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Issue 36, Volume 122

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Zipcar rental cars available to UT students Emilee Lamb Staff Writer For those at UT who lack their own transportation, the opportunity to borrow a car from campus has arrived through the Zipcar car sharing service. Having arrived at UT on Feb. 21, Zipcar is a worldwide car sharing service that came to the U.S. about ten years ago to provide a more environmentally sustainable form of transportation. The company provides members with access to cars stationed around the world,

including gas and insurance in the rental price. UT’s drive to become a Top 25 public research university is reflected in this latest campus innovation by taking another step toward making campus a desirable place for students to pursue their education. Zipcar will also help UT further its progress toward becoming a more eco-friendly campus. “I think this could be in line with our master plan for the campus of being one that’s less about having a car on campus or a garage smack dab in the middle of it,” Adam Roddy,

senior in political science and current SGA president, said. “I think being able to rent cars is a big step toward that.” The car sharing resource seems to be mostly geared toward freshman students, since they tend to be the demographic most commonly without cars. “I think it will go a long way, especially toward freshmen on campus who are not commuting,” Roddy said. “It will be a good option, and I think many will choose not to have a car on campus.” Resource sharing programs

are becoming more commonplace in today’s society, as evidenced by popular bike sharing programs, but some consider car sharing to be a bit implausible. Alex Gainer, a senior in accounting, expressed skepticism about the feasibility of a car sharing program and how well it can be implemented. “I just think liability would be a big concern,” Gainer said. “I’m sure they have extensive waivers, but an issue is liability as far as students getting into accidents, causing accidents and damage done to the

vehicle.” One of the students intended to benefit from the system, undecided freshman Carson Jones, has similar concerns. “I don’t know how safe it is to have so many people sharing one car,” Jones said. “It also seems a bit expensive.” Roddy disagrees, pointing to growth in product sharing services as evidence that Zipcar can succeed at UT. “We’re seeing more and more things like this sprout up across the nation,” he said. “I don’t think small car sharing programs are anything crazy at all.”

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Ordinarily, students, faculty and staff can join their campus Zipcar program for a fee of $35 per year, but the first year’s fee is currently being waived for UT members thanks to a grant from the Knoxville Regional Transportation Planning Organization. Upon joining Zipcar at UT, members will receive a unique Zipcard allowing access to the vehicles. The cars — one a Ford Focus and the other a Honda Civic — can be reserved by phone or online for $7.50 per hour and $69 per day for up to four days. Despite the convenience of having a car on-demand, some students find the price for that convenience a bit steep. “It depends on how badly I need it,” Jones said. “It’s kind of pricey, and I can usually get a ride right now.” In contrast, Gainer thinks the price is reasonable. “I think going to the grocery store, or just being able to run errands around town and not always having to find rides through friends, is worth $7.50,” Gainer said. Though there are manifold concerns about Zipcar and how well the program will actually work, Roddy maintained that it will prove to be a great asset to UT. “I think it will be incredibly successful,” Roddy said. “Any kind of cheap, accessible transportation, students are going to jump on.” For students, faculty and staff who join now, Zipcar is awarding $35 in free driving. To join, students and faculty can go to the Zipcar website at www.zipcar.com/utk

Two students in finals for prestigious scholarship Injured student, Samantha Smoak attorney advocate need for bike awareness Copy Editor

David Cobb Assistant News Editor About two weeks ago Genny Petschulat was riding her bicycle down Clinch Avenue, nothing out of the ordinary for her. What happened next was anything but typical for the UT senior pursuing her teacher’s certification. “What I remember is somebody in a red car running a stop sign, or at least pulling out in front of me when I had the right of way,” Petschulat said. “I slammed into the side of the car and was thrown off my bike and hit my head on their car, and my bike flew the other way.” The driver stopped temporarily, repeatedly saying, “I thought she saw me. I thought she saw me.” Petschulat did see the driver. But the man, who was described as a clean-cut white male in his early 20s, failed to yield at his stop sign. Petschulat didn’t have a stop sign, and the collision ensued. Without exchanging contact information with Petschulat or stopping long enough to ensure she was truly OK, the driver returned to his vehicle and left the scene of the accident. “I went to the hospital a few hours later that day feeling dizzy and nauseous, just kind

of ‘out of it,’” Petschulat said. “So I did go to the hospital, and I was diagnosed with a concussion.” Petschulat is feeling better now, but even after she and Amy Benner, an area attorney, filed a report with the Knoxville Police Department regarding the incident, no new information on the driver has surfaced, meaning it’s Petschulat’s insurance company footing the bill for a CT scan. “I don’t think it came from a place of ill-will on the part of the driver,” said Benner, who is also the president of Bike Walk Knoxville, an advocacy group for bicyclists. “I think it came from fear,” she said. “The No. 1 concern of everyone there was ‘is she okay.’ So I think he just kind of took that opportunity to scoot on out of there.” The incident, though it left Petschulat with a mangled bicycle and a concussion, brought an opportunity to the surface for her and Benner to spread a message about biker awareness. “I’m not saying it’s some simple thing,” Benner relented. “You’ve got to be alert and on the lookout, but we definitely need to open up the idea of being far more friendly and aware of bicyclists in the area.” See BIKE SAFETY on Page 2

