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New Student Health Center opens Justin Joo Staff Writer On Friday, the UT celebrated the grand opening of its new Student Health Center.

Combining the services of the old Student Health Center with the Counseling Center and the Safety, Environment & Education Center, the new building is meant to be a onestop shop for all student health needs.

“We’re here to celebrate, today, the opening of this fantastic facility,” said Chancellor Jimmy Cheek, who opened the ceremony. “A lot of planning and preparation has gone into the construction.”

Cheek thanked the students for their help in the project.

“This is a student initiative,” Cheek said. “The students came forth and said we need a better facility to take care of our health needs on our campus.”

SGA president Ross Rowland and Student Health Center administrator Jim Boyle also gave speeches citing the work and planning that went into the new center. Rowland explained the long association SGA and the student body had with the project, while Boyle thanked the many construction workers, architects and staff that helped contribute to the completion of the center.

“To say I’m thrilled is probably the understatement of the century,” Boyle said.

After the speeches were done, Cheek, Boyle, Rowland and others cut a long, orange ribbon, signifying the opening of the facility.

After the ribbon was cut, the administrators, staff and the gathered audience entered the building for refreshments and tours of the facility.

As part of the overall change from the old health center, every doctor’s suite area has at least one waiting area. There is room for visiting doctors, which can include a surgeon or a gynecologist, as well as an area for prostate examinations.

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building plans from early on, said Victor Barr, the director of the Counseling Center.

“What we wanted was a place where we can facilitate mental disorders and physical disorders,” Barr said. “It’s better to think of them with an overlapping degree. … It just makes sense to put them together.”

Barr said that with the old facilities, the counseling center would sometimes have to refer students to the psychiatry center, which was in the old Student Health Center, but only about 50 percent of patients would go.

The same problem occurred when psychiatry referred students to the counseling center.

Barr is hoping that with students only having to walk to a different part of the building, rather than to a separate building, more students will get the complete help they need.

“It’s literally right there. I can walk them to it,” he said.

Students who make a walk-in appointment at the Counseling Center can usually be seen within 15 to 20 minutes.

Cheek said 4,500 students on average come to the center a year. Nearly 1,600 students use the Counseling Center.

“And I hope this is everything our students need to deal with health physically and mentally on this campus,” Cheek said.

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The new center will also contain a pharmacy. Although it’s not currently stocked, students can expect to be able to purchase both prescription and over-the-counter medication by the upcoming fall semester.

Along with these renovations, a much larger and separate X-ray and lab area were added, as well as separate facilities for physical therapy and sports medicine.

By being certified as a “green” facility, with recycling bins placed throughout the entire building, it is the first building on UT’s campus to be certified green.

The Counseling Center has also increased in size and improved amenities. The waiting room is much larger. Each doctor and counselor has his or her own office. The increased size and number of offices helped solve the major problem the old Counseling Center had with scheduling. In the past, offices were shared, and the center had to carefully schedule when patients could come in.

Joining the Counseling Center with the Student Health Center has been part of the

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UT communicates its diversity through signs, special weeks and speakers coming to speak on the subject. But diversity personified says more than diversity advertised.

Few places on campus will see diversity played out in person more than a campus ministry. People of various backgrounds lead over 20 different campus ministries that infiltrate UT’s campus, all unique and different in their own ways.

Britton Sharp and his wife, Brooke Sharp, are the campus directors of Campus Crusade for Christ at UT and the Knoxville area. Britton says different ministries are tailored to different students.

“People are so different,” Britton said. “We have introverts and extroverts. Some people are drawn to larger groups on campus, and others are more comfortable in smaller groups.”

Britton said that backgrounds and heritages also play a major role in leading people to their unique and respective places.

John Unthank, campus pastor for Church of God Campus Christian Connection, feels that students encounter people that are different from them throughout college, and cam-

pus ministry is a part of that.

He said students need to embrace it rather than fear it.

“We have great unity amongst great diversity,” Unthank said. “We really shoot for unity because we all respect each other. We do not rob or take from another (ministry).”

Students like Weston Duke, senior in communication studies, feels like campus ministry has helped pave the way for post-college experiences.

“It has provided me with a great community of people to share college with,” Duke said.

“It has helped me mature emotionally and spiritually and prepared me holistically for life after college.”

Some may think that with over 20 campus ministries there might be some competition between ministries vying for participation, but campus pastor of Volunteers For Christ Mike Plewniak said otherwise.

“We will often meet students who go to other ministries and it’s a joy to be able to pray for them and encourage them in what they are doing,” Plewniak said.

Unthank also agrees. He said that campus ministries do the very best not to compete against one another because there are 26,000 students on campus, which he says is enough to go around.

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UT strives to strengthen mutual ties with South Korean universities Kelsey Ray Staff Writer Trading business cards in South Korea is a formal process, so it is best to stand and receive a card with both hands. UT is observing all aspects of culture as the administration begins building a bridge with South Korean universities.

Wednesday, Jan. 11, Chancellor Jimmy G. Cheek, four students, the dean of the College of Sport Sciences and a faculty member signed an agreement to exchange research resources with Dong-A University in Busan, South Korea.

Faculty, staff and scholars will all be able to participate.

Although this initiative will contribute to the university’s goal of reaching the top 25 public research institutions status, the prospects of pursing a relationship with South Korea began years ago. Joy T. DeSensi, the associate dean of the University of Tennessee’s graduate school, Dean Bob Rider and Dr. Fritz G. Polite, the clinical assistant professor of sports management and the

founding director of I-Lead, have maintained relations with the government and universities in South Korea.

“We want to spread the Tennessee brand around the world,” Polite said.

Dong-A University has made an offer for an official start date of the programs, but the administration must first discuss the dates and what departments will be affected. In addition, UT has been communicating with two other Korean universities, Yonsei University in Seoul and Inha University in Incheon. The South Korean government has also proposed scholarships for students wishing to study at these universities.

Sports, engineering and various sciences are some of the subjects available for study through the program, but there are also other departments related to the humanities. English as a second language program will be available not only to those wishing to learn English, but those wishing to Tara Sripunvoraskul • The Daily Beacon teach it. Students wishing to learn Korean will be Patrons of the Ewing Gallery view a piece from the current exhibition, “Redefining able to attend the Korean Language Institute. the Multiple: Thirteen Japanese Printmakers,” on Thursday, Jan. 19. Co-curator and participating artist Hideki Kimura gave a lecture on the state of contemporary printSee KOREA on Page 3 making in Japan for the opening of the exhibition, which runs through March 1.

