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DISPATCHES U.S. considers increasing ground presence in Iraq

Archaeologists discover tomb, belonging to Bronze Age king

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter laid out American intentions to support forces operating against ISIS in Iraq and Syria during a meeting with the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday. Carter, who maintained the U.S. “wouldn’t hold back” from offering support to American allies against ISIS, hinted that increased ground forces may be a necessary option in order to insure victory in the region. The White House has yet to come to a decision as to how it will approach the issue of increasing ISIS success in the Middle East, according to defense and administrations sources.

While digging at Pylos, a city in the southwest coast at Greece, archaeologists unearthed a gravesite belonging to a wealthy Bronze Age king. The site’s excavation team recently uncovered a rare crypt holding the skeleton of a 30-to-35-year-old man, called “the Griffin Warrior” after a ivory griffin was found between his legs. Archaeologists have plans to perform DNA analysis on the warrior’s death and date objects using radiocarbon techniques. Given the gravesite’s wealth, experts report they are hopeful on the site’s potential to reveal more about the Minoan and Mycenaeans whose mysterious disappearance still remains a source of debate among scholars.

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What has been your favorite memory of UT? “Partying in the Fort, why not?”

What has made that so memorable?

“It’s just interesting the different types of people you meet.”

- Jordan Welsh, senior in history Alyssa White • The Daily Beacon

Beacon Correction

In Tuesday’s paper, The Daily Beacon incorrectly reported that the new Student Code of Conduct would be implemented beginning in January 2016. Vince Carilli and Board of Trustees members have approved the revisions, but implementation has no set date as it will require a review from the Tennessee Attorney General to ensure the code’s compliance with state law and statutes.

UT administrators estimate this process could take up to six months or longer before it is complete.

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UT provides relief for victims of South Carolina flooding

Alahna Ligon , Staff Writer

& Heidi Hill, Assistant News Editor This October marks the second time South Carolina has made national headlines this year.

The week before fall break, floods of historic proportions ripped through the South Carolina coast that ultimately killed 19 people.

Six died due to traffic related incidents, and 11 were killed in drowning incidents after driving through high water.

Because of the tons of water rushing inland, Interstate 95, which connects North and South Carolina, was shut down, forcing thousands of

travelers to reroute and find adequate shelter from the torrential rains.

South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, first recognized for initiative in removing the Confederate Flag from the state’s capitol, stated her disbelief during the dire weather circumstances.

“We haven’t seen this level of rain in the Lowcountry in 1,000 years,” Haley said in an Oct. 11 press conference.

But with efforts from a handful of UT students and Sally Parish, director of the Center for Leadership and Service, plans to rejuvenate the state with a week-long project for victims in need of relief from the flooding.

“The recent events in South Carolina have

led to a lot of devastation, a lot of lives lost and a lot of challenges people are experiencing in that region,” Parish said. “But our students here at UT are committed to being true volunteers.”

After organizing a campus wide effort, relief for affected South Carolinians came in the form of shelf food items, cleaning supplies and unopened personal hygiene supplies for Harvest Hope Food Bank in Columbia, South Carolina.

Additionally, monetary donations will be shared with local Red Cross chapter in the Palmetto State.

For Parish, these were the items needed for areas affected by the flooding, and her colleagues and students, she said, were more than willing to respond in kind.

“We’re just trying to do the best that we can from afar to support the efforts that they have there to rebuild their community,” Parish said.

Opportunities for monetary donations and supplies run until Nov. 5 before the South Carolina game on Nov 7. Though the University of South Carolina will not accept these donations, administrators have told Parish they will act as “intermediaries” for those who are in need of supplies.

“History will show you that for years and years and years, Tennessee has always been the first to step up when there’s a need in our community, nationally or abroad,” Parish said.

Rocky Top will always be “home sweet home” across the globe arrangement of the song cracked the Top 20 and debuted in Neyland Stadium during a Tennessee-Alabama game two years later.

W.J. Julian, the Southland’s director at the time, picked up on the overwhelming response from the crowds, keeping the song in the band’s repertoire, which still remains there today.

Though the university’s official fight song is “Down the Field,” the clear and consistent connection with campus will be solidified again this year when Del Bryant, son of “Rocky Top”

TAKE BACK THE NIGHT

Since the song debuted in Neyland Stadium in 1972, “Rocky Top” has become the calling card for every Vols fan and every football game ever since.

Though renown Nashville songwriters Boudleaux and Felice Bryant composed the song in a hotel room in Gatlinburg, USA

Today recently named it the best fight song in the world. Their original assignment was to compose a song for the then- comedy “Hee Haw” star Archie Campbell while sitting in the Gatlinburg Inn in 1967.

