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Issue 44, Volume 124

A ‘TOXIC ENVIRONMENT’ Bradi Musil

Staff Writer It’s the most lethal psychiatric illness in the U.S., studies show, and yet one of the least reported.

What is this growing phenomenom? Eating disorders.

Even on college campuses, where anorexia is especially prevalent, the illness goes almost untreated. But the effects and prevalanece are quite the opposite.

According to Mirasol Treatment

Center studies, without treatment, up to 20 percent of people with serious eating disorders will die from complications. With treatment, the mortality rate falls to 2 or 3 percent.

“Before I opened this treatment center, I worked on a college campus, working with students with eating disorders and, from my perspective, it is the most significant health risk facing college students today,” Chase Bannister, vice president of Veritas Collaborative, a Durham, N.C., treatment and rehabilitation center, said.

LGBT seminar to address new vantage points Hayley Brundige Staff Writer Not simply exceptional, but outstanding.

On Saturday, October 26, the OUTReach Center will hold its annual OUTstanding seminar. This year’s theme will be “Axes of Identity: Exploring Intersections of Diversity.”

Created two years ago, the seminar has become a campus mainstay, growing in size and popularity. According to the seminar website, the event remains dedicated to its founding mission, “educating and exploring issues of LGBTIQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer and questioning) identity and equality.”

“OUTstanding will consist of 16 different presentations on LGBT topics,” said Abel Howard, a future graduate student in business administration. “We will explore topics covering homophobia in sports, gay youth in the bible belt, issues facing parents of transgender children, sexual minority identity among Middle Eastern and Arab Americans, plus games covering LGBT issues.”

OUTstanding Chairperson, Cat Miller said the event will also feature a keynote address from bisexual activist, Robyn Ochs, and entertainment from slam poet Staceyann Chin.

“I think events like this are a great way to talk to people who you may have not encountered otherwise,” Miller, also a senior in kinesiology, said. “We are provid-

ing a safe, inclusive atmosphere for students, faculty, and staff from UT to interact with students and community members outside of the university.”

Roughly two dozen community representatives will be present during lunch to offer information and services.

“UT is a place of learning so it is fitting that we would educate everyone in the area on LGBT issues,” Howard said. “The more people that are educated, the more they can do to help our community.”

Afterward, a performance by the Knoxville Gay Men’s Chorus and a raffle furnished by local businesses to raise funding for the LGBT community’s campus organizations will follow.

The seminar will focus on the unique perspectives that result from varying personal identities.

Miller identifies with a variety of social classifications.

“Some of the ways I identify are as a working-class student, feminist, genderqueer, transgender, white, Southern Appalachian queer,” Miller said, “My experiences are going to be very different from a black heterosexual transwoman from Chicago or a biracial, cisgender, radical lesbian. These varying experiences will be talked about and hopefully provide insight for others into how to find common ground between people of different walks of life.”

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“These eating disorders are the most lethal of all psychiatric illnesses and take the life of far too many young people across the country and around the world. “... The entire society, all of us, is impoverished when we lose a young person to any illness; particularly to an illness that we have evidence based treatment to intervene.”

Although most colleges, like UT, provide student health centers equipped with professional counselors, most student to counselor ratios

are unbalanced.

Bannister noted recently that George Washington University reported an average student to counselor ratio of roughly 1900:1, which is not unusual for most large universities.

He added that universities rarely employ counselors with specialized eating disorder certification.

“In order to treat this illness, it takes a multidisciplinary team of psychotherapists, physiatrists, medical practitioners or nurse practitioners

or primary care provider and a nutritionist,” Bannister said. “That is a minimum team of folks that need to be gathered.”

At UT, counselors work with students individually, then refer them to treatment centers off campus that can provide necessary steps to recovery.

Although treatment may not be provided on campus, universities tend to ensure a student receives care elsewhere.

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Knoxville on hand for film pre-screening in UC Jenna Butz Staff Writer UT got a full “serving of Irving” Tuesday night, well before most of the country met this unlikely, and completely inappropriate, dynamic duo.

In a pre-screening of Johnny Knoxville’s newest movie, “Bad Grandpa,” a limited num-

ber of students, along with personal friends and family of Knoxville, gathered in the UC Auditorium to watch the crudely humorous flick before its official premiere date of Oct. 25.

Paramount Pictures contacted the Film Committee about doing a potential pre-screening on campus, reaching the col-

lege-aged demographic from the popular film and TV series “Jackass.” A limited number of these special events were presented in a few cities across the country, but Knoxville had its own reason for deserving the honor.

“Bad Grandpa” was shot in locations across the country including the city of Knoxville,

Johnny Knoxville’s hometown.

“Us being here at UT, it made it kind of cool that we got to see that,” Tyler Laughter, freshman in mechanical engineering, said. “I know the theater got kind of wild when Knoxville was shown, so it’s cool to be a part of that a little bit.”

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Lack of turnovers key for Worley’s offensive growth David Cobb Sports Editor

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UT quarterback Justin Worley throws a pass against South Carolina at Neyland Stadium on Oct. 19. The Vols beat the Gamecocks 23-21 on a 19-yard Michael Palardy field goal as time expired.

