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UT expands employee benefits to same-sex couples Heidi Hill News Editor

Same-sex couples who say “I do” can now have the insurance policies to prove it.

On July 7, Chancellor Jimmy Cheek announced in a mass email that UT would

expand its insurance policy to provide benefits for same-sex married couples employed by the university.

The decision comes in light of the Obergefell v. Hodges case that legalized same-sex marriage in all 50 states on June 26 and will apply to all same-sex spouses among UT faculty and staff.

Cheek stated in his announcement that the Supreme Court decision “helps the university

take a significant step forward in our efforts to enhance diversity and inclusion on our campus.”

Mary Lucal, UT Human Resources interim assistant vice chancellor, said such inclusion within the university’s expanded insurance policy paves the way for attracting future, highcaliber employees.

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the people you’re taking advantage of.

“That dynamic holds just as true for a 50-year-old politician as it does a 12-year-old child.”

To Reynolds, there is no “Republicans vs.

Democrats,” preferring to categorize the bipartisan system as an “insiders vs. outsiders”

Going door to door, putting up posters and the like aren’t exciting, but it works.”

As the nation prepares to elect a new leader and discuss pressing national issues, Reynolds encourages people to keep a level head when analyzing a candidate or placing a vote at the polls.

UT law professor Glenn Harlan Reynolds knew from an early age he wanted to study law, an ambition he attributes to growing up in the Watergate era.

“Seeing all of the lawyers surrounding the case as a kid, it seemed like a very interesting profession,” Reynolds said. “I think a lot of people went into law or journalism because of that.”

Forty years after Nixon’s resignation, Reynolds’ resume is more than impressive. Serving as Executive Chairman of the National Space Society and a member of the White House Advisory Panel on Space Policy, as well as testifying before Congressional committees on space law, international trade and domestic terrorism, are a just a few of his career’s political bookmarks.

In addition to his repute in the legal field, Reynolds has also penned four books and countless op-eds for major publications all across the nation, and was founder of Instapundit, one of the most widely-read political web blogs in the U.S. “He’s a great teacher and one of our top scholars, widely published and respected,” Mary Ann James, UT College of Law human resources and administration manager, said. “Nearly everything he has done has been groundbreaking. We’re very glad he’s at the UT College of Law.” For Reynolds, technological change is Glenn Reynolds, distinguished professor of law, discusses his work in the field of the defining feature of the current age and politics and the impact of technology. a topic that encompasses the majority of Katrina Roberts • The Daily Beacon his research.

He referenced a series of stories called “I think the biggest thing that people in conflict — the ruling class vs. everybody else.

“Future History,” written by science fiction “You forget that you’re really playing very all of our heated national debates ought to author Robert Heinlein in the mid-20th cen- high stakes,” Reynolds said. “When the coun- take account of is the fact that they might tury, to make his point. try’s ruling class drops the ball in a large way, be wrong,” Reynolds said. “Nobody wants “In that history, there was a period of ‘crazy the results are disastrous. It can ruin the lives to admit that, or even to imagine that they years’ in which social institutions and beliefs of millions of people for a long time.” might look back in the future and think that couldn’t withstand the shock of constant techAlthough Reynolds’ Independence Day col- they were wrong, but most people are wrong nological change,” Reynolds said. “I believe we umn in the Tennesseean entertained the idea at least once over the course of a sufficiently are experiencing those ‘crazy years’ right now. of a “second American revolution,” the law long life.”

It’s not just the small things like people doing professor said the right conditions must research on the Internet instead of a book; it’s in place for a truly impactful revolution to also the changes that have led to things like the occur. breakdown of traditional families. All of these “The natural tendency of any political changes are really technologically driven.” class is to accumulate power to itself while While the effect of technological innovation avoiding responsibility,” Reynolds said. “If remains his primary interest, it is by no means you run a government on that basis, eventuthe only topic he has explored. In light of a ally the people who are not the ruling class volatile atmosphere in the upcoming 2016 will demand a change.” election, Reynolds has taken to the press to While the idea of a revolution is much discuss politics, revolution and class warfare. more exciting than going about and engag“If you judge them by their actions, it’s clear ing in political activities, it should be used as that our government does not respect us,” a last resort, according to Reynolds.

Reynolds said. “A reason for this is because -Glenn Harlan Reynolds “Revolution seems very exciting and they get away with a lot of things, and the romantic when compared to political action. more you get away with, the less you respect

“If you judge them by their actions, it’s clear that our government does not respect us.”

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“We’re kind of reflective of the community’s excitement,” Lucal said. “I think, from a human resources perspective, our ability to recruit and retain the most talented faculty and staff now knows no bounds because we’re not going to have (same-sex marriage) as a limitation.

“It doesn’t change the day to day — it simply enhances opportunities and things to come.”

Couples married in another state before the ruling are eligible to apply for benefits at the UT Payroll Office through Aug. 25, or 60 days after the court’s ruling.

These 60 days given after the June 26 decision mirror the same time period required of all legally-recognized couples to apply for benefits as stipulated by state law.

Although UT Payroll Office does not keep hard data on the number of same-sex spouses that have applied for benefits, director Rob Chance cited 10 walk-ins who have signed up in person for the newly expanded benefits.

“Every single one of (the policies) that mentions the word ‘spouse’ now, by definition, extends to same-sex married partners,” Chance said.

Aside from the health insurance component,

Wednesday, July 15, 2015 • The Daily Beacon Chance explained the expansion will include other categories of coverage like funeral leave and tuition assistance — all equal to coverage received by their heterosexual colleagues.

While no official statistics document impacted couples, Lucal said knowing a handful of the walk-ins places a positive visual on the expanded policy.

“It’s only 10 people, but it’s 10 people who feel that they are able to have a place here, and that just makes you feel good,” Lucal said.

Like Lucal, Vice Chancellor for Diversity Rickey Hall also views the benefits expansion as a way to secure professional talent among faculty and emerging scholars that enroll at UT. “I think we are becoming competitive in many ways, but this was one of the things that was holding us back,” Hall said.

