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Lady Vols capture regular-season SEC crown Zac Ellis Editor-in-Chief No. 4 Tennessee had an outright SEC regular-season championship up for grabs on Monday night.

With the No. 22 Georgia Lady Bulldogs visiting ThompsonBoling Arena, the Lady Vols claimed that title — and they did it in style.

Tennessee used a dominating, yet balanced, performance to outman visiting Georgia 77-44 on Monday night, grabbing the outright regular-season SEC title along the way.

“I thought our team had great focus coming out of the locker room,” Tennessee coach Pat Summitt said. “Sometimes you can read that, other times you can’t. I was very, very pleased with how we took the court.”

Meighan Simmons led UT (26-2, 14-0 SEC) with 14 points, and Taber Spani and Shekinna Stricklen each added 11.

Tennessee shot 50 percent (31-62) from the field while holding Georgia to 26 percent shooting on the night.

Jasmine James paced Georgia (20-7, 10-4) with 11 points.

Summitt said the regular-season title is always the understood goal before tournament time.

“I tell them all the time, you haven’t won anything,” Summitt said. “I think it was important for them to be able to clinch this.

I feel like that maturity overall has allowed us to be very focused but also very confident.

“We want to stay that way.”

The Lady Vols started out hot from the perimeter. Simmons — who led UT in the first half with eight points — hit two 3pointers early to boost Tennessee’s lead, 6-2, less than two minutes into the contest.

A Vicki Baugh layup and free throw put UT up 15-7 at the 13:38 mark when Angie Bjorklund checked into the contest for Tennessee. Bjorklund scored three points in 11 minutes in her first action since Jan. 23 while nursing an ankle injury.

Tennessee’s zone defense stifled the Lady Bulldogs throughout the contest. The Lady Vols outrebounded Georgia 22-18 and held it to only 24 percent shooting before halftime. The strategy to go zone against the Lady Bulldogs paid dividends for Summitt and her coaching staff.

“We talked about it as a staff, and (associate head coach) Holly (Warlick) really felt in the end that that would be our best

defense,” Summitt said. “I think it was clearly our best defense. Our size and our length made a big difference.”

A Baugh layup with 1:30 left until halftime gave UT its largest lead of the first half, 38-18. Tennessee headed into the locker room leading 40-21.

But Tennessee did not let up in the second half. A Taber Spani 3-pointer with 15:30 remaining swelled the Lady Vol lead to 51-21, and a Spani jump shot with 4:22 left gave UT its largest lead of the game, 70-33.

“I think just from the past couple of games, our depth and our bench has really, really stepped up,” Simmons said. “I think today with the different lineups, we’ve all started to build a chemistry with each other.”

Johnson entered the Tennessee record books midway through the second half. With a free throw at the 13:19 mark, the junior became the 36th Lady Vol to score 1,000 career points.

“I didn’t expect it,” Johnson said. “And I just know I have to thank my teammates.”

The Lady Vols dominated the post game, outrebounding Georgia 49-33 and winning the battle of points in the paint 28-10. Despite the offensive output, Tennessee was shoddy from the free-throw line, converting only 9-of-17 attempts on the evening.

“I think just battling the boards the way we did,” Summitt said. “Overall, it was a pretty complete effort on the part of our team. We had only 12 turnovers, and the bench gave us 26 points.

“I like the depth. It’s important we get a lot of people involved. That’s exactly what happened for us.”

The Lady Vols travel to Oxford, Miss., to take on Ole Miss on Thursday at 7 p.m.

‘Live Pink, Bleed Orange’ The contest served as UT’s “Live Pink, Bleed Orange” game for breast cancer awareness, with the Lady Vols donning special pink jerseys. The game had added meaning for those within the Tennessee family, as former Lady Vol player Melissa McCray-Dukes lost her battle with breast cancer on Dec. 27. She was 43 years old.

“Couldn’t help but think about No. 35 in Melissa McCray-Dukes,” Summitt said. “She was a great player here, helped us hang two banners. She left such a mark on us in such a positive way as an individual.”

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Vicki Baugh works the ball down low against Porsha Phillips of Georgia on Monday, Feb. 21. With a 77-44 win over the Lady Bulldogs the Lady Vols clinched the regular season SEC Championship, remaining perfect in conference play with only two games remaining in the regular season.

UT offers Spring Job Fair preparation Workshops lead up to annual event hosted by Career Services Mustapha Moussa Staff Writer For this year’s graduating seniors, Career Services will provide workshops this week in preparation for the annual Spring Job Fair.

The primary focus of this job fair is on graduating seniors who are seeking full-time employment. Students will have the chance to network and meet representatives from more than 100 companies and government associations, from the Federal Bureau of Investigation to the Tennessee Valley Authority to Cisco Systems and many other companies.

