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first sparked her interest in SGA. Now, Keny is the seventh female SGA president in UT history.

“For me, it was all about the job,” she said. “It was never about the title.”

During the last year, Keny got an even closer look at the ways in which SGA can impact students’ lives through service on several executive committees.

While serving on the dining services committee, for example, Keny discussed the controversial meal plan proposal with administrators and fellow student representatives.

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Even sitting quietly in Starbucks, Kelsey Keny does not blend in.

Within a 30-minute period, four people stop by to say hello to the newly-selected 2014 Student Government Association president, offering their congratulations and gushing about their beloved friend.

By evidence of Keny’s popularity today, it’s hard to believe she was once a fresh-

man transfer student from Belmont.

“I didn’t really know what the heck I was doing,” she said.

But upon arriving in Big Orange Country, Keny wasted no time in making her mark. In her first three years as a Vol, she became a UT singer, SGA press secretary and a Volunteer Channel anchor – not to mention a member of Alpha Delta Pi sorority.

In fact, Keny organized the first live SGA debate her sophomore year – an event she would later experience from the other side of camera lens.

It was this experience that

In the history of SGA, seven women have been elected as president. The first female SGA president was Nancy-Ann Min DeParle in 1977, and the most recent SGA female SGA president was Laura Nishida in 2009.

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Photo Spread: Catch up on the Rhythm N’ Blooms shows you missed

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Keny’s campaign ran on a ticket of increased communication between SGA and the student body.

Keny hopes to close the gap between students and SGA. “We want to be directly involved in the lives of the student body,” Keny said, “because we are students.”

Next year, she plans to attend the meetings and events of many student organizations, like Project V.E.G.G.I.E. and Panhellenic.

Along the way, Keny hopes to document SGA’s outreach across campus.

“It’s about not being so focused on us,” she said, “and being more focused on every other organization, every other student at

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tions, Keny was hooked.

“I was like whoa, I want to keep being a part of these sorts of conversation and opportunities to represent students and help students,” she said.

Between her love for communicating and her love for UT, the job description for SGA president felt like a perfect fit.

“I thought being student body president would be an awesome opportunity to help people that way,” Keny said, “just by talking to people and getting to know people.”

Even days after her win, Keny is still euphoric – she has to wake up every morning and remind herself she and now-vice president Connor Dugosh won.

She’s not sure how it happened, but she knows she “had a blast.”

“I want to believe its because they somehow related to us and saw what we wanted to bring to these jobs and how much we really cared,” she said. “I’m really happy they believed in us, because I believed in us a whole lot. “ But Keny and Dugosh won’t be waiting until next semester to start acting on their campaign policies.

Come Fall, Keny hopes to already have established the All Vol tailgate, “a place on gameday that all students can go to and feel included.”

The ability to use All Star and Dining Dollars in Neyland is also a priority. Above all, though,

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Get to know UT’s new SGA President: Kelsey Keny

Kentucky native Ben Sollee performs on his cello during the final day of the Rhythm N’ Blooms festival at the Knoxville Botanical Gardens.

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For the Old City, a lively, bustling weekend night with patrons venue hopping is nothing out of the ordinary.

However, this past weekend, something was different.

Instead, the loud partier was replaced with the quieter, yet just as energetic, Rhythm N’ Blooms festival goer.

Americana festival Rhythm N’ Blooms overtook the Old City on Friday and Saturday, and then the Knoxville Botanical Gardens on Sunday as acts from the local to the national overtook the soundscapes of Knoxville.

David Mayfield Parade, who describes its sound as “post-Avett Brothers homoerotic folk rock,” opened the festival Friday night on the Jackson Avenue Viaduct Stage. Despite technical issues occasionally masking the band’s sound, David Mayfield’s rump shaking and snarky comments introduced

the atmosphere of the weekend: welcoming and energetic.

Playing Rhythm N’ Blooms for the first time, Tim Lee 3’s Tim and Susan Bauer Lee were most interested in the variety of music to be seen despite the festival’s label as an “Americana” festival.

“When we look at this festival, there’s no one playing this weekend that we’re remotely like that I can think of,” Tim Lee said. “I mean there’s a few that we’re kind of like, but not really. But, that’s fine. That’s the fun part. It’s music, you know. It should be fun.”

Shows spanned the area, taking residence in The Standard, Remedy Coffee and Boy’s Jig & Reel among others. Each venue encompassed its own ambiance for its shows. At Remedy, shows in the back room were warm and intimate. At the Pilot Light, it was sweat and grit. At the Jackson Avenue Viaduct Stage, it was loud and playful.

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Shortly after the Volunteers’ 7-0 seriesclinching victory over Vanderbilt Sunday afternoon, Tennessee head coach Dave Serrano quickly tagged the series win with a variety of descriptors, calling it anything from “a defining moment” to just simply “huge.”

But then — as he’s done many time throughout the season — UT’s third-year head man pulled back the

reins just a hair on the weekend success.

“It won’t mean anything,” Serrano said, “if we go out next week and not compete.”

The statement will first be put to the test beginning tonight when the No. 21 Vols (21-9) head west to Cookeville, Tenn., for a matchup against Tennessee Tech (25-8) at 7 p.m. EST. Despite facing two of the sport’s most premiere competitors in back-to-back weekends — two series highlighted by the intense, high-caliber brand of base-

ball that permeates through the SEC — Serrano isn’t easing off the gas pedal anytime soon, even for the brief, one-day dip out-ofconference. ”For me, Tuesday’s a big game against Tennessee Tech, and it has nothing to do with the standings in the SEC,” Serrano said. “It’s more important about us playing good baseball. “(We’ll) keep staying on them. Keep staying on them about the little things. Little things lead to big things. We will stay — as a coaching staff — pretty committed to

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keeping them sharp and not allow them to get away with the little things.”

