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students because for today’s college graduate, success is not just about getting a degree — it is about being able to function in a global community,” Shannon Heath, teaching associate for the Department of English, said. “No matter what field a student is in, having an increased awareness of cultural diversity is a necessity.”

In recognition of those faculty and students who have dedicated time and energy toward meeting these challenging goals, an award will be presented at the annual Chancellor’s Honors Banquet held in the spring.

The winner(s) will receive a certificate of achievement and a $2,500 monetary award. The recipient(s) may be faculty, staff and/or students. The monetary award will be divided equally among multiple winners when applicable.

The award focuses on innovative and exceptional work that enhances intercultural and international awareness among undergraduate students, but outstanding individual efforts will also be recognized, and collaborative and interdisciplinary efforts are also encouraged.

This award is not limited to a certain department, and each department or program may submit one nomination.

However, large departments with 500 or more staff and/or students may submit up to three nominations.

To submit a nomination, the nomination document should consist of a one-page letter from the department head or other senior administrator describing the nominee’s work and impact upon undergraduate education.

Nominees are also encouraged to submit a three- to fivepage summary of their work, explaining how it addresses Ready for the World goals and how it impacts undergraduate students.

The deadline for receipt of materials is Wednesday, Feb. 1.

All nominations should be sent to the Global Awards Committee Attention: Sally McMillan, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, 527 Andy Holt Tower Knoxville, Tenn., 37996-0152.

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Award looking for nominees Staff Writer It is that time of year again to select nominees for the Ready for the World Citation Award.

As many students know, UT is full of individuals who are consistently on fire at their workplace, working hard to ensure the noble name of not only the school itself, but also giving the faculty and students the opportunity to shine to the best of their ability.

“I really want to encourage all members of the campus community to consider someone to nominate for this award,” Sally McMillan, vice provost for academic affairs, said. “The encouragement from receiving this award really makes others want to get involved and thereby gives the students more opportunities.”

In 2005, the University of Tennessee submitted a Quality Enhancement Plan for reaccreditation through the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) (which came to be known as the Ready for the World Citation Award).

The Chancellor’s “Goals for Student Learning” through this program envision that students should learn by example from faculty members who have worked in exceptional ways.

An outstanding faculty member would be any that infuses a curriculum full of projects or extended study abroad programs to enhance intercultural and international awareness among undergraduates. It is by their example that ignites the chancellor’s hope that every UT graduate will leave possessing specific characteristics.

Some of these characteristics include: a worldview that recognizes, understands and celebrates the complexity of cultures and people, competence in cross-cultural communication, both domestic and international, and the capacity to think critically about international and intercultural issues.

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UT welcomes women pursuing careers in physics Blair Kuykendall Editor-in-Chief Maria Goeppert-Mayer won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1963. She spent the majority of her career working at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Chicago without a salary.

To empower today’s women in the field of science, UT will host the Southeast Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics this week. The summit is designed to bring together women interested in physics to discuss their research and career opportunities.

“Women leave physics in disproportionate numbers compared to male colleagues, for a variety of reasons,” Jennifer Niedziela, graduate student in physics, said. “Nevertheless, there are studies which show that just having a conversation with women about the difficulties of a physics career results in more women sticking with the field. Helping talented and intelligent women recognize the potential of training in physics, and learn to spot ahead of time the points where they might leave the path because of wellknown pitfalls is, to me, the primary objective of this conference.”

The university has chosen to take an

active role in preempting such stumbles.

“UT expressed an interest in hosting one of a Southeast Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics a little over two years ago,” Christine Nattrass, conference organizer and post-doctoral researcher in the physics department, said in a statement.

Over 130 students from 50 different academic centers will be in attendance.

“I am particularly excited by the size of the event and the response to the registration call,” Niedziela said. “The conference agenda is packed. Undergraduates will present their research, an especially crucial component of a scientific career.

Talks by academics and industry representatives will feature research and career paths. Several panel sessions will explore different topics important to undergraduates, including undergraduate research, graduate study, the status of women in physics and career panels.”

Women have historically been underrepresented in the field of physics, receiving as little as 22 percent of bachelor’s degrees earned in the field. Lower pay, stress and discouragement are all pegged as reasons women fall off track.

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Boy dies of cancer, parents blamed The Associated Press CLEVELAND — The parents of an 8year-old boy who died from Hodgkin lymphoma after suffering for months from undiagnosed swollen glands have pleaded guilty to denying him medical treatment.

Monica Hussing, 37, and William Robinson Sr., 40, both of Cleveland, face up to eight years in prison at sentencing.

They pleaded guilty Monday to attempted involuntary manslaughter in a last-minute plea deal before their trial was about to begin.

Willie Robinson collapsed at his home on March 22, 2008. Prosecutors say he had begged his parents to take him to see a doctor but was rejected. Hodgkin lymphoma is a highly treatable cancer.

Hussing’s attorney, John Luskin, said his client took responsibility in the case but, given her education and background, didn’t realize the boy was seriously ill and was treating him with cold medication.

“She is a mother that just did not have the capability to recognize” cancer, Luskin said Wednesday.

