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Visiting professor discusses effects of fracking Blair Kuykendall Editor-in-Chief The water-diamond valuation paradox from Econ. 101 is back, only this time it’s water versus natural gas.

Acclaimed expert on hydraulic fracturing, Rob Jackson, joined UT faculty and students for a discussion on “Shale Gas and Its Environmental Footprint” Thursday. Jackson is a professor of biology at Duke University, specializing in terrestrial ecosystems and biogeochemistry.

Matt Murray, director of the Baker Center, welcomed the large crowd to the Toyota Auditorium, with rows of chairs extending into the hallway outside.

“This environmental series has been a success because of its ability to pull in people from so many different disciplines,” Murray said.

Theresa Lee, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, introduced Jackson. “(Jackson) has a long list of titles,” Lee said.

“He is no stranger to our area, participating in events both here at UT and ORNL (Oak Ridge National Laboratory). His papers primarily explore the relationship between people and the earth. His research is very relevant to environmental issues, especially shale gas and its environmental impact.”

Jackson currently heads the Center on Global Change and Duke’s Stable Isotope Mass Spectrometry Laboratory at Duke University. He laid out his scientific purpose from the outset.

“First of all, I don’t do shale gas research with an agenda,” he said. “My research team looks at problems, and what we can do to fix them. I would argue that’s the role of science.”

Natural gas found in shale formations is rapidly becoming one of the most promising new forms of energy. Various extraction outfits are harnessing new cost-effective techniques to

increase natural gas production, but there is growing concern in the environmental community that these new techniques pose a grave threat to clean water and air reserves.

Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” to access natural gas, is one of the most hotly debated issues in environmental circles today. A vast wealth of natural gas resources is waiting to be tapped, and corporations have already adopted fracking as a cost-effective means of achieving this goal. The EPA is currently playing catch-up, so conclusive findings on fracking’s impact are not expected until the end of this year.

Jackson was called to address some of these growing issues.

“I had worked for many years on groundwater, also studying what happens if carbon dioxide leaked into water sources,” Jackson said.

“Studying the geology and chemistry of aquifers to build a framework, I saw a gap in data on a topic where a lot of emotion is involved.”

He explained the growing desire to explore natural gas production.

“There is a widespread presence of shale gas in many countries and continents around the world,” Jackson said. “Conventional fuel resources are dropping. We have to do more to get unconventional resources out of the ground.

People have started talking about the U.S. becoming a gas exporter, but there has been a visceral response over threatened water resources.

You have people living very near these wells.”

Emotions definitely run high among citizens, even though forms of fracking have been in use for decades. Particularly upsetting now is the use of several controversial tactics together.

“What’s new is the combination of the horizontal drilling and the hydraulic fracturing,” Jackson said. “The pressures are much higher than they have been in the past, but that’s essentially a primer on extracting shale gas.”

Jackson conducted a study of the water quali-

ty of over 200 private water wells over the Marcellus formation in Pennsylvania. His team searched for stray gas and also the journey of waste waters from fracking sites. They attempted to develop geochemical and isotopic tools to achieve this goal.

“Chemical variation that occurs in the groundwater we tested seems to be natural and unrelated to drilling,” Jackson said. “There is controversy over barium poisoning, but so far we don’t find any relationship between nearness to a well and barium concentrations within the water.”

Some research findings on gas content, however, were disturbing.

“We did find differences in gas concentrations.

Methane concentrations in drinking water are found to be higher than near gas wells. There is more methane, ethane and propane in water within one kilometer of wells.”

The scientists discovered that even though Pennsylvania is known for water with high methane content, the particular version of methane found in the drinking water was likely a result of human activity.

In response, his team supports better casing standards for wells, new cementing standards and no residential zoning within 1,000 ft. of drill rigs.

“In terms of fracking, it is possible that wells can leak,” Jackson said. “That’s why we are recommending refinforcing wells.”

Jackson called for health studies to be conducted longitudinally on the effects of air quality and the impact of methane and brine exposure.

“I’m not trying to close drilling down, but to understand where these problems come from and why,” Jackson said. “Where is our energy going to come from in the future?”

Fracking firms are moving quickly, and experts like Jackson are scrambling to isolate threats before society is left with the consequences.

No. 8 Lady Vols fall to Gamecocks North Korea Patrick MacCoon Staff Writer Despite losing 40straight games to the No. 8 Lady Vols, the South Carolina women’s basketball team came into Thursday night’s contest with confidence and ended the losing streak with a 6460 upset victory in Thompson-Boling Arena.

Senior guard Markeshia Grant was the answer for the Gamecocks (18-5, 7-3 SEC) on the night, scoring a game-high 27 points on 10-of-21 shooting, including 7-of-12 from 3-point range. She was one of three Gamecocks to finish in double figures, along with La’Keisha Sutton (12) and Ieasia Walker (11).

The Lady Vols (16-6, 72) finished with only two players in double-figures, senior forward Glory

Johnson’s 13 and freshman point guard Ariel Massengale’s 12. AllAmerican senior guard/forward Shekinna Stricklen finished with 8 points and a game-high 10 rebounds.

The loss also ended the Lady Vols’ 28-home game win-streak in SEC play, which dated back Feb. 14, 2008 when UT lost to LSU 78-62.

“To say we didn’t play particularly well for 40 minutes tonight would be an understatement but you have to credit South Carolina for that,” said Lady Vols coach Pat Summitt. “They executed a great game plan from start to finish and showed it over and over for 40 minutes.”

Despite a sluggish start the first five minutes of the game, in which Tennessee trailed 7-2, the Lady Vols

found their rhythm on the court.

Massengale led an 8-0 UT run, which was capped by a Stricklen lay-up that put the Lady Vols up 17-13 with 8:46 left in the first half.

The Gamecocks fought right back, as Grant and Walker went to work by combining for all 16 of USC’s points in the final seven minutes of the half.