The Vols will trot out junior righty Bret Marks (2-0, 0.00 ERA) looking to build off what already has been a productive campaign thus far in Knoxville. In his only other start this season, the former New York Yankee draft pick twirled three scoreless frames, struck out a pair, and allowed just one base knock in UT’s 10-2 victory over La Salle on March 5.

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SGA sees lowest voter turnout since 1998 The SGA election season has come and gone, and numbers show that most of campus didn’t seem to care enough to participate.

Voter turnout numbers for the 2014 Student Government Association elections were the lowest they have been since 1998 saw 2,421 voters turnout, good for 13.01 percent of UT’s 1998-99 enrollment that voted.

Final statistics show that 3,686 students — approximately 13.57 percent of this year’s enrollment — voted online during the two-day elections last week.

Records complied by the Office of Student Services reveal that since 1984, voter turnout numbers have not reached beyond the single-digit thousands, with the highest turnout being 7,163 in 2005. Since the year 2000, voter turnout had not dipped below 4,000 – until this election season.

Margaret McCall, an undecided freshman, did not vote.

“The week of SGA campaigns didn’t stand out to me much at all,” McCall said. “I had no idea when elections were until I got an email urging people to vote as it was in the last days of the election. Once I got onto the website, I felt I was in no place to vote as I had no informed opinion at all.

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Tennessee.”

With this broader perspective of student life in mind, UT’s new SGA president hopes to create a “home” for students on campus – not unlike the way she once created a home for herself at UT. “I want to be someone really relatable for people when they get to UT. I am so thrilled about getting to welcome freshman to UT and make them feel comfortable here.

“I can’t wait to see what next year is going to be like.”

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UT to explore Women in Politics through weekend conference Savannah Gilman Staff Writer Do girls run the world?

This week, UT’s Department of Political Science will host the Women in Politics conference in the Toyota Auditorium of the Howard H. Baker Center.

Beginning at 8 p.m. on Thursday, the two-day event will open academic discussion of women’s roles in political positions and place females front and center.

Jana Morgan, associate professor in political science and chair member of the Latin American and Caribbean studies, has played a key role in organizing the event, with the financial support of the Arts and Sciences and the Women’s Studies program.

Morgan noted that Mayor Madeline Rogero offered to open the event.

“The college and I were talking about shared interests with women in politics,” Morgan said. “Our speakers are academics with cutting edge research on gender and politics and study the role of

women around the world that bring different perspectives and expertise.”

Morgan herself will participate in Thursday’s roundtable discussion alongside fellow speakers Sarah Fulton of Texas A&M University, Melanie Hughes of the University of Pittsburgh, Tracy Osborn of the University of Iowa, and Leslie Schwindt-Bayer of Rice University.

“We will discuss the presence of women in legislatures around the world,” Morgan said. “We want to highlight how women actually influence and shape politics and have a voice in the process.

“We hope this event brings together different women’s groups on campus, and, in communicating, learn about the voice women have in politics and working towards strengthening that voice.”

The Friday portion of the event will consist of an academic conference featuring other noted scholars.

“There will be over six academics presenting research on women’s participation in political processes from U.S. to Bolivia,” Morgan said. “The

conversation between academics on their finding will allow them to make their arguments stronger as they share their academic interests.”

Sarah Fulton, assistant professor in political science at Texas A&M University, will present her own research and findings.

“My research looks at if women do as well as men with vote share and winning elections,” she said. “I focus on the variations in characteristics that voters ... intrinsically value: experience, integrity, competence (and) ability.”

The event, Fulton believes, represents more than a chance to share research findings; it’s a chance to raise the visibility of women in academia.

“It’s really important for women scholars to support other women scholars,” Fulton said. “Women need to network within the academic community and mentor one another, but there are few opportunities to do this.

“By facilitation conversation we can discuss common problems and theories and learn about applicable theories from other fields.”

A Historically low turnout: 2005-2014 by the numbers

Philadelphia skyscraper-sized Tetris game wows hundreds Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — Hundreds of Tetris fans had a little fun Saturday with a big version of the classic video game.

The Philadelphia skyscraper-sized version created a spectacle against the night sky that organizers hoped inspired onlookers and players to think about the possibilities of technology.

The 29-story Cira Centre, which has hundreds of LED lights embedded in its glass facade, normally displays colorful geometric patterns at night. On Saturday, images of supersized shapes “fell” on two sides of the mirrored tower as competitors used joysticks to maneuver them into place.

It wasn’t the first time Tetris has been played on a building.

But the 100,000-square-foot

“screen” — which includes the north and south faces of the structure — could be a record.

City resident Sam Robinson, 30, said he signed up on a whim for the lottery to play because he figured “it would be cool to play the world’s largest game of Tetris.”

“It has been probably 15 years since I played Tetris last on a Game Boy, and it’s much different playing on the side of building that’s a half-mile away,” he said. “Everything’s happening so quick.”

The spectacle kicked off a citywide series of events called Philly Tech Week. It also celebrated the upcoming 30th anniversary of Tetris, a game revered as the epitome of elegance and simplicity, said Frank Lee, an associate professor of digital media at Drexel University.

Lee, a game designer who

oversaw creation of the giant display, said putting it on an office building was like making a huge virtual campfire.

“This project began as a personal love letter to the games that I loved when I was a child - Pong last year, Tetris this year. But it ended up as a way of uniting the city of Philadelphia,” Lee told the crowd.

Lee already holds the Guinness World Record for the world’s largest architectural video game display for playing Pong on one side of the Cira Centre last year.

Pong, the granddaddy of all video games, is an electronic version of paddleball developed by Atari in 1972.

