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Over 600 veterans searching for a place to call their own >>See page 3

High school musician talks future >>See page 4

Vols rally to beat Marshall >>See page 11

The great balancing act Junior year is tough as it is.

Being a star quarterback makes it just a little harder. >>See page 10

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The Daily Beacon • Friday, November 20, 2015

Clinton to make campaign swing through Tennessee Staff Report

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will begin her scheduled visit to Tennessee with campaign stops in Memphis and Nashville, beginning in the Music City on Nov. 20.

The campaign stops in traditionally conservative areas, a campaign representative said, will be important for gauging strategy when Tennessee’s state primary kicks off on March 1 of next year.

“Clinton’s trip will be her latest effort to build support in primary states and a grassroots organization beyond the four early states, and work hard for every vote ahead of the March 1 Tennessee Primary,” the campaign said in a statement. “During the event, she’ll lay out why she’s running, who and what she’ll

fight for as president.”

According to a report from the Tennessean, Clinton’s hiring moves in Tennessee and other Southern states represent other March 1 primaries for Southeastern states include Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas and Virginia.

Earlier this month, the Democratic presidential candidate announced her leadership council members, Tennessee Democratic U.S. representatives Jim Cooper of Nashville and Steve Cohen of Memphis, both of whom represent Clinton’s two campaign stops.

Clinton’s visit will mark just the second trip from a Democratic presidential candidate to politically red Tennessee this year, only following Martin O’Malley, Maryland’s current governor, during a brief stop in Nashville for a fundraiser in August. Several Republican presidential candidates, including Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Donald Trump have campaigned in the state.

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CRIME LOG Date: 11/14/15 Neyland Stadium & Field/1235 Phillip Fulmer Way, Staff 9 Lot At approximately 12:00 hours, a UTPD officer witnessed a white male staggering and almost fall as he crossed the Staff parking lot and arrested the subject for public intoxication and simple possession.

11/16/15 Laurel Avenue, Knoxville, TN - 14th Street & Laurel Avenue At approximately 1:30 a.m., a traffic stop was conducted near 14th Street and Laurel Avenue. The driver was issued a citation for simple possession and disregarding a stop sign.

11/16/15 Pendergrass Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine Library - Vet School/ 2407 River Drive “On Monday, Nov. 16, 2015 at approximately 2:22 p.m., I observed a white male driving a Suzuki SX4, driving south bound on Joe Johnson Drive, driving without a seat belt. I initiated my emergency equipment and performed a traffic stop. When I made contact with the driver a strong odor of marijuana was present. The driver was asked if he had marijuana in the vehicle and he stated yes.

“The driver handed over a small amount of marijuana and multi color glass pipe. A search of the vehicle was conducted and a plastic Rubbermaid container with marijuana residue inside of it, was also found under the back seat.”

The driver was issued two city citations for no seat belt and no proof of insurance and two misdemeanor citations, one for simple possession and the other for drug paraphernalia.

11/17/15 Cumberland Avenue, Knoxville, TN - Cumberland Avenue & 17th Street “On 11/16/15 at 12:35 p.m., I observed a vehicle disregard the red light on Cumberland Avenue at West Volunteer Blvd. Upon stopping the vehicle, it was found the driver was driving on a suspended driver’s license. The license was confiscated and the driver was issued a misdemeanor citation.”

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Lack of specialized space contributes to anxieties faced by student veterans Alahnah Ligon Staff Writer

A public space for groups with common interests on campus is not a novel idea, but for the veteran community, it’s notably absent from campus.

One such student, Travis Bryan, a veteran of the Marine Corps and first year student in computer science, is one of many who have taken notice.

“We don’t have anywhere where we can go,” Bryan said. “We’re out of place with the rest of the student body because of where we’ve been, what we’ve done.”

Yet, Bryan is just one of 900 student veterans and dependents — children and spouses of those with military affiliation — on campus.

Following his five years of service, Bryan said an expanded space for student veterans, larger than the map room reserved for their use in Hodges Library, would better provide accommodations specific to the needs to a population, given their exposure to high stress environments and frequent status as an age group minority on campus.

As of now, there are no concrete plans in place to expand the space in Hodges for enhanced accommodations for the university’s student veterans.

While she is not opposed to the idea, UT Provost Susan Martin said she regards both the

specialized needs of veterans as well as the work required to provide services that could assist student veterans more effectively.

“It’s certainly on ongoing process, but we want to make sure we are as welcoming as possible to the students who have served our country and who now come to us to seek a great education,” Martin said.

For Air Force and National Guard veteran Matthew Roseberry, sophomore in wildlife and fisheries, such a space would provide a stable environment to sojourn between classes.

“There’s days when I’m sitting here for two or three hours with nothing to do, just walking around campus,” Roseberry said. “It’d be nice to have somewhere to sit and relax and do homework or study, watch the news, who knows.”

For Roseberry, this quieter environment, reserved for fellow veterans and their families, is necessary for successful tutoring and studying sessions vital for completing coursework.

The student veteran cited his anxiety around large crowds as an added difficulty when learning in classrooms filled with hundreds of students, resulting in an increased need for special tutoring and study hours.

Without this designated area, Roseberry described the tutoring environment in Hodges Library as “a nightmare,” similarly to Bryan, who commented that the building’s unusual buzzing nature creates an “impossible” environment to engage in academic studies.

Gregg Crawford, junior in business manage-

ment and president of the Student Veteran Association, suggested the potential expansion of veteran space should offer tutors with experience in Veterans Affairs, resulting in a reduction in the anxiety often prompted by the stresses of college life.

“It’s uncomfortable for some people not to be in control of that (learning) situation,” Crawford said in a recent meeting between SVA members.

