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Address spells out UT’s budget Deborah Ince Staff Writer In his annual State of the State Address given on Jan. 30, Gov. Bill Haslam presented his balanced budget proposal for 2012 to 2013. That proposed budget included a significant amount of money to be allocated to UT that will aid the university in improving its overall academic campaign. “First of all — the State of the State Address — the theme of it was: ‘Believe in Better,’” Chancellor Jimmy Cheek said. “Believe you could be better, basically. And of course that’s what the
University of Tennessee believes all the time, right? Because we can be a better place, and that’s all we want to do.” Gov. Haslam’s budget allocates a total of $9.3 million to be given to UT. After factoring in the $3.2 million budget reduction the university experienced, UT will benefit a total of $6.1 million in recurring, which is operating money from the governor’s proposal. The money given to the university will be used for three main purposes. First, there will be a 2.5 percent salary increase for university faculty and staff. The new money given to the university will also add $4 million to the overall funding formula for higher education. At UT, the funding formula is deter-
mined by a number of different factors, including how many students are able to successfully complete credit hours, how many students are retained at the university and how many students are able to graduate in a six-year time period. Adjustments for insurance and retirement cost are also factored into the $9.3 million budget allocation. Second, the governor began funding Tennessee Higher Education Commission request for new buildings on university campuses. Haslam proposed to fund the first building to be built at UT, focusing on the sciences and STEM program. See HASLAM on Page 3
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Washington passes gay marriage bill The Associated Press OLYMPIA, Wash. — The last time same-sex marriage was debated in the state Capitol, the Legislature’s sole gay lawmaker watched as his colleagues passed the state’s version of the Defense of Marriage Act in 1998 banning gay marriage. Fourteen years after that “lonely moment,” Sen. Ed Murray stood in the wings as lawmakers approved his bill allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry. “I didn’t think I would be in office to see marriage equality passed,” Murray, D-Seattle, said Wednesday night. “It was incredibly moving to watch a new generation of gay and lesbian lawmakers in the House standing up and carrying the torch.” The Washington House passed the bill on a 55-43 vote earlier in the day. Supporters in the public-viewing galleries cheered as many on the Democratic side of the House floor hugged. The state Senate approved the measure last week. Wednesday’s vote sends the bill to Democratic Gov. Chris Gregoire, who is expected to sign it into law next week. She issued a statement saying it was “a major step toward completing a long and important journey to end discrimination based on sexual orientation.”
The passage came a day after a federal appeals court declared California’s ban on gay marriage unconstitutional, ruling it was a violation of the civil rights of gay and lesbian couples. Democratic Rep. Jamie Pedersen, a gay lawmaker from Seattle who also has sponsored gay rights bills for several years, cited Tuesday’s ruling by the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals during his remarks on the House floor. He noted a section that stated “marriage is the name that society gives to the relationship that matters most between two adults.” Several Republicans argued that the bill goes against the tradition of marriage. Rep. Jay Rodne, R-Snoqualmie, said the measure “severs the cultural, historical and legal underpinnings of the institution of marriage.” Several Republican amendments were rejected, including one that would have added private businesses and individuals, such as bakers and photographers, to an exemption in the measure that doesn’t require religious organizations or churches to perform marriages and doesn’t subject them to penalties if they don’t marry gay or lesbian couples. Another would have required a onemonth residency requirement before people could get married in Washington. See GAY MARRIAGE on Page 3
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Job fair offers students interaction with major corporations, local charities Alex Pierce Staff Writer Hundreds of students crammed into the University Center ballroom on Wednesday, as the UT Career Services department hosted numerous organizations seeking employees and interns for its annual Summer Job and Internship Fair. The fair included over 72 organizations and businesses, all seeking student interns and employees. For this event, students were encouraged to dress professionally and bring multiple copies of their resumes. Participating employers at the job fair determine what students they will interview further based on their resumes. The number of students each organization looked for varied greatly, ranging from one to 30. “Students are missing a great opportunity when they miss the job fair,” DeAnna Bonner, the assistant director of Career Services at UT and coordinator of the event, said. “All of these employers are here specifically because they are looking for students to hire.” A variety of organizations participated in the job fair. Local businesses as well as multinational corporations were featured. Internships and summer jobs were showcased to students, each company using both visual presentations and employee recruiters. There were also a handful of volunteer organizations offering summer opportunities. One organization, the Boys and Girls Club, offered volunteer work as well as employment and intern programs. Vanessa Jones, the human resources manager for the local branch of Boys and Girls club, said the charity typically takes on 25 to 30 new students during the summer months. Opportunities are present in Knox, Blount, Loudon and North Anderson counties. Another business present at the Summer Job and Internship Fair was Mars,
Incorporated. The company manufactures products such as “petcare, chocolate, gum and confections, food, drinks, and symbioscience,” according to its official website. It is most known for its production of M&M’s, Snickers, Dove and a variety of other chocolate brands. “In a student employee, we’re looking for a willingness to re-locate, presence, attitude and of course, a nice resume” Ralf Reiser, the innovation manager for packaging at Mars, said. Reiser has seen the success of the Summer Job and Internship Fair first-hand. “Last summer we hired an intern from this university, and this year, he was hired full-time,” Reiser said. Other participants in the job fair had reason to appreciate the event. Unilever, a company that produces many well-known brand names such as Dove, Ben & Jerry’s and Lipton, brought along three recruiters who were alumni of UT. Although all three are now geographically dispersed throughout the United States, they received their start with Unilever at a UT job fair. One of these alumni, Justin Brown, is now a customer supply chain manager for Unilever. “I’m an example of the success of this (program),” Brown said. Companies also sent representatives to UT from the Atlanta Hawks, Coca-Cola, Knoxville Utilities Board (KUB), Target and U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, among many others. “The fair is a mix of everything: the corporate world, government agencies, charities, a few camps,” Bonner said. “Everything is represented. There’s something here for every major.” The Summer Job and Internship Fair is one of several job fairs put on by Career Services. The Spring Job Fair is geared mostly towards students who will be graduating in May 2012 and will take place in March, said Bonner.