“We always hold workshops that help students with resume preparation; however, this year is our first Tip-Off Week for the job fair,” DeAnna Bonner, assistant director of Career Services, said.

Tip-Off Week for the Spring Job Fair begins Tuesday and concludes Monday, Feb. 28.

The week will kick off Tuesday with Resume Express, which will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at various locations around campus. Also on Tuesday, a resume critique titled “Don’t Foul Out on Your Resume” will be held at 4 and 5 p.m. in Room 108 of Dunford Hall. This workshop will teach students the dos and don’ts of writing resumes.

Another event, called “Slam Dunk Your Interview,” will be held on Wednesday at 4 and 5 p.m. in Room 108 of Dunford Hall. This work-

shop will help students prepare for interviews.

On Thursday, Career Services will host a webinar titled “LinkedIn or LeftOUT” at 1 p.m. in the UC Shiloh Room. Featuring Jenny DeVaughn, the third most LinkedIn woman in the world, this webinar will show students how recruiters are using social media to recruit students.

Also on Thursday, there will be a workshop about career fair success strategies, called “Be an MVP.” This will be held at 4 and 5 p.m. in the UC Shiloh Room and will teach students how to interact with employers at the job fair.

Concluding the week on Monday, Feb. 28, will be a final resume review from 3 to 6 p.m. in Dunford Hall.

Students who attend four or more of these events will receive a free UT portfolio.

Many students are looking forward to attending these events.

“I don’t graduate until next year,” Samar Fawaz, junior in chemical engineering, said. “However, the experience I will gain from this will help me be better prepared when I graduate. Who knows, I may even make a positive impression on a potential company.”

Students are advised to be prepared for the job fair by logging in to Hire-A-Vol for a list of employers attending the fair, dressing professionally and bringing multiple copies of their resumes.

The Spring Job Fair will be held at ThompsonBoling Arena from 2 to 6 p.m. on March 2.

For a full list of Tip-Off Week events, visit http://career.utk.edu/tipoffweek.php.

Diversity Week to fight stereotypes Emily Devoe Staff Writer

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Jake Charette, senior in logistics, speaks with a representative from WilliamsSonoma at the Summer Job and Internship Fair on Wednesday, Feb. 9.

SGA’s Diversity Week is in full swing.

SGA works with UT to help “provide a climate where a diversity of individuals can share knowledge and experiences for the benefit of education.”

Each day will be a different theme of diversity. “(The goal of Diversity Week) is to include ideas and thoughts of all different angles in culture,” Rachel Finney, SGA senator, said. “So people can learn more about each other and not judge each other by what they think they know.”

The week started Sunday with the event No Ceilings: A Diversity Poetry Slam. Men and women from all backgrounds took part, showing their opinions and feelings through a slam-poetry session.

On Monday, SGA presented Open Door: A Diversity Forum in the UC. The forum was an open conversation between all who attended. It addressed issues concerning diversity and the climate at UT. The 50th Anniversary of AfricanAmerican Achievement was also celebrated.

Tonight, SGA presents the Game of LIFE: Rainbow Edition. Life-sized pieces of the Game of LIFE will be used while focusing on the issues concerning the LGBT. This is co-sponsored by

Chancellors LGBT Commission. It will be held in the UC Hermitage Room from 6 to 8 p.m.

The event on Wednesday will be called Handy Capable. It will be a chance for students to learn more about the different forms of disabilities.

Proper disability etiquette will be reviewed as well.

Handy Capable will be held in the UC Crest Room from 6 to 7 p.m.

The final event of the week will be Out the Window: If You Really Knew Me, which will take place on Thursday in the UC Hermitage Room from 6 to 8 p.m. The event is based on the MTV show that discusses the stereotypes of individuals versus what is actually going on in each individual’s life. The SGA will be presenting the UT version of this show addressing stereotypes and misconceptions.

“I am really excited to attend the event on Thursday, because I believe it’s really important to break stereotypes,” Chelsey Vance, freshman in exercise science, said. “Everyone is different and no one should be judged.”

SGA is celebrating the diversity of the student body during this week and is also promoting it for the future. Each day of Diversity Week will give students a new view about diversity and disabilities at UT. All events are free and open to the public.

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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

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Kody Pratt, junior in theatre, talks to a university representative about off-campus leadership opportunities at the UC Open House on Thursday, Feb. 17.

Crime Log

1980: U.S. hockey team makes miracle on ice In one of the most dramatic upsets in Olympic history, the underdog U.S. hockey team, made up of college players, defeats the four-time defending gold-medal winning Soviet team at the XIII Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid, New York. The Soviet squad, previously regarded as the finest in the world, fell to the youthful American team 4-3 before a frenzied crowd of 10,000 spectators. Two days later, the Americans defeated Finland 4-2 to clinch the hockey gold.

