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Convention to bring tattoos, sideshows to Knoxville Anastasia Tantaris Contributor

Tennessee looks to find production in Wilkinson’s absence

Trenton Duffer Staff Writer

The Tennessee soccer team will be without its premier scorer Hannah Wilkinson this year after the senior ruptured her ACL in an exhibition match against Clemson earlier this month.

With Wilkinson out for the season, head coach Brian Pensky said he is crushed.

“First off, we’re devastated for Hannah,” Pensky said after Wednesday’s team practice. “The kid’s been in two World Cups, an Olympics and a couple U-20 World Championships. She was excited for this fall, as all seniors are. She played 99 percent of last fall as her senior year, and she literally found out two days before last fall ended that she was granted this extra year of eligibility.

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This weekend, the Fourth Annual Knoxville Tattoo Convention (KTC) is taking place at the Holiday Inn at World’s Fair Park.

KTC is bringing in artists from all over the world to participate. The convention will showcase live tattooing, sideshows from performers like The Enigma, local art, vendors and contests.

Nationally and internationally recognized tattoo artists Danny Fugate and wife Amanda Marie founded KTC with their team at Ambition Tattoo.

Their goal was simply to bring a tattoo convention back to Knoxville so that Knoxville residents could have the opportunity to get tattooed by up-and-coming artists as well as experience international art.

“It’s good for the community to keep this event going,” Fugate and Marie said. “Creating tattoo awareness and acceptance, quality tattoos and sanitary procedures performed only by professionals.”

Besides just the tattoo art, the convention offers art from a variety of different media. “We believe in keeping the art alive,” they said.

KTC even offers activities for kids, including a kid’s coloring contest so that they can feel involved as well. Each child receives a coloring page, and when they are finished, they can bring it up to the registration booth to trade it in for a ribbon.

While this is good fun for the kids, it is also beneficial to the parents who want to attend but cannot find a sitter or feel that a tattoo convention is not the type place to bring their children.

“Obviously no child will be getting tattooed,” (Top) Justin Keyes shares his tattoo of his home coordinates placed on his inner Marie said. “But how do we expect parents to arm. come if they can’t bring their child?”

(Bottom) Megan Patterson shares her tattoo that represents sisterhood between her and her two friends.

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DISPATCHES Walmart bans AR-15s from be- Mormon Church to keep affiliing sold in its stores ation with Boy Scouts Walmart made the announcement Wednesday that it would no longer sell AR-15s and other similar semiautomatic rifles in their stores. A Walmart spokesman claimed the decision stemmed from low demand for the rifles, despite over 1.6 million background checks for gun sales being performed in the month of July, according the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The announcement was made the same day that two television journalists were murdered on live TV by a man wielding a handgun in Virginia. AR-15s were used to carry out the mass shootings at Aurora, Colorado and Newtown, Connecticut, and have become a frequent target of gun control advocates calling for the end of their sale.

The Church of Latter-day Saints will maintain its relationship with the Boy Scouts of America, according to a Wednesday announcement by Church officials. The Boy Scouts of America voted to end its longstanding ban on gay troop leaders, a decision which many assumed would drive away religious organizations such as the Mormon Church. Mormon church officials were given verbal assurances that they would be allowed to handpick troop leaders “who will best inculcate the organization’s values through the Scouting program,” according to a church statement.

The Mormon Church is the nation’s largest sponsor of the Boy Scouts of America and currently claims over 15 million boy scout members affiliated with the church.

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Divison of Student Life extends original Lunch Hours program Altaf Nanavati Copy Editor

The students and faculty at the university will now be able to crack the brick wall standing between them.

The Office of the Dean of Students is reintroducing its Lunch Hours program that will allow students to take a faculty or staff member to lunch.

As Associate Dean of Students Danny Glassmann pointed out, the program was first launched back in March 2015 when the Office of the Dean of Students collaborated with Volunteer Dining in order to strengthen the relationship between students and faculty members.

“It really just originated out of a need for students, faculty and staff to have the opportunity to really meet with each other and just talk outside of a classroom or meeting,” Glassmann said.

