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Law professor explores climate justice Blair Kuykendall Editor-in-Chief Maxine Burkett, professor of law at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa, addressed faculty and students via Skype in the Baker Center on Thursday. Her presentation, “In Search of Refuge: Climate Justice, Climate Induced Migration and Law” was part of the Interdisciplinary Discussion Forum for Energy and the Environment.

Burkett gave an overview on climate change science, explored the concept of environmental justice, and examined climate change related migration.

“Being a law professor, I think about climate change from angles of liability,” Burkett said. “Access to resources, statehood and statelessness are areas in which the law has inadequate answers.”

Burkett’s view requires immediate action to ameliorate the effects of rising sea levels.

“Residents in many Pacific Island nations are moving across borders or to higher ground to avoid the effects of climate change,” Burkett said. “Appropriate policy, liability and redress, are solutions lawyers explore.”

Climate change is a phenomenon that often marginalizes already disadvantaged populations.

“The poor and the powerless have experienced different environmental impacts,” Burkett said. “Looking at

New SGA plan hopes to better inform students Victoria Wright Student Life Editor The SGA executive board is attempting a new strategy to familiarize students with the organization’s initiatives and purpose through an awareness campaign.

Executive members discussed the new initiative at a roundtable meeting Wednesday evening in the UC room 315 D. SGA press secretary Sam Owens spoke about the initiative’s focus on connecting more with the student body.

“You just educate people essentially about what’s going on and how (SGA) works,” Owens, junior in public relations, said. “It’s just going to be a visible display of ‘this is what we’ve done.’”

SGA executive board members, along with graduate student adviser Connor Fritz, created graphics as well as a slogan that they plan to display around campus within the coming weeks.

In previous years, displays of SGA initiatives and purpose were not visible on campus.

Executive members said the display will consist of a three poster “tri-series.” Owens and other executive members hope the new campaign will attract more student interest in becoming a part of SGA affairs.

“The general idea is that when you see this initiative you’re going to be able to know what it is SGA has done for you and how you’re represented by SGA,” Adam Roddy, SGA chief of staff, said. “It’s just a good way for students to really know about SGA and what all it does.”

SGA President Ross Rowland said board members plan to utilize social media mediums such as Twitter and

Facebook more in the coming weeks. The SGA website is also undergoing construction as their previous web master has been unavailable to make updates due to job travel.

“We’re working on making sure that we have access to our tools and resources,” Rowland, senior in public administration, said.

SGA will also reconstruct its constitution after a long hiatus of revision. The changes were influenced partly by other SEC universities’ SGA councils.

Though they were interested in implementing many strategies used by the other organizations, members wanted to model UT’s SGA after a real government by formalizing bills in a committee as opposed to in a senate.

“Committees right now serve as an afterthought, which is not how we want them to function,” Owens said. “What we want to do through this constitution revision is to hopefully come up with a way to allow students who have to serve in these committees and then committee members will have representatives that will serve in the senate. It will be more of a committee-based concentration than a senate-based concentration.”

Members said three revisions will explicitly list roles and duties of senate representatives in order to alleviate confusion and prevent lackadaisical work among the senate members. The revisions must still pass senate twice before official changes are made.

Executive members also discussed hopes to make all staff parking lots accessible to students at 4:45 p.m. instead of 5:00 p.m. for the Fall Semester.

Parking lots No. 9 and No. 23 are undergoing a testing phase and are available to students at the new time.

climate change and climate justice, we see pressing issues that climate change introduces. Climate justice explores compensation owed to those who suffer disproportionate effects of climate change.”

Burkett was careful to highlight the sweeping scope of this issue.

“I argue we are approaching a new frontier, not exclusive to our country,” Burkett said. “This becomes a more nuanced conflict between developing countries and developed countries. That’s the face of the global argument. A lot of times the very nations that will be affected have weak disaster response infrastructures.”

Such environmental consequences are not long off.

“Portions of the Maldives capital could be flooded by 2025,” Burkett said. “Their cost of adaptation amounts to a disproportionate percentage of their GDP.” Certain nations are more prone to devastation, based primarily on varying infrastructures.

“Countries like Haiti and the Dominican Republic share same land mass, but have a different prediction as to how they will be affected,” Burkett said. “People will be migrating from sensitive places to even more sensitive places. Low-lying nations will be compromised, and opportunities for refuge remains a question.”

Global bodies like the United Nations are slow in adapting relevant policy structures.

