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Film on media Lecture focuses on faith in US portrayal of women shown Taylor McElroy Staff Writer On Tuesday, “Miss Representation” was displayed in Hodges Auditorium. This documentary combined stories from teenage girls, as well as interviews with politicians, journalists, entertainers, activists and academics, like Condoleezza Rice, Nancy Pelosi and Katie Couric. The film asked the question: Can girls grow up to be emotionally healthy in today’s society? The film revealed some disturbing facts, such as that selfconscious girls tend to have lower grade-point-averages and are less likely to run for office or vote. It was the film’s goal to expose how mainstream media portrayals of women and girls contribute to the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America. “I think they did a good job of presenting a side of media we never get to see,” Katie McDuffee, freshman in biology, said. “It was really eye-opening.” One of the first major points made was that in much of advertising the goal is to make people feel anxious and insecure. In today’s media you will never see an image of a woman that has not been digitally altered. This probably alludes to why women spend more money on beauty products than on education. The next big point discussed how early in their lives girls face deep gender bias. The opposition, however, is usually from the women themselves. According to the film, this all seems to stem from the notion that women are all natural enemies of each other and therefore tend not to support each other in elections. It almost makes it not surprising that women have not proposed changes in Congress since 1979. Without women in politics, America lacks fundamental legitimacy that comes from the inside perspective of women’s
opinions. “I thought it was a very powerful documentary that shed a lot of light on our culture,” Brittany Bailey, freshman in food science and technology, said. “It displayed how much we feed into the ‘ideal woman’ and how we do not even question it.” The film then shifted gears to point out how much the movie industry has changed. In the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s women in film had so much more depth. They were complex characters. They could be femme fatales and still be housewives or even killers. Today, less than a quarter of protagonists in movies are women. Even here, one does not get the message of women who do not use their sexuality as a means of empowerment. Instead the audience sees a stereotypical mean boss who sacrifices her personal life to be at the top. She also has a super hero persona that seems empowered, but through her skintight clothing, she is still very much objectified by the male viewer. This is not surprising, as women make up only 16 percent of writers, directors and producers. In the real world, however, media target women who attempt to take on leadership roles as more emotional and make women having power seem like a negative thing. In closing, the film featured clips pointing out how the media tend to diminish women’s accomplishments by focusing more on their appearance than on the quality of what they are saying. Focusing more on the professionals among women, it featured a clip of a nutcracker made out of an action figure of Hillary Clinton. The goal of the film was to inform and inspire change, sending a message of hope that if women could grow and support each other professionally, politically and socially, the world would see dramatic changes.
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Jeff Sharlet, author of “Sweet Heaven When I Die,” spoke at the second annual David L. Dungan Memorial Lecture on Tuesday. Sharlet, who is also a contributing editor to Rolling Stone Magazine as well as professor at Dartmouth University, discussed with students the current state of religion and politics in the world.
R.J. Vogt Staff Writer “I’m going to start off with a song, but don’t worry, I’m not going to sing it: you are,” Jeff Sharlet, author of “Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithlessness, and the Country In Between” and contributing editor to Rolling Stone, said. Sharlet, who spoke at the second annual David L. Dungan Memorial Lecture on Tuesday night, had three different sets of lyrics passed out among the audience. On one, the Buddhist invocation “OM BEN ZAR SA TO MA YA” was typed. Another included the chorus to The Who’s “Baba O’Riley,” and the third sheet read “There is power, power, wonder working power in the blood of the Lamb,” lyrics from a popular Christian worship song. After convincing a few volunteers to sing each song solo, Sharlet invited everyone to sing at the same time. “People want to know what unites us when we talk about religion,” Sharlet said. “What brings us together, what is the harmony, what is the common denominator? I’ve never heard that song — I’ve heard something better. I’ve heard the chorus of cacophony.” Indeed, the confused babble that the crowd produced was certainly not harmonious, eliciting laughter. “I want to contrast this idea of the Cacophony Choir with the world of American religion and politics,” Sharlet said. Over the next 45 minutes, the Dartmouth professor did just that. Sharing stories from his books, Sharlet focused on the current landscape of the nation, one that tries to “hide the weirdness” and “find common ground” instead of allowing individual opinions to be heard. One such story centered on David Bahati, a member of the Ugandan parliament who introduced the AntiHomosexuality Bill in 2009. His bill essentially places a death penalty on homosexuality, and punishes those who fail to turn in a homosexual to the authorities. Bahati is supported by an American fundamentalist Christian group known as “The Family,” one with significant political power in Washington. Sharlet met with Bahati, traveling to Uganda and actually eating brunch with Bahati at his home.