Yet, the needs of student veterans extend beyond a relaxed atmosphere for academic success.

Though walking down Pedestrian Mall is a common practice for most students, student veterans, Crawford said, often intentionally avoid the walkway because of environmental similarities in the developing countries where they were stationed.

Bryana Marshall, a veteran dependent and freshman in English, said her father has consistently experienced difficulties with parking in handicap spots due to injuries sustained in combat.

“Officers just won’t recognize his Purple Heart Tag, which is supposed to count as handicap, so he wouldn’t have to have the hanging tag in his car,” Marshall said. “It’s been twice now that he’s been given a ticket for parking in handicap parking.”

Caleb Bean, a freshman in history and former human intelligence analyst in the U.S. Army, said the transition from the forces to the university is equitable to “culture shock.”

“A year and a half ago, I was in the middle of Afghanistan with a weapon handling big world problems,” Bean said. “Now here I am at home, taking a step back. I am a student again.”

His training as an analyst, Bean explained, also hinders his ability to interact socially with his peers.

“My job was to understand people, to be able to read people and predict certain situations based on social interactions,” Bean said. “I went through in depth training on how to analyze people … which hurts my ability to make new friends or socialize.

“It’s a struggle to say the least.”

Despite UT’s current lack of veteran space, Bean was complimentary of other support systems offered to student veterans, such as Veteran Student Services housed within the Office of the Registrar.

“Thankfully, there are a lot of people on campus who care,” Bean said. “If you ever have a question or you need somebody to talk to there is always somebody there.”

Counting herself as one of those who cares, Martin stressed the importance of catering to veterans on campus to make a transition back into civilian life as painless as possible.

“Veteran students come to us with a particular and important life experience,” Martin said. “We want to make sure that it’s easy and accessible for veterans to make a really smooth transition here and have to go to just one place to get all of their questions answered.”

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The Daily Beacon • Friday, November 20, 2015

Teen musician talks going solo, fears of the future Jenna Butz

Editor-in-Chief Briston Maroney, formerly of high school folk band Subtle Clutch, has recently stepped out on his own. Maroney is about to release his first solo album, “Reason to Shake,” this Sat. Nov. 21.

In an interview with the Daily Beacon, Maroney talks going solo, his new sound and what scares him about applying to colleges.

DB: How long have you been working on your own solo stuff?

BM: I guess the album really started in like May. Actually, in April we started thinking of ideas, and that’s when Subtle Clutch, I think, really, and I just had a bunch of songs that I had written that I wanted to record, so we — myself and a couple people — started working on album stuff. Then we recorded over the summer.

So I guess since this summer. That was a really long answer for a really simple question, sorry.

Since the summer is really it.

DB: Who has been helping you with this album? You keep saying we and us.

BM: I’ve been putting together a little band with some friends of mine. David Platillero, ... he produced the album and recorded it for me.

So, he and I kind of teamed up, and we’ve been working on all this together. So, it’s definitely

been a team effort.

DB: Why go solo instead of have another band?

BM: Part of it is it’s just kind of convenient.

I just want to start playing shows. Once Subtle Clutch broke up, I didn’t want there to be this big, in-between period of time where the progress stops and playing the shows stopped.

I mean that’s what I loved. That’s what I loved about Subtle Clutch, how much we got to play and how many opportunities we were given, which was awesome. I didn’t really want that to stop, so it was just easier at the time to just say it was a solo thing because I could play a solo show by myself like right after Subtle Clutch broke up.

I started playing stuff like a couple weeks later.

So, it was really just a convenient thing. And I knew, just the way things had gone with Subtle Clutch — I mean, I learned a lot finding people who are truly committed to it, and it’s just hard at this point, at this age, to find people who are really committed to it as well. So, I knew the lineup for the band would be kind of rotating, and I didn’t really — It was a matter of convenience. I’ll just leave it at that.

DB: In terms of your sound, what’s different in what you’re doing now versus what you’ve done before?

BM: I guess the big thing is there’s no banjo.

Actually, I take that back, there is a banjo in

one song. Shout out to Eli Fox. It started off as an expansion of the Subtle Clutch sound.

We brought in a drummer and a full-time bass player and all that stuff. It very quickly ... once we started playing shows, like we played at Rhythm n Blooms ... I was like, ‘Well, I have all these electric guitars and I have all these posters of people with electric guitars on my walls and I dream about people with electric guitars, and so why don’t I try playing the electric guitar?’ So we did that, and it was so much fun. Immediately, I started writing songs that were kind of more the rock-orientated stuff. So, there’s new songs on the album that are, like I said, kind of an expansion of the Subtle Clutch stuff, that folky, kind of folk rock kind of stuff, and then there’s songs that are a lot more rock n roll.

DB: How is your writing different now?

BM: Subtle Clutch, there was a lot that we weren’t doing musically solely because of our lineup. We only had the three of us, and our instrumentation was kind of limited. Our style as well — it’s a bit of a pocket, and that’s not a bad thing. I love Americana music, and I love the stuff that we did, but it’s a limited thing. So, the songs that weren’t really for Subtle Clutch were songs that I think just needed more as far as instrumentation, maybe lyrically were a little less … I don’t know. The Subtle Clutch songs were fun. They were easy to listen to, and they

were cool to come and see when we played it live. They were all upbeat, and not just that the new stuff is depressing, but it’s — I don’t want to say serious because that makes the Subtle Clutch stuff sound bad, but there’s definitely a more mature side.

DB: So are you a senior now?

BM: Yes, I’m a senior.

DB: Does that mean you have to look at colleges?

