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Law suit filed in response to passing of Amendment 1 Hayley Brundige News Editor (@hayleybrundige) “If you vote ‘yes’ on 1, but don’t vote in the governor’s race, you’ll double your vote.”

These are the words of a video posted on a pro-Amendment 1 website prior to the midterm elections,

instructing voters to skew voting procedures in their favor. By this reasoning, voters could lower the threshold of votes needed to pass the amendment and win with a smaller majority.

The highly-contentious amendment grants the state legislature more power to pass laws regulating and restricting abortion. When the polls closed on the night of Nov. 4, it was announced that

Amendment 1 had passed with 52.61 percent of the vote.

In response, opponents of the antiabortion amendment filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block the vote from being officially certified. The plaintiffs, ranging in background from law to medicine to religion, challenged the state’s vote tabulation procedures and brought the action against Governor

Bill Haslam, Secretary of State Tre Hargett and other officials.

Specifically, the lawsuit claims the state was not in compliance with Article XI, Section Three of the Tennessee Constitution, which states once a proposed amendment has passed through the state legislature and citizens then “approve and ratify such amendment ... by a majority of

all the citizens of the state voting for governor,” the amendment will pass.

According to tn.gov, 1,385,178 Tennesseans voted on Amendment 1 728,751 in favor and 656,427 opposed - while 1,352,608 voted for a candidate in the governor’s race.

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P.O.S.E. members use HSS as a runway to show off their style. Melodi Erdogan • The Daily Beacon

Style organization hones students’ style, confidence Melodi Erdogan Copy Editor (@melodierdogan) On a regular day, the humanities building is bustling with students. But when the building is basically deserted on Sunday afternoons the long, narrow classrooms and the brightly lit halls of the top most floor become runways.

People of Style and Education is the only

organization on campus geared towards students interested in the beauty and fashion industries. The group of 25 students meets weekly and participates in group and individual runway walks. Since established in 2008, P.O.S.E. Vice President Malak Al Duraidi said the group has “become one of the elite groups on campus when it comes to fashion, ‘swagger’ and most importantly academics.”

“The People of Style and Education hopes to not only present the campus with a sense of style, but we also hope that we can become leaders on campus,” she said via email. “I hope that our members will continue the bond we have amongst each other and help members in all aspects of their college experience.”

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You Just Don’t brings experimental sound to Scruffy City Jenna Butz Arts & Culture Editor (@butzjenna)

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For Joshua Manis, it’s all about variation when it comes to his solo project.

Manis, a founding member of local indie rock band Gamenight, has branched off with his solo project, You Just Don’t, writing and recording more experimental songs than he would normally produce with his other band.

The project’s title, You Just Don’t, stems from a quote in the movie, “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape” where Johnny Depp’s character tells the

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female lead, You just don’t.

“It just stuck,” Manis said, shaking his head. “It was a very powerful moment in the movie and just stuck.”

Though You Just Don’t officially formed in 2005 when Manis was 19, his first solo, full-length album just released last month. After his friends pushed him to record his solo songs, Manis finally took the time to collect and record the 10 songs found on this album.

Manis began playing music after receiving a drum set in the seventh grade for Christmas.

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“Go ahead: scold T-Swift for not being enough of a feminist. She’s just going to shake it off.”

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When Tennessee faced off against South Carolina in 2013, Marquez North made several critical catches that propelled the Volunteers to victory.

In 2014’s version of UT beating the Gamecocks, the storyline couldn’t be replicated as North sat on the bench, sidelined by a shoulder injury that he suffered early in the game.

The Vols, however, never missed a beat with their leader in touchdown catches (4) absent from the lineup, as eight different players caught a pass and combined for 301 yards receiving.

“We have a lot of good players out there,” wide receivers coach Zach Azzanni said. “We don’t even have Josh Smith in there, and we still have a lot of playmakers out there that can make some plays. We’ve been trying to get more playmakers while recruiting so that we don’t skip beats when guys go out.

“If we lose one guy and all of a sudden we can’t complete a ball, we’re in trouble.”

While the UT receiving corps showed no signs of trouble against the Gamecocks, North’s absence will not be a long one, with Azzanni stating that the 6-foot-4, 221pound wideout will be a “full-go” when the Vols take on Kentucky Saturday inside Neyland Stadium.

“He’s been up and down a little bit with dings here and there this season,” Azzanni said. “He’s coming along, but it is that time of year, so I’m trying to make sure that he stays healthy.”

But North’s health is questionable.

Throughout the week, the Charlotte, N.C., native has donned a green no-contact jersey to prevent his shoulder from further injury and it is possible that he could be limited versus the Wildcats.

In the case that North is unable to play his normal amount of snaps, his receiving counterpart, Alton “Pig” Howard, is confident the rest of the Vols’ receivers will be able to shoulder the load once again.

“It causes other receivers to take more reps,” Howard said. “It makes us a little short here and there, but all around we have players that can step in. When one goes down, one steps up, but Marquez brings a lot to the table when it comes to playing.”

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CAMPUS NEWS continued from Page 1 Tracey George, a professor of political science at Vanderbilt University and a litigator by training, began planning the lawsuit before the polls were even open.

“It was clear before the election that the state was planning not to follow the state constitutional requirement for how they should calculate votes,” George said.

To Will Brewer, a spokesman for Tennessee Right to Life, the lawsuit represents an attempt to circumvent the results of a fair election.

“We believe that, once again, abortion supporters in Tennessee are trying to take away the voice of the people and give it to unelected judges,” Brewer said.