Prior to “Rocky Top,” the pair penned other hits like “Bye Bye Love,” “Love Hurts” and “All I Have To Do Is Dream.” The Osbourne Brothers recorded the hit in the same year, eventually breaking the Top 40 Billboard for country music. In 1970, Lynn Anderson’s

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songwriters, visits Knoxville for a second time during Homecoming week.

In his last visit, he paid homage to his parents’ accomplishment as songwriters and inherent spirit of UT with these words: “It’s the nostalgic plea for simple times that really resonates with everybody,” he said.

“There’s a longing there that is not quite sad, still a happy tempo, but that is what resonates with people and what the core of the song is about.”

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OIT policy sets guidelines, monitors use Personal use policy makes porn watching possible, but not unnoticed by OIT monitors Alahnah Ligon Staff Writer We’ve all watched it, though few would admit it.

In your dorm room, on the quiet floor of Hodges, even in class if you do not close your browser, pornography is a part of American culture and, subsequently, UT’s.

“If the dorms count as being on campus then yes, I was (watching pornography) on the reg on UT-WPA2 freshman year,” said *Jeff, a junior at UT. Like many students, Jeff spent a good deal of time in his dorm room alone with his computer,

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We’re not sitting there scanning all of that stuff every day. We don’t have a warrant to review that information.”

Joel Reeves, Chief Information Officer

by and large unconcerned with facing consequences from UT for what was popping up on his browser.

“I figured there were a bunch of other dudes doing the same thing, and they couldn’t get everybody in trouble,” he said. “I was old enough to legally look at it and everything, so I didn’t even really think about it.”

So, where does the Office of Information Technology (OIT) draw the line as to what users can view on devices?

The Acceptable Use of Information Technology Resources policy at UT, provided

by OIT, sets guidelines for network use on UT’s campus — including recreational visits to porn sites while on campus.

If users are accessing pornography over UT’s network, they may lose rights to that network if their actions are reported with necessary evidence. That evidence, however, is often hard to come by or not sought out except in cases where laws are broken.

Such a case occurred in 2010 when access to child pornography was reported to UT administration by the federal government. In most cases, however, OIT usually chooses to look the other way.

“We’re not sitting there scanning all of that stuff every day,” Joel Reeves, assistant vice chancellor and chief information officer, said. “We don’t have a warrant to review that information.”

Should a student or faculty member choose to report porn usage on UT’s network, OIT would be within their rights to restrict network usage for that user and possibly alert the administration depending on the nature of the pornography in question.

“If someone sees someone else is looking at pornography and tells us about it, we may or may not be in the position to investigate,” Reeves said. “We could shut them off, because they’re using the network, but someone would have to report it to us.”

Reeves explained that the networks on campus, like UT Open, act as an “interstate system” that connects users to applications on UT servers.

For services like Blackboard, Banner and MyUTK, OIT employees install patches and programs on a regular schedule to protect and monitor these applications. This cyber shield is strengthened for OIT employees because of a clause in the Acceptable Use policy that outlaws operating systems outside of those already accepted on campus.

Part of this standard of integrity enacts a policy that prohibits “excessive personal use” on the network which includes a myriad of

activities like running a business on the network, watching Netflix, discussing politics or even watching pornography.

Steve Keys, executive director of OIT Communications, said running a business increases the traffic on the network, and consequently limits access for others.

“All we ask is that you don’t run a (webbased) business out of your dorm room on the network,” Keys said. “There are other avenues to take to not use our network to do that.”

Netflix and other live streaming is not currently overseen by OIT, but the department sets network access within housing separate from the rest of campus.

But for David Cunningham, senior in computer science, avoiding the gaze of OIT’s monitors is simple, only requiring an easy download from TOR, a program that routes traffic from multiple sources by encrypting that traffic coming in and out of network servers.

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discuss politics, (pushing a stance) one way or another could be construed as lobbying and is in violation of policy.”

If users violate this policy, UTPD or other departments are called in, namely in cases of harassment, denial of service or other illegal activities.

“Denial of service attacks occur when a user harasses a business outside of UT by overloading their business with traffic, making it impossible to conduct business,” Reeves said.

OIT revoked a student’s access to the network last year when the student attempted to deny service to a business outside of UT. “If you’re not one of us, we’ll take steps to limit your access to our community,” Reeves said. “If you are one of us, we will lock your account, take away your credentials, and depending on your role at the university, you will deal with (Office of) Student Life, Human Resources or the Provost Office.”

If people are bothering to hide their traffic, it’s probably because they’re pirating films, file sharing, hacking or something like that.”

While Cunningham affirms this program’s ability to bypass the university network to stream movies or downloads files illegally, he also confirmed the tentative nature of OIT’s monitoring of porn sites, even those visited on campus.

“I really don’t think anybody is actually hiding their porn traffic from their school network,” he said. “If people are bothering to hide their traffic, it’s probably because they’re pirating films, file sharing, hacking or something like that.”

