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At a little past 1 p.m. CT, lawmakers pushed a bill that would strip funding for UT’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion one step closer to reality. Three hundred miles to the east, students and faculty held a very different meeting as they formed together in an act of protest, determined to send a message to the state lawmakers stripping diversity funding and the UT administrators they feel have let it happen: “They’re taking diversity from my UT, and we’re not gonna stop till we are free.”

See pages 6-7 for story and images of the protest.

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State lawmakers call Murfreesboro children’s arrests into question

New E-911 system could cost $400K less

House sponsor of Bible bill announces plans to override veto

State lawmakers are calling for state and federal law enforcement to investigate why Murfreesboro police arrested an unknown number of school children at Hobgood Elementary School. Officers handcuffed and apprehended the children, who were between 6 and 11, for reportedly failing to break up a fight that occurred several days earlier on campus. A juvenile center later released the children, though members of the community are calling for a police review of the incident.

Murfreesboro’s police chief described the incident as a “learning experience,” saying that corrective action would be taken if necessary. “It’s unimaginable, unfathomable that authority figures would ... do something that has such implications,” said Bishop Joseph Walker III, pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist Church of Nashville, as reported by The Tennessean.

Knox County could save as much as $400,000 dollars over the next seven years should it choose to share a regional emergency communications network rather than buy its own digital radio system. The report is the opposite of what a independent firm predicted last year, which claimed purchasing the digital system would be millions of dollars cheaper. The full E-911 Board of Directors will meet Wednesday to discuss their possible options. This comes only a day after Bob Coker, the Executive Director Knox County’s E-911 Center, announced his resignation after a decade of working in that office. Coker received widespread criticism for issues ranging from poor employee performance reviews to problems with the department’s dispatch system, all within the past year.

The House Sponsor of the controversial bill seeking to make the Bible Tennessee’s official state book has announced his intention to override Governor Bill Haslam’s veto. The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Jerry Sexton, initially seemed as though he would forgo the 24 hour waiting period required to take up a veto, though that was not the case. Gov. Haslam said his original decision to veto was due to constitutional concerns and his belief that the bill “trivializes” the Bible. Tennessee state attorney general Herbert Slatery wrote an opinion outlining the constitutional issues he found with the bill. “The Bible is undeniably a sacred text of the Christian faith,” Slatery wrote. “Legislative designation of The Holy Bible as the official book ... must presumptively be understood as an endorsement of religion.”

Senate OKs bill to allow gun carry on Tennessee campuses Associated Press

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The state Senate on Tuesday voted to allow faculty and workers with handgun carry permits to be armed on the campuses of Tennessee public colleges and universities.

The bill sponsored by Sen. Mike Bell passed on a 28-5 vote, and the House was expected to take up the measure on Wednesday.

Republican Gov. Bill Haslam raised concerns about the measure for not giving institutions the power to opt out of allowing more guns on campus.

Bell, R-Riceville, was dismissive of the results of a survey of faculty at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville that largely opposed

to measure.

“I think some of these people need to take their medication,” Bell said, adding that he hopes some professors will follow through on vows to quit if the bill becomes law.

“Maybe this will give UT a chance to hire some conservative teachers if we have a mass exodus of some of these liberals who responded to this,” he said.

Bell said that under the bill, workers and faculty would still be banned from carrying firearms at: — Stadiums or gymnasiums while schoolsponsored events are in progress.

— Meetings where disciplinary or tenure issues are being discussed.

— Hospitals or offices where medical or mental health services are provided.

— Any location prohibited by another law,

such as at day care centers or elementary schools located on campus.

While Tennessee’s handgun carry law allows permit holder to carry their weapons either in the open, the campus bill would require firearms in a concealed manner.

Many of those provisions of the bill were made at the behest of higher education and law enforcement officials, Bell said.

Haslam’s stance on the bill appears to have softened in recent weeks.

“I’ve always felt that whoever is in charge of that facility, whatever it is, should get to decide,” Haslam said. “UT and the (Tennessee Board Regents), while initially expressing some reservations, ended up saying we’re OK with the bill as it is. We had expressed some concern, so we’ll see.”

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University says rainbow-hued nooses were part of art display

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CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. — Six nooses arranged in the colors of the rainbow were part of an art display for a sculpture class at a Tennessee university and were not intended to be a political statement or hate symbol, officials said Tuesday.

