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Fisk Jubilee Singers impress audience with history, vocals Heidi Hill Contributor

Cox Auditorium’s soft lights complemented their Acapella sound, and the 11 members of the Fisk Jubilee Singers brought a nineteenth century portrait to life last Thursday night.

Sponsored by UT’s Cultural Attractions Committee, the vocalists from Nashville’s 148 year old university demonstrated a full range of numbers in the first act, shifting from the upbeat “Done Made My Vow” to the haunting harmonies of “Listen to the Lambs” and “Steal Away to Jesus.”

As musical director Paul Kwami explained, the Fisk Jubilee Singers’ historic prestige and success rests in a song’s careful arrangement, distinguishing the Negro spiritual from a traditional gospel sound.

“We talk about gospel music as one of the forms of music that grew out of the Negro spiritual,” Kwami said.

“Both are church music, but when we talk about gospel music, it involves the use of instruments, a lot of organization, hand clapping and in some cases, very little control of the voice when one is singing. But the Negro spiritual, on the other hand, is music that was arranged when the Fisk Jubilee Singers (first) decided to travel around the world to raise money.”

The line of subtly sparkling dresses and black bow ties matched the vocal sophistication as Kwami’s layers of alto, tenor and soprano tones rose and fell like a steady river of sound.

“I had an idea that it was kind of spiritual, religious songs because we had listened to the songs when we were marketing, so I knew what to expect, but I didn’t expect to realize how good they sounded live,” said Caroline Norris, sophomore in management and member of the Cultural Attractions Committee. “I had chills, especially from the soloists.

They did an amazing job.”

Keeping with a tradition begun by founder George White in 1871, the Fisk Jubilee Singers still raise money for Fisk University as a nod to their artistic predecessors who required funds to continue giving concerts in the United States and around the world.

Yet, the Jubilee Singers displayed more than voice control, acknowledging the rich heritage of Negro spiritual and legacy of White’s original performers.

As the show’s second act opened, each member represented one of the Jubilee Singers’ original members, posed to imitate a floor to ceiling portrait commissioned by Queen Victoria.

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Vols unable to replicate comeback success, fall to Missouri 29-21 Troy Provost-Heron

Sports Editor (@TPro_UTDB) Down by 16 with 6:22 remaining in the game, Tennessee’s resiliency showed once again.

Much like three weeks ago when they came back against South Carolina, the Volunteers followed up a Missouri touchdown drive with a score of their own.

The 14-play, 79-yard drive, which was capped off with a four-yard passing touchdown and a two-point conversion run — both by Joshua Dobbs — drew UT within eight with 1:52 to go.

A comeback to force overtime, however, was not in the script.

After two controversial onside kicks

went against the Vols, Missouri ran out the clock and handed UT a 29-21 loss to keep their bowl eligibility on the fringe.

“Very proud of our kids,” Tennessee head coach Butch Jones said. “They didn’t quit. They kept scratching and clawing, but winning is very fragile.

We had too many mistakes.”

Trailing by eight with only two timeouts at their disposal, the Vols (5-6, 2-5 SEC) elected to go for the onside kick in hope of getting the ball back with enough time to put together a game-tying drive.

And for a moment, it seemed like the Vols had done just that, as junior wide receiver Von Pearson jumped on the loose ball.

But two flags graced the field: One for offsides and the other for illegal

touching. After a review negated the latter, though, UT got an opportunity to re-kick.

For the second consecutive kick, the ball was recovered by Tennessee, but once again the Vols were hit with an illegal touching penalty.

This time, the penalty was not reversed.

“It’s tough, it really is because if we get the ball we can win that game,” said freshman running back Jalen Hurd. “The way it turned out, it was unfortunate.”

After two contests in which they amassed more than 500 total yards, the Vols struggled offensively, due in large part to the pressure Missouri’s defense was able to apply on UT’s backfield.

The Tigers (9-2, 6-1) racked up six

Bourbon Trail shares culture with thousands Bradi Musil Assistant News Editor (@bradi4)

Amber in color, bitter in taste and rich in history.

For Kentucky natives, bourbon is more than just liquor.

Every year, thousands travel from all over the globe to experience the Kentucky Bourbon Trail, spanning over 200 miles of Kentucky soil and including nine bourbon distilleries.

“Bourbon is definitely part of the culture here,” said Adam Johnson, director of the Kentucky Bourbon Trail. “People like to show it off a little bit when their friends come into town, taking them to their local distillery … Most people are used to your local brewery, in Kentucky you have your favorite distillery.”

Bourbon’s legacy began in the region in the 1700s, when settlers first set up camp amidst the rocky terrain and steep mountains that would eventually mold the state. Upon settling, these farmers found that the land’s geographic barriers, however, made it difficult to transport excess crops. They found it was far easier to convert corn and grains into whiskey and transport that across the country instead.

