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Vols win, advance in NIT Recyclympics job in the second half of settling down and making plays.”

Savannah State opened the second half on a 9-3 run to cut UT’s lead to two at 3533. It was the closest the Tigers would get.

The Vols shot 42 percent from the field (21-of-50), while allowing its secondfewest points of the season.

Maymon was missing from the line-up due to a bruised right knee that Martin said is “a day-to-day kind of thing.” Maymon, a second team All-SEC selection, is UT’s second leading scorer (12.6) and top rebounder (8.1) on the year.

“You’re talking about really our team leader,” Martin said. “You can’t lose a guy of that magnitude and think you’re going to click on all cylinders out of the gate. It’s a major adjustment. Other guys have to step up.”

One player who did step up was freshman guard Josh Richardson, who started nine games this season and came off the bench to score 10 points, the second-highest total of his career.

“That pull-up, that’s the shot he can Tia Patron • The Daily Beacon Center Yemi Makanjuola shoots a free make. That’s probably his patented shot, going left and hitting that pullthrow against the Savannah State up,” Martin said. “He just played with Tigers on Tuesday. The freshman scored confidence. My thing with him is just 10 points in the Vols’ 65-51 win over the relax and take what the defense gives Tigers. you.”

The Vols advance to the second crowd in my opinion. That part was great.” round of the 32-team NIT, and will host UT jumped out to a quick 10-0 advan- Middle Tennessee on either Thursday or tage, and led by as much as 17 points in the Sunday.

“We’re in this to win,” junior guard first half. The Tigers fought back to cut the Skylar McBee said. “No matter what tourVols’ lead to eight, at 32-24 at halftime.

“We hit a spell in that first half,” Martin nament it is, no matter what game it is, said. “We got a big lead and we didn’t move we’re coming to battle every night. We’re the ball as well as we needed to. I think we hoping to make it to New York and win this were hunting shots. I thought we did a good thing. tonight,” Martin said. “It wasn’t as huge of a size but it was a tremendous effort. They were enthusiastic about cheering. They were ready to cheer when we hit a lull. I thought they were very active and it was fun to see. I thought they were a really good

Lauren Kittrell News Editor

Matt Dixon Sports Editor In his first career start, Tennessee freshman center Yemi Makanjuola scored 10 points and grabbed eight rebounds to help lead the No. 1 seed Volunteers to a 65-51 victory over the eighth-seeded Savannah State Tigers in the first round of the National Invitational Tournament (NIT) on Tuesday night.

“I thought Yemi played really well accepting that starting role,” UT coach Cuonzo Martin said. “He defended, played extremely hard, rebounded the ball. He gathered himself when he got an offensive rebound and made plays. He made his free throws, 6of-7. That was just as impressive.”

Along with the help of freshmen forward Jarnell Stokes’ team-high 13 points, UT got off to a strong start and never lost its lead.

Martin said he was happy with the outcome, even though it wasn’t the prettiest win.

“For me, I just like W’s,” the first-year Vols coach said. “I’d rather gather and regroup after an ugly win I guess because it’s a win. You keep moving. It’s better watching film that way and guys are learning. I thought we did a good job. They make you play a certain way. Their 4s and 5s are really 6-(foot)-7, 6-(foot)-8 perimeter guys that go off the dribble and I thought we did a good job of guarding from that standpoint. I thought we did a good job handling their press.”

Despite a small crowd of 6,289 in attendance, Thompson-Boling Arena provided a definite home-court advantage.

“I thought the crowd energy was great

Artist spreads acceptance Holly Patton Staff Writer Nationally recognized photographer iO Tillett Wright drew a crowd Monday night as the Commission for LGBT People and Ready for the World hosted a reception for her at the Clarence Brown Theatre.

Wright made UT her first campus visit to add to her work in progress, a photography portfolio titled “Self-Evident Truths.”

Wright’s goal is to highlight the faces of 4,000 men, women, boys and girls from the gay, lesbian, bisexual and, in Wright’s words, “anything other than straight” community across America. Around 150 LGBTQ members flocked to their Melrose Avenue headquarters to have their portrait added to Wright’s collection.

Students and faculty alike welcomed her artistic endeavors, which some believe have an impact on society and the LGBTQ community.

“It puts faces to a group of people that have remained faceless for so long,” Christine Copelan, junior in communications pre-major, said.

Tom Cervone, managing director for the Clarence Brown Theatre and co-chair for the Commission for LGBT People, meandered from group to group at the reception, surveying the results of the months of preparation that he and several others spent developing a success-

ful service for Wright and her team.

“I am pleased and proud to be a part of that and allowing our theater to host it,” Cervone said. “This is an incredibly important movement, and we are really fortunate to have an artist of iO’s caliber, a courageous young person.”