The so-called Miracle on Ice was more than just an Olympic upset; to many Americans, it was an ideological victory in the Cold War as meaningful as the Berlin Airlift or the Apollo moon landing. The upset came at an auspicious time: President Jimmy Carter had just announced that the United States was going to boycott the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow because of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and Americans, faced with a major recession and the Iran hostage crisis, were in dire need of something to celebrate. After the game, President Carter called the players to congratulate them, and millions of Americans spent that Friday night in revelry over the triumph of “our boys” over the Russian pros.

As the U.S. team demonstrated in their victory over Finland two days later, it was disparaging to call the U.S. team amateurs. Three-quarters of the squad were top college players who were on their way to the National Hockey League (NHL), and coach Herb Brooks had trained the team long and hard in a manner that would have made the most authoritative Soviet coach proud. The 1980 U.S. hockey team was probably the best-conditioned American Olympic hockey team of all time — the result of countless hours running skating exercises in preparation for Lake Placid. In their play, the U.S. players adopted passing techniques developed by the Soviets for the larger international hockey rinks, while preserving the rough checking style that was known to throw the Soviets off-guard. It was these factors, combined with an exceptional afternoon of play by Craig, Johnson, Eruzione and others, that resulted in the miracle at Lake Placid.

This improbable victory was later memorialized in a 2004 film, “Miracle,” starring Kurt Russell.

—This Day in History is courtesy of history.com

Feb. 18 A UT staff member reported that his STIHL leaf blower had been stolen from his vehicle while it was parked in the Hoskins Library parking lot between 3 p.m. and 3:20 p.m.

A UT student reported that his bicycle had been stolen from the bicycle rack in front of Morrill Hall, some time between 5 p.m. on Jan. 11 and 10 a.m. on Feb. 18.

At approximately 8:47 p.m., a UTPD officer assisted KPD officers with an accident on Volunteer Boulevard near UT Drive involving an impaired driver. The impaired suspect was an unaffiliated female driver; the victim was a female student.

The report stated that at least one subject was injured, though it was not specific.

Feb. 19 At approximately 3:18 a.m., a UTPD officer assisted KPD officers with a fight in progress on the seventh floor of the Lake Plaza apartment building. A male student was arrested for domestic assault, and the Rural/Metro Ambulance Service transported a female student to the UT Medical Center. The report stated that crime was alcohol related.

—Crime Log is compiled by Robbie Hargett

Compiled from a media log provided to the Daily Beacon by the Universty of Tennessee Police Department. All persons arrested are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

People with names similar or identical to those listed may not be those identified in reports.

Tuseday, February 22, 2011

NEWS

Eric Schlosser — author of ‘Fast Food Nation’ Eric Schlosser will address students and faculty at 7:30 pm in the UC Auditorium tonight.

He has been a correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly since 1996. After graduating from Princeton with a degree in American History, Schlosser tried his hand at several professions (playwright, novelist, script writer) before finally turning to non-fiction in his early thirties. Although his idea for an article on homosexuals in the military was turned down by the Atlantic Monthly, the magazine offered him another assignment: writing about the New York City bomb squad after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Other assignments followed, one of which was about America and its fast food industry.

What began as a simple magazine article turned into an international bestseller. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All American Meal, was on the New York Times bestsellers list for nearly two years. It appeared on the bestseller lists of the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, USA Today, Business Week, and Publishers Weekly, as well as on bestseller lists in Canada, Great Britain and Japan.

Schlosser has appeared on 60 Minutes, CNN, CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, FOX News, The O’Reilly Factor, and Extra!. He has been interviewed on NPR and covered in Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, and the New York Times. His work also has appeared in Rolling Stone and The New Yorker.

UT Board of Trustees holds winter meeting Feb. 24-25 in Chattanooga The UT Board of Trustees will meet Feb. 24-25 in Chattanooga.

The full board’s winter meeting will begin at 1:30 p.m. EST Friday, Feb. 25, in the Tennessee Room of the University Center at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

The full board and the Academic Affairs and Student Success Committee meetings will be webcast live and archived for later viewing. For a link to the webcasts, go to http://www.tennessee.edu/.

Agenda items include: Election of the chair of the board; Revised resolution for the UT Knoxville Athletics Board; Revised operating budget for FY 2010-11; Naming of the Golf Practice Facility at UT Knoxville; Revised policy statement on discretionary expenditure reporting for the president and chancellors; Report of capital projects outside the budget process; Real property transactions; Statement of commitment to the Graduate Medical Education Program at the College of Medicine in Chattanooga.

Various board committees will meet on Thursday, Feb. 24, and Friday, Feb. 25. Here is a schedule of their meetings: Thursday, Feb. 24: 10:30 a.m. — Research, Outreach and Economic Development Committee, Chattanooga Room (A), University Center; 2 p.m. — Advancement and Public Affairs Committee, Chattanooga Room (A), University Center.

