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Student crashes into printmaking

Equal pay for equal work >>See page 5

Local bars spring into expansion

'Oops!' is an installation made with screenprints, LED lights, cardboard, foamcore and steel chain.

• Photo Courtesy of Raluca Iancu

Jenna Butz

Arts & Culture Editor (@butzjenna)

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Vickers thriving in spring practice >>See page 11 The exterior of the 'Oops!’ 2015 installation.

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She’s been referred to as the “car crash artist.”

Raluca Iancu, graduate student in printmaking, creates art based on the aesthetic aspects of car crashes using both 2D and 3D printmaking as well as drawing and ceramics.

“There’s something really attractive about the twisted metal that you see,” Iancu said. “They are spectacular. There’s a reason why we keep looking at car crashes in movies. There’s a reason why we like the explosions. There’s a reason why we cheer on the demolition derby even though it’s kind of crazy.

It’s a very gladiator sport.”

Iancu had always been interested in art as a child, starting with watercolors in elementary school art class. Though she struggled for a while between majoring in math or art, she finally decided on her true passion.

“I thought that there’s nothing worse than doing something that you don’t love, so maybe it’s not the most financially successful career path, but I’ll be happy doing it,” Iancu said. “That, to me, is important.”

When she was working on her undergraduate degree in Nova Scotia, she fell in love with the process of printmaking.

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Obama backs compromise Iran bill, gives Congress say Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Barack Obama would be willing to sign a compromise bill giving Congress a say on the emerging nuclear deal with Iran.

Republicans and Democrats on a key Senate panel reached a compromise Tuesday. The compromise shortens the congressional review period and makes other changes sought by Obama.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest says the Obama administration is withholding final judgement while the compromise makes its way through Congress. He says that’s because changes could be made that would render it unpalatable.

But he says that as it stands now, the bill includes enough changes sought by Obama that he would sign it.

Obama has been in a standoff for months with lawmakers who are skeptical of the deal and want Congress to take a vote.

DISPATCHES Woman identifies herself in public gang rape video After the video of a public gang rape that occurred in Panama City in March was obtained by the Bay County Sheriff’s department, a young woman watched the blurred video at home as it aired on a local newscast.

Although the victim in the video’s face cannot be seen in the video, the woman recognized her tattoos and contacted authorities immediately, coming to the realization that she may have been drugged and gangraped while vacationing in Florida.

Police have already arrested two men for the assault, but two remain unidentified. Authorities plan to show the young women the full, unblurred video to see if she can help in the investigation. Ruth Corley, a spokeswoman for the sheriff’s office, said the young women intends to press charges.

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Obama announces plan to remove Cuba from terrorism list President Obama intends to remove Cuba from the U.S. government’s list of nations that sponsor terrorism, the White House announced Tuesday. This move will remove another roadblock in the president’s attempts to restore diplomatic relations with America’s neighbor to the south. Obama originally ordered a review of Cuba’s status on the list last December. After decades of hostilities, the two nations have made major headway in recent months to leave behind Cold War-era aggressions. This past weekend, President Obama met with Cuban President Raul Castro at the Summit of the Americas meeting in Panama. This highly anticipated meeting was the first official convening between the two countries in more than 50 years.

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Top: The second annual Great Llama Race was held at World’s Fair Park on Apr. 11, 2015.

Bottom: People of all ages enjoyed this year’s Great Llama Race.

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Criminal justice expert speaks out on racism Bradi Musil Assistant News Editor “The system is racist, and it’s working the way it’s supposed to work.”

Paul Butler, a professor of law at Georgetown University, presented his lecture “Criminal Justice After Ferguson,” Monday afternoon to argue that there is no flaw in the way the current American criminal justice system is working.

The flaw, rather, is the entire system itself.

Butler is considered an expert in the field of criminal justice and race, and his work has been featured on 60 Minutes, Nightline and major broadcast networks. He also lectures regularly for the American Bar Association and the NAACP. Valorie Vojdik, the director of the clinical programs and professor in the College of Law, said inviting Butler to campus was a decision made fol-

• Professor Paul Butler lowing the events that unfolded this year in places like Ferguson, New York City and, just recently, South Carolina, which she said have “rocked” the criminal justice system.

“Here at UT, we have watched with dismay and mourned the killing of unarmed black men by police officers,”

Vojdik said. “As legal professionals, our students and faculty have begun to engage as a community in critical conversations about the role of race and racism in our system.”

Butler’s lecture Monday aimed to further that discussion.

He introduced himself by disclosing his past to his audience, a past that includes working as a prosecutor for the U.S. government in criminal court in Washington, D.C. “I used that power to put black people in prison, and Latino people and poor people,” he said. “Like a lot of prosecutors, that was pretty much all I did.”

However, Butler said he soon felt a shift in responsibility as a lawyer and an American that led him to end his prosecuting career and become a law professor.

