, and brothers, Bear and Bo Rinehart, on dueling guitars.

A slew of instruments were presented on stage throughout the night, including the organ, mandolin and harmonica, to name a few. Bear Rinehart transitioned from instrument to instrument seemingly effortlessly, which kept the audience captivated and eager for every song.

Knoxville native Josh Lovelace joined the band on tour as its keyboardist.

“Every time before coming on stage I tell the band, ‘Push it hard enough to make some mistakes, because this crowd does not deserve perfection,’” Rinehart said as he transitioned into an original rendition of

“Stand By Me.” “Perfection is boring in my opinion. You all came here to be part of a show tonight, am I right?”

Beginning on April 2, the band embarked on the “Drive All Night Tour 2013” where their latest EP, “La Diferencia,” is exclusively available for preorder. The “Drive All Night Tour 2013”, ending this August, spans mostly the Southeast but goes as far west as Montana and as far north as New York.

Needtobreathe closed with a song off their EP titled “Difference Maker.”

Returning to the stage for the last song of Needtobreathe’s set was opening band and dear friends Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors. The indie/rock, Nashville-based band has been compared to The Black Keys, Arcade Fire and The Avett Brothers.

Since they got together in 2006, the band has found success with its 2008 LP, “Passenger Seat,” and their 2009 EP, “Live Forever,” both

debuting at No. 2 on the iTunes Singer/Songwriter charts. “(Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors) sound a little like a softer, more uplifting version of The Black Keys,” Caitlyn Clifford, undecided sophomore, said.

Needtobreathe’s set list included songs off their latest album, “The Reckoning,” which was nominated for a No.1 Billboard Christian and Rock album. Rinehart announced that their new album will debut this autumn.

The crowd danced in their seats and oohed and aahed as Holcomb and his wife Ellie shared a microphone for several songs.

“They’re so relatable and humble,” Clifford said. “They seem like they’re having fun and just grateful to be here.”

Before finishing the opening act, Holcomb introduced Needtobreathe to the stage, whom he described as the “best rock ‘n’ roll band around today.”

At several occasions, band

members from Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors joined Needtobreathe on the stage.

Backing vocalist Ellie Holcomb made a guest appearance for one of Needtobreathe’s crowdpleasers, “Stones Under Rushing Water,” where she sang the lyrics, “the years go by like stones under rushing water/we only know, we only know when it’s gone.”

Similar to the changing of instruments, the lighting and set were unique to every song.

At one point, the three guitarists were cast under spotlights which illuminated the pitch black stage. As the chorus emerged, a sheet behind the three guitarists dropped, revealing the keyboardist and drummer, and blue lights flooded the arena.

In another instance, an intricate mixture of rainbow lights pierced the stage as Needtobreathe performed “Something Beautiful.” Fans on the balcony of the Tennessee Theatre stood and sang along, as Rinehart requested, for the 2011 rock/contemporary song of the year.

Bo Rinehart danced in an Elvis Presley-esque fashion and at one point swept the stage emulating guitar effects similar to those of The Jimi Hendrix Experience.

“He has Elvis legs,” Clifford said, pointing to Bo’s malleable bones.

After they had left the stage, Needtobreathe was cheered back on stage for an encore in which they returned to play “The Outsiders” from their 2010 rock/contemporary album of the year of the same name.

Rinehart expressed his gratitude for the opportunity to play at the Tennessee Theatre.

“This is what separates you from every other venue in the country,” he said, referencing the theatre’s architecture during the performance. “I have never been in a more beautiful theatre than this.”

The volume of howling fans increased as they took pride in the Tennessee Theatre’s historical beauty.

“Maybe we’ll come back next week,” Rinehart said jokingly.

“Supposed to be somewhere else, but who knows? We’re working on a new record, but we have no idea what it’ll be called yet.”

“Knoxville,” spewed a crowd member, offering their choice for the untitled album.

Rinehart chuckled as an agreeing fan from the front row bribed him with a home cooked meal.

“Only in Tennessee,” Rinehart said.

UT’s cheer organization, VOLstars, performed a cheer sequence as well. Shack said their inclusion in the event contributed to the overall diversity of the organization.

“It gives students something different to see because in recent ‘Showtimes’ we stuck to utilizing the Divine 9 or NPHC, but this year we chose to branch out and put other student organizations and other Greek organizations in the show,” Shack said.

