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Dancer’s moves give campus entertainment ‘Dancing Dude’ impresses students with unique style, intense passion for music Preston Peeden Staff Writer For Neil Cole, it all started with N*Sync on a warm, September day.

While walking with a friend, Cole was listening to his iPod. When the beats of “Dirty Pop” hit his eardrums, his life changed. And with that change, the Dancing Dude at UT was born.

“When the song came on, I just started dancing to it,” Cole said. “I stopped and looked over at my friend and asked if, you know, it was just terrible, and if I should never do that again. And he looked at me and said, ‘It’s not the worst thing I’ve ever seen.’ And with that I thought I could do this and kept dancing ever since.”

Cole, a freshman from Nashville with dreams of being an architect, was not a dancer before this moment. In fact, despite a deep love of music stemming from his time in his high school’s band, Cole said that in high school he never danced.

“I didn’t do this at all in high school,” he said.

“When my friends saw the videos of me dancing on the Internet, they were all like, ‘This is not the same guy. He’s changed.’ And, honestly, I think I have.”

In those high school days, Cole described himself as being slightly introverted and definitely not confident enough to do what he does today.

“I used to be real closed off,” Cole said. “Then I get here and start dancing. I just don’t think about it. And people come over and say hey to me, and it’s really helped me open up.”

While he has no set routine, Cole said that he likes to dance around two to three hours per day, depending on his mood. On bad days, of which he has only had two so far, Cole might not dance at all, while on the better days, his dancing can go as long as four hours, with no set location.

“I like to dance the most when I’m eating,” Cole said. “People see me all the time in the cafeterias and the food courts. I used to dance to class, but I stopped because I’m not really a morning person.”

It is at those lunchtime dances that Cole usually draws his largest audiences and admirers.

“I see him dancing around Presidential

Court, and I got a lot of respect for him,” Denis Korobkov, an undecided freshman, said. “He doesn’t care what people think about him, he just does his thing. People will laugh or look and gawk, but he just dances and does what he wants to do. I wish I had moves like him.”

While Cole’s initial popularity came through occasional sightings and by word-of-mouth, his celebrity status rose with the beginning of his Facebook fan page, which is titled “Dancing Dude at UTK.” Since its inception earlier this fall, his page has swollen to encompass more than 1,400 fans.

Its contents include not only the occasional status update from Cole himself on his life, but also new videos and songs that he has been dancing to lately. Currently, his top-10 songs list is headed by “DJ Got Us Fallin’ in Love Again — Hyper Crush Remix.”

Regardless of the number of fans he has, Cole does not dance for notoriety or notice. Instead, Cole dances for one simple reason: He loves it.

“Dance is a passion of mine,” Cole said. “I love to do it, and when I hear something with a good beat I just can’t help dancing.”

Cole’s deep-seated interest in dance has given him a unique approach to his moves. While some will boast of deep repertoires and complicated steps, Cole’s movements come from a “connect-the-dots”-like system in his head.

“When I pick up the rhythm, the beat starts to move me,” Cole said. “I start moving, and I take these mental snapshots of where I want my body to look like at the end of each move. And then I kind of go through the photos and get to that pose. In the end, wherever my body goes is how I move.”

Cole’s ultimate goal with dance is to get others to dance with him. While Cole can see why some might be too afraid to take the first step, that does not deter him from hoping they will follow his lead.

“If everyone in one of my classes just got up and danced with me, well, that would just be amazing,” Cole said.

While it might take awhile for the rest of campus to catch up with his goals, Cole will still keep dancing. And there’s a good chance one of the songs he’s dancing to is “Dirty Pop.”

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Neil Cole, freshman undecided, dances in Pedestrian Courtyard on Tuesday, March 1. Neil, better know as the Dancing Dude at UT, has garnered plenty of attention thanks to his dancing during seemingly all activities, including meals at Presidential Court Cafeteria.

Student expands journalism options Kristian Smith Student Life Editor Kathryn Sullivan did not want to wait to get a jumpstart on her career.

As a journalism major focusing on magazine journalism, Sullivan knew the job market would be tough.

“I wanted an outlet to practice what I hope to do in the future,” she said.

So this past December, Sullivan became president and editor of UT’s branch of Her Campus, a nationally recognized website for college women, or “collegiettes,” as Her Campus refers to them.

“I had worked on TNJN, but I really wanted to focus on magazine writing, and there are not many ways to do that on UT’s campus,” she said.

Started by three undergraduate Harvard students as an entry for a business plan competition, Her Campus now has branches at more than 120 schools, and writers for the website have gotten jobs and internships with top magazines and newspapers like Glamour, Teen Vogue, InStyle, Marie Claire, the Washington Post and Reader’s Digest.

As president and editor of Her Campus UTK, Sullivan is responsible for creating weekly content for six different sections of the website: spotted around campus — a photo blog — Campus Cutie, Campus Celebrity — which highlights “people doing something cool or good for the campus” — news, events and a poll.

Sullivan has also learned to work with social media; she manages her branch’s Facebook and Twitter accounts.

“I didn’t even have a personal Twitter before I started working for Her Campus,” she said.

The official launch of the UT branch was Feb. 15, and Sullivan said she is very excited for the site to grow.

“Once people know what it is about, I hope they will be as excited as I am,” she said.

Some students at UT seem to already like what they see on Her Campus.

“I really like the main Her Campus website, and I’m excited that UT will now have its own branch,” Anabel Rodriguez, senior in psychology, said.

Sullivan said she is looking for contributors for UT, and she said she would love to have more writers.

“The more writers the better,” she said.

Writing for the site is open to any UT student, male or female, even if they have had no experience, Sullivan said “Everything is edited before it is published, and this is a great place to practice writing,” she said.

Sullivan said she felt she has had a great opportunity to work with the site, and she wants to give anyone who is interested the opportunity to work with Her Campus as well.

“This is a great resume builder,” she said. “And the best thing to do if you want to write is to write as often as you can.”

Sullivan said that while she felt alone starting this website, she has had a lot of support from the Her Campus team.

“There a lot of people to go to if you have an issue,” she said. “I have a mentor, there is a tech staff and I have also met with the three founders of the site.”

This is not the first time Sullivan has had to learn something new for a job, though. She is also an intern for the Knoxville Ice Bears hockey team, even though she had no previous experience with sports writing.

“The journalism department sent an e-mail that the Ice Bears were looking for video production students,” she said. “I had no experience with video or sports, but I sent them an e-mail letting them know I was a journalism student who was interested in writing for them. They replied offering me an internship writing game recaps.”

Even though she had no previous experience with sports, Sullivan said she has learned a lot through the experience.

“I get to experience how writing for a deadline really works,” she said. “I also get to sit with a writer from the News Sentinel, so I get to see how someone on the job now works.”

Sullivan said writing has been a passion from a young age.

“I liked to sing, dance and write, but I thought writing would get me a more stable job,” she said.

Though Sullivan said she would ideally like to write political or business pieces for a women’s magazine in the future, Her Campus is a great starting point.

“It gives me the chance to explore different types of articles,” she said. “And it still requires you to have new ideas every week.”

As president and editor of UT’s Her Campus, an intern for the Knoxville Ice Bears and a full-time college student — and she also holds a part-time job — Sullivan is busy, but she said it’s worth the work.

“The harder I work, the harder it will pay off,” she said.

For more information about UT’s Her Campus branch or to write for Her Campus, go to www.hercampus.com/utk or email Sullivan at kathrynsullivan@hercampus.com.

UN suspends Libya membership Associated Press UNITED NATIONS — The full membership of the United Nations has suspended Libya from the U.N. Human Rights Council.

