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Professor wins prestigious science award Geologist garners recognition for Mars research Deborah Ince Staff Writer It’s true that sometimes hobbies turn into lifelong professions. For Harry “Hap” McSween, his childhood pastime of rock collecting certainly helped spur him to pursue a career in planetary sciences.

However, never in his wildest dreams did he picture working with NASA on prominent spacecraft missions such as Opportunity, Spirit, Pathfinder and Mars Odyssey.

Now, after over 30 years in the field, studying Mars and martian meteorites, professor McSween has become one of the most accomplished scientists in the nation.

“You know, I feel so lucky to have been at the right place at the right time because this is kind of our generation’s frontier,” McSween said. “You know, we understand the earth and we’re using the same tools that we used to understand the earth to now understand other planets.”

Thirty-five years ago as a geology Ph.D. student at Harvard University, McSween and a fellow student were the first to suggest that the earth contained meteorites from Mars. And, as a rite of passage most prominent scientists face at least once in their careers, both young men were “laughed out of the room” at the thought of such an outlandish suggestion.

However, as the years progressed, the gentlemen’s ideas started not to seem as unconventional as initially thought. After in-depth research into the matter, it was concluded that many of the meteorite samples that had been gathered on earth actually did have martian atmosphere in them. McSween and his colleague had been right.

Since then, McSween has been involved in a number of Mars spacecraft missions, working with other NASA scientists and receiving grants from the organization as a NASA principle investigator.

Because of his work, the National Academy of Sciences awarded McSween with the J. Lawrence Smith Medal, given every third year since 1888 to a scientist in recognition of their work and research in planetary science. The prize consists of $25,000 and a gold medal. McSween will receive the award on April 30 in Washington, D.C. “I got a letter in December,” McSween beamed. “I couldn’t believe it. It was a surprise. I had no idea that I had even been nominated, and so it was a thrill. It still is a thrill.

I’m still kind of smiling every day.”

One of McSween’s professors at Harvard, John Wood, also received the J. Lawrence Smith Medal.

“While I was his student, he won this same award,” McSween said. “So it’s kind of like father-son — a kind of passing-the-torch, academic father-son thing.”

Despite receiving such esteemed recognition, McSween still strives to continually impact the next generation of students and scientists, most especially as a faculty member at UT. “I’ve had probably maybe close to 50 graduate students over the course of my time here, and I’ve learned as much from them as they’ve learned from me,” McSween said. “You know they push you to do things differently and think a different way. If I were at a research institute instead of at a university, I don’t think I would have accomplished nearly as much and had nearly as much fun because it is so enjoyable and stimulating to work with students.”

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Professor Harry “Hap” McSween was announced as the recipient for the National Academy of Sciences’ J. Lawrence Smith Medal, presented in recognition for excellence in work and research in planetary science.

Comedian elicits laughter, gasps Governor consolidates panels Justin Joo Staff Writer Despite the small crowd of about 40, the audience fully enjoyed the comedic performance of Ben Lerman at the UC Auditorium Thursday night.

Lerman, a ukulele-playing comedic songwriter, has toured both the New York comedy club scene and several universities. He was not deterred by the somewhat lackluster turnout.

“Sometimes it helps to have a good mass of people,” Lerman said. “Any time you have a full room the energy sort of feeds on itself. But the people that came out gave it a lot of warm, positive energy. And I could hear laughter, too.”

Lerman’s style is a combination of humorous songs and brief bits of monologues. His topics include all types of vulgarities, ranging from scatology, female genitalia, troubles of puberty for boys, dating someone with a lazy eye and the LGBTQ lifestyle.

His songs consisted of both originals as well as parodies. Those parodies included changing Natasha Bedingfield’s “Unwritten” into a song about being unshaven, and Leona Lewis’ “Bleeding Love” became a song about a man who “keeps eating” as a coping mechanism.

But some of Lerman’s funniest moments occured when he interacted with the audience.

The show began with Lerman running down the auditorium’s aisles, pausing at the foot of the stage and then encouraging the audience to maintain the applause until he made it all the way to the microphone.

During his “Unwritten”/“Unshaven” parody, Lerman called out to Cameron Allen, a freshman theater major. During Lerman’s finale, he danced his way through the aisle and audience until he was all but straddling Allen and sang a techno ode to chubby chasers.

“I was not expecting it, but yeah, I didn’t really mind,” Allen said with a chuckle after the performance. “(The show) was really good.”

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The Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Gov. Bill Haslam’s first effort to reduce state boards will merge six panels with significant environmental duties into three, affecting one with regulatory power over gas stations, including the family’s Pilot Travel Centers.

The Republican insists the proposal won't diminish conservation efforts in Tennessee or present a conflict of interest for him.

Haslam is proposing to combine the Solid Waste Disposal and the Petroleum Underground Storage Tank boards; the Water Quality Control and Oil and Gas boards; and the Conservation Commission and Tennessee Heritage Conservation Trust Fund board.

