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Volkswagen vexes: Letter to the Editor >>See page 2

Fountain City Diner tastes like home >>See page 6

Freshman intimidates on field >>See page 8

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SGA campaigns flood Ped Walkway To read more about each candidate’s campaigning efforts, see pages 4 and 5 >>

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The Daily Beacon wins six college media awards Staff Report At this year’s Tennessee Associated Press Broadcasters and Media Editors’ annual college media contest, The Daily Beacon won multiple awards, which were presented Saturday, April 8, at the John Seigenthaler Center at Vanderbilt University.

Out of 11 colleges statewide submitting to 36 different categories, The Daily Beacon won six awards, plus a best-in-show

prize. All submissions were published in the spring and fall semesters of 2016.

The Beacon’s design staff won first place for “Best News Graphic or Illustration” for a variety of front page graphics and designs. The Editor-in-Chief Bradi Musil won first place in “Best Investigative/ In-depth Reporting” for her article “Landmark Properties Sets Standard for Disappointment” and also won a best-inshow prize for the same article.

The Daily Beacon staff also won three

second-place awards in several categories.

For “Best Feature Story,” former assistant Arts & Culture Editor Michael Lipps won second place for his article “Knoxville Resident Hitches Coffee Shop to His Cycle.”

Contributing writer Tom Cruise won second place in “Best Specialized/Topic Reporting” for his “Space Technology Reporting.” The Beacon staff as a whole won second place in “Best Online Ongoing Coverage” for coverage of the Pride Center vandalism.

Letter to the Editor: Dear Volkswagen To the person who parks your blue Volkswagen convertible on level two of the Andy Holt Tower, I remind you that most of us here treasure this campus as beautiful and want to keep it so. Therefore, stop repeatedly throwing your banana peels over the wall into level one parking.

There are plenty of trash bins inside the building, but if you must adhere to your trailer trash ethics, do it within the confines of your own residence.

Gary Hengstler is the temporary managing editor of The Tennessee Alumnus. He can be reached a ghengstl@tennessee.edu.

Columns of The Daily Beacon are the views of the individual and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Beacon or the Beacon’s editorial staff.

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Food truck serves up twists on traditional tacos Staff Report By heading to coffee shops, breweries and farmers’ markets, instead of waiting for customers to come to a brick-and-mortar shop, food truck chefs are taking their food to where the community is already.

Captain Muchachos, a purveyor of Mexican-American cuisine, draws customers to their bright red trailer with a glowing neon sign, like they did at this past weekend’s Rhythm N’ Bloom’s music festival in downtown Knoxville.

And, it was a music festival several years ago that first inspired owner Duncan Trout’s dream of Captain Muchachos.

Trout, a UT alum, was searching for a career path after graduation, and when walking around a music festival one day and seeing the food trucks, Trout realized that was something he wanted to do.

“It was hard work but fun,” Trout said.

“It took a good year, but it was worth it, having something I was passionate about lightbulb as a career choice.”

Captain Muchachos not only operates in a nontraditional restaurant setup but also serves nontraditional spins on classic

Captain Muchachos tacos vary with combinations such as “Breakfast Tacos Al Pastor,” “Pollo with Kiwi Chutney” and the “Seared Ahi Tuna,” which, in particular, is a favorite of the owners.

The supportive and positive community responses have been the best part for Trout and Captain Muchachos co-owner Maria Vincent.

“Everybody’s nice and supportive.

Knoxville’s a really awesome city for it,” Trout said. “It’s a pretty and outdoorsy town, where everyone’s involved and trying to live a healthy lifestyle so exposure has been really easy. People do their best to make sure local businesses thrive.”

The enthusiastic responses have been what’s kept the crew at Captain Muchachos all over Knoxville lately, serving on the corners of breweries most nights of the week, catering local weddings, celebrating at the opening of Honeybee West in Farragut Captain Muchachos food truck, which serves Mexican-American cuisine, at the start of April and serving tacos to visitors at music festivals such as Rhythm pictured at Rhythm N’ Blooms. Kristin Dehkordi • The Daily Beacon N’ Blooms and the Dogwood Arts Festival “With a truck, we can do stuff more later this month.

Mexican foods, mixing the traditional flavors of Mexican cuisine in brand new com- unique and play around and make crazy “It’s wonderful,” Trout said. “It’s all binations with fresh ingredients. Nothing flavors,” Trout said. “People are more keen kinds of crazy good community.” is fried, and all the ingredients are hand- to try different stuff from a truck than restaurants.” picked and natural.