Wright, who deemed gay and lesbian discrimination the “Civil Rights Movement of our generation,” mingled in the crowd juxtaposing her serious cause with her casual demeanor. Although tired from three weeks of constant traveling, Wright still managed to convey the passion she possesses for the people in her photographs, and how she is playing her part in eliminating discrimination.

“If they could see us and look us in the eye, they would have a harder time discriminating against us,” Wright said. “I just happen to be able to take pictures. This is what I know how to do, so this is what I’m going to contribute.”

As reception-goers moved from the Clarence Brown to the Carousel Theatre, Wright engaged her audience with her quick-witted remarks, narratives of growing up in New York City and surprises of the Southern culture, including her pleasant discovery of Waffle House and being called “ma’am.”

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moves date Justin Joo Staff Writer The third annual Recyclympics has been rescheduled from its original date of March 14 to March 15.

The Recyclympics is a recycling-themed event that is a part of the RecyleMania competition. The event was rescheduled to allow 90.3 WUTK to broadcast during the event.

The Recyclympics will be held from 2-5 p.m. on Thursday at the Humanities Amphitheater.

Jay Price, the UT recycling environmental coordinator, said that Recyclympics is designed to raise awareness about recycling and sustainability in a fun way.

“A lot of times people think of environmental things as doom and gloom,” Price said.

“We really want people to come out and have a fun time with recycling.”

Price expects there to be seven to nine games at the Recyclympics. While some are still waiting to be finalized, Price can confirm five of them, which include the Plastic Bottle Free Throw, Phonebook Shot Put, Plastic Bottle Hammer Throw, Mouseballs (ladder golf but with computer mice), and Cap-in-a-Haystack.

The past two Recyclympics were held at the RecSports Fields next to the TRECS. This year’s move to the Humanities Amphitheater was made so that the event could draw more attention and garner walk-on participants. “(RecSports Fields) was excellent from a game standpoint,” Price said. “We could spread out, take up as much space (as) we needed to.

Logistically it was awesome.

The problem was that it wasn’t as visible as the Pedestrian Mall or the Humanities Amphitheater.”

Price estimated that 100 students participated in the Recyclympics its first two years.

With the move to the amphitheater, Price is hoping to have up

to 500 participants.

Participating students have a chance to win a variety of prizes. At the time of writing, Price said that not all of the prizes were 100-percent confirmed, but students could expect movie passes provided

by Regal Cinema as well as concert tickets.

WUTK helped the Recyclympics obtain sponsors for the event’s prizes. Jennell Klussman, underwriting director for WUTK, said that some of these sponsors include JulieApple (a handbag company that uses recycled material), Earthfare, Red Bull and possibly Moe’s.

WUTK’s involvement with Recyclympics started last year with the event’s second outing.

That involvement came simple enough.

“We were doing an event for another university program,” Klussman said. “And the recycling folks came up and said, ‘Hey, we’re doing this Recyclympics thing,’ and I said, ‘That sounds so neat! What can we do to help?’”

WUTK will be broadcasting live at the event, providing both commentary and music.

Klussman will be there herself as her DJ persona J.J., along with several of the student DJs. Klussman said that WUTK’s work with the Recyclympics comes from a desire to help educate and advocate about recycling in any way possible.

“I think sometimes people get stagnant with recycling,” Klussman said. “Any time we can generate interest in the student population I think it increases everyone’s awareness.”

Students can register to compete as an individual or on a team of two to four students.

The registry site can be found a t http://www.pp.utk.edu/Recycle /recycleRecycleMania.htm.

Online registration is not required though; students can also register at the event as walk-ons.

New UC to add more options Taylor McElroy Staff Writer The process of replacing the 57-year-old University Center has led to many unanswered questions from students for the coming years.

Will the dining locations be closed down during the construction? And if so, where will students go to get food on campus?

“There are two phases to the construction process,” Troy Anderson, UT food service director, said. “During phase one, the current University Center will remain open. When construction on phase two begins, the current UC will close, and our new locations in phase one will be open.”

Monica Calvillo, freshman in chemistry, is disappointed she will not experience the new UC. “I am glad that we will still have places to eat besides the cafeteria, but it kind of blows having to graduate before getting to enjoy the finished product,” Calvillo said.

Future students will get to enjoy current options such as Chick-fil-A and AFC Express, as well as two new additions: Salad Creations and Qdoba all on the ground level and a Starbucks and

a pizza/pasta option on the first level. The new food stations will also offer better nutritional options.

Salad Creations, Subway, Qdoba, Chick-fil-A and AFC will offer vegetarian options. Chickfil-A, Qdoba and Subway will have gluten-free options.

