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LA performer helps launch church Sings on walkway to promote branch Lauren Kittrell News Editor Thursday, former “Glee Project” participant Cameron Mitchell graced the Pedestrian Mall with a performance and a mission. Ignoring the rain, Mitchell played and sang some of his original songs as students passed swiftly by on their way to and from class. Several volunteers from Faith Promise Church stood under and around a small tent joyfully handing out free T-shirts and information about their recent campus church plant. Michael Wallace, UT campus and high school pastor with Faith Promise Church, said the main goal of Mitchell’s visit was to help promote the UT campus Faith Promise Church. “In October we opened a church here on the UT campus,” Wallace said. “We meet back and forth between the Alumni Memorial Building and the Clarence Brown (Theatre). We always meet at 11:30 (a.m.) on Sundays, so we’re still trying to get the word out and let people know that we’re here to help.” Wallace worked with Mitchell at a church in Texas before moving to Tennessee, and invited Mitchell out to help promote the new church plant. Mitchell also performed for Wallace’s high school ministry in a concert on Wednesday night.
“I wanted to come out and sing, and I used to lead worship a lot and he told me that I would have an opportunity to do that,” Mitchell said. “I had an opportunity to do some of my own songs and sing some worship, and I love performing and I wanted to come out and see Michael Wallace and sing for Knoxville.” Wallace said Mitchell’s story is inspiring and something that he wanted Mitchell to have an opportunity to share. After being offered a role on the teen-show, “Glee,” Mitchell turned it down. “Cameron made a great decision to say no to that,” Wallace said. “(He recognized) that the greater importance was to represent his relationship with God in every avenue of his life. His story was one that was really unique, one that we really wanted to help people recognize.” Mitchell was excited to have a chance to share his story again and was quick to say that though he faced some difficulties, the overall experience was something that he would never want to lose. “I was on the ‘Glee Project’ this summer,” Mitchell said. “It started in June and it was a great experience; I really enjoyed it and had a lot of fun. It definitely had some twists and turns and some ups and downs, but I really loved it and it was a great experience.” See MITCHELL on Page 3
Greece solution may not help financial markets The Associated Press
The deal would reduce Greece’s annual interest expense from about 10 billion euros to about 4 billion euros. When the bonds mature, Greece would have to pay its bondholders only 103 billion euros. It is unclear how investors who buy and sell the bonds of other debt-burdened countries, such as Italy, Spain and Portugal, will react. If they drive up borrowing costs for those countries, the debt crisis could get worse. Private investors hold twothirds of Greece’s debt, which is equal to an unsustainable 160 percent of its annual economic output. By restructuring the debt, Greece hopes to make it a more manageable 120 percent by decade’s end. Greece’s public creditors — the International Monetary Fund, the European Union and the European Central Bank — want the government to cut public salaries further to bring the national budget in line. That proposal has been met with resistance by Greek politicians afraid of losing elections this spring. But they also worry Greece will be denied 130 billion euros in bailout money if it can’t cut its deficit. The restructuring of Greece’s private debt could still fall apart. If it does, that could mean trouble in the U.S. markets, which have enjoyed a placid January of steady gains.
NEW YORK — Greece and the investors who bought its bonds have the beginnings of a deal that could avert a disastrous, long-feared Greek default on its debt. But don’t expect a celebration on Wall Street this week. If the deal holds and works, it will help prevent a potential shock to the world banking system. It will also remove one of the biggest threats to the impressive rally in U.S. stocks this year. The problem for investors is that good news — like real improvement in Greece’s longterm finances — is likely to develop in slow motion. Bad news, like a breakdown in the debt talks or a spasm of market fear, would be faster. Punch-in-the-nose fast. “I think they’ll probably be happy, but I don’t really see this accomplishing very much in the long term,” says Michael E. Lewitt, editor of The Credit Strategist, an investor newsletter. “They’re not solving any of these problems,” he says, so if things go wrong, “it’s likely to be a much worse sell-off.” Under the tentative agreement, announced Saturday, investors holding 206 billion euros in Greek bonds, or about $272 billion, would exchange them for bonds with half the face value. The replacement bonds would have a longer maturity and See INVESTORS on Page 3 pay a lower interest rate.
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Students relate to comedy act Alex Pierce Staff Writer Comedians Geoff Keith and Rob O’Reilly teetered toward the less tactful end of the humor spectrum during their performance Friday in the UC Auditorium. About 50 people came for the two-part stand-up show titled “Comedy Night with Geoff Keith and Rob O’Reilly.” O’Reilly opened the show. According to his official website, the Los Angeles native “toured over 100 colleges last year.” Of all the colleges he visited, O’Reilly mentioned UT was one of the largest. O’Reilly said he was confused when he observed “a huge cross next to an adult video store” on his way to Tennessee. The anecdote elicited a chuckle from the audience. “That’s right, the clapping instinct is correct,” O’Reilly quipped after a seemingly random round of applause from the audience.
