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Jeanne Clery Disclosure Better safe than sorry ofTheCampus Security Policy and Sexual assault Safety Notices garner student attention

Bradi Musil Assistant News Editor (@bradi4)

Three weeks, four sexual assaults.

On Aug. 29, the University of Tennessee Police Department released a Safety Notice informing students of a sexual assault that occurred on campus on Aug. 24. Over the course of the next two weeks, three similar alerts would follow.

Although Safety Notices in the past have included reports

Blue Mason coffeehouse brews quality atmosphere Hannah Zechman Contributor

Friendly faces laughed and conversed while sipping their brews. Over the threshold, coffee enthusiasts asked questions, ate goodies and smiled as new customers walked in.

Welcome to Sutherland Avenue’s latest addition: Blue Mason Coffeehouse, a place centered around friendship and socialization.

The newly renovated space rests beside River Sports Outfitters, ready for community gathering. Cool blue walls and homemade decorations, including blue mason jars, complete the inside and create the Blue Mason Coffeehouse look.

“We want people to walk in and feel like they are home,” co-owner Margo Ingram said.

The community coffeehouse is fulfilling the dream she always had of opening a bakery since inheriting her many blue mason jars at the age of 10. After falling in love with coffee and finding a religious meaning for her life, she knew she wanted a coffeehouse and bakery that had a mission center, and, most importantly, one that gave back to the community.

After meeting co-owners Calvin Dillinger and Josh Steadley, Ingram knew she had found the team that would bring her dream to life.

They began shaping their process of free trade along with empowering local and global businesses, the core of Blue Mason Coffeehouse.

Their roasters communicate directly with farmers, and the people supplying coffee beans from small villages as far away as Ethiopia are paid directly for their work in goods that are valuable to them. Ingram and her partners cut out the middle man in order to make sure their suppliers are appreciated.

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on potential campus threats, this year is the first to include all sexual assault complaints. In a media release sent on Sept.

10, Chief of Police Troy Lane stated that updates made to the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act have emphasized expanding procedures for notifying students and faculty in the event of sexual violence.

These notices also reflect the university’s effort this year to increase awareness of sexual assault in the community.

“The (Clery Act) has always allowed some flexibility in that these Safety Notices (referred to as Timely Warnings in the Clery Act) only had to be issued if we considered the offense to represent a serious and ongoing threat,” Lane said. “In the past, as most often these incidents were reported to us well after, days or weeks, we did not issue these notices because there did not appear to be any immediate or on-going threat.

“This year we made a decision that despite immediate or ongoing threats, we were going to send this information regardless.”

Notices of sexual misconduct on campus have been met with mixed reviews thus far.

After the alert sent on Aug. 29, Sexual Empowerment and Awareness at Tennessee was concerned that the language used placed blame on the victim rather than the assailant.

“They were saying that alcohol can affect your ability to react to personal safety concerns, basically saying you should not get drunk or you might be sexually assaulted,” said Summer Awad, SEAT co-chair and junior in college scholars.

SEAT contacted and met with UTPD following the first alert and discussed the improvement of the wording.

Campus Crime Statistics Act A federal law requiring all colleges and universities in the United States to disclose information about crime on and around their campuses.

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Still too soon

No. 4 Oklahoma torches Vols under the lights, 34-10 Dargan Southard Assistant Sports Editor (@dsouth16)

NORMAN, Okla. — The postgame chatter stressed how this one felt different.

Despite yet another lopsided loss — an alltoo common sight for the Tennessee program — the monumental progress gained was much more visible than in recent memory.

And while the Volunteers’ 34-10 loss to No. 4 Oklahoma may have uncovered a geyser of positivity in regards to UT’s ongoing rebuilding job, one thing remained clear Saturday night inside Norman’s Memorial Stadium.

There’s still quite a ways to go.

“It’s a long football season,” Vols head coach Butch Jones said. “We

knew there was going to be good days and bad days with the young football team. We just have to keep grinding.”

On the shoulders of a balanced offensive attack, the Sooners sprinted out to a 13-0 first-quarter advantage and cruised through the second half in front of a sellout crowd, keeping UT within arm’s length of any sort of possible comeback.

But when considering the youth in Jones’ personnel group — the Vols had five true freshmen in the starting lineup with the additions of right tackle Coleman Thomas and tight end Daniel Helm — and the fact UT had a chance to move within 10 points late in the game, some Vol players believed Saturday had the potential to be something special.

Butch Jones watches his Vols fight against Oklahoma on Sept. 13.

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Professors without borders UT faculty to take research abroad with Fulbright grants Joshua Burton Contributor

Studying abroad isn’t just for students.

This year, four University of Tennessee professors were awarded the Fulbright Scholars grant to continue their scholarship in countries outside the United States. Traveling to

Botswana, Brazil, Morocco and Slovenia, these professors will be conducting research on subjects ranging from microbiology to law.

“It’s a great honor and privilege to be a Fulbright Scholar and to represent the United States abroad through this flagship exchange program,” said Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud, an assistant professor in English

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who will travel to Morocco to research orientalism.

In recent years, having toprated faculty has been an emphasis due to UT’s push to become a Top 25 public research university. Three years ago, UT sent

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five scholars abroad with the Fulbright grant.

To Chunlei Su, associate professor in microbiology, the volume of Fulbright Scholars that UT is producing is a testament to the university’s commitment to attracting the nation’s best

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professors.

