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SGA looks at gender-inclusive bathrooms Kyle Turner Staff Writer
Colleges enlist parents to curb problem drinking At Virginia Tech, where tailgating and raucous apartment complex parties are time-honored rituals, university officials are turning increasingly to Mom and Dad to curb problem underage drinking. This semester, the school in Blacksburg, Va., began notifying parents when their under-21 students are found guilty of even minor alcohol violations, such as getting caught with a beer in a dorm room. Although it’s common for colleges to alert parents of major alcohol offenses — or when a student faces suspension — Virginia Tech is part of a small but growing number sending letters home on minor ones.
The last meeting of the SGA Senate included the passage of new legislation from three different proposals that students, faculty and staff will visibly notice around campus. One resolution from Sen. Elliott Devore, senior in psychology, supports safe and accessible genderinclusive restrooms. Devore said existing single-sex and single-occupancy bathrooms would be available to any student, regardless of gender, by placing new labels outside such restrooms. “Instead of having a placard designating a man or a woman for single-occupancy restrooms, it would instead be gender-inclusive labeling, allowing transgender, as well as handicapped individuals, greater accessibility,” Devore said. “The labeling would be similar to what you’ve seen for family restrooms at the mall.” The reference to handicapped individuals is because some disabled people need assistance, and if the one assisting them is of the opposite sex, entering a gender-designated restroom can become uncomfortable. With the passage of the resolution, Devore hopes to find and catalogue these restrooms so greater visibility for the needs of all students can be brought to the attention of those who might previously see UT
as an institute not accommodating to LGBT students. Devore had discussed these concerns with the Chancellor’s Commission for LGBT People in the past. There are plans to have several gender-inclusive bathrooms in the new Student Health Center, as well as in the new University Center. This resolution passed, but without the full support of the SGA Senate, many choosing to abstain rather than show the opinion of their constituents. Another passage, Bill 07-10, would increase the bluelight locations on campus. Maria Dill, sophomore in political science, and Punam Patel, sophomore in lower division, proposed the bill to target those areas students feel need bluelights the most. Both sponsoring senators are looking for ideas from students of where they would want to see new bluelights installed for greater safety. Once a complete list of ideas and locations are composed, talks with Facilities Services will begin to see if each location is feasible. The third piece of legislation voted upon, Bill 0810, is an effort to increase the recycling capacities of the campus. Sens. Tommy Jervis, junior in finance, and Becca Keyes, freshman in business, want to install more recycling cans outside for greater accessibility to students. The cans are approximately $1,200 per can, and
the senators have proposed four to five cans. The money would come from the campus green fee, and a green band would denote the cans around their outside. “I think this makes it more convenient for students and gives them the easy option to recycle,” Sen. Avery Howard, junior in agriculture, said. The president’s report included good news for many students looking to have quicker access to overrun funds from scholarships and loans. SGA president Laura Nishida spoke about her ongoing talks with the administration to move up the date for students to receive their excess financial aid. Many students rely heavily on such money to pay for books and other college-related expenses. The gap from the start of school until the distribution of excess aid can be too long for many students. Those who need the money as early as possible are encouraged to sign up for direct deposit, guaranteeing them a speedy deposit. Nishida also mentioned the radio show that she and Cory Hipps, senior in enterprise management, participate in every Monday from 4 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. through TNJN. Nishida said they discuss campus issues and love hearing from people to get ideas flowing. The show is also a great way to get information out and ask questions and get student feedback, Nishida said.
Iraqi PM calls pre-vote candidate ban legitimate BAGHDAD — Iraq’s prime minister Sunday defended a ban of candidates with alleged ties to Saddam Hussein’s former regime, calling it a legitimate decision that would not affect Sunni turnout at the polls. In an interview with The Associated Press just a week before March 7 elections, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki also said he did not see any need at this point for U.S. forces to stay in the country past their planned 2011 departure date. Al-Maliki, who came to power in 2006 as a compromise candidate, has overseen a return to relative stability since the height of the insurgency but is facing stiff competition in his bid for another four-year term.
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Tennessee Athletic Director Mike Hamilton and Brandy Pearl present a check to UT Hospital as a part of the Outlive campaign. Supporters donated $130,000 to benefit cancer patients and families.
Nearly 200K still without power after winter storm PORTLAND, Maine — Nearly 200,000 homes and businesses were still without power Sunday as restoration efforts continued days after a slow-moving storm battered the Northeast with heavy snow, rain and high winds. More than 83,000 utility customers still lacked electricity late Sunday afternoon in New Hampshire, the hardest-hit state. New York had about 87,000 outages and Maine 23,000.a At the peak of the storm, more than a million utility customers throughout the region had lost power. Hundreds of utility crews from as far away as Michigan and Maryland continued removing trees that knocked down power lines and replacing utility poles that snapped during last week’s storm.
Colleges target tech cheating The Associated Press NASHVILLE — Universities are coping with the issue of high-tech temptations in the classroom. Some teachers ban cell phones and laptops on sight. At Middle Tennessee State University, history professor Janice Leone usually starts the semester with a word about cell phones — and that word is usually “no.” “They’re used to looking at it constantly. I’ve seen students actually text without looking, with their hands in their pockets,” said Leone, who considers the devices more of a distraction than a temptation to cheat. “I have colleagues who tell their students, ‘If I see a cell phone, I’ll dock you 10
points.’ Others will say, ‘If I see a cell phone during a test, I’m assuming you’re cheating.’ “ These are students who grew up texting instead of passing notes in class; who don’t wear a watch because their cell phone has a clock; and who may find it a struggle to get through an entire class without a status update. “As an undergraduate I did see (cell phone cheating) all the time,” MTSU graduate student Olivia Barker told The Tennessean newspaper. She is a volunteer student mediator in cases of student misconduct. “Cheating is cheating, whether you’re cheating off your neighbor or cheating off a phone,” she said. MTSU, which has the
largest undergraduate student population in the state, has about 150 or so cases of academic misconduct — cheating — each year, said assistant dean of student life Laura Sosh-Lightsy. About 10 to 20 of them involve cheating using a cell phone. The penalties for cell phone cheating depend on the student. New students might get by with a reprimand, Sosh-Lightsy said. Juniors or seniors, who ought to know better, probably would be suspended from the university. “I’m not one of these people who’s glued to my cell,” MTSU senior Mallory Phillips said. But “while you’re in class, you’ll see people texting.” See CHEATING on Page 3
TOMS shoes promote social responsibility with outreach Jillian Edmonds Staff Writer Walking in someone else’s shoes is one thing, but walking with no shoes is a way to empathize with children in developing countries. Blake Mycoskie created TOMS shoes in 2006 after he visited Argentina and befriended many children who did not have shoes, making the hardships of their everyday life even more difficult. TOMS shoes, named after “the shoes for tomorrow,” matches a pair of shoes purchased with a pair of shoes for a child in need. “TOMS is a fantastic way of doing something good for people, especially children in need, while shopping,” Christine Abercrombie, junior in lower division and TOMS campus representative, said. “The main idea behind the company is for every pair of shoes you buy, they will give a pair of shoes to a child in need. This allows students to have a proactive voice because we do want to do something good for someone else, and TOMS is a great way to do that.” The goal of the campus representatives is to spread awareness and get the student body involved. See TOMS on Page 3
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• 12 p.m. — Philip G. Schrag and David Ngaruri Kenney discuss their book “Asylum Denied: A Refugee’s Struggle for Safety in America,” an account of Kenney’s odyssey through the world of immigration processing in the U.S. The lecture is presented by the UT College of Law International Law Society and takes place in room 135 of the Law School. • 3 p.m. until 5 p.m. — The Diversity Job Fair takes place in Thompson-Boling Arena. The fair aims to connect students from different backgrounds with employers who are committed to diversifying their workforce.
