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Strip restaurants to accept VolCards Tanner Hancock Copy Editor

The VolCard will soon take its first steps off campus.

As early as this summer, the VolCard will become an accepted form of payment to many vendors down Cumberland Avenue.

The decision, made by the UT Dining Board, seeks to expand

the university’s payment options to be more inclusive of businesses around campus.

Blake Roller, a senate chair for SGA and member of the University Dining Board, described the decision to expand VolCard payment options to The Strip as a compromise with Aramark representatives.

“They let us have some of the things we wanted, they got some of the things they wanted,”

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W hy did it take so long? (UT)

originally told us it would be December. Then it was March. And, now it’s next year.

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Cumberland Avenue businesses will welcome VolCard accounts as early as summer

-Joe Burger Roller said of the deliberation, which was partially made possible by requiring a $300 minimum Dining Dollar balance for incoming freshman in the fall of 2015.

The UT Dining Board is an administrative board that discusses and makes decisions concerning the university’s various dining policies. The Vice Chancellor

of Finance and Administration Jeff Maples as well as several Aramark representatives oversee the administrative board while appointed members of SGA represent student interests.

Mary Patterson, district marketing manager at Aramark, declined to comment.

Roller described the delay of bringing the VolCard to The Strip as mostly “red-tape” partly surrounding the card itself.

“UT has to find a vendor to do the card swipe, they have to make sure that the card swipe and the card numbers are encrypted,”

Roller said. “They don’t want the vendors and public having access to all their student ID numbers.”

While Roller said he eventually sees the VolCard further expanding to locations in Market Square and Kingston Pike, he acknowledges that the acceptance of Dining Dollars at any of these locations is unlikely.

“Dining Dollars are basically an Aramark gift card,” Roller said. “So those will not be acceptable on the Strip at this time.”

See DINING on Page 2

The double life of a college musican Emma Evans Contributor

Grace Roberts, a Nashville resident, observes the Eyes on LaFollette exhibit at the Tennessee State Museum in Nashville.

Katrina Roberts • The Daily Beacon

Student photography exhibit brings LaFollette to life Katrina Roberts Design Editor (@KatrinaRoberts_) I first encountered the Eyes on LaFollette Project while working at The Daily Beacon one night during my freshman year.

I was sitting in the back, headphones plugged in, designing a page. The managing editor at the time came back to see me and asked if I’d like to try something … different. I agreed and she handed me a newspaper photo spread called –

you guessed it – Eyes on LaFollette.

The second time it came up was under the same circumstances, only a year later.

By then I knew what the project was and had seen several photos from years past.

Twenty-one years to be exact.

Since 1993, Professor Robert Heller has taken his advanced photojournalism class to the small town of LaFollette, Tennessee. They spend a day and a half taking photos around the town, trying to capture small moments and tell the stories of the people that live there.

And those stories are now

on display in an exhibit at the Tennessee State Museum in an exhibit called “Eyes on LaFollette: UT Student Photojournalism Project Marks 20 Years.” Visiting the exhibit was my most recent encounter with the project. It began with a preview written for the Beacon and continued with my visit to Nashville to see the exhibit in person.

Early Saturday morning, the museum was not yet bustling, and the only person there was a security guard sitting on a bench. But despite the lack of bodies, the space in the Eyes on LaFollette exhibit felt full, featuring the

faces and figures of those that call the tiny town home.

Their stories are captured in powerful black and white images, and the photos are divided into sections, each with their own titles. Front pages of the special “Eyes on LaFollette” section in the LaFollette Press are integrated throughout the exhibit, adding pops of color and a look at the annual studentmade section.

The first section in the exhibit is called “About Face,” showing candid, natural photos across all ages and genders. One man bears his tattoos, a woman laughs and

each expression shows the personality of the person in the photo. The subjects look comfortable, as if the camera is just another person in the conversation.

But conversations don’t necessarily have to be verbal. In another section called “Hands On,” the hands do all the talking. Though there are no faces, there are still plenty of expressions. The hands of a mechanic working tell the story of a greasy day at work, while fingers caressing a painting are delicate and gentle.

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Jackson, Thomas expected to play up front against Alabama Troy Provost-Heron Sports Editor (@TPro_UTDB)

Tennessee’s offensive line struggles have been well documented.

But for the Volunteer unit that has allowed 30 sacks in seven games – tied for second-most in the NCAA – things went from bad to worse when two starters left Saturday’s contest against Ole Miss with injuries.

The losses of left guard Marcus Jackson and right tackle Coleman Thomas however, don’t seem like they will have a long-term effect on the Vols offense, as head coach Butch Jones announced during his Monday press conference that he expects both players to play come Saturday against Alabama.

Jones also stated that he expected

Jackson to be back at practice on Monday, but was still waiting to hear whether or not Thomas would be held out or not.

