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Baseball team looks capitalize on series win >>See page 11

ON THE PROWL

News Editor When someone makes a call to Mike McMillan, it’s not uncommon to detect panic on the other end of the receiver.

As the owner and founder of McMillan Wildlife Control, McMillan’s daily routine consists of rescuing those Knoxvillians whose daily lives have been invaded by creatures of the wild.

“He doesn’t realize he’s in an urban environment versus a rural environment,” McMillan said of the behavior of the urban coyote, a predator, though not peculiar to Knox County, that has certainly earned its fair share of local fame.

From scattered neighborhood sightings to run ins with domestic pets, the coyote occupies a particular space in the urban mindset that, while certainly imaginative, isn’t always founded in reality.

In Knoxville, as in any urban environment that lacks a wide range of biodiversity, the coyote largely sits at the top of the food chain, humans withstanding.

Before the arrival of Europeans on American soil, however, the ecology of Knox County and surrounding Appalachia looked very different from how it appears today.

The eastern cougar, generally presumed extinct despite its presence on the endangered species list, used to sit on top of Knoxville’s ecological food chain. Below the cougar stood the red wolf, a canid that occupied a similar niche in the environment before the arrival of the coyote.

The red wolf, like the cougar, also failed to stand up against human incursion into its habit, largely as a result of federally funded programs designed to eradicate their populations.

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Over 500,000 sign Target boycott over transgender policy

Soul singer Billy Paul dies of cancer

Target’s inclusive stance on transgender rights has fueled a conservative Christian activist group to pledge a boycott against the company. The petition, started by the American Family Association last Wednesday, claims Target’s current transgender bathroom policy puts woman and young girls in danger of sexual predators. The boycott currently has over 503,000 signatures, making it one of the group’s most popular campaigns to date. Though Target may lose customers as a result of the petition, they are standing by their policy, according to a Target spokeswoman. The announcement from Target came at a time that legislators are deciding the rules for transgender restrooms for their state.

Last week, a bill in the Tennessee legislature was killed by its sponsor, who said the matter needed to be investigated further before a decision was made.

Prince isn’t the only music celebrity whose loss is being mourned this week.

However, for many, the name Billy Paul is much less familiar. Paul reached mainstream popularity and earned a Grammy award with his 1972 single “Me and Mrs. Jones,” but his career began well before then. In 1945 in Philadelphia, Paul performed on local radio station WPEN at 11 years old. After attending several schools for music and vocal training and performing at clubs with then jazz greats such as Nina Simone and Charlie Parker, Paul served in the army during the mid 1960s. After returning to civilian life, he released his debut album “Feelin’ Good at the Cadillac Club” in 1968. Although “Me and Mrs. Jones” remained Paul’s only truly mainstream hit, members of the R&B community, including Roots member Questlove, recognize him as one of the great contributors to the social consciousness movement taking place in the genre during the 1960s.

Curry could miss up to two weeks According to a Yahoo sports report, Golden State guard, and reigning MVP, Stephen Curry could miss up to two weeks with a grade one MCL sprain. Curry sat out games two and three of the Warriors’ first round series with Houston after suffering an ankle injury in game one. He came back for game four, but slipped on a wet spot on the floor in the last seconds of the first half. Curry will be reevaluated in two weeks, but will be available for the Conference Semifinals if no extra rest is needed. Curry averaged 30 points per game and more than five made 3s per game in the regular season. The Warriors hold a 3-1 series lead over the Rockets despite Curry’s absence, and will play the winner of the Clippers/Blazers series should they advance.

Abortion rights’ advocate looks to amendment recount Associated Press

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — An amendment to the Tennessee Constitution that would place greater restrictions on abortions is likely to be tossed out now that a judge has ordered a recount of the 2014 ballot approving it, the lead plaintiff in a federal lawsuit challenging the results said Monday.

Fifty-three percent of voters approved Amendment 1 in November 2014. Last week, however, a federal judge ordered a recount after finding that the method used to tabulate the votes was fundamentally unfair to those who opposed the amendment. U.S. District Judge Kevin Sharp said the votes were tallied in favor of abortion opponents.

The federal ruling came a day after a state court judge found in favor of the way Tennessee counted the ballots.

In his ruling, Sharp cited language from the Tennessee Constitution that said an amendment is ratified by a “majority of all citizens of the state voting for governor.”

The eight citizens who filed the lawsuit challenging the amendment had argued that

the state tabulated the results of the election without considering who voted for governor.

They maintained that it wasn’t just enough to consider whether more voters approved of the amendment than not; A total of 1,343,728 people voted for governor in the November 2014 election, court documents show. There were 729, 163 votes in favor of amendment 1.

“We have never had more people vote on an amendment than voted for governor, and so it is possible given the math — in fact there’s a good probability — that the recount would result in Amendment 1 failing,” said Tracey George.

Under Sharp’s ruling, George said, if even half of the Tennesseans who voted for the referendum but did not back a candidate for governor were yes votes, the amendment would fail in a recount.

The Vanderbilt law professor is one of the eight abortion rights’ advocates who filed the lawsuit challenging the election results.

She said the amendment would lose on the recount if even just half of those who didn’t vote for governor cast ballots in support of the abortion regulation measure.

The head of the state’s leading antiabortion organization said opponents of Amendment 1 were trying to win in

court what they couldn’t at the ballot box.

“Tennessee Right to Life shares the view that the historic method of counting the votes and ratifying the results on Amendment 1 was followed in the exact way as every other amendment approved by the voters of our state,” said Brian Harris, the organization’s president, in an emailed statement.