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art teacher and found no malicious intent with the project.

The nooses were hung from a tree near the art building at the Clarksville campus Monday afternoon. Campus police removed them after a complaint.

The art student issued a statement Tuesday saying the display was meant to invoke the cycle of death and rebirth represented by springtime.

Before the statement, speculation about the meaning of the nooses had been rampant, with some students saying they were a statement

about the high suicide rate among lesbian and gay youth and others assuming they were meant as a threat against African-Americans.

Even after the statement, some students at the community forum were skeptical that anyone would not know nooses would invoke slavery, segregation and lynching — rather than springtime — for many people.

“We all have taken history in high school,” student Tony Morris said at the forum. “How could anyone be unaware that would be offensive to people?”

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Fundraising gala to keep theatre running Samantha McCarty Contributor

How many people does it take to make a theatre run? For most the answer is a couple hundred workers, but there are a couple thousand donors who fund the theatre behind the scenes.

On May 20 at 7 p.m., the Clarence Brown Theatre will host their annual fundraising gala at the Jackson Terminal in Knoxville.

CBT External Relations Associate Amanda Middleton said this event is the “single largest fundraiser event” for the theatre.

While all gala proceeds go toward the theatre, where exactly the money will go within the theatre varies each year.

“I am excited about this gala, which will be benefitting the Theatre’s Artist Endowment Fund,” Lyle Irish, chief executive officer of the CBT, said.

The Theatre’s Artist Endowment Fund was established to bring guest and resident artists from around the world to the Clarence Brown Theatre. It helps bring professional actors, directors and designers to the stages and classrooms of the University of Tennessee.

“This year’s gala is inspired by Truman Capote’s infamous Black and White Masked Ball which was held 50 years ago,” Irish said.

The gala’s 2016 Honoree is UT Alum Paula Pell, who has written for SNL, several successful television shows and a number of successful Hollywood movies, such as “Bridesmaids,” “This is 40” and “The Heat.”

She is also writer of the screenplay “Sisters,” which starred Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, and the “Spartan Cheerleader” skit on SNL, which featured Will Ferrell and Cheri Oteri.

Pell was raised in Illinois but attended UTK before taking a job working at nightclubs in Walt Disney World. She was working with a local improv group when she was recognized by the SNL Executive Producer, Lorne Michaels.

“In addition to a cocktail hour and gourmet meal, the gala will feature a live auction with wonderful and unique items and experiences,” Irish said.

Tickets for the CBT’s 2016 gala are $200 each and can be purchased at the Clarence Brown Theatre website. Tickets have sold out the last few years, so anyone interested in attending are highly encouraged to purchase tickets well in advance of the event.

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Laughter, folk music come together at Bijou Theatre JoAnna Brooker Contributor

Monday night, April 18, at the Bijou was full of laughter and atmospheric folk music.

Contemporary singer Robyn Hitchcock and comedian Eugene Mirman came into town on their joint tour to amuse hundreds of people in Knoxville.

The crowd was mainly above college age, but their enthusiasm was far from low.

“It’s great to be back in my home state of Tennessee,” Hitchcock quipped in his British accent. “As you can tell, I’m from Nashville.”

Hitchcock has been described as reminiscent of Bob Dylan, and it is an adequate comparison. Wearing a polka dot shirt and jeans, he strummed his guitar and sang into the night about willow trees and fate.

“You see,” Hitchcock said, “fate can be luscious like ice cream.”

After Hitchcock’s performance, Mirman

took the stage to tell jokes and play with videos and his Amazon Echo. Mirman is the voice of Gene from the cartoon Bob’s Burgers and has also worked on shows such as the Flight of the Concords.

“You guys have a nice city,” Mirman said. “I’ve seen 17 of your 28 blocks.”

Miram was a tall, stocky character wearing a black button down and jeans.

But despite his everyday appearance, Mirman’s comedic style was absurd, sarcastic and full of wit.

“I saw a 6-year-old wearing a fedora,” Mirman said, “And I didn’t know if I should call child abuse.”

The entire theatre was roaring the entire evening.

Towards the end of the evening, Hitchcock joined Mirman in a new Hawaiian shirt, and they spent fifteen minutes comparing Nick Nolte and Gary Busey to apples and oranges.

However, this was the only low moment in the show; for the finale Hitchcock went into a rendition of “My wife and my dead wife” with Mirman singing along.