The solid shooting of the guards put South Carolina up 29-28 at halftime.

“She (Grant) got off to a great start and that has been an Achilles heel to us this season letting star players put up big numbers against us,” said UT associate head coach Holly Warlick. “That’s been a focal point for us but obviously it hasn’t been big enough.”

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Senior forward Glory Johnson attempts a lay-up against South Carolina on Feb. 2. The Lady Gamecocks upset Tennessee 6460, ending a 40-game losing streak to the Lady Vols.

Blood drive loses Vandy, vitality Justin Joo Staff Writer Although the Bleed Orange Blood Drive is almost over, the Medic Regional Blood Center is still in dire need of blood donations, especially after a surge in accidents over the weekend nearly drained its supply of blood.

Christi Fightmaster, Medic’s director of public relations, said Medic currently has less than a day’s supply. Blood banks are generally expected to carry enough blood to last for seven to nine days.

“It was kind of the perfect storm for us,” Fightmaster said. “With less than a one day supply, we’re managing day-to-day. It’s not where we want to be.”

The blood drive has been taking place at UT for the past week. A Medic Bloodmobile will be at Neyland Stadium today from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Today is the last day to donate blood on UT’s campus.

While the urgency for blood encouraged the Knoxville community to make more donations, UT’s total donations have not increased.

In fact, UT has donated less than the normal amount for this time of year. UT’s blood

donations usually make up about two-thirds of what Medic collects in this area. UT is not donating nearly that amount. Of the 300 pints received on Tuesday alone, only 80 came from UT, not even a third of the donations.

“We’re definitely behind where we need to be,” Fightmaster said.

The decrease in donations could partly be due to Vanderbilt University dropping out of the annual Bleed Orange Blood Drive Competition, which pits the universities against each other to see which school can donate the most blood. It was meant to coincide with the upcoming Lady Vols and Vanderbilt Commodores basketball game, which will be on Feb. 9.

Although the competition has occurred for over 10 years, Fightmaster said that Vanderbilt decided not to participate at the last minute.

“It just didn’t work out this year,” Fightmaster said. “The competition does really help. ... I think that everybody wants to give what they can for UT. And when you think UT is going to win something, I think that does increase participation.”

But Fightmaster stressed that even though there is not a competition, the need for blood is just as great.

Despite this year’s low numbers, UT is still a good source of donations to Medic.

Many students donate for the first time while at the university.

Matt Rossman, a donor resource coordinator, estimated that 25 percent of UT’s donors are first-timers.

“We do get a lot of new donors,” Rossman said. “We’ll get a lot of freshmen who maybe come from out of town donating with us.”

Repeat donors are also greatly appreciated, Fightmaster said.

“We are very thankful for their repeat donations,” Fightmaster said. “We measure our success by creating an environment where the donor wants to return.”

It is recommended that donors eat before donating. Donors must weigh at least 110 pounds and have a picture ID. Donors will receive a $5 coupon to Moe’s Southwest Grill. The coupon giveaway is not restricted to UT; donating at any other Medic location will also get donors a coupon.

More information on future donations, special gifts and donation sites can be found on Medic’s website www.medicblood.com.

Medic also has a Facebook and Twitter at www.facebook.com/medicblood and www.twitter.com/medicblood.

PYONGYANG, North Korea — North Korea on Thursday demanded several tough preconditions for resuming talks with rival South Korea, as it backed away from earlier vows to shun Seoul’s conservative leader in what could be a sign of conciliation.

South Korea quickly called the demands made in a statement by the Policy Department of the North's powerful National Defense Commission “unreasonable.” But the timing of the statement, which follows comments Wednesday by a senior U.S. diplomat that Washington is open to diplomacy if Pyongyang improves ties with Seoul, and the change in tone after weeks of refusal to talk with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak could signal a willingness to ease tensions, analysts said.

“If clear answers are given, dialogue will resume immediately, and the inter-Korean relations that have been moving toward complete destruction will improve,” Ri Son Kwon, a colonel working for the commission’s Policy Department, told The Associated Press in an interview. “The resumption of dialogue and the improvement of relations hinge completely on the willingness of the South’s government.”

The North’s defense commission issued a list of nine conditions, including demands that South Korea apologize for failing to show proper respect to Kim Jong Il during the mourning period that followed the late leader’s Dec. 17 death. Among the other demands were that Seoul stop criticizing Pyongyang over two deadly 2010 attacks blamed on North Korea, and follow through on previous agreements that call

for South Korean investments in the North.

The North also demanded an end to U.S.-South Korean military drills, which the allies hold regularly but that Pyongyang calls a rehearsal for war. A round of military exercises are to start later this month.

South Korea has called for dialogue as new North Korean leader Kim Jong Un tries to consolidate power and extend his family dynasty into a third generation following his father Kim Jong Il’s death.

But South Korea’s Unification Ministry released a statement Thursday saying it regrets the North’s “unreasonable claims as part of its propaganda at an important juncture for peace” and “does not feel the need to respond to these questions put forth by North Korea one by one.”

Still, the North's statement is “a bit of an olive branch” when contrasted with its previous promises to ignore Seoul, said John Delury, an assistant professor at Yonsei University’s Graduate School of International Studies in South Korea.

The North could be signaling that it understands a message relayed by Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell, during a trip to Seoul this week, that Washington favors a diplomatic solution to a North Korean nuclear standoff, but only if Pyongyang improves ties with Seoul. Although Pyongyang has been reluctant to deal with Seoul, it has suggested a willingness to negotiate with the United States.

But “the statement is meant primarily to pull the fig leaf off the South Korean government’s claims that it is open to dialogue,” Delury said.

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BASKETBALL continued from Page 1 Grant started off the second half the same way she had finished the first, hitting her sixth 3-pointer of the game with 15:55 left, giving the Lady Gamecocks a 46-41 lead. However, the momentum quickly shifted to the other sideline.

