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The Bread Shed experiments with varied flavors

“My favorite thing is honestly the people, just from the vendors to the people who come down and are so interested and intrigued in what’s going on.”

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UT music community mourns loss of beloved tuba professor >>See page 8

Vols’ fans follow a trail of tweets to hidden treasures >>See page 11 Angela Shilling, The Green Urbanite Photo by Michael Lipps

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Perennial plant to freshen face of UT gardens Hannah Babinski Contributor

Established in 1983, the UT Gardens continues to house thousands of varieties of plant life as a source of inspiration and academic study — and is now equipped with a fresher, greener face this summer.

On June 7, UT unveiled the new “Tranquility” dedication of more than 500 different types of the best-selling shade perennial in the U.S.

known as “hostas” to the gardens.

Donated by Cornelia Holland, a hostas collector and enthusiast in Franklin, Tennessee, the additional greenery will open up her private collection of perennials to the public for educational purposes.

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tion to the gardens, it will also be a learning laboratory for those students with the Institute of Agriculture who are studying plant sciences and horticulture,” Stearns said.

For UT Gardens supervisor Sue Hamilton, the collection plays a vital role to the gardens in housing original plant species that have been lost throughout the years of breeding — all compacted within layers of dirt and sweat shed

by UT volunteers.

“It’s like an outdoor classroom,” Hamilton said. “For teaching, for learning, for research. It’s just an amazing collection to have.”

Alice Kimbrell, public horticulture intern and curator, said she knew little about UT’s horticulture and plant sciences program before volunteering, noting the gardens’ potential to share better education with students and visitors alike.

“They are pretty popular, but I think that a lot of people don’t know that there are a lot of hostas (for) as many hosta cultivators there are,” Kimbrell said.

According to Stearns, the new addition to the gardens will be located in the heart of the gardens, easily accessible by trail.

“It’s a living museum, is what it is,” said Hamilton. “It’s a pretty comprehensive collection that you’re just not going to find everywhere.”

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UT grads aspire to further deaf education in Appalachia Samuel Henninger Contributor

Silence hangs over the misty blue mountains of Appalachia, but Lisa Tackett wants to ignite a spark of scientific passion for her students isolated by both their native geography and inability to hear in full capacity.

Tackett, a recent graduate from UT’s deaf education program, plans to achieve this through enhanced educational programs with deaf and hard-of-hearing students in the Appalachian region — an area historically plagued by a lack of educational access.

“Just getting a little bit of improvement, it makes you feel like you have completely changed the world with one step,” she said.

Tackett is one of several graduates to receive a master’s degree or licensure through the Tennessee Education of the Deaf Personnel Preparation Project, based in the UT Center on Deafness.

Funding for the program comes from the federal government in order to compen- Amanda Burnside sate for a shortage of teachers for deaf and hard-of-hearing students.

She currently awaits the conclusion of her vetting process for a job at the Tennessee School for the Deaf in Knoxville. Tackett hopes to teach a variety of high school-level courses in the science department including physics, physical science, astronomy, biology and chemistry.

Tackett herself suffered from a temporary bout of hearing loss earlier in life. Her personal experience, coupled with the influence of a middle school science teacher who began an after school program for students like Tackett, sparked her interest in teaching.

“She just really made the hard materials in science fun, which is why I want to go back and actually be able to instill that in my students,” Tackett said.

“It’s empowering, and it makes it all worthwhile to work with these kids every day,”

Born in Oak Ridge and raised in Oliver Springs, Tackett’s ties to Appalachia remain strong. If she receives an opportunity to work at the Tennessee School for the Deaf, she said she will be in a position to make an impact on deaf and hard-of-hearing students throughout Appalachia and beyond.

“I really want to give back to the area that I was raised in, and I really want to focus on deaf and hard-of-hearing students,” Tackett said.

In addition to classroom teaching, she recently started her own website to help science students who lack the resources to succeed at their respective institutions (http://www.teachscienceforall. com/). Due to the shortage of trained teachers for the deaf and hard-of-hearing, Tackett noted students also suffer with learning difficulties without adequate resources for improvement.

She is currently working on incorporating additional material for teachscienceforall.com (http://www.teachscienceforall.com/), focusing on how deaf and hard-of-hearing students in urban and rural areas can find ways to facilitate their learning outside the classroom.