According to the suit, the counting method violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by “diluting the votes on Amendment 1” of those who voted for governor.

Conversely, the voters who chose not to cast a vote for governor had their voices “overvalued.”

“We’ve never had a year as we did this year where it was so apparent, both in terms of the (prior) planning and the results, that people were trying to increase the value of their vote on the amendment by not voting in the governor’s race,” George said.

Kenneth T. Whalum, Jr., a plaintiff in the case and a pastor at the New Olivet Baptist Church in Memphis, said the lawsuit is “an opportunity to truly determine the will of Tennessee voters.”

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-Tracey George While George claims the Tennessee Constitution is “extraordinarily clear” on the required vote-counting methods, Blake Fontenay, communications director for the department of state, maintained that the Election Commission did not violate the law.

“It’s our stance that the lawsuit is not valid,” Fontenay said. “Our position is that whether or not you voted in the governor’s race, that doesn’t affect your eligibility to cast a ballot for the constitutional amendments.”

Richard Briggs, the seventh district’s newly-elected state senator, said the lawsuit becomes a “bigger issue” because it could call into question the amendments that have been passed since the 1953 Constitutional Convention.

“All of those could be invalidated,” Briggs said. “I think any court would then have to resolve that issue and that question too.”

George, however, said she doubts the suit by itself would have an effect on any previously passed amendment. Before

Amendment 1, George said using the traditional form of voting tabulation was largely a “non-issue.”

Instead, the concern was the large drop-off in votes between the governor’s race and the ballot initiatives.

While George recognized that re-evaluating the results of the vote on Amendment 1 would be difficult for the state election commission, she said she believes it is vital in such a close race.

“Calling it inconvenient implies that it’s a choice,” George said. “It’s not a choice. That would be like the legislature saying, well, we got really close, we were just one vote shy, so we’re going to let this amendment go on the ballot.”

Additionally, George noted state officials have not taken into account the absentee, provisional and military votes on the amendment, making the passage of the law unverified.

Whether the amendment stays in place or the lawsuit succeeds, Leticia Flores, associate director of the UT Psychological Clinic, said the conversation surrounding the amendment can only promote awareness of election procedures and the impact the law could have.

“I don’t know how successful the lawsuit will be, but I think it’s always good to ensure that processes are carried out fairly,” Flores said. “What is the popular saying? If you haven’t done anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about.”

The first hearing in the case is set for U.S. District Court in Nashville on Jan. 12.

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Team Tennessee works toward EcoCAR 3 goal Chris Salvemini Contributor

The EcoCAR 3 Tennessee team received a $20,000 donation Tuesday and a Chevy Camaro from General Motors to begin their four year project.

A collegiate endeavor, EcoCAR 3 pits 16 universities across the country against each other in friendly competition to see which school can best re-design and rebuild the provided Camaro to improve its performance and maneuverability while drastically reducing its environmental impact.

After the check and car are given, the teams are on their own.

“I’m proud to be a part of such a forward-thinking and innovative competition,” said Nick Ponzio, graduate student and Team Tennessee’s business team manager.

The check was presented outside the Dougherty Engineering Building, where the team plans to work on the Camaro. General Motors was one of the founding companies for the EcoCAR challenge and has been an involved member since. The United States Department of Energy has also partnered with General Motors to assist in the organi-

zation of the competition.

Mark A. Schang, General Motor’s designer, personally presented the check and expressed his excitement for Team Tennessee’s involvement.

“I’m proud to be in Knoxville and support future leaders,” Schang said.

Team Tennessee is divided into three sections: the engineering team, the communications team and the business team. The students on each team are responsible for different components of the challenge, like community outreach, getting sponsors and sketching the actual design for the car.

A list showcases the late Howard Baker’s antique automobile collection which will be sold in auction to benefit the Howard H. Baker Center for Public Policy.

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Baker’s antique automobile collection to be auctioned Tanner Hancock Copy Editor

Giving back to the community, even after his time has passed.

The late Howard Baker’s antique automobile collection will be sold in auction to benefit the Howard H. Baker Center for Public Policy per the former senator’s instructions.

In addition to his antique cars, former Senator Baker leaves behind a legacy of success and pride from his work in the U.S. government.

Serving as both White House chief of staff to Ronald Reagan and later ambassador to Japan, Baker was a member of the Senate Committee in the midst of the Watergate scandal and is best remembered for his now historic question, “What did the president know and when did he know it?”

Matthew Murray, professor of economics and director of the Baker Center remarked on Baker’s “wonderful wit and sense of humor,” and commented on the privilege he felt working with a politician he’d watched on TV as a child.

“To have the opportunity to work with him … It’s not an opportunity most people get,” Murray said. “My opportunity to work with folks who have been in significant positions of power and influence has really been a wonderful experience.”

For Murray, Baker’s final gesture of generosity to the Baker Center illustrates the man’s dedication to the university and those he worked with.

“Anyone who over the course of their life loved something and collected things … to then decide to dispose of them in this particular fashion, I don’t really know what words to put around it,” Murray said.

“I really think it was a sign that he cherished the Baker Center and wanted to see the Baker Center succeed, so much so that he was willing to give his prized collection of automobiles.”

The executive committee of the Baker Center Board is currently watching over the collection, which includes classic American cars spanning four generations. Murray is part of this team, working with his fellow board members to appraise the automobiles and find a suitable auctioning outlet.

“We’re just looking at those

alternatives and trying to figure out the best path down which to proceed,” Murray said.