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On Aug. 26, Butch Jones explained to the media his reasoning for naming Justin Worley the UT starting quarterback.

While doing so, Jones recalled a conversation with Worley that took place the day before.

“The mark of a great quarterback is leading your team to victory in the one-minute drill on the road and having that poise and that confidence that it takes to manage an entire offense,” Jones told the junior signal caller.

In Saturday’s 23-21 win over No. 11 South Carolina, Worley embodied that criteria by directing the Vols on a late, game-clinching drive.

But on Tuesday, Jones reiterated what the next step is for his squad as they prepare for a trip to No. 1 Alabama on Saturday, drawing from what he told Worley before the season.

“The next evolution for this football team,” Jones said, “is learning how to win on the road.”

In his first road action of the

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season, Worley threw an early touchdown to Jason Croom to put UT ahead of Oregon 7-0, surviving the game without throwing an interception. Yet, the offense consistently failed to move the ball and, consequently, Jones benched him for the Florida game in favor of redshirt freshman Nathan Peterman.

Worley returned to action in the second half at Florida and tossed a touchdown and pair of picks in UT’s 31-17 loss.

He regained quarterback status for the Vols’ 31-24 win over South Alabama, but threw three interceptions.

Since October struck, though, the Rock Hill, S.C., native has avoided interceptions against a pair of highlyranked, defensively-capable opponents.

In UT’s 34-31 overtime loss to Georgia, Worley finished interception-free, just like he did in the Vols’ upset of the Gamecocks.

In that two-game stretch, the lone turnover committed by UT came on Alton “Pig” Howard’s dive for the end zone in overtime against the Bulldogs.

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WUTK holds first winter coat drive Emilee Lamb Assistant News Editor Winter is quickly approaching, but some of Knoxville’s citizens are not prepared.

Alongside five other campus organizations, college radio station WUTK The Rock has partnered with a local business to remedy this problem, holding its first coat drive, running now through Oct. 28.

“WUTK feels very strongly about being a positive influence not only on campus, but for Knoxville and Knox County,” said Benny Smith, general manager and program director for WUTK. “This is just one of the many ways throughout the year that we try to help our community, and especially the less fortunate around us.”

All coats received through the drive will be given to Knoxville Area Rescue Mission’s outreach program Coats for the Cold.

“You know, if it’s just one coat, that helps,” Smith said.

“But, we already have about 25 or 30, and would love to end up with at least 100.”

Rachelle Blake, a junior in journalism and electronic media, has coordinated the event for WUTK and is pleased with the response the drive has

garnered.

“We already have two whole boxes full of coats that people donated,” Blake said. “I know that one of the fraternities we are working with already has a whole bag full of coats for us.”

In Smith’s opinion, WUTK’s coat drive is one way for the radio station to fulfill a commitment to community service.

“It is very important to all of us here at WUTK to give back to our community, especially since it is our listeners and sponsors who keep the station open and on the air through their donations,” he said.

The radio station’s other partners for the event include: Delta Gamma, Sigma Kappa, Pi Kappa Phi, Iota Phi Theta and UT Impact.

“It is great to be able to get other student organizations involved, as well,” Smith said.

“We have a great student body at UT, and this project is one way to prove it.”

Garth Malone, a WUTK student deejay and junior majoring in journalism and electronic media, sees the coat drive as a way to affect positive change in a simple way.

“For many of us, having a nice, thick coat during the winter is something that can be taken for granted, but for those

who lack a coat, the winter can be a harsh time,” Malone said.

“So I think it’s important for anyone who can help to help.”

Marc Nelson Denim Company, owned and operated by Knoxville native Marcus Hall, will be sponsoring WUTK’s Monday broadcast from Pedestrian Walkway.

Hall’s company wanted to make the event something to remember.

“They had the idea for a coat drive, and we took the ball, and ran with it,” Smith said.

The remote broadcast will serve as a drop location for coat donations from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Monday. Members of the campus community who choose to participate will receive a discount of 30 percent on their next Marc Nelson Denim purchase, which Malone calls “a nice incentive.”

“MND will also have free t-shirts, and you can even try on some of their very cool designer jeans while you are at the remote,” Smith said.

In addition to Monday’s donation opportunity, students, faculty and staff can bring old coats to the permanent drop location at WUTK’s offices in Andy Holt Tower.

Donations received at this location are also eligible for the MND discount.

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WUTK 90.3 The Rock is holding its first coat drive today through Oct. 28. Students can drop off coats at WUTK located in Andy Holt Tower or the live remote site on Pedestrian Walkway on Oct. 28 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. All coats received through the drive will be given to Knoxville Area Rescue Mission’s outreach program Coats for the Cold.

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EATING DISORDER continued from Page 1 Kathleen Yabroudy, executive director at Eating Disorders Coalition Tennessee, warns against the dangers of simply ignoring a growing diet obsession.

“It’s a very slippery slope, and it can happen pretty quickly,” Yabroudy said. “When it becomes a preoccupation and you’re not able to concentrate on normal daily activities, like class or social activities. All you think about is food. “... It is very scary how many people start out just wanting to lose a couple pounds and be healthy and

suddenly it’s an all-consuming obsession ... The worst thing you can do is not do anything.