By mimicking the policies of Top 500 companies and major private employers, Hall also stated that UT’s decision to expand benefits propels momentum to achieve status as a Top 25 public research university.

Still, Hall emphasized that “individual interaction” will become key in expanding the university-wide acceptance of same-sex couples beyond the fine print of an insurance policy. “(The expansion) doesn’t impact people’s behavior, those (are) the things we have to work on — climate issues, making sure the university

is more welcoming in its inclusiveness of all faculty and staff,” Hall said.

For OUTreach Director Donna Braquet, the expansion of marriage benefits that encompass same-sex spouses like her wife, Corinne Branigan, was a policy she thought would never exist in her lifetime.

As a staff member since 2004, Braquet cited stirrings to secure domestic partner benefit for LBGTQ+ faculty that began more than 15 years ago by fellow UT colleagues.

“At that point, we never thought marriage would be a reality, so the best we thought we could do was to get equal benefits through the university — which is kind of marriage-like, kind of separate, but unequal,” Braquet said.

Braquet also waited for the university to announce an extended benefits policy in the following days after the Supreme Court’s “historic ruling,” eventually deciding to apply for benefits in person on July 2.

The next day, she presented a nearly year old marriage license from San Francisco’s city hall, making Braquet and her wife one of the first same-sex couples to receive marriage benefits at UT. “I think that there had been some internal prep because they wanted to be sure that when someone came to them, they were acting in accordance with how they should,” Braquet

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Although the UT professor and librarian acknowledges insurance policies and legal marriage will not erase discrimination, her choice to revel in a LBGTQ+ rights landmark remains untarnished.

She even expressed shock in witnessing marriage equality before legal conclusions were made to protect her LBGTQ+ peers from discrimination in the professional realm.

“It’s phenomenal, that what should have been the harder fight — the traditional family values — I would have thought that would been much harder to get than employees benefits and job security,” Braquet said.

Yet, Braquet claims that marriage as an “emotional” issue is the factor that will sway public perception of same-sex couples onto equal grounds.

“The jump from acknowledgement to acceptance — that’s the leap that Rickey (Hall) is talking about,” Braquet said. “It takes understanding and you only get understanding through communication and dialogue and working with people, so that it’s not this foreign concept.”

UT’s Payroll Office will submit applications for insurance coverage to the state on an employee’s behalf.

To read the full text of Chancellor Cheek’s July 7 announcement, visit chancellor.utk.edu.

NASA invites UT student to Pluto viewing Hannah Babinski Contributor

One two-hour viewing session for man, one giant leap for mankind.

On July 14, 2015 at 7:49 a.m., the spacecraft New Horizons, first launched in January 2006, captured never-beforeseen images of Pluto — the largest body trapped within the gravitational pull of the Kuiper Belt — from a fly-by photo shoot.

The machine, now in its eighth year of the voyage, has been photographing other areas of the solar system along the way, snapping images of Pluto as early as July 7.

These groundbreaking images, formally viewed by select college students and an elite collection of scientists at John Hopkins University, are expected to shed new light on the planet hidden in the farthest reaches of the Milky Way. One of the students who witnessed yesterday’s formal viewing was UT senior in geography, Chad Melton.

Melton, who works under a research group lead by planetary science professor Joshua Emery, is one of only two

group members who has thoroughly studied the Kuiper Belt. With the recommendation of a colleague, he was given the opportunity of a lifetime when he received an invitation from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to attend the viewing.

“These things don’t happen very much; they are every several years or so,” Melton said. “I feel very lucky to attend. I don’t know if you can be prepped for something like this.”

Melton described the mood at the viewing party as a “fun atmosphere” complemented by a panel of diverse speakers.

“There is an auditorium and there are a lot of people there, so there is different panel talk,” Melton said. “It’s not like we are just sitting in a control room.”

Melton said his experience with the New Horizons viewing as well as working alongside Emery and other members of the Planetary Science community has been a positive one, and he has high hopes to continue his exploration in the future after attending graduate school to further study planetary science and geophysics.

“I think, right now, that I just want to keep being involved with research. I really love just learning about nature all

around us,” Melton said.

Emery, who worked on the New Horizons mission in 2007 and other NASA missions, said the fly-by may provide humans with the only opportunity for a close-up study of Pluto within the Kuiper Belt.

“There is always more to learn,” Emery said. “We are studying the solar system primarily to understand how we came to be.”

Emery added that New Horizon’s orbit will also give researchers crucial information on the planet’s makeup and history of the solar system since differentiations on Pluto’s surface appeared

indistinct through the lens of even the most powerful telescopes.

“It’s not just seeing Pluto for the first time, but it’s seeing the first example of a Kuiper Belt object up close for the first time,” Emery said. “To me, that’s a once in a lifetime event, and it’s just thrilling.”

Though the actual viewing in Baltimore, Maryland is NASA invite only, the images have been made available to the public.

To access the images and learn more about New Horizon’s epic journey, visit pluto.jhuapl.edu.

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Motorcycles line the streets of the Old City during the Smoky Mountain Rumble Street Festival on Friday. Hannah Marley • The Daily Beacon

DISPATCHES Nuclear agreement reached between the United States and Iran

New Horizons completes decade-old mission

A historic agreement was reached by Iran, the United States and other global leaders that will profoundly limit the nation’s nuclear abilities in return for lifting international oil and financial sanctions.

The deal is the result of nearly 20 months of negotiations led by the Obama administration, considered by some to be the president’s best diplomatic accomplishment yet.

As part of the deal, Iran has agreed to restructure a buried facility in Fordo into a scientific research center while cutting back on activity at Natanz, a uranium-centered facility.

Both President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry emphasized the agreement is “not built on trust — it’s built on verification.”

Obama also commented he will veto legislation that slows down negotiations in Tehran as Congress begins a 60 day review period.

At 7:49 a.m. Tuesday morning, NASA’s New Horizons captured the first close-up images of Pluto and its multiple moons as part of a 10-year mission launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on January 19, 2006.