First lady advocates for child health, Iowa rises to occasion The Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa — She did some wild arm swings, sharp robotic turns and pulsing fist pumps. Michelle Obama busted out a few new moves Thursday to mark the second anniversary of her campaign against childhood obesity with a few new friends — 14,000 or so, it turns out. The first lady rocked out with thousands of sixth- to ninth-graders at a Des Moines arena on the first stop of a three-day trip to highlight her “Let’s Move” campaign. It was a giant pep rally for eating right and exercising, complete with confetti, balloons and a towering birthday cake made of fruit. The first lady and crowd revved up by doing the Interlude, a dance that started in a dorm room at the University of Northern Iowa and went viral from there. Mrs. Obama chose Iowa for her first stop because the state is working to become the nation’s healthiest state by
2016, as measured by the Gallup organization. It ranked 19th in 2010, the most recent rankings. She sold healthy eating to the kids as something fun, but also dangled the bait that it could help them “pass your tests and get good grades in school.” There were plenty of sports celebrities on hand to help pump up the crowd, including gymnast Shawn Johnson, figure skater Michelle Kwan, NASCAR champion Carl Edwards, Iowa State basketball coach Fred Hoiberg and former WNBA star Tamika Catchings. The first lady took on the issue of childhood obesity because almost a third of U.S. children are at least overweight, and about 17 percent are obese. In the two years since Mrs. Obama launched her campaign, she has brought substantial new visibility to the childhood obesity issue and has prodded schools, families, restaurants, grocery stores, Tia Patron • The Daily Beacon doctors, local communities and Sophmore baseball player Ethan Bennett and his brother Cody perform Rocky Top during a timeout during a others to do more to tackle the Vols game on Feb. 8. The brothers also performed the National Anthem before the game. problem.
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Cristina Townsend, junior in math, and Meagan Clifft, junior in English, swipes a student’s ID before the showing of “50/50” in the UC Auditorium on Feb. 3. On Feb. 17, the UT Film Committee will be showing “American Psycho.” The showing starts at 8 p.m. and will be free for all.
1846 — Mormons begins exodus to Utah Their leader assassinated and their homes under attack, the Mormons of Nauvoo, Illinois, begin a long westward migration that eventually brings them to the valley of the Great Salt Lake in Utah. The members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had been persecuted for their beliefs ever since Joseph Smith founded the church in New York in 1830. Smith’s claim to be a modern-day prophet of God and his acceptance of polygamy proved controversial wherever the Mormons attempted to settle. In 1839, Smith hoped his new spiritual colony of Nauvoo in Missouri would provide a permanent safe haven for the Saints, but anti-Mormon prejudice there proved virulent. Angry mobs murdered Smith and his brother in June 1844 and began burning homes and threatening the citizens of Nauvoo. Convinced that the Mormons would never find peace in the United States, Smith’s successor, Brigham Young, made a bold decision: the Mormons would move to the still wild territories of the Mexican-controlled Southwest. Young had little knowledge of the geography and environment of the West and no particular destination in mind, but trusting in God, he began to prepare the people of Nauvoo for a mass exodus. On this day in 1846, Young abandoned Nauvoo and began leading 1,600 Mormons west across the frozen Mississippi in subzero temperatures to a temporary refuge at Sugar Grove, Iowa. Young planned to make the westward trek in stages, and he determined the first major stopping point would be along the Missouri River opposite Council Bluffs. He sent out a reconnaissance team to plan the route across Iowa, dig wells at camping spots, and in some cases, plant corn to provide food for the hungry emigrants. The mass of Mormons made the journey to the Missouri River, and by the fall of 1846, the Winter Quarters were home to 12,000 Mormons. After a hard journey across the western landscape, Young and his followers emerged out onto a broad valley where a giant lake shimmered in the distance. With his first glimpse of this Valley of the Great Salt Lake, Young reportedly said, “This is the place.” That year, some 1,600 Mormons arrived to begin building a new civilization in the valley. The next year, 2,500 more made the passage. By the time Young died in 1877,
more than 100,000 people were living in the surrounding Great Basin, the majority of them Mormons. Young, however, had not escaped the troubles that plagued the Church in the East. By early 1848, the Mormons’ haven became a U.S. territory after the American victory in the Mexican War. The Mormons had finally found a permanent home along the Great Salt Lake, but its isolation and freedom from persecution was short-lived. 1962 — Soviets exchange American for captured Russian spy Francis Gary Powers, an American who was shot down over the Soviet Union while flying a CIA spy plane in 1960, is released by the Soviets in exchange for the U.S. release of a Russian spy. The exchange concluded one of the most dramatic episodes of the Cold War. Powers had been a pilot of one of the high altitude U-2 spy planes developed by the United States in the late-1950s. Supposedly invulnerable to any Soviet antiaircraft defense, the U-2s flew numerous missions over Russia, photographing military installations. On May 1, 1960, Powers’ U-2 was shot down by a Soviet missile. Although Powers was supposed to engage the plane’s self-destruct system (and commit suicide with poison furnished by the CIA), he and much of the plane were captured. The United States at first denied involvement with the flight, but had to admit that Powers was working for the U.S. government when the Soviets presented incontrovertible evidence. In retaliation, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev called off a scheduled summit with President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Powers was put on trial, convicted of espionage, and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment. In February 1962, the Soviet Union announced that it was freeing Powers because of a petition from the prisoner’s family. American officials made it quite clear, however, that Abel was being exchanged for Powers — a spy-fora-spy trade, not a humanitarian gesture on the part of the Soviet Union. The U.S. government announced that in exchange for Powers, it would release Col. Rudolf Abel, a Russian convicted of espionage in the United States. On February 10, Abel and Powers were brought to the Gilenicker Bridge that linked East and West Berlin for the exchange. After the men were successfully exchanged, Powers was flown back to the United States. — This Day in History is courtesy of History.com.
