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education, health care cuts Associated Press

Emily Devoe Staff Writer “Invest in what you know.”

This quote by billionaire investor Warren Buffet has motivated recent UT graduate Taylor Kirkpatrick to follow his dreams.

He recently returned from a four-month expedition to New Zealand, where he made a film on fly-fishing.

During his last semester at UT, Kirkpatrick created his own independent study, combining a passion for the outdoors with a dream of traveling to New Zealand.

For this study, he planned and created a proposal for a start-up production company.

“It seemed logical to take this lifelong dream of an expedition and turn it into a business,” he said.

After graduating in May 2009, Kirkpatrick moved to New York City to establish his company and receive some film training. He then embarked on his journey to New Zealand in December 2009.

He and a friend, Hardwick Caldwell, used their savings to fund the trip and shot the entire video themselves.

Kirkpatrick is from Lookout Mountain, Tenn., and he said he has always had a passion for the outdoors.

Kirkpatrick said that even though he had no idea what he wanted to do when he was a kid, if someone had told him when he was 10 that he would be exploring New Zealand and making a fly-fishing film, he would have been very happy.

When he was 14, he made

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Taylor Kirkpatrick hikes during a four-month expedition in New Zealand. Kirkpatrick traveled to the country as part of an independent study, creating a film on fly-fishing while there. his first expedition to the backcountry of Wyoming after much saving and gaining the necessary skills. He learned to fly-fish from his grandfather, and he was a fly-fishing guide for three seasons at Moondance Adventures in Alaska.

While he was in Alaska, he met Rick Addicks.

Addicks, a photographer and film artist, described Kirkpatrick as very determined. “(He is) one of those people who I believe when he sets his mind to something he can do it,” Addicks said.

While in New Zealand, Kirkpatrick said he and Caldwell did many amazing things.

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Kirkpatrick said the most beautiful and spectacular part of his trip was South Island.

“If you were travel– Rick Addicks ing to New Zealand, I would tell you to have at least a month to travel, buy a van and independent study; it was just explore the South “an adventure of a lifetime.”

Island,” he said. “If you set To learn more about off in search of a destination, Taylor Kirkpatrick’s adventhen you miss the best part ture to New Zealand and to of the trip.” see the trailer for his film, For Kirkpatrick, New “The Waters of Greenstone,” Zealand was more than an visit gambitstone.com.

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Fans in the Rocky Top Rowdy section toss paper confetti into the air during the Florida basketball game on Tuesday, Jan. 11. Students recently brought the practice into tradition by throwing the confetti skyward after the Vols’ first basket of the game, also signaling the first chance for fans to take their seats.

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas lawmakers got their first glimpse of what the next state budget might look like late Tuesday, including a staggering $5 billion cut to public schools, as Gov. Rick Perry and his supporters were dancing at an inaugural celebration.

While public education appeared to bear the brunt of the $15 billion state revenue shortfall, few corners of state government were spared in the draft proposal for the next two years that spends $73.2 billion in state money.

The proposal reduces state spending by almost $14 billion over the current budget. The reduction is smaller than the shortfall because of $1.4 billion in savings requested by the state leaders from the current year budget.

The budget draft, which is expected to be filed as legislation in the House later this week, would cut funding entirely to four community colleges and would generally eliminate financial aid for incoming freshmen and new students. The Texas Grants scholarship program would drop by more than 70,000 students over the next two years.

The proposal also would reduce reimbursement rates by 10 percent for physicians, hospitals and nursing homes that participate in Medicaid — a decrease that could eventually dry up participation in the program for poor and disabled Texans.

In total, 9,600 state jobs would be eliminated over the next two years.

“It’s a catastrophe. No financial aid for kids to go to college. No pre-kindergarten for kids to learn their numbers and their letters. Health and human services slashed,” said Rep. Pete Gallego, DAlpine. “No Texan can be proud of this.”

Perry took the oath of office earlier Tuesday for his third term in office. After a day of parties, he spent the evening at a celebration in downtown Austin, just a mile from the Capitol. Donors are picking up the $2 million tab for the 2011 inaugural. The Legislative Budget Board was required by law to release the budget to leaders on Tuesday, the fifth business day after the session starts.

