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UT engages in national recycling competition Justin Joo Staff Writer RecycleMania, an eight-week recycling competition between universities, has already begun in full swing at the UT campus. Over 500 schools across the country are competing in four categories, which include per capita recycling, overall recycling rate as a percentage of total waste, minimization of trash and recycling generated. The event helps benchmark where UT stands on recycling, both in comparison to its past endeavors and also to other universities. Last year, UT placed third in the Southeastern Conference for per capita recycling. UT Recycling environmental coordinator Jay Price joked that he wants to win first prize this year. “There is a competitive side to it,” Price said, “and I don’t know what motivates different people, but if it’s competition, we’re in it for the win. I really want to beat all the other SEC schools in the per capita recycling category.” The first week of RecycleMania featured the Spotted Being Sustainable event. From Feb. 2-10, UT Recycling staff and volunteers were on the lookout for students who were exhibiting sustainable behavior. This included students putting something in a recycling bin or using a reusable water bottle or mug. If spotted, the student received a coupon for a free medium Java City coffee from any of the UT convenience stores. See Recyclemania on Page 3

Group raises food money for alternative break Wesley Mills Staff Writer Spring Break is just around the corner, and TeamVOLS is preparing for its annual alternative trip. Each year TeamVOLS breaks up into teams of around 25 and travels to different cities to perform community service. As it is thought, college students have to find other means of support besides scrounging around their couch looking for spare change. That is why each year, TeamVOLS hosts its Spaghetti for Service fundraiser. This fundraiser has two separate times: Feb. 20 from 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m., and Feb. 23 from 5:30-8 p.m. in the Black Cultural Center. Mark Moore, senior in special education, is one of the team leaders for the trip, and said that the success of this trip is linked with the money raised at Spaghetti for Service. “We use this money to help fundraise the food we eat and the transportation, and it is one way to keeping our costs low compared to other schools,” Moore said. Last year TeamVOLS took two teams to Biloxi, Miss. and Chicago. Program advisor Kate Humphrey went to Biloxi, Miss. where they helped build a nature center for middle school and high school students. “They were wanting to build that in an area that had been completely flooded by Hurricane Katrina,” Humphrey said. In the past, teams have also helped with local YMCAs or food banks around the particular area. “Normally we try and focus on a centralized goal in one of the cities,” Humphrey said. Moore went on the other

trip to Chicago where they visited alternative school groups where the social standing of the students greatly affected their lives. “We go to various cities depending on their needs, and we do our research and we figure out what their city is known for,” Moore said. “We go out there and we try to make some social changes and expose our group of students to those changes so they can hopefully bring those back to Knoxville.” Moore said these trips really give students the opportunity to see what life is like outside the walls of Knoxville in regards to social change and interaction within the community. As for the fundraiser itself, spaghetti’s versatility makes it the main course of choice. “It’s definitely easy to serve the masses, but it’s also a lot of fun to make,” Humphrey said. “One of our graduate assistants used to work in the restaurant business and he loves to cook in general. So that’s one thing you can cook in bulk, it’s fun to cook and it’s delicious.” A wide range of people usually attend this event because of the diverse group of students that is involved in TeamVOLS. “We choose such a wide variety of students for our teams; we reach almost every aspect of UT’s campus,” Humphrey said. “We’re not just getting students but we’re getting staff members and faculty and people’s family. It’s not just limited to people who are interested in volunteering.” And yet, though the spaghetti may be “delicious,” it’s the pudding that gets all the publicity. “It’s really good — a cohesive and delicious dessert,” Humphrey said.

Discoveries give families closure hope The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — The childhood friends killed for the first time less than three months after their high school graduation in 1984. Then they seemingly killed with impunity for the next 15 years, with one man making barroom boasts about their ability to make people disappear. By the time the hunting buddies were finally arrested in 1999, investigators say the notorious “Speed Freak Killers” killed as many as 20 people during a 15-year spree that terrorized California’s rural Central Valley. Some of their victims were left at the scene. Most were never seen again, especially their female victims. Even after their convictions in 2001, Wesley Shermantine and Loren Herzog steadfastly refused to divulge any burial sites. Now, motivated by a bounty hunter’s promise to pay $33,000 for the location of the missing, Shermantine is breaking a long silence. Family members of the missing hope the new details will lead to the discovery of their loved ones’ remains and closure after years of torment. Two victims have already been identified and hundreds of human remains have been recovered over the last several days. More are expected to be found as the

