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Butch Jones played quarterback at Saugatuck High School. • Photo courtesy of University of Tennessee archives

Butch Jones during football practice on Apr. 7.

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Jones’ former high school mentors praise his mental toughness Jonathan Toye Sports Editor (@JonathanToye1) For Tennessee fans, Oct. 4, 2014, will always be a day drenched in disappointment.

It was supposed to be the day the Vols finally defeated their most hated rival. Instead, the day ended with the Gators claiming their tenthstraight victory over the Vols. A day that was supposed to be heralded for the fan-initiated checkerboard in Neyland Stadium was remembered for a vulgar chant from Vols’ fans in the waning seconds of yet another heartbreaking loss to Florida.

That day was the lowest point of the season for Tennessee fans.

Yet, if the 10-9 loss to Florida was rough on the fans, it was especially difficult for Tennessee’s head coach.

“If you were to say, ‘give me one defining moment (of a difficult situation)’ that was after the Florida game,” Butch Jones said in an interview with The Daily Beacon. “Obviously, we were all disappointed, everyone in our football organization was extremely disappointed. But you couldn’t allow the outside noises to creep in.”

Butch Jones and his football team ultimately tuned out those outside noises, winning three of their last four games to earn bowl eligibility.

Tennessee’s first trip to the postseason since 2010 culminated in a dominant 45-28 victory over Iowa in the TaxSlayer bowl.

According to Jones, the Vols’ mental toughness allowed them to overcome the Florida loss.

“I knew with team 118 that if we kept our composure, kept our focus, if we were able to persevere and show resiliency, our efforts eventually would be rewarded and they were rewarded on Jan. 2nd. I think all of that was very important

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and that will be a great illustration for many years to come.

“But it’s all part of the business. You have to be mentally tough to be able to block all that out and be able to focus and put all your attention in the development of the football program.”

Jones is right.

Mental toughness is an attribute all teams need. It allows the players to remain focused on their jobs while enduring intense scrutiny from outside parties like fans and the media. It offers the tools to solve various problems that arise in a football program during the season’s course.

It’s safe to assume that the 2014 Tennessee football team acquired its mentality from its head coach. After all, it’s no secret that a team reflects the personality of its coach.

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Sex Week events for Wednesday Japan and Sexuality Biphobia Abstinence 1:25 pm, BCC Room 102 and and Virginity 11:15 am, History of Beauty, Nudity Bierasure 4pm, UC UC 225 and Censorship 5 pm, 225 McClung Auditorium Revenge Construction of Race, Gender and Porn Sexuality 6pm, UC Auditorium 12 pm, Sexual Fantasies College of 8 pm, UC Auditorium Law 132

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UT officials address Green UT, diversity Hannah Marley Staff Writer The Student Government Association’s new executives held an open Q&A Monday evening with several top university officials, including Chris Cimino, Vincent Carilli, Taylor Eighmy, Carolyn Hodges and Rickey Hall.

The floor was open for discussion, and for one hour, both graduate and undergraduate students presented their concerns to the panel.

Below are a few of the diverse topics they covered: URSA Fees When asked about the progress being made on a request for a $5 undergraduate research fee to support URSA, Taylor Eighmy, the vice chancellor of Research and Engagement, responded by saying that the fee is a top priority for university officials not only because of the positive benefits for individual students, but for overall university retention rates as well.

Eighmy said that when the university was re-accredited last week, one of primary comments from the organization conducting the re-accreditation investigation was that UT should expand its undergraduate research opportunities.

“If you look at the effect that undergraduate research can have on experiential learning,” Eighmy said, “it is a profoundly positive impact relative to retention, graduation, happiness in college and all of those things.”

Experiential Learning Initiative Some students present questioned the panel about the Experiential Learning Initiative that formed the foundation of UT’s Quality Enhancement Plan for re-accreditation. Carilli, the vice chancellor of Student Life, and Eighmy both maintained that the inclusion of more experiential learning opportunities will allow students to have a more well-rounded and engaging undergraduate experience, something they said administrators have been pushing for since the early ‘90s.

Carilli noted that he hopes to see Career Services take a more active role in undergraduate students’ search for internships, making more opportunities available for students to get real world experiences.

Carilli and Eighmy added that one good example of how they hope the program will evolve is the current “smart cities” program, which allows students from various disciplines go out into nearby communities where they are provided with service opportunities that apply to their courses while also benefiting and developing the town they visit.

“I think (experiential learning) has a profound impact on how you learn and what you experience that you will carry with you for the rest of your life, as I have,” Eighmy said.

Freshman Class Diversity While Carilli cited that 14.5 percent of cur-

rent applicants they are tracking come from underrepresented backgrounds, he added that these are tentative numbers that won’t be finalized until May. Hall, vice chancellor for diversity, expressed concerns about the impact of the Tennessee Promise on both economic and racial diversity in the upcoming class, but said he sees the diversity on campus trending up.

“I’m really concerned about the economic diversity as well as the racial diversity with the impact of the Promise,” Hall said. “But right now, our applications look good as far as racial diversity goes.”

Faculty Diversity One student expressed his dissatisfaction with faculty diversity on campus, saying that he has noticed that the majority of his professors are white.

Carolyn R. Hodges, the vice provost and dean of the graduate school, said the university has started actively recruiting Ph.D. candidates and attempting to start the hiring process much sooner than usual to make sure that they have a diverse pool of applicants to choose from.

Hall, however, said that while his office receives complaints about faculty diversity, he said he is not the one responsible for hiring; the current faculty is.

