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Issue 64, Volume 122

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Group seating expanded to 250 New SGA vice president makes first impact on campus R.J. Vogt News Editor UT students will now be able to attend football games in groups of up to 250 thanks to Paige Atchley, newly elected vice president of the Student Government Association.

The change updates an old system that limited groups to 12 seats each.

“When we were making our policy … we started talking to students about what they wanted to be changed in the athletic realm of the university,” Atchley, a junior in marketing, said. “Time and time again, people told us that they didn’t really enjoy game day as much as they should because people would try to cram 30 people in that 12 person spot … that was something that we thought we could easily change if we talked to the right person.”

After Jeff Cathey, associate dean of students, mentioned a meeting of the former SGA executives with UT ticketing officials, Atchley decided to tag along and ask if the maximum group size could be increased.

“They said that it wasn’t any problem, that they did not foresee any issues, so they went ahead and changed it before we left,” she said.

She admitted her presence at the meeting was unexpected, but she was thrilled with the results.

“I did kind of crash it,” Atchley laughed.

For senior in logistics Blake Cox, the change is long overdue. Cox has attended many home and away Vol football games and said the old system created a lot of confusion.

“When you go to games, people don’t sit in their assigned seats,” he said. “You’d have people in your group that are spread out all over the place and people from other groups that are sitting in your seats.

“Every game that I’ve been to, there’s always been some kind of altercation or argument about who is sitting in whose seats.”

Cox said that in every other stadium he’s been to, large group seating was available. After a year that saw leftover student tickets in six of seven home games, Cox suspects the change will increase student attendance.

He cited large student organizations, including Greek life, that will now be able to accommodate all of their members.

As a volquest.com reader, Cox has researched the history of group ticketing at UT and said that it’s been a long time since large groups of students could all sit together. He was impressed with the new SGA officials’ work.

“They did a great job, we haven’t had Greek student seating since 1969,” he said.

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Pilot under FBI investigation The Associated Press Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam said Tuesday the federal government has launched a criminal investigation into rebates offered by the truck stop chain owned by his family, including his brother, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam.

Agents from the FBI and Internal Revenue Service raided the Pilot Flying J headquarters in Knoxville on Monday.

Jimmy Haslam, who is the CEO of Pilot Flying J, held a news conference in Knoxville to confirm the investigation is criminal, rather than civil, in nature.

“We don’t know a lot. It appears to be centered on a very insufficient number of customers and the application of rebates, that rebates that were owed to the customers were not paid. We of course disagree with that,” the CEO said.

Haslam said subpoenas had been issued to several members of his 23-person sales force, though he said he was unable to identify any specifically. Haslam said he had not been subpoenaed, and no one has been arrested.

Bill Killian, the U.S. Attorney in Knoxville, told The Associated Press that four search warrants have been served on Pilot, but the reasons have been sealed by a federal court.

FBI and Internal Revenue Service agents locked down the Pilot Flying J headquarters Monday afternoon and ordered most employees out of the building as they conducted their search well past midnight.

Haslam said essential personnel were allowed to remain in the building to ensure the company’s nearly 500 truck stops had sufficient fuel sup-

plies. It was unclear why the IRS was involved in the raid, he said.

“It does not involve, as best we can tell — and I’m pretty sure we’re right — any type of tax issue,” he said. “So there’s no evasion of tax or federal taxes, which candidly is what your suppliers, particularly fuel suppliers, worry about.”

Haslam said that the company is launching an internal investigation, and that his responsibilities as owner of the Browns won’t be affected.

He said he plans to travel to Cleveland this week and next as the team prepares for the NFL draft.

“First of all I apologize, because the last thing we ever want to do is put any kind of blemish on the city of Cleveland — which we’ve grown to love — or the Browns,” he said. “So I personally feel bad about that, even though I don’t think we’ve done anything wrong.”

Earlier Tuesday, the Republican governor made an impromptu visit to the press suite in the legislative office complex in Nashville to discuss the raid. He said that he had not been contacted by federal authorities and that he was going to concentrate on “being governor and doing things I can control.”

Bill Haslam said he has not had an active day-to-day management role in the company in 15 years. He defended keeping his unspecified holdings in the privately owned company outside of a blind trust he established for his other investments after he was elected governor in 2010.

“The point of a blind trust is to say, I don’t know that I own that,” Haslam said. “As I said at the time, it felt a little disingenuous to say I don’t know if I own Pilot or not.”

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Dan Ellsberg stirred a national controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret study of U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War.

Whistleblower recalls role with Pentagon Papers, Watergate Hanna Lustig Staff Writer In the immediate aftermath of the explosions at the Boston Marathon on Monday afternoon, guest speaker Dan Ellsberg’s story could not have been more timely.

Invited by the Issues Committee to share his experiences, Ellsberg detailed how and why he came to photocopy and distribute 7,000 pages of classified information regarding decision-making in the Vietnam War, subsequently causing him to face trial for 12 counts of felony and the possibility of 115 years in prison. These documents, now known as “The Pentagon Papers,” would later influence the impeachment of Richard Nixon and the pros-

ecution of several White House officials.

Issues Committee member Thomas Carpenter further explained the motivation to bring Ellsberg to UT, not only as an interesting lecturer but also as a defining figure of our time.

“His role with the Pentagon Papers and Watergate was such a huge part of our nation’s history, and he played such an integral role,” Carpenter, an undecided freshman, said. “I think he’s going to educate a lot of people.”

From his first day as special assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense Robert McNaughton in 1964, Ellsberg was forever tangled in the deceptive dynamics of presidents who willfully lied to the

American public.

It was this period of his life, serving under both presidents Lyndon Johnson and Nixon, that compelled Ellsberg to finally blow the whistle in 1971, sealing his fate as a traitor and a hero in equal proportion.

Through his proximity to the central figures of the American war effort, Ellsberg witnessed countless inconsistencies between what the presidents claimed on the campaign trail and what they privately planned to do if re-elected.

Most notably, early in his career, Ellsberg stood by as President Johnson claimed he “sought no wider war,” while simultaneously planning to attack North Vietnam. Johnson also blamed South Vietnam for aggressive American covert

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actions that he, in fact, had authorized. However, to win favor with voters and Congress, these egregious acts were hidden.

“I knew the president was lying …” Ellsberg said. “Lyndon Johnson should have been impeached. There is no doubt in (my) mind.”