A less defined area of personal use, Reeves explained, is discussing politics or lobbying movements on the university’s network systems, citing Gov. Haslam’s recent outsourcing proposal as a primary example.

Though Reeves said individuals are “free to

David Cunningham,, senior in computer science

Other illegal activities detected through network monitoring are directed to UTPD or processed on a federal level, depending on the severity of the case.

Other breaches of security include, but are not limited to, state or federal online violations involving HIPPA or FERPA statutes.

“We monitor the network at all times to see if there is anything or anyone behaving on the network in a way that may cause problems for everybody else on the network,” Keys said.

“We try to detect it and (are) proactive, so that we can stop it from proliferating all over the network.” *Name has been changed due to request for anonymity.

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Learning the tango: it’s more than dancing Jesse Bellew

Contributor The Argentine Tango is known as the world’s most seductive and alluring dance.

On Monday nights in the Hollingsworth Auditorium, there is a Vol Tango class that teaches willing and wanting students, faculty and community members the art of graceful seduction through this dance. This Monday, I gave the tango a try.

This week, they had a special guest teacher, Karen Jaffe, and her partner-teacher, Tate Di Chiazza. Jaffe’s background includes a mix of theatre, gymnastics and many different dance styles. However, since 1997, Jaffe has committed herself completely to the art of the tango, and during Monday night’s two-and-a-half-hour class, she talked with an obvious love and passion for the dance.

While her main gig is running Tango Gypsies just across the border in Asheville, North Carolina, Jaffe travels all around the eastern seaboard to teach and practice with noted and inspirational dance instructors. But, her commitment does not stop there. About once a year, she treks down to Buenos Aires, Argentina, the home of the Tango, to fully immerse herself in

the culture and continue to improve and learn from the teachers in the Tango motherland. This is where her partner, Di Chiazza, comes in.

Di Chiazza is Argentinian by birth and lives in Buenos Aires to teach and continually learn more about the dance. Together, Chiazza and Jaffe are on a month-long tour that takes them up and down the east coast, including a stop in Knoxville.

The word “tango” probably rings a bell, but you might not know exactly what it is. Tango is a dance of passion and opposing forces that are a metaphor for life and love, as I learned from Jaffe and Di Chiazza. It is a dance with a variety of quick, elegant and elongated styles that were formed by both European and African cultures.

It all comes from the technique and connection between to the two dancers.

Disclaimer: I had never danced the Tango; the name barely rang a bell in my head. When I heard it, all I thought about was words that could rhyme with it: blango, bingo, bango, flango. Then, that thought process took me to the movie Rango, a cartoon about a cowboy lizard, but this is beyond the point.

The teachers took me in and showed me the most basic technique and form. First learning to shift weight from each foot on rhythm and then walking by myself in rhythm. Once I had that handled, I was immediately given a partner to

trample all over for the first few minutes.

After crunching a few toes and stepping out of rhythm more than a few times, I got in and felt the groove.

Like I said earlier, connection between partners was the key, so at the beginning of each dance we would start with an exercise that tried to build the connection between you and your partner. At one point we were just left in a hug — not dancing — hugging.

Then, after each dance we would switch our partners and start all over again to learn how this new person moves.

The hardest part is just getting the little detail movements down while keeping in sync with your partner. Knowing how to lead with your chest and not bulldozing over your partner. It’s gentle force and loving guidance.

Also, trying to look up and not step on your partners toes was awkwardly difficult, because each partner you had was a different height, so each of them took different length strides. In the end though, I like to dance, so it was just as much fun as I thought it would be.

Now that I’ve finally learned the Tango, one thing finally makes sense for me now in life and in dance. I’m sorry to say, but it’s true: it does take two to Tango.

In the Hollingsworth Auditorium on Monday nights, Vol Tango classes will teach anyone who wishes to learn.

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Local country folk band bolsters Knoxville fanbase Ana Tantaris Contributor The husband and wife musical duo Adam and Sarrenna McNulty have been sweeping the local music scene with their Bob Dylan-inspired, country-folk music group Guy Marshall.

In addition to the McNultys, Guy Marshall features other talents. The McNultys met Eric Griffin, for instance, going to church in their teens.

“Eric is the oldest member still with us,” Adam McNulty explained. “He started teaching me guitar, so we’ve been best friends since I was very young.”

Adam McNulty made the first moves to pursue a music career but was quickly joined

by Sarrenna McNulty and Griffin when they heard him perform.

“I wasn’t really singing with him then, but I had been hearing him sing,” Sarrenna McNulty said. “I loved music, but I wasn’t aware of how good he was. Eric was at that show, and his opinion meant a lot to me so we started playing together.”

The Guy Marshall sound has transformed as the supporting bandmates have changed.

“I think it’s evolved a lot,” Sarrenna McNulty said. “When we started out it was more of a folk with kind of a bluegrass sound to it, and now it has become more focused on going in a honky-tonk direction.”