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Landscape architect discusses future of green city planning Jared Sebby

Copy Editor Since the mid-1960s, landscape architecture has waned in popularity, constrained to plants, parks and greenspace.

Landscape architecture, a fusion of gardening, city planning and traditional architecture, was developed in the mid-1800s as a way for architects, like Frederick Olmstead of Central Park fame, to combat the encroaching urbanism of industrial life. In the 1960s, however, city planning split from the landscape architecture field, leaving behind only trivial decoration.

Charles Waldheim, director of the office for urbanization at Harvard University, is trying to take landscape architecture back from the city planners.

As part of the Robert B. Church lecture series on April 18, Waldheim discussed the importance of landscape architects in modern city planning, a philosophy which he calls “landscape urbanism.” One of the founding members of the landscape urbanism movement, Waldheim charges that the best way to design a city is not through building styles or street planning but through careful consideration of the city’s landscape.

“Part of this is a kind of fundamental division of labor, where the kinds of environmental literacy, the kinds of ecological understanding that landscape architects bring, is in increasingly greater demand today,” he said. “We expect our cities to be clean. We expect them to be a healthful place, and that environmental performance is something that landscape architects are immersed in.”

While the field of landscape architecture has been around for over a century, UT has only recently developed its own program.

Sam Rogers, professor emeritus in the College of Architecture and Design, was one of the early proponents for UT’s graduate program in landscape architecture.

During the creation of the program, he served as interim chair and has remained involved since his retirement.

“I think it’s great that we have someone from Harvard, which is one of the oldest landscape architecture programs, here at UT, which is, if not the newest, one of the newest programs,” Rogers said.

Waldheim touched on that fact during his lecture, noting that UT is ahead of the trend in its implementation of a graduate landscape program.

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We expect our cities to be clean. We expect them to be a healthful place, and that environmental performance is something that landscape architects are immersed in.”

Charles Waldheim, director of the office of urbanization

“I think it’s been a long-term project to establish the program here, but it is exactly ahead of the curve nationally.

More and more architects are studying architecture and landscape architecture,” Waldheim said, but lamented that there are fewer landscape architects entering the workforce. “Right now, we’re producing fewer landscape architects, because they’re moving to graduate work. So there’s an underlying business case that we can’t make landscape architects fast enough right now.”

However, landscape architects are still in high demand. As cities grow, older areas are outmoded or outgrown.

Waldheim’s newest book, “Landscape Urbanism,” deals with reclaiming these abandoned regions, reforming them to better suit the needs of their populace.

“It happens to be the case in North America today, … and much of Western Europe as well, we’re dealing with economic restructuring,” he said. “Industrial economies left the cities. In those places, we have cities that are doing both their redeveloping of former industrial sites while also growing.”

The spring 2016 season of the Robert B. Church Memorial Lecture Series concludes April 30 with “mOrphosis,” presented by Thom Mayne at the Bijou Theatre. All lectures are free and open to the public.

Zombie apocalypse terrorizes UT campus Bryanne Brewer Contributor

There has been an infestation on campus and only students brandishing green bandanas, Nerf blasters and rolled socks can save us. For the members of the Humans vs. Zombies Club, the zombie apocalypse is upon the UT campus and only this band of heroes can stop it (hopefully).

Humans vs. Zombies is essentially an intensive game of tag for 24 hours over five days, where the playing field is all of the UT campus. Almost all players start out as “humans” while one is randomly chosen to be the “original zombie.” None of the club members know who will start the infection until it is underway.

The zombies feed by tagging humans every 36 hours or else they “starve to death” and are out of the game. Humans are allowed to fend off the zombies with Nerf guns or rolled up socks.

The humans win by outlasting the time frame or evading the zombies until they starve to death. The zombies win when all humans have been converted.

During the game, there are four or five periodic “side quests,” or missions, available to challenge players.

At the start of the first mission, the humans are fully aware of the incoming horde and must continue to gather materials and weaponry to survive.

These missions often force both factions (humans and zombies) to go through various trials and tribulations in order to increase their own chances of survival. During these missions, humans normally try to hold a point or obtain an item as the zombies try to stop them.

William Jackson, junior in psychology and occasional moderator for HvZ, joined the club as a freshman. As a moderator, Jackson acts as a referee of sorts: making sure the rules are enforced, making judgment calls on whether a play was legal and determining if something counts as a tag.