“When someone has genocide in mind and invites you over for lunch, go,” Sharlet said. “At the lunch, Bahati invoked harmony, asking, ‘Jeff, can’t we agree to disagree?’ I’ve never been so ashamed, as a journalist, to be in that circle of civility,” Sharlet said. “People talk about common ground — common ground? Plantations were common ground, with slave and master standing next to each other. I prefer the cacophony, the voices together.” This message fit in well with the life of David L. Dungan, in whose memory the Department of Religious Studies sponsored the event. “Dungan was very provocative,” Rosalind Hackett, head of the department, said. “He liked to challenge people to think, and was always boldly embracing certain topics that affected the students. “He was also active in sharing his scholarship with the Knoxville community. Even though he was internationally recognized, he always got involved in the local area, making time to visit Sunday school classes and such.” Dungan taught at UT for 35 years, retiring in 2002 at the age of 66. He is probably most well known for his “A History of the Synoptic Problem: the Canon, the Text, the Composition, and the Interpretation of the Gospels,” published in 1999. After Sharlet had finished elaborating on some of the findings from his own books, he closed with a quote. “‘I like the noise of democracy,’ James Buchanan once said. That to me is the sound of belief in America, of religion in America, of politics in America,” Sharlet said. This quote raised the curiosity of David Howell, a world religions teacher at Pellissippi. Thankfully, he had an opportunity to inquire during the post-lecture question-andanswer session. “In 1856, that cacophony (which Buchanan liked) resulted in a bloody Civil War,” Howell said. “What is your point in defending such cacophony now?” Sharlet paused, glanced at the book in his hand, and moved away from the podium for a moment. “On one side, you have that Civil War,” Sharlet said. “On the other side of the world, claiming to look for common ground. We are the country in between.”
Storm rages through Midwest; kills four The Associated Press
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Jeremiah Welch, sophomore in music education, plays the cello during a performance at the Mahogany Soul Cafe on Tuesday. The event, which is held every fourth Tuesday of the month, serves as an open-mic night for performers of a wide variety of skills, from spoken word poetry to musical compositions.
BRANSON, Mo. — A powerful storm system that produced multiple reports of tornadoes lashed the Midwest early Wednesday, roughing up the country music resort city of Branson and laying waste to a small town in Kansas. At least four people were killed in Illinois and Missouri. An apparent twister rolled through Branson just before 1 a.m. and seemed to hopscotch up the city’s main roadway, ripping roofs off hotels and damaging some of the city’s famed music theaters dangerously close to the start of the heavy tourism season. More than 30 people were reported hurt, mostly with cuts and bruises. “If it was a week later, it’d be a different story,” said Bill Tirone, assistant general manager for the 530-room Hiltons of Branson and the Branson Convention Center, where windows were shattered and some rooms had furniture sucked away by high winds. Hotel workers were able to get all guests to safety as the storm raged. John Moore, owner of the damaged Cakesn-Creams ‘50s Diner, said the tornado seemed to target the city’s main strip, moving down the entertainment district, right through the convention center, across a lake and into a housing division. He said the tornado
appeared to “jump side to side.” “The theater next to me kind of exploded. It went everywhere. The hotels on the two sides of me lost their roofs. Power lines are down. Windows are blown out,” Moore said. “There’s major, major destruction. There has to be millions dollars of damage all down the strip.” At least three people were killed in the southern Illinois city of Harrisburg after a storm swept through shortly before dawn. In Missouri, one person was killed in a trailer park in the town of Buffalo, and at least three people were critically injured in the small eastern Kansas town of Harveyville. The tornadoes were spawned by a powerful storm system that blew down from the Rockies on Tuesday and was headed across the Ohio and Tennessee river valleys toward the Mid-Atlantic region. Corey Mead, lead forecaster at the U.S. Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., said a broad cold front was slamming into warm, humid air over much of the eastern half of the nation. From Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, at least 16 tornado sightings were reported from Nebraska and Kansas across southern Missouri to Illinois and Kentucky, according to the storm center, an arm of the National Weather Service. See STORM on Page 3
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UT photography professor Baldwin Lee discusses the impact of a series of photographs by Dorothea Lange from the Dust Bowl of the 1930s during a field trip with his Photo 3 class at the Hunter Museum in Chattanooga on Saturday.
1872 — Yellowstone Park established President Grant signs the bill creating the nation’s first national park at Yellowstone. Native Americans had lived and hunted in the region that would become Yellowstone for hundreds of years before the first Anglo explorers arrived. Abundant game and mountain streams teaming with fish attracted the Indians to the region, though the awe-inspiring geysers, canyons, and gurgling mud pots also fascinated them. John Colter, the famous mountain man, was the first Anglo to travel through the area. After journeying with Lewis and Clark to the Pacific, Colter joined a party of fur trappers to explore the wilderness. In 1807, he explored part of the Yellowstone plateau and returned with fantastic stories of steaming geysers and bubbling cauldrons. Some doubters accused the mountain man of telling tall tales and jokingly dubbed the area “Colter’s Hell.” Before the Civil War, only a handful of trappers and hunters ventured into the area, and it remained largely a mystery. In 1869, the Folsom-Cook expedition made the first formal exploration, followed a year later by a much more thorough reconnaissance by the Washburn-LangfordDoane expedition. The key to Yellowstone’s future as a national park, though, was the 1871 exploration under the direction of the government geologist Ferdinand Hayden. Hayden brought along William Jackson, a pioneering photographer, and Thomas Moran, a brilliant landscape artist, to make a visual record of the expedition. Their images provided the first visual proof of Yellowstone’s wonders and caught the attention of the U.S. Congress. Early in 1872, Congress moved to set aside 1,221,773 acres of public land straddling the future states of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho as America’s first national park. President Grant signed the bill into law on this day in 1872. The Yellowstone Act of 1872 designated the region as a public “pleasuring-ground,” which would be preserved “from injury or spoilation, of all timber, mineral deposits, natural curiosities, or wonders within.” For a nation bent on settling and exploiting the West, the creation of Yellowstone was surpris-
