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Sept. 29 marks the primary election day for the City of Knoxville, and Mayor Madeline Rogero is almost certainly here to stay. Running unopposed, Rogero’s only chance of defeat lies in the write-in ballot, an extremely unlikely scenario.

With a second and final term almost a certainty, The Daily Beacon sat down with Mayor Rogero to find out exactly how she plans to drive the city of Knoxville to success over her next four years.

Cumberland Avenue construction Knoxville and university residents alike have had to cope with construction extending across Cumberland Avenue since April of last year.

With the end of the project not scheduled until 2017, Mayor Rogero said she recognizes the unfortunate growing pains many area businesses are experiencing.

However, she also sees the necessity of improving a street that serves as a gateway to both the city and the university.

“We want to beautify it and make it something that’s an asset to the property owners, to the businesses, to the residences around there and to the university,” Rogero said of the Strip, which serves as a “car-centric corridor” for the thousands of people who inhabit neighboring areas.

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A lot of progress is being made.”

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Humans of Knoxville

“I changed my major a couple times, but that’s OK. That’s what college is for. Try to figure yourself out. See what you want to do at the end of it ... I just dropped out of the business school and joined the linguistic major, and I’m loving it. I used to dread coming to school, but now I’m thrilled to come to class.

I love what I’m learning; it’s a part of me. That’s what college is for. It’s here to help us, to guide us, and I think it’s a great thing.” Sau Kong, Senior in Linguistics Alyssa White • The Daily Beacon

CRIME LOG 9/13/15 Police Building/1101 Cumberland Avenue/Lobby

At about 12:31 a.m., an officer responded to UTPD and made contact with a female subject to return her purse from the UTPD lost and found. The officer arrested the female subject by misdemeanor citation for simple possession of narcotics and for possession of a fraudulent driver’s license.

9/13/15 Tyson Alumni House/1609 Melrose Avenue/Front Door Melrose Avenue Side

At approximately 1:12 a.m., a UTPD officer was dispatched to the Tyson Alumni House regarding an intoxicated male who was aggressively pounding on the front door of the building. The male suspect was arrested for underage drinking and possession of a fraudulent drive’s license.

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9/13/15 1836 Fraternity Park Drive/Alarm Pulled in Kitchen Area

At about 3:14 a.m., a UTPD officer was dispatched to 1836 Fraternity Park Drive in response to a fire alarm. The officer discovered that an unknown individual had pulled the fire alarm in the kitchen area. There was no evidence of fire or fire damage about the area.

9/13/15 Biosystems Engineering and Science Lab/ 2500 E J. Chapman Dr./ Exterior Window of Room 178

At approximately 7:48 a.m., a UTPD officer was dispatched to Biosystems Engineering in response to multiple open windows. The windows appeared vandalized, with a replacement cost of approximately $2,000.00.

9/13/15 C2 Phillip Fulmer Way/ First Level of G-10 Parking Garage

At approximately 10:05 a.m., a UTPD officer was patrolling the first level of the G-10 garage. The officer observed an individual walking in the area looking suspicious. The individual was arrested for criminal trespassing.

9/13/15 Hess Hall/1720 Melrose Place/Bench in front of Hess Hall

A victim advised they left their wallet on a bench while on campus. When the victim returned to get the wallet, the wallet was gone. A case card was given to the victim.

9/14/15 Phillip Fulmer Way/ In Front of PG10

At approximately 2:25 p.m., a UTPD officer observed a white male operating a vehicle while in violation of the no-seat-belt law. The officer initiated the emergency equipment and pulled the vehicle over.

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ROGERO continued from Page 1 Faced with the possibility of depressed property values and retail sales, Rogero said she hopes Knoxville residents will recognize the necessity of construction without forgetting about the businesses there.

“We’re letting people know that Cumberland Avenue is still open for business.”

Public records requests The Tennessee legislature is considering changing the state’s current public records requests system to require a viewing fee.

Current laws already place fees on labor and copy costs but Rogero said she opposes adding fees saying it would limit the people’s access to the government.

“Whenever you charge, you limit people’s access to government, and we need to be transparent,” Rogero said. “We need to be accessible not only to the media, but to the general public.”

Recognizing that while some individuals “almost shut down government” with extensive and frequent public records requests, Rogero said she feels most requests are legitimate and still an integral part of the city’s responsibility to its constituents.

LGBTQ+ rights The Supreme Court validated same-sex marriage last June, and the activity of many LGBT activists has shifted towards protecting the minority group from discrimination in the workplace.

The state currently has no laws protecting against LGBTQ+ discrimination in the workforce, but Rogero recently expanded the city’s non-discrimination ordinance to include the LGBTQ+ community and added domestic partner benefits earlier in her first term.

With the intention to “continue to support LGBT rights” Rogero said she feels ensuring equality and a “diverse workforce” will remain integral to her duties as mayor into her second term.

What’s in store?

Mayor Rogero said she feels that her running unopposed in the election reflects positively on her work as mayor and the direction she’s taken the city.

“There are always people that are unhappy, but you hope that when you take the totality of the work we’ve done and the decisions and recommendations we’ve made, you hope that most people feel positive about the direction,” Rogero said.

Recently, the city provided separate $1 million investments towards the Knoxville’s greenways and bicycle infrastructure, while the Tennessee Valley Authority also granted a $15 million dollar contribution to help lowincome families get energy efficient upgrades in their homes.

Rogero said she hopes her second term will include improvements not only to the scenic areas that make up downtown, but to the quality of life of Knoxville’s many citizens.

“What I sense is a real positive momentum with what’s happening,” Rogero said of her almost-completed first term.

“A lot of progress is being made.”

Mudslinging debate convinces an all-time high number of college students: zero Grant Currin Contributor Mudslinging was the name of the game in Wednesday night’s GOP debate.