Amanda Burnside, another graduate from UT’s deaf education program, said she shares a similar desire to bolster programs for these students in the East Tennessee and Appalachian Amanda Burnside works with a deaf pre-kindergarten student.

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“Going through the program really helped me identify some areas that I thought were struggles in the public schools that deaf and hard-of-hearing students face in the mainstream system,” Burnside said.

An East Tennessee native, she said she recognizes that a lack of information and resources pose a root problem for these students in Appalachia. Coming from a public school education, Burnside said she looks forward to applying her education to advocate for students who faced experiences similar to her own.

Clearing up misconceptions about deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals serves as a main goal of Burnside’s work. She noted both conditions still unfortunately hold a spectrum of misconceptions from the general public.

Oftentimes, those who are hard-of-hearing are often mistakenly believed to have perfect hearing when using hearing aids. But even with a hearing aid, Burnside said hard-of-hearing individuals struggle to hear and rely on lip reading to support their residual hearing. For individuals in the deaf community, a misconception they can’t read or write still dominates public thought.

As a student challenged by reading and writing in elementary school, she hopes to utilize her experiences to support students in this particular area of deaf education by bringing it to Appalachia.

“It’s empowering, and it makes it all worthwhile to work with these kids every day, day in and day out,” Burnside said. “You see them get that ‘Aha!’ moment.”

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Rare film of Earhart surfaces Associated Press LOS ANGELES — It was a clear spring day in 1937 when Amelia Earhart, ready to make history by flying around the world, brought her personal photographer to a small Southern California airport to document the journey’s beginning.

Al Bresnik took dozens of still photos, including a few that have likely been seen by millions. His brother John, who tagged along, made a very dark, grainy 3.5-minute home movie almost nobody saw — until now.

The film, “Amelia Earhart’s Last Photo Shoot,” is being released this month by The Paragon Agency publishing house, along with an 80-page book of the same name that documents a journey that ended tragically short of the finish line when Earhart’s plane vanished somewhere over the Pacific Ocean.

A downloadable copy of the film is being provided to those who buy the book. Paragon publisher Doug Westfall said he eventually plans to donate the fragile original given to him by John Bresnik’s son to an archive or museum.

The film, taken with a 16-millimeter camera, sat on a shelf in his father’s office for more

than 50 years until his death in 1992, said Bresnik’s son, also named John. After that, it sat in the younger man’s home in Escondido, California, for about 20 more years.

“I didn’t even know what was on the film until my dad died and I took it home and watched it,” Bresnik said recently. “It just always sat it in a plain box on a shelf in his office, and on the outside it said, ‘Amelia Earhart, Burbank Airport, 1937.’”

He can’t say with certainty that his father took the film, although he knows his uncle didn’t because he’s in it.

So is Earhart, looking jaunty and more playful than the public persona she sometimes projected. Dressed in a smart pantsuit rather than her standard flight jacket, she shows people around the plane, clambers on top to pose for still photos and occasionally grins broadly, something she rarely did in her official photos.

“It shows a more feminine side of her,” says Nicole Swinford, who wrote the accompanying book.

Like all things Earhart, it comes with controversy.

Richard Gillespie, executive director of the International Group For Historic Aircraft Recovery, said the film is obviously authentic, but he believes it was taken in March 1937 and not in May, as Swinford concludes.

Man sues Chinese actress Associated Press BEIJING — Rules making it easier to file lawsuits in China have led to a new concern over frivolous claims, such as one in which a man says actress Zhao Wei stared at him too intensely through his TV set.

The regulations making it more difficult for courts to reject lawsuits took effect May 1, leading to an increase in cases nationwide last month of 29 percent compared with same period last year, to just over 1 million cases, according to the Supreme People’s Court.

The change has led to Shanghai Pudong New District Court receiving a case against Zhao, the court’s litigation service hotline confirmed. The court official, who declined to identify himself, refused to say whether the court had accepted the case.

Zhao is one of China’s biggest and richest movie stars, and starred in director John Woo’s “Red Cliff.”

Reports say the lawsuit filed by a Shanghai man involves the prime-time TV show “Tiger Mom” which debuted in May and centers on a couple’s differing approach to raising their daughter. Zhao plays the big-eyed mother who relentlessly pushes her daughter’s development, while the father wants his child to have more freedom.

The Legal Daily said the plaintiff was alleging Zhao’s stare caused him “spiritual damage.”