Taking a break from the uptempo and fast paced physical acts, students also showcased talents through singing and the spoken word. Sophomore Laquesha Wilson performed a rendition of the song “Ready for Love” by India Arie. Maarifa Arnett, sophomore in journalism and electronic media, performed an original poem.

Members of various Black Greek Letter Organizations gave great performances throughout the night as well.

Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., Iota Phi Theta Fraternity, Inc., Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. and Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. performed step performances for the audience.

Jermaine Cheairs, sophomore in electrical engineering, said his favorite performance of the night was Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. “(I) would definitely come to ‘Showtime’ again next year,” he said. “It has been good seeing all of the Greeks united, representing their organizations, so I’d definitely come again.”

Janae Walker, junior in kinesiology, said she loved the sorority as well.

“My favorite part of the show was supporting a dear friend Virgie Snow, who is a member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.,” Walker said.

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Assistant Sports Editor Austin Bornheim abornhei@utk.edu

Senior clinches Lady Vols sweep Georgia in 6-1 win tennis match Staff Reports

Staff Reports On Senior Day at Barksdale Stadium, it was fitting that UT senior Kata Szekely captured the match-winning point for the women’s tennis team in a 4-0 victory over Louisiana State University.

“It was amazing,” Szekely said. “During the match I was looking around and was like ‘Oh I can actually clinch it today.’ It was a great feeling to get the team win.”

After winning the first set by a 6-4 score, Szekely was down 2-5 in the second set before she started a comeback that could not have been scripted any more perfectly.

The senior forged ahead to knot the game at five-all and force a second set tiebreaker that she handedly won 7-2 to finish out her last match at home by a 6-4, 7-6 (2) score.

“I knew I could come back,” Szekely said. “In almost every game I lost I had a game point.

It was not like I was so far off from coming back. Sonia just told me to stay positive, keep working, get up to the ball and be aggressive.”

“It was huge for her,” cohead coach Sonia Hahn-Patrick said. “It was the icing on the cake. She wanted to do so well this weekend and sometimes that is a great thing and sometimes that is a difficult thing and she really pulled through. I am so proud of her.”

With the victory, the Lady Vols improve to 10-8 on the year and 7-4 in SEC action while LSU drops to 8-14 and 1-12 in conference play. The Lady Vols finish out their home schedule with an 8-1 record.

Tennessee rolled in doubles action giving up just five games to the Tigers en route to earn-

ing the first point of the day.

The third ranked team in the nation of Brynn Boren and Szekely got the first win of the day for the Lady Vols downing their LSU opponents in an 8-1 win, their ninth straight. The nine straight doubles victories for the duo ties a season high recorded from Oct. 19 to Nov. 8, 2012.

The duo has accounted for 34 doubles wins this season, 10th all-time on the UT single season doubles list.

After Boren and Szekely, Caitlyn Williams and Jesse Grace picked up their first win as a doubles pair with an 8-2 victory on court three to get the Lady Vols on the board.

The momentum continued into singles play for Grace as she bested Caroline Hudson 6-1, 6-1 on court six for her second ever SEC victory and third win of the season to give Tennessee a 2-0 lead.

Boren, ranked 21st in the country, added to the lead when she captured a 6-1, 6-3 win over No. 114 Kaitlin Burns on court one setting up Szekely’s match winning finish.

“Words can’t really describe it,” Hahn-Patrick said. “Kata exemplifies everything that you want in a student-athlete. As far as character she is phenomenal, work ethic, leader she just has everything. She is the whole package. She has been awesome for our program.

“And for us to go 2-0 this weekend, with difficult conditions today with the wind it just shows that we can compete and play hard no matter what the outdoor conditions are,” Hahn-Patrick continued.

“Sometimes it is not about who is the better team or the better tennis player. It is just about who can out fight and play through the conditions.”

Raven Chavanne hit a three-run homer and Ellen Renfroe struck out six over six strong innings to lead No. 5 Tennessee to a 6-1 win over Georgia on Sunday and a series sweep. The win marked Tennessee’s 600th win under the direction of Ralph and Karen Weekly.

Tennessee (34-6, 9-3 SEC) enjoyed a strong start and controlled the game from start to finish to earn its 11th win in a row. UT scored three in the second, two in the fourth and one in the sixth. Georgia (27-13, 6-6 SEC) scored its only run in the third off a solo home run.

