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Vols rebound to crush Western Carolina 55-10 Jonathan Toye

Sports Editor Tennessee head coach Butch Jones challenged his players to dial up the intensity for all four quarters against Western Carolina.

The Vols listened.

A week removed from a difficult loss to

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Oklahoma, Tennessee rebounded to crush Western Carolina 55-10 Saturday night at Neyland Stadium.

“It was a big game for us, to see how we would respond (after Oklahoma),” Jones said. “I thought our competitive character was challenged a little bit in how we would prepare this week and how we would come out and approach this game.

“I thought our kids did a great job. And

our coaching staff did a really good job of preparing the players.”

Tennessee (2-1) dominated the Catamounts in all three phases of the game.

Tennessee outgained Western Carolina (1-2) in total yardage 447 to 279, with 147 of the Catamounts’ yards coming with the Vols’ defensive reserves on the field.

And the Vols were imposing on special teams. Sophomore defensive back Evan

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Berry returned a kickoff for an 88-yard touchdown in the first half, and redshirt sophomore running back Alvin Kamara scored a 56-yard touchdown on a punt return in the second half — becoming the first Vols duo to return both a kickoff and a punt for touchdowns since 1950.

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Michael Williams receives new trial date Staff Report The trial for former UT football player Michael Williams was delayed yet again last Thursday after already being pushed back by Knox County criminal judge Bob McGee on Aug. 24 until Sept. 29.

Williams is awaiting trial for two charges of aggravated rape after allegedly orally and vaginally raping a 19-year-old student athlete in November.

Monday Sept. 21, McGee will determine a new trial date for Williams.

McGee was forced to push back the trial for the second time after four social media providers resisted efforts from the defense to collect messages from the night and the weeks following the alleged incident.

McGee decided it was unfair to allow Williams’ trial to move forward without including all social media and telephone records that defense attorneys David Eldridge and Stephen Ross Johnson had asked for.

The defense aims to obtain records from Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Yik Yak,

Instagram and telephone records from AT&T. Former UT linebacker A.J. Johnson is also facing charges for raping the then 19-year-old female at a party in the Woodlands.

Eldridge and Ross Johnson, the two players’ respective attorneys, have maintained the sex was consensual. They said the social media subpoena is to see detailed messages that the victim or witnesses may have sent or received regarding the incident.

When the initial subpoena was suggested in August, Knox County Deputy District Attorney General Kyle Hixson challenged the motion, stating that it was just a strategy to push both Williams’ and Johnson’s trial dates back.

The defense said they were not aware until recently that the digital records had not been collected by law enforcement and stated that the messages retrieved could prove significant to the outcome of both Williams’ and Johnson’s trials.

Eldridge and Ross Johnson informed McGee on Thursday that they are arranging compromises with the balking social media providers.

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Gender neutral pronouns may possess ‘phonetic difficulties’ Hannah Marley Staff Writer Ze, hir, hirs Ze, zir, zirs Xe, xem, xyr.

These pronouns have been the source of controversy over the past several weeks, sending students and faculty across campus to social media and opinion columns to debate the necessity of gender neutral pronouns.

Setting aside the controversy over whether or not the pronouns should be adopted, those who study English on a grammatical and linguistic level believe there is more to consider when making additions to a language, including the natural way languages typically evolve.

For Tyler Kibbey, junior in linguistics and president of the Student Linguistics Association at UT, the need for a gender neutral pronoun is evident, but the current proposed pronouns are not an organic extension of the language.

“Language develops as a tool to fit our circumstances, so as soon as a new item or concept emerges, we have to come up with a word to express that,” Kibbey said.

“So the question isn’t should we create a word to fit this concept, it’s whether this is the most natural way to create that word.”

Suzanne Meyer, senior teaching associate at the English Language Institute, said the written and spoken versions of the pronouns are foreign compared to the sounds and spellings typically associated with English.

“There doesn’t seem to be a natural genesis or origin, and the orthography and pronunciation don’t seem to match,” Meyer said. “‘X’ is a letter we don’t normally use, especially to begin words. There’s a lack of familiarity with how we would say it.”

These sounds, such as “ze,” are more commonly associated with German phonetics, Kibbey explained. As Saxons crossed over into

Britain and began to develop Middle English, the two languages began to develop differently, and the more guttural sounds associated with German became less present in the English lexicon.

The sounds more likely to fit phonetically with English include words containing “s” or “m” sounds. These substitutions, said Kibbey, would be more likely to sound like everyday conversational English.