Some say scholarship cuts ‘unnecessary’ The Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Psychology student Jay MacDonnchadh says a plan that would cut some students’ lottery scholarships in half is a bad idea.

“If it wasn’t for the lottery scholarship, I would have had to work my way up through community college,” said the University of Memphis senior.

MacDonnchadh, 21, is among hundreds of Tennessee students who depend on the scholarship, also called the HOPE Scholarship.

A proposal from a panel of state lawmakers would reduce the lottery scholarship awards by 50 percent for students who do not meet both standardized testing and high school grade requirements.

Right now, students can get a scholarship worth $4,000 for each of four years if they either earn a 3.0 grade point average in high school or score a 21 on their ACT college entrance exam.

Students who attend a four-year institution and meet one of the criteria would get a two-year award amount, under the plan.

Those who meet one of the criteria and retain the award through year two would be eligible for a full award in year three.

The plan, which doesn’t apply to students attending community colleges, is estimated to generate about $13 million in savings the first year and $17 million each year thereafter.

But opponents of the plan say it’s unnecessary because the lottery scholarship program currently has nearly $400 million in reserves and tickets for the Tennessee Lottery’s popular Powerball game have increased by a dollar, which will likely

mean additional revenue for the future.

“We just don’t need to go across the board slashing it and putting a lot of kids off it,” said House Democratic Caucus Chairman Mike Turner of Nashville. “I think the lottery is pretty sound.”

Lottery officials announced strong second-quarter results last week that raised $78.2 million for state education programs, an increase of almost $5.8 million over the same quarter last year. Gross sales for December — $114.2 million — were the highest of any December since the lottery’s inception in 2004, officials said.

“The lottery’s mission is to raise the most dollars as possible, as responsibly as possible, to fund the designated education programs,” Rebecca Hargrove, president and CEO of the Tennessee Lottery, told The Associated Press.

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Seniors Paige Berry, Lauren Lee, Jacob Schneider, Tommi Sharpe and junior Emily Hennen, all graphic design students, make sock puppets in the Art & Architecture Building on Friday, Jan. 20. The puppet-making was part of the theme “TWO,” part of the Charette that kicks off the semester for design students.

There were about 65,000 soldiers in the Army of Tennessee when Hood assumed command in July. On January 1, a generous assessment would count 18,000 men in the army, which was no longer a viable fighting force.

1865 — Confederate General Hood removed from command On this day in 1865, Confederate General John Bell Hood is officially removed as commander of the Army of Tennessee. He had requested the removal a few weeks before; the action closed a bleak chapter in the history of the Army of Tennessee.

A Kentucky native, Hood attended West Point and graduated in 1853. He served in the frontier army until the outbreak of the Civil War. Hood resigned his commission and became a colonel commanding the 4th Texas Infantry. Hood’s unit was sent to the Army of Northern Virginia, and fought during the Peninsular Campaign of 1862. Hood, now a brigadier general, built a reputation as an aggressive field commander. He distinguished himself during the Seven Days Battles in June 1862, and was given command of a division. His counterattack at the Battle of Antietam in Maryland in September 1862 may have saved Robert E. Lee's army from total destruction.

After being wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in July 1863, Hood was transferred to the Army of Tennessee. He was soon wounded again, losing a leg at Chickamauga in September. Hood was promoted to corps commander for the Atlanta campaign of 1864, and was elevated to commander of the army upon the removal of Joseph Johnston in July. Over the next five months, Hood presided over the near destruction of that great Confederate army. He unsuccessfully attacked Union General William T. Sherman’s army three times near Atlanta, relinquished the city after a month-long siege, then took his army back to Tennessee in the fall to draw Sherman away from the Deep South. Sherman dispatched part of his army to Tennessee, and Hood lost two battles at Franklin and Nashville in November and December 1864.

1930 — Derek Walcott is born On this day, poet and playwright Derek Walcott is born in St. Lucia, in the Carribbean.

Walcott will win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992.

Walcott’s family descended from slaves in the West Indies, and the legacy of slavery is a common theme in his work. Both his parents were schoolteachers and encouraged a love of reading in their three children. When Walcott’s father died, his mother raised the family on her own. Walcott knew early on he wanted to be a writer: Hisa first book of poems was published when he was only 18. He continued writing and began teaching as well. Deeply interested in theater as well as poetry, he received a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation in 1957, which allowed him to study with a prominent director in New York for two years. In New York, Walcott founded the Trinidad Theater Workshop.

A prolific poet, Walcott published In a Green Night: Poems 1948-1960 in 1962, Selected Poems in 1964, The Castaway in 1965, and The Gulf in 1969. His lush style explores multicultural tensions and questions of identity. Meanwhile, he continued his work in the theater, with plays like Ti-Jean and His Brothers (produced in 1958), Dream on Monkey Mountain (produced 1967), and Pantomime (produced 1978). He wrote more than 30 plays while continuing to publish poetry collections regularly. His book-length poem Omeros, published in 1990, evokes Homer's Odyssey in the environment of the Caribbean. Walcott was the first Caribbean writer to win the Nobel Prize.

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

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Monday, January 23, 2012

Romney accused of alienating Hispanic voters The Associated Press MIAMI — Mitt Romney’s promise to veto a measure that would create a path to citizenship for some illegal immigrants threatens to turn off some Hispanic voters, whose support could be critical in a general election match-up against President Barack Obama.

The issue is gaining prominence as the Republican frontrunner heads toward the Jan. 31 primary in Florida, even though most of the state’s Hispanics are Puerto Rican or CubanAmerican and, thus, aren’t affected by U.S. immigration law, nor view it as a priority. Still, it’s a state where 13 percent of registered voters are Hispanic, where the nation’s largest Spanish-language TV networks are based and where the nation's thirdlargest number of illegal immigrants live — intensifying the focus on Romney’s position.

“Latino voters, like all voters in this country, are interested in America being an opportunity nation,” Romney said Monday night during a debate in South Carolina, when asked if his promise to veto the so-called DREAM Act was alienating voters. “In my view, as long as we communicate to the people of all backgrounds in this country that it can be better, and that America is a land of opportunity, we will get those votes.”

Maybe not.

His veto promise — first made

in the days before the Iowa caucuses — has hit a nerve with prominent Hispanics, and some Republicans worry that the position will turn off the growing number of Latino voters in swing-voting states, particularly in the west, who are now on the fence after backing Obama in 2008. These Republicans suggest that Romney was trying to curry favor with hardline Republican primary voters at the expense of Hispanics whose support he would need come the fall.