O’Reilly’s quick and witty comedy style came through in stories told in rapid succession. Each story was vaguely related in theme to the last. His wry humor seemed to bother some audience members, but most ill feelings dissipated as the show continued. “There were a few borderline offensive jokes, but you get those at every comedy show,” Ashley Brown, undecided sophomore, said. “Overall, I enjoyed the show a lot.” Most of O’Reilly’s jokes were accompanied by vivid hand gestures, as O’Reilly is known for being very expressive. After O’Reilly wrapped up his 40-minute performance, Geoff Keith came on stage and introduced himself, saying, “I’m a bit of a scum bag.” His T-shirt that said “Mr. Funny” in bold letters foreshadowed his performance. Although the show started awkwardly with microphone trouble, it quickly regained pace as Keith began performing. He shouted questions to the audience then mocked their lackluster responses.
Keith, however, endeared himself to the audience by telling a number of college-related jokes, such as his confused attitude at his freshman orientation, the ridiculousness of philosophy classes, failing and dropping classes. “The only papers I filled out in college were those little ‘drop class’ forms,” Keith said. The familiar subject matter made Keith the favorite of the crowd. The audience also enjoyed Keith’s closing joke. He described his experience on the MTV reality show “Dating Disasters,” where he played a variety of characters who terrified a blind date with offensive behavior. The comedian performed the skits over 40 times, and therefore had many stories that made the audience cackle. “Comedy Night with Geoff Keith and Rob O’Reilly” was organized by the Campus Entertainment Board, which is a sub-committee of the Office of Student Activities. The show was free for all UT students.
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Sam McElfresh, senior in English and resident assistant in Humes Hall, gets pied in the face during the “Pie your RA in the face day,” on Wednesday, Jan. 25. Students were able to pie their RAs for a dollar per pie, with proceeds going to Habitat for Humanity.
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Read Gainsford, associate professor of piano at Florida State University, performs in the Cox Auditorium of the Alumni Memorial Building during a guest concert on Wednesday, Jan. 25.
1968 — Viet Cong attack U.S. Embassy On this day in 1968, as part of the Tet Offensive, a squad of Viet Cong guerillas attacks the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. The soldiers seized the embassy and held it for six hours until an assault force of U.S. paratroopers landed by helicopter on the building’s roof and routed the Viet Cong. The Tet Offensive was planned as a massive, simultaneous attack on the major cities and provincial capitals of South Vietnam. It was scheduled to take place during Tet, the Vietnamese lunar New Year celebration, which was traditionally a time of decreased fighting. In December 1967, following an attack on the U.S. Marine base at Khe Sanh, 50,000 American troops were sent in to defend the area, thereby weakening U.S. positions elsewhere. This American response played into the Viet Cong’s strategy to clear the way for the surprise Tet Offensive, in which Communist forces attacked Saigon, Hue (the imperial capital) and over 100 other urban areas. The timing and magnitude of the attacks caught the South Vietnamese and American forces off guard, although they quickly recovered and recaptured the occupied areas. Militarily, the Tet Offensive was a disaster for the Communists, who suffered devastating losses. However, while the offensive was a crushing military defeat, the Communists scored a huge psychological victory that would ultimately help them win the war. The graphic images of U.S. casualties suffered during the offensive helped stoke anti-war sentiment among the American people, who had grown tired of the long conflict (active U.S. combat troops had been in Vietnam since 1965; the U.S. first sent in military advisers in 1961). The public was disillusioned by earlier overly optimistic reports of progress in the war and disenchanted with President Lyndon Johnson’s handling of it. Johnson, frustrated with his inability to reach a solution in Vietnam, announced on March 31, 1968, that he would neither seek nor accept the nomination of his party for re-election. General William Westmoreland, commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam, requested an additional 206,000 troops to finish off the weakened enemy forces. Johnson denied Westmoreland’s request and replaced him with General Creighton Abrams. In May 1968, the U.S. and North Vietnamese began peace talks in Paris and reached a formal agreement in January 1973. Fighting between the North and South continued in Vietnam before the war finally ended on April 30, 1975, when Saigon fell to the Communists and the last Americans left Vietnam. 1990 — The McMartin Preschool Trials Los Angeles prosecutors announce that they will retry Raymond Buckey, who was accused of molesting children at the McMartin Preschool in Manhattan Beach, California. The McMartin trials had already taken over six years and cost more than $13.5 million without a single guilty verdict resulting from 208 charges. However, a jury had deadlocked on 13 charges (voting 11-2 for acquittal) against Buckey, and prosecutors, not willing to let the matter drop, decided to retry him on eight of these counts. The McMartin prosecutions represented the height of the hysteria over sexual abuse of children in America. Despite a complete lack of reputable evidence against the teachers and workers at McMartin Preschool, and with every indication that the children had been coerced and manipulated into their testimony, the prosecutors nonetheless proceeded against Ray Buckey for more than six years. “Believe the children” became the mantra of advocates who insisted that children never lied or were mistaken about abuse. The courts made unprecedented changes to criminal procedure to accommodate this mistaken notion. The California Supreme Court ruled that child witnesses were not required to provide details about the time and place of the alleged molestation to support a conviction. The U.S. Supreme Court held that child witnesses could testify outside the courtroom despite the Sixth Amendment’s clear command that a defendant had the right to confront his or her accusers.