The U.N. General Assembly voted by consensus Tuesday on the council’s recommendation to suspend Libya’s rights of council membership for committing “gross and systematic violations of human rights.” It is also expressing “deep concern” about the human rights situation in Libya.

GENEVA— Top Russian diplomats ruled out the idea of creating a no-fly zone over Libya on Tuesday as embattled leader Moammar Gadhafi unleashed bombing raids, special forces and army troops in a desperate bid to stay in power.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov described the idea of imposing limits on Libyan air space as “superfluous” and said world powers must instead focus on fully using the sanctions approved by the U.N. Security Council over the weekend.

Leaders in the U.S., Europe and Australia have suggested the military tactic — used successfully in northern Iraq and Bosnia — to prevent Gadhafi from bombing his own people.

But Russia’s consent is required as a veto-wielding member of the Security Council.

Russian NATO ambassador Dmitry Rogozin cautioned against moving militarily against Gadhafi without U.N. authorization.

“If someone in Washington is seeking a blitzkrieg in Libya, it is a serious mistake because any use of military force outside the NATO responsibility zone will be considered a violation of international law,” Rogozin told Russia’s Interfax news agency in Brussels.

“A ban on the national air force or civil aviation to fly over their own territory is still a serious interference into the domestic affairs of another country, and at any rate it requires a resolution of the U.N. Security Council,” Rogozin said Tuesday.

U.N. council members have not considered imposing a nofly zone over Libya, and no U.N.-sanctioned military action was planned. NATO says any intervention in Libya would have to be U.N.-authorized.

Still, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday that even more action beyond U.N. sanctions might be needed, because in Libya “a regime that has lost legitimacy has declared war on its own people.”

“It is up to us, the community of nations, to stand against this crime,” Ban said in New York.

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Students walk past Ferris Hall on a sunny Monday, Feb. 14. The building was named for Dr. Charles E. Ferris, the first dean of the College of Engineering at UT.

1904: Dr. Seuss born

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On this day in 1904, Theodor Geisel, better known to the world as Dr. Seuss, the author and illustrator of such beloved children’s books as “The Cat in the Hat” and “Green Eggs and Ham,” is born in Springfield, Massachusetts. Geisel, who used his middle name (which was also his mother’s maiden name) as his pen name, wrote 48 books — including some for adults — that have sold well over 200 million copies and been translated into multiple languages. Dr. Seuss books are known for their whimsical rhymes and quirky characters, which have names like the Lorax and the Sneetches and live in places like Hooterville.

Geisel, who was born on March 2, 1904, in Springfield, Mass., graduated from Dartmouth College, where he was editor of the school’s humor magazine, and studied at Oxford University.

There he met Helen Palmer, his first wife and the person who encouraged him to become a professional illustrator. Back in America, Geisel worked as a cartoonist for a variety of magazines and in advertising.

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The first children’s book that Geisel wrote and illustrated, “And to Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street,” was rejected by over two dozen publishers before making it into print in 1937. Geisel’s first bestseller, “The Cat in the Hat,” was published in 1957. The story of a mischievous cat in a tall striped hat came about after his publisher asked him to produce a book using 220 new-reader vocabulary words that could serve as an entertaining alternative to the school reading primers children found boring.

Other Dr. Seuss classics include “Yertle the Turtle,” “If I Ran the Circus,” “Fox in Socks” and “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.”

Some Dr. Seuss books tackled serious themes. “The Butter Battle Book” (1984) was about the arms buildup and nuclear war threat during Ronald Reagan’s presidency. “Lorax” (1971) dealt with the environment.

Many Dr. Seuss books have been adapted for television and film, including “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” and “Horton Hears a Who!” In 1990, Geisel published a book for adults titled “Oh, the Places You’ll Go” that became a hugely popular graduation gift for high school and college students.

Geisel, who lived and worked in an old observatory in La Jolla, Calif., known as “The Tower,” died September 24, 1991, at age 87.

— This Day in History is courtesy of history.com

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

UT Leadership Academy announces new class of aspiring school principals The Leadership Academy, a school principal training program, has announced its 2011-2012 class of participants.

A collaborative venture between the UT and the Knox County Schools, the Leadership Academy prepares talented individuals to become outstanding new school principals through a full-time, intensive 15-month fellowship program. The program is supported through both an anonymous gift and partially through Tennessee’s First to the Top funding. The class will begin work on June 1.

The Leadership Academy is a part of the Center for Educational Leadership, housed in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies in UT’s College of Education, Health and Human Sciences (CEHHS).

This is the second group of aspiring principals to attend the academy. The first class of 12 — all teachers or assistant principals in Knox County Schools — will complete the program in July 2011 and graduate in December 2011.

Leadership Academy fellows will spend four days a week working in a school with an experienced mentor principal. The fifth day will be spent in coursework and seminars with professors and expert practitioner partners.

To complete the program, students will participate in a project that will integrate their learning across the many curricular areas of the academy and will include an electronic portfolio documenting the student's proficiency in school leadership and a public presentation about the 15month experience. Fellows will graduate from the program with a master’s or education specialist degree and a state principal license.

For more about the Leadership Academy, see http://cel.utk.edu/academy.html.

UT’s latest volume of Jackson papers reveals personality, convictions President Andrew Jackson’s complicated character frequently pops up during 1830 as he trudges through the political and personal tumult that surrounds his second year in office.

The eighth volume of “The Papers of Andrew Jackson,” a UT series published by UT Press, includes primary documents dealing with Jackson’s opposition to the Bank of the United States, his urgent compulsion to pass the Indian Removal Act, his conflict with Vice President John C. Calhoun and his angst over the sex scandal surrounding Peggy Eaton, the wife of one of his cabinet members.

Nevertheless, this latest volume will combat many previous conceptions about Jackson.

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NEWS For example, many historians question whether Jackson was as engrossed with his Indian removal policy, forcing Southeastern Indian tribes west of the Mississippi River, as we think today.

Indeed, Jackson’s Indian removal policy was fully in place after he had been in office for only three weeks.

On a personal and political note, Jackson worried that the sex scandal linked to Peggy Eaton, the wife of Jackson’s secretary of war, would tear his cabinet apart.

In a 20-page letter to John McLemore, a friend in Nashville, Jackson described the Eaton affair as a “source for my enemies to assail and destroy me.” He called Vice President Calhoun “as deceitful as Satan” and a “great political magician” who was plotting to “disgrace me and weaken my administration.”

Meanwhile Jackson himself was plotting to entrap Calhoun.

Even the annual message, or the State of the Union, may change the way historians look at Jackson. Feller said that Jackson was often criticized for not being able to write his own messages and speeches, but recovered rough drafts show that Jackson actually wrote the original versions himself.

UT, ORNL communities mourn passing of NICS project director UT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) communities are mourning the loss of Phil Andrews, project director for the National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS). Andrews died suddenly Wednesday night.

Andrews, a native of the United Kingdom, came to UT and ORNL in 2007 from the San Diego Supercomputer Center.

Andrews was responsible for overall management and technical leadership of NICS, which encompasses the National Science Foundation-funded Kraken supercomputer.

During his career at NICS, the supercomputing centers at San Diego and Pittsburgh and at GA Technologies in San Diego, he authored approximately 40 papers on grid and data intensive computing, documentation and visualization techniques, theoretical plasma physics and nonlinear dynamics. Andrews was involved in high performance computing for more than 30 years in management, software development and as a user. He had a doctorate in theoretical physics from Princeton University, an M.A. from Purdue University and a B.A. in applied mathematics from Cambridge University, England.