“It reflects the quality and hard work of the University of Tennessee now,” Su said, who will be studying microbiological population genetics in Brazil.

He said the most important part of the program is collaboration with fellow scientists at an international level.

“I am very excited to work with the scientists there,” Su said. “It is a privilege to have this opportunity.”

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CAMPUS NEWS FULBRIGHT continued from Page 1 For law professor Ben Barton, the opportunity is also very intimidating.

“I found out at the very last minute, so I was thrilled but also nervous about handling all of the logistics of moving me and my whole family to Europe for a year,” Barton said, who will be teaching comparative law at a university in Slovenia.

Asafa Jalata, professor in sociology, will be conducting comparative research in democratic governments during his stay in Botswana. He spoke on how applying for the Fulbright grant was both time-consum-

SEXUAL ASSAULT continued from Page 1 “We’re happier with the emails now. I think there is still a little bit of work to do to catch up with this idea of affirmative consent,” Awad said. “But, it’s really good to see that they’re actually getting this information out there so students are aware that this is a problem in our campus.”

After a complaint is reported with UTPD, they determine whether or not it meets the requirements for a Safety Notice. The formula for determining whether or not a notice is necessary involves evaluating whether or not the complaint is a Clery Act defined crime, where the assault took place and whether it constitutes a serious, on-going threat to the campus.

The time between receiving a complaint and sending out the alert varies, Lane said, and depends on if they can answer the three questions mentioned above. After sufficient details have been gathered, notices are generally written by the public information officer and then edited by Chief Lane or another member of the UTPD administrative staff. Finally, Safety Notices are sent to UT

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ing and challenging.

“When applying for this grant, one needs to read a lot of materials such as documents on the program, learning about a selected country from different sources, developing a proposal and filling out an application,” Jalata said. “These activities take a lot of hours and days. One has to wait for many months to know what happens at different levels and the final decision.”

However, Jalata said the process was well worth his time, and he looks forward to furthering his research and building UT’s status overseas.

“As beneficial as it is for us, the award is helpful for the university because it increases its

reputation,” Jalata said.

For Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud, he hopes the examples set by these four UT professors will encourage other students and staff to apply for national awards without hesitation.

“I think students sometimes don’t think they have the profile for these grants, but you never know until you try,” CohenVrignaud said. “As with most worthwhile opportunities, the process for getting a Fulbright is drawn out and uncertain and requires quite a bit of work, especially in writing a proposal, but as I settle down in this new and different place called Morocco, I can tell you that it feels like it’s been worth the effort.”

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Lane said issuance of a Safety Notice could be withheld if authorities believe it could compromise law enforcements’ efforts or the victim’s identity.

The Clery Act defines what details must be included in alerts.

“In any alert, not just sexual assaults, we have to provide as much detail as we can without compromising any possible law enforcement efforts, or inadvertently identifying the victim,” Lane said. “We are also required to include information that would promote safety and aid in the prevention of other similar crimes.”

Safety Notices include safety tips, the definition of consent, a link to the sexualassault.utk. edu page and information on the Clery Act. “Some students might be nervous,” Lane said, “but the more we explain the need for this, the more comfortable people feel. For every one person I hear from with concerns, I am hearing from two or three others who are happy we are bringing this issue to the forefront.”

Although Lane said students could be interpreting the notices with skepticism, he is con-

fident that others are relieved the issue is finally being publicized.

“I am seeing an increased level of awareness, accountability and considerable thought,” Lane said. “I feel that if one or two people think about an alert, take the time to consider the information and think about their actions, surroundings and perceptions, it is worth it.”

No victim referenced in the Safety Notices this year has chosen to pursue charges against their assailant. This has been a source of confusion for many students on campus who fear repeat assaults in the wake of escaped attackers. However, Awad said it is important to remember that this is rarely the case on college campuses, and she understands why most cases end with a campus complaint.

“It’s not like there’s this campus rapist walking around trying to rape everyone,” Awad said. “It’s acquaintance rape that is the main type of rape that occurs on college campuses, and usually alcohol is involved. So, anytime you’re at a party with someone, your close friend or even your boyfriend or girlfriend and you’ve had too much to drink, if they have sex with you -- that is rape.”

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English professor curates artistry in poetry Hayley Brundige News Editor (@hayleybrundige)

Arthur Smith University of Tennessee poetry professor Arthur Smith knew he was going to be a poet when he was 17 years old.

In what he calls a “mystical experience,” Smith heard his high school English teacher read “Do not go gentle into that good night” by Dylan Thomas and immediately knew what he wanted to dedicate his life to.

“At the end of that poem, it was just like my head lifted up off my shoulders and it was all bright lights,” Smith said.

“From that instant on, my life was altered.”

After receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Houston, Smith came to UT in 1986 -- his first job out of college.

“I’ve been here a long time now,” Smith said. “I loved it at the beginning and I love it still.”

Growing up in Central Valley, Calif., “where all the fruits and vegetables are grown,” Smith said there weren’t many poets he could look to as role models. When Phillip Levine, a poet from Smith’s hometown of Fresno, came to a book signing, Smith jumped at the chance to see someone who had turned his dream into a long-term profession.

“I realized that here, even in this dusty, dirty place where nobody cares anything about poetry, there’s this man who really cared about it and was defending it and hollering at people who didn’t like it,” Smith said. “I just kind of watched him and said to myself ‘That’s what a poet looks like.’”