A small crowd of students gathered Wednesday evening at the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy to watch the second republican presidential debate, hosted by Baker Ambassadors as a “watch party.”

A live feed from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, was projected onto one wall while students’ anonymous comments, submitted via text message, were projected onto another. Some of the most irreverent comments included “FIGHT TO THE DEATH,” “Great Wall of Trump,” “John Kasich is the only self-aware candidate,” and “Christie definitely vetoed the tax on saturated fats … ” “We’re pushing voter registration, so we want students to be informed about each of the candidates, regardless of their party preference,” Caitlyn McCandless, Baker

Ambassador and event organizer said.

The debate itself was heated and often confrontational. After each of the eleven candidates had introduced him or herself, Donald Trump began the evening by insulting Sen. Rand Paul’s appearance in what would be one of many personal attacks. Immigration, marijuana legalization and unrest in the Middle East dominated the substantive policy discussions.

For Josh Zumbrunn, junior in psychology and Spanish, the event was an opportunity to become involved in the political process.

“This is the first time I can vote, and I feel like it’s my responsibility to come out here and see what’s going on,” Zumbrunn said. “I’m going to come out for both (a Republican and a Democratic debate) and see both sides of the story.”

In course of the three-hour debate, however, Zumbrunn’s expectations were dampened as the candidates responses to debate questions.

“It’s a lot to take in,” he said. “One thing I don’t like in particular is that a lot of the candidates just want to attack (each other). It doesn’t seem productive to me.”

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Diversity’s coming, ready or not

Knox schools shed light on drug abuse Connor Barnhill

Kelsey French Contributor For the Council for Diversity and Interculturalism, an appointed group that advocates for expanding diversity on campus, Wednesday’s meeting aimed to discuss this question: does UT consider its campus primed for diverse, more inclusive practices?

With Vol Vision’s goal to become a top 25 public university, the Council for Diversity and Interculturalism discussed the plan’s framework and how to live up to UT’s mission statement on civility and community: “Our campus should be welcoming to all and hostile to none.”

The council’s co-chair Tanisha Jenkins, noted the importance of the organization’s involvement with to keep diversity and inclusion a top priority of the university. Jenkins posed a question for all members to reinforce the Vol Vision standard.

“What role do we take on the Vol Vision update in order to make sure our voice is heard as a council and the university’s voice is heard in terms of diversity and interculturalism?”

Jenkins said.

With the recent backlash around the gender neutral pronoun list, the council also focused its discussion on how to respond in an appropriate and supportive way.

Vice Chancellor for Diversity Rickey Hall commented that he wanted to stand by the organizations on campus who advocate for more inclusive practices.

“We’re not going to step back,” Hall said.

“Diversity and inclusion work is always controversial.”

Donna Braquet, director of the Pride Center, said she believes support from the Council for Diversity would only increase inclusion on campus and generate support from students.

Braquet maintained a lack of information on diversity issues would muddy understanding, but support from the council gives organizations a platform to stand up against opposition and the willpower to stand up for inclusion.

“Stand behind us and say this is something we want for UT,” Braquet said.

Gian Martorella, freshman in psychology, said she believes the university to be a diverse campus, citing the various cultures and backgrounds she encounters daily.

“I see people from completely different countries,” Martorella said. “ I’ve met a couple of Argentine people here. I believe there is a lot more diversity than I thought there would be.”

For Jenkins and the rest of the council, maintaining that diversity entails defining the council’s purpose and how it vocalizes the growing need for inclusion on campus.

“We just want to truly understand the role of what we’re supposed to do, how we go about doing it and how to make our voice truly heard to the campus administration about issues and concerns the campus community may have that need to be brought forward and discussed,” she said.

Ultimately, campus preparedness for these inclusion practices steam from a critical question posed by Hall: “Is the institution ready?”

Contributor

Local drug abuse is taking place in the hallways of Knoxville high schools.

This Sunday, the Metropolitan Drug Commission in Knoxville will host the first ever Race Against Destructive Decisions, an event designed to help raise awareness about substance and drug use in Knox County schools (KCS) wwhile raising money for local chapters of Students Against Destructive Decisions.

Students Against Destructive Decisions is an organization which works with local high schools to educate the students on drug use.

The program focuses on teaching students about the dangers, consequences and effects of drug use.

In a 2013 survey conducted by the Metropolitan Drug Commission, Knox County Health Department, Knox County Schools and the Mental Health Association of East Tennessee, it was reported 23 percent of KCS students used marijuana in the past 30 days. Additionally, 16 percent of students reported they had abused prescription drugs like Adderall or Xanax, while 22 percent reported they had been offered, given or sold illicit drugs while on school property.

As an issue pertinent to the Knox County School system, local members of the Students Against Destructive Decisions group are hoping this weekend’s race will lessen the drug use present among Knoxville’s youth.

As a teacher at Fulton High School and her school’s Students Against Destructive Decisions chapter advisor, Joni Bolden understands the importance of accountability via relationships and events to prevent substance abuse among adolescents.

“The biggest help is positive peer support, to foster friendships which then cause the students to feel accountable for one another,” Bolden said. “For example, the students (in SADD) encouraged their peers to sit with

people they didn’t know at lunch in order to know them better.”

As a new chapter in Students Against Destructive Decisions, Fulton currently faces a lack of funding.

Which is precisely what this weekend’s race intends to help. All proceeds from the Race Against Destructive Decisions will be donated to SADD chapters in the Knoxville area.

These chapters carry out their own ideas to stop destructible decisions within their school, ranging from drug use to bullying.

The conversations centered around the issues, Bolden said are “always student-led and student centered.”

“We have meetings, the topic of which is decided beforehand by the students, on the issues we’re going to address and how we’re going to address them,” Bolden said. “I advise them on their parameters, point them to resources, and then the rest is really up to them.”