Tuesday, Mar. 2 — • 7 p.m. until 9 p.m. — SPEAK (Students Promoting Environmental Actions in Knoxville) screens “Food, Inc.,” a documentary-style movie that exposes the highly mechanized food industry and what goes into the food we eat, in room 213 of Hodges Library.
Wednesday, Mar. 3 — • 7 p.m. until 9 p.m. — Based on the book “Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know and Doesn’t” by Stephen Prothero, this event features a short film based on the book and a discussion following the film. The Department of Religious Studies hosts the discussion, which will cover myths about the world’s top religions, in the Hodges Library Auditorium.
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The Masters in Fine Art students Jessica Kreutter, Briena Harmening, and Rachel Clark are showing their work in the Ewing Gallery located in the Art and Architecture Building. The MFA Thesis Exhibition is going on now until March 13th.
THE CRIME Saturday, Feb. 20 • 12:40 p.m. — Officer was dispatched to Fraternity Park on a report of vehicular vandalism. He met with a woman outside her vehicle in the F-10 parking lot. She reported parking the vehicle around 11:45 p.m. on Feb. 19 and returned around 12:15 p.m. on Feb. 20. The vandal apparently broke off the right and left rear view mirrors and dented both the driver’s side doors and the mhood. The bumper was also dented. The dents appeared to be kicked in. • 2:26 p.m. — Officer was dispatched to the UTPD lobby to take a report of harassment. A professor in the College of Art and Architecture reported that a guest speaker scheduled to appear at 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 22 had been warned in an e-mail
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against appearing. The e-mail, sent from spacefraud@gmail.com, stated that were the speaker were to “show up, it will be the worst day of your life.” Since the speaker was out of town, the professor spoke with police on his behalf, in concern for his well-being. Sunday, Feb. 21 • 9:49 p.m. — Officer took report of a theft at Hodges Library. The complainant reported that after studying at the library she left at 8:45 p.m. and realized when she got to her car that her phone was missing. She returned and examined the area where she sat, in the Commons South, but was unsuccessful in retrieving the phone. She also checked with lost and found in the library, but no one turned the phone in as missing.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY • 1781 — The Articles of Confederation are finally ratified. The Articles were signed by Congress and sent to the individual states for ratification on Nov. 15, 1777, after 16 months of debate. Bickering over land claims between Virginia and Maryland delayed final ratification for almost four more years. Maryland finally approved the Articles on March 1, 1781, affirming the Articles as the outline of the official government of the United States. The nation was guided by the Articles of Confederation until the implementation of the current U.S. Constitution in 1789. • 1961 — Newly elected President John F. Kennedy issues an executive order establishing the Peace Corps. It proved to be one of the most innovative and highly publicized Cold War programs set up by the United States. During the course of his campaign for the presidency in 1960, Kennedy floated the idea that a new “army” should be created by the United States. This force would be made up of civilians who would volunteer their time and skills to travel to underdeveloped nations to assist them in any way they could. To fulfill this plan, Kennedy issued an executive order on March
1, 1961, establishing the Peace Corps as a trial program. Kennedy sent a message to Congress asking for its support and made clear the significance of underdeveloped nations to the United States. The people of these nations were “struggling for economic and social progress.” “Our own freedom,” Kennedy continued, “and the future of freedom around the world, depend, in a very real sense, on their ability to build growing and independent nations where men can live in dignity, liberated from the bonds of hunger, ignorance and poverty.” Many in Congress, and the U.S. public, were skeptical about the program’s costs and the effectiveness of American aid to what were perceived to be “backward” nations, but Kennedy’s warning about the dangers in the underdeveloped world could not be ignored. Revolutions were breaking out around the globe, and many of these conflicts — such as in Laos, the Congo and elsewhere — were in danger of becoming Cold War battlefields. Several months later, Congress voted to make the Corps permanent. — Courtesy of History.com
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Project focuses on student debt Kyle Turner Staff Writer A concerned group of UT students picked student debt for a Student Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) project to help solve pressing issues many face. The PIRGs are independent, statewide projects that aim to raise awareness and help solve pressing problems for over the past 40 years. “Last year the Student PIRG helped to pass Proposition 1A, which provided funding for the first high-speed rail line in the country,” Danielle Gerhard, sophomore in psychology and student organizer with UT’s PIRG, said. “We also helped pass a bill through the House that will raise student financial aid by $40 billion and raised over $90,000 to help alleviate hunger and homelessness.” UT students are focusing on the monetary debt that accumulates for college students as their chosen project, taken from a list of issues presented by the national Student PIRG group. “Student debt is something that really impacts students’ lives, and it is truly important to make higher education
CHEATING continued from Page 1 At the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Jerry Riehl is experimenting with a system that would allow professors to
affordable,” Chelsea Ennis, junior in psychology and student PIRG organizer, said. “We are looking for solutions regarding fixed rates and loans so that higher education is more accessible to all.” As part of their project, the students involved with the PIRG will put a face with the issue, taking pictures of students and recording their estimated debt to be compiled and sent to our senators in a Student Debt Yearbook. “We hope this will put a face on student debt and urge them to vote for an increase in student aid, something we feel is strongly needed,” Gerhard said. Student debt is a growing problem for college students across the country. “Two-thirds of all four-year college graduates now have student loans: $23,000 on average,” Gerhard said. The U.S. House of Representatives has already passed HR 3221, the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009, touted as one of the single largest investments in higher education aimed at reducing loan debt and burdens for those in college. SeePIRRG on Page 5
send out a text alert when they post new learning materials online. The experiment prompted a horrified reaction by some students. “I was surprised by the reaction of that group of students. They were like, ‘No! This is mine!’ “ Riehl
TOMS continued from Page 1 “It is no secret that our generation is becoming known as a group of humanitarians and activists,” Julia Antrican, sophomore in business and a TOMS campus representative, said “The world is becoming increasingly more aware that we are shifting our focus from video games and iPods to making a difference and helping those less fortunate than us. We have the power to change a child’s life, to help them realize their potential, and all we have to do is help them get a pair of shoes. It is such a simple idea, but it really does make all the difference in their lives.” Not having a pair of shoes means more than just walking barefoot: It can cause serious diseases and even result in a child being denied an education. “Many times, children cannot attend school because they don’t have shoes, a required part of the uniform,” Antrican said. “Without going to school, children cannot receive an education. Shoes can give them the chance to fully live up to their potential.” For many children in developing countries, walking is the primary mode of transportation, and they are often faced with having to walk barefoot. “(Children) often walk many miles to access the basic needs — food, water, shelter and medical help,” Abercrombie said. “Providing them with shoes allows them to walk these distances. Also
said. He is also working on a way to let students use their cell phones as “clickers” to vote on answers in class or give real-time reactions to presentations — the way you’d vote for your favorite singer on “American Idol.”