The longer you go down that path, the harder it will be to treat it.”

In Bannister’s opinion, a university is more than just a playground for insecurity.

Eating disorders are often mistaken for willful diet techniques rather than an actual psychiatric illness.

“I cannot think of a more toxic environment than a college campus for an eating disorder to thrive,” Bannister said. “They have become incubators for judgment, for shame, for body image distortion, for dieting behaviors. It’s become okay to comment on body, weight, shape, size and

Miller hopes students will walk away from the OUTstanding seminar with a renewed sense of empowerment.

“We can all improve the campus climate for gender and sexual minorities,” Miller said. “UT has so many people willing to educate and listen to the concerns and inner conflicts people may have.”

Howard is also excited about the event, and sees the forum as an opportunity for engagement on diversity issues.

“Students should attend because this is a great opportunity for people in the area to get an education on LGBT issues,” Howard said. “Plus that they get free lunch, free HIV testing, a free shirt and a discount at Edge Knoxville.”

Pre-registration for the OUTstanding seminar is available at www. outstandingseminar.wordpress.com/ registration but walk-ins will be accepted from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. the day of the event. appearance regularly.”

However, studies show that, in most cases, eating disorders are genetically inherited as opposed to spontaneously triggered.

“The truth is that it’s far more heritable than alcoholism, just as heritable as bipolar disorder or schizophrenia, but somehow we still look at these men and women with these illnesses and say, ‘Why don’t they just stop?’” Bannister said. “(Eating disorders) are not disorders of will and they are not disorders of choice.”

Bannister hopes that, one day, another message will replace physical ideals.

“People are wonderful just the way they are,” Bannister said.

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Knoxville Pizzeria a slice of new flavor for Gay Street

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Tori Caplenor selects a slice of Grandma’s pizza at Dazzo’s Pizzeria on Oct. 21.

Hannah Cather Photo Editor Golden brown melted mozzarella covers a pizza that spans the entire width of the tiny, two-person table in Dazzo’s Pizzeria.

Elevated on a tray, the food sits almost at eye level, encouraging an appetite. Even before grabbing a slice, the aroma wafts into your face, creating an idea of just how delicious the slices will taste.

“Grandma’s Pizza,” a thin crust topped with five ingredients, needs nothing else. With roasted garlic and olive oil complementing the simple tomato sauce and cheese, this pizza is the house special.

Mary Boggs, the owner of Dazzo’s Pizzeria, as well as The Bistro at the Bijou Theatre, both on South Gay Street, even added a personal comment to the menu: “This pizza is why I bought this restaurant, I love it!”

Her endorsement is only enforced by the suggestion of waitress Joanna Bajandes.

“People get the Grandma’s Pizza a lot,” Bajandes said. “They really like it.”

Stretched to a 12-by-18 inch rectangle, Grandma’s special recipe has customers feeling nostalgic.

“It reminded me of a school lunch pizza, like in elementary school when it was pizza-and-friesday,” Tori Caplenor, junior in speech audiology and pathology, said. “Everyone loved those lunches, and this pizza makes me happy like those rectangles did back in the day.

“I think the pizza would have been great even if it had been a circle.”

The smoked baked mozzarella appetizer came

to the table in a piping hot clay circular dish before the pizza ever arrived. A blob of melted cheese smothered in tomato sauce sent steam upwards.

“Careful, it’s hot,” Bajandes advised.

With little reservation, the molten mozzarella was scooped up onto slices of baguette and shoved into mouths. Burned tongues aside, the flavors in the dish evoked images of classic Italy.

“Oh, this is delicious,” Caplenor commented.

“The smoky flavor in this is fantastic.”

“Smoky” seems to be a trend of Dazzo’s Pizzeria.

The little restaurant, with its exposed kitchen and ovens, sits amid a faint haze of cooking crust. Yet, the smoke does little to detract from the experience. It merely adds ambience to the red paint, dim lights and music posters covering most of the walls.

“It was interesting to look at the posters of musicians on the walls,” Caplenor said. “There were a lot of different artists, and the music theme was neat. I liked what they were playing in the background. The jazzy vibe was very fitting.”

Julia Hardey, a Knoxville resident, also appreciated the decoration.

“It’s a cool space,” Hardey said. “It’s a great place for celebrations.”

In a city where pizza isn’t hard to find, Dazzo’s Pizzeria holds its own. The menu extends beyond simple pies into the world of pasta and calzones, as any Italian restaurant would. They don’t stop with obvious extensions; the menu includes five brunch options, offered only on Sundays. Add eggs to a pizza, and voila: breakfast is served.

“We make almost everything in house,” Bojandes said. “It’s just a great place to grab a slice of pizza.”

As seats filled with last minute attendees, the auditorium filled with rowdy energy. Posters, pins and red Solo cup shot glasses were thrown out like T-shirts at a sporting event. When the lights dimmed, the audience erupted in deafening applause and cheers.

The storyline seems wholesome and uplifting, at first. Billy, a wholesome 8-year-old, is sent cross country with his Grandpa Irving to go live with his father after his mother is sent to jail.