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Eric Dixon and Lindsay Lee participate in the SGA debate last year. Both have been nominated for the Truman Scholarship. See TRUMAN on Page 2

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From a field of 700 to 800 applicants, two UT students have been selected to compete for the nationally renowned Harry S. Truman Scholarship. Eric Dixon, a senior in philosophy, economics, sociology and global studies, and Lindsay Lee, a junior in mathematics and Spanish, have been chosen as finalists to receive one of the 60-65 awards that are handed out annually. The scholarship provides up to $30,000 toward graduate school for students who want to pursue a career in public service. “Regardless of whether I get this or not, I want to go into public service, I’m certain of it,” Dixon said. “I want to work either for a non-profit or in the government sector ... basically what the Truman would do would almost kick-start my career. I would be able to network with people I might not meet at the beginning of my career, and I would be able to go to graduate school hopefully debt free or with less debt.” Lee applied under the recommendation of a professor, and found that it helped her hone in on potential career paths. “Once I got into the process it really helped me really plan out what I wanted to do,” she said. “I … fell into it by accident but it really served a really big purpose for me.” The application for the award asks several specific questions but does not provide lots of answer space, so candidates are forced to be clear and concise in their answers.

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CAMPUS NEWS TRUMAN continued from Page 1 “It was very frustrating but very rewarding for me,” Dixon said of the process. Nichole Fazio-Veigel, an assistant director in the Office of National Scholarships and Fellowships who has worked with Dixon and Lee since last fall, reiterated the time the duo has put in throughout the process. “They’ve been working hard. It’s not just a personal statement,” Fazio-Veigel said of the application process. “It’s pretty significant.” Part of that process required candidates to submit a public service policy proposal. Dixon submitted a proposal that would benefit the Appalachian area. “My policy proposal has a lot to do with the research project I’m doing as a Baker Scholar,” he said. “It’s on growing the green economy of Appalachia. I chose to do that project because I see the green economy and a shift to renewable energy as more (of an) opportunity.” He believes more sustainable practices might help transform the region’s rampant unemployment and poor health indicators. “I see the green economy as an opportunity to combat those, while also dealing with and solving these environmental issues,” he said. Lee, who uses a motorized wheelchair herself, elected to do her proposal on the Americans with Disabilities Act. “Right now, despite needing the most care, they receive the least,” she said. “People just have attitude problems or practitioners aren’t aware of the requirements under the ADA, or the hospitals might not be physically accessible.”

Lee’s proposal would mandate a posting inside every facility which would notify patients that they are entitled to equal care under the ADA and offering contact information to those who feel they’ve been discriminated against. In preparation for their upcoming interviews, Fazio-Veigel and other faculty members are working with Dixon and Lee. The Truman Scholarship has a notoriously vigorous interview process, and Fazio-Veigel said they are attempting to replicate that atmosphere. “The interviews usually focus on their polices,” Fazio-Veigel said. “But questions can come out of thin air. We really try to encourage students to use that time as the moment they get to talk about what they care most about to a really interested group of people.” The interview and final decisions are still several weeks away, but Dixon and Lee are already benefiting from the experience. “I could not even go to the interview and [still] be like ‘Yes, I totally gained from it because I know it will save me so much time later,’” Dixon said. “It will help me in the short and long term because I will have thought about what I want to do.” If either or both of the UT finalists earns the scholarship, Fazio-Veigel the benefits go far beyond financial and academic opportunities. “The Truman is very good at building a community within their scholars,” she said. “They’ll go participate in a summer institute in D.C. and a lot of times that results in internships. And they’re also really well positioned to compete for other types of things.” Dixon and Lee will participate in an interview in Nashville on March 27 and will find out if they are selected shortly after.

