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Friday, April 25, 2014

Issue 70, Volume 125

Students cash in on digital currency Hanna Lustig News Editor We are now living iin a brave, new cryptocurrencies world of cryptocurre cryptocur encci – a world of Litecoins, Dogecoins and o Bitcoins, Bittcoins, Liteco oin ns, D digital diggital wallets.

Three UT u undergraduates are und de standing the tanding at th he helm of this world, to launch worrld w d, preparing preepaar p Cryptilla, what they hope Cry C yptilllaa, w become will be w ecoom the largest, most professional mos m st c r y p t o c u r re n c y exchange on the ex x web. w In January 2013, Ben

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Proudly married: UT faculty discuss gay marriage in TN

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Which websites were affected by the Heartbleed Bug? Facebook

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Instagram

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Twitter

Take a look back at some of the highlights from the 2013-14 UT athletic season SPORTS >>pg. 10

New lineup has Vols looking to scratch LSU in Baton Rouge Dargan Southard Assistant Sports Editor

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Amazon.com

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Netflix

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US Bank

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Undetected computer virus potential headache for students What happens when someone has access to all of your online accounts – Twitter, Gmail, Facebook, your personal bank – and could access your most private messages and information?

On April 1, a serious vulnerability was found in the OpenSSL cryptographic software library. The Heartbleed Bug, a flaw discovered by a member of the Google security team, had the potential to allow hackers access to a vast amount of sensitive data on vulnerable servers without leaving any suspicious footprints in their wake.

See CRYPTOCURRENCY on Page 5

One machine sends out a code, or “heartbeat,” and the receiving machine decrypts the code, reads it and sends back the matching response. The Heartbleed Bug leaves a back door open for hackers to enter and steal data undetected.

“The Heartbleed vulnerability allows a hacker to connect to a webserver and harvest sensitive information, which may include your login and password,” Bob Hillhouse, chief information security officer for the Office of Information Technology said.

“If that happens, the hacker could use that information to log into any of your accounts using the same username and password.”

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OpenSSL has been the standard for secure communication since its creation in 1998, ensuring privacy for exchanges over email, instant messages and the rest of the Internet.

“OpenSSL is popular because it is an open source software and people don’t have to pay for it,” Jinyuan Stella Sun, assistant professor in computer science and electrical engineering and expert on the Heartbleed Bug said. “A lot of big websites like Amazon and Tumblr, they all used it.”

Communication between machines using OpenSSL is kept alive by a “Heartbeat Extension,” a cryptological call and response that removes the need to constantly reconnect individual machines.

nal concept. Known as “altcoins,” there are more than 100 active cryptocurrencies, including Litecoin, Dogecoin, and FeatherCoin. Dogecoin, created in December 2013, reached a market capitalization of $180,000,000, demonstrating what Brock called “incredible growth.”

Users can flip cryptocurrency like stock to turn a profit. Enter: Cryptilla, where entrepreneurs and computer enthusiasts can exchange cyptocurrencies for a nominal 1 percent fee.

“Other people own the cryptocurrencies, we just provide the information that allows them to trade,” Brock said.

Only two members of the Tennessee baseball team have experienced it live.

But nearly everyone in orange has heard the rumors.

“I’ve heard Alex Box Stadium at LSU is a blast,” southpaw Andy Cox said. “It’s gonna be crazy. I know there’s going to be a ton of fans there, hopefully like 12,000 on Friday and Saturday night.

It’s a great atmosphere, great playing surface, great team and I’m looking forward to it.”

Cox, along with 31 other members of the current UT squad, will turn that hearsay into reality as the Volunteers travel to LSU for the first time since 2011, opening up a three-game set tonight at 8 p.m.

For the first time this month, head coach Dave Serrano has extensively shuffled his weekend rotation, bringing in two crucial hurlers that have thrived primarily in the Vols’ bullpen this year.

In Friday’s opener against the Tigers, UT will trot out junior Peter Lenstrohm (1-1, 2.13 ERA) in what will be the Paradise Valley, Ariz., native’s first career start in orange.

The righty has been one of Serrano’s most consistent relievers as of late, having surrendered just one hit and no runs in his last six outings.

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Dustin Lynch, one of country music’s rising stars, is headed to the Cotton Eyed Joe

currency is determined by the collective consensus of its users – a peer-to-peer network. As these currencies fluctuate in circulation, popularity and exclusivity, users trade them for different amounts.

Thus, they rise and fall in value. Seeing a chance to make a profit, Brock and Belt approached their friend Ben Miller, sophomore in psychology and business analytics.

“With most money, like the dollar bill or the peso, you have a king...that tries to regulate it,” Miller said.

Cheaper, more anonymous and less susceptible to fraud, Bitcoin has threatened to transform the world of consumerism. Soon, other cryptocurrencies also emerged as more user-friendly alternatives, innovating upon Bitcoin’s origi-

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Brock, sophomore in neuroscience and Andrew Belt, junior in math and physics, began discussing the rise of cryptocurrencies: decentralized, virtual currencies lauded for their superiority to traditional money. Created in 2009 with the arrival of Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies circumvent both the governments and credit card companies, removing the “middleman” from consumer transactions.

“It’s the simplicity of a credit card, but if you buy something with a credit card, it is 2-3 percent more expensive than if you bought it without,” Brock said. “So you have that convenience, yet you don’t have to pay the 2-3 percent fee because it’s so cryptographically secure.”

Outside a centralized bank such as the Federal Reserve, the value of a crypto-

Knoxville houses Levi’s-inspired denim shop Liv McConnell Copy Editor Blue jeans. In the 141 years since Jacob Davis and Levi Strauss created them, they have become as synonymous with “America” as apple pie and a well-worn staple of most wardrobes.

But to Marcus Hall, creator of Knoxville-based line Marc Nelson Denim, these pants represent much

more than a mere fashion fad – far from it. For Hall, denim has the capacity to be the fabric of a community, the thread stitching people’s lives together.

He knows this about denim because he has seen it, right here in Knoxville.

And he wants to bring it back.

“I grew up near Cherry Street, about two miles from the old Levi’s plant,” Hall said. “We had a huge facility here; it was about a football field-long factory.

They did everything, they had every

machine there in that building, and it was amazing to see how the whole production was done.”

One of the company’s preeminent stateside factories, the plant maintained some 1,800 workers and relatives would often turn coworkers, as Levi’s employed multiple members and even generations of the same family. A deeply rooted sense of community and pride of workmanship flourished.

“When we were in elementary

school, our parents would pick us up outside, and we’d be there in a line,” Hall recalled, coffee paused at his lips.

“One of my friends’ dads or someone would come up to me and say, ‘Hey, boy, you know I put the buttons on those blue jeans,’ or, ‘You know we did that wash two days ago,’ or whatever the case would be.

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Friday, April 25, 2014 News Editor Hanna Lustig

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Annual Knoxville walk to benefit diabetes research manager of the charity walk, said he expects 3,000 attendees at Saturday’s event.

“JDRF has been listed as The 24th annual Knoxville one of the top-5 All Star chariWalk to Cure Diabetes, an ties by Forbes magazine for event by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, will take place Saturday in downtown Knoxville.

Beginning at 8:30 a.m., registration will open in World’s Fair Park and the walk is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m.

Participants will travel through UT’s campus and to Volunteer Landing before returning to the park.

There is no registration fee for the walk, but each participant is encouraged to garner -Mary Moreland donations and sponsorships for their trek.

The charity walk’s fundraising goal is to raise more than our efficiency,” Cagney said. $460,000 at this year’s event, “We are very focused on our and more than 80 percent of mission to find a cure for Type those funds will go directly to 1 diabetes and its complicaresearch and research-related tions through the support of education. research.”

Erin Cagney, development JDRF was founded in the

Emily Ryutz

Contributor

“Thanks to JDRF,

our families and friends have exciting research findings on the horizon.”

1970s by parents searching for a cure to their children’s Type 1 diabetes. Since that time, JDRF has grown into an international organization and is the leading financial supporter of diabetes research in the world.

The East Tennessee chapter was founded in the 1980s by local parents.