Some analysts say the true shortfall could be much higher than $15 billion — closer to $27 billion — to account for enrollment growth in public schools and on Medicaid rolls, cost increases and other variables. That figure amounts to almost a third of discretionary state spending in the current budget.

A $4 billion reduction to the Foundation School Program — the pot of money

distributed to schools based on daily attendance — means the program would be short almost $10 billion below the amount required to fund the school finance formulas under state law. That would make school finance reform legislation almost inevitable.

The proposal also recommends cuts to arts education, teacher incentive pay, money for schools to administer steroid testing and prekindergarten programs.

The draft is just the beginning of a long process, which probably won’t be finalized until next summer when the governor signs the Texas budget for 2012-13.

Four Texas two-year colleges would be closed to save $39 million in the next twoyear state budget under preliminary spending plan.

Brazosport College in Lake Jackson, Frank Phillips College in Borger, Odessa College and Ranger College would be closed under a plan to slash $145 million in state funding for Texas community and junior colleges.

The state’s contributions to the state employee retirement fund would be reduced from 6.95 percent to 6 percent, less than what is needed to maintain the fund, according the Legislative Budget Board, which drafted the budget. The base budget proposes a similar cut in contributions to the Teacher Retirement Fund.

While almost every other state agency would see a reduction in employees, the average number of full-time employees in Perry’s office over the next two fiscal years would go to 132, up from an average of 120 in the 20102011 budget.

The base budget does not use any tax increases or money from the state’s Rainy Day Fund.

“Texas needs a balanced approach that includes using the Rainy Day Fund and adding new revenue,” said Scott McCown, executive director of the Center for Public Policy Priorities, which advocates for needy Texans. “With a revenue shortfall this large, as the proposed budget shows, the Legislature cannot balance the budget through cuts alone without doing terrible damage.”

Rep. Jim Pitts, the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, said he would explain the proposal to the chamber on Wednesday.

“There are no sacred cows for this next biennium for our introduced bill,” Pitts said last week. “So many people said, ‘You cannot cut education’. You can’t not cut education . We will be cutting every article within our budget. We will be cutting health and human, we will be cutting education and we’ll be cutting our own budget in the Legislature.”

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Robert Churchill, junior chemical and biomolecular engineering major, hunts for textbooks for his classes on Friday, Jan. 14. The deadline for students returning books without dropping their class is Friday, while the deadline for those dropping a course is Friday, Feb. 4.

Crime Log Jan. 17 An unaffiliated Knoxville resident reported a burglary at Ray’s Place Deli on the Hill, which happened some time between 3:30 p.m. on Jan. 14 and 11:39 a.m. on Jan. 17. The report specified the crime as forcible entry, and the total value lost was around $15.

A student reported that his white 2011 Chevrolet Trailblazer was vandalized while it was parked on the third level of the G11 parking garage between 3:30 p.m. on Jan. 13 and 3:40 p.m. on Jan. 17. This crime is related to the mass vandalism spree in the G11 garage that took place over the weekend. The reports have not specified a suspect.

— Crime Log is compiled by Robbie Hargett Compiled from a media log provided to the Daily Beacon by the Universty of Tennessee Police Department. All persons arrested are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. People with names similar or identical to those listed may not be those identified in reports.

1981: Iran Hostage Crisis ends Minutes after Ronald Reagan’s inauguration as the 40th president of the United States, the 52 U.S. captives held at the U.S. embassy in Teheran, Iran, are released, ending the 444-day Iran Hostage Crisis.

On Nov. 4, 1979, the crisis began when militant Iranian students, outraged that the U.S. government had allowed the ousted shah of Iran to travel to New York City for medical treatment, seized the U.S. embassy in Teheran. The Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran’s political and religious leader, took over the hostage situation, refusing all appeals to release the hostages, even after the U.N. Security Council demanded an end to the crisis in a unanimous vote. Two weeks after the storming of the embassy, however, the Ayatollah began to release all non-U.S. captives, and all female and minority Americans, citing these groups as among the people oppressed by the government of the United States. The remaining 52 cap-

tives remained at the mercy of the Ayatollah for the next 14 months.