Robinson’s lawyer, Thomas Rein, called it a “sad, horrific case” that drew him inquiries from the White House as changes to federal health care law were being considered in 2009.

“Had he had regular health coverage, it possibly could have prevented this,” Rein said of the boy's death.

Luskin and Rein said the parents had financial problems and tried to get checkups for their children but couldn't afford it.

“The kid had what appeared to be swollen glands,” Luskin said. “This was not a tumor that was getting bigger. It would come and go. He would have his good days, he would have his bad days.”

Hussing’s daughter, Lillian Hussing, said the family didn’t have money for medical care when they lived in Warren, tried repeatedly to get help from social services and visited a free clinic but left when told they would have to pay $180.

“We did not know it was cancer,” she said. “We tried and tried to get help and were denied every time,” said the daughter, who’s 18.

The family soon moved to Cleveland and the boy died within weeks.

Prosecutors say that while the boy was suffering, the parents claimed financial hardship but paid $87 to have a pit bull treated for fleas. Luskin said the dog belonged to Hussing’s parents and her parents paid for the treatment.

Trumbull County Children Services says it had worked with the family to provide Willie health care, getting involved after receiving a phone call in July 2007.

Agency officials said a case worker visited the family at least monthly and pushed the parents to have a medical follow-up on his swollen neck but they didn’t.

However, Rein said a social worker who visited the family in January 2008 “indicated the kids were healthy and happy.” He said no one knew the boy had cancer until he died and an autopsy was performed.

N. Korea open for deal with U.S. The Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea signaled Wednesday it remains open to suspending uranium enrichment in exchange for U.S. food aid, a deal that appeared imminent before leader Kim Jong Il died last month.

The North complained that the United States had “drastically” changed the amount and kind of aid it would send, but said officials would wait and “see if the United States has a willingness to establish confidence” with North Korea — which observers saw as Pyongyang’s precondition for making the food-for-uraniumsuspension deal happen.

The North’s statement offers an early look at how the government now led by Kim Jong Il’s son, Kim Jong Un, will handle two of North Korea’s most pressing issues: a long-running food crisis and years of international pressure to end its nuclear program.

“The North is saying it is willing to go ahead with nuclear steps if it gets the food aid it wants,” said Koh Yuhwan, a North Korea professor at Seoul’s Dongguk University. “The North is telling the United States to

provide a goodwill gesture. If Washington doesn’t, Pyongyang is threatening it will go down its own path.”

Some have feared Pyongyang may attempt to rally support around the younger Kim’s rule with a nuclear or missile test or an act of aggression against South Korea, but Wednesday’s statement from an unidentified Foreign Ministry spokesman in Pyongyang suggests it may instead choose to pursue an agreement that could be trumpeted as a diplomatic victory.

The Associated Press reported before Kim Jong Il’s Dec. 17 death that the United States was poised to announce a significant donation of food aid to North Korea. That would have been followed within days by an agreement to suspend North Korea’s uranium enrichment program, according to a broad outline of the emerging agreement made known to The AP by people close to the negotiations.

Discussions were suspended after Kim Jong Il’s death, as the North turned inward for an official mourning period.

Now Pyongyang looks to George Richardson • The Daily Beacon solidify Kim Jong Un’s power Jonathan Maczko, sophomore in kinesiology, takes a nap between classes in the Art and Architecture building on as he extends the Kim family Wednesday, Jan. 11. The transition from late nights and even later mornings over the break proves problematic dynasty into a third generafor many students on the first day of classes every semester. tion.

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Grant W. Parker, senior in classical and jazz performance, plays the upright bass in Melrose Hall on Wednesday, Jan. 11. Students from the music department start another semester waiting in preparation for a new building to house the department, scheduled for completion by 2013.

1984— Pyramid mystery unearthed On this day, an international panel overseeing the restoration of the Great Pyramids in Egypt overcomes years of frustration when it abandons modern construction techniques in favor of the method employed by the ancient Egyptians.

Located at Giza outside Cairo, some of the oldest manmade structures on earth were showing severe signs of decay by the early 1980s. Successful repair work began on the 4,600-yearold Sphinx in 1981, but restoration of the pyramids proved destructive when water in modern cement caused adjacent limestone stones to split. On January 12, 1984, restorers stopped using mortar and adopted the system of interlocking blocks practiced by the original pyramid builders. From thereon, the project proceeded smoothly.

The ancient Egyptians built nearly 100 pyramids over a millennium to serve as burial chambers for their royalty. They believed that the pyramids eased the monarchs' passage into the afterlife, and the sites served as centers of religious activity.

During the Old Kingdom, a period of Egyptian history that lasted from the late 26th century B.C. to the mid-22nd century B.C., the Egyptians built their largest and most ambitious pyramids.

The three enormous pyramids situated at Giza outside of Cairo were built by King Khufu, his son, and his grandson in the Fourth Dynasty. The largest, known as the Great Pyramid, was built by Khufu and is the only one of the “Seven Wonders of the World” from antiquity that still survives. The Great Pyramid was built of approximately 2.3 million blocks of

stone and stood nearly 50 stories high upon completion. Its base forms a nearly perfect and level square, with sides aligned to the four cardinal points of the compass.

