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Friday, September 12, 2014

Associate Block 13 allows students to get name out into film industry Hannah Moulton dean of A nd so, it’s a transition point for them as artists students to start putting themselves out in the world. brings dedication to position The Knoxville Film Festival returns this year with an entire block, or selection, of films made by UT students. “Block 13” is the first official block at the Knoxville Film Festival to showcase solely student work. Students participating in the festival range from cinema studies majors and art majors to undeclared

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students. Twelve films will be shown at the festival, each ranging from three to 10 minutes with the entire showing expected to last an hour. The films are not restricted to one category, giving student free reign to

produce a film in any category of their choosing. Among the films, there will be documentaries, animation, fiction, experimental pieces and more. The majority of the films were showcased in the UTK Handheld Media Arts Festival.

Paul Harrill, associate professor in the School of Art and moderator of Block 13, said the films will cater to everyone in the audience. “It really runs the gambit from very experimental stuff to funny, humorous romantic comedy to a really thoughtful documentary,” Harrill said. Ellen Hyrka, a senior in 4-D studio art, put together her documentary piece, “Talking to My Mother About My Father” by herself in only a few short weeks. See FILM FEST on Page 5

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Tashika Griffith is kind of a big deal. “When I was first extended the offer to come here,” Griffith, associate dean of students, said, “I did a post on my Facebook saying, ‘I’m a really important person; I have many leather-bound books.’” An “Anchorman” fanatic and Bahamas native, Griffith has been working hard the past two months to rebrand herself as a Tennessee Volunteer. Formerly the associate dean of students at Miami University, Griffith came to UT seeking something new and unfamiliar – something outside her comfort zone. “When I talk to students about challenging themselves, it’s important for me to understand what it felt like to be challenged,” Griffith said. “In order to do that, I needed to put myself in a situation that’s different. Tennessee was different for me, is different for me.” See GRIFFITH on Page 3

Lady Vols in search of big win Jonathan Toye Contributor

The Tennessee women’s soccer team will travel to Charlottesville, Virginia, this weekend with the opportunity of defeating a top-2 team for the first time in Lady Vol history. Tennessee’s history against top-2 teams in women’s soccer has been one of futility, as the Lady Vols have posted a 0-14-1 record against teams with such a ranking. The Lady Vols, however, can end this losing streak Friday night when they face the No. 2 Virginia Cavaliers at Klockner Stadium. Tennessee head women’s soccer coach Brian Pensky offered several keys in how his team can pull off the upset. “The first thing is confidence and belief in us, stepping on the field and in our hearts and guts feel like ‘OK, we can do this,’” Pensky said. “Secondly, I think the first 15-20 minutes of the game are going to be key in terms of us either continuing to build that belief or sustain that belief and sustain their pressure.”

See SOCCER on Page 8

Sgt. 1st Class Melvin Morris, a U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam War and a Medal of Honor recipient, received a quilt from Lucy Bobb. Hannah Marley • The Daily Beacon

Quilts commemorate Medal of Honor recipients’ service recipients found moonshine, specialty engraved Zippo lighters and Case & Sons knives in their hotel rooms. Thursday afternoon, they received R.J. Vogt a different kind of East Tennessee Training Editor memento: personal, hand-crafted quilts. Unbeknownst to the recipients, As the Medal of Honor Convention started its official events quilters from Quick Qut Quilts in Wednesday night, the decorated Clinton, Tennessee, as well as guilds

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from across East Tennessee have been working on their gifts for the last year and a half. A quilt was specifically designed for each recipient, reflecting the quilter’s personal connection to his or her individual soldier. Kit Brown, the treasurer of the Smoky Mountains Quilters Guild, came up with the idea when she first

heard the convention could be coming to Knoxville. “They are all beautiful works of art,” she said in an interview with UT’s Medal of Honor Project. “The quilters have been very, very generous in their time and their donations of all the materials to do these.” See MEDAL OF HONOR on Page 5

New Artist-In-Resisdence adjusts to Southern living Nicole Hedger Contributor Papers of various sizes are scattered across the floor, leaving only desks and chairs uncovered. Three walls share a line of evenly spaced – though not uniformly shaped – pages, some marked with figures or forms while others feature paintings or large scrolling words. The last wall is shrouded in a large colorful cloth emblazoned with the word “Purple.” There’s a floating sense of disorganized order about the studio, a clear reflection of its tenant, UT Artist-InResidence Molly Zuckerman-

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Hartung. After being nominated for the position by her friend and former professor, Michelle Grabner, ZuckermanHartung was accepted nearly a year and a half ago. Originally from Olympia, Washington, ZuckermanHartung has spent the last ten years working in Chicago, teaching at institutes like Northwestern University and Yale University and traveling to places like Italy, Germany, Miami and New York for her art shows. Through her work, Zuckerman-Hartung strives to provoke thought and elicit discomfort. Some of her past work, for exam-

ple, criticizes capitalism and explores “constructions of ideology that seem to take over people.” “I’m really into negative, weird, bad feelings … ‘Ugly Duckling’ objects, if you will. Objects of growth and change and strangeness,” Zuckerman-Hartung said. “I know something is done when it gives me those feelings … That’s a good feeling for me. I made all this bad, shame, awkwardness, ugliness, growth, but when it’s really doing those things then it feels like it’s integrated, and it has courage about how it’s doing things.” See ZUCKERMAN-HARTUNG on Page 5

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“When you became a member of this cult ... I mean, university ... you made a choice to become a ‘Vol for Life.’” VIEWPOINTS >>pg. 4

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