President Jimmy Carter was unable to diplomatically resolve the crisis, and on April 24, 1980, he ordered a disastrous rescue mission in which eight U.S. military personnel were killed and no hostages were rescued. Three months later, the former shah died of cancer in Egypt, but the crisis continued. In November 1980, Carter lost the presidential election to Republican Ronald Reagan. Soon after, with the assistance of Algerian intermediaries, successful negotiations began between the United States and Iran. On the day of Reagan’s inauguration, the United States freed almost $8 billion in frozen Iranian assets, and the hostages were released after 444 days. The next day, Jimmy Carter flew to West Germany to greet the Americans on their way home.

— This Day in History is courtesy of history.com

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New Testament scholar to speak at UT Renowned New Testament scholar Bart D. Ehrman of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill will kick off the newly created David L. Dungan Memorial Lecture at 5 p.m.

Thursday in the UC auditorium at UT. Ehrman’s lecture is titled “Does The New Testament Contain Forgeries? The Surprising Claims of Modern Scholars” and is presented by UT’s Department of Religious Studies.

Ehrman’s books on the New Testament and early Christianity include “Misquoting Jesus,” “God’s Problem,” “Jesus, Interrupted,” and “The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot.”

He is an expert on the New Testament manuscript tradition, the historical Jesus, the early Christian apocrypha and the apostolic fathers.

Following the presentation, Ehrman will participate in a Qand-A session, and a reception will be held in the University Center Crest Room.

Sponsors include Chris and Carrie Hodges; the College of Arts and Sciences; the departments of Classics, English, History and Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures; the Fern and Manfred Steinfeld Program in Judaic Studies; and the Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

Faculty receive funds to drive technology development

Texas continued from Page 1 Other agency cuts include: — $2.3 billion from Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program and other health and human services.

— $772 million for Texas colleges and universities, including nearly $100 million for flagship universities Texas A&M University and the University of Texas at Austin.

— $459 million from the Department of Criminal Justice, including a 14 percent cut in psychiatric and pharmacy care for inmates.

— $78 million from the Texas Historical

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Commission, which oversees preservation of state landmarks and historic buildings, from about $100 million to $22 million.

The Texas Constitution requires a balanced budget, and state leaders and many of the new supermajority of conservative legislators elected in November have vowed not to raise taxes, meaning the shortfall will have to be overcome almost entirely with cuts.

The shortfall will be the driving force behind almost every decision the Legislature makes. From state parks and highways to health care programs for the poor and disabled, all state agencies are bracing for the hatchet.

The University of Tennessee Research Foundation (UTRF) and AgResearch at the UT Institute for Agriculture have selected five researchers/research teams from UT and the UT Institute of Agriculture to receive technology development grants for 2011.

The grants were awarded through the maturation program, which means that submitted projects and proposals must have been related to an existing UT invention/creation disclosure or accompanied by a new UT invention/creation disclosure.

The maturation program has already shown how modest amounts of funding can significantly impact the potential success of an invention and attract additional funding for research and commercialization. Prior to this year’s investment, UTRF funded 29 projects over three years for a total of $180,000. As a result, these projects have attracted almost 14 times that investment in follow-on federal funding and corporate matching funds.

The grant recipients are: Gary Sayler, Steven Ripp and Dan Close (Center for Environmental Biotechnology) and Seung Baek (Department of Pathobiology) to detect bioluminescent proteins using standard imaging techniques; Jayne Wu (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) and Shige Eda (Department of Animal Sciences, Institute of Agriculture) for development of a bacterial diagnostic device based on lab-on-a-chip technology; Raul Almeida, Doug Luther and Maria Prado (Department of Animal Sciences) for developing a vaccine for several strepbased illnesses; Muthu Balasubramaniam, Blake Joyce and Neal Stewart (Department of Plant Sciences) for developing plants that can sense arsenic and other pathogens; and ZongMing (Max) Cheng (Department of Plant Sciences) for work that allows crops to withstand multiple environmental stresses such as drought and heat.

I-House to host Global Hour Global Hour is a weekly program of informal discussion that covers a wide range of topics. It is committed to facilitating the exchange of views and perspectives within a relaxed

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New topics will be announced each week.

The first Global Hour will take place on Thursday from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the I-House.

For more information, call the I-House at 974-4453 or email ihouse@utk.edu.