Gan Wen, deputy head of a case-filing chamber under the Supreme Court, said at a news conference Tuesday that the Zhao case was an example of citizens abusing their right to file lawsuits.

“It’s not necessary to waste our judicial resources on cases like these,” Gan said.

Florence + the Machine offers nothing unique in new album Jenna Butz

Editor-in-Chief I mean, it’s not bad.

But, I’m also not sure if it’s good either.

I have listened to Florence + the Machine’s third album, “How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful,” for what feels like a million times now, and I still don’t know where I’m at with it.

I consider myself a Florence fan. I’m not diehard or anything, but I’ve kept up over the years and genuinely enjoy the vintage, female rock sound that has entered the mainstream. It’s just that ... what makes “How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful” anymore special, anymore different than what Florence + the Machine has done twice before?

Let’s get this out of the way real quick though: This album is executed really, really well. Though it’s the same Florence we have seen since the band’s debut in 2009, they do what they do excellently.

Florence + the Machine has found a sound that works for them, and they have clearly perfected it. They have steadily matured since “Lungs” and have kept an army of fans with them. Enough fans to get them a main stage spot before Billy Joel at this year’s Bonnaroo Sunday night, I might add.

But at this point, what is really so spectacular about what Florence + the Machine is doing?

When they first came on the scene, it was refreshing to see a woman jump on stage, showcase a less-than-flawless voice and rock without losing her femininity. Florence Welch is still a mainstay of girl power in the male-dominated

music industry, but, six years later, what is she and her band bringing onto the scene? What about them is refreshing or different or cutting edge?

Honestly, I say nothing.

Ignoring every other genre, ignoring all other music fads, Florence + the Machine has shown zero to little growth besides maturing their sound. It is still “art-pop” with a classic rock flair. It’s merely an adding and subtracting of certain instrumental sounds.

Occasionally, certain songs stick out in the new album, such as “Long & Lost” and “St. Jude.” They’re the best examples of the band’s perfected sound. But, they get covered up in the monotony of the rest of the album—of the last three albums.

Again, it’s a sound they have cultivated and made their own, but at this point, it’s just ... boring.

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Your new neighborhood bakery Farmer’s market veteran transitions to flagship store

Megan Patterson

Arts & Culture Editor

Kymberle Kaser officially opened the Bread Shed Market on Saturday morning with a wellknown phrase more often associated with powdered wigs than powdered pastries.

“Today was my birthday, so I thought, what the hell. Let’s do it on my birthday,” Kaser said.

“A grand opening on my birthday — let them eat cake.”

Kaser’s aristocratic connection stops there, however. True to her word, each person who visited the Bread Shed Market left with a generous Kaser not only makes baked goods but slice of homemade birthday cake. also a full lunch menu.

Her bakery, which has been serving fresh Hannah Marley • The Daily Beacon baked goods in the Fourth and Gill neighborhood of Knoxville since March, embodies the a laugh. “Half of those sandwiches we made up sense of community missing from most chain for our soft opening (in the spring). I was like ‘Throw all the meats together except prosciutto stores.

Kaser’s breads may bring in customers, but — there’s our Italian,’ and it ended up being a it’s her personality that keeps them coming back. best seller.”

Kaser’s experimental approach appears to “I call them my friends, but they’re my customers,” Kaser said. “You come to get to know have paid off. The supplementary lunch menu them. After three or four visits, they’re no longer has grown to rival the bakery selection “We would have a special and it would do so a customer. They’re friends or family.”

Libby Alcala, a bakery assistant at the Bread well that it just stays on the menu,” Kaser said.

Shed Market, said she also enjoys the small-town “It was never supposed to be that big, but it just keeps growing.” feel of the clientele.

At that moment, Alcala brought over a plate “I’m from the West Knoxville, Cedar Bluff area, and it’s cool to see the same people come of caprese for Kaser and her close friend to in all the time,” Alcala said. “You don’t really get share. They commented that it would be better that out (in West Knoxville). Every day I know on toasted bread and with a little more tomato.

“We just added the caprese salad today,” people that come in.”

Alcala responded to a job advertisement Kaser explained. “There’s no recipe.”

Only two months into her lease, Kaser Kaser posted on Facebook, and despite being remains in awe of the response she has received. the first interviewee, she got the job.

“She understands my dialect, which is a lot of charades,” Kaser said. “I might be the owner, but there is no way in hell I could do it without her.”

For Kaser, baking has always been her way of communicating her love for those around her.