At the time of the launch, Pluto was still defined as a planet by the scientific community. The craft will complete the last stop of NASA’s “grand tour” of the universe over the past 50 years.

New Horizons swept in closest to the icy planet at 7,7000 miles traveling at 31,000 m.p.h., and is programmed to snap photos of Pluto’s far side. Signal transmission between New Horizons and Earth takes 4.5 hours to complete due to the massive data the craft must process throughout its odyssey.

Scientists will have confirmed whether the craft has successfully crossed beyond Pluto by 9 p.m. EST Tuesday night.

Obama calls for shorter criminal sentences for nonviolent convicts Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — Calling it an issue America can’t afford to ignore, President Barack Obama laid out an expansive vision Thursday for fixing the criminal justice system by focusing on communities, courtrooms and cellblocks. He announced a federal review of the use of solitary confinement and urged Congress to pass a sentencing reform bill by year’s end.

In a speech to the NAACP’s annual convention, Obama also called for voting rights to be restored to felons who have served their sentences, and said employers should “ban the box” asking job candidates about their past convictions. He said long mandatory minimum sentences now in place should be reduced — or discarded entirely.

“In far too many cases, the punishment simply doesn’t fit the crime,” Obama told a crowd of 3,300 in Philadelphia. Low-level drug dealers, for example, owe a debt to society, but not a life sentence or 20-year prison term, he said.

With his speech to the prominent AfricanAmerican advocacy group, Obama sought to put a spotlight on the need for new legislation as he mounted a weeklong push on criminal justice reform. A day earlier, Obama commuted

the sentences of 46 nonviolent drug offenders — the most commutations a president has issued on a single day in at least four decades.

Upon arriving Tuesday in Philadelphia, Obama met with a number of former prisoners to discuss their experience re-entering society, the White House said. And on Thursday, Obama planned to put a personal face on the nation’s mushrooming prison population with a visit El Reno Federal Correctional Institution outside of Oklahoma City — the first visit to a federal prison by a sitting U.S. president.

The assertive moves reflected a president eager to wield his executive power during his waning years in office to reduce harsh sentences, cut costs and correct disparities he said have disproportionally burdened minorities. Earlier in his presidency, as he spent his political capital carefully on major domestic priorities, Obama spoke cautiously and only intermittently about the need for smarter sentencing and other justice changes.

But as of late, public attention has been piqued by a serious of upsetting incidents across the country. In places like Baltimore, New York and Ferguson, Missouri, tensions between law enforcement and their communities have spilled out into the open, underscoring longstanding concerns among minority communities that they’re treated differently in the criminal justice system.

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UT sisters recreate fairy tales through business Megan Patterson

Arts & Culture Editor

“We have to gauge how the party is going because some kids are, like, super energetic and you cannot get them to sit down for a story,” Rachel Clift said. “Then other kids just stare at

As they approach the start of their sophomore year at UT, Laura and Rachel Clift have already met hundreds of adoring fans, performed at dozens of venues and led successful double lives as cartoon characters.

The twin sisters started Neverland & Company last October as a way to make money in college without resorting to food service or retail. Instead, the two perform in full costume as different fairy tale characters for birthday parties and other events.

Rachel Clift described how the sisters grew up on fairy tales and how, for these two theatre majors, a job centered around performance seemed an obvious choice.

“We decided to do something where we could be ourselves and be creative and stuff, so I had the idea to start a company,” Rachel Clift said. “It was October when we started researching it, and it just kind of went from there and we realized, ‘You know, we can actually do this.’”

Although Neverland & Company is the most extensive project undertaken by the twins, entrepreneurial ventures aren’t Twin sisters, Laura and Rachel Clift, dress up as princesses for Neverland & Company. new to them.

“Rachel is the photographer, • Photo courtesy of Neverland & Company and she would do photo shoots like senior pictures and stuff,” Laura Clift said. “She would do that as a job in high you the whole time.” school, and I would sell art on Etsy.”

Most of their performance involves singing, Despite their past experience, the extensive dancing and playing familiar games the twins networking behind Neverland & Company took have adapted to each character. Developing some getting used to for the Clifts. distinct character personas is a crucial part of “It involves a lot more communication with the job, and Rachel and Laura Clift emphasize people,” Rachel Clift said. “With photo shoots it this fact to any performers they employ. would be a high schooler and I would just talk “They need to completely study the character to her. Now we talk to the parents; we interact from when they were made to their newest with the kids and with other kids at the parties.” movie,” Rachel Clift said. “They have to know Beyond networking, organizing an event the vocabulary and mannerisms and how they takes a tremendous amount of planning. would react in a certain situation. You’ve got to “It’s not just setting up a day and a price,” know everything from their parent’s names to Rachel Clift explained. “We have to figure out their birthday, because kids ask those random who they want, how many kids are going to be little questions and you can’t just say, ‘Oh I don’t there, where the party is located, what they want remember.’” to do for the craft game, if they want us to sing In addition to the detailed character study, or if they want us to read a book, and then we performers must learn how to apply heavy stage need to have all that timed.” makeup and wear antiquated items of clothing But the best laid plans can go awry, and for costume.

Rachel and Laura Clift have learned to impro“The first time we did a party it took us two vise their routine based off of each party atmoor three hours to get ready, and that’s how long sphere. our new girls take,” Laura Clift said. “But now

we can be ready in 45 minutes.”

“Getting in costume also doesn’t take as long, but with new girls we have to help them,” Rachel Clift said. “They say ‘Hoop skirt? What — how do I do this?’”

“We got a lot of requests when we first started about having this or that superhero and I was like, ‘Uh we have Cinderella right now, but we’re working on it,’” Laura Clift said. “We have a couple superheroes that should be here by October.”

In spite of the long hours, endless brainstorming and extensive preparation, the sisters wouldn’t change a thing.

“We have probably just as much fun as the kids do,” Laura Clift said. “Overall, it’s worth all the work and money that goes into it.”

Rachel Clift shared her favorite part at ‘Meet and Greet’ events when the kids -Rachel Clift first spot the twin sisters.