If this were anything beside a Johnny Knoxville movie, “Bad Grandpa” would be a sweet story of bonding, family and reunions.

But the illusion doesn’t last long.

The movie opens with Billy telling strangers in a waiting room about his mother’s crack breath while Irving, Johnny Knoxville’s character, celebrates rather than mourns his wife’s passing in the next scene.

The film was shot in a format in which Irving and Billy were actors, but other people pictured were actually going about their day. All their reactions were unscripted and most were completely appalled by the actions of the mismatched duo.

“They didn’t really go too far with the 8-year-old kid. Not much swearing. I mean, he cussed, and that was funny,” Garrett McCullough, freshman in business management, said.

“It was typical kind of ‘Jackass’ humor, but a little different since they involved children.”

Notably, the movie lacked the more violent and dangerous scenes that characterized the ‘Jackass’ franchise.

Instead, more family-friendly incidents were included, such as allowing a small child to try

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“Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa,” an upcoming comedy film starring Johnny Knoxville as 86-yearold Irving Zisman, details cross-country journey of Zisman with his 8-year-old grandson Billy and the hilariously unlikely events the two face. beer or help his grandpa pick up women. Far from normal activities for most elementary schoolaged children.

“Bad Grandpa” brought crude humor to a new level by mixing the young and elderly. With the contrasting duo serving as the movie’s defining element, the age gap alone created plenty of comedy. But with Johnny Knoxville as a writer for this script, more was added.

Pleased with the turnout,

the Film Committee ended the evening slightly exhausted, but satisfied.

“It went really well,” Ashton Hickey, a member of the Film Committee. “We actually had to turn people away, so that was more than we could have hoped for and more than we could handle, so it was good.”

For those who missed the prescreening, “Bad Grandpa” was released Wednesday in theaters.

NTSB: Helicopter changed course before fatal crash Associated Press A medical helicopter heading to pick up a sick child made an unusual course change before it crashed and burned in a wooded area in West Tennessee, an investigator said Wednesday.

National Transportation Safety Board examiners were collecting the helicopter’s wreckage on Wednesday before transporting it to Nashville for reconstruction and further examination.

Two Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital workers and the pilot died when the helicopter rammed into the ground and caught fire while on the way to pick up an ailing child in Bolivar. The helicopter crashed in Somerville, about 45 miles east of Memphis.

Data from a ground-based satellite tracking service shows the helicopter was traveling eastbound at about 1,000 feet before turning south in the moments before going down, NTSB investigator Ralph Hicks said. There’s no indication the pilot of the three-bladed Eurocopter transmitted he had a problem before the aircraft crashed.

The aircraft’s wreckage and

maintenance records, plus weather information and witness statements, will be examined during the investigation, Hicks said.

A preliminary report is expected in about seven to 10 days. A final report could take nine months to a year or more, NTSB officials said.

“It’s going to take quite a while to get to the bottom of everything,” Hicks said.

The sick child was not aboard the aircraft when it crashed and was eventually taken by ground ambulance to Le Bonheur.

The helicopter was operated by Hospital Wing, which uses seven helicopters to take patients to hospitals within a 150-mile radius of Memphis.

Hospital Wing spokeswoman Lisa Harlow said flights have been suspended.

As a result, Le Bonheur is using the air services of county emergency management departments and other air ambulance providers to bring children to the hospital by helicopter if needed, said Dr. Barry Gilmore, the hospital’s chief of emergency services.

Meri Armour, president and CEO of Le Bonheur, said

the Hospital Wing helicopter was cleared for both weather and flight plans when it took off. Authorities began searching when the helicopter didn’t respond during a routine 10-minute check-in.

Corey Chaskelson, a forecaster with the National Weather Service in Memphis, said there were clouds at about 4,000 to 5,000 feet, but forecasters don’t know if weather was a factor.

In a news release, the hospital identified those killed as 47-yearold pilot Charles Smith, 43-yearold nurse Carrie Barlow and 43-year-old respiratory therapist Denise Adams.

Another Hospital Wing helicopter crashed in West Tennessee in March 2010, when the pilot tried to outrun a storm.

That crash killed the pilot and two nurses.

At that time, improving the safety of emergency medical services flights was on the NTSB’s “most wanted improvements” list.

It first made the list in 2008, a year when the industry suffered a record 28 fatalities in seven helicopter accidents. The agency’s focus on the problem may have had some impact.

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Tea party’s tunnel vision drags US down Dean’s List by

Katie Dean Remember back in 2011 when Minnesota House Rep. Michele Bachmann told us that God wanted her to run for President in 2012? Or when former Missouri House Rep. Todd Akin’s said, on television, that the female body can shut down a pregnancy if it results from a “legitimate rape?”

I do.

I remember thinking they were out of their minds. But, in fact, they are not – Bachmann and Akin are both very educated individuals. They just happened to be doing a damn good job appealing to the tea party supporters, an extreme end of the GOP constituency.

The tea party members are volatile extremists with an ideological agenda to push, and we have more than seen the effects of this extremism for the past few weeks. We can pass around blame for the shutdown all we want, but at the end of the day it served as merely another conduit for the tea party to push its agenda and antagonize both the middle and the left of the political spectrum.