John McFadden, executive director of the Tennessee Environmental Council, said he doesn’t expect a noticeable change if the mergers happen because conservation interests are already sparsely represented.

“These boards are so heavily weighted to the industry side, and the reality is clean water and clean air don’t have much representation on them,” McFadden said in a phone interview.

“The flip side of that is you had six boards making really bad decisions, and now you’re only going to have three boards making really bad decisions,” he said.

Haslam, a former president of the Knoxville-based Pilot chain of truck stops, has pledged to recuse himself from matters that could the family business in which he still holds an undisclosed stake.

But the governor said he cleared the legislation on combining the boards that could affect Pilot before the measure was introduced.

“I actually talked with legal counsel and others to say that obviously that’s a place that does intersect with Pilot, but really that wasn’t changing the authority, it was just combining two boards,” Haslam said in a recent interview.

“In this case, I think any ramifications toward me — or increased or decreased decision-making from the governor — didn’t really impact that,” he said.

The Petroleum Underground Storage Tank Board, created a couple of decades ago with an act to protect public health and the environment from leaky underground fuel storage, oversees several matters that affect Pilot.

Fatal helicopter crash kills two The Associated Press

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Members of the UT Dance Team cheer after a victory over Georgia on Saturday, Feb. 4.

SYDNEY — Award-winning American cinematographer Mike deGruy and Australian television writer-producer Andrew Wight have died in a helicopter crash in eastern Australia, their employer National Geographic said Sunday.

Police said two people — an Australian pilot and an American passenger — died Saturday when their helicopter crashed soon after takeoff from an airstrip near Nowra, 97 miles (156 kilometers) north of Sydney, but did not immediately release the victims’ identities. Australia’s ABC News reported that

Wight was piloting the helicopter when it crashed.

National Geographic and “Titanic” director James Cameron confirmed the victims’ identities in a joint statement that said “the deep-sea community lost two of its finest” with the deaths of the two underwater documentary specialists.

David Bennett, president of Australia’s South Coast Recreational Flying Club, said the pair had set off to film a documentary when they crashed.

DeGruy, 60, of Santa Barbara, California, won multiple Emmy and British Academy of Film and Television Arts, or BAFTA, awards for cinematography.

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Thomas League, second-year Ph.D. graduate student in history, talks with members of the audience during the 7th Annual Marco Manuscript Workshop. The workshop features presentations that center on the reading and interpretation of manuscripts and covers a wide range of topics from Latin paleography to Late Antiquity.

1820 — Freed U.S. slaves depart on journey to Africa The first organized immigration of freed slaves to Africa from the United States departs New York harbor on a journey to Freetown, Sierra Leone, in West Africa. The immigration was largely the work of the American Colonization Society, a U.S. organization founded in 1816 by Robert Finley to return freed American slaves to Africa. However, the expedition was also partially funded by the U.S. Congress, which in 1819 had appropriated $100,000 to be used in returning displaced Africans, illegally brought to the United States after the abolishment of the slave trade in 1808, to Africa.

The program was modeled after British’s efforts to resettle freed slaves in Africa following England’s abolishment of the slave trade in 1772.

In 1787, the British government settled 300 former slaves and 70 white prostitutes on the Sierra Leone peninsula in West Africa. Within two years, most members of this settlement had died from disease or warfare with the local Temne people. However, in 1792, a second attempt was made when 1,100 freed slaves, mostly individuals who had supported Britain during the American Revolution and were unhappy with their postwar resettlement in Canada, established Freetown under the leadership of British abolitionist Thomas Clarkson.

During the next few decades, thousands of freed slaves came from Canada, the West Indies, and other parts of West Africa to the Sierra Leone Colony, and in 1820 the first freed slaves from the United States arrived at Sierra Leone.

In 1821, the American Colonization Society founded the colony of Liberia south of Sierra Leone as a homeland for freed U.S. slaves outside of British jurisdiction.

Most Americans of African descent were not enthusiastic to abandon their homes in the United States for the West African coast. The American Colonization Society also came under attack from American abolitionists, who charged that the removal of freed slaves from the United States strengthened the institution of slavery.

However, between 1822 and the American Civil War, some 15,000 African Americans settled in Liberia, which was granted independence by the United States in 1847 under pressure from Great Britain. Liberia was granted official U.S. diplomatic recognition in 1862. It was the first independent democratic republic in African history.

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1943 — Mussolini fires his son-in-law Wary of his growing antiwar attitude, Benito Mussolini removes Count Galeazzo Ciano, his son-in-law, as head of Italy’s foreign ministry and takes over the duty himself.

Ciano had been loyal to the fascist cause since its inception, having taking part in the march on Rome in 1922, which marked the Black Shirts’ rise to power in Italy. He graduated from the University of Rome with a degree in law, and then went to work as a journalist. Soon thereafter he began a career in Italy’s diplomatic corps, working as consul general in China. He married Mussolini’s daughter, Edda, in 1930; from there it was a swift climb up the political ladder: from chief of the press bureau to member of the Fascist Grand Council, Mussolini’s inner circle of advisers.