ing. Many congressmen gave it their support simply because they believed the rugged and isolated region was of little economic value. Yet the Yellowstone Act of 1872 set a precedent and popularized the idea of preserving sections of the public domain for use as public parks. Congress went on to designate dozens of other national parks, and the idea spread to other nations around the world. 1932 — Lindbergh baby kidnapped On this day in 1932, in a crime that captured the attention of the entire nation, Charles Lindbergh III, the 20-month-old son of aviation hero Charles Lindbergh, is kidnapped from the family’s new mansion in Hopewell, New Jersey. Lindbergh, who became an international celebrity when he flew the first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927, and his wife Anne discovered a ransom note demanding $50,000 in their son’s empty room. The kidnapper used a ladder to climb up to the open second-floor window and left muddy footprints in the room. The Lindberghs were inundated by offers of assistance and false clues. Even Al Capone offered his help from prison. For three days, investigators found nothing and there was no further word from the kidnappers. Then, a new letter showed up, this time demanding $70,000. The kidnappers eventually gave instructions for dropping off the money and when it was delivered, the Lindberghs were told their baby was on a boat called Nelly off the coast of Massachusetts. After an exhaustive search, however, there was no sign of either the boat or the child. Soon after, the baby’s body was discovered near the Lindbergh mansion. He had been killed the night of the kidnapping and was found less than a mile from home. The heartbroken Lindberghs ended up donating the mansion to charity and moved away. The kidnapping looked like it would go unsolved until September 1934, when a marked bill from the ransom turned up. The gas station attendant who had accepted the bill wrote down the license plate number because he was suspicious of the driver. It was tracked back to a German immigrant and carpenter, Bruno Hauptmann. When his home was searched, detectives found a chunk of Lindbergh ransom money. Hauptmann claimed that a friend had given him the money to hold and that he had no connection to the crime. The resulting trial was a national sensation. The prosecution’s case was not particularly strong; the main evidence, besides the money, was testimony from handwriting experts that the ransom note had been written by Hauptmann. The prosecution also tried to establish a connection between Hauptmann and the type of wood that was used to make the ladder. Still, the evidence and intense public pressure were enough to convict Hauptmann and he was electrocuted in 1935. In the aftermath of the crime — the most notorious of the 1930s — kidnapping was made a federal offense. 1966 — Soviet probe crashes into Venus Venera 3, a Soviet probe launched from Kazakhstan on November 15, 1965, collides with Venus, the second planet from the sun. Although Venera 3 failed in its mission to measure the Venusian atmosphere, it was the first unmanned spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet. Four years earlier, the U.S. probe Mariner 2 was the first spacecraft to pass close enough to Venus to take scientific measurements of the planet, discovering surface temperatures in excess of 800 degrees Fahrenheit on its surface. — This Day in History is courtesy of History.com.
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STORM continued from Page 1 Jennifer Verhaalen, a long-term resident at the Hillbilly Inn Motel in downtown Branson, said she saw a white funnel cloud followed by a wall of rain as the storm closed in on the town around 1 a.m. She said she retreated to a back bedroom with her husband as the storm slammed into two other hotel buildings tearing the roof off one. Across the road, a strip mall lay in tatters, its roof missing and several walls collapsed. As the sun rose Wednesday, business owners picked through the remains of their stores. Keith and Glenna Bartley, tourists from Kingsport, Tenn., said staff at the Grand Victorian Hotel where they were staying ushered them to the basement around 1:30 a.m. Branson has long been a tourist destination for visitors attracted to the beauty of the surrounding Ozarks. But the city rose to prominence in the 1990s because of its theater district, which drew country music stars and other music celebrities including the Osmond twins and Andy Williams. Farther north, rescue crews waited for sun-
rise to begin searching a trailer park south of Buffalo where at least one person was killed after an apparent twister slammed the area. Lt. Dana Eagan of the Dallas County Sheriff’s Office said 13 people at the park were hurt and the entire town was without power. Buffalo is about 35 miles north of Springfield. Tornado season normally starts in March, but it isn’t unusual to see severe storms earlier in the year. Forecasters can seldom assess how serious a season will be because twisters are so unpredictable. This year, two people were killed by separate tornadoes in Alabama in January, and preliminary reports have showed 95 tornadoes struck that month. In neighboring Kansas, the National Weather Service reported brief tornado touchdowns southwest of Hutchinson, and Gov. Sam Brownback declared a state of emergency after an apparent tornado struck Harveyville. The declaration covered Wabaunsee County, southwest of Topeka. The governor’s office said one person was critically injured, several homes and a church were damaged and trees and power lines were down. Tornado warnings and watches were posted for most of Kentucky and a large portion of Kentucky.
Israel raids private TV stations The Associated Press
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Students view a PowerPoint presentation conducted via Skype by University of Hawai’i at Mãnoa professor of law Maxine Burkett on Thursday, Feb. 23. The presentation, “The Nation Ex-Situ: On Climate Change,” is one in a series of lectures hosted by the Baker Center focused on the science of climate change.