Chair of the linguistics department Bethany Dumas said, following this logic, that the adoption of these gender neutral pronouns into everyday English conversation is “extremely unlikely.”

Complicating the matter further is the use of other naturally-evolved gender neutral pronouns that are commonly used in conversational English, such as the singular “they.”

There have been several attempts in the past to develop explicit gender neutral pronouns, such as “per” which is short for “person.” Yet even the usage of that word, despite its apparent familiarity with the English language, was never adapted on a wide scale.

Meyer questioned whether the current proposed pronouns could ever be successful if even pronouns that agree phonetically with English were unsuccessful in the past.

“Those pronouns were very easy and they weren’t adapted, and these pronouns are much more complicated,” Meyer said.

In an age of unprecedented communication between regions and dialects, however, Kibbey said recent attempts to create gender neutral pronouns have the potential to affect the natural development of a new pronoun in the future.

“It’s not going to be overnight and it’s not something anyone or any institution can say prescriptively ‘this is what needs to be done,’” Kibbey said. “The prescriptions will definitely help a natural development of a non-binary gender neutral pronoun, but it’s not going to create the pronoun itself.”

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Tennessee ash trees in danger from “green plague” Grant Currin Contributor The emerald ash borer is tiny, shiny, green and evil — and deadly to ash trees in the U.S. According to UT Landscape Services arborist Sam Adams, the invasive beetle has infected and killed 94 ash trees that were on campus a decade ago — and Adams is working to save the 12 that remain in good health.

“We want to be able to keep as many healthy trees on the campus as we can,” Adams said. “It will be a bit of a financial commitment for us to protect the remaining ash trees … but we want to keep as much of our healthy population as possible.”

Tennessee’s first emerald ash borers were spotted in 2010 at a Knox county truck stop, according to the Knoxville News Sentinel. A map produced by Tennessee’s Department of Agriculture shows the infestation has spread throughout East Tennessee and into several Middle Tennessee counties.

The danger of the infestation rests on the beetle larvae which feed on the tissue just beneath the bark, preventing the tree from transporting water and nutrients up the trunk.

To combat this process, Adams injects trees with TreeAzin, a life cycle-disrupting insecticide derived from the neem tree, a tropical mahogany.

“I chose this one (over other options) because it was more biorational, considered to be an organic pesticide,” Adams said.

TreeAzin is a systemic insecticide, meaning that it is water-soluble and can therefore be transported through the tree’s tissue. The insects consume the insecticide as they eat through the tree, and once enough of the agent has accumulated inside a female’s body, she is rendered incapable of laying her eggs.

Adams noted that it will be impossible to determine the efficacy of the treatments before next summer’s growing season.

The USDA reports that any of the estimated 271 million ash trees in the country could feel the emerald ash borer’s effect — yet calculating the damage done locally by the emerald ash borer is difficult, according to Knox County extension agent David Vandergriff.

“Most of our ashes are native trees … they’re in home lawns and natural areas,” Vandergriff said in regards to the difficulty of maintaining statistics on ash tree planting and removal.

Working to fight invasive species across UT, Adams has come across several “very highvalue trees” on UT’s campus in danger of being destroyed. “There’s one at the Howard Baker Jr. Center that was saved in construction and has remained in good health … a lot of money has been put into the preservation of that tree,”

“We want to be able to keep as many healthy trees on the campus as we can,” UT Landscape Services arborist Sam Adams said. “It will be a bit of a financial commitment for us to protect the remaining ash trees … but we want to keep as much of our healthy population as possible.”

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As UT invests millions in constructing and renovating facilities, the administration has also upped its investment in campus landscape. This summer, the university created the new arborist position as it restructured Facilities Services, a change largely spurred by the Chancellor’s top-25 initiative.

The overhauled Landscape Services unit also includes landscape management, turf manage ment and heavy equipment operations groups.

“It was identified a couple of years ago that landscape management was one of the large components in the University as a whole reach ing the top 25,” Adams said. “Because campus beautification is a major component to people’s choices for coming to schools.”

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Hodges library archive begins digital conversion Connor Barnhill Contributor Laid end to end, the John C. Hodges Library houses 4,000 feet of physical material within its archives.

Page by page, UT is currently in the process of moving all those documents and material to a digital format. Though a daunting task, the switch has captured the attention of many as it requires a lot of effort from the university’s official archivist, Alesha Shumar.