His job and priority now is to expose the injustices and realities of the criminal justice system, which he said is designed to “punish” black people, poor people and Latinos.

“One of the functions of American criminal justice is to enforce a kind of racial hierarchy,” he explained. “If you’re white, then the system works for you in ways that you may not even realize. It enhances the property value of your whiteness.”

Butler, acknowledging that this theory is “hard medicine” for many Americans, used the recent Department of Justice report conducted on the Ferguson Police Department to support his thesis.

He told two stories that were recorded in the report.

First, he told the story of a young, African American man who was arrested for giving a police officer a false declaration. The young man, who was approached by two white officers while playing basketball in a park, told Ferguson officers his name was Mike when it was actually Michael. The officers took him to jail.

Another story within the report documented that an African American woman called the Ferguson police to report that her boyfriend was assaulting her. When the officers arrived, they arrested the woman for not having her boyfriend’s residency on file, and she was taken to jail for a permit violation.

Butler said in both cases, the police acted completely legally within the

“If you’re white, then the system works for you in ways that you may not realize. It enhances the property value of your whiteness. ” -Paul Butler

criminal justice system.

“The system is working the way it is supposed to,” Butler said. “The racist things that happened in places like Ferguson, it turns out that they are not a flaw in the system. They are just an especially revealing example of how the system works.”

Essentially, Butler said there are two different systems of law enforcement in America: one for white people and one for black people.

“In New York City, the white couple who has a bottle of wine in Central Park, they won’t be arrested,” Butler said. “The black guys who have a can of beer on their stoop, they get arrested.”

The current American justice system, he said, is in place to keep racial and gender minorities oppressed, and argued that it will still that way until a complete overhaul of the structure of law enforcement is considered.

Butler encouraged his audience to challenge and question the system that allows police officers the “superpower” to murder African Americans and lower-class Americans with immunity.

“My friends, the determination of who goes to criminal court in chains should not be so fortuitous. It should not depend so much on race and class,” Butler said.

“To make America great, our joint project must be to reconstruct it, beginning with criminal justice.”

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Equal pay resonates on Rocky Top

Heidi Hill Copy Editor It’s 2015, and equal pay for equal work is still not a reality.

On average, women make 78 cents for every dollar paid to their male counterparts, according to the National Committee on Pay Equity.

For minority women, this gap is even wider, with black and Latina women being paid 64 and 56 cents, respectively, for every dollar paid to white males.

Tuesday, April 14 marked Equal Pay Day, a day symbolizing how far into the year the average American woman would need to work to earn the equivalent of what the average American man made the previous year.

Members of the American Association of the University Women of Tennessee, students and faculty were stationed outside the Rocky Top Café, talking to passerby about the current climate for American women in the work field, the gender pay gap and awareness for the day dubbed “Equal Pay Day.” For Katie Kleinkopf, a graduate assistant in women’s studies, the realities of payment inequity are not limited to the “Mad Men rules.”

“If women aren’t equal to men, they aren’t making the same pay, and our country can’t

progress,” Kleinkopf said. “We say that we are the leaders of the free world, but we’re not.

We’re still stuck in these antiquated gender roles.”

A research report from the AAUW showcases the pay gap that still exists in Tennessee, with men’s median earning at $41,493 while women make a median income of $34,301, or 80 percent of the male salary.

Representatives from AAUW’s Knoxville chapter also claim that women of all races, ethnicities and educational backgrounds are affected by the pay gap as well.

President of the local AAUW chapter, Anne Loy, explained how the inequity is particularly harmful to women who act as sole providers for their family’s income.

“There are so many women are single mothers and are in poverty, and they are trying to raise a family and trying to work,” Loy said.

“If women receive the same amount of money that a man does for the same job, that would raise a good percentage of women, single parents, out of poverty.”

Loy said this is an ongoing fight, and she said she plans to petition for persuasive legislature by writing regular letters and emails to Senators Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker.

Despite the AAUW’s praise for President Obama’s passage of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair

Pay Act in 2009, Loy reported that there has been little interest for the issue in the state of Tennessee’s legislative body.

“I write to them several times a year, but they respond that they are not in favor,” Loy said. “I don’t know what it’s going to take.

More women in government, I suppose.”

Yet, AAUW’s advocacy could make an impact on the organization of UT’s own women’s athletic department.

Through the organization’s Legal Advocacy Fund, Loy and her fellow AAUW members provided financial and organizational backing for the 2012 lawsuit filed against UT by Jennifer Moshak, Heather Mason and Collin Schlosser, former employees of the women’s athletics department.

The three plaintiffs argued they were fired from their positions after filing complaints about unequal payment from the men’s and women’s department in UT Athletics under then newly-hired athletic director Dave Hart.