Yet Ellsberg did not reveal these crimes until his second encounter with duplicity within the presidency when he could no longer condone such deception. Although Nixon’s platform centered on ending the Vietnam War, a source close to Henry Kissinger reported to Ellsberg that the President had no intention of doing so and had actually threatened escalation and the use of nuclear weapons.

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Juliet Meggs, a graduate student in counseling psychology and a founding member of Transgender Taskforce, speaks during Transgender Sexuality 101 as a part of ‘Sex Week’ on April 10.

THIS DAY IN

HISTORY

1964 – Ford Mustang debuts at World’s Fair

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The Ford Mustang, a two-seat, mid-engine sports car, is officially unveiled by Henry Ford II at the World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows, N.Y., on April 17, 1964. That same day, the new car also debuted in Ford showrooms across America and almost 22,000 Mustangs were immediately snapped up by buyers. Named for a World War II fighter plane, the Mustang was the first of a type of vehicle that came to be known as a “pony car.”

Ford sold more than 400,000 Mustangs within its first year of production, far exceeding sales expectations.

The Mustang was conceived as a “working man’s Thunderbird,” according to Ford. The first models featured a long hood and short rear deck and carried a starting price tag of around $2,300.

Ford general manager Lee Iacocca, who became president of the company in October 1964 (and later headed up Chrysler, which he was credited with reviving in the 1980s) was involved in the Mustang’s development and marketing. The car’s launch generated great interest. It was featured on the covers of Newsweek and Time magazines and the night before it went on sale, the Mustang was featured in commercials that ran simultaneously on all three major television networks. One buyer in Texas reportedly slept at a Ford showroom until his check cleared and he could drive his new Mustang home. The same year it debuted, the Mustang appeared on the silver screen in the James Bond movie “Goldfinger.” A green 1968 Mustang 390 GT was famously featured in the 1968 Steve McQueen movie “Bullitt,” in a car chase through the streets of San Francisco. Since then, Mustangs have appeared in hundreds of movies.

Within three years of its debut, some 500 Mustang fan clubs had cropped up. In March 1966, the one millionth Mustang rolled off the assembly line. In honor of the Mustang’s 35th anniversary in 1999, the U.S. Postal Service issued a stamp commemorating the original model. In 2004, Ford built its 300 millionth car, a 2004 Mustang GT convertible 40th anniversary model.

The 2004 Mustangs were the final vehicles made at the company’s Dearborn production facility, which had been building Mustangs since their debut. (Assembly then moved to a plant in Flat Rock, Mich.)

Over the decades, the Mustang underwent numerous evolutions, and it remains in production today, with more than 9 million sold.

1790 – Benjamin Franklin dies

after a dispute with his brother. After a sojourn in London, he started a printing and publishing press with a friend in 1728. In 1729, the company won a contract to publish Pennsylvania’s paper currency and also began publishing the Pennsylvania Gazette, which was regarded as one of the better colonial newspapers. From 1732 to 1757, he wrote and published Poor Richard’s Almanack, an instructive and humorous periodical in which Franklin coined such practical American proverbs as “God helps those who help themselves” and “Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”

As his own wealth and prestige grew, Franklin took on greater civic responsibilities in Philadelphia and helped establish the city’s first circulating library, police force, volunteer fire company, and an academy that became the University of Pennsylvania. From 1737 to 1753, he was postmaster of Philadelphia and during this time also served as a clerk of the Pennsylvania legislature.

In 1753, he became deputy postmaster general, in charge of mail in all the northern colonies.

Deeply interested in science and technology, he invented the Franklin stove, which is still manufactured today, and bifocal eyeglasses, among other practical inventions. In 1748, he turned his printing business over to his partner so he would have more time for his experiments. The phenomenon of electricity fascinated him, and in a dramatic experiment he flew a kite in a thunderstorm to prove that lightning is an electrical discharge.

He later invented the lightning rod. Many terms used in discussing electricity, including positive, negative, battery, and conductor, were coined

by Franklin in his scientific papers. He was the first American scientist to be highly regarded in European scientific circles.

Franklin was active in colonial affairs and in 1754 proposed the union of the colonies, which was rejected by Britain. In 1757, he went to London to argue for the right to tax the massive estates of the Penn family in Pennsylvania, and in 1764 went again to ask for a new charter for Pennsylvania. He was in England when Parliament passed the Stamp Act, a taxation measure to raise revenues for a standing British army in America.

His initial failure to actively oppose the controversial act drew wide criticism in the colonies, but he soon redeemed himself by stoutly defending American rights before the House of Commons.

With tensions between the American colonies and Britain rising, he stayed on in London and served as agent for several colonies.

In 1775, he returned to America as the American Revolution approached and was a delegate at the Continental Congress. In 1776, he helped draft the Declaration of Independence and in July signed the final document. Ironically, Franklin’s illegitimate son, William Franklin, whom Franklin and his wife had raised, had at the same time emerged as a leader of the Loyalists.

On April 17, 1790, American statesman, printer, scientist and writer Benjamin Franklin dies in Philadelphia at age 84.

Born in Boston in 1706, Franklin became at 12 years old an apprentice to his half brother James, a printer and publisher. He learned the printing trade and in 1723 went to Philadelphia to work – This Day in History is courtesy of History.com.

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CAMPUS NEWS PENTAGON continued from Page 1 Looking back, Ellsberg lamented not exposing the truth earlier, believing that if the American public had known, they would have called Johnson and Nixon’s plans “a murderous crackpot strategy that they did want to be a part of,” or alternately, “madmen theory.” Convinced of this notion, Ellsberg said he regrets keeping silent until 1971.

“There wouldn’t have been any war if they had gotten that

information,” Ellsberg said. “I did have it in my palm to prevent that war.”

Despite his bravery, Ellsberg did not deny the difficulty of acting against sworn secrecy and allegiance to certain institutions.

“Most of you would not choose to leave that group,” Ellsberg said. “That is human. Humans will go along with anything to avoid ostracism.”

Citing President George W. Bush’s weapons of mass destruction blunder, the Wikileaks scandal and parallels between Afghanistan and Vietnam, Ellsberg emphasized the ubiq-

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uity of such opportunities to fight corruption.

As sophomore political science major Hannah Davis put it, “You have to have the courage to stand up for what you believe in even if you’re facing death or prison.”

To Ellsberg, though, these great personal costs, like losing a job and reputation, are far outweighed by the potential to prevent tragedy.

“You might well have the chance, by taking a personal risk, to save some lives,” Ellsberg finished, “And to those who do it, I thank you.”

Journalist speaks on continued Israel-Palestine conflict Brooke Turner Staff Writer UT will soon see the strife between Israel and Palestine from the perspective of a journalist.