If the freshman from Max Meadows, Virginia is unable to go though, the Vols will turn towards a combination of redshirt freshman Brett Kendrick and redshirt senior Jacob Gilliam, who both played in place of Thomas in Oxford.

“I thought Brett Kendrick did some very positive things in moving forward,” Jones said. “I like a lot of the little things he did. Jacob, he’s a warrior. Again, here’s a fifth year player, a walk-on who gained a scholarship playing in a game against the number three ranked opponent in the country, with no ACL. His big thing is just the stamina on getting back his quickness. He’s not there yet, but he’ll get there.”

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Arabic program to make major (and minor) additions NEWS>>pg. 2

Freshman Coleman Thomas lies injured on the field after a play during the game against Ole Miss. Hayley Pennesi • The Daily Beacon

“We have the power to truly influence change in how our public officals are elected.”

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Performing at concert venues across the country, collaborating with talented people daily and hearing hundreds of strangers sing your song lyrics — these are the opportunities many musicians would love to have. The question is, can all of this be done while earning a college degree?

Going to college often gives a musician the opportunity to network with others and get a foothold in the world of music, all the while furthering their education. Bands like Pixies, Vampire Weekend and Queen formed while going to school to get a degree.

However, balancing life as both a college student and as a musician is not an easy task. Everyday student activities like going to class, working a job and staying involved on campus can make it hard to find the time to practice and promote one’s music, as many student musicians can attest to.

Evan Ford, senior in philosophy and economics and member of local modern folk duo Cereus Bright, said one of the hardest parts of juggling school and music is inevitably becoming disconnected to life on campus.

“What’s hard about living a sort of double life is that you never really have time to be just a student,” he shared. “There’s something really free about going to class, hanging out with people and finding extracurricular things to do that sort of gets lost when the rest of your time is filled with music.”

Other college musicians agree that time management is one of the biggest struggles of balancing musical and academic careers. The members of Random Tangents, an up-and-coming psychedelic rock band from Johnson City, said finding the time to fit everything into one’s daily schedule is a key component of being successful. Nick Castro, junior in clinical psychology at East Tennessee State University and bassist for the band, said it’s what he struggles with the most.

“Both of these lifestyles take over different parts of the day,” he explained. “As a musician, you work at night mostly, but as a student you go to school all day, so there can be times when you even struggle to find time to sleep.”

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Constantine and his coinage: where religion meets money NEWS >>pg. 3

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UT to expand Arabic Program Hannah Marley Staff Writer

UT says “as-salamu alaykum” to a bigger Arabic program.

The Arabic Program at the University of Tennessee, which currently consists of language courses from elementary Arabic to third year studies, hopes to expand in the coming years to include fourth year studies as well as an Arab Studies major and minor.

The Arab Studies minor, which will be offered starting next fall, will be a more holistic, interdisciplinary study of the Arab world that will include courses taught in history, religious studies and political science, alongside traditional Arabic language courses.

“What is interesting and unique about the Middle East studies group of professors is that we come from various disciplines, and not only that but different time periods,” said

Douja Mamelouk, director of the current Arabic Program who teaches both French and Arabic language courses.

By taking a new approach to studies of the Arabic language and culture, Mamelouk said UT is “on the right track” to catch up with other SEC schools. These schools offer contemporary Arabic programs, rather than a more in-depth historical and religious approach to studies of the Arabic culture that UT hopes to offer.

“Typically if you find a Middle East institute, you’ll find that they are contemporary,” Mamelouk said. “Everyone is contemporary. But, in our situation, we have professors from history, religious studies and political science.”

However, the program’s ability to grow and expand depends on the number of students interested in taking the courses and potentially pursuing a major or minor in Arab Studies.

“We need to have the customers before we can supply

the product,” Mamelouk said. “Unfortunately, I think that not enough people at the university know about us.”

For students who are currently enrolled in the Arabic Program, it serves as a useful skill to understanding the developing world in a more direct, personal way.

“It’s always good to know what’s going on in the Arab world, and the language is the most intimate and personal way to figure that out,” said Kelsey Ray, a senior in Mamelouk’s Intermediate Arabic class. “I just feel like it’s very important, especially in today’s time, to understand the literature and the history in the Arab world because it’s so diverse.”

Shelby Cundiff, a sophomore who is taking Mamelouk’s Arabic course, said that understanding the language is crucial to developing an informed perspective on current conflicts taking place in the Middle East.

“I think it’s important that before we develop opinions

and become passionate, that we understand what’s happening and the perspectives of the people that are in the middle of the conflict,” Cundiff said.

Mamelouk noted the opportunities for employment that accompany a degree in Arab Studies. Job prospects and areas for students to apply their understanding of Arabic and the Arab world include working for government agencies such as the State department, FBI and CIA. “We always need Arabic at the government level,” Mamelouk said. “All of those agencies are always looking for an Arabic linguist.”