search resumed Tuesday after a daylong postponement due to rain. “It is a happy occasion,” said Paula Wheeler, mother of 16-year-old Chevelle “Chevy” Wheeler, who disappeared in 1985 and whose remains were tentatively identified Friday. Chevy’s portrait hangs in the living room of the Wheelers’ Crossville, Tenn., home. The Wheelers intend to have Chevy’s remains cremated and displayed at their home. Shermantine told Sacramento bounty hunter Leonard Padilla that he plans to use the $33,000 to pay $15,000 in court-ordered restitution to victims’ families. The rest will buy headstones for his deceased parents and small luxuries in prison like candy bars and a private television set he can’t buy because every penny he receives now is used to pay down the restitution debt. Padilla hopes to claim rewards offered by the state of California for information about missing persons thought to be the victims of Shermantine and Herzog. Using crude maps Shermantine hand-drew in his Death Row cell, investigators have dug up three sites since Thursday that have yielded human remains. The site of the biggest find is an abandoned well outside the city of Stockton, near the town of Linden, that produced hundreds of

human bones, purses, shoes, jewelry and other evidence over the weekend. That raised Joan Shelley’s hopes that her 16-year-old daughter JoAnn Hobson will be found. “I feel they are going to find her,” a tearful Shelley told The Associated Press in a phone interview from her Manteca home. JoAnn disappeared in 1985, and investigators have long suspected Shermantine and Herzog in the girl's abduction and murder. But they never had enough evidence to charge them. Padilla said Shermantine calls the well “Herzog’s boneyard,” and pins all the bodies that will be found there on Herzog. That’s nothing new. Beyond steadfastly refusing to disclose the location of bodies, the childhood friends have also maintained that the other single-handedly did all the killing. Herzog hanged himself on Jan. 16 outside the Susanville trailer he was paroled to after an appeals court tossed out his confession as illegally coerced. He committed suicide hours after Padilla told him Shermantine was prepared to tell authorities about the missing. “I could hear him catch his breath when I mentioned the well,” Padilla said of his conversation with Herzog on Jan. 16. “He thanked me, and didn't say anything more, but I could hear him catch his breath.”

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Lillian Schaeffer, junior in biological sciences, Kasey Carter, senior in management, and Dede Blackwell, junior in psychology, perform during a dress rehearsal for the Vagina Monologues on Sunday. The show was open to the public on Monday and Tuesday.

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Tara Sripunvoraskull • The Daily Beacon

Guest Wei Chen performs a solo dance using the long ribbons during the East Tennessee Chinese New Year’s Festival on Feb. 5. The Long Ribbon Dance is a traditional Chinese dance that has lasted thousands of years.

1776 — Nova Scotia govenor sends word of potential American invasion From Halifax, Canada, on this day in 1776, Governor Francis Legge reports to British headquarters in London that traitorous elements in Cumberland, Nova Scotia, have contacted American General George Washington. Washington received a letter from the Nova Scotians, in which they expressed their sympathy for the American cause, on February 8. They invited General Washington and the Continental Army to invade Nova Scotia at his earliest possible convenience. Legge found himself in a precarious position. He had alienated many of his constituents through a zealous anti-corruption probe. Now he reported that Nova Scotia had spawned a nascent revolutionary movement. Some of those whom Legge accused of corruption in his drive to clean up colonial politics had allies in the imperial capitol who were insisting that he explain himself in person. Fortunately for Legge, little notice was taken of his subjects’ letter to Washington. The Continental Congress decided on February 16 to allow General Washington to

