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Zookeeper makes campus exotic Dance event raises money Christopher Elizer

Nathan Lee Staff Writer Jack Hanna, one of the world’s most famous animal experts, spoke to a packed house at the Cox Auditorium Monday night.

Hanna, a Knoxville native, brought a slew of animals from the Knoxville, Nashville and Columbus zoos to show and describe to the audience. In addition, Hanna spoke to the crowd about the importance of wildlife conservation and how following your dreams is key to a fulfilling life.

“Living a dream is what I have done with my life,” Hanna said.

“I had a dream when I was a little boy living here in Knoxville to work with animals. I went to the Knoxville Zoo in 1959 and never looked back. That is a key to life: Love what you do.”

Now the director emeritus of the Columbus Zoo, Hanna is also well known for his nature shows such as “Jack Hanna’s Animal Adventures” and “Into the Wild.” His numerous appearances on “The Late Show with David Letterman” have also helped make Hanna a household name.

“I had seen him on different shows growing up and was very excited to see both him and all the wild animals,” Danielle LaGraize, junior in marketing, said. “It’s not every day that you get to see sloths and penguins walking around campus.”

Sloths and penguins were just two of the many animals that thrilled the crowd, which varied from young children to college students to people who claimed to know Hanna when he himself was a young child.

There was an anteater, a porcupine, an eagle owl, a bright pink flamingo, an albino python, a purebred dingo and an armadillo that donned the stage of the Cox Auditorium.

Even a rare Siberian lynx, which is now extinct in the wild, came to visit.

However, the most memorable animal of the night may have been Einstein, a talking parrot who thrilled the crowd with his amazing conversational skills.

Einstein was able to talk with his keeper and even showed off his newest trick, singing “Rocky Top.” Hanna also showed the crowd videos of him visiting some of the most endangered animals on the planet, such as the black rhino and the mountain gorilla of Rwanda.

With rapidly decreasing numbers around the w o r l d , Hanna emphasized how important it is to educate people about preserving these animals and conserving their natural habitats.

“My favorite part was watching videos of him interacting with the animals and then actually getting to watch him with live animals on stage,” LaGraize said. “I learned a lot about the animals and had fun at the same time. Jack Hanna is the best at that.”

Hanna finished the night by showing a blooper reel of animals getting the better of him, and some of his funnier moments with David Letterman.

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Lauren Kittrell News Editor Since it’s beginning at Penn State in 1973, Dance Marathon has become an organization beyond what anyone would have ever imagined.

The event has been an annual celebration at UT since 1995 and is the largest student-run philanthropy event on campus.

Sarah Murphree, a junior head of Community Outreach for Dance Marathon, said it’s an experience students will never forget.

“We work hard to raise funds all throughout the year through various fundraisers,” Murphree said. “We have had events (this year) such as a 5k, band party and canning at basketball games.”

A 14-hour event, Dance Marathon raises money for their local Children’s Miracle Network Hospital. Here at UT, Dance Marathon raises money for the East Tennessee Children’s Hospital, literally in most of the students’ backyards on 21st Street and Clinch Avenue. The hospital never turns away a patient’s medical need regardless of an inability to pay.

“At this annual event, UT students give a day of their lives for the life of a child,” Taylor Gautier, Dance Marathon’s vice president, said. “Dancers are required to be in constant movement and on their feet for the main event for a reason.

“We do this to honor the patients who have to stay up, sometimes all night, in order to receive treatments. These treat-

ments are painful, long and exhausting on their bodies, and this is the reason why we stay up and are active. We do it for those who can’t. Although it is exhausting, the small foot pain we are feeling is nothing compared to what the children who fight to live are facing, so we keep dancing.”

Natalie Williams, president of Dance Marathon, said often students are so engrossed in their schedules that they forget community service.

“By participating in Dance Marathon you are enriching not only the Knoxville community but our neighborhood,” Williams said. “As college students, it is easy for us to get caught up in tests and quizzes, and football and basketball games, but we forget that right next to our campus is a hospital where children are fighting for their lives every day.”

Besides just dancing all day, there are other events during Dance Marathon.

“This year we are having four color teams compete in contests like “minute to win it” and “just dance,” and both are going to be set up again this year,” Gautier said.

Even if you don’t like to dance, you can support Dance Marathon and still have fun at the event.

“In addition to the competitions, we have numerous live acts which include DJs to cover bands, and we are also going to be featuring some awesome dance instructors (belly dance, Zumba, etc.),” Gautier said.

“The event is catered by restaurants around town during the three-meal rotations throughout the night.”

Dance Marathon is March 2 and 3 and is $35.

Court reviews Political figure quits amid probe ability to sue overseas abuses The Associated Press

The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s conservative justices sounded skeptical Tuesday about allowing multinational corporations to be sued in American courts over claims that they were complicit in human rights abuses in foreign countries.

The court heard arguments over whether a 223year-old law gives foreign victims of abuses the right to use U.S. courts to try to prove that companies played a role in atrocities and should pay damages.

Justice Anthony Kennedy, whose vote often decides closely contested cases, appeared ready to join his four fellow Republican appointees in ruling out lawsuits against corporations under the Alien Tort Statute.

The issue is at the heart of a lawsuit by 12 Nigerians who want to hold oil giant Royal Dutch Shell liable for aiding the Nigerian government’s deadly crackdown on protests in the Niger Delta in the 1990s.

In the second case argued Tuesday, the justices indicated they would rule that a 20year-old law that allows victims of torture to pursue civil lawsuits against those responsible can only be invoked against individuals, not organizations or corporations.

The dispute over the reach of the Alien Tort Statute has drawn intense interest from businesses, human rights groups and

even U.S. allies that oppose a broad interpretation of the law. The Obama administration is siding with the Nigerian plaintiffs.

The Alien Tort Statute went unused for most of American history until rights lawyers dusted it off beginning in the late 1970s.