Mary Moreland, executive director of the East Tennessee Chapter of JDRF, said she thinks the work aided by events like Saturday’s Walk for a Cure is making impressive strides.

“Walk Day is a day of celebration of how far we have come in treating Type 1 diabetes and for how much promise there is in the future,” Moreland said. “Thanks to JDRF, our families and friends have exciting research findings on the horizon.”

In addition to open registration on the morning of the walk, participants can register and donate by visiting walk. jdrf.org.

Protect yourself from hackers • Change your password on websites that • Using a password manager can help keep you know were vulnerable to the Heartbleed track of all of your passwords.

Bug, even if they have patched the hack.

• Avoid letting your web browser automatically log you into accounts.

• Use strong, hard-to-guess passwords.

• Use a separate, unique password for each • Call the OIT HelpDesk at (865) 974-9900 if online account. That way if one website is you have any questions or problems. compromised, all the other accounts are safe.

HEARTBLEED continued from Page 1 While many programs such as mobile apps and Gmail use OpenSSL software, OIT has been scanning for the vulnerability every day since the announcement, notifying users and patching the devices, Hillhouse said.

The main critical systems like Banner, Blackboard and the MyUTK portal were not at risk of attack during the two-year span the Heartbleed Bug was left undetected, Hillhouse said.

“This thing’s been out there in the wild, so to speak, for two years,” he said. “So the worst case scenario at UT would be a server was effected and was being monitored by a hacker. Your NetID and password would be visible to that hacker, and they could

use your password to access your information.”

According to Sun, the Heartbleed Bug was a simple security flaw that could have been prevented if more care had been taken when writing the OpenSSL code. Instead, the vulnerability was left to be exploited.

“This wasn’t a difficult thing to detect if someone had reviewed the OpenSSL library closely,” Sun said. “It’s also not difficult to fix.”

On April 7, managers of the OpenSSL library released “Fixed OpenSSL,” an updated version of the software that patches the Heartbleed vulnerability. Now it is up to servers using OpenSSL to update their systems.

UT’s current security depends on the speed of the network updates, Kevin Nolan, senior in computer science and jazz studies, said.

“It all depends on how proactive UT’s network administrators have been in keeping their software up to date,” Nolan said. “But as with any large-scale system, deploying major updates takes time which is one of the main concerns with the Heartbleed Bug-- that networks will be exploited before they have time to update.”

For now, Sun recommends that individual users change their passwords to protect sensitive data that might have been impacted by the Heartbleed Bug. “Everybody hates passwords and everybody wants to create passwords that can be easily remembered,” Sun said. “But those passwords are typically pretty weak. Changing a password doesn’t take long, and it’s worth it in the end.”

Letter Editor to the

Mandatory meal plans expose UT’s insanity My father once told me that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing twice and expecting a different result.

If this is true, then the UT Dining Services should see a psychiatrist.

I am, of course, referring to The Daily Beacon Article on April 24, which claimed that UT is reviving mandatory meal plans. This was an idiotic idea when it was initially presented last fall, and despite cursory “improvements,” it remains so now. Vice Chancellor Maples has claimed that he listened to student protests, and that mandatory meal plans will improve campus community and student life. However, I fail to see how it is an improvement to take away student choice and force them to buy something they do not want. Students have made it eminently clear that they do not want a mandatory meal plan, and yet the UT administration is attempting to ram one through anyway.

The mandatory meal plan is not a tactic to improve student life. Instead, it is a blatantly transparent attempt to wring

more money out of undergraduates—an attempt which is even more egregious for its obviousness.

According to the new plan, students would be able to recover any unspent money from their meal plan at the end of each semester. Initially, this doesn’t seem to be too bad. A student could simply not spend any of the money, and then recover it all after finals.

However, this still presents a major problem. Most students have very tight finances and don’t have $300 to spare. For example, let’s say that I have $300 in my bank account at the beginning of the semester. If I pay all of this money to UT, then I will not have any money to buy groceries. Instead, I will be forced to spend money at the UT dining halls. For students who have more money, a mandatory meal plan is still a horrible deal. I may be able to afford to let $300 sit in UT’s bank account for the semester, but I am still being hurt financially. I could have invested that money in a CD or added it to a Roth IRA and made

interest. Instead, the money spends four months doing me no good. Although UT may not be directly stealing money from my pocket, the mandatory meal plan still harms me, regardless of my financial situation.

I have talked with numerous students, and they are all upset by the idea of mandatory meal plans. I find it disturbing that UT is attempting to pass the plan, despite the strong and unanimous student opposition. It shows a complete and worrying disregard for student opinions. In the past three years, I have come to have very low expectations of the UT administration, but this is a low point, even for them. Their job is to support education and improve student life. Instead, they are searching for new ways to make money at student’s expense. I am very disappointed.

Nathan Crilly is a senior in food science and technology.

He can be reached at ncrilly@ utk.edu.

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UT faculty members Sophy Jesty and Valeria Tanco are one of three Tennessee same-sex marriages to be granted a preliminary injunction against Tennessee’s ban on same-sex marriage on March 14.

Same-sex UT faculty couple ref lects on marriage ruling Kevin Ridder Copy Editor On March 14, federal judge Aleta Trauger granted a preliminary injunction against Tennessee’s ban on same-sex marriage to allow the marriages of three Tennessee same-sex couples to be recognized, including UT’s own Sophy Jesty and Valeria Tanco, both faculty members in the veterinary program.

Two weeks after the courtroom victory, the couple’s daughter, Emilia Jesty, was born at UT Hospital.

“For us, the preliminary injunction coming through a week before Emilia’s due date was really monumental,” Jesty said. “She snuck in at the perfect time to have a birth certificate with both of our last names on it.

It’s huge, because that wouldn’t have happened otherwise.”

The lawsuit, brought by the three Tennessee couples in October 2013, gained state and

national attention. Tanco said strangers will often approach her and her wife to thank them for their battle in the name of samesex marriage rights.

“The other day, a couple with their teenage daughter and teenage niece came over and thanked us and asked if their daughter could meet us,” Tanco said.

“And she was explaining to them what we had done, which was so meaningful to me because that was their kids; not just an adult person who understands it, but a mother teaching her child about a topic that so many parents are hesitant to bring up.

“Friends and family have been so supportive, but it’s these interactions with strangers that are the most touching because they’re unexpected.”

However, Justice Trauger’s ruling continues to draw dissent. In a USA Today article, published March 14, , state Sen. Mike Bell, R-Riceville, said he was disappointed in the ruling.

“I am saddened that a federal judge has chosen to, at least in

a narrow way, overturn the will of over 81 percent of the people of the state of Tennessee who devoted to define marriage as between a man and a woman,” Bell said. “I am hoping the higher courts will overturn this activist judge’s ruling.”

Bell’s data comes from the 2006 Tennessee Marriage Protection Amendment, an amendment that Jesty claims is outdated.

“If you did it again today, I think that you’d be shocked about the results,” Jesty said. “And even if it was still 81 percent, it wouldn’t matter. A populace opinion is still not the right opinion; what is popular is not always right. Anybody who wants to can be disappointed in a ruling for same sex equal rights, but it seems to me that they’re going to be on the wrong side of history.

“There is no argument against equal rights, there is no separate but equal; the court has already decided that. Marriage equality in Tennessee and the United States, is inevitable.”

In the opinion of Regina Lambert, the lawyer representing Jesty and Tanco, leaving marriage equality up to individual states could create a messy situation.

“We need to have one flat rule across the nation; there’s too many sub-rules,” said Lambert.

“It’s like trying to play Monopoly with people who grew up in different families with different rules, and they’re trying to make them all work together.”

Despite the current climate, Lambert said the future of the ongoing case and marriage equality in Tennessee looks promising.

“Every single state that has had their Defense of Marriage Act challenged has lost,” Lambert said. “There has been no court to date that has said anything other than ‘this is discriminatory, a violation of constitutional rights.’

“We hope that this matter is resolved quickly. Every single day that people are denied their rights is one day too many.”