Unlike the program’s original hours when it debuted on campus, the Lunch Hours initiative has extended for the entire fall semester.

Students who want to participate simply have to extend an invitation to the faculty member they want to have lunch with.

Afterwards, the students will have to pay a visit to the Office of the Dean of Students, located at the Student Services Building on Circle Park Drive. Students are required to

write down basic information and choose a date for lunch on either a Tuesday or Friday.

The office will then provide the student with two free lunch passes, which hold a limit of $15 per meal, that are valid at dining areas located in the Student Union, Presidential Court and the Southern Kitchen.

Students will be able to take advantage of the Lunch Hour passes two times out of the whole semester.

During the semester, the faculty at the Office of the Dean of Students will be performing an assessment on the program to determine whether students are participating.

Along with the assessment, the office will also be sending out a survey to the participating students towards the end of the semester, which is meant to gather the overall feedback of the program itself. Through the assessment and the survey, the office will decide whether or not to continue this program into the spring semester. Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Life and Dean of Students Melissa Shivers said she believes the lunch hours program will help bridge the gap many students feel between their professors.

“I believe the work we do on campus should always be with our students in mind,” Shivers said. “This initiative is designed to help create opportunities for faculty to learn more about their students and vice versa.”

Students can sign up for the program now and schedule lunch with faculty members starting on Sept. 1.

Judge upholds Tennessee lethal injection method Associated Press

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee judge on Wednesday upheld the state’s lethal injection process for executing inmates.

Davidson County Chancery Judge Claudia Bonnyman said from the bench that the plaintiffs, 33 death row inmates, didn’t prove that the one-drug method led to a painful and lingering death. She also said the plaintiffs didn’t show during a lengthy trial that there have been problems in states where the method has been used.

“Plaintiffs were not able to carry their burdens ... on any of their clams,” Bonnyman said.

Plaintiffs’ attorney Kelley Henry said they plan to appeal.

Tennessee’s protocol calls for the use of

pentobarbital mixed to order by a pharmacist, because the only commercial producer of the drug has placed restrictions on its distribution to prevent it from being used in executions.

Tennessee has not executed an inmate for more than five years because of legal challenges and problems in obtaining lethal injection drugs.

Lawmakers moved from a three-drug lethal injection method to a one-drug method and to reinstate the electric chair as a backup. Both changes brought challenges, and all previously scheduled executions have been put on hold.

Although Tennessee has yet to carry out an execution using compounded pentobarbital, state attorney Scott Sutherland has said that Texas, Ohio and Georgia have had more than 30 successful and painless executions with that drug.

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Former NATO ambassador discusses U.S., world relations

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dents attend Volker’s lectures, a demographic he believes ought to be properly informed about U.S. relations with other countries.

“What happens around the world With the tensions with Russia mountaffects us every day,” Volker said. “The ing and ISIS growing in the Middle East, more we understand about it, the more the arrival of former NATO ambassador Kurt Volker couldn’t have come at a we address it, the more we can shape better time. Volker hosted the lecture, what’s happening in the world to our “Values, Strategies and Alliances: Tools own benefit. The more we don’t do that, for Tackling Challenge to the Global the more others shape it.”

After traveling the nation and visiting Order” on Tuesday evening as part such universities as of The Howard George Washington H. Baker Jr. University, The Center’s Ashe U n i ve rs i t y of Lecture series.

Oklahoma and V o l k e r University of San addressed a Francisco to name a myriad of global few, Volker said he issues, including has developed two U.S. relations reactions to the stuwith Russia and dents he meets across China, as well as the country. emerging threats “One of them is to security such that I am impressed as ISIS. that the generation Some UT stuof college students dents viewed today has more world the lecture as an experience than I had opportunity to when I went to collearn more about lege.” Volker said. the U.S. and its “Through the interrelations with net, through social other countries media, through techin the post-Cold nology and through War era. travel, people have “I just think a lot of connectedit’s interesting ness to the rest of the to hear about world, much more so how the different Kurt Volker , Former NATO Ambassador than I did.” countries and His second reacdifferent allianction points to some es interact with of the flaws of this each other and growing global intercommunicate connection that he and form opinbelieves is superficial in most instances ions on what they should do globally,” Megan Borgmier, sophomore in nursing, and in need of repair.

