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UT professor links air pollution to agricultural chemicals >>See page 2

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Vols take volleyball victory >>See page 8

The third annual Germanfest was hosted at First Lutheran Church in Knoxville on Saturday, Aug. 27.

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Über fun at Germanfest Be sure to check out The Daily Beacon’s Football Preview this Wednesday for predictions, profiles and much more!

Volume 132 Issue 9

Knoxvillians celebrate Deutschland culture

On Saturday, Aug. 27, First Lutheran Church in North Knoxville celebrated its German heritage with the community, sporting beer maiden outfits, lederhosen and giant beer mugs. Showcasing traditional German food — and a few new twists on the classics — the festival brought in local breweries Fanatic Brewing Company, Blackhorse Pub & Brewery of Knoxville and Schulz Brau Brewing Company to complement the brats and sauerkraut. Schulz Brau, recently opened in North Knoxville, served its traditional German style brews while Fanatic and Blackhorse poured their modern spins on the classics. See page 5 to learn more about Germanfest.

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Georgia woman killed by vehicle in Smokies foothills

Vols to wear sticker inspired

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Usher to release highly anticipated new album next month

A Georgian woman was hit and killed by a vehicle near Chilhowee Lake on Friday, Aug. 26. Park rangers at the Great Smoky Mountain National park responded to the incident and called the Blount Rescue Squad.

Shirley Jean Alexander Clifton, 64, stopped her car to look closer at a snake on the side of Foothills Parkway West before a vehicle struck her.

Blount County deputies transported Clifton to to Blount Memorial hospital, where they found no reason the driver was at fault. The investigation is ongoing.

UT football announced Saturday, Aug. 27, that during the up-coming game against Appalachian State, all players will sport a new addition to their helmets.

The helmet stickers will be of a capital ‘P’ inside a circle, inspired by the late Pat Summitt, acclaimed woman’s basketball coach. Summitt passed away earlier this year from early onset dementia at the age of 64. UT has made it a priority to honor Summitt in as many ways as possible, from painting the rock on campus to laying flowers beside Summitt’s statue on Philip Fulmer Way in the heart of campus.

The Vols play Appalachian State Nov. 1 at 7:30 p.m.

R&B musician Usher announced a new album Thursday, Aug. 25. The follow-up record to “Looking for Myself,” “Hard II Love” is scheduled to release on Sep. 16. Since the beginning of 2016, the Grammy award-winning recording artist has released several new tracks, including “Chains” and “Gmix,” which will appear on the 15-song album. He also announced two new LP tracks, which will be included for those who pre-order the album on iTunes. In addition to releasing a new album, Usher continues to collaborate with other artists, including De La Soul, and plans to perform at the Global Citizen Fest.

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Professor links air pollution to agricultural compounds New research by UT professor Joshua Fu has shown that some agricultural practices are responsible for a significant amount of nitrogen-based pollution.

Joshua Fu and his team, graduate student Jian Sun and research assistant professor Kan Huang, have concluded in their research that there are some troublesome compounds being regularly used in agriculture.

“I focus on air pollution and climate change, so I used mathematics and computer skills to perform air pollution and climate change problems,” Fu said.

The focus of this research is on ammonia, a compound made up of nitrogen and hydrogen, and the nitrate emissions polluting the atmosphere.

“Ammonia comes from human waste, fertilizer and from livestock … ammonia will grow as the population grows,” Fu said.

Fu, also a joint faculty member at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and his team used the Titan supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to help

I focus on air pollution and climate change, so I used mathematics and computer skills to perform air pollution and climate change problems.”

Joshua Fu, Professor

with the research.

“I used the Titan computer to simulate (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) scenarios, emission scenarios. We use those IPCC scenarios

to simulate what we call the ‘community earth system model’ … we predict the future based on the scenarios,” Fu said.

Because ammonia is found in fertilizer and in animal waste, it is the cause of more than half of the nitrogen-based pollution in the U.S.A. Ammonia poses a problem as it can become airborne and spread out even farther.

According to their research, one of the main reasons for such a dense amount of nitrate-producing ammonia is the fact that it is found in fertilizer for crops.

“This is used in agriculture as fertilizer for crops because it helps you get more crops,” Sun said. “However, if you use more than necessary, you cause trouble because you emit a lot of ammonia into the atmosphere.”

One way to help control the nitrate output is to control the amount of ammonia put into fertilizer.