“They run up and hug you and they are so sweet,” Rachel Clift said. “All they want is just to talk to you and it’s just precious. You can’t beat it.”

“We decided to do something where we could be ourselves and be creative and stuff, so I had the idea to start a company. It was October when we started researching it, and it just kind of went from there and we realized, ‘You know, we can actually do this.”

Rachel Clift said the sisters plan to add eight new characters this fall and then 15 within the next year.

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Knoxville art museum One of jazz music’s greats mixes past with present remembered in “Amy”

Megan Patterson Arts & Culture Editor The Knoxville Museum of Art sits between World’s Fair Park and the Fort in a sort of no man’s land near the Clinch bridge which comes to mind only as a throughway. We see the building often, but last Sunday, I decided to take a look inside.

The clear glass doors swung open into an unassuming front entryway. At the front desk, I picked up a map, and the clerk joked that I would have a hard time getting lost.

With a map of the three small floors and one self-degrading comment to kick-start the visit, I was skeptical of what the museum had in store.

The first floor galleries host visiting artists. Currently Evan Ford’s exhibit titled “Intellectual Property Donor” spans both galleries and tackles topics involving “technology in popular culture” and “the urban environment.”

After brief deliberation, I went into the room on the left first and immediately concluded this guy was on to something new. A very minimalist display - the stark white walls of the gallery played backdrop to Ford’s urban tributes, almost all of which were in black and white.

The back wall featured a compilation of the different calligraphy, shown through the letter ‘S,’ used in graffiti tags in three cities: New York City, Detroit and Paris.

On the adjacent wall, 3-D prints of graffiti tags, re-imagined in the z-dimension, cast shadows from their solid forms suspended from the ceiling.

The final wall showed the visual process of this z-dimension projection. A computer program draws the graffiti artists’ work while taking account of time, so that each stroke layers on the previous one as if pulling open an accordion.

Intrigued by Ford’s original perspectives, I progressed to the second gallery.

Here he displayed pieces capturing technology and it’s direct application in our lives.

Most had satirical underlying themes, and one

in particular caught my eye.

A piece composed of 1,540 sheets of tracing paper stained with ink documented the effort invested in one game of Angry Birds. Each paper showed a single swipe motion, and the seemingly trivial topic made a striking statement about how much of ourselves we invest into technology.

Progressing through a small opening into the first floor, I was immediately greeted by Richard Jolley’s permanent installation titled “Cycle of Life” suspended from the two story ceiling.

Immense sculptures of blown glass replicate protein strands and other biological components, but Jolley brought us back to a macroscopic level with his bronze human sculptures of a male and female along the wall.

Jolley’s works are a good introduction to the smaller glass sculptures housed in one of the first floor galleries.

While for the most part unremarkable beyond aesthetic appeal, some pieces struck a deeper chord. A structure replicating the seismograph readings of Japan’s devastating 2011 earthquake was particularly poignant.

Also on the first floor are “Thorne Miniature Rooms.” These are a small sample from a collection of nearly 100 miniatures designed by Mrs. James Ward Thorne in the early 1900’s.

Thorne intended for her miniatures, scaled one inch to one foot, to instruct on how European and American interior design and culture evolved throughout time.

Finally, I walked to the third floor which contains two more traditional galleries housing, respectively, current works from East Tennessee and elsewhere and a historical compilation of East Tennessee art throughout the past 100 years.

The modern art gallery held variety that was a relief to see. Paintings, photography, sculpture, and unconventional medium filled the room.

The collection of East Tennessee art history had its fair share of landscape paintings, which I often times hurry past with little more than a glance. However, one in particular made me take a second look.

It was titled “View from Lyon’s Bend” and showed a view from a hillside over the Tennessee River, a view that is now obstructed by multiple neighborhoods and private homes.

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Amy Asif Kapadia

Jenna Butz Editor-in-Chief

When we think of Amy Winehouse, most of us recall tabloid fronts surrounding her weight, substance abuse and ultimately, her early death.

Rarely do we remember her for the great jazz musician she was. We rarely even remember her as an actual, respected musician except when we note the irony of her hit single “Rehab” (an irony that wasn’t lost on Winehouse herself).

Director Asif Kapadia’s latest documentary “Amy” takes what we know about Winehouse and reworks her image and reputation into one worth remembering — and that means remembering the music.

For many, Winehouse’s death is still an open wound. She died a mere four years ago from alcohol poisoning in her Camden, London home. Typically, four years later would seem too soon for a tell-all documentary. Yet, Kapadia’s documentary does just that — tells all of the story of Winehouse’s life in an effort to help her be remembered for who she truly was, not just a bad girl gone too far.

The film opens with Winehouse’s friends hanging out on the steps in one of their houses. Then, as the group starts to sing “Happy Birthday” to one of their friends, the spotlight is on Winehouse, who, even as she just messes around, showcases just a hint of her vocal talent — vocal talent that still blows viewers away.

It’s a moment that tells us right away that this was a girl with the talent to make it big but too much innocence, just waiting to be tainted.

When Winehouse records her first album “Frank” (which is easily one of the best modern jazz albums if you haven’t listened to it yet), she tours in support of the album, playing to small clubs and coffeehouses. Though she is already talented beyond her years, a short audio clip has Winehouse claim she would go mad if she ever became famous.

As she records “Back to Black,” the sophomore album that catapulted Winehouse to super stardom,

• Photo Courtesy of IMDb friends discover her battles with alcohol and bulimia and encourage her to seek treatment.

Yet, her father Mitchell says she is fine, hence the “Rehab” line, “and if my daddy thinks I’m fine,” and Winehouse is never admitted to rehab. Her friend and former manager is heard wondering if that trip to rehab could have prevented all of Winehouse’s later problems and unsuccessful trips.

The film paints two villains to Winehouse’s doomed heroine: her ex-husband Blake Fielder and her father. Fielder was the one to introduce Winehouse to crack, cocaine and heroine and subsequently encouraged her to avoid treatment. Both men are painted as leeching off Winehouse’s fame and finances, seeking their own fifteen minutes of fame over caring for Winehouse’s well being.