“As of last month, we are coal free.”

-Chris Cimino “This is a problem for most higher education institutions,” Hall said. “But it’s all of our responsibility. We tell faculty, if they see someone, ask them if they would consider coming to UT. Because if you start looking once you have an opening, it’s too late. You need to have relationships.”

Green UT Cimino said that UT is currently the number one school in the SEC for recycling, and the second in the nation for zero-waste game days.

After citing these admirable efforts, Cimino took the opportunity to announce that UT has officially made one change that will have lasting effects on UT’s environmental impact.

“As of last month, we are coal free,” Cimino said. “We went ahead and stopped burning any coal and we have no plans to go back. By the fall, we will have completely converted all the boilers to natural gas.”

Cimino added that as a direct result of this change, UT will have reduced its carbon footprint by roughly 80-85 percent.

Megan Andelloux, a certified sexologist and sex educator gives a lecture on “Getting Wordy and Talking Dirty: Consent and Communication in the Bedroom” on April 6th. Kristen Bright • The Daily Beacon

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Christian communities address sexual assault through prayer RJ Vogt Training Editor As sexual assault continues to dominate national headlines and campus conversations, some UT students are coming together — to pray about it.

The UT Prayer Vigil for Sexual Assault will be held Thursday at 8 p.m. in Circle Park. Robert Hinson, a senior in biomedical engineering, said he organized the vigil to end the “markedly silent” response from the Christian community on campus in regard to sexual assault.

“This is an opportunity for the Christian community to come together, and also for the non-Christian community on campus to see that this is what Christians believe – that we’re actually going to address these issues,” Hinson said.

The hour-long event will begin with a liturgical, call-and-response prayer led by a local minister. At the conclusion of those prayers, attendees are encouraged

to meet with group leaders and pray over more specific aspects of sexual assault, such as intercessions for victims, offenders or others affected by the crime. Individual prayers are also welcome.

For Hinson, a big focus of the vigil is something he refers to as “the heart issue.” He noted that insecurity, lust and personal history can contribute to the mindset of an assaulter.

“Somebody who is an offender – who has committed an assault – usually has other issues, some other deeply-rooted problems, that are showing themselves through sexual assault,” he said.

Campus organizations involved in the event include Cru, Reformed University Fellowship, InterVarsity and Navigators.

All are welcome.

Alexandra Chiasson, a senior in English, said she supports this gesture to enter the dialogue about sexual assault.

“It’s true that religious communities

have remained silent for far too long,” she said. “If we want to address this issue adequately, all kinds of groups, including groups like SEAT and different Christian denominations, need to be involved.”

As a representative of the Sex Week organizing group, Sexual Empowerment and Awareness at Tennessee, however, Chiasson noted that prayer should not be the only way the Christian community addresses sexual assault.

“I would encourage vigil attendees to consider other approaches to this issue in addition to prayer,” she said.

Hinson echoed her sentiment, pointing out that for Christians, prayer is a preliminary step to action.

“Everyone can pray for the courage to be an active citizen and help solve the problem,” Hinson said.

For more information, visit the UT Prayer Vigil about Sexual Assault Facebook page. The event is not associated with Sex Week programming.

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What do “50 Shades of Grey,” a lecture on Freudian psychology, a 1740’s erotic novel and Internet pornography all have in common?

They are all forms of educating people about sex and sexuality.

Whether it’s in the form of an erotic novel on your bedside table or educational pamphlets at your doctor’s office, literature is a prominent method of sex education. On Tuesday night, a panel of UT English professors spoke on this subject in a Sex Week panel called, “Textual Healing: Sexuality and Literature.”

Department of English professors Alisa Schoenbach, Urmila Seshagiri, Katy Chiles and Ben Lee discussed the prevalence of eroticism in books and poetry and how it helps us examine our existing definitions of sex.

Shoenbach said eroticism can be

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divided into three categories: representation via sex scenes, as an instructional tool and as a sex aid. She used the example of the erotic novel “Fanny Hill” by John Cleland written in 1748 and how, even three centuries ago, the act of sex was a narrative concept.

Sex education can come from any medium ranging from, “some crazy scenario with a photo copier or a turkey baster to a middle school instruction manual,” Schoenbach said.

She went on to explain that writing about sex is a natural phenomenon and that writing, like sex, is “queer, unexpected and unusual.”

Schoenbach said there are so many types of sexuality, and it can be constructed so differently that there is really no wrong way to write about sex.

“People are different from each other,” Schoenbach said. “There are so many different types of people. They are not just homosexual and heterosexual.”

Seshagiri further pointed out the parallels between sexual acts and the act

of writing.

“The act of sex itself is made up of tension, it is made up of climax,” Seshagiri said. “There is a resolution and there are actors. It can be performed solo, with one person, two people or more.

The way we configure sex in our heads, in our families, in our societies, in our laws and states has to do with how we narrate sex . . . We can change a story based on how we talk about sex.”

After the panel members spoke, the discussion was opened up for students to ask questions. They were geared towards the ambiguity of sex in novels and whether this was seen as more important than the act itself.

The experts responded that there are just as many erotic and impactful images in text as there are in mass media today.

Authors can be just as creative with written innuendos as screenplay writers can be with scripts, they argued, but ready access to pornography after the invention of the Internet has removed some of the mystery.

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Kansas Bible Company dons Great Depression band name, talks musical style Megan Patterson Staff Writer When you have a band with 11 core members, things can get complicated.

