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Students and administrators discuss diversity >>See page 4

New HP exhibit mixes medicine and magic >>See page 8

Challenger League joins Vols on Lidnesy Nelson >>See page 11 Signs posted outside the library and residence halls prohibit weapons on the premises. The state senate passed a bill yesterday, April 20, that allows professors to carry concealed weapons on campus.

Tyler Warren • The Daily Beacon

In a move that surprised no one, Tennessee’s Republican supermajority voted overwhelmingly to allow guns on campus, though not exactly for everyone (or everywhere). Under the new law, full-time employees of public universities (i.e. UT) will now be allowed to carry a firearm with the proper permit.

See page 3 to find out what this means for UT’s future.

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Pregnant Knoxville Woman Loses Child in Gang Shooting

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A pregnant woman lost her unborn baby Saturday after fleeing a gang related shooting in Knoxville. The woman was at Danny Mayfield Park with her 3-year-old son for a gathering, when a shooting erupted between people at the party and two cars driving by.

She was 7 months pregnant at the time. One 12-year-old boy was killed in the shooting.

The woman said she heard one shot that she thought served as a warning shot before the rapid fire ensued. She tripped and fell while running for cover with her son and realized shortly after what happened as a result. After extreme pains and stomach bleeding she was forced into labor, but it was too late.

Canadian health minister for the U.N., Jane Philpott, said at a special session of the General Assembly in New York today that legislation to federally legalize marijuana will be introduced in 2017. Philpott said she aims to ensure to keep marijuana out of the hands of children while keeping profits on the drug out of the hands of criminals. The implementation of the plan will also include enforcing proportional criminal measures when necessary as Philpott said, “it is impossible to arrest our way out of this problem.” The address in New York was part of a three day meeting that will end on Thursday. Delegates are currently reviewing the implementation of the policy and will continue to assess the challenges of combating the world’s drug problem.

The Nashville Predators may be without one of their best players moving forward in the Stanley Cup playoffs. The Predators announced Wednesday that forward Craig Smith is day-to-day after suffering a lowerbody injury in game three of the Predators’ first-round series against the Anaheim Ducks Tuesday night at Bridgestone Arena.

The Predators lost the contest 3-0 but still hold a 2-1 series lead. Smith, however, was playing really well in the series against Anaheim, recording two points (one goal, one assist). The Predators and the Ducks will play game four on Thursday (TV: CNBC, 8 p.m. ET). The Predators hope to take a commanding 3-1 series lead after winning the first two matches in Anaheim.

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Tubman to be new face of $20 bill, Hamilton stays on $10 Associated Press WASHINGTON — Harriet Tubman, an African-American abolitionist who was born a slave, will stand with George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Benjamin Franklin among the iconic faces of U.S. currency.

The $20 bill will be redesigned with Tubman’s portrait on the front, marking two historic milestones, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew announced Wednesday. Tubman will become the first African-American on U.S. paper money and the first woman to be depicted on currency in 100 years.

The leader of the Underground Railroad will replace the portrait of Andrew Jackson, the nation’s seventh president and a slave owner, who will be pushed to the back of the bill.

Lew also settled a backlash that had erupted after he had announced an initial plan to remove Alexander Hamilton, the nation’s first Treasury secretary, from the $10 bill in order to honor a woman on the bill.

Hamilton will remain on the $10 note, Lew said. Instead, the Treasury building on the back of the bill will be changed to commemorate a 1913 march that ended on the steps of the Treasury building that featured suffragette leaders Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Alice Paul.

The back of the $20, which now shows the White House, will be redesigned to include the White House and Jackson, whose statute stands across the street in Lafayette Park.

The $5 bill will also undergo change: The illustration of the Lincoln Memorial on the back will be redesigned to honor “events at the Lincoln Memorial that helped to shape our history and our democracy.”

The new image on the $5 bill will include civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., who gave his famous “I have a dream” speech on the steps of the memorial in 1963 and Marian Anderson and Eleanor Roosevelt. Anderson, an African-American opera singer, gave a concert at the memorial in 1939 after she had been blocked from singing at the thensegregated Constitution Hall. The Lincoln Memorial concert was arranged by Mrs. Roosevelt.

An online group, Women on 20s, said it was encouraged that Lew was responding to its campaign to replace Jackson with a woman.

But it said it wouldn’t be satisfied unless Lew committed to issuing the new $20 bill at the same time that the redesigned $10 bill is scheduled to be issued in 2020.

Lew didn’t go that far Wednesday. But he pledged that at least the designs for all three bills will be accelerated so they’ll be finished by 2020 — the 100th anniversary of passage of the 19th amendment giving women the right to vote. He said the new notes will go into circulation as fast as possible after that,

consistent with the need to incorporate new anti-counterfeiting measures in the designs.

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, the first woman to head the central bank, said she welcomed the decision to honor the achievements of women in American history. She said the Fed would work closely with Treasury to get the new bills developed and into circulation.

U.S. currency has undergone upgrades over the years to stay ahead of counterfeiters. But the updates proposed by Lew for the three bills would be the most sweeping changes since 1929, when all U.S. paper money was redesigned to feature more standard designs and a smaller size to save printing costs.

Lew had initially selected the $10 bill to feature a woman because under the original timetable it was the next bill to be redesigned. But that proposal met fierce objections from supporters of Hamilton, who is enjoying renewed popular interest with the smash Broadway hit musical “Hamilton.”

