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Thursday, February 16, 2012

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Preston Peeden Managing Editor The southeastern sector of campus experienced a complete blackout at 2 p.m. on Wednesday. Construction workers on the Lake Loudoun Boulevard streetscape project severed a critical power line serving UT’s eastern side.

Bob Caudill, facilities operations director, explained the source of the outage.

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side the administrative parking garage — you’ve probably seen the dig down there.

He hit something he shouldn’t have, and circuit five went out as a result,” Caudill said.

The outage affected Neyland Stadium, Thompson-Boling Arena, Andy Holt Tower, Estabrook Hall, Student Services/Communications, Nursing and several smaller buildings on campus.

“They’re all on circuit five,” Caudill said.

Though restricted to one area of campus, the blackout interrupted many afternoon classes.

Angela Edlin, sophomore in Spanish and

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international business, had class in the Communications Building during the outage. Her professor decided to continue class despite the lack of electricity.

“It was a little dark,” Edlin said. “I was in a Spanish class, so we don’t really use the projector. If I would have been in any of my other classes, it could have been a big problem.”

Lydia Price, junior in anthropology, wasn’t bothered by the lack of lighting.

“Taking notes in the dark was actually nice, since it’s usually really bright,” Price said.

Students were not the only ones affected by the blackouts on campus, as the lack of power also touched the daily lives of teachers.

Community art project founder to come to campus RJ Vogt Copy Editor

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Morgan Hardy, junior in theater, talks during a performance of the “The Vagina Monologues” on Monday, Feb. 13. The monologues are spoken by a number of actresses, with each centering on an aspect of the vagina and its use as a tool of female empowerment.

Taylor McElroy Staff Writer If you walked near the Ula Love Doughty Carousel Theatre Feb. 13 or 14 it is extremely likely that you may have heard the booming chants of vagina expletives echoing louder.

The Women’s Coordinating Counsel hosted this year’s “Vagina Monologues.”

Directed by Morgan Hardy and presented by UT female students, the awardwinning play is based on V-Day founder and playwright Eve Ensler’s interviews with over 200 women. For more than 12 years, “The Vagina Monologues” has given voice to women silenced by troubling experiences and emotions.

The Vagina Monologues is a part of VDay, a global movement to end violence against women. V-Day serves as a catalyst in promoting events to increase awareness and to strengthen ongoing anti-violence efforts.

The performance opened with darkened lights that brightened as voices came from the audience and onto the stage.

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“Vagina,” said one of the performers.

“It sounds like a disease or maybe a medical instrument at best … certainly not something you really want to discuss.”

One monologue began as an old lady, who, first recoiling at the idea of talking about her “down there,” began to explain about her past experiences with “flooding.”

In the monologue, she spoke about an attractive boy named Andy and their date in his brand new Chevy Bel-Air. As she sat there staring at her knees in his car, she was taken by surprise as Andy kissed her. The performer described the kiss as “passionate and exciting,” at least until she “flooded” on his car seat. Andy was appalled and drove her home without another word.

From that day on she kept her “down there” locked under her house not wanting to think about or expose anyone else to her embarrassing flooding problem.

She never spoke about it again until she was interviewed in her 70s and let her secrets spill.

“It was really enlightening,” said Ashton Monks, sophomore in pre-dental.

“You could hear and talk about things that aren’t normally discussed. It was

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nice to be able to listen to that and know that it was OK.” They divided each monologue with a fun fact or an introduction.

One cast member asked the audience if they were aware that the clitoris is the only body part designed specifically for pleasure. She ended the statement with a snappy one liner, “Who would want a handgun when you can have a semi-automatic?”

While the crowd laughed one minute, the mood turned very serious the next.

The crowd appeared to be speechless when a woman claimed she did not have a vagina.

“It’s not there,” the performer said.

“It’s not a vagina, it is a cause. It’s the mad look in their eyes. It’s the thrusting, the tea ring … but don’t be fooled, our vaginas are prepared. We still dance. We have nothing to lose.”

“I get chills when we get to the part of women being raped,” Johnna Kitts, cast member and senior in psychology, said.

“The play has the humor and everything but I think the most important part is how it still raises awareness.”

He’ll reveal some secrets, ask students to reveal theirs, and sign books. His name is Frank Warren, and he founded the Internet’s biggest community art project, PostSecret Live, which is coming to Knoxville on March 7 at 7 p.m. in the Cox Auditorium.

The whole adventure began in 2005, when Warren was inspired.

While in Paris, France, he had a dream in which he discovered postcards in his nightstand drawer, altered on the backs and containing cryptic messages. The dream captivated him, and soon after he created a community art project destined to someday be world renowned; PostSecret was born.

The process is simple: Men and women from all over the world send artistic renderings of their deepest, soulful secrets to his home address in Maryland. After sifting through 100-200 secrets a day, Warren chooses about 15 per week to feature on the website, postsecret.blogspot.com. There, over 500 million visitors have scrolled through the stories and pictures of complete strangers.