Metropolitan Drug Commission representative Deborah Huddleston, the race’s primary organizer and promoter, also said student input is the best resource when handling drugrelated issues, since adults like herself can’t interact with every school in the area.

“We at the Metropolitan Drug Commission aren’t in school every day, so we may not know what the issues are,” Huddleston said. “I’ve come to find that young people’s minds are so fascinating with the projects they want to do.”

This weekend’s race resulted from Fulton students who signed a pledge to not drink and drive on the night of prom. All who signed the pledge got a bag from the Metropolitan Drug Commission with the reminder: “Make it a night to remember — don’t drink and drive.”

All the names were then posted on the high school walls to to prevent a potentially destructive atmosphere.

Sign-ups for the race are still available at Sequoya Park this Sunday. The race will also feature live bands, door prizes and activities for children.

To learn more about SADD and its mission, visit http://www.sadd.org.

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Muslim group doesn’t fault school, police for detention Associated Press IRVING, Texas — One of the largest Muslim groups in Texas said Thursday that it does not fault police and school officials who handcuffed and suspended a 14-year-old Muslim boy after he brought a homemade clock to class that they mistook for a possible bomb.

Instead, Khalid Hamideh of the Islamic Association of North Texas blamed political leaders for espousing inflammatory anti-Muslim rhetoric and creating a “climate of fear.”

“We’re not pointing a finger at the school district or the police department,” Hamideh said. “Under the current climate that exists in this country, you can’t really blame them because when they see something like that, they have to react.”

The association operates the mosque attended by the family of Ahmed Mohamed, the suburban Dallas student who became a sensation on social media after word spread about his clock and the way he was treated.

Ahmed was pulled from class Monday after he showed the device to a teacher. He was questioned by the principal and police, then handcuffed and taken to the police station.

The Muslim community is concerned that Ahmed was interrogated without a lawyer or his parents present and was led out in handcuffs, Hamideh said.

Irving Police Chief Larry Boyd has said department policy requires that handcuffs be used to protect officers and others.

Authorities declined to seek charges against the boy, saying there was no evidence he intended to cause alarm. They said he’s free to retrieve his clock at the police station.

A police photo of the device shows a carrying case containing a circuit board and power supply wired to a digital display.

School district spokeswoman Lesley Weaver did not return a call for comment Thursday but previously said school administrators followed district policy, which allows staff to take action if a student has a “look-alike” weapon or engages in behaviors that “substantially disrupt or materially interfere with school activities.”

Ahmed’s father, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, said Thursday that his son would not be returning to MacArthur High School.

He said the family is still deciding where he will go next.

The boy’s sister, Ayisha Mohamed, 17, said she believes her brother’s experience is helping to change people’s minds about Muslims.

She said her “heart just dropped” when she heard police had detained him. “It was a bad thing that turned into a blessing,” she said.

As Ahmed’s story spread across social

media, Twitter soon erupted with support for the teen. The hashtag #IStandWithAhmed was tweeted more than 1 million times.

President Barack Obama invited him to the White House, and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg posted that he wanted to meet him.

A NASA scientist asked Ahmed to give him a call in a couple of years for a job opportunity.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott also weighed in, cautioning that he did not know all the facts but that police were wrong to detain the boy.

“The last thing we want to do is put handcuffs on a kid unjustifiably,” Abbott told The Dallas Morning News. “It looks like the commitment to law enforcement may have gone too far.”

On Thursday, Irving high school students said Ahmed has a reputation as a tinkerer and creator. He made small robotics, fixed phones and assembled a remote that could turn on projectors at school, they said.

“I remember seeing him in middle school, and he used to always bring stuff,” said Sara Williams, 15. “He was just one of those kids that created stuff.”

Nicholas Martin, also 15, said authorities “were just taking precautions” when they confiscated the clock, but he believes they overreacted because of Ahmed’s ethnicity.

Ahmed’s father emigrated from Sudan and twice ran for the presidency of that country.

Fourteen-year-old Pedro Andrade said school officials were right to be cautious but added, “If they really did think that it was a bomb, why didn’t they evacuate?”

The controversy follows other incidents this year involving anti-Muslim sentiment, including a backlash against a proposed Muslim cemetery northeast of Dallas and a Republican lawmaker who told her staff to ask visiting Muslims to declare allegiance to America.

Also, the Irving City Council endorsed one of several bills in the state Legislature to forbid judges from making rulings based on “foreign laws,” language that some people say is aimed at Islam out of fear that American courts could somehow be influenced by the religion’s Sharia law.

“All of these people who push this hate agenda need to engage the Muslim community and to understand the Muslim identity in this country,” Hamideh said.

Back in May, Texas law enforcement was on heightened alert when two men opened fire in the Dallas suburb of Garland outside a center hosting a cartoon contest with depictions of the prophet Muhammad. Both attackers were shot dead, and an officer was shot in the leg.

From the other side of the world, the Islamic State group made an unproven claim of responsibility.

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How state sales tax connects to student debt

McCord Pagan Adding Context

Travis Wilson is a well-rounded student. He’s involved in numerous organizations on campus, including the Student Government Association, is informed on campus events and was a HOPE scholarship recipient until this semester.

Wilson maxed out his scholarship by taking too many credit hours, leaving him about $2,000 short for the fall semester.

Wilson had no choice but to raise the money himself or leave school. Determined to stay at UT, he created a GoFundMe page and solicited donations from his friends to cover his tuition.

Fortunately, the page was an immediate success with Wilson raising all the funds in just two days. While Wilson is still in $23,000 of college debt, for the moment, he is safe.

But crowdsourcing tuition money from friends and strangers online? What brought us to this point?

Unlike most states, Tennessee raises most of its revenue through a high sales tax instead of a state income tax. While this gives us a lower cost of living, one result is less money for higher education in lean years, which is a lower budget priority than K-12 education and prison.

Before the recession, the majority of the cost of putting a student through UT was provided by the state, with the rest through tuition.