“If Romney’s the nominee, he’s going to have to come to the center and make some decisions about how to resolve that issue,” said Republican Herman Echevarría, a Cuban-American who is the chief executive of a Miami-based bilingual advertising agency and a longtime local political player. “He’s trying to be a conservative candidate. And if you don't become a conservative candidate, you cannot be the candidate of the Republicans. But you cannot be elected president just as a conservative candidate.”

Already, there are signs of backlash.

For Colombia native Ana Rodriguez, a Miami-based graphic designer who received political asylum and will become a U.S. citizen this year, Romney’s comments are precisely what motivated her to vote — against him.

“Because of what I went through,” Rodriguez said, “I want more people (elected) who are interested in supporting immi-

KOREA continued from Page 1 Whitney Bowen, junior in English and an avid fan of Korean film, culture and TV drama, has been teaching herself Korean.

“If it’s university-backed, that means it’s safe, and I would do it,” Bowen said.

Angelisa Martin, an undecided freshman, shared Bowen’s opinion.

“I believe if I knew more about the program and had the opportunity, I would

grants and want a more equal and fair system of immigration.”

Florida DREAM Act activists, who have been among the most visible in the nation, also are promising to keep the heat on Romney as his campaign comes to the state.

And last week, at El Tropical restaurant in Miami, Florida Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, who has endorsed Romney, told a group of mostly Cuban-American GOP primary voters that the former Massachusetts governor was the only candidate who could fix the economy and protect U.S. security interests. Then, a young Colombian immigrant stepped forward and asked Diaz-Balart, who has championed immigrants’ rights including the DREAM Act, how the congressman could support Romney.

“You have been such a friend to us, I just don’t understand,” said Juan Rodriguez, a student at Florida International University who was among a half-dozen students who walked from Miami to Washington in the winter to raise awareness of the legislation.

The exchange was caught on tape by several Spanish-language media outlets that reach viewers around the world.

Romney has arguably the toughest immigration position of any of the Republican candidates. Newt Gingrich would give legal status to illegal immigrants who have deep roots in the U.S. and lived otherwise lawfully.

love the chance to participate,” Martin said.

The program not only involves a formal education, but also the informal. Program initiators believe UT would diversify, and could provide a chance for students unable to travel halfway across the globe to gain a better sense of cultural competency. As South Korea rises in the world of business, among other areas, through mediums of both manufacturing technology and the auto industry, the addition of

MINISTRY continued from Page 1 Unthank said one of the main goals and essential elements of campus ministries is “connectedness.”

“Students tend to be more isolated and so campus ministries provide opportunities for students to meet other students — sometimes of like faith, sometimes not,” Unthank said.

Brady Evans is a junior at UT and attends the Navigators campus ministry regularly. He points to the fact that those involved in campus ministry should be of the same mind and one accord.

“We should really rejoice with other cam-

The Daily Beacon • 3 pus ministries and go looking for different students or be thinking of different ways to reach more people,” Evans said. “Getting annoyed that a student chose to go to a different ministry is just foolishness. It blurs your vision of what you actually want to be happening on your campus.”

Though the ministries do not share all the same doctrinal views, there certainly is a sense of unity and camaraderie within the organizations.

“At the end of the day, I think we are all just happy that any student is connected to a body of believers and is hearing the Gospel through that,” Duke said.

As UT’s diversity ad says, “One campus.

One Community. Celebrate the differences.”

• Photo courtesy of Dr. Fritz G. Polite

Jimmy Cheek meets with students and faculty advisers after signing a research exchange agreement on Wednesday, Jan. 11. The agreement with South Korean Dong-A University will offer a wide range of classes from engineering and sciences to sports and language education. these programs will be another resource for UT students.

Once finalized, this agreement will add to the three current programs available to students to travel to South Korea through the study abroad office. In addition, this program could add a positive factor in the

university’s initiative to become one of the top 25 public research institutions in the nation, as it would help the university further meet criteria for global outreach programming. Fruitful results have blossomed from research and communication, but the conversation continues.

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SOPA/PIPA attacks basic freedoms This past week, I awoke to find my entire generation looking down the barrel of its government’s pistol.

With little notice, myself and everyone I grew up with were simultaneously on the brink of having the culture we so fervently adhere to destroyed as recompense for our grievous crimes. What had we done to bring about such judiciously malicious treatment? We watched videos, took pictures, listened to music and shared our lives with each other.

They call it SOPA/PIPA, and it is the most direct action taken against our generation and the way of life that I and many others have ever had the misfortune to endure. The list of actions contained within this legislation is well known and easily accessible for anyone with computer access, but not for long. Soon, the fount of knowledge that has reinvented how we communicate will go dark forever.

The ramifications of this legislation are monumental in scope. But for now, those ramifications are easily discovered on the Internet. So, what I’d like to say is not concerned with ramification, but with motive.

Myself and many others have read this legislation and concluded with the simplest of questions — why?

Why this, why now, what are they trying to achieve?

This line of questions has led me down a path of seemingly endless contradictions and confounded conclusions. So, now, here, I’d like to propose that perhaps I and others are asking the wrong questions or at the least asking the right questions and coming to the wrong conclusions.

Who can blame us for that really? The media already have a stranglehold on television, radio and print. It’s no surprise we’d ask questions that don’t lead us toward real answers since those same questions are the ones being asked by the controlled media. The Internet is the last vestige of accurate information on the planet.

It’s also the last stronghold of democracy since, by now I’d hope, the majority of the youth understands at least subconsciously that they receive vastly more freedom behind a monitor than they ever would beneath a flag.

And it is within this line of reasoning that I began to understand the true cause of SOPA/PIPA. Consider what we know; in the past year, the world simultaneously coordinated a global protest movement that toppled and threatened several government and

economic systems. Consider that culture is now radically defined by all who participate within it, not merely those at the top of some hierarchy. Consider that under the online paradigm anyone who has the desire to speak has an audience to listen and that this requires no representative or vote or constituency.

Consider that you are free because this glorious capitalist system of ours has benefited parties which understand that your freedom is worth more to you than almost anything else, including currency.

And, now consider how all of this might look if you were, say, a career senator or member of Congress.

How might the free flow of information, instantaneous communication, populaces that are vastly more technologically advanced than any other generation in the history of civilization, and spontaneous global protests look to you if your primary concern was the maintaining of your power? Wouldn’t you do everything you could to stop it?

The simple answer is that unless you had retained your moral compass, a feat which for politicians seems tantamount to back-stroking the Atlantic, you would do all of this and more. You would never stop until the only truly threatening culture out there was slowly dismantled, made irrelevant or all-together destroyed.