Tubman, who was born into slavery in the early part of the 19th century, escaped and then used the network of anti-slavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad to transport other slaves to freedom.

After the Civil War, Tubman, who died in 1913, became active in the campaign for women’s suffrage.

Numerous groups have been campaigning to have a woman honored on the nation’s paper currency, which has been an all-male domain for more than a century.

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Concealed carrying is possible for faculty, staff Travis Dorman Staff Writer

The state Senate passed a controversial bill on Tuesday, which would allow employees and faculty members of public universities to carry handguns on campus, providing they have the appropriate carry permits.

Senate Bill 2376 states that employees who wish to carry handguns on campus must notify law enforcement before doing so, and even then, there are exceptions to the rule: employees cannot be armed at school-sponsored events, hospitals, disciplinary meetings and meetings regarding tenure.

The bill does not apply to individuals who are enrolled in classes, and employees who choose to carry their handguns on campus must do so in a concealed manner.

The bill advanced with a 28-5 vote, despite many groups voicing their opposition to the measure.

Bruce MacLennan, president of the UT Faculty Senate, said he believes the bill will not make anyone safer, and that the ability to carry weapons on campus should be granted solely to trained law enforcement officers.

In a poll conducted by the faculty senate

on the issue, 87 percent of the faculty members who participated said they “strongly disagree” with the statement that allowing guns on campus is in the best interest of the campus community while 88 percent said they would not feel comfortable with firearms in their classrooms.

The Tennessee Association of Chiefs of Police, the Tennessee Board of Regents and employees from universities across the state have opposed allowing permit-holders to carry guns on campus, said Sen. Lee Harris, D-Memphis, who proposed an amendment allowing public schools to determine their own gun policies.

Bill sponsor Sen. Mike Bell, R-Riceville, disagreed with Harris’ amendment “from a philosophical standpoint,” saying it is the legislature’s responsibility to control the policy of public colleges and universities since they are paid for by state dollars.

Bell referenced the concerns of university employees, some of which said they would quit their jobs or leave the state if the bill passed.

“I think some of these people need to take their medication,” Bell said.

“Maybe this will give UT a chance to hire some conservative teachers if we have a

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Harris’ amendment did not pass. If the bill becomes law, public schools will be subject to the provisions of the bill, while private schools will have the ability to opt in or out.

Proponents of the bill, including cosponsor Rep. Andy Holt, R-Dresden, argue that the second amendment rights should extend to college campuses, and that allowing university employees to carry guns will make campus a safer place.

“There are people with the sole intention of creating destruction and wreaking havoc on individuals who are in most cases left with no plausible means of defense,” Holt said. “This is an opportunity to start correcting that.”

The Student Government Associations of Middle Tennessee State University and Austin Peay State University have spoken out against the bill, according to a report from The Tennessean.

The president elect of UT’s Student Government Association, Carson Hollingsworth, said the organization has not yet had a chance to gather enough information on the topic to take a stance that accurately represents the opinions of the student body.

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Cheek addresses diversity funding in student meeting Alayna Cameron Contributor

Chancellor Jimmy Cheek, Vice Chancellor of Diversity and Inclusion Rickey Hall and other administrators met with the UT Diversity Matters Coalition Wednesday to discuss the university’s reaction to the group’s demands and recent state legislature activities.

This was the first meeting in which the general student body was also invited to attend.

Representatives from the Diversity Matters Coalition brought up many concerns ranging from the Stop Bias initiative, mandatory inclusivity training, gender-neutral restrooms, accessibility on campus, and most notably, how the university should respond to the state legislature.

Stop Bias Reports The discussion began with a conversation on various improvements that could be made to how Stop Bias reports are processed.

The coalition proposed that administration should implement a type of mass email alert when Stop Bias reports are made similar to the UTPD alerts.

“That’s something that we will need to explore, and I am happy to do that,” Dean of Students Melissa Shivers said.

The coalition also brought up concerns from

students who had filed Stop Bias reports that had stated that they did not want to be contacted were still being contacted.

Dean Shivers said that she would get in contact with Stop Bias employees in order to prevent this from occurring. She also affirmed that Stop Bias would reform its contact protocol.

Mandatory Inclusivity Training One of the more fervent demands discussed was mandatory inclusivity training for all students. This inclusivity training would cover issues such as LGBT+ sensitivity, racial consciousness and disability awareness.

Hall acknowledged that this training would be helpful for the university, but said it would be incredibly difficult to make this mandatory for all students. He suggested that inclusivity training should still be encouraged, but not made mandatory.

Thomas Tran, junior in anthropology, explained to Hall that the necessity for inclusivity training is not for those who are interested in these seminars, it is for those who would not normally attend events that discuss racial, LGBT+ and disability issues.

Gender-Neutral Restrooms The coalition also raised the issue of genderneutral restrooms on campus. They asked the university to renew its original commitment to add gender-neutral restrooms to every new building and every renovation on campus.

Dave Irvin, Vice Chancellor of Facilities Services, assured the coalition that the university was still committed to this and are doing

so with the new Orange and White Halls under construction.

The Coalition also pushed for gender-neutral restrooms to be included in online campus maps and to be referred to as “gender-neutral restrooms” rather than the current “family-style” restrooms.

UT administration was hesitant to commit to the online mapping and were not open to changing the name of the restrooms on campus.

Increased Accessibility on Campus Later on, the administration and coalition discussed how to make the campus a more accessible environment for students with disabilities.