BM: Uh, yeah … Well, I did and I have. I just don’t know what I’m going to do. I’ve been accepted into most of them though. I was looking at Belmont, but it’s — the wallet does not like Belmont very much … UT is awesome, but I think I want to be in Nashville. But I don’t know.

I really don’t know.

I’m terrified of the future. Like, terrified.

But I think it’s a good thing. It’s when the best songs are written. That’s when you really have to look at what you care about most — when things start changing. So, the thought of leaving Knoxville and the thought of being in an entirely new environment — obviously nobody would be completely comfortable with that, but I’m really looking forward to that. I feel like all the people that I listen to and all the people that I look up to kind of have these stages. I’m excited to do something new, and to see what comes out of that.

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‘Jokers’ come to pull Knoxville’s leg Sam Kennedy

Contributor The stars from Impractical Jokers are headed from the television screen to the stage on their tour, “Where’s Larry?”

Impractical Jokers is a hidden-camera series that follows four life-long friends, comedians Brian “Q” Quinn, James “Murr” Murphy, Joe Gatto and Sal Vulcano, as they challenge each other to perform ridiculous dares in public to find out who is best under pressure. At the end of the show, the person who could not go through with the dare must perform the most embarrassing challenge yet.

Since its premiere on TruTV December 15, 2011, Impractical Jokers has become a signature show for the channel as the third longest running show, behind the network’s other original series World’s Dumbest and Operation Repo. The “jokers” have gained millions of fans all over the world, traveling and performing in foreign countries such as Lebanon, Canada, Belgium, Sweden, the Netherlands and Brazil.

“I used to watch this show all the time with my dad. Some of the stuff they have to do is hilarious and takes a lot of guts,” Huston McCormick, undeclared freshman, said.

What distinguishes this show from other

prank television programs is that the stars of Impractical Jokers do not know the details of the prank until they are performing it on strangers. While one or two cast members are performing the dare, the other cast members are feeding them lines through a microphone ear piece. The lines that they are fed are meant to make situations the pranksters are in humorous and uncomfortable.

“There’s so many bits that I look back on and laugh at,” Brian “Q” Quinn said. “But I think the most awkward thing I have had to do is when I had to give a presentation on sex-ed to my parents.”

The Impractical Jokers’ current “Where’s Larry?” tour has been very successful as the comedians travel and share a mix of stand up, never before seen hidden camera videos, stories and personal insight to an audience of approximately 2000-8000 people.

“We just wanted to do a show that was like what we have always done with each other, which was pranking each other. We really want to keep doing the series for a while,” Quinn said. “We are having a lot of fun with it, and we want to keep doing it until it’s not fun anymore.”

The group will be performing at the Knoxville Civic Auditorium on Saturday, November 21, at 7pm. Tickets can be purchased at knoxvillecoliseum.com.

Bluegrass band keeps tradition alive Chelsea Trott

Contributor

Born and raised around “old-time” bluegrass music, the critically acclaimed South Carolina Broadcasters will be bringing a taste of mountain music enhanced with their own personal spin to Knoxville this weekend.

Made of up 3 members, the South Carolina Broadcasters pride themselves with keeping the old music alive in a generation where bluegrass is mostly forgotten. Ivy Sheppard, the band’s banjo player and part-time lead vocalist, spoke on the band’s expectations for their audiences.

“Maybe they’ll remember music from days of old, or maybe they’ll have affirmation that traditional music is in good hands for the future,” Sheppard said.

The band also consists of guitarist David Sheppard, who specializes in instrument repair and vintage instrument knowledge, and Andy Edmonds, the band’s fiddle player.

“We’ve carved out a niche in the bluegrass genre and mostly try to harken back to an older sound, while still keeping a fresh spin on things,” Sheppard said. “There’s not many bands out there doing what we do.”

When asked about what she hopes the audience will take away from this performance, Sheppard made it clear that the band has one goal only — spreading the message of bluegrass.

“Whether it’s hearing songs they haven’t heard before, or hearing them in a new way, we hope they can leave at the end of the night with a stirring in their heart and a desire to seek out the old music,” Sheppard said.

The show will take place at the Laurel Theater located in the heart of the Fort Sanders neighborhood. The theater, a historical landmark that was once a local Presbyterian church, has now transformed into a cultural haven by creating the Jubilee Community Arts program. In this program, the theater hosts artists that represent local music from around the East Tennessee and the Appalachian Mountain area.

Toby Koosman, one of the organizers for the Jubilee Community Arts program, stated that this is the second time the theater has hosted the South Carolina Broadcasters and is very happy to bring them back to Knoxville.

“We chose this band because our focus is on traditional music of the Southern mountains.

They are great interpreters of old-time harmony and string band music, especially Carter family tunes and other music recorded in the ‘20s, kept alive by a small number of musicians and listeners over the years,” Koosman said.

The South Carolina Broadcasters will play at 7:15 p.m. on Saturday at Laurel Theater. Tickets for the show are priced at $10 per person, and the show is approved for all ages. Tickets can be purchased through the Laurel Theater by phone number (865) 523-0757, or online at the theater’s home website.

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A group of people don’t define a race Summer Awad

Quite Contrary

I am an Arab American from a Muslim family, and this week, I am exhausted.

The racists and Islamophobes have come out of hiding in the aftermath of the Paris attacks, and trying to fend them off in various Facebook wars has been interesting, to say the least.

I remember the racism my family experienced after 9/11, but at seven years old, I was too young to understand. Now, as an adult who spends a lot of time and energy thinking about race and gender and social justice, I understand a little too well what all this means. Since the Paris attacks, I have seen our governor call for a halt to refugee placements in Tennessee. I have seen Donald Trump supporters give the middle finger to a group of protestors as we chanted, “Hey, ho, racism’s got to go!” I have seen horrendous Facebook posts, such as one suggesting that we deal with Islam by dropping another atomic bomb, or a comment stating in vulgar terms that Arabs ride camels and have sexual intercourse with goats. Hmm, maybe that’s why I’m so good in bed.