The viewing will be held Thursday, from 4-8 p.m. at El Camino Memorial – Pacific Beach in San Diego, Calif. For more information, visit http://www.pacificbeachchapel.com/home/contact_us.html .

The service will be held Friday at 10 a.m. at Our Lady of Refuge in San Diego, Calif. For contact information, visit http://www.diocesesdiego.org/2009parishresults.asp?paparad=OUR%20LADY %20OF%20REFUGE,%20San%20Diego&-find.

School of Music awarded for marketing efforts UT’s school of music received a Bronze Citation of Excellence and a Silver ADDY at the 2011 ADDY Awards on Saturday at the Crowne Plaza hotel in downtown Knoxville.

A Bronze Citation of Excellence was awarded for the print campaign for UT Opera Theatre’s “Gianni Schicci” and “The Village Singer.” The materials were designed and illustrated by Donna Hundley, communications coordinator for the School of Music.

The School of Music’s 2010 Classical Meets Jazz fundraiser invitation received a Silver ADDY award. It was designed by Hundley and illustrated by Hundley and Mikhail Bakunovich.

The ADDY Awards are sponsored by the American Advertising Federation Knoxville Chapter and are held annually to recognize outstanding achievement in marketing, communications and advertising.

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There is a new breed of executive MBAs emerging from the College of Business Administration at the UT. No longer are the students solely skilled tacticians. They are keen strategists too.

The program’s average student is 42 years old and has 17 years of managerial experience.

The program now includes more class time spent on leadership development, an increased emphasis on global supply chain issues and additional content on organizational competitive strategy.

Established in 1994, the Executive MBA for Strategic Leadership is a one-year, residency-based program in which three residencies are spent on the UT campus and the fourth is an international immersion outside of North America.

The revamped program builds upon an already strong curriculum customized for today’s global leader. C-level guest speakers address unique strategic concerns, leadership development plans are customized for each student and class assignments deliver significant ROI for each student and organization.

A core competency of the program is the UT College of Business Administration’s supply chain management and logistics program, which is internationally ranked in sources such as U.S. News & World Report, Supply Chain Management Review, and Transportation Journal.

The UT College of Business Administration executivelevel MBA programs are top-ranked by Financial Times, Modern Healthcare and U.S. News & World Report.

The UT Executive MBA for Strategic Leadership is one of five strategically developed niche-market executivelevel MBA programs in UT’s College of Business Administration; the other four are the one-year Physician Executive MBA, the one-year Aerospace and Defense Executive MBA, the 16-month Global Supply Chain Executive MBA, and the 16-month Professional Executive MBA weekend program.

For more information about the UT Knoxville College of Business Administration, visit http://bus.utk.edu.

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Editor’s Note Top 25 progress showing UT’s potential Zac Ellis Editor-in-Chief UT chancellor Jimmy Cheek recently released a report entitled “Journey to the Top 25: 2010 Chancellor’s Report.” The booklet touched on several efforts being made by the administration of UT to boost the university into the list of top-25 public research universities in the country within the next 10 years.

The challenge, as many of you already know, was issued by former Governor Phil Bredesen during his final term in office. The goal is to improve UT’s standing in several key areas in which the university currently falls short when compared to top-25 institutions.

Such categories include graduation rate, which, according to Cheek’s report to UT’s Board of Trustees last year, sat at 59.8 percent, based on the latest available data. Other categories include the number of Ph.D.s and professional degrees awarded — based on Cheek’s Trustee presentation, UT awards nearly 200 fewer Ph. D.s and 300 fewer Master’s and professional degrees than the top-25 target universities — research expenditures and faculty awards.

While measurable goals are expected, Cheek admitted in the 2010 Chancellor’s Report that striving for the betterment of the university transcends academic rankings. “It’s not about the bragging rights,” Cheek said in the report. “It’s not even about the ranking or the numbers. It’s about the journey to become a better university — for our students, for our community, and for our state.”

As associate vice chancellor in charge of the Top 25 project, Mary Albrecht is serving on a limitedappointment basis to oversee UT’s climb towards increased national prominence. Under the supervision of Albrecht, UT’s administration compiled five strategic priorities that should help boost the university’s chances of reaching the Top 25.

1. “Retain and graduate a diverse body of well-

educated undergraduate students.”

2. “Increase the number of diversity of graduate students.”

3. “Strengthen capacity and productivity in research, scholarship and creative activity.”

4. “Attract and retain stellar facutly and staff.”

5. “Continually improve the resource base.”

Based on the numbers within the report, improvements would need to be drastic for such change to occur. While UT’s 2010 freshman class was academically impressive, with 40 percent of incoming freshmen boasting at least a 4.0 GPA, 14 percent of UT’s 2009-10 freshmen dropped out of school before their second year. By 2015, UT plans to retain at least 90 percent of its freshman classes.

UT is also falling noticeably short on postgraduate degrees. In 2010, UT awarded 277 doctorates and 1,845 master’s and professional degrees. This falls well short of the top 25 goal, in which UT should be awarding at least 486 doctorates on top of 2,130 master’s and professional degrees.

An increase in research expenditures looks to occur in the coming years, as well. UT hopes to increase its total research expenditures goal from $165 million in 2010 to $247.6 million in 2015.

In truth, the list of improvements goes on and on. To accept a challenge as lofty as Bredesen’s, Cheek essentially said one of two things: UT can reach this goal, or UT may not reach such a goal but will do its best to do so. There can be no faulting Cheek’s ambition in attempting to boost UT’s pedigree.

But some faculty members have admitted that while these efforts are more publicized as of late, it’s no secret that UT has been striving for top-25 prominence for years. In reality, if a university isn’t pushing for the top, what kind of education is being administered? But an advertised campaign brings the issue to light and, above all, shows students and faculty that, yes, efforts are being made to improve this university.

Are the goals lofty? Absolutely. Are they realistic?

Some say many aren’t within UT’s grasp. But if Cheek, Albrecht and the UT administration can help the university climb gradually up the list of public research institutes, they’ll forever be remembered as the group that attained the unattainable goal.

—Zac Ellis is a senior in journalism and electronic media. He can be reached at rellis13@utk.edu.

Follow him on Twitter @ZacEllis.

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Users,not technology,hold ultimate control T he Pen is Mightier by

Sean Mahoney March has finally arrived and while many students are busy imagining how great Spring Break is going to be, others are dreading the obstacle known as the midterm. It is certainly that time of year, which means few seats in the Commons, lack of sleep and a significant rise in the profit of energy-drink companies.

Therefore, it seems like the appropriate time to discuss an issue that has come to partly define our generation.

This week, one of my discussion groups got a little sidetracked and began discussing the impact of such prevalent use of electronics with the current generation.

Some argued that the constant access to things like the Internet, Twitter, Facebook, video games and YouTube was more detrimental than beneficial to our generation. According to their argument, we have become so conditioned to retrieving information so fast with these tools that it has inhibited our ability to even sit down and read something for more than 20 minutes. However, others argue that these tools have made learning easier and more efficient. They argue that computer devices in the class have added tremendously to their education and that social media like Facebook are even beneficial to prolonging relationships among people.

The debate concerning such widespread use of so many electronic devices obviously is not going to be resolved in a classroom discussion (nor from an incredibly thought-provoking column from a goofy writer). However, it is important to keep a few things in mind. What all this really comes down to is personal responsibility. Yes, our generation seems wholly consumed by electronics like iPods and iPads, but it only becomes a detriment to us when we let it.