Noam Chomsky to speak at UT Noam Chomsky will speak to UT students, faculty and staff on Tuesday, Jan. 25 at 7 p.m. in the Cox Auditorium of the Alumni Memorial Building.

Chomsky has written and lectured widely on linguistics, philosophy, intellectual history, international affairs and U.S. foreign policy. A brief sampling of his work includes: The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory; Aspects of the Theory of Syntax; Language and Mind; American Power and the New Mandarins; Reflections on Language; Rules and Representations; Knowledge of Language; The Culture of Terrorism; Manufacturing Consent (with E.S. Herman); Understanding Power; Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance; and most recently, Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World, (with David Barsamian).

Chomsky received his Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1955. He then came to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in 1961 was appointed full professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics. During the years 1958 and 1959 Chomsky was in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. In the spring of 1969 he delivered the John Locke Lectures at Oxford; in January 1970 he delivered the Bertrand Russell Memorial Lecture at Cambridge University; in 1972, the Nehru Memorial Lecture in New Delhi, and in 1977, the Huizinga Lecture in Leiden, among many others.

Chomsky has received honorary degrees from universities around the world, and is a Fellow of the American Academy

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Columnist misunderstands importance of attendance policy The reasons for taking attendance are more numerous than Sean Mahoney suggests in his Beacon article, “Roll call has no place in college system.” First, it is really the only way that instructors can associate faces to names. Perhaps this isn’t important to Mr. Mahoney, but for many — perhaps most — instructors at UT, getting to know the students who will be sitting in front of them for a semester is important. It creates a more amicable classroom atmosphere, and students don’t feel like just a number — another oft-repeated complaint.

Students might also come to appreciate those instructors knowing their names when, in a few years, they come back asking for a letter of recommendation.

Another reason instructors take attendance in class is because there is often a portion of the grade devoted to participation and discussion, especially in smaller classes. The solution is not to eliminate the participation grade because Mr. Mahoney doesn’t like roll call, unless he really thinks there is no merit to in-class discussions. Given that Mr. Mahoney is a history major, I suspect he values and learns from his discussions of the past.

Mr. Mahoney’s real attack, however, is against professors generally because of their “inability to make lectures crucial enough.” If that’s true for him, then perhaps the writer should earn his degree from an online institution. What is the point of a brick-and-mortar college if lectures and discussions have so little value? In regards to online aids that some professors elect to post online, it’s a response to years of student complaints for more help to follow lectures.

Yet one has to wonder, has the demand for study guides, outlines and slides resulted in lack of class attendance? Chicken and egg, perhaps.

Finally, Mr. Mahoney complains that, “during a period where time management can be so important, losing an hour or two of the day (to attend useless lectures) can really hurt.”

How unfortunate. Twelve to 18 hours per week to spend in a classroom seat is particularly demanding, isn’t it? After all, that’s not what college is about, right?

Perhaps if Mr. Mahoney attended his English classes, he would know the difference between “less” and “fewer.”

Allison Elledge Graduate teaching assistant in history aelledge@utk.edu Professor laptop policy irksome For being in the College of Business — in which it is REQUIRED of all business students to have in their possession a laptop — it seems a bit odd for professors to not allow the use of laptops.

Yup, a few of mine this semester have banned the use of laptops during lectures because it is a distraction. I mean ... I get it. Silly college students who don’t want to pay attention jump onto Facebook during the lecture, and that’s annoying if you’re sitting right behind them, because you can’t help but read into their boring personal/social life on the Internet.

However, I don’t think this is grounds enough to ban laptops. A few bad eggs shouldn’t keep all the other good eggs from using the technology they are REQUIRED to possess. I don’t check Facebook once class starts. I open up my notes, I sit, I listen and I type what I glean from the professor. I know many other students who do this as well.

Why should I be punished for stupid people? The policy should be: If I catch you on Facebook during class, I’m going to make an example out of you by throwing your computer against the wall, smashing it to smithereens, lighting it on fire and ceremoniously chanting around it in Pig Latin. This is perfectly fair.