SGA legislation to be implemented in Fall Katherine Nanney Contributor At the start of the spring semester, the Student Government Association wrote five new bills that will be implemented for the 20142015 school year.

Ideas ranging from student veteran opportunities to initiatives to make UT an “edible” campus were addressed in these bills, to be implemented beginning next fall.

Jennings Hardee, sophomore in biology and newly elected Sorority Village senator, said implementing these bills is the “biggest job as student government on this campus.”

“We, as SGA, need to be able to recognize when there is a need from the students and we need to fill it,” she said, “and that’s what I feel like the bills are doing right now.”

The following five bills passed and will be implemented next year: The first bill, named “The Big Orange Orchard Resolution,” proposes an oncampus orchard that will grow fruit-bearing trees and plants.

SGA hopes this orchard will provide necessary and aesthetically-pleasing landscaping to the campus while helping UT become more sustainable and getting more students get involved with the outdoor campus community. These fruits are available for students to pick and eat themselves, which SGA believes will benefit student health and well-being.

The second bill, “Bill to Create a Designated Space for Veterans,” petitions to do exactly that – to find an area on campus where student veterans can meet up to further build their community. In the bill, SGA states that there are

between 800-900 student veterans at UT, students who wish to connect with each other but don’t have the proper space to do so. With the passing of this bill, SGA and the University’s Registrar’s Veterans affair will create a veteran’s lounge and resource center.

A third bill, entitled “Judicial Branch and Constitutional Restructure,” will create a new arm inside SGA, a judicial branch that will ensure each senator and executive member is doing the job they were elected to do. The new judicial branch will consist of six supreme court associate justices and one chief justice, all of whom are appointed by the SGA president. These seven individuals will work alongside the director of student conduct and community standards as their adviser to ensure that SGA members are carrying out their duties.

The fourth is a bill called “SGA Annual Report,” which will create an annual report to become more transparent to the student body. The report will be constructed and published by the SGA Public Relations Committee and will include activities and accomplishments of that year.

The fifth and final bill is termed “Resolution to Create Two Senate Seats for International Students.”

According to the bill, there are more than 1,000 international students on campus, students who face unique challenges that traditional students cannot as easily relate to. In order to maintain their goals of incorporating diversity and representing all students’ interests and experiences, SGA is establishing two senate seats for international students to apply for each year.

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Learning to love UT Fifty Shades of Wade by

Wade Scofield

It really has been a pleasure writing opinion for The Daily Beacon this semester, if for no other reason than it has given me a platform from which to espouse commentary on issues I consider important to our campus community.

But instead of providing some informed snark, this week I would like to do something a little different. It’s come to my attention very recently that as I am about to graduate, phasing slowly out of academic responsibilities and extracurriculars, that college has taught me just as much about life as it has in the classroom. And to those of you out there who are still a little timid, lost or frustrated, hopefully I can leave you with a few words of encouragement and advice.

At the end of freshman year, I was frustrated. I was looking to transfer because I was trapped in a funk. I didn’t want to go to class, didn’t want to see my friends, didn’t want to talk to anyone anymore. I was lost in my own expectations, not knowing what I really wanted.

But I suffered through, giving it another chance for sophomore year, and eventually found my niche. This isn’t a common enough story at UT, where we struggle monumentally with freshman retention.

This niche was a mix of finally taking classes that I really considered my own, with professors who had the same interests as me, and making friends both in and out of those classes to whom I could relate. Your fellow students are the lifeblood of college, the constant fluctuation of ideas that makes universities places of experimentation and execution. Chide it all you want, but “Big Orange. Big Ideas.” carries with it the diverse ingenuity of all our students.

Truly, if you’re looking to find your place at UT, the best advice I can give is to get to know your professors.

College may, for some, be a social obligation that is just another passing event in our lives. Even so, our main objective is to learn, to achieve, to open knew methods of understanding. Find the field of study that motivates you and then own it. It could be art; it could be chemistry; it could be environmental sciences. But whatever it is, use every opportunity you have to engage your professors and classmates.

For me, it took the research and care of Drs. Tina Shepardson, Kelly Baker and Mark Hulsether in the religious studies department to energize me, but it was so beautiful when I knew what I was interested in.

Next, I’ve learned that college is an important time for personal growth, but it’s not the end all be all.

People like to call this “the best four years of your life,” and while this may not be necessarily true, they will likely be the most formative four years of your life. So pay attention and study people as much as your books, because even though people change like the seasons, in some ways people never change.

The greatest lesson college taught me that is unmistakably relevant in all of our lives is that there is a place for everyone. Those of you at the end of your first year at UT may have found that place. You may still be struggling to find that place. Or you may not know where to begin. But really, at a university with nearly 30,000 students, there is bound to be a pocket of people who care about the same things you care about. It’s going to be like this our whole lives: we’re social animals, after all. What better place to do something big with people who have ideas too, right here, right now?

So really, this is an encouragement piece. If you don’t love UT, don’t give up. It took me four years to be proud to be a UT student, but now I will eagerly tell my peers where I come from. UT students are doing amazing things: from fighting our state government to starting charities to publishing undergraduate research to playing golf in the Masters.

It may not always seem like it, but with humility and enthusiasm, surely you will come to know what I have been fortunate to see – that it is great to be a Tennessee Vol. Wade Scofield is a senior in religious studies and Latin. He can be reached at wade@utk.edu.

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Sacrifice the body, sacrifice the self Crossing Cues by

Marianela D’Aprile A body, one body alone, only one body a body like day spilt and night devoured Octavio Paz, excerpt from “Under your light shadow” As a society, we tend to adhere to the idea that in order to achieve anything positive, we must first sacrifice something else. Too frequently, the object we sacrifice is the body. We deprive it of sleep in favor of often unfruitful nights of studying until three in the morning.

We survive on less-than-adequate meals to save money and time — we have more important things to tend to than nourishment. Fortunately, the harm that these small sacrifices cause upon our bodies is relatively easy to reverse, and most of the time, a better term paper can justify a couple of hours of sleep deprivation.

We glorify the sacrifice of the body because it literally entails putting the accomplishment of our goals before our own selves. It’s the ultimate form of devo-

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— anorexia, self-mutilation, torture. It devalues the body, renders it expendable and, in doing so, implies that we, too, are expendable — that we are nothing but agents toward some undefined, body-transcending goal, that our physical existence matters only insofar as it contributes to that goal and not in and of itself. It forgets that if we don’t exist, our goals don’t either.

I spent many years wishing my body away, considering it a hindrance, the last thing standing between me and some ephemeral form of perfection and success. I ran it ragged, eating too little and spending too many hours at a ballet barre. I thought that if I could shed what stood between the physical world and the world of my mind, I could embody my thoughts.

I think therefore I am.

But the thing is, our body, regardless of its shape or size, connects us to everything (and everyone) else. Only through the body do we obtain sensory joy. Only through the body do we communicate with all that is around us. Only with our bodies can we wholly exist.

Marianela D’Aprile is a fourth year in architecture. She can be reached at mdaprile@utk.edu.

Spicy foods a hot, healthy alternative Working Out Happiness by

Andrew Fleming While the benefits of healthy food may present themselves in an obvious manner to most, it can be difficult to find a niche within the health sphere that you are comfortable remaining in. After all, becoming healthy is something you want to make habits of, not jump in and jump out of whenever it’s convenient.

So where in the culinary crossroads do healthy and delicious join hands in tasty harmony? For myself and many others, the answer comes in the form of spicy food.

Spicy foods are incredibly high in the flavor department and, when prepared correctly, can be the most delicious healthy meals you’ve ever tried.

At this point, you may be thinking, “But Andrew, my wimpy tongue can’t handle the aggression of the record-smashing scorpion chili! What’s an inferior palate like mine to do in such a spicy world? Why should I even care?”

While acclimation to spicy foods does seem to be a (fixable) issue for many western palates, the pros outweigh any cons that you may be stacking up against them.

Along with having little to no caloric worth or fattening value of its own, capsaicin, the

primary chemical in determining just how hot a food is, actually has an incredible number of physiological benefits of its own.