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The Daily Beacon • Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Banks, Marsh begins ‘lit’ campaign Alex Holcomb

News Editor Beverly Banks and Kiersten Marsh are “lit” to campaign this week with events and tabling to encourage students to vote in the SGA election, which ends this Thursday.

The Banks-Marsh campaign will be on Ped Walkway every day this week, handing out information cards, coffee and snacks. There will also be events as a part of campaign tabling.

On Tuesday, April 11, at 6:30 p.m., the campaigns will have a pizza party outside of Hodges Library and host a late night snack event on Wednesday from 8:30-10:30 p.m.

Banks-Marsh have 21 senate candidates on their ticket representing eight SGA districts.

Miranda Isaacs, junior in business administration, who is on the Banks-Marsh ticket for senator in the business school, said the campaign is keeping the energy up.

“Campaigning is going great. I mean, we’re just trying to get out here and get our name out and talk to some people and really get the energy up. And it’s a beautiful day for that, so we’re having a blast,” Isaacs said.

While the campaign’s goal is to reach students, Banks, junior in journalism, said the students are the ones who have been reaching out.

Campaign staff from Banks and Marsh at the SGA kickoff cookout on Monday, April 10, the first day of the 2017 SGA elections.

Sarah Ali • The Daily Beacon “I think what’s awesome is students have have not kept the precedent. been coming up and interacting with us about “I’m positive about the election,” Marsh said. policy, and they’ve been asking the tough ques- “I think the campaigns are being really positions,” Banks said. “And that’s something differ- tive; there is no negative campaigning which ent that I’ve seen from past SGA campaigns ... is great, and (it’s) always good to see nothing People are interacting with us, so it’s really cool.” negative coming out of it because it’s all about Although SGA campaigning has seen contro- the students.” versy in the past, Marsh, sophomore in political Last Thursday evening, SGA held a presidenscience, feels that this year’s pool of campaigns tial and vice presidential debate to discuss major

issues. However, Marsh said the questions were not very divisive.

“I think that one of the things with the debate questions is that they were very middle of the line questions — not very divisive questions.

Everybody is in agreement that we need more diversity on campus. We need more inclusion, mental health awareness,” Marsh said. “They didn’t really ask the tough questions about the differences in policy.”

Some of the policies that the Banks-Marsh campaign has proposed include lowering POD market prices, creating new bus routes for the Fort area and improving SGA communications.

“With all the policies that we’ve laid out, we have real, actual goals with those and ways to achieve those. I don’t know that the other campaigns have laid that out as well as we have,” Banks said.

Elections end at 5 p.m. on Thursday, and election results will be released the same night.

Despite the possibility of loss, Banks said she knows the campaign has helped others.

“Even if we’ve reached just one student, which we know more than one has (been reached),” Banks said. “But if we’ve done that, and we’ve made an impact there, then we know we’ve done something, win or lose.”

Students can vote for SGA positions at votesga.utk.edu.

Independent candidate excited to campaign Kylie Hubbard Contributor

Antonio Butler, independent candidate for SGA president, said he was excited to start campaigning Monday, April 10, on Ped Walkway to encourage students to vote for him.

“I’m very excited about everything, especially meeting the new students out here ... faculty and staff as well,” Butler said. “It’ll be a little stressful from time to time, but I’m uber excited with everything that is going on, getting to meet all my peers and everybody else out here.”

All campaigns will table on Ped Walkway this week. While Butler enjoys tabling, it isn’t his only tactic.

“I’m also going to be talking to a few organizations, and I’ll be on social media very heavily throughout the entire week,” Butler said. “I’ll be in GroupMe and things of that nature, so I’ll be going more technological than grounds-wise.”

Last Thursday, SGA hosted a vice presidential and presidential debate to discuss some of the major issues on campus. Although Butler did not have a vice president to speak, he was a part of the presidential debate.

“I think all the candidates, including myself, did a great job,” Butler said. “We offer different strategic points to different parts of campus, and I think that is something to look at.”

Although many argue that SGA elections are a popularity contest among those already in the organization, Butler does not see it that way and feels that his lack of SGA experience brings something new to the table. Butler is also a member of many student organizations on campus, including Minority Enhancement for UT, Ignite and the Student Alumni Association.

“I feel like I bring the most outside experience ... I have the most well-rounded experience to be SGA president,” Butler said. “I have a head start on a lot of other candidates.”