Linda D. Hallman, AAUW executive director and CEO, said this of the organization’s support for the three former UT employees in an August 2014 statement: “This case is an opportunity to grapple with some of the gender gaps still at play in university athletics…We are proud to stand with these plaintiffs in their fight for fairness. Their claims shine a light on why AAUW does this type of work, day in and day out.”

Social media content could make, break professional life Michael Lipps

Contributor On one hand, it is your social media. On the other hand, it is their business.

A Texas teenager was fired in early February after publicizing her discontent on Twitter about starting a new job the next day. Another employee saw the tweet and informed the franchise owner, who promptly took to Twitter to fire the teen in a reply.

Controversy quickly ensued, with a number of people in the Twitter-sphere advocating for the teen’s freedom of speech and calling out “the snitch.”

Do you remember your last tweet? What about last month’s Facebook or Instagram posts? It is all out there somewhere, and employers very well may see something that could hurt their opinion of you.

Tyler Willingham, a senior in marketing and a peer career adviser, was curious to know exactly what an employer’s goal is when perusing a prospective employee’s social media.

“It’s not really an issue of what they look for,” Willingham said, “but what they try not to find.”

Career Services interim director Stephanie Kit said some of the things employers hope not to find are pictures and posts involving alcohol or drug usage, negative comments about a current or previous employer and any

discriminatory content.

“They’re looking at people’s character and making sure that they’re not seeing obvious character flaws,” Kit said.

As in the case with the Texas teen, though, some people express that no one should have to employ self-censorship because of freedom of speech. Kit, however, suggested being reasonable.

“You have to decide, is it more important for you to speak that idea and have it potentially negatively impact your career goals, or do you feel like (you) can say that privately to (your) best friend or mom and not broadcast it,” Kit said.

Both Kit and Willingham advised that users should ensure the veracity of their background information, put forth a professional image and be sure that their communication skills are presented in a positive light.

Additionally, Kit said users might consider posting about topics relevant to their field of interest and sharing personal victories, like acing final exams.

Following these guidelines, Kit explained, should help to ensure that social media usage does not detract from a user’s redeeming qualities.

For users who do not air on the side of caution, though, there could be a price to pay.

Without going into the specifics, career specialists Jackie Coward and Becky Herndon

at the Tennessee Career Center confirmed that they have seen instances in which employers had not considered applicants due to findings on their social media accounts.

Even so, some employers do not consider social media when assessing applicants.

Lindsey Sharp is employed at Target as a Human Resources Clerical and is responsible for hiring. Sharp explained that she does not look at social media during the hiring process.

Instead, her focus is primarily on applicants’ job experience.

Once employed, however, Sharp said there could be consequences for inappropriate remarks made online.

“If somebody were to say something defamatory on social media, there can be repercussions,” Sharp said.

Ultimately, there is much more that comprises a company’s outlook on a potential employee than social media alone. A negative presence online can, however, color that outlook.

“Social media can be anywhere from harmful to helpful and all in-between,” Kit said. “It can work to the advantage of job seekers if they use it well.”

If you want to know how well your image is presented across social media, check out Reppler.com, a website that informs you of any inappropriate content and/or potential privacy or security risks.

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Construction of a niche Jonathan Martin City Cents

Construction in the city of Knoxville has been a hot topic for a number of years.

With all of the current and seemingly endless projects around campus, it isn’t hard to find opinions on the matter. Some point out how the construction is ultimately beneficial and how the area will look much better once it is all completed. Others, such as myself, find it hard to excuse the way it obstructs our daily routines.

Several times this year, my normal routes to my house and to work have been redirected or closed off for construction. Just the other night, I couldn’t even walk back home from near campus. My normal path from Lake Avenue to 17th Street was undergoing some sort of utility construction, to the best of my knowledge.

I didn’t discover this due to the characteristically loud construction noise or even due to any flashing lights. Instead, my path was stopped a block early by a man in a reflective yellow vest and a hardhat. Through some

“There are probably thousands of people across the country with the same major as you.” series of events that escape my memory, I ended up standing and talking with this guy for about 20 minutes. It was probably a combination of my curiosity about the construction and the fact that he had clearly been standing there for awhile with nobody to talk to.

The worker, who eventually introduced himself as Jacob, told me about how his company, Area Wide Protective, supplied all those workers we often see rerouting traffic around construction sites. Construction workers and police officers used to do all the redirecting, he informed me. Until one day, an officer decided to leave his job and start a business supplying labor specifically for handling traffic-related issues on construction sites.

I hate to admit that I’ve learned anything from the obtrusive construction in our city, but it’s true. Jacob’s story, the story of Area Wide Protective, has some pretty inspiring and

fairly useful applications. Namely, it reminded me how important it is to learn how to find a niche.

In college, choosing our major is a vague way we begin to fit into a niche. It’s an identifier, which is why for most of undergrad it is the second piece of information that a new acquaintance wants to know about us, behind only our name.