The Great Pyramid is composed primarily of yellowish limestone blocks and was originally covered in an outer casing of smooth light-colored limestone. This finer limestone eroded and was carried away in later centuries, but the material can still be found in the inner passages. The interior burial chamber was built of huge blocks of granite. It is believed that construction of the pyramid took 20 years and involved over 20,000 workers, bakers, carpenters, and water carriers. The exact method in which this architectural masterpiece was built is not definitively known, but the leading theory is that the Egyptians employed an encircling embankment of sand, brick, and earth that was increased in height as the pyramid rose.

In addition to Khufu’s mummy, interior rooms of the pyramid held objects for the deceased to use in the afterlife.

Many of these items were valuable, and tomb robbers had long ago robbed the pyramids of their treasures before modern archeologists began studying the structures in the 17th century.

King Khafre, the grandson of Khufu, built the Great Sphinx, which was carved from a single block of limestone left over in a quarry used to build the pyramids. The Sphinx has the body of a recumbent lion and a human face meant to represent Khafre.

There are no known inner chambers in the structure.

— This Day in History is courtesy of history.com.

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Economic downturn adversely affects U.S. teenage employment The Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. — The economic turmoil that has left many Americans without work is having a disproportionate effect on teenage job-seekers, whose quest for entry-level positions often pits them against experienced older workers willing to take any job for a paycheck.

U.S. labor figures show the 2011 unemployment rate nationwide averaged just below 9 percent, but for jobseekers ages 16 to 19, it was almost 25 percent — the third consecutive year in that range, and with some cities recording rates far higher.

Automation has also eliminated many of the after-school, weekend and summer jobs that had been the longtime domain of first-time workers as computerized equipment has helped companies trim positions in everything from local car washes to photocopy shops and supermarkets.

Participants discussing the trend at a forum Tuesday in Hartford say that it’s alarming, and that society suffers when an entire generation’s chance to learn valuable workplace skills are delayed or denied. On a personal level, it’s also a source of growing stress for teenagers who need jobs for experience, pocket money or to help their families.

“My mom doesn’t have a lot of money and what she does have, she spends on me and on my brother, so I really want to work and be able to help and take care of some things myself,” said Trisana Spence, 16, who moved last year from New York City’s Brooklyn borough to Hartford and hopes someday to become a lawyer.

Spence, a junior at the Hartford Culinary Arts Academy high school, might end up with a slight advantage.

She’s in a paid internship through her school and the city’s Blue Hills Civic Association to learn job skills and will be placed at a yet-

undetermined job this summer. She says she’ll work extra hard in hopes that the employer will keep her on board even after the summer so she can help pay for household expenses and some extras, such as her 4-year-old brother’s karate lessons.

Participants at Tuesday’s forum said that partnerships between government and civic groups, businesses, nonprofit agencies and other organizations may be a key factor to helping job-seeking teens, but that those groups face financial hurdles to keep internships and job-training programs going, too.

The White House and U.S. Department of Labor this month kicked off a campaign appealing to the private sector to create 250,000 more summer jobs in businesses, nonprofits and government agencies, with at least 100,000 of them being paid spots.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Connecticut Democrat who attended Tuesday’s forum, said that initiative and others are critical to ensure teens get a chance to learn job skills and prepare for careers.

“The phenomenon of youth unemployment is sweeping the world, not just Connecticut,” said Blumenthal, who credits his first job as a camp counselor with introducing him to mentors and the sense of pride and responsibility that work can instill.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the 2011 nationwide unemployment rate of 24.4 percent for teen job-seekers from 16 to 19 years old was the second highest recorded since it started keeping the statistic in the late 1940s. The figures reflect teens actively seeking jobs and do not include those not applying for positions.

The 2010 figure was the highest at 25.9 percent, though it approached 20 percent in the mid-1970s and nudged slightly over that level in 1982 and 1983.

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Micah Mitchell, freshman in studio art, Emma Tamat, freshman in graphic design, and Ricardo Bolivar, freshman in studio art, spend time talking between classes on the stairs outside of the Art and Architecture building on Wednesday, Jan. 11.

PHYSICS continued from Page 1 “Extensive studies demonstrate bias against women in science, technology, engineering and math,” Nattrass said. “I think women should have the same chance to succeed in careers in STEM fields as men.”

Minority groups are also severely underrepresented in the technical disciplines.

“Between 1997 and 2003, fewer than three Ph.D.s per year were awarded to AfricanAmerican women in physics,” Nattrass said.

“Approximately 20 percent of our population is African-American, at least 10 percent of our population that we’re failing.”

Extending better opportunities to women and minorities will have impacts that stretch far beyond those demographic groups.

“It’s about being competitive as a nation, about training the next generation so that our nation can continue to lead the way in the development of new technologies,” Nattrass said. “If we want to be competitive, we can’t afford to write off over 60 percent of our population as incapable of doing science. We need to do a better job at recruiting people to technical fields.”

Adrianna Moreo, professor of physics, is looking forward to the conference.