Lawsuits have been brought against individuals who allegedly took part in abuses and, more recently, against companies that do business in places where abuses occur and in the United States.

Arguments over who may be sued under the law turn in part on how other countries and international courts treat human rights violations. Business interests say that corporations can’t be sued in most of the rest of the world.

“But, counsel, for me, the case turns in large part on this,” Kennedy said, referring to the Shell’s legal brief.

“It says, ‘International law does not recognize corporate responsibility for the alleged offenses here.’”

He also worried that a broad ruling in favor of allowing the lawsuits could open up American companies to lawsuits in foreign countries.

Kennedy spoke of an American company accused of human trafficking in the United States. “In your view, the company can be sued in every country in the world,” he said to Deputy Solicitor General Edwin Kneedler, representing the United States.

See FOREIGN VICTIMS on Page 3

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The minority leader in Puerto Rico’s House of Representatives resigned Tuesday and dropped out of the race for mayor of the island’s capital amid allegations of domestic violence, delivering a heavy blow to his party.

Hector Ferrer had been a member of the House for nearly 12 years. He also resigned as vice president and spokesman of the Popular Democratic Party, one of the island’s two main parties.

Alejandro Garcia Padilla, the party’s leader, accepted Ferrer's resignation, but accused the governing New Progressive Party of political motives in

pursuing the case against Ferrer.

“Domestic violence and all kinds of gender violence, all kinds of aggression, is unacceptable,” Garcia said, but he complained that “there has been a clear pattern of the government using its power to affect political opponents.”

“These worrisome circumstances should be investigated until their last consequence,” he said.

Ferrer was arrested Thursday after police said they received a call from his estranged wife alleging domestic violence at their home in a San Juan suburb. Police said there was evidence that Ferrer damaged the home and made crude statements to his wife in the presence of their 5-year-old son.

His attorney, Osvaldo Carlo, has said

that the couple is separating and got into an argument but that there was no physical violence.

The island’s justice department has referred the case to a special prosecutorial office in charge of investigating public officials to avoid possible political bias.

Ferrer’s resignation provides ammunition to the New Progressive Party, whose pro-statehood leader, Gov. Luis Fortuno, is seeking a second term in November.

Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz demanded Tuesday that Garcia also resign, noting that another member of Garcia’s party, longtime Barceloneta Mayor Sol Luis Fontanes, was recently arrested on federal bribery charges.

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Donald Legette, sophomore in social work, practices skateboard tricks on the Pedestrian Mall on Monday. With highs in the 70s, many students enjoyed the sunny weather.

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A player slides back into home against Seton Hall on Friday. The Diamond Vols swept the series against Seton Hall and are 7-0 for the season.

2:35 a.m. — An officer observed two males in a UT Dining Services golf cart in front of the Baptist Collegiate Ministry. The two 19-year-old white male students stated they did not have permission to be in the golf cart and that they planned on driving the golf cart around campus. The males were placed under arrest for joyriding.

Feb. 21 1:45 p.m. — A 49-year-old white female university employee forwarded an e-mail to an officer concerning five illegal purchases of computers/laptops using a Dell customer account from the Audit and Consulting Services on campus. The employee advised that the purchases are not originating on campus.

3:34 a.m. — An officer witnessed a 27-year-old white male attempting to gain entry into a vehicle in the G-13 parking garage. The suspect was arrested for public intoxication.

5:13 p.m. — An officer was dispatched to a possible domestic disturbance in the Staff 12 parking lot off of 17th Street. A 25-year-old white woman was arrested for public intoxication and possession of unlawful drug paraphernalia.

Feb. 22 Feb. 25 5:35 p.m. — An officer was dispatched to investigate an assault at Clement Hall. A 19-year-old black female student was arrested for domestic assault.

8:32 p.m. — A 20-year-old white female student reported to an officer that her backpack had been stolen at Hodges Library.

Feb. 23

Feb. 26

4:20 p.m. — An officer received a call from a 19year-old white female student in the UTPD lobby stating that her driver side rearview mirror had been damaged on her 2004 Honda Accord.

12:50 a.m. — An officer observed a gray Toyota traveling southbound on 17th Street at a high rate of speed. After stopping the vehicle, the driver was found to be driving on a suspended license. The 23-year-old black male driver was arrested.

Feb. 24 2:20 a.m. — Two officers were dispatched to the 13th floor of Andy Holt Apartment Residence Hall for a disturbance. Six males were in the apartment.

One male was arrested for vandalism below $500 and public intoxication.

2:25 a.m. — Two officers were dispatched to the International House of Pancakes (IHOP) inside of Presidential Court in regard to an 18-year-old white male attempting to steal food. The subject was intoxicated and underage. He was issued a misdemeanor for underage drinking.

1968 — Kerner Commission Report released The President’s National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders releases its report, condemning racism as the primary cause of the recent surge of riots. The report, which declared that “our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white — separate and unequal,” called for expanded aid to African American communities in order to prevent further racial violence and polarization. Unless drastic and costly remedies were undertaken at once, the report said, there would be a “continuing polarization of the American community and, ultimately, the destruction of basic democratic values.”

The report identified more than 150 riots or major disorders between 1965 and 1968 and blamed “white racism” for sparking the violence — not a conspiracy by African American political groups as some claimed.

Statistics for 1967 alone included 83 people killed and 1,800 injured — the majority of them African Americans — and property valued at more than $100 million damaged or destroyed. The 11-member commission, headed by Governor Otto Kerner of Illinois, was appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in July 1967 to uncover the causes of urban riots and recommend solutions.