This is what SOPA/PIPA is — the most recent and arrogant attempt this government has made against our generation. This is their attempt at control, at legislating that which should not be legislated. It’s not a way for companies to make back some profit because they won’t; the companies behind this will be forever despised, and even if they see a short boost in revenue, the bitterness we will all feel when Wikipedia, Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. collapse will not be soon healed.

This is not a way to stop piracy. Pirates will do what they do best: figure out a new way. This is the dismantling of your culture, the striking down of your way of thinking, the damning of those things which you find valuable so that they, those in power, can keep themselves in power and so that you and I will have less of it than they’d like us to have. Some democracy, huh?

— Joel Higgins is a senior in English. He can be reached at jhiggin6@utk.edu.

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Curtail Congress’ hypocrisy this spring Off the Deep End by

Derek Mullins Spring semesters at UT have a few constants.

Invariably discussions of NCAA Tournament brackets will grow rampant across campus in March, alarmingly insane fundamentalist protesters will make their return whenever the weather once again favors their escapades, and the Big Orange Farce that is the Student Government Association will hold their annual Panhellenic Popularity Games when spring is in full throat. Fret not, loyal “Deep End” readers, for even if you are not a fan of casual sports gambling, public demonstrations by repulsive loons, or woeful insults to the democratic process, there is something which we can all anticipate with excitement and optimism: Spring Break.

Now, like many, you may be contemplating traveling during your week off from your school. Florida, South Carolina, Mexico and various other regions are perennial favorites for academics looking for a break from the doldrums of research, exams and lectures.

While these locales are fantastic choices, I feel it is my duty to alert you of a destination where a national custom is being put on full public display like never before. If you are looking for a place to go, I urge you to head to Washington, D.C. Why D.C., you ask? Well, up in our nation’s capital, members of the federal government — specifically Congress — have decided to come out of the back rooms where their money-grabbing is normally done and put their cash-hungry selves on public display.

Members of our nation’s legislative branch are shedding their suits, ties and tasteful pantsuits; pulling on their fishnet stockings; putting on heavy makeup; and taking their positions on every street corner that can be seen from East Capitol Street. That’s right, certain congresspersons and senators have taken up the world’s oldest profession: prostitution.

Now before the more eager and lustful of you go draining your bank accounts and buying your plane tickets in hopes of heading up to D.C. to get some action, I am not insinuating that members of Congress are selling themselves in search of cheap sex. After

all, that’s why they have pages and interns. Instead, they are more or less openly and notoriously selling something much more important when it comes to public policy: their votes.

If you follow national politics to any degree, you no doubt already know that lobbyists representing wealthy special interests have become firmly entrenched in the halls of Capitol Hill and the pockets of members of Congress. They have secured a direct line to those who hold legislative power in this country and assured that any law that would stand a chance of helping the many will invariably stand the most arduous of challenges if it could have an even infinitesimal impact on the bottom lines of corporate America. Still, the way in which many supporters of the recently shelved Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act bills displayed their purchased support for these two moronically corrupt and constitutionally unsound laws is nothing short of disgraceful.

What is even more alarming than the fact that these bills almost gained serious traction is the fact that they knew no partisan bounds. Politicians on both sides of the aisle in both houses took up the cause. Even some of the most revered congressmen and women and senators declared or indicated their support for these bills that would have instituted limitations on the free flow of ideas and speech on the Internet all in the name of making sure that some tawdry pop song cannot be illegally downloaded by a 12-year-old girl in Topeka, Kan. Seriously, folks, we almost had a law imposed on us that would have made it illegal for you to post that semi-humorous video of your pet reacting to the playing of a song or television show because the company who owns the rights to that media playing in the background does not receive royalties for their product. How ridiculous.

Every time some sex scandal breaks in Washington, we always tend to hear members of the opposing political party come out and talk about how people in this nation rightfully hold elected leaders to a higher moral standard and how those officials need to learn to show personal restraint. Instead of worrying about what Sen. Joe Blow does in the bedroom of his D.C. apartment when his wife is not around, we need to be more concerned with how our legislators are hooking their votes out to the highest bidder at the cost of securing the constitution they swore to support and defend.

— Derek Mullins is a senior in political science.

He can be reached at dmullin5@utk.edu.

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As one of the most disappointing college football seasons in 26 years comes to a close, one can’t help but look forward to next year. “We’ll get ’em next year boys!” seems to be a perennially common sentiment in Knoxville around the time of winter break.

The question is — when we say “We’ll get ’em next year,” to whom are we referring? With the view of the SEC’s landscape set to be significantly different as the 2012-2013 season is kicked off — not just for football, but basketball and other SEC sports, as well — there is a question as to who the Vols will be playing.

The reason for this change is the addition of two new schools to conference play. The much publicized and oft-debated move of Missouri and Texas A&M from the Big 12 to the SEC has been made official, and their play in the conference begins next season.

These moves bring with them a number of benefits — more money for the conference from revenues generated from the huge television markets of Houston and St. Louis, previously untapped by the SEC. The potential forging of new rivalries or a new spark to an old rivalry, such as Arkansas vs. Texas A&M, is another benefit to these moves. Furthermore, the moves likely stemmed from a desire to not fall behind, as the former Pac-10 increased to 12 and was rumored to balloon to 16, and the Big Ten also took the field with 12 teams.

From a business point of view, this move is almost flawless.

Therein lies the problem. Collegiate athletics have become too focused on big business and big money at the expense of those actually playing the game. I’m not talking about players accepting illegal donations from boosters, I’m talking about the SEC executives in Washington, D.C., as well as those in charge of every university in the conference.

Amid this money-grubbing nonsense are the people actually playing the game — the “student”-athletes, so to speak. With the way things are heading right now, that moniker rings less and less true every day. College athletics in the SEC are already a massive time commitment, likely leaving very little time to devote solely to studies when a necessary amount of time is allocated to socializing.

This move for conference realignment will only

exacerbate this trend. The inclusion of teams that can hardly be called southeastern means elevated travel times for the student-athlete. Texas A&M and Missouri have both broken the 1,000-mile radius of the SEC. Say Florida plays at Missouri next year, hypothetically. According to Google Maps, a quick jaunt of 1,081 miles up I-75 and nearly 18 hours of their time would get them there. Head coach — “Video time is canceled this week, but we’ve posted the footage to the Internet so you can download it and get all your scouting done on the way to the Midwest!” Not to mention that if the Gamecocks travel to College Station to take on the Aggies, their travel budget will be gasping for air following the 1,069-mile, 18-hour journey.