Alison Weir, veteran journalist and executive director of the nonprofit organization “If Americans Knew,” will speak on the topic of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the controversies involving what the news media leaves out in their reporting to America.

The lecture will start at 7 p.m. tonight in UC Rooms 223-224.

Often thought of as a “watchdog” for the government, the news media in America is frequently referred to as the fourth branch of government. But when the news media leaves out valuable information and presents only half of the truth, Weir sees a problem. She will discuss the effects of what happens when a controversy, such as the IsraeliPalestinian conflict, is purposefully filtered to prevent the public from receiving the truth in its entirety.

Lingering for centuries, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is, of course, nothing new.

Yet President Barack Obama recently addressed this issue in Jerusalem this March, hoping to inspire the Israeli youth to seek a solution that will leave both par-

ties “at peace.”

The subjects that Weir will address include mutual recognition for both Israel and Palestine, defining official borders, security concerns, water rights, control of Jerusalem, Israeli settlements, Palestinian freedom of movement and navigating the issue of refugees.

Weir claims that this conflict is one that not only concerns Israel and Palestine, but also America because the conflict happening there is “the core issue of the Middle East.”

Darrian Bruce, a junior in history, also feels strongly about America’s involvement. Bruce explained that, as Americans, and more specifically, collegeaged Americans, it is crucial to be involved in this conversation. In her opinion, Americans are, knowingly or unknowingly, directly affecting the issue.

“I think, as Americans, it’s important for us to know what our government has done to contribute to this issue,” Bruce said. “It is especially important to college-aged students, because we are the next generation of politicians, businessmen and women. The instability in the Middle East now due to this conflict doesn’t seem to be going away any time soon, so its going to be up to our generation to figure out what policies we can

implement to finally solve the issues in the Middle East.”

In a phone interview with The Daily Beacon, Weir admitted that she never felt this controversy affected her personally until she saw the situation firsthand as a freelance reporter abroad. Now she encourages Americans everywhere to, at the very least, take notice.

“I think becoming informed is the very first and most important step in this issue,” Weir said.

Despite the possibility of student apathy, Weir feels certain that her lecture will appeal to them, no matter their level of prior knowledge.

“Sometimes you go to lectures and you don’t know what’s going on,” Weir said, “but this one will be of interest to those who are brand new to the Israel-Palestine issue, as well as those who think they know much about this issue. It will benefit both groups, because I am going to be covering topics that I think they will find rather surprising.”

This event will feature various members of Students for Justice in Palestine, who will recall their own experiences in Palestine and discuss how this has affected their views. Weir has planned to have an extensive question and answer section after the lecture, complemented by traditional Palestinian refreshments.

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The new recreational sports fields on Sutherland Avenue are still under construction.

Rec fields work in progress Savannah Gilman Staff Writer UT’s new recreational fields have been a long time coming and it will be longer still before completion, which was originally projected for February but has since been pushed back.

The need for more recreational space for students was an issue on the Student Government Association senate’s plate for more than a decade before the issue was addressed with the passage of the Bill for the Betterment of Student Activities in 2007.

Though the progress of the project has been delayed since then, postponement allowed for the area to develop more resiliency to consistent use.

Once completed, the fields are expected to get more than seven hours of use a day from a multitude of sports, and the delays will make the grass and other elements of the fields sturdier.

“When we open, we want to do it right,” Rex Pringle, the director of RecSports, said.

“This is coming and it’s going to be better than anything

we’ve ever had … when our facilities open, they immediately need to be able to manage all the activity.”

The project faced the problematic issue of finding a location for the proposed extension to student recreational facilities. Eventually, in 2008, a decision was made to replace the Sutherland and Golf Range apartments, built in the 1960s and 1970s as married housing, with the recreational fields.

The university officially broke ground in the fall of 2011 to begin construction of the RecSports Fields at Sutherland Avenue.

“From an intramural standpoint we’re adding more opportunities for students,” Mario Riles, the intramural coordinator for RecSports, said. “We have waitlists for intramural teams and cannot accommodate the teams, but with this new facility we will go from supporting around 155 teams to up to nearly 300 or 400 intramural teams. With these new fields we would be able to have longer seasons as well as providing space for more sports.”

The project has been esti-

mated at around $14 million and will be funded with university program and service fees paid by undergraduate and graduate students. The facilities will include four natural grass multipurpose fields, two natural softball fields, four artificial turf multipurpose fields and sand volleyball courts for clubs and intramural teams. In addition, the recreational fields will house a centrally located pavilion and a building with offices and accommodations.

The RecSports Fields at Sutherland will cover an expanse of more than 38 acres of land that will allow the sports clubs to host home tournaments on campus.

In keeping with the Top 25 initiative, many qualities of the facilities will promote energy conservation. The lighting of the facility, including the parking lights, will all be LED lighting. The fields will also incorporate a self-sufficient irrigation system using a nearby scenic pond.

Pringle expressed his expectation that because of these improvements, the system will essentially pay for itself within a year and a half.

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Editor’s Note Overcoming tragedy goes beyond tweeting

Blair Kuykendall Editor-in-Chief Thirty-eight years ago today, Phnom Penh fell to the communist Khmer Rouge, resulting in the subsequent death of hundreds of thousands of Cambodians. Days like this haunt human history, but they quickly flit from collective consciousness mere years after occurring.

It’s sobering to dwell on fickle-natured time — how rapidly terror and tragedy are purged from memory.

Boston was bombed on Monday, killing three people and injuring close to 150.

Suddenly and without warning, three people met death unexpectedly, and their families’ lives were forever altered. With the best of motivations, our nation banded around the city and its victims. Platforms like Storify and Twitter chronicled the harrowing tale.

While well-intentioned, the social media display itself seems unavoidably hollow. Thanks to the prevalence of instant online sharing, grief has evolved into more of a trend than an emotion: genuine sorrow moves people to action. It’s one thing to publicly mourn the tragedy of the hour, but it takes true remorse to reach out the victims or send aid. Millions of people feel the need to broadcast their feelings on Twitter, but what does that actually do for the people who escaped a bomb explosion?

Next April 15, how many people who tweeted about Boston on Monday will remember the explosion? Likely a fair few, aside from the relations of the victims themselves. In a matter of seconds, the course of several individuals lives changed forever, but in a few short months, as sure as the ebbing tide, the nation will forget.

People in attendance at the Boston Marathon experienced a truly horrific, wrench-

ing catastrophe. Reducing such suffering to a 140 character shout-out seems disrespectful.