Though the film doesn’t necessarily present any new information, it shows the two forces pulling Winehouse between good and evil: the friends who tried to get her help, even hiding her passport so she could get treatment instead of going on tour, and those trying to benefit from keeping her under their control.

“Amy” paints Winehouse as a doomed artist whose life trails produced some of the most influential, heart-wrenching music of the 2000s. Winehouse is finally remembered as she deserves: as one of the greatest modern day jazz artists, which you’ll remember through hearing her perform one last time.

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How the U.S. can amp up recycling

Franco D’Aprile Off the Beaten Path

One of my best friends never fails to remind me that in her native Sweden, they are so good at recycling, the nation has to import waste from Norway.

This is because Swedes recycle so much, they do not have enough trash to burn for heating.

Wow, Sweden! Good for you! But stop, because you’re making the rest of us look bad. So bad, in fact, that the U.S. should really step up its recycling.

Countries like Sweden are so skilled and successful at recycling for a variety of reasons. For starters, they are developed. This means they can create and maintain an infrastructure that makes it easy for people to recycle. Furthermore, they can create/fund the industrial processes to recycle waste.

These great recycling processes are also mostly located in Europe. This has its own influence for two reasons. For starters, Europeans have a rather long environmental conservationist history. They have been concerned about the status of the environment for some generations, way before most Americans knew what recycling was. So, the general population is very aware of the advantages of recycling and is taught how to properly dispose of waste since childhood.

The other big factor is Europe has a limited space to dispose of its waste. Holding an overall large population and having limited space really complicates what these nations can do with their trash. So they

found a both environmentally friendly and logical solution. Turning to recycling only made sense for the continent.

That awareness, though, is the real driving factor.

After all, it’s not fashionable anymore to dump trash in the ocean.

So what about less developed nations? Surprising to most, less developed nations are often times more sustainable when it comes to waste. That’s because they start at the purchasing stage rather than the disposal stage and concentrate on reuse.

People in these nations consume less, meaning they have less to dispose. When purchasing, there is a trend to buy fresh foods from markets or specialized shops (cheese, bakery, etc.), meaning less food packaging.

Plastic containers, plastic bags and other reusable objects are seldom thrown away since they mean saving money. These nations are money savvy and inherently better at producing less garbage.

So what can the U.S. do to improve? Well, certain parts of the country already have great recycling programs, boasting curbside recycling and even composting in some places. The next steps would be to spread awareness of the importance of recycling and initiate new programs.

Though most kids in schools nowadays are taught about reducing, reusing and recycling, they probably

won’t be able to influence city governments to initiate a widespread, efficient program.

Instead, we need to also teach that, in the long run, recycling saves money, meaning that cities should start number crunching and figuring out how they can make it a reality.

As soon as it is made common knowledge that recycling saves money and resources, I believe it will become more widespread. Having landfills takes up space, money to run the facilities and in the end, there is no return.

Recycling does take money to run the process, but at least a finished product that can be used is produced. And more importantly, the waste utilized is used for something useful, rather than being buried and rendered unproductive.

As the world becomes more developed, we use so many more materials that cannot be decomposed in landfills and go to waste when thrown away. Perhaps we cannot go back to times when most waste was decomposable, but the option to recycle does exist.

So let’s do it.

Maybe the U.S. will get so good at it that it’ll start buying trash from Canada.

mom’s parents, we spent more time exploring Port Washington, a tiny lake town north of Milwaukee whose claim to fame is that Dustin Diamond — Screech from “Saved By the Bell”— recently stabbed a man in a bar there.

We returned to the Java Dock, possibly my favorite coffee shop. We tried a new pizza place downtown as well as an ice cream shop that boasted homemade artisan chocolates.

Even though it was barely 60 degrees there most nights (we saw people sitting outside with blankets wrapped around them), I briefly appreciated the quaint town my mom grew up in.

South Milwaukee is harder to appreciate though. The town has two things going for it.

First, Seven Bridges Park, a beautiful, wooded space that leads down to Lake Michigan, and then the newly opened MKE City Sippers, a tiny coffee shop with a friendly staff.

Well, maybe three. Bangkok House, an authentic Thai restaurant in a strip mall, exceeded my expectations.

So, my family and I put a lot, and I mean a lot, of effort into making it into the city: Milwaukee itself.

On the 4th of July, we went to Summerfest, the world’s largest music festival. There, though also freezing, my dad bought me a dope Milwaukee shirt, and Matt Nathanson blew me away with his musicianship and stellar stage presence.

The next day, we took my aunt, grandpa and

cousins downtown to experience the Milwaukee Public Market, a bustling venue with fresh food and locally crafted goods before we journeyed through the rest of the Historic Third Ward, an industrial area turned hipster mecca.

Those highlights couldn’t hide the lows though.

All my grandparents, and I am exceptionally lucky to have had all four of them in my life for this long, are growing old, and they can’t hide the evidence anymore. It’s heartbreaking to come back a year later and see the changes old age and other illnesses have racked on their bodies and minds.

And then there’s my Uncle Kenny. My uncle died this past October. He was the first person I really knew and was close to to leave my life, and I have spent more time pushing his death from my mind than trying to handle my grief. And whenever my aunt would talk about him, I came off as cold from trying to avoid tearing up over the first person to ever encourage me to make music a permanent piece of my life.

I can’t ignore my hometown any longer though, both mentally and physically. For me, Wisconsin has finally marked its territory for what it is in my heart: a place that holds the best and worst.

Franco D’Aprile is a senior in sustainability. He can be reached at fradapr@vols.utk.edu

An Ode to Wisconsin

Jenna Butz Ode To Odes

Fun fact: I was born in Wisconsin.

In Milwaukee, Wisconsin at St. Mary’s Hospital at 9:18 a.m. on April 27, 1995.

I only lived “up North” for three years, though.

Then I was whisked away from all my extended family to Hendersonville, Tennessee.