There are really only three main rules: do not break any of UT’s rules, do not do anything to harm anyone and do not “be a douche-bag ” Jackson said. Of course, there are additional smaller, detailed rules that can be found on the club’s website.

However, Jackson prefers participating as a regular player; he believes HvZ can help people make friends and

also relieve stress.

“For a lot of people, they feel that something is after them,” Jackson said. “This is a good way to actually have something after you that you can deal with.”

Jackson has met most of his friends and his girlfriend through HvZ. “Most of the people are genuinely good people, but also Humans vs.

Zombies is just a fun thing to go do,” Jackson said.

After being an active member of the club for three consecutive years, Jackson can list three of his favorite memories with the club.

“The first was my first game — being the last human to survive because things didn’t go so well,” Jackson said. “Then this past game I tried to capture a point and somehow made it out by myself with seven zombies after me, which is rare and it was a good feeling of accomplishment. The last was actually meeting my girlfriend.”

Unlike Jackson, Jacob Rhyne, junior in marketing and business analytics, prefers being a moderator over being a player.

“Being a player is great. It’s a lot of fun and involves a good amount of exercise and adrenaline,” Rhyne said. “But being a moderator is more involved because you can get in depth analysis of the game. You get really involved, and you get to see all the smiles on the players’ faces when the game goes according to plan.”

Rhyne offers a tip for new players: never get caught alone. Zombies often ambush humans in groups and to survive that sort of attack alone requires a great amount of strategy. Rhyne encourages new members to invite their friends to play and to make friends during gameplay.

“Since you are in this lighthearted survival situation, you tend to make allies and friends pretty quickly in order to survive,” Rhyne said. “It’s also really easy because the more involved and the more often you play the game, the stronger your relationship will be with these people.”

Ultimately, Rhyne wants people to know that the club is actually really fun. While the game does look entertaining from afar, the most enjoyment can only be found once immersed in the gameplay.

To learn more about the Humans vs.

Zombies club at UT and future events, add them on Facebook or visit utkhvz. com.

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Honors College junior gains experience in nature, adventure Heiler Meek

Staff Writer Well over 10,000 feet above the ground, the feeling of dropping from the sky is a mix of rushing air and pure adrenaline. While many could only imagine what it is like to fall from the sky, for Kirsten Salonga, it is just one of many experiences that make up her life.

“I live for experiences. I try to take every opportunity I can to learn something new and experience all that I can, whether that is through tutoring, volunteering ... running half marathons, bungee jumping, volcano boarding … Really anything is a chance to learn and grow,” Salonga said.

Salonga is a UT Honors College junior in ecology and evolutionary biology who loves adventure, nature and science. She has a resident assistant position at UT’s Volunteer Hall that is not only a source of joy for her but a way to make financial ends meet and pursue her ultimate goal of a doctorate in science education and the chance to educate future STEM teachers.

It could be said that a UT scholarship has given the impassioned Salonga a shot at what many would consider an impossible dream. In May 2015, she was the recipient of the 2015 VolsTeach Noyce Scholarship, courtesy of a UT grant from the National Science Foundation.

The award amounts to $6,000 per semester, for three semesters.

The endowment is presented to outstanding undergraduates of the VolsTeach program who aspire to have education careers in science, technology, engineering or mathematics.

It requires recipients to match each semester of the three-semester sponsorship with one year of teaching in a high-needs school district, which 2001’s No Child Left Behind Act defines as a district in great need of educators per a national ranking system or “located in an area where at least 30 percent of students come from families with incomes below the poverty line.”

“I will be teaching for three years in a highneeds district,” she explained. “I was already planning to teach in a high-needs area after graduation, so (receiving) this scholarship was perfect for me.”

After receiving a master’s in science education or education administration, she wishes to pursue a two-year stint with the Peace Corps.

“I can teach science in a country in need, work with animal outreach or help in physical (construction-based) labor in areas of need.

Participation in the Peace Corps will also allow me to pay for (a subsequent doctorate degree) with minimal worries regarding finances,” Salonga said.

She does not merely spin and strive for dreams of the future, however, as she puts in daily work to make them happen. In addition to her duties as a student, she is an Honors College ambassador and holds officer positions in multiple clubs relating to science, education and community service.

She has received countless other scholarships for academic merit and leadership during her time at UT and completed a teaching internship in Guatemala City, Guatemala, in the summer of 2014.