An 8-0 Lady Vols’ run put them up 49-46.

Junior guard Kamiko Williams’ field goal extended the lead for the Lady Vols to 57-50.

But the Gamecocks fought right back with a 113 run, in which Grant hit her seventh three of the game, and USC regained the lead at 61-60 with just

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NEWS under two minutes left in the game.

The Gamecocks closed out the game with two made free throws by Sutton with twelve seconds left to close the game out.

South Carolina shot 39.4 percent (26-of-66) from the floor on the night while Tennessee shot 41.4 percent (24-of-58).

“Hats off to South Carolina,” said Warlick.

“They hit big shots when they needed too and we didn’t have an answer for them in the last four minutes of the game. We always get everybody’s best.”

The Lady Vols next game will be on Sunday, Feb. 5 against the Auburn Tigers (11-12, 3-7 SEC)

Violent crash raises safety concerns The Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. — A pickup truck involved in a deadly Florida interstate pileup was so badly burned and crushed that it took investigators more than two days to find a third body inside, authorities said Wednesday.

The discovery brings the death toll from the weekend crashes on Interstate 75 to 11.

The condition of the wreckage has also prompted investigators to enlist anthropologists to help identify victims.

The newly discovered victim was inside a Dodge pickup truck that crashed into a tractor trailer as it traveled south early Sunday in smoky and foggy conditions, authorities determined Tuesday. The pickup’s driver and another passenger were discovered before, but none of the three had been identified Wednesday.

Anthropologists from the University of Florida were looking for any bone fragments and teeth that may help identify the bodies from the pickup. The other eight victims have been identified.

“The vehicle was crushed between multiple vehicles,” said Larry Bedore, director of investigations for the medical examiner's office in Gainesville. “It was in the center of an inferno that melted most of the metal and a lot of the glass.”

Authorities closed the busy six-lane highway early Sunday because a mix of fog and smoke from a nearby brush fire made visibility difficult.

The road was reopened about three hours later after the Highway Patrol determined conditions had improved. The first pileup occurred a short time later.

At least a dozen cars, six tractor trailers and a motorhome collided. Some cars were crushed under the bellies of big rigs. Others burst into flames, making it difficult

to identify victims.

The pickup truck with the three unidentified bodies was so badly smashed up that investigators decided to keep it intact with the remains inside the cab until the truck's layers of metal could carefully be peeled back at a sheriff’s office carport. It was during that process of removing pieces from the truck that the third body was found.

“It’s like opening up a tin can that was in a fire,” Bedore said.

The crash sent another 18 people to the hospital.

Members of a Brazilian church near Atlanta had expressed fears that one of the survivors, 15-year-old Lidiane Carmo, could be targeted by immigration officials because she’s in the country illegally.

But a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman said Wednesday that the girl is not facing deportation.

Five other members of the church called Igreja Internacional da Restauracao, or International Church of the Restoration, were killed in Sunday’s crash.

Meanwhile, Florida officials said they are willing to review their protocols in determining when to shut down — and reopen — a major highway.

The Highway Patrol was also quick to point out that motorists must be prepared to quickly make good decisions because road conditions can change quickly.

Officials said the decision to close a road is made by a Highway Patrol supervisor, who relies on feedback from troopers who assess road conditions. They use information and forecasts from the National Weather Service. A key piece of information is an index estimating the humidity and smoke dispersion on a scale of 1 to 10. If the score is 7 or higher, the Highway Patrol’s protocol is to close the road.

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Chris Carlie, senior in math, enjoying the weather, plays hacky sack in the HSS amphitheatre on Feb. 2. The weather for Friday calls for more sunshine and a high of 63.

Congress pushes to improve polls The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Trying to restore lawmakers’ sagging image with voters, the Senate raced Thursday toward passing a bill to explicitly prohibit members of Congress, top aides and senior administration officials from insider trading and require them to publicly disclose financial transactions within 30 days instead of once a year.

Senators in both parties acknowledged the purpose of the legislation is to help dig members of Congress out from poll approval ratings that have fallen to the teens after a year of excessive partisanship pervading almost every issue before Congress. A final vote was expected late Thursday.

“When polls show low public confidence in Congress, there is a strong desire to address the concerns that underpin the public’s skepticism,” said Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, one of the bill’s managers.

Some senators expressed concern that the bill was becoming too burdensome but in the end they came together in an attempt to send the public a message that lawmakers are not treated differently from other Americans when it comes to obeying the law.

The Securities and Exchange Commission said laws prohibiting trading on inside, non-public information clearly cover members of Congress. In 2005, the SEC investi-

gated then-Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee concerning his divestiture of stock in the family’s hospital company days before its price fell on an analyst’s forecast. Frist was not charged with wrongdoing.

To a large extent, Congress is reacting to a segment on CBS’ “60 Minutes” that raised questions about stock trades by House Speaker John Boehner, the husband of House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Spencer Bachus, R-Ala., chairman of the Financial Services Committee. All have denied wrongdoing and denounced the network’s story.

Republicans insisted on including top government officials outside the Congress in the bill even though they, too, are covered by insider trading and face tougher conflict-of-interest restrictions than members of Congress. In some cases, executive branch officials are required to divest themselves of stock holdings that pose a conflict. Lawmakers don’t have to do that and the Senate bill would not require it.

In addition to the 30-day online reporting requirement, the Senate would have to join the House in posting members’ annual financial disclosure statements on line instead of making only paper copies available on request.

Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., won an amendment to include the top

28,000 government workers in the executive branch, saying it would create a level playing field with the requirements for Congress. But Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., also won an amendment applying the bill to only 2,000 top policymakers, including the president, vice president, and members of the Federal Reserve Board.