Within the coalition’s list of demands are more ramps and automatic doors on campus buildings as well as points of rescue and push buttons for emergency situations.

Irvin explained that they are working on implementing more ramps and automatic doors on campus as well as push buttons, but also explained that it would be financially straining to install points of rescue in every on-campus residential building.

Response to the State Legislature Nearing the end of the discussion, the coalition asked how the UT administration is going to respond should the bills to defund the Office for Diversity and Inclusion be passed into law.

Chancellor Cheek explained that if the Office for Diversity and Inclusion is defunded, that there will still be avenues to promote diversity on campus. Particularly, he emphasized the university’s role in recruiting a more diverse student

body.

“We will continue on this campus to promote and work for a more diverse faculty, staff and student body,” Cheek said.

Chancellor Cheek was later confronted with the issue of the Pride Center, and if it would still exist after the defunding of the Office for Diversity and Inclusion. He responded that unless there was some law that was passed in the near future that would make the Pride Center’s existence illegal, that it would still be there in the fall of 2016. However, he could not ensure that it would still be staffed with the same people that are currently employed at the Pride Center.

Senior member of the Diversity Matters Coalition, JT Turner called for Chancellor Cheek to release a public statement denouncing the state legislature’s action and calling for Governor Haslam to veto the upcoming bills.

Chancellor Cheek said that he would “evaluate all forms of communication” and personally contact Nashville representatives, but did not promise a public statement.

Turner retorted saying that this was unsatisfactory, and that Chancellor Cheek needs to take an active position against the bills that place the Office for Diversity and Inclusion in jeopardy.

Over thirty students attended this meeting.

At the end of the meeting, administration was also presented with messages on the back of withdrawal forms as a statement saying that there will be financial repercussions for the university should the demands not be addressed.

Around Rocky Top

Students and faculty gather in Circle Park at a Hands Across the Water event on April 10.

Alex Phillips • The Daily Beacon

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Thursday, April 21, 2016 • The Daily Beacon

Power of crocodile bite discussed Alayna Cameron Contributor

What do crocodiles, cow bones, fossils and nickel alloy drills have to do with one another?

More than you might think.

Paul Gignac will present his research on crocodile morphology and the evolution of crocodile bite force in the upcoming Kepler Series lecture hosted by UT’s Earth and Planetary Science Department.

Gignac is an evolutionary biomechanist and vertebrate paleontologist at Oklahoma State University. He has recently been conducting research with faculty at the University of Tennessee regarding the evolution of crocodile biting mechanisms over history.

“So in the fossil record we have all these trace fossils and bite marks that these animals have left, and this gives us the ability to understand the kinds of forces their jaws are able to produce because we can recreate those,” Gignac said.

Gignac’s team uses a metal mockup that is in the shape of a crocodile tooth that was found in the bone of a fossil reptile.

“We’ve taken similar types of bone, and we’re indenting those and trying to figure out how much force is required to leave the bite marks,” Gignac explained.

Gignac’s team is also trying to determine what exactly allows crocodiles to apply thousands of pounds of force per square inch.

UT paleontology lecturer and researcher on Gignac’s team Stephanie Drumheller-Horton said this lecture will cover various aspects of scientific research ranging from anatomy to physics to paleontology.

“He also uses anatomical reconstructions, dissections, computer modeling, so he’s very interdisciplinary,” Drumheller-Horton said. “He brings a lot of different methods to compare to answer this question of the feeding and ecology of this group (crocodiles).”

Earth and Planetary Science Graduate Student Sarah Sheffield shared her enthusiasm for the event and urged students that are not necessarily within the Earth and Planetary Science Department to attend.

“These weekly colloquiums that are held in most science departments across campus are an awesome opportunity to meet scientists that you wouldn’t normally have a chance to meet,” Sheffield said. “You can learn some really interesting research that you might not have heard about if you were just going to classes.”

The event is titled “Reliving the Past: The Ontogeny and Evolution of Crocodylomorph Feeding Success,” and it will take place in the Earth and Planetary Science Building, Room 302 on Thursday, April 21 at 3:40 p.m.

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Senate votes to cut UT’s diversity funding Tanner Hancock News Editor

The state senate voted on a bill Wednesday overwhelmingly approving the redirection of funds for UT’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion.

The measure, approved 28-4, seeks to redirect $436,700 originally intended for that office to go towards scholarships for minority students seeking engineering degrees.

The bill would also bar the university from using state funds to fund Sex Week, the promotion of gender neutral pronouns or “to promote or inhibit the celebration of religious holidays.”

The House approved a similar bill Monday that seeks to use $100,000 of the total sum of diversity funding to go towards a “In God We Trust” decal program for state law enforcement vehicles. State senators have previously hinted they would not support a final law that diverted money to such a decal program.

Lawmakers will have to eliminate the differences between their bills before the measure can become law.

The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Todd Gardenhire, argued that using funds to recruit minority students would be a more effective method of improving diversity on UT’s campus.

Sen. Jeff Yarbro, D-Nashville, was only one of four Tennessee senators who voted against the measure, citing a letter from one of his constituents outlining what they believed to be the poor state of diversity at UT. “I believe that we are going to be sending a message that’s much louder and much more negative than the one that we intend,” Yarbro said.

Also in support of the bill, Sen. Joey Hensley said the measure was not about race but rather about making sure no state funding would be used to promote the use of gender neutral pronouns or holiday inclusivity posts.

“This bill is not about race,” Hensley said.

“It’s actually helping minority students get scholarships.”