Throughout the nation, parents and day-care workers were jailed after false, and often absurd, allegations about child sexual abuse. As this hysteria swept the country, abuse counseling quickly became a cottage industry, attracting often-unqualified people who seemed to find sexual abuse everywhere. Recent research has found that young children are exceptionally easy to manipulate. Even when only subtly suggested, a child will respond with the answers he or she believes a questioner wants to hear. This was abundantly clear in Ray Buckey’s case. In one instance, a girl initially failed to identify Buckey as someone who had harmed her. After an interview with Children’s Institute International, the counseling agency who worked with every child in the case, the girl did pick Buckey as her attacker. It later turned out that Buckey wasn’t even at the school during the time period that the child attended McMartin. Buckey’s retrial went much faster. By July, the jury had acquitted on seven charges and were deadlocked (once again, the majority voting for acquittal) on the other six accusations. The district attorney then finally decided to drop the case. The Buckeys successfully sued the parents of one child for slander in 1991, but they were awarded only $1 in damages. 1995— On this day in 1995, President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico. As the value of the peso hit an all-time low, Clinton sidestepped Congress’ rejection of an earlier $50 billion loan proposal and exercised his executive power. Claiming that he was acting in the national interest and that national security was at stake, he authorized the Treasury Department to issue a loan through the Exchange Stabilization Fund. This was the first time the fund had been used to help stabilize a foreign currency. Clinton justified his decision by arguing that if the peso continued to fall, Mexico’s economy would crash and in turn negatively impact the United States. He warned that an insolvent Mexico might result in an influx of illegal immigration into the U.S., threatening American jobs and border security. Furthermore, he predicted that U.S. exports to Mexico would dwindle, disrupting the U.S. economy. Critics of Clinton’s policy dismissed these gloomy scenarios and resented what they saw as a rescue of Mexico from its own inept financial management and a bailout of Wall Street investment in unreliable Mexican bonds. Republican leaders agreed with conservative Pat Buchanan’s assessment of the loan as “daylight robbery of the nation’s wealth. [It is money] the American taxpayers will never see again.” Other members of Congress complained that Clinton's bypass of the legislature was an abuse of executive power, stressing that decisions that threatened to increase the U.S. budget deficit should remain in the jurisdiction of Congress. The public fear of bailouts was understandable. In 1989, following the widespread failure of deregulated savings and loan companies in 1986, Congress enacted the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act (FIRREA). This act required American taxpayers to contribute to the bailout of the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC). The resulting cost to taxpayers was estimated at $124 billion in 1999. Critics of the loan to Mexico echoed opponents of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which was established by President George H.W. Bush and supported by Clinton. They argued that Clinton’s vision of a global economy would lead to an unacceptable trade deficit as American imports greatly outnumbered exports, widening the gap between economic classes and eliminating U.S. jobs. In subsequent years, Mexico paid off the loan along with $500 million in interest, though its economy was still far from robust. In 1997, Clinton revisited his decision and concluded, “some said we should not get involved, that the money would never be repaid, that Mexico should fend for itself. They were wrong. Today the American people can be proud that we did the right thing by Mexico and the right thing for the United States, and the right thing to protect global prosperity.” — This Day in History is courtesy of History.com.
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INVESTORS continued from Page 1 On paper, it’s hard to see how Greece could take down financial markets in the U.S., the world’s biggest economy, with $15.2 trillion in goods and services churned out every year. Greece’s annual economic output is 220 billion euros. That translates to $285 billion, on par with the economy of Maryland. The U.S. sells $1.6 billion in weapons, medicine and other products to Greece each year, a minuscule 0.07 percent of exports. U.S. banks say Greece on its own poses no danger to them. Unlike European banks, they’re not major lenders to Greek businesses and aren’t saddled with Greek government debt. In its most recent report, JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank in the U.S., said it had just $4.5 billion at risk in Greece, Ireland and Portugal combined. That’s about what the bank makes in revenue in two and a half weeks. Some investors worry that
U.S. banks would struggle to cover the $68 billion in insurance contracts they sold on Greece’s government debt. That’s hardly enough to pull down the banking system. And the banks have offset all but $3.2 billion of those contracts with other contracts. In other words, pocket change. “The direct impact of a Greek default is almost zero,” Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, told CNBC on Thursday. So what’s everybody — well, everybody but Jamie Dimon — worried about? A breakdown in talks could trigger steep losses in stock markets in Europe and the U.S. It could cause borrowing rates for Portugal and Italy to jump, pushing those much larger countries closer to defaults of their own. A Greek default could unleash a host of larger problems. While some are already anticipated, others are likely to blindside even the closest observers, says Nick Colas, Rebecca Vaughan• The Daily Beacon chief market strategist at Members of the UT Dance Team perform during a break in the action at a basketball game against Auburn on ConvergEx Group. Saturday, Jan. 28.
Low birth rate may harm Japan The Associated Press TOKYO — Japan’s population of 128 million will shrink by one-third and seniors will account for 40 percent of people by 2060, placing a greater burden on a smaller working-age population to support the social security and tax systems. The grim estimate of how rapid aging will shrink Japan’s population was released Monday by the Health and Welfare Ministry. In year 2060, Japan will have 87 million people. The number of people 65 or older will nearly double to 40 percent, while the
national work force of people between ages 15 and 65 will shrink to about half of the total population, according to the estimate, made by the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research. The total fertility rate, or the expected number of children born per woman during lifetime, in 2060 is estimated at 1.35, down from 1.39 in 2010 — well below more than 2 needed to keep the country’s population from declining. But the average Japanese will continue to live longer. The average life expectancy for 2060 is projected at 90.93 for women, up from 86.39 in 2010, and 84.19 years for men.