Aspects of the electronic world like Facebook, the Internet and video games do have the ability to really create problems for the development of an individual, but only if they are abused. Personally, I can attest to the distractions that arise when I am reading a long,

boring book on a particular historical issue. While I do not consider myself important enough to have a Twitter account and Facebook fails to amuse me for more than five minutes, a game of “Call of Duty” can certainly be enticing while attempting to read a book on the Red Scare in the U.S. But what is important is that I do not let it take away from what matters most.

While I spend time surfing the web, playing games and watching TV, I do not let those aspects of my life become detrimental to my overall growth and development. When it is time to study, I ignore those aspects of our generation to focus and learn. When I want to be a mature, social adult, I venture out into the world and develop relationships the old-fashioned way. And while I may recognize that true social interaction with people in person can never be replaced, I do keep in touch with people through socialnetworking sites.

Part of growing up is understanding how to become a responsible, accountable adult. Every generation has something that has the potential to “ruin their lives” according to their parents. New innovations seem to always be approached in such a way by many people.

Previous generations wrestled with new developments like the rise of rock‘n’roll or the introduction of television, and they became respectable members of society just like generations before them. Like everything else, all of the electronic media available to our current generation will either be seen as beneficial or detrimental based on how we, as responsible individuals, make use of them.

If we spend too much of our time surfing Facebook, we could lose personal interaction. If we only place an emphasis on fast, quickly obtained information, we may lose the ability to investigate long, complicated concepts. Still, I reserve hope that our generation understands the issues entirely, and everyone with a Facebook page realizes there is more to a person than what is on their profile. I believe that Facebook, “Call of Duty,” YouTube and Twitter will not define our generation. What will ultimately define us, like every other generation, will be the numerous contributions we make to the world in our brief window of history.

—Sean Mahoney is a senior in history. He can be reached at smahone1@utk.edu.

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I hate sex. Well, let me rephrase that — I hate that in our society, it seems to be a double standard.

How is it fair that when two people have it (making the assumption that they are heterosexual and not in a relationship) that the guy is termed to be “the man,” and the girl ends up with a scarlet letter or being called “too easy.”

Why is it that women are supposed to be sweet, be modest and relatively virginal? Why is it not okay to have strong women who are not tethered to the opinions of their friends and others in college and beyond? (Admittedly, not all strong women make great decisions and they usually regret it afterward, but when it comes to sex, why is it such a touchy subject?)

Even though I am not anything close to a feminist and, in the past, I have usually hated the lot of them, it irritates me to no end that I am expected to not have masculine tastes and mannerisms, which is why I do it anyway. People look at me askance when I say something sexual, because I suppose you don’t expect that sort of thing from someone whose race has been stereotypically confined to office chairs, always knowing calculus like the backs of their hands, and get full rides to Ivy League schools.

Apparently, female nerds are not really supposed to understand the confines of sex and how it can be a label, often an unwarranted one.

In our society, sex in a relationship is perfectly acceptable, even accepted. However, if someone (usually the woman) does not “put out,” she is branded as a “prude” and not given the understanding she deserves. Considering that a majority of relationships fail quickly without any sort of intimate physical interaction, it is a miracle to me how much sex binds us all.

The same thought occurred to me when, during my freshman year, I started dating someone and was honest with him, telling him that he was going to have to keep his hands to himself. Needless to

say, it failed horribly, proving the theory that not just men happen to be part of the problem; it’s women who set those expectations for them and make them feel like they deserve it. For me, unless they saved my family from a fire, somehow miraculously brought about world peace, or did something fantastic, maybe they could feel entitled.

Well, I mean, they can feel entitled all they want — that is the only feeling they’re going to get regarding me, because it's not going to happen.

Another thing that irks me is that I know plenty of women who write columns about health and sex and they catch plenty of flak because it is not considered proper for them to write about sex or comment on it, simply because of their gender — not just socially, but apparently it gives off the wrong impression.

Really? I’m pretty sure we don’t live in Victorian England. It’s the 21st century, and unless we live in cults that subject women to a status of inferiority and silence, I think they should totally be able to write about what they want, however much it might offend others, and be able to use the language they want in order to have the desired effect.

My roommate and I had a discussion not too long ago about this, and she had apparently found something on StumbleUpon (clearly we get a lot of work done in our apartment) about the difference between guys and girls regarding sex. Some idiot (who probably set the feminist movement back about 50 years) used a metaphor about wanting a key that opens every lock, but not wanting a lock that is opened by every key. If the needs of the survival of our society are to be reduced to a safety mechanism, I think it is time to revamp some of the social norms, don’t you?

Perhaps the fact that women are given scarlet letters if they are more adventurous than their meeker counterparts is because of the issue of pregnancies out of wedlock and their inability to support themselves and the subsequent child. While it’s a valid issue, it does not mean that all women who are more free-spirited are harlots. Women like these make their own choices and they don’t need other people to make them for them or give them unnecessary labels.

—Yasha Sadagopan is a senior in economics. She can be reached at ysadagop@utk.edu.

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Possible spending cuts divide parties Associated Press WASHINGTON — Easy for them to say: Cut spending, no matter what. Don’t let the government borrow any more. Shut it down if you have to. While the cast of potential White House contenders tells Congress to get tough, drawing lines in the sand is risky for lawmakers who have to live with the consequences.

Many remember what happened more than two years ago when House conservatives bolted from their Republican president and leadership to defeat a $700 billion rescue bill for the nation’s financial system. The Dow Jones industrials plunged 777 points, the most ever for a single day. Lawmakers had second thoughts, and four days later 58 of them, including 25 Republicans, switched sides to pass it.

Many Republicans paid a huge political price, losing re-election last year as furious tea partyers made how lawmakers voted on the bank bailout the single biggest litmus test of their conservatism.

However dangerous such brinksmanship is for lawmakers — and the country — it offers White House hopefuls the opportunity to criticize Washington spending while portraying themselves as the commonsense alternatives.

“We had a partial government shutdown in Minnesota and the world didn’t come to an end,” former Gov. Tim Pawlenty said in a recent interview. “And so you don’t want to have that be your goal. But sometimes, when it’s appropriate and you’re standing on the right principles, there needs to be strong conviction and sometimes a showdown.”

Other would-be White House contenders

are railing against a Congress poised to pile on new debt, calling it irresponsible and a symptom of an out-of-touch Washington. As they watch, leaders of the two parties accuse each other of trying to bring about a government shutdown that they can then blame on one another.

“The shutdown’s not good for anybody,” former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said in an interview. “I think the shutdown needs to be viewed as getting the attention of the powers that be that America and the American people are done with government just playing the gimmicks of accounting and spending more money and saying ‘we didn’t have a choice.’

“By gosh, you’ve got a choice. Make the choice,” Huckabee intones. “Draw a line in the sand. For once in your lives, show that you've got the political cojones to stand up and be counted.”

The federal government, now borrowing more than 40 cents of every dollar it spends, will reach its debt limit this spring, necessitating Congress to approve a bigger credit line to cover spending already approved. Both President Barack Obama and GOP House Speaker John Boehner have urged raising the debt limit, but some Republicans want to use the threat of a failed vote to demand future spending cuts.

“To me, the debt ceiling is a tool,” Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said. “This is a tool to get spending cuts and to make the left and anyone else understand the debt ceiling is going to go up when we have a plan that puts us on a path that starts making the cuts.”

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The Europe Union added its own sanctions Monday to try to force the dictator to stop attacks on civilians and step down after 42 years of ironfisted rule. It issued travel bans and an asset freeze against senior Libyan officials, and ordered an arms embargo on the country. Germany went further, proposing a 60-day economic embargo to prevent Gadhafi from using oil revenues to hire mercenaries to repress his people.

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LIBYA continued from Page 1 Libya was expected to be suspended from the U.N. Human Rights Council later Tuesday by the U.N. General Assembly in New York.