Their classic, down-home country sound

with folk influences and intimate lyrics provide the perfect platform for storytelling, and that is what Guy Marshall is best known for.

“I would say it’s a lot of energy and stuff, and it has a kind of country feel focused around songwriting and harmonies,” Adam McNulty said. “We’ve got an incredibly tight rhythm section.”

The McNultys said that their greatest opportunity so far has been the production and release of their album “The Depression Blues.”

“I loved recording this album — getting to record in the studio,” Adam McNulty said.

“That, to me, has been one of my favorite experiences so far.”

Guy Marshall has been working on creating a more regional presence by playing shows in Johnson City, Bristol, North Carolina and

Virginia with their ever-growing Knoxville fanbase.

“We’ve been working on booking out-oftown gigs,” Sarrenna McNulty said. “It’s tough because a big part of it is networking; it’s a lot of work to get a little bit done.”

In addition to expanding their presence, the band has been working on new music.

“We’ve been writing a lot of songs and possibly have a produced album on the way, but I don’t really know what to say about that yet,” Adam explained.

Catch Guy Marshall tonight, as WDVX Tennessee Shines Presents: A Guy Marshall Halloween Special at Boyd’s Jig & Reel in the Old City. The doors open at 6 p.m., the show starts at 7 p.m. The cost is $10.

Chicago-based architect lectures on the latest innovations, designs Jared Sebby Contributor What do hovering streetlamps, microclimate design and biomechanical augmentation have in common?

According to Sean Lally, a futurist from the Chicago architecture firm WEATHERS, they represent a shifting period in architecture that is going to redefine what it means to be a designer.

As part of a book and lecture tour that brought him to the University of Tennessee Monday night, Lally spoke about how energy can be used to create individual spaces even without traditional walls or barriers. Most of the lecture was focused on microclimates — small areas of heat, light or energy — and how they can be used to separate people from the surrounding world.

“Energy is such a huge pressure today and is only seen as a fuel — something that goes in things,” Lally said. “It’s just an idea of saying ‘Let’s make energy an actual material, something that takes on bigger questions, bigger responsibilities in terms of organizing space.’”

Much of Lally’s work is built around the idea of sensory perception and the idea that people will perceive things differently as technology advances.

“How many of you are colorblind?” Lally asked, addressing the audience. “(Architects) don’t design for you. Not everyone will have the same senses in the future, and we have to figure out how to design for that.”

Lally’s inspiration stems from trends in the body modding community, referencing magnetic implants, robotic limbs and hightech contact lenses throughout his lecture. He believes these augmentations will fundamentally change the way we experience our world

and design our buildings in the future.

Despite their forward-thinking nature, few of his projects with Weathers have seen real-world success. Lally refers to these projects as experiments, testing new ideas to find applications in near-future landscape design and architecture.

“I’m not trying to get prolific (sic) and predict anything long-term,” Lolly said. “These are pressures that are upon us, and as architects, we’re in the best role suited to play it out, to get ahead of the curve.”

While Lally’s ideas may seem like science fiction, they clearly resonated with many of the students who attended the lecture. Fifth-year architecture major Trevor Mayes is already working to apply these concepts in his work.

“This lecture has been the most specific to what I’m doing at the time,” Mayes said.

“For me, it was the exact information that I’m looking at. The topics carried over quite a bit … Most of my studio work has been about

bridging the gap between environment and experience.”

After the lecture, Lally seemed pleased with the audience’s reception of his thoughts and emphasized the feasibility of them.

“I think what surprised me the most, going through the material, is how much of this stuff is essentially available,” Lally said. “There’s no need to turn to a sci-fi novel to figure this stuff out … None of this stuff is somehow futuristic in the sense that maybe one day we’ll have this.

We can start tomorrow. We don’t have to wait too long.”

The Church Lecture Series is free and open to the public. The next lecture is Tatiana Bilbao’s “Aftermath” on Nov. 9 at 5:30 p.m. All lectures take place in room 109 of the Art and Architecture building. Lally’s new book, “The Air from Other Planets,” is available now.

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The tremendous impact of plastic bags

Don Black Fireside Chatter

Although small in size, plastic bags significantly impact the environment and the size of our wallets.

Each year, around 750 billion plastic bags are consumed worldwide — the vast majority of which are not recycled or, at the very least, not recycled correctly.

Additionally, plastic bags are not biodegradable, which increases the litter on our streets, the trash in our landfills and otherwise natural surroundings.

An example of this can be seen in the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” an area of land in the Pacific Ocean where the ocean currents meet, creating a “garbage soup” that is currently estimated to be the size of the state of Texas.

It is also estimated that plastic goods make up over 80 percent of all marine pollution, affecting the 44 percent of all seabirds who have mistakenly eaten plastic, as well as over 260 species of marine life.