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HASLAM continued from Page 1 “It’s a $94 million renovation of Strong Hall,” Cheek said, “and that $94 million, the state will pay 75 percent of that debt service, and we will have to pay 25 percent of that debt service. That building will house science, laboratories and teaching classrooms and faculty offices, but it will be a science laboratory building.” Both Chancellor Cheek and Vice Chancellor Nichols commented that UT’s emphasis on the science building ties directly into the university’s top 25 initiative to advance UT as a research institution. “But that doesn’t say that the other parts of the campus aren’t also important,” Cheek said. “It’s just this is our most critical need.” The growth of the STEM program at UT in the last five years has played a large factor in the university’s decision to build more science-focused buildings. “Our STEM majors are up 28 percent,” Nichols said. Along with funding an initial science building, the governor also proposed $3 million of planning money for the construction of an additional science building. “So we not only got a building proposed to be funded this year, but we also got money to start planning our next building for next year,” Cheek said. Each building will cover over 200,000 square feet with the second building being built on a lot next to the Jessie Harris Building. Third, $9 million has been proposed for deferred maintenance around campus such as electrical upgrades and miscellaneous issues. Only three buildings in the entire state of Tennessee are being funded through the governor’s budget proposal — one at MTSU, one at UT and one at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center in Memphis. Cheek added that the General Assembly still has to approve the budget, but the voting results should be known by the end of
GAY MARRIAGE continued from Page 1 The proposal would take effect 90 days after the session ends next month, but opponents have promised to fight back with a ballot measure that would allow voters to overturn the legislative approval. If opponents gather enough signatures to take their fight to the ballot box, the law would be put on hold pending the outcome of a November election. They must turn in more than 120,000 signatures by June 6 if they want to challenge the proposed law. Otherwise gay couples could wed starting in June. Washington state has had domestic partnership laws since 2007, and more than a dozen other states have provisions, ranging from domestic partnerships to gay marriage, supporting same-sex couples. Gay marriage is legal in New York, Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New
April. Over the last four years, UT has endured a total of $60 million in budget cuts due to the economic recession, amounting to a 30 percent fiscal drop in what the state of Tennessee previously gave to the university. However, with a gain in $6.1 million with Haslam’s new budget proposal, Cheek said that UT can slowly start to regain its budgetary losses. “So we’re moving in the right direction now, but we’ve really lost a lot of money,” Cheek said. “And that’s why we have so much deferred maintenance on the campus. That’s why we have fewer professors on the campus, that’s why we have fewer classes taught, (and have) larger classes because we we’ve got a few more students than we’ve had, and we’ve got less professors and less money.” Cheek also assured that there are steps UT can take in the coming year, such as improving test scores, to increase the chances of the university receiving more funding in the future. “The better we do in that, the more competitive we’re going to be,” Cheek said. The chancellor also hopes that improvement in the overall economic atmosphere will aid UT in receiving more funding. “Well we hope the economy continues to improve,” Cheek said. “And we hope that the governor will look at higher education as a place to continue to make investments. ... Higher education is one place where you reduce budgets, but it hurts our educational system.” Both Cheek and Nichols stressed the significance of Haslam’s budget proposal on the students and faculty at UT. “First of all, a major new building on campus is just game-changing for us,” Cheek said. “If you’ll go walk through the Haslam Business Building or the engineering building and look at those two buildings and say, ‘Wouldn’t it be nice for us to be able to have this kind of facility all across the campus?’ We’re trying to do things like (renovation) on the campus to make our facilities much better, much more modern, much more effective, so we can do a better job at instructing and teaching students.”
Hampshire, Vermont and Washington, D.C. Lawmakers in New Jersey are expected to vote on gay marriage next week, and Maine could see a gay marriage proposal on the November ballot. Proposed amendments to ban gay marriage will be on the ballots in North Carolina in May and in Minnesota in November. California’s voter-approved same-sex marriage ban, known as Proposition 8, was rejected by a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit on Tuesday. The panel gave gaymarriage opponents time to appeal before allowing samesex weddings to resume. The judges also said the decision only applies to California, even though the court has jurisdiction in nine western states. Washington state’s momentum for same-sex marriage has been building and the debate has changed significantly since 1998, when lawmakers passed Washington’s ban on gay marriage. The
constitutionality of that law ultimately was upheld by the state Supreme Court in 2006. But earlier that year, a gay civil rights measure passed after nearly 30 years of failure, signaling a change in the Legislature. The quick progression of domestic partnership laws in the state came soon after, with a domestic partnership law in 2007. An “everything but marriage” expansion was later upheld by voters years later.
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The Johnson Swingtet Band plays French music during the International House French Culture Night on Feb. 8. The I-House will start Japanese week Feb. 20 with a movie night.
LA school fires entire faculty The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Sinister allegations of abuse by at least two teachers in a Los Angeles school have forced awkward discussions as parents warn youngsters that people they trust — pastors, teachers, even relatives — might do things that could hurt them. It was a grim reminder of risks faced by kids, even within the safety of school walls. Sergio Vasquez, 30, said he talked with his daughter for 45 minutes after she watched a news report about the disturbing cases that prompted the Los Angeles Unified School District to replace every employee at Miramonte Elementary School, located in a poor neighborhood about 8 miles from downtown. With his 8-year-old daughter Hayley at his side, he said he told her to speak up if she sees anything suspicious, or if any teacher
tries to manipulate her by giving her candy, or touching her hair or shoulders. “We told her her body is private and nobody has the right to touch her,” said Vasquez, as he stood outside an elementary school near downtown. “No teacher should put his hands on you and tell you ‘Oh how beautiful you are.’” Kari Morales, who lives in the city’s Echo Park neighborhood, teaches her 5- and 6year-old children about keeping up a guard. “It’s necessary, especially now, with priests, with anybody. You can’t trust anybody. I talk to my kids all the time,” she said. “I just tell my kids, ‘If you feel something is not right, you need to say something.’” On Wednesday, investigators revealed they seized 200 additional inappropriate photographs of children allegedly taken by teacher Mark Berndt, who is accused of blindfolding and gagging students and having some eat cookies iced with his semen.