“I find that many people have less said.

For Ellie Yates, sophomore in supply context in which to understand what’s chain management, the lecture held going on,” Volker said. “They’ll have particular relevance given that the 2016 contacts with somebody through social election will be the first time she’s per- media who is in Jordan, but they won’t know anything about what Jordan is as mitted to vote.

“Since this is the first election we are a country, how it got there, what the hisable to vote in, it’s important to learn tory is, what the government is doing, about global issues and form our opin- what its view is on dealing with ISIS. “It’s without this context.” ions on things about the world because Contributor

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The more we understand about it, the more we address it, the more we can shape what’s happening the world to our own benefit. The more we don’t do that, the more others shape it.”

it affects our future,” Yates said.

Large numbers of college age stu-

After being out during construction, the flame is back overlooking Circle Park.

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Knox County climbs the ranks for tourism

Tanner Hancock News Editor

Heidi Hill

Assistant News Editor

Last year, Knox and Sevier County pulled in $3 billion from tourism as part of a recordbreaking $18 billion state record, according to data recorded by the Tennessee Department of Tourist Development.

Patricia Gray, executive assistant at the Tennessee Department of Tourist Development, attributed Knox County’s tourism success to outdoor facilities and recreation like the Great Smokey Mountains National Park and scenic camping sites scattered throughout East Tennessee.

“They do an excellent job of promoting that area, and I think their outdoor sports really contributed to the increase that the area saw last year,” she said.

Though Hamilton County traditionally held the No. 4 spot in travel expenditures, 2014 marked the first year that Knox County broke that ranking. The county also experienced a 6.2 percent increase in tourist expenditure, outranking the previous year by over $50 million.

Here’s a breakdown of how Knox County compared to other areas in the state: County

Travel Expenditures (in millions)

1. Davidon

5,426.62

2. Shelby

3,158.9

3. Sevier

1,872.22

4. Knox

988.05

5. Hamilton

983.08

6. Williamson

407.46

7. Sullivan

340.98

8. Blount

330.72

9. Rutherford

307.47

10. Washington

235.50

State total: 17,185.27 Related data: • 9,110 new jobs were created as result of last year’s tourism boom • Total payroll came to 172.11 million for employees in Knox County • Data courtesy of TN Department of Tourist Development

One of Knoxville’s favorite attractions is located in World’s Fair Park. The Sunsphere allows people to overlook the city of Knoxville and the University of Tennessee campus.

Michael Lipps • The Daily Beacon

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(Top Left)The Tennessee Theater sign hangs big and can be seen overlooking Gay Street.

(Top Right) The Knoxville mural proudly shows off different aspects of the beautiful city on Gay Street.

(Bottom Right) Nothing Too Fancy, located in downtown Knoxville, displays its love for the University of Tennessee.

All photos by Michael Lipps • The Daily Beacon

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Combatting the Red Zone safe and effectively Katie Scott Vol Well

When you walked onto campus this fall, you entered what is known as the Red Zone.

On university campuses, the Red Zone is the period of time between the beginning of fall semester and Thanksgiving Break. This time period earns its ominous name from one unfortunate fact: this is when students are most at risk for sexual assault.

Yet, even as the Red Zone ends, sexual assault is still a threat for too many students.

So, how can we as Volunteers help to not only get rid of the Red Zone, but also ultimately reduce the amount of violence on our campus?

Well, the best way to stop violence is to prevent it from happening. As a VOLS 2 VOLS Peer Health Educator at the Center for Health Education and Wellness, I teach active bystander training to students and faculty on campus. While I strongly recommend attending a SPEAKologist active bystander training, I want to review the five steps we teach for how to be an active bystander: trust, acknowledge, evaluate, assume and respond.

The first step is to trust the voice inside of you that says, “something is wrong, and I need to speak up.”

