Losing players and curating new ones: Holly Warlick sounds off in offseason SPORTS >>pg. 6 @UTKDailyBeacon
Issue 09, Volume 126
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
University denies funding for electric bike sharing Liz Wood News Editor
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Knoxville’s lack of available fresh produce leaves community in ‘food desert’ NEWS >>pg. 2
Scarlett Johansson stars in not her best film of the summer
ARTS & CULTURE >>pg. 3
After ‘Bulletproof,’ La Roux returns to music scene with sophomore album as solo act
The commute to class may have just become more difficult. CycleUshare, the nation’s first electric bicycle sharing system, has been shut down indefinitely due to a lack of university funding Christopher Cherry, associate professor and founder of the cycleUshare research project, said. The system, composed of two stations located in Presidential Court and on the Institute of Agriculture campus, made use of bicycles equipped with rechargeable, electric motors designed to aid participating users in pedaling as well as in overcoming the many hills on campus. Originally launched as a research project, the system was free to participating users while in service and provided an alternate means of transportation across Knoxville’s expansive campus. “There came a point when we
proposed to the University what it would take to continue the program,” Cherry said of his proposal to continue cycleUshare. “They’re interested in having it, but not interested in funding it.” While Cherry acknowledges the lack of a “significant future” for electric bike sharing at UT, he hopes that a current research proposal with Knoxville Area Transit could help to “integrate bike share and electric bike share with the bus system,” and thus continue the city’s trend towards alternative means of transportation. Though Cherry may find hope in an immediate expansion of e-bikes across the city, his optimism is not shared by all. Kelley Segars, principal planner of the Knoxville Regional Transportation Planning Organization, described cycleUshare as “a great program for UT,” but recognized the difficulties associated with its expansion to the city at large. See BIKES on Page 2
Opinion: With football season approaching, players preview spots in fall camp SPORTS >>pg. 6
The university’s CycleUshare bike system was shut down due to denial of funding.
Legacy player looks to family for inspiration into committing to the Vols, the younger Bates was aware of the rare situation beginStaff Writer (@Mr_Rutherford) ning to form in Knoxville. He started to notice “about halfway through the recruiting process” that a The six players that make up the legacy number of players who had family ties to class for the Tennessee football team had a Tennessee were coming back to play where unique upbringing compared to their fellow their fathers, mothers or other relatives had 2014 freshmen. Unlike the rest of this year’s signing class, these players were raised by parents who already knew what it meant to be a Vol. But instead of forcing the orange and white into their children’s lives, the parents of the legacy players elected to allow their sons to choose their own path and go where their hearts led them. On Friday, July 18, the legacy players were made available to the media, an unprecedented move by UT athletics. All six players preached the same message: their former Vol parents never urged them to sign with Tennessee. “My dad never pressured me into anything with Tennessee football,” freshman linebacker Dillon Bates said of his father, Tennessee legend Bill Bates. “He did a great job of giving me a chance to look around - Dillon Bates and explore my options to make my own decision.” Bates recognized early on how important a resource his dad would be for him. Bill Bates wasn’t just a father to Dillon; he was played. Although Vol fans may have elevated a mentor. “Talking to my dad was the greatest expectations for Bates and his fellow legacy resource I could pretty much ask for,” Bates players, he insists he and his new teammates said. “Talking to him every day has helped don’t feel any added pressure. “Really there’s not a lot of pressure,” he me understand the game, and it’s been a great help having him for advice for my said. “It’s more about everybody knowing what they have to do, knowing that they game and my maturity.” Even though Bill never pressured Dillon have to go every day and go as hard as we
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can.” The legacy class as a whole is already forming bonds, and they are embracing the “family” culture head coach Butch Jones has preached to his entire team. Bates said that a lot of the freshman players “stick together and all push each other,” and they all hold each other accountable in practices and off the field as well. When asked about what he expects to do in his first season with the Vols, Bates didn’t speculate on earning a starting spot or winning any accolades as a freshman. “It’s more about what I can do to help the team and be the best teammate I can be,” he said. Fellow linebacker and All-American A.J. Johnson is excited for what is to come from Bates this season and seeing him perform in training camp. “If you ask him what to call, he is going to shoo the call out with ease,” Johnson said of his new teammate. “We’ve been in the film room and we’ve been doing drills as linebackers. I’m ready for him to get the pads on. He works real hard and he runs well. When he gets the pads on he’s going to show it all off.” Although Bates and his fellow legacy players have a link to Tennessee’s storied history, they refuse to look back at the most recent past in terms of the Vols’ performance. Instead of focusing on the four consecutive losing seasons the Vols have suffered, Bates and his teammates focus on the present. “It’s about taking it one day at a time, not looking at the past and past seasons,” Bates said. “It’s all about looking at what we can do right now to bring us back to where we’re supposed to be.”