Sen. Frank Niceley, a 1969 graduate of UT, argued that the only effective means of increasing diversity at the university lies in cutting costs for overly expensive programs.

“That’s done more to hurt diversity than anything,” Niceley said of rising tuition costs for UT, which have risen over the past two decades from $2,200 to more than $12,000.

“Get the price down to where people an afford it.”

The action comes one day after UT students and members of the UT Diversity Matters coalition held a protest on Tennessee’s campus criticizing the lawmakers’ actions.

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Rocky Top: Mass Class Exit On Tuesday at 1:40 p.m., students around campus left their classes to fight for diversity. They met in the HSS Amphitheater and got loud. And then they moved to Pedestrian Walkway and got real quiet. Around 300 people were in attendance, there were signs and bullhorns. It looked like what a college protest looks like in all the movies. Students gathering together and standing up for what they believe in is always a plus in my book.

Rocky Bottom: House Bill 1912 passes, reallocating diversity funding to scholarships While the protest was great (and if you haven’t seen it yet, check out The Daily Beacon’s live coverage on our Facebook page #ShamelessPlug), it should not have had to happen in the first place. Diversity is important in many, many ways, and the most critical for a university is that it provides a well-rounded education. To be fair, 75 percent of the funds are now going to engineering scholarships for minority students, but wouldn’t it be nice to have it go directly to the university? Maybe not.

Rocky Top: Skies out thighs out FINALLY. I have been waiting for Knoxville to emerge from its frozen tundra, and this week, it happened. It’s been sunny and gorgeous, people have been hanging in trees and sunglasses have been gracing faces all week. I even go a little sweaty this week, and it was awesome. Another perk is that all the flowers and plants are blooming and beautiful. Seriously, the grass in Circle Park is the greenest its ever been. Go look at it in all of its green glory.

Rocky Bottom: Allergy season is upon us Well, I mostly enjoyed the weather. While the flowers are beautiful, and seriously, just go look at that grass, the new blooms mean more pollen. I myself do not suffer from allergies (KNOCK ON WOOD), but I feel for all my sniffling, snot-nosed comrades. Those hedges over by HSS have got to be killer on the sinuses. But let’s be real, those hedges suck in general.

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Allergies got you down and stopped up? These songs won’t help your allergies but they’ll good way to help the time pass: “Breathe” Kelly Clarkson

“Allergies” Barenaked Ladies

“Blurry” Puddle of Mudd

“Can’t Feel My Face” The Weeknd

“Barely Breathing” Duncan Sheik

“Red Eyes” The War on Drugs

Rocky Top: Orange and White game Honesty Hour: I don’t like football all that much. I know, why go to UT if I don’t like football? BUT. I love the football atmosphere.

There really is nothing quite like a football game on Rocky Top, and this past weekend, we got a little taste of what’s to come this fall.“Rocky Top” was blaring, orange was in full force and the team looked good from what I hear. And it was a beautiful day (see above for thoughts on Spring).

Rocky Bottom: Lane Kiffin Why do we still have to see this name? I heard from a reputable source that Kiffin is Kiffin-ing again, and no one should be surprised. Apparently he’s up to his shady ways on Twitter again and trying to snag the attention of some Tennessee recruits. Kiffin, all I have to say is,“Why you so obsessed with UT?” He misses it here, I get it. But seriously, move on.

-Rocky Tops and Bottoms were composed by Creative Director Katrina Roberts.

“Sick of being Sick” The Damned

“Somebody Get Me A Doctor” Van Halen

“Suze (The Cough Song)” Bob Dylan

“You Sound Like You’re Sick” The Ramones

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

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Facts to get you through finals

Emily Moore

Day to Day

In light of recent events — a devastating 7.8 earthquake in Ecuador, UT diversity funding being cut, political tensions, flooding in Texas, yet another shooting, etc. — I figured I would not write this column on highly controversial topics as I had planned.

Instead, I thought providing some comical relief and random, interesting facts would be a nice change in pace. That’s the goal anyways. So I took a break from studying and writing papers to look up some random facts and then research them to make sure they were valid. Here they are: 1. Every second, Americans collectively eat one hundred pounds of chocolate. In fact, U.S. consumers eat 2.8 billion pounds of chocolate annually, representing nearly half of the world’s supply. (I personally contribute to half of that.)

2. Europeans baptized children with beer in the 13th century. So it turns out there was a region in Norway that had a shortage of water there for a bit, and they substituted beer during baptizing.

Later on, however, the pope deemed these baptisms to be invalid, and those individuals had to be baptized again, this time with water.

3. Walt Disney had musophobia. That’s the fear of mice, by the way, which is quite ironic considering his first character created was the beloved Mickey Mouse.

4. There was a clan of secret cannibals who lived in a cave in Scotland that killed and ate

over 1,000 people. Long story short, a man named Sawney Bean and his wife, hating society, moved into a cave, had a bunch of kids and grand-kids (lots of incest here, people) and lived off of kidnapping people in the middle of the night and eating them.

Yikes, that took a dark turn. Let’s go back to happy stuff.

5. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

That’s better. Crocs have a restrictive membrane that other animals don’t have, and therefore they cannot stick out their tongues. Silly crocs!