In 1785, when Kentucky was still part of Virginia, farmers began shipping their whiskey down the Ohio and Mississippi River to New Orleans in large, oak barrels. As the whiskey aged and fermented in the barrels, it turned an amber color and developed a distinct, rich flavor.

Stamped on every barrel shipped was the name of its home, “Bourbon County,” and thus the spirit was given

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sacks and 12 tackles for loss — both more than the total Tennessee had allowed in its two previous contests combined — and only gave up 53 yards rushing.

In total, the Vols were held to just 279 yards on the night, never surpassing the 150-yard mark in either half.

“We knew it was going to be a field position game,” Jones said. “Their front seven is the best we’ve faced all year. Sometimes you have one defensive end that is a great player that you have to prepare for. Well they have two.

“They are very deep, and they are very talented, so we knew that yards were going to be at a premium.”

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hasn’t changed,” Johnson said. “You’re still using the same kinds of ingredients, you’re still using that yeast and relying on that good Kentucky water.”

Today, Kentucky is the only state in America that produces bourbon, and it produces 95 percent of the world’s total supply. Bourbon also cultivates the region’s industry, creating over 9,000 jobs and generating more than $125 million in tax revenue each year.

Despite their name, they don’t sound like crap.

I’m a Nashville native and a lover of all things rock and roll, so it’s only natural that I’d have an affinity for Diarrhea Planet. Offering fast paced riffs and enough energy to light your apartment, this amazing band never ceases to amaze with their relentless onstage presence.

To see a DP show is an experience unlike any other. Twice having seen them in Nashville, I’ve been kicked in the face, had my belongings trampled and generally been tossed around like a rag doll all in the name of good fun. Before the fun of Friday night’s International show even began, I got the chance to sit down with the rock gods and hear firsthand what their brand of “courage rock” was all about. “(It’s) rock that makes you feel like you just saw ‘School of Rock,’” guitarist Emmett Miller said, plucking casually on his instrument as he spoke. “It makes you want to climb up a mountain.”

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Barrels of bourbon aging.

• Photo courtesy of the Kentucky Bourbon Trail its now famous name.

“It’s been one of our signature industries ever since,” Al Young, brand ambassador for Four Roses Bourbon said.

“Bourbon has been part of our culture since before Kentucky became a state in 1792.”

Although much of the technology used for producing bourbon has changed, the process of aging whiskey in a barrel to produce bourbon remains largely the same today.

“The distillation process, a lot of that

“Right now, the administration doesn’t take the Student Government Association seriously.”

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After 20 years in the field, Meghan Cope has discovered that “a life-long commitment to the critical views of the world” is necessary to be a life-long learner.

A human geographer and professor at the University of Vermont, Cope spoke as a lecturer for UT’s “National Geography Awareness Week” on her projects with youth in Buffalo, New York from 2002 to 2006.

Cope and her team of student researchers set out to observe and record the racially diverse populations represented in the city’s west side and gauge the geographical impact on that community’s development under the Children’s Urban Geographies Project.

This community-centered learning, Cope said, is a research method that can and should be applied to any field of study, emphasizing the need for on-going reflection and evaluation in such projects.

“We were there to learn their geography,” Cope said of her students in Buffalo. “Some of the most difficulty I had was getting the other teachers to understand this, rather than the graduate students I was with.”

One step in that learning process, Cope explained, was an activity called “community visioning” where children were asked to visit empty lots in their Buffalo neighborhood and return with sketches with what they would want to see in place of the gray gravel.

“They were less whimsical than

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I expected,” Cope said. “It just proved that these kids are very savvy in their society’s reality.

There were gardens with nutritious foods, homes for the elderly and ‘a school where both white and black children are happy.’”

Not only did this activity proundervide deeper standing for Cope’s

in teens w h o live i n

team, but she said it also laid the foundation for the broader challenge for her audience -- to reexam reexamine age as a social construct that shapes the habits and behavior of a particular community.

Matthew Kerr, a graduate student in geography, said that Cope’s emphasis on community-based learning and understanding age applies in his research on paleoclimates and paleoenvironments, a subdiscipline that combines physical geography with archaeological skills.

“That’s something I’ve thought of before, but in a very casual sense,” Kerr said. “About how we really do restrict our ideas of what certain age periods should be. It is something that archaeologists look at. It’s not what I look at, but there is an archaeology of youth and old age, and there is a geography of youth and old age.”

This construct of age, Cope explained, also carries over into suburban development and the trends she has studied

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• Meghan Cope works with youth in Buffalo, New York.

environments more isolated than their urban peers peers.

Allison Ingram, a first year master’s student in geography, said the lecture made her think about her own life when growing up in New Jersey, a suburban environment that didn’t allow her to “really go anywhere.”

“It was such a pain to get places, and I didn’t realize how isolated I was,” Ingram said. “Now I live in Maplehurst, and I can walk to school everyday, I can walk everywhere. I have my car here, but that’s only for going to the grocery store. And I’m thinking in the future, ‘Do I want to live in a suburban area where you have to have a car? No, I don’t.’”