It’s not solely the SEC that is facing the expansion of conference not just in numbers, but in distance; Colorado and Utah could hardly be considered “Pacific.” Likewise, West Virginia couldn’t be much farther from the rest of the Big 12. Which begs the question: Is the NCAA becoming too business-like for amateur competition? It makes sense for NFL teams to travel across the country to play — it is their job, which they are being handsomely paid for (not to mention the fact that many of the working class travel more often for less pay).

Likewise, are college sports, and especially those in charge of them, becoming too powerful? Although this issue is ticky-tacky and carries no real weight when compared to other recent scandals in college sports, they share an underlying problem — the big bosses take an “ends justify the means” approach, thereby causing much harm along the way. Whether it is covering up sexual molestation in order to maintain their names along with the honor of the institution or making good financial decisions at the expense of the ones actually playing the game, it has become apparent that these men may be wielding too much power these days.

Where professional sports organizations, such as the NBA, have the power to unionize and argue against the will and might of the front office, these “mere students” do not. Hopefully, the recent actions of Syracuse, The Citadel and Penn State have opened up the eyes of the general public. I’m not asking for a “pay for play” scheme, such as the one proposed by Sports Illustrated in their Nov. 7, 2011 issue. Instead, let’s honor the tradition of college sports, where the student-athlete is foremost in importance and the executives and coaches do what is in their players’ best interest. “We’ll get ’em next year” doesn’t work here — change is necessary immediately. The head coaches and administrators of our nation’s universities need to be held accountable for their actions.

— Ashton Smith is a sophomore in communications.

He can be reached at smit192@utk.edu.

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Monday, January 23, 2012

Fiction: The Dispensing of Scars

by Olivia Cooper When Lindsay scaled Mr. Petersen’s garage, we were all a bit taken aback. It had a lattice, so it wasn’t exactly a spectacular feat of talent, but we were four feet tall and easily impressed. Her hand slapped the top of the roof and her muddy Keds squeaked onto the aluminum. Cheers erupted from the crowd, and Lindsay started to showboat with jumping jacks and giggles.

The front door of the house creaked open, and Mr. Petersen came out with a pellet gun aimed at us. He hesitated when he saw that we were just kids but quickly aimed the rifle at Lindsay and beckoned her down. Lindsay whimpered and crouched down to find a foothold, but those shoes betrayed her and she rolled off the edge and landed face down in the garden pebbles. We scattered, as Mr. Petersen stood helpless with the rifle.

We saw Lindsay the following week in school with stitches underneath her right eye where a glass shard that missed the trash can had found her face. It was the neck of an airplane bottle of vodka and left her with a scar that looked exactly like a tear. The kids, who had cheered her on, now threw rocks and tripped her in the hall to make her cry just to see if it would follow the scar on her face. Kids don’t understand their abuses, but Lindsay was learning her first lesson.

Once Lindsay figured out that they just wanted to see her cry, she learned to hold back and never did. They moved on to the next disfigured kid, and Lindsay was left alone.

Unfortunately, I don’t know the end of Lindsay’s story. She moved away at the end of that school year. I thought of Lindsay though, as I sat at my kitchen table absentmindedly stirring a cup of soda, ridding it of the fizz.

The microwave said it was 12 a.m., and any minute my girlfriend would walk through the door after a long night at the shelter. We had been together for four years now, and all I heard about was the lack of an engagement ring and that all her other friends had one, along with some kids they popped out. I tried to imagine our hybrids slipping and sliding on the kitchen floor when she plopped her purse

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on the counter and sighed.

“You bought the store-brand soda?” she asked. Of course I did, it’s cheaper. “I thought once you got this job that you’d at least splurge on the good stuff.”

“Tastes the same,” I informed her.

“Well, not to me, you jerk,” she told me then flopped into the chair, like it will be my fault she dies of thirst. She smacked her lips together, to make sure I knew they were dry.

“I think you should move out.” I told her.

This was it. She’s either getting angry or sad.

“I’m not. I’ve worked too hard to leave now.

I pay rent here too,” she replied.

“Your parents pay rent,” I said. “You volunteer at a homeless shelter instead of getting a job.”

She doesn’t fight me there. We’ve had that argument more times than I care to admit.

“So, you’re breaking up with me?” she asked. Who are you after now?”

I don’t answer. There’s nobody, but it seems difficult to tell people that you just don’t like them anymore, so I let her think something better came along. She goes off about how I’m not a good boyfriend, since we don’t go to movies or restaurants or even watch Disney films together. I can’t be cruel to her and tell her that isn’t the sole basis of a relationship because I’m sure there will be some guy out there who has studied the matter and will be there to fulfill all those needs.

No, I just go back to Lindsay. I have no concern about tracking her down, but I still just wonder what she is doing now. Did people at her new school make fun of the tear drop?

How did our cruelty affect her? I used to think she’d turn into one of those people who learn to never show pain and funnel it all into music or writing, but now I think she would have used those cruelties to her advantage. She learned that other kids would be cruel and to avoid them, cultivating herself at an early age to be whoever she wanted to be, not an image of everyone else but just herself. I like to think that is what happens to people when faced with cruelty.

Sundance success redeems West Memphis Three West Memphis Three — never got as Arkansas teenagers when they were convicted in 1994.

“We went into this case believing that they didn’t do it, and the facts and the evidence we came out with at the end completely supported that,” Jackson said in an interview. “So is the documentary sort of providing the prosecution’s point of view? No, it’s not. We’re not interested in that. They had their go back in 1994. ... The documentary, it’s the case against the state, really.”

The case was a shocker in the rural Arkansas community where 8-year-old Cub Scouts Michael Moore, Steve Branch and Christopher Byers were slain in 1993. Found naked and hogtied, two of the boys drowned in a drainage ditch, while the third bled to death, his genitals mutilated, evidence prosecutors used to claim the children were killed in a satanic ritual.

The defendants were convicted based in part on a confession Misskelley later recanted.

Misskelley and Baldwin were sentenced to life in prison, while Echols was condemned to death and once came within weeks of execution.

The Associated Press PARK CITY, Utah — Peter Jackson believes Damien Echols would be dead now if not for a 1996 documentary that cast doubt on the man’s guilt in three child murders.

And Amy Berg, Jackson’s colleague on the Sundance Film Festival premiere “West of Memphis,” believes former Death Row inmate Echols and two other men might still be in prison if not for the independent investigation launched by “The Lord of the Rings” filmmaker and his wife, Fran Walsh.