Besides the effects of pollution, the production of plastics in the United States consumes a great deal of energy. In fact, the energy involved in making plastics is generated almost entirely from fossil fuels, like petroleum and natural gas, and accounts for three percent of America’s fossil fuel consumption, without even accounting for the fuel required to transport the bags from place to place.

While the environmental costs of plastic bags are important, the economic costs are significant as well.

Plastic bags typically cost somewhere between two and nine cents per bag, depending on the thickness and the design of the bag. The University of Tennessee’s bags fall toward the pricier side of that range. The cities of Austin and San Francisco have also estimated that the cost to dispose of a plastic bag, typically to a landfill and often found as litter on city streets, is between three and five cents per bag.

Considering that 100 billion plastic bags are consumed yearly in the United States, these seemingly nominal costs begin to add up quickly. Although this price is initially paid by businesses and the government, it is eventually passed down to consumers who suffer from both higher product prices and higher taxes.

Progress on this issue is, however, being made across the world. Many countries, including Pakistan, Mali and China, have declared outright bans on plastic bags. Several American cities, such as Washington D.C, have instituted a small fee on the bags and have seen their consumption fall by over 70 percent.

Government officials in Tennessee and university administrators should follow suit and display the moral leadership that their position of authority

grants them. All measures to reduce the consumption of plastic bags should be considered, and the proposal of adding a fee on plastic bags similar to Washington D.C. is a common sense solution. It is important to note that such a fee should not be considered a tax; instead, it is simply charging businesses for the clean up and disposal services of plastic bags the municipalities already provide.

The prevalence of one-time use consumable products, like plastic bags, in the United States is not just a financial and an environmental issue. It is a moral issue. Protecting the common good, whether through the preservation of the environment or the protection of consumers, is exactly what government is for.

Placing a fee on plastic bags is not bad government or big government. It is smart government. It is government ready for the future, where ‘unsustainable’ is a new dirty word.

Don Black is a sophomore in civil engineering and a member of the UTK Roosevelt Institute. He can be reached at dblack17@vols.utk.edu.

This column is part of a public policy-centered series written by members of the UTK Roosevelt Institute.

The importance of good science communicated well.

Elle Johnson I Learned Something

In case you’ve been living under a rock the past few weeks, Bill Nye the Science Guy is giving a lecture at UT Thursday evening, and I must admit that I, like the rest of the university, am ecstatic for his arrival.

At UT, we are privileged to a wide variety of brilliant minds coming to speak to us nearly every week, but the amount of enthusiasm expressed for Bill Nye’s lecture has gone far beyond what I have seen for any other guest at UT. As I’ve watched Facebook post after Facebook post about Bill Nye on my newsfeed this past week, I have found myself pondering why people, including myself, care so much. Yes, I do recognize that it is Bill Nye, the one and only Science Guy, but when we are surrounded by so many regular opportunities to immerse ourselves in respected, intellectual speakers on campus, why do we seem to love Bill so much?

It’s all about the communication.

Science research is booming and changing the prospects of our future everyday. A search through Google Scholar for topics relevant to our lives can often come up with research responses such as “Contribution of intra-abdominal fat accumulation to the impairment of glucose and lipid metabolism in human obesity” or “Bacillus cereus, the causative agent of an emetic type of foodborne illness.” Long, I know. Someone outside of the laboratory may be able to decipher those titles, or even the articles within

them, but they don’t necessarily strike the average person with the urge to read them.

In a recent study based on standardized testing, the United States lags behind 25 other developed nations in our science proficiency. In addition, a report from the Pew Research Center showed that in our nation on average, a large discrepancy exists between scientists and the public on the basic understandings of current science issues, such as climate change, human evolution and the importance of vaccines. For example, while nearly 90 percent of scientists agree that genetically modified foods are safe, only 37 percent of the public agrees as well.

It’s clear there is a need for better science comprehension in our nation, but most of the resources still feel like reading a novel written in an obscure foreign language.

Bill Nye combats just that, and combines comedy, acting and his educational background to keep science understandable and enjoyable for all. Most known for his popular running children’s television series from 1993 to 1998, Bill Nye has encouraged young people to pursue and to love science for years and has continued his mission through appearances on public media. He has even begun reaching out to a more mature demographic, through participation in the widely publicized debate he undertook with Ken Ham about creationism.

Everyday, certain politicians try to convince us that climate change is a hoax, among other scientific and environmental issues. While personal opinion on these issues is neither here nor there in this column, all Americans should have a right to access comprehensible facts and information regarding significant scientific topics in our culture. Important choices regarding subjects such as these should only be made using the facts, not simply the opinions of our trainedto-please politicians, and it is only with science communicators, such as Bill Nye, that we can hope to achieve that standard.