“I am excited about this event because the

conference is targeted towards undergraduate students at the point in their careers in which most of the attrition occurs,” Moreo said in a statement. “This event will provide the opportunity to address the most common reasons why female students abandon STEM fields, such as misconceptions about the general education that is gained in the field, the lifestyles associated to a career in physics and future career options.”

Nattrass has already witnessed positive results.

“From organizing the conference at Yale, I knew the impact that this conference could have on young women’s lives,” Nattrass said.

“The conference in the Southeast in particular reaches many under-represented groups of students, including minorities and students who are the first in their family to go to college.”

Several conference activities will be dedicated to minority women in physics, including a panel discussion. All attendees will be able to enjoy each of the events, and special opportunities will be offered through this conference because of UT’s relationship with ORNL. “A major draw for UT hosting the conference was the opportunity to have a tour of ORNL, one of the highlights of the conference,” Nattrass said.

Additionally, participants will be able to hear talks given by faculty, network with oth-

ers interested in physics, tour laboratories and hear presentations from physics students.

“Plenty of social opportunities for interaction among the participants will be provided, including a number of tours at ORNL and a banquet at the UC,” Moreo said.

The events will kick off Thursday, with different activities planned through Sunday.

“I’m excited to meet all of these young women,” Nattrass said. “They come from such a wide variety of backgrounds.”

Nattrass has experience herself in one particularly challenging branch of physics.

“I am a relativistic heavy ion physicist,” Nattrass said. “I am on the ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. I study a phase of matter called the quark-gluon plasma, a hot, dense liquid of quarks and gluons that we believe existed shortly after the Big Bang.”

She sees the problems in diversity within the field of physics as wide-reaching issues.

“The under-representation of women and minorities in technical fields isn’t just a problem in its own right but a symptom of the problems we have in recruiting and retaining talent in technical fields,” Nattrass said. “If we solve these problems, we will not only have more women and minorities in fields such as physics and engineering, but we will also do a better job of educating the majority — because we will be solving bigger problems.”

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Somewhere... Hopefully ‘Gatsby’ represents escape from past Preston Peeden Managing Editor

It was somewhere between Las Cruces, N.M. and Tucson, Ariz. that I came to a big life decision. It was during this 200-mile stretch of desert that I wanted to change identities.

I wanted to become Jay Gatsby.

Gatsby, the character who was the namesake for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz-Age classic “The Great Gatsby,” is the embodiment of the strength and change that can result from sheer human will and desire. While I don’t want to become this metaphor for the perils and vapidity of the Roaring ’20s for the reasons he became “The Great Gatsby” (those being the reclamation of his past relationship with Daisy Buchanan), I do admire what the character accomplished.

In the novel, the character Jay Gatsby was not born as such. He was christened Jay Gatz, and through his own gumption and talents, he rose to the height of the social chain, living a lavish life of parties, cars, houses and ultimately material success. He was a man who became more than what he was given. It is in this trait of self-creation that I find the appeal of Gatsby.

Gatsby’s self-made wealth appeals to probably most people who read the novel. How could it not? Odds are good that most of the people who encountered the character Jay Gatsby saw a piece of themselves in him.

He was an outsider. Someone who wanted to live the life of the world’s top one percent (albeit Gatsby wanted to get to this level for different reasons), but was not born with the means to get there. Gatsby made himself into the rich enigma he is portrayed as. There was no silver spoon in his mouth and no trust fund backing his ventures.

I must admit that this desire to emulate Gatsby came only because I had reread the book over Winter Break while driving across the country to San Diego. I started outside Abilene, Texas and finished by the time I crossed into New Mexico. It was the first time I had read the novel since my sophomore year of high school, and I couldn’t help but be enraptured by Gatsby’s

transformation.

To me, Gatsby represented the idea of escape. Gatsby was born as somebody who did not possess the needs to become what he wanted. Instead of focusing on what he did not have, and the disadvantages he faced, he made a change. He chose to become someone new, someone unfettered by his past, and he did so to fulfill his ultimate goal. Ultimately, he escaped from his past to get to the future he wanted.

As a college student whose future employment seems to become further and further in doubt with the continuing economic catharsis that our nation is stuck in, Gatsby’s route to success was highly appealing.

He disregarded the first half of his life and jumped at the drop of a hat to make a change. I know that as a history major, I will probably not become a millionaire playboy or a mysterious party-planner inhabiting West Egg Village, and I am O.K. with that. I love what I study and would never consider anything else. But that doesn’t mean I don’t admire what Gatsby was able to accomplish.

He, through nothing more than his own work ethic, was able to become what he wanted to be. It didn’t matter who he had been, only what he became.

While Gatsby’s transformation stood out to me as an example of the power an individual person can have in their own life’s course, his life model was too harsh for me. When Jay Gatz became Jay Gatsby, he detached himself from the world around him. He turned his back on the people who actually knew him in pursuit of becoming a member of a social group where no one cared about him. It was this decision that left him in the pitiable condition he ended up in.

I respect Jay Gatsby’s mindset, and I respect what he was able to do. But that doesn’t mean I am going to follow suit and become a new identity. Rather, the lesson I take from “The Great Gatsby” is the attitude that Gatsby espoused. Nothing in our past should ever stop us from pursuing our futures. We aren’t all born as East Eggers, but we all can rise to that spot if we so choose. Any person can change the course of his or her life. Nothing is predetermined; our decisions and our choices shape our lives.