“When it comes to avoiding and preventing conflicts of interest, the executive branch is well ahead of the legislative branch,” Lieberman said in arguing for the smaller coverage. He said the difference between his version and Shelby’s would be resolved once the House passes a bill and negotiators merge it with the Senate version.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. proposed wiping out the entire bill and substituting a simple certification by senators each year that they did not participate in insider trading. It was defeated, with 37 senators voting “yes” and 61 opposed.

President Barack Obama used his State of the Union speech to support the bill, but that was before he and other top officials in the government were added to its coverage. White House spokesman Eric Schultz, said Thursday that the administration supports the inclusion, while noting “the most important restrictions already apply to the executive branch and have for years.”

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Clarence Brown Lab performs Albee’s ‘Lady’ Chris Flowers Staff Writer Dimi Venkov, senior in theater, made no attempt at playing it safe when selecting a play for his directorial debut.

“I chose this play because I knew it would be a challenge,” Venkov said. “In my eyes there’s no point in doing something unless I learn about myself, or about theater.”

The play is Edward Albee’s “The Lady from Dubuque.”

Albee is perhaps best known for his 1962 Tony winner “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”

“The Lady from Dubuque” follows three young couples as they muse on identity, death and reality. Characters may not be who they say they are, and the fourth wall is broken regularly as characters pose questions to the audience.

“As a director the biggest challenge is these characters; they are very complex people,” Venkov said. “They lie in areas of dualism. They want something but they don’t want something. They want to die but they don’t want to die. So as a director I’m sometimes left questioning what a character really wants in a particular moment.”

Albee’s style of precise, biting dialogue presents a unique challenge for its actors.

“The dialogue has to just be so snappy,” Venkov said. “Each line is placed perfectly in a particular spot, so that if one line is missing it’s like a symphony. If the oboe is missing the whole piece is ruined. So the actors really have to be on their cues and memorize their lines really early on.”

Ted Kitterman, junior in theater and president of All Campus Theatre, found himself drawn to the play’s leading role, Sam. Sam is agonizing with the impending death of his significant other, Jo. Sam knows Jo doesn’t have much time left, and the severe pain has made her angry and bitter.

“I was drawn to the completely human aspect of a man struggling with losing the person who has defined his life to that point,” Kitterman said. “As he loses his significant other he’s struggling with losing his identity. It’s a very human story that’s relatable for everyone.”

Kitterman found Sam’s emotional turmoil to be the greatest challenge when inhabiting his character.

“The toughest thing about playing Sam is the vulnerability that it takes to feel that sense of despair,” Kitterman said.

“To let yourself be lost in front of the audience.”

The play was criticized as pretentious and obtuse when it made its Broadway premiere in 1980, but Venkov believes that it stands up when viewed from a modern perspective.

“I think it’s more relevant today than it was in 1980,” Venkov said. “Audiences today can embrace it more than audiences in 1980. I really strongly believe that. The thing about Edward Albee plays is that half the people are going to love it and half are going to hate it if the play is done right. They’re very divisive like that.”

“It’s a play that says a lot about our own identity,” Venkov said. “It’s a play that says a lot about the identity we create for others. It’s a play that says a lot about how we deal with death.

It’s a play that says a lot about how we interact with others within our romantic relationships and friendships. Come with an open mind and you’re in for a really good experience.”

Performances will take place this Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., and Sunday at 2:30 p.m. in the Clarence Brown Lab Theatre. Tickets will be sold at the door and are $5 for students and faculty, and $8 for general admission.

‘Arkham City,’ ‘Skyward Sword’ have their ups, downs Chris Flowers Staff Writer Expectations for “Batman: Arkham City” were very different than they were for its predecessor.

“Batman: Arkham Asylum” was a licensed game coming from an unproven developer, a recipe that almost always results in mediocrity or worse. But “Arkham Asylum” rose above all expectations and delivered not only a great Batman game, but a game that appeared on dozens of best of the year lists. “Arkham City” builds on “Arkham Asylum” by expanding the scope of the game and enhancing the best features of its predecessor.

The story is set in the amusingly ludicrous Arkham City. The city is a walled off section of Gotham City that serves as some sort of insane mega-prison, and is filled to the brim with super villains.

This provides a large openworld for you to swoop around as Batman, but doesn’t have the same distinct sense of place as the asylum.

The open-world isn’t involved in the game’s story missions, which take place in the city’s buildings. It mostly serves to allow players to tackle side-missions or hunt for Riddler trophies in between the story missions.

While it’s hard to complain about too much content in a game, the amount of collectibles in “Arkham City” is overwhelming. The Riddler challenges were a popular distraction in “Arkham Asylum,” but “Arkham City” features over 400 riddles and trophies strewn about the city. Besides this simply being too many, the majority of them are Riddler trophies which are just picked up when spotted, instead of the more involved riddles.

The combat system received a slight improvement with some additional gadgets and enemy types, but the combat in “Arkham Asylum” was regarded as some of the best to ever be featured in an action game, so the minor tweaking wasn’t surprising.

I have to warn anyone who is thinking about picking up this game used that you’ll miss out on four fairly important story missions unless you pay for them separately. New copies of the game come with a code to unlock access to these missions that have the player take control of Catwoman. These pack-in codes have become common for multiplayer games to unlock online access, but this

is the first time that buyers of used copies will be locked out of key single-player content. I don’t mind moves to curve the sales of used games as the only people profiting from their sale are retailers like Gamestop, but a lot kids who trade in games to purchase new ones are going to be very disappointed when they find out they don’t have access to a significant chunk of the game.

Like “Super Mario 3D Land”, if “The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword” had been a launch title it would have changed the public’s perspective on its console. It took five years but Nintendo finally came through, though far too late, with its original promise for the Wii. Finally players take true one-to-one control of Link’s sword as they fight through the world of Skyloft.

Before Link’s real adventure begins and the fun starts, players must sit through several hours of hand-holding as they are guided through the tutorial section. These first few hours are absolutely insufferable. A simple “Have you ever played a video game?