Since the end of the 16-day vacation from the federal government, I’ve had plenty of time to mull it over and consider its implications. The conclusion I have come to is that Americans desperately need a serious wake-up call about what’s been going on in the Republican party.

The Grand Ole Party of America has been hijacked by the tea party, a small group of, for lack of a more polite description, religious wack-jobs. During the 2010 midterms, when we saw a large influx of tea party hardliners running for Congress, I thought, ‘This must be a joke. Surely people don’t really think these things.’

If you also paid attention during the midterms, I’m sure you too can recall all the interesting things we heard from the tea party throughout the process. My personal favorite was former Republican Senatorial candidate Christine O’Donnoll, who thankfully warned us about the dire implications of masturbation and described AIDS awareness as a “platform for the homosexual community to recruit adolescents.”

As you can see, their candidates really try to focus on the pressing, important issues.

As far as the shutdown goes, I am entirely unsurprised that this group found it appropriate to hold our funding hostage in order to undermine the nefarious Obamacare.

Republicans knew this plan was going to fail.

In the eloquent words of our own Sen. Bob Corker, “I didn’t go to Harvard or Princeton, but I can count – the defunding box canyon is a tactic that will fail and weaken our position.”

Corker’s words expose Texas tea party-backed Sen. Ted Cruz – a Harvard and Princeton graduate – and his lack of consideration for how many votes the GOP currently has in the Senate.

My greatest problem with Cruz comes from the fact that Texas has one of the largest populations of uninsured people in the country. Twenty-five percent of Texans go without medical insurance, yet Cruz remains dead set on defunding Obamacare.

For those of you already rushing to your laptops to accuse me of being a socialist via hate mail, consider again. An entire quarter of the state lacks the resources to receive proper medical care; Cruz is essentially telling them “tough luck.” His language is all about defunding and repealing the Affordable Care Act when it should be about refining the law and making it work the best it can in his state.

Do I think Obamacare is the best, most efficient way of fixing the health insurance problem? Absolutely not, but it’s time we deal with the reality of the situation. Obama is here to stay until 2016 and apparently so is the Affordable Care Act, so the tea party may as well make do with what we have, instead of forcing counter-productive measures (read: closing the government for more than two weeks).

The point I’m driving home is that extremism gives people tunnel vision. It becomes impossible to see the bigger picture and see from different perspectives when you are entirely focused on pushing one ideological agenda.

Maybe the shutdown was the jolt people needed to open their eyes to the volatility of the tea party. If the eye-opening is further reflected in the next midterms, I’ll certainly call it a win for more than just the blue-state liberals.

It will be a win for logical people everywhere.

Katie Dean is a junior in political science. She can be reached at xvd541@utk.edu.

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Taxation poses investment to society, not theft Uncommon Sense by

Evan Ford Fun fact: taxes on nearly every family in this country are the lowest they’ve been in more than 30 years.

In fact, the last time taxes were this low was the Roaring Twenties — the gilded age of robber barons, city slums and populist movements vaguely remembered from your 11th grade history class.

It’s an excellent time to be a taxpayer, but political pundits still aren’t exactly rejoicing.

That’s to be expected. Taxes, along with death, are considered unavoidably bad things. That’s economically sound, too — taxes distort markets a fair amount, which some economists think lowers overall productivity. So boo on taxes — we should still be ecstatic that our taxes are at such a low rate, right?

But here’s the thing. Taxes aren’t a sacrifice taken out of your pocket and burned on an altar. They’re payment for public services. Taxes pay for the roads we drive on, the currency we take

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ing to make more land by pouring dirt in the ocean (really). Sweden, No. 2 on the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development list of happiest nations — also has the second highest income taxes on the rich at 58 percent.

On the other hand, taxes can be seriously damaging to an economy. Countries like Greece, France and Spain had exorbitant taxes and are still experiencing their version of the Great Depression.

Here at home, 230 congressmen have signed a pledge never to raise taxes on anyone, ever, labeling them a blight to society.

Instead of just hating taxes, though, let’s think of them as an investment.

Here are two simple ways to improve the return to our taxes: stop lining the pockets of defense contractors, the NSA and Medicare providers, and start actually defending and caring for citizens.

It’s cheaper. And have politics come from representative democracy, not special interest groups funding crucial ad campaigns (read: publicly financed elections).

Like it or not, we all have taxes to pay.

We might as well get the best bang for our buck.

Evan Ford is a junior in philosophy.

He can be reached at eford6@utk.edu.

SEC football is a religion and Neyland’s the sanctuary Knight Errant by

Victoria Knight There’s nothing like football in the South, and in particular, the SEC. People who aren’t from here don’t understand it, but those who are, love and cherish it. During my internship at the University of Georgia this summer, all the friends I made were from the North, Midwest or California. On the first day of orientation, when we walked by Sanford Stadium, they were amazed by its size.

One girl said she thought the professional football team’s stadium in her city wasn’t that big. Proudly, I finally piped up and boasted how Neyland Stadium was even bigger than Sanford, and could hold almost 10,000 more people.

Prior to last Saturday, my mom had never attended a UT football game.