Legislators hope to reduce drug abuse The Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee’s death rate from drug overdoses has nearly tripled since 1999, a trend that state officials are trying to reverse with expanded regulations. Proposals include one from Gov. Bill Haslam that would require doctors and pharmacists to consult a controlled substance database before writing or dispensing such prescriptions. State Sen. Ken Yager, RHarriman, tells The Tennessean that he believes new state regulations will help reduce drug overdose deaths. The Legislature last year passed Yager’s bill that imposed unprecedented regulations on pain management clinics in an effort to crack down on so-called pill mills. The new regulations, which took effect Jan. 1, require pain clinics to register with the Tennessee Department of Health, outlaw cash payments for treatment and require licensed physicians to be present in the clinic at least 20 percent of the time. Through Friday, 147 pain clinics had successfully registered with the Department of Health, the newspaper reported. Applications by 19 other clinics were rejected, either because a doctor did not own the clinic or because the medical director had previously been disciplined for inappropriately prescribing a controlled substance. Meanwhile, Yager is looking to close a loophole that enables patients with pain pill addictions to shop for
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doctors who will give them access to prescriptions such as oxycodone, Vicodin and morphine. The efforts come after a 2010 report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that Tennessee ranked eighth nationally in drug overdose deaths. The death rate for drug overdoses has nearly tripled to 16 deaths per 100,000 people in Tennessee since 1999, according to data from the state Division of Health Statistics. For families, those statistics represent the deaths of loved ones addicted to such drugs as hydrocodone and oxycodone. Brenda Roberts had long feared her son would die from his battle with drugs. “I always thought he’d die in a drug deal gone bad, or that cocaine would take him,” said Roberts, who had watched her son fight a crack addiction for 23 years. On Oct. 11, her darkest premonitions came true when her son Mark Roberts died after an overdose at age 42. But her son didn’t die on a street corner, and it wasn’t from crack. Mark Roberts died on his mother’s couch inside her home after he took drugs prescribed for him by a local pain clinic and given to him at a nearby pharmacy. Brenda Roberts said coping with her son’s death has been more painful because it was medical professionals, not drug dealers, who doled out the narcotics and antidepressants that led to his overdose.
MITCHELL continued from Page 1 Through his experience on the “Glee Project,” Mitchell has been met with decisions and opportunities, both difficult and exciting, that he would never have imagined. “My story with the whole ‘Glee Project’ is that on the show, they had a theme — sexuality — and they asked me to kiss some girls and do some things I wasn’t really comfortable with,” Mitchell said. “So I decided to walk away from the show and it was this huge controversial thing with the creator of ‘Glee’ and everything...
I chose to walk away and since then I have been blessed with some amazing opportunities so it kind of worked out.” Mitchell, who is currently living in Los Angeles and working with a label, said he enjoyed his visit to Knoxville and is looking forward to what the future holds for him. He’s currently working on building his fan-base and keeping up with online media. “I have like 230,000 Twitter followers, I don’t even know, something like that,” Mitchell said. “But, yeah, right now my goal is to get YouTube videos out there. In today’s world that’s kind of bigger than anything. So, just trying to get videos out there, trying to get my name out, write
songs, but at the same time keepin’ it real.” Because of his Christian roots, many people have asked Mitchell if he will pursue a focus in Christian music or if he will continue in the secular realm. Mitchell said that though this is something he has considered, he feels that he will be more effective as a secular Christian artist. “I feel like I’m reaching more people being out in the world than if I were to just make worship songs,” Mitchell said. After a few more questions, Mitchell confessed his real reasons for coming to Knoxville. “I wanted some Cheerwine,” Mitchell said.
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OPINIONS
Letter Editor to the
Give policy discretion back to states Before spouting off how much I agree with the views set forth in “Utilitarianism skews economic thought” (Wednesday, Jan. 23), I hope you’ll indulge me a little trip back in time to middle school social studies. What method of government does America use? In essence we are a democracy, but more specifically we are a democratic republic. So what do these two words mean? First, “democracy”: in Kennedy’s words, “of the people, by the people, and for the people.” Democracy indicates that the voice of every citizen has equal weight in the influence of policy decisions. Secondly, “republic”: a system in which the population elects representatives to act as their voice and influence in running the government. It is most often with this concept that we find the greatest conundrum. Which concern, after all, deserves more consideration: acting in accordance with the peoples’ wishes, or acting in accordance with what is best for the people? The two do not always coincide (Anyone ever heard of King Midas?), and any population represented by one person is bound to have factions within, and sub-factions in the factions, and so on. In short, there is no way a single person can accurately present a unified voice with clear needs and desires when called to assembly, even when that person is acting with purely ethical motives and intentions (a concept that seems beyond the reach of our current Congress). So yes, Ms. Kuykendall, there is absolutely no way that economists and politicians can agree on or even predict
the social utility and cost of any policy decision. The scale of opinion is just too broad. But say the people of America were to rely less on the national government, or even on the state government. Suppose we turned to the basic of basics, the county and municipal governments; what then? Suddenly representation and democracy become much more plausible and practicable. When millions and billions turn into mere hundreds and thousands, the sense of being able to act becomes much stronger; government becomes more manageable. Sure, there will still be division; any place where large groups of people live, there’s bound to be differences of opinion. But negotiating terms and reaching compromise on difficult, tricky or contentious issues becomes an attainable goal rather than an unending cycle of filibusters, vetoes and backstabbing. So as the primaries for the presidential and congressional elections roll around, go ahead and put as much careful thought into your choices as possible. America needs a good president voted in by people who know he or she can get the job done. But don’t forget that these people can never be familiar with your personal and local circumstances, no matter how many polls and surveys they ask you to answer. Your situation can be more easily communicable with the mayor next door, the councilor in your backyard or the county court judge down the street. — Margaret Cross is a sophomore in English and German. She can be reached at mcross9@volmail.utk.edu.