While Murray said he was hesitant to give a precise value for the collection, he estimated it could range anywhere from $300,000 to $700,000 in value, depending on the eagerness of the bidders.

“These cars are very unique,” Murray explained. “All it would take would be a couple of dueling bidders to drive up the value.”

All the funds garnered from the auction will go the benefit the Howard H. Baker Center, but no precise plan on how the money will be utilized has yet been developed.

Janice Williams, president of the East Tennessee Region Antique Automobile Club of America, had the chance to view the former senator’s collection while Baker was still alive.

“My personal favorite is the Studebaker,” Williams said of the collection, commenting that she herself grew up with a car from the now defunct auto industry.

“To me, the Studebaker company was always ‘ahead of its time’ in style.”

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ARTS & CULTURE YOU JUST DON’T continued from Page 1 However, his brother, also a part of Gamenight, was gifted a guitar and the two switched off until Manis kept the guitar and his brother the drums.

“I was a kid, and I guess I just wanted to be cool,” Manis chuckled. “In eighth grade, I was really into Metallica. I liked their guitar stuff, so I tried to learn their songs. I’d stay home from school sometimes like, ‘I’m sick,’ play Zelda and Metallica songs.”

By the end of high school, Manis grew more comfortable writing as well as playing as he left Knoxville to attend Middle Tennessee State University to pursue a degree in music business, which he admits he’s “not really using that degree that much.”

After graduating with his degree and a thirst to share his music, Manis searched for a job in Nashville, or at least in Murfressboro, but a “weird” living situation and a lack of finances led him to return to the Scruffy City. However, Manis didn’t mind returning home to Gamenight.

“My band was still here, so while I was in school there, I would drive home as much as I could to practice, and I would write stuff there and send it to them,” Manis explained. “It was just kind of hard, so we were

pretty unproductive for those three years. I kind of wanted to be closer to them to, and it made sense financially and logistically with the band.”

In the transition from Gamenight to You Just Don’t, Manis found he could use his solo project to also delve into the more intimate side of his personality.

“But there’s also — it’s kind of like my personality in general.

I’ve got to have alone time, like quite a bit,” Manis confessed.

“It’s not good for dating life, but I like to have alone time, so I spent some of that — I don’t know. I just like to write alone too, having no distractions whatsoever … I guess that balance of having people around and having alone time made me want to record and write stuff on my own.”

At first, You Just Don’t gave Manis the chance to try out his acoustic material he didn’t think would fit Gamenight. From there, it grew into an opportunity to attempt to play every instrument on the record, allowing Manis to express the full extent of creative desires.

“I like dabbling on any instrument, so I guess it was sort of a selfish thing — I want to try to play everything on a project; it would be fun,” Manis explained.

“I had a lot of material that I was writing, and I wanted to keep trying to pump it out. Some songs wouldn’t fit the band, so I made them my own … That’s one reason for the solo project because

Special Projects Editor

More than 60 years ago, a young, blonde Knoxvillian plotted her chance to become involved with UT’s fledgling Carousel Theatre. She would do anything, she swore to her mother — even usher.

“I was the best usher they had ever had,” Carol Mayo Jenkins, now a UT artist-in-residence in acting, said with a laugh. “I brought all my little high school friends, and we got all dressed up.

I was there every night, and I saw every show all summer long.”

Jenkins, who professes to have “always known” she wanted to perform, used the experience as a means of making connections and summoning the courage to audition. That fall, the 18-yearold was chosen for her first role opposite John Cullum in “The Petrified Forest,” and what was to be a lengthy acting career began.

Despite her natural passion for acting, Jenkins, who is most commonly known for starring in the award-winning television series “Fame,” insists her talent was not as inherent.

“I’m not what you would think of as a performer — I’m very shy,” Jenkins said. “It took me years to learn how to act, but that’s what I wanted to do.”

After a combined year at Vanderbilt first then UT without academic achievement — “All I did was be in plays” — 19-yearold Jenkins made the decision to pursue acting full time. She persuaded her father, a successful local OB/GYN, to send her to London’s Central School of

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Jenkins still learning after 60-year journey from usher to actress Speech and Drama. He agreed, and the teenaged Jenkins traveled alone for her first time to England. She had no idea she’d remain there six years, nor did she suspect she would help to found a new theater school, Drama Centre London, during that time.

“That was really scary at first,” she said. “No one could understand me, and I couldn’t understand them. I had a deep Southern accent, this soft little girl southern voice, and it was really scary.”

Jenkins managed to study and successfully adopt the lilting tone of her British friends from Manchester. This skill for cultivating accents has since served her well in many productions, cousin Phil Claxton said.

“She had the lead in ‘The Trip to Bountiful,’ which was set in Texas, in the spring,” Claxton said. “I said to her afterward, ‘How could you do that beautiful sort of Texan accent?’ Because, you know, talking to her she has a slight English accent. She looked at me sort of haughtily and said, ‘That’s what I do.’”

Despite her prolific history on the international stage, including several runs on Broadway and at the American Conservatory Theatre, Claxton said his cousin’s interest in their heritage impresses him most.

“She’s just an exceptionally good family person and one who really unifies the Mayo family, in way,” he said. “Carol has always cared quite a lot about family, she knows the family history well and she reaches out and tries to be inclusive of everyone.”

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I’ll have ideas, and I just want to record them and stay home on a Friday night or something, just record all night.”

His songwriting also reflects his yearning to try varying styles.

His songs can be anything from third person, fictional tales to observations on the world around him, a reflection on the vibrant nature of the music itself.