“Within the university archives, we actively collect published and unpublished works by students, faculty, departments, programs, research centers and institutes on campus,” Shumar said. “At this time, we are making available born digital archival material as well as scanning our most heavily requested physical material from the archives.”

Considering the large amount of information contained in the archives with some dating back to 1841, it’s no surprise that the material contained in the archives is highly requested.

Mary Pom Claiborne, director of marketing and community relations at the Knox County Public Library, said her office retains the same need for historical information. The library is one of four locations in Knoxville that keeps old newspapers in a microfilm format and is currently converting their microfilm newspaper to a digital format in a project similar to Shumar’s at the Hodges Library.

“Right now, the only way to view old newspapers would be to come down to a place like the library or the library at UT or ETSU and view the microfilm through the computers that we have,” Claiborne said, noting the troublesome nature of the microfilm format.

A lack of specific search parameters, such as date, event and year, Claiborne explained, is another problem frequently encountered when dealing with historical archives.

“If you’re looking for more general information — like Knoxville fashion was like in the 1950s — you can now search for that information and look at ads in the newspaper from that time,” she said.

Claiborne also said placing information in an online, public database will increase the availability of the information for research purposes, particularly for genealogists and law firms. In addition to this more fluid process, she argued that the availability will make research easier for students under the Common Core since they are required to incorporate more primary sources into any final papers.

Though the benefits of digitizing these sources read straightforward, the conversion process itself presents an array of issues.

“The digitization of archival material can be time consuming, so it is important to prioritize when planning for new digital collections,” Shumar said.

Currently, the library is scanning the materials most heavily requested material from the University Archives, so that a maximum population can utilize digitized documents sooner.

Some documents in the university archives are extremely fragile, Shumar emphasized, and therefore require a slower, more deliberate conversion process. For now, Hodges Library retains all physical forms of the documents or manuscripts in its archives to ensure no damage is done during a conversion that remains very time consuming for archivists.

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That is also one of the most important reasons to digitize that item — so that we have digital records that anyone can see and use online.”

Alesha Shumar , the university’s official archivist

“That is also one of the most important reasons to digitize that item — so that we have digital records that anyone can see and use online without the care and skill of an archival professional handling them,” Shumar said.

Such a process, however, can be costly for places like the Knox County Library that don’t have access to university funds or resources like those at Hodges. At 65 cents per page with over a million pages of microfilm converted, the cost quickly adds up.

The Knox County Public Library Foundation has been set up to raise funds for the conversion process and has currently reached $300,000.

Portions of both collections have already been digitized, and can be viewed at knoxlib. org, at The Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange website or at the University Libraries Digital Collections at http://digital.lib.utk.edu.

Go to the Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange website at http://trace.tennessee.edu/ communities.html or the University Libraries Digital Collections at http://digital.lib.utk.edu to view some of the documents the library has already converted.

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Huang lecture touches on offensive stereotypes of character Charlie Chan Abby Bower Contributor

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Forks on the Road food truck provides culinary convenience Jesse Bellew Contributor The food truck business is a very unique business to get into, and it is especially not something you do on a whim. Owning and running a food truck takes a passion for food.

In this case, a passion for sliders and wings.

Owner of the Forks on the Road food truck, John Gabriel, definitely has the passion. He hasn’t always been in the food business, but a few years ago when his former job wanted to move him to the Philippines, he chose the opportunity to quit and start something that he was truly passionate about.

“It was kind of good timing,” Gabriel said.

“You’re always looking for signs from the universe or God or whoever you want to give credit to, but it was just the right time.

I had thought about doing a food truck and then the city announced the food truck pilot program. So, I was already halfway down the road with it.”

Gabriel acquired his truck at an auction in New Jersey. Over the course of a year, he worked to convert the then old FedEx truck into what Knoxvillians recognize today as the Forks on the Road food truck.

Since they serve a moveable feast of sliders, wings and fries, Gabriel and his crew are constantly trying to find a new hit for their customers. Forks on the Road travels all around the city serving all different kinds of customers, constantly varying the menu to please the people.

“The lunch crowd is one mindset,” Gabriel said. “When we’re downtown we park in front of the Bank of America Building. Those are people that want something quick and don’t have 45 minutes to go to Market Square and sit down to have lunch. At the taprooms it’s people who appreciate more unique takes on burgers. We kind of have a cult following that want things like our new applewood smoked

pork loin with a grilled pineapple drizzled with jalapeño and cilantro aioli.”

Gabriel only has about three employees that trade off helping him out in the truck. In the back of the truck, there is only enough space for two people to be working at a time. And even with only two, you better be comfortable rubbing shoulders with your partner.