6. Praying mantis sometimes eat the male counterpart while mating. Well … whatever does it for ya, I guess.

7. Emerson Moser retired from Crayola after making 1.4 billion crayons. It was then that he revealed he was actually colorblind. This really entertained the snot out of me and also kind of inspired me in a weird way. Like hell yeah, you go Moser, being a bad A and all. But, upon further inspection, it turns out it was only a slight blue-green color blindness that was so slight he never would have noticed if the doctor had not informed him during a routine check-up. Oh well.

8. Some lions mate over 50 times a day. Bowchicka-bow-wow. Ayee.

9. By the time you say 3,000 puppies, 3,000 puppies are born in the U.S. If that doesn’t just warm your heart, I don’t know what will. Though I

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am not entirely sure if it is true, I choose to believe that it is.

10. Men are six times more likely to be struck by lightening. Other statistics said 5 times more likely, etc. but you get the point. Men are more likely to be struck by lightning. This is because women are smart enough to get inside. (To an extent. Really men are more likely to be outside doing things such as golfing, fishing, etc. which puts them at a higher risk.)

Well there ya have it, folks. Ten interestingly random and fun facts for the day. I hope this provided maybe a nice study break or was thought provoking.

Personally, I learned a lot today and recommend looking up more random facts. Apparently there was a 13-year-old boy who found a tooth growing out of his foot. Also, did you know both Hitler and Napoleon were missing one testicle? Unclear on whether or not this was actually true but still, cool stuff out there y’all. Improve your trivia skills and read some random crap.

Just one and a half weeks til’ finals. Hang in there guys. Summer is on the way. Go Vols!

Emily Moore is a sophomore in journalism and electronic media. She can be reached at emoore52@ vols.utk.edu.

On the semester’s end, sickness and an invention Clint Graves

If I’m Honest

Here we are. The penultimate entry in “If I’m Honest.” Can you feel it? The anticipation?

No? Just me, I suppose.

That doesn’t surprise me. I’ve been so out of it since this weekend, the tremendous weight I’m attributing to the near-end of my column for this year might actually just be the crushing force of the work I need to accomplish before I call my junior year done.

Disease and illness, which visit upon me approximately three to five times per year – refrain from wood-knocking – always pick the most inopportune times to rear their ugly heads. I say don’t bother with knocking on wood because you’ll probably just catch something. It seems like everyone gets sick around the end of the semester.

There are some decent explanations for this phenomenon. Since there is generally more work assigned at the end of the semester and nearly everyone procrastinates some of that work, people tend to stay up later, working longer, wearisome hours into the night. Somehow this weakens the body’s immune system. And then suddenly, you’ve contracted a new strain of Ebola, and everyone is killed.

Way to go.

I, with my undying wisdom and unwavering courage, managed not to contract Ebola and kill us all.

So, you’re welcome.

Instead, I opted to contract something else entirely.

Actually, I’m not sure entirely what went wrong with my system. My best guess is poisoning by salmonella, known by the scientific name “salmonella.”

And the only reason I can guess that is the fact I ate raw cookie dough the night before I developed symptoms. But then again, I’m not a doctor. Just a guy with the Internet.

Of course, the only thing I could really think about during the weekend was how inconvenient the whole episode was. I mean, why get sick during a relatively non-busy week, like week four or week nine, when you could fall ill during the middle of six major assignment due dates? Makes total sense to me.

Granted, I managed to vomit, sweat and sleep away the symptoms in a single day. In the grand scheme of things, my bout with illness set me back approximately nil. But I assume that’s just because I’m lucky, and Mother Nature decided to hit me with some kind of punk strain of bacteria. That, or my immune system was just having an “on” sort of day.

I’m simply bothered by the principle of the matter.

I take the same sort of issue with sickness as I do with any sort of physical pain: why does the brain have to signal discomfort the way it does?

For instance, I would much rather live in a world where, instead of full-body radiations of pain, I’d just get small pop-up windows in my field of vision. Just a little dialog box reading, “Warning. You’ve contracted the flu,” or “Your appendix has just erupted into a thousand pieces,” or even “Sorry to interrupt, but you’re exhibiting symptoms of feline AIDS.” That seems like a much more efficient system than cruelly racking the body with waves of pain. It would be like if WebMD were part of our android consciousness – without misdiagnosing everything as brain cancer.

That way, you would be able to get work done while your primary care physician replaces your stomach, or whatever, and the whole time you’d be saving costs because you skipped over the seemingly endless number of tests they tend to perform on you.

So there you have it. I’ve solved health care, modern medicine and business productivity in one invention. Don’t we have an engineering department? Someone get on this. Then sell out. Call it: Dr. Microsoft. Or iDoctor. Or Google M.D. Clint Graves is a junior in communication studies and English. He can be reached at bhr713@vols. utk.edu.

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The Daily Beacon • Thursday, April 21, 2016

Wizarding world brings magic to UT campus Bradi Musil

Managing Editor Whether Gryffindor or Hufflepuff, every witch or wizard needs a little medicinal help every now and then.

And, although you will not see Harry Potter reaching for an Excedrin at any point in the series, Rowling’s creation of wizard remedies was heavily influenced by the same scientific beliefs and studies that eventually developed into what is today considered modern medicine.

The University of Tennessee Medical Center is currently hosting a traveling Harry Potter exhibit that shows the connection between Renaissance history, science and the magic described in the beloved series.

The exhibit includes six, free-standing banners that provide a historical perspective for Rowling’s take on potions, monsters, herbology, magical creatures, fantastic beasts and immortality. “The magic in the books are partially based on Renaissance traditions which played a large

role in the development of western science and medicine,� Kelsey Leonard, health information librarian in the UT Med Center’s Health Information Center where the exhibit currently lives, said. “It’s just interesting to see how that history and science really do tie into Harry Potter.�

Some banners are dedicated to such things like what scientists during the Renaissance thought of mandrakes, basilisk snakes, dragons, the philosophers stone and much more.