Before students can take advantage of any of these opportunities or expand their thinking, potentially finding a career through Arabic, first they have to make it through the door.

“We need to get up there,” Mamelouk said. “We need to be on the map. Our students need to be more aware of (the program).”

DINING continued from Page 1 Even with the allowance of VolCard accounts on The Strip, Cumberland merchants prepare for the expansion with slight contempt.

For Joe Burger, owner of the McDonald’s on Cumberland Avenue, the inclusion of the VolCard on Cumberland Avenue comes much later than promised.

“Why did it take so long?” Burger asked. “(UT) originally told us it would be December. Then it was

A new concern over the spread of Ebola surfaced recently when a Dallas County sheriff’s deputy who searched the apartment of the first patient to die from the virus in the U.S. started feeling ill and went to an urgent-care center.

The clinics popping up rapidly across the nation aren’t designed to treat serious illnesses and are ill-equipped to deal with suspected Ebola cases.

Doctors are urging patients to avoid smaller medical facilities and head to emergency rooms if they think they’ve been exposed to the virus that has put a focus on weak spots in the U.S. health care system.

“Patients have a difficult time deciding where they need to go for care” but hospitals are best for serious problems, Dr. William Gluckman said.

The Dallas County deputy was transferred to a hospital this month where he tested negative for Ebola.

Clinics, meanwhile, have rushed to prepare with new training manuals and protective gear. But most lack essentials like isolation units, said Gluckman of the Urgent Care Association of America, which represents more than 2,600 of the nation’s 9,000 urgent-care centers.

Given the problems at the Dallas hospital where Thomas Eric Duncan died and two nurses were diagnosed with the virus, experts say an Ebola case at a clinic or smaller facility could have been worse.

“That would be an even less controlled situation,” said Dr. David Weber, a disease specialist with the University of North Carolina. “The likelihood for that is so remote that they may never have thought about that.”

March. And, now it’s next year.”

In addition to the delay of bringing the VolCard to The Strip, Burger expressed irritation at administration’s choice to permit Dining Dollars as a form of payment at Panda Express and Raising Cane’s.

“It’s definitely not fair to the merchants on Cumberland Avenue who are trying to make a living, who pay city taxes which actually go to help the university,” Burger said. “Nobody wants that program they’ve got, and it’s very unfair to students and to business owners.”

For Jonah Riggs, general manager of Copper Cellar on Cumberland

That’s changed recently as the Urgent Care Association of America sent emails to its roughly 6,400 members asking them to send suspected Ebola cases to hospitals for treatment.

If someone has a fever, headache or other flu-like symptoms and has been in an Ebola hot spot, clinics have been told to contain that patient in a single room, call public health officials and contact a hospital for transportation as quickly as possible, per Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines.

The CDC says Ebola isn’t contagious until symptoms appear and isn’t spread through the air; people catch it by direct contact with a sick person’s bodily fluids, such as blood or vomit.

CDC Director Tom Frieden said last week that the agency is bolstering training nationwide on how to respond to an Ebola case, a pledge that came days after a man who had been to West Africa and was suffering from flu-like symptoms briefly shut down an urgent care practice near Boston. He was taken to a hospital where he tested negative for Ebola.

As U.S. health care has become more complex — with retail clinics, urgent-care centers, work-site clinics and even online clinics — it’s also become a challenge to ensure that everyone strictly follows protocol. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing, said Dr. Tom Zweng of Novant Health, an urgent-care system based in North Carolina.

“This is not an exercise in futility,” he said. “This is preparing staff in safe practices. It may be Ebola today, but tomorrow there may be another communicable disease that we don’t even know about.

This is about taking health care in this country to the next level.”

Avenue, the university’s recent actions have unfortunately soured his relationship with the administration.

“We consider our relationship with the University a mutuallybeneficial partnership, but recent events are making the partnership extremely one-sided,” Riggs said.

“The Cumberland district is the front porch to the University and is vital to maintain a prospering campus life. There is currently no incentive to open a small business on the strip with the university buying up land and extending their tax incentives to their leases.”

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CAMPUS NEWS Historical lecture to discuss religion, currency under Constantine the Great Tanner Hancock Copy Editor

Denarius for your thoughts?

Kenneth Harl of Tulane University will discuss the currency, politics and other aspects of the late Roman Empire in his lecture “Make Haste Slowly: Constantine, the Coinage, and the Conversion” on Tuesday.

He plans to emphasize the importance of the empire’s coin iconography and its reflection of shifting Roman religious values during the time of Constantine the Great.

Stephen Collins-Elliot, assistant professor in the Department of Classics, said he hopes the lecture will illuminate the importance of currency and its reflection upon any given society.