investigate the expediency and practicability of an Expedition to Nova Scotia, but cautioned that Washington should by no means accept the plan proposed for the destruction of the Town of Halifax. After Benedict Arnold retreated in May 1776 from his six-month long siege of Quebec, which included the disastrous attack Quebec on December 31, 1775, the Continental Army gave up its hope that Canada would join the rebellion. Still, Governor Legge received orders to return to London in February 1776 and departed Halifax in May. Although Canada ceased to be a direct military target, it continued to play an important role as a haven for Loyalists and slaves fleeing from Patriots less concerned with other peoples’ liberties than their own. On December 18, 1778, a force of New Jersey and New York Loyalists, The King’s Orange Rangers, traveled to Liverpool, Nova Scotia, to help in its defense against Patriot privateers, privately owned ships that used pirate tactics to disrupt British shipping. The Rangers remained until August 23, 1783. Nova Scotia ultimately attracted 30,000 American Loyalists, one-tenth of which were fleeing African slaves. Of the slaves, one third eventually resettled in Sierra Leone. White Loyalists moved to Canada to flee the abuse of Patriot neighbors, African slaves came to British Canada in order to gain freedom from their Patriot owners. 1933 — FDR escapes assassination in Miami On this day in 1933, a deranged, unemployed brick layer named Giuseppe Zangara shouts Too many people are starving! and fires a gun at America’s president-elect, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Roosevelt had just delivered a speech in Miami’s Bayfront Park from the back seat of his open touring car when Zangara opened fire with six rounds. Five people were hit. The president escaped injury but the mayor of Chicago, Anton Cermak, who was also in attendance, received a mortal stomach wound in the attack. Zangara’s extreme action reflected the anger and frustration felt among many working Americans during the Great Depression. At the time of the shooting, Roosevelt was still only the president-elect and had yet to be sworn in. His policies remained untested, but reports of Roosevelt’s composure during the assassination attempt filled the following day’s newspapers and did much to enforce Roosevelt’s public image as a strong leader. — This Day in History is courtesy of History.com.

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Museum displays breakup items The Associated Press ZAGREB, Croatia — What becomes of a garden gnome hurled in fury at a car during a stormy breakup? Or a teddy bear that was once a Valentine’s Day present? A wedding dress from a marriage gone awry? An ax that smashed through household furniture? All are on display at the Museum of Broken Relationships in the Croatian capital, each with written testimonies telling tales of passion, romance and heartbreak. On Valentine’s Day, the museum sees its visits almost double. “The objects that are here represent all the stages of a breakup ... and how people go through love,” said Drazen Grubisic, a designer and artist who co-founded the museum in 2010 in the Croatian capital. “We might say it’s a love museum, just upside down,” he said. The mementos — collected from all over the world — are random and varied, ranging from fake rubber breasts to a cast from a broken leg. Each item comes with dates and locations of the relationships, and notes by their anonymous donors. Some are funny. The note next to a garter belt says: “I never put them on. The relationship might have lasted longer if I had.” Some are bitter. The garden gnome flew over a car driven by a husband who turned “arrogant and heartless.” It bounced on the asphalt, shattering its face. “It was a long loop, drawing an arc of time ... that defined the end of love,” the note from Slovenia said. An ax from Berlin was used by a woman to smash every piece of furniture her girlfriend had left behind. “The more the room filled with chopped furniture, (the more) I felt better.” The text by a blue frisbee reads: “Darling, should you ever get the ridiculous idea to walk into a cultural institution like a museum for the first time in your life, you’ll remember me.” The museum, located just across from Zagreb’s City Hall where couples get married, currently displays some 100 “relics” out of about 1,000 that have been collected from around the world. Parts of the collection have traveled as far as Manila, London and Singapore to be put on display. In each city, the heartbroken can donate their stuff to the Zagreb museum. A prosthetic leg currently showcased in England at the National Centre for Craft and Design, was donated by a war veteran who fell in love with his physical therapist. A note says it lasted longer than the relationship because it was made of “sturdier material.” The museum itself is the brainchild of a breakup. When Grubisic and co-founder Olinka Vistica, a filmmaker, split up, they got stuck when it came to dividing their sentimental memorabilia. They didn’t want to just get rid of it, so they created a museum. “Maybe sometime in your life you will want to remember some of the good parts of the relationship,” Grubisic said. He said that donors of mementos find the giving therapeutic. “They can move on,” he said. “They also show there’s something universal: We all have been brokenhearted at least once.”