Chavanne finished 3-for-5 with the three-run blast, two runs scored and one stolen base. Madison Shipman had a two-RBI single and drew two walks. Melissa Brown went 2-for-4 with one RBI. Ellen Renfroe (11-1) struck out six and allowed just one run over six solid innings to earn the win. Ivy Renfroe threw a scoreless seventh and had one strikeout.

Chelsea Wilkinson (3-2) took the loss after allowing three earned runs over the first three innings. Geri Ann Glasco allowed three earned runs over two relief frames.

Morgan Montemayor tossed two scoreless innings in relief.

UT took control of the game in the second inning.

Hannah Akamine hit a oneout single up the middle and Lexi Overstreet with a single through the right side.

Chavanne stepped up to the plate and hammered the first pitch she saw from Wilkinson over the fence in right field to give the Lady Vols a 3-0 edge.

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Hannah Akamine hits the ball against Tennessee State on March 22. bottom of the third. With two outs, Anna Swafford took a 1-1 pitch from Ellen Renfroe and sent it over the wall in straightaway center field for a solo home run.

Tennessee answered in the top of the fourth. Glasco entered to pitch to start the inning and Kat Dotson and Chavanne notched back-to-

back bunt singles. Two batters later, Madison Shipman connected for a one-out single to left field to bring in both runners and push UT’s lead to 5-1.

In the top of the sixth, the Lady Vols added one more run. With two runners on and one out, Brown knocked an RBI single to right field to plate Lauren Gibson.

With two runners in scoring position in the bottom of the sixth, Haley Tobler made a great diving play to catch a fly ball in right field and end the UGA scoring threat.

Tennessee will next host Tennessee Tech on Wednesday at 6 p.m. The Lady Vols resume SEC play next weekend when they host Auburn from April 12 to 14.

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Dargan Southard Staff Writer Despite dropping the first two games of the weekend set to a daunting No. 11 South Carolina squad, a strong feeling of confidence existed among the men for Tennessee as they prepared for Sunday afternoon’s series finale.

Tennessee had been just a play or two away from stealing either of the first two contests and because head coach Dave Serrano had adjusted his rotation, he was sending ace Zack Godley to the hill to try in hopes of salvaging one win and halt a seven-game skid.

At least, that was the plan.

After the Volunteers (1317, 3-9 SEC) surrendered the first six runs of the game, the Gamecocks (26-7, 8-4 SEC) opened the floodgates in the eighth and ninth, scoring eleven times in the final two frames en route to a 19-2 victory and series sweep at Lindsey Nelson Stadium.

“We’re not where we’re supposed to be according to plan to be honest with you,” Serrano said. “For anyone that’s ever worn this uniform or represented this university, I apologize and I’m embarrassed. Where we’re at right now and where we should be, I take full responsibility for that. I took on this challenge to get this program where it’s supposed to be, and we’re not taking the strides that are even close to where we want to be.”

The primary concern leaving the weekend — as is the case with most young teams — was the pitching as inconsistencies that continue to plague Tennessee. Veteran starters Godley and Nick Williams struggled in game’s two and three respectively, and the Volunteers’ bullpen was shaky at times, allowing 15 earned runs in 14

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Taylor Smart takes a lead off first base against South Carolina on April 6.

2/3 innings of work. Serrano felt strongly that the pitching struggles made all the difference against South Carolina.

“South Carolina’s a regular in the College World Series because they can pitch,” Serrano said after Saturday’s loss. “We don’t pitch right now. That’s the problem. That’s the ongoing problem with where we’re at right now.”

“I was leaving balls up and they were taking advantage of it. I’ve got to do a better job of getting the ball down,” Godley said on Sunday.

Aside from the weekend’s final contest, the Volunteer offense was able to match their opponent, who came in boasting a resume of three straight College World Series appearances and two out of the last three national championship titles.

On Friday trailing by two in the eighth, Tennessee rallied to tie the game on a Vincent Jackson RBI double turned two base error but would go on to lose game one 5-4. The freshman from McDonough, Ga., who finished the weekend with

four RBIs and two runs scored, was also vital in Saturday’s seven-run third, an inning that saw the first nine Volunteer hitters reach base safely before an out was made. Jackson got the big hit, a bases-loaded triple that wiped the bags clean, which at the time; cut the deficit from six to three. The rally, however, wasn’t enough as the Vols fell in game two 12-8.

In addition, four Volunteers banged out multi-hit games over the weekend. Taylor Smart (on Saturday) and catcher Ethan Bennett (on Sunday) also smacked solo homers.