“Money is something that’s issued by a political authority, and it speaks to both the image of the power on the part of the emperor as well as the values of the community,” Collins-Elliot said.

Collins-Elliot noted that the currency of Constantine the Great illustrates the blending of pagan and Christian traditions, rather than reflecting the image of a purely Christian leader as one might expect.

“We’re living in a very interesting time where religious iconography circulates somewhat fluidly between Christian and non Christian religions,” he said.

As the first “ChristianRoman Emperor,” Constantine is important not only to Roman history, but

to the history of the world’s largest religion as well, said Collins-Elliot.

For Thomas Carpenter, junior in classics, the beginnings of the Byzantine Empire were a time of immense change and intrigue.

“You see kind of this shift in the Roman Empire from a sentiment of wariness towards Christians,” Carpenter said, noting that Romans originally believed Christians to be cannibals until the reign of Constantine.

With a background in Latin and ancient history, Carpenter has always held a great reverence towards ancient cultures, finding relevance in his studies to the modern day.

“A lot of people think they’re irrelevant,” Carpenter said of Ancient Romans. “The issues that they dealt with are so similar to the issues we deal with today. The Romans were so far ahead of their time.”

Ultimately, Collins-Elliot hopes all students will remember the importance of history and it’s bearing upon a healthy society.

“It’s important to look into the past and learn about the past because it provides us with innumerable lessons,” he said. “It can give us greater depth in how we understand the world around us.”

Harl’s lecture will take place in the McClung Museum Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. It is sponsored in part by The East Tennessee Society of the Archaeological Institute of America.

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Spanish Club’s f irst meeting to feature Hispanic dance, food Tayllor Cochrane Contributor

The smell of free pizza filled floor 12 of McClung Tower as Spanish students of all levels attended the interest meeting for UT’s newest language organization, the Spanish Club, two weeks ago.

Until this semester, there was not a club established on campus for the the Spanish Department, which is currently the largest language department existing at UT. Spanish club president Josh Anderson and vice president Ian Morris, both “fans of the Hispanic culture,” felt that Spanish language and culture was not being fairly represented on UT’s cam-

pus and that the absence of a club was confusing for Spanish students.

“It’s the largest foreign language department at UT and we just thought it was bizarre that there wasn’t already a club for it,” said Morris, junior in geography.

Colleen Leyrer, a Spanish Club member and freshman on the exploratory track, said the club serves as more than just a gathering place for students enrolled in the program -- it’s an opportunity for growth that provides an avenue for Spanish students to relate with UT community members sharing an interest for the language and culture.

Leyrer said she is most excited to be “interacting with people who have the same passion as me.”

Jill Haynes, a Spanish professor at UT and the new faculty adviser for the club, said the organization will be beneficial for all students who choose to participate.

“Participating in Spanish Club will assist them in various ways,” Haynes said.

“One big way is to keep up their enthusiasm for the language and the culture and allow them to have more opportunities to speak in Spanish.”

The Spanish Club is hosting its first event, Salsa y Salsa, tonight at 7 p.m. in McClung Tower room 1211.

The $20 membership fee will also be taken up at the event for members who wish to receive a Spanish Club T-shirt. However, Haynes noted this slight order of business will not subtract

from the activities planned.

“This night will be filled with Salsa dancing and a Nacho Bar including Salsa dip,” she said.

Morris said this event will kick-off a year of programming planned to bring Spanish culture to UT’s campus.

“There’s such a broad variety of different events that you can do related to Spanish speaking culture,” Morris said. “We’re jumping right in with a Latin dancing night. You can have everything from a movie night in Spanish to Latin dancing ...

There are a lot of possibilities, so we’re excited.”

For more information, email spanishclubutk@ gmail.com or visit the club’s Facebook page, Spanish Club UTK.

Around Rocky Top

Students helped celebrate National Day on Writing by writing their thoughts on the Graffiti Walk at the UT Libraries and The Writing Center. Hannah Cather • The Daily Beacon

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Tuesday, October 21, 2014 Editor-in-Chief

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Kevin Ridder kridder2@vols.utk.edu

Don’t reward bad behavior Guest Column by

Greg Butcher

Historically, the most productive times in our nation’s history are when one political party controls the White House and another controls the Senate and House of Representatives. This statement may find you scratching your head, but if you don’t believe me simply look back to the Clinton Administration. When the Republicans and their ‘Contract with America’ took over, the two worked together and accomplished a lot, including comprehensive welfare reform.

Today, however, the concept of our two political parties working together seems more and more like a laughable possibility. With the constant, 24/7 partisan rhetoric coming from almost every news outlet and political organization in existence, our two parties are more divided than ever. This division transcends far past Washington D.C. into our schools, neighborhoods, churches and even family and friends.