The importance of finding a niche has some pretty obvious entrepreneurial applications as well. Obviously, there was an open place in the market for a company to supply people to hold construction flags and stop signs. Somebody was wise to this knowledge and acted appropriately.

However, I think there is a deeper importance to finding a niche that goes beyond entrepreneurship and beyond what degree we receive after our time at UT. There are probably thousands of people across the country with the same major as you, and not everyone even wants to be an entrepreneur.

What makes you truly unique and develops a niche occupied only by you is what makes you passionate and what drives you to succeed. Everybody has a different combination of goals, hobbies, and personality traits that will influence how they handle their first job, how well they work with others, and how quickly they progress through their career.

Companies aren’t blind to this fact. It’s why many of them hand out personality tests to prospective employees. It’s also why emotional intelligence has become such a frequently accessed piece of training for businesses over the last several years. Even further, it’s why some go as far as having a mandatory psychiatric evaluation as a part of their interview process.

Eventually, I had to leave Jacob standing there and head back home another direction.

However, I’m glad for the subtle reminder that a personal niche can be invaluable to find, especially during the formative years spent in college. Don’t get me wrong though; I still hate the construction.

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

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Life moves pretty fast

Kevin Ridder The Compass

It’s so easy to get caught up in the loosely organized chaos that is college life. With classes, multiple jobs and whatever pathetic attempt at a social life I can muster after all is said and done, I sometimes forget the world does indeed continue to turn outside the Big Orange Bubble.

I was brutally reminded of this fact a few weeks ago when I got a phone call informing me that my grandfather had hit his head and was on his way to the hospital. I drove back to Nashville at my first opportunity and visited him in the ICU. While he wasn’t fully conscious for my visit, I’m indescribably glad I got to see him.

Last Friday, at the age of 87, he passed away peacefully in his sleep.

He was one of the strongest men I’d ever met.

After joining the Marines at 17, he went on to fight in three wars. At the age of 19, he had to get a full set of dentures when an underwater mine in the Pacific shattered every last tooth. He survived multiple heart attacks, cancer and God knows what else in his time here. A wonderful husband, father and grandfather, he will be sorely missed.

While his health wasn’t exactly in peak condition in his final years, that phone call was still an enormous

shock. I deeply regret not getting to know him further, even though I had known him my entire life. I had plenty of excuses for not visiting or calling, of course.

Too much homework, weekend shifts at work, hang-

“You never actually think about the fact that those people who have been in your life since you were born won’t be around forever. ”

won’t be around forever.

College is a time for us to figure out who we are and prepare us for our next step in life. While we mature and slowly discover that adulthood isn’t all that bad after all, other chapters of our life are closing behind us.

Don’t realize this when it’s too late. While homework, jobs and all that hold their own importance, there are some things that simply can’t ever be experienced again. And believe me, when that time comes, you’ll wish you had delayed that assignment or gone out a different weekend. We only have so much time on this rock, after all.

As the great Ferris Bueller once said, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”

Kevin Ridder is a senior in environmental studies.

He can be tweeted at @redinthehead99 or emailed at kridder2@vols.utk.edu

ing out with friends, you know how it goes.

You never actually think about the fact that those people who have been in your life since you were born

How to hate yourself and influence people

Adam Weatherell Dreaming of Dolly

I probably ate meals with a hundred different strangers my freshman year. Never one to eat alone when there’s 30 other people also eating alone, I would scour the dining hall trays with my characteristically sweaty PCB greens and two Dr Peppers hoping to find someone with whom I could momentarily quench the profound feelings of loneliness that would serve to personify my first year of college.

I had a script I adhered to, peppered with subtle boasts of B.A. outdoor activities and an off-handedly intentional compendium of well placed words. I might as well have just been screaming, “BE MY FRIEND. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, BE MY FRIEND.” It’s almost been an entire year since I last ate a confined meal with a stranger, and sophomore year certainty has its spurts of loneliness, albeit less caloric, but college has surprised me in that what started out as timid happenstances fostered into some of the best friends I have ever had. This past week, I got into a tuff with one of those friends, and it would serve to be one of the first times in my life I left a fight with a friendship intact.

I like to think of myself as pretty self-aware. I go to a counseling session once a week, I have multiple handwritten journals and I allow a shower-sob every now and then (if only for ocular hygiene) but this week a wall of tension arose between me and the only person I’ve been regularly vulnerable with since birth.

Emotions are, like, really hard, and I always treated them like most of the other things in my life — with a fistful of fluffy charm and a chaser of cacophonous

cackles. It’s always been easier to make light of darkness, because within that darkness are a lot of things I’d really not care to see.

I don’t deign to confide in others my inadequacies, as I always thought them sufficiently sheltered behind a wall of wit so impregnable even Eddard Stark would lose his head. I know I am manipulative, or opportunistic, terrified of confinement, and for sure as hell-cat can’t keep a job, but when these traits come to personify themselves in my relationships of significance I come to feel so ashamed.