“A very important thing to do is to change the composition of the fertilizer,” Sun said. “The atmosphere has natural deposits because nature has carbon-nitrogen cycles, and there is animal waste so those plants get some natural deposition. So many people are saying ‘Do really we need that much nitrate in our fertilizer?’”

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TN man charged in death of officer Associated Press MARYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — An eastern Tennessee man arrested after a shootout with police that left one officer dead was charged Friday with criminal homicide, which could make him eligible for the death penalty if he is convicted.

Blount County Sherriff James Berrong said that Brian Keith Stalans, 44, has also been charged with four counts of aggravated assault related to the Thursday shootings, including for allegedly firing a gun into a home occupied by a child younger than 5 years old.

Jail records did not indicate whether Stalans has an attorney.

Berrong said Stalans had been locked out of the house when his father was warned by a girlfriend that he was returning to the home with a firearm. The father called police, and the younger Stalans opened fire from the garage on officers who responded to the scene.

Maryville Police Officer Kenny Moats was fatally shot in the neck just above his bulletproof vest while taking cover behind his vehicle after helping the father get to safety.

The shooting happened during the second domestic disturbance call at the home Thursday.

Sheriff James Berrong said he wished he could “turn back the clock and erase this” given what happened later, but that there was no legal cause for the deputies to arrest Stalans during the first call.

“The father did not want to place charges against his son, and we had no reason without any sign of physical injury to take him into custody,” he said.

Because a protective order was filed against Stalans elsewhere in the state, he was required under state law to turn his firearms over to someone else. After the first visit from deputies Thursday, Berrong said Stalans went to his father’s attic and retrieved a gun that he been stored there, cut off a lock and then went to buy .45-caliber ammunition.

Investigators entering the house after the shooting found that Stalans had created a barricade in the basement, leading them to believe he was setting up an ambush, Berrong said.

They also found a letter in which Stalans “blamed the Blount County Sherriff’s Office and his family for his misfortune and told them ‘bye,’” he said.

Moats was a 32-year-old father of three young children, and a nine-year department veteran. After spending much of his time as motorcycle officer, he was assigned to a drug task force in May.

Shannon H e r ro n , founder of the soonto-launch AllOutKnox and graduate student at UT, sat down with us last week to talk about his ideas behind the new organization @ alloutknox. ”Our organization officially launches on April 14, and our main goal is to foster a more active, accessible and inclusive LGBT community in Knoxville.

My hope is that AOK can cultivate this type of environment by hosting social events, promoting volunteer opportunities and providing networking experiences for its members.

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A new definition for faith Hancen Sale

As it Stands

In the recent years, religious commonalty has laid claim to faith — that is, a claim of complete and utter ownership of the word.

As culture progresses and standards for faith in the modern world become more apparent, faith is losing its foundation, perhaps its framework altogether. Thus, faith must be defined — or redefined — in more explicit terms before its potency as a driving force for change is restored.

Faith, in its basic form, is often defined as “belief or trust in a higher being,” particularly in regards to the God of the Old Testament. However, the great philosopher and authority on the subject, Paul Tillich, would gravely disagree, describing faith as a “personal act of ultimate concern.”

Tillich’s thoughts on the subject are expected, considering his reputation as a devoutly religious man; however, his definition of faith defies the prevailing Christian conception, asserting that faith is not limited to the religious realm and employs a more far-reaching relevance within the world. Additionally, Tillich’s perspective poses the question as to how faith, with its deeply religious connotation, can function within secular culture.

Starting with its most common conception,

Tillich explains thar faith is not a set of cultural or religious beliefs, most often spoonfed during early childhood as undeniable truth. Instead, Tillich asserts faith, if understood as an ultimate concern, cannot be derived from an argument or will for belief, thus becoming more a characteristic of a person than merely a religious act. Similar to the distinctions made between needing and wanting, faith is an ultimate, sometimes impractical, concern for something bigger, greater or more ethical than what currently resides.

While this separation of faith and religion seems simple, a divergence of the two is preeminent if faith is ever to survive as a concept apart from its current dogma.

However, with its previous understanding, faith is a tool for division. It becomes an implement for belittling the secular, a socially-acceptable mechanism designed to advance Christian exceptionalism.

For instance, the faith delusion is precisely what allowed Mike Pence to exclaim from the political pulpit, “I am a Christian, a conservative and a republican. In that order,” as if all those culturally charged words have a sort of divine correlation.

Here, he uses faith for divisive means. It is this misconception which conveys the delusion of faith as inherently Christian, conservative, and republican.