These secrets never fail to entertain. Often controversial or shockingly revealing, the postcards can range from sexual to embarrassing to hilarious to all three at once, sometimes eliciting visceral reactions in the form of emails; these reactions are also occasionally posted by Warren.

The success of the site has been so monumental that Warren has published five bestselling books filled with the secrets he’s received; most recently, “Confessions on Life, Death, & God” reached No. 1 on the New York Times Bestseller List in 2009.

Lindsey Yarbrough, freshman in chemical engineering, said she checks the website every week.

“The secrets are always interesting and sometimes funny, but also because I like to see if I can relate to some of the secrets,” Yarbrough said.

And though many of the secrets do reveal universal truths, others prove truly unique.

“Every Valentine’s Day I send valentines to faraway friends from

random Harry Potter characters,” admitted one postcard sender from this week’s post, whose card included hearts and pictures from the movies.

How did UT get such a big name to come speak on campus?

Marigrace Angelo, senior in studio art and Spanish and director of PostSecret Live for the Visual Arts Committee (VAC), said she has been a fan of PostSecret since high school.

“I knew that one of the ways Frank manages to keep the website ad-free was from the revenue from the tour,” Angelo said. “So I have been trying to get him here since I was a freshman. This is funded through the student activities fees, so students do get first choice. Even though the general public tickets have sold out, there are still tickets for students. I encourage everyone to call the Central Ticket Office or go down there personally to get a ticket; it’s 100 percent free, just like the basketball ticket system.”

At the event, Warren will give a multimedia presentation, discussing why he started the project and revealing secrets that never made it to the website or into a book. He will also divulge some of his own secrets and invite the audience to do the same.

“It often gets quite emotional and brings the community together … definitely a very inspiring event,” Angelo said.

Clearly, the project encourages vulnerability. But vulnerability of the flavor demanded by PostSecret can be hard to come by.

“Personally, I have never sent one in, but I have always wanted to,” Yarbrough said. “I just never had the guts to do it.”

Students like Yarbrough who have never sent in a secret can enjoy the experience in a unique way by mailing their secrets to be displayed at the UC. Postcards are collected in the VAC comment box in the UC, the School of Art Office or the Office of Student Activities, as well as in any campus mail box. The deadline for submission is Feb. 24.

“People shouldn’t be afraid to send in the secrets; the process is completely anonymous,” Angelo said.

For more information visit http://activities.utk.edu/cpc/utpost-secret/.

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Brent Sterling flips off of the 3-meter during the opening round of the SEC Championships at Allan Jones Aquatic Center on Wednesday. The SEC Championships started Wednesday with final rounds starting at 5:30 p.m. Saturday night.

1862 — Capture of Fort Donelson Infamous gunslinger John Wesley Hardin is pardoned after spending 15 years in a Texas prison for murder. Hardin, who was reputed to have shot and killed a man just for snoring, was 41 years old at the time of his release.

Hardin probably killed in excess of 40 people during a six-year stretch beginning in 1868.

When he was only 15, Hardin killed an ex-slave in a fight, becoming a wanted fugitive. Two years later, he was arrested for murder in Waco, Texas. Although it was actually one of the few he had not committed, Hardin did not want to run the risk of being convicted and escaped to the town of Abilene.

At that time, Abilene was run by Wild Bill Hickok, who was friendly with Hardin. However, one night Hardin was disturbed by the snoring in an adjacent hotel room and fired two shots through the wall, killing the man. Fearing that not even Wild Bill would stand for such a senseless crime, Hardin moved on again.

On May 26, 1874, Hardin was celebrating his 21st birthday when he got into an altercation with a man who fired the first shot. Hardin fired back and killed the man. A few years later, Hardin was tracked down in Florida and brought to trial. Because it was one of the more defensible shootings on Hardin's record, he was spared the gallows and given a life sentence. After his pardon, he moved to El Paso and became an attorney. But his past caught up with him, and the following year he was shot in the back as revenge for one of his many murders.

1959 — Castro sworn in On February 16, 1959, Fidel Castro is sworn in as prime minister of Cuba after leading a guerrilla campaign that forced right-wing dictator Fulgencio Batista into exile. Castro, who became commander in chief of Cuba’s armed forces after Batista was ousted on January 1, replaced the more moderate Miro Cardona as head of the country’s new provisional government.

Castro was born in the Oriente province in eastern Cuba, the son of a Spanish immigrant who had made a fortune building rail systems to transport sugar cane. He became involved in revolutionary politics while a student and in 1947 took part in an abortive attempt by Dominican exiles and Cubans to overthrow Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo. In the next year, he took part in urban riots in Bogota, Colombia. The most outstanding feature of his politics during the period was his anti-American beliefs; he was not yet an overt Marxist.

Various groups formed to oppose Batista’s dictatorship, and on July 26, 1953, Castro led some 160 rebels in an attack on the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba — Cuba’s second largest military base. Castro hoped to seize weapons and announce his revolution from the base radio station, but the barracks were heavily defended, and more than half his men were captured or killed.