“I guess I get bored playing the same thing,” Manis shared, staring into the empty space of Old City Java. “Even with Gamenight — the new songs I write or we write — I don’t want them to ever sound the same, you know?

I don’t want them to follow them same pattern of verse-chorusverse-chorus, so I just want them to be as interesting as possible.

“So with the solo stuff, I guess there’s just a need for me to write stuff that sounds different, and not necessarily so that people won’t be bored but so I won’t be bored. It kind of keeps me on my UT Jazz Big Band Fall Concert musicians performed Nov. 11 at the Sandra G. Powell toes, and I like music from every Recital Hall in the Natalie L. Haslam Music Center. Katie Truppo • The Daily Beacon genre.”

Next, Manis is looking at expanding to play a few regional, winter tour dates and find a way to release his record on vinyl as well as expanding his musical influences.

“So, I’d like to be even more varied and play some weird stuff,” he said. “I guess just influences Will Warren program in June when Silver was singled out during “Song coming from different directions Contributor passed,” Brown said. “I figured For My Father” with his baritone and wanting to release those back the best thing I could do to honor saxophone. into the world in different ways.”

“I was a little nervous, as this his name would be to play a prowas my first program perforSaxophones, trombones, trum- gram in his honor this fall.”

Brown went on to mention mance,” Gray confessed. pets, a varying rhythm section However, the anxiety faded and the steady hand of a conduc- that the entirety of the concert tor, keeping the controlled chaos would be performed using com- quickly, and Gray was audibly joyposers that were either Silver or ful at how the program unfolded. just that – controlled.

“I thought it was a great idea The UT Jazz Big Band per- were related through music in to showcase the works of Blue formed their first program of some way to Silver.

He specifically pointed out Note Records and to dedicate the year Tuesday evening to an endearing crowd in the Sandra G. Silver’s “Song For My Father” as the show to someone like Silver,” being on an album which “stands Gray said. “We’ve been preparing Powell Recital Hall.

The ensemble performed nine alongside Miles Davis’ ‘Kind for this since August, so I felt like jazz standards under the conduc- of Blue,’ John Coltrane’s ‘Giant it went very smoothly.”

The next UT Jazz Big Band tion of Keith Brown, senior lec- Steps’” and others from the hard concert will be a program on Dec. bop jazz genre. turer and director of the band.

As Brown’s way of showing 1 with the other jazz ensembles at The program opened with bass trombonist Sean Copeland per- thanks for the musicians work UT called Jazz For Tots.

Admission for that event is forming “America the Beautiful” throughout the semester, several members of the ensemble free, as long as audience memin honor of Veterans Day. The concert was dedicated to received at least one solo per- bers bring a pre-wrapped toy for the memory of Horace Silver, a formance, with a few receiving Knoxville area children.

This was the 70th program representative of the jazz genre multiple solos.

One of those soloists was Alex of the season at the Natalie L. who died in June at 85 years old.

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oldest friend, also attested to Jenkins’ unassuming off-stage persona.

“She came up to New York to my wedding, and she was at the rehearsal dinner at my mother’s little apartment,” Hill said. “It was very low key, and there she was in this beautiful green velvet dress standing in my mother’s kitchen washing all the dinner dishes. And I thought, this is a game girl.”

In 2001, Jenkins proved herself “game” once more by moving back to Knoxville to care for her elderly mother. Jenkins will celebrate her 100th birthday this February.

Besides her residency, Jenkins has since returned to the stage of her youth several times with the Clarence Brown Theatre Company. Most recently, she has appeared as Vera in Amy Herzog’s “4000 Miles,” which will run through Sunday, Nov. 16.

“I remember her as this sweet young girl bouncing around in her green convertible,” Hill said.

“To see her on stage now as an old lady battling off Alzheimer’s was really quite moving.”

Jenkins considers herself “fortunate” to be a part of the Clarence Brown Theatre team, crediting faculty like Kate Buckley and John Sipes for their inspiration.

“One of the reasons I love being here is I am constantly stimulated by the people I teach with,” she said. “These are extraordinary theater artists, and so it’s stimulating and exciting to be working with them and learning constantly from them.

“I always wanted to be a really, really good actress, and that’s what I’m still working on.”

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A preemptive defense of Taylor Swift Stained and Confused by

Alexandra Chiasson Taylor Swift’s new music video for her hit single “Blank Space” leaked this week and is sure to go down as one of her finest achievements as a cultural icon. Featuring a campy, psychotic caricature of Taylor wearing no fewer than 20 different glamorous outfits and fraternizing with a male supermodel companion, the video is delightfully trope-y and a pop culture enthusiast’s wet dream.

But not everyone will be content to eat up what Taylor is serving without comment. Just as we saw with Nicki Minaj’s “Anaconda,” Miley Cyrus’ “Wrecking Ball” and Swift’s own “Shake it Off,” the subject of the artist and the politics of her music video is sure to again dominate the kind of pseudo-intellectual writing other pseudointellectuals enjoy sharing on their Facebook pages.

I won’t be surprised if Taylor Swift inspires a manifesto or two after the whole world has seen her in her panties, stabbing that beautiful cake with that enormous knife.

In an effort to preemptively defend what I believe to be an enchanting work of art, I have brainstormed a few potential theses hypereducated pop culture commentators might posit: Taylor Swift is too skinny to inspire fat women. Taylor Swift is too pretty to inspire ugly women. Taylor Swift will make women feel like they have to wear crop tops and drop iPhones in fountains to get attention from men.