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The Daily Beacon • 3 shoes prevent infections from cuts and sores by contaminated soil. The leading cause of disease in developing countries is soil-transmitted parasites which penetrate the skin through open sores. Wearing shoes can prevent this and the risk of amputation.” Students who want to get involved can do so by simply going shopping on the TOMS Web site and purchasing a pair of shoes. “The most obvious way to get involved is to simply buy a pair of shoes,” Antrican said. “For every pair that is bought, a child in an underdeveloped country will receive a pair, one for one. Raising awareness is also very important. Just by telling your friends, your classmates, even a stranger, ‘You know, there are kids around the world that don’t have shoes, but we can do something to make a difference in their lives. We can start a movement’.” There will also be a week-long series of events in April to help spread the word about TOMS and encourage the student body to participate. The detailed schedule is still under construction but will include April 8, nationally known as “One Day Without Shoes.” “We are encouraging everyone to go without shoes — whether it is for the entire day or just 15 minutes,” Antrican said. “By joining us in our week of events, the students will help us spread the word about TOMS and hopefully get many more pairs of shoes to children.” Since TOMS began, over 400,000 pairs of shoes have been given to children in need through the One for One model.
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Organization’s stances similar to Catholics’ This letter is in response to Treston Wheat’s Feb. 18 column, “Amnesty International deserves no support,” in which he argues support for the popular human rights group is “antithetical” to Catholicism. I am writing as an alumnus of the University of Tennessee, former president of the campus chapter of Amnesty International and the firstborn son of a devoutly Catholic family. Like all religions, there are different perspectives within the Catholic Church and varying levels of orthodoxy. One contentious issue is how strictly Vatican pronouncements must be followed. Since the church has historically revised its position on many important issues — recycling, evolution, heliocentricity — differences of opinion are inevitable. So when the AI agenda so closely aligns with Catholicism on many social issues, it’s easy to find more compatibility than conflict between the two, even though they disagree on women’s rights. There are many lay Catholics for abortion rights, such as Vice President Joe Biden, the late Sen. Ted Kennedy and his brother President John Kennedy, who subscribe to a more progressive Catholicism than what you might find in the U.S. Bishops’ Conference. And philosophically, the human rights tradition AI promotes is indebted to the theology of human dignity and social justice. Consider, for example, “The Dignity of the Human Person” (CCx-1700) and “Social Justice” (CCx-1928) in the Catholic Catechism, available online at http://vatican.va/archive. Despite this close affinity, as a “devout” Catholic, Wheat seems to believe that supporting a group that contradicts the Pope on any issue at all is wholly antithetical to Catholicism. I’ll call this the Catholic fundamentalist position and contrast it with the Catholic pluralist position, loosely defined as the belief that Catholicism should allow what Pope Benedict XVI called “a legitimate diversity of opinion” based on tolerance and inclusion. A Catholic pluralist could defensibly support elective abortion and coercive interrogation, but a Catholic fundamentalist could not. Unfortunately for Wheat, this means a Catholic fundamentalist could not support capital punishment for all murderers because the Catholic Church opposes that. In a 1995 decree, Pope John Paul II restricted capital punishment to only “practically nonexistent” cases where “it would not be possible otherwise to defend society.” This would effectively grant life without parole to all U.S. death row inmates. Catholicism espouses a “seamless garment” ethic of life that opposes abortion, euthanasia and capital punishment. Likewise, the church condemns torture unequivocally: “Torture which uses physical or moral violence to extract confessions ... is contrary to respect for the person and for human dignity” (CCx-2297). If Wheat thinks a good Catholic should support whatever the church says, he must not only oppose abortion but also the death penalty for all capital offenders and torture for all suspected terrorists. If he does not, his ethic of life is far from “seamless” and, more importantly, opposed to Catholic orthodoxy. Thus, Wheat’s opinions are no more consistent with Catholicism than he believes AI to be. Whether that is a problem for him depends on his level of orthodoxy. Chris Martin UT alumnus Former president of UT’s Amnesty International THE DAILY BACON • Blake Treadway
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Sam Smith IV For those of us still remotely interested, although it often seems the issue has basically gone away, our president and members of Congress on both sides of the aisle met to hash out some key differences in the ongoing health-care debate. I must say that I was quite impressed with the conduct of one of the political parties. Considering their shenanigans last fall, I really didn’t have much faith in them, but I guess cameras and the fear of getting embarrassed on live national television by taking on President Barack Obama face to face was enough for them. That said, while I agreed with very few of them, I think the GOP had some interesting arguments, ones that I’m quite surprised have thus far been resonating with some of the American people. The most shocking were, “What about capitalism?,” “What about the free markets?,” and “This plan disrupts our freemarket system.” Let me just ask anyone reading a question. What kind of monsters are we? What type of animals have we become? When learning about the most basic economic systems, I remember learning that nearly each one had some benefits and some drawbacks. Each one, including capitalism, has problems. What type of greedy and heartless animals have we become that we now accept that people must die so that we can instead protect an economic system? The proof is in the pudding. Excess and unregulated capitalism has left our health-care system as the joke of the industrialized world, with people dying and nearly one in six left untreated. Have we been so duped by corporate interests that we now actually believe that what benefits them benefits all of us? But it doesn’t just stop with health care. They tell us to keep taxes low on the richest of people, and that somehow that will make all of us
money. They tell us that big corporations and foreign interests donating to American candidates and parties is acceptable, and that it will have no influence on the results of our elections. Some would even welcome private infrastructure where the government no longer owns the roads and public transit. These corporate nuts even lament the system of education that we have in our country and argue that our public schools should be turned over to private interests to somehow “improve” them, because — you know the argument — greed drives incentives. Does anybody actually believe this? Have we dug ourselves so deeply downward that we are now willing to turn over the education and future of our children to some Wall Street fatcat out to make a buck, instead of listening to the millions of passionate workers in public education, who very clearly aren’t in it for the money? Perhaps the next time I forget to send in a column or turn in an assignment I will persuade myself that “the free market will solve that problem.” Sounds funny, huh? It seems that over the past nearly 30 years, since Ronald Reagan got his hands on things, we’ve decided that this is the best answer to our problems. Don’t “throw money at them.” Instead we now throw our problems to big business and throw money at them instead. Don’t get me wrong: I am by no means “anticapitalism,” but I also haven’t had so much of the Kool-Aid that I think that capitalism is the solution to everything, or even that another economic system like socialism (cue scary music and werewolf howl) is incompatible with American democracy. At the end of the day, what matters to me more, and as human beings with compassion and decency, what should matter to all of us the most, is the welfare of our citizens. How our society can be judged starting at the bottom, not the top. To put it bluntly, when dealing with various problems in our society, screw capitalism; we just can’t afford its drawbacks. — Sam Smith is a junior in journalism and electronic media. He can be reached at ssmit162@utk.edu.