With four volumes of poetry to his name and work published in publications like the Chicago Review, The New Yorker and The Nation, now Smith himself is what a poet looks like -- and it’s a description he said is not as glamorous as it sounds. “(Poets) aren’t like wild and crazy -- only in our thoughts,” Smith said. “In your personal life, you have to keep some order in it so you have the time and the calm to write.”

As a reader, Smith said he admires the work of Emily Dickinson, James Wright, Ruth Stone and Stan Rice.

“I like the honesty in them,” Smith said. “They’ll say things even if it makes them look bad.

All their poems are discoveries, they start somewhere and say ‘God help me, I hope I’m on the

“Paradise” by Arthur Smith I used to live there, I was born there, every morning The downtown streets were cobbled with gold, honey Flowed—all that stuff. I’m not kidding.Summers Lasted a lifetime, broken by Christmas And New Year’s.

Mornings, like waking to someone’s scent You hadn’t yet met and married for life, Though I didn’t know that then—the night-cooled Muskmelons rolling belly-up to the stars, And by late afternoon the dusk-colored Dust of apricots on everything.

From that earth, my body Assembled itself, and when the veil dropped, I tried to say what I saw. The light winds Around me died, the sheers of summer wavered As though all of it were mirage. Cantaloupes, Grapes, clusters of ruby flames, like chamapagne, Though I didn’t know that then— Nectarines like morphine, nor that.

Oranges, almonds, rainbows, Tangs—rolling in all year long, that bounty.

You tell people that, over and over, And it’s really crazy, they won’t believe you.

All that sugar coaxed out of clay and you Can’t even give it away—and each dawn more Was just piled on. I took in as much As I could, like larder, and walked away. right track here.’”

Having poets to look to as inspiration is part of Smith’s advice to new writers. He suggests finding a contemporary poet whose work you admire and imitating their style.

“That way, you learn how to read and how to write also,” Smith said. “You will know (who to imitate), because when you read them, they will move you.”

Unlike drama or fiction, poetry allows the writer to examine the self, Smith said. In that way, the act of writing alone is a form of healing and catharsis.

“My poetry focuses on how one deals with the emotional turmoil inside,” Smith said.

“That’s one of the great things that poetry does -- it allows us to look inside and see how we’re feeling.”

As a professor, Smith’s biggest challenge is to break students of their misconceptions of poetry, like the notion that all poetry has to rhyme.

“The poem that they’re writing isn’t something they’re doing -- it’s doing something to them,” Smith said. “That’s what I try to teach. Let that poem work on you and tell you why it’s

there, why it came about.

“There’s always a reason for it.”

Some of Smith’s most gratifying moments as a professor come when he starts to see his students’ poems improve.

Occasionally, Smith can encourage an aspiring poet into becoming an accomplished writer.

“It makes you feel good when someone is really interested in poetry, and they take several of your classes, graduate and then two years later they send you a copy of their book,” Smith said.

“You think ‘Wow, they did it. I’m so proud of them.’”

In his spare time, Smith takes care of his three dogs -Koko, Kailey and Kassie -- and develops his passion as a selfdescribed film buff.

Although Smith has taken a circuitous path to poetry, he wouldn’t change a thing.

“I was supposed to be an engineer, according to my father,” Smith said. “When I failed calculus my first year of college, that kind of changed my plans. And so I thought I’d become a poet.

“Funny how that turns out.”

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Relient K rocks nostalgic night at Bijou Theatre Marina Waters Contributor

No band calls to mind the angst-filled days of middle school better than alt-rockers Relient K. The band brought old favorites and unreleased songs to the Bijou Theatre on Thursday night, accompanied by ear-deafening screams and a dash of nostalgia.

For a crowd that stuck by the band for nearly 10 years, it was Relient K’s older hits that brought the excitement.

To peak the audience’s nostalgia, lead singer Matt Thiessen began by reminding fans of Relient K’s upcoming 10th anniversary—and it’s celebration tour.

“We’re going to do a tour at the end of October,” Thiessen said. “It’s gonna be our fourth album—I don’t even like saying the album title—it’s ‘Mmhmm,’ and we’re going to play the whole album.”

Appropriately, the band began the night with numerous songs from the celebrated record.

Up first was the upbeat, punk rock meets emotional weather forecast hit, “High of ‘75” followed by the pulse-quickening, hopeful love song “The One I’m Waiting For.” The band easily identifies with the usual fast-paced elec-

tric guitar, hard-hitting rhythms and intense lyrics that make up a pop punk rock band. Yet, their performance of “Who I Am Hates Who I’ve Been” reflected their Christian rock undertones and illustrated the band’s lyrical and overall musical diversity.

To further reveal their uniqueness, Relient K took a moment to quiet the screaming crowd and bouncing mosh pits with a short acoustic set, including the rockin’ avoidance turned regret anthem, “I So Hate Consequences.”

While a less electric piece might come as a surprise from the punk rockers, one member of the audience, Knoxville native Katie Leonard, said it was the highlight of the night.

“I liked the acoustic parts when he had the guitar,” Leonard said. “I liked that sound.”

However, to slow the high velocity down even more, the band introduced a new, unreleased song to the Bijou crowd that stilled the air as Thiessen wowed the audience with a meaningful, “Instagram isn’t beauty” themed ballad.

The song was entitled “Look on Up” and touched on the current generation’s tendency to concentrate more on an Instagram filter and less on what the sky actually looks like to the naked eye.