To me, Gatsby represented the power of the individual. We can become what we want. And for me on my road trip, the one thing I wanted most of the time was to take a bathroom break.

— Preston Peeden is a junior in history. He can be reached at ppeeden@utk.edu.

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SEC culture sweeps over football C ommit tee o f I n f r ra ct i o n s by

Sean Mahoney

For those of you who follow college football, you know just how big of a deal it was for the Southeastern Conference to have both teams in the national championship. For the SEC, it was the final argument in its case to be known as the best conference in college football. Other arguments include a tractor trailer full of crystal footballs, Heisman trophies, Maxwell awards and just about every other position award from the Thorpe (won by UT’s Eric Berry in 2009) to the O’Brien award. In addition, the SEC flat out has a winning record against other top conferences, and they pass the eye test. The best two teams in the SEC every year have several NFL caliber players, usually about seven or eight NFL draft picks, which is really pretty astounding, considering the odds of a major college football player making the NFL is surprisingly small.

What you might not have noticed were all the crickets in rest of the country: TV ratings were terrible.

At home in Ohio last week, I talked college football with a lot of people, and people were talking about Big Ten pride — about how Michigan seemed back, how Ohio State just upped the ante with the hire of Urban Meyer, how Wisconsin and Michigan State were poised to have really special seasons in the next few years. Now, I am not all that old, but growing up, I never remembered people actively rooting so desperately for the Big Ten to do well.

I am convinced the SEC is largely responsible for all the change sweeping through college football — the conference realignment and the call for a playofftype system. The reason is when an SEC team wins the national championship, it is treated as a conference-wide achievement, and the conference of the team they play is by extension implicated in the failure of the losing team. For example, Ohio State’s repeated failures in national championship games deflated the Big Ten as a whole because the SEC and

its fans decided that southern football culture had defeated Midwestern football culture and proceeded to dance on the grave of the Big Ten, Pac-12, ACC and Big 12 every January since (everyone dances on the grave of the Big East). In one sense, it’s hard to blame them. Teams going through a rough patch like Vanderbilt did for 50 years, or like Tennessee is right now, have a plausible explanation for losing. (“In the Big East, we’d win 9-10 games.” Something I actually heard a UT fan say last season.) Winning teams, on the other hand, go to every recruit’s house and claim to be in the Triple A of the NFL and get more four- and five-star recruits than they can fit on their roster.

So it makes sense for the fans of other conferences to want a playoff. In fact, the only thing that is stopping it is the sheer amount of money that bowl games make. For all the talk about how much more competitive and thrilling and better a playoff would be, small sample size fluke means that a singleelimination playoff is a particularly great way to make sure the best two teams don’t play for the national title. Even if there is a Final Four or plus-one model for the top four teams, what about the years when there are five one-loss teams trying to claim two or three spots? What about teams that come from Conference USA or the Mid-American Conference?

Aren’t they “Division I” schools?

Of course, it is hard to make the argument that the SEC and its fans are totally to blame. Money, for one, will decide the nature of any change that might come about. College presidents, too, are going to have their voices heard, and I wouldn’t be surprised if tucked into these changes are stronger academic requirements and a lowering of the cost inflicted on a school to attend a bowl game. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised to see a playoff system where schools are the hosts and the beneficiaries off all the revenue and not the 738 bowl games (all numbers approximate).

However, I think the SEC run of dominance has shaken college football because bowl games selected by computers and voters mean that the teams from other conferences have little to no say in who wins a title. If that’s what it takes, then God bless the SEC. — Gregory Bearringer is a graduate student in medieval studies. He can be reached at gbearrin@utk.edu.

Schools focus on figures, not people Mor e than N u m b e rs by

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You are more than your ACT score, right? Well, under the new admissions requirements to the honors program, apparently not.

If you are a sophomore or older in the honors program, you had to write a long essay in order to be admitted. For me at least, it was something about picking a world problem and coming up with concrete ways to solve it.

This year’s freshmen did not have to write such an essay. All they had to write was one about one of their leadership experiences. Of course, there’s also the personal statement on the regular UT application, but this essay is, of course, optional.

The education system of the United States is moving closer and closer to being completely about the numbers: test scores, GPAs, class rank, etc. An education today is a checklist of standardized components, and if a student does not have a certain number of items checked off his list, he is unsuccessful, and the school has failed.

We always hear about our educational system in comparison to China’s, and how we are failing our students because they don’t bubble in as many correct answers as China’s students do. But studies also show that Chinese students are far behind American students in critical thinking and creative skills — the same types of skills that are required for problem solving, innovation and invention.

For the most part, Chinese students are reduced to their test scores. Every class is about memorizing the most information as quickly as possible to make the best score. But what do they really know at the end of the day? They have a vast database of knowledge but really no practice in analyzing it. They cannot see how information relates to other information, and how they can use their knowledge to create new ideas.

Is that the kind of system we really want? Do we want every student to be associated exclusively with a number that determines his or her future?