Mitch Harp Junior in marketing mharp@utk.edu THE DAILY BACON • Blake Tredway

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US should focus support in Lebanon Immut abl y Right by

Treston Wheat I love democracy, and when America has the chance to support democracy abroad she should do so. I understand the geopolitical necessity to support autocratic regimes like in Saudi Arabia or former dictatorships in South America during the 1980s.

However, one country right now is experiencing oscillations that could allow for a more democratic and peaceful world. Lebanon is undergoing changes that America should support.

Last week, 11 members of Lebanon’s 30-member cabinet left the government. The cabinet members who left were from the March 8 Alliance, led by Hezbollah, the Shiite terrorist organization funded by Iran. The remaining members in the cabinet are from the March 14 Alliance of conservative Christians, liberals and the Druze. The governments of Turkey, Qatar and Syria met in Damascus, Syria, to try to mitigate the possible civil war, but the selection of a new prime minister was delayed. In addition, the Patriarch of the Maronite Catholic Church, Nasrallah Pierre Sfeir, has submitted his resignation to the Vatican. He is a powerful voice for the Maronite Christians, and his leaving could significantly alter the power structure in the country.

America needs to work with other world powers that have a historical connection with Lebanon, like France, to encourage democracy. Hezbollah is a major threat to peace, stability and democracy in Lebanon, and no one should want them to come to power. The best way to do this is through a speedy allocation of humanitarian aid to prop up the March 14 Alliance and military assistance for the Lebanese army to attack and eliminate Hezbollah’s military wing. We cannot allow the terrorists to gain control or to allow Syria or Iran to gain any more influence there. Now, some will say this is meddling in the internal affairs of a sovereign nation, but that it is not. These policies will help prevent another civil war like the one from 1975 to 1990, which killed at least 130,000 and wounded more than 1,000,000.

To implement the humanitarian aid, policy makers should not just throw money at the problem. It needs

to be specific and targeted to deal with unemployment (9.2 percent), make the Lebanese pound stronger (one U.S. dollar equals about 1500 LBP) and rebuild the country. Construction projects are one of the obvious places to start. After multiple wars in Lebanon, the country needs building projects to restore her to her former glory. Once the country is rebuilt and stability maintained, tourism, which is one of the largest parts of their economy, will increase more. Furthermore, America should give monies to increase Lebanon’s agriculture sector. Lebanon has some of the most fertile ground in the Middle East, and agricultural exports account for more than 10 percent of its economy. It is true that Lebanon left the world’s economic recession relatively unscathed because of its conservative banking laws, but the country is fragile. Helping economically will stabilize the country, allowing for more growth.

Although economic aid is very important, eliminating Hezbollah as a military threat is more so. America has already tried to build up the Lebanese military, but now is the time to strike Hezbollah before it can acquire more power. Already it has acquired close to 50,000 rockets, which include katyushas, fajrs and other mid-range rockets. Also, Hezbollah has committed several suicide attacks, one of which killed more than 280 American Marines in 1983, and bombed the US embassy in 2008.

In 2006, it maliciously kidnapped two Israeli soldiers and started a war with its southern neighbor. The U.S. might want to work with the Lebanese government, other countries and possibly Israel to destroy Hezbollah’s fighting capabilities to establish a more peaceful country.

It can neutralize the leaders of the organization and attack the organization’s strongholds to wipe out its military hardware. This is imperative if America is to support democracy and peace.

One might ask why America should take an interest in this tiny Mediterranean country, but the United States should support democracy and peace in all corners of the globe. Whether one likes it or not, the U.S. is the most powerful country in the world, and instability and chaos in one region affects the entire order. There are many problems in our own country and other foreign policy concerns, but that does not mean we forget the weak or downtrodden. The Lebanese people deserve the support of America, and we should help them.