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I am going to start off this column by advertising for a few upcoming Student Government Association events this week. From Feb. 28 to March 4, UT’s own baby bureaucrats will host SGA Diversity Week: I am NOT my Stereotype. Yeah, I know, I don’t really plan on attending either, but I guess it’s the thought that counts. What even made me stop for two seconds to read SGA’s event calendar is an issue that will be discussed at the SGA meeting on Tuesday at 5:15 p.m. in the UC Shiloh Room. SGA has decided to address the recently proposed Tennessee House Bill 2726 which would allow students, faculty and staff who have handgun carry permits to transport and store handguns in locked vehicles on public university campuses. Unfortunately, rather than sponsoring a campus-wide debate on the issue or encouraging students to voice individual opinions to the state legislature, SGA has decided to do us all a favor and speak on behalf of the entire student body. I feel so lucky because it’s not like I or anyone else on campus might have an opinion concerning this hotly contested issue. SGA’s resolution states “that the students of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, are opposed to House Bill 2726.” Wow, SGA, so glad you care about giving lip service to DIVERSITY. I have to say, however, as a member of the student body who is NOT opposed to this bill, I would much rather you actually respect my own individual DIVERSITY and stop speaking for the entire student body. I hope this doesn’t sound too harsh, but I don’t really want to give the Tennessee legislature the idea that UT’s campus is made up of a bunch of morons who can’t get their head out of you-know-where for the 10 minutes it would take to read statistics on gun regulation and crime.
I don’t know how familiar SGA is with a little district in the United States called Washington, D.C., so I’m going to educate rather than make assumptions. D.C. is a place where people propose bills kind of like what people in SGA do, except it’s for big kids! In 1976 before D.C. banned handguns, the city’s murder rate was actually in decline. Soon after the ban was passed, D.C. climbed to the highest murder rate of all U.S. cities. The murder rate has remained high since this ban. In 2005, for example, the murder rate was still 32 percent above the level in 1976. What a strange phenomenon, one might observe. Actually it isn’t that strange because, of course, criminals do not obey laws — law-abiding citizens do. Another important element is that law-abiding people do not murder; criminals do. So if we have law-abiding citizens without the protection of a handgun and criminals who do not care about gun laws, what we’re left with are easy targets. It sounds sick to talk about murdered human beings that way, and that’s why it is such a crime for government to essentially take away the right to protect ourselves and our neighbors. During a week when our campus should consider diversity among all people, one cannot deny the role the gun can play as an equalizer in our world. As a woman who is 110 pounds and 5-foot-1, it does not matter if I can get the same education as a man and the same income: I will always be physically weaker than most males and thus more vulnerable to physical violence. A gun lets me stand as an equal in the world. A gun allows me to live independently without fear of oppression by violence. It is my protection when the government is not there; it is my assertion of my right to life if another individual should attempt to take it away. Please choose to assert your own right to an individual voice on campus by joining other students at the SGA meeting on Tuesday. — Anna Parker is a senior in English literature. She can be reached at aparke23@utk.edu.
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Health chief targets obesity with menus detailing caloric content The Associated Press
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NASHVILLE — Despite some setbacks, Nashville’s public health chief says he’s still committed to getting a measure passed requiring calorie counts to be listed on restaurant menus. Dr. Bill Paul, director of the Metro Public Health Department, recommended Nashville follow the lead of cities like New York City to pass a labeling ordinance, and the measure incited lively debate in 2008 and 2009 before it was eventually delayed. “It’s a public health epidemic, and the rate keeps going up,” Paul said. “Menu labeling does change the context in which people make choices about what they are going to eat.” Paul told the Tennessean that he’s waiting to see whether a slightly similar federal measure passes before he pushes for Nashville to implement menu labeling on a shorter time frame. Paul was the former deputy commissioner and chief medical officer for the Chicago Department of Public Health before he was hired under Mayor Bill Purcell in July 2007. During his time in Nashville, he has been focused on finding a solution to the Southern city’s obesity problem. More than 30 percent of adults and 21 percent of children in Nashville are obese. “He really has an appreciation for looking at the evidence and critically thinking about what is really going to help a population,” said Dr. Susan Gerber, an infectious disease expert who worked with Paul at the Chicago Department of Public Health. “It would not be a surprise to me that he would help make Nashville the first Southern city to pass menu labeling.” Paul was similarly out front and drawing criticism on other public health issues like West Nile virus. While in Chicago, the city had more than 200 cases of the virus that is contracted from mosquitoes and more than 20 deaths. He made an unpopular recommendation to spray to kill mosquitoes. “It was the first time in decades spraying had been done,” Paul said. “We had to analyze the information and make a recommendation.” He brought the same approach to Nashville, which sprayed in 2008 to reduce the spread of the virus. Paul became interested in menu labeling after New York City passed its measure, thinking that it could help to reduce obesity rates in the South. He says the effort isn’t trying to tell people what to eat but to make them more aware of what they were eating. “The education piece of healthy eating and exercise just wasn’t enough,” he said.