Two UT professors will deliver lectures at the exhibit while it is on display, although neither of their subjects specifically discusses the Renaissance or medicinal references in Harry Potter. Instead, both of their presentations are grounded in their own specific areas of research within the series.

Leonard said it was not difficult finding speakers who were eager to discuss aspects of Rowling’s wizarding world. “I just wanted to get some people from the community who I knew had a passion and who I knew really enjoyed Harry Potter,� she said.

Amy Billone, an associate professor in

The UT Medical Center is currently hosting a Harry Potter exhibit that connects potions, herbology and legends in the series to Renaissance medicinal beliefs.

Landon Burke • The Daily Beacon English, is one such professor.

Billone presented at the Medical Center yesterday, Wednesday, April 20, on “Harry Potter and the Nineteenth-Century Dream Child.�

Billone has been teaching Harry Potter in her graduate and undergraduate young adult literature classes for more than 15 years, and she has a book coming out this July called “The Future of the Nineteenth-Century Dream Child: Fantasy, Dystopia, Cyberculture.�

Next week, Prof. Jake Hamric from Pellissippi State Community College will present “Harry Potter, Higher Education and Popular Culture � on Wednesday, April 27 at 5 p.m.

The traveling exhibit was created by the National Library of Medicine and is free to the public. It is open Monday-Friday from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. on Saturdays and from 1 p.m. - 9 p.m. on Sundays.

The exhibit will be there through May 21.

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Thursday, April 21, 2016 • The Daily Beacon

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Get Fuzzy • Darby Conley

NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD • Will Shortz ACROSS 1 Sauce for linguine 6 Performances that may evoke bravas 11 Drift off 14 Better

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

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The Daily Beacon • Thursday, April 21, 2016

UT professor continues creating films Riley Smith,

Contributor Nick Geidner is a professor in the School of Journalism and Electronic Media here at the University of Tennessee, but unlike some professors, he takes his teachings far beyond the classroom.

Geidner, like many journalism professors, began in TV, starting on both the news and production side. After branching away from this media, Geidner has returned to his roots with Land Grant Films, a production company he began almost four years ago.

He started Land Grant at the end of 2012 with the idea of the “Medal of Honor Project.”

“The Medal of Honor Project launched as service-learning collaboration dedicated to covering every aspect of the 2014 Medal of Honor Convention being held in Knoxville, Tennessee,” Geidner recalled.

After initiating that project, Geidner and Land Grant Films spent the next couple of years researching the Medal of Honor Convention and preparing for its arrival in Knoxville. By the end of the convention, Geidner had spent 18 months gathering over 100 hours of

Journalism professor Nick Geidner gives an interview during the Medal of Honor Project on Jan. 7, 2014. • File photo footage to compile into the “Medal of Honor Project” documentary.

The resulting film won many awards, including first place in SPJ’s regional Mark of Excellence Awards and first place in ETSPJ’s Golden Press Pass Awards.

One of the major distinguishing points of the film company is that the crew is made up of students. Over 30 University of Tennessee students worked with Geidner on the coverage of the convention.

However, “Medal of Honor Project”

was only the beginning of Land Grant Films. Geidner branched off into other documentary projects as well with “Healing Waters” and “Reaching Recovery.”

“Reaching Recovery” is the latest Land Grant Films production. The film tells the story of addiction and drug dependent infants in east Tennessee, an issue that is widespread and close to home in this Appalachian area. With Land Grant Films becoming better known in the Knoxville area, this latest film earned a spot on a local news sta-

tion at prime time, resulting in it being viewed in 34,700 homes.

Abby Bowers is a student that got involved with Land Grant Films through her journalism and electronic media 175 class in which students must work for a media outlet on campus as part of their grade. She helped produce “Reaching Recovery” last semester.

Bowers said she started with the basics but eventually became a major part of the production, and she loved that Geidner allowed students to do so much of the work.

“It’s been cool for me working on a project at school and seeing it on TV,” Bowers said.

Land Grant Films seems to have become less about the films themselves and more about the learning experience for students.

“The goal of Land Grant is to reach out to the community through documentary filmmaking and journalism and to give students the opportunities to use journalism along with cameras and production,” Geidner said.

Building on the success of their finished products, Land Grant Films now has direct connections with WBIR. Geidner and Land Grant are still currently working with Bridge Refugee services and other local organizations on future productions.

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros produce shape-shifting album Megan Patterson

Arts & Culture Editor Anticipation: 5/5 Since I saw them live at Shaky Knees in 2014, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros have easily stayed in my top five favorite acts.

During: 4/5 Every album they manage to produce a totally different sound. I expect it by now, but am always pleasantly surprised.

After: 5/5 Always surprising. Always a pleasant surprise.

With the release of their fourth album “PersonA,” Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros have shape-shifted once again.

Perhaps it’s due to their trademark sound rooted in Alex Elbert’s dis-

tinctive vocals and in their rhythmic building choruses that gives the band strong roots, but Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros manage to survive as a musical chameleon after each album release reveals a new layer to the musicians.

While each album remains undoubtedly Edward Sharpe, listening through them all sounds as if the band is moving from room to room at a house party — each time changing outfits and instruments for the new crowd.