However, that trend has since been

reversed.

The percent of the state budget going to higher education dropped from 53 percent to 39 percent from 2001 to 2015, with schools like UT Knoxville raising tuition just to keep up, and passing the hurt on to Wilson and thousands of students like him.

Tuition at UT has more than doubled just from 2008. Back then, freshmen were paying just $5,428 annually, while freshmen for fall 2015 pay $12,436 annually. While UT may still be considered a “best value” school, at this rate what happens in the next seven years? Or 10 or 15?

However, the tuition problem and the 51 percent of students that graduate from the UT system with debt cannot entirely blame their troubles on the administrative Board of Trustees.

With a sales tax instead of an income tax, most of the state government’s revenue comes from goods, rather than services. Items like gasoline and beer are more heavily taxed in proportion to services such as lawyer fees.

Unfortunately, it is the service sector of the economy that is growing the fastest and can provide a more stable source of taxes revenue, while the goods section cannot. Just to continue to provide basic state services, the state government has to raise taxes.

Essentially, Tennessee’s tax code, the state’s ability to fund itself, is woefully inadequate.

This is not a new idea or some socialist scheme to hurt business.

This is a real problem that the state government has known about for more than 30 years and done nothing to fix.

In 1984, Lewis Donelson, Tennessee’s commissioner for finance and administration from 1979-81, predicted the state government would soon create an income tax to compensate for ever-increasing costs and prevent inequality in the tax

code, according to a Daily Beacon article from April 18, 1984.

“It seems to me that our (tax) system fails to meet the fairness requirements,” Donelson said in the article.

Donelson added that then-Gov. Lamar Alexander assured him that an income tax bill passed by the General Assembly would be signed into law.

Quite the opposite happened. Tennessee failed to pass an income tax, and just passed a state constitutional amendment against the idea.

Despite this defeat, Donelson is right.

Tennessee has a broken tax system which hurts working class families.

This is not to say that the state government doesn’t care about providing affordable college education to its future leaders. But it is clear politics has come before practicality.

By relying on a sales tax, costs for state services like higher education are unfairly spread to students.

“At some point you just stop looking at what the loans are,” Wilson said. “You just click the accept [button] because you know you need it.

“I’ve never had a year where I didn’t take out loans, that’s been an intrinsic part of college.”

While UT’s graduates average about $22,100 in loans (nationally, students average $29,400), this amount is still unfair to young Tennesseans.

As the first state with free community college through the Tennessee Promise, and a selfimposed goal of 55 percent of residents holding a post-high school degree by 2025, Tennessee should be at the forefront of innovating college education. This means making all higher education in the state affordable, not just community college, and promising students like Wilson that they won’t graduate into mountains of debt.

The state of Tennessee has a responsibility to take immediate, concrete steps to better fund its four-year schools if it expects its graduates to be competitive in the economy.

More than new buildings and winning football teams, UT needs a sustainable tuition model that is fair to all students and doesn’t send us into the real world crippled by debt .

McCord Pagan is a fifth-year senior in journalism and electronic media. He can be reached at mcccpaga@vols.utk.edu

Columns of The Daily Beacon are the views of the individual and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Beacon or the Beacon’s editorial staff.

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Reach out and touch someone

Sarah Hagaman Turn of Phrase

For me, rock bottom hit in the middle of Hodges one sunny Thursday afternoon.

Classes had just begun. The library had its usual trickle of students. Printers and study groups murmured in the background on an otherwise normal day.

Except for me — I sat in a large stuffed chair, somewhere near the corner, with an unexpected rush of hot tears spilling out of my eyes as my fingers clicked numbly at my laptop.

I rarely cry in front of other people. My chin lowered to hide my tears from prying eyes; an embarrassed flush climbed up my cheeks.

Suddenly, a solution popped into my head, and I slipped on my sunglasses beneath the fluorescent overhead lights — like it was your casual day at the beach.

Problem solved.

Maybe it was a breakup, or the betrayal of a friend.

Perhaps it’s an emotionally abusive parent, or the rejection of a social group or club. At some point in life, many of us endure emotional upheaval in some form or another.

One evening shortly after the incident in the library, I stumbled across a 20 minute TED talk by Dr. Brené Brown: “The Power of Vulnerability.” But it was contempt, rather than enthusiasm, that led me to watch the video that boasts 21 million YouTube views.

“Vulnerability?” I thought caustically. No, vulner-

ability didn’t fall very high on my list of things to do, thank you. In fact, vulnerability seemed only to lead to pain. But what Brown said about vulnerability and the importance of connection changed my life.

We are here to connect with other people. To feel loved, and worthy of belonging, creates one of the most fundamental needs of human beings. Brown, as a researcher-storyteller, collects thousands of stories from people to more deeply understand this intense need for relationship. She refers to her work with human stories as “data with a soul.”

Though human connection has beautiful benefits, the threat of its opposite — disconnection — has an incredibly powerful force among people as well.

Humans experience a profound sense of shame when others deliberately disconnect with them.

Various forms of rejection result in withdrawal, numbness and isolation.

Yet Brown proposes that people with a deep sense of personal worthiness have a few distinguishing characteristics that imbue them with the ability to connect. People with a strong sense of love and belonging possess it for a very simple reason: they believe they are worthy of love and belonging.

In a similar vein, connected people have courage — when literally defined, courage is the ability “to tell the story of who you are with your whole heart.”

They have the courage to be imperfect, to have compassion and to reach out and let their authentic selves be seen. These people have the courage to be

vulnerable.

Courageous, whole-hearted people have “ ... the willingness to say ‘I love you’ first. The willingness to do something where there are no guarantees. They’re willing to invest in a relationship that might not work out,” Dr. Brown explained. Vulnerability may expose us to potential shame and hurt, but it’s also the vital “birthplace of joy, creativity, belonging, of love.”