Tetris, created by Russian computer programmer Alexey Pajitnov in 1984, challenges players to rotate and arrange falling shapes into complete rows.

VOTER TURNOUT continued from Page 1 “I honestly didn’t even recognize the candidates’ names.”

Grant Davis, who currently serves as SGA Student Services Director, was elected to become Trustee Representative starting next year, pending approval by the governor. Davis predicted low voter turnout last week — before the elections started — citing several differences in this year’s campaigns compared to last year’s season.

“Last year’s SGA campaigns were formidable,” Davis said.

“Engage, Amplify and BakerAtchley executive candidates and members were very well connected on campus. They also set a record for campaign expenditures and basically turned Pedestrian Walkway into the place to be.”

Davis said this year’s campaigns used call centers and social media sites to encourage students to vote, a tactic that has been used in the past. But this year’s campaigns lacked the infrastructure and manpower to effectively reach out to voters.

“I was on Pedestrian Walkway

several times during the week, and it seemed dead,” Davis said.

“No one was actively engaging campaigns about policy. They were trying to avoid the tents at all costs, and campaign members made minimal attempts to engage the students.”

Rather than three fully-formed campaigns, Davis claims there were one and a half campaigns – We Are UT being the only campaign with a full roster of senators.

“It is also telling when a majority of the senatorial candidates are freshmen,” Davis said. “This means that the highly-involved and politically well-connected sophomores, juniors and seniors decided to stay on the sidelines this year.”

Amanda Prevost, a junior in accounting and international business who has been involved in SGA since her freshman year, said she is disappointed but not necessarily surprised by the low voter turnout numbers.

Campaign energy and momentum were “comparatively low” this year, she said.

“Students who do take time to vote have typically been outreached to, know someone running, or recognize a specific facet of policy they hope to see

implemented,” Prevost said.

“Students often don’t think SGA affects them until something goes wrong, and even then, many don’t care.”

Judd Cowan, a senior in mechanical engineering who managed the [Insert] campaign, said the “split ticket” between Amplify and Engage last year caused many students to see SGA as a “broken system.”

This attitude, Cowan said, easily influences new voters.

“When freshmen come in, what they see – as far as they know – is what has always been,” Cowan said. “Because SGA has perpetuated a bad history in front of it, people become disheartened immediately.”

Voters must be reached out to personally, Davis claims, or they won’t care about the elections.

As a non-voting student herself, McCall pointed out that she was not directly approached with platform information.

“I didn’t vote because not because I think SGA is frivolous or overrated, but simply because I trusted other voters to decide who the best person for the job was,” McCall said, “as I was in no place to know who that would be.”

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Senior Jarryd Chaplin returns a volley in the Vols’ 4-0 victory over the Arkansas Razorbacks at Barksdale Stadium on Sunday.

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Lady Vols above .500 after strong weekend Staff Report This weekend proved to be a weekend of firsts for the No. 45 Tennessee Lady Volunteer women’s tennis team.

The Lady Vols swept their pair of weekend matches against the Arkansas Razorbacks and the LSU Tigers, marking the first time they have come out of a multi-game weekend unscathed.

Sunday’s contest proved to be another first, as Tennessee recorded its first shutout win of the season against Arkansas with a 4-0 victory in Fayetteville, Ark., to improve to 11-10 on the season.

It’s the first time the Lady Vols have been above .500 since their victory against

Purdue in their season opener on Jan. 25.

Tennessee got off to a fast start, taking the doubles point for only the third time in conference play – the second time came during Friday’s match against LSU. The momentum from doubles play carried into singles as UT took the first set on all six courts and lead in all six matches at the conclusion of the match, with Brittany Lindl (6-1, 6-3), Victoria Olivarez (6-3, 6-3) and Laurence Guevremont (7-5, 6-1) clinching the 4-0 victory with straight-set wins in their singles matches.

Friday’s victory over the Tigers proved to be a little more dramatic.

With the match knotted up at three, the Lady Vols’ hopes at victory relied

on Caitlyn Williams, who hadn’t recorded a singles victory all spring.

After getting out the gates slowly, Williams forced a tiebreak and later went on to take the first set, 7-5.

From then on, the junior dominated the second set against LSU’s Noel Scott, 6-2, clinching a 4-3 victory for Tennessee.

The Lady Vols return home next weekend for their regular season finale when they take on Auburn, Alabama and Middle Tennessee State.

The weekend will begin on Friday at 4 p.m. against the Tigers and conclude on Senior Day with a doubleheader on Sunday, when the Lady Vols face the Crimson Tide at 12 p.m. and then the Blue Raiders at 5 p.m.

Vols trending upward after Senior Day win Jonathan Toye Contributor Jarryd Chaplin admitted he had trouble sleeping the night before his last home tennis match of his career.

But after his performance on Senior Day, Chaplin probably didn’t have too many issues sleeping Sunday night.

The Tennessee Volunteers men’s tennis team cruised to an easy 4-0 victory against the Arkansas Razorbacks last Sunday on Senior Day at Barksdale Stadium, with Chaplin helping capture two of those points with victories in both his singles and doubles matches.

It is definitely a time of mixed emotions for the senior team leader from Sydney, Australia.

“I was really sad because it would be my last time playing here,” Chaplin said. “I had great memories, I mean my best memories in tennis have been at the University of Tennessee, so it is obviously sad in that regard. But you got that feeling as well like you are ready to move on and see where it takes you after school.

“That’s a relief, but at the same time, very sad not to be doing this at home with my

The change worked both on Friday and Sunday, as the new pairing picked up wins against LSU and Arkansas.