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The School of Journalism offers a variety of scholarships and internships for its students. But there is one opportunity that might cause students to do a double take — an internship with “Playboy” magazine. The Alex Haley/Playboy Interview Scholarship and Internship in Magazine Journalism was established at UT in October 1992 to commemorate Haley’s association with Playboy and the 30th anniversary of the Playboy Interviews—articles that shaped and continue to set the bar for the interview as a journalistic institution. Haley, who served as a popular adjunct professor at UT in the 1980s, inaugurated the Playboy Interview in 1962 with his article on jazz musician Miles Davis. This piece was quickly followed by his interviews for “Playboy” with some of America’s most famous figures such as Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. Haley continued to contribute to the magazine throughout
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his career. After Haley’s death in 1992, Playboy approached the University in the hopes of establishing a scholarship in his memory. Though no longer offered as of 2014, the scholarship provided an annual stipend of $5,000 to a student of professional promise and included a summer internship at the editorial offices of Playboy in New York City. It was required that the recipient be enrolled as a full time undergraduate upperclassman or master’s degree student with a minimum GPA of 3.0 in the school’s journalism program. Former recipients of the scholarship have gone on to work at major publications such as “Glamour” and “Cosmopolitan.” Jessica Campbell, a 2013 graduate and former Playboy scholarship recipient, now works for “Southern Living.” “Learning to live on my own in a big city required such personal growth,” Campbell said, “and working for a national brand required the same growth in a professional sense.” Campbell was one of two interns responsible for fact checking a variety of articles, proof reading past interviews to prepare
them for eBooks, curating quotes for social media and transcribing interviews. “The hardest part was just adjusting to a work environment where your team members were your supervisors not your peers,” Campbell said. “And learning how to work with the variations in personalities that come with working in a team.” The Playboy internship has been met with some skepticism due to the publication’s more infamous attributes. “I thought it was hilarious and I wanted to apply for it,” Jessica Yonker, a 2012 graduate, said. “But I can’t help but think trying to mention working for Playboy would get a chuckle out of everyone you encountered.” Though the internship is no longer offered, Campbell said she believes the Playboy internship was the most important experience of her time at UT and helped translate into a career at “Southern Living.” “I think that if a student has the means, they should strive for an internship at a national publication.” For more information on the Alex Haley/ Playboy Interview Scholarship, contact Elizabeth Hendrickson at ehendri2@utk. edu.
“You cannot expect to magically wake up in your old age and be some cool grandpa that can still pop an Ollie.” OPINIONS >>pg. 4
Warlick reflects on team unity during offseason Scott Carter Contributor Throughout the offseason, the Lady Vols coaching staff spend hours on the road looking for the next class of Lady Vols. But talent alone doesn’t automatically catch the attention of head coach Holly Warlick and her staff. In order to be a part of the winningest program in women’s college basketball, it takes a well-rounded player that represents Tennessee with grace on and off the field. “Obviously, we want to recruit the best players, and we’re going to recruit talent,” Warlick said. “You’ve got to see what fits into your needs and your program. “I think for us, though, it goes beyond talent. How do you fit into this program as far as what we want to do on the court, what we want to do in the classroom? How do you carry yourself off the court and take care of your own business? We take that into a tremendous amount of consideration.” Sometimes, off-the-court facets of a potential recruits’ life play a deciding role in their future with Tennessee. “We’ve had a kid in the past who was highly, highly up in the charts, but her Twitter account - I just couldn’t go there anymore,” Warlick said. “We addressed it, and she kept putting things that I thought were not appropriate to represent a Lady Vol. So we quit recruiting her, and that’s not to say that her world is wrong, but it just isn’t right for this program.” When making team decisions, including decisions on the recruiting trail, Warlick always considers advice from her coaching staff, and is quick to point out the benefits of having a strong and passionate group of assistants by her side. “I think I’ve got so much knowledge and passion, and just love and interest for this program,” Warlick said of her assistant coaches Kyra Elzy, Jolette Law and Dean Lockwood. See LADY VOLS on Page 5
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