There’s no better testament at Sundance to the power of art and artists than “West of Memphis,” which premiered Friday night at Robert Redford’s independent-film showcase.

Sundance films often come from mavericks who challenge the establishment. “West of Memphis” is a tale of artists not only challenging the system, but also beating it.

Jackson, Walsh and Berg said “West of Memphis” amounts to the fair trial Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley — known as the

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Monday, January 23, 2012

Nintendo releases new spins on old franchises over winter break Chris Flowers Staff Writer With the holiday release season behind us and little to look forward to until March, I’ll be working my way through the stack of major releases I didn’t get to last year. I’ll cover the major console releases such as “Batman: Arkham City,” “Uncharted 3,” and “Saints Row the Third” in the coming weeks, but this week I’ll focus on the system I unexpectedly found myself playing the most often.

Though I barely touched my 3DS from launch day to December, I killed the battery on it at least a dozen times over the break.

Nintendo has made up for the system’s weak launch with quality releases that aren’t just 3D remakes of past hits.

“Super Mario 3D Land” is the killer app the 3DS should have launched alongside. “3D Land” provides a unique take on the Mario platformer that has appeal for newcomers and those who grew up squashing goombas. The game is structured like the “New Super Mario Brothers” series. Levels are divided into worlds, and toad houses are scattered around to provide the occasional power-up. Like those games, each level contains three giant gold coins that are used to unlock bonus levels.

The gameplay of “Super Mario 3D Land” blends the fast-paced linear levels of 2D Mario games with the 3D environments and controls of the 3D games. For the first few hours this blend was frustrating to me as the platforming required more twitch and precision than “Super Mario 64” or “Super Mario Galaxy.”

The imprecision added by the third dimension makes the game much more difficult than either of the “New Super Mario Brothers” games, but after a few hours I came around on

the 3D. Although I still occasionally ran off the edges of platforms because I didn’t have a grasp on their depth, the scope and variety in the levels allowed by the third dimension made up for the occasional irritation. Even with the increased difficulty, by the time I got to the eighth world and sent Bowser into the lava I had over 100 extra lives.

Completing the first eight worlds unlocks a fresh eight that are significantly more difficult. These new levels saw my pool of extra lives dwindle into the single digits. New elements are introduced in these levels, such as an evil shadow Mario chasing you through the entire level or having a 30-second timer to start off that you can only increase by killing enemies. The levels that start you with 30 seconds were some of the most challenging levels of any Mario game, period. They took on a racing game feel and reminded me of something like “Mirror’s Edge.” “Super Mario 3D Land” also presents the best example for why the stereoscopic 3D effect of the 3DS matters.

It actually makes the game easier due to better depth perception, and some of the game’s puzzles hinge on its application.

The game should easily keep 3DS owners occupied until upcoming releases like “Luigi’s Mansion 2.” Unlocking the final bonus level requires collecting every golden coin, beating every level as Mario and Luigi, and landing on top of each level’s flag pole. Once all that work is complete your reward is the single most difficult level Nintendo has ever put in a Mario game. It is also the longest level in the game and has no checkpoints. I still haven’t beaten it.

Nintendo’s other major holiday release was the bluntly titled “Mario Kart 7.” Every Nintendo system needs its “Mario Kart” and as the “Mario Kart” games go this is a good, but rather rote, entry. There are four cups worth of new tracks and four cups worth of old tracks, as always. The selection of old tracks is decent (Waluigi Pinball being the highlight), but for the most part the new tracks are significantly more fun to race on and it made me wish Nintendo would take more time with entries into this franchise to add more than what we’ve come to expect. The game still lacks a meaningful single-player mode. The only thing to do solo is race through the eight cups, which can be finished in a couple of hours. As far as track selection and graphics go this is probably the best “Mario Kart” game to date, but I can only really recommend it if you have several friends with 3DSs willing to race.

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Hunter Reese lines up a shot during a match against Memphis on Friday, Jan. 19.

The Vols dropped a close 4-3 match against Memphis, recovering during the second match of the day against Eastern Kentucky, 6-1.

Jamaican reggae producer dies from gunshot wound The Associated Press KINGSTON, Jamaica — Winston Riley, an innovative reggae musician and producer, has died of complications from a gunshot wound to the head.

He was 65.

Riley died Thursday at University Hospital of the West Indies, where he had been a patient since November, when he was shot at his house in an upscale neighborhood in the capital of Kingston, his son Kurt Riley said Friday.

Riley also had been shot in August and was stabbed in September last year. His record store in Kingston’s downtown business district also was burned down several years ago. Police have said they know of no motives and have not arrested anyone.

Kurt Riley told the Jamaica Observer newspaper that the family did not know what motivated the attacks.

“Unfortunately, Daddy didn’t wake up so we could talk to him to find out if there was something he was not telling us,” he was quoted as saying. “He was a straightforward man who was allergic to hypocrisy.”

As a teenager, Riley founded an influential harmony group, The Techniques, which recorded for pioneer producer Arthur “Duke” Reid. Riley also toured with Byron Lee and later gained fame for producing songs such as “Double Barrel” by Dave Barker and Ansell Collins.

He worked with musicians including Gregory Isaacs, Johnny Osbourne, Sister Nancy and Buju Banton.

Musicologist Kingsley Goodison, who knew Riley for more than 40 years, said he was one of the people responsible for introducing reggae to England.

“Winston Riley is an unsung hero,” he said. “He was one of the hardest workers in the business.”

Riley also is credited with creating the stalag rhythm, which later influenced hip-hop and dancehall. Unlike his contemporaries who shunned dancehall music, Riley embraced contemporary reggae and had several big hits during the 1980s.

One of his biggest productions was singer Tenor Saw’s “Ring The Alarm”, which has been sampled by several hip-hop artists.

Riley is survived by several children and grandchildren.

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Stokes powers Vols past UConn, 60-57 Clay Seal Assistant Sports Editor If it hadn’t happened yet, Jarnell Stokes has his official arrival at Tennessee.

Behind the freshman’s first career double-double, the Vols upset No. 13 Connecticut 60-57 Saturday at Thompson-Boling Arena.

“I just kept pushing that I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me,” Stokes said.

“I just kept thinking that throughout the game. I really believe that, and I prayed.”

Stokes finished with 16 points and 12 rebounds to lead UT (9-10, 1-3 SEC) to its second upset over a ranked opponent in two weeks. Cameron Tatum was Tennessee’s other double-digit scorer with 15.

It was Stokes’ first start in just his third game after graduating from high school in December and enrolling this semester. The 18-year-old has only practiced with the team since Jan. 9.