Mobility in suburb landscapes, like Ingram’s home in New Jersey, are now the focus of Cope’s attention and will become part of her 2007 study on youth mobility in Vermont and its relationship with social expectations in the average teenager’s life.

KY BOURBON continued from Page 1 With the land’s classic southern scenery, infrastructure and the close proximity between bourbon distilleries scattered throughout the state, the Kentucky Distillers’ Association created the Kentucky Bourbon Trail in 1999 to provide a oneof-a-kind touring experience that showcased the science and art behind bourbon production as well as the proud history the spirit gives the region.

To visit each of the nine distilleries on the Kentucky Bourbon Trail, the company suggests setting aside three days for the trip.

These trips are self-guided and there is no official start or end to the trail. Johnson said visitors who participate in the Kentucky Bourbon Trail can visit as many or as few distilleries as they like.

A single tour at a distillery takes approximately 90 minutes and includes the history of the brand, a demonstration of the production process, a showing of the warehouse and a bourbon tasting to finish. Johnson noted that each distillery does their tour differently.

“The distilleries do a good job of providing some pretty cool experiences,” he said.

At the Four Roses Bourbon

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Illustrations, poems and prose – oh my!

The Phoenix Literary Art Magazine celebrated its fall publication with their bi-annual Phoenix Showcase hosted in the Mary Greer Room in John C. Hodges Library Thursday night.

The student-run operation includes a semester’s worth of poems, drawings, artistic achievements and photographs.

Shelby Stringfield, editor-in-chief of the Phoenix, said she believed the finished product was a success despite the rapid production pace.

“We took the first half of the semester to collect the works published in the magazine,” Stringfield said. “It was a bit frenzied, to be honest.”

Published on campus for 56 consecutive years, the magazine is a commemoration of the work of university students and staff.

“I think the Phoenix captures this campus unlike any other publication is able to, simply because it is the summation of an entire semester’s work and effort,” Stringfield said. “It’s a great way to look back in time and say, ‘I was with these people and this is what we created.’”

Eric Smith, the Phoenix’s faculty advisor, agreed, saying the publication captures how students and staff feel at this specific point in their lives.

“It’s there forever,” Smith said. “For young students, it’s very exciting to be a part of and very important just for the university to have the Phoenix.”

Writers and artists who are published in the Phoenix once rarely have a chance of getting published in the

Distillery, one of the oldest warehouses on the Kentucky Bourbon Trail, tours start with a tutorial on how bourbon is made to give everyone “something to work with” before entering the warehouse, Young explained.

Visitors are then led inside the factory to witness the production first hand, see how the grains are unloaded and amble through the yeast and fermentation rooms. Given the visitor is at least 21-years-old, they will then partake in the bourbon tasting that features three of Four Roses’ signature batches.

Emma Richardson, a senior at the University of Kentucky in health promotion, toured Four Roses this fall and said her palate wasn’t quite prepared for what the tasting had to offer.

“I was not a big fan,” Richardson joked, admitting to be an out-of-state student who wasn’t raised with the Kentucky zeal for bourbon. Regardless of the taste, however, she said she still appreciated the methodology behind the tasting.

“They told us specific ways that you’re supposed to do it, like inhale first and then sniff it before you ever take a sip,” she explained, stating that she was given a tiny amount and completed her drink in three sips for “maximum flavor.”

Richardson said her favorite part of the tour was getting to

magazine a second time due to the constant turnover amongst contributors. Smith said this makes the selection process very “thoughtful and thorough.”

“We had lots of quality material,” he said, “and I’m really proud of the staff for doing very well in selecting these works.”

Stringfield explained the process a little further, stating that, after extending the deadline for submissions twice, the Phoenix staff met up two times during the semester to determine which pieces would be included.

At the showcase, several students recited and explained their poems and artwork. Taylor Klock, artist and poet of “Metamorphosis,” a painting with a companion poem, explained her process for creating art.

“Most of my work starts off as a sketch, then sometimes I find out that I like it more and more,” Klock said.

This fall, the Phoenix magazine contains contains three fictional works, seven poems and 15 art and photography pieces.

Ultimately, Stringfield said the the importance of the Showcase is to further bolster the stories behind the works.

“It’s very special for those who come to hear and understand, because it’s more than just looking at the magazine,” Stringfield said.

The Phoenix Literary Art Magazine can be picked up at several on-campus locations. To get a copy of the fall 2014 edition of the Phoenix, readers are advised to call Student Publications at (865) 974-4504.

Stringfield is also requesting editor and staff applications. She can be contacted at sstring4@vols.utk.edu for further information.

see the warehouse itself and the production behind the spirit.

Touring the factory with her boyfriend, Richardson said she didn’t expect to find the tour to be nearly as fun as she did.

“I liked that the factory was so pretty,” Richardson said. “I think of bourbon as like a guy’s thing but it was cool to see there’s actually part of the production that’s pretty.”