Friday, Feb. 25, 8 a.m. — Finance and Administration Committee, Lookout Mountain Room, University Center; 10:15 a.m. — Academic Affairs and Student Success Committee, Tennessee Room, University Center. (This meeting will be webcast.)

To view the meeting’s full agenda and materials, go to http://bot.tennessee.edu/.

Anyone with a disability who wishes to attend these meetings may contact one of the individuals listed below to request auxiliary aids or services needed to facilitate attendance. Contact may be made in person, by writing, by e-mail, by telephone or otherwise and should be received no later than 5 p.m. EST, Monday, Feb. 21.

UT’s effectiveness and efficiency efforts result in $45.8 million savings The University of Tennessee has identified and implemented effectiveness and efficiency initiatives that have the potential to save the University $45.8 million.

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The University of Tennessee Board of Trustees’ Committee on Effectiveness and Efficiency for the Future, or EEF, spearheads this effort and has worked with campus and institute leaders and employees statewide since September 2008 to establish an ongoing emphasis on practicing the most responsible stewardship of University resources. Several of the adopted effectiveness and efficiency measures were selected from more than 800 employee suggestions received via UTALK. The committee met today to discuss 117 initiatives already underway and to hear from UT Chattanooga finance, UT Knoxville academic affairs and Institute of Agriculture leaders on specific activities dealing with information technology reorganization, capital outlay and maintenance processes, academic affairs efficiencies and online instruction effectiveness.

Implementation of 92 percent of the effectiveness and efficiency initiatives is already complete or in progress.

These initiatives include program consolidations, energy efficiencies, outsourcing decisions, paperless programs, vacant position eliminations, administrative reductions, IT efficiencies, space utilizations, travel reductions, commencement ceremony changes and campus transportation adjustments. A complete listing of these efforts by campus and institute is at http://bot.tennessee.edu/committees/eef/index.html under the heading Measures and Actions.

Almost 90 percent of the initiatives are recurring expense reductions. Fiscal impacts for each initiative are listed on the website.

The initiatives discussed today are not intended to offset the effects of the end of federal stimulus funding the University faces on July 1. The University has undertaken other comprehensive streamlining and cost reductions to meet the overall funding shortfall.

While the EEF committee was formed, in part, to aid the University in funding shortfall planning, its work will not stop there.

UT’s Ready for the World Café offers a kaleidoscope of flavors Take an Indian favorite, add an Italian dish and mix it with a good dose of Greek fare. That’s the recipe for this week’s Ready for the World Café.

The menu includes curry chicken, shrimp with spinach, tomatoes and feta, lemonpepper pork loin, ravioli with mushroom sauce, orzo and wild rice salad, ratatouille and Greek salad.

The café is an international buffet operated by students in the advanced food production and service management class, Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism (HRT) 445 at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

The café is open from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. each Monday through Thursday in the Hermitage Room on the third floor of the University Center. Note that the café will be closed Tuesday, Feb. 22, so the student café managers can attend a special lecture on campus.

Diners pay $11 for the all-you-can-eat buffet or $9 for a plate of food to carry out.

Aramark’s faculty/staff discount card can be used at the café.

Students in HRT 445 take turns planning the menus, marketing the café and working in the café. ARAMARK, UT's provider of dining services, prepares the food.

This week’s café manager is Nicholas Goodman of Hermitage, a junior majoring in business and minoring in food service.

OPINIONS

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Wednesday, February 22, 2011

The Hot Spot Pizza Inn sets standard for local buffets Other than cost, one

Robby O’Daniel Recruitment Editor of my biggest concerns when going to a restaurant is size of portions. Having too small of a meal is enough to turn me off a restaurant entirely.

This is why buffet is the ultimate summit of restaurant greatness. It is the laissez-faire market of the restaurant eater’s world. It is the direct democracy of food.

Yeah, buffets are great, but which are the best?

I have endeavored on a months-long quest to find the best buffet in Knoxville, and I think I have found it.

Pizza Inn is a pizza lover’s paradise and the best buffet around. This place is the true epitome of the buffet, and it shows. Taking the pilgrimage out to the location on Clinton Highway on a Friday night will end in battling for a parking space and waiting in line to get seated. And this is no small establishment, either. It’s just that popular.

And unlike many buffets, like Golden Corral, that ring in at $10 for dinner, a customer can print out a glorious Pizza Inn website coupon, which promises two adult buffets and two fountain drinks for just $14. The cost is before tip, but it’s still a better deal than the standard $10 per person.