As a 3 year old, I was devastated. I remember crying into my pillow in our tiny apartment when we first moved here. All I wanted was to go back.

I wanted my second bedroom in my grandparents’ house. I wanted to play with my best friend, Sammy. I wanted Dairy Queen.

I was homesick for a place that was never truly my home.

This want persisted until I was in high school.

At that point, I was tired of answering the same questions each time I visited before sitting around until my parents answered my prayers to leave.

Going back had lost its novelty.

As I sat in the car for 10 hours on July 2 to make our annual visit, my mind kept racing around how to make this trip as minimally miserable as possible. Don’t get me wrong. I love my family up there, but seeing them isn’t enjoyable when you sit in your grandparents’ houses all week barely talking and watching game shows.

This year though, my parents promised we would make it “fun,” whatever that means.

And to their credit, this trip was way better than they had been in the recent past. At my

Jenna is a junior in English. She can be reached at jkw546@vols.utk.edu

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The Daily Beacon • Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Nashville songwriter and producer returns to his artistic roots Marina Waters Staff Writer

After eight years of producing and writing songs, David Fanning is finally achieving what he moved to Nashville to do: be a country artist.

This Thursday, the full-fledged country artist will bring his country, pop and rock sound to open for Frankie Ballard at the Cotton Eyed Joe. Prior to landing his own record deal, Fanning produced records for artists such as Thompson Square, Parmalee and Lyndsey Ell while also honing his craft as a songwriter. Those experiences have only improved his journey as an artist. “I think everything complements each other,�

Fanning said. “I think I’ve become a better artist now because of what I’ve learned by watching other artists succeed that I’ve produced ‌ I’m just always growing. I never want to stop learning. I never

want to stop getting better.�

Although the country crooner worked within the industry behind the scenes for years, Fanning received sudden attention as an artist in 2014 with his cover of Justin Timberlake’s “Drink You Away.�

After a Nashville DJ introduced Timberlake to Fanning’s country version of the song during a radio station visit, Fanning and his Twitter account were flooded with attention. “They played it for him live on the air and he just flipped out and loved it,� Fanning said. “Later on that night, I remember I was sleeping and my phone was just going crazy. And I looked and he had tweeted me at, like, 4 a.m. It kinda just went viral.�

After gaining Timberlake’s blessing, Fanning pinned “Drink You Away� as his first song as an artist in addition to his latest hook-heavy country single, “Doin’ Country Right.�

His songs contain a blend of country sounds with pop undertones. Although many fans have

been in an upheaval about the recent changes to the sound of country music, Fanning finds the core of the genre in the deeper meaning found in country music. “To me it’s just real,� he said. “It’s real life. When I’m writing, I write about things that influence me, or have been a part of my life, or what I’ve gone through. That’s the cool thing about it. You can kind of express yourself in country. And people get it.�

However, depth isn’t the only aspect Fanning wishes to express; he also wants to introduce his true self as a recording artist in a town that has mostly known him as a producer and songwriter. “I want to show honestly who I am,â€? Fanning explained. “I want to show more depth ‌ It’s time for me to show a little bit more of who I am than just a cover and one song. I want people to kind of get who I am more as an artist.â€?

Tickets to the show are $10. Doors open at 6 p.m. and the show starts after 9 p.m.

• Photo Courtesy of BBR Music Group

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NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD • Will Shortz Cartoons of The Daily Beacon are the views of the individual and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Beacon or the Beacon’s editorial staff.

Carrie Underwood’s baby gets locked in car Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — New mother Carrie Underwood called her brother-in-law to the rescue over the weekend during a frightening mom moment.

The country star tweeted about the incident on Saturday, writing “When your dogs manage to lock themselves, all your stuff & the baby in the car &

you have to break a window to get in. #WhatAreTheChances” Her publicist, Jessie Schmidt, said Monday it happened very fast and no one was hurt. Underwood tweeted that her brother-in- law broke the window to unlock the car.

Underwood is back on tour after giving birth to Isaiah in February, the first child for the former ‘American Idol’ winner and her husband, NHL player Mike Fisher.

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SPORTS

The Daily Beacon • Wednesday, July 15, 2015

SEC Media Day highlights football standouts Taylor White Assistant Sports Editor

HOOVER, Alabama — Despite starting at cornerback from the moment he stepped on campus, and being named to multiple pre-season All-SEC teams, rising junior Cam Sutton still seems to be flying under the radar.

The Jonesboro, Georgia native was left off the recent pre-season 40-man watch list for the Thorpe Award, an honor given to best defensive back at the end of each season.

Sutton claims he didn’t view the omission as a slight, but emphasized that he would let his play on the field speak for itself.

“It’s not something I can control or anything,” Sutton said Tuesday at SEC Media Day. “The only thing I can control is what I can do for my team. If that happens to be something that happens at the end of the year, then that’s just an extra bonus … I can’t really concern myself with things like that. I have to play the game.”

While Sutton has had plenty of success on the field, Head Coach Butch Jones claims it’s his offfield dedication that makes it all possible.

“He’s worked exceptionally hard,” Jones said.

“Cam Sutton deserves everything he gets. He walks around with an iPad all the time studying football. He’s a true student of the game. He’s taken everything that Coach Martinez has said to him, and he’s applied it to his game.”

As a freshman, Sutton quickly established himself as one of the best corners in the SEC, and opposing teams quickly took note of that fact.

As a sophomore in the 2014 season, offenses went to great lengths to avoid throwing the 6-foot-1 corner’s direction and many times that simply meant lining their best receiver up on the opposite side of the field.

The Tennessee coaching staff began giving Sutton reps at nickelback throughout spring practice, in hopes of adding versatility to his game.

“I’m pretty comfortable there,” Sutton said.

“That just comes from learning and knowing the defense, as well as knowing the tendencies of the offenses you’re facing. I don’t know how much I’ll be there throughout the course of the season, but the opportunity for me to play at nickel is no different than playing at corner.”