Nashville-based Kansas Bible Company’s lead guitarist Mikey Boo “Ruth Tooth” Ruth shed some light on the band’s “odd microculture,”explaining everything from their signature nicknames to how all the members fuse their styles into one sound.

A member since their college conception in 2008, Ruth sees the nicknames as an extended inside joke within the group of close friends.

“There are just so many of us, and we spend so much time together, in the van or living together, that this stuff just happens,” Ruth laughed. “If you just met us, it would be hard to keep track of who each person is because we refer to each other as different things.”

“I think ultimately every part that’s written by somebody is filtered through their own scope of influences.”

-Mikey Ruth

The name of the band itself is also a shared reference between the group. They pulled the name from their favorite movie “Paper Moon.”

“The premise is that it’s set in the Great Depression with a father-daughter duo, and the father is a fraudulent bible salesman,” Ruth explained. “There’s only one or two scenes in the movie where he refers to it as the Kansas Bible Company.

It’s an obscure reference to a movie we all like a lot.”

In addition to their inside jokes, the band’s cohesive tastes and interests aid in making musical collaboration a little

easier. Ruth said the process generally starts with one member writing a song and presenting it to the group. From there, the members work out their own parts before bringing them all together for the final product.

“It takes a while to develop it into fruition,” Ruth said. “Because there’s three guitars, four horns, two percussionists and this and that, it takes a long time for everything to fall into place.”

Each section of instruments will develop their own part as a group, and then the sections will meld their interpretations of the original melody into the finished song.

“Sometimes it takes six months to get to the point where we feel good playing it live,” Ruth said.

With this much individual creative license going into each song, it is difficult for Ruth to categorize the band as playing one specific genre.

“I think at times an overall style is hard to pin down because we all write collaboratively,” Ruth said. “I think ultimately, every part that’s written by somebody is filtered through their own scope of influences. In a four-piece band, it may be a little easier to pin down because there’s less going on.”

However, the band does have some overlapping idols. Ruth states that The Beatles “obviously” are one of the bands main influences.

“They’re kind of a guiding light for songwriting and production and just experimentation and what can be done,” Ruth elaborated.

The band has also been compared to Chicago many times, mainly due to their incorporation of a horn section in a rock and roll band.

Kansas Bible Company will be performing at Volapalooza this year, and Ruth holds high hopes for the band’s live performance.

“It’s something that we’ve worked really hard on for four or five years now, and we’ve gotten to a point where we feel like it’s really tight and strong,” Ruth said.

Ruth said the band feels honored to be opening for headliners that they “used to listen to in high school.”

“It will be interesting to play for a crowd that’s there to see these huge names,” Ruth said, “and to just try to fit into that concert experience and to provide something positive to people that they like.”

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Around Rocky Top

Conservative columnist, author and commentator S.E. Cupp discusses the stereotypes of the conservative party on April 1st at the UC Auditorium.

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A personal consideration of Sex Week Adam Weatherall Dreaming of Dolly

It’s Sex Week. I don’t know if you knew that it was Sex Week, but it is most certainty Sex Week.

I know because for the second time this year, I have come into contact with giant, philandering, phallus-peddling parcels on pedestrian — the first told me he was good at football, which worried me because I didn’t understand how his/her forehead sweat didn’t sear straight into his/her eyeballs without any eyebrows. I digress.

The talk of Sex Week has been pretty well beaten these past couple of years. If you missed Thomas Carpenter’s column on Monday, he compelled you to read any of the other Daily Beacon “multitude” of columns concerning the embattled spring sex programming — paid for in part from readers like you!

No but really, I don’t want to encourage or discourage you from attending any of the Sex Week activities, mostly because the current executive team posted near-nip slips on social media in an assiduous attempt to promote the week’s events, and I could never ethically or

publicly speak out against nude cooking. That being said, a lot of time and effort was put into this week, and I hear the culminating party at the end of the week is giving away cell phones with semi-direct access to Zayn Malik’s iCloud account. Cross your fingers.

That being said, really the only beef I have with Sex Week is that I honestly have very little to no sex. To which most people would respond, “butt Aderhm, your underwear is so revealing and your jawline so above average, what do you mean you don’t have sex?”

Well first off, my mother still buys 85 percent of my clothes, and I hear the Calvin Klein outlet has some deals/bulges to sweatily screech over. Secondly, I would have to say that it just doesn’t appeal to me. In fact, per Bill Clinton’s definition, I’ve really only engaged in sexual relations with one person in my life.

Sure, they might have enticed me with their effortless wit and “camp counselor” status, but whenever I am asked if I have loved someone, my mind always wonders back to a messy

dorm room and a tangled clump of chestnut hair.

It’s strange to think about how someone I knew for only a short while came to symbolize both then and now such a conflux of emotions — initial love lead to passion, passion to jealousy, jealousy to anger, anger to bitterness and bitterness to nostalgia. It is that nostalgia that has prompted my self-imposed celibacy.

It’s 2015, to find a match is only one swipe away, but to find something real is so much freakin’ harder.

Sometimes I wish I could re-inculturate myself, and that sex could lie less in the grey area in between Tennessee’s absistenence-only policy and Sex Week’s venous cotton penis, and just release my inhibitions. I mean, no one else can feel the rain on my skin better than I could, but I just don’t think I’m ready yet.

Have fun at Sex Week. Go Vols.

Adam Weatherell is a sophomore in political science and Africana Studies. He can be reached at aweath10@vols.utk.edu.