The new doubles team may have been a big reason for the team’s impressive outing this weekend, but Chaplin offered a simpler explanation for the team’s turnaround.

“I think we got sick of losing,” Chaplin said. “You don’t want to play defeated anymore, and you don’t go through the emotional stress of losing these matches to schools we feel like we can beat, so I think everyone has taken this weight off their shoulders and played freely.”

The team has now started a wining streak and may be beginning to gel at the right time before the SEC Championships and NCAA Championships.

“We have found a sense of connectivity for LSU and Arkansas, and we will try to carry that same mindset into Auburn and Alabama,” Chaplin said. “Yes, it is most important to be playing your best tennis now, look no further than Kentucky basketball. It is in the past for us; we can’t do anything about that.

“The best thing for us is going forward.”

Senior Jarryd Chaplin, center, is honored as one of Tennessee’s two seniors on Senior Day at Barksdale Stadium on Sunday.

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Junior Bret Marks delivers a pitch during the Vols’ 10-9 win over Vanderbilt on Saturday at Lindsey Nelson Stadium. Marks will start tonight for the Vols on the road against Tennessee Tech.

best friends.

Chaplin was not the only person emotional about his last match in Knoxville.

“I am sad; Jarryd and I have been through so many matches together,” associate head coach Chris Woodruff said. “I have sat on this court pretty much for four straight years. I have hit, you know, individual hits with him three or four times since his freshman year.”

Fellow senior Colton Norton was also honored Sunday.

Woodruff had plenty of kind words to say about Norton as well.

“Colton, he is a guy that three years ago I necessarily didn’t think he was going to make the team,” Woodruff said. “Not only that, he is just an incredible person, and I think you saw that by the way the team rallied behind him and cheering so hard for him.”

Sunday’s win followed an impressive 4-1 victory over LSU on Friday, which snapped a three-match losing streak and brought the birth of a new doubles team for the Vols, with Chaplin partnering with Andrew Dromsky instead of his usual partner Brandon Fickey.

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BASEBALL continued from Page 1 In his last appearance, the Roswell, Ga., picked up the win in the Vols’ wild 10-9 comefrom-behind victory over Vanderbilt, tossing 2/3 of an inning with one strikeout and no runs or hits allowed.

“Give credit to Bret Marks,” Serrano said on Saturday, “a young man who was highly recruited for us and has been a lit-

tle tender, and we haven’t been able to use him very much. And I put him in a huge situation.”

While the Vols enter tonight’s in-state battle riding a wave of momentum, much of the same can be said about the Golden Eagles in recent weeks. Although TTU did drop two of three this past weekend to Austin Peay, Matt Bragga’s squad has won 12 of its last 17 games — a stretch that helped contribute to a 14-5 record in March.

Much of that success can be attributed to the offensive prowess of TTU third baseman Daniel Miles and outfielder Brandon Thomasson — two primary reasons why the Golden Eagles have put double-digit run totals in 45 percent (15of-33) of their 2014 contests.

Miles leads TTU in average (.438), hits (57) and runs scored (46) while Thomasson tops the team in RBI (39), home runs (9) and triples (3).

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Yik Yak gives new definition to online trash-talk Cullenery Arts by

Cullen Hamlin Through the sea of bright pastel sweaters and backwards hats on the mystical aura of fraternity row, a young sorority girl runs away as if rejected like a disease.

Eyes full of tears and frantic with a look that says, “I hate my life,” I can only wonder what cynical but possibly humorous dialogue that took place to make a girl feel so unwanted.

The answer is not a face-to-face assault, but rather one on the cracked screen of your iPhone. The culprit is an app called Yik Yak. Yik Yak is a “Twitter-like” posting app that uses your location to start an anonymous board of comments that can be replied to, disliked or liked. Essentially, Yik Yak offers a way to say anything you want about anyone – and not get in trouble for it.

So, what’s the big deal? Well, normally, before this app was in play, a person was held accountable by their friend list or imprisoned by their identity or profile picture.

When you had the urge to launch a violent diatribe against that annoying person that posted on Facebook every minute, you withheld your tongue. Through the Snapchat stories of the person who sends nothing but videos of their cats and dogs (you know who you are), you withheld. Any text, call, email or any kind of technological communication that you wanted to send to that person to give them a piece of your mind, you withheld out of concerns of accountability.

Not now.

Now, the first free-flowing thought that punctures through the membrane of your mind is simultaneously flown onto technology.

There is no filter for those thoughts on Yik Yak; there is no such thing as etiquette and more profanity than the South Park episode about Tourette’s Syndrome. The app is a coagulation of unrestrained thoughts and witty, yet sometimes nasty, humorous jabs at organizations.

Although much can be said about the heavy nature of insult on Yik Yak, it is a window to the collective truth in the minds of the society around you.

This merry-go-round of technology and the human psyche often ends with a wag of the finger and “tisktisk” at cyber bullying. Yik Yak puts itself in the line of fire from parents of children everywhere that could be insulted by this app or brought down by the insults it bares.

However, as many see only problems with such an app, I believe it offers a very deep look into what our society values today.

Being technologically dependent, our society values cyber communication as much as Honey Boo Boo values bacon. As a result, comments on the Internet are taken to heart and can weigh heavily on one without thick skin. Being a double-edged sword of truth and pain, there are only three true rules to follow on Yik Yak. 1) Don’t dish it out if you can’t take it yourself.

2) If someone doesn’t deserve it or doesn’t have thick skin, don’t say it.

3) If you are going to insult, at the very least be clever.

Maybe if we all play somewhat fair, Yik Yak can be an enjoyable experience.

Teasing can be a benefit to most people, as criticism allows the chance to know the truth about what some people think about you.