But George said abortion opponents tried to have their votes carry more weight than those opposed to the measure by telling people to cast ballots in the amendment race but not for the governor.

Sharp has given the state 20 days to come up with a plan for the recount. It’s not clear if the state will appeal.

The state attorney general’s office is still reviewing the judge’s order, Harlow Sumerford, a spokesman for Attorney General Herbert Slatery, said in an email.

The cost to the state of a recount, Sumerford said, is something that would have to be determined.

The amendment said nothing in the state constitution “secures or protects a right to abortion or requires the funding of an abortion.” It gave power to state lawmakers to “enact, amend, or repeal statutes regarding abortion.”

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Black Cultural Programming Committee event de-stresses before finals Alahnah Ligon Asst. News Editor

In the midst of finals, the Black Cultural Programming Committee reached out to students with an event planned just for the fun of it.

“It’s just a way to celebrate students and the hard work that they have done thus far, especially for graduating seniors,” Committee Chair Kendra White, senior in special education with a concentration in communication disorders, said.

The group set up outside of HSS with bounce houses for students to jump, race and fight their friends in, a giant chess board, free hamburgers, hot dogs, cotton candy, popcorn and a DJ who blasted tunes in the amphitheater.

Nikki Kinnard, a junior in kinesiology and chair-elect for BCPC, said the group paired “I Heart Knoxville Week,” Aramark and local Vol apartments complexes to sponsor the event, but used the group’s budget to provide the rest.

“We are an event planning organization, so we have a set budget for (events) and things,” Kinnard said.

White said the group had planned popular events in the past, like a Martin Luther King Celebration and a “Young Professionals” Lecture Series, but wanted to reach out to students in a new way.

“We need a way to interact with students on a more fun, personal level,” White said. “Usually we have lectures and other events where students can come and listen to people, but we felt like it was time for us to switch it up a little bit, have something more interactive, something that students would enjoy more, especially before finals.”

White said the turnout at this event may encourage next year’s BCPC group to continue to host similar events.

“In BCPC style, we’re always bringing something new, something fun, something we know the campus community will enjoy,” White said. “Hopefully this will become a signature event because Students Jaron Rowland (left) and David Ilchert (right) play a game of chess in the people are loving it, it’s mental- ampitheater outside of HSS. ly de-stressing people for finals Alex Phillips • The Daily Beacon week.”

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Looking at bullying in a different light

Food truck aggitates Cumberland merchants

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Alahnah Ligon

News Editor On its surface, bullying appears to be a relatively simple matter. Wedgies, swirlies, stolen lunch money, these things generally occupy one’s mind when the subject is breached. Unfortunate, yes, but never severe enough to warrant too much concern.

Place bullying under a psychological microscope, however, and the true, wide reaching effects of the phenomenon reveal just how prevalent and damaging it can be.

This Tuesday, Dieter Wolke, professor of developmental psychology at University of Warick, will present “The Long Shadow Thrown by Bullying” at 6 p.m. in room 622 of Min H. Kao. An international expert in the field of bullying, Wolke will delve into the intricate and often overlooked aspects of the behavior that contribute to the widespread psychological damage experienced by children all over the world.

When it comes to the importance of studying bullying, Wolke points to the amount of time spent with peers as opposed to parents.

By the time you’re 18, the average person will have spent twice or three times as much time with peers rather than with parents. For victims of bullies, this could mean two to three times as many opportunities to feel the negative psychological effects those social interactions reap.

Even into adulthood, people who experience bullying are more likely to exhibit signs of self harm, suicide attempts, depression, anxiety and even psychotic behaviors.

Setting aside the negative effects, Wolke explained bullying as a form of social interaction that takes on a very basic, almost

primal structure.

Divided into three parts, the typical bullying social interaction consists of pure bullies, their victims and the dual victimbullies.

Victims and bully-victims experience differing degrees of social pressure and anxiety, yet the pure bullies, contrary to the Hollywood stereotype, are often “social manipulators” and are often both respected and feared by those they encounter.

“If you’re on the top of the pile, you don’t need to fight very much,” Wolke said of bullying. “Unfortunately, it (leadership through bullying) is done by unsocial means ... It would be better to be leader by including everyone.”

Further peeling back the misleading stereotypes of the behavior, Wolke explained that while many people often assume victims of bullying are inferior either in looks or in physical development, the opposite is often true among girls.

“In girls, it’s very often a competition of someone who’s good looking,” Wolke said of female bullying, noting that as a form of “intersex competition,” young girls will often single out and ostracize those they deem more physically attractive.

Julia Jaekel, Assistant Professor in the College of Education, Health and Human Services who helped organize the event, explained that while she does not deal specifically with bullying, she appreciates the wide range of factors that contribute to human development similar to the study of bullying.

“There’s still a huge amount of variation in children’s development that is unexplained,” Jaekel said, noting the importance of considering socioeconomic, parenting, cultural and even biological conditions not only in bullying, but in other developmental studies as well.

COYOTES continued from Page 1 Though some 50 red wolfs are known to roam the woods of North Carolina, similar recovery endeavors have failed to take root in East Tennessee, with the last such project ending in large scale starvation and complaints from local farmers whose livestock became victims of the struggling species.

So enters the coyote, an omnivorous creature whose booming populations have touched every continental state, including Tennessee and Knoxville.

For Joseph Clark, research ecologist with US geological survey and expert in the ecology of large carnivores, the success of coyotes in

Asst. News Editor

Travis Dorman Staff Writer Several Cumberland Avenue restaurants and businesses have reached out to Knoxville business liaisons with frustration toward a visiting food truck who frequents the area and offers food to construction workers.