However, as an ultimate concern, faith is accessible from any culture. Just as Tillich said, “an act of faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by or turned to the infinite,” regardless of political or religious affiliation. Given this understanding, the moral secularist who claims to have “lost faith” in Christianity still remains ultimately concerned for the justice of humanity, rendering him faithful.

Hence, faith is prevalent in all culture. It is a driving force for not only change, but solidarity.

Faith is an extraordinary gift of human life, an irrational need for something more. It is powerful, transcendent and intrinsic to any part of humanity.

Initially, faith seems exclusive. But, with a better definition, both the secularist and the religious can share faith in a common ultimate concern; it is merely the expressions of the concerns, not the concerns themselves, that separate us.

Hansen Sale is a freshman in business management and can be reached at hsale@vols.utk.edu.

Dear freshman, you only have four years

Brandie McConkeyw

Life as a UT Student

Four years at UT will go by faster than you think.

I am a senior now and I question how four years went by so fast. If you are a freshman, you are probably getting into a routine by now: you know where your classes are, how many times you can hit the snooze button before being late for class and who can and cannot be trusted. Yet, it is the little secrets that you discover once you arrive at UT that make all the difference.

Before I came to UT, I had friends who were students here already. One of my friends was a wonder woman; she did everything a college student hopes to do. While she was a student she had a job, maintained a good GPA, attended church twice a week and was a part of an off-campus bible study.

One day I asked her how she managed to do all that she did. Her secret weapon was studying and doing homework in between classes. I followed her secret weapon my freshman year; in between classes, I would study and do homework leaving my evenings open for friends and UT club meetings. This worked until my second semester of sophomore year, when I found that taking a nap in between classes was more appealing.

Then, I began to look at my calendar and decide which nights I would save for friends and which nights would be dedicated to homework. My advice is to take the first option you can to study and do all that you can in between classes so that at night you can do what you want. For me, that was always hanging out with friends on campus. While study-

ing and getting good grades is important, I think it is wise to consider what kind of a GPA you want to leave college with.

During my first two years here, I maintained a near perfect 4.0 GPA. However, I missed out on a lot of memory making. I studied all the time my freshman year believing that a good GPA is what I needed to succeed in life. But now I realize I cannot go back to my freshman year and change moments where I turned friends down all for the sake of getting an A. I am now a senior and view college from a different angle, because in about 3 semesters I will be on my own off to make in this world. I began the semester with a job, too many credit hours and tried to be an adult all at the same time. It was then I realized that being an adult will come on in its own time.

You only have four years, or five if you are fortunate enough to get five, in college. College is a time to explore who you want to be, try new things, study abroad, find someone to love and even more.

In my opinion, unless you had to settle into a job or graduate in four years (I am taking 5 years), then you should enjoy being a college student. Contrary to what people will tell you, it is okay to enjoy spending time with friends, taking 5 years to graduate and discover you are.

Although I have spent much of my time talking about studying, I will leave you with a few other tips which you might find helpful: Go to tutoring — If you are struggling to understand the material in a class, seek out the resources

UT has to offer. I have been to tutoring several times as a student seeking help in biology and math.

Join a club — There is no better way to get connected and make friends with the same interests and passions as you then joining a club. I tried several clubs before finding two clubs that I love.

Seek counseling — Life can be hard sometimes, especially as college students. Yes, I know going to the counseling center can be scary. Admitting that you are struggling does not make you weak, it shows your maturity. I personally have never been to the UT counseling center, but I know friends who have.

Getting professional help for a problem does not mean you are crazy.

Find yourself while you here — As I mentioned before, I will mention it again; take time to discover who you are. For a whole semester I tried new things, just to discover what I liked and what I did not. I love hosting people and making people feel loved and welcome in my place. I love baking cookies, drinking sparkling grape juice and watching movies with my friends all at same time.

I hope this helps you or comforts you in some way and if not then that is okay too. You only have four years at UT, how are you going to spend them?

Brandie McConkey is a senior in therapeutic recreation and can be reached at bmcconke@vols. utk.edu.

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More than food though, the festival heavily focused on German music. An accordion player filled the gaps between performances outside, which included the First Lutheran School’s children’s choir, who sang nursery rhymes in German along with popular German-influence songs like “Edelweiss” from “The Sound of Music.” A Germanfest wouldn’t be complete without

Germanfest included traditional German food, dancing and music on Saturday, Aug. 27.