“Look on up to the sky/won-

Matt Thiessen, lead singer of Relient K, performs at the Bijou Theatre on Sept. 11. Kristen Bright • The Daily Beacon

der why I put a filter between beauty and my eye/Look on up into your eyes/It’s time I put down my devices and I start to live my life/Look on up to the sky,” Thiessen crooned.

The new song received a mix of whistles, hollers and the attention of a crowd who was jumping with excitement not three minutes prior.

The Bijou served as the perfect place to house both the good times and the slower moments, even from the beginning with openers Birds in the Airport and Golden Youth.

UT graduate Joey Wooliver, also took note of the concert venue’s ambiance while enjoying the show Thursday night.

“I like the environment here,” Wooliver said. “It’s an interest-

ing vibe.”

And for Relient K, it felt like home. The crowd roared as a familiar guitar riff paired with scene setting lyrics of the school dance themed hit, “Sadie Hawkins Dance.”

The catchy, hook-filled song wasn’t the only song the crowd had been waiting all night to hear.

To end the rock-filled night, Relient K ended with a song most audience members listened to on repeat during their middle school years, “Be My Escape.”

The song made for an appropriate ending to the night. For a crowd that desired to relive the catchiness along with the angst, Relient K let the nostalgia set in.

Matt Thiessen of Relient K performs at the Bijou Theatre.

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“We come to look for coflooks forward to hosting with a cinnamon honey butfee shops and are different bands and interested in nice events, with proceeds ones,” Paul Leiby, going to local charia self-proclaimed ties. coffee enthusi“We would rather ast, said. “We not have a business are happy to say than not give back,” that this is one of Ingram said. the nicest ones The coffeehouse is around.” also proud to share Located in their extensive menu an area that has with their guests. not always been Grace Williams, -Margo Ingram thought of as a psychology major at place to hangout, King University, recthe Blue Mason ommended the dirty family is looking chai latte, a tea and espresso mix packed with ter that is already generat- to transform the culture of Knoxville and add to the flavor and plenty of caffeine. ing buzz.

Once it can take a breath growing businesses that Williams explained how the menu at Blue Mason from the initial craze of make the city so culturally Coffeehouse is supporting opening a business, the diverse.

“It all started with a local and global businesses. Blue Mason crew hopes to add soups, salads and sanddream to empower local They use Cruze Farm for all and global communities their milk needs and have wiches to the selection.

“The owners have along with our love for great local baker Abigail Jones invested in creating a team coffee and baked goods,” handle all of the treats.

“There is a lot of empha- and not just a business,” the Blue Mason family said.

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Scooter boy, balloon possum and the magic of Yik Yak School of Sarcasm by

Kaila Curry

Standing one sunny afternoon at the corner of Volunteer and Cumberland, I waited patiently for the crosswalk signal to change. In the meantime, I began people-watching. Mostly, I saw students strolling to class and a few commuters on bikes zooming by -- and then, I saw something rather peculiar.

Soaring down a hill, with the wheels squeaking at every crack in the pavement, was a boy on a red Razor scooter.

From across the street, I saw him come to a screeching halt and whip out his phone. He smiles at his phone, and I immediately wonder if he knows of his campus fame. I notice I’m not the only one thinking this, as other people are now looking at him and smirking at their phones. I open up my Yik Yak app.

Yik Yak, launched by Furman University students Tyler Droll and Brooks Buffington, aims to connect people through anonymous, locationbased posts. Within a five-mile radius, people from the community can post just about anything while remaining anonymous.

These posts, or “Yaks,” are similar to tweets in that the person only has a limited amount of characters to write. Yakers also have the option to either up-vote or down-vote the posts and write replies to them as well. Over time, the older yaks disappear and are replaced by newer ones.

Yik Yak serves several purposes. At times, it works as a community bulletin board, updating fellow students on campus activities. At other times it’s pure entertainment, such as the posts detailing how awesome “scooter boy” is. During football games, banter about the opposing team is the topic of interest.

At times, the yaks are hilarious. During finals last semester, a dead possum was lying by Hodges and someone tied a “Get well soon” balloon to his paw. A yak was made about balloon possum, and it instantly became a campuscraze. Balloon possum became the mascot of the campus that brightened our days during finalsrelated stress.

At times, however, Yik Yak becomes a forum of bullying, like when someone is trying to eat their Chipotle between class and sees a yak that reads, “Shout out to the girl choking down that burrito.”

And that’s pretty minor. There has been more serious bullying on Yik Yak, and various colleges think the app violates anti-bullying rules. The founders stated that the yaks are deleted after being flagged twice. They also stated that the longer the forum was on campus, the more the community matured with it.

The app was designed for the maturity of college campuses. However, it has spread to several high schools, creating a major bullying problem for students. The founders, however, aren’t ignoring this issue. According to a Huffington Post article, Droll and Buffington changed the app to 17+ in the app store; and when some Chicago area high schools made the news for reported incidences of cyber bullying on Yik Yak, the pair blocked the entire city of Chicago from using the app. The founders, using GPS, then set up virtual geographic perimeters around every school in Chicago.

Thankfully, on Rocky Top it is mostly a friendly app; a place to discuss the heroism of balloon possum, our love of the Vols and the swagger of scooter boy.

Kaila Curry is a sophomore in journalism and electronic media. She can be reached at kcurry6@vols.utk.edu.