Castro was himself arrested and put on trial for conspiring to overthrow the Cuban government. During his trial, he argued that he and his rebels were fighting to restore democracy to Cuba, but he was nonetheless found guilty and sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Two years later, Batista felt confident enough in his power that he granted a general amnesty for all political prisoners, including Castro. Castro then went with his brother Raul to Mexico, and they organized the revolutionary 26th of July Movement, enlisting recruits and joining up with Ernesto “Che” Guevara, an idealist Marxist from Argentina.

On December 2, 1956, Castro and 81 armed men landed on the Cuban coast. All of them were killed or captured except for Castro, Raul, Che, and nine others, who retreated into the Sierra Maestra mountain range to wage a guerrilla war against the Batista government. They were joined by revolutionary volunteers from all over Cuba and won a series of victories over Batista's demoralized army. Castro was supported by the peasantry, to whom he promised land reform, while Batista received aid from the United States, which bombed suspected revolutionary positions.

By mid-1958, a number of other Cuban groups were also opposing Batista, and the United States ended military aid to his regime. In December, the 26th of July forces under Che Guevara attacked the city of Santa Clara, and Batista’s forces crumbled. Batista fled for the Dominican Republic on January 1, 1959. Castro, who had fewer than 1,000 men left at the time, took control of the Cuban government’s 30,000-man army. The other rebel leaders lacked the popular support the young and charismatic Castro enjoyed, and on February 16 he was sworn in as prime minister.

The United States initially recognized the new Cuban dictator but withdrew its support after Castro launched a program of agrarian reform, nationalized U.S. assets on the island, and declared a Marxist government. Many of Cuba’s wealthier citizens fled to the United States, where they joined the CIA in its efforts to overthrow Castro’s regime.

In April 1961, with training and support by the CIA, the Cuban exiles launched an ill-fated and unsuccessful invasion of Cuba known as the “Bay of Pigs.” The Soviet Union reacted to the attack by escalating its support to Castro's communist government and in 1962 placed offensive nuclear missiles in Cuba. The discovery of the missiles by U.S. intelligence led to the tense “Cuban Missile Crisis,” which ended after the Soviets agreed to remove the weapons in exchange for a U.S. pledge not to invade Cuba.

Castro’s Cuba was the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere, and he would retain control of it into the 21st century, outlasting 10 U.S. presidents who opposed him with economic embargoes and political rhetoric. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Castro lost a valuable source of aid, but he made up for it by courting European and Canadian investment and tourism. In July 2006, Castro temporarily ceded power to his brother Raul after undergoing intestinal surgery. His struggles with illness continued, and he officially stepped down in February 2008.

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

CORRECTION In the Feb. 15, 2012 issue of The Daily Beacon, there was an error in the story titled “Group raises food money for alternative break.” In the story, quotes were incorrectly attributed to Katherine Humphrey, when in fact the source was Katherine Hatcher. The Beacon apologizes for this error.

Thursday, February 16, 2012

BLACKOUT continued from Page 1 To make up for the lack of lighting, several classes continued outside in Circle Park. While the power outage may have stopped some classes from meeting either in their usual place or even at all, several teachers persevered through what they saw as only an inconvenience.

“It didn’t affect me at all because I don’t use comput-

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ers in my class,” Spanish professor Toya Handelsman said. “... We had to do part of a review because they have a test on Friday, so there was no way I was going to cancel classes.”

To facilitate the repairs, there was a 15-minute power outage on the Hill at approximately 3:40 p.m.

Ayres, Perkins, Dougherty and several other buildings experienced an interruption in service.

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Stadium shortly after the outage caused some panic.

Passers-by misinterpreted the cloud, fire alarm siren and the presence of a fire engine as a sign of fire, but the smoke more likely emanated from a generator.

UT Facilities Services worked quickly to restore the electricity in ThompsonBoling Arena before the Tennessee-Arkansas men’s basketball game. Extra lighting and enhanced security were supplied to affected parking garages.

Irish chef brings culinary experience Liv McConnell Staff Writer The Ready for the World Café spring series kicked off to a delectable start Tuesday with authentic and affordable Irish cuisine, welcoming celebrity guest chef Garret Scanlan.

Students and faculty alike enjoyed Scanlan’s sumptuous four-course creations, including braised leg of lamb, mussels in an herb and white wine sauce, and chocolate liqueur mousse adorned with a chocolate heart in the spirit of Valentine’s Day. All this was included in the meager ticket price of $12.

“This is the best food I’m going to have in six months,” Richard Eiler, senior in advertising, said between mouthfuls of Irish stew.

“It’s $12 for a four-course meal. You’d normally go to a restaurant and pay twice that for one mediocre course. This is high-quality food cooked by one of the best Irish chefs in the region.”