Such terror should warrant something more permanent, something immortal.

Events like Boston’s, though, rarely attain such infamy. Case in point: the month of April is no stranger to tragedy. Given a general dearth of respect, it might as well be. How many people paused to remember the Virginia Tech shooting yesterday? The parents of 30 murdered college students certainly did.

The anniversary of the Columbine shooting and the Oklahoma City bombing are coming up next week as well, each deserving a few moments of silence and reflection. How else can we honor these lives abruptly stolen by the depraved and insane? It’s a small service, but required just the same.

Both the Bosnian and Rwandan genocides of the early 1990s began in the month of April.

Death tolls in those tragedies are staggering by any measure. Their histories remind us of the importance of mutual respect and toleration of differences, especially in the face of oppression. They inspire us to put aside differences in cooperative progress towards a better future.

Resiliency is the hallmark of the human spirit, but in that resiliency lies a frightening paradox. Nothing is ever permanent: either horrific or glorious. Perception is time’s greatest ally, weathering truth slowly from the face of memory. In other words, shortly after a traumatic occurrence, mankind is quick to forget and that which is remembered is often a distorted reflection of reality.

Sorrow and loss are symptoms of the human condition. Life is riddled with such trials, but they are far exaggerated when imparted by one of our own. It takes true human compassion, through actual tangible support and encouragement, to overcome the loss.

Stop tweeting and start helping.

— Blair Kuykendall is a senior in College Scholars and economics. She can be reached at bkuykend@utk.edu.

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Taboo subjects promote academic freedom The Maple Kind by

Hunter Tipton This week I was fortunate enough to take part in a Seder meal with a scholars program I’m affiliated with on campus. Present at the dinner was a Jewish rabbi who detailed its overall historical importance as well as explained the purpose of individual foods and ingredients involved in the dinner.

Overall, it was a fantastic experience.

As a Christian, it was neat to not only see the religious importance of the dinner but also the historical significance to the Jewish people. While Judaism and Christianity are two different religions, their history is greatly intertwined. The fulfillment of God’s promise to the Jews to deliver them from Egypt is as significant to the Christian faith as it is the Jewish faith. While I may not experience the same emotional or cultural attachment to the history of Passover that the Jewish people do, I still find the fulfillment of God’s promises to be worthy of praise. Learning and understanding the intermingling of the two religions is certainly an area of history worthy of academic research.

However, upon finishing the dinner, the rabbi opened up the table to questions concerning not only the dinner but also Judaism in general. After some discussion, one student finally asked, “Why do the Jewish people not believe in Jesus as the Messiah?”

At this point, other students around the table made noises that were akin to those made when witnessing a horrible injury or an insult gone too far. Certainly he wasn’t going to ask a religious professional invited to an academic function to explain himself, was he? Certainly a student wasn’t looking to take away knowledge from this event!

It is at this point that I would like to turn this column out of the field of religion and into academia. This horrified response from the crowd was a product of the never-ending quest of higher education to promote “aca-

demic freedom.” I put academic freedom in quotations, because it is anything but free and open. The world of academia no longer believes in exploring the extreme, the offensive or the traditional. We have a set list of “inclusive” subjects that we are allowed to discuss in public so that we can promote a singular viewpoint and ensure that no one’s feelings get hurt. What is disappointing is that we often learn the most about ourselves, the way we think and the reasoning behind our beliefs when we discuss items that are offensive or out of the norm.

For example, there is definite educational gain and benefit from knowing why the Jewish culture rejected Jesus as the Messiah. That rejection spawned two separate religions that influenced world history for years to come. By receiving an answer to that question, I not only gain valuable insight to the reasoning of one of the world’s oldest cultures, but I am also challenged to examine my own beliefs in Christianity.

Hearing the Rabbi’s response would increase our basic knowledge base, promote critical reasoning to see how it influenced the world and force us to reconsider what we already know and believe. Are these not a few of the basic functions of higher education? This isn’t an experience that could only be had

by Christians. Someone of any background can undergo this same process. Yet we are afraid to talk about why Jews rejected Jesus because someone might feel judged, offended or hurt.

The simple truth of the matter is that people aren’t always out to offend you. If you hear about a different perspective you should not meet it with disgust and shame.

If this is the case, then you are practicing ignorance, not wisdom. If you are an administrator or professor who practices this, then you really do not believe in spreading knowledge. You believe in spreading your perspective. This is OK to an extent if you are willing to openly acknowledge that fact.

But please, let’s drop the moniker of “academic freedom.” It’s not freedom if you limit yourself and others to a certain spectrum of ideas.

— Hunter Tipton is a senior in microbiology. He can be reached at jtipto10@utk.edu.

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Samantha Warchol I am convinced that everything happens for a reason, whether it is to teach us a lesson, ease us into another stage of life or simply mature us. Fate has a way of weaving in and out of our lives like a car through rush hour traffic. One minute you think everything is going great, and then the next minute ... not so much. These are the moments when “you never know how strong you are ... until being strong is your only choice.”

I have seen it in myself and in others, just how strong we can be while struggling with a situation that we have no answers for.

There is no way for us to anticipate what is around the corner, whether it is a death of someone close, an unforeseen illness or the breakup of a relationship. However, it is up to us to decide how we deal with the stroke of fate that has presented itself to us.

Someone once said, “Moving on doesn’t mean we forget about things. It just means you have to accept what happened and continue living.” They also said that, “every scar has a story.” I believe that this person was referring to eventually knowing why this random act or crisis occurred in our life. Each random act is like a tale, where we have the beginning to the story ... but not the middle or the ending. In time, the complete story will be revealed to us and by then, we would have learned, accepted or grown from it. The scars are to remind us of

the situations and the pain we have already faced, proving just how strong we can be.

I have witnessed others go through trying times, and of course I also have. This year alone I have come out on the other side of my problems. From the loss of three grandparents, an aunt and a friend — believe it or not — I am stronger for my losses. Although there have been days where it seems like I can only focus on one thing at a time or else my world will come crashing down, I have managed. I have discovered just how strong I can be and how much I am willing to face in order to support the people I love. In retrospect, I have been fortunate compared to many, but that doesn’t take away the value or the meaning behind any particular experience. I can honestly say that I have made choices this year that I never expected I would make, but I have also stayed true to who I am. Somehow, no matter what choice I made, I have seemed to end up exactly where I belong.

I think fate and life are temperamental friends. One minute they are getting along famously and the next minute they are fighting like siblings, with you caught in the middle. But for the most part, fate and life really do get along.