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infringed upon.”

A Pew Research Center poll released Monday found 42 percent of adults surveyed nationwide sided with the unions and 31 percent sided with Walker in their dispute. That poll of 1,009 adults had a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.

The latest New York Times-CBS poll found Americans oppose efforts to weaken the collective bargaining rights of public employee unions by a margin of almost two to one — 60 percent to 33 percent.

The nationwide telephone poll of 984 adults had a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points.

Both polls were conducted Feb. 24-27.

Wisconsin’s measure would forbid most government workers from collectively bargaining except over wage increases that aren’t beyond the rate of inflation. Police and firefighters would be exempt.

Walker argues the measure would free local governments from having to bargain with public employee unions as they deal with the cuts he’ll outline Tuesday.

The legislation is stalled in the Senate because its 14 Democratic members fled the state, leaving the body one vote short of a quorum.

MADISON, Wis.— Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, quickly becoming a darling of Republicans across the country for taking on union rights in an effort to address his state’s money woes, gets another chance to bolster his conservative credentials when he unveils his full budget plan Tuesday.

New polling indicates national public opinion favoring unions in their dispute with Walker over his plan to take away most collective bargaining rights from public workers, but the governor has remained resolute. His full budget plan also is expected to include deep cuts for schools and local governments to help close a projected $3.6 billion shortfall in the two-year budget.

President Barack Obama has called Walker’s collective bargaining proposal an assault on unions. During a Monday meeting of governors at the White House, which Walker did not attend, Obama said public workers do need to be called on to help solve state budget problems. But he added, “I don’t think it does anybody any good when public employees are denigrated or vilified, or their rights are See WISCONSIN on Page 7

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Adara Towler, senior in music, sings during a solo performance on Monday, Feb. 28.

Without the increase to the debt limit, the government would be in a position to default on its financial obligations, stop paying for some programs and send the global economy into a free fall. The specter of an unchanged debt ceiling is also a pressure point for Republicans looking to cut spending.

“There are a lot of people, though, who are saying, ‘Shut her down, if that’s what it takes,’” said former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. “Let it be for a week or two there, this message that is sent to our politicians who are so tone deaf to what the people of America are saying.”

Calling for balanced budgets and cuts is easy for most of the field. Most are former governors who had to balance their budgets by law; only Barbour remains in office. Rep. Michele Bachmann, a tea party favorite, is the only Washington incumbent seriously weighing a bid and she is on board to force cuts.

“It’s time to force our elected officials to stop spending cold turkey, and we can start by making sure they do not raise the debt ceiling,” she told her supporters.

Bachmann also blamed Democrats for fears of a shutdown.

“That’s a bugaboo that the liberals right now are trying to throw out to scare the American people. No one is going to agree to a government shutdown.

That will not happen. So let’s just take that off the table,” she told Newsmax, a conservative online publication.

Republicans hope their strategy will force Democrats to explain why they want a larger credit card without first cutting government spending, Democrats aren’t making it easy.

They’re on the verge of agreeing to some temporary cuts endorsed by Obama while putting off until later decisions that might make a real dent in the government’s annual deficits.

With Obama proposing a $3.7 trillion budget for next year and Republicans demanding deep cuts, the situation gives would-be White House contenders a chance to earn the public’s attention at a point when their campaigns are still coming together.

And no one ever lost votes by criticizing Washington.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney blames Obama for “frightening new levels of federal spending and deficits.”

“I’ve never seen an enterprise in more desperate need of a turnaround than the U.S. government,” Romney said. “A vote on raising the debt ceiling has to be accompanied by a major effort to restructure and reduce the size of government.”

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, a White House budget director for President George W. Bush, said Republicans should extract “eight pounds of flesh in the form of major spending cuts” as part of any deal to raise the $14.3 trillion ceiling on the government’s debt.

Barbour points to GOP governors’ records balancing their states’ books, noting that he cut Mississippi’s spending by 9.4 percent last year.

But Barbour also supports raising the debt ceiling.

“America would suffer enormous consequences,” he said in a recent interview with Fox News. “The dollar is the currency of the world; it won’t be if we default.”

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who is poised to begin a White House bid in the coming weeks, encouraged lawmakers to raise the debt limit — but not without first extracting the spending cuts they promised during the midterm elections.

“Another shutdown of the federal government is not an ideal result, but for House Republicans, breaking their word would be far worse,” he wrote over the weekend in an opinion piece for The Washington Post.

Gingrich is well aware of a similar faceoff with a Democratic White House that resulted in the government shutdowns in 1995. At the time, President Bill Clinton blamed the shutdown on Republicans and marched toward re-election a year later

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continued from Page 6 After two weeks of massive protests, officials said there would be only limited access to the Capitol for Walker’s budget address. Police would not allow people to enter the building Monday unless they were attending a public hearing or being escorted by lawmakers or their staff. Police said they had to resolve conflicts with a handful of protesters who had refused to move to the ground floor of the building where demonstrators were being told to stay. Hundreds marched outside the Capitol.

Walker’s plan also calls on state workers to contribute 5.8 percent of their salaries toward pensions and double their health insurance contribution beginning April 1. Those changes would be expanded to nearly all other public workers, except those operating under existing union contracts, beginning July 1.

The higher benefit contribution would equate to an 8 percent pay decrease for the average worker. The state would save $30 million this fiscal year and $300 million over the next two years.

Walker said without those savings, 1,500 workers would have to be laid off between now and July and 12,000 state and local employees over the next two years.

Unions for teachers and state workers have said they would agree to the benefit concessions as long as they retain collective bargaining rights.

Labor leaders and Democratic lawmakers say Walker’s proposal is intended to undermine unions and weaken a key Democratic voter base.

“He’s not even conceding the fact that they’ve given them the money,” Democratic Sen. Jon Erpenbach said in an interview in Chicago. “He’s threatening their livelihoods.

He’s treating them like poker chips.”

Walker has threatened that if the state doesn’t pass his proposal by Tuesday, deeper cuts and layoffs would be required.

Missing that deadline means the state won’t be able to save $165 million through debt refinancing, Walker says.

Wisconsin schools last week started putting teachers on notice that their contracts may not be renewed for next year given the budget uncertainty.

Walker has confirmed he will propose cutting education aid by about $900 million, or 9 percent statewide.

“All of this turmoil, all of this chaos, are examples that Walker’s proposals are too extreme,” said Mary Bell, president of the Wisconsin Education Association Council. She said more than 2,000 teachers had received nonrenewal notices as of Monday.

School leaders are bracing for more bad news.

The governor is expected Tuesday to announce a new revenue limit that would require a $500 per-pupil reduction in the amount school districts can collect from property taxes. The limits, in place since 1993, have gradually grown to reflect increasing education costs. That part of Walker’s proposal alone would reduce the money available to the state's 424 districts by 7 percent, or nearly $600 million, based on a study done by University of WisconsinMadison economics professor Andrew Reschovsky.

“When you make unprecedented and historic cuts like these to schools, it means teachers are laid off, class sizes are larger, course offerings are reduced, extracurricular activities are cut, and whole parts of what we value in our schools are gone,” state superintendent Tony Evers said in a statement.

Wisconsin’s average teacher salary of about $48,000 ranks in the top half of states nationally, though it remains significantly behind the $60,000 average salaries in the top-paying states of California and Connecticut, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures.

Wisconsin students also rank in the top half nationally on standardized tests, scoring a full percentage point better on the ACT college entrance exam.

Associated Press BERLIN— Germany’s popular defense minister resigned Tuesday amid a deepening scandal over plagiarism allegations that threatened to become a liability for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives in upcoming regional elections.

Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg announced his decision days after Bayreuth University revoked his doctoral title. It said he had violated academic standards in his thesis by failing to sufficiently credit some of his sources.

Guttenberg, who initially called the allegations “absurd,” later admitted “grave mistakes” but denied having deliberately deceived anyone. Merkel stood by him for nearly two weeks after the allegations emerged, arguing that they had no bearing on his work as defense minister.

However, a steady drip of allegations kept the scandal going, and Guttenberg said it threatened to overshadow policy issues such as a major overhaul of the German military and troops’ mission in Afghanistan.

“It is the most painful step of my life,” Guttenberg said as he announced his resignation at his ministry. “I am drawing the consequences that I have and would have demanded of others.”

“Like others, I have to stand by my weaknesses and mistakes,” Guttenberg said. “I will gladly concede to my opponents that I was appointed not to be the self-defense minister, but the defense minister.”

Merkel said she accepted “with a heavy heart” the resignation of the 39-year-old, long rated Germany’s most popular politician.

Guttenberg “is a person with outstanding political talent, with an exceptional ability to reach people's hearts and enthuse them for politics,” she said.

Still, his departure may actually do her a favor, with six of 16 Germany’s states due to hold regional elections this year. Three of those votes come in late March; one, in the southwestern state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, offers a tough test for Merkel’s center-right coalition.

Although Guttenberg still inspired a degree of public sympathy, “he would have damaged his party if he hadn’t resigned” and the scandal had dragged on, said Manfred Guellner, the head of the Forsa polling agency.

Guttenberg is a member of the Christian Social Union, the Bavariaonly sister party to Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union. The CSU itself doesn’t face voters this year, but Guttenberg had been expected to campaign for Merkel’s party.

Guttenberg became the rising star of Germany’s center-right after Tara Sripunvoraskul • The Daily Beacon being thrust into Merkel’s Cabinet two years ago as economy minister. He built a reputation as a plain-speaking man of action in that job Students dance the night away in the TRECS at Dance Marathon on Friday, Feb. 25. and then, after Germany’s 2009 election, as defense minister.

The event, which had participants dancing from Friday night to Saturday morning, In recent months, he pushed through a plan to end conscription helped raise more than $50,000 for the East Tennessee Children’s Hospital.

— part of an effort to slim down the German military and make it better adapted to an era in which it faces growing demands to deploy overseas.

The chancellor said her government would carry through the “indispensable” reforms.

Merkel said it was too early to name a successor but a decision will be made “shortly.” She added that Guttenberg’s CSU has the right to nominate the new minister if it chooses to.

Germans appeared to agree it was time for Guttenberg to go.

“I think it’s a pity because he was a good minister,” said Monika Schmid, from Wangen in his home state of Bavaria. “At the end of the day, however, it was right — because you just can’t do that, plagiarize a thesis.”

The resignation was “the logical consequence” of his actions, Berlin accountant Christiane Rost said. “But basically, this step has come a bit too late.”

The opposition berated Merkel for clinging to Guttenberg even amid a growing outcry from the academic world.

Merkel “has embarrassed herself, her credibility is damaged and she has damaged the reputation of politics,” said Thomas Oppermann, a senior lawmaker with the center-left Social Democrats.

Oskar Niedermayer, a political science professor at Berlin's Free University, said Merkel did herself few favors by trying to separate Guttenberg’s activities as a politician and academic, since the allegations went to the heart of the credibility on which he built his political career.

Still, he said he doesn’t see “serious negative effects for her in the long term.”

Merkel held out hope of an eventual comeback for Guttenberg, who said he is committed to clearing up questions that remain over his dissertation.

“I am convinced that we will, in whatever form, have the opportunity to work together in the future,” she said. For now, though, it’s unclear whether he will seek to return.

“I was always ready to fight, but I have reached the limits of my strength,” Guttenberg said as he ended his resignation statement.

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Local band explores musical styles Brittney Dougherty Staff Writer Since it formed in 2008, Hey OK Fantastic has played more than 100 shows, released one album and is currently working on another.

The band started in 2008 with Alex Minard on guitar and vocals and Ian Daniels on bass. Charlie Murphy and Sam Harding joined in 2009 on drums and guitar, respectively.

Minard said the band tries hard to make fun and enjoyable music for their fans, which is why it took 11 months in the recording studio for it to finish its first album, now available at Disc Exchange and on Amazon.com.

“I would take it home after we left the studio and listen to it nonstop, then take it back in and say I want to change this, I want to change that,” Minard said.

The members have a wide variety of musical interests.

Their influences range from Ween to Sam Cooke and they even include the psychedelic rock sounds of the ’60s in their music.

Part of the reason the group chose the name Hey OK Fantastic was to have the freedom to play different types of music, Minard said. The members did not want to be tied down by their band name. They wanted to be able to do whatever they wanted musically.

“I mean if we were called Bloodfist, everybody would expect us to do the type of stuff that a band called Bloodfist would do, like metal or something,” Minard said.

Longtime friend and fan Robbie Andrews said he enjoys the different sides of Hey OK Fantastic.

“There’s a lot of excitement and a lot of power,” Andrews said. “Some songs move fast and are high ener-

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gy, and others move slower and they have a different kind of passion to them.”

Andrews, sophomore at Pellissippi State, has attended most of the band’s shows and said he enjoys Minard’s rock songs.

“Some of his sillier songs are my favorites,” Andrews said. “‘Lookin’ For a Lizard’ is like the epitome of his music, and he wrote it when he was sort of breaking out of his shell.”

“Lookin’ for a Lizard” is one of the songs on Hey OK Fantastic’s self-titled album that came out in late January.

It is made up of tracks that songwriter Minard called “silly rock songs.”

Since the band has so many different sounds, it had to choose between putting out albums that included a mix of their music or choosing a theme. It decided to release individual albums that showcase each style of music.

“We wanted it to be consistent,” Minard said.

The band is currently working on its second album, which will have a soul theme. It does all of its recording at Songwriters Recording Studio in Knoxville. The new album should be out later this year.

The band takes the opposite direction with its concerts and combines all its different music styles together.

Minard said the members try to put on a good show for the audience, and they usually play about 20 to 30 songs.

“We want it to be a quality show.” he said. “If people are going to pay to get in, then we want them to get their money’s worth.”

Minard and Andrews agreed that the audience should always expect to have a good time when the band plays.

Its next show is at Hey OK Fantastic’s favorite venue, the Longbranch Saloon, at 10 p.m. on Thursday.

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McEntire inducted into hall of fame Associated Press NASHVILLE — Reba McEntire’s career resume has a little bit of everything: Songbird, actress, entrepreneur, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Add another: Country Music Hall of Fame member.

Songwriter Bobby Braddock and another pioneering female singer, Jean Shepard, join McEntire as the hall’s newest members.

The 2011 inductees were introduced Tuesday morning at a news conference at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.

McEntire is an enduring icon who is more popular than ever after three dozen years in the business. The 55-year-old was declared country music’s top female hitmaker long ago and remains a dynamo, selling more than 55 million albums and recently scoring her 35th No. 1 hit.

The fiery redhead has carved out an enviable and unique career that goes far beyond music. She’s had her own television show.

She stormed Broadway in “Annie Get Your Gun.” And she is a role model as both an artist and a businesswoman for a wave of young female stars who are following the example she set in a career defined by hard work and an independent streak.