Reau Hamlin, Salonga’s friend and RA floor partner in Volunteer Hall, believes that Salonga’s achievements at UT and imminent future successes are a result of her bright, loving embrace of the world. “(Because of) her optimism, nothing can get her down. Nothing is going to stop (her). I think that is going to take her farther than any of us could imagine,” Hamlin said, pointing out Salonga’s uplifting attitude has generally made for an enriched RA work environment.

“She brings out the best in all of us. She strives for nothing but the best. As a coworker, she brings out the best in me,” Hamlin said.

For all that she is, Salonga believes that to lead a good life, one must first choose to lead by example.

“Show that you love your life,” Salonga said, “and others will want to love theirs.”

Kirsten Salonga, junior in biology, was the recipient of the 2015 VolsTeach Noyce Scholarship.

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Photo courtesy of Kirsten Salonga

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Diversity rally crowds Humanities Amphitheater Tanner Hancock News Editor

What would have usually been a normal spring afternoon on Tennessee’s campus quickly became the opposite Tuesday afternoon when nearly 300 students and faculty members protested recent legislative action against the university’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion.

The Mass Class Exit, organized by the UT Diversity Matters coalition, took their protest from the seats of the Humanities Amphitheater to Pedestrian Walkway. Senior and member of the Diversity Matters coalition JT Taylor invited those members of the crowd who had ever felt “personally victimized” by the university to lie side by side on the walkway’s surface.

“Everyone be mindful that we are not in

the business of hurting students who are not engaged with us right now,” Taylor said to the crowd. “We are simply trying to let them know that we are hurting, and the administration has not been showing us respect.”

From Pedestrian Walkway the protesters made their way to Presidential Courtyard, where they were greeted to several Confederate Flags and signs hanging from the dormitory windows, one of which read “Where’s my scholarship for being white?”

“It’s not surprising, this is the culture of UT,” Kristen Godfrey, member of the UT Diversity Matters Coalition, said. “People are very uncomfortable with us trying to be free and get our rights and stand for equality.”

Addressing the protesters at the outset, senior and member of VolOUT Thomas Tran called on his fellow students to help enact change in what

he said was a hostile environment to many.

“Homophobia, queerphobia, racism still exist on this campus,” Tran said, referencing a broken window of the Pride Center many students believed was a hate crime. UTPD police officials said in January that the incident was likely not a hate crime, though Tran and others remain unconvinced.

“The problem is on this campus. We have to change UT campus,” Tran said.

The protests came as members of a state senate committee passed a bill seeking to redirect funds from the diversity office to go towards scholarships for minority students seeking degrees in engineering. The bill passed 9-2 in the Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee.

The bill will now likely head to the Senate Floor, though its current language differs from

the House version, which seeks to redirect $100,000 of the sum total $436,700 in funds that would otherwise go the to diversity office to fund a program to create “In God We Trust” decals for state law enforcement vehicles. Both chambers would have to agree on one version of the bill in order for it to become law.

Speaking on behalf of the student body, student body president elect Carson Hollingsworth said that while he was proud to have been a part of the demonstration, he finds it upsetting that such an event was necessary in the first place.

“Now, more than ever, we need to come together as a UT community,” Hollingsworth said, “and ensure our State Representatives understand that their actions in taking away such an integral part of our university will only harm us, not only as students but also as graduates of this institution.”

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Students, faculty and community members participate in the Mass Class Exit to protest the state legislature redirecting funding from the Office of Diversity on Tuesday, April 19.

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Honors fraternity seeks inclusivity, involvement Alahnah Ligon

Assistant News Editor Recruiting opens next fall for a newly recognized honors fraternity in campus, Phi Sigma Pi. The 100 year old organization recently developed a chapter at UT, bringing a mission of inclusiveness and community involvement to campus.

Jason Marks, sophomore in business finance and president of Phi Sigma Pi, said the group accepts everyone with a 3.0 GPA or higher who vows to align with the group’s values of scholarship, leadership and fellowship. “We accept everyone. We have the same exact language that is included in the nondiscrimination act. It’s part of our bylaws,�

Marks said. “We want members that are

going to embody the same things that Phi Sigma Pi does as a whole.�

Marks said the group prefers the term “gender inclusive� over “co-ed,� to portray their inclusivity. “We are coming into an age where gender may not be something that might not be considered by some or by all a binary system anymore,� Marks said. “We are gender-inclusive. All are welcome.�

The UT Chapter currently has approximately 30 members, but Vice President Jody Lynn said she thinks that numbers is likely to change. “Phi Sigma Pi stands out because of their values, and it is a new organization for the University of Tennessee,� Lynn said. “I believe membership will increase next semester as more students learn about us and what we are about.�

Marks said the group will continue recruiting to increase membership, some-

Our stength is in our diversity and our strength can be in our numbers.�

Jason Marks, president of Phi Sigma Pi

thing that Marks said is key to the success of the fraternity. “Our strength is in our diversity, and our strength can be in our numbers,� Marks said.