Four Roses Distillery became part of the Kentucky Bourbon Trail when it was first created and Young said the number of tours they give on any single day varies. On one particular Saturday, Four Roses saw 600 visitors.

“We’re getting it almost all the time now,” Young said, noting that becoming part of the Kentucky Bourbon Trail has made the frequency of their tourgiving increase tremendously.

Last year, the Kentucky Bourbon Trail saw more than 630,000 total visits. In 2007, they started the passport program that gives each visitor a passport to have stamped at each distillery. Once a passport is filled with stamps from each distillery, the visitor receives a free T-shirt. Just five years after starting the program, more than 60,000 passports have been completed.

Although many of these visitors come from other states and

countries all over the world, the rich Kentucky culture surrounding bourbon makes the tour an ideal trip for locals as well.

“Not being from Kentucky, I didn’t really realize until I got here what a huge thing it is,” Richardson said. “Everyone talks about bourbon. People don’t even like to drink whiskey even though it’s the same type of drink-it’s still not bourbon.”

Johnson noted that bourbon is “infused throughout the state” and locals tend to find any excuse to use it.

“It’s that traditional drink where men and women alike are all very opinionated about it,” Johnson explained. “They have their favorite brands and they know how to serve it.

“Everybody in Kentucky knows somebody who works at a distillery.”

Young explained the region’s love for bourbon with one statistic.

“At one time, there were 4.9 billion barrels of whiskey aging in the state of Kentucky, and only 4.1 million people living in the state,” Young said. “When you put that together, that’s one barrel for every man, woman and child in the whole state.”

For more information on the Kentucky Bourbon Trail or to start organizing a trip, visit kybourbontrail.com.

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An administration that cares The Workshop by

Thomas Carpenter

One of the first things I was involved with as a freshman was an SGA campaign. Although I was hesitant to run for a Senate seat, the unrelenting encouragement of my good friend Lindsay Lee convinced me to do it. That campaign was run on the hope and vision of a student government that isn’t self-obsessed, too serious or concerned about personal advancement. They were a group of students that cared about representing students to the administration no matter what it took. While SGA has certainly made progress in the past couple years, there is still a lot to be done in the area of communication and cooperation between students, SGA and the UT administration.

I’m a big fan of our new Dean of Students, Melissa Shivers. If you haven’t had the opportunity to meet her, I encourage you to do so. Recently, however, she made some comments that concerned me a little bit. She was gracious enough to take time out of her day to come to the most recent Senate meeting and explain to us the process of implementing a bill after it has passed the Senate. It was extremely informative, and I learned a lot.

Before she did this, though, she made it very clear that even though a bill may pass, “there is no guarantee anything will come of it.” Now, I realize this.

Heck, I’m used to it. I can think of several pieces of legislation off the top of my head that have been passed since I’ve been a student that have not been addressed by the administration at all (i.e. gender neutral housing), but to say that there is no guarantee for ANY bill that is passed, both discredits SGA as an organization and sends a message to students that the administration doesn’t care.

Right now, the administration doesn’t take the Student Government Association seriously. They never have, at least since I’ve been here; and it’s because we haven’t given them a reason to. Past SGA administrations have done nothing to change the culture of apathy that exists in student representatives and UT administrators. So, while I wasn’t exactly surprised when I heard Shivers’ words, I was disappointed. Her words exemplify the culture of apathy and is a red flag that things need to change.

It seems that right now, SGA serves as a kind of advisory board to the administration, coming up with solutions to problems that the administration might not always be aware of. These “suggestions” in the form of bills are then looked at by the administration and then are only implemented if deemed worthy. While this is better than nothing, I have a vision of SGA that is completely different. Every piece of legislation that comes out of SGA needs to be a conversation, not only among students, but between students and the administration. Bills shouldn’t be something that can be easily dismissed because it doesn’t fall into the university’s immediate goals. Bills are a cry for change, for improvement, and right now the administration ignores far too many of them.

This column may upset some people, but my point is clear. The administration needs to do two things: 1. Step back from what SGA does at an organizational level. We are independent. We may be representatives of the University, but we are not representatives of the administration. 2. Start listening to SGA as a voice for the student body. Start giving our legislation the weight it deserves in the decisions that you make as an administration. Remember why this university exists in the first place, not for you, not for athletics, not for ARAMARK but for students to receive an education.

Thomas Carpenter is a junior in classics. He can be reached at ThomasCarpenter@utk.edu.

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In science we trust Life Under the Microscope by

Kenna Rewcastle Everything that we ‘know’ is based on an assumption or two. Scientific theories and principles arise because of the sheer preponderance of evidence that supports a conclusion. We accept gravity as a scientific truth because Newton’s apple-falling-out-of-atree observation inspired thousands of other spin-off experiments that confirmed his theory, and no one has credibly disproved the theory of gravity (perhaps with the exception of happenings on the subatomic scale).