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UT hosts creative writing program Claire Dodson Staff Writer More than 100 Knoxville high school students and teachers will visit campus Saturday to learn about the art of creative writing. The Brian M. Conley Young Writers’ Institute, which is sponsored by the UT alumnus himself in partnership with the Hodges Better English Fund and UT’s English Department, consists of workshops led by local writers and UT graduate students. Students and teachers can take classes in fiction, poetry, screenwriting, songwriting and journalism, as well as engage in creative discussion. They will be able to share what they’ve worked on at an open mic at the end of the day. This is the 20th anniversary of the event, and Dr. Marilyn Kallet, director of creative writing at UT, has been involved with the event since the beginning. “I remember being hesitant at first. I didn’t know anything about teenagers,” Kallet said. “But they turned out to be wonderful kids, creative and engaged. They were writers

like me, just a little younger.” Ryan Woldruff, a doctoral candidate in English, helped organize and plan this year’s event. A few years ago he taught a fiction class at the institute. “I was all prepared to talk about ‘Lord of the Rings,’ but the class turned out to be all female so they wanted to talk about ‘Twilight,’” Woldruff said. “It turned out to be really cool. It’s a good thing they are interested, even if it’s genre fiction, and we want to foster that.” He finds it interesting how students connect with people from their own school at the institute. “Students get to engage with other students at their own high school with the same interests,” Woldruff said. “Sometimes schools are so big that students just aren’t aware there are others that like creative writing, too.” Kallet said that in a lot of ways the program is also good for the university. The students get comfortable on UT’s campus, avoiding the alienating experience that some freshman college students experience.

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“A lot of students in Knoxville apply to UT and this is a good chance to expose them to the creative writing program,” she said. Tennessee’s legislature has recently pushed for a higher emphasis on math and science skills in the state education system. With that push in mind, this event offers a chance for students to learn about creativity through writing without the pressure of a class period or high price tag. “Often there’s just not enough time and money in public schools to get students actively involved in this type of writing,” Kallet said. “We do this to further students’ interests and teach teachers about these subjects at no cost to them.” Because this is the event’s 20th year, a demand has grown in the Knoxville community for the Young Writers’ Institute and the teaching it offers. “There’s a need from students and teachers for this type of program, a hunger for it,” Kallet said. The institute will be held in the Humanities Building from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday.

tance of educating drivers on how to treat bicyclists, which, according to the law, is the same way you treat vehicle drivers. “The guy who hit me, he acted like he hadn’t done anything wrong, when he just didn’t know that bikes have the same right of way as cars do,” Petschulat said. “That’s a really scary thing if people don’t understand the law and how to treat bikers on the road, and yet they’re driving in giant vehicles. That’s really dangerous.” More information can be found on Bike Walk Knoxville at www.facebook.com/BikeWalkKnoxville. “Especially in the Fort Sanders area,” Benner said, “you should just know that there are going to be people walking or biking to class.”

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Saturday, March 2

Who: Deep Green Where: Preservation Pub When: 10 p.m. Price: $3, Ages 21 and up Victoria’s Take: Psychedelic jam band Deep Green may have an elusive meaning when it comes to their title, but their music is anything but. Jam bands usually have the same formula: a nice bass, strong guitar and a heavy focus on drums. The good thing about this kind of music is that it keeps you moving, and when you’re not on the dance floor, the instrumental sounds serve as a nice background noise when you’re talking to people at the bar. Check them out on YouTube (search Deep Green Knoxville) and preview the group before you go to the show.

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Who: Leahy Where: Clayton Center for the Arts When: 8 p.m. Price: $20 to $35 Melodi’s Take: This musical group from Canada, composed of a total of eight brothers and sisters, has a folk and Celtic-rock sound and is sure to rock the Clayton Center this Saturday. Even though the weather forecast calls for snow, plan to bear the cold and make it out to Maryville for this concert -- it will be worth it.

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Friday, March 1 Who: On My Honor Where: Longbranch Saloon When: 8 p.m. Price: $10 Victoria’s Take: Local pop-punk rock band On My Honor brings back the nostalgia of bands like Yellowcard and Sum 41. Sometimes you just want a feel good band whose lyrics are easy to sing along to. Bring in the new month and jump around at this show. You may even get lucky and be carried through the mosh pit. Feeling 13-years-old again? Yeah, I thought so. Those who pre-order their new album at onmyhonor.bandcamp.com get into the show free.

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Who: Buddy Guy and Jonny Lang Where: Tennessee Theatre When: 8 p.m. Price: $30 Melodi’s Take: Interested in jazz music and blues guitar? Opt to spend a relaxing Sunday night at the Tennessee Theatre with Buddy Guy and Jonny Lang, two well-known, well-respected blues guitarists who will surely give a great show. The blues these two will be per forming in the historic hall won’t bring you down, but will make you happy and will please your ears with melodic harmonies.