“My parents were really frugal and stuff, so I didn’t have any money,” Kaser said. “I would just bake stuff for my relatives for gifts, just cookies and muffins.”

Her father, an avid fan of her banana nut bread, is the one who convinced her to open her own bakery.

Today, Kaser has moved beyond simply baked goods and expanded into a full lunch menu. A tall chalkboard against one wall is crammed full of her off-beat creations.

“We just made that shit up,” Kaser said with

The Bread Shed Market owner, Kymberle Kaser, officially opened her bakery Saturday morning. Hannah Marley • The Daily Beacon “It has been an amazing adventure so far,” she said.

The bakery’s popularity exceeded her expectations, and Kaser has already moved to expand her staff.

“Right now I do the lunches, prepping the sandwiches and the spinach pie and stuff,” Alcala said. “We are actually prepping someone to do my job and then she is going to train me to bake in a couple of weeks.”

However, for Kaser the bakery’s emphasis will always be about the one-on-one experience rather than making it big.

“It’s been fun to watch people experience stuff they’ve never experienced, try flavors they’ve never tasted,” she said. “That’s been the most amazing part.”

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Meet the faces of the Farmer’s Market

Story and Photos by Michael Lipps

“It’s a real tangible interface with the community,” Scheafnocker said. “Coming down here puts a face on my business and it also puts a face on my customers.”

Jeff Scheafnocker, Three Bears Coffee Company Evann and Lyza, Three Forks Farms “I grew up on a farm with two farm grannies, so I’ve always been around it,” said Tracy Smith from Three Forks Farms. “I like to do different things that you can’t get at WalMart. My favorite jam is raspberry poblano, because the raspberries are delish and tart and the poblano peppers are peppery but they’re not hot.”

Charlotte Bassford, Wonderland Bath “We really appreciate people shopping local and try to get everything local “The farmers’ markets, I think, are a lot of fun, because I love interacting with the as well, like honey and herbs, and use those in our products. We primarily public,” Martin said. Coffee milk is Holloway’s favorite product because “it tastes the do vegan, all-natural soaps, but we also do other all-natural products as well.” best.” Plus, “I just love the ice cream.”

Brooke Martin and Danielle Holloway, Cruze Farms

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Keep your butts off Knoxville’s streets not a word is said or action half done when butts or bottles are thrown on the ground for carelessness, for fun. I thought our generation was progressive, that we’d change our greedy, sodded nation when we’re in charge. No. The older I get, the more I see that our rubbish far outweighs our clean. Why else would we not care when our filthy mess (see: the Fort) is seen?

Grayson Hawkins Untitled Entitlement will soon ruin the beauty we’ve boasted of but not yet borne.

The same chattel that brings us happiness (see: intoxication), emptiness (see: satiation) and Gus’s at 2 a.m. — those things meet their timely end on the street and sidewalk in front of my house; an affront to my neighborhood and a tarnish to the reputation of the University of Tennessee. With so much math on my brain (see: summer classes), I can’t help but think this rubbish is squared: rubbish discarded by rubbish. Rubbish².

You’d think we would have evolved past trash being cast into our streets. We’ll grumble and gripe when fake preachers preach hate, but

the 101,000 people that flood our streets each autumn Saturday? Don’t take the five seconds to question your lack of discipline or abundance of irresponsibility, just let your apathy seep. I’m sure your drinking buddies and brothers assure you it’s fine, you’re in college so stop worrying about it all the time.

It’s not okay because you’re part of the problem plaguing our race, and you are promoting a toxic atmosphere in this once beautiful place.

Please take a step back while I close my eyes and count to 13.

Speak up when you see littering.

Take the next 30 seconds to ask yourself “What does life mean?” and realize that you and everything you’ve done will be forgotten by 4015.

What then is the point of you littering?

Because you’re drunk? Because you don’t want to walk your cigarette butt 20 feet? You’re saving time, you’re saving effort, you’re saving energy?

WRONG. You’re being a hindrance. You’re part of humanity’s death grip on a lazy, irrational fear of discipline. In 2,000 years, enlightened people will say, “Thank God people like that don’t exist anymore.” They’ll be talking about you in 4015, so in a sense, I guess you will be remembered, but I pray that your memory’s voice does not drown out ours. Obviously I’m not perfect, but I moved past throwing things on the ground 15 years ago.