“We have to consider the implications of how treaty

interpretation affects island nations,” Burkett said.

“Global climate change is primarily an issue of inequality. Climate justice would require a people-centered definition of what is endangered. Some political lines may have to be redrawn because of the immigration.”

Climate justice advocates fear adding more complications to the already devastating conditions in some locals.

“The poorest of the poor don’t have the resources or ability to leave,” Burkett said. “Communities displaced by climate change have no legal status at all on the international level. The most distressing part of climate migration is the legitimate fear that people won’t have a place to return to. We need refugee law or other protections for those who are migrating due to climate change.”

Legal existence of displaced nations is an uncharted realm of international law.

“Can you maintain an identity if your land no longer exists?” asked Burkett. “Permanent population, territory, government and the ability to establish relationships with other nations are the criterion of statehood under international law. Lack of territory does not necessarily need to be the determinant. There are some precedents of international entities that have citizens that can enjoy political participation in another political community.”

See CLIMATE CHANGE on Page 3

Construction to begin at UC Justin Joo Staff Writer UT will soon begin the construction of its new Student Union, but first it has to start tearing down the old one.

On March 17, UT will begin the demolition by tearing down the UC Parking Center.

Along with closing and tearing down the parking garage, the portion of Andy Holt Avenue between Volunteer Boulevard and Phillip Fulmer Way, across from the Joe Johnson and John Ward Pedestrian Mall, will be closed.

That portion of Andy Holt Avenue will not reopen. It is planned to become an extension of the Pedestrian Mall and will eventually open up into a new student plaza near the Hill.

According to Jeff Maples, senior associate vice chancellor for finance and administration, there are plans in the works to provide additional parking space.

“We are close to finalizing plans to provide additional parking options for the campus,” Maples said. “We will disclose these options once the plans are complete.”

Some plans have already been revealed.

To help facilitate the upcoming need for

parking space, the university plans to open up Volunteer Hall’s parking garage for all visitor parking.

Those seeking handicap parking are encouraged to park in Staff Lot 9, which is the parking lot directly across from Neyland Stadium. However, Maples estimates that about 50 spaces will be temporarily closed during construction. Officials hope that the spaces will be reopened by fall.

To help alleviate the new traffic burden being made, a new traffic light will be installed at the corner of Phillip Fulmer Way and Peyton Manning Pass.

Students may have noticed that some of the ATMs along the Money Wall have been boarded up. The remaining few will also be taken down. Some of the ATMs will be moved inside the UC by the end of Spring Break, but it has not been determined which banks will be making that move.

Along with the closing of the UC Parking Center, demolition will also come to the former Student Counseling Center, Temple Court and Aconda Court. This demolition is expected to take place in late May. Additionally, the portion of Phillip Fulmer Way between Cumberland Avenue and Andy Holt Avenue is also expected to temporarily close in late May but should be

reopened by early August. This closure will also include the pedestrian bridges connected to the UC Plaza.

The main building of the UC will remain open for now and is not expected to be closed and demolished until two years into the project.

The entire project, from start to finish, is expected to take four years to complete and has a budget of $160 million. This is an increase from the initial budget of $130 million.

According to e-mail correspondence with Chris Cimino, vice chancellor for finance and administration, the increase was due to inflation and the complexity of utility work.

The budget is not expected to increase again now that the design plans are complete.

Cimino also said that student tuition is under no threat of increasing.

“Tuition will not be used to fund this,” Cimino said, “only program and services fees and dining services commissions.”

Students wanting to learn more about any potential detours and road closures the university has and will have can learn more at www.conezone.utk.edu. It addresses the traffic concerns with the new Student Union, as well as the many other construction projects at UT.

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Bindy Sefton, junior in studio art, hangs up photography of a trip to Hati for her photography class on Feb. 22. A beginner photography class is offered to any student at UT through Art 191.

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Dustin Shetley, junior in global studies, writes good wishes to the OUTreach LGBT & Ally Resource Center, a happy birthday at their second anniversary party on Feb. 22.

Crime Log

1786 — Wilhelm Grimm is born On this day in 1786, Wilhelm Karl Grimm, the younger of the two Brothers Grimm, is born in Hanau, Germany.

As young men, the two brothers assisted friends in compiling an important collection of folk lyrics.

One of the authors, impressed by the brothers’ work, suggested they publish some of the oral folktales they’d collected. The collection appeared as Children’s and Household Tales, later known as Grimm's Fairy Tales, in several volumes between 1812 and 1822.