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Scorn replaces decency in public forum C empbel l’s Co r n e r by
Seth Campbell I completely understand that political tensions are high in our country. There has been plenty of proposed legislation during President Barack Obama’s tenure, but much of this legislation has withered and died because of a do-nothing Congress. Congress has increasingly been less productive since the GOP takeover. Regardless of this stalemate and lack of productivity, one would hope that Americans could remain dignified and respectable. Sadly, common decency seems to be struggling lately. Last week, per tradition, the NHL Stanley Cupwinning Boston Bruins visited the White House and had the opportunity to meet President Obama. Anyone who remotely knows hockey is aware that the majority of players are foreign, yet many of these Russian, Canadian and European players were beyond ecstatic to meet the President of the United States. Of the two American-born players on the team, star goalie Tim Thomas opted not to attend. While refusing the invitation is well within his rights, understanding his motives are beyond any logic. Thomas cited that the “government has grown out of control” and his conscience told him not to attend the ceremony. Aside from his idiotic comments taking away recognition from the Boston Bruins franchise and their accomplishment, Thomas undermined our president. There are plenty of people who disagree with President Obama and his policies, yet they still interact with him in a dignified fashion. When President Obama visited Booker T. Washington High School in Memphis to deliver the commencement address, he was accompanied by both of our U.S. Senators while traveling on Air Force One. Both Bob Corker and Lamar Alexander disagree with the president on his policies across the board, but they can still showcase basic decency
as Americans. This common decency is clearly something Thomas lacks. Another recent case of corroded decency is watching President Obama and his interaction with Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer. Gov. Brewer, who has a long track record of disrespectful comments directed towards our president, once again showcased her immaturity by publicly chastising the president by pointing her finger directly in his face. It’s common knowledge that Brewer and Obama don’t agree with most things border-related, but public fits of frustration with our president are never a good idea. Gov. Brewer should give credit to President Obama for securing the border better than his predecessor, yet Brewer is less interested in making progress on the dangerous border more than she wants to gain notoriety for publicly lambasting the president. If Brewer’s intentions were pure, she’d commend the president for progress and continue to work with the Obama administration to further secure our nation’s southern border. While this would be ideal, it appears Gov. Brewer would much rather become famous for waving her finger in President Obama’s face. This loss of decency isn’t a new trend in America. I began to notice the corrosion a few summers ago when the town hall debates became wildly popular. Instead of accomplishing much of anything, these debates just seemed to be senior citizens screaming at elected officials. Since these laughable incidents, the discourse in America’s politics has taken a nosedive, especially when President Obama is in the discussion. Regarding the disrespect Obama routinely receives, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick best echoes how a U.S. president should be treated: “I didn’t think much of President Bush’s policies — two wars on a credit card, prescription drug benefit that we couldn’t afford, deficit out of control — but I always referred to him as ‘Mr. President.’ I stood when he came in the room.” Gov. Patrick knows common decency. We just need more Americans, hockey players and politicians alike, to rediscover this decency. — Seth Campbell is a senior in history. He can be reached at scampb42@utk.edu.
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Everywhere you look, advertisements show beautiful men and women with perfect teeth, bodies, skin and hair. Jean Kilbourne, producer of “Killing Us Softly,” states, “The average American is exposed to over 3,000 ads every single day.” This type of exposure to advertisements can carry a hard effect among young girls starting to develop into young women. Yet, young women are not the only ones who are affected and pressured by advertisements. Rance Crain, former senior editor of “Advertising Age,” said, “Only eight percent of an ad’s message is received by the conscious mind. The rest is worked and reworked deep within the recesses of the brain.” Everyone is being exposed to advertisements where beautiful people with wonderful lives are natural and normal, whether you consciously know it or not. The expectation placed upon women to appear as the models in advertisements, which have been digitally transformed to appear the way they do, is causing a larger number of women to hate their bodies. Because they will never look the way these females do in ads, real women are setting themselves up for failure and an unrealistic image to try to imitate. Even the models themselves do not look the way the pictures are airbrushed and photoshopped. Advertisements are transmitting a message that women will always be ugly unless they buy the particular product. Young girls starting their transformations into womanhood are especially susceptible to these advertisements. With puberty, girls begin to notice others’ bodies, and will strive to look like someone else rather than seeing their own worth. By seeing advertisements where only beautiful women, who are in size 00 jeans, straddle attractive men, sends the message that only goodlooking people have the opportunity to love.