Ironically, the things that make us vulnerable make us beautiful.

I’m generally terrible at vulnerability; my feelings lurk beneath several protective layers. But I have resolved to change my own paradigm, and to engage in vulnerability, authenticity and immense beauty with people.

Vulnerability — though very uncomfortable — has enormous rewards. When engaging in true connection with people, the potential for compassion, love and belonging increases exponentially.

Every single one of us has the power to connect deeply. We simply must have the courage to believe it, and to extend a hand to other people. Others may brush, slap or push your hand away — but sometimes, they’ll reach right back.

Your fingers touch.

And in that moment, you realize: it’s absolutely worth it.

Sarah Hagaman is a senior in English. She can be reached at shagama1@vols.utk.edu.

Welcome to the UT space race

Grayson Hawkins The Space Sapiential

I am turning over a new leaf, or maybe I’m just experiencing a mid (college) life crisis.

During the summer, I designed and tested a student organization for Volunteers looking to enter the space industry, and last week, we were officially recognized by the University of Tennessee. Then I had the “it’s not you, it’s me” conversation with my chemistry academic advisor, and have begun a new academic career in mechanical engineering. On top of these things, I’ve redone my column with a focus on space, the global space industry and where UT students fit into it all.

Now for the question that everyone seems to be asking me: Why space?

For one, it’s one of the fastest growing industries since it even became an “industry” in the ‘60s and ‘70s. Whereas NASA used to hire human calculators and “rocket scientists,” now the 100+ U.S. companies involved in the space industry are hiring entrepreneurs and young graduates with a knack for critical thinking. The Space Foundation, in their 2014 Space Report, explained how NASA’s workforce is rapidly aging; they have more employees eligible for retirement than employees under the age of 35. Space technology companies are finally looking towards our generation for employees, and my job prospects are ever-increasing as the industry continues to grow.

The 2014 Space Report goes on to detail the

$314.17 billion of revenue the global space industry brought in during 2013. The U.S. Department of Commerce predicts the Aerospace industry will see a sustained rate of 3 to 4 percent growth for the next two decades, and both of these figures account for only direct interaction between space firms and consumers (or government contracts). When you account for revenue generated by these services supplied by the space industry, the figures are staggering.

The International Handbook of Space Technology (2014) estimates the Global Navigation Satellite System alone is involved in 8 percent of the world’s economy, and billions of people rely on space-based telecom services for internet or communication. The revenue generated by customers of space firms is immeasurable.

It’s no wonder that people like Sarwant Singh, Forbes contributor, keep writing about the soonto-be space industry boom. Throughout his Forbes article, “The Space Industry: Seriously Congested, Contested And Poised For Growth,” Singh reveals his passion and enthusiasm for new companies and nations entering space, new navigational and telecom satellite constellations that are being developed, the plethora of research and development programs focused on the new standard of microsatallites/ CubeSats and the new trend of dual application commercial satellites. These factors (and more) are com-

bining to pressurize the space market — something poised to explode during what Singh dubs the 21st century “Space Jam.” Globally, the Space Foundation reported 81 launches and 197 new satellites for the year 2013, a jump of 3 percent and 60 percent, respectively, from the year before. It’s not just federal governments that realize the prospects of space either; even state and local governments are trying to get a portion of those launches (which can cost anywhere between $100 million-$400 million). Spaceport America in New Mexico and pretty much all of Florida are both examples of active, local effort to attract the space industry.

So why space? You can take your pick of logical, economic arguments made above, but I would be lying if I didn’t say that I am personally compelled and affected by the likes of Gene Roddenberry, Orson Scott Card, Isaac Asimov and others. When it comes to the final frontier, my imagination goes wild, and I feel star-ward wanderlust. Perhaps mankind will eventually find many homes throughout our galaxy (and others?) and perhaps you will eventually find a copy of next Friday’s Daily Beacon to read the second installment of The Space Sapiential.

Grayson Hawkins is a junior in mechanical engineering. He can be reached at ghawkin4@vols. utk.edu.

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Pilgrimage to collect cross-genre legends Festival strives to provide a ‘spiritual’ music experience Jenna Butz Editor-in-Chief A new music festival is encouraging music fans to make a “pilgrimage” to Franklin, TN Pilgrimage Music and Cultural Festival, a first year festival founded by Kevin Griffin, Brandt Wood and Michael Whelan, will open next Saturday, Sept. 26 and run until Sunday, Sept. 27 three hours away at the Park at Harlinsdale Farm. The multi-genre festival headliners include Willie Nelson, Cage the Elephant, Wilco and Weezer.

Griffin, who has worked over 20 years in the music industry, and his partners saw a need for a diverse, family-friendly, day music festival that broke the norm of typical music festivals.

“It has an amazingly curated music lineup this year. Arguably, the best festival lineup in the country,” Griffin said. “No doubt we’re the best first year festival line up in the country … the fact that bands are going to be playing — a lot of them are going to be playing acoustic, so you’re going to see your favorite bands perform

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in a way that they haven’t performed before or you may not have seen them (before).”

One of the biggest challenges of starting a festival was creating a high-profile lineup that would attract an audience and keep the festival going for years to come. So, Pilgrimage founders turned to talent booker Jay Sweet, who curates and books the Newport Folk Festival.

After explaining their mission to Sweet, he was on board and helped Pilgrimage book its first artist: Willie Nelson.

Once Nelson was on board, Griffin said it was easier to get other acts on board, like alternative country rock band The Lone Bellow.

Zach Williams, the band’s frontman, said they had worked with Sweet before, and his involvement in Pilgrimage convinced the band to join the lineup.

Though Griffin wanted a diverse, crossgenre lineup, the festival still needed to be cohesive. Williams felt the connection came from the influence of the artists and the friendships between the artists already, adding, “it’s an honor to be a part of this lineup.”