This latest release brings a slightly more stripped down sound than ever before. Elbert’s vocals are typically mixed in the music as just another instrument playing a festival-ready mystic sound. However, this album brings the vocals to the forefront in several songs, including Somewhere, Perfect Time and Lullaby, where Elbert

is accompanied mainly by just a piano.

In their third album, “Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros” also experimented heavily by breaking away from the upbeat, gypsy-like music featured prominently in the first two albums, but it was not as successful as this most recent attempt.

The band’s third album held several good songs and several flops but left each to stand alone. There was no cohesiveness throughout the album — unlike in “PersonA.” For long time fans of the band, the album may come as foreign and a fraud at first. Get past the first three songs and you’ll find a more familiar sound in “No Love Like Yours,” but for those willing to give something new a chance, listen from the beginning.

The album opener “Hot Coals” immediately challenges the listener

to change their perceptions of what makes up Edward Sharpe music. This more than seven minute long song dives in head first and pulls the listener through everything the new album has to offer: jazz-infused horn accompaniments, slower and melancholic tempos and intensity.

As Elbert says in the second track: “Uncomfortable, you’ve got to get uncomfortable.” As the title of this track, “Uncomfortable,” suggests, the band isn’t about to just give you easy listening; they aim to give you an experience.

Although there are some tracks that lean toward the familiar foottapping beat of “Home,” overwhelmingly “PersonA” strives to break new boundaries for Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, and this time they’ve succeeded.

SPORTS

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BASEBALL

Vols host Challenger League for fifth straight year Damichael Cole Contributor

Though the Nashville Predators lost 3-0 in last night’s match-up, they still hold a 2-1 series lead, and Knoxville is stilling rooting for the team’s revival.

Sam Curtis

@Scurtis770

I think it’s ironic that this is the second year in a row in which Preds start off great, other team switches goalies, and boom... Shut down

Josh Monroe

@Joshinproduce

That’s ok. Preds have been down and came back in both the other games.

Shawn

@ShawnFinchum

The Predators have Carrie Underwood so they stay winning either way .

Jonathan Toye

@JonathanToye1

Well Preds, at least you’re not the Grizzlies.

JR

@Jon__Reed

@Mattkreb5 preds are going to lose the series after Saturday. It is in the cards

Tennessee baseball coach Dave Serrano considered Wednesday one of the most exciting days of the season.

The Vols didn’t record a win over a hated rival. In fact, they didn’t even play.

But Wednesday was still a special day for Serrano and his baseball team.

That’s when the Tennessee baseball team hosted a team that has been waiting to play the Vols for an entire year.

The Vols hosted The Knoxville Challenger League, a program that’s provided to kids with special needs, for an annual scrimmage. This is the fifth consecutive year of the event that usually happens around this this time every year.

“Coach (Dave) Serrano always invites us back,” said Nic Arming, the chairman of the board of the Knoxville Challenger

League. “They give our kids a chance to feel like great baseball players.”

The kids in the Knoxville Challenger league play seven sports yearly, but their biggest game occurs every April when they share the diamond with the Tennessee baseball team.

It’s a day they don’t take for granted.

“They ask me all year long when do we get to play UT again,” Arming said.

“This is the best day sports wise for them. They’re having the time of their lives.”

That feeling is mutual. The Vols understand how special of a moment it is for the kids, and it is also a day that they mark on the calendar.

“To see the looks on these kids’ faces just to walk onto this baseball field, it’s probably one of the most exciting days of our season,” Serrano said.

Like the children in the Challenger League, the Vols eagerly anticipate the scrimmage.

“This is one of our favorite parts of the year,” pitcher Eric Freeman said. “We always have a great time doing it and it’s something we always look forward to.”

While batting, pitcher Andy Cox went for an inside the park home run, but the kids were prepared.

Cox, however, was eventually thrown out at home plate.

“They told me to hit an inside the park home run,” Cox said. “I was trying to juke and jive some of the guys trying to tackle me, but they got me out at home.”

The Knoxville Challenger League played its first baseball game in 1997.

The program is funded through community support and contributions. The team is looking forward to continuing its partnership with The Challenger League.

“It’s just awesome. I’m really going to miss this,” Cox said. “These kids they look up to us and it’s just really fun to be with them and hang out with them.”

Ducks bounce back, beat Predators 3-0 to pull within 2-1 Associated Press

NASHVILLE, Tenn.— Anaheim coach Bruce Boudreau had one thought when he saw goaltender Frederik Andersen take a slap shot from Nashville captain Shea Weber off the head.

Ouch.

“Those things hurt,” Boudreau said.

A trainer came out to check on Andersen, who missed seven games because of a concussion in March.

Andersen stayed in the game and made 27 saves as the Ducks shut out the Nashville Predators 3-0 Tuesday night to pull within 2-1 in their first-round playoff series.

“I think it bounced off the top of my head instead of square in the forehead, so I think that was pretty lucky,” said Andersen, who has 16 postseason wins since 2014. “The buckle came off, so I wanted to make sure to get that back on so it was safe to play again.”

The Ducks have not lost three straight to open a postseason series since the 2006 Western Conference finals, and they didn’t come close to dropping a third straight this year.

Andersen, who started in net after John Gibson took the first two losses in Anaheim, posted his second postseason shutout despite the slap shot from Weber, who won the hardest shot competition at the All-Star Game in January, during a power play in the second

period.

Chris Stewart had a goal and an assist, and Jamie McGinn and Rickard Rakell each scored their first goals of the series.