OK, then we’ll skip the next few hours,” would have eliminated a lot of frustration.

Once the dungeon-crawling finally began, this game’s status as the best Zelda since “The Ocarina of Time” became clear. Nintendo finally made enough changes to the Zelda formula to reignite the love I felt for the series at the age of 10.

The addition of the Wii Motion Plus is as significant to the combat as the addition of the third dimension in “Ocarina of Time.” The waggles in “Twilight Princess” were nothing but replacements for button presses, but with the new one-to-one motion controls the combat has a greater level of depth than any previous Zelda entry. When enemies block to the right, you must slash to the left. If they block high, you must slash low. It sounds simple but enemies are constantly changing their stance and close attention must be paid to every fight in order to succeed.

The much-hyped revelations at the end of the game on the nature of the Zelda time-line were a disappointment, but fans know that story has never been a strength of the series. Wii owners who want one last great experience with the system before the launch of the Wii U have their game, but playing through it reveals just how much potential Nintendo wasted this generation.

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Jeannie Lutz, senior in graphic design, works on her latest project in the design studio on Jan. 29. Students in graphic design receive their own desk space for them to work on any projects they have during the semester.

‘Soul Train’ creator’s legacy lives on The Associated Press CHICAGO — When this proud city welcomed back hometown hero Don Cornelius last year, it wasn’t just Chicago-style — it was “Soul Train” style, complete with Afro wigs, bell bottoms and hip-shaking in the streets.

The 40th anniversary celebrations for “Soul Train” traced a remarkable journey for a former Chicago police officer who got his start in broadcasting when he pulled over a radio executive in a traffic stop and then had to build up his pioneering show one step at a time.

Cornelius, who became an icon defining black culture in America for decades, died at his California home Wednesday of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 75.

While the South Side native and his show left Chicago decades ago for Los Angeles, his legacy has lived on here — in the “Don Cornelius Way” street sign west of downtown, in the teens and performers who boogied onstage during the early days of “Soul Train” and in the audiences who were glued to their televisions every Saturday to see the newest dance moves and styles.

To television viewers — especially those in Chicago — Cornelius was the epitome of cool. An impeccably dressed cat whose voice was as smooth as his demeanor and who rubbed elbows with the biggest stars in music and the most promising up-and-comers.

Which is why Chicago Ald. Walter Burnett says it was so much fun to see Cornelius let his guard down last year when the city gave him an honorary street sign.

“Don was just in rare form,” said Burnett, whose ward the sign is in. “He just wanted to talk and talk and talk. ... He broke down because he was with his friends.”

The sign is outside the studios of WCIU-TV, where “Soul Train” got its start in 1970. It began as a local program and aired nationally from 1971 to 2006.

Cornelius came back to town last year for the sign's unveiling and for a 40th anniversary celebration of the show. An anniversary concert featured acts such as soul singer Jerry “Iceman” Butler, the Impressions and the Chi-Lites.

Butler recalled that Cornelius seemed particularly pleased to be back home in Chicago.

“In his introduction, he talked about how much Chicago meant to him and even though he was transplanted now to California, that this would still be home and the home of ‘Soul Train,’” said Butler, now a Cook County Commissioner.

At the sign unveiling, Chicago was just as happy to see Cornelius, Burnett said.

“That was a wonderful day, it took people back, man, to the ‘Soul Train’ days,” he said. “I came in my leather jacket, people came with their Afro wigs on and their bell bottoms, people were dancing in the crowd. It was packed. ... It was a beautiful thing.”

Cornelius got his start in broadcasting while working as a Chicago police officer. He pulled over Roy Wood, then news director of black radio station WVON-AM, who “was amazed at this police officer’s voice,” said Melody Spann Cooper, current president of WVON. Wood offered Cornelius a job in the newsroom, and he said yes.

Cooper said that while Cornelius was from Chicago, his influence was national.

“He was the original social network,” she said. “Before we had internet or Facebook, we all gathered around that television every Saturday to see what people were listening to, what we were dancing to.

“Don Cornelius helped shape black culture at a time coming out of the Civil Rights era, when America had not been exposed to the social side of who we were,” she said.

But “Soul Train” didn’t start out big, and Butler recalled getting a call to come over and perform on the show on the day it was to make its inaugural syndicated broadcast.

“I think Gladys Knight and the Pips were originally scheduled to come and do it and they got jammed up and couldn’t come and I was the stand-in, so I went and did it,” he said.

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‘Two and a Half Men’ falls flat of hype Robby O’Daniel Recruitment Editor Somehow I had never seen CBS’ “Two and a Half Men,” the show the network constantly touts as America’s No. 1 comedy.

The show has aired for years (nine seasons, in fact), and I had never seen it. Even after all the Charlie Sheen hoopla, I could not be bothered to watch the buzz-worthy season nine premiere, marking the end of the Charlie Sheen Era and the beginning of the legendary Ashton Kutcher Era. I meant to see what the fuss was about, but I just never got around to it.

So now, as a true tabula rasa, I set out to consume the latest episode of “Two and a Half Men,” season nine, episode 14, which was eloquently titled, “A Possum on Chemo.”

The extent of my research consisted of looking up character names and then figuring out how Kutcher’s new character fit into the show. According to CBS’ season nine premiere synopsis, “Ashton Kutcher joins the cast as Walden Schmidt, an Internet billionaire with a broken heart.” And he just started living with them?

Uh, that sounds ridiculous, but OK. The episode begins with a mundane debate about beards with Walden meticulously grooming his (admittedly awful hair and beard), while his girlfriend Zoey says she actually does not like beards. This sounds like just a one-off character moment between the two, a way to get the episode’s story going. But no, this is the story. Get ready for 22 minutes about beards and hair in general.

Startlingly enough for a network known for having older viewers, this episode had a ton of juvenile humor.