“Willie is my favorite song writer of all time and is the and a hero that has taught so many people what a gentleman looks like,” Williams said. “I remember the first time I heard Wilco.

I was sitting in the passenger seat of my best buddies car on a road trip singing ‘get me out of FLA.’ We just played our last show with Dawes and locked arms with the audience during their set singing ‘may all your favorite bands stay together.’ The ladies (of) Lucius used to make us coffee every morning up on 7th Avenue in Brooklyn before their singing career exploded. On one side of the coin, it feels like family, and on the other side it feels like we’re walking amongst giants.”

Griffin discovered the festival’s site while on a run through town during December 2013.

He happened upon Harlinsdale Farm, a 230acre former Tennessee Walking Horse farm in downtown Franklin, and knew it was a space made for experiencing music.

“I ran out there, and the sun came out from behind the clouds — just kind of looked up, really, and suddenly I was surrounded by these historic barns and these rolling hills and natural amphitheaters and just (a) stunning, unique setting for a music festival,” Griffin said. “My mind just started, and I was like, ‘Oh my god.’ … Having spent 20+ years as a musician, mostly on the performer side but also as a producer, I saw the setting for an amazing, unique music festival 18 miles south of Nashville.”

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Franklin precedes the festival, and Williams already knows they’ll combine for a truly otherworldly experience.

“One of my best friends is living in one of the oldest houses in Franklin, just a couple blocks away from the festival. He has blood stains on his living room hard wood floor that date back to the Civil War,” Williams said.

“The rolling hills of this southern town are full of history, beauty and pain. I believe it will be a good feeling to feel this earth underneath our feet, and resonate with the sounds of the other musicians and music listeners we will be surrounded by.”

Pilgrimage also wanted to foster a connection between the attendees and the community, and decided to add a “charitable element,” Griffin explained. Thus, the creators decided that a portion of every ticket would be donated to MusiCares, which provides assistance to members of the music community in need.

Also, $1 of each pass will be donated to the Friends of Franklin Parks, “so we leave Harlindale better than we found it,” Griffin said.

The artists are already noticing the festival’s charitable efforts and work to create a united, almost spiritual experience.

“I feel like the values of history and friendship at the core of this festival colliding with the hope of collaboration and true artistic experience will be sure to create a truly memorable situation,” Williams said.

These specific elements work together to create an event that the founders hope caters to music lovers on their own terms.

“You come away with something that’s different than Bonnaroo,” Griffin said. “We know what Bonnaroo is. It’s awesome, but it’s a massive festival, rite of passage for kids and camping. It is not a family-friendly event. You’re not going to bring your child to Bonnaroo. I mean, you can, but Bonnaroo’s Bonnaroo. CMA Fest is CMA Fest. We wanted to do something just different. Maybe a more chill, more laidback, more boutique, smaller experience with more elbow room and an amazingly curated music and food experience.”

Pilgrimage is offering both weekend and one day discounted passes for students at $120 and $65, respectively. They can be purchased at bit.do/pilgrimagestudent.

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Jenna and Her Cool Friends will be performing at the Blues Cruise.

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Annual moon festival fuller than ever Katey Robinson Contributor

Blues cruise soon to set sail Tylar Bullion Copy Editor Tennessee has been called the “Home of the Blues,” and rightly so considering Memphis was the origin of blues legend B.B. King.

The Smoky Mountain Blues Society plans to keep the blues tradition alive through the power of music — and boats.

The Smoky Mountain Blues Society, based in Knoxville and the former Knoxville Blues Society, adopted the motto “Keeping the Blues Alive.” Established in 2009, the Smoky Mountain Blues Society preserves this music in several ways, including their Blues In The Schools program and the annual Blues Cruise.

The Blues Cruise, now in its fifth year, is an annual event hosted by the Smoky Mountain Blues Society in which participants board a riverboat and take a three-hour cruise down the Tennessee River. The family-friendly frivolity will feature food, adult beverages and a band that hails from Rocky Top, Jenna and Her Cool Friends.

“What we do is spend three hours on the Tennessee (River) in a really relaxing atmosphere, and we’ll even carve out a space on the boat for a little dancing,” Stephen Krempasky, president of the Smoky Mountain Blues Society, said.

All proceeds will go to the Blues In The Schools program.

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gram that’s a little bit of history and a little bit of knowledge about blues as a true American art form, followed by some playing to help kids understand what makes a blues song a blues song, as opposed to rock ‘n’ roll or another genre,” Krempasky said on the program.

Jenna and Her Cool Friends will be playing the Blues Cruise, and they certainly have a lot of hype to live up to. Voted “Best Knoxville Blues Band” back-to-back for two years by the Metro Pulse, the band is returning to the Blues Cruise for a fifth consecutive year. The blues group features two guitars, drums, a keyboard, a harmonica player, a bass and the powerhouse vocals of Jenna Jefferson.

The band plays blues music from the 1920s to present-day. They’ve started writing their own songs too.

To give more insight into the quality of this band — they’ve opened for B.B. King and secured a place in the semifinals of the International Blues Competition.

When asked what to expect from them on the Blues Cruise, Jenna Jefferson said, “The music is fun, it’s upbeat, it’s uplifting, it’s intimate; there’s a lot of interaction with the audience. (The) people that are there, they just have such a great time. There’ll be a lot of ‘wow’ factors in there, and there’ll be a lot of laughter in there too.”

The Blues Cruise takes place on Oct. 18 from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. and boards promptly at 2 p.m. All proceeds raised will go directly to the Blues In The Schools program.

UT’s Confucius Institute has big plans for the Chinese Moon Festival on friday.

Yu Zhang, the Confucius Institute’s coordinator, spoke about the institute’s upcoming celebration. For those unfamiliar with the specifics of the holiday, Zhang gave the rundown.