Tales in the Grimm collection include “Hansel and Gretel,” “Snow White,” “Little Red Riding Hood,” “Sleeping Beauty,” “Rapunzel,” and “Rumpelstiltskin.” The brothers developed the tales by listening to storytellers and attempting to reproduce their words and techniques as faithfully as possible. Their methods helped establish the scientific approach to the documentation of folklore. The collection became a worldwide classic.

Wilhelm continued his study of German folklore and published a new edition of ancient written tales.

3:15 p.m. — A 23-year-old male student reported vandalism in the Beta Theta Pi house.

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

Feb. 21

Feb. 20

7:00 p.m. — An officer was dispatched to the UC Starbucks in reference to a theft.

An employee stated money was missing from the safe deposit.

1:08 a.m. — An officer was dispatched to Hodges Library for report of a suspicious person. The 33-year-old white male had been previously issued a criminal trespass warning and was placed under arrest on the charge of criminal trespassing.

3:04 a.m. — Two officers pulled over a red 2000 Durango with no headlights on driving eastbound on Cumberland Avenue.

During the traffic stop, the officers asked

to search the vehicle and the driver gave verbal consent to do so. Officers found a partially smoked, hand-rolled cigarette containing a green, leafy substance which appeared to be marijuana and a packet of Joker rolling papers. A 35-year-old white female was arrested for unlawful drug paraphernalia and simple possession of drugs.

10:33 a.m. — An officer was dispatched.

A 62-year-old white male reported that a UT service vehicle had been stolen.

Feb. 22 10:52 a.m. — An officer was dispatched to Andy Holt Apartment Residence Hall to meet with a 19-year-old student who reported his black 2003 Mitsubishi SUV’s catalytic converter had been stolen. The theft occurred while the vehicle was parked on the third floor in the northeast corner of the G-7 parking garage.

Compiled from a media log provided to the Daily Beacon by the University 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.

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CLIMATE CHANGE continued from Page 1 Countries around the world are slow in preparing to receive the victims of climate change.

“There is no international climate refugee status,” Burkett said. “No nation is currently adding to its immigration policy to allow for this type of movement. Many countries are resistant, with a fear of opening up floodgates, so to speak.”

Burkett called for the U.N. to serve as a political trustee to establish exsitu nationhood, transitioning interim government to a more permanent solution. She believes these efforts must be focused on alleviating harm to individuals.

“I do think there should be an understanding that islands are microcosms for the rest of the world,” Burkett said. “This issue is impacting people today, and has implications for everyone we know and love.”

During a question-and-answer session held after the lecture, Jacob

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NEWS LaRiviere, professor of economics, addressed the speaker.

“You spoke of creating a new legal definition for citizens, and a new legal definition of a nation-state,” LaRiviere said. “When was the last time a new term in a legal situation was adopted?”

Burkett responded with some of her opinions on solutions to this gap in the law.

“I proposed expanding the legal definition of a state to incorporate a new legal entity,” Burkett said. “It would be very much linked to climate change and migration. There wouldn’t be a difference in citizenship; a number of people already have dual-citizenship.

For the ex-situ citizen, they would be a citizen of host nation and the nation that was compromised by sea level rise.”

The Interdisciplinary Forum for Energy and the Environment is a Baker Center discussion forum aimed at faculty members and students from every discipline who have taken an active interest in modern environmental, resource and energy topics.

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The bat boy runs back to the dugout during the season opener for the Diamond Vols on Feb. 17. Dave Serrano became the first coach in 101 years to start his UT career 4-0 after a 13-inning win against Western Kentucky on Feb. 21. The Vols play Seton Hall Friday at 4 p.m.

Christian organizations under fire The Associated Press Dozens of colleges have scrutinized how on-campus Christian groups operate after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowed a law school to deny funding to a Christian group that would not admit gays.

The 2010 ruling touched on gay and religious rights on campus, and the tension is now at the center of a handful of disputes at colleges.

A chapter of the Christian group InterVarsity at the University of Buffalo was temporarily suspended.

The student government is evaluating its groups after a treasurer, who is gay, felt pressured to step down.

The University of North Carolina is reviewing its student organizations after a Christian singing group expelled a gay member.

And at Vanderbilt University, a private college in Tennessee, Christian groups were asked to change requirements that their leaders also be Christian.

Administrators say that requirement is discriminatory.