Within minutes, the show dishes out a joke about pubic hair, and the elderly prude in me gasped.

But that was just the tip of the iceberg. Alan (Jon Cryer), the other adult from the series title, is signing up for a dating site, but when asked about his upcoming night, he says he will probably “rub one out.” The studio audience laughs. Of course, since Zoey’s British, she has never heard of “rub one out,” so Walden has to explain it to her. The studio audience laughs. This leads to Zoey using the phrase “rub one out” two more times in this episode, so keep laughing at this hysterical episode,

studio audience!

By this point, the opening credits air. Man, this show’s theme song sucks. That cannot be emphasized enough. It consists of saying, “Men, men, men, men, manly men, men, men” over and over and over again.

Scenes throughout the episode begin with an a cappella “Men!” But by the time the third or fourth scene begins this way, it is absolutely grating. The show ends with “Men!” And then the ending credits repeat the awful opening theme again. How do the fans of this show stand this music, day in and day out, for years?

For those readers wondering where this episode’s bizarre title came from, Alan says, “I tried to grow a beard, came out patchy, looked like a possum on chemo.”

Is the “Two and a Half Men” writing team populated entirely of middle schoolers?

The very next scene answers that question with an emphatic “yes.” Two kids, one of them being Alan’s son, eat chips at the apartment, watching “Beavis and Butthead” and slowly talk to each other. They get confused easily, and there is a bong on the table. Ah, yes, pot humor, some people still laugh at jokes about kids smoking up and getting the munchies, even after seeing the 1,000th movie or television show to use it as a trope. In case the viewer is not in on the joke yet, one of the teenagers says, “I think we need to call Dominos!”

Ah, yeah, dude, this is definitely a case of the munchies.

Later in the episode, Alan has seemingly solved his relationship woes, making out on the couch with Lindsey. The scene turns less than romantic when Lindsey bemoans her time with her 20-something exboyfriend. Essentially the reason she broke up with the guy was that she felt like she could not fart in front of him. This is why she is now with low-standards Alan.

“I could sit here and fart like a buffalo, and you’d still want to be with me,” she exhorts.

Of course then she audibly farts, much to the bemusement of the studio audience and no one else.

And the episode just fell off a cliff. Alan is mortified. “Oh, man, that’s a dead buffalo,” he says. AHAHAHAHA. Is this an elaborate joke or something? Is this like that time Joaquin Phoenix pretended to be done with movies? Kutcher is on here. Is this an elaborate episode of “Punk’d”? Surely this is not honestly meant to be funny. People would not accept how awful, how offensively phoned in, how utterly uncreative this is.

Right?

— Robby O’Daniel is a graduate student in communications. He can be reached at rodaniel@utk.edu.

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Coping with bias in historical records Chao s Theory by

Sarah Russell Why is it that when we learn a difficult new concept, we often initially react with resistance?

Rather than being exhilarated by the imminent expansion of our intellectual horizons, we often respond to these new concepts with fear, doubt and discouragement. In fact, it seems that learning a new and complex idea causes us to go through Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’ now infamous five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.

I have recently started to study historical theory in one of my classes, and I can say unequivocally that it is the hardest and most complicated concept I have ever tackled in my life. Theory is for humanities majors what organic chemistry is for science majors: incredibly complicated, occasionally tiresome to study and often the bane of our academic existence. The study of historical theory, just as with many new and complicated ideas, resulted in the death of previous ideas I had held about how history worked — and it was then that I realized I was grieving the loss of my simplistic and superficial understanding of my field.

First, there was denial. There is always denial.

There is the urge to hurl your textbook against the wall, or tear its pages out and burn them, or feed them to your dog. There is the procrastination that results in the realization that you have to face these impossibly convoluted concepts sooner or later — but only after dinner, and watching TV, and checking Facebook, and scrubbing your floors with a toothbrush.

But the problem with the five stages of grief is that one stage inevitably leads to another, and in this case, denial leads directly to anger. We scream at the authors of the textbook for writing such indecipherable garbage in the hopes that they can somehow hear our rage. We become livid at our teachers for assigning something we cannot possibly hope to understand (not to mention that the reading is too long, and the print is too small, and did we

mention that it’s boring as spit?). We whine to our friends, our parents, our other teachers, and even to our dog, whose offer to eat the book probably still stands.

And as the looming deadline approaches, we resort to the third stage: bargaining. This stage, while maybe the strangest stage when applied to actual grief (I mean, is giving up chocolate really going to bring Spot back?), is probably the one that students wrestling with hard material spend the most time experiencing. Our first targets, of course, are our poor professors, who have read this stuff in graduate school so much that they could probably recite it back to you in Pig Latin. We beg for more time, or for the amount of reading to be cut down, or for a study guide, or to simply not learn this weird stuff at all and just talk about “Downton Abbey” instead (it is a historical show, after all). Failing that, we bargain with our friends to do the reading for us, or to distract us from having to do it. We even bargain with the dog, who honestly didn’t need convincing in the first place.

Ultimately, though, we must face the fact that these new, complicated ideas are not going away, and that they force us to change the way we have thought about things for years. Studying historical theory made me realize that history was much more than recounting facts and events: It must take into account the historian’s perceptions of the past, the way people in the past behaved, and how you determine the factors that caused the events you are writing about. Realizing how wrong you’ve been causes the fourth stage of depression, because honestly, who is overjoyed to learn that they have to rethink just about everything they knew?

The fifth stage, of course, is acceptance, the stage that is the result of actually buckling down and trying to wrestle with these ideas once you realize you can’t escape them. For me, it involved looking up every other word in my readings, but once I did, I could start to piece together what historical theory was trying to say. I realized it wasn’t in opposition to my previous understanding of history, but actually complemented it and elaborated upon it. My old perceptions hadn’t really died; they had just been reincarnated as bigger and better. My initial resistance proved futile, but ultimately yielded in a more nuanced — and exciting — idea of history.