I know we all want to believe we are the authors of our own story … but fate has a funny way of letting us know she is the coauthor. Although we may not always be in complete control of situations, we always have the ability to choose how we respond to fate or how we work with fate to finish our story.

— Samantha Warchol is a sophomore in psychology. She can be reached at swarchol@utk.edu.

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

THE DAILY BEACON • 5 Arts & Culture Editor Victoria Wright

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Professor shares new poetry collection through levels of hell with Virgil, from west Knoxville to half of the Henley Street Bridge, exploring divine love UT’s Director of Creative and poetry along the way.

Writing Marilyn Kallet looks Norris’ poem served as a the part of a poet — long dark good lead into Kallet’s work, hair, unconventionally stylish as the poet spends a lot of clothes and that aura of eccentime with Beatrice, Dante’s tricity and passion that seems love interest, and Dante himto accompany all good poets. self in her new book. Dante’s As Kallet walked to the front work was also the inspiration of the room, she did not stop for the title. behind the podium as most “I was reading Book 2 of writers do, but rather chose Dante’s ‘Inferno’ and Beatrice to claim the front of the room talks about ‘the love that as her stage with her writmoved me,’� Kallet said. “The ing memorized. She began to past tense of this stopped me, speak, and as her introductory and I knew that was going to words slipped effortlessly into be the title of the book.� poems, the way she performed Comprised of 80 poems, became an embodiment of the Kallet’s poetry spans from poetry within her.

East Tennessee to Hawaii to More than a hundred stuAuvilliar, France, where Kallet dents, faculty and poetry has lead a workshop for poets fans packed Hodges Library’s every year for the last five Lindsey Young Auditorium for years. The diversity of place, the “Writers in the Library� she explains, all fits into the event on Monday night. larger themes of the work.

They were all “Once the idea of love poetry and the journey of love was clear to me, then the various geographic and spiritual places seemed to fit,� Kallet said. “Everything fits into the arc of love, even the poems that are anti-love, like the one about the chicken.�

The poem she references is called “That File Photo • The Daily Beacon Chickenâ€? and is the story of “Writers in the Libraryâ€? takes place in Hodges Library Auditorium. when Kallet

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gathered to hear Kallet perform from her latest book, “The Love That Moves Me.� “Clearly, it’s poetry time in Tennessee,� Stanton Garner, head of UT’s English department, said in his introduction about Kallet and Associate Professor of English Art Smith.

Smith was supposed to accompany Kallet at the second-to-last “Writers� event, as he recently released his latest book of poetry, “The Fortunate Era.� Due to family matters, however, Smith was unable to attend.

Instead, Keith Norris, UT alum and associate professor at Pellissippi State Community College, stepped in to open for Kallet. He read one of Smith’s poems, “Golden Gate,� as well as a few of his own, including one Kallet named “Backwoods Inferno.� “Inferno,� read by Norris with a southern accent, takes Dante’s work and puts it in the scope of Knoxville; the main character, “D,� travels

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bought a chicken in France for 15 euros. In essence, it is an anti-ode to the chicken whose â&#x20AC;&#x153;skin was so thick it couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be insulted, not even by a knife.â&#x20AC;? She finished performing this poem amid laughter and applause from the crowd.

For Andrew Emitt, a senior in English, the way Kallet presents her poetry is a large part of what makes her so engaging and compelling to watch. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of big poets perform like they never learned how to read,â&#x20AC;? Emitt said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I hold that aspect to a really high standard and Marilyn is just such a great performer.â&#x20AC;?

Kallet takes this part of poetry very seriously as performing, for her, is connecting with the audience. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Good performing breaks down the barrier between poet and audience,â&#x20AC;? Kallet said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s liberating. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a physicality to it when thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no shield or crutch.â&#x20AC;?

Kalletâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s students are proud to have a successful poet as a teacher and find themselves continually inspired by her talent and composure. Olivia Bricen, a junior in English, attended the event because of the influence Kallet has had on her own poetry. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m taking one of Marilynâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s classes right now and she has just been the biggest inspiration to me,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s my favorite poet and a great performer. She takes risks and is experimental and just does whatever she wants.â&#x20AC;?

Jazz band honors famed saxophonist at Spring Concert Justin Daugherty Staff Writer Though renowned tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson may not be around anymore, his music is still alive and well thanks to the UT Jazz Big Band Ensemble.

The Jazz Big Band Ensemble performed their Spring Concert on Monday night at the Alumni Memorial Building. Entitled â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Music of Joe Henderson,â&#x20AC;? the entire evening was dedicated to one of jazzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most influential players.

Henderson left a legacy that spanned more than four decades, giving the Big Band Ensemble a tough act to do him justice, but they performed an hour-anda-half of music either written or arranged by Henderson himself.

Hendersonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s career as a jazz saxophonist and composer left a lasting impression on the world of jazz with his name becoming synonymous with power and grace on tenor sax. Playing a selection of music from his career was a challenge, but the group stepped up to the plate and performed a set that gave homage to Hendersonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s genius.

Special guest Gregory Tardy, assistant professor of jazz saxophone, joined the ensemble for the last two songs of the night.

Program Director Keith Brown, senior lecturer in percussion, said

that he would pick Tardy over any other tenor sax player he knew because of his likeliness to Henderson as well as his stylistic approach to his music. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was nice just listening to him,â&#x20AC;? Hunter Smith, alto saxophone player and freshman in jazz studies, said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We could have not even played and it would have been fine.â&#x20AC;?

Though Tardy may have been the star of the final two songs of the concert, there was no upstaging between other members in the ensemble throughout the night.

One of the most difficult parts about jazz music is how the instruments play off each other.

David Webb, sophomore studying jazz guitar, was impressed with the performance of Jake Smith, the ensembleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s guitarist. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He outlined the changes well,â&#x20AC;?

Webb said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He knew where he was at and had a very smooth sound.â&#x20AC;?

As with most jazz performances, solos were embedded into the songs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t together for everything, but we were swinging,â&#x20AC;?

Hunter Smith recalled after the performance. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The solos were good, mine was all right. A little out of tune.â&#x20AC;?

The final concert of the Jazz Big Band Ensemble with the music of Joe Henderson closed out the year for the group.

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Wednesday, April 17, 2013 Arts & Culture Editor Victoria Wright

ARTS & CULTURE Filmmaker discusses craft, creative process Molly Loftus Staff Writer Paul Harrill, associate professor in cinema production at Virginia Tech University and a UT alumnus, came to campus Monday afternoon to reveal his experience as a filmmaker.