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RecycleMania continued from Page 1 The next phase of RecycleMania is the Residence Hall Recycling Competition, which started Monday and will continue through March 9. The competition is between all of the residence halls at UT and is based on which hall has the most pounds of recycling. Additional points are awarded for residence hall activities. RAs in the past have held activities where residents brought different magazines to cut up and use for scrapbooks or collages. Other RAs rode in elevators, either collecting recyclables from other passengers or simply giving out information about recycling. The winning dorm will receive a catered party and a trophy. On March 5, UT Recycling will be offering tours to the Chestnut Ridge Landfill and the Rock-Tenn Recycling Center. Those interested will take a bus from Hodges Library at noon. The tour will last until 4 p.m. and is free for students and faculty, but those interested must reserve a seat at the RecycleMania website: http://www.pp.utk.edu/Recycle/recycleRecycleMania.htm. The Recyclympics is a four-hour recycle-themed olympic. Starting March 14 at 2 p.m. students will compete in events such as the Phone Book Shot Put or the Bottle Cap-ina-Haystack where shredded paper replaces haystacks. Those interested can register to compete as an individual or on a team of up to four at the RecycleMania website. This will be the third time the Recyclympics have taken place. In the past, the event has been held at the RecSports Fields. This year, it will be at the Humanities Amphitheater, a move Price said was made to help streamline the event and help get

The Daily Beacon • 3 more people involved. “We’re hoping to catch a lot more traffic that way,” Price said. “In the past we’ve had about a hundred people participate each year, but we’re hoping to shoot for a lot more than that.” Over Spring Break, UT Recycling will still be hard at work with the Paper Purge Party. UT Recycling and volunteers will go from office to office to find as much recyclable paper waste as they can. Everything from magazines, envelopes and bound notebooks will be gathered. Near the end of the mania, students can participate in the Zero Waste Lunches program. UT Recycling will be in specific dining halls collecting all food waste for compost. Other recyclable waste, such as napkins, will also be collected. The UT Recycling compost site will collect the waste and eventually hand it over to the UT Organic Farm. But the Zero Waste Lunches aren’t just about collecting waste for compost, said Emily Waldhart, assistant environmental coordinator for UT Recycling. “It’s more to raise awareness that we do have a compost program,” Waldhart said. “And also to raise awareness about food waste and only taking what you need.” Volunteers will be collecting for the Zero Waste Lunches at Morrill Hall on March 26, at Arena Dining on March 28 and the Presidential Court Building on March 30. And while the whole RecycleMania program is a competition between both students and universities, there is an overall message Price hopes students will understand. “It doesn’t take a whole lot of extra effort to recycle,” Price said. “These events are really just to raise awareness, and get people to think about recycling rather than just tossing something into the first open container they see.”

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SGA campaign 2012: Here we go again Blair Kuykendall Editor-in-Cheif Another year, another SGA election. UT’s politically motivated are preparing for the annual battle of wills that determines control of the student senate. Last Thursday, all interested parties amassed in the UC to survey the field. Around 75 students came together to discuss campaign particulars. The election meeting was presented as an open invitation for interested students to learn more about the election process, but its existence is largely perfunctory. This year’s SGA candidates and campaign strategies were assembled far in advance of Thursday. As is often the case, SGA members possessing supporting roles in this year’s administration will now be running for higher office. Student government works with the university to “improve the quality of student life, including residence halls, health care, dining, recreation and transportation” of UT students. To earn the privilege of performing this service, campaigns will funnel up to $7,000 each into winning over their peers. The most widely recognized part of this annual fete are the various freebies students will collect on Pedestrian. T-shirts, writing implements, and shiny trinkets of all kinds will be distributed in an attempt to woo voters. Unfortunately, this is the most interaction the majority of the student body has with SGA. Few students know who their representatives are, and an equally select few will take the time to vote in the election. During campaign season, many UT students ask themselves what role SGA actually plays in day to day affairs on campus. A lack of information exists about the processes of the organization and the sources of its legitimacy. Students are asking questions about their representative body, and this news organization believes our audience deserves thorough answers. In last year’s election, The Daily Beacon reported that the most highly supported candidate for SGA received only 9.3 percent of the entire student body’s vote. That means that close to 90 percent of students have not in any way validated the authority that SGA holds. Certainly elected officers cannot be held