Shepard, known as “The Grand Lady of The Grand Ole Opry” as she enters her 56th year on the show, helped clear the way for McEntire and country music's other top female stars with a pioneering career that stretches back to the 1940s. She paired with fellow Hall of Fame member Ferlin Husky in

1953 on “A Dear John Letter,” her first No. 1 country hit. The song went to No. 4 on the Billboard pop chart and made her the first million-selling female artist in the postWorld War II era.

The 77-year-old was an early archetype for women in country music, choosing to tour as a solo act rather than as part of a group and presenting a strong female point of view on songs like “Twice the Lovin’ in Half the Time” and “The Root of All Evil (Is a Man)” that influenced such key figures in country music as Loretta Lynn. She also is credited with releasing country music’s first concept album, “Songs From a Love Affair.” Her debut record’s 12 songs all deal with an affair that tears apart a marriage.

Braddock is the first inductee in the new songwriter category. He’s written or co-written hits for George Jones, Tammy Wynette, The Oak Ridge Boys and Toby Keith among many others in a career of 50-plus years.

Nine of his songs have been played more than 1 million times on the radio and two — Keith’s “I Wanna Talk About Me” and Tracy Lawrence’s “Time Marches On” — have been played more than 3 million times.

He penned the iconic songs “He Stopped Loving Her Today” for Jones and “D-I-V-O-R-C-E” for Wynette and helped launch the career of current Country Music Association male vocalist of the year Blake Shelton.

McEntire, Shepard and Braddock will be formally inducted into the Hall of Fame at a ceremony later this year.

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Lady Vols poised for championship run Wingardh leads UT to fifth-place finish are going to be going home early. We’ve got to keep reminding not about what they have done, but about how much more they can do.”

But how much more will this team accomplish?

Tennessee fans have come to expect championships, both SEC and national, and both are certainty goals for this team.

Sports Editor Even given the team’s success this season, how good the Lady Vols are is still unknown because of Despite being overshadowed by the Tennessee injuries throughout the year. Shekinna Stricklen, men’s basketball team’s on- and off-the-court trou- the SEC player of the year, is the only Lady Vol to bles this season, Pat Summitt’s No. 4-ranked Lady have started every game.

Post players Kelley Cain, Vicki Baugh and Volunteers are once again a contender for the Alyssia Brewer have seemingly never been able to national championship.

The Lady Vols capped off a perfect 16-0 confer- be healthy at the same time. But all three are as healthy as they have ence season on been all year heading Sunday, beating LSU into this weekend.

80-60. It marked the Then there’s Angie ninth time in Bjorklund. The senior Summitt’s 37-year missed six games midtenure in which UT way through the conhas entered postseaference schedule but son play with an looked to be rounding unblemished SEC back into form in the record. season finale against “We didn’t set out LSU, scoring 17 for that, but you have points, including to give this team a lot going 4-of-4 from of credit,” Summitt three-point range. said. “We went on the Given the team’s road and won some depth — seven Lady games, we had some Vols average more tough games. Overall, than seven points per I think their focus and game — Summitt maturity has really doesn’t have to rely on helped us to be sucone or two players to cessful. This team has have a good night good chemistry. They offensively. don’t get upset if they “You kind of just don’t play or if they have to work through come out. They really a game and see who want to win as a team has a hot hand,” she and it shows.” said. “It’s not like you Winning has seemcan predetermine and ingly come easy for it’s going to be that the Lady Vols this way the whole game.” year. Despite playing But as the confiarguably the toughest dent Lady Vols non-conference schedembark on their quest ule in country, UT’s for a ninth national overall record sits at championship, 28-2. The only blem– Pat Summitt, UT Lady Vols coach, Summitt knows the ishes came early in the on succeeding in the SEC Tournament road to the Final Four season — a Nov. 27 69-58 loss to Georgetown in the Paradise Jam in Indianapolis won’t be won on a player’s hot Tournament and a 65-54 loss at No. 3-ranked hand.

“Our defense and our board play is where you Baylor on Dec. 14.

Though the team is riding a 19-game winning win championships, so we have to get our mindset streak, Summitt knows her squad won’t simply be exactly where it needs to be for those two aspects handed the SEC Tournament title this weekend in of the game,” she said.

Nashvile, Tenn.

— Matt Dixon is a senior in journalism and elec“What I don’t want us to do is have a letdown,” Summitt said. “We’ve got to stay focused. We’ve tronic media. He can be reached at got to be a team on a mission. If they’re satisfied mdixon3@utk.edu and followed on Twitter at with what they’ve already accomplished, then we @MattDixon3.

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What I don’t want us to do is have a

letdown. We’ve got to stay focused. We’ve got to be a

team on a mission. If they’re satisfied with what they’ve

already accomplished, then

Staff Reports Robin Wingardh captured his second top-10 result in the last three events and Tennessee held on Tuesday for a fifth-place showing at the John Hayt Collegiate Invitational.

The Vols closed with a team score of 10-overpar 298 to settle at 18-over 882 for the 54 holes at Sawgrass Country Club. Wingardh shot 1over-par 73 to finish just one stroke outside the top five with a final score of 1-under-par 215.

Garrick Porteous (73), Darren Renwick (76) and Danny Keddie (76) also scored for the Vols.

The field's six SEC teams all finished among the top seven, led by Arkansas (867) after the Razorbacks combined for a 5-under-par 283 on the final day. Auburn (869) was second, followed by LSU (871) and Central Florida (879) ahead of the Vols. Florida and Mississippi tied for sixth place at 885.

Wingardh birdied the seventh, eighth and 11th holes along with the closing 18th, helping offset five bogeys during another blustery round in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. In addition to Tuesday's result, UT's senior captain placed second during his most recent visit to Florida at the Isleworth Collegiate Invitational in October.

Wingardh now owns five top-20 finishes in six tournaments this season and leads the Vols with a stroke average of 71.94.

Porteous improved eight places to 28th thanks to his round of 73. The junior carded three of his four birdies on the front nine and

was 3 under par before a bogey at the ninth.

Porteous bogeyed four more times coming home against just one birdie at the par-4 14th and finished at 7-over-par 223.

Renwick closed on a bright note with a birdie at No. 18. The junior fought through four bogeys and a double against just one additional birdie to finish the tournament at 6-over-par 222. The tie for 21st place is Renwick's secondbest finish of the season.

Keddie bogeyed the 18th hole to just miss carding his third straight 75. The freshman scored birdies at the par-3 sixth, par-5 11th and par-4 16th but had five bogeys and a double to finish in a tie for 41st place at 10-over 226.

Vandeventer improved by four strokes over his Monday round and it could have been more if not for bogeys on three of his last four holes.

The Bristol sophomore closed the tournament in a tie for 54th at 14-over-par 230.

Brandon Rodgers, competing in this event as an individual, shot 87 to finish in a tie for 78th place at 26-over 242.

The Vols return to action March 13-14 at the Gen. Jim Hackler Championship in Myrtle Beach, S.C., beginning a stretch of three tournaments in four weekends leading into the SEC Championship. Other upcoming events are the Schenkel E-Z-Go Invitational on March 18-20 in Statesboro, Ga., and the Administaff ASU Invitational on April 2-3 in Augusta, Ga. This year's SEC Championship is April 15-17 at St. Simons Island, Ga.

we are going to be going

home early. We’ve got to

keep reminding not about what they have done, but

about how much more they can do.

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Justin Walker hits an approach shot during competition during the fall of the 200910 season. Tennessee closed out the John Hayt Collegiate Invitational with a fifthplace finish, with senior captain Robin Wingardh finishing tied for sixth individually.

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two assists per game. Stricklen is the first Lady Vol to garner the award since Candace Parker in 2007.

“Wow! This is a tremendous honor,” Stricklen remarked. “I am surprised and blessed at the same time. I have to thank all of my teammates and our coaching staff for all of their help and support.”