Ciano flew a bombing raid against Ethiopia in 1935-36 and was made foreign minister upon his return to Rome. Both because of his experience in foreign affairs and personal relationship to the Duce, Ciano became Mussolini’s right-hand man and likely successor. It was Ciano who promoted an Italian alliance with Germany, despite Mussolini’s virtual contempt for Hitler. Ciano began to suspect the Fuhrer’s loyalty to the “Pact of Steel” — a term Mussolini used to describe the alliance between Germany and Italy — when Germany invaded Poland without consulting its Axis partner, despite an agreement to the contrary Ciano made with his German counterpart, Joachim von Ribbentrop. Despite his concern about Germany’s loyalty, he felt that Italy stood to profit nicely from an alliance with the “winning side,” so when France fell to the Germans, Ciano advocated Italian participation in the war against the Allies.

After humiliating defeats in Greece and North Africa, Ciano began arguing for a peace agreement with the Allies. Mussolini considered this defeatist — and dismissed him as foreign minister, taking control of that office himself. Ciano became ambassador to the Vatican until he and other members of the Grand Council finally pushed Mussolini out of power in July 1943.

Mussolini never forgave his son-in-law for what he later considered a betrayal. Ciano soon fled Rome for the north when the new provisional government began preparing charges of embezzlement against him.

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

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MCSWEEN continued from Page 1 To date, McSween has worked at UT for 35 years, and his enthusiasm for both his work and his students never seems to fade, though he admits he does sometimes worry about the future.

“I’m getting towards the end of my career, and I worry that I’m going to run out of ideas before I run out of career,” McSween said with a laugh. “You know you work to generate these interesting ideas for research and you basically give them away to your students. And the students do wonderful things with them, but they take the idea with them when they go. And so you have to constantly come up with new things, and I just worry that I’m going to run out before I retire, you know?”

Nevertheless, in spite of such concerns, McSween’s colleagues and students have complete faith in him.

Research assistant professor Josh Emery spoke very highly of his co-worker, commending him on his work ethic and his zeal for his research.

“You know, he’s really impressive in every single

LERMAN continued from Page 1 During the finale, Lerman also got many of the audience members to stand up and dance.

Things were not always laughs and genitalia jokes though. During the latter half of his show, Lerman commentated on how there are so many portrayals of the gay community in mainstream culture now, and how he wished there had been so many when he was growing up.

“I wish that when I was growing up there had been that,” Lerman said. “I knew I wasn’t a villain growing up, and I knew that I wasn’t walking into rooms bowing. ... And those were really the representations of gay people at the time. Like cautionary tales to be avoided.”

The Central Program Council and the Women’s Coordinating Council sponsored the event, which

NEWS way,” Emery said. “He teaches, he’s won teaching awards in this department time and time again. He seems to really connect well with students, and I think a large reason for that, aside from his expertise in the field that he studies, is that he really exudes enthusiasm.”

Graduate student Arya Udry also praised McSween as a professor and as a very sincere mentor.

“I love what he does,” Udry said. “I mean I love listening to him. I took an independent study class with him and he had this big book on Mars. And he was just telling me everything about it, sometimes like a grandpa talking to his granddaughter because he knows everything. I mean it’s always a pleasure to listen to him. I think he’s a great teacher. He’s a hard worker.”

Geologist, researcher, colleague, teacher and mentor, McSween certainly has made a large impact on both his field and on the people around him.

“He really is still super active, and it’s impressive to watch how much he can do,” Emery said. “When you talk to him he’s up, he’s there. When he’s talking about science his eyes twinkle like a little kid. I mean it’s really just infectious.”

was a year-long planning process, according to Kristina Rubio, junior in psychology and member of WCC. “It’s been about a year from making a phone call to getting the performer on stage,” Rubio said. “It’s been well worth it. (Lerman) was very out-of-thebox. It was a user-friendly way of joking about the LGBT community, which is super taboo.”

Rubio wasn’t the only student who enjoyed the Tara Sripunvoraskul • The Daily Beacon show. Jessica Hurd, senior in history, was also thorA member of the women’s club lacrosse team dashes by a pair of South Carolina oughly entertained. defenders during a match on Sunday, Feb. 5.

The team is set to host a round-robin “I don’t think I stopped laughing the entire time,” tournament against KSU and Clemson on Saturday, Feb. 18.

Hurd said.

Lerman arranged how he wanted the audience to demand an encore at the end of the show. After saying the cue words, “You’ve been wonderful.

Thank you and goodnight,” the audience gave a standing ovation.

Those interested can find touring information, videos, song clips, photos, merchandise and Lerman’s blog at www.benlerman.net.