But let’s put the jokes aside. Actually, let’s put the politics aside too. I have had enough arguments this week about media bias. I’ve spent enough time trying to convince people that, in an America that sees everything as black and white, your French flag profile picture fuels the flames of Islamophobia. I have spent enough time deliberating whether to unfriend or to educate. Right now, I just want to talk about people.

A few years ago, my uncle was working in the United Arab Emirates when he met a Syrian woman who would later become his wife. Her family lived in Damascus at the time, but their world would soon be torn apart by the Syrian Civil War. My uncle

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I think of how the Syrian refugee crisis was thrust into my own family in the blink of an eye. And I think of how I wish I could introduce her to everyone, putting a face to a polarizing global conflict. How can anyone hate people like my aunt, who are just trying to live the American dream?

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excitedly reported his engagement to our family, but there was uncertainty about the wedding date because his fiancée was unsure whether her family would be able to escape Syria in time to attend.

Thankfully, they were able to leave the country early in the war, establishing a temporary home down the street from my father’s sister in Amman, Jordan.

When I met my new aunt’s family at the wedding in December 2012, it did not feel like I was meeting a family of refugees. All of them had just escaped a civil war in their home country, leaving everything behind, and yet I couldn’t see any signs of the trauma they had just experienced. They seemed happy to be celebrating at the wedding, and quickly integrated themselves into our large family.

It was not until a couple years later when I visited Amman again that I began to notice how the war had affected my new family’s lives. I was more keenly aware of the fact that an older woman in the family did not use one of her arms, perpetually wearing a large shawl that covered it entirely. One day she caught me looking at her, and she told me that she had been driving in Syria when a bomb had detonated underneath her car. She had been lucky to live, she said, but she had completely lost the functioning of her arm. She told me she couldn’t tell me the rest because it would make me cry. “Maybe I’ll tell you tomorrow,” she said. “You can cry tomorrow.”

As I spent more time with my Syrian relatives, I began to understand more of the difficulties they faced. It was difficult to find work, to attend school and to apply to college as a refugee. Jordan was only a temporary home for them, and they were constantly awaiting news of asylum in another country. Through all of this hardship, though, they were just people, celebrating weddings and birthdays and watching Ramadan TV specials. They talked about Syria with fondness, telling me all the places I should visit, as if it would be the same after the war.

Today, my aunt is still a Syrian refugee, but she lives in Nashville, Tennessee. She has made a home there, making friends and raising my sweet little 2-year-old cousin with his dad’s head of wild curly hair. She still cooks traditional Syrian meals, but she eats cereal for breakfast. She switches back and forth between Arabic and English satellite television. She is well on her way to becoming an American. When I think of ISIS and Syria and Islamophobia, I think of her. I think of how the Syrian refugee crisis was thrust into my own family in the blink of an eye. And I think of how I wish I could introduce her to everyone, putting a face to a polarizing global conflict. How can anyone hate people like my aunt, who are just trying to live the American dream? But as I watched the homogenous white crowd file in to the Convention Center on Monday to listen to a man who has proposed closing America’s mosques, I began to lose hope that this humanizing dialogue will ever be enough.

Summer Awad is a senior in College Scholars. She can be reached at sawad@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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The importance of taking things a step at a time

Sarah Hagaman

Turn of Phrase

“Our life is frittered away by detail ... simplify, simplify,” Henry David Thoreau once said.

“Hey, how’s it going?”

I look up in a blurred haze, detaching quickly from a half-finished novel or the frenetic click of my keyboard to see a familiar face in front of me.

Most days, my response comes like clockwork, time and time again. The honest answer is followed by a wistful smile: “Busy.”

We live in a busy, multitasking world. Imagine a typical class; you scroll through Pinterest recipe boards, zoom in on Thanksgiving desserts while listening to the drone of the professor’s scientific perspective on delocalized hybrid orbitals. Moments later, you answer your best friend’s texts about weekend plans. You remember that the parents recently decided to visit campus and you Google the best Knoxville restaurants for evening dinner.

Multitasking almost occurs instinctually in our connected world. We have music to listen to while walking or driving. We can search the web in the middle of a lecture. We can zone out of awkward situations by focusing on our cell phones.

The ability to effectively multitask appears to be a strength rather than a weakness. Completing several tasks appears much more efficient than only finishing one—at least, that’s always been my philosophy. But one day several weeks ago, the demands of papers, meetings, a looming competition and noise had

nearly driven my mind to total overstimulation.

In the middle of the day, in the midst of demands, I decided to reclaim my sanity. I turned off my laptop, powered down my cell phone and walked away from class and a long list of “to-dos” in silence. After taking a few hours of total quiet, I began to complete my obligations, one at a time—and checked my phone once before going to bed.

Neurological studies show that multitasking, and the constant switching back and forth between different small tasks, taxes our brain’s ability to complete anything with full effectiveness. A recent study by French scientists found that our minds can comprehend complex tasks, but a third task overwhelms the brain’s frontal cortex. When constantly switching between complex tasks, we add a large amount of time to the ability to complete the job, roughly 40 percent, according to another 2001 psychological study.

The results of multitasking result in a myriad of issues for the brain; people experience higher stress, and miss obvious visual cues. In the long term, multitasking may result in memory loss, decreased creativity or even a drop in IQ. Even our relationships take a toll from multitasking while communicating. When a friend or significant other looks at the phone during an important discussion, communication decreases and resentment from inattention quickly arises. The University of Essex found that simply having a phone nearby during an important conversation caused friction and trust

issues.