We often question our own judgment, so we might dismiss a potentially harmful situation for fear we’re misinterpreting what’s happening. We also doubt whether or not it’s our place to do something. It’s

completely natural to doubt if you should intervene, but it’s important to overcome that initial fear and trust your inner voice. It is always better to speak up than to do nothing and let violence occur.

Second, acknowledge the situation. Where are you? Who is there? Is it physically or verbally violent?

Is anyone intoxicated? Is somebody already hurt?

Being an active bystander means safely intervening.

You should never put yourself in danger to speak up, so take note of the environment you’re in. This leads to the third step.

Evaluate your options. If someone is already physically hurt, call 911 and seek assistance. If you don’t feel safe physically intervening, consider calling out from a comfortable distance or creating a distraction.

Ask a friend to step up with you or find an authority figure like a professor, police officer, resident assistant or bouncer. Remember to stay calm and take time to assess the most efficient and safe way to speak up.

The fourth step is the most difficult: assume responsibility. It’s easy to fall prey to diffusion, also known as the bystander effect. Statistically, the more people that are around a situation, the less likely someone is to respond. We could think that, since no one else is responding, we are misreading the scenario. It is also likely that we are waiting on someone else to respond first. I know it’s hard to overcome our

Advice on back-to-school season Adam Weatherall Dreaming of Dolly

“Mr. Adam, I put my stuff on the shelf, and now everything smells likes urine…”

If there were 10+ words that could better encapsulate my summer experience than the 10+ data overcharge updates from Verizon, they appear above.

Yet somehow, even when a 12-15 year old confesses to storing her clothes in the shelf/man pee part of the outhouse/port-a-potty and after racking up $127+ in data overcharges, the summer disappears in a flash, and suddenly you’re back in sweltering southeast humidity struggling with mandatory readings/meal plans.

Knoxville is, and will always be, an innately insane place. A part of me wonders how I ended up here, and then another part of me has a hard time reconciling why I stay here, but the last and most marginal part of me wonders how I could ever leave. This cragged city with its scattered shards of broken bottles and mismatched unruly sidewalks has prompted more growth than I could have ever imagined. So as the new year begins and a bunch of bleary-eyed freshmen pop their higher education cherry (which I can say because no freshman reads campus publications), I have only these words of advice: First and foremost: APPRECIATE YOUR MEAL PLAN. Soon, but not so soon from now, you will be charged with feeding yourself three times a day, and the prospect of peanut butter in everything and tortillas in most things will not be so much of a disenchanting option, but a detestable reality. Food is tiresome, time consuming and tedious. Enjoy meals prepared for you

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because preparing meals for yourself is almost as fun as cleaning your own piss pot, which you’ll have to do too.

This cragged city with its scattered shards of broken bottles and mismatched unruly sidewalks has prompted more growth than I could have ever imagined.”

Second: STOP WEARING PANTS. I will be the first to tell you that I was almost as committed in my resistance to the douche bag Ralph-Lauren-pastelvomit-inducing uniform of UT as much as any fashion minded pro-Palestinian, but there comes a time when

cultural rules that tell us to mind our own business, but isn’t it better to risk a brief, awkward moment than to discover later that you could have prevented a crime? Don’t passively wait for someone else to be an active bystander. Take responsibility and respond.

Responding is, of course, the concluding step. Who could you be helping? It could be a stranger, your friend, your classmate, your roommate, your brother or your sister. At the Center for Health Education and Wellness, our mantra is Vols Help Vols. I encourage you to make that one of your personal mantras.

Being an active bystander doesn’t necessarily mean making extreme, heroic interventions. It can be as simple as helping someone who looks like they’re lost or responding to the person who emails the entire class asking for the notes they missed. Or it can be as brave as stopping an intoxicated friend from leaving a party with someone they don’t know. We, as Volunteers, have the power to get rid of the Red Zone.

Katie Scott is a junior in communication studies and a Vols 2 Vols Peer Health Educator for the Center for Health Education and Wellness. She can be reached at katdscot@vols.utk.edu.

function outweighs fashion. That time is now. The sweat streaming out of your trousers marks every public poop seat you leave. You look uncomfortable. Most of all, you just look really stupid.