accountable for apathy amongst their peers, but the source of student disinterest needs to be isolated. A dearth in student awareness has been cited as a major flaw in the current system. There are certainly opportunities to become involved in SGA, but most students remain unengaged. SGA holds open, bimonthly meetings and hosts both Facebook and Twitter accounts. These accounts are well-maintained with organization events and updates. Unfortunately, the SGA website has been under construction since last year, and the finished portion primarily consists of pictures of the executive board members. The news and calendar portions of the website are still not functional. This year, The Daily Beacon is resigned to make sure every fact surrounding the operation of this election are readily available to our readers. We will have reporters at every major event, and information available on each of the candidates. In an effort to shed some perspective on this particular election, our newspaper will be undertaking a comprehensive review of SGA’s activities this year. Last week, I requested access to a complete list of legislation considered by SGA, in addition to its budget figures and their allotment. I have every faith that SGA will get those materials to me soon, and when they do, our readers can expect a clear account of their content. Our staff is not out to convince you to participate in student government elections; that’s entirely your prerogative. We are here, however, to make sure you have every shred of relevant information that we can possibly find in making your decision. The Daily Beacon staff also wants to air your opinions on the process. If you think that a critical mass of students should have to vote to validate election results, let us know. If you think you have a better idea for representing student voice on campus, send it in. If you are choosing not to vote in the election, tell us why. Without some level of student approval, the organization cannot be legitimized. I know there are a great deal of UT students who would like to see an SGA receive more than nine percent of student support. At that level of participation, it is only natural to question the relevancy of this organization. Educate yourself on SGA’s function, and express your opinion. Stop being represented via implied consent. — Blair Kuykendall is a junior in the College Scholars Program. She can be reached at bkuykend@utk.edu.

SCRAMBLED EGGS • Alex Cline

THE Great Mash Up• Liz Newnam

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Remember meaning behind ‘Centaur’ Ac orns and Other Seeds by

Anna-Lise Burnnet

It all began with the wonderful suggestion that this week I write about cryptozoology, the (pseudo) science of studying as-yet unconfirmed but anecdotally documented species. That suggestion then spurred me to visit Hodges Library, where one of three known centaur skeletons has been on display for about 20 years. In the middle of the Jack E. Reese Galleria (on what is confusingly called the 1st floor), in a smallish freestanding marble display case, you can find both the preserved remains of a centaur found near the port city of Volos, Greece and a few fragments of clay carvings. Some woodblock prints, a map and a little bit of descriptive text also round out the display, making it worth a good 10 minutes of your time. Unconvinced? Of course you are. Nowadays any campus tour guide worth his or her salt mentions the oft-publicized exhibit in a whoosh of “Look at the centaur yes it’s fake OK well moving on here we have the quiet study area and the auditorium,” powered by a single breath of utterly bored air. Which is a real shame, because that’s not how the exhibit was designed to be viewed. “The Centaur Excavations at Volos,” a piece created by William Willers, is a work that demands the viewer’s attention — because the longer you look at the skeleton, the more it begins to look real. And in fact, it is real. Sort of, anyway. The centaur skeleton was constructed by Willers out of parts of a human skeleton donated to a biology classroom and the bones of a small pony, which means that though the configuration is bogus the bones themselves are quite real, if tea-stained. And while it’s pretty hard for us to look at the remains in a display case and believe that they’re genuine, it’s easy to imagine someone planting them in a field to illicit an even better response from incredulous visitors. Before being purchased by the university, in fact, the centaur was housed in a barn, a somewhat more “realistic” location for such a rare find.