— Treston Wheat is a senior in history and political science. He can be reached at twheat@utk.edu

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I have had an interest in history for as long as I can remember. Reading, watching documentaries and attending lectures have all, at various times, been utilized to fulfill my craving to learn about and try to understand the past. Part of it is just an interest in being able to say that I know or have heard about a particular person or event when an obscure historical reference occurs in a class or conversation. Then there is the compulsion to fulfill the age-old responsibility best articulated by George Santayana in his famous quote: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

Throughout the duration of my studies, research and passive readings, a constant conundrum has arisen. That conflict rests in the question of whether we should study the characters from history as the heroes and heroines that they are often made out to be (especially in American history textbooks and documentaries) or as the flawed, fallible individuals that they truly were, even if it means digging through the muck of their mistakes, personal lives and other less-than-moral dealings. Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Kennedy family and countless other noteworthy and oft-revered individuals come to mind as prominent examples where this conflict exists, but perhaps no better example exists and comes up more often than that of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The accolades of this astonishing man are many and very much worthy of acclaim. In a nation where, despite the abolition of slavery almost 100 years prior to his activism, King, along with other, less famous, civil rights pioneers, fought to reaffirm rights and liberties already promised to AfricanAmericans by the United States Constitution and gain respect for his people. His efforts sent huge, seismic waves through the deeply segregated and racist South and caused a rash of civil rights reforms in Washington, D.C. Though John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson often get the credit, King and his cohorts were the ones who put the pressure on the old guard to change its ways.

His faults? King has, in previous decades, been charged with allegations of being a “womanizer.”

The extent of what King confidant Ralph Abernathy termed as a “weakness for women” in his autobiography has been debated and scrutinized, and his indiscretions may or may not have included extramarital sexual relations. Apart from the possibility of King’s infidelity, it is widely known that, despite the affinity the Kennedys had for him, King drew the ire of storied FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. Hoover suspected King of having Communist ties and kept a constant, vigilant watch on the civil rights leader, gathering ammunition in case he ever needed to discredit him. The extent of King’s possible Communist ties and other potential indiscretions uncovered by the FBI will not be revealed until 2027, when the court-ordered sealing of the FBI’s files on King will be released to the public from the National Archives.

Luckily for King, whatever faults he had as a man are, when compared to his accolades, left nearly meaningless. King’s service to his people and, in a larger sense, to his country and the rest of the world has warranted a national holiday of remembrance, education and celebration.

This, however, does not mean that the man, much like the holiday that bears his name, is not without detractors.

Several times over the long weekend, I heard various people (both in media and acquaintances) jest about the fact that this extraordinary man has a holiday dedicated in his memory despite the fact that he was, in their estimations, a “hypocrite,” a “communist,” and/or a “traitor.” Not surprisingly, most of them were white, which makes one wonder just how much the stock in America’s “melting pot” has truly been reduced and combined. It is a sad commentary to think that, even in 2011, some of the same stigmas Dr. King combated are still alive and strong … even at a time when the United States has its first African-American president in office.

Dr. King’s legacy can teach us many lessons in race relations, tolerance and leadership. It can, however, also serve as a potential solution to the aforementioned conundrum, for even though he may have been flawed and potentially committed actions of ill repute, King undoubtedly deserves the adoration, praise, respect and, above all else, gratitude he receives from people of all races.

— Derek Mullins is a senior in political science and history. He can be reached at dmullin5@utk.edu

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Southern rock star finds healing in music Associated Press NASHVILLE — When Gregg Allman asked his doctors for permission to start touring again just a few months after a liver transplant, he got quizzical looks.

“They said, ‘Well, we’re going to give you a pass and sign you out — but are you crazy?’” Allman said. “I actually think that it had to do in the big step in healing up that happened after I went on the road.”

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member, who this week releases “Low Country Blues,” his first solo recording in 14 years, has experienced the healing power of music firsthand. Allman had his transplant on June 23 after hepatitis and the rock-star life left him in a state of deteriorating health. He knew the operation and recovery would be challenging, but he found it far more painful than he imagined it would be.

“They don’t tell you about a lot of it because they don’t want to scare you, you know,” the 63-year-old said in a phone interview.

Allman found relief in music. He was playing the guitar and piano again several weeks after the surgery and slowly worked his way back on stage.

“That’s kind of like the planet of no pain, being on stage,” Allman said.

Allman was left with a noticeable shake in his hands from immune system-depressing drugs meant to keep his body from rejecting the new liver. Music seems to help there, too. The shaking stops when he lays his hands on his piano or guitar.

Allman has a theory about the therapeutic power of music.

“I think it’s because you’re doing something that you truly love,” he said. “I think it just creates a diversion from the pain itself. You’ve been swallowed up by something you love, you know, and you’re just totally engulfed.”