2004 — “The Lord of The Rings: The Return of the King” wins 11 Oscars Perhaps the most attention-grabbing, trailblazing performer in film in 2003 did not receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor — but he was honored nonetheless. The eerily lifelike quality of Gollum, the computer-generated (CG) creature who simpered and schemed his way through The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, remained one of the most awe-inspiring aspects of the trilogy’s final installment, The Return of the King. At the 76th Academy Awards ceremony, held on this day in 2004, the film won a record-tying 11 Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director (Peter Jackson) and Best Visual Effects.

In the complicated world of the writer J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, Gollum is a formerly human-like hobbit who has developed an all-consuming obsession with the tit-

ular ring after he lost it decades earlier to Bilbo Baggins (events chronicled in Tolkien’s earlier book, The Hobbit). Gollum makes a brief appearance in the first installment of the Lord of the Rings film trilogy, The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), and becomes a central character in the second two films, The Two Towers (2002) and The Return of the King.

His single-minded pursuit of the ring brings him into cooperation and conflict with the film’s hobbit heroes, including Frodo Baggins (Bilbo’s nephew, played by Elijah Wood) and Sam Gangee (Sean Astin), in their quest to reach the dark kingdom of Mordor and destroy the all-powerful ring in order to bring peace to Middle Earth.

Jackson wanted Gollum to be based on the movements of a real human, the actor Andy Serkis, who also provided the voice of the character (with the help of digital sound mixing). Using a technique known as motion-capture photography, a computer captured Serkis’ movements as he acted out scenes while wearing a special bodysuit. Animators used this information to create an enormously complex computer-generated image with 300 muscles and 250 face shapes. CG imagery (known as CGI) had previously been used to great effect in films such as Jurassic Park (1993) and Toy Story (1995), as well in the later Star Wars movies and the Harry Potter franchise, but Gollum was by far the most life-like example of CGI to date.

In mid-2003, Gollum won in two categories at the MTV Movie Awards: Best Virtual Performance, and co-winner of Best OnScreen Team (with Wood and Astin). Fans even lobbied for the character to receive an Academy Award nomination. Though the efforts failed, The Return of the King reigned triumphant at the 2004 Oscar ceremony, sweeping all of the categories in which it was nominated (Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Original Score, Song, Visual Effects, Art Direction, Costume Design, Makeup, Sound Mixing and Editing) and tying Ben-Hur (1960) and Titanic (1997) for most Academy Awards won by a single film.

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

Wednesday, Febuary 29, 2012

FOREIGN VICTIMS continued from Page 1 Kennedy’s point underscored another lurking issue that has the potential to wipe out almost all lawsuits under the 1789 law. It is a minor part of Shell’s case, but other companies supporting Shell said the law never was intended to apply to conduct by a foreign government against its own citizens within its own borders.

A couple of briefs supporting the Nigerians mentioned Kennedy’s majority in the Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling in the Citizens United case in 2010 that said corporations have the same constitutional rights as people to speak and spend freely to influence elections.

The same five justices could rule in favor of corporations in the Shell case — essentially that they are different from individuals under this law. Unlike Citizens United, this case turns on the meaning of a statute, not the Constitution, and Congress could always change the law specifically to bring corporations under it.

The court’s four Democratic appointees sounded much more willing to allow for corporate liability under the law.

Justice Stephen Breyer said that Shell’s position would not permit corporations to be sued over allegations involving slavery or piracy.

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Breyer suggested he would take a less categorical view of the matter. “In certain circumstances, there could be a suit against a corporation. You just have to be careful,” he said, as if trying out something he might later put in an opinion.

Other cases pending in U.S. courts seek to hold accountable Chiquita Brands International for its relationship with paramilitary groups in Colombia; Exxon and Chevron for abuses in Indonesia and Nigeria, respectively; Britain-based mining concern Rio Tinto for allegedly aiding the Papua New Guinea government in a civil war; and several companies for their role in old racial apartheid system in South Africa.

The second case dealt with the Torture Victims Protection Act, which uses the word “individual” to describe who may sue and who can be sued. The family of a naturalized U.S. citizen who died in the custody of Palestinian intelligence officers in Jericho in 1995 is trying to sue the Palestinian Authority and Palestine Liberation Organization under the law.

Justice Department lawyer Curtis Gannon said the two laws employ different language, although they deal with similar subjects. Gannon also said the court eventually might drastically cut back lawsuits under the Alien Tort Statute.

A decision in both cases is expected by late June.

The cases are Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, 10-1491, and Mohamad v. Palestinian Authority, 11-88.

Tia Patron• The Daily Beacon

Caitlin Burke and Abigail Delvaux, seniors in mathematics, look over Burke’s computer in the amphitheater on Monday. The duo worked outside during their class break to soak in some of the nice weather.

House sponsor stands by ‘Don’t Say Gay’ ban The Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Republican sponsor of a proposal to ban the teaching of gay issues to elementary and middle school students said Tuesday that he’s not backing off the legislation despite concerns from GOP leaders.

The proposal was scheduled to be heard in the House Education Committee. But Rep. Joey Hensley of Hohenwald told The Associated Press he plans to delay the measure for up to three weeks to work out its language.

The legislation, known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, would limit all sexually related instruction to “natural human reproduction science” in kindergarten through eighth grade.

Supporters of the proposal say they’ve heard reports of some teachers discussing alternative lifestyles, such as homosexuality, and they want to prevent that.

State education officials say such instruction is already banned from the current curriculum, but proponents of the bill feel it’s necessary in case the state Board of Education decides to change the curriculum.

“We don’t want students to be exposed to alternate lifestyles,” Hensley said. “If their parents want them to know about that, they can teach them at home.”

Hensley acknowledged the proposal’s language needs more work to avoid any unintended consequences.

“We don’t want to introduce sex education to K-8 students because they are not supposed to be teaching sex education in K-8 now,” he said.

One amendment being considered won’t prohibit “any school counselor, nurse or other authorized employee ... from appropriately responding to a student whose circumstances present issues involving human sexuality.”