It is truly up to you, as well as the rest of the victims of any cyber bullying, to decide whether to fall in a hole of self-pity or to rise to the occasion of selfconfidence.

One thing to remember about the virtual world is that it is, by its own existence, only as real as you perceive it to be.

Cullen Hamelin is a junior in chemistry. He can be reached at chamelin@utk.edu.

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You hear that? Speak less, listen more Turn of Phrase by

Sarah Hagaman Writing a column demands that something be said – a position asserted or a side taken.

Coming forth with a valid, well-thought opinion on a certain issue cannot be ignored as a useful tool to articulate one’s perspective.

Despite my belief in effectively defending one’s perspective, I have certainly learned one thing: the greatest skill, perhaps, is one that can continuously implemented in powerful ways – the ability to listen.

At the risk of sounding cliché, I maintain that sometimes silence is the most effective tool to truly understand an issue or perspective. Words are wonderful, one of humanity’s most powerful tools; however, the ability to not just hear, but listen, to the experience and perspective of another person cannot be overlooked as one of the best communication skills available.

Listening does not imply weakness, or lack of opinion – rather it is the humbling of oneself to another, and the results can be quite powerful. The best communicators I know are often the best listeners.

The opportunities to listen and understand people are numerous on a college campus, but my most memorable encounter with the power of listening occurred over the summer

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learned more about the backgrounds that so profoundly shaped these young girls – and my understanding of their actions and our subsequent relationships deepened in ways I couldn’t have imagined.

The broken pasts, the hurts that these girls had experienced in their rocky home lives, were not casual coincidences; they were direct contributors to the behavioral patterns that had seemed otherwise the result of preteen angst.

These preteen girls pushed the limits in a desperate attempt to be understood, and my interest in their lives – and ability to validate their feelings – allowed me to reach a connection based on respect and trust on an entirely different level.

Hearing another’s voice does not diminish your own; rather, it has the ability to change (or strengthen) one’s pre-existing belief. Truly connecting with the girls in my cabin required that I stopped talking and started listening – something that can potentially be carried over into many aspects of life.

Allowing another to discuss his or her perspective does not imply that one cannot hold fast to an underlying conviction or belief; one’s beliefs will prove steadfast against the various perspectives if they are indeed true. Yet allowing stories and experiences to be heard cannot be underestimated.

Don’t just speak and hear – listen. There is a difference, and it can change everything.

Sarah Hagaman is a sophomore in English.

She can be reached shagama1@utk.edu.

Change your perspective, see people in a new light Lost in Communication by

Jan Urbano When you meet someone for the first time, what do you think of him or her? Do you immediately stereotype and judge what they might be like?

We’re all guilty. We’re not going to instantly open and up and trust new people with what we say, lest we let secrets leak and wreak havoc on our lives and others. We want to get to know them over time first and see if they are trustworthy. For those who have found themselves betrayed by close friends, such steps of trust are important. It’s hard to trust people again when that has occurred.

The problem does not lie in this plan, however; it lies in how someone unfairly judges a person, making it difficult or impossible for any friendship or interaction to occur.

It’s often said that we shouldn’t “judge a book by its cover;” nevertheless, we do it much more than we think. It’s a defensive mechanism, partnered with our ability to notice patterns and trends.

Thanks to how particular people in groups are portrayed, we have a tendency to “wrap” people in those images and actions. If we saw someone wearing rugged, ripped clothes with

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in the Ozarks.

At the sports camp where I was a counselor, the agonizingly hot, humid temperatures were bad – but my particular cabin of 13-yearold girls could be arguably considered worse.

This group had notoriously earned the title as the most obstinate, uncooperative cabin of girls in the camp; at first, I watched with distress as my fellow counselors bonded with sweet, excited, cooperative campers – girls who wouldn’t flatly refuse to participate in activities or deliberately break rules out of pure spite.

In the first few days, I contemplated the entire month looming ahead – and felt filled with dread. The camp leaders would have to hold an intervention if the behaviors didn’t improve.

Yet, one weekend – in the middle of a river, while canoeing downstream for hours with the girls – something dramatically changed.

Without even realizing, I earned the girls’ respect (and obedience) in a simple but enduring way: by listening.

I sat in the canoe, asking questions, and listened to the snippets of stories that haltingly came forth from these young women.

The results stunned me. Many of them came from broken homes; half had experienced life without a stable father figure. One’s mother had been in and out of prison since her birth, and she lived with her grandparents because her mom didn’t want her in her life.

Another had bounced around foster homes over the years and had experienced sexual abuse. Little by little, by simply listening, I

his or her face covered by a tattered hoodie, we would stereotype that person as possibly being a drug dealer or, at the very least, someone very suspicious and dangerous.

If we saw an obese person, people would stereotype that person as having a lack of selfcontrol with food and, as a corollary, someone who may not understand the consequences of his or her actions. We would throw verbal rocks at such a person and ridicule them constantly.

In both cases, however, we fail to take the human nature into account. We don’t consider what may have happened to them and what they may have been through. We wrap people in such lies of image that we are unable to realize that we could be wrong – inadvertently, we lie to ourselves, too.

That person with the worn-out clothes? It could be a person who tried to escape from a life of drugs and has been trying to find a new path in life – and a friend.

What about that absurdly obese person?

That person is suffering from a myriad of health problems and has been doing his or her best to fight the weight – and the hate.

Each person is like a prism. However, no one is perfect, and, as such, no one is the perfect example of what a prism is.

There are chips, scratches and cracks strewn throughout each person, some more than others. Some people are also shaped differently, having unconventional structures.

Consequently, this makes each person unique

in his or her own right. Each person will refract light in different ways, and others will see different versions of the refracted light.

We each see a person differently, depending on our own structure and past experiences.