One advantage this move does give Tennessee is the ability to move Sutton around the field on defense, and prevent opposing teams from hiding their best wide-out against one of the Vols’

other defensive backs.

“With different offenses now that defenses are facing, there’s so much you’re getting thrown at,” Sutton said. “There’s so much you’re facing now that you have to prepare for, and teams are looking for guys to put in those situations to stop offenses. That’s what my job is.”

Busy summer for “CEO Quarterback”: While most UT students are spending summer vacation poolside, the Vols’ starting quarterback Joshua Dobbs is taking a more productive approach to his break.

Dobbs, who Jones has continually referenced as Tennessee’s “CEO Quarterback,” began his summer with an internship working with aerospace manufacturer Pratt and Whitney out of West Palm Beach, Florida.

That was just the beginning for the rising junior, however. Dobbs then served as a counselor at The Elite 11 Finals, a competition hosting the top high school quarterbacks around the country, before making his way to the Manning Passing Academy and finally ending up at SEC Media Day on Tuesday.

All the work he put in outside of the classroom didn’t stop Dobbs from continuing his work inside the classroom, however.

“I had an interesting schedule,” Dobbs said.

“I got to Oregon (for the Elite 11) and had a project due Tuesday. I finished that, then I had to sit in on some practices and stuff. Then I came home and actually had a test the next day, on Wednesday. I came home, did well on that test, then left for the Manning Camp the next day. It’s been a whirlwind of a week.”

The 6-foot-3 signal caller laughed when asked by a reporter about his sleep schedule.

To Jones, this summer has only further solidified Dobbs’ role as a leader, and he feels the experience will translate well to the football field. Dobbs added that he hopes to lead by example for younger players when it comes to work ethic.

“We understand what we’re getting with Josh,” Jones said. “We always talk about consistency and performance, and we know what we’re getting with Josh day in and day out, week in and week out. He’s done a tremendous job.”

This is Jones’ first SEC Media Day appearance with a starting quarterback by his side, and the lack of controversy has not only benefited the offense, but brought the entire team closer together.

“Dobbs did a great job on and off the field,” teammate Curt Maggitt said. “He has matured a lot, being a lot more vocal. I told him, ‘I got his back. No matter what’s going on, I got his back.’”

Maggitt ready for final season: As Tennessee’s lone senior representative at SEC Media Day, Curt Maggitt provides a more unique perspective to the upcoming season.

The West Palm Beach, Florida native started his career under former Coach Derek Dooley, and therefore, saw the sharp decline in Tennessee football and the rise of the program under Jones.

“Yeah, definitely,” Maggitt said when asked

“There’s so much you’re facing now that you have to prepare for, and teams are looking for guys to put in those situations to stop offenses.”

-Cam Sutton

if this was the most excited he has been before a season. “We got talent, that’s not a secret. But the biggest thing is just focusing, putting all of our energy, all of our effort on one game at a time… Let’s just focus on Bowling Green and get that done.”

After missing the entire 2013 season while recovering from a torn ACL, Maggitt quickly made his presence felt throughout 2014. He combined with rising sophomore Derek Barnett to record 21 total sacks.

However, in their final year as teammates, Maggit wants to set the bar higher. “(Fifteen) each would be pretty cool,” Maggit said.

When it comes to position, not much has changed from last season. Maggitt expects to rush with a hand on the ground the majority of the time, while adding in the occasional rush from a standing position and mixing in some snaps from the true linebacker spot.

Jones loves to preach leadership to both his team and the media, and when specifically asked about the team’s leaders, one name always comes up first.

“Curt Maggitt is one of the leaders of our football team,” Jones said. “He has the respect, and the definition of leadership is influence.”

SPORTS

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Cornhole World Championships hit Knoxville Stephen Kasper Staff Writer

Before Tennessee fans arrive at Neyland to watch the Vols, they might partake in another beloved Southern sport.

Cornhole, the popular bean-bag tossing game, is more than just a tailgate competition amongst friends.

It’s a sport with its own tournaments across multiple states and regions, including the World Championships of Cornhole X, which was brought to the Knoxville Convention Center by the American Cornhole Organization last week.

And although the game seems simple enough, only the best of the best make it through the tournament to win the grand prize of $10,000.

Nathan Lowe, a competitor from Asheville, North Carolina, said it’s not just about being lucky. It’s about technique and skill.

“If you’re not throwing three out of four in, you’re not scoring,” Lowe, who runs the Blue Ridge Cornhole company, said. “You’ve got to

get it spinning. If you throw end over end, you don’t know where it’s going to bounce. If you want to be consistently good and know where it’s going to bounce, you just got to make it spin.”

Although Lowe admitted he was knocked out of the tournament earlier than hoped, he was able to cheer on his friends and teammates as they continued to compete.

Despite his elimination, he was even more excited for the widespread attention being given to the sport, as ESPN broadcasted SportsCenter live from the convention center to cover the event.

“It’s pretty awesome actually. It’s big for the cornhole world, you could say,” Lowe said. “I mean, more people are going to know about it just from watching SportsCenter.”

The tournament’s competitors included a diverse group of men and women, including the reigning North Carolina doubles champions – two boys aged 11 and 13.

Stacia Pugh, the reigning national female champion from Cleveland, Ohio, was also competing to defend her champion status.

“I started throwing competitively four years ago,” Pugh, dubbed “Queen of Cornhole,” said.

SEC commissioner addresses social issues Associated Press

HOOVER, Ala. (AP) — Former Southeastern Conference Mike Slive was known to invoke the words of historical figures like Winston Churchill when talking about challenges facing the league.

Greg Sankey quoted Bob Dylan.

The new commissioner used his first stateof-the-league address to praise the SEC for leading the way in athletics as well as on social issues, using the lyrics of a Dylan song to make his point.

Standing in front of three huge video screens at SEC Media Days Monday, the 51-year-old Sankey quoted Dylan’s “The Times They Are a-Changin’” to describe the league’s ongoing evolution as one of the college game’s dominant forces.