Hensley said that proposal is being tweaked because there’s some concern about allowing the school districts to develop their own policies.

Opponents of the measure say it’s too broad and fear it would prevent teachers and others from speaking out against the bullying of gay teens.

Republican House Speaker Beth Harwell has called for further review of the overall bill, and Republican Gov. Bill Haslam has said he would prefer for it to be dropped.

“I think there’s better things to be doing,” Haslam said.

Hensley, however, said he's adamant about passing the legislation this session. He said his office has received hundreds of calls in support of the bill.

“It’s certainly not off the table,” Hensley said. “We’re moving forward with it.”

Bank to oust Dippin’ Dots CEO The Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Novelty ice cream maker Dippin’ Dots is running out of cash and needs a $2 million credit line to be able to pay its bills, according to court documents filed Tuesday.

The company is running out of money because the bank that had been its main source of funding is refusing to loan Dippin’ Dots more money until CEO Curt Jones is ousted. Alabama-based Regions Bank says it wants a judge to appoint a third-party trustee to run the company instead of Jones.

Jones, in a filing Tuesday, said Fischer Ventures LLC of Edmond, Okla., has offered to finance the company provided it gets first priority on any money Dippin’ Dots makes until the loan is paid off. The money is needed to keep the company afloat until the warm-weather season that is peak for selling the beaded ice cream, Jones said.

Regions Bank said Jones, the Brentwood, Tenn., creator of the ice cream, is acting in his own interest and not that of the company or the creditors waiting to recoup debts owed by Dippin’ Dots.

Regions is the largest creditor of Paducah, Ky.-based Dippin’ Dots, having loaned the company $10.8 million before November’s bankruptcy protection filing in federal court in Kentucky. It also loaned Dippin’ Dots another $200,000 to keep the company operating after the filing. Regions filed a motion in federal bankruptcy court asking Judge Thomas H. Fulton to remove Jones as the decision maker for Dippin’ Dots.

“This approach will save enterprise value and jobs,” said Brian H. Meldrum, an attorney for Regions. “The only other alternative is liquidation, which serves nobody.”

Fulton set a hearing for Wednesday in Louisville on the request

by Regions.

In filings Tuesday afternoon, Dippin’ Dots said that Regions Bank’s request is unnecessary and that Jones is acting in the best interest of the company while looking for investors or buyers.

Dippin’ Dots attorney Todd Farmer said the company plans to file

a reorganization plan this week that, if approved, would result in creditors being repaid in full within 36 months.

“It is now only when Mr. Jones will not pursue sale opportunities that he does not believe is in the company’s long-term best interest, that Regions alleges that Mr. Jones is exercising undue influence,” Farmer wrote.

Dippin’ Dots filed for court protection in November as it sought to reorganize assets and debts rather than face foreclosure on more than $11 million in loans. The company asked Fulton to allow it to use cash collateral to continue operations while the case plays out. The company said in a filing that allowing it to use the cash collateral and stay functioning will not harm creditors, including its largest single creditor, Regions Bank.

Dippin’ Dots, which sells cryogenically frozen beads of ice cream and bills itself as the “Ice Cream of the Future,” markets itself to stores, as well as a number of amusement parks, theaters and malls.

In court filings, Regions said Dippin’ Dots will be out of operating cash by the end of the month and working at a deficit. Jones’ stake in other companies owed money by Dippin’ Dots gives him a conflict of interest that cannot be resolved, Meldrum said.

Regions bank accused Jones of trying to “protect his own self-

interest” by selling 51 percent of Dippin’ Dots Franchising, which reaches agreements with vendors, for $250,000 to keep it from being sold by the bankruptcy court. Regions called the sale to Fischer Ventures a fraudulent attempt to keep the company away from creditors.

“Mr. Jones admitted he was aware that his transaction might be viewed as a ‘fraudulent transfer’ and indicated he discussed the issue with his attorneys,” wrote J. Patrick Warfield, a lawyer for Regions in a letter to other attorneys involved with the bankruptcy. “When asked pointedly whether he undertook this transfer to defraud creditors, Mr. Jones refused to answer.”

In the bankruptcy filing, the company listed about $20.2 million in assets and more than $12 million in liabilities. Dippin’ Dots listed $27.7 million in income through September, $26.7 million in income in 2010 and $33.8 million in 2009.

Jones, a microbiology graduate of Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, created the ice cream beads in 1988. After having to sell a car and raid savings to keep going, he grew the business to nearly 2,000 locations across the country, from mall kiosks to amusement parks and stadiums. The ice cream is stored at 40 degrees below zero and sold at 20 below zero.

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Editor’sNote SGA’s role on campus clear in budget Blair Kuykendall Editor-in-Chief In keeping with our focus on SGA performance, The Daily Beacon staff has decided that a reprisal of the organization’s budget would be both timely and relevant.

Specific budgetary information was provided directly to The Daily Beacon by the SGA executive board, and the following figures have been vetted by the SGA treasurer, Allison Cunningham.

Though the student body directly finances SGA’s operation, few budgetary details are widely understood. Funding for student government is taken out of the university’s programs and services fees, which is then allocated across health, capital, counseling and programming services for UT’s population. SGA’s operation, along with that of student publications and several other organizations, comes directly from the program portion of this fee.

SGA’s total operating budget for the 2011-2012 academic year is $22,300, which the executive board works to allocate across several events and initiatives.

Mark Alexander in the Office of the Vice-Chancellor serves in an advisory role over SGA’s operating budget, and Mary Malichis, secretary in the SGA office, keeps unofficial budget notes in assistance to the treasurer.

SGA’s budget is dispersed across broad categories, such as the $4,470 operating stipend spent on general office expenses. Representatives are entrusted with $8,950 to use at their discretion for student programming. Sponsorship of Volapalooza costs the governing body $5,000 each year. SGA also allots $2,250 to spend on advertising, and $1,630 of the budget is left without a specific designation.