Third: GO TO THE FORT. Sure, you run the risk of late night shootings and tetanus in your toes, but some of the greatest friendships I’ve made were made laughing under the seedy streetlights of James Agee. Drink Sunset Blush out of a box. Find friends with stripper poles in their living room. The Fort is the breeding ground of debauchery, but also of relationships that have the potential to last beyond graduation. Go get debaucherous with new relationships.

Fourth: GO TO MATH CLASS. Additionally, it should subtract from your overall knowledge.

A lot of people are sure to be telling you what to do and what not to do in the coming weeks, and it’s not necessarily my place to tell you what’s wrong and what’s right, but these things have worked for me.

Soon, you’ll be an upperclassmen and looking into windows of houses that used to house your friends, noting the different drapes and the transient nature of college. Thousands of people have stepped over the very same cracks you step over. Who knows what you will learn, but hopefully you won’t mistake soiled urinals for shelves.

Go Vols.

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

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Fugate and Marie encourage tattoo enthusiasts, art enthusiasts, avid tattoo collectors, people looking to get their first tattoos, tattoo spectators and people who just wanted to come and meet the Enigma or watch the Burlesque troop all to attend.

“Tattoo conventions are not just for the heavily tattooed,” Marie said.

“Anyone interested for any reason should come.”

Fugate and Marie also pointed out the economic benefits that KTC has on the Downtown Knoxville area as well as on the local art scene. It increases business while showcasing Knoxville artists and providing them with more clientele as well.

Marie attributes some of KTC’s success to how fun the event is, making people want to come back year after year.

“As long as we continue to provide the same kind of service that we have for the last three years, people will continue to have a positive experience,” she said.

Fugate and Marie are not only the founders of the event, but they share the bulk of the behind the scenes preparations between the two of them.

“We don’t sleep much,” Marie said.

Between their hard work and dedication, as well as the help of their supporters and clients, the Ambition team has managed to get the word out and have a successful convention for three years.

This year is expected to be no different.

(Left) Justin Keyes has trees that line his right side that represent each member of his family.

Hayley Pennesi • The Daily Beacon (Top) (Left) Senior Cody Woodside and (right) sophomore Justin Keyes pose in front of Neyland Stadium with their Tennessee outlines.

Esther Choo • The Daily Beacon

Former UT student uses interesting techniques for novel Megan Patterson

Arts & Culture Editor

This fall, Burlesque Press will publish Tawnysha Greene’s first novel, “A House Made of Stars.” The novel will take the reader into a 10-year-old’s shoes and show how a child’s perspective can both clarify and overlook the realities of an adult’s world.

The novel began as an end-of-the-year class assignment assigned by UT professor Maragaret Lazarus Dean when Greene was a student at the university. The class was instructed to write a “secret story,” defined as anything totally different from what they had done before.

Greene decided to write from a young girl’s point of view instead of using an adult narrator like in her previous works. Dean encouraged Greene to pursue the idea, so

Greene developed the story over the next few years until she completed it as her doctorate creative dissertation.

“I continued to work on it afterwards,” Greene said. “I rewrote certain sections; I expanded the beginning a lot more. Then I started sending it out and Burlesque Press ended up taking it.”

David Wallace and his wife Jennifer are the owners of the publishing company, which they base out of New Orleans. Wallace discussed a few of the unusual literary devices that Greene employs in her novel, including leaving the main characters unnamed.

“I think that she’s trying to give the reader a particular kind of experience,” Wallace said. “It works to make the reader feel very close to the action and give the reader no way out, no safety bars to hold onto during the book.”

Greene explained that she hopes the anon-

ymous nature of the characters will help the reader empathize more easily and connect with the protagonist.

“I felt like in not giving anyone a name that this could be anybody anywhere,” Greene said.

Due to the age of the protagonist, the novel is being marketed as a literary youngadult book. However, Greene feels that the use of a young narrator doesn’t exclude adult readers from forming a powerful connection; instead she hopes it will open adult readers’ eyes to the sharp perception of youth.