2014 Chancellor’s Annual Report leaves much to be desired

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On April 1st, the office of Chancellor Jimmy Cheek released a graphic-heavy, somewhat interactive “report” that touched on some of our university’s highlights in 2014. Some things were amazing and truly inspired me as a Volunteer while other sections were propaganda-heavy and irrelevant to UT’s progress in 2014. I suggest reading the report first: tiny. cc/2014utreport (the report was originally emailed to us and is buried in the Office of the Chancellor’s website, I shortened the URL for you). I only have enough column space to comment on a few of the sections!

We won an award, and damn are we proud.

The “report” opens with a blown up picture of a trophy that UT seemingly won last year (no links or any other information provided on the report) along with some quasi-inspirational words by Jimmy Cheek himself.

I looked deeper into the award and the group that awarded it to us. The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities has more than 238 members that collectively enroll more than 6 million students and employ 1.2 million faculty or staff. The award we received was the Trailblazer Award for Most Visible Progress (in graduation/retention rates over the past 10 years), and it came with a $20,000 prize and a sculpture. Florida State University also won the award this year.

Okay, this is impressive. I am amazed and proud that UT is slowly gaining national recognition for the changes that Jimmy Cheek has been spearheading since 2009, but graduation and retention rates are such a small part of a university’s excellence. This isn’t the prize at the top of the mountain of academic excellence (which is how I feel it was portrayed by the report), it’s the crowd cheering us on as we still climb the foothills at the mountain’s base.

Math Camp, the future of academics?

Last summer, UT launched a new initiative to better prepare students for the classes they would encounter that August. The program was extremely successful and did nothing but boost student confidence and achievement.

What an awesome initiative! I would love to see these “prep-programs” become an integral part of the transition from high school to college. Too many freshman arrive at their dorm without proper study skills or the discipline to utilize them and the university seems to just let them go on their self-destructive path. To quote Colin Powel, “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”

Faculty George M. Pharr IV elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Professor Pharr became the fifth UT faculty elected to the National Academy of Engineering, a sister organization to the National Academy of Science.

This is the academic equivalent to Peyton Manning being elected into the football hall of fame, seriously.

This is what makes me proud to be a Volunteer, moreso than any sports achievement in UT’s recent history (Pat Summit is up there, though). The National Academy of Engineering directly communicates with and advises the United States’ government and UT’s voice in the organization is growing. Congratulations to Professor Pharr.

The President has named UT as the leader of a new federal initiative.

UT was named the leader and Knoxville the headquarters of the new Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovations.

If anything should get you guys excited, it’s the frontlines of science! Researchers on our campus are

leading the free world in a scientific field of limitless application; they are discovering and creating materials that have never existed before. This is the exact type of achievement that is quickly leading to national recognition and prestige for our university.

Return on Investment… for the government.

One of the last sections is the most infuriating.

The report explains how great UT is for the state of Tennessee, that students and campus visitors spent $280.8 million (how much of that went to Aramark?), and that $125.3 million in state/local tax was generated.

These statistics are about how much money UT makes for the government, in reality the University of Tennessee has a terrible return on investment for students. We are ranked 341st in the nation by payscale.com, which bases its ranking on the true cost of attendance weighed against the median earning power of graduates over 30 years. Ignoring and sidestepping these facts will only delay UT’s progress and keep student happiness low.

In conclusion, this report was below-par…

The Office of the Chancellor had three months to prepare this information and the information they chose was irrelevant or skewed in most sections. Yes, we have amazing achievement by our faculty and academic departments, but why are we still ignoring huge problems in our student body? Propaganda like this report serves no constructive or meaningful purpose, it’s just another press release with some fancy graphics. My forecast: another year of growth over improvement, ignoring rampant sexual assault and ignoring student happiness.

Grayson Hawkins is a sophomore in chemistry. He can be reached at ghawkin4@vols.utk.edu.

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Finance sense from a narcoleptic Jonathan Martin City Cents

It began early last semester — on Boomsday to be exact. Thousands of people were undoubtedly flocking towards the Tennessee River to watch the massive fireworks display light up the night sky. However, I was headed a different direction that night. As cars lined up along the interstate towards campus, I had a straight, traffic-free drive on I-40 westbound to go see a sleep neurologist.

When the fireworks began in a loud and impressive fashion that night, I was in a quiet room attempting to sleep as multiple workers monitored my breathing outside on computers. While most were watching the colors explode amongst the stars, I actually looked like I belonged up in the stars, with wires all over my head and a breathing mask that would make even Darth Vader envious.

Narcolepsy. Sleep Apnea. These are words I would hear very frequently after receiving the confirmed results of my sleep test. Thankfully, these issues are easily fixed once you are aware of them.

Even more positive is the way that my life as a narcoleptic related to my other unexplainable interest: personal finance.

Some might argue that being interested in personal finance is as mentally severe as being a narcoleptic, but I digress.

For those who aren’t aware, narcolepsy is that funny neurological disorder that

“Some might argue that being interested in personal finance is as mentally severe as being a narcoleptic, but I digress.”

takes an interesting approach at smalltime investing and saving that subtracts money from your account in tiny, frequent amounts instead. In Acorns, you can choose to have every purchase you make with your bank account rounded up to the nearest dollar, with the sp spare change b being automatically in invested into a fund that meets your specific risk makess you so tired that you want to go to sleep at any and every chance you get. In some cases, people can even go to sleep while driving and not even realize it. While these instances are very real and very serious, you’re probably more likely to come across a video of a narcoleptic dog if you type the disorder into Google. As for me, I don’t accidentally fall asleep while driving or while walking. I don’t even accidentally fall asleep in class (very often). However, I do experience an overwhelming desire to take a nap at any given point during the day.