Monday at approximately 9:45 a.m., it was Walgreens that ran into the food truck in front of its establishment, which fueled its manager to reach out to nearly 100 other Cumberland merchants and liaisons.

The food truck, or Mobile Food Unit or Vendor, has also been spotted by merchants near Taco Bell, the tattoo shop “Headquarters,” and in several alleys on Cumberland.

Patricia Robledo, Business Liaison for Knoxville’s Office of Business Support, said that under the Pilot Program, which was developed in April of 2014, the city of Knoxville does not allow vending from food trucks in public rights of way, streets and sidewalks, though there are a few exceptions like special events, farmers markets where streets close, etc.

Mobile Food Vendors can park in designated public areas, and they can park in private areas if they have a written letter from the owner giving them permission to do so.

However, this particular truck does not fall under the Pilot Program, which adheres mainly to what Robledo referred to as “restaurants on wheels,” or trucks that prepare and cook the food on site in their vehicle.

This particular truck, Robledo said, delivered the food, already prepared, to workers at the construction site.

“This particular truck is a lunch truck. It does not do any preparation on site, and it doesn’t sell food from the inside of the truck,” Robledo said. “It could be considered an outdoor sale because it does not operate like the model that we have under the Pilot Program.”

Robledo said she was not sure about the legality

Knoxville can be attributed to any number of factors, none of which are particularly related to the geography or environment offered by East Tennessee.

“The phenomenon is pretty ubiquitous,” Clark said of the coyotes expansion across America.

Originally found only in U.S. Southwest, the coyote was allowed to spread across the continent on the coattails of European and colonial expansion, who provided new habitats, sources of food and the elimination of competing predators from other environments.

Combined with their adaptability and high rate of reproduction — a coyote litter yields eight to nine pups on average — the coyote was bound for success nationwide.

Though they occupy a similar ecological

of what took place Monday morning, and that she would need to talk to a lawyer to interpret the situation further.

Ann Wallace, deputy director at Knoxville’s Office of Redevelopment, however, was sure the truck operated illegally while selling food to construction workers near Walgreens Monday.

“Operating within right of way is only permissible through the Pilot Program that was established for food trucks at this point in time,” Wallace said.

“Cumberland Avenue is not designated as one of the areas in the pilot program. Any truck parked on Cumberland would be operating illegally because it’s not included within the Pilot Program area.”

Robledo said the truck had no markings, so she couldn’t reach out and offer information or advice on how the truck owners could operate legally.

Robledo is sponsoring an ordinance on food trucks that would promote the health of Knoxville residents by regulating food trucks while making vending more flexible and feasible for the Mobile Food Units.

The ordinance will have its second hearing in the city council Tuesday evening.

Robledo said that the city’s intention with both the Pilot Program and the new ordinance has been to allow food trucks to expand their business opportunities while ensuring the operation remains safe for everyone involved.

Robledo believes the Pilot Program has been successful, saying that food truck operators came to the city, asking for a system of regulations that emulates the ones other cities have in place, and that the number of food trucks creating mutual beneficial partnerships with businesses and breweries has increased dramatically.

“When we started this Pilot Program, we had just a few food trucks running around,” Robledo said.

“We now have permitted 31 food trucks and we have four that are partially permitted.”

Robledo also said that businesses on Cumberland Avenue may be struggling due to the construction, and that there could be a hyper-sensitivity to any other factors that could hurt them further, such as the food truck coming in and creating more competition.

niche as the now absent red wolf population, the urban Knoxville coyote is still considered by many to be an invasive species.

For Clark, however, the question of what do about coyote populations in East Tennessee is largely a moot point, due largely to the overall failure of any and all efforts to eliminate their populations across the nation.

“No one has ever been able to prevent the spread of coyotes in any extent,” Clark said.

“They’re here to stay regardless of what we want.”

And stay in Knoxville they have, largely at the expense of the domestic dogs and cats with whom they share their environment.

McMillan, who has trapped over 100 coyotes over the course of a lifetime, said that while coyotes usually show no qualms about attacking the

domestic pets that occupy Knoxville’s back yards and front porches, they almost always stop short of attacking humans.

He recalls a particular incident in which a local woman, frightened nearly to death by the sight of a coyote, took to cowering behind her front porch column before eventually contacting McMillan’s business.

Though this may be many people’s first reaction when coming across a wild animal, McMillan stresses that in order to avoid the rare, though certainly not impossible run in with a coyote, the key lies in how you present yourself.

“If you are afraid of the coyote, it can sense that in your body language, in the motions that you make, he can sense fear whether it’s a human or another animal,” McMillan said.

“That’s how they establish dominance.”

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Anti-Trump pact unites his rivals Associated Press

BORDEN, Ind. — Declaring the Republican presidential contest at “a fork in the road,” Ted Cruz and John Kasich defended their extraordinary new alliance on Monday as the party’s last, best chance to stop Donald Trump, even as the New York billionaire surged toward another big delegate haul.

Trump, the Republican front-runner, lashed out at what he called collusion by desperate rivals, intensifying his attacks on the GOP presidential nomination system on the eve of Tuesday’s round of primary elections in the Northeast.

“If you collude in business, or if you collude in the stock market, they put you in jail,” Trump said as he campaigned in Rhode Island.. “But in politics, because it’s a rigged system, because it’s a corrupt enterprise, in politics you’re allowed to collude.”

“It shows how pathetic they are,” he said of his Republican rivals.

Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland hold primaries Tuesday along with Rhode Island.

Cruz, a Texas senator, and Kasich, the

Ohio governor, announced the terms of an unprecedented agreement late Sunday night to coordinate primary strategies in three of the 15 remaining primary states.