SGA’s general office expenses are standard costs like telephone bills, office supplies, computer network charges and postage. Advertising is a large piece of the budget, devoted to events requiring posters, name tags and ads, and $473.16 of this advertising allotment was devoted to SGA coozies.

Outside of the funding for Volapalooza, the executive board and the senate control the programming portion of the budget. SGA usually hosts tailgates and various

receptions with this allotment. Several payments are listed on the expense sheet to Aramark’s catering service. A large chunk of the programming funding is budgeted to “Network Weekend,” when SGA members feed and entertain student government representatives from the other universities in the UT system.

This year’s SGA used its programming allotment to host multiple, smaller events for student entertainment. Next year, SGA is in discussion to direct this money to a fewer number of larger events that incorporate more students.

These numbers may seem large, but many SEC schools have budgets that are much higher. The University of Alabama’s SGA operates upwards of $600,000 each year. At the University of Florida, SGA controls the disbursement of $4.8 million in funding.

This makes our budget seem comparatively small, but similar organizations at other universities are given many more responsibilities by administration.

SEC student governments with larger budgets allocate sums to student organizations, operate student legal services, and even offer free bicycle repair. To put these figures in context, however, it should be noted that UT’s student operations are organized differently than other institutions. Many responsibilities that fall under the jurisdiction of the SGA elsewhere, like selection of speakers and campus entertainment, are handled by our Central Programming Council. The CPC’s various branches each have budgetary allotments that are supplied for their discretionary use.

SGA’s budget, in the grand scheme of things, is not a substantial sum. It narrows even further when you consider the requirements the organization faces in merely financing existence. The majority of the budget’s allocation seems to be a forgone conclusion.

The burden thus falls on students to ask questions of both their SGA representatives and this university’s administration. How is the level of SGA support determined, and by whom? Given the current amount and use of funds, what role is SGA actually playing on this campus?

Have a say in how your student fees are being spent.

We’re tracking this on our end here at the Beacon, but we need you to ask the questions.

— Blair Kuykendall is a junior in the College Scholars Program. She can be reached at bkuykend@utk.edu.

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Africa deserves more from first world Ac orns and Other Seeds by

Anna-Lise Burnnette

While surfing through world news online earlier this week, I happened to stumble upon a “breaking news” report that had been published just an hour before I found it — the piece, “Ship’s anchor slows down East African web connection,” caught my eye for a few reasons, not the least of which being its surprising headline. But what I found to be surprising may in fact be surprising. Sure, the fanciful notion that a galactic battleship’s anchor somehow managed to get itself tangled up in the workings of a communications satellite might be a little eye-popping, but what really got me is the phrase “East African web connection.”

Because, even though I’ve been studying the complex systems of modernization and development in our rapidly globalized world for several years now, there’s still a part of me that envisions all of Africa to be a wasteland. Obviously, of course, this is patently untrue. Many African cities are rapidly urbanizing, and with that urbanization has come the standardbearers of our modern, Western society (which in this case includes access to the Internet). As for the parts of Africa that are not yet desert or clogged up with traffic, they are often home to diverse groups of indigenous people. Africa is home to many different regional languages, styles of cooking and music, manners of dress and religious sentiment — all of which add up to make a colorful and noisy continent of collision.

But what’s funny is that, despite my little spiel there, I still haven’t gotten away from talking about Africa as if it were a country and not a continent. I mean, let’s be honest here — how many of you know how many different countries there are in Africa? I didn’t know myself, so I had to go look it up (and there are, in fact, 54 fully recognized nations that comprise the African continent, which is a full 20 more than I estimated). What that astonishingly large number tells us is that we have a long way to go before Africa can

really be considered a region that has emerged from the tangles of colonialism, if in fact it can extricate itself at all. Because try as we might, there’s no undoing history. The people living in Zimbabwe and Senegal and Ethiopia (just to name a few) are unalterably tied to histories and mindsets that they did not ask to inherit. That’s true of anyone living anywhere, but it’s especially apparent for men and women living in post-colonial states.

Which is why we must give due time to learning about the history and circumstances that gave rise to the modern nation-states we recognize today. It is a lack of education (and, dare I say it, empathy) in this country in particular which leaves many American school children with only the tiniest drops of knowledge about Africa. For many grade schoolers, “the dark continent” is the place where slaves came from, a point on the map of a triangular trade route that involved sugarcoated human trafficking. And what else? Oh, well, there’s a lot of fighting going on over there now. And what else? Well, that about sums it up.

I’m not claiming to be an expert, but that doesn’t mean I can’t be an advocate. It saddens me to think that the generation behind ours might grow up to know even less about the cultural and political conflicts that have literally shaped the landscape of our many landmasses. That is the result of our cultural bias, and I know that it is that same cultural bias that made me shocked to (re-) realize that Africa actually is on the World Wide Web because of its growing place on the world stage. Some degree of bias is unavoidable (and, perhaps, ultimately useful), but when it overshadows valuable education is when it becomes unhealthy and dangerous.

Our collective lack of understanding about African countries’ history and culture is as dangerous as any other lack of knowledge, to be sure. But it stands out in my mind as a particular example because of how exploited the continent has been for hundreds of years.

If we ever want “third world” nations (like those found throughout Africa) to stop being considered the equivalent of second-class citizens, we must first recognize that they are worth investing thought, time and intellectual capital into. The tiniest seeds of that recognition are our very attitudes toward raising the newest global citizens.

— Anna-Lise Burnette is a senior in interdisciplinary studies. She can be reached at kburnet7@utk.edu.

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As an example of how today’s politicians utilize different media portals in message-crafting, imagedeveloping, and agenda-pursuing, I was initially going to lead this week’s column with excerpts from the actual transcripts of former Congressman Anthony Weiner’s sext messages to 21-year-old Washington undergrad Gennette Cordova. But… I sort of hit a brick wall.