As a student working to combine communication studies and science related topics into a cohesive program to better educate our nation on important issues, I believe Bill Nye to be a role model, and if you can find me tomorrow night watching his lecture, I will more than likely be in absolute awe. I’m thrilled to see so many of my peers as excited for his arrival as I am, but it is crucial that we understand his purpose and push the science communication field to thrive.

Bill Nye may stand in our eyes as the one and only Science Guy, but I hope that one day, maybe I can stand as a Science Gal of sorts.

Elle Johnson is a sophomore in College Scholars.

She can be reached at ejohn100@vols.utk.edu.

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

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Women’s basketball team will have strong leadership Trenton Duffer Copy Editor Throughout Bashaara Graves’ life, her mother, Keinya, has given her one piece of advice: keep looking forward. You are going to hit a wall.

You just get back up and try again.

Now coming off a nagging shoulder injury, the senior forward will look to move forward into one of the most anticipated seasons that coach Holly Warlick has experienced in her four years as the Lady Vols’ head coach.

When asked about the injured shoulder, Graves said that she felt “great� and is working her shoulder more and more every day. “I’ve got my strength back in it. I took a little time off just so it can feel better, and so I can focus on rehab and getting it ready for the season,� Graves said at the Lady Vols’ media day on Tuesday.

The Clarksville, Tennessee native began playing basketball at the age of nine, when she competed with boys and girls alike in recreation leagues. After showing up a few of the boys, Graves moved on to high school, where she became an All-American in almost every poll.

After her 2,397-point, 1,591-rebound career at Clarksville High School, Graves made the jump to college with relative ease, earning SEC Freshmen of the Year honors in 2012-13.

Last year, Graves averaged 10.6 points and

Head coach Holly Warlick with her players. • File Photo seven rebounds per game. Both categories were improvements from her sophomore year, but both were also down from her freshman year.

With the injury to former Lady Vol Isabelle Harrison, Graves stepped up and saw career highs in assists, at 74, and blocks, at 19, with the then-senior Harrison on the bench.

Graves admits she did not try anything to change up her game. She just focused on letting the game come to her more. “Every year, I want to add something to my game,� Graves said. “(I was) just trying to expand my game and show different things to my team and coaches.�

Now, Graves is one of two seniors on the team, along with Nia Moore, who are looking to help lead the team to success. Expectations are high after earning a second place preseason pick in the SEC behind last year’s winner, South Carolina.

The former SEC All-Freshmen team member has been a leader to many of the current freshmen.

One of those freshman is Te’a Cooper, who admits that playing with Graves on the court is like playing with a “bull.� “She’s competitive and just an amazing player all around,� Cooper said. “She teaches us that giving up is not an option. If there’s a little drill where we can jog with it, she wants us to go hard. She’s a wonderful leader, and she’s just pushing us to greatness.�

Coach Warlick has also seen Graves grow as a leader during the off-season. “I don’t know if it’s a clichĂŠ, but she bleeds by her effort,â€? Warlick said. “Bashaara is not our

most vocal player, but she’s one of our hardest working players, and that’s how she’s been successful in this program ‌ I watch her, and the competitive spirit is back, her hard-working in the gym is back. “She’s playing now extremely strong, playing back to where she should be and where we need her to be.â€?

Injury Report: Jaime Nared will miss three to four weeks after breaking her left hand, Warlick said Tuesday.

Warlick said somebody stepped on Nared’s hand. “All I had to do was look at it because I’ve had a broken hand and two broken wrists, so I’m a professional doctor,� Warlick said. “I can diagnose a lot of injuries now, especially anything to do with the hands. So, it is broken, and she’ll be out three to four weeks.�

Nared said the goal is to return before the season opener, but she also does not want to rush anything. “I want to be smart about it,� Nared said. “And make sure (the hand) is fully healed, so I don’t hurt it again.�

Warlick said that Diamond DeShields has been limited in practice but will still be ready to go when the season arrives. “I think Diamond, we’re still going slow with her,� Warlick said. “She’s not on the floor 100 percent; we’re just watching her with contact. “She’s going to be fine. She’ll be ready to go.�

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Senior Devon Baulkman attempts to dunk the ball during the game against South Carolina in Spring 2015.

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Vols and Davidson to play on Sunday Troy Provost-Heron Training Editor In his first game action as Tennessee’s basketball coach, Rick Barnes will face a familiar opponent.

The Vols will kick off their 2015-16 season with a scrimmage that will be closed to the public and media on Sunday against Davidson, who has been a regular scrimmage opponent for Barnes and his teams at Texas over the last “eight to 10 years.”

“We’ll get a really good gauge (of where we are),” Barnes said Tuesday. “Of all the things we do, we’ve felt for years on years that scrimmaging Davidson is the best thing we can do because they do so many great things that they expose you in so many different areas of the game that we’ll learn so much from this scrimmage.”