Kasich will step back in the May 3 Indiana contest to let Cruz bid without interference for voters who don’t like Trump. Cruz will do the same for Kasich in subsequent contests in Oregon and New Mexico.

The arrangement does not address Tuesday’s primaries, where Trump is expected to add to his already hefty delegate lead. Yet the shift offers increasingly desperate Trump foes a glimmer of hope in their long and frustrating fight to keep him from amassing enough delegates to seal his nomination and avoid a contested national convention in July.

Ignoring the Northeast on Monday, Cruz insisted, “We are at a fundamental fork in the road,” as he campaigned in Indiana.

“It is big news today that John Kasich has decided to pull out of Indiana to give us a headto-head contest with Donald Trump,” the fiery conservative told reporters. “That is good for the men and women of Indiana. It’s good for the country to have a clear and direct choice.”

The plan carries risks — especially as Trump bashes a “rigged” nomination system.

Some would-be Cruz supporters in Indiana agreed with Trump’s criticism.

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Thank you for being Socialized Jarrod Nelson Socialized

I have been writing columns for an entire school year now, and that fact really does blow my mind.

That’s a concept that my mind will not wrap itself around fully until this time next year, when it will have been two years of writing columns, and thus the cycle can begin anew and continue up until I graduate, at which point I will have a million other things to wrap my head around, things that will hopefully involve making at least some money. But I can honestly say that this last year has been one of the most important and fulfilling ones of my life, and in large part I owe that to this column and the responses I get to it. Pretty much nothing makes me happier, even though “Game of Thrones” did come back again on Sunday.

This is my last column of the year, and that’s why I started out a little bit sappy. I’m also still not sure where to take it yet. You’re watching my process unfold before you. It’s really underwhelming, isn’t it? I do have it though. This whole thing is headed right to a discussion of summer break.

The word break is right there in it. It implies separation. The opposite of togetherness. A clean split between now and then. Spring and fall.

Problem is though, is that we can’t afford that.

In the last month, and honestly the last week, so much has happened that we need to carry forward. The Bible was almost made the state book.

The Barret .50 Cal IS the state rifle (Enfield man myself), and the State Legislature voted 66-22 in the House and 28-4 in the Senate to defund UT’s very own Office of Diversity and Inclusion. That vote could not have come at a worse time for a couple of reasons. Not only has this bill presented challenges that are hard in and of themselves, but the timing of those challenges makes this fight inconvenient to nearly everyone on campus. Here come exams. And a startling crisis that gets to the heart of the future of this campus. Pick your poison.

Even if you pick, then comes summer break.

A clean split. Plenty of us pack up and leave. We go to cool places with exotic names like Paris, McMinnville and home. We go make a difference waiting tables and wonder how unpaid internships are still legal. Some of us even graduate, and wonder how three years experience is paradoxically required for an entry level position. It takes the fight out of all of us. It’s the chance for the entire campus to take one big, deep breath, and only exhale in August.

Now though, we can’t afford to do that. If we breathe, we’re going to get knocked out. We have to hold our breath for longer than we ever had, and keep pushing through the punches and the rounds and the injustice and the absolute lack of interest and caring for anyone this bill actually effects.

They have the opposite of perfect pitch, which is

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As we all leave and go places, remember that this fight is still happening. Don’t let distance and time get in the way of your organizing and activism. ”

It’s nearing the end of the semester, and we all have some all-nighters in store.

Listen to these tunes to keep going till morning.

“No Sleep Till Brooklyn” Beastie Boys

“Livin On A Prayer” Bon Jovi

“Wide Awake” somehow worse than being tone deaf. It’s like being octave opposite or something.

As we all leave and go places, remember that this fight is still happening. Don’t let distance and time get in the way of your organizing and activism. Use social media, use phone calls, emails, even a fax machine if you are somehow so inclined.

Don’t take a breath. Not quite yet.

I just want to end with a list of thanks and acknowledgements for this column and campus at large.

Thanks to UT Diversity Matters for carrying this fight forwards in the midst of an unrelenting nihilistic political climate.

Thanks to TN is Not for Sale for providing an example of what coalition building truly is.

Thanks to Kelsey Elam-Geuting, for being the best advisor anyone could ask for and for helping me land this job in the first place. I will never not miss you.

And thanks to everyone who has read this column, watched my show or not done any of those things but still commits themselves to respectfully living their beliefs out loud, no matter what they are, and involving themselves in this process we call democracy. That’s the only way we can all really be Socialized.

Jarrod Nelson is a sophomore in public relations and can be reached at jnelso47@vols.utk.edu.

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.

Katy Perry

“Awakening” Yellowcard

“Bring Me To Life” Evanescence

“Get Lucky” Daft Punk

“I’m Not Sleeping” Counting Crows

“All Night Long” Lionel Richie

“Stay Awake” All Time Low

“Wake Me Up” Avicii

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Virginia’s voter registration restoring justice Adam Weatherell Dreaming of Dolly

I have had the privilege of being published alongside Erica Davis and Franco D’Aprile’s “Two Tree Huggers with an Ax” for the past semester or so, and admittedly, it is one of two or three columns that I read consistently.

Environmentalism, in its most distilled form, really is a bummer. And the government/market responses to the degradation of the environment are pretty much, well, a really big bummer. This is where those talks of resilience and grit come in, because given the option to opt out and pretend there is no hope is more of my style. I like to listen to Beyoncé, but I wouldn’t skip class to protest what she’s singing about.

That’s why it’s nice to have sources of positivity around — people who see the challenges not as dead ends, but as calls to arms.