“From the whole Chinese year, the most important day is the Spring Festival, and the second most important day is the Moon Festival,” Zhang said. “It’s a lot like Thanksgiving in the Western world — people enjoy the long weekend, the family has time to get together and celebrate. It’s a celebration of a full harvest.”

But how did the festival’s trademark mooncakes get involved?

The tradition dates back to the 13th century. Long story short, mooncakes are kind of the ancient Chinese version of those fake Galleons that Dumbledore’s Army used to communicate.

A military counselor of the Han people’s resistance sought to overthrow the Mongols who were ruling China, quite unwelcome, at the time.

He had his soldiers spread the word that the upcoming winter would bring a great deal of disease, and the only way to avoid falling ill was to eat mooncakes. Seems manipulative, but it worked, and mooncakes boomed.

Soldiers basically wrote “uprising, at the night of Mid-Autumn Festival” on pieces of paper, inserted them into the mooncakes and then sold them to the unassuming common people.

The mooncake messages worked, and the

uprising was a success; mooncakes have been ingrained in the celebration ever since.

Westerners are probably most familiar with the marshmallow-filled, snack cake: moon pies.

However, the original version was a much more substantial dish.

“The Chinese version often contains nuts, dates, sometimes even meat. People in different regions of China have different taste in moon cakes. Some like sweet, others salty,” Zhang said.

Mooncakes, though, are only one component of this Friday’s Moon Festival Celebration.

Attendees will see a whole array of Chinese cultural performances.

“There will be ten acts: four singers, three dance performances, a fashion show and two martial arts performances,” Zhang said. “We only had five performers last year, so it’s very exciting.”

Chantel Kluemper, sophomore in English, travelled to China this summer as a volunteer at SEU’s English Summer Camp in Nanjing.

“I’m really excited to go to the moon festival and relive some Chinese culture that I was fortunate enough to experience this summer.

I have some friends who are singing, so I can’t wait to support them,” Kluemper said.

Unfortunately, this year’s Confucius Moon Festival Celebration sold its last ticket on Monday, despite moving from the International House to a larger venue at Pellissippi State Community College.

The Moon Festival can still be celebrated at home.

“On the day of the Moon Festival, we expect to see the biggest, roundest moon of the year,” Zhang said. “It is wonderful to sit outside under the moon, eat mooncakes and tell stories — it’s a cozy time to spend with friends and family.”

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Senior goalie Julie Eckel makes a goal kick during practice scrimmage.

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Vols soccer team looks to continue momentum Trenton Duffer Staff Writer On this date last year, the Vols soccer team were 4-3-1 and were preparing to face Alabama on the SEC Network.

This year is different. Tennessee is 5-0-3, but the Vols are still preparing for an SEC foe.

Only this time, it’s the No. 14 Auburn Tigers.

“I think you have a team right now whose confidence is growing,” Head Coach Brian Pensky said before Wednesday’s team practice. “We’re not a team that has had massive success the last couple of years, and you’re always dealing with fragile egos, especially when you’re dealing with a group of good kids … It’s nice to see them having success and then just watching individually and collectively that confidence grow.”

The Vols already have one conference victory under their belt — a 1-0 win over Arkansas last Friday in Fayetteville. Ariel Kupritz scored the team’s lone goal in the 34th minute while Julie Eckel kept her own goal on lock-down.

Following its first SEC victory, Tennessee continued its weekend dominance by crushing Belmont, 8-0, in a game that saw seven different Vols scoring. Eckel and the defense continued their trend of shutting out opponents by picking up their seventh shutout of the season and their fourth in a row.

“That’s a team thing,” Pensky said. “Our forwards, our midfield line and our back line are all doing well, and certainly, it gives the whole

team confidence … We go into every game with a certain amount of confidence knowing that if we get one or two (goals), we got a pretty good chance of winning the game.”

But the Auburn Tigers (7-1-0) present a stiffer challenge. The team is lead by the Ramsier sisters — siblings Casie and Brook Ramsier have led the charge to put the Tigers on the map. Casie leads the team in goals with 4, while Brooke is second with 3.

The Tigers pride themselves the most in their strength in defense. Auburn is second in the SEC in goals allowed, goals against average and shutouts. The wteam in first is Tennessee.

“First and foremost, it’s a big game,” Pensky said. “Odds are, it’s going to be a one goal game. It’s going to be a battle. Both teams playing and scratching and clawing for every possession and every 50-50 ball. This is a game that’s going to matter in conference standings, but then, come NCAA Tournament time, head-to-head is going to matter.”

After getting Friday off, which is rare for the team, senior Susan Ferguson discussed how beneficial that extra day of preparation will be on Sunday.

“The SEC season is so hard, playing Friday and Sunday,” Ferguson said. “Last Friday, I came in on Saturday, and I was extremely sore and tired … But having Friday off helps. It helps us focus and give our legs a rest.”

The Vols will face off against the Tigers on Sunday at 3 p.m. at Tennessee’s Regal Stadium. The match will also be broadcast on the SEC Network.

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Vols look to remain undefeated in North Carolina Lucas Hunter

Contributor The Volunteer volleyball team looks to extend its school record 12-0 season this weekend in a trio of games at Raleigh, North Carolina.

The three matches against Hampton, Campbell and host North Carolina State are the final matches before Tennessee opens SEC play at Auburn on Sept. 25.

UT will arrive at the tournament following three 3-1 wins at the College of Charleston invitational over Wofford, Jacksonville and College of Charleston.

This year’s early success has yet to come at the expense of a team from a Power 5 conference, but Head Coach Rob Patrick described his team’s contests as games against teams that are giving the Vols their “best shot.�

The “best shot� so far would belong to Towson, who drug the Vols to a deciding fifth set in only their second game of the season. Since that game, UT has a cumulative record of 30-6 in the sets of the ten games following the victory over Towson.