Memphis City schools work on contracts with local farms West Tennessee school district attempts to keep kids healthy The Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Farmers in West Tennessee are working on a plan to get local produce on lunch menus at Memphis City Schools by fall.

The school district has said it intends to spend $10 million for regional produce next year instead of getting its supply from the federal commodity program and commercial vendors.

David Levy of Willow Oaks Flower Farm in Brownsville, Tenn., told The Commercial Appeal that it’s a great opportunity for small farmers in the area.

“I haven’t seen an opportunity like this in a long time,” he said. “If small farmers don’t step up, the mega farmers will.”

Farmers interested in participating met last month with state school nutrition experts to come up with a plan that could put regional produce such as lettuce, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, collard greens and maybe even strawberries on lunch trays.

Growers from as far away as the Florida Panhandle attended the meeting at the Central Nutrition Center, which included discussion about the benefits and obstacles of contracting with

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schools.

Farmers said they have wanted to contract with school lunch programs for a long time.

“They’ve been afraid of safety issues, the logistics and the liability,” said Sarah White, head of the state’s school nutrition program. “I think what they are seeing is this is much more of a reality than they thought.”

The deal-maker for Levy is the new head of MCS’ school lunch program. Tony Geraci, who was named to the position in October, is known for bringing local produce to the Baltimore Public Schools when he was director of food service there.

Another incentive is changes that were announced recently for the school nutrition program.

Beginning in July, students must be offered a half-cup of a fruit or vegetable as one of three choices. The change means school districts will double what they spend on produce.

Phyllis Hodges with the school nutrition program in the state Department of Education said there isn’t a firm plan yet on how the program will work.

“It’s possible a farmer could sell to one school or to all 190 in Memphis City Schools,” she said.

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‘Branding’ project misplaced marketing I recently received an e-mail from Chancellor Jimmy Cheek announcing “the campus launch of our new branding campaign.” The e-mail went on to announce a new tagline, “Big Orange. Big Ideas,” and to tout the slogan as something that “captures the energy, achievements, and enthusiasm of our vibrant and everchanging university and its students, faculty, staff, and alumni. ” Go to the UT homepage (www.utk.edu) and you are greeted by the message, “Hello. Welcome to your brand.” An article by WBIR further quoted Chancellor Cheek saying that the new slogan is “an exclamation of pride, a reminder of who we are, a challenge to what we strive to be, and a promise to ourselves and to the world” . Last time I checked, however, people from both the UT campus and the outside community already had a pretty good idea of who they were and what UT was.

The university has even issued what they call a “brand book” to explain the new branding campaign. This pdfstyle booklet reduces the university and its students and professors to a series of catchy, active adjectives and nouns (not to mention colors and fonts) that are meant to market us to our “audience” (whoever that may be).

The brand book mentions “orange” a total of 37 times in 20 pages “brand” is used 21 times. By comparison,

“students” are mentioned 16 times, and professor(s) only three times. “Learn” is used only four times (all in the context of learning the UT brand or UT traditions), the word “education” is only mentioned a single time, and “teach” or “teaching” never used. To me there is something vitally wrong in a university that creates a marketing campaign around its colors and slogans, rather than focusing on its commitment to education and learning.

I have been at UT for the past three years, and I am glad to be a member of the UT community. However, the idea of branding our university does not inspire in me any of the feelings mentioned by Chancellor Cheek.

If anything, it gives me less pride in our school, not more.

A university is not a brand to be marketed; it is a place of learning and a community of people who believe in the value of education. I understand that the university wants to make itself — to quote the UT website — a “top 25 public research university,” but creating a brand and tagline is not the way to do it. Perhaps, rather than marketing UT with generic slogans, the powers-that-be at the university should think about what it is that would really make UT more competitive and attractive.

— Katherine T. Newell is a graduate student in history.

She can be reached at kthomp41@utk.edu.

UT should do more than branding When I received Chancellor Cheek’s e-mail this morning my heart stopped, and not just because I don’t like the color orange. “Our brand”? Is there no shelter from consumerism in this city? I can’t have a cup of coffee in the morning, get the news, drive to school without brands attacking me in swarms, everyone trying to promote themselves, sell themselves, slap a sticker on my bike, paste a label on my water, and if there is one respite, I would expect to find it on the university campus.

Can’t a university just be what it is? If we try to condense the spirit of higher learning into a brand then we end up with a can of tomato soup, not real ideas, and somewhere along the way, the Max Webers, Mikhail Bakhtins and Jean-Paul Sartres get squeezed out while they’re hidden away in some corner of the library studying. Do we all have to be cheerleaders, sell coupon books? Or can some of us be left alone from all this brand competition so that we can get some real research done?

I know Chancellor Cheek and the rest of UT’s administration would say that we’ll never get into the top 25 if our professors don’t wear sandwich boards and hand out orange balloons to applicants, but honestly the easiest way to get to the top 25 is just to physically destroy our competition.