I am reminded of those times when I ate every meal with a plastered smile and a fresh haircut screaming for relationships in any semblance possible. I am reminded of the weekend nights festering in an empty Carrick dorm room and cursing the admissions committees of my top five choices. I am essentially reminded of the times when I was not as fortunate to have as many friends and how deep down I feel like that’s somewhat justified. People don’t invest in those who only seek personal gains at the expense of others, at least that’s how I felt.

Luckily, that’s not who I am.

It is in those moments of consuming self-criticism that my friends remind me who I am. I know the level-headed opinion shouldn’t see it as so sensational that people have a genuine interest in me, or that I’m probably not as much of a crasshat as I think I am, but without my friends I know I would never find a level head.

Since I got to college, I’ve made friends with

“without my friends I know I would never find a level head.”

addicts, alcoholics and even a solitary engineer. A few of those friendships grew out of chance and some are old friends given new life, but nearly everyone of them reminds me what is worthy in myself.

Sometimes I love college, sometimes I hate myself, but at least I don’t have to eat at PCB anymore.

Go Vols.

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

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RALUCA continued from Page 1 “I had never done printmaking before and my first print was a line print,� Iancu said. “I just fell in love with the fact that you can make a print and then change the color and then print it again.

So, you can have all these multiples and all these variations, so it’s very open to playing. You can make a lot.�

When a professor at that school told her about UT’s printmaking program, ranked third in the country, she applied to the graduate program, where she said she has found inspiration in the faculty and other students to help continue to grow her “car crash� art. “I work a lot with vehicle crashes. You know,

trains, planes and automobiles — oh and boats,�

Iancu joked. “... They’re overrepresented in the media, so I think that we’ve lost our understanding of them as serious events. I think that we’re desensitized, but at the same time, I think the desensitization is necessary. I try to stay on the fine line of making a spectacle and making a memorial, so trying to consider both at the same time, which can be tricky. To a certain extent, considering our own mortality and perhaps our overdependence on technology, as well. You’re in your car, and you have this feeling that you are invincible, but you’re not, and it’s really easy to forget, especially when you’re in your car. But, when you’re in a plane or a train, you’re a little more aware that you’re not in control. I’m interested in all these dichotomies.�

What draws people to Iancu’s art though is

her elaborate style. Her art’s motto is “make more bigger,� which has led her to pursuing large-scale instillation pieces like her thesis project. For her thesis, Iancu created a nearly life-size train compartment crashed against a wall that viewers could walk inside and sit in. She used screen printing to make larger prints faster. She drew her negatives using crayons to create texture. She then printed it on non-woven nylon fabric. Though the medium crumbles, it is also flexible, allowing her to continuously install the pieces in different locations Her next goal? A full train. “I feel like I just want to make bigger, larger, more elaborate instillations,� Iancu said.

Ultimately, she wants her whimsical style to desensitize people to the horrific nature of vehicles while also provoking thought. “If I were to consider all the horrible things that

could happen to me any minute while I’m driving,� Iancu explained. “I wouldn’t be able to do it.

It’s a sort of necessary state of denial while being aware of your own mortality.�

Iancu will be graduating after this semester, and she’ll then be headed to Vermillion, S.D. for a solo gallery showing of her work. Iancu won the Frogman’s Graduate scholarship, where, in addition to the show, she will take free workshops at Frogman’s. Then, she plans on working at a summer camp in Massachusetts where she will teach young girls basic printmaking. After the summer, she hopes to start teaching printmaking at one of the universities she has applied to. “I’m really passionate about sharing my love of printmaking with newcomers to the field, and you learn so much from the students as well,� Iancu said. “There’s no downside.�

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ARTS&CULTURE

The Daily Beacon • Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Vintage-themed opera premiers at Clarence Brown Theatre Megan Patterson Staff Writer “Threepenny Opera,” Clarence Brown’s final production for the 2014-2015 season, is set in post-World War I, economically depressed Germany.

And according to Calvin MacLean, the theatre program’s department head and artistic director for the theatre department, the world presented in “Threepenny Opera” is not so different from modern day America.

“The political and social commentary that Brecht makes about his point of view in the ‘20s is still relevant today,” MacLean said.

“Threepenny Opera” tells the timeless story of the conflict between the haves and the have nots, but this time, the struggle plays out among beggars in Germany. Roderick Peeples, a longtime friend of MacLean, will be playing JJ Peachum, the king of the beggars.

“He is a character that is in charge of making money off the beggars,” Peeples explained. “He issues them a license to beg, and then he takes a certain percentage of their take.”

Brian Herriott and Lise Bruneau in the CBT’s “The Threepenny Opera.”