Oh, and the choices! Pizza Inn’s hallmark flavor is the bacon cheeseburger. This columnist has lured many a skeptical reader out to Pizza Inn for the prime purpose of trying this delectable slice of heaven. It actually is lathered in mustard and has a pickle on top. The result looks absurd, but one bite proves its perfection. It tastes just like a delicious bacon cheeseburger — just in pizza form.

This reviewer’s favorite is the bacon cheeseburger, but others swear by the baked-potato pizza, a stellar addition to the Pizza Inn palate in its own right. Other specialties include baconcheddar-ham pizza, taco pizza and chicken-fajita pizza.

The place also has mouth-watering desserts, which they dub pizzerts. In particular, the

chocolate chip and Bavarian crème flavors are outstanding and hard to stop munching on after just one slice.

For those who are not as inclined to try new things — mostly children who come along with families — there is also spaghetti, chili and traditional flavors like pepperoni pizza. The cheesy breadsticks the restaurant has are on par with Cici’s excellent breadsticks.

If you have never been to Pizza Inn and you spend enough time on the UT campus to pick up a Daily Beacon, you really owe it to yourself to try it. You are too close in proximity to this Garden of Eden of Italian food to not do so.

The other true standout buffet — both in food quality and price — is Shoney’s vegetable buffet.

For a little more than half the price of getting the meat, Shoney’s customers can have everything but the meat — including the plethora of vegetables, bread, salad and desserts.

Many a night it is easy to dine at Shoney’s on a college student’s budget because the vegetables are that good. The meat is not conspicuous by its absence when a plate is full of rolls, corn and homestyle mashed potatoes with brown gravy. It’s food like Momma used to make.

Another worthy entry in the buffet hall of fame is the Kentucky Fried Chicken buffet out in Powell.

For around $8 or $9, a customer is free to indulge in fried chicken — original recipe or the preferred extra crispy — plus KFC’s excellent bouquet of side items, including cole slaw, mashed potatoes, corn, green beans and plenty more.

Places like Bojangles in Powell and the late Sawyer’s on Kingston Pike (God rest its soul) offer delectable buffets as well, but since the regular meals at those restaurants are so filling, getting a buffet that basically amounts to an unlimited amount of meals in one sitting is questionable.

Cici’s Pizza is also a college student’s best friend with its rock-bottom prices, the lowest prices of the establishments summarized here.

But, channeling Roger Ebert here if he were a food critic instead of a movie critic, if you can only go to one buffet this year, make it Pizza Inn. You will not regret it.

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

Scrambled Eggs • Alex Cline

Scrambled Eggs • Liz Newnam

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‘Evil’ defined by situations, not people For the Love . . . by

Ashleigh Disler

Imagine that soldiers are invading your village in the Congo and you find an abandoned house in which to take refuge. After some time, the soldiers discover the house and you hear their footsteps headed in that direction; at the same time, your baby starts crying. If you try to soothe your infant, it may take too long and the soldiers may discover your location. However, if you cover your infant’s mouth to stifle the cries, you will essentially be smothering the child to death.

This was the question presented to a woman during a Stanford study of evil. Is smothering your infant child right or wrong? Of course, many would say that suffocating your child is wrong, even in this event. Like many situations we’re faced with, we are made to choose between our rational thinking and our emotional thinking. At that, when one triumphs over the other (i.e. we choose our emotional thoughts over our rational thoughts), can others really say that we were right or wrong?

Do we, at best, underestimate situationally created evil?

The answer this participant gave was, “No.” She fought to say that she would, under no circumstances, suffocate her baby. Mothers everywhere nodded their heads fervently in agreement, I am certain of it. At the same time, the family members of the others who were slain in vain of this mother and her child disagree. To mothers, this woman is good. To the family members of the others, this woman is surely as evil as evil comes.

In a quest to discover the origin of evil, many professors and doctors of psychology have harvested their own experiments. In 1971, Philip Zimbardo hosted an experiment in which participants were randomly selected to be either a guard or prisoner for what was supposed to be two weeks. The selected guards were unaware that the prisoners were also participants. Likewise, the selected prisoners did not know that the guards were participants, too. In a matter of three days, riots had broken out among “prisoners” and the “guards” became very sadistic, and the power

anointed them began to course through their minds as they began to fully understand the authority handed to them.

“If the order is there, we are going to obey.”

Prison guards and military men and women probably hear truth harping to this quote, made by a Congo militant.

Stanley Milgram also conducted an experiment where participators were separated into roles of teacher or student. In short, the teacher was to shock the student each time he or she didn’t remember the answer (they were told it was an experiment of memory). Teachers were much more willing to shock the student when they were behind a wall, couldn’t see them, couldn’t hear them and therefore had little contact with the student, beyond receiving his or her answer.