No, but really, making it to the top 25 means that

we’ll have bumped someone out, and that kind of competition is precisely the opposite of the spirit of higher education. I would agree that a little competition is good for morale, but the UT administration is trying to run a brand across a finish line while the rest of the animal drags itself down the track. Do they care that our humanities faculty is one of the most underpaid in the country, that a number of campus workers are living below the poverty level? Sure we might increase our budget in general, but money isn’t the issue here, it’s what we do with the resources we have. And that’s a question of values.

I’m convinced that UT’s administration is out of touch with the spirit of higher education, a spirit which would persist if the University of Tennessee were to come crashing down tomorrow. It would reassert itself on a budget of bread, without a brand, without a website, without a national ranking, without an administration, but with only a group of honest professors and honest students. I am not at all hoping to see that day, but the simple relationship between teacher and student is the real foundation of our UT. What I do hope to see, then, is an end to this superficial UT branding and a reemergence of the will to learn, above all.

— Amien Essif is a senior in English. He can be reached at aessif@utk.edu.

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J.C. Penney stands against prejudice Off the Deep End by

Derek Mullins Friday, this newspaper published a wonderfully written and well-reasoned column by Wiley Robinson. The piece — titled “Better Alternative to Religion Bashing” — did a magnificent job of pointing out many of the pitfalls that exist between the opposing sides of the religious spectrum in America, namely Christians and atheists.

He quite rightly made note of the dangers posed on our society by unhindered religious fundamentalism, the inability of those who oppose that fundamentalism to get past the urge to hurriedly criticize and debunk “true believers,” and the need for all the sides to come to some sort of consensus and/or learn to live with one another for the good of our pluralistic society. It was a column that had sentiments with which I either agree or can certainly understand … which is exactly why I am going to do the very thing he said atheists and agnostics like me shouldn’t do: I’m going to bash religious yahoos.

Last week, a story broke that piqued my interest and frustrated me on multiple levels.

In their attempts to revitalize their brand and separate themselves from their numerous competitors, J.C. Penney has apparently initiated a makeover of their business model. From what I have come to understand, their stores will look different, their prices will change, they will become more customer-friendly with their return policies, and they will stop forcing their customers to clip coupons to get better deals on merchandise. In a world where retail has become increasingly impersonal and not so user friendly, it is somewhat refreshing — even for someone as anti-shopping as me — to see that a major retail corporation is hearing complaints raised by cashstrapped consumers.

To advertise these changes and to give a new, welcoming face for their new, welcoming philosophies on selling their merchandise, J.C. Penney contracted comedienne and daytime talk show host Ellen DeGeneres to appear in adverts and promotions as their official spokesperson. Considering the fact that DeGeneres is one of the most popular personalities on daytime television and a perennial favorite when discussions begin about who will be hosting which overhyped celebrity awards show, it makes complete and

total sense that a company looking to create a new, fresh and inviting vibe for its brand would reach out for the always energetic, optimistic and sunny comedienne.

Now, a rational person would no doubt surmise that Ellen’s appointment would have gone over well with almost the entirety of the general public. A rational person, in this instance, would unfortunately be wrong, for the One Million Moms organization — an extension of the American Family Association — announced their disapproval with the selection.

They proclaimed that they were disgusted with the decision and urged J.C. Penney to make a change.

How could anyone possibly hate on the voice of everyone’s favorite retarded fish from a certain Pixar flick? Well, for those of you who may have been living under a rock for the last decade or so, DeGeneres is openly gay. That’s right. The American Family Association, a group that openly and notoriously promotes a return to traditional family values and a higher moral standard, is opposed to having Ellen dance across our television screens promoting crap sold by J.C. Penney because she digs chicks instead of dudes. They’re calling for a full boycott and an immediate cessation of production for any ads that might be coming down the pipe.

Thankfully J.C. Penney more or less told the OMM and the AFA to go to hell.

If you have read this column over the last two years, you no doubt know that I have a big problem with groups trying to get companies to yank spokespeople because of the things they say or lives they lead (see my tirade on Aflac and Gilbert Gottfried). The fact that this is a bunch of religious whackos trying to bully an organization — though they may be a large corporation — into firing a woman because of who she chooses to love is nothing less than shameful.

The AFA is housed in Mississippi. That state has some of the highest teen pregnancy, obesity and poverty rates in America and is one of the worst in education. Perhaps the morons at the AFA should worry about their home state before worrying about a single lesbian tearing apart America’s moral fabric.

Look, I’m not a huge Ellen fan. She’s a bit too cheery, optimistic and predisposed to spontaneous dancing for my tastes. But if her ability to work and speak freely is threatened by religious bigots, then — as that annoying song from that other famous Pixar flick said — she’s got a friend in me.

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

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As you may have recently seen or heard, the organization named Anonymous has been in the public eye, acknowledging their protests and informing the public of their purported intent to, according to anonanalytics.com, promote “access to information, free speech, and transparency.” The tagline of that website reads “Acquiring information through unconventional means.”

