Issue 119.43
Monday March 12, 2012
Deforestation 3-12
Photo courtsey of Eborutta

Trees lie devastated after an eruption at Mount Saint Helens in the summer of 2003. Alex Pfaff, an environmental economist who spoke at UT, helped inform students about the conservation efforts for developed and populated areas.

Economist strategizes against deforestation
Blair Kuykendall, Editor in Chief

Conservation works best where it’s often most contested: developed and populated areas.
    
Environmental economist Alex Pfaff believes parks should be created where they will be most effective for blocking deforestation. He met with students and faculty at the Baker Center on Thursday to discuss specifics on preventing environmental degradation in a lecture titled “Avoided Amazonian Deforestation and Policy Design.”
    
“I’m very interested in impacts of policies,” Pfaff said. “If you can see policy Type 1 has more impact than policy Type 2, that can be more of an influence for changing policy on the ground ... you point to ...

Show hopes to end discrimination
Victoria Wright, Arts & Culture Editor

In an effort to dissolve discrimination, one woman is using her camera lens to capture LGBT people, as they are.
   
 Documentary filmmaker and photographer iO Tillett Wright will visit Knoxville to photograph LGBT students and other individuals for her nationwide project titled “Self-Evident Truths.” Wright held her first portrait session on Sunday at Lox Salon in the Old City and will be in Knoxville until Tuesday.
    
Wright, who qualifies herself on the LGBT spectrum, will also host a reception on the lecture on Monday, March 12, at 6:30 p.m. in the Clarence Brown Theatre. UT’s Commission for LGBT People and Ready for the World wrote a letter to sponsor Wright’s visit to UT.
    
Amid a planned appeal for the ban of gay marriage in California, lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgendered social issues have slowly turned into a modern civil rights movement.
 
  “Between all these different things ...

News

SGA celebrates diversity
Deborah Ince, Staff Writer

Monday, March 12, marks the beginning of SGA’s Diversity Week, SGA Diversity Affairs’ second major event of the 2011-2012 school year.
    
The focus of the week — which will run from Monday to Thursday — is to expose students to the ...

Students play piano outside of Clarence Brown 3-12
Tara Sripunvoraskul • The Daily Beacon

InShort

Students play and write messages on a piano setup outside the Clarence Brown Theatre on Wednesday, March 7. The piano is part of artist Luke Jerram's installation "Play Me I'm Yours," which features over 500 pianos installed in cities all over the world. The Visual Arts Committee will be holding a Live from London Skype event, in which students will get a chance to discuss the movement with the artist.

Student Life

Student artworks win cash prizes
Christopher Elizer, Staff Writer

UT student art is on display in Hodges Library as part of the Student Art in the Library exhibition.
    
Artwork in the exhibit was selected by a committee of library staff from many submissions, each the work of a UT ...

Entertainment
Paige Braddock

Alumna recasts popular comic strip
Chris Flowers, Staff Writer

When children fish through the Sunday paper in search of the comics section, they know Charlie Brown will be there when they arrive. Running for nearly 50 years and encompassing 17,897 strips, the popularity of Peanuts is unrivaled in ...

Fiction: Identical, Part Seven
Olivia Cooper, Staff Writer

John’s station wagon parted the crowd of news crews and paparazzi. As he emerged from the car, the ground shook and Craig’s home exploded sending debris flying and people running for cover. The Dauphin of Death held Lisa ...

Sports
Zach Osborne against ULM 3-12

Baseball wins one of three
David Cobb, Assistant News Editor

 Tennessee dropped two of three games to visiting Louisiana-Monroe this weekend at Lindsey Nelson Stadium in the team’s final series prior to SEC play.
    
UT junior Zack Godley’s Friday night pitching performance was one of few facets to ...

Softball Standalone 3-12

Softball streaks end over weekend
Riley Blevins, Staff Writer

Last season, the Tennessee softball team made a habit of putting an end to some drawn-out win streaks. During the 2011 year, the Lady Vols put an end to Georgia’s 37-game unbeaten stand at home, and derailed then No ...

Opinion

Kony 2012 feels empty, too late
Emily DeLanzo, Managing Editor

I wanted to change the world — back when I was 13, optimistic and naïve.
    
My social studies class at Parrottsville Elementary School in Cocke County, Tenn., was given a prompt.
    
“If you could change anything in the world, what ...