“I think any player would have butterflies before the game,” Stokes said. “I think it was a little more special for me because coming out of high school, from just working out by yourself to being in front of 20,000, that’s different. That definitely gave me more adrenaline.”

Junior Jeronne Maymon (eight points, seven rebounds) wasn’t surprised at all with Stokes’ rise.

“I see him every day in practice. We talk a lot, so I know what he’s capable of,” Maymon said. “He’s a go-getter. He’s exactly what we need on this team.”

UConn (14-5) has now lost four of its last six.

Tennessee improved to 4-1 all time at ThompsonBoling against defending national champions.

The game would have been in the bag if the Vols hadn’t struggled from the free-throw line — they shot 10-for-21. Stokes was 4-of-9. The Vols did, however, hit 4-of-6 free throws in the final 30 seconds.

The Vols boasted another stout defensive effort, holding UConn 15 points under its season average, only allowing the Huskies to shoot just 36.4 percent

from the floor. It was just the 12th time in the past 163 games UConn has been held below 60 points.

“From a playing standpoint, I thought we did a good job defensively again,” UT coach Cuonzo Martin said. “We’ve gotten a lot better in that area and are taking pride in defending, holding a team like that with really good guards and physical bigs.

“This is the way Tennessee will defend as long as I’m a part of this program.”

Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun, who recruited Martin to play for him at UConn before he ended up at Purdue, was also impressed with the Vols defense and hustle.

“You can win a lot of games that way,” he said.

“He (Martin) obviously has something going. They are a young team. Stokes was terrific today. Their team, though, was terrific. Their team stayed together, they ran their stuff and they were much more physical than we were in a game that was equally officiated.”

Sophomore Jeremy Lamb led all scorers with 23 points for the Huskies. Shabazz Napier added 18 points. UConn’s bench was held to zero points.

UT’s scored 15.

A 3-pointer from Tatum just over a minute into the second half gave UT a 28-27 lead, which proved to be permanent. However, after starting the half on a 9-0 run, the Vols went on a six-minute scoring drought, making it a 34-33 at the 10:19 mark.

Tennessee led by as much as 10 in the final four minutes, but two different times in the final 30 seconds Napier 3-pointers made it a two-point game.

There were six lead changes in the first half.

Neither team led by more than five points. UConn closed the half on a 9-4 run to take a 27-25 lead.

Saturday was the “We Back Pat” game in honor of Tennessee women’s basketball coach Pat Summitt, who announced her diagnosis of earlyonset dementia in August. A check was presented to the Pat Summitt Foundation for $55,000. The foundation aims to make grants to non-profit organizations to educate and promote awareness of Alzheimer’s, as well as support research.

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Jarnell Stokes celebrates with Josh Richardson after a basket and foul against Connecticut on Saturday, Jan. 21. Stokes, in his first start at UT, pulled in his first double-double to help lead the Vols over the 13th-ranked Huskies in a 60-57 victory.

Viral video leads to Bama fan’s arrest The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS — An Alabama man was arrested late Thursday in connection with a video appearing to show someone in a University of Alabama jacket abusing an unconscious Louisiana State University fan after Alabama beat LSU for the BCS football championship.

Brian Downing, 32, of Smiths Station, Ala., was booked on charges of sexual battery and obscenity. He was videotaped Jan. 9 “placing his genitals on an LSU fan’s face.

The LSU fan appears to be heavily inebriated and practically unconscious,” a police statement said.

That videotape, the last minute of which shows a man

in a red Alabama jacket simulating a sex act, went viral on the Internet.

Police said sex crimes detectives met Downing at his attorney’s office in New Orleans, where offices arrested him.

Downing looked at the ground as officers escorted him in handcuffs into the jail. Neither he nor the officers answered questions.

Downing’s actions were videotaped about 11:45 p.m.

Jan. 9, at a restaurant on Bourbon Street, police said.

They said LSU and Alabama University campus police helped them collect information and evidence needed to get a warrant for Downing’s arrest.

Downing is a second cousin

of Russell County, Ala., Sheriff Heath Taylor, who earlier Thursday had said Downing was on his way from Alabama to New Orleans to surrender.

Taylor told The Associated Press that he learned from other family members Thursday morning that Downing had been identified as the man shown exposing himself and then simulating a sex act above the head of an apparently unconscious man in an LSU-purple shirt. Taylor said he had not seen the video or asked Downing about the case.

After hearing from his relatives, Taylor said, he called Downing's dad and told him to bring him to the sheriff’s office in Phenix City, Ala. He said he

then called New Orleans police to ask whether they Taylor said he did not speak to Downing.

“I gave his attorney the card with the detective’s name on it and cell number.”

The relationship was first reported by the LedgerEnquirer of Columbus, Ga., which is about nine miles eastnortheast from Phenix City.

Scott Myers, a spokesman for Birmingham, Ala.-based Hibbett Sports Inc., confirmed Thursday that the company fired Downing on Wednesday because of his part in the video.

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Monday, January 23, 2012

Joe Paterno dies after 10 days in hospital The Associated Press STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Happy Valley was perfect for Joe Paterno, a place where “JoePa” knew best, where he not only won more football games than any other major college coach, but won them the right way: with integrity and sportsmanship. A place where character came first, championships second.

Behind it all, however, was an ugly secret that ran counter to everything the revered coach stood for.

Paterno, a sainted figure at Penn State for almost half a century but scarred forever by the child sex abuse scandal that brought his career to a stunning end, died Sunday at age 85.

His death came just over two months after his son Scott announced on Nov. 18 that his father had been diagnosed with a treatable form of lung cancer. The cancer was found during a followup visit for a bronchial illness. A few weeks later, Paterno broke his pelvis after a fall but did not need surgery.

Paterno had been in the hospital since Jan. 13 for observation after what his family called minor complications from his cancer treatments. Not long before that, he conducted his only interview since losing his job, with The Washington Post. Paterno was described as frail then, speaking mostly in a whisper and wearing a wig. The second half of the two-day interview was conducted at his bedside.

His family released a statement Sunday morning to announce his death: “His loss leaves a void in our lives that will never be filled.”

“He died as he lived,” the statement said. “He fought hard until the end, stayed positive, thought only of others and constantly reminded everyone of how blessed his life had been. His ambitions were far reaching, but he never believed he had to leave this Happy Valley to achieve them. He was a man devoted to his family, his university, his players and his community.”