Here are recommended tips from the experts to create more simplicity: 1. Routine: Create personal routines, like a concrete bedtime or a daily morning run, that allow you to have personal boundaries. Little habits can create a sense of empowerment and buffer your physical and emotional health.

2. Reduce choices: Having too many options leaves many paralyzed or overwhelmed with indecision.

Perhaps choose two consistent breakfast options, or coffee orders, to avoid extraneous stress from indecision.

3. Prioritize: For the long term, figure out the activities and the people to whom you want to commit your time. The most important things deserve more direct attention and allow you to make wise time investments. For short-term prioritization, write down the top three tasks necessary to complete in any given day, and commit to finishing them.

The end of the semester gets busy. Deadlines loom overhead, and the frantic holiday season has begun.

Simplify the areas of life that pull focus away from the essentials, and enjoy every minute of the holiday season.

Sarah Hagaman is a senior in English. She can be reached at shagama1@vols.utk.edu.

Cooperation, not criticism, is key to campus diversity

Katie Scott Vol Well

Let me start by saying this: There is room for improvement and there always will be.

By no means am I saying that the University of Tennessee is doing enough to promote civility, diversity and inclusivity. However, I make this statement while acknowledging that enough can never be done.

There is no measure to be reached that will excuse our university, or any university, from having to put in further effort. There will always be room for improvement, especially when it comes to social justice and ending systematic oppression.

That being said, I will not buy into the idea that our administration is putting forth its civility, diversity and inclusivity initiatives for the sole purpose of reputation management and advancing the journey to the Top 25.

I am genuinely confused as to why some students seem bent on convincing themselves, and others, that this is the case. Frankly, it doesn’t seem like the university can win. If the administration does nothing, they are condemned. If it does something, it is most certainly just to check a box and look good for the donors, and the administration is condemned again.

As a VOLS 2 VOLS Peer Health Educator, I spend a good deal of time at the Center for Health Education and Wellness. I am in the office at least once a week for our meetings. I’m frequently in there more often than that to lead or pick up materials for presentations. Point being, I have become pretty familiar with

the office and most of its staff.

Let me tell you what I have gathered from my experiences with the folks in the center.

The members of this office work tirelessly to improve the safety and wellbeing of our campus community. They often work abnormal hours to accommodate the schedules of students. They are constantly educating themselves, voluntarily, because they are passionate about their work. They care about the people their knowledge can benefit.

At the same time, the staff at the Center for Health Education and Wellness is forced to balance demands from a variety of people. Higher administration has requirements that they expect to be met.

Students have desires that they want to be fulfilled.

Additionally, the center faces pressure to conform to the wishes of politicians, donors, parents and other audiences that are interested in the university’s health and wellness initiatives.

There have been instances where the university has tried to be progressive and forward thinking.

Unfortunately, it seems that for every three steps forward, we take two steps back. For example, earlier this semester the Pride Center published a list of gender-neutral pronouns as a resource for those who want to use inclusive pronouns. This resource, which seems harmless to most, was apparently offensive enough to some state politicians that the Pride Center was forced to retract it.

I believe that offices like the Center for Health Education and Wellness are genuinely focused on improving the student experience – not for the sake of checking boxes but because they care about our student body. However, I also understand that they are forced to tread lightly lest they become the next victim of Fox News and state legislators.

For the time being, decisions have to be made with caution. It is better to progress slowly than to leap forward and face a setback as punishment.

The #VolsHelpVols mantra is not empty, and it’s not just a public relations campaign. It’s something that administration, faculty and students can rally behind. It’s an idea that we are working towards, even if not at the pace some would like.

That being said, if you would like to accelerate the rate at which our campus changes, do something about it. The root of the problem isn’t just lack of administration buy-in; it’s lack of student buy-in.

Student-led initiatives can be just as powerful, if not more so, than initiatives led by administration. This is our campus, and we all have a voice.

Katie Scott is a junior in communication studies and a Vols 2 Vols Peer Health Educator for the Center for Health Education and Wellness. She can be reached at katdscot@vols.utk.edu.

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ARTS&CULTURE

The Daily Beacon • Friday, November 20, 2015

History professor examines Roots author’s legacy Samantha Kennedy Contributor

Almost four decades ago, Alex Haley published his most famous novel “Roots� and left his mark on American literature and culture.

In combination with his 1965 publication, “The Autobiography of Malcolm X,� Haley’s latest work started to give Americans a different outlook on racism.

This year, Robert J. Norrell, professor in the history department and recipient of the Bernadotte Schmitt Chair of Excellence since 1998, set out to analyze Haley’s lasting legacy. With a special interest in American race relations, Norrell attempted to document Haley’s rise to fame and his enduring iconic status.

The result of his efforts, “Alex Haley And the Books That Changed a Nation,� was published on Nov. 10, 2015. “I believed he shaped the racial sensibilities of more Americans than any other writer, black or white,� Norrell said. “Haley and his work deserve to be recognized as seminal influences on black identity and American thought about race, and for that reason I wrote a biography of him.�

The greatest significance of “Alex Haley: And the Books That Changed a Nation� is that it is the first biography of one of the most well known authors of the twentieth century.

Both of Haley’s books, “Roots� and “The Autobiography of Malcolm X,� sold about six million copies and many Americans saw the

films based on them. Haley sold more books than any other African American author and all but a few white authors of the time.