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‘Luck’ has talented actors, slow plot Robby O’Daniel Recruitment Editor HBO’s new drama “Luck,” following the intersecting lives of people at the racetrack, is like a horse race itself. It can be exciting if you have a stake in the outcome, but otherwise, it is dull to watch the same nameless horses run again and again. The main action of the first two episodes comes from a ragtag band of gamblers and their pursuit of riches. Marcus, Renzo, Jerry and Lonnie all get together to place a bet for the Pick Six, a series of six horse races. Thanks to Jerry’s knack for picking and some good fortune, the group winds up with $2.6 million to split amongst themselves. The latter half of the Michael Mann-directed pilot showcases the gripping drama of whether or not the team will run the gauntlet and get away with the prize. Some of the drama is taken away because they placed bets on every horse in the final race, assuring they would win. However, only two of the horses netted the $2.6 million, while the other horses in the race varied in winnings if they won. It’s not as complicated as it sounds, considering the show goes to great pains to repeat the scenarios. While it is not as harrowing as placing all their money on just one horse in the final race, it’s a more believable gambit. But things do not end with the win. The group still has unexplained IRS troubles to deal with, which is why they wait until the next day to claim the winnings. They continue to lay low in the aftermath, from fear of violence or scheming of others to get away their hard-earned money. It’s interesting to see how each character deals with the fortune. A fun irony places Jerry, the mastermind of the win, blowing most of his money at the poker table before winning most of it back. Here is where the horse race analogy comes in. The show’s second episode is so much like its first because it relies on the action of a simple game. Will Jerry finally win at the poker table or completely run out of money? By now, this short-term drama is already beginning to grow tired. As a viewer, it is difficult to root for someone who continually puts his
money on the line for seemingly no reason. This results in much of the intrigue of the show coming from character moments, but they are too few and far between. Kevin Dunn is sympathetic as the gasping-for-air, wheelchair-bound Marcus. Marcus’ reaction to the winnings is to hide and lecture the others for showing they have money by gambling (Jerry), buying stylish suits (Lonnie) or trying to claim a horse (Renzo). In the end, Marcus is watching his next bet by himself. Even though his horse wins the race, he has no one to share his win with, and his smile droops. Dunn conveys this feeling so well, looking around nervously at the track for someone to talk to. It is easier for viewers to root for Marcus to get his friends back than it is to worry about what happens in the next race. This might sound like sacrilege, but in the show’s early goings, the story centering on Chester “Ace” Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) is the least engaging. It is too obtuse in these beginning stages, metering out to viewers small spoonfuls of Ace’s past and his plans to go after those that caused his three-year incarceration. Hoffman himself is a series strength, if only because he routinely makes poorly written material captivating through his delivery and presence. A line like “I don’t trust anyone, even myself” is so melodramatic, but Hoffman’s defeated delivery, sitting on his hotel bed and talking to his friend, makes it work. Likewise, Ace’s violent outburst in the pilot episode feels out of place for Ace’s character from the rest of the first two episodes, but Hoffman, once again, saves the moment with his delivery, mumbling almost as an afterthought about ripping the buttons off his shirt. Yes, there is some good material in “Luck,” and certainly a number of good actors, including Richard Kind and Nick Nolte. But when the main story — Ace’s — is the least compelling, one has to wonder about devoting an hour to “Luck” each week. When so many of the side plots — the female Irish jockey, the famous trainer — are dull or going nowhere, one has to wonder how much of the hour is entertaining. But one thing is certain. Few better theme songs exist in television than the one “Luck” has. It’s just a shame that Massive Attack’s “Splitting the Atom” will linger in one’s mind longer than the show’s narrative. — Robby O’Daniel is a graduate student in communications. He can be reached at rodaniel@utk.edu.
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Hold your beliefs, toss your prejudice T he Bur den o f I n fa l l i b i l i t y by
Wiley Robinson I like to think of myself as an agnostic, not an atheist. It can be difficult to pinpoint the most relevant differences between the two in the context of being an American — and all of the woeful complexity that comes with. I also reject the idea that agnosticism, regarding belief and non-belief, can only describe skepticism about a person’s inescapable theism or atheism, for example, that there is no “pure class” agnostic, but merely agnostic theists or agnostic atheists. It should be common knowledge now how the two titles differ in their rejection of theism, but the distinction is something that transcends the fate of being just another compartmentalizable title in a polarizing cultural conflict. Agnosticism asks the important question: How can we assume to know anything about the actual existence of anthropomorphized or amorphous deities of any sort? We cannot, so we will say nothing more on the matter. Be it in the spirit of objectivity, or just consistency, agnostics should proudly define themselves as people altogether unconcerned with taking stands about things that, seemingly by their very nature, there cannot be evidence for. Science cannot set its most beloved theories in stone for the simple yet absolutely critical line of reasoning which claims that the most basic conditions that make up our reality are subject to change. To me, this is perhaps the most beautiful realization a sentient species can have about its existence. Though no longer having gravity, whatever that is, would make it difficult, if we were still alive the scientific method could still be employed to try to figure out what happened. What human law could possibly have the final say on the sun’s behavior? Or could claim to predict every possible physical outcome in the universe? We can’t even come to terms with the inherent unsustainability of an economy built on the same growth principles as cancer (and negatively label countries whose populations and growth are finally leveling out). We can only detect the detectable. But there can be nothing said on the matter of the value of belief and disbelief, being at once below and above anything science is physically able to concern itself with. Sociology and history can do a bang up job finding patterns between belief and non-belief in America with
things like population movements and geography. And yet we find Richard Dawkins using metaphysical arguments to put a value on that fictitious group of people only referred to in desperation and ignorance; people who have, since birth, consciously made every (obviously binary) decision regarding who they would become. How is the prejudice of theists and atheists not as abhorrent as automatically triggered racism when you involuntarily hold someone personally accountable for every negative thing you associate their beliefs with? And there is nothing at all in this world like intellectually validated bigotry. Apologetics is merely absurd, but atheists use the pretense of having the morality of history and politics on their side when they criticize religion. They say Christianity has caused more suffering than war, and cruelly persecutes homosexual expression, and cuts funding from Planned Parenthood which provides so many free health services (like cancer screenings) trying to look pro-life. And that religion is indeed responsible for most war (I’ve heard it’s economics, but whatever) and that it defends child molesters and caused 9/11 and is ultimately responsible for keeping undeterred science from having made the world a technological utopia free from all violence and disease. And because of space restraints, I’ll go ahead and say it doesn’t matter to what degree that you’re right (you are) because so many atheists use the exact same over-simplified, conflict-based, hive mind, assumptiondependent rhetoric that religion and politics employ. You guys aren’t motivated by the truth. You just want to feel pissed off and justified about something with the low validation of social reinforcement (Reddit r/atheism). This is my point of contention with belief and non-belief, theist and atheist. What gets you motivated to defend your values and, I dare say, feelings, is no different whether you’re reading “The God Delusion” or holding a “God Hates Fags” sign. And atheists, with the implication that they’ve voluntarily exposed themselves to ideas and stuff, have way less of an excuse to act out their primitive, predictable, usversus-them impulses. Culture is absurd. The Protestant ethic has weaseled its way into our political process and ability to buy alcohol on Sunday, and I get the resentment. But don’t be intellectually threatened by things that aren’t worth it — and if you can’t help yourself, don’t over-think it. God may not be detectable, but what is detectable about belief and non-belief? Brain activity. Last time I checked, science had all brain scanners. — Wiley Robinson is a junior in ecology and evolutionary biology. He can be reached at rrobin23@utk.edu.