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Timing is essential for posterity Preston Peeden Associate Editor If there’s one thing that my love of romantic comedies has taught me, it’s that timing is everything. In the cookie-cutter world of romantic comedies, timing becomes the driving force of nearly all the conflict. And in doing so, these movies teach us that ultimately, there are only two certainties in life: firstly, timing is everything, and secondly, Hugh Grant is the most charming person in the world. In the real world, however, I feel that we sometimes ignore the serendipity of good timing. The world moves all around us — interacting and changing in a series of responses to events. It’s so grandiose that ultimately, we take the importance of good timing for granted. I feel compelled to share a theory of mine, which is that there is an opportune time to die. When I say this, I don’t mean that all deaths in themselves have to have a meaning to justify their opportunistic categorization. Instead, I mean that for some figures in history, death has come at an opportune time for their posterity. Before I go any further, I want to make it clear that I am not someone with a morbid death obsession. And though I do love “Hamlet,” I’m not about to break out in the “special providence in the fall of a sparrow” soliloquy. But rather, I have had this idea fermenting in my head for the past few years, and after reading an article last week on ESPN.com that involved Michael Jordan saying he always thought he would die young to save his legacy, I was spurned on to write this. Of all the people to have died at the right time, few stick out in my mind more than Alexander the Great, Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy. For Alexander, his death came at the zenith SCRAMBLED EGGS • Alex Cline

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of his powers, where the only place to go was down. The setting of the Hellenistic period’s sun doesn’t get blamed on him (though it was inevitable due to the heights and lengths he had pushed his conquests), but those that followed him. And as for Lincoln and Kennedy, their deaths allowed them to not only take on the position of martyr in the American societal construction, but they also were able to avoid conflicts which would have stained their reputations and probably knocked them out of their universal standing as Top 10 U.S. Presidents of All Time. For Lincoln it was Reconstruction and his proposed “Ten Percent Plan.” For Kennedy, besides his extramarital liaisons, it was the Vietnam War, which was just on the horizon at the time of his death. All three of these men died at moments that were beneficial with regard to their standings in history. If they had lived any longer, they wouldn’t be the same figures they are today. The opposite of this coin are people who didn’t die at the right time, or rather lived past that opportune moment. Of this category, the most obvious is Winston Churchill (though a good secondary choice would be Marcus Garvey, who died while reading an obituary that wrongly reported his own death), who proved to be a great wartime prime minister, but an absolutely atrocious peacetime one. If Churchill had passed after the Yalta Conference, like Roosevelt, his position in history would not have been dampened by his ineffectiveness during his second term of office in the ‘50s (though that was due mostly to age, but it still doesn’t excuse his actions during the Mau Mau Rebellion). Ultimately, this entire diatribe is a testament to the randomness of time and serendipity. Great men can be forgotten by untimely deaths, just as a middling one can become immortalized by his coincidental entombment. In history as it is in “Love Actually,” timing really is everything.

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Republicans resemble hippies Commitee of Infractions by

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Hippies today (or at least those who have inherited the title) aren’t much respected. The reason for this has little to do with the substance of what they believe. It has much more to do with the fact that their worldview doesn’t allow for any substance to come out of what are otherwise legitimate complaints. For instance, there are many people who believe, to one degree or another, that war is absolutely something to be avoided at nearly any cost. However, the vast majority of these people recognize that wars in fact will occur and are usually satisfied by defining war as a last resort. A smaller subset of these people are willing to attend a protest, even while recognizing that protests are of questionable — Preston Peeden is a senior in history. He can effect. be reached at ppeeden@utk.edu. Hippies, however, appear to believe that their protests are something more than a symbolic gesture. They appear to believe that gathering a bunch of people with cleverly worded signs is enough to effect real change in policy. They believe that people generally recognize certain members of government/ the economy/the military should be ignored because they are “evil.” In other words, they propose vague and ineffective solutions to problems which contain a kernel of truth obfuscated by an unfair and inaccurate rhetoric. Please don’t misunderstand me: “real” hippies had a far greater social significance in the ‘60s and ‘70s which transcended their practices to bring about real change. You could argue that there are no more hippies. I would argue that today’s Republican Party members in fact are acting much like the hippies they most likely despise. If you read just about anything written by a conservative today, they’re desperately searching for some direction for

their party. The reason is that Republicans appear to have abandoned structure policy in favor of vague principles. What Republicans should be doing is making real decisions about what needs to be done based on what Republicans, or at least those who once called themselves so, actually believe. Instead, all they can manage to do is fight willy-nilly against anything the Democrats try. The Republican Party is a neutered party. Surprisingly, they (and the conservatives who reluctantly associate with them) have a surprising amount of energy and are surprisingly well-stocked with young politicians. However, they lack any kind of structure that policy provides. For instance, with the recent discussions about gun control, Democrats were able to rely on long-held policies to produce legislation in key states rather quickly. Conservatives stocked up on guns and ammo. Now of course, if the Republican Party is really the party of limited government, it seems strange to suggest that proposing action is the answer to their problems. Most Republicans seem to believe it’s an issue of PR (Bobby Jindal amongst others), but that is really only half the problem. They seem to believe that “connecting” with minorities is what they failed to do in the last election. This is true, but only because they failed to connect with anyone but conservatives. The reason is that they didn’t have any real policy to get behind, no effective action to counter a consistent and solid Democratic message. And they didn’t do this by rising above policy, but by falling so far below it that they failed to have a real conversation about the issues, especially the economy, which gave them a fighting chance. It’s one thing to be old, rich and white. To exacerbate this with overly simplistic rhetoric is the very definition of not being in touch with reality. Reconnect with that, then worry about demographics. — Greg Bearringer is a graduate student in medieval studies. He can be reached at gbearrin1@utk.edu.