You would be hard pressed to find somebody say they don’t wish the two parties would come together and find common ground more often, but that sentiment rarely translates at the ballot box.

As voters, we more often than not seem to reward the candidates who fire us up the most, make us despise the ‘other side’ the most, and throw the most political red meat out, with any thought of sensibility and practicality cast aside.

In a time when our nation, and our world, is in a constant flux of turmoil, politicians increasingly prey on our fear. Those we used to consider extreme are now being persecuted as compromisers, and those we used to see as so extreme they had no credibility are now seen as heroes of the cause.

Case in point, look at the Tea Party or Occupy Wall Street. The result of this trend is two parties in Washington, D.C., who stand on opposite mountaintops with arms crossed, declaring the other side is evil, has some sort of anti-American agenda, and doesn’t care about the American people.

Meanwhile, nobody has the courage to pick up their beliefs, walk to the middle, set them on the table, and admit that to accomplish things in our country, there will be some things they want done that they might have to give up. It doesn’t make you any less firm in your own beliefs to sacrifice them for a day, because if it’s a true compromise, the other side is likely doing the same.

So as early voting begins, and candidates try to convince you to vote for them by convincing you their opponent is no better than your local felon and that the opposite party has an evil agenda intent on the destruction of America, look past the scare tactics.

If we continue to reward politicians who play the game of win at all costs, we’re punishing the few who have the guts to stand in the middle with integrity. And I would argue that those people are those most fit to be involved in the discussions that will shape the future of our communities and our nation.

Often, I hear from other millennials that they don’t identify with a political party. Rather, they see merit in ideas from a broad spectrum of beliefs.

We have the power to truly influence change in how our public officials are elected. If our votes reflect how we truly feel, rather than which candidate does the better job making the other guy, or girl, look bad, then we might have a chance at changing the course of how the argument is shaped in this country.

But if we don’t educate ourselves before we vote, or worse, if we don’t vote at all, then the ideologues, activists and rabble-rousers will continue to win over smart, effective leaders, and they will continue to believe what they are doing is right, all because we do nothing but reward them for it.

Greg Butcher is a sophomore in business. He can be reached at dbutche4@vols.utk.edu.

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

Millennial macaroons School of Sarcasm by

Kaila Curry At the café where I work as a barista, there is a variety of people I observe in a continuous bustle.

An elderly retired couple orders two blueberry muffins and decaf coffees to enjoy on a bench outside.

A middle-aged mother comes in with three wild young boys, who smudge the dessert stand with their fingers. They indecisively go through each dessert, deciding whether they want it or not.

The frazzled mother grabs my arm, now buying a dessert for the fourth time because they did not like the previous three and whispers to me, “Never have children, never!”

Then in storms the college crowd, forming large lines and wanting, more than anything, two items: iced mochas with double shots of espresso and macaroons.

Macaroons are a type of small circular cake, typically made from ground coconut with sugar and egg white. They

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Most will graduate in student debt; in fact, the average member of our generation carries $29,400 in debt. All of this adds up; nationally, students have racked up a staggering $1 trillion in loan debt.

Forty percent of Millennials said their stress had increased over the last year and finding a job post graduation is harder than ever.

In fact, according to Wall Street Journal, 284,000 American college graduates were working minimum-wage jobs in 2012.

When previous generations compare themselves to millennials, many report that our generation is “softer” than they are.

When Medal of Honor recipient and Vietnam veteran Donald “Doc” Ballard visited UT, he expressed that our generation was the softest he’s ever seen.

We come in many races with different backgrounds but similar goals of achieving our dream jobs, while being employable. We appear to have it all together, to have a hard exterior, but we truly are a bit more delicate than it may appear.

You see, at the end of the day, we are nothing more than millennial macaroons.

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

The halfway point Fantasy Football Corner by

Austin Pirkle We’re more than halfway through the fantasy football regular season. For some, the playoffs are creeping closer and a championship doesn’t seem that farfetched. For others, your season may be slipping away as you try to hang on for dear life. Whichever situation best applies to you, the fact remains that the next few roster transactions could very well shape your season for better or worse. So without any more hesitation, let’s get started.

Waiver Wire Pickups Jerick McKinnon (Owned in 13.5 percent of NFL.com leagues) The Vikings rookie running back has officially taken the starting job from Matt Asiata in Minnesota. McKinnon is an explosive back who shows great elusiveness. He gained more than 100 yards on the ground Sunday and doesn’t look to be slowing down. With the amount of touches he has been getting lately, he is a must own in all leagues going forward.

Doug Baldwin (Owned in 30.3 percent of NFL.com leagues)

The Seattle wide receiver looks to be the new #1 receiver after the trade that sent Percy Harvin to New York. More than 125 yards and a touchdown on Sunday confirmed that statement. While the Seahawks like to spread the ball around, the first passing option on a productive offense is enough to be very viable in fantasy for the rest of the season.