“I liked using a child narrator because children are a lot more honest than adults sometimes,” Greene said. “Some of the issues here, like poverty and abuse, I wanted to be at the forefront of the novel and something that couldn’t be buried by a bunch of layers.”

Although the young protagonist gives a brutally honest account of events in the

novel, Wallace described the contrast present between the young girl’s honesty and her innocent perspective.

“There’s a real strong feeling of the book of duality,” Wallace said. “The character is trying to work out her own kind of imaginative world that is separate from the one of her parents, and her parents have this very destructive, self-destructive, philosophy and way of doing things that is causing too much grief.”

Despite the novel’s harsh themes, the story is uplifting at its core. Greene is already working on a sequel that will reveal how the young narrator climbed out of the rough circumstances where she came from in “The House Made of Stars.”

Greene will be having two book signings this fall; the first is coming up on September 5.

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Knoxville music festival prepares for another year of local music Katey Robinson Copy Editor

Since moving to Knoxville fifteen years ago, Tim Lee and his wife Susan have carved themselves a beloved place within Knoxville’s music scene. Their band Tim Lee 3 has been consistently performing, releasing albums and collaborating on projects with other local musicians over the years. “Knoxville was supportive from the beginning — everyone really made us feel like part of the community,� Lee said. “So now we try to do everything we can to continue fostering that

community.�

This line of thinking inspired the organization of last year’s inaugural Hungry Otter Fest, the brainchild of Lee and his wife as well as two other Knoxville musicians, Christina Horn and Greg Horne. “We were at a rehearsal and we started talking about trying to do a different kind of festival — one that didn’t really have a theme other than music,� Lee said. They began tossing ideas around for a celebration of musical diversity.

With the help of local sponsors, community support and The Pilot Light, Hungry Otter Fest was born. Last year’s ambition for a diverse representation of musical genres went into planning this year’s lineup as well.

“Friday night’s lineup is pretty much straight rock and roll, but we’re trying to mix it up,� Lee said. “Saturday’s a little all over the map, and Sunday’s way all over the map ... on Sunday you’ve got hip hop and a string band next to each other in the lineup.�

Some newer, up-and-coming acts will be playing. “We just added Zach and Kota’s Sweet Life for Friday night — they’re a young band here in town,� Lee said.

While Hungry Otter Fest will primarily showcase local bands, a few national acts will be visiting town for the occasion as well.

Hailing from Columbus, Ohio, Scrawl is an indie band that has been around since 1985.“I’m really excited about Scrawl,� Lee said. “They’ve

been around for a long time, but they don’t play very often. They’re as great as they were 25 years ago.�

Lee is optimistic for the growth that events like this one can provide for music in Knoxville and is excited for the weekend’s events to get underway. “Last year was a ton of fun, and I can’t expect this year to be anything but fun,� Lee concluded.

The Second Annual Hungry Otter Fest will be going on all weekend, Aug. 28 -- 30. Friday’s and Saturday’s performances will be at The Pilot Light beginning at 7 p.m. The music will migrate to Big Fatty’s on Sunday at 3 p.m. Tickets for the weekend are a steal at $5 and will be available at the door.

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Vols put student into student-athlete Jonathan Toye

Sports Editor There is a fact about Tennessee football players that is often overlooked: they are also students.

Students with a loaded schedule.

Here is the typical day of a Tennessee football player: wake up at 6 a.m. to eat breakfast and receive various treatment, attend class until 2 p.m., arrive at the athletic complex for team meetings and then finally gear up for the twohour practice.

After practice, players pay a visit to the weight room, and the studious athletes will squeeze studying into their schedule.

“I think at times people don’t understand the grind these kids are under,” Tennessee wide receivers coach Zach Azzanni said.

This is the first full week freshmen have had to manage both school and football. Azzanni admitted it can be difficult to adjust to the new schedule.

“For the freshmen, it’s probably going to be a little overwhelming,” Azzanni said. “Spring ball is a little bit different than playing a season if they got here early or enrolled early.

“But time management is something we talk about all the time as a staff and with our guys at the Thornton Center. Joe Scogin, Brian Russell, those guys do a great job of helping these kids managed their time.”