These “unconventional means” include mostly the hacking of government websites and servers to obtain information that is normally kept secret from the public. Anonymous aims to reveal such secrets with an end goal being a government that doesn’t hide important information from or lie to its citizens.

This loosely tied group with no apparent structure or leadership seems bent on rendering what Thomas Jefferson said centuries ago — “When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.”

While the great country of America was built on ideals such as this, it appears that this faction of discontented citizens is taking both this quote and the ideas behind the movie “V for Vendetta” a little too far. While it is true that America has a great history of nonviolent protest, including events ranging from the Boston Tea Party to Rosa Parks, this group seems to be veering from the honorable path those heroes walked.

The list of cyber-crimes committed by this group grew on Friday, as the hackers were able to gain access to and publicize a conference call between the FBI and Scotland Yard, the headquarters of the London Metropolitan Police, according to the Wall Street Journal. If this group aims to eliminate the deceit they claim is so widespread within the government, then posting a call that contained mostly friendly conversation and joking between the two police agencies seems rather pointless.

This action was followed closely by the group announcing the same day that it would release email records concerning the deaths of 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians in 2005, according to The Washington Post.

Before I go any further, let me make one point

completely clear — I am not saying that the government is perfect and free of corruption.

Anyone with half a brain knows that hoping for a government completely free of misconduct is a lost cause. I also support the concept of utilizing our rights of free speech and assembly to protest what is seen as unfit or morally wrong.

What these people seem to be doing is more along the lines of trying to imitate the aforementioned “V for Vendetta.” This much was made abundantly clear in their much publicized “Message to the American People” video, which was posted to YouTube on Dec. 3, 2011. A large portion of this video consists of a quote taken straight from the film, including a part that says, “Where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance.” As far as I can see, those freedoms are still intact.

Don’t get me wrong, that is a great movie, one of the best of all time in the opinion of this journalist.

However, the circumstances presented in that movie are much different than what we are faced with today. Our government has not completely taken over our media outlets in order to spread false information and propaganda. Our government has not created a virus that was then used to wipe out tens of thousands of its own citizens. Our government has not instituted a curfew on all citizens.

In those circumstances, my opinion of Anonymous would be completely different. As we are not faced with such harsh restrictions and government actions, this group seems to be simply spewing a lot of hot air. Until there is a good enough reason for these hackers to do what they do best, I see them as simply criminals with a wealth of computer knowledge, too much time on their hands and a desire to make their mark on society.

They have created the umbrella of Anonymous so that they can justify, at least in their own minds, the havoc they continue to wreak in cyberspace. I bet these criminals sleep better at night by categorizing their crimes as protests intended to benefit the country in the long run. Conversely, I see no long-term benefit from the continuous disruptions of government and corporate activity.

Rather, these hackers are creating short-term frustration for many in society. That, my friends, does not constitute a revolution.

— Ashton Smith is a sophomore in communications. He can be reached at ssmit192@utk.edu.

Monday, February 6, 2011

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Beacon Fiction: Identical, Part Two By: Olivia Cooper The Samson twins were flung through darkness. John could feel his organs pressed against his spine and his skin felt taut on his face.

Craig acted as if this were as normal as riding the train to work, his eyes were watching for their destination, the Plane of Secrecy. It was an area found in between dimensions by Craig’s late friend and mentor, Dr. Shaw. It was a place only accessible by those with abilities such as Craig which meant he had the place all to himself.

Upon arrival, John could still see nothing, but felt the impact he made with the ground. Craig’s hands rested on John’s temples and blood rushed to his head as his vision became more acute and John could see the artifacts his brother had collected over the years.

Mysterious weapons, test tubes full of liquid surrounded by laser protection, a rock mound rolled in a cage then barked in John’s direction. Craig poured sand into the cage and the rocks calmed down.

“Dr. Shaw gave me Basalt here on our last expedition together,” Craig reminisced. “I knew that morning it would be the last time I would see him.”

John looked at his watch and sighed.

“I loved our father, but Dr. Shaw provided more opportunities for someone such as myself,” Craig said, then took a seat in an antique chair made of gold.

John had been staring at his shoes. He had tied one with a double knot and the other one with a single.

“I wish I knew the guy before he got old. I traveled back in time

to meet him once, and I became his inspiration to continue his studies, except he insisted we reconvene when he was older.”

John crossed his legs so he wouldn’t have to look at the uneven knots on his shoes.

“When he died, I started going back in time more often, just to see him. I made sure to avoid him, my past self and the Worm-People I accidentally caught in my time drift a few years back.”

John then slid his feet under the chair, out of sight.

“He seemed to have all the answers for me, he was the brains. I was never lost with him.”

John began to bounce his legs.

“I just feel like I need him now more than I ever have,” Craig choked out.