The cafés, which are run entirely by students in UT’s hotel, restaurant and tourism (HRT) program and Pellissippi’s culinary school, are held in the UT visitor’s center every Tuesday and present a different international theme each week. The affordability of the tickets, which can be bought a week in advance, makes Ready for the World an inexpensive opportunity for students who have tired of their typical humdrum lunch fare.

“It’s a terrific meal for a small price,” said Scanlan, who generously lent a genuine Irish spin on Tuesday’s festivities.

Originally hailing from Dublin, Scanlan was the youngest competitor in the 1976 European Culinary Olympics, which led to his recruitment by famous American hotel chain, Hilton. After working in 5-star establishments across the United States, he now resides in Tennessee, starring in a TV show,

“90 Miles with Chef Garret,” and serving on the advisory board for UT and Pellissippi’s partnered culinary school.

“This program is a good way for students to get a hands-on education in how to operate and manage a restaurant,” Scanlan said.

Matthew Robuck, senior in hotel, restaurant and tourism management, agreed.

“I’ve been in the restaurant business since I was 15, so while this isn’t exactly new to me, it’s still great experience,” Robuck said.

As general manager this week, Robuck got to learn the real-world application of the concepts he’s been studying in the classroom.

“We learn marketing, advertising, food costing, recipe selection, portions — we’re learning the business behind everything,” Robuck said.

Megan Cole, senior in food science, elaborated further.

“We all take turns and decide who’s going to be a host, who’s going to be a server, who’s going to do dish and kitchen. We develop our own menu, cost it and quantify it based on how many people are coming,” Cole said.

The café series is sponsored by US Foods, which donates $350 per lunch; any additional profit generated by ticket sales goes directly to a scholarship fund for HRT students.

Cole is excited by the prospect of all the culinary cultures Ready for the World promises to explore.

“My week that I direct will be German week, and next week is Japanese. I think the one I’m most excited for is Italian week, though,” Cole said.

A full schedule of dates and their corresponding countries can be found at utk.edu/readyfortheworld. Tickets for the lunches, which start at noon and end at 1 p.m., can also be purchased online.

At this price and level of convenience, Ready for the World is a venture that all students looking for a little more lively cuisine than cafeteria pizza are encouraged to partake in.

GA school system under fire The Associated Press ATLANTA — A Georgia middle school student claimed in a lawsuit Wednesday he was humiliated and traumatized when he was brought to a vice principal’s office and forced to strip in front of classmates who said he had marijuana.

The student, then in the seventh-grade, said he still suffers from emotional distress because his classmates taunted him by calling him Superman, due to the underwear he was wearing when he was strip-searched. The student is suing the Clayton County school district for unspecified punitive and compensatory damages.

Clayton County school officials didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment about the lawsuit, filed in federal court.

The student, identified in court documents as D.H., said officials at Eddie White Academy initially stripsearched three other students on Feb. 8, 2011, after suspecting they had marijuana. One of them accused D.H. of having drugs, and he was brought to then-vice principal Tyrus McDowell’s office.

While the three classmates watched, D.H.’s pockets and book bag were searched but nothing was found, the lawsuit said. One of the students told school officials he had

lied about D.H. having drugs, but administrators continued the search as D.H. begged to be taken to the bathroom for more privacy, according to the lawsuit.

D.H. was ordered to strip and again, no drugs were found. The lawsuit didn’t say whether drugs were found on the three students.

“The strip searches were done intentionally, willfully, wantonly, maliciously, recklessly, sadistically, deliberately, with callous indifference to their consequences,” according to the lawsuit, which also names the county's sheriff’s department and several former school officials as defendants.

The student’s attorney, Gerry Weber, said a 2009 U.S. Supreme Court ruling found school officials can’t perform even a partial strip search of a student, even if they have probable cause.

Weber also litigated a case nearly a decade ago in which the federal appeals court in Atlanta found that a mass strip search of Clayton County students was unconstitutional because it violated their Fourth Amendment rights, which protect against an unreasonable search and seizure.

“This is like deja vu,” said Weber. “It is simply beyond belief that students are still being stripped naked in the Clayton County schools.”

Redding, who is now run-

ning for county sheriff, was fired about a month after the search, the lawsuit said.

McDowell was placed on administrative leave before subsequently resigning.

Redding declined to comment and McDowell could not immediately be reached.

George Richardson • The Daily Beacon

Exhaust from a generator in Neyland Stadium spills smoke into the air after a power outage on Wednesday. The smoke, which many initially believed to be caused by a fire in the stadium, prompted response from the fire department and general worry from students.

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Somewhere... Hopefully UT needs small-school environment Preston Peeden Managing Editor When I was in high school, I knew that my school cared.

By this, I’m not talking about my friends and how they cared about me, but rather, I mean the actual school. I knew that every day, the teachers, the advisers and, most importantly, the administration legitimately cared about my education and my development.