If you still aren’t convinced, consider any one of the following: Scientists at UCLA have recently linked ingestion of hot peppers to increased metabolism – double the increase in metabolism when presented with only a placebo.

Eating spicy food makes your body naturally burn more calories, day in and day out. This small boost can help you achieve goals that you’ve been inching toward even faster. So, take this phenomenon and mix it with the fact that ingestion of spicy food also naturally curbs appetites, and you’ve got a marked advantage in your diet.

Another great aspect of capsaicin is what it can do to protect your body on a biochemical level. During the process of making ATP (the primary energy molecule in your body), there are highly-reactive, oxygen-free radicals naturally created. While these oxygen species are normally wellcontained, oxygen has a way of making its way most anywhere it wants. It’s incredibly membrane-soluble, as well as very small.

What makes this problematic is that free radical species are incredibly reactive – dangerously reactive. Take that feature and combine it with oxygen’s mobility, and you’ve got a disaster in the making. It’s like tiny bombs that can potentially run amok, should they get out of their container.

This may sound familiar on some level due to the fact that every health nut ever is trying to sell you products full of anti-

oxidants. These products are great decreasing the number of these highly reactive oxygens floating around your body.

“But wait Andrew, should I really buy these products from GNC and Vitamin Shoppe that are horrifically overpriced, unregulated by the FDA and potentially dangerous?”

Of course not! Just eat spicy food! The hotter the food, the more packed with antioxidant properties it is, thus lowering your free radical levels and keeping you healthier, longer.

So, if hearing that spicy food ramps up your metabolism, curbs your appetite, decreases free radicals, releases endorphins, was used as an aphrodisiac in ancient cultures, and increases deliciousness by a factor of 10 isn’t enough to make you quit school and start growing bhut jolokias, just remember that with spicy food, as with everything in life, start small.

Don’t go out man-versus-food style trying to conquer your feeble tongue in one go. Just try adding a little bit of spicy sauce to your meals. You’ll start to love it, just like I did. Before you know it, you’ll be a full-blown pepperhead, paying constant homage to your new spicy overlord.

Looking for suggestions? I highly recommend the Panang Curry from Chaiyos in the Fort. I eat it around four times a week and have no plans of stopping.

Andrew Fleming is a senior in neuroscience. He can be reached at aflemin8@ utk.edu.

Get Fuzzy • Darby Conley

Timtation Creation • Tim Brunson

EDITORIAL

tion and dedication. When a ballerina’s feet bleed after a long session en pointe, we understand it as a necessary part of her training and quest for artistic perfection. When a football player dislocates his shoulder during a play, it’s nothing but an accident, unfortunate because it will prevent him from playing but nonetheless predictable. We assume that these people take risks because they have to use their bodies to carry out that to which they’ve dedicated their lives.

The issue with such a prompt acceptance of corporeal sacrifice is two-fold: first, it flirts with the fine line between an understandable level of sacrifice and sacrifice in its extreme. Second, by conceptualizing the body as a source of pain and suffering, it denies the body’s capacity for joy and pleasure.

Because we perceive a beautiful ballet performance or a touchdown pass as positive outcomes of sacrifice, we also accept the sacrifice they imply as a positive one.

But we absolutely need to remember that for every so-called noble, so-called memorable goal whose accomplishment requires sacrifice, there are just as many harmful ends that can be met by the same means.

The view of the body as a sacrificial object, as a source of righteous pain and suffering, facilitates dangerous behaviors

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Availability concerns arise with campus transit system

continued from Page 3 “These bills will affect many different areas and groups of students across campus, and they will have different implications,� Hardee said. “The one thing they all have in common though, is that they will all hopefully improve UT’s student life.�

Dante Arnwine, junior in political science and SGA senate chair agreed, saying that “legislation that comes through senate is specifically to help the lives of students at UT, whether it’s through research or meetings with the administrators.� “These pieces of legislation either inform students of how SGA is working with the administration to accomplish the things students want on campus (Annual Report), provides a safe and relaxed area for different form relationships with others (either indoors or out) (Veterans / Big Orange Orchard), allows SGA to direct form legislation to enhance the lifestyle of international students (international), and helps SGA grow in legitimacy that can be used to lobby for things students want on campus (judicial branch),� Arnwine wrote in an email interview.

Although she is excited about all the changes, Hardee said she has a favorite. “I’m most excited for the orchard,� she said. “I love fresh fruit and can’t wait to have it here on campus.�

Bradi Musil Staff Writer In 2009, 970,000 people registered as disabled in the state of Tennessee, according to the American Community Survey.

For this group, a lack of accessible transportation can prove a serious societal barrier.

At UT, the T-Access bus is the primary transit service for handicapped students, operating Monday-Friday from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. But on the weekend, the T-Access is not in service. “There’s about 168 hours in a week, [and the] only time we don’t operate is 22 hours a week,� said Mark Hairr, the director of Parking and Transit Services. “We operate 90 percent of the time.�

Operational for more than a decade, Hairr said weekend T-Access routes have never been considered necessary. Even prior to the existence of the T-Access and similar private disabled van operations, weekend routes were not included in the

CRYPTOCURRENCY continued from Page 1 Belt added, “We’re like the eBay of cryptocurrency, essentially.�

By simplifying the current exchange site model, Cryptilla could potentially corner the market. With help from the UT Law Clinic, Cryptilla is one of only two

transit schedule.

Hairr stated the Office of Parking and Transit Services will receive one or two inquiries each year about the bus’s schedule. “The campus population is so much smaller on the weekends,� Hairr said. “We do 30,000 trips coming into campus every weekday for classes; it’s obviously a much different story on the weekends.�

Transportation fees help fund bus services. However, they cannot cover the full extent of services, and approximately $600,000 is funded through the Office of Parking and Transit Services. Because of subsidy concerns, Hairr believes that any decision to expand service must be made carefully. “A particular situation may come up, but we’ve got to look at the bigger picture of, if we’re going to run service from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekends, what kind of ridership could we generate?� Hairr said. “It gets costly hour after hour after hour not doing much service or carrying many students.�

Hairr defended this cost analysis, say-

ing Transit Services has instead expanded service in areas with “big needs,� including the agriculture campus, Sorority Village and Fort Sanders.

To ride the T-Access bus, students must be certified with the Office of Disability Services. Faculty and staff must be certified with the Office of Equity and Diversity to utilize the system. Although only certified persons may ride the T-Access, any student, faculty or staff member is welcome to ride The T or the T-Link, which operates seven days a week from 6 p.m. to 7 a.m. These vehicles, as well as The T buses, are fully handicap accessible. “It basically replicates the same type of service,� Hairr said, “you just don’t have to have certification to ride.�

Because the T-Access runs on a “first come, first serve daily basis,� Hairr said it is common for handicapped students to ride The T during the day, as it is generally a quicker service.

However, Lindsay Lee, a senior in math and Spanish and founder of Campus Disability Advocates, begs to differ.

Attempting to return home from the Hill on a rainy day, Lee said she was denied a lift from The T bus because of her wheelchair. The driver, she said, instructed her to call the T-Access bus. “As far as I know, it’s illegal for a driver to refuse to let me on the bus, but I had two separate drivers refuse to let me on two separate occasions,� Lee said. “But that day on the Hill in the rain I tried calling the Access Bus and ended up waiting 45 minutes in the rain for it to come, when it could have taken me 20 minutes to get back to Morrill on my own.�

When asked if devising set schedules for students certified through the Office of Disability Services has ever been considered, Hairr replied his office did consider this approach a viable option. Students have expressed changing needs, he said, and seem satisfied overall with the current system.

Lee, however, said she now prefers to avoid that system completely. “I always scoot now,� said Lee. “It’s a lot less hassle.�

altcoin exchanges registered as a limited liability corporation. “It’s really amazing how shady some of the other altcoin exchanges are and yet how much money goes through them‌â€?

Brock said. “It really doesn’t feel like a safe place to put your money because it’s so poorly designed – some random guy is running it. He hasn’t registered with any kind of record-keeping agency... Yet $2,000,000 were going through the site

every 24 hours.�

While cryptocurrency users are still susceptible to hacking, Miller expressed confidence in Cryptilla’s security, saying that his security auditing should minimize threats.