He couldn’t take it anymore. John leaned over and untied his shoes.

“Will you stop worrying about the knots on your shoes? Your brain won’t shut up about it!” Craig yelled.

“If I don’t now, I’ll just think about it more,” John replied.

“I’m trying to talk to you, my brother, my own blood, and all you’re worrying about is the knots on your shoes?”

“You’re not my brother,” John replied. “You’re just some freak who happened to share a uterus with me.”

Craig walked to his desk and picked up a picture of his wife, Lisa, in her wedding dress. She had insisted on a tiara which perched on top of her dark black hair. He ran his finger across her face, her arms posed with a bouquet, he paused at her stomach then traced the out-

line of her smile. He put the picture down and took a seat across from his brother.

“Do you want your child to hear you talk like this? About your own family?” he asked.

“Don’t talk to me about my kid. It’s going to grow up like normal.

None of this bull—” “I’m losing my powers, John.” Craig interrupted.

John froze, “All of them?”

“It started with them sort of just slowing down. It took longer to get my speed going, my heat vision wasn’t as strong, and I discovered last night that I can’t turn invisible anymore. That’s the only one I’ve completely lost so far, but more and more of them are losing power.”

John’s mind was in a race, but he blocked as many thoughts as he could so Craig wouldn’t hear.

“Take me back now. I need time to process this,” he said. His brother nodded, then the two flew through the dimensions and wound up back in the kitchen, time moving once more. John bid farewell to his brother and promised that he would call later. He couldn’t contain it anymore though and smiled at the news. No more super powers. No more heroic acts. He was weak, at a disadvantage to all his enemies. John laughed aloud to himself then ran out the back door.

— Olivia Cooper is a senior in creative writing. She can be reached at ocooper@utk.edu.

Anthem unites Russian protesters was what the whole protest movement needed,” said Stanislav Baranov, who contributed music and several lines to the song. “The lyrics came straight from his heart in like half an hour.”

A video of them and three others performing the song lit up the Internet, getting more than 1 million views in the first few days.

“We are not a professional band, we just expressed our discontent,” Vistitsky, who now runs a small construction business, said during an interview in the closed restaurant where the former paratroopers made the video. “My guitar skills are lousy, I’d be ashamed to play the song without the boys.”

During Saturday’s rally, Visitsky sang along to the music, unwilling to test his guitar playing in the subzero temperatures.

The paratroopers were joined on the stage by some of Russia's most respected cultural figures, who have played major roles in organizing the protests along with veteran politicians now in the opposition.

The artists’ role in the demonstrations “is more important because they have not been discredited, while politicians have been, by their former government jobs, suspected corruption and so on,” said political analyst Stanislav Belkovsky.

“Aesthetic forms of appealing to the protesters are more effective than political ones.”

The Associated Press MOSCOW — The most popular protest song in Moscow today comes from burly men in blue berets, unlikely heroes of a peaceful middle-class movement challenging the strongman rule of Vladimir Putin.

The simple but catchy song was performed at a protest rally for the first time this weekend, but many of the tens of thousands in the crowd already knew the words.

On a snowy square across a frozen river from the Kremlin, the protesters sang along with the chorus, which sums up their weariness with Putin as he intends to extend his 12 years in power by winning a presidential election in March: “You’re just like me, a man not a god. I’m just like you, a man not a sod.”

The former paratroopers’ song is just one of the many musical, literary and artistic creations that have inspired and enlivened the protest movement that is still largely the reserve of erudite, urban Russians.

Mikhail Vistitsky, a 45-year-old veteran of the elite force, wrote the lyrics after attending one of the first big anti-Putin demonstrations in late December.

“Mikhail had the idea that a song, an anthem,

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Golden spark off bench, 73-62 ClaySeal Assistant Sports Editor Trae Golden doesn’t like coming off the bench.

But if the sophomore guard has to, he’ll still figure out a way to do some damage.

Golden scored a team-high 16 points after being left out of the starting lineup for the first time this season, and Tennessee beat Georgia 73-62 Saturday night at Thompson-Boling Arena.

“I would lie to you if I said I was cool with it or happy with it,” Golden said. “I was down, but I didn’t hang my head.

“It motivated me more than usual to come off the bench.”

Tennessee (11-12, 3-5 SEC) had four players score in double-digits to get its eighth home win in nine games. Georgia (10-12, 1-7) dropped its fourth game in a row and falls in a tie for last place in the SEC. Its one conference win was a 53-57 overtime victory over the Vols on Jan. 18.

Skylar McBee earned his first career start, taking over point guard duties for Golden. He scored 10 points on 1-of-4 shooting (7-of-8 free throws).

“It was a good feeling, it was nice,” McBee said.

“Watching all these guys play growing up and being a Tennessee fan before I was ever a player, it’s special.

Especially to be from East Tennessee, know the tradition and how much this means to this community, this basketball program, it was a really good thing to get the start tonight.”