The first lesson I learned from narcolepsy is that when your brain is always looking for an excuse to be tired, every minute spent sleeping counts. Even if I only go to bed 30 minutes earlier than usual, I’m doing myself a favor for the next day. As for personal finance, let’s be honest; being a college student means every penny counts. Textbook prices aren’t getting any cheaper, and every minute of extra work that professors hand out is one less minute available to earn any type of part-time paycheck.

Lucky for us, there are ways to make saving money way less painful than setting aside one lump sum every month. One relatively new phone app called Acorns

aversion.

The second lesson I learned from narcolepsy is a tougher pill to swallow, and quite literally so in my case. The thing about narcolepsy is that it’s a neurological disorder, and sometimes sleeping just isn’t enough. Instead, people with narcolepsy will very often need a pill to enable them to fully function. While I wish I could tell you that there’s a pill out there that will make you rich, the correlation to personal finance is not so strong in this case.

Simply put, budgeting, financial planning and investing can be one massive headache for some. In the long run, getting actual help is even more essential, especially if you’re about to start that coveted internship or co-op this summer.

Either way, the real world is sneaking up on you fast; don’t sleep on it.

Jonathan Martin is a senior in finance and economics. He can be reached at j92mart@gmail.com.

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ARTS&CULTURE

The Daily Beacon • Wednesday, April 8, 2015

UT alumni to discuss sexuality through poetry Megan Patterson Staff Writer Shakespeare mastered the use of witty double entendres to imply sexual actions.

This week, UT poets will bypass his approach of “beating around the bush” in favor of a more direct discussion.

When students approached the UT faculty asking for input and support for Sex Week, Marilyn Kallet, director of creative writing, responded by organizing “Singing the Body Poetic,”a performance of songs and poems centered around the human body.

For Kallet, Sex Week is necessary for two important reasons: mental and physical health and joy in the human body.

“We need information in order to be healthy,” Kallet said. “We need information in order to be happy. We need to be not ashamed of ourselves and our bodies and our physical beings.”

Kallet found poetry presented the ideal medium for communicating this message to others.

“Lyrical poetry has always been integrative,” Kallet explained. “It brings together feelings, thoughts and sensations. It’s a place where all of that can come together.”

Kallet invited performers that each possess a signature style of expressing poetry.

Two singer-songwriters, one actress and three alumni fill the set list.

“The first thing to say is that all of these people are brilliant poets,” Kallet said before describing Darius Antwan Stewart. “This brilliant poet happens to be black and gay.”

Stewart grew up in Knoxville and is one of the UT alumni who will perform.

Kali Meister, a second UT alum who Kallet described as “bold and sassy,” translates her poetry into performance through acting.

“She’s so good that many years ago when she was a student of mine, after she was all done, I said ‘Would you tutor me in performance?’”Kallet shared. “We met once a week, and she changed my life.”

Andrew P. Dillon, an alumni with an MFA in creative writing, said he is grateful to be a part of Sex Seek since he never got a chance to participate as a student.

“Sex Week is a great way to talk about just

being honest about being a sexual being and how that’s just a natural and healthy part of your life,” Dillon said.

Despite agreeing that sexuality should be an open and comfortable topic, Kallet admitted, “We’re going to be performing poems that we wouldn’t perhaps ordinarily have the nerve to do.”

The hour long performance will raise multiple topics of discussion and evoke a myriad of emotions.

“It’s not a Hallmark greeting card sort of thing,” Kallet said. “It’s gonna have some blues in there. It’s gonna have some anger. It’s complexity.”

This diversity in material parallels the diverse audience the performers hope to draw.

“I’m hoping that people will be there and be involved in Sex Week who wouldn’t normally be open to talking about their sexuality and their bodies,” Dillon said. “I’m hoping people will come and just listen and be part of that discussion.”

“Singing the Body Poetic” is Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in Hodges Library Auditorium and is for ages 18 and up.

Rhythm N’ Blooms is gearing up to take over Old City this weekend.

Can’t go? This playlist can help you feel like you’re right there.

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Neighborhoods: East Nashville is the hippest part of town Travis Loller Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A trip to Nashville wouldn’t be complete without a visit to the honky-tonks of lower Broadway and a pilgrimage to the “mother church of country music,” the Ryman Auditorium, but once you’ve hit those, consider a trip across the river to Nashville’s hippest neighborhood.

East Nashville started out as separate city of country estates, enjoying a post-Civil War boom in the 1870s and 1880s, according to local historian and East Nashville resident Jim Hoobler. Beginning in 1916, a huge fire, the Great Depression and flight to the suburbs took their toll. Restoration of the area’s many Victorian homes and bungalows began in the 1970s, and has helped turn it into one of the city’s most desirable neighborhoods.

Today, visitors can easily spend a day or more sampling East Nashville’s boutiques, restaurants, brew pubs and clubs. There are too many fun spots to list them all, but a good place to start is the pedestrian-friendly Five Points neighborhood.

Here Marche Artisan Foods (1000 Main St.) serves up a European-style seasonal menu in a sunny room that is always packed. In addition to sit-down meals, Marche sells baked goods and locally sourced packaged food.

Chef Margot McCormack has another popular restaurant nearby, Margot Cafe and Bar (1017

Woodland St.), which serves rustic French and Italian cuisine for dinner and Sunday brunch.

Reservations can be hard to get, but sometimes there’s room at the bar.

A cheaper, humbler meal can be found at I Dream of Weenie (113 S. 11th St.), a hot-dog restaurant run out of an old Volkswagen bus.