Another thing that helped him through was his anticipation over the release of “Low Country Blues,” produced by

T Bone Burnett.

Allman’s solo career had been dormant since the ‘90s. He worked with The Allman Brothers, the groundbreaking group he founded with his brother Duane in the 1960s that went on to define the dirty blues branch of the Southern rock family tree.

He’d been thinking about a new record when his manager set up a meeting with Burnett in Memphis, Tenn. The two bonded over once forgotten blues songs. Burnett recasts Allman as a Delta blues singer with covers of Muddy Waters’ “I Can’t Be Satisfied,” Skip James’ haunted “Devil Got My Woman” and Sleepy John Estes’ “Floating Bridge,” one of his favorites.

“I like ‘Floating Bridge’ a whole bunch,” he said. “It’s a good swampy sounding song. I mean it’s just one chord all the way through, kind of like the ‘Gilded Splinters.’ It just lent itself to being a little swampy, a little spooky. I enjoy that kind of thing.”

Allman says he feels clean now, cleansed of the toxins left by alcohol and drug abuse and disease. Liver damage robbed him of his vitality and left him dwindling and exhausted. As his health worsened, it might take 10 hours of sleep to prepare for or recover from a 3-hour show. The wait for a donor liver was an anxious one, and he found himself seeking a stronger relationship with God. “I was pretty sure I was gonna die,” he said with a rueful chuckle. “And I just said, ‘Man, come help me, God, can you come and help me? I’m in a real bad way here.’ I said, ‘Take what you want, just don’t let me die.’ He didn’t take anything, you know, or anything like that. He restored my faith and my sanity and all that stuff. It was very painful, but there were different places along the way that I got little signs to tell me to hold on, that everything was going to be OK.” Allman’s manager, Michael Lehman, flew to Jacksonville, Fla., to be with Allman for the surgery and in the days after

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Championship picture made clearer with playoff system

Colin Skinner Assistant Sports Editor In seasons past, gargantuan juggernauts like North Carolina, Duke, UCLA and Kentucky have taken hold of the college basketball world and squeezed it until its springtime “No. 1” seed juices were dripping from their clutching grips.

From 1971-1974, coach John Wooden’s UCLA Bruins were perfect, amassing a streak of 88 straight wins and winning four national championships in a row.

Each national post-season tournament ended in March with UCLA defeating anyone in its way and — without any shadow of doubt — claiming the national championship title.

It was indisputable, absolute, certain, and it was just.

This year, in 2011, there is no John Wooden-led Bruin bomber that is consistent enough to win 40 games in a row, let alone 88.

Duke was upset by Florida State on the road, the current No. 1-ranked team, Ohio State, has a treacherous Big Ten path in its way to an undefeated season, and still-unbeaten powerhouse Kansas faces a similar fate and Big-12 play. Still, these teams will be the ones we’re talking about in March for all the marbles.

“But not so fast my friend!” as ESPN College GameDay’s Lee Corso would say. San Diego State, hailing from the much less respected, less-touted Mountain West Conference, is undefeated and sitting nicely at No. 6 in the land. Surely they deserve some respect; they should be considered for the No. 1 spot en route to the national championship!

Well, let’s look at their season resume and any bear traps to come for the Aztecs.

Thus far, the Aztecs have played and beaten only one ranked team in their nineteen games this season and are projected, as of now, to play only one more ranked team this season: the No. 9, one-loss and fellow Mountain West-er, BYU. Besides that, the Aztecs’ next best competition all year is the 12-5 Colorado State Rams.

Geesh. And I thought advanced physics was tough to figure out.

How are we ever going to set-

tle this mess? How are we as a nation of sports fans ever going to really know if this San Diego State team that continues to gain on everybody is really worth a darn, flashing their impressive record amidst a rather lousy strength of schedule?

Surely, somewhere, Aztec fans are crying, “They deserve a shot!

They deserve to be where they are and play for it all! They could beat the best!”

Does this situation, this problem ring any bells?

Thank goodness for all Aztec fans this season, your team will get its shot. This season finale college basketball tournament we call March Madness happens once a year and is so popular that for one month the dry-erase boards that fill business offices across the nation are no longer full of quarterly statements and budget numbers but rather blacklined, 65-team brackets with office workers’ names and picks.