Columns of The Daily Beacon are reflections of the individual columnist, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Beacon or its editorial staff.

The six rings of a science student’s hell Life Under the Microscope by

Kenna Rewcastle As some of you who paid attention in your high school literature class may know, Dante’s “Inferno” follows the journey of Dante himself as he travels through the nine rings of hell to Paradiso, or Heaven.

Throughout his journey, he sees those that have been thrown into hell for committing a variety of religious sins, with progressively more serious punishments.

As a sort of modern take on Dante’s “Inferno,” I have taken the liberty of outlining six particular sins as seen from the eyes of a 21st century science student, as well as the punishments they entail.

We can at least pretend there’s some sense of justice in the world.

Ring 1: The Sharpie Stealers Sharpies may be the single most crucial piece of lab equipment, consistent across all projects I’ve ever completed. Beakers of chemicals, vials of samples, Ziploc bags of soil collected in the field… All of these things must be identified in a permanent manner. So imagine the horror one feels

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room and love to play the “What-if…?” game and question every theory or concept that the professor puts forth will be punished for wasting everyone’s time by spending an eternity playing ‘20 Questions’ with a 4-year-old.

Rings 5 and 6: The Library Talkers and the Hypocrites I originally wished to punish those groups of students that meet on the silent floor of the library for the express purpose of squealing and giggling in a very non-silent fashion, but I realized that I myself am guilty of committing this sin on occasion. So, while the library talkers will be forced to listen to an eternal soundtrack of squealing, giggling girls flirting with rather dense boys, the hypocrites must be punished too. Hypocrites in the 6th ring of the Inferno are forced to wear heavy gold cloaks, symbolizing the flashy yet fraudulent ideals to which they cling, that prevent the sinners from ever making any progress. If that’s good enough for Dante, it sounds good enough to me.

As I’m sure the Pedestrian Walkway preachers have told you, judgment day is coming; the time to repent is nigh. It’s for the good of all mankind.

Kenna Rewcastle is a senior in college scholars. She can be reached at kenerewc@ vols.utk.edu.

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Tor Vorhees The shape of the University of Tennessee is very peculiar.

Unlike other universities that tend to have a focal point (or hub) from which the entire university radiates, UT is more like a smudge.

It starts on the Hill and drags all the way to the end of the Ag campus, stopped only by a river.

What caused this bizarre urban sprawl?

It all began with the booming growth that UT went through in the ‘50s. Following World War II (during which UT experienced a complete halt in construction), the university experienced a colossal growth in enrollment as returning soldiers began to cash in on the G.I. Bill. At this point, the most westward main campus building was the recently razed Strong Hall. Just imagine -- UT, excluding the Ag campus, did not exist past Strong Hall!

This strained university facilities as classrooms quickly reached their capacities and housing became scarce. To mitigate this, UT pursued its first modern building-boom and began expanding westward.

Prior to this time, the university appeared

to have been directing its expansion northward across Cumberland Avenue. While it is not absolutely clear why this policy shift occurred, many have speculated that it resulted from a general attitude within the university to move away from downtown and to link the agricultural campus with the main campus. In the end, the construction boom of the ‘50s resulted in 20 new campus structures and the beginning of the intrusion into the West Knoxville community bordering the college to the west.

This growth proved to be insufficient, as the unforeseen baby boomer generation began to enter college. In 1958, the first of these baby boomers began to enroll in colleges across the country. At UT, the building boom of the ‘50s could not meet the demand that these incoming freshmen brought with them. In response, the university began what remains to this day the largest and most dramatic change to the campus since Blount College made its move to the Hill in 1826.

Known as the Yale Avenue Project, the University of Tennessee began to acquire land in 1963 (sometimes forcefully) from the old West Knoxville community it had begun to encroach on just years before. In total, the university acquired 135 acres stretching from present-day Hodges Library to the Apartment Residence Hall, destroying much of the middle-class West Knoxville neighborhood in the process.

UT gained more than 340 buildings, at the time housing 393 families. Many of the houses

along “Church Row” are among the hundreds the university acquired when it exploded into the area. The Hopecote Guest House, one of the approximately five original houses still standing along that street, was built in 1924 in a neighborhood six blocks west of UT. The university purchased the house from Emma Hope in 1976 under the agreement that she could live there until the end of her life. Currently, Hopecote is used as a guesthouse for distinguished individuals visiting the university and was recently listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

While Hopecote and a few other houses were saved, a staggering majority of the remaining 300 or so were not. After a swift and efficient demolition process, high-rise residence halls, academic buildings and new athletic facilities rose from the debris of the historic neighborhood. While we can now see how the expansion was necessary for the future of the university, it is disappointing that this relatively affluent portion of Knoxville had to be demolished for the college to progress. Luckily for us, remnants of the old neighborhood can still be found.

The occasional sidewalk leading to nowhere or the elegant concrete steps leading to nothing but a parking lot leave an amazing yet eerie reminder of the families who once called that non-commuter lot home.

Tor Voorhees is a junior in mechanical engineering. He can be reached at vvoorhe1@vols. utk.edu.

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while reaching into the drawer that should hold a selection of Sharpies, cradling some kind of very important sample in the other hand, only to find that the Sharpie is gone.

The world, and that feat of science, must be put on hold until the Sharpie is found and the offending Sharpie-mover has been chastised. Committers of this sin must sort through unlabeled samples and chemicals for an eternity.