Nearly all disciplines that present groundbreaking theories or uncover novel patterns in the world from analyzing collected data are held to the “statistically significant” caveat, otherwise known as the all-powerful p-value. In ecology and other natural sciences, one must demonstrate using various statistical tests that there is a 95 percent probability that a given result is not random.

In other words, there’s a 5 percent chance that a lot of what we ‘know’ is a fluke.

Basically, knowledge requires the “knower” to be rational, to trust in the logical argu-

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to see positive results and not just “trial and error” studies, there’s little room for scientific study purely in pursuit of knowledge. To lower the incidence of fraud and fabrication in research, we must stop seeing studies that do not report statistically significant results as failures. These studies may demonstrate that prevailing beliefs in a field are untrue, or that new methodology must be designed to better address specific questions. All scientific studies advance a growing body of knowledge in some way, and our definition of success must reflect the variety of ways that feats of science can succeed.

In science, we trust the scientists that have come before us and have built a foundation of knowledge on which we build future studies. As global citizens, we trust researchers to respect the nobility of this pursuit that informs so many of our daily choices and behaviors. In return, we, the public, agree to be rational when evaluating scientific findings. Science in this light is a trust-filled collaboration of producers and consumers of knowledge, a relationship whose value cannot be understated.

No, science is not perfect. But perfection was never the goal.

Kenna Rewcastle is a senior in college scholars. She can be reached at kenerewc@ vols.utk.edu.

When the world came to Knoxville Brick

by Brick by

Tor Voorhees The 1982 World’s Fair helped the City of Knoxville in many ways. It served as a boom to tourism in the area and as an excellent recruiting tool for the nearby University of Tennessee. However, the proximity of the fair to the university also had many drawbacks. First and foremost, land was a major issue for the exposition. Consequently, a forceful acquisition began around the area known as the Expo 82 site in the late ‘70s.

The area now known as World’s Fair Park, which had once been owned by the university, was forcibly acquired at a steep cost to the institution -- the effects of which can still be seen today.

Although the university was compensated for its land at “fair market value,” the money returned to the university was not enough to replace the lost parcels. The true cost to relocate the university disciplines that utilized the area were staggering. As exhibited by an internal document at the time, the overall cost of replacement space for programs to be displaced by the expo was nearly 2 million dollars, while the original offer for the

displaced area was just shy of one million.

Needless to say, this difference was substantial to the state sponsored institution.

Additionally, when the University of Tennessee was forced to part with this portion of its campus, it was always under the guise that they would be able to purchase the land back at a later date. The University of Tennessee even expressed great interest early on in the Expo’s building projects, going so far as to suggest certain building principles that would make the buildings more easily convertible to university use in the future.

In a document sent to the president of the Knoxville World’s Fair, a university official stated, “As you are well aware from earlier correspondence and conversations, the University of Tennessee is very much interested in securing the federal pavilion upon completion of Expo 82 for residual usage.”

In yet another piece of correspondence, the university again expressed great interest in the buildings being constructed: “You are well aware that the university is vitally interested in the residual use of the Expo 82 State Pavilion as a basketball arena. Therefore, we would like for the pavilion to be within a reasonable distance from the main campus.”

However as we now know, none of these reacquisition plans were ever accomplished.

Although little documentation exists to explain why the university was unable to

acquire the land east of 11th Street after the Expo was closed, we can plausibly assume through UT’s rhetoric that they did make a concerted effort to reacquire the land and failed. According to one document sent to then senator Victor Ashe, the reasons for which the university had decidedly pulled away from the state pavilion were because they could not afford the cost of renovating the structure into what they were most interested in at the time. Interestingly enough, the money lost during the original transactions prevented the University of Tennessee from being able to reclaim any of the land it had been forced to part with only a few years before.

As University of Tennessee students now look at their seemingly constricted campus landscape, it is hard not to imagine what the University may have looked like if not for the losses incurred due to the 1982 World’s Fair.

Bordered on all sides by industrial zones, commercial businesses and geographic barriers, the university has nowhere to go and will need to continue to expand within its own borders. While the World’s Fair was something great for Knoxville, it may be partially responsible for the cramped University of Tennessee campus we see today.

Tor Voorhees is a junior in mechanical engineering. He can be reached at vvoorhe1@vols.utk.edu.

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ments proposed by the scientific method and to trust in the scientists and researchers in all disciplines that seek to better understand the world in which we live. If 97 percent of scientists believe that modern climate change is caused by human actions, we must accept that. If the CDC tells us that smokers are 15 to 30 times more likely to develop lung cancer than non-smokers, we must trust in that too.

Most importantly, the formation of a body of knowledge worthy of the public’s trust requires scientists to be brutally honest.

Scientists take the pursuit of knowledge very seriously, as do the agencies that employ and fund them. I had to sit through several hours of research ethics training before I could step foot in a UT lab as an undergraduate research assistant. Report all steps of your methodology. Fudging data, manipulating a design or selectively reporting results in a way that skews their significance is morally wrong and is a death sentence to your scientific career. While only 2 percent of scientists reportedly admit to falsifying results, these cases of fraud are often treated as celebritylevel scandals that destroy the public’s faith in science.