McBee, a junior from Rutledge, Tenn., started his career as a walk-on, and earned a scholarship his sophomore year under former coach Bruce Pearl.

Tennessee coach Cuonzo Martin said he doesn’t try to send messages with lineup changes, but hoped his decision would motivate Golden.

“I just felt like Trae needed to work hard on both ends of the floor and really lead us as a point guard,” Martin said. “Not necessarily in production or points,

but just his approach and intensity level on the defensive side on the ball and really taking pride in it.”

Sophomore guard Jordan McRae was also a spark off the bench for the Vols, scoring 11 of his 14 points in the second half.

It was a battle of free throws, as Tennessee shot 28of-37 (76 percent) from the line, and Georgia was 15of-20. Junior forward Jeronne Maymon scored nine of his 15 points from the charity stripe, and grabbed eight rebounds.

It was Maymon’s fourth game in a row with double-digit points. He was able to do his work despite he and Jarnell Stokes facing double-teams inside.

They even forced both Georgia forwards Marcus Thornton and Donte Williams to foul out.

“We just saw such awful foul trouble, and that obviously was a huge factor in the game,” said Bulldogs coach Mark Fox, who was ejected in the final minute of the game. “We had to play a football player (Jay Rome) five minutes in the first half just to stay out of foul trouble.”

Georgia, one of the worst shooting teams in the country, shooting just under 39 percent on the year, started the game on fire. The Bulldogs started 4-of-5 from beyond the arc, and finished 7-of-15.

They shot just 13-of-40 otherwise.

“I thought Georgia came out with confidence, had a little swagger to them. That helps (on the road),” Martin said.

Georgia started the second half on an 11-2 run to take a 39-32 lead at the 16:33 mark. Then the Vols took a 61-51 lead with 3:25 left thanks to a 29-12 run.

Ken Caldwell-Pope led the Bulldogs with 16 points, Dustin Ware added 15 (3-of-4 from beyond the arc) and Gerald Robinson had 13.

Tennessee was able to keep up with the Bulldogs shooting for some of the first half, but fell behind by eight at with 5:10 before the break. The Vols ended the half on an 11-2 run, giving them a 30-28 halftime lead.

Lady Vols bounce back, 82-61 DavidCobb Staff Writer Tennessee won the opening tipoff, heaved the ball up-court, missed a layup and then scored on a put back from senior forward Alicia Manning, all within the first eight seconds of Sunday’s 82-61 victory over Auburn.

The frenetic sequence foreshadowed the game that followed. No. 8 Tennessee forced Auburn into 23 turnovers, which the Lady Vols turned into 21 points, the amount which separated the teams at the final buzzer.

“We wanted to extend (our pressure) and speed the game up,” UT associate head coach Holly Warlick said.

Senior guard Briana Bass took that mission upon herself. The fan-favorite recorded two steals in eight minutes of first-half action.

Her effort impressed junior guard Taber Spani.

“I think Brianna’s play was tremendous in all aspects, (especially) her leadership and her ability to get out and guard,” Spani said. “As soon as she came in, not only did the crowd go crazy, but I think our energy level was picked up and we were playing that high-

pressure defense, and she was the point person on that.”

Bass’s pressure helped force junior Auburn point guard Najat Ouardad into committing six turnovers.

“She doesn’t try to do too much,” UT coach Pat Summitt said in her press release. “She really plays within herself. I thought she did a really nice job with Auburn’s pressure defense and guarding Ouardad.

Senior forward Glory Johnson and freshman guard Arial Massengale each scored 14 points to lead the team offensively.

Sophomore guard Meighan Simmons added 13, and senior guard Shekinna Stricklen recorded a double-double with 11 points and 10 rebounds to round-out a balanced Tennessee attack.

Auburn cut the UT lead to 6153 with 6:51 to go in the game.

The Lady Vols did not waiver again, closing the game with a 218 run.

After faltering down the stretch in the team’s first SEC home-loss since 2008 on Thursday against South Carolina, Johnson was pleased with the contrast in her squad’s play today.

“That’s not the way Tennessee

plays,” Johnson said of the loss to the Gamecocks. “Having positive energy on the floor helps so much, and you can see out there we were smiling and if someone messes up, someone else picks them up.

It’s a lot better that way.”

With the win the Lady Vols improve to 17-6 (8-2 SEC).

“Anytime you score 52 points in the paint, you’re doing something right at Tennessee,” Warlick said. “Because that’s our goal, is to score in the paint, and to score in transition. I’m proud of our effort.

We can still continue to get better, but it was a good win for us today.”

UT will travel to play Vanderbilt on Thursday before returning home to face No. 6 Kentucky on Feb. 13th.

George Richardson • The Daily Beacon

Trae Golden looks for a lane between defenders during a game against Georgia on Saturday, Feb. 4. Golden led the game with 16 points to help the Volunteers in a home win over Georgia, 73-62.