In addition to POY, Stricklen earned AllSEC First Team honors for the first time after placing on the Second Team in 2009 and 2010 and All-Freshman team in 2009.

“Shekinna has been a multiple threat for us this season,” Summitt said. “I challenged her at the start of SEC play and she has really stepped up her game and played like an All-American.”

Stricklen is joined on the All-SEC First Team by Johnson who is making her very first appearance since earning 2009 SEC AllFreshman honors. The 6’3 leaper was also named to the six player 2011 SEC AllDefensive Team. This season, Johnson was selected as the 2011 SEC Player of the Week four times and was UT's second leading scorer in SEC games at 13.7 ppg while posting 10.3 rpg.

“There hasn’t been a better rebounder than Glory Johnson, night-in and nightout, in SEC play this y e a r , ” Summitt said.

“I think her 10.3 rpg speaks to her commitment to controlling the glass.”

After going undefeated in 2011 Southeastern Conference basketball play, the University of Tennessee Lady Vols swept the trifecta of SEC Coach of the Year, Player of the Year and Freshman of the Year honors, the conference office announced on Tuesday.

Lady Vol Coach Pat Summitt collected her eighth SEC Coach of the Year award, while junior forward/guard Shekinna Stricklen (Morrilton, Ark.) was named the 2011 SEC Player of the Year and guard Meighan Simmons (Cibolo, Texas) was tabbed as the 2011 SEC Freshman of the Year.

Additionally, UT junior forward Glory Johnson (Knoxville, Tenn.) was also selected to the eight player SEC First Team and was also placed on the SEC All-Defensive squad in a vote by the league’s 12 coaches.

This marks the second time Tennessee has swept the top three conference awards after Summitt was named the 1998 SEC Coach of the Year, Chamique Holdsclaw was the 1998 SEC Player of the Year and T a m i k a Catchings was honored as the 1998 SEC Freshman of the Year.

“I am so excited for, and proud of, Shekinna, Glory and Meighan,” Summitt said.

“They have impacted our success in SEC play all season long and are very deserving of this recognition.”

In her 37th season at the helm of the UT p ro g ra m , Summitt has accumulated 1,065 wins more than any Simmons other Division I has been a coach in the dynamo for history of men's the Lady or women's colVols all sealege basketball.

Wade Rackley • The Daily Beacon son. The In addition to her eight Meighan Simmons shoots over South Carolina o v e r a l l NCAA Titles, defender Samone Kennedy on Thursday, Feb. 17. The s c o r i n g eight SEC Lady Vols will take on either Florida or Arkansas on leader at Coach of the Friday, March 4, in Nashville on the road to a second 13.8 ppg, she was Year Awards, straight SEC Tournament title. third on seven NCAA the UT Coach of the Year Awards and 18 NCAA Final Four appearances, the Henrietta, team in SEC scoring at 11.3 ppg while dishTenn., native has coached 19 Kodak All- ing 3.4 helpers per game.

“Meighan has not played like a freshman Americans, has a 100% graduation rate for for our team and has been an impact player student-athletes who exhaust their eligibility from day one,” Summitt said. in Lady Vol uniforms and boasts two basketSimmons was selected as the 2010-11 SEC ball courts and a gymnasium that bear her Freshman of the Week three times. In addiname.

“Anytime you are recognized by your tion to her Freshman of the Year honors and peers it's a great compliment,” said Summitt. SEC All-Freshman Team selection, she also “Those are the people for whom I have the earned a place on the All-SEC Second Team.

“I am so honored,” said Simmons. “Our utmost respect. I received this award league has so many great players and teams, because of this team and their commitment I feel so blessed to have been selected. This to being competitive and playing together game-in and game-out. I am fortunate to award is a direct reflection on my teammates have a great staff that can teach and con- and coaches - they have helped me so much tribute in many ways to the success of our this season.”

The top-seeded Lady Vols (28-2, 16-0 team and our program.”

A junior for the Big Orange, Stricklen led SEC) open play in the 2011 SEC Tournament her 2011 team in SEC scoring (13.8 ppg) at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn., while playing four positions on the floor. on Fri., Mar. 4 at noon CT (SportSouth).

Asked to play inside, she grabbed 8.4 Tennessee will take on the winner of no. 8 rebounds per game in SEC contests. Need seeded Florida (17-13, 7-9 SEC0 and no. 9 help at guard? She buried 43 percent of her seeded Arkansas (18-10, 6-10 SEC) who play three-pointers (25-57) while dishing almost in opening round action on Mar. 3.

Areson paces Lady Vols in SEC meet Preston Peeden Staff Writer For athletes, it can take a lifetime of hard work to become successful in their sport, but they can only have a handful of moments to prove themselves. Senior Jackie Areson had two of those moments this past weekend at the SEC Indoor Track and Field Championships.

In the 3,000 meter, Areson ran a blazing time of 9:10.49.

That time was not only good enough for first— she outpaced the two nearest competitors, fellow UT runners senior Liz Costello and junior Brittany Sheffey, by six and 10 seconds, respectively — but her time shattered a 24-year-old SEC record by more than five seconds.

Areson, however, was not shocked by her performance; she saw her run as going the way she expected.

“It was sort of the plan (to win and break the record), so I wasn’t shocked or surprised or anything,” Areson said. “I was just happy I completed my task.”

From the very beginning of the race, Areson’s victory-driven mentality was easy to see. By the midway point of the 15-lap race, she had already begun to gain a sig distance from the rest of the pack.

While going into the race, Areson believed her performance seemed a foregone conclusion, UT Director of Track & Field J.J. Clark was still impressed with his runner’s race.

“It's a great feeling for Jackie to break a 24year-old record,” Clark said. “It shows you how good she was, because she broke it fairly easily, and she had just a good run today. There were really a lot of athletes in that race, probably too many, and there was a lot of bumping and pushing in the beginning. Jackie just took the lead and never looked back.”

The overcrowded track caused problems for Areson at first, but in the end, she said, it actually helped her push forward and go out at a

faster pace.

“There were some people pushing at my back, and I saw people going down,” Areson said. “And I wasn’t supposed to lead at first, but then I just said, ‘I better get out of this mess.’ So I just ran and got away from it. There were so many girls on the line, it was crazy.”

While Areson was pleased with her own individual performance, the true accomplishment in the race came from the strong finish of her two teammates, which allowed UT to sweep the • Jackie Areson podium in the 3,000 meter.

“It’s awesome,” Areson said. “Yeah, that was our goal going in. We did it, but in a very different way than we thought.

Our plan was to run together the whole way, but the crazy pushing in the beginning threw out our plan, so it was nice to turn around and see that they (Costello and Sheffey) got second and third. It was fun.”

Areson’s did not stop with just one SEC Championship and one record. On the day following, she was a member of the record-setting, first-place, distance medley relay with UT’s juniors Chanelle Price, Sheffey and Ashley Harris.

“We weren’t really worried about the (SEC meet) record,” Areson said. “We wanted to try to get as close to (an NCAA automatic mark) as possible, because we were kind of on the bubble.

I just wanted to help the relay qualify for nationals, and I knew we had to run faster than the meet record to do that.”

That relay’s finishing time of 11:05.37 was 32 seconds faster than its nearest competitor and nine seconds faster than the previous record.

Clark was more than pleased with his runners’ performances in the relay.

“Running an auto mark at the end of the meet is absolutely fantastic,” Clark said. “It’s one of the top times in the country, and we're happy we punched our ticket (to the NCAAs).”

Despite anyone’s surprise at her success this weekend, for Areson, her moments this weekend all went according to plan.