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Last Wednesday, the City of Knoxville announced the beginning of a new partnership with the company Zipcar, Inc., a car sharing network with thousands of vehicles in cities around the country. Here’s how it works: you fill out an application and pay a one-time application fee. They do a background check on you, and if you are approved, you receive a “zipcard” in the mail. There is a yearly membership rate to keep the card. You can then reserve a car whenever you need it from the website or the smartphone app. After that, you can find your car in the specified location, unlock it with the zipcard, and you are on your way! It is such an awesome and simple idea; I wish I had thought of it. In Knoxville, there are now four Zipcars: two downtown on Gay Street and two on UT’s campus across from the Student Aquatic Center. To rent a car the traditional way, a driver has to be 25 years old. But to be a Zipcar member students only need to be 18 years old, and the general population only has to be over 21. There are many perks of car sharing over car ownership in a city. Owning a car anywhere is extremely expensive. Car payments, insurance, gas and maintenance are all incredibly expensive. And on top of that, in a city, parking is astronomical. On average, owning a car costs $715 per month, but it is only used generally for about an hour per day. But with Zipcar, you pay for what you use. In Knoxville the hourly rate is about $8, or you can rent the car for the full day at about

$70. Insurance, gas, and 180 free miles are included with every rental. To make it even cheaper, a grant to improve air quality from the Knoxville Regional Transportation Planning Organization has waived Zipcar’s one-time application fee and the first year membership fee. For people who do not need to use a car all the time, Zipcar really is the cheapest way to go. Car sharing is also extremely beneficial to the environment, as city officials who secured this grant know. This growing trend diminished the global carbon dioxide emissions by 482,170 tons in 2009. For every shared car that enters the market, fifteen fewer owned cars are on the road. In 2009 for the first time the number of Americans who bought new cars was less than the number who got rid of their cars. Also, car sharing members tend to drive 31 percent less than when they own a vehicle. I promise I don’t work for Zipcar. I just can’t get over how perfect and practical a solution this is for the modern problems of limited time, thin wallets and an even thinner ozone. The monetary impact is huge for your average city-dweller, and it provides such an easy way for people to help the environment while going about their regular lives. Members save time with the ability to access Zipcar services right from their phones and with reduced traffic congestion overall. I passionately commend Mayor Madeline Rogero and the rest of the City of Knoxville for being so forward thinking and practical. Knoxville is really making an effort to make the city one of the most modern and happiest places to live and work in the U.S. With creative solutions like Zipcar within the city limits, we are certainly well on our way. — Lindsay Lee is a junior in mathematics. She can be reached at llee26@utk.edu.

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THE DAILY BEACON • 5 Arts & Culture Editor Victoria Wright

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Hollywood screenwriter to give presentation New sound for Atoms For Melodi Erdogan Assistant Arts and Culture Editor A little bit of Hollywood is coming to Knoxville. Scott Myers, Hollywood film screenwriter, producer and a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will be speaking on Friday about characters in classic Hollywood cinema. Titled “Archetypes: Character Structure, Film Analysis, and Screenwriting Theory,� Myers’ presentation will focus on the narrative aspect of film and analyze different characters and their roles in a film, such as the protagonist, antagonist and attractors of any story in a movie. Dr. Charles Maland, chair of the cinema studies program and professor of English, said his visit should be interesting to anyone who enjoys a good story and not just students interested in film analysis and screenwriting. “I think it will be interesting to aspiring filmmakers, but also people who watch movies,� Maland said. “I think what he’s trying to do is develop a talk that will be interesting to not just cinema study minors or people who are in journalism and electronic media or want to be filmmakers, but anyone who is interested in movies and stories and what makes those stories go.� Myers has written the screenplays for “K-9,� a 1989 action/comedy film starring James Belushi, and “Trojan War,� a 1997 comedy film starring Jennifer Love Hewitt. More recently, Myers has been the executive producer of the television series “It’s Easy Being Green� and “Time Makeover,� both done in 2008. “My understanding is that this script for ‘K-9,’ he just submitted the script, and there are thousands of scripts submitted a year, so the fact that he was able to shape it in such a way that they got interested in it and bought it and made it,� Maland said. “Sometimes in Hollywood they will buy a lot of screenplays, but they never get made because they don’t get the right actors or get hooked up with a project and so on. So someone who has been through that is fun to talk to, especially to some of our students who are interested in screenwriting themselves.�

Myers writes a screenwriting blog titled, “Go into the Story,� (www.gointothestory. com) which is updated daily and is a place where he informally elaborates on cinema and writing, aspects of Hollywood and everyday happenings in the film industry. Ryan Woldruff, teaching associate in English who introduced Myers to Maland and initiated Myers’ visit to UT, said that he came across the blog after researching screenwriting on Google. “I was really interested in researching the process of getting a script in the hands of an agent or a producer. I was doing some basic Google research on screenwriting in general and I came across a couple of blogs and his was one of them,� Woldruff said. “It was such a professional, well done blog that’s updated on a regular basis that it basically became one of my bookmarks to look at every day. He has daily dialogue, so there’s always something different every day, and he also has weekly themes, like this week its boy meets girl, so how does that happen in movies? And what are some good example and bad examples and then there’s also just the business of screenwriting also which is helpful too. That’s kind of where I started.� Having won the UCLA Outstanding Instructor Award, Myers now teaches screenwriting at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. “He has had this experience teaching screenwriting and being a teacher, so hopefully he will be a good dynamic speaker,� Maland said. “I think most of us are interested in stories, even if we’re not English majors or film majors, we read stories, we read novels we see movies and so on. To me that whole question of what are the kinds of things in the development of characters and plots that really grip us as moviegoers or as readers of novels, just what is it about that and that is one thing he’s interested in and will talk about.� Over the summer, Woldruff took a week long, intensive screenwriting course online with Myers as his professor. The course covered the main core of screenwriting, and Woldruff said it was very helpful. “I thought he’d be a really nice speaker to come and talk about screenwriting because I know we’ve had screenwriting discussions in the past and sometimes

a good discussion about something on screenwriting will be really helpful not only for film people but creative writing, students involved in creative writing and professors, it crosses a lot of boundaries I think in terms of story structure,� Woldruff said. Having received higher education in humanities and divinity, Maland said that Myers has an interesting background that wouldn’t normally lead to a career in Hollywood screenwriting. “You would expect someone who’s interested in going to divinity school to be interested in questions about human morality and the place of man in the universe, and a lot of times we don’t think about Hollywood films in quite those same terms, and I’m quite curious about how his earlier interest might have gone into Hollywood,� Maland said. Myers recently held an online contest called “The Quest,� where anybody could submit a set of loglines and he would pick a few out of around 4,000 submissions to develop more thoroughly. “He’s in Hollywood and trying to create a more open entrance into Hollywood,� Woldruff said. “His kind of one-on-one commitment to helping up and coming writers was really admirable as well. He’s been there; he’s lived in the Hollywood atmosphere for a long time.� A reception will follow Myers’ formal presentation in Hodges Library. Drinks will be served in the Mary Greer Room on the 2nd floor of Hodges where Myers will be available to answer any additional questions and speak to attendees personally. “He has a whole bunch of knowledge about Hollywood that is definitely fun to listen to,� Woldruff said. “I’m really interested in just sitting down and having a conversation and listening to the students ask questions and his answers. I think the lecture is also going to be really interesting to a lot of different people.� The informal discussion on screenwriting will be held from noon to 1 p.m. in McClung Tower Room 1210-11, and a formal presentation at 3 p.m. in the Lindsey Young Auditorium in Hodges Library on Friday. For more information about the event, contact Dr. Maland at cmaland@utk.edu

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Peace with new album Justin Daugherty Contributor

Thom Yorke has never been one to be content with repetition, and his new project with the band Atoms For Peace, “Amok,� proves to be one of the truest examples of his constant desire to reinvent himself throughout his career. Not since Radiohead’s 2000 release “Kid A� have we heard Yorke writing songs like we get from his new group’s debut release. Atoms For Peace is a group of musicians assembled by Yorke himself, consisting of longtime Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich on keyboards, session drummer Joey Waronker, percussionist Mauro Refosco, and none other than Red Hot Chili Peppers’ bassist, Flea. Since the album focuses so heavily on electronic dance-style music, the rhythm section, arguably one of the best in the business, have to be air-tight in their rhythms, and the group never falters to provide flawless beats for Yorke and company to truly shine over. Fans of Radiohead’s “Kid A� will find themselves in familiar territory with Yorke’s latest offering. The nine songs in “Amok� sound like they very well could have been ideas floating around in Yorke’s head back in 2000. This isn’t to say you’re buying a “Kid A� remake; however, quite the opposite in fact. The new rhythm section Yorke has assembled brings a completely new feel to his unpredictability. As soon as you pop in “Amok� one doesn’t know quite what to expect, but less than a minute the listener gets a general idea of what they may think is in store from the group’s