The scrimmage with the Wildcats, who were bounced from the NCAA tournament in the first round last season as a No. 10 seed after an 83-52 loss to seven-seed Iowa, was scheduled after the Vols moved their original season-opening exhibition game against Slippery Rock to the 2016-17 season.

“We stopped doing exhibition games a long time ago because we felt like we weren’t getting what we needed out of them,” Barnes said.

“With the rules, we get four hours to scrimmage, so we get two (hours) in the morning and two (hours) in the afternoon, so we’ll get to play some games and some special situations in whatever time we have. You just have so much more time to do more.”

UT opened up practice on Oct. 2, and after four weeks of laying the foundation for the style of play it is going to play, the Vols are excited to show what they can do against competition

other than themselves.

“I think it’ll be really fun,” senior guard Devon Baulkman said. “It’ll give us a new look to how the team is now and what we’ve learned from Coach Barnes. It’ll be something new for us, but I think everybody is excited for this scrimmage coming up.

“We’re going to treat it like a game and we’re going to take our time day by day to get better in practice leading up to it.”

To get better, the Vols will be focusing mostly on the defensive end.

The Vols ranked 112th in the nation last year in scoring defense, allowing 64.2 points per game while also letting opponents shoot 43.9 percent from the field, which ranked 222nd in the nation, and those struggles have carried over into practices thus far.

“We’re not very good defensively,” Barnes said. “Players in general want to score their way into the lineup, but I think we have to get better defensively. We will really get exposed this weekend, I promise you, because of the way we are (playing defense). We have a couple of days to clean it up and see if we can get better, but this weekend is going to be great for us either way.”

Davidson, though, will also provide a measuring stick for the Vols fast-paced offense, which aims to score in seven seconds or less.

The Wildcats averaged 113.8 points per 100 possessions last season, a mark that placed them fifth in the nation in offensive efficiency.

“I feel like it is going to be good playing Davidson,” sophomore guard Detrick Mostella said. “They run a lot of things we run and I feel like if they do better than we do, that’s just another teaching point.”

Tennessee fans will get their first opportunity to see the Vols when they host Division II Alabama-Huntsville in an exhibition game inside Thompson-Boling Arena on Nov. 6 at 7 p.m.

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Head Coach Beth Alford-Sullivan looks forward to attending to the SEC Championship at College Station, Texas with the Vols cross country team.

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Young Volunteer track team preparing for SEC Championship Shane Switzer Staff Writer After a season of hard work and following the process, a young Vols cross country team travels to College Station, Texas for the SEC Championships.

Coach Beth Alford-Sullivan is looking forward to the challenge.

“There’s something about the league meet and pulling the competition together and knowing exactly who is your competition and what’s at stake,” Alford-Sullivan said. “Seeing the team and individuals adapt to the pressures of that.”

With most of the team, both the men and women, being either true or redshirt freshman, Alford-Sullivan is especially interested to see who steps up and who embraces the conference championship the most.

Last season the men finished seventh while the women finished 11th. With so much youth, the results might not be as favorable this time around. Still, Alford-Sullivan would like her team to outdo its rankings and outdo what is expected of it.

“I feel good about the upperclassmen, our seniors,” Alford-Sullivan said. “As well as these young kids getting their first SEC Championship under their belt.”

Two of those seniors are All-American Chelsea Blaase and Kyle Walter. AlfordSullivan said Blaase is “in it to win it,” and after her results last season and to this point this season, she might be the favorite. In two previous races this season, Blaase has finished first and third. In her third place finish at PreNationals, the next closest SEC runner was

Marta Freitas from Mississippi State. Freitas finished 13 seconds behind Blaase.

In nine of her last 12 races, Blaase has finished in the top three, and she finished third at last year’s SEC Championships.

Walter, a Knoxville native, is also coming off a strong Pre-Nationals performance, where he ran in the top 10 during the race before slipping back during the last mile to finish 18th. “Our senior leader is poised and ready and aiming for a great finish as well,” AlfordSullivan said.

Freshmen sisters Julia and Jessica Rizor have performed well for the women’s team all year and will look to continue that trend this weekend. In the last race, Julia Rizor led the team for the first time with her sister close behind. Jessica Rizor was the women’s top finisher in the first two races of the season.

“They have been doing great,” AlfordSullivan said. “They continue to just step it up in training, step it up in practice. They’re pretty cool, calm and collected kids. They don’t seem to get too nervous or too woundup. They just kind of go out and do what the task at hand is.”

Alford-Sullivan believes the sisters will handle the bigger stage of the SEC Championships just fine and will perform well.

On a lighter note, Alford-Sullivan and her coaching staff took the entire track and field/ cross country team to a haunted house last Friday night.

“It was outstanding. We had a great time,” Alford-Sullivan said.