“We’re a growing team, and I think we need to continue to grow instead of taking steps back,” Bennett said on Sunday.

“There was some good stuff this weekend, some bad. But until we figure those bad things out, things probably won’t turn around for us.”

The Diamond Vols will try to end an eight-game skid as the travel to Johnson City on Tuesday to face in-state foe ETSU. First pitch is slated for 7:05 p.m.

The Tennessee Lady Volunteers volleyball team closed out its fifth week of spring practice Friday morning at Pratt Pavilion.

Senior Ellen Mullins and the rest of the squad worked on their communication and effort on the court going into the next day’s scrimmage.

“The reason we do these scrimmages and what we’re looking for is to be organized on the court,” head coach Rob Patrick said. “I’m not even concerned with the score. We could lose every match, every set, and I would still think that it was a successful day of scrimmaging. Now if we lose every set, it probably isn’t, but if we’re organized and technique-wise trying to do the things we’ve been working on and we play hard, those are the things that I’ll be pleased with. Playing hard, for me, is a lot of defensive stuff ... digging, getting the ball up, giving ourselves opportunities to score.”

All-American Kelsey Robinson, All-SEC second team selectee Tiffany Baker, sophomore Mary Pollmiller and freshman Bianca Arellano all transferred in 2013, but their absence has only motivated the younger players to step their game up to get a shot at those open slots.

“The spring has been fantastic,” Patrick said. “We were talking as a team — we were doing some drills at the beginning of January and doing our individual practices — and we were talking about how far we’ve come from doing those drills to where we’re at now.

We were doing some drills where we couldn’t keep the ball in play for more than two or three times over the net, and we did a drill yesterday and we put one ball in play and the drill lasted until I stopped it rather than them making

an error, so they’ve seen the improvement in individuals and I’ve been very pleased as (a) team where we’ve come.”

But improvements are coming for more than just the younger players as libero Ellen Mullins, the only senior on the roster, has been making strides of her own throughout the spring.

“I definitely have to take on a lot more responsibility, but I’ve been here and I know what to expect so I can help the other players out, you know the ones who come in and learn everything,” Mullins said. “I can be the one they come to and have everything organized.”

Mullins had a busy 2012 with earning AVCA AllAmerican and All-South Region Honorable Mention.

She was also a three-time SEC Defensive Player of the Week and was named to the 2012 Comcast Lady Vol Classic AllTournament Team. Her leadership on and off the court with her teammates hasn’t gone unnoticed either.

“Mullins has been fantastic,” Patrick said. “She’s somebody that’s really a model of what is good about our program. She came in as a (defensive specialist) and she really didn’t play as a DS during her high school and club career.

She’s always played outside, setting or playing a different position. All she did was listen to the coaching staff and was very coachable and she worked hard and every year she’s improved and I was so happy.

“She really deserved to be recognized for her efforts as a defensive player last year and she was being an all-region player and an honorable mention All-American mention, and she deserved that for the type of work ethic that she has and what it led to in terms of her production on the court.”

As of Thursday, Mullins’ production earned her a shot

on an even bigger stage.

“The other thing, I’m very pleased, is she just got selected for the USA A2 National team,” Patrick said. “All of that was due to her hard work first, but then also just being coachable and seeing what the techniques and skills we teach. Going out and working on those lead her to (be) somebody that’s improved every single year and you can also see that statistically, but she’s also become a leader especially (since) she runs our backcourt because of her energy.

“She has one of those infectious attitudes where she’s intense, but it’s a positive intense and somebody we love. We’re just better when she’s on the court.”

Along the way, the inexperienced team “surprised” Patrick. As the team heads into its sixth week of spring practice, he couldn’t be more pleased with its performance.

“One of the things that’s happened in our practices is we’re not making very many unforced errors which I was very pleased with,” the 17-year coaching veteran said. “It really surprised me especially since we have a very young team or a really inexperienced team; we have older players on our team that hadn’t played all that much. Whitney Harris is somebody that’s going to be a senior and she hasn’t really played a lot because of her shoulder injury. So we have people on our team that have been here for a year or two that haven’t really played a lot but they don’t really make a lot of unforced errors so I’m really excited about that so we’re going to see how that translates in these scrimmages and if that translates the same way then I’m going to be very happy with that.”

The Lady Vols scrimmaged with Appalachian State, UNC-Asheville and Western Carolina on Saturday.