Kim Colby, senior counsel for the Christian Legal Society, said Christian groups shouldn't be asked, and the ruling doesn’t require them, to essentially erase their religious identities to comply with nondiscrimination codes.

College administrators may not agree with conservative Christian views that homosexual acts are sinful, but that’s not a reason to remove all official support, she said.

“Pluralism says the government is supposed to be letting groups form around their beliefs, whether it agrees with them or not,” she said.

Susan Sommer of Lambda Legal, a gay rights group, said no one is trying to stop students from forming groups around their beliefs. But she said the Supreme Court ruling has now clarified that public colleges don’t have to support groups that discriminate.

If such groups see it as

a repudiation of what they believe, “that is something they have to live with,” Sommer said.

The 5-4 court ruling backed a policy at California’s Hastings College of the Law that denied the Christian Legal Society’s attempts to win official recognition — including funding and other assistance — because the group violated the school’s nondiscrimination policies by not admitting gays.

The decision dealt strictly with the constitu-

tionality of so-called all comers policies, which require every student group to keep membership and leadership open to any person who wants to join.

True all comers policies are rare because they’re often impractical and can lead to absurd results, said Robert Shibley of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, which monitors free speech issues on campuses and has criticized Vanderbilt.

For instance, such policies stop a campus Christian group from ousting its president if he converts to Islam, Shibley said.

They also raise the prospect of mischief: in theory, the College Republicans could join the College Democrats en masse, take over the leadership and disband the group, he said.

Sommer said such things never happen, and

all comers policies are straightforward and just.

“The position of the university is, ‘We really don’t need to know the basis of your desire to exclude people, we have a policy that simply says you can’t exclude people,” she said.

The Supreme Court decision applies at public colleges, but the decision has had a broader influence.

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Friday, February 24, 2012

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Reality TV

‘Awake’ fails to keep viewer interest Robby O’Daniel Recruitment Editor No doubt, many viewers caught the Super Bowl advertisement for “Awake,” NBC’s new drama with an interesting hook. After a tragic car crash, police detective Michael Britten (Jason Isaacs) lives in two separate realities — one in which his wife survived the crash and one in which his son survived. Every time he wakes up, the reality changes.

Not only that, but other aspects of Michael’s life are different in the other realities. The police mandated Michael attend grief counseling following the death of a loved one in both realities, but Michael has two different therapists, depending on which life he wakes up to.

He has two different partners on the police force, and just to keep things interesting, he solves two different crimes.

The series’ strength is playing with the very nature of consciousness, and the possibilities are limitless. Is either reality true, or might it be some odd kind of afterlife? What are the limitations of the realities? The premise feels so full of story that there is little room for anything else.

So it is quite surprising that a boring crime procedural takes up time in the very first episode. Granted, Michael is a police detective, and part of readjusting to this new life is his working hours. But the first episode’s final act, in which Michael goes into hero mode and solves both crimes through his extraordinary detective work, is utterly tacked on. It is as if the show’s producers felt a high-concept drama had too much talking and not enough action, no matter how little the latter fits in with the rest of the plot.

The nadir of the first episode is when one of the criminals initially runs away from Michael and his partner before deciding to circle around and attempt to kill Michael from behind with a gun. Michael’s partner then shoots him because the criminal did not understand two-against-one. Why would the criminal return to try to kill a police officer? It makes no sense and only provides a handy wrap-up for an episode that had to run through two criminal cases in a hurry.

The non-police moments of “Awake” are not much better. Furthering the notion that the people behind “Awake” do not trust their audience to understand the

story, the script painfully spoonfeeds the meaning behind nearly everything. Particularly, in Michael’s therapy sessions, there are many moments where one character will say something, and Michael will repeat it in layman’s terms to either underline its significance or ensure the audience got it.

Other characters get in on the act. At his son’s tennis match, the coach tells Michael that his son wants to play tennis again because he misses his mother, even though Michael already said she played tennis earlier in the episode. Who couldn’t make that obvious connection?

Worse, after winning the tennis match, Michael’s son melodramatically drops his tennis racket on the court, kneels down and begins to cry, a moment that screams, “Look at this grief, you unfeeling viewer! Care!”

Unfortunately the cries fall on deaf ears.

The cries get louder as the show veers even more into soap opera territory. Early in the episode, Michael seems bored with his new, reality-shifting life, like Bill Murray near the end of “Groundhog Day.” He shows far more interest in his police work than in his family, which is also odd, considering that the entire series is about a man clinging to his family.