Taylor Swift is a bad feminist. Taylor Swift thinks she’s the white Beyoncé. Taylor Swift couldn’t pass the Bechdel test if Tegan and Sara ghostwrote a song for her.

Taylor Swift is perpetuating the damaging myth of female hysteria. Taylor Swift makes mental illness seem glamorous. Taylor Swift somehow makes murder seem like a viable way to handle infidelity.

Taylor Swift is an unsuitable role model for your middle schooler. Taylor Swift has the lexicon of a middle schooler. Taylor Swift is basically a middle schooler.

Taylor Swift’s twisted, dead baby joke Juvenalian satire will confuse high school students for centuries. Oops! Wrong Swift.

These sentiments, or at least some in the same vein, will surely crop up in the coming weeks.

True or untrue, overboard or accurate, these shots will be fired.

But Taylor Swift is untouchable.

Swift has shrouded herself in a pastel cardigan of non-falsifiability. It is impossible to invalidate her. She has an answer for everything. She’s equipped to handle anything the critics throw at her.

Taylor Swift is like Sigmund Freud. Not really buying all that Oedipus complex stuff? That’s because you’re repressing something. Think Taylor’s dating history is reckless and inappropriate? She might actually agree with you there.

That’s kind of what “Blank Space” is all about.

She’s like creationists. Think the whole dinosaurs living alongside humans thing is a little wacky and scientifically implausible? Doesn’t matter what you think because God is involved.

Go ahead; scold T-Swift for not being enough of a feminist. She’s just going to shake it off.

Her self-deprecating sense of humor and selfreferential lyrics will protect her. And reinforcing this armor of cuteness are legions of Swifties like myself, ready to dent the hell out of a vintage AC Cobra with a golf club at the first sign of a threat.

You know, in the “Blank Space” video, how Taylor Swift bites into an apple and it has this voodoo effect on her love interest and he kind of chokes on an apple and spews the pieces everywhere?

In a metaphorical sense, that is going to happen to anyone who tries to criticize Taylor Swift right now.

Alexandra Chiasson is a senior in English.

She can be reached at noitsbecky@utk.edu.

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

Homeless, but not heartless City Cents by

Jonathan Martin I want to share two scenes with you.

One night last winter, I was walking home from work and passed my neighbors having a party on the front steps, red solo cups in hand, huddled around a keg in a trash can like it was a source of warmth.

The next morning, I was returning to work around 7 a.m. (ugh, those closing then opening weekends…). As I walked out of my apartment parking lot, passing my neighbors’ house, I heard voices coming from the porch.

“Surely the party can’t be going on this long,” I thought.

The party was still happening, sort of.

A group of guys were herded around the keg in a trash can just like the night before, but instead of fraternity guys, these were homeless guys. A few others were kicked back on porch furniture, red solo cup in hand, talking to each other without a care in the world. The nature of this strange contrast was the exact reaction for me: somewhere between amused, freaked out and happy.

I found the scene incredibly amusing

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with holes and dirt. He stopped to pick up a leftover box of Tupelo Honey out of the trash can, when the people on the porch notice him.

One asks if he wants the beer can he’s drinking from when he’s done. Another curses him and tells him to keep walking.

The homeless man’s fists clench, but he takes a deep breath and keeps walking, leaving the box in the trash.

The second guy on the porch mocks him, saying, “That’s right, keep walking (insert two curse words here rhyming with truck and witch).”

The guy turns around, tells them off, then keeps walking to the tune of continued heckles and a thrown beer can from the porch people.

I hope you can still imagine a little bit of what it feels like to be homeless.

Although it’s a bit odd having strangers digging through your trash cans or walking through your yard, remember they are human beings, with problems very different from you. Leave a can of beer unopened on the corner of the street, or put out your old coat you’ve outgrown.

Maybe get security cameras and a dog on your front porch, but as the holiday season approaches, remember to give love to friends and neighbors of all sorts.

Jonathan Burkhalter is a senior in history. He can be reached at jburkhal@vols. utk.edu.

On the food service island, nobody wins Inside and Out by

Katie Grugin As a child, I remember playing the game of pretending what would happen if I and some friends were trapped on a deserted island with limited resources, fighting for survival; where every action you take has an exaggerated sense of importance because it is a very small world. Little did I expect that in a few short years, I wouldn’t have to pretend. I lived that in the toxic, lonely world of the food service industry.

Something fascinating happens when a group of people are confined to a limited space for a significant period of time. It may seem like just a part-time job at first, but it’s really a fight for survival. Any person who has waited tables will recognize the effects of long-term exposure to the elements: delusions of grandeur, insane competition, bitterness about life, obsessions over things that don’t really matter … and in the end, there’s that moment when you get a better job (I call that “getting rescued”) and realize you were temporarily lost to your animal nature.

The following is a short list of what to expect when trapped on a deserted island (working in food service): Increased competition: Restaurants have

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because it was as if the scene from the night before had been recast; otherwise the conversations (all somewhat degrading of women) and placement of people was almost the exact same. I was a little freaked by how casual the guys looked, as if they hung out on other people’s porches all the time. Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t think I like the idea of strangers (homeless or not) sitting around having a few beers with their friends on my front porch.

As freaked out as I was, I couldn’t help but notice how happy these guys looked.

They seemed to be happy to have a place to belong, to pretend it was theirs if even for just the wee hours of the morning. I’m sure they were happy to have the free beer too, but I could really get the sense of belonging these guys had to each other in this moment.

Imagine being houseless and having no certain place to go hang out with your friends, be by yourself or keep your cherished belongings. You have no way of locking people out, to keep them from stealing from or hurting you and you have no place to share a private sense of comradery. Keep this feeling in your head for a moment.