Bitcoin’s use in the online drug trade, as well as the recent exploitation of Mt. Gox, another online exchange, has earned cryptocurrency criticism from politicians.

Brock, however, remains optimistic for

the technology behind cryptocurrency As several banks are already looking to use Bitcoin’s method to supplement their transaction processes, Brock remains optimistic for cryptocurrency’s future.

Still testing, the three undergrads plan to launch Cryptilla early this summer.

Placing second in the undergraduate business plan competition, the men behind Cryptilla won $3,000 to expand their business into the future.

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Friday, April 25, 2014 Arts & Culture Editor Claire Dodson

ARTS & CULTURE

pdodson@utk.edu

Assistant Arts & Culture Editor Cortney Roark

croark4@utk.edu

• Photo Courtesy of Megan Lange

Claire Dodson Arts & Culture Editor David Platillero, guitar and vocals for local jazzpop band Maplehurst, is embarking on a new solo project called David Francisco.

The 22-year-old senior in electrical engineering will release his first single, “Paris, Alone,” this Saturday at 8 p.m. in the Fifth Avenue House, with coffee and tea served by Sweet Aroma Ministries.

Opening the show is Belmont University singersongwriter Garrett Hinson.

While playing with Maplehurst, Platillero found himself writing songs that didn’t necessarily fit with band’s sound and time commitments – but he still wanted to share the music he had created.

Thus, David Francisco was born.

“With Maplehurst, we just didn’t have time to practice the new material, and this semester we haven’t had much time to gig,” Platillero said. “The levels of investment were just different. I want to try music as a career, to see what happens and do it more seriously.”

Platillero recorded his most recent project at fellow Maplehurst member and senior in music composition Gideon Klein’s home studio in Nashville this past December. Due to time constraints, however, they decided not to release a hastily-finished complete EP. “We didn’t want to skimp on the quality and the mixing just to make for a faster release,” he said.

“Also, I’ve never played as David Francisco, so it’s an easier introduction. It’s harder for an audience to invest in six or seven songs as opposed to just one.”

The single, “Paris Alone,” is longer and slower than most first singles, but Platillero said he was too excited about the message and mood of the song for it not to be the first release.

“I believe in the lyrics, in not trading relationships for success, not sacrificing in the music

• Photo Courtesy of Andy Jones

Maplehurst guitarist steps out with new solo project

David Platillero plays guitar and sings for local jazz-pop band Maplehurst on Nov. 11, 2013, in The Square Room.

Platillero has recently ventured into his own solo project, entitled David Francisco. industry just to get ahead,” he said. “I wrote that song after I walked home by myself in the dark after a small house show, and I just felt so alone.

“Alone time can be valuable, but it’s just not as much fun – that’s reflected in the lyrics.”

A complete EP can be expected from Platillero in the fall. He counts among his influences artists like Adele and Feist, which he said impacted how his first record will sound.

“On the whole, though, it’s very piano-driven and ambient, James Blake-inspired,” he said. “I write a lot of slow, quiet songs, and I think that’s because I wrote them in my room, where I literally had to be quiet.”

Wherever this first release takes him, Platillero said he will still find satisfaction in the art of creation.

“I love making music,” Platillero said. “No matter what happens. I don’t have to be fueled by success; I just like to share what I create.”

Marcus Hall, creator of Marc Nelson Denim, works with a sewing machine in his design room.

MARC NELSON continued from Page 1 “That was really cool, but we all kind of took it for granted and didn’t realize how big of a deal it was to be part of something that was made here in Knoxville, Tenn., and sold all around the world.”

Marcus’s stepbrother, Xavier Barton, was one employee who found security within the Levi’s franchise, which proudly marketed itself as attentive to workers’ needs.

“Not everybody’s made for the military and not everybody’s made for college, so that was a decent little niche job to have,” Barton said. “I remember folks buying houses and making a decent wage working there.

It had a union and there were decent benefits, plus we were paid weekly.”

Members of the Cherry Street community thrived, and a high school-aged Hall awaited the day he, too, would join the ranks of family and friends at the factory.

But on the morning of Nov. 3, 1997, an announcement on the building’s public address system sent the workers’ machines and Hall’s ambition into limbo: “We have some devastating news,” the speakers boomed.

Facing a 13 percent decline in sales the previous year and loss of brand marketability, the corporation decided to take a cue from the bulk of their competitors and move production overseas.

The effect on the community, and on young Hall, was devastating.

“If you go over there today, you see it didn’t just effect the Levi’s

plant,” Hall said. “Throughout the whole mile or so of Cherry Street, the stores and truck stops and all that stuff are shut down.

It’s like a ghost town now.

“Watching jobs like that go away from the Knoxville community had a huge impact on my decision to get out and see what else the world had to offer.”

After graduating high school, Hall packed his bags and traveled west until he hit the coast, hoping to make something of himself in Los Angeles. The reality, however, was not what the starryeyed aspiring actor anticipated.

“It was rough – really rough,” he said. “L.A. is a total rat race; you’re living paycheck to paycheck and just kind of in the mix to be chewed up and spit out every single day.”

After three years, the unceasing ruthlessness Hall endured spurred homesickness for the nurturing community and emphasis on craftsmanship he had always seen fostered in his hometown. It was then the idea of returning to Knoxville with his own denim-centered fashion house in tow was born.

“The whole thought process of me coming back to Knoxville was to build up enough momentum and get production back here,” Hall said. “My ideal dream would be to have 30 to 50 employees here in Knoxville, and I would know every one of them and what process of the jean making they did, just like the Levi’s factory when I was growing up.”

Marc Nelson Denim, now in its third year, is well on its way to this goal.

Located on the Old City’s Randolph Street across from the Fireproof Storage Building, Hall and his staff are currently

expanding into the top floor of their building. The basement, now used as the design and show room, will be utilized as a production space.

Americana and local memorabilia, which abound throughout the urban studio, cement the brand’s true, blue-collar roots.

“We are so pro-local, we try to support everything local we can,” Andy Jones, public relations head of Marc Nelson Denim, noted as he gestured toward the design team’s wooden desks, the work of a Knoxville artisan, and a massive chalkboard hailing from Manhattan’s, the once highly patronized bar credited with reviving the Old City in the 1980s. “We really believe it takes community to preserve community.”

The studio’s kitschy décor, including a Baywatch pinball machine, is interspersed with forsaken treasures of the auction house that formerly occupied the space. Stacks of denim, including the brand’s newest “whiskey-washed” line, mingle with baby grand pianos, antique sewing tables, and other dusty heirlooms.

One heirloom, displayed prominently in the studio’s main hub, came not from a prestigious auctioneer, but from Hall’s own personal collection.

“This is my great-grandfather, L.C. Nelson,” Hall said, pride evident in his cadenced drawl, while picking up a fading portrait of his line’s namesake. “He was kind of my inspiration. He always carried himself sharp and would say, ‘Never leave the house without looking like a million bucks, even if you don’t have a million bucks – no one has to know.’”

This pride in his own familial heritage, as well as the heritage behind his product, is why at the end of a taxing workday Hall continues to love and believe in what he does.

“Purpose-wise, I’m doing this for the heritage and history; without that, I probably wouldn’t, because this job is tough,” Hall said. “But I want to show people there can be a life outside of technology, a life to be proud of, where you make a product from the beginning to end and make a good one.”

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Get the inside scoop on this summer’s hottest albums As summer inches ever nearer, there is an array of splendors to discover: cherry popsicles, bare feet and, of course, new music.

To keep you in the loop until The Daily Beacon resumes printing in the summer, here’s what to expect in the music world during May and June. - Jenna Butz, Staff Writer

May 6 Lily Allen – “Sheezus” To celebrate the final day of exams, open up Spotify to catch Allen’s sassy and catchy new album. Her single “Hard Out Here” has already caused a controversial stir as it satirizes how women are depicted in the music industry. Expect more cheekiness in the rest of the album, which could be a refresher from the stereotypical lyrics about parties and heartbreak from the normal pop star.