The group is currently working in a

fundraiser to support Smokey’s Closet on campus, but Marks said group members are already finding ways to get more involved. “Our organization is made up of leaders of leaders,� Marks said. “We are looking for a set of ideas that will make Phi Sigma Pi unique to UT and uniquely helpful to the needs to our community.�

Marks said his mission for the group is to set an example of scholarship, leadership and fellowship for others on campus and in Knoxville. “People remember the way you make them feel,� Marks said. “I would really love to make the people around me feel empowered and feel well served and feel well informed so they can do the greatest good. “I want that to be a ripple effect throughout the community.�

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Let’s help shorten the organ waiting list.

Elle Johnson I Learned Something Today

There are currently more than 120,000 people on the waiting list for an organ in the United States.

Twenty-two people a day die waiting.

Grim, I know, but hopefully I’ve caught your attention.

April is recognized as National Donate Life Month, and people nationwide take on their own forms of celebration. Earlier this month, President Obama issued a proclamation emphasizing our nation’s commitment to shortening the waiting list, stressing that “across government, industry, academia, private organizations, and the medical and philanthropic communities, we must all do our part to lift up donors, donor families and patients by supporting efforts to shorten the organ waiting list.” Even on our home turf, our Student Government Association had booths set up on Pedestrian Walkway all last week to encourage and allow students to officially register as organ donors.

For me, my reflections during this month are little more specific. My mind often wanders to the thought of a man I have never seen, met or know the name of.

However, this man still remains as an irreplaceable figure in my life this month and every other month because he provided my father the gift of life through organ donation.

In 2010, my dad was diagnosed with end stage kidney failure, and as a daughter, it was inexpressibly

difficult to not only watch my father be in so much pain, but also know that I could not possibly provide him with the aid he needed. Luckily, in 2013, thanks to a complete stranger’s ultimate act of kindness, my dad became one of the few to leave the waiting list in much better condition than he entered.

Nonetheless, we cannot focus on my family’s story or any other miracle story our media more prominently promotes when we consider organ donation and its flaws. We must put more emphasis on the grim numbers of 120,000 on the waiting list and 22 deaths per day waiting and what we as individuals can do to reduce these numbers to a minuscule amount.

Obviously, the first step is to encourage more Americans to register as organ donors, which can easily be done online or when renewing your driver’s license. However, a second and equally as important step to actually being an organ donor is actively expressing your desire to donate your organs if a tragic circumstance did arise, a difficult discussion that many tend to avoid.

While tough and often taboo to talk about with your family and loved ones, communicating an interest in being an organ donor is the only way to assure that beyond the papers and documents, your voice will be heard when it is time for a decision to be made.

Sure, I know it’s easy to think that it won’t happen

to you and not take any of the steps towards becoming an organ donor, but the fact is that death is at times unpredictable and unavoidable.

When I think about my family’s experience, I heavily consider the experience of the donor and his family and realize that if our donor had not made the decision to register as an organ donor and/or expressed this desire to his family, my dad may have never left the waiting list, instead experiencing the fate of so many others. All it takes is one decision and communicating that decision to others to assure that if tragedy does strike, you will leave a lasting impact by providing the gift of life to up to eight others in need.

Being an organ donor is not a death wish or a prediction of the future as many tend to assume, but rather serves as an outlet to fully consider all possibilities and leave an impression on Earth that lasts longer and spreads wider than any one life could consume, and with the remainder of National Donate Life Month, I urge you all to take the steps to be someone’s hero by being a donor.

More information on organ donation and registering as an organ donor can be found at http://www. organdonor.gov/ .

Elle Johnson is a sophomore in College Scholars.

She can be reached at ejohn100@vols.utk.edu

The problem with the TVA’s, ‘cheap energy’ Erica Davis

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For the past three years, I have studied environmental sociology — a discipline that teaches me about environmental injustice, our planetary crisis, and the necessity of advocating for innovative solutions to the world’s destructive obsession with dirty, “cheap” energy.