Growing up in Florida, she had ventured into The Swamp a couple of times, but that was the extent of her in-action SEC football experience. She kept telling me that since it was my last year at UT, I must get her tickets to an SEC game. I kept putting it off, wanting to go to this tailgate or the other, until I finally pin-

pointed the date of the game during fall break: South Carolina.

Bringing her into the stadium, I began to feel nervous. What if she didn’t like standing for four hours? I hadn’t given her any forewarning of the cheers that we did, what if she felt left out? Would the wild student section overwhelm her?

Crowding into our seats in lower section G, with barely enough room to squeeze by, I could only watch and wait.

She absolutely loved it. Getting to watch my mom experience Neyland Stadium in all its glory, for the very first time, allowed me to see it through her eyes and view it anew. What I saw was that, at its core, football is a religion.

The spirit team, Smokey and Smokey Jr. included, are our spiritual leaders.

They guide us through the plays of the game, pointing out the right things to say, and cueing the most appropriate cheers.

The band is our choir, of course, leading us through the songs that will most pump us, and the team, up.

And then the players, and the coach, well, they’re the gods. No matter how much people may try to deny it, we tend to worship athletes and coaches who are performing well. Tennessee football is no exception.

But these are not really the aspects that matter, just striking similarities that line up with the traditional organization of

religion. The most important similarity is the unity we all share. Waking up on gameday mornings, many times dragging ourselves out of bed even when we’re on a losing streak, we have to wonder why we do it. The resounding answer is that we must be there to cheer on our Vols. That’s the beauty of the football religion.

Filing into Neyland on Saturdays, our one purpose is to unequivocally support our team. There is no doubt in anyone’s mind what we’re there for – the shared screams of joy, mutters of disbelief, throwing of hands in the air for touchdowns and, of course, singing about a half-cat girl on Rocky Top. Age, gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation – none of these matter in the light of football. We’re united in our purpose as one people, and so as one Volunteer nation.

Observing my mom get caught up in the excitement of the game, I finally put my finger on what it is that makes us so dedicated to football. We’re a family, bound together not by blood, but by love and support of our team.

My mom is already begging me to get her another ticket.

Victoria Knight is a senior in microbiology. She can be reached at vknight6@ utk.edu

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for granted, and the schools that will be available to our kids. Without those pesky taxes, we wouldn’t be here – both because the University of Tennessee wouldn’t exist and we’d probably all have been blown up a century ago.

We want taxes, because we want certain things that can only be effective on a nationwide or statewide scale.

This mentality of tax as payment for services has been lost. It’s hard to blame the U.S. citizenry, when the last president who seemed to be out of the reach of special interest groups — and government secrecy — was assassinated in 1963. Since then, there’s been a bit of a scandal frenzy. (See Watergate, IranContra, Monica Lewinski, Dick Cheney’s War and the NSA).

Conservatives play on this distrust of the government. When people distrust the government they want a smaller one, the ideal of libertarians and tea partiers. Thus, when politicians prove to be corrupt, even conservative ones, smallgovernment idealists win. Government is bad, taxes are bad, let’s get rid of everything but our bloated army and invasive “national security” programs.

Truthfully, taxes don’t kill a country.

The Netherlands, with the highest personal income tax rates in the world (up to 68 percent), is so popular that it’s hav-

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Assistant Arts & Culture Editor Cortney Roark

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Eli Young Band embraces, builds on family ambience Cortney Roark Assistant Arts & Culture Editor The Eli Young Band has taken the country music world by storm in recent years since the release of their platinum record, “Crazy Girl.�

Their latest album, “Jet Black and Jealous� debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard Country Albums Chart. They were also nominated for the Academy of Country Music Top New Vocal Group of the Year award.

The band, composed of four college friends from Texas, will visit the Cotton Eyed Joe Friday night to sing hits like “Even if it Breaks Your Heart,� and their latest release, “Drunk Last Night.�

The performance will hopefully provide a glimpse into their upcoming album in the works.

The Daily Beacon’s Assistant Arts and Culture Editor Cortney Roark had the chance to talk with bassist Jon Jones and discussed the successes of the band and what to expect from the “Drunk Last Night� tour.

Cortney Roark: What do you want your audience to take away from the “Drunk Last Night� tour?

Jon Jones: We’ve been to the Cotton Eyed Joe many times before and “Drunk Last Night� is probably the most appropriate song we’ve ever put out for that club. It’s always a wild party there, so that’s kind of what we had in mind when we decided to release the song.

We’ve always tried to make records that if you listen to start to finish, you never feel like you listen to the same song over and over again. I think this is, hopefully, another record like that. I think actually this record is going to sound a little more driven maybe.

CR: I hear you guys met in college?

JJ: Yes, so we love coming and playing college towns. It makes us relive those first couple years.

We all met at the University of North Texas and we all missed playing music. We did it through high school and we all came to college with the idea that we wanted to continue that and we became friends, started a band, all graduated and decided that we didn’t want to get real jobs.

That was 14 years ago.

CR: How do those friendships and having the college experience together affect the chemistry of the band?