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Israeli troops raided two private Palestinian TV stations before dawn Wednesday, seizing transmitters and other equipment, the military said. The military said one of the outlets, alWatan TV, is a pirate station whose frequencies interfered with legal broadcasters and aircraft communications. It said several transmitters were confiscated in the operation initiated by Israel’s Communications Ministry. The military also confirmed a second raid at Jerusalem Educational TV, a Ramallahbased station owned by the Palestinians’ Al Quds University, but did not elaborate. Palestinian officials denounced the raids as aggression and violation of media freedom. Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad visited al-Watan later Wednesday and said the raid undermined his government. Fayyad heads the Palestinian Authority, which runs the Palestinian self-rule areas that cover 38 percent of West Bank territory. “This is a clear aggression against what remains of the Palestinian Authority,” Fayyad said, urging international Mideast mediators
to get Israel to halt the raids. Al-Watan station director Moammar Orabi said about 30 soldiers entered the station before dawn. The TV frequently reports on Palestinian protests against Israeli policies in the West Bank. It is owned by three non-governmental associations, including the Palestinian Medical Relief Society headed by legislator Mustafa Barghouti. “This is an act of repression of the freedom of the media in Palestine, and of repression of the popular resistance that we believe in,” Barghouti said. Popular resistance is a term Palestinians use for anti-Israel marches and demonstrations. Ramallah is part of the Palestinian self-rule areas, but Israeli forces still routinely conduct raids here. Also Wednesday, an Israeli army commander defended the actions of his soldiers in the fatal shooting of a Palestinian protester last week. The commander said soldiers told him the man threw firecrackers from about 20 yards (meters), in a cloud of smoke, and that they feared for their lives. Even so, he said the military has opened a formal investigation into the incident. He spoke on condition of anonymity in line with briefing rules.
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Somewhere... Hopefully Career politicians ruin government Preston Peeden Managing Editor Martin Van Buren ruined politics. I make this wildly blanket statement not solely because of any single act that the eighth president of the United States enacted during his term of office, or because of the economic downturn that shackled his time as president (which was unfairly blamed solely on him). Instead, my issues with Van Buren come from the mode of political thought that he helped usher in. Martin Van Buren was one of America’s first career politicians. Andrew Jackson once said this while musing about his former vice president: “It is said that he is a magician. I believe it.” While Jackson was remarking on the perceived brilliance of his protégé, in actuality Van Buren’s magic came not from any real ability he had to help shape and guide the nation, but rather from the sheer fact that he could get elected. From 1812 to 1841 (the year he lost his bid for reelection) Van Buren was consecutively in some form of office. Those stops included a gradual growth in prestige from a state senator, to U.S. senator, to governor of New York (which lasted a total of 71 days), to ambassador to Great Britain, to Secretary of State, to vice president and finally president. While Van Buren’s track record as president did not necessarily create a path for future leaders to emulate, his ability to become elected and to make a career out of being elected became a model for future politicians to follow. Following Van Buren, it seems, to me at least, that the atmosphere of politics changed. While I hardly believe that every president and politician before Van Buren ran and were elected out of some utilitarian goal of bettering the nation, after him, the career of a politician became a viable option. With this development, the focus of politics changed from helping those who elected you and sticking to the platform on which they elected you, to trying to get elected and stay in office by any means possible. In this system, the end result of a career as a politician outweighs the means in which you get there. Gone
are the stalwarts of old politics that regardless of the torrents of abuse and negative press thrown at them could stand up and follow their own ideology and beliefs. Now, in the world of career politicians, the goal is to keep your job. To keep your job, you need to win the election. To win the election, you need to do nearly whatever is possible to sway the majority of the voting population to your own side. This is the simple equation of politics today. Win, and nothing else really seems to matter. This stagnation is not universal in the political world. In Cuba, for example, a place that every red-blooded American boy is taught to despise as a Red menace, there are no career politicians. It is written into the Cuban Constitution that no representatives or elected delegates at any level will receive a salary or an allowance due to their position. Since there are no salaries for being a politician, people don’t run for office as an occupational means. Cuban politicians are ordinary citizens who run in the hopes of bettering their own neighborhood and their own nation. While obviously the Cuban system is different than our own, that does not necessarily mean that it wouldn’t work in our own nation. I find it hard to believe that our founding fathers wrote the Constitution framing our system of a representative democracy with career politicians in mind. Instead, the Constitution was intended to create a system similar to Cuba’s; it wanted the representation to be made of people who desired to work towards building a better nation. Representatives were meant to be preoccupied with matters of the state, not on how they could be reelected. Today’s political landscape is a bleak one. It seems like every candidate is somehow working towards his or her own personal goals, as opposed to the country’s betterment. Politicians worry too much about keeping the jobs that they have grown accustomed to, and compromise their own values so as to assure that they stay employed. Our system is based on worrying about how to get elected, and when in office staying there. Our government self-replicates this political stagnation. Every year, more and more politicians enter the realm of public service not to help others but to help themselves. And for that, I blame Martin Van Buren, and a whole lot of people who followed him. — Preston Peeden is a junior in history. He can be reached at ppeeden@utk.edu.