Abruptly, at the end of the pilot, he has a strange mental breakdown when he wakes up and cannot find his wife or son. Without even leaving the house, he descends into madness, apparently thinking that both are now gone from him. He immediately takes out a knife and begins to cut his hand when his wife abruptly walks in. And rather than empathy for Michael, the viewer is left with pure bewilderment.

What makes “Awake” sad is that its foundation is solid. The pilot presents interesting avenues for story.

In his wife’s reality, she wants to move across the country and have another son. In his son’s reality, the tennis coach is a potential new love interest. If the writers of the show embrace these changes — which they should, to keep things interesting, plus differentiate the two realities more strongly — how will they impact Michael’s waking life?

Still, the “Awake” pilot both tries too much in only 43 minutes, while also bizarrely committing much of its time to ho-hum police procedural fare. It inspires little interest in the second episode.

“Awake” debuts March 1 at 10 p.m. on NBC, but the pilot is available online early at http://www.hulu.com/awake.

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

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Online courses next step in education T he Bur den o f I n fa l l i b i l i t y by

Wiley Robinson I don’t know how orange it is, but you know what’s a pretty big idea? Free online university-level courses over the web. The implications of this medium of education are astounding, and everyone should be extremely excited about it, despite the fact that the potential is largely marginalized by the very institutions who sponsored the idea.

The very first example of open course ware is traced back to 1999 when the University of Tubingen in Germany released videos of lectures online; but the most influential point of origin would have to be when MIT spearheaded its OpenCourseWare initiative, which has released course materials for about 2,000 classes in most major fields and is purported to have benefited and supplemented the education of over 100 million people world-wide. Since then, several other colleges like Stanford and Berkeley have come to the fore with their own ideas about class structure and availability. For example, Stanford makes you pay for degrees and certificates online that cost up to $60,000, but pretty much everyone involved offers the ability to peruse course materials for free without certification or predetermined structure.

But it isn’t just the large institutions that are exploring this new idea. Small teams of motivated and benevolent professors are embracing the golden rule of the Internet that remains so foreign to most businesses: The more free and easy-to-use a quality, in-demand service is, the more it benefits everyone involved. Exclusivity on the Internet is, in general, only for people who don’t want to see their ideas reach their full influence or potential. Be it in the form of unpretentious YouTube videos that keep people coming for the real thing or free online classes that grade and give out certificates for free, the freedom and availability of the Internet is itself a business model — or more generally, a model for success, be that measured in human benefit or money through influence — that slapping on fees and limitations can only diminish.

The sheer potential of the audience itself keeps the threshold for money, influence and change at its maximum (Facebook/Google/everything successful on

the Internet that has fundamentally changed culture), and exclusivity tends to lower it — and in general closes the infinite network of doors that is the whole power and appeal of the Internet in the first place. What’s so counterintuitive about this idea? Everyone can get to Stanford’s courses and seminar’s page online, but how many people are going to pay $995 just to audit one course? Stanford’s got the ease-of-use principle down — the website is a joy to navigate and you can pretty much learn about the commitment you’re making and jump into it in about 10 minutes max of reading and clicking — but structured, no-credit courses at no cost that draw large audiences are supposed to be what this educational movement is about. However, Stanford seems to be adapting to free education as a long-term goal by offering 17 interactive courses online for no cost.

One member of a small team pushing for the progress of free education is Sebastian Thrun, research professor of computer science at Stanford, who was featured in an NPR article on the subject (“Stanford Takes Online Schooling to the Next Level”). Using $200,000 of his own money, he recently founded the website Udacity.com which, I’ll grant them, has the audacity of offering two structured, comprehensive and applied (meaning you’ll actually be learning and using code and stuff) computer science courses that offer final grades, for free, with more to come. Sounds a lot better than taking a computer science course here and being forced to help UT finish paying off their new engineering building by getting $400 slapped gracelessly on your tuition.

I can’t program or code. I’m frankly terrified by the very idea. But I enrolled in the Udacity class and am taking it (you should too), and there’s something wonderfully soothing and freeing about this process. It feels like a world nestled between effective collegiate structure and the romance of autodidacticism. Who needs credit when there’s nothing stopping you from using and applying high-value skills you’ve acquired from some of the finest sources, at no cost? As an American, it’s a direct solution to my watered-down, limited high school experience that didn’t introduce any of these hyperrelevant concepts to me. As an empathetic world citizen, it’s just as direct a solution to the lack of quality global education. As a hypothetical college dean who is both prudent and forward-thinking, I’m more concerned with being a part of the long-term educational conversation than I am with short-term economic paranoias.