“Come writers and critics who prophesize with your pen and keep your eyes wide open,” said Sankey, quoting one of Dylan’s most famous songs. “The chance won’t come again.”

Sankey touted the rapidly growing SEC Network, which helped the league earn record revenue last year. He also praised leadership at schools in South Carolina and Mississippi, which have issued statements in support

of distancing their respective states from Confederate flag imagery.

“The times, they are changing, and the times will continue to change as we move forward,” Sankey said.

Sankey replaces Slive, who resigned June 1 after a 13-year tenure that saw tremendous growth for the league.

The challenges facing Sankey are also daunting as the SEC — along with the other power five conferences — begin an era of compensating players with cost of attendance on top of their athletic scholarships.

Among the issues to be sorted out is how schools calculate their individual cost of attendance. Some are worried that a larger number could turn into a recruiting advantage. Sankey has advocated transparency throughout the process.

“It’s just an effort to make sure people understand the methodology,” Sankey said.

“Obviously, we’ve understood cost of attendance awards can vary, and the methods used to calculate and arrive at those amounts can vary.”

The league also agreed on new legislation over the summer that prohibits its schools from enrolling any athletes who have been subject to “serious misconduct” at their previous college institution.

“It’s really fun. It’s very addictive. And it’s really friendly to a wide variety of folks, you know?”

“It’s really fun. It’s very addictive. And it’s really friendly to a wide variety of folks, you know?”

-Stacia Pugh

One of the most interesting quirks about the tournament was the permissible consumption of alcohol by both competitors and spectators

during matches.

Perhaps more similar to a tailgate, it wasn’t uncommon to see a competitor take a drink of beer before tossing their bean-bag. But that definitely doesn’t mean these players weren’t focused. In nearly every match, at least three of the four bags tossed by each competitor were making the hole.

And although the competitors made it look easy, there is clearly a chess-like strategy to the game.

Even Jabari Greer, a former cornerback for the University of Tennessee and 10-year NFL veteran who was on the scene to help ESPN promote the event, was impressed with the tournament’s talent.

“Being able to see some of these world-class athletes perform their craft is incredible,” said Greer, who lost an exhibition game earlier in the day to a pre-teen boy.

Greer defended his loss, saying his UT pregame experience never allowed him to dabble in cornhole playing.

“I’ve never played before; I was always playing football,” he said. “If I tailgated and played cornhole, that was a bad day for me.”

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The Daily Beacon • Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Vols remaining ‘realistic’ while accepting expectations Jonathan Toye Sports Editor

HOOVER, Alabama—As soon as Tennessee coach Butch Jones entered the Hyatt Regency Hotel, he was greeted with flashing cameras and Vol fans clamoring for autographs.

But by now, Jones is used to the attention.

The third-year head coach walked a tightrope in his appearance at the 2015 SEC Media Days—embracing the high expectations bestowed upon his team, and at the same time, trying to maintain a sliver of realism.

He praised his team’s academic performance last semester in his opening statement, noting that 52 players earned a GPA of 3.0 or higher, and mentioned the excitement surrounding the program.

Jones also issued a response to South Carolina’s coach Steve Spurrier, who spoke earlier in the day.

“Contrary to reports, there were no back flips and there were no somersaults (after winning the TaxSlayer bowl),” said Jones, referring to Spurrier’s quip about Tennessee’s elation after posting a 7-6 record in 2014.

And while that remark reflected the subtle confidence Jones displayed throughout the day, he also expressed his reservations about his team.

“We still have a long ways to go,” Jones told the local media before he addressed national reporters in the ballroom. “We are nowhere where we need to be and again, we have too many unproven areas on our football team right now.

“I don’t know if you can ever manage (expectations), as we know expectations are always high at Tennessee. But as the caretaker of the football program, I also have to be realistic.”

Youth is one problem.

Jones used a very specific statistic to illustrate the Vols’ youth, citing 64 percent played one year of college football or less.

He will have to depend on inexperienced players, like true freshmen Khalil McKenzie and Shy Tuttle, to contribute to the team immediately on one of most physically demanding spots on the field — the defensive line.

“They are going to have to grow up in a hurry,” Jones said.

And then there are the injuries.

More than a dozen Tennessee players missed at least a portion of spring practice due to an injury. Jones acknowledged the injuries in the spring will still be a concern for fall training camp — even if all the injured players can practice.

Defensive lineman Curt Maggitt #56 of the Tennessee Volunteers during practice on the indoor field on November 18, 2014.

• File Photo

“We have to do a great job of monitoring those individuals,” Jones said. “And that we don’t push them along too soon.”

Injuries and youth aren’t the only obstacles facing the Vols. Senior Curt Maggitt thought the outside chatter could be the defense’s biggest challenge.

“Pre-season this, pre-season that, (we) just need to go out and play football like we know we can do,” Maggitt said. “Just focus on one task at a time.”

Jones and the players representing Tennessee didn’t shy away from addressing pre-season expectations. They are just focused on their own goals.

“We always have high standards internally,” Jones said. “Nobody will have as high expectations as we have for ourselves.

We have to go out and we have to prove it. We have to continue to get better.”

“Our goal is to work hard everyday,” Junior quarterback Joshua Dobbs added.

“To take it one day at a time, to reach our goals that we have set for this season, we have been doing that thus far and we will continue to do that.”

The positives outnumbered the concerns on Tuesday. Jones mentioned Tennessee’s hot finish to 2014. He lauded the progress his players made in the strength and conditioning program in the summer. He fielded questions about Dobbs’ intelligence, quipping that he thought his starting quarterback would try to fly the plane on the way to Hoover.

And most importantly to Vol fans, he believes this 2015 Tennessee football team can win.

“The great thing for us is we expect a win,” Jones said. “We just don’t hope to win.”

And that might be why Tennessee’s head coach isn’t scared of the pre-season expectations.

“That’s why you coach at the University of Tennessee,” Jones said. “That’s why you play at the University of Tennessee. We want those expectations to be extremely high, and our players have embraced that and all you can do is work hard each and every day to give your all for Tennessee.”