Gabriel and one of his fry-cooks, Phillip Kiefer, frequently have to put in the hot, sweaty hours it takes to make some great food. These chefs have some creative ideas and plans for delicious sliders.

Kiefer is a business student at UT Chattanooga and only comes up on the weekends to help out on the truck. He’s not a culinary student, but that doesn’t stop his curiosity for experimenting with whatever comes up in his head.

“I tried to fry a roll one time, but that didn’t work out to well,” Kiefer said. “It tasted really good, but the oil got into the bread and it was like bite of hot oil.”

Food trucks have been a new movement in the U.S. in recent years and have been catching on more and more. While they are great when the weather is nice, the summer heat can be trying when the truck has no air conditioner — it can get up to 150 degrees in the back while they’re cooking. However, in the winter it can get kind of slow, so Gabriel has been contemplating taking his truck down to Florida in the winter.

That’s the whole idea of this moveable meal; it can go wherever he wants it to. Gabriel even runs his truck on a propane generator to make all that travel much more efficient than it would be using gasoline.

Where you can find Forks on the Road depends on the day of the week. On weekdays Gabriel and his cooks travel all over the town stopping at different locales, and on the weekends they do a lot of private events. Gabriel is very easy to get in touch with from their website, forksfoodtruck.com, just in case you have a craving for tiny burgers.

On Wednesday Sept. 16, upwards of 30 UT students made themselves at home in the Lindsay Young Auditorium in Hodges Library, munching on popcorn and scribbling in extra credit worksheets as they partook in the UT Humanities Center’s “Charlie Chan Film Festival.”

The festival, a screening of the 1930s films “Charlie Chan and the Black Camel” and “Charlie Chan in Shanghai” was intended to give students background knowledge for Monday’s lecture: a presentation by Yunte Huang, English professor at University of California, Santa Barbara, and Edgar Award winning author of “Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and his Rendezvous with American History.”

Charlie Chan, a character who is perhaps obscure today, was a cultural icon from the 1920s through the 1950s. The six novels and 50 plus movies that tell the adventures of Chan, the wise Honolulu detective hailing from China, shaped the American perception of the Chinese for decades.

Huang, however, was first exposed to the phenomenon in 1994. “When I first read the novels … I was immediately hooked actually,” Huang said. “I found the character to be quite fascinating. Problematic, but fascinating.”

Huang spent the next 15 years accumulating “amateurish knowledge” about Chan simply as a hobby.

“Over the years I became a fan, never knowing really that I would write a book about it,” Huang said. “Once I decided to write a book about it, I decided to do a lot more in-depth research.”

Huang then travelled the country exploring various sources to build the basis of his book.

Brian Eady, a junior arts and sciences exploratory student, attended last Wednesday’s screening and will attend Huang’s lecture on Monday as part of his World History class.

Though he found the films to be slightly cheesy, Eady understood his professor’s goal in studying them.

“We’ve been talking about orientalism; so she wanted us to see how they depicted that in films back in the 1930s,” Eady said.

The lecture, titled “Charlie Chan and Yellowface,” will touch not only on the historical significance of the Charlie Chan phenomenon but also on its contemporary value.

The title of the lecture itself hints toward its subject.

“Yellowface … is a cognate, (like) blackface

• Photo Courtsey of Tennessee Today or redface; it’s white acting of racial or ethnic characters,” Huang said.

While this practice is generally outdated, the issues surrounding such forms of racism still exist.

“He certainly has a lot of fans, but also a lot of Asian Americans find him to be problematic,” Huang said in reference to Charlie Chan.

“They see him as a stereotype.”

Huang described the current debate over censorship or modification of the Charlie Chan novels and the character in order to be more culturally sensitive. The persona of Charlie Chan and the prejudices that arose from him are what Huang will focus on in his lecture.

“I’m trying to explain by looking deeper into a cultural icon,” Huang said. “Charlie Chan is a very mysterious character.”

Although he acknowledges the harm that Chan’s character caused in the past, Huang believes that open discussion is the only solution for the future.

“It’s ideologically a quite controversial issue — what to do, how to deal with that past,” Huang said. “For me it’s important to note that past as our past and to acknowledge what happened. We can only learn from that, rather than try to recreate the past.”

The UT community will get to hear about Huang’s story and Charlie Chan at 3:30 p.m. today in the Lindsay Young Auditorium of Hodges Library.