It’s a big deal, and in the world of sports, there’s nothing fairer.

What better way to find out if this 19-0, No. 6-ranked Aztec team is as good as its record portrays it to be than to give it a shot — six shots rather — against the best 64 teams in the nation?

How much fairer can we be?

What better system is there to draw excitement and generate great sports on TV than March Madness?

As we gear towards the month of March and the college basketball tournament, we are reminded of how spaced out and long the past college football bowl season was (23 days), of how silly it was to play the BCS National Championship 10 days after New Year’s Day — after family and friends have long since left town — of how money seems to drive every single game with advertisements and amount of bowls (35), like the GoDaddy.com Bowl and Beef ‘O Brady’s St. Petersburg Bowl, and that more than half the teams get to play in the postseason.

But enough of the Scrooge “Ba-Humbug” mentality.

Most importantly, the question is whether the two best teams played in the final game, and this season, it seemed as if the current system got it right.

The moment in any team’s season when records mean nothing is when sports becomes truly exciting, and no CEO will ever take that away.

— Colin Skinner is a junior in journalism and electronic media. He can be reached at cskinne3@utk.edu

Family inspires Vols’ Woolridge Preston Peeden Staff Writer Time management is an important skill for any college student.

Students’ entire futures rest upon their ability to adapt to the new freedoms and rigors of college life. For some, this skill is hard to acquire, but for UT men’s basketball player Renaldo Woolridge, managing his time properly allows him to be more than simply a studentathlete.

When this 6-foot, 9-inch forward is not on the court or in the classroom, he can be found pursuing one of his greatest passions: music.

Like many basketball players before him, including Shaquille O’Neal, Ron Artest and Allen Iverson, Woolridge not only excels on the court, but also in the studio. In fact, it could be argued that Woolridge is known almost more for his rap persona of “Swiperboy” than he is for anything else.

Swiperboy burst onto the scene last year with his song “Eric Berry,” a tribute and Heisman campaign for then-UT football star Eric Berry. Following that song’s success, Woolridge has gone on to produce his own music, and he even created his own label, Swiperboy Entertainment. Despite all of his successes in the music world, Woolridge remains adamantly focused on basketball.

“I had a record label offer that I turned down to come back to school,” Woolridge said.

And in a hypothetical choice of either another season of UT basketball or a chance to work with Dr. Dre, Woolridge said simply, “I’m going with basketball.”

Woolridge comes from a basketball family. His father Orlando, was a 13-year veteran of the NBA, his older brother Zach played collegiately at Princeton, and his second cousin is NBA Hall of Famer and all-time Knicks great Willis Reed.

This basketball family is something that has helped him as he grows as a player. “(The family) is all good,” Woolridge said. “It definitely gives me the extra advantage to get through a lot of things, even now.”

Woolridge singles out family members as inspirations to him, especially the success of his brother Zach, who now works in California. And when he is back home with his family, Woolridge said his favorite activity when he’s not working out or writing lyrics is to go to the beach and relax.

When it comes to his likes and dislikes, Woolridge’s tastes are like that of any college-aged person. His favorite movie is “Inception,” and the TV show he watches most often is “Rocket Power.” His favorite actor is Denzel Washington, and his favorite musician is Common.

Off the court, assistant coach Jason Shay sums up Woolridge’s personality in one word, “effervescent.” This infectious personality manifests itself in Woolridge’s own rap name “Swiperboy,” as he said it means “someone who goes out there and steals the stage.”

When it to describing his own personality, Woolridge was plain.

“Goofy and unique,” he said.

“And well, there’s not a real word for it; it’s just not really caring about what people think about me. I’m an individual.”

And as for his best trait on the

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Renaldo Woolridge defends against Belmont forward Jon House on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010. Woolridge balances time commitments of school and basketball with his passion for making music. court, both Shay and Woolridge cited his versatility.

With his height, athleticism and motor, Woolridge is able to play not only down low as a post player, but also move outside as a wing.

Woolridge also brings a lot of energy to the game. Shay describes him as having “a great motor; he’s got the best conditioning on the team.”

His versatility and energy show up in all phases of Woolridge’s life.

“I don’t ever really have free time, but I’m never bored.”