MEMPHIS — A security guard at a mall in Tennessee has been killed while trying to break up a fight between two men. The Memphis Commercial Appeal reports that the guard, 28-year-old Marques Rainey, died Saturday afternoon after being taken to Regional Medical Center at Memphis. Memphis police spokeswoman Karen Rudolph says officers received the call about a disturbance at 2:40 p.m. from Southland Mall. Two witnesses told the paper the guard pinned one man against a vending machine but let him go to fend off the other man. When the first man was released, he shot the guard, the witnesses told the paper. No one had been arrested as of Sunday. Candidate sends mailing on public dime KINGSPORT — Tennessee gubernatorial candidate Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey spent $24,000 to send 45,000 mailers to voters in the eastern part of the state and did so using public funds. Ramsey’s deputy chief of staff, Lance Frizzell, told The Kingsport Times-News that the mailer is a “franked piece,” meaning taxpayers footed the bill for the mailing as an official communication of the office. The mail piece described Ramsey “Listening. Working. Fighting for Us.” Tennessee Democratic Party Chairman Chip Forrester noted the mail piece appears legal, but he questioned Ramsey’s ethics because the lieutenant governor is forbidden to raise money while the legislature is in session. The mail piece does not mention the governor’s race, but Ramsey agreed its talking points are similar to those used in an election campaign.
NASHVILLE — Tiny hummingbirds have started their annual migration from the Caribbean toward Tennessee and are expected to arrive and be visible by summer. The Nashville Tennessean reports that hummingbird watcher Bob Sargent of Clay, Ala., says the birds, generally ruby-throated hummers, are making their way through Costa Rica, through parts of Mexico and across the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico. Sargent and others routinely tag about 800 birds a year for tracking purposes. Former Tennessee Ornithological Society president Chris Sloan says while the migrating hummingbirds will begin trickling in soon, many people won’t see them until summer. That’s when the next generation has hatched, and those that went farther north to nest are passing through Tennessee as they migrate back to spend the winter in the tropics. Four indicted for insurance fraud NASHVILLE — The Tennessee Attorney General Office said four people have been indicted for their part in a multimillion dollar insurance fraud. The Tennessean reported that they were connected with the defunct, Franklinbased National Foundation of America, which prosecutors say was used to persuade investors to trade in insurance annuities for worthless charitable gift annuities. Richard and Susan Olive, owners of the company, and employee Breanna McIntyre were arrested in Tallahassee, Fla. Kenny M. Marks, an officer in the company, was arrested in Franklin. According to prosecutors, they were all charged with theft for gaining control of $31 million from customers and using the money for personal expenses, luxury items, vacations and to pay off debts.
Those concerned are looking directly to the U.S. Senate to support the bill’s passage and bring about a solution to the problem of escalating student debt. “We are looking to push the senate to pass legislation that would dramatically increase the amount of Pell Grants and Stafford Loans and increase grant aid,” Ennis said. The PIRG organizers also seek to raise awareness to students about their decisions when taking on debt to pay for college. Gerhard said there are no legal limits that private banks can charge in fees and, unlike federal loans, there are many private lenders that have no limit on their interest rates. The group’s goals include furthering student financial literacy and consumer protections for borrowers, as well as raising awareness of the role federal aid can play in keeping college within reach,” Ennis said. All students are encouraged to come out and have their voice heard on how debt from college is impacting their lives. “It is essential that our legislators know what is really on the minds of their constituents, and we feel student debt is a serious problem that is in need of a solution now,” Alex Peyton, sophomore in political science and Russian and PIRG organizer, said. The Student Debt Yearbook project event will take place Tuesday from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. on the Pedestrian Mall
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Trainers cautious with whales after incident The Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. — Employees wept and audience members grew silent Saturday at SeaWorld as the theme park’s popular killer whale show resumed with a photo montage memorial for a trainer who was killed by one of the orcas in front of horrified spectators three days ago. The show had been shut down since veteran trainer Dawn Brancheau, 40, died Wednesday after rubbing a 22-foot, 12,000-pound orca named Tilikum. The animal grabbed her ponytail and pulled her into the water in front of about 20 spectators. The medical examiner says she likely died of traumatic injuries and drowning. More than 2,000 people packed the park’s stadium Saturday for the first show since Brancheau’s death. The audience seemed thrilled, applauding and cheering as the whales zipped around their tank and splashed spectators during the show — with the theme of “believe,” about a young boy who sees an orca and dreams of one day
becoming a whale trainer. It was a fitting tribute to Brancheau, whose family said she always wanted work with the giant whales. At one point during the show, a young girl was brought on stage and given a whale tail necklace. “I just wanted to be here for this show. It’s so special,” Russell Thomphsen, 65, who said he is a season-ticket holder for SeaWorld. “This touches so many lives.” Spectators packed the enormous outdoor amphitheater despite chilly, rainy weather, with the orca pool registering at 52 degrees. The whale trainers received a standing ovation as they approached the platform before the show, part of the multimillion- dollar enterprise centered around “Shamu” — the stage name given to all the performing orcas. Several SeaWorld employees wept as the photo montage set to music was shown. “It was very moving,” said Molly Geislinger, 33, who came from Minneapolis with her husband and 21month-old child. However, she noticed a difference in
how the trainers acted. “They looked like they were being very careful,” she said. “They looked very cautious today.” Indeed, the trainers weren’t allowed in the water, meaning the whales’ handlers did not surf on top of the marine mammals or fly into the air. Instead, the trainers — wearing orca-like black-and-white wetsuits — directed the whales from outside the huge tank’s acrylic walls. They coached the creatures to splash the frontand-center rows a few times, much to the delight of onlookers. SeaWorld officials have said trainers won’t swim with the orcas until they finish reviewing what happened to Brancheau. Jeff Steward, who came to the show with his wife, called the memorial “a very emotional start.” He said they enjoyed the show, adding: “It’s a tragedy, but these things happen when you’re dealing with wild animals.” SeaWorld Parks and Entertainment President Jim Atchison said Friday that Tilikum will remain an “active, contributing member of the team,” in part because
the killer whale show is big business at SeaWorld. The company owns more killer whales than anyone else in the world and builds the orca image into its multimillion-dollar brand. Tilikum did not perform Saturday. The timing of the killer whales’ return to performances reflects just what the sleek black-and-white mammals mean to SeaWorld, which the private equity firm The Blackstone Group bought last fall for around $2.7 billion from Anheuser-Busch InBev in a deal that included two Busch Gardens theme parks and several other attractions. No animal is more valuable to the Orlando operation than Tilikum, the largest orca in captivity. Captured nearly 30 years ago off Iceland, Tilikum has grown into the alpha male of captive killer whales, his value as a stud impossible to pin down. He now has been involved in the deaths of two trainers and requires a special set of handling rules, which Atchison wouldn’t specify. There are two other SeaWorld parks — one in San Antonio and one in San Diego.