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A bright future for students’ rights Thomas Carpenter The Workshop

As I’m sure a few of you are aware, last week, an unnamed group of students painted on The Rock the words, “Carilli: Stop taking our rights. No new student code of conduct. –Students.”

Few times in my three years here have I seen the rock painted by students angry at something other than football. So whatever it is must be serious, right?

Not really.

Although there may be a few students who are not so happy with the newly proposed Student Code of Conduct, here’s why this new document is actually much better for students than the existing code.

It’s a little difficult to define every change that is being made to the current Code of Conduct because Vice Chancellor Vincent Carilli and his team from the Office of Student Life wrote the entire thing from scratch. No, that doesn’t mean they pulled the whole thing out of the air (much of it is based off a model code used by many universities), but what they did do was make sure that every clause was relevant and protective of students rights.

I’ll go through a couple of the more important changes, and point out why some students are concerned.

One of the most significant changes to the code is the addition of a Medical Amnesty/Good Samaritan Policy. Currently, the university has the grounds to punish a student for consuming alcohol or drugs, even in cases where they or their friend were seeking medical attention related to the alcohol or drug consumption.

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In this new code, a Medical Amnesty/Good Samaritan Policy allows students to seek necessary medical attention for themselves or another student without dealing with any permanent repercussions from the university. This doesn’t mean there aren’t any consequences. In some cases, you might be required to go through an educational conference or discussion, but nothing that will affect your standing at the university.

There’s also a clause that prevents repeat abusers, so as to make it an educational tool as opposed to a “get out of jail free card.” I could not be happier about this new rule. It lets students know their safety is more important than any punishment. I hope that once this new code goes into effect, students will be aware of it and take advantage of it when necessary. #VolsHelpVols Another significant change is the process by which students are adjudicated. In the new code, students go through a process that allows for multiple avenues of resolution within a reasonable timeframe. In some instances, cases can be resolved through mediation.

The key part to this whole process, though, is the Student Conduct Board. This board is the body that determines the outcomes of cases heard.

The new code of conduct guarantees that, although a faculty and staff member must each have a seat, students will maintain an equal or greater number of seats on the board compared to faculty and staff. This will

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ensure that students’ rights are protected for as long as this document is enforced.

Here’s where the controversy comes in. This new judicial process and board replaces both the Student and Greek Judicial Board. Most of you probably didn’t even know fraternities and sororities had their own special judicial process. Doesn’t it seem strange that we let an entire group of students govern themselves separately from the rest of the student body? Why should an already privileged group of students be allowed to do that? Well, thanks to the new code of conduct, they no longer will.

Greeks will have the same rights as GDIs; athletes will have the same rights as physics students. This is the only way to have a fair judicial system on campus, and I support it wholeheartedly.

The new Code is 44 pages long, and there’s no way I could cover all of it in one column, but I encourage you to read it. Share your thoughts with the administration or your SGA Senators on MyUTK. The new code is an upgrade for all students when it comes to the preservation of our rights on and off campus. The code has to pass both the UT Board of Trustees as well as the Tennessee State Legislature before going into effect, so writing a couple letters to your state representatives probably wouldn’t hurt either.

Thomas Carpenter is a senior in Classics. He can be reached at ThomasCarpenter@utk.edu.

Youth are the catalysts for a better tomorrow

Kimberly Bress Real World ProblemSolving

As a young person, you have incredible potential energy. You are poised on the brink of the future with the force of a dynamic world waiting to propel you forward. It is a state of being which resonates with passion, opportunity and entrepreneurship.

By harnessing these qualities, aligning them to a purpose and then releasing them back out into the world with intention, real change begins to take place.

Youth more intuitively understand the challenges faced by the modern world in a way that the older generation cannot. However, when we look at the problem-ridden state of our current society, it becomes apparent that this powerful ability is not being mobilized to its full potential. Youth often see themselves as “unqualified” to challenge the process of current affairs, deferring their ideas to the priorities of older superiors. By the time we see ourselves as “old enough” or “experienced enough” to begin enacting change, the world has already moved on to a new set of issues. As part of this concerning cycle, a generation in its prime finds themselves dismissed and disregarded in the realms of problem solving and innovation. However, there are some organizations which fight to break this cycle, and do so with incredible results.

Recognizing youth as their most powerful mechanism for change, UNICEF Indonesia’s Emergency Kit project is mobilizing adolescents to address one of their most pressing national issues. By the numbers, Indonesia is a very young nation. Of its population of about 237 million people, there are approximately 41 million young adults between the ages of 15-24.