It’s admittedly difficult to thrive under the constraints of funding, job security and scientific honesty. When funding agencies and employers, in the U.S. in particular, prefer

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Elenowen brings romance to performance at Concourse Hannah Zechman Staff Writer (@HannahZechman_) “It’s the last UT home game, and you guys are here,� Josh Johnson of Elenowen said. “It’s almost blasphemy.�

Along with his wife Nicole Johnson, the two romanticized a captive audience at their advanced CD release tour Saturday night at the Concourse at The International. The new album “For the Taking� is a reflection on their whole new life.

Now accompanied by a baby boy, the two are morphing their career and their family into one.

Not defined by any particular sound, the singer-songwriter couple used their diversity to take Saturday night’s audience on a truly intimate experience through their love and the struggles they have overcome.

It was a romantic journey. The crowd sat on the floor and on couches, leaning into every word the two sang. “It feels like there should be a campfire,� Josh Johnson said.

Elenowen did what they do best: they took a group of strangers through the highs and the lows of their life, giving light to every bittersweet moment.

Nicole and Josh Johnson locked eyes during “Desert Days,� sending a hush over the audience. Josh Johnson explained they once lived in Nicole Johnson’s parent’s basement for five years. “Someday we’re gonna find the things that we’ve been looking for,� the couple sang.

And they did. They mentioned several times throughout their show how incandescently happy they are now that they have their child, Nolan.

Happy to be parents, their music

JUBILEE continued from Page 1 The accounts of each performer’s life were as diverse as the voices themselves: stories laced with suffering and hard labor under cruel masters, musical training by parents or willing tutors and the common hope of completing

takes on a new meaning. Now they are mother and father, along with husband and wife and musicians. Their performance was more of a reflection than an expression of struggle. Josh and Nicole Johnson are now in love with something bigger than themselves, and they use their newfound happiness to express their deepest emotions through their music. “(Nolan) is the love of our lives,�

Nicole Johnson said.

At one point, the show even turned sexy. Reflecting the true roller coaster of a marriage, the two sang a sultry cover of The Cure’s “Love Song.�

Expressing their love for covering songs, Josh and Nicole Johnson showed the audience the chemistry that flows between them.

Their relationship is beautiful, in every sense of the imagination, romance that is not all gushy and happy. In fact, sometimes the struggles seem to be all that comes into focus. Elenowen’s music is a direct reflection of that. Josh and Nicole Johnson are two best friends as well as a husband and wife who want nothing but to be real with their audience.

Their struggles and triumphs have defined them as not only musicians, but as humans. They never hold back their past experiences; instead they share them with open arms.

The new album is a joyful accomplishment for Elenowen. It’s been a long time coming, but Josh and Nicole Johnson are finally through the troubles. They locked eyes once again while singing “For the Taking,� using the lyrics to express that life is for the taking, so they need to take it together.

Happy to be happy, Nicole Johnson left the audience with a little piece of her bliss. “It’s really been good,� she said, “this little tour we’ve been on.�

an education at Fisk University. “When they came out in the costumes, I didn’t know what they were going to do. I just thought they were going to do their usual concert, so that was a real treat,� Norris said. “Showing that rich history, how they had parents who were slaves and were slaves themselves and then rose above that and went to Fisk University and

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DIARRHEA PLANET continued from Page 1 Admitting to such musical influences as Fugazi and Nirvana, lead singer and guitarist Jordan Smith sees the band as moving beyond the constrictive genre classifications of either metal or punk. “We took punk’s speed and aggression and simplicity and tried to turn it into other things,� Smith explained.

While the band was more than happy to speak on past tour experiences and musical influences, they stopped short of elaborating on their unique and often derided name of Diarrhea Planet, with Miller simply noting that “it was a really dark time in everybody’s life� when the name for the group was chosen.

Finally parting ways with the band, I made my way to the center of the audience to soak in what the opening acts had to offer. After an upbeat and entertaining opener from Knoxville natives Crumbsnatchers, The Glory Fires took to the stage and gave a mostly adequate performance; inspiring the occasional tossing of beer bottles by the more excitable members of the crowd.

By the time Diarrhea Planet finally emerged onto the scene, the people were ready and willing to get down and dangerous to the sound of their rock and roll. Before the opening riffs had even torn into the crowd, a mosh pit extending the length of the venue had formed, rocking nearly every single concertgoer to their cores and if they weren’t careful, onto the floor.