I must admit that I went to a small school. In the entire K-12 school, there was little more than 1,000 students, with about 100 teachers. My school’s concern over my well-being and the well-being of my classmates came from more than just the teachers, however, as our administration was always there to help. For instance, the president of the school has personally written several recommendations for one of my friends who is intending to get his Ph.D., and also helped another friend find a place to live and work in California. He didn’t do things because he had to, but because he was personally invested in us. He wants to see me, my friends and all of our alumni do their best to become the best they can be, and he intends to help anyone who asks along the way.

This was a sheltered way to go through school, but that does not necessarily mean it’s a bad way. When I came to UT, it became obvious that I was in a different environment completely. Actually, before I even arrived on campus, I had a sour taste in my mouth from UT’s bureaucracy.

A month before move-in day, I received two calls a week from one or the other. The first was to inform me that my Hope Scholarship no longer applied to me because my birth date was reported as being a month before it actually was, so the discrepancy led to a mix-up with the funds, and the second was to say that I had been moved from my intended room to a different hall with random roommates. Looking back, I might have overreacted, but in just one week I had essentially been told that I would have to pay $5,000 extra and also would be moved into a room away from my friends and put with people whom I didn’t know anything about. After hours of frantic calling, and luckily the intervention by one of my suitemate’s well-

meaning and at the same time terribly intimidating mothers, I was able to get the forms necessary to correct these mistakes. But I realized that day, while there were many people who were willing to help, overall it felt like there was a sense of apathy and indifference here. I have had great teachers and great advisers, but I have still been let down by not having the same support I had grown accustomed to.

This of course brings me around to UT’s current slogan drive for “Big Orange, Big Ideas,” and its plan to transform UT into a top 25 public research university. While I can’t speak to whatever depths the plan that Chancellor Cheek and his staff have, I can’t help but feel even more disconcerted and disconnected from the administration. It seems to me that attaining the top 25 brand name is just another attempt for administrators to show how good they can be. But in aiming so high, the administration is abdicating its duty to fix the little things. There aren’t enough chairs in many classrooms, as in one of my history classes where many students hope at least two classmates play hooky so as to allow for everyone else to get a seat, BlackBoard flickers on and off, and half of the classrooms have outdated electronic equipment. How can we challenge stalwarts like Cal-Berkley if we can’t even put every student in a seat and keep every classroom lit properly?

By trying to jump ahead several steps in the development of this university (a school I do truly love and believe in), we are shortchanging our own students. Our administration seemingly is ignoring the daily grievances that plague our time here, and instead covers them up with fancy shirts, speciallypacked M&M containers, and the promise of big changes and big advancements. UT is a very good school, maybe even a great one, but we can never be a top 25 school unless we truly work together to solve our problems both big and small.

Ultimately, we need the same small-school environment that I was blessed to be in during high school. Lower the teacher-to-student ratio, increase student participation in SGA (whose current leaders were elected by only nine percent of the student body), and increase the sense of community and connectivity between students, faculty and administration. With a little more caring, this school and its students can both get the most out of the other.

— Preston Peeden is a junior in history. He can be reached at ppeeden@utk.edu.

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Lindsay Lee You may not have noticed the shockingly enormous sign hanging off of Hodges, so in case you missed it, UT’s new so-called “brand” is “Big Orange, Big Ideas.”

The new motto is the part of our new brand that stands out the most, but there are also other extremely important aspects that are less well-known. We now have an official color scheme consisting of second-level and third-level color palettes to compliment the essential colors of UT Orange, Smokey and white. We also have an official group of primary and secondary typefaces to print on every UT publication. In addition, there is now an official way to take Big Orange photographs and a set of words to be used as our official lingo.

You are probably like me and basically everyone else on campus in wondering why we need a brand.

The marketing office answers those questions in the shiny new Brand Book with, “It’s more than just a logo, a tagline, or a color — although all of these things are crucial. It’s about a reputation, and our brand should reflect that reputation.”

I’m going to ignore the fact that they describe a logo, a tagline and colors as “crucial” for a moment and focus on what this actually says about our reputation. These four words and all the banners that come with them are supposed to be a reflection of our outstanding, innovative reputation. But what does it really say about us that these four words cost the university $85,000 not including banner printing and manpower? And when you think about it, the slogan only has three different words, so they really got gypped.

It says we as a university are irresponsible and have values that are completely out of whack. There is no reason we needed to spend thousands upon thousands of dollars on a slogan and color scheme from some consulting firm based in Chicago. We have more than enough brain power on this campus to come up with a pithy saying to represent the university if you really feel the need for one. Why not create a branding task

force made of faculty and students in advertising and design? It would have been incredibly cheaper, and we would have probably gotten some much better results.

“Big Orange, Big Ideas”? If you had given me $20 and about 30 seconds, I could have come up with all sorts of slogans fitting to the university: “WHERE SPORTZ HAVE CLASS,” “Our students are so happy, they never leave!” “Big Orange, B.S.” There’s no telling what I could have done with $85,000!

The Brand Book labels taglines, logos, colors and all the other parts associated with this endeavor as “crucial.” They are right that it is necessary for UT to have an image that appears clean and professional to the outside world. We do not want to look sloppy or silly to alumni, donors, other universities and the public. But this whole campaign does just the opposite of what it intends. It makes us look ridiculously silly and frivolous.