People who will stick around East Tennessee because someone needs to. People who fight for change.

This past week something amazing happened, and if my Facebook is any indicator of coverage, it’s received almost no coverage.

Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe reinstated voting rights to convicted felons, effectively reinstating the right to vote for 200,000

Virginians.

Just a little background, but Virginia was one of four states, along with Kentucky, Iowa and Florida that had a blanket lifetime ban on voting for felons, regardless of committed crime or parole completion. What these laws did/do is bar those most susceptible to recidivism, or a relapse in criminal behavior, to the political process. If it seems arcane and senseless, it’s because it is.

These laws were born out of direct racism during the reconstruction days, and the original provisions were passed alongside poll taxes and literacy tests all in an effort to “eliminate” the darkey as a political factor in this State in less than five years, so that in no single county of the Commonwealth will there be the least concern felt for the complete supremacy of the white race in the affairs of government.”

The poll tax and literacy test were eventually struck down, but race has since transitioned into more veiled, palatable terms through the way we treat our convicts.

I read “The New Jim Crow,” by Michelle Alexander, and I would suggest you do too, because it outlines the evolution of mass incarceration and its disparaging detriment on

Saying bye, staying green Franco D’Aprile

Erica Davis Two Treehuggers with an Ax

Franco: Erica, I feel like we’ve been so in sync writing our column this year.

Erica: But now it’s time to say Bye, Bye, Bye. It doesn’t seem fair that we have to say goodbye to both Prince and our column in such a short timespan. Kind of like Bruce Springsteen paid tribute to Prince with his rendition of “Purple Rain,” we want to pay tribute to the environmental successes of the past year (except we’re totally not Bruce Springsteen).

Did you know there is a WikiHow on 3 ways to say goodbye? Apparently one of the first steps is to recognize when to leave. With both of us graduating in May, I guess we don’t even really have a choice, so check that one off the list. It is also recommended to be brief and sincere, which are two things we do best (even if we’re being sincerely sarcastic/blunt/ etc.).

We really wanted to bring to you environmental messages in a way that would be easy to read and entertaining, and not to toot our own horns . . . but we’re pretty happy with our work. There’s no reason conversations about the environment have to be depressing; after all, laughter is the best medicine.

Since August, we’ve written with humor about a lot of bad things: sand cats threatened with extinction, Rupert Murdoch purchasing National Geographic, Tinder for reasons we

can’t really remember and so on. However, lots of good things have happened since then, too. For example, marine protected areas have expanded greatly, the world’s leaders actually got together and talked about our planetary crisis, and illegal wildlife trade of things such as ivory and shark fin products was addressed. We’ve also seen Big Oil struggling with dropping prices, hopefully signifying lessening reliance on the dirty product, opening up opportunity for innovative, renewable energy sources.

The inspiring part is that all of these successes were possible at least partly due to the concerted actions of interested, educated individuals.

Maybe we’ve inspired you to be more environmentally friendly in your own life or helped you find a way to talk about the environment to your peers or family. Maybe you think we’re crazy ... and you wouldn’t be wrong. But either way, getting this message out to the world has been a true pleasure for us. It’s not often that we have chances to say what we think in a format of our own choosing.

We hope that you’ve taken some of our advice, looked into the topics we wrote about, and hopefully learned something about your relationship with the natural world. If so, we would love to hear from you and keep this conversation going.

minority populations. Mass incarceration, she argues, is ostensibly the New Jim Crow.

That’s enough for me to have given up years ago — knowing that one in five black Virginian men couldn’t vote, or that there are almost six million Americans, about the population of Philadelphia, who can’t vote. These problems seem so large and so complex and so entrenched in the collective conscience that they seem unreal and irreversible. They are destined for perpetuity. At least that’s how I feel until something changes, and the audacity of hope reveals itself once again.

This is a huge step forward, and it reminds me of the other steps being taken by my peers to combat the cynicism and apathy that surrounds us. There is hope. There is a capacity for change, and moreover there are a lot of silly jokes. Go check out “Two Tree Huggers with an Ax,” and maybe start to believe in something greater than yourself.

Go Vols.

Adam Weatherell is a junior in political science and Africana studies. He can be reached at aweath10@vols.utk.edu.

Though you will lose us as a source for environmental information and hints, we want you to remember that the resources are out there.

Reputable news agencies almost always have an environment section, and alternative news sources such as Buzzfeed are full of fun ways to become a better treehugger. There’s always more ways to be a better friend to mother nature, you just have to search a little.

We think one more really important thing to remember is that it’s impossible to be perfect, so don’t worry if you accidentally throw one aluminum can in the trash can or if you drive to the bank instead of walking because it’s raining and you really don’t want your chemical-laden makeup to run. It’s cool. We just hope you’re encouraged to make small changes and take little steps, which all add up.

As a final reminder, we would like to ruminant on the words of naturalist John Muir: “Keep close to Nature’s heart … and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.”

Bye, friends. Go green and go Vols.

Franco D’Aprile is a senior in political science and sustainability, and Erica Davis is a senior in environmental sociology. They can be reached at fradapr@vols.utk.edu and spz839@vols.utk.edu, respectively.

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Festival celebrates music in film Riley Smith

Contributor While this is a film festival, it is completely centered around music. The goal of the festival is to focus on the idea of music in film.

The Scruffy City Film and Music Festival was started in 2010 by Michael Samstag. It was created originally as a 10-hour film competition, but as it grew, it expanded into a 24-hour competition. In 2013, Samstag decided to make the transformation from competition to festival. “The festival truly celebrates the music of film,� Samstag said.