However, when told to watch the students while they were being shocked, the teachers became much more disobedient. You can imagine the guilt that increased when they were told to shock them with deadly voltage, touch them while they were being shocked, etc. All the while, Milgram and other conductors of the experiment were told they must continue, which they did. In the results of this experiment, which were released in 1974, Milgram stated, “The social psychology of this century reveals a major lesson: Often, it is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act.”

Many times, we find ourselves critiquing the executions of others’ actions. Often, we find ourselves judging others for their “evil.” We run around saying things like, “I would never act like that,” and, “Who do they think they are?” Really, who do we think we are, running around and assuming things of others? Who do we think we are, assuming we’d be better in their circumstances?

I think the question of whether people are inherently evil has turned from itself. Of course we are inherently evil. We are also inherently selfish beings, inherently vain beings and, at best, I do believe we are inherently evil. Given the right situation, anybody can grow horns and carry a pitchfork. The moral question is where guilt sits, or if guilt sits anywhere at all. Without guilt, there is evil. With guilt, there is situationally created evil.

For the love… let your guilt sit.

—Ashleigh Disler is a junior in journalism and electronic media. She can be reached at adisler@utk.edu.

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The news of the large cuts to the education budget has brought a lot of concern to students nationwide. However, the proposed cuts vary across party lines. With the GOP’s proposed cut of $100 billion, including $845 per student from Federal Pell Grants (a Pell Grant is an educational opportunity grant that is not repaid and is awarded to individuals based on financial need), the TechPrep Vocational Training program, drastically reduced funding for Hispanic serving institutions, and Tribal Colleges and other institutions with a high black or Asian population, it is not surprising that students nationwide are growing uneasy.

President Barack Obama is proposing a plan to keep the Pell Grant at the current level (maximum of $5,550). In order to preserve Pell Grants for undergraduate students, he has proposed that the government stop paying the interest on education loans for graduate students while pursuing a graduate degree. As a future graduate student in the U.S., I will be affected by this. Maintaining the availability of Pell Grants to underprivileged students is of paramount importance. But instead of entering a discourse on how to best adjust the education department’s fiscal budget, we must address a systemic issue that has greatly impacted our nation in the past few years.

For-profit education (capitalistic education) has flourished in the past few years from an enrollment of 365,000 to 1.8 million students since 2008. In 2009, for-profit education received more than $4 billion in Pell Grants and more than $20 billion in federal loans. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) conducted an undercover investigation through prospective students enrolling in for-profit colleges.

As I read through the 30-page report, I was astonished. The GAO found that associate degrees and certificates from these private institutions cost significantly more than comparable degrees at local public schools. In one instance, they found that a massage-therapy program at a for-profit school was $14,000 when the same certificate could be obtained for $520 at a local community college.

They also found that financial aid representatives in several scenarios encouraged a student who

reported having $250,000 in savings to lie on the FAFSA so the student could qualify for federal loans and Pell Grants.

Why on earth would they do this when these people could clearly afford the (absurdly inflated) cost of for-profit schools? In doing this, they have effectively stolen money from a government fund that was established for people living in poverty to obtain an education. Not only are some of these schools extorting money from the government and the students, but they are ruthlessly marketing justifying the means (deceiving students) by the ends (profit). Some students reported receiving as many as 179 phone calls from different for-profit schools after registering interest on websites attempting to enroll them in specific programs.

It seems that educating the masses is not the ending goal of these for-profit colleges. They see people as dollar signs, not life-changing scholars.

America’s love of capitalism has found a way to use government education subsidies as a paycheck.

The GOP budget cuts are $100 billion, yet the government pays $24 billion (nearly a quarter of the proposed budget cut) to students attending for-profit institutions.

With the information that I found, I question how much of that $24 billion is necessary with the inflated tuition prices at for-profit institutions. The inherent capitalism and greed in the for-profit education industry, in my opinion, is a large proponent of the created need to slash the education budget. Private investors and corporations are making a profit on the financial need of students nationwide who are seeking an education and vocational training.

I hope that I am not alone in noticing the sickening irony of this situation. People have finally found a way to profit from a system that has strict qualifying stipulations. Perhaps we should be focusing on financial accountability and equity within the for-profit education system, ensuring that students who elect to follow that path to obtain an education are receiving accurate information that is not misleading.

By no means am I suggesting that all of the $24 billion provided to students in for-profit education is fraudulent; however, in the future, we must pay closer attention to the practices of these types of institutions to best ensure that students are not robbed and that the most students are able to benefit from educational funding. Preventative action is the best action, and we must ensure equitable practices to provide quality education to the people.

—Elliott DeVore is a senior in psychology. He can be reached at edevore@utk.edu.

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Poor writing, acting mar ‘Cape’ Robby O’Daniel Recruitment Editor It was a long time coming.