If you’re intent on learning something from this column, here’s the takeaway: Next time you think about throwing something on the ground, ask yourself why you’d do such a thing. Are you really okay with enabling and harming our earth and humanity? Next time someone does throw something on the ground, speak up. One word is usually enough and shame will take over the offender and hopefully they’ll change.

Finally, next time you litter, don’t do it in front of my house or else I’ll write a grumpy column about you.

made mistakes or is seen as biased. After all, we’re only human. I’m also not advocating that you accept sensational or “click bait” journalism as the new norm.

I am asking you to remember that were it not for old-fashioned, honest reporters like Edward R. Murrow, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein and

against corruption by our leaders.

The next time you see a listicle on social media telling you something only people with tabby cats can understand, remember there are plenty of other articles informing you about the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, the details of which are being withheld from the public, or about the Obama administration asking a secret surveillance court to allow the NSA to continue spying even after a separate court ordered him to stop.

You don’t have to believe in everything every journalist does.

But believe in the power of journalism, and remember it is the men and women who fight to uncover the truth that stands between the free citizens and corrupt government.

“Don’t take the five seconds to question your lack of discipline or abundance of irresponsibility, just let your apathy seep. I’m sure your drinking buddies and brothers assure you it’s fine, you’re in college so stop worrying about it all the time.”

I ask you this question: when is our campus in its sorriest state?

Game day.

Vol Nation, when personified, fits the description of an alcoholic 5 year old that knows little more than consume, yell, repeat. Still wonder why I don’t want to be identified with

Grayson Hawkins is a junior in chemistry.

He can be reached at ghawkin4@vols.utk.edu.

In defense of journalism

McCord Pagan The Media Mentality Last October, I had the privilege of going to the Newseum in Washington D.C. For those who haven’t been, it’s a massive museum dedicated to journalism in the heart of the Capitol. Walking through the exhibits was not just a history of the field but also the history of the world. Yet, informing the public about the workings of government has not always been a smooth ride.

Even today, journalists that work for a more open government face threats, loss of jobs and in some cases, death.

In 2013 when Glenn Greenwald helped expose the depths of the mass surveillance by the National Security Agency through the leaks

by Edward Snowden, he was pointedly asked on

“Meet The Press” why he shouldn’t face treason charges for exposing the illegality of what the government is doing.

National security issues aside, the public in general has a low opinion of the press.

A 2013 poll by the Pew Research Center indicated the public has a less-than-favorable view of journalists. Just 20 percent of those polled said journalists were independent, and only 26 percent believed we get the facts straight most of the time.

Dismal numbers by any means, but there was a bright side: the public does realize journalism’s central role in a free society.

Journalism empowers democracy by informing people of what their government is doing in their name, which means citizens are better prepared to hold their representatives responsible.

Take the example of Bell, California. In 2010, an investigation by two L.A. Times reporters found that top city officials in the small, working class town had given themselves massive salary increases—all at taxpayer expense.

The officials were then rightfully arrested on charges of corruption and replaced. But the point is that the free press acts as a check against the ever-encroaching powers of government.

I’m not defending every journalist that has

“This column is not a defense of every single journalist accused of ineptitude or distortion of facts. Instead, it’s a reminder that without journalism, without a free press and exchange of ideas, society would not have the tools to guard against corruption by our leaders.”

Nellie Bly: McCarthyism would have continued to root out “communists;” we might have never known our presidents lied about the failures of the Vietnam War; and reform to prevent the abuse and neglect of mental health patients could have taken years.

This column is not a defense of every single journalist accused of ineptitude or distortion of facts. Instead, it’s a reminder that without journalism, without a free press and exchange of ideas, society would not have the tools to guard

McCord Pagan in a senior in journalism and electronic media. He can be reached at mcccpaga@vols.utk.edu.

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Kelly Thomas remembered as ‘beloved tuba professor’ Kevin Ridder

Staff Writer

Photo Courtesy of UA Fred Fox School of Music

UT School of Music’s tuba professor Kelly Thomas passed away unexpectedly Sunday after suffering a severe allergic reaction to a wasp sting. Thomas was 40 years old.