Players might not have a choice with time

management to succeed though, as Tennessee head coach Butch Jones and his staff have stressed academics to his players since their arrival. Most of his players have listened.

Tennessee had 52 players record a GPA of at least 3.0 in the 2015 spring semester and have had 98 players record a GPA of 3.0 or higher in the past two semesters. Tennessee has also improved its APR — which was embarrassingly low when Jones came to UT — to avoid NCAA sanctions.

Grades have become a point of pride for the players, as GPA has become another subject of competition amongst the players.

“Coach Jones has stressed academics since we have got here,” defensive line coach Steve Stripling added. “Right now academics are full blown so that adds a little something to their plate so they have to obviously be very organized and manage their time well.”

It is easy to ignore Tennessee’s academic progress — to just believe that the success in the classroom is merely good PR fodder at best and a distraction to the players at worst, and has no effect on the football field.

Azzanni, however, revealed the benefits of performing well in the classroom.

“You talk about time management: if kids procrastinate and get stressed out, and all of the sudden at the last minute they have to stay up late and do a paper, well that might be the Thursday night before we play Alabama,” Azzanni said. “Now they are not rested, now they are stressed out, now they don’t play as well on the football field.

Sophomore Jalen Hurd carries the ball down the field during the Georgia UT game in Fall of 2014. Hayley Pennesi • The Daily Beacon “Being on top of your stuff, having things under control is going to lead to getting more rest, having loopholes in your time, studying more film because you are on top of your stuff and that usually leads to high performance on Saturday.

“Typically when you have a football team with good grades, you usually have a good football team because they have their priorities straight on both sides.”

Tennessee’s priorities continue to be straight for 2015, but even Azzanni implied it’s easy to manage time during syllabus week. “(I am pleased) so far, but we are a week into it,” Azzanni said, laughing. “As the grind hits, that’s when we really got to make sure that they are getting rest and are able to measure their time with these tests and exams and projects.”

Tennessee experiments with high-tech sleep monitors Associated Press

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — About an hour before a Tennessee football player’s scheduled bedtime, he gets a reminder via an app on his phone or a text message. That’s when he puts on orange glasses that block out the glow of smartphones or computer screens, making it easier to fall asleep.

All the players have been given sleeping masks as well. Some have sensors above their

mattresses and under their sheets to monitor heart rate, movement and respiration rate to detect their quality and quantity of sleep.

The idea is that if they sleep better each night, they’ll work better the following day.

“Look at any college student — the two things they struggle with are time management and sleep,” Tennessee coach Butch Jones said. “To be able to perform at a high level, you need your sleep, you need nine hours every day, you need to sleep in 68-degree room temperatures, all those things that we’re constantly stressing with our players.”

Jones’ staff is working in conjunction with

Rise Science, a Chicago-based company hoping more teams follow the 25th-ranked Volunteers’ lead. The result is a carefully orchestrated sleep monitoring program for the team.

Three former Northwestern students came up with the idea three years ago. They studied how increased sleep produced better athletic performance and started assisting various Northwestern teams. Tennessee is the first major college program to begin working with Rise Science since the company’s official formation last year.

Rise Science officials cite studies showing

that players sleeping over eight hours per night were 50 percent more likely to play error-free throughout an entire practice and high school athletes sleeping at least eight hours per night were 70 percent less likely to get injured. They say an extra 30-90 minutes of sleep per night can increase reaction time by 10 percent.

Other studies show increased sleep leads to higher field-goal accuracy, better weight training and faster sprint times.

The trick is getting college students to buy into these statistics when balancing an academic and athletic workload causes such a time crunch.

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Walk-on poised to take starting linebacker job

Troy Provost-Heron Training Editor

Tennessee’s linebacker room is filled with highly touted prospects and players that have game-time experience.

And yet, when the Volunteers open up their season against Bowling Green on September 5 in Nashville, it could be a walkon that starts at middle linebacker for UT, as sophomore Colton Jumper was named as one of the two remaining candidates for the starting gig by defensive coordinator John Jancek on Wednesday.