Whether we like it or not, that is the direction we

are heading in. With the honors essay gone, there is practically nothing required on the UT application that looks at your creativity. Sure, leadership can be important too, but anyone can write an essay about how he was president of the Spanish club in high school. Just because you can tell other people what to do and get a 34 on your ACT does not mean you are a person with a genuine capacity for innovation and greatness.

We should be looking for people who have created something, tried something and overcome something difficult. We should be looking for people who have perspective, focus, ambition and ideas. We should not be looking for a perfect ACT, 4.0 GPA and valedictorian status. These ranks are, of course, somewhat based on intelligence and skill, but there is too big of a component of luck for them to be what we solely judge applicants on. Instead of taking the 4.0 GPA, 35 ACT, National Merit Finalist who has done nothing and experienced nothing, we should take the 3.0 GPA, 27 ACT student who has had to raise his little siblings or had to support his parents or has witnessed extreme poverty or has overcome serious illness. Studying all day in your room will not give you the life skills necessary to be a successful human being in an ever-changing and complicated world like going through hardship will. But, of course, your life experience does not matter to admissions like making the ACT cut-off does.

In an ideal world, every student would be interviewed as a part of the application process so that the university could really get to know each student on a personal level. But of course, this is completely impractical. So the least they can do is make the personal statement mandatory for all applicants, and make another essay required for the honors application. They could come up with a different prompt for the honors essay; that’s fine. But something needs to be there that showcases applicants’ creativity and perspective.

I understand this puts a lot more pressure on admissions and the honors office. But, as we all know, UT is trying desperately to become a top 25 public research university. It’s going to take innovation coming from both students and faculty in order for that to become a reality. You are not going to create a better school with more innovative students if all through high school all they did was memorize the facts and regurgitate them on a bubble sheet.

— Lindsay Lee is a sophomore in mathematics. She can be reached at llee26@utk.edu.

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Escaped Mexican druglord expands cartel activity range The Associated Press MEXICO CITY — The U.S. Treasury Department called Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman “the world’s most powerful drug trafficker” Tuesday.

The fugitive Sinaloa cartel leader also got a boost from Mexican actress Kate Del Castillo, who said she believed in Guzman more than in the government.

It was the latest in an odd series of encomiums for Guzman, who was included this year on the Forbes list of the world’s richest people, with an estimated fortune of $1 billion.

The U.S. Embassy in Mexico City issued a statement saying three of Guzman’s alleged associates had been hit with sanctions under the drug Kingpin Act, which prohibits people in the U.S. from conducting businesses with them and freezes their U.S. assets. The two Mexican men and a Colombian allegedly aided Guzman’s trafficking operations.

The statement quoted Adam J. Szubin, director of the Treasury D e p a r t m e n t ’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, as saying the move “marks the fourth time in the past year that OFAC has targeted and exposed the support structures of the organization led by Chapo Guzman, the world’s most powerful drug trafficker.”

Guzman, who escaped from a Mexican prison in 2001 in a laundry truck and has a $7 million bounty on his head, has long been recognized as Mexico’s most powerful drug capo. Authorities say his Sinaloa cartel has recently been expanding abroad, building international operations in Central and South America and the Pacific.

Del Castillo, who played a female drug trafficker in the TV series “La Reina del Sur” (“Queen of the South”), offered grudging praise for Guzman in a posting Tuesday on the social media site Twextra, linked to her Twitter account.

“Today, I believe more in El Chapo Guzman than in the governments who hide truths from me,” she wrote.

The actress did not specify whether she was referring to the Mexican government, or what she meant when she accused “gov-

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ernments” of “hiding the cures for cancer, AIDS, etc. for their own benefit and enrichment.”

Del Castillo’s publicist, Marianne Sauvage, confirmed in an email to The Associated Press that the actress wrote the posting, and that the account belonged to Del Castillo.

The 800-word posting ended with an impassioned plea to Guzman: “Mr. Chapo, wouldn't it be great if you started trafficking with positive things?

With cures for diseases, with food for street children, with alcohol for old people’s homes so they spend their final days doing whatever they like, trafficking with corrupt politicians and not with women and children who wind up as slaves?”

“Go ahead, dare to, sir, you would be the hero of heroes, let’s traffick with love, you know how,” the message concluded.

Also Tuesday, Mexican authorities said they had seized 32.6 metric tons of a precursor chemical used to make methamphetamines at the Pacific coast port of Manzanillo.

Mexico’s navy said the chemical methylamine came in a shipment from China, but did not Joaquin Guzman say whether Manzanillo was the final destination of the shipment. Mexico seized almost 675 metric tons of the chemical at sea ports in December alone, all of which was destined for Guatemala.

Experts say that when another chemical is added, methylamine can yield its weight in uncut meth.

Also Tuesday, federal police reported they had defused a car bomb left outside the state detectives’ agency offices in Ciudad Victoria, the capital of the northern border state of Tamaulipas.

After detectives reported the car smelled of gasoline, specially equipped federal officers opened the trunk and found 10 sticks of explosives, two jugs of gasoline, wires, a cellphone and what appeared to be detonating devices.