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Massive earthquake strikes Chile The Associated Press CONCEPCION, Chile — Heroism and banditry mingled on Chile’s shattered streets Sunday as rescuers braved aftershocks digging for survivors and the government sent soldiers and ordered a nighttime curfew to quell looting. The death toll climbed to 708 in one of the biggest earthquakes in centuries. In the hard-hit city of Concepcion, firefighters pulling survivors from a toppled apartment block were forced to pause because of tear gas fired to stop looters, who were wheeling off everything from microwave ovens to canned milk at a damaged supermarket across the street. Efforts to determine the full scope of destruction were undermined by an endless string of terrifying aftershocks that continued to turn buildings into rubble. Officials said 500,000 houses were destroyed or badly damaged, and President Michele Bachelet said “a growing number” of people were list-
ed as missing. “We are facing a catastrophe of such unthinkable magnitude that it will require a giant effort” to recover, Bachelet said after meeting for six hours with ministers and generals in La Moneda Palace, itself chipped and cracked. She signed a decree giving the military control over security in the province of Concepcion, where looters were pillaging supermarkets, gas stations, pharmacies and banks. Men and women hurried away with plastic containers of chicken, beef and sausages. Virtually every market and supermarket had been looted — and no food or drinking water could be found. Many people in Concepcion expressed anger at the authorities for not stopping the looting or bringing in supplies. Electricity and water services were out of service. “We are overwhelmed,” a police officer told The Associated Press. Bachelet said a curfew was being imposed
from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m., and only security forces and other emergency personnel would be allowed on the streets. Police vehicles drove around announcing the curfew over loudspeakers. As nightfall neared, hundreds of people put up tents and huddled around wood fires in parks and the grassy medians of avenues, too fearful to return to their homes amid continuing strong aftershocks. Bachelet, who leaves office on March 11, said the country would accept some of the offers of aid that have poured in from around the world. She said Chile needs field hospitals and temporary bridges, water purification plants and damage assessment experts — as well as rescuers to help relieve workers who have been laboring frantically since the magnitude-8.8 quake struck before dawn Saturday. To strip away any need for looting, Bachelet announced that essentials on the shelves of major supermarkets would be given away for free, under the supervision of
Pacific dodges aftershock-generated tsunami The Associated Press TOKYO — A tsunami that raced across the Pacific swiped island nations and Asian coasts lightly Sunday, proving to be more spectacle than destructive force for communities that had hours to prepare after Chile’s devastating earthquake. Hundreds of thousands of people fled shorelines for higher ground after the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii warned 53 nations and territories that a tsunami had been generated by Saturday’s magnitude-8.8 quake earthquake. After the center lifted its warning, some countries kept their own watches in place as a precaution. In Japan, the biggest wave hit the northern island of Hokkaido. There were no immediate reports of damage from the four-foot (1.2-meter) wave, though some piers were briefly flooded. As it crossed the Pacific, the tsunami dealt populated areas — including the U.S. state of Hawaii — only a glancing blow. The tsunami raised fears Pacific nations could suffer from disastrous waves like those that killed 230,000 people around the Indian Ocean in December 2004, which happened with little-to-no warning and much confusion about the impending waves.
Officials said the opposite occurred after the Chile quake: They overstated their predictions of the size of the waves and the threat. “We expected the waves to be bigger in Hawaii, maybe about 50 percent bigger than they actually were,” said Gerard Fryer, a geophysicist for the warning center. “We’ll be looking at that.” Japan, fearing the tsunami could gain force as it moved closer, put all of its eastern coastline on tsunami alert and ordered hundreds of thousands of residents in low-lying areas to seek higher ground as waves raced across the Pacific at hundreds of miles (kilometers) per hour. Japan is particularly sensitive to the tsunami threat. In July 1993 a tsunami triggered by a major earthquake off Japan’s northern coast killed more than 200 people on the small island of Okushiri. A stronger quake
near Chile in 1960 created a tsunami that killed about 140 people in Japan. Towns along northern coasts issued evacuation orders to 400,000 residents, Japanese public broadcaster NHK said. NHK switched to emergency mode, broadcasting a map with the areas in most danger and repeatedly urging caution. As the wave crossed the ocean, Japan’s Meteorological Agency said waves of up to 10 feet (three meters) could hit the northern prefectures of Aomori, Iwate and Miyagi, but the first waves were much smaller. People packed their families into cars, but there were no reports of panic or traffic jams. Fishermen secured their boats, and police patrolled beaches, using sirens and loudspeakers to warn people to leave the area. In Kesennuma, northern Japan, seawater flooded
streets near the coast for about four hours before receding but caused little impact to people. But the tsunami passed gently by most locations. By the time the tsunami hit Hawaii — a full 16 hours after the quake — officials had already spent the morning blasting emergency sirens, blaring warnings from airplanes and ordering residents to higher ground. The Navy moved a half-dozen vessels out of Pearl Harbor and a cruiser out of Naval Base San Diego to avoid the surge. Picturesque beaches were desolate, million-dollar homes were evacuated, shops in Waikiki were closed and residents filled supermarkets and gas stations to stock up on supplies. But after the morning scare, the islands were back to paradise by the afternoon.
authorities. Soldiers and police will also distribute food and water, she said. Although houses, bridges and highways were damaged in Santiago, the national capital, a few flights managed to land at the airport and subway service resumed. More chaotic was the region to the south, where the shaking was the strongest and where the quake generated waves that lashed coastal settlements, leaving behind sticks, scraps of metal and masonry houses ripped in two. In the village of Lloca, a beachside carnival was caught in the tsunami. A carousel was twisted on its side, and a ferris wheel rose above the muddy wreckage. In Concepcion, the largest city in the disaster zone, a new, 15-story apartment building toppled onto its side. Many of those who lived on the side that wound up facing the sky could clamber out; those on the other were trapped. An estimated 60 people remained trapped in the 70-unit apartment building.
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‘Locker’ best bet to win top Oscar categories Sharon Bible Staff Writer
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Six days from now, Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin will take the stage to deliver a (hopefully) funny monologue. They’ll poke fun at the A-listers, maybe some of the films themselves and attempt to move the show along at a quick pace. The fact is, though, nobody watches the Oscars for the host. They watch for the winners. And I believe I have now the winning ballot. I’ve already said in my earlier watches that Mo’Nique is going to take home the Best Supporting Actress award for “Precious.” Best Supporting Actor is equally as obvious, at least in my opinion. Christoph Waltz was amazing as Col. Hans Landa in “Inglorious Basterds.” He was an equally witty, charming and slimy Nazi who appeared to always be on his game. The only other nominee who could really overtake him would be Christopher Plummer as the aged Leo Tolstoy in “The Last Station.” The Academy loves an old movie star. My pick for Best Actor is Jeff Bridges (who has never been nominated) in “Crazy Heart.” His performance as Bad Blake was phenomenal, and the Oscar buzz around him has been extraordinary. George Clooney was looking for his first Best Actor win for “Up in the Air,” but most voters probably figure he still has a long career ahead of him and a few more nominations. Morgan Freeman would not be a huge surprise for his role as Nelson Mandela in “Invictus,” and the Academy loves to award people who play real life people such as Truman Capote, Ray Charles and Harvey Milk.