The second scene I want to share also takes place at night on a porch on Clinch, this time a few weeks ago. Some college age men and women were sitting on a porch on Clinch Avenue as a homeless guy walked past, bundled up in a jacket ridden

a limited amount of resources. There are only so many tables, customers and too many servers to be supported by the environment. It brings out something primal in you. Theoretically, we should all be supporting each other in making the dining experience great for the customer. In the long term, that makes perfect sense. In the short term, I’ve got bills to pay. That table represents a two dollar tip which will make the difference between peanut butter and real food for dinner tonight.

Lack of conversational variety: similar to genetics, too much inbreeding of conversation leads to mutated and diseased topics, which eventually leads to conversation extinction. In a small community, social behavior requires you find something to talk about or be ostracized. When you are together for hours on end without external stimulus, you run out of things to talk about.

Then, you end up with the one conversation that never seems to end: gossiping about each other. This involves taking one story and mutating it a thousand times to give some fresh perspective which keeps the boredom at bay. Suddenly, that girl who absentmindedly forgot to refill a salt shaker is the devil herself, out to ruin all of our lives (and the restaurant) with her carelessness and irresponsibility.

Weak government that leads to usurpers and hostile coups: When there is little room for upward motion within a job field and no obviously presented alternatives combined with weak management, people

WILL set themselves up as in charge.

Everybody has an opinion on how things should work, and suddenly it’s “Lord of the Flies.” Some sacrificial victim is stuck on a pike in order to establish the legitimacy of their rule, and by that I mean the new girl gets scapegoated so the wannabe-manager can make themselves look good by pointing out everything new girl does wrong in a public fashion.

Finally: lost perspective. Suddenly little things matter. Does the person putting sugar in their tea care whether the Sweet’N Low comes before the Splenda in the sugar basket? No, when lacking knowledge of the outside world, suddenly that sugar basket becomes metaphorical for all the lack of control in the life of an unskilled, minimum wage employee. Gosh darn it, things have to be a specific way because they’ve always been that way. Innovation is risk, and risk threatens society as a whole. ESPECIALLY when it comes to sugar baskets.

These are the symptoms to look out for.

The food industry is a deserted island, and if you play the game right, you get to be king of a very small country. Personally, I’m going to take the rescue boat in whatever form it takes.

Katie Grugin is a senior studying psychology and religious studies. She was recently rescued from waiting tables, and while she’s recovering from the mild trauma can be reached at kgrugin@vols.utk. edu.

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ARTS & CULTURE P.O.S.E. continued from Page 1 The completely student-run organization, which meets every Sunday from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., is geared towards preparing members for their careers beyond undergraduate education in addition to understanding the workings of a communication-based organization in the fashion industry. Al Duraidi, senior in journalism and electronic media and sociology, said P.O.S.E. not only encourages self-expression through style but also teaches confidence, professionalism and networking. “P.O.S.E. is a very diverse group of young students who have a passion and drive for learning more about the fashion industry and who seek to better their modeling skills as well,� Al Duraidi said, who has been involved in P.O.S.E. for two years. “Even if you do not want to model professionally, it teaches students how to have confidence in front of others.�

The group participates in multiple UT events during the semester, including the Black Cultural Programming Committee’s annual Stomp Fest, Alpha Kappa Alpha Fashion Show and the Minority Achievements Legend Lecture. They additionally host their annual fashion show every spring, which is held off campus in a more intimate setting with a runway feel. In past years they have held their shows at the Relix Variety Theatre and Latitude

35 in Market Square.

Malik Luckett, freshman in political science, initially heard about P.O.S.E. at an informational event about different organizations on campus at the start of the academic year. He signed up, went to try-outs and made the group. “(I wanted) to get to know people,� he said, “people who were interested in looking nice and in fashion.�

Kaylyn Harris found out about P.O.S.E. at another freshman orientation event, ME4UT’s Jump Minority Trip.

The sophomore in advertising and double minoring in business and English, said she wanted to get better acquainted with UT’s campus before she joined. The group takes 25 new students every year, and Harris made the cut for the current academic year. “I called my mom screaming and she was excited and happy and it was a great fit,� she recalled.

For Harris, who said she has always been interested in modeling, P.O.S.E. allows her to learn and perfect different techniques of modeling with help from the executive board.

With plans to enter a communication-based industry, she said she also appreciates how the group encourages self-confidence. “I plan on going to the advertising world where you have to talk to a lot of business people, you have to make a lot of deals, shake a lot of hands, kiss a lot of babies,� Harris said. “P.O.S.E. has taught me a lot about confidence and how to go out there and sell myself to people, market myself to

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Luckett describes his personal style as prep, and he said often reaches for Ralph Lauren Polo pieces or Vineyard Vines button-downs.

Although his interests in style and fashion existed before he joined P.O.S.E., Luckett said the group allows him to really perfect his self-expression.

“It helps with gaining that swagger about yourself,� he said. “It’s important in not only a social arena but also in the real world. Just being confident in whatever you do.�

Harris encourages students to get involved, even if they’re not interested in modeling because the group “utilizes everyone’s talents.�

The group also takes people interested in beauty, makeup and hair, as well as choreography and clothing design.