— Sarah Russell is a senior in history. She can be reached at srusse22@utk.edu.

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Lately, I’ve been getting increasingly frustrated with people who tend to be overzealously anti-religion, in kind of that kneejerk, predictable, uncritical way — be they atheists, agnostics, antitheists or whatever label is needed to hold oneself in bitter distinction from half of America’s population.

Surely there is the potential for unflattering levels of smugness, self-satisfaction and intellectual complacency wherever one finds true belief. The term “religi-tard” comes to mind, as does, well, I don’t actually know what would be a pejorative term for someone nonreligious. I’m really curious now. Anyway, culture, that innate framework through which we may come to know ourselves and existence, sure has a way of getting us upset with each other. And sadly, it can be the most intelligent people that it makes the biggest fools of.

It’s the Bill Mahers and Richard Dawkinses among us, the people who think that every time they reveal how illogical a religious person or religion in general is, it’s the most profound, aware and edgy thing in the world.

And it’s really not. There’s a reason why the most vehemently atheist among us are ambivalent about dispelling the myth about god and an afterlife to children. We all get god — and few, if any, among us are unable to recall a time in our lives when we were not confronted with the allure of an all-powerful, anthropomorphic embodiment of incredibly intuitive order and meaning. The most pedantic atheist knows that if you go around aggressively contradicting whatever soothing constructs are invoked to reassure children, you might as well be being a jerk to at least one of your close relatives. But religious ubiquity is not an accident.

If you’re trying to make a point about

religion, don’t just laugh at people who believe in something that there’s no literal scientific evidence for, because if that’s honestly the crux of the issue for you, you’re just as superficial and willfully uninformed as people you’re mocking. Instead, use the shared experience of culture to your advantage and deconstruct them into oblivion. Make it America’s plight: It’s our lack of anything resembling a homogeneous non-commercial culture that’s keeping religion so relevant to people; who would honestly resist an opportunity for such an automatic, easy and lasting sense of cultural orientation and certainty shared by so many people? Aloof seculars, no doubt, who know naught but bitterness and dismay. See how well that works? If you treat religion like a theory in a social science textbook instead of like a cultural threat, you’ll be more enlightened than Dawkins and Maher combined.

If only it were that easy. On a personal level, when it’s people just trying to get through the day, the duality of theism and atheism is annoying, but benign. People have to put up with each other in America. Unfortunately, successfully compartmentalizing or deconstructing religion does not make Christianity’s coercive presence in the realm of politics go away, nor does it make the culture war rhetoric any less depressingly relevant.

As we Tennesseans know well, some of the most dangerous and civilly abhorrent legislation (“Don’t Say Gay”) comes from trying to appeal to a religious constituency.

It’s a matter of de facto political suicide for a politician on either side trying to gain national appeal not to assume a Christian identity.

However you feel about Jesus’ teachings in the New Testament, we have to stay ever vigilant about how widespread Christian pandering continues to subvert the Constitution, scientific progress and education, and our personal liberties.

— Wiley Robinson is a junior in ecology and evolutionary biology. He can be reached at rrobin23@utk.edu.

Friday, February 3, 2012

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Bass gives Lady Vols boost, heart Lacrosse, rugby in action this weekend Patrick MacCoon Lady Vols are high in the rankings, Bass and others are not entirely pleased with the Staff Writer results.

“We were actually hoping for a better start Big things sometimes come in small packages. That is especially the case for the Lady to the season but lost some tough games,” Bass said. “We have to just take Vols senior point guard Briana Bass, one of one game at a time from five seniors on the team. here on out and stay While size is not one of her strong suits, together as a team standing at just 5-foot-2 inches (which ties through adversity. If we former Lady Vol Shannon Bobbit as the bust our butts as a team shortest scholarship players in program hisand stay together we tory), there is no lack in hustle or will be fine.” leadership from the Indianapolis While her tempo native. Her teammates realize that on the court is while she may be little, she has a fast, off the court big heart.

Bass likes to slow “One thing that is very big about things down a lit‘Bri’ is her attitude,” fellow senior tle.

Shekinna Stricklen said. “She can be so “When I’m off the little but have one of the biggest atticourt in my free time I like tudes. She has a big heart and no to just chill and hang out matter what, she goes hard in with my teammates,” she practice every day. She cares said. “My life goes: God, then about every one of her teamfamily, then friends. I love my mates and would do anyfamily dearly and realize I thing for us.” wouldn’t be anything without Although Bass isn’t a them and God.” starter, she handles her role In her spare time, she also enjoys well and makes the most watching movies, a particular of her opportunities on genre in fact. the court.

“I really love watching In her final season as Matthew DeMaria • The Daily Beacon action movies,” she said. “My a Lady Vol, Bass is averagtop two favorite movies right ing 3.5 points per game and is posting career-highs in all shooting now are ‘Transformer 3’ and ‘Fast Five.’”

She is majoring in sports management percentage categories: field goals (9-of-22, with a minor in business. The Vol Scholar .409), 3-pointers (6-of-17, .353), and free wants to become a director of event managethrows (11-of-12, .917). Despite the numbers not jumping off the page, the spark and ment one day.

In the meantime, Bass is focused on makenergy she brings to her teammates says it ing the most of her last year at Tennessee as all about what she means to her team.

“My role is to encourage my teammates if a student as well as a basketball player. She I’m on the bench and tell them what I see out realizes this is not the end, though, as she on the court and let them know what they will be a Lady Vol for life.

“It’s been a blessing to play here for four need to work on,” Bass said. “When I get out there my job is to push tempo and knock years,” she said. “All my teammates are like my sisters and coach (Pat) Summitt and all down the open shot if it’s there.”