collaboration. When “Before Your Very Eyes ‌ â€? starts playing, the listener immediately feels like they’ve never heard anything exactly like it, yet it still sounds familiar. Yorke’s signature voice, sounding better than ever, comes in on top of a sparse guitar and percussion arrangement. Many people give Yorke grief for being too sad in his music, but with his latest offering he finally sounds like he is in a good mood. On “Defaultâ€? he sounds like a new man, but that isn’t to say old habits die easily. “Ingenue,â€? the album’s third track, is easily one of the finest pieces of electronic music ever recorded. The song starts with what appears to be Godrich noodling on keyboards, but once the entire band kicks in the song becomes a beautiful collection of Yorke’s excellent falsetto, simple keyboard lines, and a beat so tight that John Bonham himself would be proud. To be 100 percent clear: this is not a new Radiohead album, and fans who come to “Amokâ€? with hopes of it being one will likely listen in disgust. The album needs to be approached with an open mind, but if one must compare Atoms For Peace to Radiohead, “Judge, Jury and Executionerâ€? is about the only option one will truly have. If listeners come to “Amokâ€? for any of the single parts, they might not be too impressed; rather, it’s the sum of its whole that makes it the album it is. The album doesn’t favor any of the members’ previous musical influences, and like mentioned earlier, it’s an album that sounds quite unlike anything ever heard before, which is a terribly rare thing all too often as of late.

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Vols still have Lady Vols look to clinch SEC title work to do Troy Provost-Heron Staff Writer

Austin Bornheim Assistant Sports Editor Tuesday night was a huge victory for the Volunteers moving down the final leg of the regular season. That much the team, fans and NCAA Tournament committee know. However, there is still much work left to be done if the Vols (17-10, 9-6 SEC) hope to make a late season push into the Big Dance. “We need to celebrate this win tonight and then do everything in our power to beat a talented Georgia team,” head coach Cuonzo Martin said postgame. “That is just the way it is. I cannot go any further than that because you just do not know.” The Vols will travel to Athens over the weekend with the confidence of beating a Top 10 team and three straight road wins in their pocket, but Tennessee’s last loss came at the hands of the Bulldogs on Feb. 6 in Knoxville. UT allowed UGA to shoot 50 percent from the field in that contest and surrendered 24 points to Kentavious Caldwell-Pope. This time around the Volunteers are focused on stopping the Georgia guard. “(Caldwell-Pope) kind of had his way with us last time,” Jordan McRae said. “Our defense is playing a lot better right now though so I think we’ll be ready.” No doubt the Big Orange play on the defense and offensive end is burning closer to red-hot than orange right now, but Martin’s team was in a similar situation last season. Over the final nine games of 2012, the Volunteers went 8-1 with a win against an eighth-

ranked Florida team in Gainesville — sound familiar? The only loss coming down that stretch was at Alabama two games later, 62-50. This year the Vols are riding a six-game winning streak with three left to play — at Gerogia, at Auburn and at home to finish the regular season against Missouri. The two things the Volunteers have in their favor at this point in the season opposed to last year is their RPI and possible conference record. This year’s squad was ranked No. 57 in the land before the win Tuesday night, and with a win over Georgia on Saturday UT would jump up the ladder. Last year’s team finished No. 90. Tennessee also has a chance to finish this year with a better conference record. Last season the Vols went 10-6. This year they have an opportunity to go 12-6 if they win out — the addition of Missouri and Texas A&M added conference games to the schedule. All the tournament talk is just speculation at this point though. The fact remains that there are three regular season games and a conference tournament left to play. And after being left out last season, Tennessee is not getting ahead of themselves when it comes to tournament talk. “Every game is crucial. You have to treat every game like it is your last game,” Trae Golden said. “You never know, so last year I think it really helped us to see the bigger picture.” Will the Volunteers make the tournament? Who knows. There is still meaningful basketball left to be played. Are the Vols one of the best 68 teams in the country? Martin believes so and that’s what he will dwell on moving forward. “When you look at this team and you say is this one of the 68 teams? Without a doubt, but you have to do your job,” he said. “For us I say we have to keep it out of someone else’s hands.” — Austin Bornheim is a senior in journalism and electronic media. He can be reached at abornhei@ utk.edu and followed on Twitter @ABornheim.