Clay Harbor (Owned in 0.4 percent of NFL.com leagues) The Jacksonville tight end has replaced the injured Mercedes Lewis as the main passing threat at the position. The tight end position has been a field of land mines with very few tight ends being productive on a weekly basis. Harbor may not win you any fantasy games, but he has been relatively consistent throughout the year.

If you desperately need a tight end in a deeper league, he is your guy.

Sell High Roddy White He is one of the most aggravating players to own in fantasy football. White will either have a great game like Sunday or be a complete bust. There is no in between.

With an injury history the past couple of years, this productivity is not something to count. Sell, sell, sell.

Pierre Garçon While Garçon was one of the most consistent receivers last year, he just hasn’t been the same this season. With the acqui-

sition of DeSean Jackson and the emergence of the tight ends, there just aren’t enough targets for Garçon to return to be a top wide receiver. If someone believes he has returned to form, be willing to let him go for a good return.

Buy Low Jimmy Graham This was a brutal week for Graham owners. After playing even with the question of his hurt shoulder, he came up with a goose egg on Sunday. Some of his owners are probably fed up with him over the past few weeks. However, everyone needs to calm down. He is still the clear No. 1 tight end for the rest of the year. Keep in mind the Saints offense is always a much better team at home, and they have six of the last nine games in the Superdome.

Julio Jones What happened to Julio? The Falcons have looked anemic the past few weeks, and Jones hasn’t been nearly as productive as earlier in the year. Roddy White has been taking away a few targets, but I expect that to be a fluke. Julio is too much of a big time talent to not be a top five wide receiver. If his owner thinks the Falcons are sinking and Jones is going with them, go get him while his value is at its lowest.

Austin Pirkle is a freshman in sports management. He can be reached at apirkle1@vols.utk.edu.

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come in bright colors and flavors of strawberry, blueberry, chocolate, Nutella and green mint.

They appear to be hard, but one will quickly find that their hard exterior is easily cracked. They are in fact extremely delicate, and I have to be exceedingly cautious transporting them from the bakery to the stand. They will crack with the slightest contact.

Naturally, due to their cheap price and gluten free status, macaroons are one of our biggest hits.

They are ordered so often by college students that I have begun to associate macaroons with millennials, which may be a bit of a stretch, but to me, they are comparable.

At first glance, our generation appears to have it together. More millennials are going to college, especially women.

Millennials are now the largest, most diverse generation in the U.S. They’re tech-savvy, creative and innovative.

They are more ethnically and racially diverse than older adults. They’re less religious, less likely to have served in the military and are on track to become the most educated generation in American history.

However, when you look more closely at our generation, one will find their tough outer shell easily cracked.

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Tuesday, October 21, 2014

THE DAILY BEACON • 5 Arts & Culture Editor Jenna Butz @butzjenna

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MUSICIANS

worth it,� he acknowledged. “It’s put a great pressure on our careers as musicians and as a band as we’ve all gone through college.�

Castro said just going out and performing has opened his eyes to various aspects of his community that are different than the average college environment. “You are with your fellow college students all day, and when you go out at night and play a show you meet another group of people, and it makes you realize that there are a lot of different ways to live,� he said.

Although the college experience provides various opportunities and new perspectives, some student musicians take time off from their academics to put a greater emphasis on their music.

This is the case for members of Talking Blues Band, an Americana group based in Chattanooga. Noah Towe, the band’s vocalist and guitarist, took a semester off to focus on the band before he plans to return to school next spring.

continued from Page 1 Sam Love, junior in public relations at ETSU and the band’s lead vocalist and pianist, said being a college student helped to shape the band though. Staying connected and active with the community is the hard part. “Being in college, starting up was actually pretty easy.

We all met each other in classes,� Love said. “The tricky part is maintaining it all.�

Even with these difficulties, many student musicians here at UT and across the country have proven this “double life� has its perks, and that it even adds a different sort of value to their music.

As Ford said, being a student gives a greater value to the decisions you make as a musician. “College is a great opportunity, so every time I make a decision to say no to college experiences and yes to musical ones, it has to be

Evan Ford is a musician in the Knoxville folk duo band Cereus Bright.

Hannah Cather • The Daily Beacon

LAFOLLETE continued from Page 1 As the minutes ticked on and I wandered the exhibit, another family came in. I could hear them talking about the photos as if they

knew them. As it turns out, they did. Two of the family members were from LaFollette and told me about the project and how great it was to have the students there each spring.

They knew the barber cutting a man’s hair, and they laughed at

the veterinarian cutting a hamster’s toenails. And though I’ve never been to LaFollette, I felt like I had.