In light of the previous year’s season, the Vols are making strides — after finishing 8-24 in 2014 — and Patrick attributes the leap to a handful of factors: depth, experience and leadership. “This year Lexi Dempsey, Megan Hatcher, Raina Hembry and Bridgette Villano have taken huge steps up in their development and their maturity, and they have become internal leaders on the team,� Patrick said.

The youth of last year’s team was often cited a detriment to success, but Patrick summarized the rebounding effect of that experience and the collection of transfers the program brought in. “We didn’t have a lot of experience, we were young, and we didn’t have a lot of depth,� Patrick said. “With our three transfers, we brought in two juniors and a sophomore, all of them who played and started at the programs they came from.�

Despite racing to an undefeated start, surpassing last year’s win total only nine games into the season, and becoming one of ten remaining undefeated Division-I programs, the Volunteers still are not ranked, and are without a vote in the coach’s pole.

Patrick credited the lack of recognition to the unfair reputation of the opponents UT has been facing, but said the result is unsurprising.

However, Patrick’s focus is on the immediate future, and cites his team’s ability to take the season “one match at a time,� and states his intention to prepare for the opener against Hampton “Our whole focus is on Hampton during our practices right now,� Patrick said. “We’re obviously starting to get ready for the other two matches against Campbell and North Carolina State — North Carolina State has an SEC win already, I think they beat Mississippi earlier in the season — so I think it’s going to be a tough tournament, and it’s going to a tournament that prepares us for the SEC season.�

This weekend marks the final tune-up before a rigorous SEC schedule starts next Friday, including two Senior Lexi Dempsey spikes the ball across the court during the slates with No. 5 Florida and No. 21 Kentucky over the game against Austin Peay last fall. remainder of the season. • File Photo

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Vols look to avoid trap game with Catamounts Taylor White Assistant Sports Editor

Western Carolina lies in a tricky spot on Tennessee’s football schedule.

The Vols (1-1) lost a heart-breaking game to

Oklahoma last week, while a trip to the Swamp for a matchup with Florida awaits Tennessee on Sept. 26. In between, the Vols must play the FCS Catamounts.

For head coach Butch Jones, though, Western Carolina (1-1, 0-1 Southern Conference) is the most important game on the schedule, simply because it is the next game on the schedule.

“I will tell you this,” Jones said in a Wednesday afternoon press conference. “And I think everyone should understand this: winning is fragile.

Winning is hard to do in college football, and we need everyone’s support. It’s a nationally televised game.”

Quarterback Troy Mitchell leads the Catamount offense, throwing for 485 yards through two games, but consistency has been a problem for the senior as he is completing under 60 percent of his passes. C.J. Goodman has emerged as Western Carolina’s top big play threat, catching seven passes for 109 yards on the season.

Where Mitchell really makes his impact felt, however, is in the running game. He has run for 88 yards through two games, and has a knack for escaping the pocket when his protection breaks down.

Coach Butch Jones jogs with his players in Neyland Stadium during the game against the Oklahoma Sooners.

Hayley Pennesi • The Daily Beacon Defense has been where the Catamounts have struggled so far this season, particularly in stopping the run. Western Carolina has given up 222 rushing yards on average over the first two games. Most of those came last week, as The Citadel rushed for almost 350 yards in the win.

While Western Carolina comes into the game as a major underdog, Jones knows that won’t stop the team from competing.

“This is a football team that’s coming in here, that’s going to expect to win,” Jones said.

“Coach (Mark) Speir has done a good job of really building their identity, and all you have to do is look around the country, and really what happened last week in college football. It truly is a week-to-week season.”

If his team needs motivation, it simply has to look at the slate of games last week. A top-five Auburn team needed overtime to avoid a monumental upset at the hands of Jacksonville State on Saturday, another FCS team.

That’s a game that the Tennessee coaching staff has mentioned at times this week.

“They’ve talked about it a little bit,” sophomore receiver Josh Malone said. “We know we can’t underestimate any opponent. Anything

can happen on a given Saturday. We’re coming out here, and we’re playing just like they’re anybody else.”

While the Catamounts are the opponent, the game falls on the shoulders of Tennessee. The Vols blew a 17 point lead in their loss to the Sooners, and how they respond to the tough loss season goes.

“We know it’s a tough loss but we learned from it,” junior corner Cam Sutton said. “It doesn’t define our season; we have a lot of games left in the rest of the season … We learned from it. It’s a building process, it’s a stepping stone for us. We’re just going to move forward from it and prepare for this week, every game is crucial.”

The Tennessee coaching staff hopes to jump out to a quick lead against an FCS school, allowing many of Tennessee’s younger players to get much needed experience before SEC play starts.

The Vols have dealt with a slew of injuries early in the year, and getting underclassmen on the field early could help pay off down the road.

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Fans recreated Checkerboard Neyland for the first home game this year.

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FOOTBALL continued from Page 14 Look no farther than Jones’ first two seasons at Tennessee, where he has been forced to play three quarterbacks due to injuries at the position.

“It registers greatly here because we’ve lived it,” Jones said of getting his players experience. “We’ve lived it for the last

couple of years. I think that’s the state of football whether it is any level high school, college, or the professional ranks.

“That’s all part of it and it’s always preparing your No. 2 quarterback to be the starter. He is one play away and the No. 3 is two plays away, and that’s not coach speak, that’s real.”

The Vols will host the Catamounts Saturday at 7 p.m. and the game can be seen on ESPNU.

How They Match Up Western Carolina

Tennessee

26.0

Scoring Offense

41.5

21.0

Scoring Defense

30.5

21.5

First Downs Per Game

24.0

464.0

Total Offense Per Game

429.0

285.0

Passing Yards Per Game

165.0

179.0

Rushing Yards Per Game

264.0

-1

Turnover Margin

+2

7-75.0

Penalties-Yards Per Game

7-60.0

37.0

3rd Dowm Conversion %

44.0

67.0

Red Zone Scoring %

92.0

1

Sacks

5

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