One of the first things the little 40-second video online advertising the new brand says is, “At the University of Tennessee, we’re all about big ideas.”

Obviously that is not the case if we have to get some other swanky advertising firm to tell us who we are and what we’re about.

I would love it if this motto — as cheesy as it is — could actually reflect who we are and what we do as a university. It would be great if any of us could say with confidence and pride that UT is a progressive place of knowledge where things are always happening and changing and improving. But it’s not. We are stuck in a bureaucratic backlog where the administration does not invest in its students, but instead cares more about selling us collectively as a commodity with this brand. So instead of reflecting who we are, this motto just mocks us.

All of those thousands of dollars could have been better spent nearly anywhere else. They should have put that money toward renovating the Humanities Building or toward raising workers’ salaries to a livable wage. They could have improved the sidewalks or bought new computers for the library or given away more financial aid. But instead of doing all that, they spent it on a motto and a color palette. So once again our tuition will go up, and the value of our education will suffer.

— Lindsay Lee is a sophomore in math. She can be reached at llee26@utk.edu.

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I have a question for all you Republicans out there.

Have you ever actually gained anything from a “socially” conservative president being in office?

Let me explain my question — it seems to me that the problem with Mitt Romney to the Republicans is that he doesn’t seem to have WASP credentials. OK, so he’s white and no one really cares if he’s actually Anglo-Saxon, but he isn’t Protestant and while I also don’t think people care about his Mormonism, they do seem to doubt his antiabortion cred. You know, because George Bush was able to outlaw abortion and make the whole country abstain from sex before their constitutionally defined man and woman marriage. (And before you say it: The movement to ban same-sex marriage is a national one but has not really been a federal one.)

It doesn’t seem to me that all this noise about how split the Republican Party is is probably a nonissue. While it does seem to me that Mitt Romney is just about the only Republican who could gather a bunch of the moderate vote — despite the fact that, as James Carville confusingly said, he knows how to speak French and he graduated from Harvard — I don’t know if that is going to change much. If the economy rebounds, then Obama will probably win. If it stays stagnant, then it will be something of a toss-up. If the economy somehow declines significantly, I am going to join a random separatist group in Montana and dare the federal government to come and make me repay my student loans.

What you notice, though, is that it doesn’t really seem that Obama’s or Romney’s or Rick Santorum’s position on “social” issues is really going to change the race — unless Obama divorces his wife and marries a man (and even then I think that people would harp on the divorce more than you’d think) or Romney admits he doesn’t practice “traditional” Mormonism and sacrifices a pig on national television. For some reason, though, making a candidate march around the country giving speech

after speech saying what everyone expects him to say so that he can win an unofficial vote to pick delegates (or not) so that he can run as a major party candidate in an election and have people vote so that the electoral college has a guide on who to actually make president actually matters. And if this paragraph seems confusing, vague and almost pretentiously digressive it is because both the system and the author describing it are those things.

I’m tempted here to say that all these bogus internal party conflicts largely come from the fact that news websites feel obligated to put up news on their webpages even if it is highly unlikely that there is actually good reason to update it every 20 minutes.

I think, though, that there is a far more depressing reason for this. When it comes down to it, there are very few of us who know someone personally who we would want to be president. But I think people generally want the president to be like them. I don’t mean this in the insulting way that people might mean this: I don’t think that country bumpkins demand that their president not know how to speak French anymore than 1860 Americans demanded that their president wear a stove top hat. I simply think that it has become fairly hard for people to see their involvement as a tangible entity. Part of this might be the increasing unimportance of the local and state governments as the federal government begins to assume power (if indirectly, such as through the courts or through funding control) that I think many even 60 years ago would have thought impossible. It could be that large media has taken advantage of a market which rewards coverage of issues which concern the largest number of people.

Whatever the reason, though, it seems pretty clear that these social issues have taken on an importance that is far more (or less) than their actual affect on national policy. Right wing Republicans demand that Mitt Romney “prove” that he had a genuine “change of heart” on abortion even though the odds of him actually effecting change are not very great because they want to believe that if given the chance he would do what they would do. I am not so sure that this localization of the national figure works, but I can’t blame the process.

— Gregory Bearringer is a graduate student in medieval studies. He can be reached at gbearrin@utk.edu.

Thursday, February 16, 2012

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ARTS&CULTURE

What: Midnight Voyage LIVE with Starkey, Fast Nasty vs. Spooky Jones, Dex, MTBL When: 9 p.m.

Where: The Ciderhouse How much: $8 advance / $10 door ($3 surcharge) What: Fuddy Meers When: 7:30 p.m.

Where: Clarence Brown Theatre How much: $5 - $30

Saturday, February 18

Thursday, February 16 What: Shrek the Musical When: 7:30 p.m.