Across the street is the Pied Piper Creamery (114 S. 11th St.), where a signature flavor is Trailer Trash— vanilla ice cream with Oreo, Twix, Butterfinger, Nestle Crunch, Snickers, M&Ms, and Reese’s Pieces.

New York-style Five Points Pizza (1012 Woodland St.) offers a good selection of local and regional craft beers.

For shopping, a row of tiny boutiques called The Idea Hatchery (1108 Woodland St.) includes everything from an all-local bookstore (East Side Story) to a gourmet oatmeal shop (Haulin’ Oats) with lots of vintage and kitsch in between.

Another cluster of boutiques, The Shoppes on Fatherland (1006 Fatherland St.), is within walking distance. Or rent a bicycle for the trip from the nearby Nashville B-cycle station (109 S. 11th St.). Basic rentals are $5 for the first hour, $1.50 each additional half-hour.

Don’t miss Jones Fly Co., where workers tie feathers and animal hair around tiny hooks, making mock bug lures that anglers use to fool fish.

For a moment of calm, visit High Garden, selling both traditional teas and herbal infusions with names like “overworked,” ‘’warrior

blend” and “airway to heaven.” Take a bag to go or share a pot with a friend in the small seating area. There’s a selection of books and games for the tables, but laptops are not allowed. Yes, you read that correctly.

“This is not a place to escape, it’s a place to be,” co-owner Leah Larabell explains.

Six blocks away is Olive and Sinclair Chocolate Co. (1628 Fatherland St.), where Scott Witherow roasts, stone-grinds and sells what he calls “Southern artisan chocolate.” If it’s a Saturday, you can tour the factory for $5, including your very own hairnet.

At Barista Parlor (519 B Gallatin Ave.), the coffees have complicated back stories and can be served cold with mixers that make them feel more like cocktails. Food includes inventive house-made “Pop’s Tarts,” doughnuts and macaroons.

Mas Tacos Por Favor (732 Mcferrin Ave.), an eastside lunchtime favorite, serves great Mexican street food and aguas frescas.

After all that food, burn a few calories by checking out a free bike from Shelby Bottoms Nature Center (1900 Davidson St.) and riding the 950-acre Shelby Bottoms Park’s greenway next to the Cumberland River. The adjoining Shelby Park offers another 336 acres complete with nine- and 18-hole golf courses.

Or travel west along the river to Cumberland Park. Just a walking-bridge away from downtown, this kid-friendly spot includes a “sprayground” where jets of water offer relief on hot summer days.

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SPORTS

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Foreign Language Department hosts tournament at Regal Soccer Stadium Shane Switzer Ccontributor The World Cup is coming to UT — kind of.

The foreign languages at UTK will compete Wednesday against each other in a miniature World Cup at UT’s Regal Soccer stadium. The foreign language teams feature students from each of the foreign languages offered at UT. The tournament will start at 4 p.m. and is open to the public and is free.

The tournament was first held in 2013 and was organized by the Italian club to bring the foreign language department together and celebrate the world’s love of soccer. The Italian club held an inter-department soccer

BUTCH JONES continued from Page 1 Yet, where did Jones learn mental toughness? Look no further than his hometown of Saugatuck, Mich.: a small picturesque resort destination situated next to Kalamazoo Lake.

Jones treasures his upbringing in this town so much that he and his family travel to the lakeside community every summer.

He doesn’t take the trip to escape his job or football; he goes because he is grateful for the town and the lessons he’s learned from its residents, lessons that have guided him in his massive rebuilding project of the Tennessee football program.

“You have to have points of your schedule where you are able to have a great balancing act,” Jones said. “Being able to go back to Saugatuck with so many friends, it’s a resort community, it’s a vacation. But also to be around your family and so many people that were instrumental in your growth and development at an early age, it can really set the temperament for years to come. It’s always great to be back.”

Jones has another reason to be excited about his annual homecoming: Saugatuck now dons Tennessee orange.

The Tennessee head coach said Vol fans now vacation in his hometown. Several of the town residents, friends and family, who are proud of Jones’ accomplishments, have a collection of Tennessee memorabilia.

“We had to get rid of a lot of Cincinnati stuff,” Saugatuck resident Mark Bekken joked in a phone interview.

Bekken serves as a city council member for the less than 1,000 population town. But long before he was recommending city policies, he was offering advice to Jones on the football field.

Originally, Jones’ junior varsity coach, Bekken became the offensive coordinator for the varsity team the same year Jones advanced to the varsity ranks. Bekken was also Jones’ high school varsity position coach for four years.

tournament and that tournament grew into all of the languages coming together to play each other.

Renée D’Elia-Zunino, an Italian professor, said that the faculty enjoys the competition as much as the students do.

“The faculty can coach and encourage but mostly the faculty prepare,” D’Elia-Zunino said. “We are doing this for a reason; we want our students to be exposed to the language and culture. We prepare them a week or two before hand and give them all the information they need, and then the students go to the field and perform and we go and cheer.”

Two students playing for the Italian side are Ethan Williams, senior in economics, and Natalie Thedford, junior in art. Both students said they have prior soccer experience with

Thedford playing soccer since she was little and Williams playing club soccer in middle and high school.

“I really enjoyed my Italian class,” Thedford said. “I would love to represent them in the soccer field.”

When asked which team will win the soccer tournament, both Williams and Thedford said the Italians will win.