Brecht, the original German composer, wrote • Photo Courtesy of the Clarence Brown Theatre the work during the first big depression in The most well-known song, “The Ballad of and economic conditions of his time. Unlike Germany.

“He was there seeing very much the same many other musicals, “Threepenny Opera” was Mack the Knife,” was made into a pop hit by kind of social conditions we have today where not intended to be a compilation of entertaining Bobby Darin in the 1960s.

“The lyrics he used and the style he sang it in you have a relatively few number of people mak- show tunes.

“There are songs with really brutal, scathing are completely different from original German ing a lot of money and a great number of people lyrics set to beautiful ballads and melodies,” lyrics and its place in the show,” Peeples said. not making very much at all,” Peeples said.

“Most people are used to hearing it as kind of Brecht wrote the play to capture the social Peeples said.

romantic and jazzy but it’s actually a really scathing bitter indictment of this character Mack the Knife.”

Peeples said the dissonance between the brutal lyrics of the songs and the beautiful musical form they are sang in was done intentionally

by Brecht.

“He wanted you to keep thinking,” Peeples said. “He didn’t want you to get lost in the show, in the beauty, in the imaginary world of the play, to escape.”

Brecht resented escapist theater and wanted to do something very different from the typical musical in his day.

“Music and songs that commented on a situation in the play was a new form,” MacLean explained. “A play is a lot like a book, a text.

When it moves into music it moves into a different, new, more sophisticated mode of address to the audience.”

The new type of musical established by Brecht resonated with his audience then just as MacLean hopes it will resonate with the audience now.

“People are people in essential ways whether they are people who lived in the 1920s before the crash, before the economic collapse, before the rise of Nazi Germany, political extremism and human terrorism,” MacLean said. “All of these things we are dealing with today. It still makes a point and that’s why we’re doing it.”

“Threepenny Opera” opens on the Clarence Brown Mainstage April 17 and runs through Sunday, May 3. Tickets are $5 for opted-in students and can be purchased at knoxvilletickets. com.

Trio, Armada expand, aim for ambience, efficiency Melissa Croft

Photographer From avoiding the seal on Pedestrian Walkway to Wing Wednesday at the Hill, consistency is undeniably comforting — and comfort food is a Southern tradition Vols can’t resist.

Students congregate around food off-campus to socialize and mix up the monotony of oncampus dining. They engage with their local community easily by taking a culinary tour of Knoxville. The Old City and Market Square are two of the most popular places to start this journey.

Armada Bar in the Old City and Sunset Bar at Trio Cafe in Market Square are newly renovated and offer unique signature cocktails in addition to their culinary fare.

Armada Bar just celebrated its one year

anniversary, but is undergoing a major facelift.

With a refreshed exterior look, an extension of the bar upstairs and a yoga studio being added downstairs, the bar is anticipating diversity and new success.

The yoga studio is expected to open in this month along with a morning menu including coffee and smoothies available to enjoy after classes.

Armada also offers original cocktails handcrafted with fresh ingredients and infused liqueurs.

Kaila Slagle, junior in marketing and the bar’s marketing manager, said the real reason to stay though is for the ambiance.

“The atmosphere is unlike any other bar I have been to,” Slagle said. “The bartenders want you to have an experience, not just a cocktail.”

Patrons can indulge in a prohibitionstyle drink or a signature beverage, like the Southside. Made with gin, simple syrup, lemon

and mint, this is just one of owner Zachary Calfee’s many homemade creations.

Classes are also offered at Armada on how to create their signature cocktails and sodas taught by Calfee. He proudly told WATE that although some of the recipes stay the same, they “will always have something special for you that you have never seen before.”

Armada will be opening the top half of its bar area soon, as well.

“We will be revamping it and adding a pool table and seating up there,” Slagle explained.

Then, Trio Cafe in Market Square is revamping its look as well with the addition of the Sunset Bar. Seven years after opening, owner Adrienne Knight has decided to switch things up. The layout of the restaurant has changed, and the bar is located on the left wall.

The Sunset Bar seeks to create a late night option that allows customers to come relax after a long work day comes to a close.

The bar offers a signature cocktail entitled “The Trio Sunset” containing tequila and fresh fruits. The sangria offers a mix of whichever fresh fruits are in season. Cocktails range from $5 to $7.

The addition of the bar and new technology has created an environment where the entire staff can give every customer attention, according to Patrick Tice, Trio’s social media director.

At both the Sunset Bar and regular dining room, guests pick their own seat where they are met with a tablet from which to place their order, instead of having a server, allowing the whole staff to look after all the tables. The floating cashiers send your order straight to the kitchen or the bar. The goal is for customers to avoid lines and to receive efficient and friendly service.

“We wanted to make this change to capture a new audience,” said Tice. “Our staff has many personal passions, and this allowed us to encompass more of them.”