— Wiley Robinson is a junior in ecology and environmental studies. He can be reached at rrobin23@utk.edu.

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After several hours of grueling schoolwork, I, like most people, need a mental break — and, like most people, I do not turn to the classics of literature or film as my choice of relaxation methods. By the time I’ve completed a day’s worth of homework, I have very little interest in reading “War and Peace” or watching “Citizen Kane.”

More and more, I am discovering that People magazine and “Family Guy” are about the only levels of entertainment I can handle at the end of the day.

The fact is, though, this habit of mine is somewhat bothersome to me. With the vast amounts of excellent literature, movies and television shows available, I feel that I should be choosing to enlighten myself by reading Kafka instead of Us Weekly and watching the films of Stanley Kubrick instead of going through every “Toy Story” movie Pixar ever made. I realized, though, that the appeal of tabloids, animated movies and inane comedies are more than just respite from intellectual burnout — they are examples of the kinds of popular culture that are appealing for the very reason that they are not cerebral and esoteric.

Scholar Lawrence Levine defines this phenomenon as the difference between “highbrow” and “lowbrow” cultural forms. An easy way to distinguish the two is to think of the kinds of literature, art and film that you might find taught in one of your classes; for example, you would study more “highbrow” works of Shakespeare in English or Orson Welles films in cinema studies, but you would be hard pressed to find “lowbrow” works like “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” or “Hot Tub Time Machine” on the syllabus of either class.

The question is, then, why do we find the latter kind of entertainment generally more appealing than the former? Why do we resent reading poetry for school but eagerly await the film adaptation of “The Hunger Games”? Although they are both defined as “culture,” these two kinds of culture are obviously extremely different for a number of

reasons. Shakespeare was not always considered highbrow culture — in fact, his plays were considered bawdy by his contemporary audiences, who often talked through his shows and shouted at the actors. Opera, and theater too, was not always the often pretentious affair it is today. The performance halls were rarely quiet, and they were known for attracting the rougher members of society, like prostitutes and pickpockets. It has only been in the past two centuries that these cultural forms began to embody the highbrow artistic ideals that we associate them with today.

However, right about the time that opera and Shakespeare began increasing in status in the cultural world, new forms of culture were also appearing on the market that changed the way people perceived entertainment. With the advent of publications like dime novels and humor magazines, and especially with the mass production of film, audiences across America were unified in their transnational consumption of these forms of entertainment. We still see this phenomenon today, when we can watch movies produced in California from the comfort of our living rooms in Tennessee. In fact, we can even travel overseas and see a recent movie release or read a new novel that has been exported from America. The availability and the ease with which we can access these forms of entertainment add to their appeal — not only can we find them everywhere, but we can also find thousands of other people who have seen the same movies and read the same books.

This does, in part, explain why we choose these forms of entertainment after our long days rather than picking up the Encyclopedia Britannica for a bit of light reading — we enjoy being part of a national, and sometimes even an international, discussion about the newest cultural forms. But the other factor, so blatantly obvious that we often forget its power, is the fact that these forms are intended to provide pure entertainment — we do not have to ask deep questions about humanity or purpose in order to enjoy them. There is certainly a place for those questions, and I am in no way arguing that artful works of literature or film should be disregarded. The key is to recognize why we are pulled in by these “lowbrow” forms of entertainment, to evaluate their cultural and artistic value accordingly — and then to sit back and truly enjoy the antics of animated talking toys.

— Sarah Russell is a senior in history. She can be reached at srusse22@utk.edu.

Friday, February 24, 2012

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NYPD accused of profiling Masjid Dawudi mosque in Brooklyn, another called on Muslims to speak out against the cartoons, but peacefully.

The sermons, all protected under the First Amendment to the Constitution, were reported back to the NYPD by the department’s network of mosque informants. They were compiled in police intelligence reports and summarized for Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly.

Those documents offer the first glimpse of what the NYPD’s informants — known informally as “mosque crawlers” — gleaned from inside the houses of worship.

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Emily DeLanzo Design Editor Daffodils have already started bursting out of the ground and welcoming spring; soon the rest of the wildflowers will be joining. With this abnormally warm weather and good amount of rain, some wildflowers in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park have begun to bloom sooner than anticipated.