There was no immediate information on who left the car bomb.

Tamaulipas has been the scene of bloody turf battles between the Gulf and Zetas drug cartels, and the gangs have attacked police and police offices with car bombs in the past.

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U.S. expels South American diplomat The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Venezuelan diplomat ordered out of the U.S. last weekend only left the country this week, an Obama administration official said Wednesday, even though Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez claimed she had long since returned home.

Livia Acosta Noguera, Venezuela’s consul general in Miami, was in the United States on Sunday when she received notice that she was being expelled, the official said. She was given until Tuesday to leave the United States and met the deadline, said the official, who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly on the matter and demanded anonymity.

Acosta’s expulsion followed allegations that she discussed possible cyber-attacks on U.S. soil while she was stationed at the Venezuelan Embassy in Mexico.

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Chavez said Acosta left Miami to “avoid situations that could become even more dangerous.” He derided her expulsion as “another demonstration of arrogance from the ridiculous empire.”

Acosta will continue working in Venezuela’s foreign service despite, he added, saying she remained an honorable professional despite being “verbally attacked, reviled, demonized.”

The State Department on Sunday gave Acosta 72 hours to leave, standard diplomatic procedure for someone declared persona non grata.

The move came after an FBI investigation into allegations detailed in a documentary aired by the Spanish-language broadcaster Univision last month. According to the documentary, “The Iranian Threat,” Acosta discussed a possible cyber-attack against the U.S. government while assigned as a diplomat in the Venezuelan Embassy in Mexico.

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Thursday, January 12, 2012

What: Three Man Band Where: Pilot Light When: 10 p.m.

How much: $5 Our take: Local power trio on their home turf.

Saturday, January 14 Thursday, January 12 What: Broadway at the Tennessee presents “Les Miserables” Where: Tennessee Theatre When: 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

How much: $37-$77 Our take: Victor Hugo’s classic tale of the French Revolution celebrates its 25th anniversary season. Buy the premium tickets, if you have the scratch.

Friday, January 13 What: Broadway at the Tennessee presents “Les Miserables” Where: Tennessee Theatre When: 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

How much: $37-$77 Our take: Victor Hugo’s classic tale of the French Revolution celebrates its 25th anniversary season. Buy the premium tickets, if you have the scratch.

What: Broadway at the Tennessee presents “Les Miserables” Where: Tennessee Theatre When: 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

How much: $37-$77 Our take: Victor Hugo’s classic tale of the French Revolution celebrates its 25th anniversary season. Buy the premium tickets, if you have the scratch.

What: Steep Canyon Rangers with Jill Andrews Where: Bijou Theatre When: 8 p.m.

How much: $16.50 Our take: Best known for their Grammy-winning collaboration with Steve Martin, this young bluegrass quintet has risen over the last few years from small theaters to playing huge festivals. The everybodyfields singer Jill Andrews opens.

What: The Black Lillies with Matrimony Where: Bijou Theatre When: 8 p.m.

How much: $19.50 Our take: Former C.C. Band leader Cruz Contreras leads these hometown Americana favorites on an ever-expanding journey through roots music.

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What: The Black Cadillacs with Tom Evanchuck and the Old Money, The Cadillacs Saints Where: The Ciderhouse When: 9 p.m.

How much: $5 advance / $10 door Our take: Memphis garage rockers headline a night of sweaty, ugly soul.

What: Taboo Where: The Valarium When: 9 p.m.

How much: N/A Our take: In the tradition of their previous weekly dance party, the Valarium introduces “Taboo,” promising a new orgasm-monikered machine, super-potent drinks and a dress code. Whatever.

Sunday, January 15 What: Broadway at the Tennessee presents “Les Miserables” Where: Tennessee Theatre When: 2 p.m. & 8 p.m.

How much: $37-$77 Our take: Victor Hugo’s classic tale of the French Revolution celebrates its 25th anniversary season. Buy the premium tickets, if you have the scratch.

What: Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Concert Where: Bijou Theatre When: 6 p.m.

How much: free Our take: From the KSO — The music for this performance draws from both traditional symphonic works as well as gospel music and will also feature Michael Rogers, The Carpetbag Theatre, poet Jessica Session, The Black Dance Theatre of Tennessee with Director Malaika Guthrie, The Knoxville Opera Gospel Choir, the MLK Celebration Choir, with conductor Aaron Staples, and the MLK Children’s Chorus.

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Dooley running program his way Matt Dixon Sports Editor After Alabama’s dominating 21-0 victory over LSU on Monday night to claim its 35th national championship (really, the school claims 14 titles), the college football season was officially over.

It couldn’t have ended quickly enough for Tennessee fans.

The way the Vols’ season ended was definitely a low point in the program’s history.

There’s still no way to explain losing to that Kentucky team. However, although that game and that season are finished, as UT and its fans have come to know very well in recent years, more problems have nevertheless emerged.

Four assistant coaches left the team, including, arguably, the three most valuable coaches: defensive coordinator Justin Wilcox, linebackers coach Peter Sirmon and wide receivers coach Charlie Baggitt.