Men are also affected with how women are portrayed in advertisements. From constantly seeing unnatural women in the television screen and in magazines, men come to expect their partners to be as slim and beautiful as the models. Because a real woman cannot reach those ideal goals, she feels dissatisfied with herself. Encouraging studies show that men are actually more drawn towards more realistic curves because it indicates a woman is healthier and, from a biological viewpoint, more fertile. The amount of calories some of those famous models are eating may not be enough to sustain a nutritious diet and can cause bone density loss and osteoporosis in old age. This lack of self-esteem is causing an exponential amount of eating disorders in America. The National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders states, “Up to 24 million people of all ages and genders suffer from an eating disorder.” The pressure for college women to appear perfectly skinny has also taken notice. In fact, ANAD states, “Ninety-one percent of women surveyed on a college campus had attempted to control their weight through dieting. Twenty-two percent dieted ‘often’ or ‘always’.” The American media and their pressures through advertisements correlate to the high amount of women and men with poor body image. If a woman does not respect and love her body for the way it was made, she will always struggle with the constant need to lose weight or even result in an eating disorder, such as binge eating, bulimia or anorexia. Americans obsess with the idea of a perfect body. Women are constantly feeling that they are too large, their breasts are too small or their face has too many wrinkles. Unconsciously, we are affected with the way advertisements demand the ideal woman. Women must recognize that these models are digitally enhanced to please the eye. No real woman will ever achieve pure perfection. By loving the way your body was naturally made, society will slowly correct the stereotype of fake perfectionism. — Samantha Trueheart is a sophomore in communications. She can be reached at struehea@utk.edu.
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North Korean leader differs from father The Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea’s young new leader gets rock star treatment when he visits his troops — just as his father did. But while the late Kim Jong Il mostly stayed aloof in dark shades, his son holds hands and hugs his soldiers. Kim Jong Un seems to want to bond with his country’s people. The style harkens back to Kim Il Sung, his grandfather and revered founder of the country and ruling dynasty, and may reflect an attempt to turn a corner on the periods of hardship and famine under Kim Jong Il, analysts say. Kim Il Sung’s image as a daring young general fighting Japanese colonial troops is powerfully engraved in the minds of North Koreans. The North Korean state media reports and video footage of such “guidance visits” provide rare windows into the personalities of North Korea’s leaders for outsiders and for the country’s people alike. Few North Koreans, for instance, even knew what the elder Kim’s voice sounded like, analysts say, despite his ruling for 17 years until his death on Dec. 17. The younger Kim may be trying to emulate Kim Il Sung and move away from his father, who ruled during a famine in the mid- to late1990s that killed hundreds of thousands, said Koh Yu-hwan, a North Korea professor at Seoul’s Dongguk University. North Korea has also faced international condemnation and sanctions for its pursuit of nuclear weapons. “He’ll try to look comfortable among the masses. He’ll try to form an intimacy with the people, perhaps more than his father did,” Koh said. Imitating Kim Il Sung is a “positive for Kim Jong Un, because memories of his father Kim Jong Il aren’t very good among ordinary people,” Koh said. “People fondly remember the days of Kim Il Sung.” Kim Il Sung was often pictured surrounded by children, and Kim Jong Un resurrected that image during a recent visit to the Mangyongdae Revolutionary School. As children in military uniforms cheered and clapped, a documentary on state TV showed Kim embracing one child’s face with his hands. During lunch, Kim patted students in encouragement and watched with a grin as two women ladled out soup for students; he
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poured a drop of sauce on his thumb so he could taste it. His main emphasis, however, has been on military posts — with a half dozen such visits since the New Year. They seek to show citizens that their new leader is firmly in command of the country’s most important institution, its 1.2 million-strong military, and that he is loved and respected by young troops and elderly generals alike. While Kim Jong Il had two decades to prepare for leadership, Kim Jong Un was only publicly unveiled as heir in 2010, and outside observers have raised doubts about Kim Jong Un’s ability to lead a country locked in a nuclear standoff with its neighbors and Washington and with a history of attacking South Korea. Bloodshed spiked in 2010 when a South Korean warship exploded in disputed waters, killing 46. South Korea said the North torpedoed the warship; the North denied the allegation. North Korea also attacked a front-line South Korean island, killing four. Kim Jong Un clearly has made attempts to appear active and engaged with his soldiers, and this “helps raise troops’ morale and his profile,” said Kim Yeon-su, a North Korea expert at Korea National Defense University. “North Korea is telling its people that Kim Jong Un is capable of doing all these military activities himself.” Kim Jong Un’s first reported military visit after his father’s death came on New Year's Day. He appeared at ease, laughing and clapping, pulling officers close to give them words of advice, inspecting bunks and testing water faucets. State television has also played a documentary on Kim Jong Un meant to highlight his military experience, showing him in the cockpit of a tank, galloping by on horseback and poring over documents at night. Despite his youth, Kim Jong Un often plays the part of a solicitous father during his meticulously documented military tours. He asks about the soldiers’ warmth, their eating and sleeping arrangements, listens with apparent enjoyment to their musical performances, observes their “militant spirit of training,” offers guidance to officers and takes “care of the soldiers’ living as their real father would do,” according to state media. He even tastes their bean paste.