Voting and official campaigning ends this week at 5 p.m. on Thursday, April 13, and results will be announced that evening. Although the pressure may build, Butler said he will still help on campus even if he loses.

“Win, lose or draw, I’m here for students.

Things are going to get done. It may not be in the SGA-role capacity, but the (policies) are going to get done in some way, shape or form,” Butler said.

While most campaigns have many senators and a large team, Butler is an independent without senate candidates on his ticket. Despite his independent status, Butler is not alone and has a support team helping him throughout the voting week.

“We are a small team, but a mighty team,” Butler said. “Studies come first, but I’m out here campaigning on Pedestrian Walkway.”

Campaign team member Kiah Albritton is hopeful that the enthusiasm some people feel for Butler will spread to more students.

“We may not be a huge group of people, but there is a small group of people who believe in Antonio a lot,” Albritton said. “Hopefully that’ll spread through the rest of campus.”

Albritton said supporting an independent candidate is an interesting experience. He also said he is pleased with the progress the campaign team has made and is hopeful for the outcome.

“I think it is super brave and something that I don’t think I could do,” Albritton said. “I hope his authenticity and genuineness show through.”

Students can vote for SGA positions at votesga.utk.edu.

A student campaigns for Antonio Butler on Ped Walkway on Monday, April 10. Sarah Ali • The Daily Beacon

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Morgan Mickey Hunter campaign promises unity on campus Chris Salvemini Staff Writer

The Morgan Mickey Hunter campaign began tabling Monday, April 10, along with the other SGA campaigns.

The campaign is promising change on campus by creating policies to reach out to students and faculty about what they want to see on campus.

The campaign is made of Morgan Hartgrove, Michael “Mickey” James Curtis Jr. and Hunter Jones who are running for student body president, vice president and student services director, respectively. While Curtis and Hartgrove have both been involved with SGA since their first year at UT, Hunter, a junior in animal science, is entering SGA for the first time.

“Hunter’s kind of coming in with an outside perspective, which really strengthens our campaign, because it’s making sure that even those people that aren’t aware of what SGA is or how it works, they’re still going to have a voice in our organization,” Dalton Teel, SGA senate secretary and senator for agricultural sciences and natural resources, said.

Students campaign for Morgan Mickey Hunter on Ped Walkway.

Sarah Ali • The Daily Beacon

SGA presidential candidate Hartgrove is a senior in college scholars. SGA vice presidential candidate Curtis is a junior in nursing and said the campaign wanted to focus on SGA inclusion.

“The Morgan Mickey Hunter campaign really stands on the foundation of creating an atmosphere that is not hostile and is inclusive for all students,” Curtis said. “We find that it is essential to emphasize the individuals placed in

these positions. It’s not just about the policy, it’s about the people.”

Last Thursday evening the SGA debate took place, and Hartgrove and Curtis spoke in the presidential and vice presidential debates, respectively.

“I think that Morgan, myself and Hunter did an awesome job answering the questions even though they were difficult,” Curtis said. “So, I do appreciate everyone who actually attended

and who asked all the difficult questions. Keep asking them because that’s how you challenge and hold those accountable, and it’s what we need here at SGA.” Some of the policies the campaign proposed are toward making campus safer for students, like establishing a reduced fare for Uber rides.

Another policy proposal is shifting to a wet campus that is still safe by creating designated drinking zones across the university. The candidates said they plan to work with administration to fulfill these goals.

After the defunding of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion last year and the introduction of an intellectual diversity office this year, keeping diversity is a major point in their campaign.

The campaign said that they plan to work with legislature while also supporting diversity efforts on campus.

“That’s a big thing with this election, just being able to trust the people that you put in charge,” Kriston Ramsey, campaign supporter and senior in child and family studies, said.

SGA voting officially ends on Thursday at 5 p.m. Students can vote at http://sga.utk.edu/ elections/ or at a Ped Walkway booth.

Unite UT campaign reaches out to students

Annie Tieu

Asst. News Editor Formal campaigning and voting for SGA candidates began on Monday, April 10, and, along with the other SGA campaigns, the Unite UT campaign came out on Ped Walkway Monday afternoon hoping to unify students with their vision.

The Unite UT campaign is made up of presidential candidate Phillip Newsom, junior in accounting and economics, and vice presidential candidate Emily Dickey, junior in supply chain management and philosophy. The campaign also includes 15 senators representing three areas of campus.