DP’s Nashville shows are famous for being devoid of any security guards or sanity, with the only thing separating the band from the audience is the wave of noise emitting from their amplifiers. Yet on Friday night, a line of stern faced, unhappy security guards maintained a metal fence separating the crowd from the rockers above. With a mosh pit inevitably forming at the concert’s outset, the entire show became a contest

helped each other and became these great singers, I think is good to highlight that and realize how far they’ve come and all their achievements.�

Julia Navin, a freshman in nutrition, also recognized the group’s blend of musical excellence and special homage to the original Jubilee Singers. “It’s cool to listen to these old slave songs and know they’ve kept that cul-

Lead singer and guitarist Jordan Smith of Diarrhea Planet, a rock band from Nashville, played at the International on Friday.

Tanner Hancock • The Daily Beacon ing along to the ridiculous yet oddly satisfying lyrics of “Ghost with a Bonerâ€? as well as “Separations.â€?

Drenched in sweat with a voice hoarse from screaming, the crowd was ready and willing for an encore by the end of D-Planet’s set. The International, however, seemingly couldn’t wait to get this destructive band out of their venue and possibly their city, as the lights quickly turned on by the end of their last song, effectively destroying any chance for a second round of rock and roll madness.

Knoxville just couldn’t handle what Diarrhea Planet was dishing.

between crowd and security as the audience desperately tried to push the metal fence to the stage’s edge.

With fans pushing back security to the adrenaline pumping sound of “Lite Dream,� Smith eventually had to step in. Threatening to “f***ing stop playing� if he saw any signs of unnecessary violence from security, the night saw its fair share of tense moments, including one guard removing his shirt mid-concert in what was certainly a meaningless, macho gesture.

After things calmed down a bit, the audience again allowed themselves to resume the good time, sing-

ture thriving and to get that passed-on knowledge,� Navin said. “It was really fascinating to see them pay tribute to that because they obviously still care about their heritage.�

By preserving the Negro spiritual, the Fisk Jubilee Singers not only impressed the audience with their vocal finesse but also injected fresh meaning into what music can do when

unhooked from any instrumental embellishment. “We sing songs that some musicians will take and arrange to bring out the beauty of music, so that when you sit and listen, music sung by pure voices without drums, guitars or wind instruments,� Kwami explained. “It changes into an art form -- a higher art form of choral music.�

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Monday, November 24, 2014 Sports Editor Troy Provost-Heron @TPro_UTDB

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Dropped passes hinder Vols bid for sixth win Taylor White

Staff Writer (@T_Dub98) With a bowl berth on the line, Tennessee’s normally reliable receiving corps did not quite live up to its reputation in the Vols’ 29-21 loss to Missouri Saturday night.

Quarterback Joshua Dobbs struggled throughout most of the game, but the signal caller didn’t get much help from his wideouts, as they let several passes slip through their fingers.

“We dropped too many passes tonight,” said head coach Butch Jones. “They’re a good football team. They’re a veteran group, they’ve played a lot of football, so we knew that it would be a tight game and we knew that we would have to earn everything.”

Several different players were guilty of drops in key situations, but one was more critical than others. Early in the fourth quarter, Dobbs targeted freshman Josh Malone on a slant route over the middle. The ball bounced off Malone’s hands, and ended up in the hands of Missouri defensive back Kenya Dennis.

Four plays later, Tiger quarterback Maty Mauk looked for wide out Jimmie Hunt deep down the field. Hunt out-jumped defender Justin Coleman, and ran 73 yards to the end zone to give Missouri a 23-13 lead.

“We had a dropped pass for an interception,” Jones said. “Then on a third and long on the next series, it goes for a touchdown.

That’s what makes winning so fragile, so we’ll continue to regroup and learn from it.”

Alton “Pig” Howard was one bright spot for the Tennessee receivers, pulling down

GAMER continued from Page 1 Much like in his first career start against Missouri a year ago, Dobbs struggled, throwing for 195 yards — 81 of which came on UT’s final scoring drive — a touchdown and an interception

eight passes for 90 yards. Even Howard had his moments, though, dropping several passes late in the fourth quarter when Dobbs called his number.

Field position woes: After giving up a touchdown on its first possession, the Tennessee defense tightened up, and was able to give its offense the ball in great field position.

However, the offense failed to use that to their advantage.

“You have to take advantage of field position when you get the ball in scoring territory,” Jones said. “And when you get the ball at midfield at a minus 40, we need to capitalize and come up with some points. Points were going to be at a premium because they are a very talented football team.”

Out of Tennessee’s first six drives, three of them started in Missouri territory. Those drives resulted in just 20 yards of offense and only six points thanks to two field goals from freshman kicker Aaron Medley.

The Vols’ average starting field position was their own 36-yard line, and failing to capitalize on early opportunities put their offense in a hole it couldn’t climb of late in the game.

The offensive struggles, however, did pave the way for senior punter Matt Darr’s big night. Darr punted six times for an average of 46.5 yards per kick, including four that were downed inside Missouri’s 20 yard line on Senior Night.

Darr’s ability to flip the field helped even out the field position battle for Tennessee, and he was able to bail his offense out of several situations.

“It was great,” Darr said. “For my last game in Neyland, to be able to play to my full

on 24-of-37 passing.