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Historic theater to replace stage its final winter date Friday at The Ryman. Dierks Bentley will play the last standalone concert Thursday. As a young, aspiring performer in Nashville more than a decade ago, Bentley would run his fingers along the building ’s brickwork late at night as he walked home from performing on Lower Broadway, daydreaming of playing on that stage. He calls it “one of the most precious places in Nashville and in country music to me.” “The significance of that stage and who played there before me will definitely be in the back of my head all night,” Bentley said in an e-mail. “As a member of the Grand Ole Opry, I couldn’t be any prouder.” That a busy venue needs a new stage is not necessarily news. The stage at the Opry’s permanent home, for instance, has been changed multiple times over the years with little comment. But when the Ryman stage is replaced, officials in some sense are altering an icon that is closely watched by sometimes vocal guardians of its cultural significance. Officials are prepared for questions. They point out the building has gone through many upgrades over the years and that each step was vital to preserving the building. Most recently the roof was replaced in 2009. “We’re not in the business of getting rid of old things just to get rid of them,” Ryman general manager Sally Williams said. They will retain an 18-inch lip of the blonde oak at the front of the stage, similar to the way the Ryman stage was commemorated in a circle of wood at the new Opry House. The rest of the stage will be stored and replaced with a medium brown Brazilian teak that will be far more durable and camera friendly. Beneath the stage, the original hickory support beams will be kept and reinforced with concrete foundations, crossbeams and joist work that will help triple the stage’s load capacity. “I think it will be interesting because I think it’s obvious we’re doing something ensuring that people will be coming here and having those Ryman moments in 120 years,” she said.
The Associated Press NASHVILLE — It’s time for a new stage at Ryman Auditorium, a significant moment in the history of a building known for its significant moments. Scuffed by the heels of “The King,” “The Queen of Soul” and thousands of singers in cowboy boots, scarred by an uncountable stream of road cases and worn by six decades of music history, the Ryman’s oak floorboards have reached the end of a very long, very successful run. “That stage has had a wonderful life,” said Steve Buchanan, senior vice president of media and entertainment for Gaylord Entertainment, owners of the Ryman. The current stage is just the second in the 120-year history of the “Mother Church” after the original was installed in 1901 for a performance of the Metropolitan Opera. It was laid down in 1951 and has lasted far longer than expected. The stage was refinished during a renovation in 1993-94 and even then officials knew it would be the last resurfacing. Today it’s heavily scuffed and scarred, its age easily visible from the Ryman’s balcony. The Ryman is still the building most associated with The Grand Ole Opry, though it moved to the Opry House in 1974, and has hosted a number of significant moments in American culture. Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash stood together on those boards and changed music. Cultures clashed there too when the boo birds took on country rockers The Byrds. Today the Ryman is a much sought-after destination point for musicians of all genres and many shows take on a unique aura. Dylan recently returned, more than 40 years after “Nashville Skyline.” Taylor Swift sang there recently with her good friends, The Civil Wars. Even the heaviest of rockers get a little nostalgic, like Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age, who said it was an honor to get drunk while performing in the building last year. Keith Urban, making his return from vocal surgery, will be among the last performers on the stage when the Opry plays
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Pluskota returns, Lady Vols breeze through ITA Dallas Abel Staff Writer The No. 19 Tennessee Lady Vols tennis dominated play this weekend in the ITA KickOff held in Knoxville. Tennessee defeated No. 58 UC Davis on Friday by a score of 5-0. The victory was No. 600 in the program’s history. They followed up the first win of the season with a victory over No. 22 Tulsa. The tournament win punches the Vols a trip to the ITA National Women’s Team Indoor Championship Feb. 1013 at the University of Virginia. “We are really excited to be moving on to Charlottesville,” co-head coach Mike Patrick said. “Our kids played great and I am really proud of them. We want to keep improving every day. We have a young enough team that the little goals like learning how to handle pressure situations, staying aggressive and playing hard are the little things that need to happen on a daily basis.” One of the main reasons for the Lady Vols’ success was senior Natalie Pluskota making it back into the singles lineup. Pluskota wasn’t able to compete in singles matches to open the season due to recovering from a stress fracture injury. “I am pumped to be back out there to help us win and compete,” Pluskota said. “It’s always nerve-racking that first match, but ready to get back into it.” Tennessee opened the weekend tournament against UC Davis. Pluskota and freshman Caitlyn Williams took their match 8-0, while freshman Sarah Toti and sophomore
Brynn Boren won 8-1. These victories gave the Lady Vols the doubles point. Lady Vols continued that dominance over into the singles competition. Pluskota also took a 4-0 lead to start the match, but dropped two straight to bring the match close. “I had to refocus myself and slow down a little bit,” Pluskota said. “I started to continue to look for more forward hands to work the opponent off the court.” Pluskota took the singles match 6-2, 6-1. Toti, Boren and freshman Joanna Henderson all won their singles matches to send the Lady Vols to victory. On Saturday, the Lady Vols were challenged with Tulsa. However, continuing to play with the same mindset as Friday, the Lady Vols once again had no problem in the win column. Pluskota and Williams wrapped up another doubles win 8-4, while Boren and Toti finished shortly after them, notching the doubles point. Although in the lead for the second straight day, junior Kata Szelkey and Henderson’s match was unfinished due to already securing the doubles point. Boren took her singles match 6-3, 6-2. Toti won with a score of 6-4, 6-3, and Henderson 62, 6-3, giving the Vols the championship and sending them to nationals. “With her (Pluskota) back in there gives everyone a lot more confidence,” Patrick said. “It pushes everyone in the lineup to a spot where they are more comfortable and get more experience.” The Lady Vols return to action Friday when they take on Notre Dame at home in Goodfriend Tennis Center.