Sandra Bullock is a sure thing for Best Actress. She is now Hollywood’s golden girl, having one of the highest-grossing careers of all time, no Oscar wins (until she wins for “The Blind Side”) and a cute personality that is constantly saying, “I do not deserve this.” She was the only redeemable thing in “The Blind Side,” and when watching her, one forgets that she actually is Bullock. Meryl Streep gets a nod for every movie she appears in, but her performance in “Julie and Julia” is not up to the same level as her win in “Kramer vs. Kramer” or “Sophie’s Choice.” Carey Mulligan was believable in “An Education” but not phenomenal, and no one has even heard of Helen Mirren’s movie “The Last Station.” Gabourey Sidibe was tragically amazing in “Precious” but has been overlooked by the Screen Actors Guild and the Golden Globes in favor of Bullock. Best Picture is a tricky category this year, with the new voting procedures and five extra nominees. “Avatar” was thought to be a sure thing, but now “The Hurt Locker” is generating more buzz. My money is on “The Hurt Locker.” “Avatar” was a winner at the box office, but multiple critics have panned its story, dialogue and acting. It will most certainly take all the technical awards, but “The Hurt Locker” is a better movie overall. Typically the winner of Best Director is the director of the movie that won Best Picture. James Cameron may win it just because he directed such an epic movie. I would still bet on Kathryn Bigelow of “Locker,” as most of Hollywood does not care for Cameron, which he himself has acknowledged. The 82nd Academy Awards start at 8 p.m. Sunday on ABC.
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Pearl’s Vols step up for big games Brad Merritt Sports Editor Over the past four years, Bruce Pearl has created quite the basketball program at Tennessee. Saturday’s 74-65 victory over Kentucky was simply further evidence of that fact. The win makes Pearl 4-0 versus top five teams at home since taking over for Buzz Peterson in 2005. “There’s nobody else in the country who has had four games against the top-three teams in the country, and that’s Kansas, Kentucky and Purdue,” Pearl said. “We’ve been asked to have a competi-
tive basketball program at Tennessee. That’s been delivered, and we take great pride in it.” Pearl has done more than make his program competitive. Since taking over the middle-of-the-road program in 2005, he’s turned them into an SEC heavyweight and wasted little time in doing so. He secured a share of the SEC Eastern Division title in his four previous seasons as coach, including a 2008 SEC Championship, all while securing an overall record of 46-18 in conference play before this season. The biggest stat backing Pearl’s excellence comes by
virtue of his success against the Wildcats, the SEC’s perennial Goliath. He’s the first coach in the 76-year history of the SEC to finish ahead of Kentucky in the conference for four straight seasons. “I felt a lot of emotion visiting with the team after the game,” Pearl said. “This is a great effort. This was an important win for our program because Kentucky is such a benchmark in the SEC.” It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Pearl has had success against the Wildcats. He’s had similar success against all the nation’s top teams that find their way onto the Vols
schedule. In four-plus seasons as UT coach, Pearl is 17-12 against ranked teams. Say what you want about the Vols’ hiccups on the road this season, namely against Georgia and Vanderbilt, but one cannot argue the fact that Pearl is at his best in the big games, especially at home. In addition to his 4-0 mark aginst top five teams, his teams have knocked off two future No. 1 seeds this season (Kentucky and Kansas), something no other college basketball program can boast. “You just don’t have an opportunity to beat two No. 1 seeds, and we did it,” Pearl said. “No one else in the country has done that. Tennessee has done that.” What makes Pearl special is his appeal to the Tennessee fanbase and his subsequent acknowledgement of the vital role their support plays in his team’s success. “I think our team and our program was on display today,” Pearl said. “There is not necessarily a better environment in college basketball than Thompson-Boling Arena — as good as any. We do not beat Kentucky or Kansas without 22,000 here. It just does not happen. It’s what makes this one of the best jobs in college basketball.”
Hayley DeBusk • The Daily Beacon
Tennessee head basketball coach Bruce Pearl appears before the media after Saturday’s victory over No. 2 Kentucky. Pearl is the winningest active coach in the SEC. Tennessee, a notorious football school, is one of the best college basketball jobs in America? As shocking as that may sound to some, coach Pearl has never been more correct. Couple that with his team’s success against the nation’s
elite, and it’s impossible to argue that Pearl has truly created a basketball program at UT, directly in the shadows of Neyland Stadium. And that says more about the Pearl effect on Tennessee basketball than any stat ever will.
Maze thrives in prime matchups Terrence Boone Staff Writer In a conference where so many point guards have the ability to take over games, one would think it’d be a burden to have to defend the elite players in the SEC. Fortunately for Tennessee point guard Bobby Maze, he’s thrived off competition, going up against talented players such as Oklahoma City Thunder forward Kevin Durant and Denver Nuggets guard Ty Lawson of the NBA. Maze said playing with such big-name players while on his AAU team, the D.C. Blue Devils, left a huge impression. “It was great,” Maze said. “Just all the attention that those guys got drew like (Jerome) Dyson, who’s playing at UConn
now. ... We had so many players that are leading their teams right now in college basketball and players that went on to the pros ... I think that’s big.” In the past few SEC contests, Maze has had success against point guards. Against Georgia, he tallied 13 points and four assists. On the road last weekend at South Carolina, Maze scored 14 points, while holding Gamecocks’ point guard Devan Downey to only 15, eight below his SEC-leading average. Maze noted that even though he faces players like Downey, Vanderbilt’s Jermaine Beal and Kentucky’s John Wall on a consistent basis, he doesn’t see it as pressure but a chance to square off against the best and shine. See MAZE on Page 12
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Poor shooting sinks Wildcats, 74-65 Zac Ellis Assistant Sports Editor Knocking off No. 1-ranked Kansas was on Tennessee’s wishlist last month. And with No. 2 Kentucky in Knoxville this weekend, the Vols were hoping for a second marquee upset in the making. After Saturday, the Vols’ wish list is two-for-two. No. 19 Tennessee survived a late rally to upset No. 2 Kentucky 74-65 on Saturday at Thompson-Boling Arena in front of 21,214 fans donning OUTLIVE T-shirts to promote UT’s cancer awareness campaign. “I think our team and our program was on display today,” UT head coach Bruce Pearl said. “There is not necessarily a better environment in college basketball than Thompson-Boling Arena, as good as any. We do not beat Kentucky, or Kansas, without 22,000 here. It just does not happen.” J.P. Prince paced the Vols
(21-7, 9-5 SEC) with 20 points. Scotty Hopson added 15, including a key 3-pointer down the stretch to ice the Wildcats. Freshman John Wall led Kentucky (27-2, 12-2) with 19 points and six assists, while fellow freshman DeMarcus Cousins recorded a doubledouble with 15 points and 14 rebounds. The Wildcats started out the game with two baskets by Cousins to jump out with a 40 lead early in the contest. UT responded by staging an 18-0 run, with seven Vols scoring baskets, en route to a lead they would never relinquish. Tennessee led 40-29 at halftime, holding Kentucky to 24 percent shooting in the first period and 35 percent for the game. “To hold Kentucky, who is the No. 1 field-goal percentage shooting team in the league and one of the tops in the country, to 35 percent is how you win the game,” Pearl said. The Wildcats crept back
into the contest to tie the game 65-65 on a dunk by Cousins with 2:13 remaining. UT countered with a Prince layup before Hopson hit a trey with 41 seconds remaining to cement the win for the Vols. “When it went 65-65, I thought we were winning,” Kentucky coach John Calipari said. “There was no question in my mind we were winning this game.” The Tennessee players, however, weren’t about to let the game get out of hand. “Everybody was quiet,” forward Wayne Chism said. “We weren’t panicked or anything. We knew they were going to come back. So we just relaxed.” Prince and Hopson’s buckets down the stretch sparked a 9-0 run UT used to close out the game. Maze, who matched up with Wall throughout the afternoon, played his part on the defensive end by pressuring Kentucky’s freshman phenom into two late turnovers. Wall finished the game 6-of-
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UT students packed Thompson Bowling Arena Saturday for the Outlive basketball game against Kentucky. The Vols defeated the Wildcats 74-65.