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Birth control: hot button issue, really? Urb an La n d sca p e by
Lindsay Lee Honestly I cannot understand for the life of me why birth control has suddenly become some hotbutton issue. It’s 2012, y’all; I thought we had gotten past debating the morality of birth control as a society. Really I think most of us have, but still I turn on the TV and hear top-contender for the presidency Rick Santorum spouting off about how birth control is “bad for society.” It is absolutely unbelievable to me that we as a nation have allowed someone with such disengaged, uninformed and blatantly ridiculous views to be at the forefront of our politics. But he has become such a major figure today because there are still people who latch on to these views and refuse to let them go. First of all, anyone who knows anything about birth control knows that it has other major medical side effects that can be extremely beneficial for women. It regulates periods and makes them less painful and dangerous, which, ironically, can help women get pregnant once they stop taking it. Some women have unimaginable pain during their periods, and others lose a dangerous amount of blood. In any other case, people would want to prevent pain and blood loss. But just because these ailments have to do with lady bits, there’s this whole stigma associated with treating them. There is hardly the same stigma regarding male reproductive health. Condoms are passed out freely in health centers across the nation. They empower men to be responsible and to have control over their reproductive lives. Women are not provided the same control over their sex lives today; instead they are told to shut their knees. The onus of responsibility is placed entirely on the woman to control her own urges because she does not have sexual freedom like men do. Heaven forbid a girl decide to have sex and then get pregnant, because then society views her as some sort of harlot who is entirely responsible for the
situation. It is her own fault for not being able to control herself, and she alone has to deal with the consequences of her own despicable actions. There is an astounding amount of hypocrisy in this whole birth control debate. You simply cannot say that you want government to be extremely small and out of our economic lives while at the same time demanding it control people’s personal lives. You cannot say you want to cut the Department of Education and the Environmental Protection Agency while mandating who has access to birth control and who doesn’t. You especially cannot deny insurance coverage of the birth control pill while providing coverage for Viagra. You cannot tell men to go have all this sex while telling women they cannot control whether or not these men will get them pregnant. It makes zero sense. Much of this resurgence of the birth control debate has stemmed from the line in Obama’s health care plan mandating religiously affiliated organizations’ insurance plans provide a means through which women can get birth control. We all understand that birth control is against Catholic belief, but these insurance plans — first of all — aren’t demanding all women take birth control. These insurance laws are meant to give women an equal choice. Plus, tons of religious organizations employ tons of non-religious people who don’t believe the same thing some Catholics do. Just because a woman’s employer doesn’t believe she has the right to prevent pregnancy, it doesn’t mean that she should be subject to his will. She should be free to choose, and that’s what this nation is all about. This “War on Religion” — i.e., “War on Christianity” — we hear about so often in the news does not exist. Churches pay effectively zero taxes, and religious organizations play huge roles in millions of people’s lives in the United States. We are one of the most religious countries in the entire world. This “War on Religion” line is just another concoction of some powerful white dudes who are afraid of people thinking for themselves. Some people just need to open their eyes: it’s 2012. Women need and take birth control regularly, and it shouldn’t be that big of a deal. — Lindsay Lee is a sophomore in math. She can be reached at llee26@utk.edu.
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Oh, shut up would you? I’m pretty sure that’s what just about everyone — Republicans, Libertarians and a even a few annoyed Democrats — wants to tell Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney in their current battle which many are referring to as “the battle in which Barack Obama wins the election.” At this point the Republican “race” for the nomination has gone from healthy to mildly ill to sick to deranged to farcical to just simply sad. Recent allegations have Rick Santorum urging Democrats to get out and vote Romney down — which is a confusing move given that Santorum seems to have a healthy lead in the Michigan primary, which seems to be the biggest point of contention before the super Tuesday extravaganza. Of course, it is pretty hard to see what parts of Rick Santorum’s campaign make sense unless you are a Tea Party member, apparently. It’s hard not to see parallels with the situation the Democrats were in circa 2003. George Bush was an incumbent president fairly entrenched with his party but seemed to have support eroding around the edges, where elections are actually won. The opposition to his presidency were almost too numerous to be well organized, and at the end (depressing in more ways than one!) John Kerry ended up with the nomination. Now, I am pretty sure there are many of you out there who say, “Hey, Kerry isn’t that bad,” but there are also people who think Newt Gingrich is a “real conservative,” whatever that means. In fact, I would love to learn the use of the word “conservative” among Republicans. The current political kerfuffle over “who will the Republicans run?” has really managed to overpower the signs which might point to a relatively nondramatic re-election for President Obama. There are the early signs that the job market is starting to stabilize, that the housing market might be starting to maybe recover to normal (though expecting a return to the former housing boom might not happen again for 30 or so years), and that the issue really
holding back the economy is the situation in Europe, which recently upgraded from “OMG APOCALYPSE” to “ wait and see.” Of course, the “great recession” or whatever kitschy name people are calling it these days has raised some fundamental questions about how governments pay for stuff; the answer, it seems, till now has been “uh, let’s pass a law which requires people to become responsible in 25 years unless they say they don’t want to.” It would seem, then, that the greatest opportunity for whoever takes it (Obama or Romney or Santorum) would be to dive into these areas, and really ask both parties which orifice they had their head crammed into. This perfect candidate would ask who really benefited from certain pork projects, or from the “Department of Education,” or from privileging military spending over other, domestic projects. Of course, the answers to these questions might be, “Well, the systems might need to be made efficient but they are essentially good,” but the point is that no one is asking — not really, at least. If only there were a politician asking at what point the government should stop spending money, or at what point should the budget be balanced or military spending should be cut, or if there aren’t a few too many government programs or employees. If only there were a politician who was willing to make cuts across the board to spending on all programs including the war on drugs — even to our beloved institutions of higher learning — while focusing the money on other areas that need attention. Someone who is willing to keep us out of foreign wars, who would sit down and figure out just what the Fed has done for the American people. OK, OK, so I’m stealing all of this off Ron Paul’s website, the staunch “constitutionalist” who has some pretty crazy ideas about where the country should go — some good, some scary and most somewhat insane. The problem is, of course, that Ron Paul is starting to sound like the reasonable choice, if only because he’s the only Republican people support because they like him and not because they don’t like someone else. Let that be a warning to the American political establishment; you have nearly made Ron Paul into a perfectly reasonable voice in politics. Please figure yourself out so that we can all go back to not paying any attention like we did in the ’90s. — Gregory Bearringer is a graduate student in medieval studies. He can be reached at gbearrin@utk.edu.