SPORTS

Wednesday, April 15, 2015 • The Daily Beacon

FOOTBALL

Vickers impressing coaches, thriving in spring practice Jonathan Toye Sports Editor According to redshirt sophomore Kendal Vickers, he is just a “dude” from Havelock.

While Vickers might just regard himself as a regular guy from his hometown in North Carolina, others might be skeptical.

It is hard to believe that any normal “dude” can squat as much as Vickers.

How much can Vickers squat? Try 710 pounds.

“The weight looks intimidating,” Vickers said. “But I just get under it and attack it.”

His mentality before he squats such a heavy weight: don’t collapse.

But the risk is well worth it. The sight impresses teammates as it unfolds in the Anderson Training Center “It’s crazy,” Vickers said of the atmosphere after he squats. “All are the guys are going crazy. Everybody in the weight is going crazy. All the coaches are going crazy.”

Vickers’ performance on the squat rack isn’t his only submission to his list of accomplishments for spring practices.

Vickers, by all accounts, is thriving in his transition from defensive end to defensive tackle.

Vickers committed to UT as a threestar defensive end from Havelock High School. He didn’t see the field in 2013, earning a redshirt.

Then, before the 2014 season, the coaching staff decided to switch Vickers to defensive tackle. The move negatively affected his playing time as Vickers only appeared in five games in 2014.

“Last year was kinda a process, because I was kind of underweight when coach (Stripling) moved me to tackle,” Vickers said. “I was still doing a lot of things that I am doing now, but I was still undersized.”

Vickers is no longer undersized. He made sure to correct that problem in the offseason. In the fall, he was 260 pounds. Now, he is around 288. Vickers said the additional weight hasn’t slowed his movement.

With a slew of defensive lineman injured in the spring, Vickers has the chance to get the repetitions to prove

that he is a viable option on the defensive line for the upcoming 2015 season.

He can now show he is capable of contributing in the trenches.

He has certainly caught the eye of his coaches.

“Kendal Vickers right now is an inside player for us. He has handled that move exceptionally well,” his head coach Butch Jones said. “He has put the added weight on that is needed to play inside.

He is becoming more and more comfortable in that role, in that position. You can see the speed of the game slowing down for him.

“I have been very pleased with him.

He has done a great job.”

His position coach Steve Stripling is also impressed.

“Vickers is the guy that’s showing up right now,” Stripling said after practice last Thursday. “I think it’s maturity. It’s been a process. He’s now close to 290 and is carrying it naturally.”

Vickers credits his success at defense line this spring to a better familiarity with the playbook. Instead of overthinking every play, He can now simply react to what unfolds on the gridiron.

“I am a lot smarter than I was before,” Vickers said. “I can see the backfield and know what’s coming, know if a double team is coming.”

Also, squatting more than 700 pounds doesn’t hurt either.

“I just got make sure I am just driving my legs,” Vickers said. “Making sure I am utilizing that 710 pound squat.”

Despite his progress, it is still difficult to predict where Kendall will be on the depth chart come fall or how he will do if he sees the field.

But that didn’t stop his teammate Jashon Robertson from offering his prognosis.

His prediction might carry merit; however, as Robertson competes against Vickers on the offensive line every practice. As a starter in the SEC, he also knows what good defensive linemen look like.

“Going up against Vickers everyday is a very realistic source of competition as you will see in the SEC,” Robertson said. “I think he will come out, and he will be a good player for us this year and make a lot of plays.”

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FOOTBALL

Loaded safety position breeding competition Taylor White

enrollee quarterback Quinten Dormady is working on one major aspect of the Tennessee offense: speed.

Jones wants to run an up-tempo offense, and Multiple Tennessee coaches have mentioned while Dormady’s offense was up-tempo in high over the past few weeks that rising sophomore school, this is a whole new level. safety Evan Berry is playing his best football.

“I went fast in high school,” Dormady said.

Todd Kelly Jr. seems to have taken that as a “But here you just try to go as fast as you can. challenge.

With mental errors, we’re just trying to elimiKelly spoke to reporters on Tuesday sporting nate those and that’s just kind of what we’re the “lock down chain,” a large golden chain tied working on right now.” around a lock that is given to the defensive back With junior Josh Dobbs holding firm on the who had the best day of practice. starting job, the second-string position is up “Every day I just try to go out and work and for grabs with three true freshmen serving as learn and perfect my craft,” Kelly said. “I think back-ups.

I got better today. I worked on my weaknesses.

Jones has referred to both Dormady and felAt the same time, I have to get even better and low early enrollee Jauan Jennings as a “work in have a better practice Thursday.” progress,” but for now it looks as if Dormady The rising is slightly ahead sophomore has of Jennings from gotten plenty of a developmental reps this spring, standpoint. as the coaches “They’re both have given going through starters Brian the stages of conRandolph and sistency and perLaDarrell McNeil formance,” Jones some rest, in said.