However, the country lacks policies which intentionally address and consider the concerns of young people.

In 2013, UNICEF Indonesia’s Innovation Lab began developing avenues for youth engagement in national policy development. Their pilot project in Papua province yielded incredible success.

Local youth were given the opportunity to review the lack of existing policies and programs concerning youth. Their analysis of relevant challenges and identification of potential solutions culminated in an advocacy meeting with the governor, where they ignited the development of a provincial youth policy.

Inspired by the efficacy of youth engagement occurring in Papau, the UNICEF program expanded. Their next goal was to consider youth perspectives on a national issue of grave importance: emergency planning. As one of the most disaster-vulnerable countries in the world, emergency preparedness is essential for ensuring Indonesian communities are aware of potential risks and empowered to prepare and respond to disaster.

For UNICEF, there are three essential objectives for emergency planning initiatives: they must be effective, quick and organized. The Indonesia Innovation Lab recognized the country’s youth had the potential to meet all three of these objectives — if given the appropriate resources and support. Hence, the Emergency Kit was born.

The aim of The Emergency Kit project is to actively engage adolescents in the preparation for and response to emergency situations. Ultimately, they hope to

develop a community of youth who have a heightened capacity for coping with the social and psychological stress caused by disaster situations. During an intensive workshop, the Indonesia Innovation lab piloted their disaster preparedness training curriculum. Teams of adolescents were challenged to consider a multitude of issues, from emergency access to basic needs and waste control. They also analyzed less tangible issues, such as anger and stress management in emergency situations. After considering these complex problems, the teams discussed potential avenues for the minimization of disaster risks and promotion of community resilience. The current goal of The Emergency Kit is to develop adolescents’ personal capacities for disaster preparation and response. As it progresses, the program hopes to concentrate this capacity into tangible community outreach initiatives.

During the initial stages of the Emergency Kit, UNICEF Indonesia Knowledge Management Specialist Roshni Basu commented, “We live in exciting times … the possibility of doing things differently is more real than ever.” It is the young people of our world that propagate this possibility. As we come to terms with our own power for problem solving, our potential energy becomes kinetic. With big ideas, big dreams and passion for a better world, young people will come barreling into the future with an unstoppable capacity for change.

Kimberly Bress is a sophomore in neuroscience. She can be reached at kbress@vols.utk.edu

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Freshman receiver Williams shines in victory against Catamounts Taylor White Assistant Sports Editor

McNeil returns: Three weeks ago senior defensive back LaDarrell McNeil thought his playing career was over.

The senior safety was diagnosed with neck instability after taking a big hit, and the initial prognosis suggested McNeil’s football days were done.

He went back to his home state of Texas, however, for a second opinion, and the news he received there was much more positive. “I went down to Dallas for a second opinion,�

McNeil said. “They just felt like I still had a chance. He basically just said, ‘I think you’ll be alright. I think you just need to heal up and take some time.’ That’s what got me so pumped.�

McNeil made his season debut Saturday night, and despite the limited number of snaps, he was able to make his presence felt.

Catamount quarterback Troy Mitchell threw a duck downfield, and McNeil was there to grab it. He didn’t stop there though, weaving his way through traffic and bringing the ball to the eight yard line before being caught from behind. “It was very exciting,� McNeil said. “I wasn’t expecting to make a big play, or catch any interceptions tonight. I was planning on just easing my way back in and getting the feel back for it.

But when I made the big play, it got the sideline hype, and it got me hype.�

Despite three years of experience already under his belt, McNeil still felt some nerves coming into his first game of the year. “He was a little bit nervous at first,� fellow safety Evan Berry said. “I just talked to him and said, ‘you’ve done this for four years. It’s the same old game, just go out there and make plays.’ He did exactly that.�

Special teams feat: For the first time since Tennessee beat Washington and Lee in 1950, the Vols had a kick return and a punt return for a touchdown in the same game.

Sophomore safety Evan Berry was the first on the board, taking a short kick 88 yards for a touchdown with less than a minute left in the first half.

It appeared that Berry had been stopped around the 35 yard line, but the sophomore was able to break free of the pile. Once he did, there was nothing but green grass ahead of him.

Adding to the importance of Berry’s was return was who was in the stands to see it.

His brother, Eric Berry, former Tennessee great and current Kansas City Chief, was able to see the game thanks to the Chiefs playing on Thursday night. The recent cancer survivor was honored on the field during the first timeout of the game. “I do my best every game, but knowing that he was coming, I just tried to make something

happen,� Evan Berry said. “It was a great feeling.