Currently locked in a position battle with true freshman Darrin Kirkland Jr. — redshirt junior Kenny Bynum was recently trimmed from the competition — it has been Jumper’s work off the field that has put him in a position to start.

“He has really done a good job learning our system,” Jancek said. “He has spent countless hours in the film room on his own taking notes and all that hard work is paying off.

“He is really a great example for a lot of players in college football -- guys that come in as four and five-star [recruits], but lack maybe the maturity and the work ethic it takes to make yourself a great player. Colton is a very good example of that. He’s made himself a very good football player.”

But while the 6-foot-2, 224-pound Lookout Mountain, Tennessee native has improved from his freshman campaign, he is showcasing the talent that his teammates have seen in him since he stepped onto campus.

“Really, he has all the tools,” junior linebacker Jalen Reeves-Maybin said. “I’ve been knowing about Jumper since we were in high school. He graduated the same year I did and I’ve been a believer in him since the

SOCCER continued from Page 1 “It was icing on the cake, and boom. In two minutes, it was gone.”

Wilkinson played in two World Cups for her home country of New Zealand, and in 2013, she scored a goal against the United States’ women’s team in a friendly match. Last season she scored a career-high nine goals.

The New Zealand native also brought leadership to the Tennessee offense — a role that Pensky admits will be tough to fill.

“It becomes an opportunity and a need for someone to come in and produce,” Pensky said.

“Whether that’s two kids getting eight goals apiece or it absolutely being a ‘by-committee’

first time he came in here last spring.”

Even after somebody secures the vacant “mike” linebacker spot, though, Jancek expects to see everybody involved in the competition make contributions throughout the season.

“You’d like to be able to rotate,” Jancek said. “To play one guy 80 snaps (a game), after awhile that’s going to catch up to you, and we saw the effects of that the last two seasons.”

‘Finally settling in’: For a large part of fall camp, Zach Azzanni’s list of wide receivers was not as deep as he has grown used to.

Marquez North, Josh Smith and Jason Croom have battled injuries and Von Pearson missed time due to a suspension, leaving the Tennessee wide receivers coach with a small handful of past contributors and a wideout transitioning from quarterback.

As of late, though, the Vols have started to regain those missing pieces one by one, and UT’s passing game has benefitted from it.

“We’ve had a lot of receivers in and out of positions and rotating through,” wide receivers coach Zach Azzanni said. “We’ve had some bumps and bruises and guys not practicing for different reasons, so it was hard in the middle of camp to find out who we are and who we can be.

“But I think these last five or six practices, we are finally settling in to who we can be in the pass game.”

A large part of that is because of North and Pearson, who are nearing a return to their past selves. Azzanni said that North possibly could have practiced at 100 percent Wednesday, but is being “eased back in,” while Pearson continues to shake off the rust after a summer-long absence from the team.

At the next level: The combination of running backs Jalen Hurd and Alvin Kamara have the Volunteer faithful excited, but it’s

thing, we’ve got to call a spade a spade. It’s a loss in production.”

Goalkeeper Julie Eckel said she empathizes with Wilkinson — the fifth-year senior was sidelined last year with a knee injury.

But Eckel said there are things that the team can do to keep Wilkinson’s spirits high.

“For me, it was just feeling included … Just getting a text from the team and keeping her in the loop, and letting her know how practice was,” Eckel said. “Even though she’s not here, everyone is still thinking about her, and she’s still an important part of our team.”

Wilkinson had her surgery on Wednesday.

Both Pensky and Eckel said that they had contacted her, and that the surgery was a success.

Wilkinson is now back at home and resting, and is still a member of the Tennessee soccer team.

the depth behind those two -freshmen John Kelly and Joe Young -- that have the Vols eager to unleash their backfield this season.

“In this league, if you have three NFL guys in your room, you got it going,” running backs coach Robert Gillespie said. “I think right now we are kind of at that point where we have the guys that it takes in this league to make plays … I think it’s going to be fun for us as an offense to sit back and try to figure out different ways to get guys the ball.”

Marquez North runs warm up drills during the Georgia Tennessee football game in Fall 2014.

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