For the rest of the week until voting, Unite UT plans to organize different events on campus as a part of tabling, like pizza outside Hodges Library and Sunspot on the Strip. And the campaign will also be out on Ped Walkway for the remainder of the week from 7 a.m.–5 p.m. “(Tabling is) so fun. This is my favorite part of the whole thing. The leading up to it is a little more formal of a process, but this is the part that I’ve been in love with since my freshman year,” Dickey said. “You get to actually talk to people.”

Newsom echoed Dickey and said that interacting with the students boosts morale.

“Putting myself out here and seeing the receptive people is really encouraging,” Newsom

said. “People that aren’t receptive … I just hope at least they heard the name, and if something happens on campus and they want to come talk to us, they can come talk to us.”

The candidates said they have heard both positive and negative feedback on some of their policy stances and are open to all students’ opinions.

“We try to share our rationale, hear their rationale, because I think if you’re not openminded … then that’s not very productive,” Newsom said.

Unite UT has students both involved and not involved in student government helping with tabling.

“It’s a combination of friends, senators, just people who are in SGA and want to help and people who have helped in SGA before,” Newsom said. “Everybody unites around a vision.”

As its name suggests, the Unite UT campaign is centered on unifying students with SGA and giving all students a voice. Doug Kievit, off-campus senator and director of outreach, said Dickey has talked about improving SGA for years. “(Dickey has) been talking about her vision for the past two or three years since I’ve known her,” Kievit said. “She really laid out her goal for the campus and why she thought that SGA has been stagnant in recent years, and how she wanted to actively pursue change and make real

Unite UT campaign staff danced on Ped Walkway while campaigning.

Sarah Ali • The Daily Beacon change happen.”

Voting ends Thursday at 5 p.m., and SGA will release the results that evening. With the election just days from ending, Newsom said he feels that that losing wouldn’t be a total loss.

“Even if the unfortunate happens and we don’t win, and we just have some senators who win, there’ll still be people who remember the vision — not necessarily our names, but that this is something we think would be positive for campus,” Newsom said. “Hopefully, it sticks with them.”

While the campaign wants to spread their message, they also want to encourage students to vote. While voting improved in 2016 com-

pared to 2015, the amount of people voting was less than 10,000.

“The best thing that we can do is get the campus to vote,” Kievit said. “We want to get that over 10,000 for sure. So, more importantly, it’s about people voting.”

While some students do not know if they will vote, many have still expressed their desire to have more efforts put into diversity programs.

“Since I’m a minority, I would like more programs dealing with diversity, getting the students more included in the school,” Marielle Pimentel, sophomore in nursing, said.

Students can vote at http://sga.utk.edu/elections/.

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The Daily Beacon • Wednesday, April 12, 2017

A little taste of home with Fountain City Diner Allie Clouse

Staff Writer Recently, I took the fifteen minute drive to North Knoxville to try the food from Fountain City Diner.

One step in the door, and I knew I was home.

The restaurant’s motto, “Your neighborhood diner� couldn’t have been more accurate. As a girl from a small town, the establishment felt just like the eateries I grew up around.

A friendly waitress handed us our menus, and I searched for the dinner options amongst the vast spread of all day breakfast dishes.

Our waitress informed us of their “Blue Plate Specials,� which changed daily and were posted on a large chalkboard near the entrance.

I first I flipped to the back to check out the desserts, having heard they were the best items on the menu.

Slices of various pies, cheesecakes and cakes were all listed. Then, at the bottom was the “Diner-saurus,� a food challenge made with 12 scoops of ice cream, two bananas, strawberry, pineapple, chocolate syrups,

whipped cream, chopped nuts, four chocolate chip cookies and topped with sprinkles and cherries. Although I opted for the diner burger, the t-shirt prize was tempting enough to just try beating the record. My food critic companion chose the “ultimate grilled cheeseburger.�

We both ordered water to drink, but after sitting for awhile, we realized this was the perfect place for a quality Southern sweet tea, and we were right.

After about 20 minutes our food arrived.

My burger, topped with blue cheese and bacon, looked basic beside the perfectly round bun, which was seasoned and crisped to perfection. My guest’s meal looked even more amazing. The burger was sandwiched right in between the gooey, melting cheese of a classic patty melt with a side of French fries.

Before we dug in, we had to take pictures, but pictures couldn’t do this food justice. My burger took me back to childhood cookouts.

One bite was enough. The taste, like the environment, was just like home.