Ultimately for Luckett, P.O.S.E. is a place where he feels comfortable wearing what he wants, conscious of the fact that the officers and other members will appreciate, rather than question, his

sartorial choices. “With these people, I feel like it’s acceptable if I were to just wear a suit for practice,� Luckett explained while at practice Sunday. “They wouldn’t question me. They would say I looked nice. “If I go elsewhere, they’ll question me and ask, ‘Why are you wearing a suit today?’�

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Troy Provost-Heron Sports Editor (@TPro_UTDB) One of the ways the Tennessee women’s basketball program has kept itself in national championship contention seemingly every year is success on the recruiting trail.

On Wednesday, that success continued on National Signing Day for third-year head coach Holly Warlick, who announced the official signings of five-star guards Te’a Cooper and Jamasha “MeMe” Jackson to the 2015 class.

“Recruiting is your success,” Warlick said. “It wins games, and it makes your coaching job a lot easier. It’s about recruiting and about getting people who fit into your system and your program and get along with your kids. I think right now we have two of those young ladies that will fit really well.”

Cooper, a 5-foot-8 point guard from McEachem High School in Powder Springs, Ga., is rated the top prospect in the country by D1Spects.com and is considered a top-10 prospect by three other sites.

In her junior season, the thirdteam MaxPreps All-American averaged 19.6 points, six assists and five rebounds, while leading McEachem to a 29-2 record and a state championship.

“I’m excited about Cooper,” Warlick said. “She is an athletic point guard and is very knowledgeable of the game. She is a great shooter and scorer. She is a very quick and is very competitive.”

For the second year in a row, Tennessee landed an in-state prospect in Jackson, who played a pivotal role on a state championship Blackman High School team that was ranked No. 1 in the country

by ESPN. The 5-foot-11 wing player started in all 35 games and averaged 9.4 points, 4.4 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 2.3 steals.

“She is a very athletic player and hungry,” Warlick said. “I think she is a great scorer too and hasn’t even tapped the potential of what she could be. She has a big heart and loves the Lady Vols.”

Warlick believes that each girl fits the “Lady Vol mold,” which requires an extreme amount of dedication on and off the court as well.

“They fit what we want to do,” Warlick said. “MeMe in particular I think can be an unbelievable defen-

sive player. Tea can push the ball up the floor quickly. They play into our style. They are going to be two of our most athletic kids we have on the team.”

Tennessee is not finished yet on the recruiting trail, and it hopes to add a few more to its 2015 recruiting class.

“We can still sign two more,” Warlick said. “It’s just a waiting game and kids can sign late as well.

If we get two more that’s great, but if we don’t we are fine with that as well.”

Men’s basketball: Tennessee head coach Donnie Tyndall announced on Wednesday that the Vols signed two student-athletes, as Shembari Phillips and Admiral Schofield will join the program for the 2015-16 season.

Phillips, a 6-foot-4, 185-pound guard who is a consensus a 3-star prospect, is currently a senior at Wheeler High School in Marietta, Ga., but attended Tucker High School last season, where he averaged 18 points, six rebounds, four assists and two blocks.

“Shembari is a long, athletic combo guard,” Tyndall said. “He’s a guy who can shoot it with range.

We feel like, with his length and athleticism, he’ll be very productive in our system and style of play.”

Schofield, a 6-foot-6, 220-pound combo forward who is also a 3-star commit, attends Zion-Benton Township High School in Zion, Ill., where he averaged 16 points, eight rebounds and two assists his junior year, earning him honorable mention All-State honors from the Champaign-Urbana News Gazette.

“Admiral is a big, physical wing player,” Tyndall said. “He’s tough and rugged, but yet he’s skilled for his size. He can step out and make threes, he can drive the basketball and he’s a very good passer. His toughness—along with the fact that his body is already `college ready’—will help us tremendously.”

Baseball and softball: Tennessee baseball announced nine signees — Max Bartlett, Sean Skelly, Alex Curl, Will Neely, Daniel Neal, Garrett Davila, Trey Cabbage and Bryant Harris – on Wednesday.

Head coach Dave Serrano tweeted on Tuesday that he expected 12 players to sign, so the Vols could potentially be waiting on three more prospects.

As for the Lady Vols softball team, co-head coach Karen Weekly announced the signings of Taylor Rowland, Abby Lockman and Matty Moss.

FOOTBALL continued from Page 1 And Howard’s teammates have performed well enough to validate his trust.

Through nine games, five players have recorded more than 20 receptions, helping a UT offense that has amassed 2,121 yards through the air this season.

“It’s a testament to the depth and competition that exists,” offensive coordinator

John Jancek had the statement ready to go.

“Turnovers are the No. 1 statistic in determining who wins and loses football games,” the Tennessee defensive coordinator said after Wednesday’s practice.

Perhaps this week, that declaration carries an added dose of importance for the bowl-seeking Volunteers, which welcomes in a Kentucky team that owns the SEC’s third-best turnover margin at plus 8. On the season, the Wildcats have corralled 13 interceptions and recovered six fumbles.

“They do a great job of taking the ball away,” offensive coordinator Mike Bajakian said. “I think they have 13 interceptions on the season, as well as sack and fumble recoveries. We always stress ball security. We have since day one. It’s always been at the top of our priority list and will continue to be.

“But we’ve definitely placed an extra emphasis on it this week.”

On the flipside, the Wildcats have kept the offensive miscues to a minimum — somewhat of a rarity considering Kentucky’s recent skid. Although the Wildcats enter Saturday’s contest on a four-game losing streak, Kentucky’s coughed the ball up just three times

in those quartet of defeats — none of which included more than two turnovers a game.

But even with the Wildcats’ apparent content of not forcing unnecessary risks, UT’s defense isn’t planning on toning down the aggressiveness anytime soon.