Titans fans want Manning The Associated Press NASHVILLE — Peyton Manning remains on the Colts’ roster, and the Titans have three quarterbacks already. Still, Titans’ fans of the NFL’s only fourtime MVP expecting the injured QB to be released and healthy enough to play are starting an ad campaign in Indianapolis hoping to convince Manning to return to Tennessee. “It’s kind of evident to the sports world they’re going to let Peyton go, they’re not going to pay him the money that he’s due and he’s going to be a free agent,” Todd Mayo said Monday. “All the sports talk guys are saying he could go to Arizona and Washington and every place but Tennessee. We’ve got a young quarterback here at the Titans.” “If you could upgrade your team with the caliber of Peyton, why would you not?” Mayo said he and his brother, Griffin, spent the weekend designing the website www.comehomepeyton.com and recorded a couple parody songs, including one to the Eminem hit “Lose Yourself.” The site went live Monday and had generated $700 in donations by midday. A 30-second commercial is planned for an
Indianapolis radio station during the Super Bowl. “Call it fan-vertising if you will, but kind of a concept to put the power in the fans’ hands and let Peyton know how much he’s wanted in the state of Tennessee for the Titans,” Mayo said. “Of course, he played at Tennessee. I’m from Memphis, went to school at Tennessee in Knoxville and live in Nashville ... I love Tennessee, and it’s kind of one of those things you would like to affect positive change from the power of fans coming together.” Mayo works at a Nashville advertising agency and already has priced billboards and ads. He hopes to solicit enough donations to place eight digital billboards in Indianapolis along with ads on TV and radio and in the local newspaper. If enough money comes in, Mayo said billboards and ads in Houston where Titans owner Bud Adams lives are a possibility to help persuade him to make a move for Manning. Manning remains very popular in Tennessee where many children are named Peyton after the quarterback by parents who still wear his Volunteers’ jersey or his Colts’ No. 18. Manning is due $28 million from the Colts on March 8 after missing the 2011 season following his third neck surgery.
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Kata Szekely stretches for a ball during a doubles match against UC Davis on Friday, Jan. 27. The Lady Vols squad crushed the Aggies in a 5-0 sweep in their first victory of the year.
Olympics face transportation issues The Associated Press LONDON — Olympic organizers have some travel advice for the millions of people who work and live in London: Be patient. Have a beer. Work from home. Rejecting suggestions of possible transportation chaos during the July 27-Aug. 12 games, they unveiled a 8.8 million-pound ($13.3 million) campaign Monday to persuade city residents to change their travel patterns to ease the strain on public transportation. Even as London Mayor Boris Johnson tried to focus attention on the positive, transport officials had to bat back demands by the Rail, Maritime and Transport union for more money. Union officials say subway staff are not being offered enough to compensate them for working more hours and erratic schedules during the Summer Olympics. The fresh union demands came just moments before London transportation officials unveiled posters, signs and banners to make travelers aware of how to handle transportation issues during the games. Johnson directed his remarks at what he called “Olympo-skeptics.” “They predict that tumbleweed will be going down Shaftesbury Avenue,” Johnson said, referring to a main London thoroughfare. “They are completely wrong and mistaken and missing a huge opportunity to profit.” London transportation
officials have been at pains in recent weeks to downplay concerns about whether the city's aging transportation system can handle the extra traffic from tourists, spectators and others expected to use the network. Officials point to a 6.5 billion-pound ($10.2 billion) investment in the transportation system. They say train journeys are faster and note that many more trains will run — and that some will even have air conditioning — during the games. If office workers do things as simple as stopping and having a beer on their way home, it will spread out the rush-hour demands, they assert. No recommendations — alcoholic or otherwise — were made for the morning commute. Businesses have been asked to consider whether London workers could telecommute or have more flexible working hours. The trouble is that even on regular days London struggles with constraints on the Tube, an aging system that handles 12 million trips a day. The Olympics is estimated to add 3 million trips on busy days. Keeping the system running smoothly is predicated on the notion that locals will rearrange their schedules, change travel patterns and adjust their lives to accommodate. Even Johnson acknowledged that travelers on the Jubilee line — one of the key arteries for the games — would not be “short of company.”
London wants all of its spectators to arrive by public transportation — or foot and bike. Ticket holders to Olympic events will receive day passes for the subway as part of their package. A special train known as the “Javelin” will take spectators directly from central London’s St. Pancras train station to the Olympic Park in the East London neighborhood of Stratford. The “Get Ahead of the Games” campaign that kicked off Monday marks the biggest effort yet to directly reach the public. Featuring cartoonlike posters and directional signs in hot pink and maroon, the campaign tries to let people know about upcoming disruptions and gives suggestions on how to address them. The campaign, funded as part of the 9.3 billion pounds ($14.6 billion) devoted to staging the Olympics, will run in national newspapers, rail stations and radio stations across the country as well as around Olympic venues. Souring the big launch was the rail union’s announcement that subway train drivers considered a one-time payment of around 500 pounds ($784) inadequate. “All we are calling for is a fair deal for all the staff involved in delivering the colossal transportation challenge that we will be facing this summer and the negotiations to achieve that are ongoing,” Union chief Bob Crow said in a statement.