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Wednesday, April 23 , 2014

Issue 68, Volume 125

Road to Rocky Top

Heeere’s Donnie! Gage Arnold • The Daily Beacon

Vols tab Southern Miss’ Tyndall as program’s 19th men’s hoops coach Steven Cook Copy Editor Tennessee officially announced it has hired Southern Mississippi’s Donnie Tyndall as the next men’s basketball head coach. Hundreds packed Pratt Pavilion for Tyndall’s introductory press conference Tuesday afternoon to catch a glimpse of the 43-year-old in his first appearance in orange. “I’m humbled to be your coach,” Tyndall said. “I think Tennessee is a special place. Many people would ask, ‘Why do you think that, coach?’ I say this, the tradition starting with coach Ray Mears and all the great coaches that have coached at this university. “So many great coaches, and I’m proud to be one of them – or at least be a head coach grouped in with them at this point.” Tyndall comes to UT after six years as head coach of Morehead State and two with Southern Miss. He boasts an overall record of 170-102, including a 56-17 mark over the past two seasons with the Golden Eagles. His deal with the Vols spans six years. It is worth $1.6 million annually with a $3 million buyout that drops to $1.75 million in 2017. UT Athletic Director Dave Hart, who headed up the coaching search, was quick to point out Tyndall’s coaching successes but was most impressed with his energetic personality.

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Slicked ‘do and shiny shoes: Drake Bell goes from child star to rocker ARTS & CULTURE >>pg. 3

Strong pitching carries Lady Vols softball past Furman Paladins SPORTS >>pg. 5

Tyndal’s plan: High energy and aggressive strategy for 2014-15 season

SPORTS >>pg. 6

Tyndall is hired on as an assistant head coach for John Brady’s LSU Tigers.

2002-2006 After one season at Idaho, Tyndall leaves to fill the same position at Middle Tennessee State, where he would stay for four seasons.

August 2010 Morehead State is placed under probation for two years after the NCAA levied sanctions for booster-related recruiting violations.

April 30, 2012 Tyndall becomes the head coach at Southern Mississippi. In his first season as the headman, the Golden Eagles finished with a 27-10 record, losing in the quarterfinals of the NIT to BYU.

April 22, 2014 Tennessee men’s basketball coach Donnie Tyndall talks during his introductory press conference at Pratt Pavilion on Tuesday. Tyndall was previously the head coach at Southern Mississippi the past two seasons.

Tennessee officially names Tyndall as the new head basketball coach, becoming the 19th head coach in program history.

Two UT students awarded national Fulbright grants Zoe Yim Contributor Alex Houck beams as he talks excitedly about his recently-won Fulbright grant and the project it will permit him to conduct in Spain after leaving UT. Among the most competitive national scholarships available to U.S. students, the Fulbright Program awards grants to only 1,900 applicants each year. “I put all my eggs in one basket,” Houck said, “and it ended up working out.” Houck, a senior in College Scholars studying neuropathology and neurolinguistics, will use the grant to fund his research of the proteins that cause Alzheimer’s

disease. Drawing upon his prior research experience in Argentina and his neurobiological research in Knoxville, Houck will conduct his study from a molecular neurobiological lab in Madrid. “I’m interested as a future physician working with a Spanishspeaking population,” Houck added. In many Spanish-speaking communities, testing for Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases is administered in English, often complicating diagnosis for non-English speakers. Moreover, Houck said Alex Houck, a senior in College Scholars studying the disease itself is not as widely neuropathology and neurolinguistics, poses for a researched or understood in the photo at the UC on March 31. Houck recently won Spanish-speaking world. the Fulbright grant along with Avery Dobbs, senior See FULBRIGHT on Page 2 in political science.

Volapalooza opener Crab Apple Lane ready to make splash Jenna Butz Staff Writer Local self-proclaimed “college dropout” country band Crab Apple Lane is coming back to school this Friday to open up Volapalooza. Lead vocalists Kirk Wynn and Deena Robbins met through the Knoxville music scene. Both played frequently in town already, and Wynn even played drums for Robbins a few times. From there, the duo began to hang out more before eventually throwing around the idea of starting a country band. The duo never imagined being anything other than a country band. While Robbins had listened to more pop and

rock music before starting the band, it was Wynn’s love for the genre that led to where Crab Apple Lane is now. “For me personally, that’s the genre of my heart, as weird as that sounds,” Wynn said. “There’s a lot of genres that I like out there, but country is a lot about the song, and that’s kinda what I love the most, is writing. Try to write a good story, try to write a good song.” Since turning the idea into reality, Crab Apple Lane has played together for less than a year. Even with Wynn and Robbins both songwriting, they still incorporate covers into their sets to allow audiences to sing-a-long despite not knowing Crab Apple Lane songs. Yet, they yearn to be inventive with

their lyrics. “We just kind of write about a lot of stuff,” Wynn said. “Somebody was asking me the other day how I write, and I just told him it just comes from everywhere. Very rarely is it from real life. We make up a lot of stuff. Every now and then, we’ll go to a movie or something, and I’m like I want to write a song that kind of feels like that movie, so I’ll write about a movie I saw or something. “There’s a lot of different ways that an idea for a song comes about.” At the beginning of April, Crab Apple Lane played Rhythm N’ Blooms. There, they met high school folk band Subtle Clutch and local rising

country band The Black Lillies. The festival allowed the new band to expand their sound to an audience that may not have entirely been from Knoxville. “It was awesome,” Robbins said. “There were a lot of people that we got to come in contact with like other bands, local bands and stuff like that. So, I think it was a good melting pot, pretty much, of just a bunch of different styles and types of music. It was awesome. The festival was awesome. The location was amazing, and there are all these cool places around Jackson Avenue that they were making into these concert venues. It turned out really, really good.” See CRAB APPLE on Page 3

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2001- 2002 As the associate head coach of the Idaho Vandals, Tyndal helps secure the 15th-ranked recruiting class in the nation.

2006-2012 Tyndall accepts his first Division I head coaching job at his alma mater, Morehead State. In his six years at the helm, the Eagles went 114-84 and appeared in two NCAA tournaments.

March 17, 2011

Esther Choo • The Daily Beacon

See TYNDALL on Page 6

1997-2001

SPORTS >>pg. 5

The 13th-seeded Eagles upset the fourth-seeded Louisville Cardinals to advance to the program’s first Round of 32 since NCAA tournament expansion.

2012-2013 In his second season at Southern Miss, Tyndall’s Golden Eagles went 29-7 – including a perfect 15-0 record at home –, clinching a share of the ConferenceUSA regular-season championship.

Divestment campaign holds rally against UT fossil fuels Jenna Butz Staff Writer

More than 50 students and community supporters met in the HSS amphitheater Tuesday afternoon for the “Do the Right Thing, Jimmy Cheek!” rally, a call to action after the chancellor’s refusal to support fossil fuel divestment at UT. Jointly led by the UT Coalition for Responsible Investment and the Living Wage Coalition, the rally featured speeches as well as a march to Circle Park, where protesters paraded their signs in Chancellor Cheek’s front lawn. Megaphone in hand, David Hayes, a junior in supply chain management, recalled his meeting with the chancellor and two other divestment supporters last Wednesday, which failed to produce administrative support. Hayes then held a moment of silence for “the victims of the fossil fuel industry.” See DIVESTMENT on Page 2

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