It has been quite the honor to use this education in action, specifically in representing the students at my university as well as young people across the region in meetings with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). The TVA generates electricity to meet demand throughout the multi-state Tennessee Valley region. The federally owned corporation relies heavily, unsurprisingly, on dirty sources of energy such as natural gas.

And I can’t believe I’m doing this, but I’m going to agree with — oh my God — Ronald Reagan on JUST THIS ONE thing: the TVA is problematic.

The most recent controversy has been in regards to the 2015 Integrated Resource Plan.

The IRP is a roadmap that outlines an energy future that, as the generation of tomorrow, we will have to live with for a very long time. We will be the ones burdened by the responsibility of preventing ultimate climate disaster. We will be the ones charged with the task of cleaning up the air, eliminating fossil fuel emissions, and

providing for energy needs in a resource-depleted world. Our generation is the first to really feel and see the devastating effects of climate change, and unfortunately, we may be the last with a chance to stop it.

But the TVA’s IRP emphasize coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear — basically anything and everything that harms our planet, pollutes our air, smothers our lungs, and makes us cringe.

So I’ve worked to ask instead that the Tennessee Valley Authority pursue the innovation it claims to value and strive for. I believe in the TVA to become a leader in the region, not only in energy efficiency, but in wind and solar production as well. All we need is the proper investments and funding, as well as accurate valuation of energy efficiency and renewables. In actuality, pretty soon using clean energy will be much less of an option and much more of an absolute necessity.

On that note, the TVA itself has found clean energy to be cost competitive with coal, oil and natural gas. But, oddly enough, the IRP recommendations do not reflect this important finding.

I understand that the TVA wants to find the leastcost option, but a cost that is brushed aside in this evaluation process is the cost dirty energy has on the people of the valley region. Externalized

health costs, air pollution clean up, when kids stay home from school because they’re having asthma attacks and their parents must take off work …

We need energy policy that supports the quality of life of our citizens because, when you really think about it, what has more value than that?

I encourage all members of the UT community to get involved in these conversations, to voice their opinions, and to take a stand for what truly matters. The TVA, being a federal entity, has to listen to us; so we might as well give them something to really chew on. Participating in public meetings, comment sessions, and letter writing is empowering, invigorating, a great way to meet others involved in the environmental movement locally and state-wide, and one of the best ways to express your civic responsibility and compassion for this world.

UT burned its last pile of coal in April of 2015.

I am proud of my university for taking that step in the direction of a clean energy future, and I want more than anything to be proud of my TVA too.

Erica Davis is a senior in environmental sociology. She can be reached at spz839@vols. utk.edu.

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SPORTS

Wednesday, April 20, 2016 • The Daily Beacon

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

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Andraya Carter is not a stranger to receiving awards.

In 2015-16, Carter was a nominee for the WBCA Allstate Good Works Team and won the SEC Community Service Team and the Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar Women’s Basketball Award.

On Monday night, the redshirt junior added another award to her trophy case — the Miss Tennessee award.

“I really wasn’t expecting (to win),” Carter said. “The other nominees have done so much … I was excited. My teammates all cheered, and all my friends, volleyball and basketball, we were sitting next to them.

Everyone was super happy for me, and I was happy.”

Carter has done a majority of her work with the Tennessee School for the Deaf.

Before the past season started, Carter would go every Monday and Tuesday to help out at TSD. Carter said she started helping out around

her freshman year, increasing when she entered graduate school and her schedule loosened up a bit.

“It’s by far one of my favorite parts of being here at Tennessee,” Carter said. “The kids are so wonderful. Sometimes I’ll go, not even formally. I’ll just pop in, and they’ll be at recess or lunch. I’ll just pop in and talk to them and share and make them feel special.

It’s very important to me.”

Mr. Tennessee winner and track and field star Cameron Brown said that Carter was “absolutely deserving” of the Miss Tennessee honor.

“She’s all over with the community service, and she’s a great basketball player,” Brown said. “She really does fit that Miss Tennessee-type attitude.

Carter and the Lady Vols played through a 2015-16 season that will go down as the worst season record-wise in program history.

They also fell out of the Associated Press’ Top 25 Poll for the first time in 31 years, watching a national record fade away.