After a long silence with the occasional audible “mmmm,� we asked the server for the menu again. Too full to order two separate items, we agreed on the coconut creme pie.

Once it arrived to our table, I had to gasp

at the size of the slice. Sitting on top of the tall dessert were inches of whipped topping and toasted coconut flakes. The pie was soft and sweet with just a hint of coconut that was not too overwhelming.

The only problem we encountered was the outside crust. At over an inch thick, not even our butter knives could cut through, so we had to break it apart with our hands.

The total for our meal was about $35, slightly above the price of a typical small diner, but worth it for the quality and size of the food.

All in all, if you’re missing home and willing to splurge a little, Fountain City Diner’s homestyle meals won’t disappoint.

Fountain City Diner consists of homestyle meals that leave customers both happy and full.

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The Daily Beacon • Wednesday, April 12, 2017

FOOTBALL

Smith growing as on-field force, off-field friend Trenton Duffer

Sports Editor Looking out across the football team’s practice field, one’s attention is automatically drawn to the massive, 315-pound player that is lined up with the offensive linemen.

He wears No. 73, and he looks like a senior ready to lead his team — even though he’s just a freshman.

Standing at 6-foot-6 and weighing the aforementioned 315 pounds, Trey Smith is a force to be reckoned with on the playing field.

But, don’t worry. He’s a gentle giant.

“Every once in a while, people will notice me. A lot of times, people are scared, and, just a friendly public service announcement, I will not eat you. I will not harm you. I just wanna say ‘hi,’” Smith said after Tuesday’s practice. “If you see me walk by, stop me and talk, you know?”

Smith isn’t just your run-of-the-mill offensive lineman. He was ranked as a fivestar recruit and the No. 1 overall player in the 2017 recruiting class by ESPN and has

seen ranks no lower than a four-star on all other recruiting websites.

The Humboldt, Tennessee, native enrolled in classes this spring and is already causing a buzz across the SEC. At last Thursday’s practice, the team practiced their “Circle of Life” drill, and Smith was one of the first names called to go up against Jonathan Kongbo.

Smith won outright.

“Nobody is going to outwork Trey,” offensive line coach Walt Wells said on Thursday. “He works hard and he comes in and does the extra things … When he doesn’t have to think, he can really come off the ball and hit somebody in the mouth, that is for sure.

“Trey is a good player and is intelligent.

He’s mature beyond his years. He is still learning as we go through it.”

But, Smith is learning quickly, providing one of the more solid pieces of the offensive line as he makes the transition from high school to college life.

“It’s been fun,” Smith said. “I told people back at home that the transition isn’t too hard in the classroom. High school did a good job of preparing me for it. I just think the biggest transition, honestly, is

just walking to class. Instead of walking down the hall a few hundred feet, I’ve got to walk across campus and walk up the Hill.”

It hasn’t all been a walk in the park for Smith, though. At the age of 15, Smith’s mother passed away.

This sensitive subject is something that was understandably tough for Smith, but a text from his personal hero Artis Hicks, who is from the same area as Smith and played guard in the NFL for the Philadelphia Eagles, got him on the right track.

“He taught me that, in that time it’s tough, but now it’s time to man up,” Smith said. “Losing that person, knowing that the way I behave, the way I carry myself on and off the field, that’s going to determine what type of man I am. That’s going to be what makes her proud.”

On the field, there isn’t a set location that Smith has focused on this offseason.

Wells and head coach Butch Jones have moved the youngster around the offensive line this spring, mainly working him at the tackle position while shoving him into some guard drills from time to time.

“He has some position versatility,”

Jones said on Tuesday. “He could also play guard, play tackle. And, that really helps him out. As we know, we like to have multi-positional players, Trey is able to bounce around from guard to tackle.

Not only is he getting some valuable reps at tackle, he’s also getting some reps at guard.”

Whether he’s working guard or tackle, Smith is a big guy with some big upside.

However, he’s not playing against the same defensive talent that he faced in high school.

Smith is now facing what he calls “grown men” every day, even though he is nearly as big as the players he’s facing off against — for comparison, Kahlil McKenzie is listed on the football roster at 325 pounds. However, Smith said he is still ready for the challenge.

“The mental process is not terrible …

It’s not hard. It’s just the details,” Smith said. “If your hands are six inches to the outside or you don’t take a proper step forward, you’re beat automatically. So, I think it’s just transitioning to that.

“I’ve got to keep working at things.

You’re never perfect on technique. There’s always something to learn.”