But the bittersweet fact remains that the centaur is an elaborate piece of artwork. As professor Beauvais Lyons wrote almost two decades ago, “the experience of having a deeply held belief disconfirmed (as in the hoax dehoaxed) is critical to self-conscience epistemology and thus the educational process.” For all of us then, the centaur is a reminder not to accept what we’re presented with wholesale, but to apply our own knowledge and reason in order to better make judgments for ourselves. And what about the hoax that hasn’t been dehoaxed? For many people, the development of cryptozoology is just a very large example of what happens when ordinary folks don’t “catch the wink.” All around the world, handfuls of both men and women devote significant time, sometimes their entire careers, to collecting evidence for the existence of what everyone agrees are elusive (or illusive) creatures. Bigfoot/Sasquatch, the Loch Ness Monster, the Wampus Cat … these and more are beings of legend, and some people really do believe that one day we’ll have proof (if not an explanation) of their existence. Still, you’ve got to wonder if cryptozoologists really have to go to all that trouble. Which isn’t to say that the hunt isn’t rewarding; every year species previously undiscovered by the Western world are catalogued and named. But most of these new finds are insects, not large land mammals or water dragons, which might have something to do with the fact that larger creatures are generally easier to spot. With that in mind, do we really have a chance of catching a cryptid in the act of living? Whether or not we do, there’s no denying that cryptozoology stills holds a place in the popular imagination. From roller coasters at Disney World (the entire waiting area for Expedition Everest is like a walkthrough “Excavations at Volos,” only it’s dedicated to the Himalayan Yeti) to television shows on the Discovery Channel (my favorites are about dear Nessie), it seems not even good old science can displace these famous creatures from our fancies. Which maybe isn’t such a bad thing. Because the search for mysterious and legendary animals does us two favors: 1) it teaches us to never lose our sense of wonder in a world seemingly gone static and 2) it teaches us that sometimes it’s all right to laugh at our own musings. — Anna-Lise Burnette is a senior in interdisciplinary studies. She can be reached at kburnet7@utk.edu.

Legacy of Neyland, UT sports survives S mel l This by

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(Foreword: I just watched the new “Things Vol Fans Say Often” video, and it got me in the mood to talk UT sports, which doesn’t happen every day. Let this be known, though — I know little to nothing about sports, American football included. This article is based on thorough, sourced research and a quasi-passable awareness of Tennessee sports history. For a complete, arguably encyclopedic know-how of all-things-sports, I refer you to the much more knowledgeable, though eternally less charming Robert Z. Ellis, former Beacon Assistant Sports Editor and Editor-in-Chief, and current Sports Illustrated Online Editor.) In the wake of such a piss-poor football season, and in lieu of what should be excitement for April’s Orange and White game and fall 2012 and beyond, the spirit and fervor of campus seem to have ebbed to an even more inanimate low than the seasonal malaise we usually see around this time of the year. Dissatisfied fans moan, local and national journalists synthesize the cause and solution for UT’s apparent athletic impotence, and the undoubtedly riches-bound sports management majors cacophonously offer their strategies for how we could have beaten Kentucky in November. And even with Cuonzo’s honeymoon yielding some decent numbers/talent in Thompson-Boling, I still find myself thirsting for a late ’90s-esque excitement for what’s to come on the gridiron in September. Granted, I’m graduating in May and won’t have the same investment as the current underclassmen, but I’m still a Vol, dammit, and I wanna win. I’m not looking to assess blame here. I don’t have a fix or fresh coaching roster that will remedy the glaring disparity between 2011’s wins and losses. But in the spirit of commemoration and reflection of my limited UT football savvy, I thought it best to substitute a prescriptive “down with Dooley” rant with a simple profile of a man responsible not only for the rise of Tennessee football and its place in the college sports lexicon, but for the foundation of college football defensive strategy. It might not rectify whatever’s ailing our program, but it may just remind us of the eternal