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As college students, we begin to experience one of the greatest joys of adulthood: independence. Whether it be from high school, our parents, curfews or living at home, college presents the opportunity to break free and live on our own. We have the ability to stay out as late as we want, watch whatever we want on television, keep our rooms looking like disasters and eat nothing but Easy Mac for weeks on end. But as all of us have discovered, often through our own trials by fire, with independence comes a whole new level of responsibility. Eventually, we all have to do our own laundry (seriously, we really do), write our papers, clean the apartment and make sure we get enough sleep to ensure we don’t accidentally snooze our way through our midterm exams. No matter how hard we fight it at first, all college students come to the realization that there are some things that we cannot rely on someone else to do. Even our best friends will eventually refuse to iron our shirts, no matter how much we beg. The schoolwork we encounter in college also comes with a certain level of independence and responsibility. Beyond the simple fact that we often can’t use our big brothers’ old tests to cheat or that our grade point average actually counts for something now, the kinds of things we choose to study and the way we go about studying them require an amount of self-determination and accountability. When we choose to pursue a particular major, we ultimately are responsible only to ourselves to make sure that we are capable of doing well in the field we have chosen. We are the only ones responsible for our study habits, for making sure we leave enough time to do our readings and write our lab reports. More importantly, though, we have to make sure that we actually understand the material we are studying, a phenomenon that many of us did not experience in high school. In college, and especially in upper-level classes, it is no longer acceptable to memorize the material, regurgitate
it for the test, and then promptly forget it. Even if we manage to get through college this way, when we begin our jobs, it will be crucial that we can recall what we learned in school and apply it to what we do professionally. We must ensure that the independence we exert in our coursework does not take precedent over the responsibility we have to ourselves to ensure that we do our work well, but it is very freeing to be able to control our own schedules and sign up for the classes we wish to take. Gone, too, are the days of earning A’s for completion grades and getting gold stickers at the top of our papers. College professors are not hired to hold our hands throughout our years in school. The student-professor relationship in college is more like a contract between two parties: Each promises to uphold their end of the bargain, and each is dependent on the other to do his or her part. Professors teach so that we can learn, not so that we can walk away with perfect grades and no effort. The amount we learn from our college professors is contingent on the amount we are willing to learn, which also requires a fair amount of responsibility and initiative on our parts. However, one of the signs of becoming independent is learning how to use the resources available to us without being guided to them. One of the hardest, and yet most rewarding, lessons of growing up is that instead of being handed solutions to our problems, we have to seek them out ourselves. Our parents are not there anymore to help us with our math problems or to take our temperatures and give us medicine when we get sick. We are not required to stay during extra help after school to ask our teachers questions about our homework. If we have questions about an assignment, it is our responsibility to visit our professors during office hours and to go in prepared, having at least tried to answer our own questions. Although at first it may seem like a frustrating amount of work, by doing this, we earn our professors’ respect and can even come away having formed lasting relationships with them. Independence in college does require initiative and responsibility, but can ultimately yield extremely rewarding results. — Sarah Russell is a senior in history. She can be reached at srrusse22@utk.edu.
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Ballet takes new spin on classic child’s tale Chris Flowers Staff Writer The dancers of GO! Contemporary Dance Works will take The Bijou down the rabbit hole this weekend with the world premiere of ALICE. The production is a full-length contemporary ballet based on Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” The show blends ballet and contemporary dance to interpret the classic fantasy on stage. UT student Katie Banks, freshman in communications, found a new challenge with her part as Alice’s sister. “We are doing a lot of aerial work, which we have done that in the past, but every time you do it it’s a whole new aspect of the show,” Banks said. “I’ve worked in a harness and a lyra (aerial hoop) in the past, but this year I’m working with a swing, which has a much different feel. We just tried it out today and it’s very high in the air so it swings back-and-forth a lot, but I’ll get used to it.” Another new element for the dancers will be the use of a projection screen. Projections will fall on the dancers as well as the screen in order to achieve effects like Alice being underwater. It is meant to serve as a moving background and reinforce the storyline while not distracting from the dancing. In Banks’ favorite scene, which features Alice with the hookah-smoking caterpillar, there will be a giant mushroom on
screen with smoke rings floating around. “We’ve made the smoke rings into a really pretty dance with partnering so there’s a bunch of lifts,” Banks said. “It’s very beautiful.” The production was written so that anyone will be able to enjoy it; no prior knowledge of the storyline is necessary. It is also targeted at a more general audience than some may expect of a modern dance interpretation of “Alice in Wonderland.” “We’ve stuck to the book’s story, so our version is family friendly; it’s not trippy or psychedelic like some of the movie versions,” Banks said. “A lot of people are skeptical because they’ve never heard of our company before or they think that ballet is not something they’re into. Our show is made with so many exciting things, and projections, and aerial dance, and interesting movements that anyone can love it, not just people interested in dance.” “If the show was just strictly very classical ballet,” Debbie Bendy, GO! volunteer and mother of two dancers, said, “I would be the first one snoozing, but it’s not like that at all. It’s very impressive what these young people do.” GO! is a non-profit organization, so it depends on the community for financial support. A gala event will be held before Saturday’s show with a silent auction for fund-raising. The next performance of ALICE will be to give back to the community. “For the Sunday matinee we invite The Boys and Girls Club and The Emerald Youth Foundation, so we have a great turnout of children,” Banks said. “Kids don’t often get the theater expe-
rience so they’re sometimes seeing ballet for the first time.” Finding a balance between school and dance has been tough but beneficial for Banks. “I’ve found it helps me to have such a busy dance schedule because I have had to develop really good time management skills to get all my schoolwork done on time,” Banks said. “Today we’re going to be here from 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. but it’s usually not this crazy. On average it’s about 20 hours a week, but when it gets close to show time it’s 40 or more hours a week. I’ve been dancing since I was four, but now that I’m older it’s five nights a week and GO! rehearsals on the weekends. It’s fun though because I’m with these girls so much that we’ve become sisters. It’s a different kind of relationship when you dance with someone because being on stage together forms a unique bond.” Participation with GO! has been a bonding experience for the dancers’ families as well. “I have two dancers in this show, but my son also helped build props and is working backstage during the performance,” Bendy said. “My husband helped with props and whatever else they asked him to do. This is very typical of many of the dancers’ families. We all put in a great deal of effort so that our children can participant in this company. They are very well-trained, and the artistic director Lisa McKee expects a great deal from them, but she gets it.” ALICE will run Feb. 11 and 12 at The Bijou Theatre, and tickets are $21.50 for adults and $16.50 for seniors/student in advance, or $26.50/$21.50 at the door.