After weeks of seeing “The Cape” advertisements on NBC in advance of its Jan. 9 premiere, this reviewer was admittedly interested in the show. Sure, it looks like NBC’s latest attempt to throw a show on Monday at 9 p.m. and recreate the buzz that was around the first season of “Heroes”. (The drab-looking “The Event” will return some time in March.)

But it is a superhero drama. How can one really go wrong there? The only reason “Heroes” died was because the writers lacked long-term vision. “Heroes” had an initial premise and execution that was point perfect.

It was not until the season one finale of “Heroes” that viewers started to turn away.

Unfortunately for “The Cape,” the pilot is enough to turn viewers away. After the first few episodes, the show’s ratings were enough to cut the initial season order of episodes from 13 to 10. That is not good news.

What is so bad about “The Cape”? It turns out that the very thing that should be its biggest strength — its abilities to invoke flights of fancy and wonderment — is the reason why it is an utter piece of trash. It took weeks to finally get around to watching the pilot, but this reviewer barely made it through it and will not bother to watch again.

“The Cape” sets a new low for the superhero genre. Sure, “Fantastic Four” and “Ghost Rider” were horrible films, but “The Cape” makes them look great. At least those movies bothered to tell a coherent story that made some sense.

The premise of “The Cape” is so disgustingly boilerplate that it calls the compensation of the writers into question. Why were they paid whatever they were just to write dumb puns and plots full of holes?

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He quickly discovers that Fleming and his band of goons are the real bad guys, which ends his job at Ark Industries when he tells another employee about it. Fleming reveals

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How does Vince acquire his powers, per se?

How is this cape so powerful that it can be used as a weapon? It is never explained. Why does he let his cookie-cutter wife and son, whose sole existences in the show are just to serve as plot devices, continue to think he is dead for no reason? Not explained. Why does cheesy, dramatic music in the shape of slow piano playing, have to sound every time the son is shown on screen? No reasoning given.

The most depressing thing about “The Cape” is not the bad writing or poor acting. It is that Frain, who was excellent in Showtime’s “The Tudors” and HBO’s “True Blood,” is utterly wasted by “The Cape.”

It’s ironic, too, because Frain played characters in “Tudors” and “True Blood” that reveled in their own plots of destruction, albeit in very different ways. Chess seems like that type of character, but just when the viewer is ready to let go and embrace the kookiness, cheesy plot elements like father reading to son are shown.

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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

UT swim teams earn top-five finishes at SECs Individual performances highlight successful weekend for Vols, Lady Vols swim teams Preston Peeden Staff Writer What do coonskin hats, gold medals and Speedo swimsuits have in common?

The answer to this question is not a synchronized-swimming rendition of the Battle of the Alamo, but instead, it is the UT swim team’s weekend at the SEC Swimming Championships in Gainesville, Fla.

Both the men’s and women’s teams came into the event with high expectations, and their standings were bolstered by several impressive individual performances.

Vols The men’s team came into the championships on the heels of a second-place finish by the diving team last week. The team took that momentum and, combined with several strong swims from senior Brad Craig and sophomore Ryan Harrison, finished in third place overall.

Matthew DeMaria • The Daily Beacon

A UT swimmer races against Indiana on Saturday, Jan. 22. The SEC Swimming and Diving Championships finished over the weekend, as UT’s Brad Craig repeated as champion in the 200-yard breaststroke. The Vols finished third in points, and head coach John Trembley was named male swimming coach of the year.

Craig came into the meet as the reigning 200-yard breast-stroke champion and did not disappoint those who expected him to repeat.

Craig took first place with a time of 1 minute and 54.24 seconds.

“There’s no way for me not to be happy with that result,” Craig said. “I feel awesome.

It was cool to win it last year, but to come back and win it this year was amazing.”

While Craig was tearing up the breast stroke, Harrison was also having a successful weekend in the freestyle events.

Harrison, a native of Londonderry, Northern Ireland, not only broke the school record in the 500 freestyle on the second day of competition; he also took first place with a time of 4:15.13. This, however, was not Harrison’s only school record of the weekend.

On the very next day, he won the 200 freestyle in a school-record time of 1:32.38.

“That was probably the best meet of my life,” Harrison said. “I couldn’t ask for more, really. I’m just so pleased with it.”

Men’s coach John Trembley was content with his team’s overall performance this weekend.

“So many of our guys had gutsy performances, competed with heart and made me proud to wear the orange and white,” Trembley said. “We had some very bright moments at this meet.”

Trembley was so taken by how his team swam not only this meet, but also the entire year, that he awarded them with a special honor: the coon-skin caps.

The caps are meant only for those rare teams that exemplify the ideals of competition, teamwork and camaraderie.

In Trembley’s 28 years with the program,

only seven teams have been awarded the caps.

“Our team put in a lot of hard work this season, and I’m proud of them,” Trembley said.