Haley’s first book, “The Autobiography of Malcolm X,� was published in 1965, as a collaboration between Malcolm X, a human rights activist and Haley. This autobiography follows the life of Malcolm X and communicates his philosophy of black pride and Black Nationalism. After the leader’s assassination, Haley took on the project alone, finishing the book and writing the epilogue. “The Autobiography of Malcolm X gave millions of Americans a look into the inner world of blacks in twentieth-century ghettoes and especially the anger that life there engendered,� Norrell said.

For his second novel, Haley captured life in more than just one century. “Roots� is an effort by Haley to follow his family tree starting with the story of his first ancestor sold into slavery. It goes on to tracks the lives of the first slave’s descendants in the United States all the way down to Haley.

Shortly after the release of the Haley’s novel, in 1977 a television adaptation of “Roots� came out, and Haley’s story quickly became a cultural sensation. Roots spent months on The New York Times Best Seller List, and twenty-two weeks in that list’s top spot. “Haley made the experience of AfricanAmericans complete in a way that it had never been before. He created memorable characters that live today in the minds of

those who read Roots or who saw the television productions,� Norrell said. “He opened the eyes of millions.�

Professor Norrell himself has a fairly extensive publication history with one novel and thirteen other works of nonfiction.

Many of these titles also examine race relations through history in America, including “Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington,� “The House I live in: Race in the American Century,�and “Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in

UT professor Robert J. Norrell is also an author that writes about race relations in America. • Photo Courtesy of Robert Norrell

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SPORTS

The Daily Beacon • Friday, November 20, 2015

FOOTBALL

Dobbs relishes role as full time student and athlete Jonathan Toye

Sports Editor It’s 9 a.m. Joshua Dobbs is in the Anderson Training Center receiving treatment and sneaking in some breakfast. Afterwards, he fields questions from local media about the upcoming game that is five days away. Around noon, Dobbs makes the trek across campus to attend classes that last until 3 p.m. He then returns to the Anderson Training Center for football-related activities that go from 3 to 7:30 p.m. After football, Dobbs concludes his day by attending a one-hour study hall session.

“Mondays are pretty long days,” Dobbs said in an exclusive interview with the Daily Beacon.

The rest of the week, however, doesn’t get any shorter. The next morning, Tennessee’s starting quarterback is up at 7:30 a.m. to study film.

It’s not the only thing he will study that week.

By now, every college football fan knows that Dobbs has a unique major for a student athlete. That he is an aerospace engineer major is discussed during the broadcast of nearly every televised Tennessee football game. It was one of the first things mentioned when he made his Tennessee debut in the second half against then top-ranked Alabama in 2013. His class schedule flashed across the screen during last season’s TaxSlayer Bowl. ESPN sideline reporter Holly Rowe sat in on one of his classes the Friday before the Oklahoma game.

But with all the acclaim and recognition also comes some major sacrifices.

Dobbs admits that he doesn’t have much time for extra-curricular activities. His only days off in the past six months came during fall break.

When Dobbs does enjoy free time, he is either sleeping or getting ahead on schoolwork.

Dobbs is also undergoing his first season as the full-time starter. That means more responsibilities. That means more hits from defenders.

That means more Sundays where he wakes up feeling sore. That means more interactions with the media — both on a local and national level.

The aforementioned factors threaten to divert his attention away from academics.

Dobbs, however, doesn’t allow football and aerospace engineering to intersect.

“My football life and school life are two separate things, so I kind of treat them like that,” Dobbs said. “What happens on the football field doesn’t affect me in the classroom and vice versa.

“At times there are going to be a lot of things to do or things to get accomplished, but it all comes with the job and what you chose to do with your life. I have just embraced it.”

Dobbs has embraced his role as the starting quarterback this season. He has led the Vols to a 6-4 record in 2015 — their best 10-game record since 2007. And while Dobbs wasn’t his

best in Tennessee’s last game — an ugly 24-0 win against lowly North Texas — his special ability to make plays with both his arm and his legs has given Tennessee a chance to win every game in 2015.

His taste of success on the football field hasn’t hindered his focus in the classroom. Dobbs has to deal with soreness on a weekly basis, but he doesn’t let physical fatigue affect his concentration in class.

“I think it’s just type of a mindset,” Dobbs said. “Obviously you are going to get tired physically, but you just got to have a mindset of ‘You gotta get it done’ you know? I think it’s kind of a mindset thing. Each week is different based on work and the game and how it goes. It’s just taking it one day at a time and just working your way through it.”

The mindset has paid dividends. The Vols scholars’ patch emblazoned on the upper-right side of Dobbs’ uniform indicates his GPA is at least a 3.0.

His teammates are impressed with his work ethic.

“He is the quarterback so he has to study a lot of football and everything,” freshman Darrin Kirkland Jr. said, who is a finance major himself.

“But he balances his schoolwork really well, so I try to bounce some things off of him, make sure I am staying on task as well.”

Dobbs’ secret to handling both the responsibilities of a starting quarterback in the SEC and the duties of an engineering student is simple: he doesn’t seem to mind stressful situations.

“There are always times that are stressful, you have a lot on your plate, but they are kind of fun,” Dobbs said. “Just to see how you are going to respond to them and how you are going to get what you need to do accomplished in a short amount of time.”

Dobbs has a strong support system that has helped him cope with stress. His two parents push him to be his best and offer support when he needs it. Tennessee Sports Nutritionist Allison Maurer helps him maintain a healthy diet. Sleeping coaches ensure Dobbs is optimizing his sleep habits. Fellow engineering students give him notes from Friday classes that he missed due to traveling with the team.

His coach helps too, preaching a simple method to avoid stressful situations It’s staying on top. It’s time management,” Tennessee coach Butch Jones said. “It’s investing your time, but that’s a big part of it. It’s an important part of the semester. As the season progresses you cut back practice a little bit just because of the wear-and-tear on the body, but also with the academic workload as well.