“We can’t sit there like ducks; you can’t play defense like that,” defensive backs coach Willie Martinez said. “So we’ve got to pick our times, but we’re going to play our gameplan just like we do going into every game. We’ll do the things that we think can help us succeed, which starts with trying to make them one-dimensional.”

Developing defensive depth: Following UT’s recent bye week, where many of the younger Vols picked up valuable firstteam reps, Jancek noted that a plethora of reserves continue to garner attention in practice.

Specifically, UT’s defensive coordinator pegged defensive backs Rashaan Gaulden, Evan Berry and Todd Kelly Jr.— as well as freshman defensive end Dewayne Hendrix — as underclassmen who benefitted from the added reps.

Even so, Jancek emphasized that UT’s defensive depth is “still a ways away” from being at an appropriate level – one where starters don’t have to play close to triple-digit snaps every Saturday.

“We have to go through another recruiting cycle and ink some of these

guys in February and get them in here and get them going,” Jancek said. “It’s a process, and it doesn’t happen in one or two years. It takes a while to get these guys in your program, get them developed and develop your culture and the way you want to train.

“Our whole defense plays too many snaps. We literally have players through defensive repetitions and special teams reps that play over 90 snaps a game.

That’s crazy. We’re not going to use any of that as an excuse, but on the same note, the reality is that’s an awful lot of snaps to be playing. It is what it is.”

‘A culmination of things’: After allowing a combined 1,094 yards in the last two games, the Vols’ defense has come under scrutiny for not lining up with UT’s suddenly-surging offense. On Wednesday, Jancek offered up a laundry list of reasons for the defensive shortcomings.

“It’s always a combination of things,” he said. “Sometimes it’s poor technique.

Sometimes it’s a really good call by an offense versus an area of weakness in a defense.

“Those are certainly going to happen throughout the game. Some of them are missed tackles. Some of them are mistakes and busts on our end. It’s always a culmination of things. We look at them, and we categorize them. And we just continue to work to eliminate them. That’s the big thing.”

SWIMMING/DIVING

AquaVols look for high quality victories against Louisville, Auburn Trenton Duffer Staff Writer (@trenton_duffer) After a tough meet against two powerful teams two weeks ago, the Tennessee men’s and women’s swimming and diving team are ready to dive into this week’s matchup against Auburn and Louisville.

On Halloween, Kentucky and Indiana came to town to challenge the Vols. The No. 12 men and No. 14 women both beat Kentucky 234-64 and 191-109, respectively.

Indiana, however, downed both Tennessee teams, as the men fell 157-143, and the women dropped their contest 169-129.

Indiana’s men ranked eighth in the country, while their women ranked 11th.

“On deck and in the pool, we need to amp it up every day and every single practice,” junior Chris Sadsad said. “Before we know it, the season’s gonna come to an end, and it’s gonna be SEC and NCAA Championship time.”

Now the men’s and women’s teams have two powerhouses coming to their pool to try to swim away with an upset.

Louisville’s men rank ninth nationally,

Mike Bajakian said. “It’s evidence of how our guys compliment one another, support one another and how our quarterbacks distribute the football.”

Four years ago, though, North’s injury would have been disastrous for Bajakian’s offensive scheme in Cincinnati.

In 2010, Bearcat receivers Armon Binns and D.J. Woods combined for 1,999 yards, 18 touchdowns and 132 receptions.

Now, Bajakian prefers the balanced receiver approach, and with or without

and are coming off a victory against the North Carolina Tar Heels. In their last meet, Louisville’s men’s team posted ten NCAA B-cut times compared to the Tar Heel’s five such times.

The women’s team is just as talented as the men. Ranked 13th nationally, the Cardinal women fell in their last match against North Carolina.

“They don’t really have any weaknesses, and their swimmers tend to develop really well,” head coach Matt Kredich said. “I think we match up pretty well against them, but it’s pretty clear to me that in order to beat them, we’re gonna have to have some people make some significant improvements over what we’ve done in the past … They’re gonna hold us to a very high standard.

The men and women for Auburn are coming off back-to-back SEC victories over Alabama and LSU. The No.17 men’s team won their matchups 167-133 and 225-75, while the No. 15 women won 174-126 and 176-124.

“They may be the most confident team in the country,” Kredich said. “Over the last twenty years, they’ve probably been

North, he believes his pass catchers can continue to succeed in the Vols final three contests.

“When you have good depth and competition at the position, it affords you the opportunity to spread the ball around,” Bajakian said. “As much as anything, it makes the defense defend more guys. If you are keyed in to one player then they can roll to that player or double team him, but when you spread it around, it makes them defend all the skill guys.”

consistently the best program in the country. They’re very skilled, and they’re tough to beat on the finish. They’re good across all events. Where Auburn is stronger, Louisville is weaker … The more we look at it, the more we think that we’re gonna have to just swim and dive really well to beat both of those teams.”

So far on the year, both Tennessee teams are 3-2 and 1-0 in conference play. Kredich says that he is proud of the way his team has performed thus far.

“It’s a fun year and a really fun team,” he said. “Their energy has been fantastic … October is really tough because it’s far enough into the season, so they’re really feeling fatigued, but it’s far enough from the very end to where it can be difficult to connect to that ‘end of season’ mission. But, this team has done a fantastic job of staying focused and energized through that period.”

The meet against Louisville and Auburn will take place at 3 p.m. EST this Friday at the Allan Jones Intercollegiate Aquatic Center. The first 50 fans to enter get a free T-shirt, hot dog and drink.