Harrill’s narrative films and documentary videos have screened in film festivals, cinematheques and museums around the world. He has been awarded various prizes for his work, including the Grand Jury Prize in Short Filmmaking and was recognized by Filmmaker Magazine as one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film” in 2001.

Apart from his personal work, Harrill emphasized his focus on teaching.

“Being an educator is an important part of who I am,” Harrill said.

The local filmmaker likes to involve his students in every one of his personal film projects.

“I try to guide students to make work with substance and ideas and to make it with the love of the craft,” Harrill said.

Despite his love for teaching, Harrill is currently on a leave of absence due to a film entitled “Joy of Life,” which is a murder mystery that examines the human condition. Harrill announced for the first time to the audience that Killer Films has just come on board as executive producers of the film, which he said should debut this fall.

“It’s just another story that I want to tell, and this is just another way of telling it,” Harrill said.

Because the core of Harrill’s work is storytelling, he highlighted the importance of the craft in connecting us to the world.

“Simultaneously, I want to put myself in the film by taking myself out of it,” Harrill said.

“There is something happening

with story telling that is telling us how to shape our lives and impact the world. Stories connect us not only to each other but the larger world.”

Expanding on his desire to share stories, Harrill created the weblog “Self-Reliant Film” with filmmaker Allison Maynor in 2005. The project allows him more freedom as a creator.’

“It’s rewarding but challenging,” Harrill said. “As a teacher, I’ve had the luxury of not having to worry about the market.

(With ‘Self-Relient’) I’m not asking for anyone’s permission, and just making the film.”

However, an artist always has doubts in the creating process, according to Harrill. Critique from employees at the production company Sundance for his film “Brief Encounter with Tibetan Monks” caused him to lean more toward narrative rather than documentary filmmaking. Working with Sundance as an independent filmmaker presented challenges, Harrill said, but he prides himself on writing regionally.

“At Sundance I was asked ‘Are you based in New York or L.A?’ I would tell them ‘Knoxville’ and they asked me if that was in Silver Lake, which I think is near L.A.,” Harrill said.

Harrill showed brief clips of his films including “Gina, An Actress, Age 29,” “Brief Encounter with Tibetan Monks” and “Quick Feet, Soft Hands.”

“I always try to make very personal work,” Harrill said in relation to “Quick Feet, Soft Hands.” “But I also try not to make directly autobiographical work.’”

“For Memories’ Sake,” which Harrill describes as an “unconventional” love story, is the first film that he said is inspired by and a result of ‘Self-Reliant.’

“It paints a portrait of women that’s rarely seen in cinema,” Harrill said. “Of all my work, I can confidently say that I am proudest of this one.”

Harrill said he uses females for lead roles in almost all of his films because they are more suitable than men to depict his theme of interior experiences.

Other characteristics of his filmmaking style are a focus on characters rather than plot, a “quiet” tone and open-endings.

“I’m interested in open-endings because it is a way for an audience to complete the work and continue thinking about it,” he said.

Senior in theater Matt Gully expressed his appreciation for Harrill’s deviation from mainstream media.

“His work seems very introspective,” Gully said. “It’s more cerebral and focused on the characters rather than things happening.”

The film took a year to shoot, which Harrill explained is unusual compared to most films that take 25 days to film.

His reason for the extended time period was to accurately display all four seasons in the film. “(His methods) seem very unorthodox … this makes (his films) very realistic,” Gully said.

At the end of the lecture, audience members asked for advice on how to overcome the daunting approach to beginning a film, the beginning stages of outlining a film and how to assemble a quality team to create a film.

“I liked his advice about screenwriting. I like what he was saying about taking a slow approach to it,” Gully said. “I think that was very helpful.”

All of Harrill’s films are set and filmed in Knoxville, where he originated and currently resides. His main reason for creating locally is to alter the way films are portrayed in this region in particular.

“For me, the most rewarding films are those that have a responsibility to an idea,” Harrill said. “The most important thing for me is that my work is memorable.”

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‘Wolf’ is the third studio album released by Tyler, the Creator.

Tyler, the Creator album focuses on fame, personal life Victoria Brown Contributor Tyler, the Creator released his highly anticipated third studio album, “Wolf,” earlier this month.

Tyler Okonma, better known by his stage name Tyler, the Creator, is the co-founder and leader of another wellknown music collective called OFWGKTA, which stands for Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All. The group is also known as Odd Future, and is compromised of other musicians such as Earl Sweatshirt, Frank Ocean and Domo Genesis, just to name a few.

Odd Future consists of an array of musical artists of different talents and styles similar to Tyler, the Creator’s original albums. Many of the songs range from slow, somewhat somber sounds, to energetic and up tempo. Songs on the “Wolf” album rarely maintain a uniform sound or pace throughout an entire song.

Tyler, the Creator and his colleagues pride themselves on the uniqueness of their sound.

Most, if not all, of the songs by OFWGKTA and Tyler himself, include some type of vulgarity, drug reference, homophobia, crude humor or distastefulness.

However, Tyler, the Creator also has a great way of telling stories through his lyrics. One can

learn a huge deal about Tyler, the Creator’s family, childhood, relationships and feelings on religion through his lyrics.

Tyler’s first album, “Bastard,” was released in 2009. The album did decently in sales, but was targeted more toward the fan base that previously followed Tyler and OFWGKTA from YouTube and mix tapes.

In May of 2011, Tyler, the Creator released his second studio album, entitled “Goblin.”

This album garnered much more attention with the help of YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and other social networking sites. It was much easier to gain attention and to spread the music to new people and gather new fans due to social media.

“Wolf” brings an array of sounds, and almost every song on the album ends with Tyler talking to a therapist-like figure. Following each song is his explanation of the problem, similar to his songs on “Goblin.”

Beginning with a sweet, melodic sound on the first song of the album, one would expect a slower, more romantic tune, but the lyrics often insert a derogatory slur as profanity is consistently used throughout the album.

In the song called “Jamba,” Okonma mentions his father in the opening line, “Papa ain’t call even though he saw me on TV, it’s all good.” Okonma seems to have a bad relationship

with his father, as he mentions it in several songs throughout his album. The song entitled “Answer,” about Okonma’s father, has a slow and serene sound. With lines like, “Because when I call, I hope you pick up your phone. I’d like to talk to you. I hope you answer,” and “Hey dad, it’s me, um ... oh, I’m Tyler, I think I be your son,” the listener gains insight into his relationship with his father.