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June 10 Jack White – “Lazaretto” The Record Store Day Ambassador and modern rock legend seems to never take a break. After releasing the album’s instrumental single “High Ball Stepper” April 1, White moved on to record and press the fastest record in the world on Record Store Day of the album’s title track “Lazaretto.”

The album seems to be White’s experimentation of classic, undistilled rock, and White will be showing this sound off as he headlines Bonnaroo and Forecastle later in the summer.

June 17

The Black Keys – “Turn Blue”

Sam Smith –“In the Lonely Hour”

The Ohio rockers are back and with just as much fire as their last album “El Camino” generated. If the new single “Turn Blue” is any indication of where is album lies, expect hints of psychedelic, jam band-esque grooves, which are perfect for those lazy summer days. The band is currently preparing for its stint on Saturday Night Live on May 10, when fans can expect a sneak peek into the new record that will be released three days later.

Embracing the now infamous styles of James Blake and Bon Iver, Sam Smith has brought a British grit to the mix of acoustic and still techno pop genre. His lyrics are open and honest with a breath of sincerity. Smith also has a smoothness in his voice that one would typically associate with R&B and gospel acts. His songs are reminiscent of late night summer drives without a destination. Take him with you.

May 19 Coldplay – “Ghost Stories” Never leaving the band’s melancholy basis behind, Coldplay’s sixth album remains cohesive with the emo pop rock the band continues to pursue. However, fans can expect a more electronic tint along with a slight R&B edge.

Coldplay has been slowly leaking its album out to the public, and five of the songs can be found online right now.

June 23 Ed Sheeran – “X” Pronounced “multiply,” Sheeran’s new single “Sing” hints at an album tinted with less of the emotionalism that marked his last album and more a record touched

by Pharrell Williams. It was, as Williams was a producer.

Sheeran’s new record sees guest writers like Ms. Monet and Rick Ruben, which have engendered a significantly more pop-y and hip-hop mix of sounds. While some may be skeptical of this blend, we’ll just have to wait and see.

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ARTS & CULTURE Photo Essay: Saying goodbye is easier with pictures

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process, the Beacon has become my secret love affair. College gave me the tools to move on to the next level, but the Beacon taught me to always laugh, enjoy life and to simply I take a lot of pictures, so I don’t write much. But live. So thank you to every one of you that I will say this: allowed me the opportunity to smile. Even I’ve been in a long-term relationship with though I was on the outside looking in – with college and it’s about time I move on. In the a camera – I’m pretty lucky.

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nods in 2012.

But for Lynch, the charming, country love song means more than all the awards and attention it has gained him over the past two years; the song has a deeper meaning and started with a deep inspiration. “‘Cowboys and Angels’ is a very special song to me,” said Lynch. “I wrote it about my grandparents. They’re high school sweethearts – they’ve been married, this past weekend, 59 years. It’s been a love story I was inspired with.”

Though “Cowboys and Angels” has made Lynch one of the top up-and-coming country stars in country music, he’s not stopping there; Lynch recently released his newest single, “Where It’s At,” to country radio as an intro to his new album, which is set to release this fall.

“It’s kind of an introduction to the next chapter of this music we’re about to do,” said Lynch. “And man, it’s really taken off. It’s a summertime groove. This song’s about having that special someone to come home to every day.”

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With a voice deeper than the Tennessee River, a cowboy hat as big and white as his dazzling smile, a country, groovin’ sound that could make George Strait himself cut a rug and a vibe as country as peach ice cream on a front porch swing, rising country star Dustin Lynch has barreled onto the country music scene unlike any other artist in Nashville.

And the up-and-coming country singer is planning to bring it all to the Cotton Eyed Joe next Thursday night.

Lynch shared in an interview with The Daily Beacon how he was Nashville’s country diamond in the rough and how his start was a bit different from most country stars.

“I didn’t know at first that it was a pretty scary job,” Rising country singer Dustin Lynch will perform at Cotton Eyed Joe on May 1.

Lynch said. “I didn’t know what I was getting into. I Though Lynch has been Though Lynch’s shows are the song is expected to be didn’t know how to approach just another captivating tune full of country music fans coined as one of the most music city. All I knew about to add to his electrifying tour. singing and grooving to songs boot-stomping, feel good, was the Bluebird Café. So I “It’s (his music) all about like “She Cranks My Tractor,” upbeat country tours in the found myself frequenting the what’s gonna get a great reac- an up-tempo tractor love industry, he claims he took Bird, learning how to write song, or “Wild in a page out of another counbetter songs Your Smile,” one try rock star’s playbook to and dreaming of of Lynch’s barn- inspire his upcoming album what I wanted to burning singles and the energy found in his accomplish as an that’s sure to get live shows. artist/songwrit“There’s really a lot more the crowd movwrite songs about my life, about things I’ve er.” energy on this record because ing, Lynch’s songs And the counbeen through, about things people very lose to I wrote most of it on the road, are true to the try crooner is on my bus, at fairs and festisingers life, as well on his way me have been through, so there’s a realness to seen in his song- vals, and on the Keith Urban to accomplishtour,” Lynch said. “The Keith writing. my music. It’s real life situations and emotions.” ing his dreams “I write songs Urban tour really influenced – Lynch’s smash about my life, this next album – just being hit, debut single, -Dustin Lynch about things I’ve around that much energy on “Cowboys and been through, stage every night and then Angels,” surabout things writing songs the following passed platinum people very close morning.” sales status, Though Urban influenced to me have been was one of Billboard’s Top his energy, Lynch also finds through, so there’s a realness tion live, what’s gonna make And taken off it has – 5 Country Songs of 2012 and earned a CMT Music “Where It’s At” hit the top people wanna dance and to my music,” said Lynch. energy in places like the Award nod in 2013 and two five on iTunes at the time of come back and see us again,” “It’s real life situations and Cotton Eyed Joe, a place he spent a lot of time at in the emotions.”

American Country Award its release, and like most of said Lynch. the country singer’s singles,

“I

Cult burbon brands start renaissance, new appreciation Associated Press Hoping to get your hands on a bottle of Pappy Van Winkle 23-year-old bourbon? Hope on.

The wildly popular ultra-premium bourbon is legendarily difficult to find and when it is spotted — there’s even a Pappy Tracker app for that — it’s quickly sold out.

And Pappy isn’t the only super-sought-after spirit. Other elusive bourbon brands include the 17-year-old iteration of Eagle Rare, William Larue Weller, Stagg Jr. and Angel’s Envy Cask Strength, all part of a bourbon renaissance that has seen a new appreciation of American whiskey, as well as the birth of a whole new class of cult spirits.

“It seems like that quality and variety and hand-crafted story is finally starting to be appreciated,” says Kris Comstock, bourbon marketing director for the Buffalo Trace Distillery, which sells the Stagg and Weller brands. Buffalo Trace also produces Pappy Van Winkle in association with the Van Winkle family.

Jess Novak, Drink Editor at food and drink website The Daily Meal, credits the rise of cult bourbons to the overall trend of eating and drinking better, along with the nostalgia-driven interest in creating hand-crafted products.

“Bourbon really feels like it hails from our grandfather’s or great-grandfather’s era. It’s some-

thing you have to learn how to drink and it’s deeply American,” she says. “It’s the kind of thing you drink when you’re making your own footstool. So, there’s these small-batch, cult bourbons.

They’re crafted, they have this focus and warmth that comes through in the taste.”

And producers are looking for new ways to impart that handcrafted flourish. Hard-to-find Jefferson’s Ocean, for instance, was aged in barrels at sea. “The bourbon takes on many interesting flavors on its voyage that it could never pick up by maturing the way other premium bourbons do,” says Jefferson’s founder Trey Zoeller.

Bourbon as a whole has become a big player on the liquor scene in recent years, but part of the special appeal of cult bourbons — on top of their craft quality, of course — is their exclusivity. Cult bourbons aren’t made in huge quantities, so some of the pleasure is in the hunt. Not surprisingly, that hunt comes at a cost; these bourbons often run two, three or many times more the price of more common bottles.