For wildflower pilgrimages, the Tremont area of the Smokies is often overlooked. Visitors know the names Cades Cove, Elkmont, Newfound Gap and Sugarlands like the back of their hand, but very few people actually have driven up the seven-mile road into the Tremont area near Cades Cove.

Tremont is an educational outpost for the Great Smoky Mountains National Parks, and this area has several really unique trails that get little visitation.

To start, Spruce Flat Falls is a hidden gem in the Smokies. The trail itself is only 0.8 miles each way with a steady climb, but not treacherous by any means. To get to the trailhead, enter the Tremont section of the Smokies near Cades Cove. Park at the Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont and follow the sign that says “Trail to the Falls.”

After about 0.8 miles up and then down sharply, Spruce Flat Falls appears. Spruce Flat Falls has a total drop of about 50 feet. This three-tiered cascade is a huge reward for a short, simple and a little steep hike.

If a simple 1.6 mile round-trip hike wasn’t enough to fill you or your hiking requirements, feel free to try

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NEW YORK — When a Danish newspaper published inflammatory cartoons of Prophet Muhammad in September 2005, Muslim communities around the world erupted in outrage. Violent mobs took to the streets in the Middle East. A Somali man even broke into the cartoonist’s house in Denmark with an ax.

In New York, thousands of miles away, it was a different story. At the Masjid AlFalah in Queens, one leader condemned the cartoons but said Muslims should not to resort to violence. Speaking at the

the Middle Prong Trail after shortly. The Middle Prong Trailhead is also accessible from the parking lot at the Tremont Institute.

The Middle Prong Trail, located in the west side of the park right outside of Townsend, provides a fantastic viewing area of several flowers and even more unknown cascades. This trail is easy to moderate depending on the length the hiker chooses to make it.

The trail can be as long as 8.2 miles round-trip.

Personally, I think you should look no further than the three mile mark on this old road. This six mile roundtrip hike will show you several flowing cascades located along the Middle Prong River as well as an old Civilian Conservation Corps camp from the very beginning of the Smokies.

The Middle Prong Trail walks along an old road.

During the first two miles, the visitor may see several wildflowers, including foamflower, toothwort, wood sorrel and trilliums. Over the next month, this trail will be colored and fresh with signs of life.

In order to access Tremont from campus, follow Highway 129 to Maryville and into Townsend. Once you get to the split on Little River Road, keep to the right and prepare for an immediate left. The access road is marked by a sign that says “Tremont Institution at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.” Total travel time should take roughly an hour, if not less.

Be sure to dress in layers so you can peel them off as you either heat up or cool off. This weather has been sporadic and rain is common in the mountains.

Water and snacks are always a necessity and as John Muir said, “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”

Try to find a pair of your wool socks. Leave all your worries in Knoxville, and go discover sheer beauty.

James Hayden • The Daily Beacon

Students measure and mix ingredients for oyakodon, a Japanese rice bowl dish, during the Japanese cooking demonstration on Feb. 21.

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THESPORTSPAGE

Friday, February 24, 2012

Hogs upset Lady Vols with 1:30 left in the extra period. An Arkansas shot clock violation followed by another Stricklen basket cut the lead to Shekinna Stricklen’s heave from half one with less than 30 seconds to go.

Another Arkansas turnover and foul court hit the glass wide left and fell to the floor, leaving the visiting Arkansas put Stricklen at the line with 10 seconds Razorbacks to celebrate their first ever left, where she missed both, putting Tennessee into desperation foul mode. It victory in Thompson-Boling Arena.

Pat Summitt’s team fell to the was then with 2.6 seconds and down by Razorbacks in overtime 72-71 Thursday three that Stricklen’s Hail Mary shot went night, ending the Lady Volunteers’ three- unanswered and the final horn sounded.

“I wanted the ball at the end, and I game win-streak and continuing the missed four free throws in a row,” team’s inconsistent season.

The No. 10 Lady Vols (20-8, 11-4 SEC) Stricklen said. “We knew that was a good team, we knew it knew sweeping wasn’t going to be the Razorbacks an easy game. this season Starting the game would not be we weren’t focused easy after embarand it came back to rassing them in bite us.”

Fayetteville earliThe Razorbacks er this year. took a 31-26 lead “There’s no into halftime thanks way we should to red-hot 58 perhave beaten that cent shooting from team the way we the field, including did in Arkansas,” 50 percent from associate head beyond the 3-point coach Holly line.

Meanwhile, Warlick said. the Lady Vols went “We knew this into the locker was going to be a room shooting 45 totally different percent. game tonight.”