Where: Tennessee Theatre How much: $37 - $77 Our take: The leading family-friendly film franchise of the last decade hit the stage, with an advisory for patrons warning that the fog and strobe lights may potentially be dangerous. Take your kids. Walk on the wild side.

What: Fuddy Meers When: 7:30 p.m.

Where: Clarence Brown Theatre How much: $5 - $25

What: Florida Georgia Line with the Cadillac Black and Stephen Hunley When: 9 p.m.

Where: The Ciderhouse How much: $8 advance / $10 door ($3 surcharge) Our take: Oh, my. Another rootsinfused night of country rock.

C’mon, Knoxville, if you’re going for derivative muzak, at least get with this decade.

• Photo courtesy of Erick Baker

What: Taboo When: 9 p.m.

Where: The Valarium How much: N/A What: Fuddy Meers When: 7:30 p.m.

Where: Clarence Brown Theatre How much: $5 - $30

Saturday, February 19 • Photo courtesy of The Clarence Brown Theatre

David Brian Alley acts as Richard in the Clarence Brown Theatre’s performance of “Fuddy Meers.”

Friday, February 17

What: Dark Star Orchestra When: 8 p.m.

Where: The Valarium How much: $18 advance / $20 door ($3 surcharge for patrons under 21) Our take: The Grateful Dead equivalent to ZOSO, this is the closest you will ever get to the Dead in their classic lineups, featuring actual setlists from historic concerts. Worth checking out at least once.

What: Fall in Love Again, An Evening with Erick Baker When: 8 p.m.

Where: Bijou Theatre How much: Sold out - $30-$50 scalp Our take: The perfect show to keep your Valentine’s buzz going into the weekend, roots-soul songwriter Erick Baker plays like a southern Ray LaMontagne ... wait, this isn’t 2006, is it?

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Campus Condos Available in August 2BR, 2BA and 3BR 3BA units available. W/D in unit. Reserved off street parking. 3 minute walk to Law School and stadium. $475/mo.

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Jimmy John’s now hiring in-store help for all shifts.

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Thursday, February 16, 2012

Toti earns historic third SEC Freshman of Week Staff Reports Earning her third consecutive SEC Freshman of the Week award Wednesday, Tennessee’s Sarah Toti is the first SEC women’s tennis student-athlete to claim three straight player of the week accolades of any kind since the conference began awarding weekly honors in 2000.

Matching doubles partner Brynn Boren’s UT-record three SEC Freshman of the Week honors (2011), Toti played a key role in Tennessee’s wins over No. 5 Baylor and No. 12 Northwestern last weekend at the ITA National Team Indoor Championships. The Lady Vols now have three Top 12 wins and five Top 25 victories.

Overall, Toti won her fifth singles match of the season, and added three doubles wins to her total.

Concluding the weekend

against the Wildcats, Toti combined with Boren for their 12th consecutive doubles win together, improving to 9-0 in dual-match play (an SEChigh) and 20-3 overall.

In singles, Toti won her fifth match in the last six tries, knocking off Linda Abu Mushrefova in straight sets (61, 6-4). The victory proved to be critical, as Tennessee’s 4-3 win over NU came down to the final court.

Against Baylor and No. 16 USC, Toti and Boren clinched the doubles point for UT for the fifth and sixth times, respectively — a team-best.

Her efforts have helped Tennessee open the season with nine consecutive doubles points, a program-record.

The Lady Vols (6-3) have won six of their last seven matches and will play their first true road matches of the season this weekend, traveling to Indiana on Friday (1:30 p.m. ET) and Ohio State on Sunday (noon ET).

Taylor Gautier • The Daily Beacon

Kaity Moriarity, senior in psychology, and Shawhin Mosadeghzad, senior in management, lead a meeting for the It’s Not About Me Foundation on Monday. The foundation supports local non-profit organizations through student volunteer work.

TCU football players arrested in drug sting The Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — Authorities arrested 17 students in a sweeping drug sting at Texas Christian University on Wednesday, a bust that included four members of the Horned Frogs football team accused of selling marijuana to undercover officers during the season and as recently as a few weeks ago.

Police said the 17 people who were arrested were caught making “hand-to-hand” sales of marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy and prescription drugs to undercover officers. They said the bust followed a six-month investigation prompted by complaints from students, parents and others.

The arrests stunned the campus community, coming just one day after a thrilling overtime victory by the men’s basketball team and less than 24 hours after TCU released its football schedule for next season, its first in the Big 12 Conference. TCU has an enrollment of about 9,500 students, but the involvement of the athletes drew the most scrutiny.

“There are days people want to be a head football coach, but today is not one of those days,” coach Gary Patterson

said. “As I heard the news this morning, I was first shocked, then hurt and now I’m mad.”

Three prominent defensive players on the team were arrested: Linebacker Tanner Brock, the leading tackler two seasons ago, defensive tackle D.J. Yendrey and cornerback Devin Johnson. The other player is offensive lineman Ty Horn.