If the Italian team wins the tournament, it will be their first time winning the event they started. The first tournament was won by the Brazilian team over the Germans. In the second tournament last year, the Italian team made it to the finals but lost to the French soccer team. D’Elia-Zunino said that loss was hard for her as her husband is French and gave her some good-natured ribbing.

D’Elia-Zunino said students not playing in the soccer games are encouraged to come and support their favorite foreign language and dress up and have fun. She also stated that noise makers are welcome, and Brenz Pizza will be supplying food.

Win or lose, D’Elia-Zunino believes the event serves as an opportunity for spectators to appreciate the different cultures represented on the field.

“Sports can change the world in a positive way and bring down barriers of language and origin,” D’Elia-Zunino said. “Languages are like sports--you need to know the culture behind them both to fully appreciate, and master, the nuances and rules. An event like this exposes a community to a mini World Cup with all the flare and excitement.”

Even though Bekken admitted Jones no longer needs football advice from his old high school coach, he and Jones still maintain a close relationship today as Bekken has attended multiple Tennessee football games, including the most recent one.

“I am looking at a picture of him and I holding the (TaxSlayer bowl) trophy,” Bekken said during the phone interview.

Bekken’s relationship with Jones enabled him to readily provide an explanation to the origins of Jones’ mental toughness.

According to Bekken, Jones mastered mental toughness when he mastered commitment, a virtue he had to learn at an early age just to hold a job in Saugatuck.

Jones worked at the Coral Gables, a resort complex on the waterfront in downtown Saugatuck.

Tourists flock to the Coral Gables for its scenic location. With the influx of visitors, the complex needs people to work in the restaurants and bars. There are dishes to clean, food to cook and vacationers to serve.

Attached to these jobs are long hours, Bekken said, with the shifts starting early in the morning and ending late at night. Also, the environment complicates work at the Coral Gables to a greater extent as it’s difficult to stay focused when recreational activities always remain within eyesight.

Jones learned to ignore these distractions while also balancing his job with playing three sports in high school. He also held managerial responsibilities at the complex.

Yet, this commitment at an early age might have established the building blocks for Jones’

current coaching philosophy: a philosophy that emphasizes hard work as a key component to success.

“It’s hard to say learning how to wash dishes and learning how to cook and tend the bar and things like that can formulate how you coach in the SEC,” Bekken said. “But I think it’s just the piece of the puzzle. I think it is the concentration and the commitment, you’re involved in a lot of things.”

Jones’ employment at the resort complex not only helped forge his mentality, but it also strengthened his social skills. Skills that might have played some part in Jones landing back-to-back consensus top-10 recruiting classes in his first two seasons at Tennessee.

“When you are working in a resort business, you learn how to deal with the public,” Bekken said.

“I think the development -Mark Bekken of his people skills started when he was young.”

While working in the coaching industry, Jones also interacts with the public. It’s another example of how his experiences in Saugatuck shaped his coaching capabilities.

Jones’ coaching skills didn’t just develop in the workplace. His high school athletic director Dan Wilson, now retired, said via phone that Jones’ managerial skills were apparent when he was in sixth grade.

Wilson recalled a story that involved an adolescent Jones as a manager for the high school varsity basketball team. Even then, Jones was making sure players were well-prepared before the upcoming game.

Wilson said he walked into the locker room before a varsity basketball game one day. Every single uniform was meticulously laid out in

order, all folded the same, and all the towels were next to the uniforms.

“You just knew he was into athletics,” Wilson said. “(He was) organized, thought everything through, that kind of thing.

“There has been no doubt in my mind for a long time that he would be somewhere in that kind of athletic mode.”

As spring practice winds to a close and the summer approaches, Jones will need that razorsharp focus on details when preparing for the upcoming football season.

The depth is not where he wants it to be. He will have to determine which player fills the fifth spot on the offensive line. And all he can do is hope that the players injured in the spring fully recover in the summer.

He’s also tasked with managing the burgeoning expectations of fans yearning for a return to ten-win seasons for the 2015 Tennessee season.

Jones will likely suffer more frustrating losses like the 2014 Florida game in the future. And once again, he will have to make sure his team tunes out detractors.

His former hometown mentors, however, are confident that the teenager they witnessed transform into a Division I football coach will always have a solution to the next problem.

“He’s got an inner toughness about him, a real competitiveness about him, and it is all genuine,” Bekken said. “It comes out; you can see that on the sideline at times. He can be a little more demonstrative and that can surprise people at times, but it’s genuine. And he always plays best in the biggest games. Butch has a way of getting the best out of people and that goes back to leadership, leading by example.”

Wilson echoed similar statements, praising Jones inherent ability to always remain focused at his responsibilities.

“He just had that mental toughness that you see coaches say, ‘you can’t coach that, you either got it or you don’t’ and Butch has that,” Wilson said. “And he doesn’t let outside distractions bother him in anything.”

“He’s go an inner toughness about him, a real competitiveness about him, and it is all genuine.”

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SPORTS

The Daily Beacon • Wednesday, April 8, 2015

FOOTBALL

TRACK AND FIELD

Quicker Kamara complementing Track and Field athletes ‘excited’ to compete at home for first time Hurd at running back Taylor White

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Despite sitting out Tuesday with a “thigh bruise,” Alvin Kamara has done more than enough to turn a few heads in his first spring practice at Tennessee.

With the graduation of Marlin Lane, the Vols needed somebody to step in and take carries from rising sophomore Jalen Hurd, and so far, the junior college transfer has done just that.

Hurd ran for 899 yards and five touchdowns on the ground last year, and he is using that experience to help his new teammate.