Because aside from their extremely graphic and inappropriate nature, and the fact that I couldn’t stop giggling, I kinda realized they just weren’t relevant.

Because this isn’t an article about politicians using social media. And it’s not even really an article about Twitter or social media by itself. This is an article about how the social effects of collective media are changing politics. Last week, we explored why Twitter appeals to our generation and what sort of real-world political implications stem from it. By examining Generation Y’s propensity to prefer things in “bite-sized” form, we discerned a need for public servants to modify their strategy, especially for the younger demographics, and for their message(s) to be more concise, while still retaining some semblance of all-inclusivity.

Unfortunately for politicians, simply getting a Twitter account isn’t enough to satisfy the demand resulting from this socio-political shift. In fact, according to a recent survey from the Pew Research Center, social media may not have nearly as much political influence as many think it does. The February 2012 study reported that people cite cable news as their mostfrequented source for political campaign news, with local television news, network news, online/social media, and local newspapers filling the second, third, fourth and fifth spots, respectively. Only about 6 percent go to Facebook for campaign news updates, and a mere 2 percent reference Twitter.

Don’t get me wrong. Regardless of statistics concerning where people get their news, portals like Twitter and Facebook ARE still invaluable mechanisms for politicians in the way of reaching and relating to their respective constituencies (and in some cases, beyond; several political names, both major and relatively unknown, have more Twitter followers than they do actual constituents). The ability for a

governmental executive, whether federal, state or local, to be able to communicate with his or her supporters in a split second’s time is a clear benefit to his or her administration. It mitigates the need for annoying mailouts and has proven a success for many popular and still-in-office officials today. President Barack Obama for example, was far more prolific a Tweeter and Facebooker than John McCain back in 2008 (though this doesn’t necessarily speak to the cause of the election’s outcome), and still operates the account regularly, amassing more and more followers daily. It is also interesting to note, as NPR did recently, that Ron Paul, who receives significantly more social media support than his fellow Republican nominee hopefuls, despite his less-than-stellar performance in the real world, is the candidate with the most easily tweeted (read: shortest and most able to fit into a 140-character tweet) name. Clearly, there’s an undeniable political advantage to using social media. And to having a short name, I guess.

But as I said last week, this digital overhaul has inspired a very non-digital counterpart. We all still like our real-world information in as condensed a medium as possible and if politics doesn’t come packaged and ready to go, we’re extremely prone to just dismiss ourselves in favor of blithe, ignorant inefficacy. So what’s the answer?

I tried to dig up a shrewd, penetrating, philosophical answer to this question. I really did. But there really didn’t seem to be any answer more fitting than for politicos to just … keep it brief. The acceptance speeches and States of the Union will still be there ripe for the vamping come lame-duck era, so while the campaign lasts, just play the media game, because there’s really no alternative. And don’t think you’re oversimplifying the process - condensing a truly representative message, especially one that appeals to the masses, seems genuine, and still hits the ear and translates to press like a home run sound-bite, is IMMENSELY difficult.

Not to mention doing this in a hundred thousand different forums and for a hundred thousand different audiences might be near impossible.

And don’t fret — politics isn’t losing its integrity.

It’s just changing, much in the same way it did after the Industrial Revolution or upon the advent of TV and radio. Rhetorical romantics may hate it, myself included, but it’s a fresh approach to political strategy that seems most fitting at present and may just be the answer to bringing back the most historically disengaged voting demographic on the spectrum: you and me.

— Sam Ellis is a senior in English and political science. He can be reached at sellis11@utk.edu.

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Fiction: San Carlo Pugilist Logan N.Murphy Priest bowed so low that his knuckles brushed the dirt floor of the chapel, and his frock was tattered and dusted with backblow from drafts passing through glassless windows arched in the sides of the stucco shack that his god has blessed for him, rows of driftwood pews laid bare by a thousand rears in patches of lighter coloration where the paint had been rubbed raw, seats hardly held together by two-inch screws more rust than metal and wanting to fly apart at the slightest puff. He lifted his face into a shaft of dusty light slanting in from behind the lifesize crucifix shaved from a thick trunk of pine brought south from Colorado by a snake oilman and his traveling cartel of liars and thieves, and Priest had bargained a fair price for the carving of the icon from a man in the next town whose life had been recently ended by an enraged woman who had caught him sodomizing her goat. Such was the way of things.

The holyman himself was nothing to look at: scant of hair save on his face in a tumble of bichromal pubic tangles set low on a long chin pitted with pox scars from his youth, and two eyes so black they had almost no whites in them, and a nose bent from a dozen breaks like a vulture’s beak, and his hands hung out too far from his robe such that his hairy wrists had a permanent burn line from the sun that gave him a look like a beast pieced together from several humans. The tiny mission church was empty, for it was the middle of the week, and so Priest sat upon the altar like a sacrilege because there were no people around to shun him for blasphemy, and he scratched at his privates with gnarled fingernails while watching the doorway for some unknown entity more wanted than expected, and with his other hand he held open his worn pocket Bible to a random chapter and verse and mouthed the words to himself, sometimes smiling and sometimes scowling at the message writ there.

The light shifted with the falling sun, and Doc Strickland stood there outlined in gold fire in the doorway and stretched his shad-

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ow out long through the aisle of the chapel, casting over Priest’s ruddy shoes dangling inches from the floor, and Doc went in and sat at the back of the place humming softly to himself some verses unknown to other men in other places, and his eyes were closed but for when he paused between choruses of his haunting tune. Priest shut his flaking Bible and set it beside him, slid from the altar table and limped across the floor to Doc’s side, standing over him like some awkward Mexican Christ bushy of face and gaunt of flesh, and his knees were full of gout so he creaked when he moved, or so Doc would swear.

You’ve come to repent?