The refracted light that I see from one person will differ from the light that someone else sees.

There are things that we don’t see in others, either because we are blind to it, or because we choose not to. We refuse to be open-minded and concede that we may be wrong when we think of or look at someone. That eccentric nerd you see in class may have problems interacting with people, but underneath it all, he’s a really cool guy. That silent girl that seems to have an ominous air around here may have persevered through terrible events to get to where she is today, and -- whether you accept it or not -- she may be trying to change her life for the better.

It all depends on how you view things, just like how where you stand in relation to how someone refracts the light. However, we must be open-minded and give others a chance.

What you see is not the only viewpoint; there are many other ways to view a person, instead of looking at only one position and instantly stereotyping the person as that.

Keep that in mind, because each of us will experience that many times in our lives.

Jan Urbano is a senior in biological sciences. He can be reached at jurbano@utk.edu.

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Tuesday, April 8, 2014

THE DAILY BEACON • 5 Arts & Culture Editor Claire Dodson

ARTS & CULTURE

pdodson@utk.edu

Assistant Arts & Culture Editor Cortney Roark

All photos by Hayley Brundige

croark4@utk.edu

The Rhythm N’ Blooms Fest began last Friday and ran until late Sunday night. With artists ranging from allgirl bluegrass band Della Mae to pop folk singer Brett Dennen, the festival lit up the streets of Old City and brought people of all ages to Jackson Avenue. Artists performed in a variety of venues, like the newly-established Jackson Avenue Viaduct Stage, Remedy Coffee and the Knoxville Botanical Gardens, where the festival ended.

Nashville-based singer-song writer Holly Williams performs on Saturday at The Standard.

The Black Lillies perform at the Knoxville Botanical Garden on Sunday, the final day of the Rhythm N’ Blooms music festival.

Cary Ann Hearst, one-half of the folk duo Shovels and Rope, Five- member bluegrass band Della Mae plays at Remedy Coffee on Saturday night. performs on Saturday night at the Standard in Old City.

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6 • THE DAILY BEACON

Tuesday, April 8, 2014 Arts & Culture Editor Claire Dodson

ARTS & CULTURE

pdodson@utk.edu

Assistant Arts & Culture Editor Cortney Roark

croark4@utk.edu

Q&A with American Aquarium at Rhythm N’ Blooms Jenna Butz Staff Writer

Claire Dodson Arts & Culture Editor With all of the beautiful music at this year’s Rhythm N’ Blooms festival, Raleigh, N.C., based American Aquarium’s gritty, hard rock ‘n’ roll stands out from the more acoustic-based folksy acts. Frontman, B.J. Barham is proud of this fact.

Counting among his friends Shovels & Rope, Luke Jacobs and Langhorne Slim, to name a few, Barham found himself at home this past weekend for what he called a big “family reunion.”

During the festival, The Daily Beacon staff writer Jenna Butz sat down with Barham to talk about the band’s unique live shows, his self-proclaimed “not pretty” voice, and how American Aquarium fit into the Americana vibe of the weekend as a whole.

Jenna Butz: Why did you guys pick the name American Aquarium?

B.J. Barham: It comes from a Wilco song. They have a song called “I’m Trying to Break Your Heart” and the first line is, “I am an American aquarium drinker. I assassin down the avenue.” And when I was 18 I thought that was the coolest name in the world for a band.

JB: Have you guys played in Knoxville before?

BJB: A couple times. We’ve played Barley’s probably four or five times, and we did the Rhythm N’ Blooms festival the first year they had it. The last time we were through we played a little place called The Tap, a tiny little room. Knoxville’s like the last part of Tennessee that’s building for us. Like, we do really well in Nashville and Chattanooga, Tri-Cities and Memphis. Knoxville is that last missing piece. So we keep com-

ing here. The crowds have been nothing to brag about, but we keep coming here, we keep having fun. The people that do come out have a great time.

JB: How would you guys describe your sound?

BJB: We describe it as like a rock ‘n’ roll band from the South. But not southern rock.

I’m from Raleigh – I’m actually from Reedsville, North Carolina, so I’m always gonna have an accent; I’m always gonna sound southern. It’s like a rock ‘n’ roll band with a southern dude fronting it. It’s not country music; we’re not a country band; we’re not a full-blown rock ‘n’ roll band; we’re not a folk band. I guess Americana is the closest thing to it that would kind of fall under all the categories. Americana. That broad spectrum.

JB: Do you have a favorite song to play?

BJB: I like playing anything off our new record, “Burn.

Flicker.Die.” I think my favorite song to play is the newest song we have – it’s called “Wolves.”

“St. Mary’s” is one of my favorite songs we play off previous records. You know, every song I play every night, you play the same songs for six years – it’s still fun to play, but it’s not like as fun to play. Always the new stuff is more fun, more challenging, just because it’s new.

JB: Do you guys play a lot of festivals?

BJB: Yeah, this is like the start of festival season. Springtime is where they kick in. We’ve probably got four in the next two months. It’s always fun; it’s a great atmosphere. We love it because a lot of bands that we know play them, so it’s like a family reunion among bands. We all tour separately so much, and festivals are the time where we can get together for at least a day or two and just drink craft beer and listen to other bands play for once. It’s really fun.

JB: What do you think makes you guys different from other bands playing Rhythm N’ Blooms this year?

BJB: I don’t know. I’ve noticed a lot of the bands playing are definitely more rootsy, folky, quiet acoustic, pretty. Like really pretty. Every band I’ve seen – they sound really pretty. And their voices are like pretty. And you can’t get mad at it – it’s extremely talented people. I don’t have a pretty voice, we’re a ragged rock ‘n’ roll band. Most of the stuff we’ve seen is very well-executed, pretty folk music. Tonight we’re gonna get up there and play loud.