JJ: You kind of come to college mature in some ways, but in a lot of ways you’ve got all the growing up in the world left to do and we got to share that together.

The fact that we were friends before we decided to form a band really has helped us over the years. A lot of people don’t get along on the road and can’t make it work. It’s still a lot of fun to be together and I think that has really helped us push through the bad times. We are doing this because we want to and the best part is we all can do it together.

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went platinum?

JJ: The success of “Crazy Girl� really changed everything for the band. It really made us realize just how much country radio can impact a band and just with one song with the exposure you get.

We’ve never had a song connect quite that well, like “Crazy Girl.�

It feels like everything has gone much faster since then.

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What: Reese Hall Haunted House Where: Reese Hall When: 7 p.m. - 12:30 a.m.

Price: $3 Cortney’s Take: Instead of waiting around outside Strong Hall for creaks and shadows, visit the Reese Hall Haunted House tonight.

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What: Cereus Bright with Guy Marshall Where: The Square Room When: 8 p.m.

Price: $7 - $10 Claire’s Take: This local folk-rock duo has been gaining popularity as of late. Bringing an unprecedented freshness to the genre, this is a great chance to spend a night downtown with some good music.

CR: The number of bands in country music has increased in recent years. How do you, as a band, set yourself apart and make yourself unique?

JJ: Country music is really strong right now with bands.

We had a chance to do a tribute record with Alabama, who, as far as bands go, there is no one else to look up to quite like them.

They did it first, they definitely did it best. All we can do, we’ve decided, is just to be ourselves.

Some of the bands came together as a family, and some met in different ways. We met because we’re all friends. The atmosphere that we have, we kind of are a family, the Eli Young family.

That’s what sets us apart.

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Friday, October 25

Sunday, October 27

What: The Tales of Hoffman Opera Where: Tennessee Theatre When: 8 p.m.

Price: $10+ Cortney’s Take: “The Tales of Hoffman� is an opera described as “a thrilling Halloween appetizer.� Hoffman is a poet lusting after an opera diva who battles four villains on a journey to win her heart. Directed by Keturah Stickann, the play includes “The Barcarolle,� “The Diamond Aria� and “Olympia’s Doll Song.�

CR: What do you think the Eli Young Band is going to do in the future? What do you hope happens?

JJ: We just want to keep making music and keep our friendship and the family first. We were out with Kenny Chesney all summer, which was a great experience. I think the big thing we learned there to make the biggest goal possible is to have that headlining set of songs that CR: How do you think this CR: In pursuing your dream everybody knows where everysingle sets the tone for the and the Eli Young Band’s dream, body can sing along to every album?

JJ: It’s a pretty diverse album. how did it feel when “Crazy Girl� word of the whole show.

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Thursday, October 24, 2013 Sports Editor David Cobb

SPORTS FOOTBALL continued from Page 1 By comparison, former UT quarterback Tyler Bray threw three interceptions against UGA in UT’s 2012 loss and fumbled late in the fourth quarter with the Vols trailing by seven. The Bulldogs hung on for a 51-44 win.

Against South Carolina, a late turnover again got the best of Bray when the Gamecocks’ Jadeveon Clowney stripped him on a potential game-winning drive in the waning moments of the game.

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Those kind of crucial miscues were vacant on Saturday for Worley and the Vols.

“Anytime you don’t turn the football over, you have an opportunity to win a football game,” Jones said Monday. “We talk about playing disciplined football, and that was a very talented and physical defense that we played Saturday and we didn’t turn the football over.”

Talented and physical may be understatements in describing the Crimson Tide defense the Vols will face Saturday.

Alabama opponents are averaging less than 10 points a game

in 2013, which ranks first in the nation.

“They do not make many mistakes,” Worley said. “They are a very fundamentally sound team.

They have a lot of depth and experience. They are a well puttogether team.”

Worley spoke openly of an improved confidence within the offense, attributing it partly to the success he had against Georgia and South Carolina.

“Those were great strides,” Jones said of avoiding turnovers.

Matthew DeMaria • The Daily Beacon “Again, that is part of the formula to winning football games and Tennessee running back Rajion Neal runs past South Carolina defenders during playing winning football.”

UT’s 23-21 win over the Gamecocks at Neyland Stadium on Oct. 19.

Volleyball aims for first SEC win Marina Waters Contributor

Troy Provost-Heron Assistant Sports Editor “Meanwhile in Mississippi.…”

Raina Hembry, middle blocker for the Lady Vols volleyball team, tweeted Saturday.

The ambiguous tweet summed up an unfortunate weekend for her team — a weekend that made the near six-hour drive from Starkville, Miss., back to Knoxville seem much longer.

The road the Lady Vols have traveled this season so far consists of an 8-13 overall record and a 0-7 mark in SEC play.

The Lady Vols’ weekend at Ole Miss on Friday and Mississippi State on Sunday was no different.

Ole Miss, the first of the Lady Vols’ Mississippi opponents this weekend, defeated Tennessee 3-1, while Mississippi State ended the weekend in a 3-0 sweep over UT. But head coach Rob Patrick believed the team was improving.

And he still does.