“Alvin is doing a great job,” Hurd said after practice Tuesday afternoon. “I’m just trying to be there and give him as much encouragement and as much tips as I got and just help teach him. But he’s doing an amazing job.”

At 5-foot-11 and 210 pounds, Kamara comes in as the quicker of the two, but Hurd more than makes up for the size that Kamara may lack.

Hurd has been limited this spring due to shoulder surgery in the off-season, but that hasn’t stopped him from hitting the weight room. The Hendersonville, Tennessee native says he is up to around 235 pounds which, combined with his 6-foot-3 frame, makes him and Kamara a formidable onetwo punch.

“I think we feed off each other,” Hurd said. “He’s more elusive than I am, and I can work on that. He can work on getting a little bit bigger, like I am. We’ll feed off each other, and we’ll get better and help each other.”

Head coach Butch Jones said Kamara will likely return to practice on Thursday or Saturday at the very latest.

Defensive linemen emerging: Much has been made of the five defensive linemen that will miss spring practice due to injury.

While that is nowhere near an ideal situation for Tennessee, it does give the remaining players an opportunity to make a name for themselves, and one of those players is rising sophomore defensive tackle Kendal Vickers.

“I was very encouraged by the play of Kendal Vickers,” Jones said. “We went live goal-line at the end of practice, and you could feel the presence of Kendal Vickers.

Kendal is an individual who continues to get better and better, so we’re very encouraged about his progress.”

After redshirting his first season at Tennessee, Vickers appeared in five games in 2014, mostly in mop-up duty and failed to get in the stat sheet.

Jones referenced Vickers as a player who is using spring football to “transform,” and that hard work is paying off for the Havelock, North Carolina product, something that is being noticed by his teammates.

“Kendal Vickers is doing extremely well,” rising sophomore offensive lineman Austin Sanders said. “He’s coming every day, and that’s what it’s about is coming every day.”

Charles Mosely is another defensive tackle who has managed to take advantage of an increased number of reps.

After breaking his leg in a car accident last August forced him to redshirt his freshman year, this spring is Mosely’s first opportunity to show the coaching staff what he’s capable of, and his toughness is what has stood out to Jones thus far.

“I’ve been encouraged,” Jones said of the 370 pound Mosely. “He’s out on the football field giving everything that he has each and every day. He’s probably about 65-70 percent, but he’s bringing it. He hasn’t missed practice. He hasn’t missed any reps and I give that young man a lot of credit, and I do see him progressing.”

Medley gaining confidence: After being named the starting kicker just before the first game of his true freshman season, Aaron Medley admittedly was a little nervous.

Hitting 20-of-26 field goals, including a game winner in overtime at South Carolina, the rising sophomore is feeling a little more confident this time around.

“I think the biggest change, going from last year to this year, is when we go out for a field goal, I’m expected to make it now,” Medley said. “Last year it was like ‘okay, let’s see what he can do.’ But I think the standard is up there now, and I have to maintain it.”

One of the biggest changes for Medley hasn’t come on his field goal attempts, but on his kick-offs. He’s changed his form some this spring in hopes of increasing his distance.

Last season just 15-of-63 kicks were recorded as touchbacks, and Jones wants to see that number improve heading into Medley’s sophomore season.

“We need him to get the ball in the end zone,” Jones said. “The best kick-off cover team is when they have a touchback. We’ve really challenged him on that, and he’s really responded.”

Shane Switzer Contributor Tennessee Track and Field will race at home for the first time this year.

On Thursday, Apr. 9, the Tennessee Relays kick off a three-day event at Tom Black Track. The meet on Thursday starts at 10 a.m. while events on Friday and Saturday start at 11:45 a.m.

Events scheduled for Thursday are the Heptathlon and the Decathlon, with both events starting in the evening and ending on Saturday. High schools from around the state will compete, with their events beginning earlier all three days.

This will be the first time Tennessee competes at home this season after traveling to all of their indoor-season track meets and traveling to their first four meets of the outdoor season. This will also be the home debut for first-year director of track and field/cross country Beth Alford-Sullivan.

“I’m excited to be at home and showcase our kids at home,” Alford-Sullivan said. “I had the time to look through the records on our track and the records from the competition and look at the history and the historic marks that have been laid down on our track from this meet. I’m just excited to embrace it and have a great time and have our team be at home and representing.”

Several members of the track team also echoed Alford-Sullivan’s excitement

about being at home for the first time this year. Christian Coleman heard that alumni are planning to watch the events and is eager to compete in front of them.

Coleman will be running in the 200 meter dash, the 4x1 relay and also competing in the long jump. The freshman, who is an indoor first team All-American, is No. 25 in the nation in the 200 meters.

“I’m trying to go out and (personal record) in 200,” Coleman said.

Red-shirt junior Austin Whitelaw will be running in the 5,000 meters after running in the same event last weekend at Stanford. At Stanford, Whitelaw set a new personal best with a time of 13:58:69. He is the No. 32 ranked runner in the nation in the 5,000 meters.

W h i t e l a w acknowledged that while distance runners don’t normally run back-to-back weeks, he is excited -Beth Alford-Sullivan to run at home in front of family and friends.

Coming off of last weekend’s performances, the men’s track team moved up in the rankings to No. 13 and will look toward further improvement this weekend.

“Where we are at, No. 13, we certainly have potential to rank a little higher,” Alford-Sullivan said. “We certainly have some more marks that will come through as the season progresses but it’s an impressive ranking right now, it’s a solid very honest ranking right now. Just very proud of being in the top 25.”

“I’m excited to be at home and showcase our kids at home.”