No, that ain’t it at all, said Doc. I remember a past where John Strickland would have kissed my feet at the sight of me.

It’s Doc now, clergyman, and your feet can rot in the heat.

No apologies and no camaraderie for old trailmates? Then why are you here?

Come for your fists.

Priest held up his hands and turned them over in the dusty air, incredulous. My fists?

Settle the score. Bury the grudge. Lick the cat’s anus. However you’d call it.

Leave my church, gringo.

Doc reached behind the flap of his vest and rolled out a cigarette from the leather pouch there, bit the end and twisted to hold it together and puffed against a match. His face shrouded in soot and smoke, eyes bloodshot from liquor or lack of sleep or irritation. In three swift breaths the cigarette was gone and Doc stood, rear leg lending force to the punch that he cracked into Priest’s abdomen, sickly squelch of organs and slight crack of lower ribs, and the holyman toppled, recovered, spat beside him.

Priest adopted his fisticuffs and knocked his bones against Doc’s head and a spritz of noseblood painted obscenities upon the church wall and smeared on his white shirt, and Doc threw his knee into his foe’s groin and grunted. No posse to protect him, for they were convalescing from the trail in San Carlo to the south a day’s ride and would not come for him should he lose. Strickland feinted left and clapped Priest’s right ear,

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followed up with haymaker to the ribcage, knee to the thigh, headbutt against the bridge of the nose. Blood flowing in quantity.

A respite as Doc staggered back from a block and counter, leaned against the wall by the entrance, a trail of his own life fluid extending and bisecting the church into left and right and pointing to the priest garbed in soiled frock and collar, swollen eye and tender side and frothing mouth of saliva and gore. Doc spat red and groaned.

You ain’t no priest, he said.

And you ain’t a doctor.

Cain’t do nothing for you, I s’pose.

I’m clean and clear, said Priest.

Except you’ve got something on your face, friend, Doc said, and he lunged fist first into Priest, blacking the other eye and shoving the man supine in the dirt where the light shone through the cross-shaped window upon them in silent protest of their sacrilege. Doc pinned the priest’s wrists down, spat in his face and twisted his knee against his groin again, felt a crunch there and smiled. Then there was a knife in Doc’s hand from his belt.

God will save me, John.

He won’t do nothing of the sort. Never has. Not for nobody.

You’re wrong. He’ll forgive you, too, if you ask.

That time’s past due, said Doc. He shifted and Priest cried out, long and hollow and gargling his own insides, hunting knife buried in his gut like a coyote having its skin shucked off for drying, twisting and welling up more blood and digestive fluid from the pierced stomach and intestines, and Priest began to defecate on himself. Doc’s teeth dripped with his own blood and they were clenched in struggle, and when it had ended he stood and left the knife vertical in the dead priest’s belly, and he sat against the wall and rested for some hours until the cool of the night caught his desire to leave that place of the skull, deep and wretched Golgotha, and its chapel palace and its deceased bone king.

I’ll be back for that knife, Doc said, and he went out to find his horse.

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In-state team ends Vols’ streak Chavanne still on roll Riley Blevins Staff Writer Knowing that a person has read the fifth Harry Potter book five times may not make you think that person must be a two-time All-American. With Raven Chavanne, the Lady Vols’ sensational third baseman, this just happens to be the case.

“I’m obsessed with Harry Potter and it’s like borderline crazy,” Chavanne said. “I’ve read the fifth Harry Potter close to five times and that’s no exaggeration. I get teased about that a lot and that’s something someone wouldn’t know about me from just watching me play.”

While the casual onlooker may not know of Chavanne’s passion for the Harry Potter series, much can be learned about Chavanne solely from her performance on the diamond. Earning back-to-back All-America honors in her freshman and sophomore seasons, Chavanne is a finalist for the prestigious USA Softball National Collegiate Player of the Year award as Tennessee starts its 2012 season.

“She’s a spark plug at the top of the order that every great team has to have,” said Lady Vols’ co-head coach Karen Weekly. “It’s amazing what she’s been able to accomplish as a freshman and sophomore.

The scary part is she has the talent and ability to compete at that level every year. I’m so proud of her and what she’s done.”

However, Chavanne views her personal accolades much differently.

“It’s nice, but while I love it, it’s not why I play,” Chavanne said. “It’s just like a bonus; I play because I love the game and my teammates and mostly, I want to win. I guess if I shoot for being an All-American I’m just doing my best to help the team win and that’s what we want to keep doing this year.”

Sidelined to start the 2012 season due to a fractured right thumb, Chavanne played a limited role in the Lady Vols’ first eight games. Like any true competitor, the inability to play was frustrating.

“It was extremely annoying and frustrating,” Chavanne said. “It made me so mad to

just sit there and have to watch.

But, it feels great now. When I first got my cast off it was stiff.

I am just so thankful I will be able to see some action in Florida.”

In her first week back from injury, Chavanne wasted no time proving why she is a player of the year finalist.

In last weekend’s NFCA Leadoff Classic over Feb. 24-26 in Clearwater, Fla., Chavanne was named both most valuable player of the tournament and the Southeastern Conference’s Player of the Week. Over a fivegame span Chavanne went 12for-19, adding to an outstanding .632 batting average, scored four runs, and stole four bases.

“Raven is a great talent,” Weekly said. “The speed is a huge part of her game. It gives the team a whole new dimension. When we lead of with Raven you feel like anything is possible to happen with her speed.”

The Thousand Oaks, Calif. native was a standout track star at Newbury Park High School.

There, Chavanne was a second team all-state member as a senior and boasted a 100-meter time that rated her eighth in the state of California.

“Her speed is truly invaluable,” Weekly said. “When Raven is on base, all the attention is on Raven. She plays a big role in what we do.”