When it comes to the hunt for Pappy Van Winkle, it may surprise you to know who is among the people unhappy about the long lines and wait lists: Julian Van Winkle III. “We hate to disappoint people,” he says simply.

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Rising country star Dustin Lynch ready to rock Cotton Eyed Joe

past.

“I would drive from Nashville and go watch country shows there,” said Lynch.

“My first experiences were in the crowd as a fan. It’s always a great time. They’re true country music fans. On top of that, there are a lot of good dancers there—I’m always impressed with the line dancing that goes on.”

Lynch may be adding energy that renders that of country rocker Keith Urban and gets the crowd dancing like they do at Knoxville’s Cotton Eyed Joe, but he says that energy will never change his music entirely.

“It’s still gonna be country – I’m still doing my thing,” Lynch promises.

Lynch will be playing at the Cotton Eyed Joe next Thursday night. Doors open at 6 p.m.

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The Year in Review

AUGUST

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Football - The Butch Jones era begins with a 45-0 drubbing of Austin Peay inside Neyland Stadium.

OCTOBER

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NOVEMBER

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Football - The Vols bowl hopes were dashed after Patton Robinette’s five-yard touchdown gave the Vanderbilt Commodores a 14-10 victory over their in-state rival.

Football - The Vols almost pull a major upset over the then-No.6 Georgia Bulldogs, falling inches short after Alton “Pig” Howard fumbled out of the end zone stretching for the pylon.

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Football - Two weeks after nearly defeating Georgia, the Vols snapped their 19-game losing streak against ranked teams with a 23-21 victory over then-No.11 South Carolina after Michael Palardy’s game-winning, 19-yard field goal in the closing seconds.

DECEMBER

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Football - After welcoming 14 early enrollees in January, the Vols add 18 new signees on National Signing Day, finishing the day with the 5th-ranked recruiting class in the nation.

Men’s Basketball - The Vols pick up their first quality win of the season, beating eventual No. 1 seed Virginia, 87-52, in Thompson-Boling Arena.

MARCH

Football - Current linebacker A.J. Johnson and defensive tackle Danny O’Brien as well as former players Dontavis Sapp and Isaac Mobley were all arrested after an altercation at an off-campus party. Seven other current Vols were also cited for alcohol-related offenses.

MBB - The Vols are swept by the Texas A&M Aggies following yet another Antwan Space game-winning 3-pointer to push the Aggies ahead 68-65 in overtime. The call for UT head coach Cuonzo Martin to be fired by the Tennessee fans reaches it’s apex.

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Women’s Basketball -Despite trailing by double-digits in each first half of the tourny, the Lady Vols clinched their 17th SEC tournament title, defeating the Kentucky Wildcats 71-70 at the Gwinnett Center.

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APRIL

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MBB - Tennessee is announced as an 11 seed in the NCAA tournament on Selection Sunday, marking the first time the Vols made the Big Dance in the Cuonzo Martin era.

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Baseball - After splitting the first two games of their weekend series in Lindsey Nelson Stadium, Tennessee took the rubber match, beating then-No.4 Vanderbilt, 7-0, providing a ‘defining moment’ for the baseball program.

MBB - After defeating Iowa, UMass and Mercer to get themselves to the Sweet 16, the Vols fall just short of advancing to the program’s second Elite Eight, losing to the Michigan Wolverines, 73-71 in Indianapolis’ Lucas Oil Stadium.

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MBB - A week after stating that ‘Tennessee is where he wanted to be,’ after reports surfaced of him being interested in the head coaching vacancy at Marquette, Cuonzo Martin leaves UT to take the head coaching position at the University of California.

MBB - Tennessee hires Southern Mississippi’s Donnie Tyndall to replace Martin and become Tennessee’s 19th head coach in program history.

MBB - Two Vol signees – Larry Austin and Jordan Cornish – are granted a release from their National Letter of Intents, and CJ Turman requested to be released, leaving the Vols with only one signee – Phil Cofer – for the class of 2014.

WBB - The Lady Vols lose to the Maryland Lady Terrapins, 73-62, in the Sweet 16, ending their ‘grind’ for their ninth national championship.

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THE DAILY BEACON • 11 Sports Editor Troy Provost-Heron

SPORTS continued from Page 1 In the month of April, Lenstrohm has tossed 8 2/3 scoreless frames, with just a single free pass and nine strikeouts. In his last appearance, the Yavapai College transfer tossed one inning in UT’s 9-7 loss to East Tennessee State on Tuesday.

Lenstrohm, however, will have a partner in crime also making his 2014 debut in the weekend rotation as Cox (3-1, 1.62) — arguably the Vols’ most valuable arm out of the bullpen in 2014 — is scheduled to start Saturday’s evening affair.

The sophomore lefty, who on Wednesday was named to the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Stopper of the Year Award mid-season watch list, started a pair of midweek contests earlier in the season but hasn’t been in the weekend rotation since March 17, 2013.

“I’m gonna make it seem like it’s a bullpen appearance,” Cox said. “I’m not going to change

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my demeanor on the mound.

I’m going to do fast-tempo and command the fastball and throw strikes.

“This is another game. I’m not going to take it any differently because I’m starting. I’m just going to go out there and be the same me that I always am.”

Senior Nick Williams (4-4, 3.54) — one of the two current UT players who have tested the hostility of Alex Box Stadium — will round out the weekend rotation and go in Sunday’s series finale as the Vols look for just their third series win in Baton Rouge, La., since the two foes first met in 1907.

LSU, they’re a great team, and they’ve been a great team for a long time now,” sophomore outfielder Vincent Jackson said, who followed up Sunday’s walkoff heroics with a solo home run on Tuesday against ETSU. “But we’ve found out as a team that we can compete with anybody.

We’ve beaten great teams and we can do it again.

“We just got to come and play our game of baseball and take pitch-by-pitch and not let the surroundings get to us.”

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Junior Peter Lenstrohm delivers a pitch during the Vols’ 3-2 loss to Auburn on March 21 at Lindsey Nelson Stadium.

SOFTBALL

Lady Vols, Kentucky to battle for SEC supremacy Garrett Ahmad Staff Writer

Lexington.”

Conversely, the Lady Vols are 4-5 in their last nine conference games and have been inconsistent at the plate against opposing pitchers.

Last weekend, Tennessee went 1-2 against Mississippi State including a shutout loss in Friday’s game. The next day, UT slammed five home runs in the first two innings.

Batting, however, has not been the only area of inconsistency for the Lady Vols.

UT has also struggled in the circle recently after allowing 11 runs in the final game against Mississippi State.

Weekly said the ups and downs of the team this season might be explained by the overall strength of the SEC this season.

“There’s eight (other SEC teams) in one of top 25 polls,” Weekly said. “We’re looking at Matthew DeMaria • The Daily Beacon

Tied at second place in the SEC, No. 8 Tennessee (37-8, 12-6 SEC) and No. 10 Kentucky (39-9, 12-6) will battle for conference supremacy this weekend at John Cropp Stadium in Lexington, Ky. The series could prove to be decisive in the seeding for the SEC tournament, which is now less than two weeks away with only three conference games remaining after this weekend.

“It’s a matter of postseason and where we want to be at is the World Series, and we definitely want to take it,” senior Melissa Davin said. “We’ve got to use every game to help us prepare for the postseason.”

The last matchup between the two teams was last season in a non-conference game which the

Lady Vols won 6-0.

Tennessee owns the advantage in the all-time series, 35-12, with a 17-6 record in Lexington.

The Wildcats, however, come into the series hot as winners of 10 of their past 11 games.

Pitching duo Lauren Cumbess and Kelsey Nunley each own a sub-2.00 ERA and have combined for a 30-4 record this season.

Cumbess is also one of four Wildcats hitting better than .300 on the season along with top hitter senior Emily Gaines, who is batting .393.

“They’re a well coached team,” co-head coach Ralph Weekly said. “They have a lot of good players. We have a lot of good players. I think it’s a pretty evenly-matched contest.