This comes as a devastating blow to the UT music community, of which Thomas was a well-loved and respected member. When spotted in the halls of the music building, Thomas is remembered as always quick to crack a joke and flash an infectious smile. No matter how busy he was, he was glad to lend a helping hand if a student needed assistance. “It absolutely broke my heart when I heard Dr. Thomas had passed,� Tylar Bullion, senior in jazz performance, said. “Dr. Thomas was a fantastic teacher and just an allaround great guy. He was exactly the kind of person the School of Music needed. He will be sorely missed.�

Prior to his appointment at

UT, Thomas was the tuba/euphonium professor at the University of Arizona for 13 years. Over his music career, he performed at the International Tuba Euphonium Association Conferences in Linz, Austria; Las Vegas, Nevada; Conway, Arkansas; Cincinnati, Ohio; Tucson, Arizona; and Regina, Canada.

Thomas hosted the International Conference of ITEA with more than 600 participants in 2010.

He also performed at the United States Army Band Tuba-Euphonium Conference in Washington, D.C. Thomas was a founding member and tubist for the Original Wildcat Jass Band, a traditional New Orleans and Chicago jazz band that toured throughout the Southwest and Mexico in addition to releasing multiple recordings.

Thomas also helped establish the new chamber ensemble Eufonix, which released their debut recording in 2010 and a second recording, “Brink!� in 2012.

A native of Flagstaff, Arizona, Thomas earned his bachelors degree

in music education at Tennessee Tech where he studied under R. Winston Morris. Kelly completed his masters and doctorate in musical arts at Arizona State University in 2006.

In a message sent out to the UT School of Music’s faculty, students, staff and alumni, director Jeffrey Pappas referred to Thomas as “our beloved tuba professor.� “Even though Kelly was only with us for a short time, he made a huge impact on our school,� Pappas said.

After his passing, a memorial fund was set up to help alleviate the family’s sudden financial obligations and to prepare for their children’s futures. Over $25,000 has been raised in support of Thomas’s family so far.

Those interested in donating can visit the fundraising petition on www.giveforward.com.

Thomas is survived by his wife, Jana and their four young children Janelle, Keljan, Joelle and Kenton.

Funeral services will be held this weekend.

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Reba McEntire, Darius Rucker to perform at 2015 CMT Awards Associated Press

NEW YORK — Reba McEntire will make a return to the CMT Awards stage after a 10-year absence.

The country star will perform at Wednesday’s awards show at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee. Darius Rucker also has been added to the

lineup of performers; he will sing outdoors.

Other performers at the 2015 CMT Awards will include Carrie Underwood, Jason Aldean, Florida Georgia Line, Luke Bryan, Keith Urban and Sam Hunt.

Lady Antebellum will hit the stage, too, with DJ-producer Zedd for a country-EDM mashup.

Erin Andrews and Brittany Snow will host the show, which will air live at 8 p.m. Eastern.

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The Daily Beacon • Wednesday, June 10, 2015

ARTS&CULTURE

Musician brings life to a dead stage Sterling Martin Copy Editor

One of Knoxville’s key music venues celebrated its one year anniversary last Saturday with a performance by legendary hip-hop producer RJD2, hosted by The Midnight Voyage.

The International, formerly known as the Valarium (and for a short while as the Blackstock), is known for providing live music from diverse genres.

“While it wasn’t a sold out banger, it was a perfect party with the emphasis on the crowd, reunion and celebrating the occasion, rather than a complete focus on headliners,” said Andrea Kerns, Media Director “for all things EDM” at The Midnight Voyage Productions.

The International holds an extensive trackrecord of not only bringing in world-class talent but also for being a successful outlet for the local music scene.

Matt Keaton, better known by his stagename FastNasty, was one of the openers for the evening.

“I’ve always loved the scene here in the 865 because it always feels like we’re just a big family,“ Keaton said.

Keaton performed a tag-team set with Brian Coakley, owner and CEO of The Midnight

Voyage.

“He pretty much took a dead venue and gave it CPR,” Keaton said of Coakley, “Now it’s poppin’ like it was back in the day. I’m so proud of him and the whole crew and to be a part of that just feels amazing. Just in the past year, I’ve seen so many great shows there, and if it wasn’t for Brian, Knoxville would have missed out on all of that.”

Keaton said that on the last Sunday of each month this summer, The International will host a patio brunch called “Layover” featuring a more mellow side of EDM music.

“We thought it would be fun to play some of those tunes before RJD2,” Keaton said.

After a final opening set from 4Matiks, RJD2 took the stage in a futuristic robotics suit with a spinning beat pad attached at the hip.

Known for extremely diverse and “old-school style” performances, he kept the crowd moving for the rest of the night while craftily making use of multiple turntables and intricately wired hardware.