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Science fiction takes form in Google tech The Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain — Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt predicted Tuesday that rapid advances in technology will soon transform science fiction into reality — meaning people will have driverless cars, small robots at their command and the ability to experience being in another place without leaving home. Schmidt said the introduction of books available online, Internet translation of languages and voice recognition for computers all happened much faster than anyone envisioned and that technological research into even more previously unheard of advances is progressing at a fast clip. “People who predict that holograms and self-driving cars will become reality soon are absolutely right,” Schmidt told thousands of attendees at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the planet's largest cell phone trade show. Schmidt stepped down as Google’s chief executive last year but has remained the company’s chief representative in the public eye. As CEO, he rarely ventured into long-term visions like those he articulated in Barcelona. He didn’t outline how Google, which makes its money from online advertising, would profit from his visions. Schmidt said research under way will lead to situations where people can put themselves at events like a rock concerts so they can see, hear and even feel the event. And turn down the volume, if it’s too loud. One attendee said she was scared that the possibility could be dehumanizing, but Schmidt replied by holding up his cell phone into the air. “It has an off button and it is here on the right,” Schmidt said. “My point is it is all about your control. If you don’t like my version of a rock concert, I’m not forcing you to go.” Small robots could be used so busy people can send them to events for video and voice transmissions when their presence isn't required, Schmidt said. “In the future you'll be able to dispatch a
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robot to each event,” he said. Google has been testing driverless cars for years, and Schmidt noted that several U.S. states are already drawing up regulations so they can be used on the road. The technology took a big step forward earlier this month when Nevada became the first state to spell out requirements for the testing of driverless cars on state roads. Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval even took a test ride in a self-driving Toyota Prius in July. The car being developed by Google uses radar, sensors that allow the vehicle to “see” the road, other vehicles and people. Human drivers can override the autopilot function. Google’s self-driving cars have logged more than 200,000 miles (322,000 kilometers), Schmidt said. Underlying it all is the explosion of data and devices that consumers will be able to use without even caring if they are logging onto the Internet, Schmidt said. “The web will be everything, but it will be nothing,” he said. “It will be like electricity, it is just there.” People will eventually be able to use virtual reality go to places like Marrakech in Morocco or to North Korea “whenever it has an election,” Schmidt said. Schmidt compared the new connectivity to a “digital watering hole” where everyone will be able to gather, though he acknowledged it will take much longer for people in developing nations with poor connectivity to take part. “It will redefine the relationship these people have in the world. In times of war and suffering, it will be impossible to ignore the cries of people calling out for help,” Schmidt said. “In this new world there will be far fewer places for dictators.” That already happened during the Arab Spring that saw governments in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya fall, with more turmoil still under way in places like Syria. “With information comes power and with power comes choice, and smarter resourceful citizens are going to demand a better deal for their communities,” Schmidt said.
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Friday, March 2 What: Black Pearl Sings! When: 7:30 p.m. Where: Clarence Brown Theatre How much: $5 - $30 Our take: Frank Higgins’ story about a Library of Congress song collector features more than 20 folk songs and spirituals over the backdrop of one woman’s quest to preserve a fading culture.
Thursday, March 1 What: NEEDTOBREATHE: The Reckoning 2012 Tour — SOLD OUT When: 8 p.m. Where: Tennessee Theatre How much: $29.50 face value, $40-50 scalp Our take: Three words, all capped and thrown together, make up the band’s name. If you are too young to remember when that was the trend and why it fell out of popularity, you are probably the perfect audience for this show. Like P.T. Barnum used to say, “There’s a sucker born every • Photo courtesy of Needtobreathe minute.” What: Black Pearl Sings! (Interpreted Performance) When: 7:30 p.m. Where: Clarence Brown Theatre How much: $5 - $25 Our take: Frank Higgins’ story about a Library of Congress song collector features more than 20 folk songs and spirituals over the backdrop of one woman’s quest to preserve a fading culture.