potential to resurrect the Volunteer winning tradition. I’m not romantic in the sense that I behold Tennessee’s history and culture as the GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD, or even the reason I applied to UT in the first place, but I do think it important to remember our achievements and to recognize that when sought with passion, dominance, like the seasons and the tide, is cyclical. Did you know 2012 national champions Alabama went 3-8 in 2000 and 4-9 in 2003? Conversely, Tennessee secured a national championship in ’98 in the midst of a 45-5 run, and before 2006, our last missed bowl game was in 1989. And long before that, when American football was still just manifesting, we had Gen. Robert Neyland. Never mind his never having a losing season. Never mind his 173-31-12 head coaching record. And never mind that he was a brigadier general and interrupted his coaching tenure twice to go pwn a bunch of fascists. The man had a shutout season — his 1939 Volunteers went the entire regular season without ever being scored upon, and remain the last college American football team to do so. The achievement was in the midst of a 17-game shutout streak and is a record that still stands today. Granted, football was a very different game back then, but even given 1939’s standards of athleticism and the fact that less games were played in a season, that is mind-blowing. Neyland’s accomplishments weren’t limited to ShieldWatkins Field, either. He also designed his namesake stadium and drew up plans that later became integral to its renovation. He was UT’s athletic director alongside being head coach, taught military science during the offseason, and coined the infamous “Seven Maxims of Football” in the 1930s. He punctuated his career with two national championships in 1950 and 1951, was named Sports Illustrated’s defensive coordinator of the century posthumously, and really more than anything, just made a habit of succeeding consistently. I took this week to write a neutral article because, well, I just sort of felt like it. But there’s still a deliberate message here so don’t mistake my purpose as a halfhearted attempt to wax poetic about the irretrievable past. It’s not. In fact, it’s nearly the opposite — my report on Neyland is a simple reminder that utter dominance is never off the table. Will we ever have another General, or even another national championship? Obviously no one can say for sure, but with the foundation he laid and the tradition he inculcated, there’s a good chance. — Sam Ellis is a senior in English and political science. He may be reached at sellis11@utk.edu.

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Festival returns solid lineup

Jolie hopes film draws notice to Syria strongly about it and I believe that its core issue — which is the need for intervention and need for the world to care about atrocities when they are happening — is very, very timely and especially with things that are happening in Syria today,” she said. The film, which has already been released in the U.S. follows what happens when the man becomes an army officer and the woman is held in a military prison camp where rape occurs. Some Serbs have accused the film of demonizing them. “I think it is very important that this film is out at this time and ... if this film points the finger at anybody it is the international community,” she said. The distributor in the Serb part of Bosnia said he won’t show it there because it portrays Serbs as the villains and they wouldn’t put up with that. “There is simply no interest for this movie here, so I can’t sell any tickets," Vladimir Ljevar told The Associated Press. “The fact that the Serbs are the bad guys in it is the reason why there is no interest. The film is lousy. I watched it. It has had bad reviews. It is unprofitable.”

The Associated Press Jake Lane Arts & Culture Editor All right, everyone, you can roll up your sleeping bags, throw away your bagged lunches and hit the trails — the Bonnaroo lineup is here. At the Beacon, the tradition of counting down the seconds until the lineup drops is long and storied, and for once, the wait is well worth it. The tent pole acts are either previous headliners (Radiohead, Phish) or fairly predictable festival bait (Red Hot Chili Peppers), but the synergy of the acts this year might top at least every year I’ve gone in the past. For a festival grown from jam bands and roots music, Bonnaroo is a monster of a different shade these days. While perennial Summer Tour torchbearers Phish and newly-minted supergroups like The Word (featuring John Medeski, Robert Randolph and the North Mississippi Allstars) and Spectrum Road (featuring Cream’s Jack Bruce) represent the heady grooves of the festival’s early years, this year’s bill appears more the culmination of the trends of the last decade into one holistic mass. Starting around 2006, a slow push from the indie rock world began to morph Bonnaroo, with Radiohead performing a marathon headline set of classics and cuts from the then-embryonic “In Rainbows,” and a climactic set from Sonic Youth that ended with Stephen Malkmus onstage singing “Expressway to Yr. Skull.” With a healthy dose of alternative rock (Tool’s 2007 headline slot) and a right-field infusion of metal (Metallica’s controversial, gut- churning 2008 set), Bonnaroo became anyone’s game, and in doing so lost some of its luster. While 2009 seemed a mercurial year and somewhat a return to form with Phish’s reunion and the E Street Band’s massive closing show, the scheduling conflicts between great bands made checking out your favorite bands a nightmare. 2010 presented less of a problem in this regard, allowing that the lineup was considerably weaker. Last year marked the 10th anniversary of the festival and some true gems in the lineup crown — Buffalo