Each photo told a story of, as Heller likes to call it, “life as it is lived.� And in the exhibit, there is plenty of life to go around.

“The idea was to take a break from school this semester, focus on music and try to get the band really going,� he rationalized. “It’s going pretty well. We’re just trying to book more shows. If we can just get to a certain level, I’ll be happy with everything else.�

Despite the obstacles, these bands are living proof that the life of a college student and the life of a musician can be successfully merged.

Cereus Bright has recently set off on their fall tour with The Dirty Guv’nahs, Random Tangents has been playing shows with local bands like Mobility Chief and Talking Blues Band reached their Kickstarter goal to produce their EP earlier this year. “It’s been a challenge, but the experience of trying to fit this into our lives has taught us to balance the old-school mentality of only caring about the music with a mentality of trying to be smart and love the strategy,� Ford expressed. “It’s influenced our drive to be good stewards of music.�

It’s that time of year. Nothing seems more appealing than cuddling on our couches under fleece blankets with hot chocolate as we watch “Hocus Pocus.� The chill in the air is welcome but that doesn’t mean we don’t want to be cozy at the same time. Play these songs to keep you warm.

Around Rocky Top

James Blunt Moon Landing Bonfire Heart Ben Howard Every Kingdom Old Pine Justin Townes Earle Harlem River Blues One More Night in Brooklyn LP Forever For Now Into the Wild The Lumineers The Lumineers This Must Be the Place (NaĂŻve Melody) Sam Smith In the Lonely Hour Latch (Acoustic) Jake Bugg Shangri La Me and You The Head and the Heart The Head and the Heart Sounds Like Hallelujah

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6 • THE DAILY BEACON

Tuesday, October 21, 2014 Sports Editor Troy Provost-Heron @TPro_UTDB

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BASKETBALL

Shot blocking a strength of Owens’ as he enters freshman campaign Troy Provost-Heron Sports Editor (@TPro_UTDB)

Josh Richardson drove through the lane, rose up and laid the ball up toward the rim.

The noise that followed, however, wasn’t the swoosh of the ball going through the net.

Instead, a loud clang echoed through Pratt Pavilion as freshman Tariq Owens pinned the ball against the backboard.

“I thought the glass was going to crack,” said Richardson during Tennessee’s Media Day on Thursday. “It was crazy.”

And while that block may be the highlight of his offseason, it is far from the only shot he has sent back during the Volunteers’ preparation for the upcoming season, which begins with an exhibition matchup against Pikeville on Nov. 3.

Through two weeks of preseason practice, Owens currently leads the team in blocks, averaging approximately three each day.

“He challenges shots,” Tennessee head coach Donnie Tyndall said. “He is another great kid. He is coachable, he hangs on every word and he is a sponge type of guy. He is going to be a good player, I hope it is this year, but at some point in time he is going to be really good.”

For Owens to fulfill those

FOOTBALL continued from Page 1 And while Jackson seems the more favorable of the two to compete against the Crimson Tide inside Neyland Stadium, Jones did mention that he will be keeping a close eye on redshirt freshman Austin Sanders – who replaced Jackson after his injury – and sophomore Dylan Weisman on the off chance they are needed up front.

expectations, though, his offensive game must rise to the level of his defensive game.

“I need to develop everything in my offensive game more,” Owens said. “I’m a solid offensive player, but I have to keep developing everything.”

The main thing currently holding back the 6-foot-10 forward’s offensive development is his size. When Owens arrived at the university in June, he weighed around 175 pounds, but has since gained about “16 to 17 pounds” to push his weight to 184.

Ideally, Owens said he would like to be 230 pounds, but by the end of this season, he’d prefer to be somewhere between 190 and 195.

“Offensively right now, when he catches the ball in the post, due to his lack of strength he gets forced away from the rim,” Tyndall said. “That forces him to settle for some tough shots, or he gets knocked off balance and turns it over.”

As he continues to grow in size and strength, Owens will strive to impress his coaches and earn regular minutes on the court when the Vols tip off their season.

“He’s right there,” Tyndall said.

“He’s in a battle with Dominic (Woodson), Jabari (McGhee) and even Derek Reese, who has been in and out of that top seven or eight right now.

“There will be great competition there,” Jones said. “(I want to see) consistency in performance, knowledge of the offense – we talk about controlling the controllables and part of that is your mental preparation. You can have no mental errors.

“Our margin of error is very small so it starts with us completely understanding our responsibility in every single play, the fundamentals, the fine details of winning that play. So, all of that will go into that.”

As for when the Vols will know

“There’s a long way to go and it will continue to change probably throughout the season, but he brings some things to the table, especially on the defensive end, that can, and hopefully will, help our team.”

Up and away: Detrick Mostella flashed more than enough highlight-reel dunks this summer when he participated in Tennessee’s Rocky Top League.