Police said they had not determined whether the four were selling to their teammates or other athletes, though the arrest affidavits raise the possibility.

In November, a Fort Worth police officer was informed that Horn was selling marijuana to “college students and football players at Texas Christian.” The officer allegedly bought marijuana that day, Nov. 3, two days before a road game at Wyoming, from both Horn and Yendrey.

Arrest affidavits describe clandestine meetings between undercover officers players in a grocery store parking lot and outside restaurants, with dope purchases taking place in local homes. Police say they bought thousands of dollars in marijuana between November and February.

On Feb. 1, there was a mandatory team meeting where all players underwent a drug test, according to an arrest warrant.

“Yeah, they caught us slipping,” Brock told an undercover officer later that day before allegedly selling him $220 worth of marijuana.

He added that he had failed the surprise test “for sure,” according to the warrant, then adding that he thought it wouldn’t be a problem because there “would be about 60 people screwed.”

Horn had looked through the football roster and “said there were only 20 people that would pass the test on the team,” Brock said, according to the warrant. And asked about the drug test, Johnson allegedly told an undercover officer: “What can they do, 82 people failed it.”

Patterson declined to comment beyond the statement released by the university.

Phone messages left at the homes of Horn, Johnson and Yendrey were not immediately returned. Brock did not have a listed home number.

Police said they had yet to determine if other football players were involved or would be charged. Chancellor Victor Boschini suggested the four players’ involvement was not a sign of a larger issue.

“I don’t think it’s a football problem,” Boschini said.

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THESPORTSPAGE

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Vols’ balance dismantles Razorbacks Hall suspended, UT wins, 77-58 Clay Seal Assistant Sports Editor It wasn’t over before it began, but it was over soon after, as Tennessee quickly ran away from Arkansas 77-58 Wednesday night at Thompson-Boling Arena.

Tennessee (14-12, 6-5 SEC) has now won four straight games, and nine of its past 10 at home. Arkansas (17-9, 5-6) remained winless on the road this season, dropping to 0-9 away from Bud Walton Arena.

It’s the first four-game win streak for Tennessee since Feb. 2008. The Vols are now tied for fourth in the conference standings and have won six of their past eight.

“Definitely going along in the season with a new team and a new coach, I feel like we’re learning everything a lot better,” said sophomore guard Jordan McRae, who led UT with 14 points off the bench. “Our goal is definitely to try to win out and make it to the (NCAA) Tournament.”

Tennessee had another balanced night, with six players scored in doublefigures: McRae, Trae Golden (13), Jeronne Maymon (12), Skylar McBee (12), Cameron Tatum (11) and Jarnell Stokes (10).

“The past three or four games, we’ve done a good job running the motion offense,” said UT coach Cuonzo Martin.

“That’s a credit to our guys moving and getting open against the zone defense.

When you make that pass, good things happen. We penetrated and found the shooter.”

Less than an hour before tip-off, Tennessee announced junior forward Kenny Hall was suspended indefinitely “for conduct detrimental to the team.”

Martin wouldn’t comment on what Hall did, but said he will not practice or travel with the team to Alabama for Saturday’s 1:30 p.m. EST tip-off. Martin said he was surprised with Hall’s

actions.

Hall (6.2 points and 4.5 rebounds per game this season) had started 16 of 25 games this season, and two consecutive in place of Stokes, who has been dealing with a hand injury. Stokes started, and freshman Yemi Makanjuola played six minutes in a four-guard set UT ran most of the night.

The Vols used a 19-0 run to take a 236 lead at the 13:31 mark of the first half and never looked back. UT started the game shooting 12-of-15, 5-of-6 from 3point range, and finished the first half shooting 68 percent from the field, a season-high for any half.

In the end, they shot 56 percent (28of-50) from the field, and 48 percent (11- of-23) from beyond the arc.

Arkansas shot 43 percent from the field and 25 percent from 3-point range.

Tennessee led 47-30 at halftime, just missing a season-high in points (49 against UNC-Greensboro in the seasonopener). The Vols led by as much as 24 points.

The Razorbacks couldn’t do much against the Tennessee defense, being pushed to the end of the shot clock throughout the night, and turning the ball over 18 times.

Arkansas used a 12-2 run early in the second half to come within 11 points by the 15:58 mark. However, UT put together an 11-1 run to go up 74-53 with 3:29 remaining.

“We’re getting a vibe for each other, a good chemistry for each other,” said Tatum. “We’re learning how each other is going to play, where each person likes the ball, and each other’s strengths.”

Golden left the game around the 14minute mark in the second half, favoring his right ankle area after getting tripped up in the paint with McRae. He returned five minutes later, and Martin said he would be fine for Alabama.

Tia Patron• The Daily Beacon B.J. Young finished with 18 points for Jordan McRae lays a ball up and over three Arkansas defenders during a game on the Razorbacks. He put up 27 points Wednesday. McRae scored 14 points coming off the bench as the Vols went on to against South Carolina on Saturday. a decisive 77-58 victory over the Razorbacks.