Ring 2: The Plagiarizers When writing scientific papers in groups, there’s always that one group member who is lax in citing sources. Citing Wikipedia in an academic paper is one thing, but using Wikipedia as a source and then citing nothing is an even worse crime. The punishment for this colossal mass of plagiarizing sinners is to find the sources for an encyclopedia set full of facts that have not been cited correctly.

Ring 3: The Complainers Yes, I know it’s hot outside and you’re mildly uncomfortable, but this class has a field lab component and you knew that when you signed up. Buckle down, get the job finished and we will be out of here soon.

The complainers will be punished by having all of the discomforts about which they complain magnified exponentially.

Ring 4: The Back-Row Dissenters Those that sit in the back row of a class-

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Cupcakes in the Park delivers sweet treats Play to provide entertainment, diversity education Hannah Moulton

Miya McClain Contributor

Ten stories. Ninety minutes.

Here and Now Theatre Company, based out of Pasadena, Calif., will embody all forms of diversity in their play, “But All My Friends Are‌â€? presented by the Multicultural Student Life program.

The group will perform Sept. 15 in the University Center Auditorium at 7 p.m.

The collection will present 10 different stories in 90 minutes on what it’s like to grow up as a person of color in America. Stories will include scenes of street drama, comedy and improvisation.

The Here and Now Theatre Company provides people of color with opportunities to have lead roles. They tour around the country to different colleges and universities telling their stories through performance and theoretical descriptions.

John Miyasaki, artistic director and founder of Here and Now, said the play will portray stereotypes, as he feels they do affect everyone. “Traveling with a group of young people of color across the nation, we see some degree of stereotypes from screaming at the airport and not being served to not being able to use a public restroom when we arrive,� Miyasaki said.

At UT, a variety of races, ethnicities, genders and sexualities walk across campus and interact on a day-to-day basis. “I hope that it (the play) will help the community at large see that there are differences between groups of people,�

Miyasaki said, “whether it is people of color, age difference, cultural difference, east coast to the west coast and the Bible Belt to the South.�

On campus, the

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University Center Auditorium

Multicultural Student Life’s mission is to promote diversity. They booked this show to celebrate diversity in all forms with students and the community as a whole.

Lucy Boateng, law student and graduate research assistant at the Office of Multicultural Student Life, believes the team and production crew alone will influence audience members’ perception of diversity and multiculturalism. “Diversity needs to be recognized,� Boateng said. “I think that it is important for every individual to educate themselves on diversity. You will encounter diversity everywhere you go and by being educated it allows you to grow personally and professionally.�

Boateng also said the play will provide humor and creative entertainment in addition to the lessons.

The event is free and open to the public.

MoonPie. Southern Comfort.

Jacked Up Pumpkin Cheesecake.

These are just a few of the names of cupcakes offered at “Cupcakes in the Park,� where Knoxvillians came together for a chance to sample local cupcakes Saturday. “Cupcakes in the Park� was held in the Krutch Park Extension from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and hosted by the Helen Ross McNabb Center. The proceeds from the event benefited 25,000 families facing mental health issues, addiction or social challenges.

Emily Scheuneman, director of communications for the Helen Ross McNabb Center, said that events like “Cupcakes in the Park� are an easy way to help raise money for those in need. The turnout was expected to match last year’s number of over 2,000 attendees. It was later announced that the event had sold out. “It’s the easiest event for marketing because people love cupcakes,� Scheuneman said. “It is a crowd favorite.�

Ten booths were set up, each from a different bakery in East Tennessee. Partakers went from booth to booth sampling miniature versions of whichever cupcake that bakery decided to showcase. A card was given to the taste testers, and after the sampling, each person could place the card in their favorite booth’s jar.

The event also featured a “Professional Judge� category, an “Adult Novice� category and a “Youth� category. The top three in each category were announced, and the winners received a bag of goodies and had their picture taken with a certificate.

The cupcakes included flavors like “Spiced Maple� and “Southern Comfort Cake with Bourbon Cream Cheese.�

Katie Rayburn of KupKatie’s KupKakes, known as the home of the MoonPie cupcake, has participated in the event since its beginning. “The first year we brought the MoonPie,� Rayburn said. “This year we brought the Jacked Up

A child enjoys his cupcake at “Cupcakes in the Parkâ€? in downtown Knoxville on Sept. 13. Kathryn Truppo • The Daily Beacon For those with a healthier taste in cupcakes, Benefit Your Life: Gluten Free Market and Bakery brought a gluten, egg and dairy free variation. Rhoni Speed started her bakery after she and her son were diagnosed with Celiac disease. “It sort of started from our diagnosis and wanting something good for us to eat as well as other people,â€? Speed said. “There’s so many people that have different allergies or restrictions as far as their diet goes, and so we like to be able to offer

Pumpkin Cheesecake. We’ve gotten some pretty good feedback, better than we’ve had in the past couple of years.�

Two Food Network competitors had booths at the event: The Sweet Shoppe and Scrumps.

Scrumps’ new owners, Michael and Andrea Rudd, brought cupcakes infused with whiskey. “Any time you cook with alcohol, it changes the consistency of the baking bread,� Andrea Rudd said. “It makes it real moist and spongey, so it’s good to cook with.�

everybody something that tastes good.�

Erica Rowe arrived late to the event, but this didn’t stop her from enjoying the cupcakes and finding a definite favorite.