“We endured some ups and downs. But this group came together in a special way.”

Lady Vols Like their male counterparts, the Lady Vols’ SEC competition was marked by the performances of several individuals.

Sophomore Kelsey Floyd took second overall in the 200 butterfly with a time of 1:54.17, narrowly missing first by a little more than two-tenths of a second. Floyd was also on the first-place 400 medley relay with a time of 3:30.90, which broke the previous SEC record.

Floyd’s performance this weekend was only outdone by junior teammate Jenny Connolly.

Connolly, a 10-time All-American, took first in three events — two individual and one relay — on the third day of the championships. Her individual victories came in the 100 fly and the 100 back, and she was also the lead leg on the winning 400 medley.

“It has been such a great day for our team,” Connolly said. “I’m pretty much speechless.

I’m so proud to be a part of Tennessee and this team. We have just been doing phenomenal.”

Matt Kredich, coach of the Lady Vols, was also elated about his swimmer’s performance.

“I don’t know how many people have won three SEC Championships, two individual and a relay in one night, but not many,” Kredich said. “Jenny Connolly really put herself into elite company with those performances.”

As a team, the Lady Vols placed fourth overall.

“I’m really proud of the team,” Kredich said.

“We learned a lot about how to compete at a championship meet.”

Softball stumbles through weekend matches Katie Cawrse Staff Writer The No. 3-ranked Lady Vols softball team spent the weekend in Las Vegas, Nev., playing in the Louisville Slugger Desert Classic.

This weekend proved to be a challenge for the team, as it took two very tough defeats for the weekend. The two losses were both a surprise to the Lady Vols (8-2) and a reality check for them.

The weekend began strong against Cal Poly as Tennessee slugged away to an 11-2 win against the California squad.

Tennessee was on fire at bat as left fielder Raven Chavanne, second baseman Lauren Gibson and first baseman Shelby Burchell each scored two runs. The game did not present much of a struggle in the six innings of play as Tennessee walked away with the win.

Immediately after Cal Poly on Friday, Tennessee played Boise State. Another blowout occurred, as Tennessee defeated the Broncos 15-1. Chavanne, who was 3-for-3 at the plate, once again had a big game, along with Gibson and right fielder Kelly Grieve, who were both batted 2-for-3.

Saturday, however, brought Tennessee its first blow of the weekend, as the Lady Vols lost to the University of Nevada at Las Vegas 4-3. The upset was the Lady Vols’ first loss on the season.

Tennessee experienced a simple cause-and-effect issue against the Rebels; a four-run, second-inning burst by the Rebels would ultimately determine the game. Sophomore pitcher Ivy Renfroe allowed all four runs during the inning, while both freshman Ellen Renfroe and junior Cat Hosfield only allowed one hit through each of their relief periods.

The Lady Vols would try to redeem themselves, dragging the game out to the top of the seventh, as freshman shortstop Madison Shipman looked to keep hope alive, down by one. A strikeout, however, would bring the game to a close and finally solidify the first lost of the season.

Later that night,Tennessee sought redemption, demolishing Southern Illinois-Edwardsville 12-2 in five innings. The run-rule triumph signified Tennessee’s eighth in a total of nine games, as UT averages 11.4 runs per game and has outscored its opponents 103-11.

Lady Vol sophomore outfielder Kat Dotson has been impressed with her team’s abilities so far at the plate.

“Our offense is pretty strong,” Dotson said. “I’ve never played on a team with this much offense.”

Ellen Renfroe dominated the mound from the get-go, holding SIUE scoreless after the first inning and pitching through two errors during the game.

However, Tennessee co-head coach Ralph Weekly harped on the little things that the Lady Vols must focus on to find success in the big picture.

“The biggest thing for us right now, honestly, is to play one pitch at a time,” Weekly said. “I don’t want them to get too full of themselves, and with a young team sometimes that happens.”

Tennessee began Sunday facing off against a ranked Stanford team.

The game was another upset as the Big Orange was shut out, dropping its record to 8-2. Stanford’s starting pitcher, Ashley

Chinn, was nearly unstoppable against the Lady Vols, allowing only one hit, handing the Lady Vols a 5-0 loss.

The Lady Vols will try to recover from their weekend stumble by taking on Southern Utah on Monday.

“It’s interesting that the polls came out today, and No. 2 (Georgia), No. 3 (Tennessee), No. 4 (Alabama) and No. 5 (Florida) in the entire country is in the SEC,” Weekly said.

“They’re doing the same thing; they’re annihilating teams.”

Wade Rackley • The Daily Beacon

Kelly Grieve cranks a home run against ETSU on Tuesday, Feb. 15. The Lady Vols spent the weekend and beginning of the week in Las Vegas, NV. as part of the Louisville Slugger Desert Classic.