She said that everyone has been putting in so much hard work that it was fun to do something out of the normal routine, relax and have fun.

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Martin forcing Vols to re-open cornerback competition Taylor White Assistant Sports Editor

Jonathan Toye Sports Editor

After Alabama easily marched down the field for a touchdown on its first drive in Saturday’s win over Tennessee, the Vols made the decision to take cornerback Emmanuel Moseley off the field in favor of Justin Martin.

The sophomore junior college transfer looked to be challenging for a starting spot in fall camp before going down with a knee injury, and his time against the Crimson Tide was his most extensive work of the season.

The move paid off for Tennessee as Martin recorded seven solo tackles and a pass break-up as the Vols held Alabama to just 12 points the rest of the game.

“I think Justin has made really good progress,” defensive coordinator John Jancek said after Tuesday’s practice. “He made some plays, and showed up on a jet sweep one time that was really impressive. He’s getting better, he’s getting better.”

After the knee injury held Martin out for a couple weeks of practice, the Nashville, Tennessee native has played in all seven games this season, but the coaching staff has steadily increased his reps throughout the year.

Moseley has started every game this season, but now that Martin has shown he’s ready for more snaps the competition at corner is open again.

“Now he’s in a very competitive situation with Emmanuel,” Jancek said. “He’s looking to earn that starting position. I think he did a lot of good things on Saturday. I’ve got a lot more confidence in him and I know coach (Willie) Martinez has a lot more confidence in him. He’s in a competitive situation with Emmanuel.”

Freshmen stepping up: Playing in Alabama’s Bryant-Denny Stadium is difficult for the most veteran offensive lineman, let alone a true freshman making his first career start.

That’s the situation Tennessee’s Jack Jones (right guard)and Chance Hall (right tackle) found themselves in on Saturday.

Due to injures to Jashon Robertson and Brett Kendrick, the duo found themselves in the lineup during the first half of Tennessee’s win over Georgia on Oct. 10. After neither player was able to return in time for the Crimson Tide, that left Jones and Hall to anchor down the right side of Tennessee’s offensive line.

Hall spent his high school career on the defensive line, and wasn’t able to fully participate in spring practice despite enrolling early due to a torn achilles he suffered his senior year. That makes his quick grasp of the position that much

Sophomore Justin Martin waits for the tackle against an Alabama opponent.

Hayley Pennesi • The Daily Beacon/ Tennessee Athletics more impressive to his coaches.

“He just mentally has really grasped all that we’ve thrown at him,” offensive line coach Don Mahoney said. “Coming off of his injury, we were trying to figure out where he was at physically. Mentally he’s a smart player. He understand things really well, and he understands defenses more.

“Coming into the sixth game of the year against Georgia, he and Jack both were coming along as far as playing faster and knowing if a mistake happened, why it happened.”

One of the nation’s best pass rushes was still able to impact the game, though, as the Crimson Tide sacked Tennessee quarterback Josh Dobbs five times, including the game sealing strip sack in the final minutes of the game.

Despite the numbers, Mahoney felt that the two young players were able to hold their own in a hostile environment and is excited about the future of his unit.

“There were some things they did well,” Mahoney said. “Then there were some things we need to fix and improve on. Their overall approach is getting better and better. When you play the quality opponents that we do, they are getting more mature than most freshmen.

“They understand and get that, ‘hey, I thought I was prepared, but I need to prepare even more.’

They’re going to keep growing, though, their attitude is fantastic ... Against Georgia and even last week, I never saw them on the sideline in a moment with their eyes big and they were out of their element. That’s positive and that’s them being mature.”

Happy Blocking: Tennessee wide receivers coach Zach Azzanni said Jauan Jennings has worked on his run blocking.

Freshman Jack Jones makes his first career start against Alabama. Justin Keyes • The Daily Beacon That work paid off in a big way last Saturday Jennings delivered a devastating block against an Alabama defender that gave Jalen Hurd plenty of space to score a 12-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter in the Vols’ 19-14 loss to the Crimson Tide.

“It was tremendous,” Azzanni said. “It wasn’t pretty, but he got the job done and that was exciting for him. He came over and he was just as excited as if he scored a touchdown.

“That was big time and I am proud of him.”

Azzanni said run blocking is an essential responsibility for a wide receiver. A good wide receiver can both catch and block.

When Tennessee is running the football, the wide receivers might as well be offensive

linemen.

“You can always tell a kid’s football character by what they do when they don’t have the ball in their hands,” Azzanni said. “We always say: ‘We don’t want pass catchers, we want wide receivers.’ “ Running backs coach Robert Gillespie appreciates the wide receivers’ effort to effectively run block.

“The big runs come from those guys making blocks,” Gillespie said. “You can put the film on every week, those guys are laying on the line to make sure we get plays down the field so as a running back group we appreciate those guys with the way they strain to make blocks for those long runs.”