The Lady Volunteers (225, 13-1 SEC) will be looking to win the outright SEC Regular Season Championship on Thursday when Texas A&M (21-7, 11-3) comes to Knoxville. The Lady Vols found themselves in the same situation last year, playing a home game against Arkansas with the regular season crown in reach. They lost 72-71 in overtime, but head coach Holly Warlick said they know what happened last year and are expecting to learn from that mistake. “Well we talk about it, we had the SEC regular season (championship) in our hands and we had a game on our home court and we lost to Arkansas,” Warlick said. “So we talk about that and we have a chance to do it this year, but it’s not a given, we have to go out and compete just like Texas A&M is going to come in here and compete. They want to win as well so it’s about keeping our focus and understanding that we’ve got to do the things that got us here, so we can’t look ahead and think we can celebrate a championship when it hasn’t happened yet, we got to take care of business.” Aside from the SEC championship, the game is also special because it is Senior Night for both Kamiko Williams and Taber Spani, who will be playing their last official home games (Knoxville hosts the NCAA Tournament this year). “I don’t think I could ever put it into words what it’s meant to me,” Spani said. “It’s been so special, I just feel so blessed and honored to be able to be under Pat (Summitt) for three years and now Holly and to be a part of this. It’s more than tradition, it’s more than family, it’s something that’s really special to me and I’ll miss it for sure.” Possibly the biggest obstacle the Lady Vols will have to face is dealing with the emotion of the Senior Night festivities,

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Taber Spani jumps outside the paint against Vanderbilt on Feb. 17. but Spani believes that her and Kamiko should be able to feed off the emotion and play good basketball. “I think you have to be careful,” Spani said. “Obviously, at the beginning when you have your family out and you go through the Senior Night, that’s emotional, but once the ball goes up it’s a game, and we understand what’s on the line so we’re just going to try and leave everything out there. It’s going to be a balancing act, but I think me and Kamiko can feed off that emotion and energy so we just have to chan-

nel it all in the right direction.” The Aggies should prove to be a tough test for the Lady Vols because of the similar styles of play that both teams have. “They have a strong presence inside and they’ve built their program this year around Kelsey Bone,” Warlick said. “They are very athletic, they play hard and defense is a priority for them so it’s a little bit of a mirror of both teams philosophies and he’s (Texas A&M head coach Gary Blair) a pretty strong, defensive-minded coach as well so I think

you’ll see an up and down game, a very fast paced game, physical, so it should be a really good contest.” Win or lose, the Lady Vols have already clinched a share of the SEC championship, but for Warlick that isn’t enough. “We don’t want a share,” Warlick said. “We want to win it outright and that’s been our goal all along so a share is great, please don’t interpret that I’m not appreciative, but we want the title to ourselves.” The game will tip-off at 7 p.m. at Thompson-Boling Arena.

Softball focused on road ahead after win Patrick MacCoon Staff Writer While the No. 7 Lady Vols softball team had a short but sweet stay at home with a 6-0 victory in their home opener Tuesday night over Lipscomb, they are back on the road for the fourth weekend in a row. The Lady Vols will face off against College of Charleston on Thursday night before taking part in the Buccaneer Invitational (March 1-3) in North Charleston, S.C. “I don’t know a lot about them at all (College of Charleston),” co-head coach Ralph Weekly said. “I know that they tied for the Southern Conference lead last year and that’s really all I know about them.” The Lady Vols (14-2) will look to extend their twogame winning streak against the Cougars before they open their five game schedule in the invitational. Although the tournament will not feature the strength

of teams that they faced in California the previous weekend, where they fell to UCLA and Northwestern, they aren’t overlooking their competition. UT will take on UNCWilmington and Charleston Southern twice as well as one game against Valparaiso. “The thing about softball right now if you want to go to the World Series is that the RPI is important,” Weekly said. “Every game is important. Every team you play is important.” The Lady Vols will look to build on their record before they return home for their first SEC series of the year against the defending national champion Alabama Crimson Tide (March 8-10). “It’s funny with 56 games, but you have to come every game ready to play,” he said. “Last year, I think we finished with just 10 losses and we were third or fourth in the country, but we had a bad loss to a team that was not doing well. The loss ended up hurt-

ing with our seed. These kinds of games are important.” Seniors Raven Chavanne and Lauren Gibson will look to continue their hot hitting at the plate this weekend to give the UT pitching staff runs to work with. Chavanne leads the team with a .471 batting average while Gibson is tied for the team lead in home runs with three. “I have been able to make some good contact with the ball early this season and been able to get on base,” Chavanne said following Tuesday night’s game. The Renfroe sisters, Ellen and Ivy, along with freshman Erin Gabriel are expected to make starts this weekend for the UT pitching staff that has posted a 1.09 ERA on the season. While the competition may not be as stiff as they have faced in previous weeks, the team is not taking anything for granted.

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