“We are very cognizant of that, and we talk to them about that daily.”

Dobbs has no choice but to manage his time wisely. While Dobbs is probably enrolled in a number of time-consuming classes, just one of

• File Photo his classes sufficiently shows the commitment it takes to be an engineer.

Hunter Kinslow, junior in mechanical engineering, has a fluid mechanics class with Dobbs.

Kinslow admits the class can be stressful: there are no homework assignments and the only grades in the class are three exams.

The three exams, then, are pretty important.

And studying for them is no small task.

“There is a lot of pressure on those three grades defining your whole grade,” Kinslow said. “The tests are big. It is stressful, especially on test day.

“If you do not spend time keeping up with the materials and then you wait to learn weeks worth of material in a day, then it is very easy to fail.”

That’s why Dobbs doesn’t cram for exams.

If he has an exam on Wednesday, he will start studying the previous Sunday.

“Obviously, everyone procrastinates,” Dobbs said. “I just try to get assignments started on a little bit, work through it piece by piece. Even if I put it off a little bit, it’s not like I am not starting from ground zero. I feel like I have done a good job with that: trying to study for tests early. (It’s) just the little things: doing my homework right when I get it rather than waiting to do it.

“There are times you don’t want to do anything.”

Dobbs’ parents made sure he learned time management at an early age.

Even now when Dobbs feels like taking an evening off, his parents are there to provide an extra push.

“They have been a big key and they stay on me still today about if I have a night where I want to rest or something,” Dobbs said. “They

stay on me. They push me to get my work done early. It’s been really good to have them.

“They also support me if I need help with something or need help with a concept learning something or need some extra class materials to help my study. They are always there to give me the resources I need.”

Dobbs’ peers are another source of support in stressful times. Engineers in the same year typically have the same classes every semester.

Dobbs, then, has become close friends with many of the students in the college of engineering.

When Dobbs misses class on Fridays before games, his colleagues make sure he doesn’t fall behind.

“I think there a lot of people Josh (Dobbs) can call on if he is not there for notes or if he didn’t get to pick up a homework sheet or something like that,” Kinslow said. “I know I grabbed a sheet for Josh (Dobbs) one day. People are definitely looking out for their quarterback. I think if he called on anyone of them for a favor or to catch up on notes or something like that, everyone is pretty willing.

“Josh is a guy. He is a 20-year-old just like us.”

During the interview, a group of people walks past Dobbs. He briefly nods at them. They are part of the SEC Network team. He will meet with them to discuss the North Texas game immediately after this interview.

It’s Friday. Normally the day where college students can take a break.

Not Dobbs. He has another loaded schedule of interviews and pregame walkthroughs.

He’s not complaining, though.

“I have really loved every moment of it.”

SPORTS

Friday, November 20, 2015 • The Daily Beacon

MEN’S BASKETBALL

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Notebook: Vols attack the paint in second half comeback over Marshall

Senior Kevin Punter lays the ball in the net for two points against Marshall.

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Assistant Sports Editor

Hayley Pennesi • The Daily Beacon/ Tennessee Athletics

Vols use second-half run to rally against Marshall 84-74 Troy Provost-Heron Training Editor

Kevin Punter entered the locker room at halftime with just two points under his name on the stat sheet.

To that point, the senior guard hadn’t played well enough, and Tennessee coach Rick Barnes let him know it.

“I told him at some point in time he is going to have to accept the role that he is in,” Barnes said. “That’s what it is. He’s the guy that we have to put at point guard. I told him that if he just did what he practiced, he’d surprise himself.”

Punter did just that, going on a 17-point outburst to lead the Vols on a 26-2 run that helped UT overcome a 16-point deficit early in the second half en route to an 84-74 victory over the Thundering Herd inside ThompsonBoling Arena on Thursday.

“I was just in attack mode,” Punter said.

“The hole opened up and I was just determined to get to that space.”

The Vols (2-1) entered the intermission trailing Marshall (0-1), 38-35, and watched as the Thundering Herd lead swelled during the first five minutes of the second half.

Over that span, UT failed to score and Marshall rattled off a 13-0 run.

“We were sitting on the bench and the coaches said ‘We need to change it up on defense,’” Barnes said. “I said, ‘No, we need to score.’ We hadn’t scored by then, but I said the way we were going to do that was by getting some stops and getting out and going.”

Junior guard Robert Hubbs got the Vols on the board for the first time in the second half with a layup. From there, UT rattled off 13 consecutive points in a one 41-second span to trim Marshall’s lead down to 53-50.

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And then Punter took over, scoring 10 of UT’s next 14 points. His three-point shot with 9:09 left in the half capped a 19-0 spurt for the Vols that gave them a nine-point lead.

“We have to know who we are,” Hubbs said.

“Times will get bad sometimes but we just have to keep our heads up and keep playing.

We had to pick ourselves up a lot. The leaders Armani (Moore) and KP (Punter) kept telling us that we have to find a spark because this was the wrong ball game. So we found the spark and we just starting playing off of that with our energy.”

The Vols continued to build upon their run, ultimately building a 12-point lead after a pair of Punter free throws with 2:49 remaining.

Marshall managed to climb back to within six after a three by Austin Loop with 1:28 left, but the Vols quickly built the lead back up to double digits with a few defensive stops and some makes at the free-throw line.

“We still have to learn to manage the clock at the end,” Barnes said. “We had the lead and should have worked it more than we did.”

The Vols had four scorers in double figures.

Moore scored a game-high 20 points and Punter and Hubbs added 19 — a career-high for Hubbs. Senior guard Devon Baulkman scored 13 points. Reese chipped in with a career-high 13 rebounds.