Saturday, March 3 What: Fort Sanders Yacht Club “Sink or Swim” Anniversary party When: 2 p.m. Where: Fort Sanders Yacht Club and Barcade How much: Free (21+) Our take: The Strip’s premier bar and game emporium celebrates four years running with free arcade games, $10 all you can drink drafts, a First Friday art exhibit, and screen prints of FSYC T-shirts. What: Black Pearl Sings! When: 7:30 p.m. Where: Clarence Brown Theatre How much: $5 - $30 Our take: Frank Higgins’ story about a Library of Congress song collector features more than 20 folk songs and spirituals over the backdrop of one woman’s quest to preserve a fading culture. What: The Lemonheads performing “It’s a Shame About Ray” When: 8 p.m. Where: Bijou Theatre How much: $17.50 Our take: Evan Dando’s revolving door trio presents their classic album in its entirety.
What: Slam Poet Gabriela Garcia Medina When: 7 p.m. Where: UC Auditorium How much: Free with student ID Our take: The Women’s Coordinating Council brings Gabriela Garcia Medina, an internationally acclaimed poet who has performed around the world, from Cuba to South Africa. Medina has been touring behind her book “Ink-Scribing Oshun” since 2006.
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Sunday, March 4 What: Black Pearl Sings! (Matinee) When: 2 p.m. Where: Clarence Brown Theatre How much: $5 - $30 Our take: Frank Higgins’ story about a Library of Congress song collector features more than 20 folk songs and spirituals over the backdrop of one woman’s quest to preserve a fading culture.
Thursday, March 1, 2012
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SEC tourney offers redemption Thursday, March 1
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George Richardson • The Daily Beacon
Shekkina Stricklen shoots during a game against Vanderbilt on Sunday, Jan. 15.
David Cobb Staff Writer
While Cuonzo Martin and company hosts in-state rival Vanderbilt this Saturday, Pat Summitt and her Lady Vols (21-8, 12-4 SEC) will be in Nashville in search of a third consecutive SEC tournament title. UT’s last two teams both entered the tournament as the No. 1 seed with respective SEC records of 16-0 and 15-1. Tennessee will receive a first-round bye, but Thursday ’s 72-71 loss to Arkansas relegated the Lady Vols to the No. 2 seed this year. “Did it cost us a co-SEC championship? Absolutely,” associate head coach Holly Warlick said. “But it is what it is, and we’ve got to move on and focus on what we’re doing right now.” After Sunday’s 75-59 victory over Florida, UT ’s attention turned to Friday’s 3:30 p.m. tip-off against the winner of Thursday’s Mississippi State vs. Vanderbilt game. “It’s a new season,” Warlick said. “You’ve got the SEC tournament, you’ve got the NCAA tournament and it’s a new season.” Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena is hosting the event for a second consecutive year. In 2011, 11,150 fans saw the Lady Vols defeat Kentucky 90-65 in the championship game. Senior guard Shekinna Stricklen scored 16 points, going 5-of-6 from 3point range. “I feel great about it,” Stricklen said about returning to Bridgestone Arena. “I feel like we had the home - court advantage with our fans. Clearly we had the most fans there. I feel like it’s going to be the same this year.” A Feb. 9 trip to Vanderbilt’s Memorial Gym resulted in a 93-79 loss for the Lady Vols. The Commodores’ offensive output was the largest by any
SEC team against UT this season. If Vanderbilt (21-8, 9-7) wins its opening-round game on Thursday, a rematch will be in store for Friday’s quarterfinal matchup. “I feel really confident in this team that things are turning around,” Stricklen said. “We know teams are really gunning after us.” One aspect that could look different for the Lady Vols is the starting lineup. After Sunday’s senior day victory when all five UT seniors started, Warlick speculated on the possibility of allowing the seniors to start in the postseason. “Right now they’re our starting five unless it proves something different in practice the next couple of days,” Warlick said. The lineup consisting of Briana Bass, Stricklen, Alicia Manning, Glory Johnson and Vicki Baugh accounted for Rebecca Vaughan • The Daily Beacon 47 points against Florida. Senior forwards Glory Johnson and Meighan Simmons surges ahead during a game against the Florida Gators on Alicia Manning posted 21 and 16 Sunday. points, respectively, in their final game at Thompson-Boling Arena. “I’m not going to say it’s dead-set,” Warlick said. “But it was a great group to start the game.” “Your first couple of games you understand the importance of substitution and a strong bench,” Warlick said. “With the possibility of playing three games in a row it’s very difficult, so I think we’re very aware of that. We try to use our bench the first couple of games, and really all through the tournament, because it’s hard for a player to play 40 minutes three games in a row.” If the bracket plays out with the top seeds advancing to Sunday, UT would play Kentucky in the title game for a third consecutive year. “Going for a three-peat is going to be hard,” Stricklen said. “But I feel like we can do it.”