“We have to keep the talent diverse,” Kerns said. “One is to not throw a concert, but create an experience … That’s where we set ourselves apart, by having dancers, vendors, live painters, extra production, etc. at most shows.

“We try to make it special so that shows don’t succumb to a cookie cutter format.”

Top: RJD2 performed at The International in a robotics suit with a spinning beat pad.

Bottom: 4matiks performed the final opening set for RJD2 at The International’s one year anniversary party.

Photos by Sterling Martin • The Daily Beacon

SPORTS

Wednesday, June 10, 2015 • The Daily Beacon

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The hunt for the golden ticket — or, box— is on Stephen Kasper Contributor

A creative marketing ploy by the Tennessee athletic department has sent Vols fans on a giant scavenging hunt across the South.

Since May 9 — 119 days before the Vols season-opener against Bowling Green — the Twitter account @1of119 has been posting clues and pictures almost daily to reveal the location for one of 119 gift boxes.

Although there are only 119 boxes, representing Tennessee’s 119th football team, nearly 10,000 Vols fans follow the Twitter handle in the hopes of becoming One of 119.

Parker Cantrell, senior in communi--Kendall Litton cations, admits luck was on his side when he found the very first box.

“I was actually running out on some errands,” Cantrell said. “I got to Wal-Mart,

“I looked over my shoulder and a guy was coming in hot down the hill sprinting, and so he and I sprinted for it and I beat him out for it.”

checked (Twitter) and knew exactly where it was.”

Cantrell said he immediately recognized the pavement from the clue posted to the

“I looked around for a while, about five minutes or so,” he said.“I went over there and I passed it and I saw locks on all the gates. So I was about to pack it up and decided to look one more time, and sure enough one of the gates didn’t have a padlock on it and it was behind the Neyland Statue.”

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One of 119 Twitter account and eventually found the box at Neyland Stadium.

“I looked around for a while, about five minutes or so,” he said. “I went over there and I passed it and I saw locks on all the gates. So I was about to pack it up and decided to look one more time, and sure enough one of the gates didn’t have a padlock on it and it was behind the Neyland Statue.”

Inside the boxes, winners will find two tickets to see the Vols play either North Texas or Western Carolina, a discount on team shop merchandise, a practice pass and one of the team’s first official Nike shirts with the words “One of 119” printed across

Lady Vols to play quarters, not halves Jonathan Toye

Sports Editor

The Tennessee women’s basketball team will keep the Lady Vols moniker for the 20152016 season.

But the upcoming season will still have a different feel.

The NCAA playing rules panel changed the women’s basketball game format this week. The Lady Vols and their opponents will now play four 10-minute quarters next season instead of the traditional two 20-min-

the front.

So far, approximately half of the 119 boxes have already been found throughout the city of Knoxville as well as other areas through-

ute halves.

The reason for the format change: the NCAA women’s basketball rules committee hopes to improve the flow of the game.

Teams will now reach the bonus and shoot two free throws after the fifth team foul in each quarter. In the previous format, teams reached the bonus on the seventh team foul and reached the double bonus on the 10th foul.

In an email, a Tennessee spokesperson said coach Holly Warlick was unavailable for comment due to other obligations, but added that she will probably offer remarks on the change in the future.

out Tennessee including Memphis, Nashville and Chattanooga.

In fact, the “Vol-timate” challenge scavenger hunt has even stretched as far as Georgia, South Carolina, Florida and Alabama.

A few contestants have even been lucky enough to find one of the prized “gold

boxes,” which includes everything a normal box contains along with an invite to the team’s official Nike uniform unveiling on July 1.

Kendall Litton, a recent broadcast journalism graduate at UT, was a proud winner of one gold box, which she said she found at the Knoxville Civic Coliseum after seeing a clue posted referring to the home of the Ice Bears.

“I checked the front where the sign is for the Civic Coliseum is, and it wasn’t there,” Litton said. “And as soon as I came around the corner, I saw the box sitting there. I looked over my shoulder and a guy was coming in hot down the hill sprinting, and so he and I sprinted for it and I beat him out for it.”

Litton, who did not know it was a gold box, said she is looking forward to witnessing firsthand the new Nike uniforms after Tennessee’s deal with Adidas officially comes to an end.

The One of 119 scavenger hunt is just one of the many moves to revive a previously disheartened fan base.