“They’re favor of getting right where you younger players would expect more experience. young players Safety is argucoming into your ably Tennessee’s Sophomore Todd Kelly Jr. practices on April 14. program. I think deepest position, both Jauan and something that Taylor Gash • The Daily Beacon Quinten have done head coach Butch a great job of really Jones thinks has pushed his players to improve. handling the day-to-day rigors of being a quar“The safety position has been extremely terback.” competitive for us,” Jones said. “Evan Berry is Special teams position up for grabs: playing his best football right … Now (Kelly) With the graduation of Matt Darr and Army is starting to play well. He’s really improved All-American Tommy Townsend not arriving over the course of the last couple practices, and in Knoxville until the summer, the position of again I think that’s a byproduct of competition.” punter is currently up in the air.

While those four are pushing each other One of the players hoping to distinguish for time on the field, early enrollee Stephen himself in that area this spring is rising redshirtGriffin is also working to get playing time. The sophomore Trevor Daniel.

Charlotte, North Carolina native may lack the “It’s a big opportunity, and somebody has to experience of his teammates, but he’s making step up,” Daniel said. “I’m trying to be that guy. up for it in other areas.

I know there’s competition, but hopefully I can “(Griffin) is a young guy, and he’s eager to be the starting punter. It’s good pressure.” learn,” Kelly said. “With him coming in the Daniel said he estimates he’s maxed out at spring, really early, it gives him some time to 60 yards so far and is just hoping to be more get ahead … Right now he’s just taking as much consistent heading into fall camp. time as he can and learn the process. Here soon “Consistency, that’s a big thing,” Daniel he’ll be making a lot more plays.” said. “You’ve heard Coach Jones say it. That’s The Vols got one piece of good news definitely what I need to improve on … Ball this week as rising sophomore cornerback placement is big thing, I need to place the Emmanuel Moseley has recovered from a bout ball on the numbers, that’s what Coach Jones with mono and is back on the practice field. wants. Just to be able to do that consistently is Dormady adjusting to college game: A what he would want.” few weeks into his first spring practice, early Assistant Sports Editor (@T_Dub98)

SOFTBALL

Lady Vols run rule ETSU 11-0 Trenton Duffer Staff Writer JOHNSON CITY — The last time these teams met, Erin Gabriel pitched a five-inning perfect game in Knoxville.

There wasn’t a perfect game this time, but the result was the same: Lady Vols win, easily.

The Lady Vols (31-11, 8-7 SEC) needed only five innings to beat East Tennessee State on Tuesday, run-ruling the Bucs 11-0 in front of the first-ever sold out crowd at Betty Basler Field.

With the win, the Lady Vols have never lost to their Eastern state foe.

Even more impressively, this marks the 10th time in the 17-game series that Tennessee has run-ruled ETSU. “You wouldn’t believe this from the score, but they’re a much better team,” co-head coach Ralph Weekly said. “Brad Irwin, the coach there (ETSU), started with Karen and I in Chattanooga, and he’s a heck of a coach. He’s got a couple of injured pitchers just like we do. One thing about Tennessee is we hit the ball no matter who we play … I didn’t see them make any mistakes. I just think we hit the ball really hard.”

After only one combined hit for both teams in the first two innings–a Gretchen Aucoin home run–the Lady Vols opened the floodgates in the top of the third inning. Tennessee put up seven runs in the third to put away the ETSU Bucs (12-23, 1-8 Southern).

Tennessee had two homers in the top of the third, one being a three-run shot by Aucoin and the other being a two-run homer by Scarlet McSwain.

Both ladies can tip their cap to the wind for giving their home run balls the extra boost they needed to sail over the fence.

Aucoin was thankful for the extra wind but also said the moment seemed to present itself.

“I was being patient, and I was waiting for her to fish around a little bit.

When I got to my count (full count), I knew she had to give me something good, so I was ready to swing,” Aucoin said. “Sure enough, I got just enough on it to get it over, and it made me feel really good.”

Cheyanne Tarango got the start for the Lady Vols, and she did not disappoint. Tarango pitched the full game and allowed only one hit, while striking out five. Bethany Cowart halted Tarango’s no-hit bid in the bottom of the third inning.

“We knew all along that Cheyanne could pitch. After all, she pitched for the US National team.” Weekly said.

“Coming back from an injury midseason is really tough.”

With ETSU in the books, the Lady Vols focus their attention to a matchup at Virginia Tech tomorrow evening at 4 p.m. The game will be broadcast on ESPN3.com online. This will be a make-up game from a rain-out earlier this season.

“The last couple of years, their (Virginia Tech’s) one-two hitters are fantastic,” Weekly said. “They’ve got two or three strong pitchers. They’re a senior-orientated team and very wellcoached … We’re excited to go to Blacksburg.”