“We took a little bit of a step back” Patrick said. “We’ve actually been playing better in our practices and in our last couple of matches. For some reason we made a few more unforced errors than we had over the past couple weeks, and that hurt us (Sunday).”

Senior Whitney Heeres led

the team with a career-best 14 kills on Friday. Meanwhile, freshman Ashley Mariani had 10 kills, sophomore Lexi Dempsey dished out 38 assists, and Ellen Mullins scooped up 15 digs.

However, later in the match, the Lady Vols began to suffer from sloppy play.

“During the course of the match, we couldn’t play clean enough to put a lot of pressure on Mississippi. And they took advantage of that,” Patrick said.

“It was a little disappointing that the match for us was on our side of the net. We really could have done a little bit better on our side of the net.”

Though the Lady Vols met the same fate in Starkville, Miss., on Sunday, sophomore Lexi Dempsey recorded an SECleading 13th double-double.

Heeres led the team once again with nine kills against the Bulldogs.

“Whitney did a nice job hitting on the outside and got some nice kills for us, especially in sideout play, Patrick said. “She’s getting stronger and her arm is getting stronger so we’re excited about her development.”

Meanwhile, juniors Carly Wishlow and Shealyn Kolosky each tallied seven kills, while freshman Raina Hembry, hitting the team-best .333 mark, slammed six kills.

Though Tennessee lost in three sets, the match was hardfought on both sides of the net

from the beginning.

However, after the 26-24 defeat during the first game, the Lady Vols then lost 25-16 in the second match and 25-17 in the last match on Sunday.

Patrick has a plan to get the former SEC-powerhouse team back to gaining momentum.

“We’ll get back in the gym and we’ll clean up some of the unforced errors, and if we do that, I think we’ll be okay,” Patrick said.

The Lady Vols will need all the momentum they can collect as they continue SEC play on the road this weekend.

Tennessee takes on South Carolina in Columbia on Friday, followed by a Sunday match against Florida in Gainesville.

The Gamecocks, who are ranked 113 in the RPI, will enter Friday’s contest with a modest 11-9 record, but boast a 7-3 record on their home floor.

Sunday’s contest against the Gators, however, will be a different animal.

On paper, the matchup could be UT’s toughest of the season as Florida currently ranks No. 5 in the AVCA Coaches Poll.

The Gators are led by a potent offense that is second in the nation in kills per set (15.17) and hitting percentage (.336).

The Lady Vols first chance to break their winless conference start begins at 7 p.m. Friday.

Their Sunday match starts at 1:30 p.m.

Dynamic backfield duo provide offensive punch Troy Provost-Heron Assistant Sports Editor Standing side-by side at Tuesday’s media availability, UT running backs Rajion Neal and Marlin Lane demonstrated how close the two have grown since they were first introduced.

Neal, a Fayetteville, Ga., native, and Lane, a junior from Daytona Beach, Fla., actually met before they stepped foot on campus when they both were in high school.

“A lot of people don’t know is that me and Marlin knew each other before coming to Tennessee together through the top camps and things like that,” said Neal. “We are pretty familiar with each other. We know how to cut up and turn it on when you need to. It is some pretty thick competition. One thing he always tells me is if I don’t finish, he is going to get it.”

The one-two punch of Neal and Lane has combined for 1,028 yards this season, with Neal’s 693 yards on the ground leading the way for UT while Lane isn’t far behind with 335 yards of his own despite missing the Georgia game due to a lower extremity injury.

The duo has also scored a total of 12 touchdowns - eight for Neal and four for Lane - this season for the Vols.

“I think everybody needs a running mate,” Neal said. “We do a great job of running together.

There isn’t any ‘me first, I’m first’.

We try and feed off of each other and both go.”

Citing a specific instance from last week’s upset of No. 11 South Carolina, Neal recalled how he and Lane worked together to get UT down the field.

“A good example was the second scoring drive,” Neal said.

“Marlin got it started off, we had a couple of good runs, I came in right behind him, had a couple good runs and scored. I think that right there is what we have the most fun doing. Going in after each other, feeding and just trying to see who can finish it. It is exciting. Our coach always tells us, ‘You are only as strong as the guy behind you.’”

The two aren’t just dynamic on Saturdays, though. Throughout the week, Neal and Lane are constantly competing in practice and discussing how to help the team.

“We push each other,” Lane said. “We compete at practice,

we talk to each other off the field.

I’ll send him texts through the week and tell him what he thinks about getting 100 yards apiece this game.”

Lane noted how lucky the Vols are to have both himself and Neal in the backfield, a pair that few schools can match.

“It is nice. Some teams, when their running back gets hurt, their backup is not really ready to get in and they lost a beat,” Lane said, “But with us, if one of us gets banged up, we know once the other goes in we are going to pick up on the momentum and keep going, keep hitting our stride like no one was missing.”

The competition and drive each have provided the other is something running backs coach Robert Gillespie said “breeds success” and the success the two have shared this season has helped build their confidence.

“I think there is a confidence that we can run the ball on anybody,” Gillespie said. “As a playcaller, (offensive coordinator Mike) Bajakian is definitely confident in calling run plays, and as running backs I think that helps them stick their chests out a little bit and know that they can carry the load of this offense.”