And with around 50 boxes left, the scavenger hunt is still underway.

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SPORTS

The Daily Beacon • Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Second linebacker spot remains “wide open” for 2015 Jonathan Toye

Sports Editor Darrin Kirkland Jr. admitted he had to adjust his diet when he came to UT’s campus in January. “(In) high school, I was grabbing Steak ‘n Shake, anything that I could get,” Kirkland said after practice on April 7. “Now I’ve got to eat broccoli and more vegetables.”

A change in his diet regimen isn’t the only problem Kirkland has encountered at UT, nor is it even close to his biggest.

When he arrived on campus, Kirkland was caught in a battle to replace four-year starter A.J. Johnson.

But that still wasn’t his biggest problem.

Kirkland suffered an injury while benchpressing, saying the pain felt like a gunshot.

The incident sidelined him for the entirety of spring practice.

It also cost Kirkland the opportunity to fully compete for the middle linebacker “Mike” spot to play alongside team leader and budding star Jalen Reeves-Maybin—a position that Tennessee coach Butch Jones said is wide open.

“We all know what Jalen Reeves-Maybin can do,” Jones said on April 18. “He has been a model of consistency, continues to really transform his game, transform his leadership skills.

But who is going to fill the other linebacker position?”

Jones said “no one person” has thus far emerged as that person.

“I see progress every day that the other players are making, which has been great to see,” he said. “But not one individual has kind of distanced himself to be named the starter at that other spot.”

Despite the injury, Kirkland’s status as an early enrollee still proved advantageous. He had the opportunity to study the playbook, learn from the team’s veterans and use Tennessee’s strength and conditioning facilities—benefits that should assist Kirkland when he is cleared to play.

Kirkland also possesses one attribute that could help him earn the Mike spot in the fall: He is smart.

“Darrin has proven he can process information very, very quickly and he can also retain information very, very quickly,” Jones said. “When he did his placement test at the Thornton Center, they actually discovered that he has a photographic memory. Anytime you can have that from your Mike linebacker is very encouraging.”

Intelligence is almost a prerequisite for a linebacker, as the position demands memorization of countless formations and coverage.

“Each one of those coverage has an eyediscipline,” Linebackers Coach Tommy Thigpen

said after one practice. “Footwork is different.

Eyes are different. Landmarks are different.

Alignments are different. Guys that are not very bright tend to line up on all the calls the same way.

“What you have to do is to have guys with the ability to think and have critical thinking and analyze all the situations that are going on the field.”

Darrin Kirkland Jr. football Kirkland isn’t the only talented young player vying for the Mike position. Tennessee’s coaching staff moved redshirt freshman Dillon Bates, who suffered a seasonending torn labrum injury early in the 2014 season, from his usual spot at outside linebacker to middle linebacker.

“The Mike is the quarterback of the defense,” Bates said. “You have to be a more vocal leader and you have to set a front and know everybody, what they’re doing, where their place is. So it’s just getting with everybody, working with all the older guys, getting the terminology down.”

Jones said after practice on March 31 that sophomore Cortez McDowell, who adapted to the linebacker position after playing as safety in high school, the same transition Reeves-Maybin completed earlier, played some reps as linebacker in spring practice.

Jakob Johnson is also a candidate for Mike, starting two games in the position after the suspension of Johnson. But he struggled at times assuming the responsibilities of the position in Johnson’s absence, and he also missed spring practice with an injury.

Redshirt freshman Gavin Bryant is another contender to play some snaps at inside linebacker.

“When Gavin knows his assignments and he knows what he is doing and when he plays with confidence he attacks things down hill,” Jones said.

But the Mike position might be redshirt junior Kenny Bynum’s to lose in the fall, considering he was on the first team defense for the majority of spring practice.

Despite all the question marks over linebacker, one thing is clear: Reeves-Maybin is the leader of the linebackers squad.

“I love Jalen Reeves-Maybin,” Jones said. “I tell you what, he is being a leader, it is important to him, he is invested in Tennessee football and he has made himself better in the weight room.

He is a leader of our football team and he holds others around him accountable. He is really, really competitive, great competitive makeup.”

If Tennessee’s defense meets its 2015 expectations, Reeves-Maybin will have played a big role.

Linebacker Dillon Bates #17 of the Tennessee Volunteers during the open practice to the public during preseason fall camp in Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, TN on August 16, 2014.

Photo by Donald Page/Tennessee Athletics