He was obviously excited, but he tried to talk a little trash, saying he would’ve caught me. I denied it.� “To be honest I didn’t know where I was,�

Berry said. “I just knew that I needed to get to the opposite end zone, and whatever step I take leads me to the end zone. I just kept it moving.�

It wasn’t usual junior punt returner Cam Sutton who delivered the second half of the record, but redshirt sophomore running back Alvin Kamara. With the game well out of hand, Kamara went back to field the punt, and put his quickness to good use.

There was an initial line of defenders around Kamara when he fielded the punt, but after easily breaking though the line, there was just one man left to beat.

At that point Kamara knew what to expect. “I’m money, that’s what I think,� Kamara said of having one man left to beat. “End zone, that’s what I’m thinking.�

Sutton had been the primary kick returner over the first two games, but Jones admitted that Kamara’s performance might give him something to think about. “We have to pick our spots,� Jones said. “I think we have two, really three, very, very quality punt returners, really four with Alvin and Cam (Sutton), Josh Smith and then Johnathon Johnson as well.�

Senior defensive back LaDarrell McNeil returns an interception in his first game back on Sept. 19 in Neyland Stadium.

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The Daily Beacon • Monday, September 21, 2015

FOOTBALL continued from Page 1 “It all started with great practices this week,” redshirt senior left tackle Kyler Kerbyson said.

“Every day, we were all locked in and ready to get some work done. There was no complaining, there was no ‘woe is me.’

“It was ‘Alright, let’s go out and work. Let’s get better this week.’ With that positive mindset, you can really do a lot of things.”

Tennessee scored early and often. Junior quarterback Joshua Dobbs, who finished 15 of 21 for 144 yards in one half of play, led the Vols on a five play, 51-yard touchdown drive on their opening possession, which culminated in a Dobbs’ 25-yard touchdown strike to Preston Williams on a deep-fade route.

A five-yard touchdown reception from sophomore running back Jalen Hurd — sandwiched between two Aaron Medley field goals — made the score 20-0 in the second quarter.

The Vols then rattled off 21 points in the final 4:28 of the second quarter to put the game away at halftime, opening the door for the Vols’ backups to play in the second half. “(It was beneficial) to get some of the youngsters in there so they can have those live game repetitions as well,” Jones said. “The Shy Tuttles, the Kahlil McKenzies, you know all those individuals. I thought it was good.”

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Every day, we were all locked in and ready to get some work done. There was no complaining, there was no ‘woe is me.’“

GRADING THE VOLS Daily Beacon Sports Editor David Cobb and Copy Editor Dargan Southard covered the UT-Western Kentucky matchup and assessed grades based on Saturday’s performance.

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Kyler Kerbyson, senior left tackle

opportunity for playing time was true freshman backup quarterback Quinten Dormady.

Dormady completed six of eight passes for 93 yards and a touchdown.

His brightest moment was when he rolled to his right to elude pressure and tossed a 24-yard touchdown pass to freshman wide receiver Preston Williams in the third quarter to give the Vols’ a 55-3 lead and their last touchdown of the night.

“It goes back to preparation throughout the week,” Dormady said. “I think I can speak for the quarterback position that we prepare the same every week and we prepare hard like we are going to play. Even though I don’t know if I am going to play or not, I still prepare like I am.

“I was pretty confident when I got in.”

What the game lacked in drama, it made up for in feel-good stories.

Senior defensive back LaDarrell McNeil intercepted a pass in his first game back from what Jones described as a neck instability condition, and returned the intercepted pass 57 yards to set up an eight-yard Hurd touchdown run.

Berry’s kickoff return for a touchdown came with his older brother and Kansas City Chiefs’ safety Eric Berry watching from the sideline.

Highly touted freshman wide receiver Preston Williams had a breakout game, catching three passes for 98 yards and two touchdowns.

Next the Vols will try to accomplish their biggest feel-good story in a long time: ending the 10-year losing streak to Florida next Saturday at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium (TV: CBS, 3:30 E.T).

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Junior Josh Dobbs missed a couple throws, but was solid overall, completing 15 of 21 passes for 144 yards and two touchdown passes in the first half. True freshman Quinten Dormady took the quarterback reins in the second half and didn’t disappoint.

Dormady completed six of his eight passing attempts for 93 yards and showed off his ability to throw the deep ball: connecting with freshman wide receiver Preston Williams on a 49-yard pass and a 24-yard touchdown pass.