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Springfield, anyone? The Strokes? But overall the question whispered among fans was how long the festival could sustain any consistent fanbase, when for the prowess displayed in shrewd picks like Springfield, the organizers top the bill with polarizing choices like Eminem. At first glance this year appears to finally mark a period of stability and perhaps a new platform for the festival. To some it may look like the indiest year yet, with recent Grammy-winners Bon Iver in the second tier of acts and acts from every genre of the left-of-thedial constellation popping up, from St. Vincent to Childish Gambino. But lest we forget the heroes of yore returning to prove they have jams to kick yet. The rare reunion of surviving Beach Boys Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine and Bruce Johnston at least equals the surprise of Buffalo Springfield’s appearance last year, and affable shock-rock godfather Alice Cooper will undoubtedly offer thrills and chills to combat the summer heat. Some younger acts who nonetheless have a long history, like D.C. hardcore legends Bad Brains and ’90s power trio Ben Folds Five, represent the patchwork heritage the festival and its organizers, AC Entertainment and Superfly Presents, have forged through trial and error. And of course audience response. Where the festival will go from here depends on those warm-blooded pilgrims who flock to Manchester year after year. Bonnaroo has carved its niche as a middle-of-the-road gathering from every corner of the music world. While Coachella may bring larger crowds and some more prestigious acts (Godspeed You! Black Emperor this year), and other ACE and Superfly ventures like Big Ear and Moogfest have drawn in eclectic crowds and deities of the rock snob pantheon, their mass appeal is considerably more limited. Bonnaroo is truly the festival for everyone because it’s never been afraid to fall in the attempt to fly. — Jake Lane is a creative writing graduate. He can be reached at jlane23@utk.edu.

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SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Angelina Jolie on Tuesday premiered her film “In the Land of Blood and Honey” in Bosnia, where the fictional tale of a romance between a Bosnian Serb man and a Bosnian Muslim woman has shone a spotlight on the ethnic anger still left over from the country's brutal conflict. Jolie, who arrived in Sarajevo with partner Brad Pitt to attend the screening, greeted the crowd of 5,000 in Bosnian, before acknowledging in English that it would bring back painful memories of the bloody 1992-95 war. As the film ended to a standing ovation, Jolie tearfully said, “To share this with you means the world to me.” At an earlier press conference, Jolie said the movie was “heavy” but that she was happy with it because it shows what horrors can occur in the absence of a timely intervention. She said she hoped the film could serve as a “wake-up call” for the international community to pay more attention to atrocities and act to prevent them — including in Syria. “I am satisfied with what we made, I feel very

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Projected Starters Tennessee 13-12 (5-5 SEC)

Arkansas 17-8 (5-5 SEC)

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How They Match-up UT UConn 68.9 Scoring Offense 73.6 65.7 Scoring Defense 67.2 Field Goals % 44.1 43.6 Three Point % 36.1 35.0 Free Throw % 69.5 69.3 +3.5 Rebound Margin -2.8 4.3 Blocks per game 5.6 12.9 Assists per game 14.1 5.6 Steals per game 8.9 -1.88 Turnover Margin +4.12

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Forward Jeronne Maymon shoots the ball against UGA on Feb. 4. The junior has a total of 338 points this season.

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Why the Vols will win: Tennessee has won five of its past seven games and looks to continue its steady play at home. The Vols and Razorbacks are two of four teams in the SEC currently sitting at 5-5 in conference play. This will be a key game that UT needs to win if it wants a top-four finish and a opening-round bye in the SEC Tournament. For Tennessee, the key is balance. Jarnell Stokes, who is still nursing an injured hand, only saw limited time Saturday against Florida. The guard play has been re-energized with Skylar McBee’s addition to the starting lineup. In the past three games, he’s averaged 13.7 points, while Trae Golden has jumped to 15.7. If those two, along with Cameron Tatum and Jordan McRae, continue to perform, Arkansas won’t be able to put all its focus on Stokes, Jeronne Maymon and Kenny Hall inside.

Why the Razorbacks will win: Arkansas enters Wednesday night’s game as the only SEC school without a road win this season. The Razorbacks are 0-8 away from Bud Walton Arena. Unfortunately for the Hogs, they play at Tennessee, where the Vols are 11-3 this year. Arkansas likes to push the tempo under new coach Mike Anderson, known as “40 minutes of hell,” similar to the style of former Hogs coach Nolan Richardson in the 1990s and early 2000s. With this, the Razorbacks give up more points per game than any other school in the conference, but also lead the league in steals and turnover margin. UT struggles at times when defenses are aggressive and press, and the Hogs could generate points off UT turnovers and score in transition.