Stevie Browning and Ryan Taylor led the way for Marshall, scoring 18 points apiece.

Three other Thundering Herd members scored in double figures as well.

Thursday marked the first time the Vols have overcome a 15-point deficit since they erased a 17-point deficit in a win over Vanderbilt on Jan. 15, 2011.

“We put ourselves in a hole, but we got out of it,” Punter said. “It was scary. That’s never what any team wants is to dig yourself out of a hole you put yourself in, but we climbed out

As Tennessee walked into the locker room at the end of the first half against Marshall, the Vols had attempted just two free throws, compared to 11 shots from behind the three point line.

That changed after the break.

Despite trailing by as many as 16, the Vols attacked the basket, shooting 28 second half free throws on their way to an 84-74 win over the Thundering Herd.

“The first half we were attacking,” senior guard Kevin Punter said. “But in the second half I guess they started calling it. We were just relentless in getting to the open space.”

Tennessee (2-1) didn’t stop shooting the three, taking 12 more after the break, but according to coach Rick Barnes, the Vols were smarter with the way they attacked the basket.

“We didn’t put any pressure on the high percentage area of the court,” Barnes said of the first half. “I don’t mind if we take rhythm threes, I think we have the guys that can do it … We had too many guys driving in and trying to get fouled. They were taking bad shots.

“We didn’t attack. We just settled.”

Attacking the basket and going to the line doesn’t help unless you’re able to make free throws, and that’s exactly what Tennessee did against Marshall (0-1).

The Vols hit 25-of-30 free throws and made their first 16 from the charity stripe before a miss by Armani Moore midway through the second half. Moore hit 7-of-11 from the line while Punter hit 9-of-10. Both Devon Baulkman and Robert Hubbs were perfect from the line.

Spotlight: Hubbs has dealt with various injuries throughout the first part of the season, and the junior was forced to miss Wednesday’s practice due to an illness. He had started the two previous games before coming off the bench against Marshall After his performance on Thursday night, Barnes said that trend might continue.

“Maybe we shouldn’t practice him,” Barnes joked. “He’s doing a pretty good job without practice. Maybe he should get the stomach virus more often. Maybe that’s what he should do every day.”

The former five-star recruit scored a career high 19 points against the Thundering Herd on 7-of-14 shooting and he pulled down three offensive rebounds in the process.

Barnes said earlier in the week that he would like to see the 6-foot-6 forward attack the basket more instead of staying around the perimeter, and that’s what Hubbs did.

He took just two shots from behind the three point line, missing both, and instead focused on getting into the paint.

“I feel like I have the advantage over anybody when I get inside the lane,” Hubbs said. “Most guys can’t jump as high as me, so I just take advantage. I just want to help the team out.”

This team looks to Punter and Moore to score most of the time, but Hubbs has shown that he can be a reliable option as well. This is the second time he has set his career high this season and he is averaging 16.7 points over three games.

Moore scored a game-high 20 with Punter adding 19, and adding a third scoring option has been critical for this team.

“It’s huge,” Punter said. “Hubbs is a guy we’re counting on. He’s going to step consistently and that’s big. He knocked down some pretty big shots and he was in attack mode, which was good.”

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SPORTS

The Daily Beacon • Friday, November 20, 2015

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Lady Vols prepare to see a different shade of Orange Trenton Duffer Copy Editor

Inside the paint has been Tennessee’s bread and butter this year. 102 of the Lady Vols’ 176 points this year have come inside the paint this year.

If the Lady Vols hope to get past Syracuse’s 2-3 zone defense on Friday, they will have to shoot better from beyond the arc. No. 25 Syracuse likes to stack the paint against its opponents, forcing the opposing team to shoot well from outside and mid-range to pick up a victory.

Shooting from outside is something the Lady Vols have struggled with this season. A solid 9-19 (47.4 percent) outing against Central Arkansas last Sunday soon turned into a disastrous 1-12 (8 percent) showing against Penn State on Wednesday night.

Syracuse will be the Lady Vols’ third opponent in five days. Head coach Holly Warlick isn’t worried about fatigue as much as she is on the Orange’s 2-3 zone matchup.

“We’ve gotta get better,” Warlick said on Wednesday. “We’ve gotta get better moving the ball, getting touches, cutting and getting spaces.

We’ve gotta get better against zones. … Syracuse

is known for their 2-3 matchup, and we’ve got our work cut out for us.”

The Lady Vols will take on the nationallyranked Orange on Friday night at 7 p.m. inside Thompson-Boiling Arena.

“Beastly” Performance: The No. 4 Lady Vols are coming off a 74-66 win against Penn State that showed a dominating performance in the paint by Bashaara Graves, who had 24 points, shot 8-8 from the field and snagged 13 rebounds en route to a double-double. Graves gave the team a spark off the bench, as she returned to her “beast mode” status after sitting out against Central Arkansas.

“I just got comfortable. I knew I could take (Penn State) off the dribble,” Graves said after Wednesday’s matchup. “I just tried to get rebounds. I came in, and that’s just what I do.

It’s my game plan for not just this game, but for each game.”

Transition Defense: Earlier in the year, Coach Warlick talked about the challenge her team faced in stopping strong transition offenses in the year. Warlick even went as far to say that the Lady Vols’ transition defense is what the team has focused on more than anything this offseason.

The focus is paying off, as the Lady Vols have

Head coach Holly Warlick coaches from the sidelines.

Esther Choo • The Daily Beacon allowed only 18 fast break points — 15 of those coming against Penn State on Wednesday.

With Syracuse playing a 2-3 defense, it may

be harder for the Orange to get back on offense should they force a turnover against the Lady Vols.