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Thursday, March 1, 2012
THESPORTSPAGE
Three Lady Vols earn All-SEC accolades Staff Reports The Southeastern Conference announced its annual women’s basketball awards today and three University of Tennessee Lady Vols earned honors. In a vote by the league’s 12 coaches, Tennessee graduate student and post Glory Johnson (Knoxville, Tenn.) was selected as the SEC Defensive Player of the Year. Johnson was also named to the eight player SEC First Team, the five player All-SEC Defensive Team and was the SEC Community Service representative from UT. Senior forward/guard Shekinna Stricklen (Morrilton, Ark.) was selected along with Johnson to the eight player SEC First Team while rookie guard Ariel Massengale (Bolingbrook, Ill.) was placed on the eight player SEC All-Freshman squad. “Obviously, I am excited for Glory, Shekinna and Ariel,” Lady Vol head basketball coach Pat Summitt said. “They are players we count on to step up and lead our team in each and every game. “I am particularly proud of Glory and her selection as the SEC Defensive Player of the Year. She has raised her level of play this season on both ends of the floor and has been an anchor for us defensively. “Glory is very deserving of this recognition,” Summitt said. This marks Johnson’s second appearance on the All-SEC First Team after also earning the same honor in 2011. Last season, she was a member of the five player 2011 SEC AllDefensive team for the first time. As a rookie, she was named to the 2009 SEC All-Freshman
Team. The 6’3” leaper was UT’s second leading scorer in SEC games at 13.9 ppg while posting 9.7 rpg. “There hasn’t been a better rebounder than Glory Johnson, night-in and night-out, in SEC play this year,” Summitt said. “I think grabbing almost 10 rebounds per game speaks to her commitment to controlling the glass.” Johnson, who graduated in just three years in global studies, is now in graduate school pursuing a master’s in communication and information studies. Despite her demanding schedule and maintaining a 3.6 GPA, she also made time to be involved in the community. This year, she has read to youngsters at a day care center... found time to volunteer at Children’s Hospital...been involved with West New Elementary School, Habitat for Humanity and the Knoxville “Extreme Home Makeover.” She also assisted with the Knoxville Humane Society’s Adopt-a-Pet drive and the UT FCA Girls Night Out. Stricklen, a 6’2” guard/forward/center for the Lady Vols, was the 2011 SEC Player of the Year. This year, she earned All-SEC First Team honors for the second time (2012, 2011) after placing on the Second Team in 2009 and 2010 and All-Freshman team in 2009. Stricklen led her 2012 Tennessee team in SEC scoring (15.8 ppg) while adding 6.1 rpg. The 5’6” Massengale has been a dynamic quarterback for the Lady Vols. She has run the team as the rookie point guard from day one and along the way broke the Lady Vol freshman assist record with 137 helpers on the season. She averaged 7.7 ppg in both SEC and overall play while grabbing 2.7 rpg (SEC) and dishing out over five assists per contest.
Tia Patron • The Daily Beacon
Will Maddox fully extends to tag out an NIU baserunner during a game on Friday, Feb. 17. The 7-1 Vols travel this weekend to Houston, Texas for the Houston College Classic at Minute Maid Park, where they will face Texas and Rice.
US Soccer tops Italy for first time The Associated Press
Justin Huseman • The Daily Beacon
Pat Summitt and the rest of the Lady Vols basketball team honor their five seniors on Senior Day, before a game against Florida on Sunday.
GENOA, Italy — The United States beat Italy for the first time in 11 games over 78 years, a 1-0 victory in an exhibition Wednesday night on Clint Dempsey’s goal in the 55th minute. Dempsey took a short pass from Jozy Altidore following Michael Bradley’s cross and put a right-footed shot from just inside the penalty area just past an outstretched hand of goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon. It was his 25th goal in 83 international appearances. A native of Nacogdoches, Texas, who turns 29 on March 9, Dempsey has had the most accomplished season by a U.S. attacking player in European soccer. He’s scored 16 goals this season for Fulham, becoming the American career scoring leader in England’s Premier League with 43 goals. AdChoices The loss was particularly deflating for Italy, a four-time World Cup champion preparing for the start of the European Championship in June. The Americans, who are getting ready for their opening qualifier for the 2014 World Cup in June, had been 07-3 against Italy and had been outscored 32-4. Italy dominated for stretches but the American defense held and the Azzurri were called for offsides nine times. With retired baseball star Mike Piazza watching from the stands alongside former U.S. forward Brian McBride, the Americans won their fourth straight match to improve to 5-4-1 under Jurgen Klinsmann, who
took over as U.S. coach from Bob Bradley last summer. It was a measure of personal revenge for Klinsmann, the former German World Cup great . Germany, then coached by Klinsmann, lost to Italy in the 2006 World Cup semifinals and the Azzurri went on to win the title. U.S. goalkeeper Tim Howard had a big kick save in the fifth minute. Italy nearly tied the score in injury time when Riccardo Montolivo’s shot went past a post. Italy lost in Genoa for the first time since 1924. The previous time the Azzurri played at Stadio Luigi Ferraris was a match stopped in the seventh minute by crowd trouble. Italy was awarded a 3-0 win over Serbia in a Euro qualifier. Klinsmann had most of his regulars back following victories over Venezuela and Panama while playing with a backup squad. He had hoped to be able to pair Dempsey with Landon Donovan for the first time since taking over as coach, but Donovan missed the match because of bronchitis. Italy had its own personnel problem, especially up front where it was missing injured forwards Giuseppe Rossi and Antonio Cassano. Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli was left of the squad because of his temper and unpredictability. Notes: Dempsey became just the fourth American to score against Italy, joining Buff Donelli (1934), John Harkes (1992) and Landon Donovan (2009). There was also one own goal in 2006.