Famous Chinese police officer Producer faces trial in Mexico disappears amid controversy
general for the state of Quintana Roo, said the suspect will be taken to a jail in the Caribbean resort. The producer could see a judge anytime within the next three days. Reporters couldn’t approach Bruce Beresford-Redman. From afar, the producer could be seen handcuffed wearing a white T-shirt and a bulletproof vest. The legal saga of Beresford-Redman has played out on both sides of the border. The U.S. Marshals Service turned the Emmy-nominated producer over to Mexican federal police Wednesday, roughly two weeks after State Department officials signed a warrant clearing his extradition. The producer and his wife Monica Beresford-Redman had gone to the resort with their young children in an attempt to save their marriage after she learned her husband was cheating on her.
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The Associated Press BEIJING — The celebrity top cop relieved of his duties in a major Chinese city met officials at a U.S. consulate amid unconfirmed reports of an asylum bid, but then left the building, the U.S. State Department said. His whereabouts were unclear Thursday. A Chinese official, meanwhile, said the case of former Chongqing police chief Wang Lijun had been settled smoothly, but he did not elaborate. Wang, whose crackdown on crime gangs inspired a drama on state TV but who was removed from his police post last week, has dropped from public view. The disappearance fueled unconfirmed reports in China of a power struggle with the city’s powerful Communist Party secretary, Bo Xilai. Days of speculation about Wang's situation spiked Wednesday with online reports that he sought asylum at the American consulate in the nearby southwestern city
of Chengdu on Tuesday after quarreling with Bo. In Washington, U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland confirmed Wang sought and had a meeting at the consulate and later left “of his own volition.” She declined to comment on whether he had sought refugee status or asylum. She said to her knowledge, the consulate has not been in contact with Wang since the meeting. Employees of businesses near the Chengdu consulate reported large numbers of police vehicles in the area on Tuesday night, but said the area was quiet on Wednesday. Cui Tiankai, China’s deputy foreign minister in charge of North American affairs, said the Wang case had been settled “in a fairly smooth manner.” Asked for details, Cui said he had no further information. Cui was speaking at a briefing on Vice President Xi Jinping ’s trip to the United States next week. He said the incident would have no impact on the visit.
Wang, who also is a vice mayor of Chongqing, was shifted out of his role as police chief last week. The lawman may have fallen out of favor because his 2008-2010 crackdown on gangs, which Bo made into one of his signature policies, strayed from standard procedures and clashed with the central government’s current campaign to strengthen the rule of law, Beijing-based political analyst Li Fan said. Bo, who sits on the Communist Party’s powerful 25-member Politburo, appointed Wang in 2008 to clean up the force and take on organized crime in a campaign that drew national attention. Wang won a reputation for personal bravery in confronting gangs and was once the subject of a TV drama called “Iron-Blooded Police Spirits.” His law enforcement success led eventually to high political office and a seat in the national parliament, while his association with Bo gave him countrywide name recognition.
CANCUN, Mexico — A reality televison producer arrived in Mexico escorted by nearly a dozen agents on Thursday after being extradited from the United States so he can face trial in his wife’s killing. Former “Survivor” producer Bruce B e re s f o rd - Re d m a n landed at Cancun’s airport and was whisked away in an SUV accompanied by three police vehicles. The noncommercial jet touched down on a separate runway where reporters didn’t have access. Minutes after landing, agents drove the producer to the state prosecutors’ office, which is charging him in the death of his wife whose body was found in a sewer cistern at a swank Cancun resort following an April 2010 family vacation. Gaspar Armando Garcia Torres, attorney
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Kristen Oldham, senior in nutrition, performs with BOSS Dance Company during the Vols’ halftime show on Feb. 8 against USC. The BOSS Dance Company and the UT Dance Team both performed during halftime.
“Bruce eagerly wants to set the record straight, confront the charges in a fair trial and return to his children,” spokesman Stephen Jaffe wrote in an email. Beresford-Redman has denied that he killed his wife and his attorneys have attacked evidence in the case. His U.S. attorneys fought his return to Mexico, but two federal judges ruled there was ample reason to send him abroad for trial. Garcia Torres told The Associated Press the prosecution has gathered strong evidence in the case. A judge has yet to see the suspect and decide when he will be tried. Beresford-Redman has employed attorneys in Mexico to challenge the validity of the case there. The lawyers couldn’t be reached Thursday. Beresford-Redman was arrested on a fugitive warrant in the Los Angeles area in November 2010. Mexican and U.S. authorities say he left Mexico without permission, although Beresford-Redman's lawyers have claimed he was under no obligation to stay and needed to return to the U.S. to help care for his children. The family of Monica Beresford-Redman said the
Indiana investigates safety after Sugarland stage collapse Safety agency determines fair officials acted too slow in evacuation The Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — High winds. Lightning. Hail. A severe thunderstorm warning. A huge crowd waits for country duo Sugarland to take the stage. That exact scenario ahead of last summer’s deadly stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair was eerily foreshadowed just a month earlier during an emergency exercise that involved the fair’s director and numerous city and state officials. Details of the “table top exercise” were included in a report issued Wednesday by the
Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the first of three independent investigations into the Aug. 13 tragedy that killed seven people and injured 58 others. While the agency determined there was plenty of blame, it determined director Cindy Hoye and other fair officials were too slow to order an evacuation despite the approaching treacherous weather, which sent the stage roof, lighting and sound equipment plunging into the crowd. One of the scenarios from the July 12 exercise looked ahead to the night
of the Sugarland concert and imagined high winds, lightning and hail sweeping into the fairgrounds around 8 p.m., before the band took the stage. The actual stage collapse happened at 8:49, moments after an announcer warned concertgoers of the advancing storm and gave instructions on what to do in event of an evacuation. Beverly Wheeler, who was injured when people fell on top of her when she tripped over chairs near the stage, said she was startled to know fair officials had rehearsed for such an accident and still not ordered an evacuation. “It’s disappointing to me if they may have hesitated for the sake of making more money, but I hesitate to judge,” said Wheeler, 48. of Ladoga, Ind. “I don’t understand the reason for not evacuating people. You sure wish it would have happened differently.” As part of the exercise, it was noted that fans would be told to take shelter in the nearby Blue Ribbon Pavilion and the Pepsi Coliseum, the report said. The show
would likely be continued once the storm had passed. “The fairgrounds staff noted they needed to revise their evacuation and shelter-in-place plans,” the OSHA report said. Bob Dittmer, a spokesman for the Indiana Department of Labor, released a statement Thursday that said the report showed that while fair officials “had done some preparation ... it was insufficient.” Fair officials and the Indianapolis-Marion County Department of Public Safety, which conducted the exercise, didn’t immediately return calls seeking comment on Thursday. John Erickson, a spokesman for the state Department of Homeland Security that took part in the exercise, said the similarity between the scenario and actual events was most likely a coincidence. “These types of exercises are planned well ahead of what a weather forecast will influence,” he said. National Weather Service records show the possibility of severe was first noted in a hazardous weather outlook released Aug. 11.