He talks about his grandmother having cancer on the song called “Cowboy” and he mentions his mother on numerous occasions.

Tyler, the Creator serves as a symbol for Okonma’s life. As noted in previous interviews, Tyler emphasizes that he does not smoke or drink; however, he makes numerous references to drugs and drinking in his songs leading one to wonder how much of his image is fabricated. Similarly, he appears to be happy often, but in one song he states, “You think all this money will make a happy me? But I’m about as lonely as crackers that supermodels eat.”

In “Lone,” Okonma discusses his life since fame and how he sometimes wants to quit.

The album is intricate, and at times blatant, while others contain clever metaphors. Tyler, the Creator produces great music, skits and some humor; if one is not easily offended, this is the album to listen to.

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Vols ready to join fun Anthony Elias Staff Writer The Tennessee tennis team is heading into this weekend’s SEC Tournament in Oxford, Miss., and according to head coach Sam Winterbotham the team is peaking at the right time.

“This is where the fun starts,” Winterbotham said.

“We’ve talked about it all year as a team. Three doubles teams competing and six singles players apiece.”

Winterbotham and the No. 2 seed Vols won’t be put away early either — at least they hope.

“We’re not going down quickly,” the seventh-year coach said. “We’re not getting frustrated. We’re emotionally (all) the same. We have the same heartbeat and I felt today was the best example of that.”

The Vols example came at the expense of Auburn, who the Vols defeated on 4-0 in their regular season finale.

But the Tigers can get a rematch with UT if they beat Vanderbilt in their opening round match on Thursday.

“It’s always a big moment especially when you’re one of the top teams in the conference and your team has a legitimate chance to win it,” senior Taylor Patrick said.

“To win a conference title my senior year would be awesome. I kind of like to rub it in.”

For Patrick, winning another SEC championship would be a nice finish to his career, but it would also give him some bragging rights over his friend and former Tennessee teammate, Rhyne Williams.

Both Williams and Patrick have two SEC championships to their name at the moment.

“I’d like to tell him, ‘Well you have two rings and I have three,’” Patrick said.

On the court, UT’s three seniors, Patrick, Edward Jones and John Collins, will all try to make one last run for a conference crown in hopes for one last special moment together.

The trio won a combined 52 of their 85 matches this season (140 combined career singles wins at UT), six doubles tournament championships, six combined SEC Academic Honor Rolls (freshman honors included) and back-to-back SEC regular season championships altogether.

“It’d be really special, especially with this group of guys (since) we’re so close,” Patrick said. “I’d love to have that memory with them.”

Tennessee sophomore Mikelis Libietis (33-5) finished conference play 19-1 and earned the highest ranking of his UT career (No. 3 on 3/26/13). His .868 winning percentage this season, if the season ended today,

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Junior Brynn Boren returns a forehand against the Arkansas Razorbacks at Barksdale Stadium on April 5.

Lady Vols look to right ship in SEC championship Troy Provost-Heron Staff Writer

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Senior John Collins serves against the Auburn University Tigers at Barksdale Stadium on April 14. would place him at third alltime in UT history.

Heading into Friday, the No. 4-ranked sophomore returns for his second shot at the SEC title. Last year, the then freshman kept UT in its quarterfinal match with Mississippi State, upsetting then-No. #10 Artem Illyushin, MSU, 7-6 (6), 6-2 in the Vols’ losing effort.

However, being one of the nation’s premier players comes with a hefty responsibility.

“It’s hard,” Winterbotham said. “When you win all the time, you feel like people expect you to win all the time. When you’re playing on (Court No. 1), you’re playing great players every week.”

Trailing Auburn senior Andres Mies 5-1 on Sunday, Libietis and Winterbotham were talking on the bench.

“He got down and we just talked about relaxing,” Winterbotham said. “It was hard for me and him to have a conversation where we could coach because you could tell

he was so frustrated and he was carrying the emotions from one point to the next.”

That’s when Winterbotham had a few choice words for the UT sophomore.

“Just relax,” Winterbotham told Libietis. “It’s 5-1. Just relax and have some fun.’”

The Priekuli, Latvia, native didn’t have to be told twice, and went on a 6-1 tear in the second set to sweep his singles match with Mies (6-4, 7-6). Winterbotham said Libietis is “a nightmare” for anyone to play and believes the sophomore will stay that way in the postseason if he “just relaxes.”

“When he does that, nobody’s going to enjoy playing him,” Winterbotham said.

Tennessee will play the winner of Thursday’s AuburnVanderbilt first round matchup on Friday at noon. The Vols are 5-1 all-time in SEC tourney play against Auburn, but they have never faced Vanderbilt in the conference tournament.

Let the fun begin.

When the Tennessee Lady Vol tennis team heads to Starkville, Miss., later this week, everything in the past will have to be left here at UT if they want to have success.

Following wins in their final two home matches against Arkansas and LSU, the Lady Vols hit the road to finish off their regular season. They started in Nashville, where they made quick work of Tennessee State, 5-0. But that was as good as it got for the Lady Vols, as they lost to No. 8 Alabama, 4-2, and No. 22 Auburn, 4-1, to end the season.

Even though the team finished on a bad note, junior Brynn Boren believes the team’s confidence is still high.

“We played both teams, Auburn and Alabama, tight, and they are really tough at home,” Boren said. “They were both close matches that came down to the wire, so I think our confidence is still high.”

While their confidence may still be high, the Lady Vols are a young team (6 of their 9 members are freshman or sophomores) that is continuing to grow. Co-head coach Sonia Hahn-Patrick believes that their inexperience, especially in tournament play, shouldn’t be a factor because of what they’ve been through this season.

“I think we have a young team, but I also think that the season makes you grow up very

quickly,” Hahn-Patrick said. “I don’t think they see themselves as a young team, I think they just go out and try to compete hard, and try to play with everyone.”

There is no doubt, however, that the Lady Vols have talent, as they are currently ranked No. 29 and finished fifth in the SEC, which currently has the most schools in the Top 30 of the ITA Rankings with eight. The only question is whether or not they have the talent to hang with the likes of Florida and Texas A&M. “I think that we have enough talent to be competitive with every team,” Hahn-Patrick said.

“There are some teams that are a little bit deeper than us, but everyone is so even this year, it’s just a matter of who shows up on what particular day.”

The Lady Vols get a first round bye in the tournament and will play the winner of the Mississippi State-Missouri matchup. In a format like the NCAA Tournament in basketball, getting ready for a game that you’re not really sure who you are playing can be difficult, but Hahn-Patrick said that it isn’t difficult to prepare because they have played everyone already.