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some polka, and the Knoxville Polka Kings made the traditional style of music feel right at home. The organ in the church’s sanctuary served as the centerpiece for the musical experience with a concert by UT’s Organ Studio. This performance focused on German composers, especially those who influenced Lutheran hymns.

The German festivities were interlaced with Southern favorites like cornhole and “Vol Dawgs” from Hawt Dawgs, but the church on Broadway fostered a newfound appreciation for traditions from across the sea.

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Writers series returns to feature new faculty work Hannah Overton Staff Writer

Each year UT hosts a special reading series called “Writers in the Library�. Local, regional and nationally-published authors and poets are invited to read samples of their work aloud for students, faculty and the general public.

This year, Erin Elizabeth Smith is the Jack E. Reese Writer-in-Residence who is presiding over the 2016-2017 series. “Attendees will get an opportunity to see nationally recognized poets, writers and memoirists who are bringing their stories and visions to Knoxville. I’ve been to previous events here that have been transformative to me both as a writer and as a

human being.� Smith said.

When asked about her approach to her role, Smith said, “In choosing the readers whom I am hosting, I wanted to see more diversity and younger voices, particularly in poetry.�

Other writers chosen to share this year include 2016-2017 academic year bestseller Ocean Vuong, and two of UT’s newest faculty members in the English Department: Joy Harjo and Christopher Hebert. Hebert is the first writer scheduled to read for the Writers in the Library. He will be reading from his new book, “Angels of Detroit,� published in July. “It’s a lot of fun to get to kick things off, especially with a brand new book,� Hebert said in response to being the first reader. “And it’s always interesting to share your work with

We’ll have to wait and see what the book itself wants to be.

They tend to have minds of their own.�

Christopher Herbert, English professor

your students. They’re used to showing me what they’re working on. Now we get to turn the tables and let them see what I’ve been up to.� “Angels of Detroit� has been a project that was long time coming. Hebert shared that some books are more complicated to write than others. “In the time I spent trying to figure this one out, I wrote another whole novel, the first one I published. But all my struggles with ‘Angels of Detroit’ made me a stronger writer. It was time well spent,� Hebert said.

Hebert started “Angels of Detroit� while liv-

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The Daily Beacon • Monday, August 29, 2016

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Days until

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Vols sweep home tournament Jordan Duncan Contributor

The Tennessee Volunteer women’s volleyball team played the University of Louisville-Monroe (ULM) and Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) on Saturday, Aug. 27, to conclude the DISH Tennessee Classic tournament.

The Vols kicked off the tournament on Friday, Aug. 26, with a win over Cincinnati. After, they beat both ULM and MTSU without dropping a set.

In the ten sets played so far this season, the Vols have only dropped one against Cincinnati.

Almost all of the Vols got valuable playing time, with several younger players getting the chance to show their abilities. Tessa Grubbs, a freshman outside hitter, gained a start against Cincinnati and MTSU. Grubbs led the team in kills against Cincinnati and tied for most kills against MTSU. Erica Treiber, the MVP of the tournament, ran offense and defense efficiently throughout the game. She also set an example for her teammates in leadership.

“I’m honored to win it, but it couldn’t have been done without the rest of my team,” Treiber said. “The digs we had,

our sets, everything came together for this award for myself personally.”

The Vols rotated many different players and lineups throughout the course of the three games, trying out different player combinations and adapting the lineup for whatever the current situation presented.

They went with a taller overall starting lineup against Cincinnati and MTSU, choosing to counter these teams with a towering defensive presence and aggressive blocking attempts.

Against ULM, a team the Vols had never played before, Tennessee deployed a smaller, more agile lineup capable of fielding and returning almost anything the Warhawks threw at them.

“We are very fortunate to have so many good players we can put in different situations,” said head coach Rob Patrick when asked about the different starting lineups he deployed. The Vols matchups pose a problem for other teams, Patrick said, “‘cause we can go a lot of ball control, we can go a lot of height. ... It’s a good problem for us to have.”

Historically, the Vols have had several hot starts to kick off the season only to lose steam in later games. Tennessee will look to stay consistent in their strong starts next Friday, Aug. 2, in the Cleveland State Tournament.

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Promising start to Vols’ season Taylor Crombie Columnist

Tennessee started the year 5-0 under head coach Rob Patrick. With the exception of 2015, the Vols have made it to the NCAA Championships every past season with their starting stats matching this year’s.

The 3-0 start to 2016 shows that the Vols are ready to put the past behind them and build on the success of last season.