Bass and her teammates’ hard work this the other coaches have taught me so many season has resulted in a great deal of success, life lessons that I will take with me. I want to as the team is ranked eighth in the country take the passion that I found here with me and is 16-6 overall (7-2 SEC). Although the for the rest of my life.”

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Sunday’s games are UT v. USC at 10:30 a.m. and UCF v. Ole Miss at 1 p.m.

“Everyone should come watch this weekend,” Last weekend, eight Sport Clubs traveled all Wilson said. “Lacrosse is a fast-paced, exciting game, and it’s a fairly new sport in Tennessee.” over the Southeast for competitions.

The women’s rugby club is looking for its secTop finishers include the climbing club, which placed second at the Collegiate Climbing Series ond victory in a row after defeating the Georgia Regional in Nashville; the rowing club, which Southern Eagles on the road two weeks ago.

“Some people think rugby is just for partying, placed fifth at the Tennessee Indoor Rowing but we are so much more than that,” said Rachel Championships in Chattanooga; the men’s ultimate club, which placed fifth at the T-Town McCroskey, senior in marketing and captain of Throwdown in Tuscaloosa, Ala.; and the women’s the women’s rugby club. “Playing rugby gives you ultimate club, which placed sixth at the Florida great opportunities to find common ground with Winter Classic in Gainesville, Fla. Also competing people from diverse backgrounds. It gives you the opportunity to better yourself in a lot of different were the bowling ways.” club, the ice The women’s hockey club, the rugby team will ski and snowhost Georgia board club, and Tech on the wrestling Saturday at 2 club. p.m. at the This weekend American marks the first Legion rugby home games of park in the season for Maryville. The the women’s men’s rugby club lacrosse club and will host the men’s and Vanderbilt at 1 women’s rugby p.m. on Saturday clubs. Spectators at the Tennessee are welcome free RugbyPark in of charge to all Oak Ridge.

UT Sport Club Seven clubs home events. will travel this The women’s • Photo courtesy of Marye Lois McCroskey weekend for lacrosse club will Trice Thomas, sophomore in sports manage- their own comhost the University of ment, speeds past a fallen defender and up the petitions, includCentral Florida, field against Georgia Southern University on Jan. ing the fencing club, which will Ole Miss and 21. compete in the South Carolina Vandy Music this weekend at the RecSports Turf Fields next to City Open; the men’s lacrosse club, which will play TRECS. “Playing lacrosse in front of the home crowd at Auburn University at Auburn; the roller hockey the collegiate level is definitely different than high club, which will participate in several league school,” said Jessica Wilson, senior in kinesiology games in Chattanooga; the ski and snowboard and president of the women’s lacrosse club. “Our club, which will continue its competition in the team has a lot of support from friends and family USCSA race series in Bayse, Va.; and the triathlon at home events, and we expect a large turnout for club, which will enter the Krispy Kreme Challenge our games this weekend. We don’t get many in Raleigh, N.C. The men’s ultimate club B team opportunities to play at home, but when we do, will play in the Music City Tune-Up tournament in Nashville, and the water polo club will travel to the crowd comes.”

This weekend’s games are Saturday, UCF v. Lexington to play the University of Kentucky. The USC at 11 a.m.; UT v. UCF at 1:30 p.m.; Ole Miss canoe and hiking club will take a recreational day v. USC at 4 p.m.; and UT v. Ole Miss at 6:30 p.m. hike at Frozen Head State Park.

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THESPORTSPAGE

Projected Starters Tennessee 10-12 (2-5 SEC)

Georgia 10-11 (1-6 SEC)

G Trae Golden G Josh Richardson G Cameron Tatum F Jeronne Maymon F Jarnell Stokes

G Kentavious Caldwell-Pope G Dustin Ware G Gerald Robinson F Donte’ Williams F Nemanja Djurisic

12.8 2.8 8.3 11.8 9.5

How They Match-up UT 68.4 66.1 43.7 35.5 68.6 +3.3 4.6 12.8 5.9 -1.7

Scoring Offense Scoring Defense Field Goals % Three Point % Free Throw % Rebound Margin Blocks per game Assists per game Steals per game Turnover Margin

Last year George Richardson • The Daily Beacon

Guard Cameron Tatum shoots the ball against UConn on Jan. 21. The redshirt senior already has 182 points this season to make his career total 988. He is only 12 points from becoming the 44th member of the Vols’ 1,000-point club.

January 18, 2011 In Athens - Tennessee 59-57 February 19, 2011 In Knoxville - Georgia 69-63

UGA 60.6 62.7 38.9 31.4 69.7 -2.9 3.8 11.1 6.3 +1.0

14.0 8.0 13.5 7.8 6.5

Why the Vols will win: To put it kindly, defense dominated the first matchup between these two sides Jan. 18, with both teams only reaching the plus-50 mark thanks to an overtime period. It’s easy to argue Jarnell Stokes will be a new factor now that he’s starting, but he scored 11 points in Athens. Cameron Tatum is the one the Vols really need to perform. He’s failed to score a point three times in the past seven games, and only scored in double digits twice in that time. However, one of those games was the upset against UConn, the other was the near-upset of Kentucky at home. When Tatum poses a legitimate outside threat, it keeps the opposing defense from concentrating on the Stokes/Jeronne Maymon combo inside.

Why the Bulldogs will win:

Mark Fox’s club is off to a slow start in conference play, with its only SEC win so far against Tennessee on Jan. 18 in overtime. The losses of Travis Leslie and Trey Thompkins off of last year’s Dawgs team meant a rebuilding year in Athens. Georgia struggles offensively, but has solid guards. Freshman Kentavious Caldwell-Pope is the team’s leading scorer, and veteran guard Gerald Robinson is second. In the team’s first meeting, Robinson scored 16 points, while Caldwell-Pope chipped in 9.

Neither team shot particularly well from the field, (UT: 40 percent, UGA: 34.9 percent) and Saturday night’s game should be another close, low-scoring game in the 60s.