And my voice is not pretty. It’s my voice, so I’m happy about it.

But we’re not pretty. That’s the one thing that separates us at any festival where there’s acousticbased folk music. I’m definitely more gritty. I’ve had a couple more whiskey drinks than I think most of these people have had.

JB: Who have you guys seen so far?

BJB: I saw Matthew Perryman Jones at The Standard. This is my good friend Luke Jacobs and his girlfriend Carrie Rodriguez.

They’re great. Elenowen was so great; they were really, really pretty. They did a Springsteen song and it was so pretty. I don’t know, I can only listen to so much pretty before I want something else -- I can’t relate to pretty; I relate to hard, lived-in stuff. I’m not saying they aren’t lived-in, I’m just saying it’s really f---ing pretty and I can only do that for so long.

JB: When does your new album come out?

BJB: We start recording in Asheville, North Carolina, in June. It should be out by the end of the year or early 2015. That’s the goal.

JB: Describe to me what an American Aquarium show is like.

BJB: Rowdy. Usually a bunch of drunk a--holes, but I love

everyone of them. I call them that in the most loving way possible. Tonight’s going to be more laid back. We’re going to try to play some pretty stuff, because it’s very rare that you get to play early 1900 train stations that have been turned into music venues. We try to take advantage of these very nice venues where the crowd is sitting down. Because if they’re not sitting down, they’re usually up front pouring shots down their throat. We’re excited for a change in venue. We’re gonna be that one girl at the mall who comes in, in a torn dress and tries to be pretty. But it’ll be fun. In that sense, we are kind of a country band; we want people to let loose. You don’t have to sit back and sip wine. Get up and chug a beer or something.

JB: Do you like, dislike, don’t care if it’s a seated venue?

BJB: It’s two different kinds of shows for us. If it’s seated, I love it because I’m a songwriter, and at the base of everything I write songs on acoustic guitar.

When people are sitting down, they’re forced to listen. It’s something that clicks in their head, like “Hey, I should pay attention to what’s going on on stage.” If we’re standing, we feel like we can talk and be an a--hole.

JB: Besides the audience being seated, do you think there is a difference between the audience here versus your other shows?

BJB: For sure. Anytime you play a festival like this, the people coming are music fans at first.

It’s not like when you play at bars and maybe there’s people who are just there to drink and cut loose. When you play music festivals, everyone is really into music, so you’re always going to have a much more attentive crowd. I like both of them: the drunk a--holes and the music snobs.

Q&A with The Wild Feathers at Rhythm N’ Blooms Jenna Butz Staff Writer Though not native to Nashville, The Wild Feathers have acquired that Nashvillian uniqueness from moving there that manifests itself in the groups folksy rock tunes and exciting live shows. One of the headlining acts at Rhythm N’ Blooms, The Wild Feathers have gained a lot of musical ground inside and outside of Nashville with songs like “The Ceiling.”

The Daily Beacon’s Jenna Butz checked in with The Wild Feathers’ Joel King, Ricky Young and Preston Wimberly about their lives since moving to Nashville, the “subconcious haze” that is their songwriting, and how the band is getting psyched for their upcoming show at Bonnaroo.

Jenna Butz: Do you guys play festivals a lot?

Ricky Young: It seems like we do, right?

Joel King: We love it actually.

It’s kind of like, we get to see a lot of bands – you know, you tour and you don’t get to see a lot of bands for a long time, then you get to see a lot of buddies like Shovels & Rope playing tonight.

And we played after YARN. You get to see a lot of buddies all in one place. It’s like a little family reunion or something like that.”

JB: Is there a certain festival that you guys go to every year or pretty often?

Preston Wimberly: The Hot Chicken Festival in Nashville.

JK: No, we’re so busy that we just, we play them and then we go. But Hangout Festival is one of our favorites. It’s on the beach.

I think if I was home and had nothing to do, I would probably go to that one just because it’s just a cool, vacation-y festival.

JB: Have you guys gotten to hang out and go around to any of the other shows?

JK: No, I wish. We flew in from Dallas. Left the hotel at 6:30 a.m. in Dallas, flew to Nashville, got straight in the van and drove to Knoxville for the show.

JB: When do you guys leave?

JK: Tomorrow.

JB: Are you going to stay to see Shovels & Rope tonight?

JK: Oh yeah.

PW: We’re playing again after them at like 1 a.m. at The Standard.

JB: If you could describe your sound anyway you wanted to, how would you?

PW: Thrash folk.

JK: We’re just an American rock ‘n’ roll band.

RY: Writing songs that stick around.

JK: Just American rock ‘n’ roll. With rock n’ roll you can do anything. Cowboy hippie punk...

PW: Cosmic cowboy JK: You can play country blues. Anything with rock ‘n’ roll.

JB: Do you guys ever find yourselves writing songs about a specific topic?

JK: Like a topical song, like about current events?

RY: Like, is there a common denominator in the songs?

JB: Yeah. Like, a bunch of songs about heartbreak or anything?

RY: I think they kind of come at a subconscious haze if that makes sense. I mean, there’s a lot of desperation and curiosity in our songwriting, I think.

Listening to it as a listener, listening back to the record, sounds like it’s desperate, trying to figure out some things. So, that’s kind of a theme at least on this record.

Maybe the next record will be different, I don’t know.

PW: We’re definitely trying to figure out some things. We’re all young men trying to become good men.

JK: A lot of honesty. It’s a lot of – like, “Left My Woman,” it’s just exactly where we were at the time, and it was the sample of what we were feeling. We don’t really write stories, like create just mythical or some weird thing. It’s usually pretty honest writing. We find the ones that are really good are the ones real true to us.