In Chavanne’s freshman campaign she shattered the record for stolen bases in a single season. However, Chavanne holds many more records to her name, including the SEC batting average title in 2011, a league leading .527 on-base percentage, and joined former Lady Vol Lindsay Schutzler as the only Tennessee players ever to record 90 or more hits within two separate seasons.

“That’s not why I came here, to break records,” Chavanne said. “I came here to win.”

Chavanne continues the 2012 season with a winning intention in mind, and expects no less. “(Women’s College) World Series, that’s what the expectation is,” Chavanne said. “That’s why we play. If that wasn’t our goal I wouldn’t have come here.

That’s what they sold me on, that’s why I’m a Vol, a promising that we would be a World Series team.”

Robby O’Daniel Recruitment Editor The UT baseball team relied on a smallball approach to try to eke out another dramatic victory, but baserunning miscues and no extrabase hits all game led to a 5-4 loss in 10 innings at Lindsey Nelson Stadium on Tuesday.

The team was attempting to tie the record set for best start in school history, 8-0 in 1992 and 2003, but the Vols (7-1) needed two rallies to do it, and they only came through with one.

In the bottom of the ninth, the Vols were down 4-2, with men on second and third and two outs. UT third baseman Zach Luther hit a groundball to the shortstop, sure to finish the game in regulation.

However, Middle Tennessee first baseman Ethan Williams came off the bag to catch the ball. Rather than stepping on the bag for the out, Williams attempted a tag. Luther barreled into the first baseman, knocking his glove — and the ball inside — to the ground. Luther was safe, two runs scored and the game was tied.

As he saw the play unfold, Luther said he had to make a decision.

“The first baseman went up the line,” Luther said. “So I had two options: to try to go through him or to slide to the outside. And he came up on me, so I just put my shoulder down a little bit.”

The error was not the first of Williams’ night. In the bottom of the eighth, UT shortstop Zach Osborne hit a groundball to second base.

Middle Tennessee second baseman Johnny Thomas made a running stop and, jumping, threw the ball to first base. The only problem was the first baseman, Williams, was not looking. The ball sailed past him, toward the Vols’ dugout.

Luther called his play in the ninth inning indicative of the kind of season the Vols are having.

“This happened a couple games now, where last minute, we find a way,” Luther said. “We battle, and that’s what we need later on in the season.”

However, unlike the previous two extra-inning wins the Vols have in the young season against Western Kentucky and Seton Hall, the Vols came up on the losing end against Middle Tennessee (5-3).

Middle Tennessee answered the Vols’ rally in the very next frame.

Middle Tennessee centerfielder Ryan Stephens hit a two-out, RBI

base hit up the middle to put MTSU back on top, 5-4. The Vols failed to muster a baserunner in the bottom of the 10th.

UT head coach Dave Serrano said he hates the cliché that teams need to lose, in order to wake up and adjust, but he said that might be the case with this loss.

“Losing will never be accepted in this program anymore,” Serrano said. “I don’t care who it’s against. I want losing to hurt. I want them to hate losing more than they like winning.”

Even during the 7-0 run, Serrano said the coaching staff saw signs that the winning streak was about to end.

“We were 7-0, feeling really good about ourselves,” Serrano said.

“And it’s a mid-week game at 4 p.m., Middle Tennessee, in-state team, we knew that it was going to be a game we needed to come out and play our best game of the year, and we didn’t. And it caught up with us.”

Despite the low-scoring game, he said the pitching was not the team’s best.

“We were up in the zone,” he said. “We were behind in the count.

We allowed them to get too many good passes. And we did make baserunning blunders, and we missed a lot of signs.”

Early, the Vols found success with smallball, including back-to-back bunt singles in the first inning that led to the Vols’ first score.

However, once the Vols found themselves down 3-2 in the sixth, the offense had a harder time clicking. In the sixth inning, UT designated hitter Jared Allen hit a base hit past the shortstop but was caught stealing. In the seventh inning, UT catcher Wes Walker started the inning off with a five-pitch walk but was caught stealing, as well.

Even with the difficulties, Osborne and Luther called smallball the key to the ignition of the Vols’ offense.

“We have to stay with the smallball and stay smart on the basepaths,” Luther said. “And that’s where our offense takes place. That’s where we’re strong.”

Luther said this loss hurts, not just because it is the team’s first of the season, but because of the way it happened.

“This one definitely stings because I feel like we beat ourselves,” Luther said. “And the whole team knows that too. It stings, especially the first loss, but you just got to take the positives and what you can learn.”

Britain vies for long-term Olympic success The Associated Press LONDON — For athletes, the Olympics are about the gold. For London organizers, the Olympics are about the pink, the purple and the orange — colors that will give the 2012 games an immediately recognizable look.

Cities, towns and hamlets all over Britain are getting ready for their once-in-a-lifetime TV close-ups.

Take Mole Valley, a community of 80,000 near London that is hosting the Olympic cycling road race.

It has asked residents to plant dahlias, petunias and sunflowers in Olympicapproved shades so when the riders swish past on July 28-29, television viewers will be left seeing swishes of pink, purple and orange.

It’s not an accident: Making Britain memorable is considered critical to the long-term success of the games.

“What will people be reminded of when they pull out the T-shirt, the pin?” asked Greenwich University marketing department professor Peter Vlachos. “Will they remember London or the Olympics?”

Work is being done now in hopes that viewers fondly remember the U.K. and not

just the sports. Britain’s leaders will spend 9.3 billion pounds ($14.6 billion) on the games, but hope that tourism and outside investments will repay billions in revenue over time.

A barge carrying huge Olympic rings sailed down the Thames on Tuesday to mark 150 days to go until the games, floating beneath historic Tower Bridge.

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Swimmer Jenny Connolly celebrates during Rocky Top after winning the 100-meter fly during the SEC swimming championships on Feb. 17.

The women’s swimming and diving team came in second place in the SEC.