“I think both teams are capable of coming out on top, so we’re going to have to play our best game to be successful up in

Senior Melissa Davin gets a secondary lead during the Lady Vols 3-0 win over College of Charleston at Sheri Parker Lee Stadium on March 9.

Florida, a team that we beat three times, that is ahead of us now. The polls are jumping back and forth. I think it could be the best year for the SEC from top to bottom.”

The nine ranked SEC teams is four higher than any other conference in the nation.

The Lady Vols have lost their previous three opening games against SEC opponents, but Davin said they know they cannot afford to continue that trend this Friday.

“I know that we’re hungry,” Davin said after Wendesday’s practice. “We worked hard today.

We’re wanting to come out ready to attack. We struggled the past couple Friday nights, and we want to make sure we go out strong on the first night.”

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Run your race at UT with endurance

Gage Arnold Copy Chief I never thought there’d be tears.

But here they are, welling up into droplets slipping gingerly down my cheeks.

The tears are here, I think, because I’m realizing I ran my race well. They’re a celebratory release from a senior who has sprinted through his finish line.

See, every student at UT, whether he or she knows it, is running a race that’s characterized by what they make of themselves in their four years at this university.

My race started on the wrong foot, or so I thought.

As a freshman, I was a turtle in his shell. Introverts don’t typically do well in large group situations, and being plopped into a group of 20,000-plus new friends didn’t help the acclimation process. This is especially true for introverts who arrive with fears and insecurities that stemmed from a roller coaster of a home life in high school.

So naturally, I bounced around in search of acceptance, things to do, people to meet.

I, like many of you reading this, was searching for purpose (i.e. my place in the world).

I found the identity I was looking for during my sophomore year at one of UT’s Christian ministries, Campus Crusade for Christ. I experienced community, fulfillment and companions I could be myself with. Moments were genuine. Friends were sup-

portive. My guard was down.

That following summer I journeyed to Sweden for six weeks with CRU on a mission that would completely change my worldview. I shared the hope, truth and love of a relationship with Jesus Christ with Swedes who were in similar places to where I was just a year prior. I didn’t just live in my Knoxville and Chattanooga bubbles any longer, and I caught a large glimpse of just how gargantuan the world is.

Then came career blessings in the form of two internships with the Knoxville News Sentinel my junior and senior years. In my personal life, I experienced a completed family unit at home once again. I was absolutely, in the purest sense, a blessed young man.

And that’s exactly what my time at UT has been: a blessing. A compilation of laid-back Friday nights spent at home, of countless hours spent slaving over the thousands of words that were printed in an edition of The Daily Beacon and of authentic memories I’ll cherish forever.

I’m grateful for a father that believed in me and prayed over me on a constant basis, for a step-mom that loved me as her own and for siblings that continue to look to me as a mentor and spur me on to leave a legacy worth following.

I’m grateful for Beacon and Chattanooga friends that have laughed, wept, encouraged and loved me. Each of you has helped me become a better human, and for that I am so thankful.

To the misfits, to the ones who worry, to the ones who are quiet, to the ones who don’t think they’re good enough, this column is for you.

From someone who struggled with all of these things during his four-year tenure as an undergrad at UT, I urge you to run your race well.

It’s never too late to start,

so begin now, wherever you are; branch out of your comfort zone, make new friends, challenge your beliefs, seek truth, serve others, give of yourself, laugh, cry and, most importantly, never be content with where you are.

From the boy who, at 13 years of age, took a sharpie to an old, worn-out UT jersey and etched the words “Orange Nation” on it because he wanted to be a part of something bigger than himself, I urge you to be bold.

From the man who accomplished childhood dreams of reporting on a UT football game in Neyland Stadium, I urge you to believe in your future self.

Now do I have regrets regarding things I didn’t accomplish? Absolutely. But I’ll choose to resonate on what I did do.

Like how I left my Chattanooga home in the fall of 2010 as a child and will return there this summer as an adult before departing to Nashville for a year.

That’s why we run our race, and that’s why we attend the University of Tennessee – to sprout into strong men and women, learning from every bump, bruise, all-nighter, failed test, trial, tribulation and broken relationship.

When we push forward, we grow.

So run your race well.

Reject passivity, seek truth and embrace this hallowed university – and life – for everything it offers.

Gage Arnold is a graduating senior in journalism and electronic media. He will be a member of the Nasvhille Fellows Program starting in September. He can be reached at garnold@utk.edu for about two more weeks until the university deactivates his email account (Big Orange Screw?) or followed on Twitter @GageArnold.

Sports writing was a productive experience, despite game losses

Steven Cook Copy Editor When asked of Tennessee athletics during their time as a student, most people in my graduating class won’t have many fond memories.

My time on Rocky Top began the same year as Derek Dooley’s — enough said for the football program.

Donnie Tyndall is the third men’s basketball head coach the Vols have had in those four years. There was a Sweet 16 sprinkled in there, but that sweet turned sour awfully quick.

The baseball team is 30-76 in the SEC since I got here. Get the trend?

But at least for me, it’s been different. Working in sports journalism for the past four years, especially this year with The Daily Beacon, has been an unforgettable experience I’ve been incredibly lucky to have.

I spent my first three years with the Tennessee Journalist.

Working my way up there into the sports editor’s role allowed me all sorts of awesome opportunities and taught me lesson after lesson on what goes into covering a collegiate athletics program.

Going into my senior year, though, something was missing.

I had not written for the Beacon.

The first words of advice I received as a freshman from a UT graduate sports journalist, was, “If you aren’t working with the Beacon by your sopho-

more year, change your major.”

Of course, he was around long before TNJN and other programs existed for journalism majors. But the Beacon’s more than 100-year-old reputation is unmistakable, as are the rewards of working for a daily newspaper.

Thankfully, I had made friends with then-soon-to-be Beacon Sports Editor David Cobb in journalism class. When I randomly emailed him late in the spring 2013 semester, I didn’t expect much.

He answered back and said I could join the sports staff and cover whatever I wanted — football, basketball, baseball, intramural floor hockey, whatever. I could also copy edit the paper a few days a week.

When I met the rest of the staff, it was more of the same.

I came in not knowing practically anyone and not knowing the first thing about how a newspaper works, but I immediately felt at home and quickly became familiar.

I’ve covered stuff like the NCAA tournament, road football games, SEC tournaments and SEC football media days.

I’ve been able to put my microphone in the face of Johnny Manziel, John Calipari and countless other famous people.

Those will probably be the things I brag about most from my days as a student reporter at UT. But what I will remember most are the people who helped me become who I am now— a driven, soon-to-be graduate with quality experience and a firm grasp on the sports journalism industry (did I mention I’m humble, too?).

So here goes a long and arduous list of thank you’s to those people.

To Clay Seal, Austin Bornheim and Steven Harris, for allowing me to climb the ranks at TNJN and for being

great sportswriter role models early on.

To Victoria Wright, R.J. Vogt and Melodi Erdogan, for weaning me into life as a Beaconite last summer when I was new and wet behind the ears.

To Gage Arnold, for practically running the Beacon at times this year and making me feel worthless by comparison.

And for stealing my scoops — you know what I’m talking about.

To Troy Provost-Heron and Dargan Southard, for running a fantastic sports section this semester and continuing to give me an integral role — even though I’m older and thus better than both of you.

To all the other Beacon superstars, for helping make my articles less terrible and for making me incredibly proud to be a small part of the paper this year.

And lastly to David Cobb, for turning a shot-in-the-dark email into my job at the Beacon — the best experience of my college career.

Phew, now that’s over. I feel like I just won an Oscar or something.

But seriously, all of these people — and many more I surely left out — have made covering collegiate sports as a student more awesome than it already was.

Many people in my graduating class will cringe at the thought of the UT athletics program from 2010-14 and request a do-over. And rightfully so, considering the results.

But with the memories I’ve made, I wouldn’t have had it any other way.

Steven Cook is graduating summer 2014 with a degree in journalism and electronic media. He can be reached at stevencook21@gmail.com or on Twitter @steventerrycook.