However, the team bounced back in the SEC Tournament in Jacksonville, Florida, and played well. After getting a first-round bye and beating Arkansas in the second

You’re hungry every year, especially when you just make it to the Elite eight. In our standard, that’s not good enough for us. Ever year, we come back hungry, and it’s kind of like ‘Final Four or bust.’

Andraya Carter, Miss Tennessee

round, the No. 7 seed Lady Vols upset No. 2 seed Texas A&M. However, fatigue

caught up to the Lady Vols, and No. 3 seed Mississippi State’s physical play bounced Tennessee off the court and into the NCAA Tournament.

The Big Dance held even more success for the Lady Vols, as the team made a stellar run to the Elite Eight in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. After beating the twoseeded Sun Devils on their home court in the round of 32, the Lady Vols trumped the favored Ohio State Buckeyes in the Sweet 16.

The Lady Vols’ season ended in the Elite Eight, as they lost to eventual national runner-up Syracuse.

With her redshirt senior season coming up, Carter said that she and her team are always hungry to improve and build on to the Lady Vol legacy.

“You’re hungry every year, especially when you just make it to the Elite Eight,” Carter said. “In our standard, that’s not good enough for us. Every year, we come back hungry, and it’s kind of like ‘Final Four or bust.’

“We know we had a good year, but we have one goal. And we haven’t reached it yet.”

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SWIMMING & DIVING

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Wind turns tragedy into inspiration for UT diving David Bradford Staff Writer

Thanksgiving weekend of 2012 lived up to its billing for Bailey Wind. She had so much to be thankful for.

Aside from the normal festivities of a scrumptious feast and Black Friday shopping, Wind had a strong support system, featuring her family, best friend Deanna Rivers and boyfriend Christian Stewart.

Even more enthralling for the senior at Shaker High School was the coronation of all her hard work spent on the diving board. Shortly after Thanksgiving, Wind officially signed her letter of intent to join the swimming and diving team at the University of Tennessee.

But three-and-a-half years later, Wind was not on the diving board, ready to pierce the water after a series of graceful moves. Instead, she stood behind a microphone, accepting the Volscar Inspirational Award in front of a crowd prepared to be moved to tears.

On Dec. 1, 2012 — just one week after signing with Tennessee — Wind’s world, as she later described it, went black.

After leaving a local basketball game in Albany, New York, with Stewart, Rivers and Rivers’ boyfriend Matt Hardy, Wind was involved in a fatal car accident at the hands of a drunk driver.

Wind was left with a physical scar — a broken neck. However, the emotional scar seethed deeper. Both she and Hardy survived, but Stewart and Rivers were tragically killed.

The physically broken-down and emotionally torn-apart Wind faced a long road to recovery.

But before she even dipped her toes in the water in Knoxville, the swimming and diving team displayed the side of sports that is so attractive to recruits: the camaraderie within a group of individuals from different backgrounds — and how they rally around to support one of their own in a time of need.

“When the accident happened, my coach Dave Parrington was one of the first people that my mom called,” Wind said. “And the whole swim team dressed in my high school colors, as well as my boyfriend’s and best friend’s high school colors and sent me a picture. And they also wore ‘Dive for Bailey’ t-shirts.

“Even long before I knew most of them, they were huge supporters in my life and sent me constant messages about how excited they were

for me to even get to Knoxville.”

In a move of pure compassion, Parrington allowed Wind to keep her scholarship, even though her surgeon urged her to never dive again after her freshman season.

Wind followed the advice. Instead, she does whatever she can to boost the team’s spirits.

However, her largest contribution is her story.

While she will never be the same again physically, Wind reaches from within her heart and uses the spoken word at school and events to discuss her story and depict the dangers of driving while impaired.

“My message is to make the right choices in general,” Wind said. “Because you never know how your choice could affect someone else or even your life. Your life can change in the matter of a second.”

In the matter of a second, Wind’s life did change. But as she described, “time heals all wounds.”

And over time, Wind has done anything possible to spread valuable lessons on loss, grief, forgiveness, unity, bullying, kindness and the power of love — which are the topics of her book entitled “Save Me a Spot in Heaven.”

In the book, Wind talks about the accident in

Because you never know how your choice could affect someone else or even your life. Your life can change in the matter of a second.”

Bailey Wind, UT swimming and diving student

detail, as well as her relationship with Stewart, her best friend and her family. The book can be purchased at spotinheaven.com.