extradition “marks a major milestone in our journey to ensure justice for Monica.” “After nearly 15 months in United States custody, Bruce will finally be returned to Mexico to stand trial for Monica’s murder,” attorney Alison Triessl wrote in a statement released on behalf of the family. Triessl said the family will follow the case in Mexico and will ask for the maximum sentence if Beresford-Redman is convicted. The maximum sentence could be 12 to 30 years in prison. “He has always stated that he is innocent of the charges against him and it is his hope that the court in Cancun will assure that he receives a fair trial in which, he is confident, he will be exonerated,” Beresford-Redman’s attorney, Richard Hirsch wrote in a statement. U.S. prosecutors presented statements from hotel guests who said they heard loud arguing and cries of distress coming from the couple's room on the night Monica BeresfordRedman went missing. The producer’s attorneys have claimed the noises came from Beresford-Redman and his children playing loud games throughout the night and that there isn’t any forensic evidence that he killed his wife.
Polish poet remembered for knack of mixing elegance with humor The Associated Press WARSAW, Poland — A funeral held for Nobelwinning poet Wislawa Szymborska drew more than 1,000 people to a snowy cemetery on Thursday, and Poland’s president praised her for producing verse that allowed readers to see the “tiniest particles of beauty” in everyday life. Szymborska, one of Poland’s most acclaimed writers in recent decades, died last week of lung cancer at the age of 88. An urn with Szymborska’s ashes was placed in the family tomb, where her parents and sister are buried, to a recording of Ella Fitzgerald, Szymborska’s favorite singer, singing “Black Coffee.” The poet was a heavy smoker and a lover of black coffee. “In her poems, she left us her ability to notice the ordinary, the tiniest particles of beauty and of the joy of the world,” President Bronislaw Komorowski said. “We bid farewell to Wislawa Szymborska, a poet of the sunny side of the world.” In 1996, the Nobel award committee compared her to two great composers, calling her the “Mozart of poetry” and a writer who mixed the elegance of language with "the fury of Beethoven" and who tackled serious subjects with humor. Her work has been translated from Polish into English and many European languages, as well as Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew and Arabic. Szymborska’s secretary of many years, Michal Rusinek, said the modest poet would have probably thought the people attending her funeral were not for her, but a crowd heading to some nearby sports event. “They say Ella Fitzgerald is in heaven, so you are probably listening to her now, having a coffee and a cigarette,” Rusinek said. “You have left us a lot to read and a lot to think about. Thank you.” Szymborska has been called both deeply political and playful. Her verse, seemingly simple, was subtle, deep and often hauntingly beautiful. She used simple objects and detailed observations to reflect on larger truths, often using everyday images — an onion, a cat wandering in an empty apartment after the owner’s death, an old fan in a museum — to reflect on topics such as love, death and the passing of time.
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Rec sports clubs in action over weekend Zak Koening Staff Writer Of the nine clubs that competed over the past weekend, three were victorious. The men’s rugby club defeated Vanderbilt 61-3, the bowling club won the No-Tap tournament at Virginia Tech, as well as taking the awards for Best Doubles Team and Best Single Bowler, and the water polo club defeated Kentucky in Lexington. One club that also competed was the ski and snowboard club. The club competes in the U.S. Collegiate Ski and Snowboard Association Southeastern Region race series, facing teams from colleges across the region. “Last year I went to Beech one weekend, and I realized while I was there that I wanted to get our ski club into that kind of environment,” Haley Merritt, club president and a junior in finance, said. “It’s basically a lot of people coming together to hang out and do something that we love, both on and off the mountain. I think that is the coolest thing about skiing. I’m sad that it will be over after this weekend, because I won’t get to see many of these people until next year.” The ski and snowboard club will travel to Bayse, Va. this weekend for the final installment of this year’s USCSA race series. The club is open to competitive as well as recreational members with
any level of experience. “If you ski or snowboard, you should join,” Merritt said. “These trips are open to everyone, not just the competitors. You don’t even have to go to every trip. We would love to get you involved. It is as involved as you want it to be, and we are open to everyone.” Another club that will compete this weekend is the gymnastics club. The club is only a few years old, but has already had great success at both the regional and national levels. This weekend the club will travel to James Madison University to compete in the Duke Dog Classic. “The Duke Dog Classic is an annual competition held by James Madison University every February,” Kasey Jackson, club president and a senior in nutrition, said. “This weekend will be our second year attending. The Duke Dog Classic is a good warm-up meet for our spring competition season because it is very casual, but it is also well-attended by some of the more competitive teams, so it gives us a good idea of how we stack up against the competition.” Though gymnastics is popular at many colleges nationwide and is even an NCAA sanctioned sport, gymnastics sometimes goes unnoticed at UT, something the club is working towards changing. “As one of the founders, I wanted to continue gymnastics and
expose others to how fun and fulfilling it can be,” Tim Michaels, president of the men’s club and senior in math, said. “Gymnastics is very different from most popular sports. For one, it is primarily individual. It’s you versus the equipment. You get one chance to hit your routine, and to succeed you can’t specialize, you must be good at every event.” The gymnastics club placed in the top 10 in each of their last two bids for the national title. Clubs that will compete this weekend include the men’s rugby club playing the University of Florida at Gainesville. The equestrian club will compete in the MTSU Hunt Seat Invitational in Murfreesboro. The ice hockey club will play Georgia Tech and Mississippi State in Franklin, Tenn. The roller hockey club will play in the Chattanooga League series. The sailing club will race in the SAISA Open in St. Petersburg, Fla. The swim club will travel to the Charlottesville for a tournament at the University of Virginia. The women’s volleyball club will play in the Virginia Tech tournament in Blacksburg. The men’s lacrosse club will host Tennessee Wesleyan and Sewanee on Saturday in a round robin tournament. Game times are UT vs. Tennessee Wesleyan at 10 a.m., Tennessee Wesleyan vs. Sewanee at 12:30 p.m., and UT vs. Sewanee at 3:30 p.m. All three games will be played on the RecSports fields and are open to spectators free of charge.