For Rowe, however, the event was somewhat different from last year. “I came last year, and I’m actually disappointed that there’s not as many vendors here this year,�

Rowe said. “They need to make more cupcakes!�

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Monday, September 15, 2014 Sports Editor Troy Provost-Heron @TPro_UTDB

SPORTS FOOTBALL

Worley emerges as Vols’ ‘alpha male’ after OU beating Now he has no choice.

And rather than showing discomfort in the role, Worley seems to have embraced it this year.

Maybe Jones already knew about the toughness, improved leadership and newly found confidence of his senior quarterback.

After the brutal beating David Cobb Sports Columnist (@DavidWCobb) Worley endured on Saturday, everyone else should too.

Through no fault of his NORMAN, Okla. -- Butch own, Worley spent much of the Jones has been searching for game on the turf because of an “alpha male” quarterback of his team since he arrived on what may have been the worst the Tennessee campus nearly performance by a UT offensive two years ago to resurrect the line since Y2K. But Worley did not dish out football program.

He probably didn’t expect to any blame. In fact, hearing it from him makes the above parafind one face down in the dirt.

But on Saturday night in front graph – true as it is – seem like of a national television audience blasphemy.

“Our offensive line did a good and the sixth-largest crowd ever job,” Worley said with an almost to see a game at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, that’s where shocking tone of optimism Justin Worley proved he fits the Saturday night.

“There’s going to be ups and bill. downs,” he continued, “and it’s He didn’t put up impressive statistics but he provided the how you bounce back from the moxy and maturity that UT downs that’s going to be a testaneeds if it wants to make a bowl ment to the hard work we put in.” game.

Spoken like a true alpha male.

Compare the characteristics Even legendary Oklahoma Worley displayed in UT’s loss coach Bob Stoops left the game to OU with the job qualifications Jones laid out prior to last impressed with Worley’s poise.

“He is a really good quarterseason.

“We expect our quarter- back,” Stoops said. “He throws back to be the alpha male of it well and really showed a lot of the offense,” Jones said in July toughness. I think he is going to 2013, just days before a four- have a really good year.”

Now the question is whether man quarterback competition he can survive the year. started. “He is the leader. When Unfortunately for the Vols, things start going array, they’re all going to look to him. He’s the invincibility is not an alpha male characteristic. one who is in control.”

In a huddle with five veteran David Cobb is a senior in offensive linemen last season, journalism & electronic media. it’s reasonable to think Worley might not have asserted all of He can be reached at dcobb3@ vols.utk.edu. Follow him on those characteristics.

Twitter at @DavidWCobb.

FOOTBALL continued from Page 1 “We were a couple plays away,” said senior quarterback Justin Worley, who threw for 201 yards and a touchdown to go along with a pair of interceptions. “It shows how far we’ve come as a football team.

“A lot of young guys playing, being on the road against the No. 4 team — you couldn’t ask for any more opportunities than we got, and that’s where we’ve got to learn and correct this upcoming week. I think the hurt was definitely there with how close we were.”

Despite being sacked five times and being hit viciously on

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GRADING THE VOLS Sports columnist David Cobb covered UT’s game against Oklahoma on Saturday. He assessed grades for each position based on the group’s performance in the Vols’ 34-10 loss to the Sooners.

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BWide Receivers

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Considering that he was perpetually under pressure, UT quarterback Justin Worley played a fine game aside from a couple of red zone interceptions. Even those could probably be blamed on the offensive line, though. Worley showed leadership and toughness that the scoreboard did not reflect.

Jalen Hurd had a play of 29 yards or longer in the second, third and fourth quarters. His 30-yard scamper on a third-down screen pass in the second quarter inspired UT’s only touchdown drive. Marlin Lane showed little ability to break big plays, and Hurd – in spite of his big gains – struggled with consistency behind a shaky offensive line.

With explosive receiver Von Pearson and capable tight end Ethan Wolf out of the lineup with injuries, Worley’s pool of targets shrank on Saturday. Josh Smith showed his continued improvement by reeling in UT’s only touchdown of the game – a 40 yarder in the second quarter. But tight end Daniel Helm was a non-factor in the passing game and only six players caught passes, two of them being running backs.

The final stats say this group allowed just five sacks but it seemed like the UT offensive line allowed 15 -- an atrocious performance for a young group that needs to get better immediately with the SEC schedule looming. The five who started Saturday are the five who will continue to play, UT coach Butch Jones said without hesitation after the game.

UT’s defensive line held its own against a large, veteran OU offensive line. On several occasions, the Vols generated enough pass rush to disrupt Oklahoma quarterback Trevor Knight’s rhythm in the pocket. The future looks bright for this group.

A formidable effort from this crew against a legitimate opponent that, if nothing else, proved that this unit is better than it was last year. A.J. Johnson and Jalen Reeves-Maybin combined for 20 tackles.

Tennessee’s secondary played decently, but entering the game it was the one area in which the Vols looked like they might have an advantage. Instead, OU’s Trevor Knight threw for more than 300 yards and just one interception. Todd Kelly Jr. earned his second straight start at safety, but LaDarrell McNeil soon entered and played much of the game.

Devrin Young looked shaky returning kicks, and for the third straight game UT’s punt return team may have been better served to stay on the sideline. Freshman kicker Aaron Medley made his first and only field goal attempt, a good sign for the Vols who have struggled with special teams consistency early on.