JB: Do you guys have a favorite song to play?

RY: My favorite song always is “Hard Times.” It’s just something that I get to sit back and listen to, and I really enjoy it.

Like Joel just said, it’s a song about – it’s like a timeline.

JK: Just true.

PW: Just a very honest chapter. Plus, it’s fun to play, and I get to hear Joel and Taylor sing their asses off.

JK: My favorite to play is “Kitchen Breeze” though, because we don’t get to play it very often. Preston plays the pedal steel, so there’s that. And I get to play the country beat.

It’s the country version, like a bonus track on iTunes if you buy the deluxe version or something like that, you get that song.

When you’re throw-and-go like at these festivals, you don’t always get to whip out the pedal steel.

So, when we do, it’s one of my favorite tunes to play. It’s just a great vibe.

JB: Are you guys working on writing for a new album right now?

JK: We’re always writing.

When you’re playing and you’re in the zone, you’re just always writing songs. So, when the time comes for us to do another record, we’ll be ready. But, we’re just regular songwriters, and you don’t think about it too much.

PW: We have so many songs already that I think we already have the first three or four records already written. It’s nice to have so many songwriters where we can just have such a bad catalog with all of our stuff.

RY: We’re always writing, but we have plenty of songs that a ready to go right now as well.

JK: It’s a good problem to have.

JB: In the next few months, is there something you guys are getting ready to do that you’re really excited about?

(See the rest of the interview at utdailybeacon.com)

Festival reveals Knoxville’s blooming music scene

Jenna Butz Staff Writer

a show in the parking lot.

They sang and stomped and jumped and completely mesmerized me. I saw quiet singer-songwriter Sam Lewis captivate the patrons at Boyd’s Jig & Reel with his honest and melancholy lyrics and acoustic guitar. I saw rock-folk band Langhorne Slim & the Law scream and thrash on stage.

I think there is this idea that all music stems from New York or California except for the country stars of Nashville, when in reality, Knoxville is a hotbed of inspirational sounds. Cereus Bright has spread its modern folk across the region and further out into the country. The Black Lillies have appeared at Nashville’s historic Opry 30 times. And both these bands are from Knoxville.

Further, having a music festival such as Rhythm N’ Blooms in our own city is an opportunity to get up close and personal with the musicians that frequent it. Almost every musician could be seen walking down Jackson Avenue this weekend. David Mayfield Parade casually sat in Remedy talking with fans and drinking lattes, and Ben Sollee led a bike tour to the Knoxville Botanical Gardens and wandered around after. I talked to him for a minute and when I hugged him for a picture, he held my hand and told me my sweater was soft.

These casual encounters are the joys of local festivals. By supporting local music and giving yourself the chance to explore the landscape that Rhythm N’ Blooms and other intimate festivals offer, you are allowing yourself to experience the music beyond what’s on the radio.

You have the chance to delve into the artists themselves.

“Support local music.”

How many times have we seen this phrase slapped across stickers, T-shirts and Facebook statuses?

Sometimes we may take a moment to appreciate our personal music taste for indulging in one or two local bands, bands that have members we went to high school with. Sometimes, we scoff at the idea that local music could be any good and turn up our favorite Vampire Weekend or Beyoncé song.

However, more often than not, we ignore the call.

I won’t deny it. I am often in the last category.

Honestly, I find myself to be rather stuck in my music tastes, rarely wanting to change.

However, a weekend at Rhythm N’ Blooms was the reminder I needed to be willing to encompass more artists into my musical sphere.

While I had already listened to the weekend’s headliners, Shovels & Rope, The Black Lillies and Brett Dennen, I was pretty unfamiliar with majority of the other bands playing at the Americana festival, give or take a couple songs here and there.

After spending my weekend trekking up and down the two streets that are Old City, drinking too many iced dirty chais from Remedy Coffee and being rewarded with blisters on my feet, I came to a couple realizations.

Knoxville has a booming music scene. Tennessee has a flourishing music scene.

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OLD CITY continued from Page 1 Either matching the artist with a similar venue or completely contrasting, the weekend’s schedule included soft folk duo Elenowen in Remedy and rock band American Aquarium in the seated Standard, a placing that vocalist BJ Barham admits was both a blessing and challenge for the band versus a standing venue.

“It’s two different kinds of shows for us,” Barham said. “If it’s seated, I love it because I’m a songwriter, and at the base of everything, I write songs on acoustic guitar. When people are sitting down, they’re forced to listen. It’s something that clicks in their head, like hey I should pay attention to what’s going on stage.”

For The Wild Feathers’ guitarist Ricky Young, coming back to a city they know well was the matching venue they needed.

“Knoxville’s always good to us,” Young said. “We’ve definitely paid our dues here.”

Saturday night saw the largest crowd, with patrons crowding to see Shovels & Rope’s lively show that

resulted in Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent teasing both each other and the audience.

Their first show then carried to their later show at The Standard, which resulted in wild dancing and loud singing, a contrast to the mild rowdiness other shows at the same place had seen.

Sunday saw a change of venue to the Knoxville Botanical Gardens, where all attendees were seated in the grass with their array of colorful blankets and quilts.

The day was filled with the sounds of Caleb Hawley, Mutlu, Ben Sollee, Tim O’Brien & Darrell Scott, The Black Lillies and finally Brett Dennen.

For some, the acts drew them in. For others, it was the festival atmosphere and the relationships that are formed there.

“It’s always fun; it’s a great atmosphere,” Barham said. “We love it because a lot of bands that we know play them, so it’s like a family reunion among bands.

“We all tour separately so much, and festivals are the time where we can get together for at least a day or two and just drink craft beer and listen to other bands play for once. It’s really fun.”