All three running backs played well. Sophomore Jalen Hurd collected 68 yards on 11 carries and a touchdown and redshirt sophomore Alvin Kamara rushed for 47 yards on seven carries.

Freshman John Kelly had 13 carries for 59 yards. All three backs averaged 5.6 yards per carry and didn’t turn the ball over. It’s hard to give them anything other than an A. Freshman Preston Williams led the wide receiving corps with three receptions for 98 yards and two touchdowns. No other wideout really did that much in the passing game, however; second-leading receiver Josh Malone only had four catches for 33 yards.

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Tennessee’s running backs had a two yard head start all game thanks to the push of the line up front. Sophomore Coleman Thomas among others was able to get to the next level consistently, and the quarterbacks weren’t under much stress throughout the game.

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Western Carolina had 189 rushing yards, but 64 of those yards came on the Catamounts’ touchdown run. Freshman Kahlil McKenzie forced a fumble which was recovered by freshman Shy Tuttle, and the unit put pressure on Western Carolina’s two quarterbacks all evening.

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It’s hard to grade this unit since junior linebacker Jalen ReevesMaybin didn’t play much in the game because the game was a rout. Freshman Darrin Kirkland was solid in his first start at middle linebacker, but missed a couple tackles in open space.

That being said, there were no disastrous mishaps or blown coverages.

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Western Carolina’s two quarterbacks combined to complete 11 of 22 passes for only 90 yards. Senior LaDarrell McNeil snagged an interception and Tennessee’s reserve defensive backs played well in the second half.

Tennessee returned both a punt return and a kickoff return for touchdowns for the first time since 1950. Tennessee also won the field position game, thanks in large part to redshirt sophomore Trevor Daniel’s terrific punting. And sophomore Aaron Medley made both his field goal attempts.

Week Two GPA: The Vols earn a 3.7 for their performance against Western Kentucky. their cumulative GPA is 3.0.

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Soccer Vols scoreless streak snapped in 3-1 loss to Auburn Trenton Duffer Staff Writer

With 20:45 left in the first half, Auburn began setting up for a corner kick. Five seconds later, the ball was launched from the top right corner, sailing towards the swarm of players patiently waiting in the box. The ball was soon met by Tiger Casie Ramsier, and at the 20:28 mark, the Auburn junior headed in a goal that snapped the Vols’ 404 minute-long opponents’ scoreless streak.

Just like that, the Vols were trailing for the first time this season.

The Tigers (9-1-0, 1-1 SEC) continued to keep their foot on the accelerator throughout the rest of the game as they cruised to a 3-1 victory over the previously unbeaten Vols (5-1-3, 1-1).

“We didn’t come ready to play. Simple as that,” head coach Brian Pensky said after the game. “It starts with me. Nobody did well today. We’ve got to be better, and next week’s an opportunity.”

Although the Vols entered the game boasting a 1-111 goal-shot attempts ratio, their defense was slow and outmatched by the prolific Auburn

offense. The defense that had previously given up one goal on the season allowed three for the first time since the 2014 SEC Tournament semifinal against Kentucky.

“We said it at halftime to the coaching staff, to each other … this feels like the first half of that Kentucky game,” Pensky said. “Just like that Kentucky game, we switched at halftime into a different shape, wanted to go a little more mono a mono, and come out more aggressively in the second half.”

On the other end of the spectrum, the Vols offense couldn’t seem to find their rhythm. After a recent four-game string of netting 15 goals, the Vols saw only one ball find the back of the net on Sunday.

The team’s lone goal was netted by redshirt sophomore Ariel Kupritz in the 31st minute of the first half. Kupritz swerved through multiple Auburn defenders to net her second goal of the season, an honor she wishes she could have celebrated more with a victory.

“It’s a huge boost of confidence for me knowing I can help, and I can be impactful coming off the bench … I just wish it could have finished out a little bit,” Kupritz said.

“The biggest thing is that we have to continue to be a team … we’re not a team of individuals.

Sophomore Ariel Kupritz dribbles down the field during the 2015 Soccer Meet and Greet on August 7th.

Hayley Pennesi • The Daily Beacon/ Tennessee Athletics We’re a team that’s together, and we’ll win like that.”

The Vols look to refocus after the loss as they set their sights on Mississippi State and Vanderbilt next week.

“(We have to) refocus,” Pensky said. “We need to have our heads on right. I need to have my head on right. We need to be prepared for two very difficult games. In this league, anybody can beat anybody on any given day.”

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