Week Two GPA: The Vols earn a 2.38 for their performance in a 34-10 loss against Oklahoma.

Cumulative GPA: Through three games, UT holds a cumulative GPA of 2.92, falling below the reqirement for their HOPE scholarship for the first time this season. countless other instances, Worley remained poised throughout the 24-point drubbing. Even with a fledgling offensive line, which donned an all-freshmen trio on the right side and was often cracking at the seams, the senior quarterback still connected with six different receivers in the loss.

Worley’s second-quarter touchdown strike to sophomore Josh

Smith trimmed the OU lead to 13-7, while the quarterback’s lategame maneuvering handed UT an opportunity to possibly make things interesting on the road.

But Worley threw two interceptions in the end zone — one on a failed jump ball with UT down 13 and the other on a tipped pass that was returned 100 yards for a touchdown — which kept the Vols’ upset bid a floating dream. “(Worley’s) a tough guy,” said heralded freshman running back Jalen Hurd, who turned heads late with 121 total yards — the majority of which arrived in the second half. “He just kept standing in there, kept going right back at them. He was encouraging us on the sideline and he’s a great leader.”

After mustering a dismal -11 net rushing yards in the opening 30 minutes due to sacks, Hurd headlined UT’s second-half ground assault, which tried its

best to put a dent in OU’s 20-7 intermission lead.

The 6-foot-3, 227-pound running back ripped off gains of 43 and 29, but an Aaron Medley field goal was all the Vols could pony up in the second half as the Sooners attack — spearheaded by quarterback Trevor Knight — kept their foot firmly pressed to UT’s throat.

On the evening, Knight racked up 308 yards and a touchdown through the air, while also tacking on a third-quarter ground score that upped OU’s lead 27-7.

“There’s a reason they’re the fourth-ranked team in the country,” Butch Jones said. “Junior and senior dominated football team up front. They do a great job schematically. They’re well coached... it was a great growing-up session for our youngsters.”

Even though OU running back Keith Ford (15 carries, 56 yards and a first-quarter rushing touch-

down) was on the receiving end of Knight’s only touchdown pass, the redshirt sophomore quarterback’s most prolific connection on Saturday night resided with junior Sterling Shepard.

Coming off an emphatic outing against in-state foe Tulsa, Shepard delivered a riveting encore performance, torching the UT secondary for 109 yards on only five catches.

The 5-foot-10, 195-pound speedster ripped off a pair of 30-yard gains on the way to his fifth 100-yard receiving game of his career — good for sixth all time in Sooners’ history.

“Definitely a complete receiver all around,” defensive back Cameron Sutton said. “He’s a great teammate and makes everyone around him play well as well.

I’m looking forward to seeing him doing big things for the rest of college and even later on in his career.”

VOLLEYBALL

Lady Vols fall short of sweeping Coastal Carolina Tournament

Staff Report

After snapping a four-game losing streak against Evansville on Tuesday, the UT volleyball team won two of three matches at the Coastal Carolina Tournament in Conway, South Carolina over the weekend.

To start the weekend, the Lady Vols dropped their first set against Kennesaw State University, but responded with three consecutive wins to claim the opener of the Coastal Carolina Tournament, 3-1 (22-25, 25-21, 25-23, 25-19) on Friday.

The Lady Vols were propelled by a season-high 19 kills from Kendra Turner and 18 more from Jamie Lea. UT had two players record double-doubles as Lea added 12 digs and junior Lexi Dempsey had 44 assists – a season-high – and a team-high 13 digs.

“Today we really needed a lot of production from our outside hitters,” Tennessee head coach Rob Patrick said. “Both Kendra and Jamie did a wonderful job of getting kills and not making too many errors on their swings.

Kendra really came up big, playing a low-error game in what is essentially the second match of her career.”

In the second match of Friday’s doubleheader, the Lady Vols pushed their winning streak to three games as they defeated Loyola Maryland, 3-1 (25-13, 25-10, 27-29, 25-21).

UT cruised through the first two sets, enjoying winning margins of 12 and 15 behind a pair of stellar attacking efforts. The Lady Vols swung an impressive .387 in the first set and followed that up with an even stronger .450 effort in the second set.

Those figures, however, dropped dramatically over the final two sets. Tennessee came out on the wrong end of a tightly contested third set, which featured 13 ties and four lead changes along the way, after posting just a .095 attack percentage.

The Lady Vols put the Greyhounds away in the next set, though, winning 25-21.

“Loyola really picked up their game in the third set and made it hard for us to get kills,” Patrick said. “They put a lot of pressure on us and took the third set

and we lost momentum. But we worked really hard to get that momentum back in the fourth set and I thought we did a great job of that. I was very pleased with the overall match for us.”

But just like they did in the Appalachian Invitational to open the season, the Lady Vols failed to finish the tournament with a sweep as they fell to the host, Coastal Carolina, 3-1 (18-25, 25-17, 20-15, 18-25) on Saturday.

Lea was named to the AllTournament team. She recorded 14 kills in the loss to Coastal Carolina.

“Even with the loss, it was a great weekend for us,” Patrick said. “We’re playing consistently for longer periods of time and that’s something we’ve been working on. It wasn’t that we were making a ton of errors on our side of the net -- we were actually playing very well -- it’s that Coastal was making some better plays on their side of the net.”

The Lady Vols now turn their attention to their home opener where they will play the Austin Peay Governors at 7 p.m. on Thursday.