The freshman guard’s ability to jump out of the gym, however, has set some pretty lofty expectations for his performance in the Vols’ upcoming dunk contest during Friday’s Big Orange Madness event inside Thompson-Boling Arena.

“Detrick has a 40-inch vertical, so we all have him projected to win,” Owens said.

Sophomore guard Robert Hubbs, however, disagrees, saying that he is going to win the dunk contest, as well as the 3-point competition.

But even with accolades like dunk and 3-point champion on the line, the Vols are most eager to finally get an opportunity to show the Volunteer faithful what they can do.

“We’re all just really excited,” Owens said. “It’s all about showing the fans a good time, us having a good time and everybody going out there and having fun before the kickoff of the season.”

officially whether each player will be able to suit up, Jones said that if they haven’t been able to practice by Wednesday, they most likely won’t play due to them not being “game ready.”

“On the offensive line, you need repetitions throughout the course of the week during practice because of the different looks that defenses give you, particularly Alabama,” Jones said.

“They do a great job of disguising the moving of their fronts and the speed of the game.

“Every time we’ve played an

VOLLEYBALL

Lady Vols fall to 0-8 in the SEC Staff Report (@UTKBeaconSports)

The Tennessee Lady Volunteers dropped their seventh and eighth SEC contests in a row over the weekend, falling to Mississippi State and Georgia on the road.

On Friday, the Lady Vols dug their way out of a 2-0 hole to force a fifth set, but ran out of gas late in the decisive frame as they dropped a tough 3-2 (18-25, 27-29, 25-18, 25-19, 13-15) decision against the Mississippi State Bulldogs on Friday night.

Facing a 2-0 deficit heading into match break, Tennessee grabbed an early advantage in the third set. The Lady Vols maintained a slim lead over MSU (6-16, 1-6 SEC) into the middle portion of the frame before closing things out on an 8-2 run.

UT swung a match-best 0.366 in the set, only committing two attack errors, while limiting the

Bulldogs to an attack percentage of 0.130.

After pulling away from the Bulldogs in the fourth set, the fifth and deciding set proved to be a nail-bitter. The final set saw four ties, but ultimately a Tennessee attack error gave Mississippi State their match point.

Freshman outside hitter Kelsey Bawcombe recorded 17 kills and 17 digs, while sophomore setter Taylor Johnson led the Lady Vols with 34 assists – a career-high – and tacked on 11 digs. It was the first time since the UT’s win over Mercer on Sept. 20 that two Lady Vols had recorded two double-doubles.

With a heartbreaking loss to start the weekend, the Lady Vols were forced to move on and look for redemption against the Georgia Bulldogs on Sunday.

The match, however, did not go the way they wanted as UT allowed Georgia to hit over 0.400 and were swept by the Bulldogs, 3-0.

The Lady Vols (7-15, 0-8 SEC) struggled to finish at the net throughout the match, managing to only record an 0.120 attack percentage.

“We fought hard the whole match, but we were just snakebitten by too many unforced errors,” said 17th-year head coach Rob Patrick in a university release.

“We don’t make those kinds of errors in practice so we have to continue to work on it so it transfers to the matches. But we also had to move our lineup around due to a few injuries today and that’s tough on the team where we’re starting to get comfortable in a stable lineup and then we have to switch things around.

“I give the team credit for playing through that, but we got a little unorganized initially because of the new lineup.”

The Lady Vols will look to secure their first SEC win of the season when they host the Ole Miss Rebels on Oct. 26 at 1:30 p.m.

Freshman Detrick Mostella scores during practice on Oct. 6.

Hayley Pennesi • The Daily Beacon

individual who hasn’t practiced all week, he didn’t particularly have a good performance. You play the way you practice and that’s why practice is extremely critical moving forward.”

Smith circles back: After being absent for the Vols last four contests, sophomore wide receiver Josh Smith seems to be making strides toward returning to the field.

On Monday, Jones said that the Knoxville native would begin running again in practice this week, but was a “longshot” to

return in time for the Alabama game.

“We’ve missed Josh immensely,” Jones said. “Josh Smith means so much to our football program and our football team, not just on the field but off the field. He’s a leader and he’s still leading that way but I know it’s really bothering him not being on the field.

“He’s done his due diligence in the training room but he’s a playmaker for us and anytime you take a playmaker off the field, that hurts you. It also hurts

your overall depth or it hurts your overall competition that we just spoke about. He’s a talented young man and we look forward to getting him back soon.”

Despite missing what will be five contests, the thought of applying for a medical redshirt for Smith has not even “crossed the mind” of Jones.

“He’ll play,” the second-year head coach said. “If we go a few more weeks, which I don’t expect, maybe we’ll visit that but right now, we’re here to win football games.”