US Olympic team to train in new $33.2 M facility in London The Associated Press LONDON — Think of it as “Colorado Springs East” — a training spot for U.S. Olympians in London. A sparkling new 21 millionpound ($33.2 million) gym at the University of East London is just about complete and will host the U.S. Olympic team during the games. In a few weeks, it will be ready for everyone from stars like swimming’s Michael Phelps and basketball’s Kobe Bryant to U.S. athletes who are still relatively unknown, offering them privacy to lift, stretch and practice. “We’ve worked closely with the (U.S. Olympic Committee) and we’ve tailored the package to suit,” said David Cosford, the university’s sports director. “We’re very, very serious about sport.” Some 570 U.S. athletes and hundreds of support staff will use the university's campus, gym and sports facilities before and during the July 27Aug. 12 games. While U.S. athletes will sleep in the Olympic Village near Olympic Park, two train stops away, U.S. Olympic staff can bunk in the university’s dorms and set up their own sports science, medicine and media centers. American track and field athletes also plan to train in the central city of Birmingham before the games. The gym is a key new structure for the University of East London, a modern conglomeration of glass and steel built in an area historically known for slaughterhouses, toxic waste dumps and once-thriving but long-derelict shipyards. Its Docklands campus sits astride a canal and across from London City Airport, where jet engines boom jarringly at regular intervals. The university offers 25,000 students courses in digital communications, arts, architecture and business in a practical curriculum geared toward getting jobs. It worked hard to make the facility comfortable for Olympians, the sort of place you can drop your 45-kilogram (100-pound) free weight on
the ground without causing a fuss or stop in for a workout en route to a major competition in Europe. A top U.S. sponsor, 24 Hour Fitness, supplied some equipment. “We’re interested in a partnership that lasts beyond the games,” said Mark Jones, a spokesman for the U.S. Olympic Committee. “We want to leave a legacy.” Prior to this, East London students lacked a gym. The goal was to create a gym with exceptional facilities that would be affordable and accessible, where anyone in this working-class community can train like an Olympian. “You could pick up a bar that Michael Phelps had used the week before,” Cosford said with a trace of awe. The building is open and airy, smelling of fresh paint, hardwood and clean plastic. There are two massive gyms, big enough for multiple basketball courts. The shiny hardwood floors are crisscrossed with lines marking the courts for other sports as well — like volleyball and badminton. The center is set to open in the spring, so students will get a chance to use it before the games. The mirrored studios overlooking the basketball floor will host yoga, dance or spinning classes while the ground floor offers treadmills, elliptical trainers and stair machines. Student tournaments will be held in the two vast arenas. All those hoops folded up across the ceiling might strike some people in Britain as odd, as basketball is not a huge sport here. England Basketball, the sport's governing body, is hoping that the London Olympics changes that, particularly since the American team is such a huge draw. USA Basketball insists they can’t wait to check out the gym. Craig Miller, the spokesman for the team, loves the notion of a new gym because improved building technology makes running up and down on a new court less jarring on athletes’ knees. “It’s going to be a great facility for us and for the university,” he said.
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The UT women’s lacrosse team comes together during the game against Ole Miss on Feb. 4. The team will be hosting another tournament against Clemson and Kennesaw State University on Saturday, Feb. 18.
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Friday, February 10, 2012
THESPORTSPAGE
Projected Starters Tennessee 8-10 (1-3 SEC)
Florida 19-5 (7-2 SEC)
G Skylar McBee G Trae Golden G Cameron Tatum F Jeronne Maymon F Kenny Hall
G Kenny Boynton G Erving Walker F Bradley Beal F Erik Murphy C Patric Young
6.2 13.0 8.1 11.9 6.1
How They Match-up UT 68.6 Scoring Offense 65.5 Scoring Defense Field Goals % 44.0 Three Point % 35.9 Free Throw % 69.9 +3.4 Rebound Margin 4.5 Blocks per game 12.8 Assists per game 5.6 Steals per game -2.04 Turnover Margin
UF 79.2 65.5 46.7 39.5 68.4 +2.6 3.5 16.0 7.0 +3.04
Last year Rebecca Vaughan • The Daily Beacon
Guard Cameron Tatum attempts a layup against USC on Feb. 8. The senior made it into UT’s 1,000-point club against the Gamecocks, becoming the 44th alltime member.
Jan. 11, 2011 in Knoxville - Florida, 81-75 (OT) Feb. 12, 2011 in Gainesville - Florida, 61-60 March 11, 2011 in SEC Tournament - Florida, 85-74
17.6 12.1 14.3 10.0 10.8
Why the Vols will win: Tennessee started a stretch of four straight competitive showings against ranked teams when it beat then No. 14 Florida 67-56 in Knoxville on Jan. 7. It was the Vols’ first win against the Gators since Jan. 31, 2010. Tennessee’s issue, however, has been on the road this season. Gainesville has given the Vols trouble too, as UT has gone winless there since a 7975 win March 1, 2009. If the Vols have any chance of stealing a sweep of Florida, Jarnell Stokes will have to play. The freshman missed Wednesday’s game against South Carolina with a hand injury. Tennessee will also need solid play from the guards like they’ve gotten in the past few matches.
Why the Gators will win: The Gators had their seven-game win streak snapped in a demoralizing 78-58 loss to Kentucky on Tuesday — their only conference loss other than to UT. Led by Kenny Boynton, Florida has five players average double-digit points. The Gators shoot nearly 40 percent from beyond the arc. If they can use some hot shooting and jump to a quick lead in the first half, UT won’t have an answer for them on the road. Florida doesn’t do quite as well as Tennessee in rebounding, but it needs to try to take advantage if Stokes doesn’t play again.