Paterno built a program based on the credo of “Success with

Honor,” and he found both. The man known as “JoePa” won 409 games and took the Nittany Lions to 37 bowl games and two national championships. More than 250 of the players he coached went on to the NFL. “He will go down as the greatest football coach in the history of the game,” Ohio State coach Urban Meyer said after his former team, the Florida Gators, beat Penn State 37-24 in the 2011 Outback Bowl.

Paterno roamed the sidelines for 46 seasons, his thick-rimmed glasses, windbreaker and jet-black sneakers as familiar as the Nittany Lions’ blue and white uniforms.

The reputation he built looked even more impressive because he insisted on keeping graduation rates high while maintaining on-field success.

But in the middle of his 46th season, the legend was shattered.

Paterno was engulfed in a child sex abuse scandal when a former trusted assistant, Jerry Sandusky, was accused of molesting 10 boys over a 15-year span, sometimes in the football building.

Paterno at first said he was fooled. But outrage built quickly when the state’s top cop said the coach hadn’t fulfilled a moral obligation to go to the authorities when a graduate assistant, Mike McQueary, told Paterno he saw Sandusky with a young boy in the showers of the football complex in 2002.

At a preliminary hearing for the school officials, McQueary testified that he had seen Sandusky attacking the child with his hands around the boy’s waist but said he wasn’t 100 percent sure it was intercourse. McQueary described Paterno as shocked and saddened and said the coach told him he’d “done the right thing” by reporting the encounter.

Paterno waited a day before alerting school officials but never went to the police.

“I didn’t know which way to go ... and rather than get in there and make a mistake,” Paterno said in the Post interview.

“You know, (McQueary) didn’t want to get specific,” Paterno said.

“And to be frank with you I don’t know that it would have done any good, because I never heard of, of, rape and a man. So I just did what I thought was best. I talked to people that I thought would be, if there was a problem, that would be following up on it.”

When the scandal erupted in November, Paterno said he would retire following the 2011 season. He also said he was "absolutely devastated" by the abuse case.

“This is a tragedy,” he said. “It is one of the great sorrows of my life. With the benefit of hindsight, I wish I had done more.”

But the university trustees faced a crisis, and in an emergency meeting that night, they fired Paterno, effective immediately.

Graham Spanier, one of the longest-serving university presidents in the nation, also was fired.

Paterno was notified by phone, not in person, a decision that board vice chairman John Surma later regretted, according to Lanny Davis, an attorney retained by the trustees as an adviser.

The university handed the football team to one of Paterno's assistants, Tom Bradley, who said Paterno “will go down in history as one of the greatest men, who maybe most of you know as a great football coach.”

“As the last 61 years have shown, Joe made an incredible impact,” said the statement from the family. “That impact has been felt and appreciated by our family in the form of thousands of letters and well wishes along with countless acts of kindness from people whose lives he touched. It is evident also in the thousands of successful student athletes who have gone on to multiply that impact as they spread out across the country.”

Paterno believed success was not measured entirely on the field.

From his idealistic early days, he had implemented what he called a “grand experiment” — to graduate more players while maintaining success on the field.

Conley leads Grizzlies to sixth straight win The Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Mike Conley’s perfect start sent the Memphis Grizzlies to an easy victory.

Conley hit his first eight shots en route to a season-high 22 points as the Grizzlies won their sixth straight and moved atop the Southwest Division with a 128-95 victory over the Sacramento Kings on Saturday night.

“It was just one of those nights where the lane seemed wide open,” said Conley, who finished 10 of 13 from the field. “All the shots were falling and I had to pick it up for my team, keep us afloat and start us off on a good foot.”

Rudy Gay led the Grizzlies with 23 points, while O.J. Mayo matched Conley’s 22. Marc Gasol had 20 points on 8-of-11 shooting, grabbed 11 rebounds and blocked six shots, while Marreese Speights contributed 12 points and 15 rebounds for Memphis, which set a season high for points and fell one shy of the highest total in the NBA this season.

Miami scored 129 points on New Year’s Day against the Charlotte Bobcats.

Jimmer Fredette led the Kings with a seasonhigh 20 points and six assists, while Donte Greene and DeMarcus Cousins scored 19 apiece. Cousins also had 11 rebounds, and Tyreke Evans had 13 points.

The Grizzlies led by eight at halftime, but opened the second half with a 12-0 run. The Kings, who had their two-game winning streak snapped, trailed by as many as 39 in the fourth quarter.

“We just didn’t have enough,” Kings coach Keith Smart said. “You’ve got a (Memphis) team here, at home, that had the energy necessary to close a team out. We didn’t have enough once we got back into the game to get up over the hump.”

The victory moved the Grizzlies into first place, percentage points ahead of San Antonio and Dallas.

“From my perspective, I’m not even thinking of that,” Memphis coach Lionel Hollins said. “I just think about how we can make the playoffs and how

we can get better than we were last year.”

Conley’s shooting gave Memphis an early 16point lead, as the Grizzlies point guard hit all seven of his shots for 15 first-quarter points. He eventually would hit eight straight and 10 of 11 in the half for all of his 22 points in the game.

Conley’s start opened up plays for the rest of the Memphis players, particularly since Conley is more known for feeding the likes of Gay, Gasol and Mayo.

“When you see your point guard aggressive, it definitely gets everybody else going,” Mayo said.

“That’s definitely not his style. He’s not a point guard who needs to shoot a lot. If anything, we get a little aggravated because he’s not aggressive enough.”

The Memphis lead expanded to 19 early in the second quarter, but the Kings battled back behind Fredette, who scored all 15 of his first-half points in the second period.

That helped the Kings outscore Memphis 39-34 in the quarter as they hit 17 of 26 shots and cut the halftime lead to 68-60.

“We were able to climb back into the game and get it down to eight at halftime,” Fredette said. “We wanted to try and push the tempo and get that lead down.

“When we got it down, I was able to make my shots, make plays and do different things to help us get back in the game. But we lost it from there.”

Memphis again took over at the start of the second half, scoring the first 12 points for an 80-60 lead. The Grizzlies eventually led by 28 in the third period by outscoring the Kings 34-16.

Gasol had 11 in the quarter for Memphis and, by the early stages of the fourth period, the Kings’ reserves were on the floor with Memphis owning a 30-point advantage.

Mayo said after the start, it was important to keep the pressure on the Kings and allow Memphis to carry momentum into an upcoming four-game West Coast road trip next week. But many in the locker room said things are much smoother now than at the start of the season.

• Photo courtesy of Audrey M.

A statue commemorating the coaching great Joe Paterno stands outside the football stadium at Pennsylvania State University. Paterno passed away Sunday, Jan. 22, from complications related to lung cancer, just two months after his firing amid a flurry of allegations.