The sophomore quarterback was also held to a season-low 13 rushing yards on 17 carries.

“They were a good defense,” Dobbs said. “We definitely made some mistakes out there that we have to clean up. We knew coming into the game what was in front of us.

“We have to fix the thing that

potential was very rewarding. I am grateful for every opportunity I have had to be able to punt in Neyland Stadium. Tonight was a good way to close it out.”

Field goal trickery: With the Tennessee offense struggling to find the end zone, Butch Jones reached into his bag of tricks early in the second quarter to help put points on the board.

Medley was lined up to attempt a 48-yard field goal, when holder Patrick Ashford took the snap, stood up and fired a pass to tight end Alex Ellis over the middle. Ellis hauled it in, running 31 yards for the Vols’ first touchdown of the night.

“Gut feeling,” Jones said. “It is something we have had for a couple weeks. We actually ran it against our defense in the bye week.

Patrick did a tremendous job. Here is a young man that is a walk-on. He has done a great job and he gets an opportunity in a big time game and delivers a strike.”

Ashford is no stranger to throwing touchdowns, having originally signed with CarsonNewman to play quarterback before transferring to Tennessee as a holder.

This was a play the Vols have had ready for weeks now, and when the opportunity came, the junior from Morristown, Tennessee made sure he didn’t make too much of it.

“Coach Jones called it in from the sidelines,” Ashford said. “That was something we had been practicing for the past couple of weeks. Execute the play. Don’t make it a bigger deal than it is. Just find Alex and give him the ball.”

Missing Marquez: Jones announced after Saturday’s contest that sophomore wide receiver Marquez North (shoulder) will miss the remainder of the season.

we messed up on tonight and get ready for Vanderbilt.”

With the loss, the Vols still sit one win shy of being bowl eligible and will travel to Nashville, Tenn. to face off against the Commodores with an opportunity to achieve their season’s goal.

“We got one game and we got a lot to accomplish with this football team,” Jones said. “We

are not going to hang our head.

Shoot, some people didn’t even think we would be playing for a bowl game the last game of the year. We got a lot of positive things going on. It hurts. It is disappointing, but I’m ready to go back to work right now and so is this football team. We got a lot to play for this week.

“It’s a one-game season.”

Senior class deserves a happy ending

David Cobb Senior Sports Columnist (@DavidWCobb)

bility before the Vols lost on the road to a Kentucky team using a wide receiver at quarterback in the final game of the season.

A 2012 Thanksgiving weekend win over Kentucky following a loss to Vanderbilt that dashed UT’s bowl hopes.

A 50-16 win over Kentucky on Nov. 15, which only perpetuated hope that the Vols would beat SEC East-leading Missouri (9-2, 6-1).

Four forgettable years of Neyland Stadium history do not diminish the reality that UT will likely become bowl eligible with a win over Vanderbilt this week, but it’s appropriate to reflect on that frustration those years have brought.

Nobody comes to this university expecting to never have the chance to fully celebrate a monumental home victory, but that’s reality for those who will graduate in December and May. Some will cling to the memory of Oct. 19, 2013 when the Vols beat No. 11 South Carolina and players leapt into the stands and UT coach Butch Jones directed the Pride of the Southland Band.

Others will loathe their decision to spend a few days at home or go the beach that weekend.

Either way, that happiness turned to anguish a month later when Vanderbilt beat UT in the final seconds of senior night to extend the Vols’ bowl drought.

So if UT students head to Nashville in droves in this weekend to “checker” Vanderbilt Stadium, who could blame them?

It might seem strange to celebrate a victory over a team that is 3-8 and winless in the SEC. But if UT can manage to defeat the Commodores, this senior class – both its players and its fans - have absolutely earned the right to celebrate.

It was a fitting senior night.

Tennessee’s 29-21 loss to Missouri at Neyland Stadium on Saturday was a microcosm of the past four years of home football games for the handful of Vols who participated in it, and for the thousands of senior students who watched from the stands for the final time.

For the second year in a row, UT (5-6, 2-5 SEC) squandered a chance to clinch bowl eligibility in front of a home crowd chomping at the bit for something substantial to celebrate.

Of course, the Vols took fans on an emotional roller coaster in the fourth quarter – like only a UT football team can –before the inevitable crash that so often comes just before any true exhilaration is felt.

The senior class concluded its home career with a 17-12 (4-12 SEC) record that included only one truly noteworthy win, a 23-21 victory over South Carolina in 2013.

Even that win, as satisfying as it was for the Vols, came on fall break while many students were out of town. UT sold about 3,000 tickets to area community college students to fill the student section for that noon game against the Gamecocks.

Here’s a quick look at UT’s three other SEC home wins in David Cobb is senior in jourthe last four seasons: A 2011 overtime victory nalism and electronic media. He against Vanderbilt that brought can be reached at dcobb3@vols.

UT within a game of bowl eligi- utk.edu.