16 from the floor, including 0of-4 from 3-point territory. “Put it on experienced players,” Pearl said. “Put it on the seniors. Put it on Bobby (Maze), J.P. and Wayne. “At that point, that’s what seniors are supposed to do.” After falling short of beating Kentucky earlier this season in Lexington, Pearl said his players knew the importance of another shot at the Wildcats. Not just for the Vols’ record but for the team’s legacy among UT’s greats. “I told the team, ‘How do you want this season to be remembered?’” Pearl said. “It’s not going to be a great year unless we beat Kentucky. If we beat Kentucky, we’ve got a chance to have a great year. “When you’ve got seniors like Wayne, J.P. and Bobby, they take ownership in that.”
Hayley DeBusk • The Daily Beacon
Senior J.P. Prince dunks the basketball in Saturdays 74-65 win over Kentucky. Prince scored 20 points, leading the Vols to a victory over the 2nd ranked Wildcats.
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Lady Vols shut down Ole Miss
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March 1 - March 4, 2010 Monday, Mar. 1 —
Men’s Golf John Hayt Collegiate Invitational Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. All Day Women’s Golf Kinderlou Forest Challenge Valdosta, Ga. All Day
Tuesday, Mar. 2 —
Men’s Golf John Hayt Collegiate Invitational Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. All Day
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Tennessee’s Bobby Maze scored 9 points and had 5 assists in Saturday’s winning game against Kentucky.
Women’s Golf Kinderlou Forest Challenge Valdosta, Ga. All Day
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Baseball Eastern Kentucky Knoxville 4 p.m. Softball Tennessee Tech Cookeville, Tenn. 6 p.m. Men’s Basketball Arkansas Knoxville 7 p.m.
Thursday, Mar. 4 — Women’s Basketball SEC Tournament Duluth, Ga. TBA
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“I told the team, ‘How do you want this season to be remembered?’ It’s not going to be a great year unless we beat Kentucky. If we beat Kentucky, we’ve got a chance to have a great year.” – UT basketball coach Bruce Pearl on the importance of beating Kentucky
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Alicia Manning skies for a layup against Ole Miss on Sunday night. Manning recorded her first career double-double with 15 points and 10 rebounds in the Lady Vols’ 75-63 victory.
Lauren Kittrell Staff Writer The Tennessee Lady Vols ended their regular season with a win over Ole Miss Sunday evening. The team defended their lead all through the first and second half for a 75-63 finish. Head coach Pat Summit was disappointed with the way their team played, but said of the team, “we got a little bit better in the second half.” The Lady Vols did not lose the lead the entire game, though Ole Miss came within one point early in the second half. The Lady Vols game last night ended a weeklong, three-game homestand after beating No. 20 LSU, No. 16 Kentucky, and Ole Miss. The team now has a record of 13-0 against Ole Miss at home in ThompsonBoling Arena. Sophomore Shekinna Stricklen hit with a 3-pointer to open up UT’s scoring on the evening. Sophomore Alicia Manning recorded her first career double-double with 15 points and 10 rebounds, while sophomore Alyssia Brewer finished with nine points and six rebounds. Freshman Taber Spani played 25 minutes, and Summitt said she noticed improvement
since Spani’s toe injury earlier this season. “I think she was over thinking the game. She loosened up out there,” Summitt said. Stricklen finished with her sixth career double-double, 23 points and 10 rebounds. The Lady Vols won the battle of the boards for the 27th time this season, and for the seventh time this seaso the team did not trail all night. Manning and Stricklen recorded double-digit rebounds, and Summitt liked what she saw from Manning. “(Alicia) is one of the most competitive players on our team, maybe the most,” Summitt said. “She battles. There’s no quit in her.” Despite the win, the Lady Vols did not play up to Summit’s standards. “There’s a lot of basketball left to play and they (the team) have to understand that,” Summitt said. “We have to strive for perfection. There’s no excuse for not being ready.” When asked how this kind of response effects the team, Brewer said, “You gotta take it, but also shake it off.” Manning admitted with the regular season in the books, the tournament is the next step. “We gotta let it go, and get ready for tournament time,” Manning said.
“As a kid, you always dream about playing against the best guards or getting the last-minute shots,” Maze said. “Being able to go up against the tough players, that’s a dream come true.” Maze, a senior from Suitland, Md., is averaging just less than 10 points a game to go along with 3.1 assists per contest. One of the Vols’ biggest wins of the season came against the top-ranked Kansas Jayhawks on Jan. 10, where Maze scored a career-high 16 points and dished out eight assists, while going toe to toe against the Jayhawks’ Sherron Collins. Despite the fact that the Kansas contest was statistically Maze’s best game, he points to the previous game against Charlotte when he found his groove.
“We had just lost our guys (four because of suspension), and I came out and had a good game points-assists wise, defensively, and that led on to the Kansas game and the Auburn game,” he said. “So those three games are really when I got into a nice flow.” After allowing Wall to get loose in the second half of the Vols’ loss to Kentucky on Feb. 13, Maze took it upon himself to harass Wall into 6-of-16 shooting and five turnovers in Saturday’s win against the Wildcats. Maze provided a spark for the Vols offensively with nine points and five assists. The Vols scored the last nine points of the game after Kentucky came back from a 19-point deficit. Maze thought the Vols’ defense down the stretch was a sign of Tennessee’s effort. “We believed in ourselves,” Maze said. “We didn’t lose our composure.”
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