“We didn’t make it easy on us,” Stewart said.

“But at the end of the day, it is a race to four and it’s 2-1 now and we have one more to play before we go home.”

Game 4 is Thursday night in Nashville.

The Predators returned home with their first 2-0 lead in the postseason. The Predators lost center Craig Smith to a lower-body injury after he played only 65 seconds over two shifts, leaving coach Peter Laviolette mixing up his lines.

“It’s not an excuse for the way we played, but certainly we’d rather have guys in there and lines rolling over as opposed to patching them together as we moved though the periods,” Laviolette said.

Boudreau called out his Ducks after a 3-2 loss in Game 2 for taking too many penalties and talking too much to the officials. Boudreau also switched back to Andersen and played Shawn Horcoff for the first time in this series looking for a spark.

Even though the Ducks took five penalties, they still showed much more discipline once the whistle blew.

“We did control our emotions,” Boudreau said. “The penalties we got, other than the too many men on the ice, they were earned. We’ll take them. We are really proud of our penalty killers. We don’t like them to do it too much, we’d like to keep it to two or three a game, but

they did a great job tonight.”

They also took very good care of the puck with no turnovers in the first 20 minutes, and the combination helped them lead at the end of a period for the first time in this series.

McGinn scored on a wrister from the right circle off a pass from Horcoff after he skated up the slot midway through the first.

A sold-out crowd tried to give the Predators a boost, but some sloppy play with too many turnovers and missed opportunities on the man advantage led to a smattering of boos starting late in the second.

“We just weren’t good enough in all areas,” Predators center Ryan Johansen said. “We weren’t quick, we weren’t fast, we didn’t use our legs, and we didn’t use our brains as fast as we needed to. That’s why it looked easy out there for them.”

When Filip Forsberg helped kill off a big chunk of an Anaheim power play, fans gave him a standing ovation. Nashville took the first few shots of the second period and even got its second man advantage when McGinn tripped Forsberg after the Predators forward beat two Ducks for the puck.

Rakell, who returned for this series after a ruptured appendix, finally got his first goal of the series at 11:33 of the second. He redirected a shot from Sami Vatanen to give Anaheim its biggest lead in this series. Then Stewart padded the lead, putting a backhand top shelf off his own miss at 17:06 of the second.

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The Daily Beacon • Thursday, April 21, 2016

SOFTBALL

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Overstreet’s two home runs lifts Tennessee to 9-0 win David Bradford Staff Writer

Before Lexi Overstreet had a chance to get comfortable in her stance, Megan Geer — who had just grounded out — pulled Overstreet to the side and whispered in her ear.

“She was just telling me about the pitcher,” Overstreet said. “We like to do that. She lets me know what she saw, the movement and what pitch she saw, inside or outside … We give each other feedback so when we go up there we’re not surprised.”

Whatever Geer saw, she accurately relayed it to Overstreet, who knocked a solo shot to right center a few pitches later. It was Overstreet’s second home run of the game, with the first being a two-run blast in the previous inning to spark Tennessee softball’s 9-0 run-rule victory over Furman.

Overstreet’s first career multi-home run game boosted her team-leading total to 11 on the season, which is also a career high for the senior out of Georgia.

“I’m not going there trying to hit home runs,” Overstreet said. “I just go up there and try to have a good at bat and see good pitches. Hopefully they keep coming.”

The performance from Overstreet comes fresh off the Vols recent 2-1 performance against Georgia over the weekend. Four players from the Tennessee softball team were recruited out of Georgia, making last weekend’s games extra special for the team.

“It was really good to win the series against Georgia,” Overstreet said. “… Growing up in the South, going across the border (to play a sport in a neighboring state) is a big step, especially if you’re from a state with an SEC team and you play each other.

“It was definitely really nice to see family and have a lot of people there and to have people who don’t always come watch you play all the time … We had a cookout after the first game and it was really good to get us all together.”

Both teams failed to put up runs over the first two innings. However, the Vols finally got on the board thanks to Overstreet’s tworun blast, sparking a seven-run third inning that included a Rainey Gaffin sac fly, an Aubrey Leach two-run double and two-run

4) overpowered the Paladins’, striking out seven batters over four scoreless innings.

“My plan of attack was whatever Karen (Weekly) calls, throw it,” Gabriel said, laughing.

Before the game, former Tennessee Vice Chancellor and Director of Women’s Athletics, Joan Crawford, was honored for her contributions to women’s athletics. Now, the street that serves as the entrance to the Cronan Volleyball Center, Sherri Parker Lee Stadium and Regal Soccer Stadium will be officially known as “Joan Cronan Way.” Co-head Karen Weekly – along with her husband Ralph — was hired by Cronan in 2002 and expressed her gratitude toward her support after the game.

“She came in and visited with Ralph and me for a while,” Weekly said. “That was really neat. We stay in touch with Joan.

She’s a great friend and great supporter and Lexi Overstreet, catcher always has been.”

The Vols (34-11, 12-6 SEC) host the Tennessee Classic this weekend and put their unblemished 18-0 home record on the blast from freshman Brooke Vines — her first line against the No. 9 Oklahoma Sooners. home run of the season to go over the fence. First pitch is scheduled for 2 p.m. ET on On the mound, senior Erin Gabriel (16- Saturday.

I’m not going there trying to hit home runs. I just go up there and try to have a good at bat and see good pitches.

Hopefully they keep coming.”

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