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Tuesday, August 10, 2013
Issue 14, Volume 124
Barton finds quick comfort with Vols Steven Cook Copy Editor
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Students pick up litter around campus on Sept. 5 as part of the Make Orange Green initiative.
Big Orange goes green Hayley Brundige Staff Writer On a typical football game day in Knoxville, a stream of orange-clad bodies can be seen flowing into Neyland Stadium. UT’s Office of Sustainability is working to make that stream just a little greener. Started in 2006 by Facilities Services, the “Make Orange Green” campaign has become UT’s driving force for environmental awareness. “Gameday Recycling probably has the biggest impact of all our projects,” Elizabeth Boehmer, UT’s sustainability outreach coordinator, said. “Having 100,000 fans all on campus creating waste offers
an enormous opportunity to promote recycling. Being able to prevent as much waste as possible from going to the landfill is such an awesome thing.” Office of Sustainability staff members and approximately 15 volunteers start working at 8 a.m. on game days in what Boehmer calls “a huge operation.” The volunteers pass out plastic bags to tailgaters as a way to discourage littering and promote recycling. During the game, the group disperses for a sweep outside the stadium, cleaning up any litter on the ground. Saturday and Sunday are spent collecting the glass,
paper, aluminum and plastic that can be taken to an offcampus recycling facility. “This effort would take a lot longer and be a lot less successful without our awesome volunteers,” Boehmer said. “It’s definitely physical work, but it’s also very rewarding.” Gameday Recycling is just one of the many projects spearheaded by the Office of Sustainability. Ninety percent of UT dining locations participate in the Mug Project, an initiative started in 2011 to completely eliminate the use of paper cups and other single-use containers on campus. The waste produced by single-use cups in one year
requires 485 trees, 290,000 gallons of water and enough energy to power four households for a year. With the Mug Project, students can get a discount of 15 percent off specialty drinks at places like Starbucks, or 99 cent refills when they bring their own reusable cups to participating campus locations. “The Mug Project has been pretty successful,” said Jay Price, UT’s environmental coordinator. “The first year, we eliminated about 50,000 single-use cups and we’ve continued to increase that number each year.”
When “tough” was the first word Antonio Barton said after he was asked to describe his playing style, it became apparent why the point guard transferred to Tennessee for his senior season. The former Memphis player changed sides in UT’s biggest out-of-conference rivalry over the summer after tussling for playing time on a Tigers squad that boasted a loaded backcourt. He quickly saw the Vols as a better fit. “I walk into a bunch of guys who are similar to myself,” Barton said about his teammates. “We don’t have too many McDonald’s All-Americans or guys who were top 10 (or) top 20 but a bunch of hard-nosed guys who are willing to get down in the dirt.” The Vols may not be as loaded with young stars as the Memphis team Barton is familiar with, but, according to him, that does not change the team’s season goals.
“We have a lot of talent,” Barton said. “With the newcomers, the guys that are returning, we have talent in all areas from guards to down low – even guys coming off the bench.” Since Trae Golden transferred to Georgia Tech in July, Barton will likely assume the starting role on a squad that includes first-team All-SEC guard Jordan McRae and impact forwards Jeronne Maymon and Jarnell Stokes along with a deep bench. Barton has been welcomed heartily by his teammates, whom he scored 40 points against in two contests between UT and Memphis in the 20112012 season. “They’ve accepted me as if I’ve been here since a freshman,” Barton said. “We compete every day, even off the court we sit around, have fun, we talk, go out to eat and everything. “Through the whole recruiting process, (Vols players) texted me every day,” he said, “and we talked as if they knew me all their life. So that just made me feel comfortable.” See ANTONIO BARTON on Page 6
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Program unites anthropologists McCord Pagan Copy Editor Jack of all trades, but master of none. Historically, this has been the antithesis of a college education. Yet, a new anthropology program at UT aims to prepare its students for a volatile world, one that demands a broader range of skills.
Combining traditionally separate sub-disciplines, UT’s new Disasters, Displacement and Human Rights program blends various sub-fields to yield a more inclusive degree. Hugh Teller, a forensic anthropologist and graduate student in UT’s Disasters, Displacement and Human Rights program, faced cultural challenges as he worked
in Kosovo excavating mass graves from a civil war in the early 90s. At the time, Teller admits he was ill-prepared to cope with these issues. Yet, the field of anthropology is evolving to include more humanitarian efforts. This new program seeks to follow this trend. “More recently... those people that are doing foren-
sics are starting to understand that there is a broader cause out there,” Teller said. “It’s not just sitting in a laboratory studying fingerprints... you can apply that to human rights abuse cases, and I think that’s what attracts a lot of people to this program.” See HUMAN RIGHTS on Page 2
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Memphis guard Antonio Barton is boxed in by Tennessee defenders Wes Washpun, left, and Renaldo Woodridge on Jan. 4, 2012. Barton transferred to Tennessee during the offseason.
UT students start advertising business Liv McConnell Staff Writer You cannot sit around waiting for your dreams to fall directly into your lap, according to Cari McInturff, a senior in English literature and global studies. Most of the time, the bull’s horns require a bit of steering or – in McInturff’s case – creating. This is why she co-founded her own entertainment advertising business, C+C Creative. “I started C+C Creative last spring semester with a good friend of mine, Conner Harville,” McInturff said. “The idea really came to us one day pretty spon-
taneously. At the time, we were all kind of in the stressful season of trying to find ‘the’ internships for ‘the’ summer between your junior and senior year. We kind of just thought to ourselves, ‘Why are we waiting for experiences in these fields? Why can’t we just do it?’” McInturff and Harville, senior in communications, met as sophomores in high school where the signs of a budding business partnership were already beginning to appear, Harville said. “We became business partners because our senior year of high school, we actually decided to rent out the Square Room in
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Market Square to raise money for Second Harvest,” Harville said. Since then, their interest in the entertainment field has grown with the befriending of many of Knoxville’s burgeoning musical talents. “I feel so lucky to be able to say that I have so many very talented friends and, in my time here at UT, met so many talented people and groups,” McInturff said. “I really just wanted to find a way to help and to shine a little more light in their way. At the same time, I wanted to utilize my own talents and the interests of my other friends in PR. So, C+C
was born.” Since its founding last spring, the company’s focus has shifted from an emphasis on event planning to one more focused on artists’ needs. “Our main focus when we first started out was to help out our friends and ultimately promote local music in Knoxville,” McInturff said. “We wanted to provide a space where people could investigate on any given night what kind of local shows were going on and where they could find them.” After temporarily separating for the summer – with McInturff in New York, Harville in France and another colleague in Spain
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– the group reassembled this semester with fresh goals. “We had a shift in focus in our services, which is the cool thing about having ownership over what you do,” McInturff said. “Now we work directly with artists in their ‘branding’ and promotion, and in some cases we’ve adopted a slightly more managerial role. It’s been an awesome transition and really, really fun.” Beyond her work as an entrepreneur, McInturff has also begun an internship with AC Entertainment. “I have always gone to AC shows in Knoxville growing up and I’ve gone to Bonnaroo for
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years, so I’ve always known and love what the company stands for and does,” she said. “As an intern, I am responsible for collecting and organizing materials that AC uses to advertise artists, shows and events so that their marketing team has a record of exactly what they have done for each campaign.” Overall, McInturff is enamored with her position. “It’s really awesome,” she said. “I get to see exactly what goes into creating a hype around each particular show and how it varies between artists and events.” See C&C on Page 3