However, UT The was able to force 14 Razorbacks (21turnovers in the 6, 10-5) led for first half, convertmost of the game ing them into 13 thanks to hot Rebecca Vaughan • The Daily Beacon points. shooting (50 perGlory Johnson attempts to score against Tennessee went cent from the Arkansas on Feb. 23. The senior forward into the half being field), including scored 13 points against the Razerbacks outrebounded 14-8, eight 3-pointers, in the 72-71 loss for the Lady Vols. with no player in with three scorJohnson also was selected to be on the double-figure scorers in double-figCapital One Academic All-America Team ing. ures. on Thursday.

Stricklen led the A slow first Lady Vols with 17 half doomed the Lady Vols, as Stricklen and fellow senior Glory Johnson were held points, and Johnson pitched in with 13 points and 9 rebounds. scoreless.

Sarah Watkins and Lyndsay Harris led However, a second half surge, including a powerful post attack from both Johnson the way for the Razorbacks with 18 and 20 and Stricklen, brought the Lady Vols back points, respectively.

The Lady Vols close out their regular and forced overtime. season at home against the Florida Gators Arkansas was then able to climb to a six-point lead late in overtime when a on Sunday. Tip-off is scheduled for 3:30 Stricklen three closed the gap to 67-70 p.m.

Nathan Lee

Staff Writer

Ellen Renfroe emerges as ace year to see how much I’ve grown.”

Ellen isn’t the only Renfroe on the Lady Marissa Steinberg Vols’ team. Her sister, Ivy, is currently a junStaff Writer ior pitcher.

“Having my sister on the team helped a Jackson, Tenn. native Ellen Renfroe is in her second season pitching for the Vols soft- lot,” Ellen said. “She was able to walk ball team. Renfroe’s poise in the circle and through how to prepare for the season and her exemplary academic accomplishments she is always there when I need to talk prove her to be a true all-around student- about the mental and physical aspects of pitching.” athlete.

The younger Renfroe and her teammates As a freshman, Renfroe was selected as an All-American, named SEC Tournament’s are working hard to achieve their season most valuable player and received SEC goals and improve from last year.

“Personally, my main goal is to be better Freshman of the Year honors. Renfroe not only carries a winning attitude on the field, every day and to keep the other team off the but also portrays an admiral attitude off the scoreboard,” she said. “As a team, try and keep the WHIP (walks and hits per inning field.

“On a daily basis, Ellen is a leader by pitched) under one. I don’t really have any number goals, example,” Lady just to win. I Vols co-head try not to make coach Karen it too much Weekly said. about stats and “Everyone sees make sure it’s how she goes about the team. about her busiAs long as the ness, the effort team is winshe puts into her ning, I’m workout, and how happy.” serious she is Spare time about pitching. is hard to find There is a sense for Ellen, but that the team Tara Sripunvoraskul • The Daily Beacon when she has wants to work well behind her Ellen Renfroe pitches against Alabama on the opportunibecause she gives March 23, 2011. The sophomore has 60 strike- ty to get away 100 percent to get outs after playing in 7 games. The Lady Vols from softball ready for them.” play their first game at home on Feb. 29 in a for a little bit she enjoys Although double-header starting at 3 p.m. relaxing with Renfroe is still a friends and young athlete, she learned quickly how to adapt to tough Division-I softball. In 2011, watching movies.

“My favorite outside-of-sports-movie is Renfroe displayed a 26-7 overall record from the circle, a 1.50 ERA and 259 strikeouts in ‘Pride and Prejudice,’” she said. “My 201 innings. Already in 2012, Renfroe has favorite sports movie is ‘Remember the three solo shutouts and 60 strikeouts in just Titans.’ I love the movie so much I can 43 innings of work. She was also named quote it.”

MLB player Albert Pujols is an inspiraSEC Player of the Week after her efforts at tion to Renfroe and her softball career. the Kajikawa Classic last week.

“I look up to him for how hard he works Renfroe’s quick transition from high school to college ball came with a number of and his faith in the Lord,” Renfroe said. “He shows that when he plays and has always difficult transitions.

“I learned not to lose confidence in your- been really inspiring to me.”

Ellen and the Lady Vols are looking forself,” she said. “In the SEC, people are going to hit the ball hard and get onto base, and ward to a great season. The Lady Vols are thats OK. That’s one big thing I had to over- on the road this week for the NFCA Leadoff come my freshman year. I’m excited for this Classic in Clearwater, Fla.