“I’m really proud of how our team came out and played this weekend,” DISH Tennessee Classic MVP Erica Treiber said following the match against Middle Tennessee. “I think we proved that Tennessee volleyball is back in action.”

Next up is the Cleveland State Tournament where the Vols will face Eastern Michigan and Cleveland State in Cleveland, Ohio before traveling to Kent, Ohio, to face Kent State. The Cleveland State Vikings are expected to finish first in the Horizon League for a second consecutive season, while the Kent State Golden Flashes are expected to finish second in the MidAmerican Conference East Division.

Three matches, three lineups: Seniors Bri Holmes and Raina Hembry were the only constants in the three different starting lineups Patrick played this weekend.

The starting lineup for the final match of the tournament against MTSU was similar to Friday night’s against Cincinnati with the exception of freshman Alyssa Andreno instead of Tessa Grubbs. The lineup against Louisiana Monroe earlier in the day was almost completely different with Mackenzie Cooler, Nora Reed and Kendra Turner starting for the first time this year and Brooke Schumacher as the libero instead of Bridgette Villano. Cooler finished the match with 21 sets.

Sophomore Courtney Mueller made her debut during the third set of the Louisiana Monroe match and had six assists.

Regaining composure and chemistry:

Despite defeating MTSU in straight sets, the Vols looked out of sync on the court and helped MTSU keep the score close at the beginning of the first and second set.

Patrick tried a few different combinations of players in an effort to get the team back to the composed state they were in during the first two matches of the tournament.

“We have opportunities to try people to spark us and we’re really lucky to have such skilled and high-level players that aren’t even starting for us,” he said.

In his mind, the real game changer was Britney Vallez.

“Britney Vallez was our MVP of this match,” Patrick said. “Sometimes you put somebody in that’s a spark plug and today she was a huge spark plug for us.”

Aces and errors: The Vols committed many service errors over the weekend, but managed to balance them out with aces.

“What you really would love to have is a one to one ratio of aces to errors,” Patrick said at the end of the tournament.

The Vols struggled with serves against Cincinnati, committing a total of 17 errors to nine aces compared to eight aces to four errors against Louisiana Monroe. That ratio was much closer to one to one in the match against MTSU with the team finishing with nine aces to ten errors.

“I didn’t think we really missed that many serves, but then I looked at the sheet … that actually surprised me, but we were serving tough,” Patrick said. “We’ll take that.”

Kelsey Bawcombe matched her single match record of five aces against Louisiana Monroe and finished out Saturday with a total of eight aces.

“She’s got a great serve,” Patrick said of Bawcombe. “She’s a great player. She can play back row, she can play as serving specialist, she can play front row, she’s really found a great niche in our program with her ability to play and do all those things at a really high level.”

No. 9 Tennessee’s veteran roster allows Jones to adapt Associated Press

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee coach Butch Jones has a different kind of team this season.

According to some players, that’s allowing him to be a different type of coach.

Jones spent the first few years of his Tennessee tenure attempting to restock the talent base and instill a winning culture. He has handled those assignments well enough to give No. 9

Tennessee its highest preseason ranking since 2005 heading into the opener Thursday night against Appalachian State.

“I think he’s a lot more laid-back,” senior linebacker Jalen Reeves-Maybin said. “I don’t feel like he’s trying to truly build a program anymore.

We’ve kind of set our standards and established who we are, and now we’re just trying to mold people into who we are. I think it’s made it a lot easier and allowed him to lay back a little bit more and put a lot more faith in the (assistant) coaches as well as the players.”

Jones initially said he hadn’t thought much

about the ways in which he has adapted his style since his arrival at Tennessee. But he later acknowledged the maturity of this roster and how it has impacted his approach.

“What’s helped is I think our coaches and myself know our football team a little more,” Jones said. “Growing up as a son of a chief of police, I’ve been interested in studying human behavior all my life, so I love to get in their mindsets. I love to see what this football team needs, and I take great pride in that.

“But I think you’re constantly evolving. If you don’t, that’s when you stop growing.”

Jones was Tennessee’s fourth coach in eight seasons when he took over in 2013. Tennessee went 5-7 in Jones’ debut year for its fourth straight losing season. After going 7-6 in 2014, the Vols finished 9-4 last year and closed with a six-game winning streak.

“I think he had to be tough when he first got here,” said offensive tackle Brett Kendrick, a fourth-year junior. “We needed to play his style of play, and we didn’t have that when he first got here. I feel like we’ve really adjusted to him, and he’s also starting to treat us really good too. He’s being more positive with us.”