The entire idea of the festival is to find films that have notable original scores and soundtracks or that are about musicians. This is because Samstag sees himself as a musician first and a filmmaker second.

This year there were over 350 submissions from more than 40 countries. Fifteen to 20 volunteers are chosen to help select which films

make it to the festival. James McNally, head of film programming, said “it feels organic� selecting the films, and that “there is an art to it.�

In addition to accepting independent submissions, Samstag said they also reach out to other festivals such as Toronto and Sundance.

This year’s 44 selected films include features, animated shorts, documentary shorts, narrative shorts, student films and music videos.

Although there is a category for music videos specifically, McNally said that “a lot of the time you can’t tell the difference between a music video and a short film� because often the videos have an entire plot to them.

This year the festival added the category of narrative features to the list, and two out of the seven features this year are narrative films. This is unusual because documentary features are usually easier to acquire.

The festival includes many select showings at the Regal Downtown West, a new segment in this year’s festival. McNally said that the real

The entire idea of the festival is to find films that have notable original scores and soundtracks or that are about musicians.�

theater environment is necessary in appreciating the music in the film.

The film “Born to be Blue� starring Ethan Hawke as legendary jazz trumpeter Chet Baker is one of these select showings, and this will like-

ly be the only showing of the film in Knoxville. “West of Her� will have its world premier at the festival. The film was chosen for its original score by a young composer.

The festival also includes workshops for film. This year the creators of the film “Worst Case Scenario Inc.� are giving a workshop on title design. They are a married couple who have done title design on many huge films, including “Juno.�

Since the festival centers on the purpose of music in film, there will also be live music and live film scoring throughout the week, with 10 live musicians and bands performing. Local musician Ben Maney will be scoring Charlie Chaplin live twice at the festival.

The festival runs from April 26 to May 1 and a 6-day pass is $40. Venues include Scruffy City Hall, Regal Downtown West, Knoxville Uncorked, Preservation Pub and The Speakeasy.

Visit www.scruffycityfilmfest.com for more information.

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The Daily Beacon • Tuesday, April 26, 2016

UT sophomore combines comedy, music Michael Lipps

Asst. Arts & Culture Editor Seated across from me was a retired theatre kid. He spoke of yesteryears of comedic performances, something he began around the ripe age of six years old, while occasionally pausing to bite into a man-sized burrito.

Theatre may have been his artistic outlet for the better part of his life, but since beginning his education at UT, sophomore business analytics major Noah Phillips has been honing a new form of performance under the moniker “The New King James.”

“I started writing a little — I mean, they weren’t even songs; they were more stories,” Phillips said. “Slowly but surely, that turned into rhyming, then that turned into making songs.”

Originally from Chattanooga, Tennessee, Phillips grew up around a musical bunch. His mom, in particular, was a musician; his parents met when she was performing at a bar.

Phillips always had an affinity for theatre and comedy, though, and his college consideration set consisted of coming to UT or going to Columbia College in Chicago to study comedy.

“If I didn’t come here, that process of learning how to write songs and then executing on how to write songs, that would have never happened,” Phillips said.

It would be while making music with a friend that Phillips would be struck by the deeply rooted personal works he was creating.

“The music became so personal that I couldn’t see how (it) couldn’t be singular,” Phillips said.

“I thought what I was doing in the singularity was really interesting, and it certainly made it as personal as possible.

“But that tradeoff to that was I didn’t want my name attached to it, because if I write a song about someone I know or someone that’s hurt me, I don’t want the song to be about that person and what they did to me,” Phillips explained. “I want it to be about the emotion that was around me at the time.”

Thus, the moniker “The New King James” seemed a fitting way to maintain an air of anonymity and keep his music personal and honest.

“The funny thing too is I hear that name, and if I was a listener and saw that name and I realized it was just one person and not a band, to me that comes across as a very chauvinistic and self-involved name … like the person who’s really

trying to be a rock star,” Phillips said.

“To me, that’s hysterical,” he added. And that goes back to the comedy thing. All my songs have irony behind them, and the name has irony because on the surface you think it’s chauvinistic and it’s like, no — I know. I completely know it’s chauvinistic, and that’s what I like about it.”

And on the subject of names, the first EP from The New King James is entitled “Shakespeare” — a nod to Phillips’ theatre days and another expression of comedic irony.

“The song is basically about someone so dramatic their life is like Shakespeare,” Phillips said. “To the person who would write a song about how dramatic someone is, that’s more dramatic than a dramatic person — so there’s this twist of irony.”

And while Phillips is clear that he’s not trying to be some kind of musician-comedian hybrid, his comedy and theatrics are still a subtle part of his musicianship.

“If you come see a show, it’s funny,” Phillips said. “I feel like if you listen to the album, that it’s like a quarter of a pun. If you come listen to me play and talk, you realize that it’s serious but not really. To me, that’s what makes it interesting, is the irony.”

And his theatre background has taught him to read the room — something that helps him to stay in tune with the crowd and give a better overall performance.

“I was actually talking to my mom about this earlier. Since I’ve been doing my first round of shows, I’ve realized one of the things you have to know how to do is read a room,” Phillips said.

Outside of performing, Phillips also gives a lot of thought to writing. “For me, every line of a song and every chord progression has to mean something and also be original or it’s not worth putting time into. I’ve never written a filler line or something just to fit a rhyme.”

As for the future, Phillips is working to line up more shows around the Southeast this summer in addition to creating new material — something that he says he’s eager for people to hear.

“I’m a failure if I don’t win a Grammy,” Phillips said. “I’m really looking forward to winning some VMA’s sometime soon,” he quickly added.