Questions arose concerning the futures of receivers Da’Rick Rogers and DeAnthony Arnett. Derek Dooley even had to call an

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impromptu press conference Jan. 3 to address these issues.

Arnett has since been given a transfer, allowing him to enroll at Michigan State.

Rogers, UT’s sophomore All-SEC wide out, is still on the team.

Since Wilcox left, a handful of coaches have been reported to accept the vacant coordinator position. Eventually, a report will be right.

With today’s 24/7 news coverage and fans’ addictions to message boards and social media sites, it’s non-stop rumors and speculation.

In Tennessee’s case, it is leading to more negative press for a football program that doesn’t need it.

It was obvious Dooley didn’t want to be at the press conference last week addressing issues he didn’t believe — or at least publicly admit that there were problems within his program. As any good lawyer would do, Dooley has said the right things during his two years in Knoxville and defended the way the program is being run.

As a highly intelligent and extremely

organized person, Dooley has to know what the lack of communication — both on and off the record — from UT’s end on situations like coaching searches and a player’s status on the team do to the program’s perception in today’s media.

Maybe he doesn’t care. Maybe he doesn’t care what’s reported by journalists and people with funny user names on messages boards and Twitter because they don’t have all the details. Dooley knows the ins-and-outs of the football program better than anyone, and as the head coach he is the one, along with Athletic Director Dave Hart and possibly a few others, who make the important decisions when just a handful of people know the whole story.

Dooley is doing things his way. Yes, he goes outside the box sometimes — the orange dog, “Where’s Rammel?” — but he’s doing what he believes is in the best interest of UT’s football team. He wasn’t hired to do what the fans or media want him to do. He was hired to win football games, and if he starts doing that more, UT’s fan base won’t look for reasons to criticize the decisions he makes.

Tauren Poole, A.J. Johnson competing in all-star games Staff Reports Tennessee football tailback Tauren Poole will be playing in the 2012 East-West Shrine Game on Jan. 21 at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Fla. Poole is the 43rd Volunteer to be selected to participate in the game.

Poole ran for 1,883 yards in his career at Tennessee, playing in 49 games. He scored 16 touchdowns in his career including five as a senior in 2011. He gained 693 yards this past season while catching 21 balls for 164 yards. He gained 100 rushing yards on three occasions this past season with a season-best 107 vs. Vanderbilt (11/19) in addition to 101 vs. Buffalo (10/1) and 100 vs. Cincinnati.

Poole was a 2011 preseason member of the Doak Walker and Maxwell Watch Lists in addition to being a candidate for the Lowe’s Senior Class Award.

As a junior, Poole named AP All-SEC Honorable Mention accolades starting all 13 games and gaining 1,034 yards on 204 carries. He scored 11 touchdowns and gained 100 yards on six occasions to tie for the lead in the SEC. His 1,000-yard season was the 16th in UT history and his total of 1,034 ranks 14th on the single-season list. Poole gained a career-high 162 rushing yards against Oregon (9/11/10).

Austin Johnson in College All-Star Game Tennessee linebacker Austin Johnson will be playing in the Casino Del Sol All-Star Game in Tucson, Ariz., on Jan. 16 at Kino Stadium.

Johnson led the Vols in tackles in 2011 with 81, starting all 12 games at middle linebacker.

He also led the team in interceptions with four. That total tied George Richardson • The Daily Beacon with Kentucky’s Danny Students walk down the carpetless halls of the Humanities and Social Sciences building on Wednesday, Jan. 11. Trevathan for most interceptions The hallways and some classrooms have been stripped of carpeting in preparation for more renovation work to by a linebacker in the NCAA. Johnson had six TFLs for 18 the building, to be completed over the summer.

yards, including a sack.

Johnson’s four interceptions were the most by a Tennessee linebacker since Jackie Walker had five in 1970.

He finished with interceptions in four of the last six games, including three games in a row (11/5-19). He led the team in tackles five times including Vanderbilt (11/19), when led team in tackles with nine stops, made his first-career sack for 13 yards along with picking off a pass for the third game in a row.

His second-career 10-plus tackle game vs. #14 South Carolina (10/29) giving him 100 career tackles. Johnson made a careerhigh 11 tackles to tie for teamlead vs. Georgia (10/8).

Johnson moved to linebacker as a junior in 2010 and played in all 13 games, making 44 tackles.

He also tied for second on the team in special teams tackles with nine. Johnson had his firstcareer interception against UTMartin (9/4/10) as a junior in the season opener. He earned UT’s Andy Spiva Award as the team's defensive surprise player of 2010 spring practice period.

Johnson began his career with the Vols as a fullback and played in 18 games during his freshman and sophomore seasons helping to lead the way for current Cleveland Browns back Montario Hardesty.

He was named to the Academic All-SEC Team from 2008-10 (2011 has yet to be released).

Last year this all-star game debuted as the Eastham Energy College All Star Game and played at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Ariz. Vols’ punter Chad Cunningham punted five times in the game.

This year’s Casino Del Sol AllStar Game is being televised live on Fox Sports Arizona (Dish Network 415, DirectTV 686) and the coaches for the game are former Fresno State head coach Pat Hill and former Mississippi head coach Houston Nutt.