“We’ve played everyone in the tournament,” Hahn-Patrick said. “I don’t think there will be any surprises or anything shocking, it’s ... more a matter of us being ready and us being prepared, rather than who we play.”

For senior Kata Szekely, this is her last chance to complete

what past UT teams she has been on haven’t been able to do: win an SEC championship.

“It would be amazing,” Szekely said. “My first two years we lost in the finals and we were really close to winning the tournament both times, so obviously it would go on to be a major accomplishment in my four years here.”

While this is Szekely’s last opportunity to win an SEC championship, it is the first chance for the Lady Vol freshman on the team, who could kick the rest of their career’s into high gear with a tournament win.

“For me, it would be unbelievable,” freshman Mimi Fotopoulos said. “We’ve worked so hard as a team day in and day out since I got here. So I know, especially for our seniors and upperclassmen, it would be amazing, and for me as a freshman coming in, it would just be an incredible thing to do freshman year.”

Whether they come away with a SEC championship or not, Szekely is proud of what the team has accomplished this year.

“I am (proud of what this team has accomplished this year),” Szekely said. “We finished fifth in the conference, which is always good, especially since we added two more great teams to the conference (Missouri and Texas A&M), so it was a great SEC conference season and we just want to do better at the tournament.”

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Williams selected 15th by WNBA’s New York Liberty Troy Provost-Heron Staff Writer Normally on draft day, a player who has the potential of being selected by a professional team, sits by the TV surrounded by friends, family and cameras, waiting nervously for their name to be called.

But for Kamiko Williams, draft day was a day used for completing some unfinished business: her homework.

On Monday, Williams was drafted by the New York Liberty with the 15th overall pick in the WNBA Draft.

“Corinne (Milien, former UT graduate assistant) called, and I was actually doing homework,” Williams said.

“She just called me and told me to turn on the TV. I was excited, but at the same time I know it’s a business and I want to stay focused.”

Even though Williams probably wouldn’t have been considered a possible draft selection a year ago, her play on the court this season when she averaged 7.4 points per game, 4.2 rebounds a game and 2.5 assists per game, which made it possible. “(It was) probably when Coach Law and Coach Elzy pulled me into the office and told me if I keep playing the way I’m playing and keep it up, my chances and my stock would go up,” Williams said.

“But I tried not to look at that.

I just wanted to get this team as far as it could go, and the Elite Eight is what we did.”

Her impact on the team from a leadership standpoint, along with fellow senior Taber Spani in the absence of Pat Summitt this season, was probably even more telling than Williams’ on-the-court skills.

A big factor for Williams being able to turn it around this season was the tutelage given to her by assistant coach Kyra Elzy, a former Lady Vol, who helped the guard grow on and off the hardwood.

“Coach Elzy helped me on and off the court to mature and become the person that I

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Senior Kamiko Williams rises up for a jumpshot in the Lady Vols SEC matchup against the Kentucky Wildcats. am,” Williams said. “She instilled confidence in me and told me just to go out there and play to the best of my ability. At the same time she was staying on me, she let me play the game of basketball I know how to play. It worked out for the best. ...

“I looked to her and told her ‘don’t change your phone number,’ because I am sure I’ll keep calling her every other day, if not every day.”

While the second round pick was excited about being selected, she was also upset

to hear that her best friend, Spani, was not drafted in the WNBA Draft.

“Taber is a great player, and I feel like she should have (been drafted). I hope there’s a team out there that will give her a chance, because she can bring something great to the team. I know she wants to,” Williams said.

With New York City calling, it would be be easy for Williams to mail it in for the rest of the semester and focus on her upcoming WNBA career, but she said that noth-

ing has changed and everyday will be business as usual.

“I’m working out, doing everything with the girls’ (team),” Williams said. “We play pick-up twice, maybe three times a week, and I’m going to run with them tomorrow with Heather. Of course, I texted Coach Elzy, and we’re going to get in the gym and she’s going to work me out before I get (to New York). Still, just go to class, same routine, nothing’s really changed.”

The Tennessee Vols baseball team continued its hot streak on Tuesday night, defeating Virginia Tech 5-4 in the “HokieSmokey Classic.”

Pioneer Field in Greeneville, Tenn., on the campus of Tusculum College, hosted the renewed rivalry between the two schools. The park was nearly packed full as fans of both teams got the chance to see the schools’ first meeting since 2001, when the teams met in Kingsport.

“I started this back up because it’s tradition and I want to bring tradition back to Tennessee baseball,” Tennessee head coach Dave Serrano said.

“It was big first of all to play this game again and to play it here,” Serrano said.

“And then to come out with a victory makes it even better for us. Hopefully we can continue to build on it, Virginia Tech has a good team and we were very fortunate to play as well as we did tonight.”

The Vols took advantage of early location issues by Tech starter Colin O’Keefe.

The Vols were in business after two walks and a hit batter loaded the bases with only one out.

Then Tennessee second baseman Jeff Moberg surprised everyone when he broke for home plate.

O’Keefe’s pitch sailed way outside and Moberg slid in safe with a rare steal of home. Pierce Bily and Christin Stewart moved up to second and third, respectively, to complete the triple steal, and on the next pitch third baseman Taylor Smart smacked a

double down the left field line, scoring Bily and Stewart to give the Vols a 3-0 first inning lead.

“The guy wasn’t checking when I was at third and he was in the wind-up.

I was kind of just walking off and (Coach Greg Bergeron) was like ‘Hey, steal home right here’ and I just kept going and he never checked,” Moberg said.

“I was trusting Taylor not to swing,” Moberg said. “You know it was a risky play but it worked out.”

Junior Blake Thomas got his first start for the Vols this season and pitched 6.1 strong innings. Thomas gave up an RBI single and a two-run homer to Tech first baseman Sean Keselica in the top of the third that cut Tennessee’s lead to 4-3.

An RBI single by Stewart in the bottom of the sixth proved very valuable as the Vols extended their lead to 5-3. The Hokies then knocked Thomas out of the game in the top of the seventh and scored a run of their own to cut the Vols’ lead back to one at 5-4.

But freshman Andy Cox came in and shut the door on the Hokies, pitching 2.1 scoreless innings and striking out three to secure the win for the Vols.

It is the fourth win for the Vols in their last five games, and one Serrano hopes the team can continue to build off of.

“We’re starting to play good baseball,” Serrano said. “We’re starting to hit our stride and take some steps and I’m very proud of these guys. Winning is always fun.”