Jokes aside, this comedian turned musician truly just cares about one thing: “Honestly, all I really care about is people listening to the music and liking it.”

Local brewery secures place in Knoxville beer scene Megan Patterson Arts & Culture Editor Happy hour at Balter Beerworks could be described by three words: simple, down-to-earth and effective.

Effective not in terms of the obvious purpose behind happy hour for many college students, but regarding the tasteful way the brewery maintains a high standard of excellence while catering to a college town. The meals were well prepared and thought out but approachable.

The wait staff was friendly and the atmosphere casual, and the product was served to match.

However, my dining companion and I didn’t get a chance to experience this meal until after the ordeal of parking. If I had to give one word of warning about Balter Beerworks, I would say to expect a walk. Wherever you’re arriving from, whatever you’re arriving in, don’t expect to fit into the tiny space allotted to patrons of the brewery.

That being said, the brewery does advocate alternative means of transportation, namely biking. They supply bike racks in the parking lot and offer a $4 draft special for cyclists who stop by.

Unfortunately, I arrived by car. Fortunately, I arrived at happy hour.

After asking our server about the brewery’s beers on tap, he offered to bring out a sample of each for us to try: Good Neighbor, Firebelly, Bear Blend and Maypop.

Out of all the beers, the Bear Blend was my favorite and what I eventually ordered. As a coffee oatmeal porter, I expected the beer to be very heavy or overly sweet, but instead it maintained the light sharpness of a cup of black coffee while still tasting like a beer.

The Firebelly was the IPA of the bunch and my second favorite. It was hoppy without being overwhelming, as some IPAs can be. The Maypop was like the younger cousin of this beer, with the same hoppy bitterness in a less concentrated form.

My companion ordered the Good Neighbor, an easy-going daytime beer that was nothing remarkable but also nothing overwhelming or offensive.

Along with our drinks, we ordered a slider and a taco each plus a hummus, pimento cheese and pita bread plate. The food arrived quickly, and while the portions were small, they were filling.

The blackened fish taco didn’t have an overly fishy taste; on the contrary, it almost had a traditional beefy taco taste in the sauce. The taco, along with the rest of the meal, had a familiar flavor to it that put you right at ease.

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Balter Beerworks has happy hour deals Monday through Friday including $1.50 tacos and sliders and $3 beers. Samples of Balter Brews are free.

All photos by Megan Patterson • The Daily Beacon tured all the flavor they needed to. Both the fried chicken and beef sliders appeared small, but in addition to a taco and an appetizer, this meal was more than enough for dinner.

While I didn’t sample their full entrees, Balter Beerworks aced their happy hour options, and has definitely claimed their place on the Knoxville beer scene.

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Baseball Vols hope to build on first SEC series win in Rob Harvey Staff Writer Tennessee finally captured the elusive SEC series win against Vanderbilt last weekend.

The Vols (23-17; 6-12) hope that momentum carries into their midweek game against Eastern Kentucky on Tuesday at Lindsey Nelson Stadium.

The series win against the Commodores was much needed. Tennessee was previously 0-5 in SEC series and was in danger of missing the SEC tournament. In other words, Tennessee had to win the series last Saturday.

After losing on Friday, the Vols took care of business on Saturday and Sunday, giving them a new outlook on the season.

“That win really helped us,” Coach Dave Serrano said after Sunday’s win. “We have a lot of work to do but that win really helped this team and this program for the rest of the year. We’ve still got to take care of business but it sure was a good shot in the arm for what we were able to accomplish.”

The bottom of the lineup has been a big struggle for the Vols team this season, but this weekend they came alive at the plate.

That lineup, which consisted of Derek Lancer, Tyler Schultz, Jared Pruett and Brodie Leftridge, provided eight hits when

they came at a premium. They knocked in three runs on Sunday’s game as well that proved key in the victory.

“The bottom of the lineup wasn’t striking out very much and was putting the ball in play and when you do that good things happened,” Serrano said.

Serrano seemed to also find a lineup and bullpen combination that works this weekend as the team really seemed to connect despite having multiple injuries this season.

“Some clarity came to me this weekend,” Serrano said. “We found a third basemen in Jared Pruett. Brodie played a great center field all weekend. And we really minimized who we used out of the bullpen. To see what Hunter (Martin) and Andy (Cox) did, that’s a pretty good luxury to have at the end of the game.”

Pruett had to play third because of an injury to shortstop Max Bartlett. The normal third baseman, Nick Senzel, moved to shortstop to replace Bartlett as Pruett went to third. Leftridge was in centerfield because of an injury earlier this season to Jeff Moberg that moved Derek Lance to second base. Leftridge had only started two games before this weekend.

The Vols hope to build on last weekend’s success against an Eastern Kentucky team (17-24) on Tuesday who is coming into the game on a five-game losing streak.

The Colonels pitching department has struggled this season as all five pitchers

Tyler Schultz bats against Auburn on March 21, 2013.

• File Photo who have started games this season have an ERA over five and only one of the starters has a winning record.

The Colonels have had success hitting the ball this season, however. Mandy Alveraz leads the team as he is hitting .376 with 10 homeruns and 42 RBI. Kyle Nowlin has also been a big part of their offense this year as he is hitting .290 and is tied for first in the NCAA with 15 home

runs. He also has 43 RBI. After Tuesday’s game, the Vols immediately turn around and play another mid week game on Wednesday against Alabama State. After Wednesday’s game the Vols will head to Missouri to take on a struggling Missouri team over the weekend.

The Vols will look to take their second SEC series win against the Tigers as they have the worst SEC record.

The world of sports takes a backseat to Prince’s legacy

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Sports are not the most important thing in the world.

I know, it hurts me to write that statement as much as it hurts you to read it.

My reason for saying that is one of the most musically talented people of any generation has died: Prince passed away last week.

The biggest names in the sports world grieved. Gyms, clubhouses and arenas alike became auditoriums for Purple Rain, When Doves Cry, Raspberry Beret and more.

Stadiums were adorned with purple lights in honor of the superstar who become synonymous with the violet shade.

The Golden State Warriors, the sports world’s common denominator for the year, were particularly vocal about Prince’s death.

Their practice was reported by San Francisco journalists to echo Prince’s greatest hits, as the NBA’s super team blasted the artist’s catalog throughout the halls of its practice

facility. The Warriors were also graced with Prince’s presence at their home game against the Oklahoma City Thunder on March 3.

That game was one of his last public appearances in the sports world, and concluded with a concert the following night at Oracle Arena. Members of the Warriors spoke of the concert as the best they had ever experienced, something some older NBA players could refer to. I’m talking of course about the 1994 All-Star Game after-party, hosted at Paisley Park.

Little details are known of the party, except that it is spoken of in hushed tones, and that it is called legendary. Prince’s motorcycle from Purple Rain rested behind velvet ropes, and the party was a delirium dance craze in semblance of the man who was a symbol himself. People were happy, moving and liberated, each in their own way, and each in an environment that let them feel safe.

Of Prince’s many entertainment acts in the sports world, none are more widely known than a small, private gig he did at the halftime of Super Bowl XLI, non-negotiably the greatest halftime show ever.

Four live guitars in a rain storm created a technical nightmare, and every descending drop was illuminated purple by the stage lights. Prince’s halftime show was weird.

Prince spent part of the show throwing shade at fellow artists, and it created beauty out of chaos. Prince’s shadow projected against the giant curtain became the most iconic image of the football game. He was bigger than the biggest sporting event in the United States, at a towering five-foot-two-inches plus high heels.

Lucas Hunter is a sophomore in journalism and electronic media. He can be reached at lhunter9@vols.utk.edu.

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SPORTS

The Daily Beacon • Tuesday, April 26, 2016

TRACK & FIELD

Tennessee prepares for 122nd Penn Relays Shane Switzer Staff Writer There is a lot to like about the Penn Relays.

The track event is old. It’s historic.

National television broadcasts the Penn Relays and droves of people come out to watch the event. The estimated attendance for this year’s Penn Relays is 50,000 people.

“This is a lot of fun,” Tennessee track and field coach Alford-Sullivan said. “It’s one of the most historic meets if not the most historic meet in our sport. Philadelphia is a great crowd and will bring in probably close to 50,000 people to watch our sport.”

Tennessee’s track and field team will make the trip to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for the 121st running on April 28-30.

Joining the team on the trip will be AllAmerica pole vaulter Jake Blankenship who will be making his outdoor season debut for the Vols after going through rehab for an injury.

Blankenship competed last week at

Georgia Tech but was unattached, winning the meet down in Atlanta with a bar clearance of 5.50 meters. Head coach Beth Alford-Sullivan said Blankenship’s prior injury is not showing up and he is healthy and ready to compete for Tennessee for the first time in this 2016 outdoor season.

“It’s one thing to train and practice but it’s another thing to go in and compete on it,” Alford-Sullivan said.

The timing couldn’t be better either. At the Penn Relays, Blankenship is a threetime winner in the pole vault and will be looking to make history. In the 121 prior Penn Relays no pole vaulter has ever won the event four straight times.

Alford-Sullivan said the team is excited to see Blankenship go for four straight and will also enjoy having him back in a Tennessee uniform.

“He definitely is a crowd jumper,” AlfordSullivan said. “He loves the crowd, he thrives off the energy. (The Penn Relays) have a great showcase place for the vault on their facility the crowd really gets into it, follows the event … I can’t speak for him but I would bet it ranks up there and it’s high on his bucket list to accomplish

this win.”

It is a good thing Blankenship thrives off the crowd.

As its name suggests the Penn Relays has a strong focus on the relay events and not so much on the individual sprint events. In fact Tennessee won’t run any open events in the sprints. Instead the Vols will focus on the 4x100, 4x2, and the 4x4 for both the men and women.

Also for the first time this outdoor season the Vols will run a men’s Distance Medley Relay team and a women’s sprint hurdle relay.

“That’s really it,” Alford-Sullivan said.

“After that you have your field events which we’ll participate in and we’ll have some distance races we’ll participate in but other than that we don’t really get to get after the 100 or the 200 or 400.”

In the field events Alford-Sullivan said she is looking to see continued success in the throwing events. She believes that the throwers will take a good step forward and thinks that facing some different competition will be good. Instead of the SEC and other southern schools Tennessee faces each and every week, at Penn it will

see more Northeastern and Ivy League schools.

Mustaqeem Williams will compete in the championship section of the long jump.

Alford-Sullivan believes Williams will continue to show improvement and will have the chance to jump past 25 feet this weekend.

With such a large crowd expected and the history behind the event Alford-Sullivan is interested to see how the younger guys and girls who haven’t been there before react.

“For many it’ll be the first time there,” Alford-Sullivan said. “First time, assumedly, that we’ll be in the finals for our relays and have that kind of crowd watching.

We’re pretty seasoned yet at the same time we’re pretty young.

“I’m actually intrigued to see how they handle this kind of attention.”

Not only will Tennessee be competing in front of massive crowds in the stadium but the Penn Relays will also be broadcast on TV and live streaming on FloTrack. com. NBC Sports Network will broadcast the event Saturday April 30 beginning at 12:30 p.m.