“We encourage our customers with food allergies to check the nutritional contents of all foods on the websites of the national brands,” Anderson said.

Once completed, the new UC will have plenty of other benefits besides new food options.

Seating will more than double from 480 to 1100 new seats.

Meal plans may also be adjusted to suit the new availabilities.

Surveys and focus groups will be conducted to assist in making these changes.

The new Student Union will provide many new games and activities for students, which may cause a change in hours.

Weekend hours may also change to reflect the needs of the campus community.

Hiring opportunities with Volunteer Dining, the largest student employer on campus, will increase for students as well.

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Students dig through a box of shredded paper during the Recyclympics in 2011. This year this event will be hosted in the HSS Amphitheater on March 15 from 2-6 p.m.

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Campus Event Calendar Wednesday, March 14 • Education Job Fair @ UC Ballroom 9 a.m. - Noon

• Brazillian Culture Night @ the I-House 6 - 8 p.m. $5.00

• Classical Music Performance @ Alumni Memorial Building 8 - 10 p.m.

Thursday, March 15 • Latin American Student Organization Meeting

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Ryan Nesser, guest performer, plays on Sunday for a guest recital. In 2011 Nesser performed Sofia Gubaidulina’s “The Canticle of the Sun” in Germany.

@ Black Cultural Center 7 p.m.

Friday, March 16 • Cavani String Quartet @ Alumni Memorial Building 7 - 9 p.m.

Friday, March 16 • Knoxville’s Civil War Homes @ McClung Museum 2 - 3 p.m.

1879 — Albert Einstein is born On March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein is born, the son of a Jewish electrical engineer in Ulm, Germany. Einstein’s theories of special and general relativity drastically altered man’s view of the universe, and his work in particle and energy theory helped make possible quantum mechanics and, ultimately, the atomic bomb.

After a childhood in Germany and Italy, Einstein studied physics and mathematics at the Federal Polytechnic Academy in Zurich, Switzerland. He became a Swiss citizen and in 1905 was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of Zurich while working at the Swiss patent office in Bern. That year, which historians of Einstein’s career call the annus mirabilis — the “miracle year” — he published five theoretical papers that were to have a profound effect on the development of modern physics.

In the first of these, titled “On a Heuristic Viewpoint Concerning the Production and Transformation of Light,” Einstein theorized that light is made up of individual quanta (photons) that demonstrate particle-like properties while collectively behaving like a wave. The hypothesis, an important step in the development of quantum theory, was arrived at through Einstein’s examination of the photoelectric effect, a phenomenon in which some solids emit electrically charged particles when struck by light. This work would later earn him the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics.

In the second paper, he devised a new method of counting and determining the size of the atoms and molecules in a given space, and in the third he offered a mathematical explanation for the constant erratic movement of particles suspended in a fluid, known as Brownian motion. These two papers provided indisputable evidence of the existence of atoms, which at the time was still disputed by a few scientists.

Einstein’s fourth groundbreaking scientific work of 1905 addressed what he termed his special theory of relativity. In special relativity, time and space are not absolute, but relative to the motion of the observer. Thus, two observers traveling at great speeds in regard to each other would not necessarily observe simultaneous events in time at the same moment, nor necessarily agree in their measurements of space. In Einstein’s theory, the speed of light, which is the limiting speed of any body having mass, is constant in all frames of reference. In the fifth paper that year, an exploration of the mathematics of special relativity, Einstein announced that mass and energy were equivalent and could be calculated with an equation, E=mc2.

Although the public was not quick to embrace his revolutionary science, Einstein was welcomed into the circle of Europe’s most eminent physicists and given professorships in Z˝rich, Prague, and Berlin. In 1916, he published “The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativity,” which proposed that gravity, as well as motion, can affect the intervals of time and of space. According to Einstein, gravitation is not a force, as Isaac Newton had argued, but a curved field in the space-time continuum, created by the presence of mass. An object of very large gravitational mass, such as the sun, would therefore appear to warp space and time around it, which could be demonstrated by observing starlight as it skirted the sun on its way to earth. In 1919, astronomers studying a solar eclipse verified predictions Einstein made in the general theory of relativity, and he became an overnight celebrity. Later, other predictions of general relativity, such as a shift in the orbit of the planet Mercury and the probable existence of black holes, were confirmed by scientists.

During the next decade, Einstein made continued contributions to quantum theory and began work on a unified field theory, which he hoped would encompass quantum mechanics and his own relativity theory as a grand explanation of the workings of the universe. As a world-renowned public figure, he became increasingly political, taking up the cause of Zionism and speaking out against militarism and rearmament. In his native Germany, this made him an unpopular figure, and after Nazi leader Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 1933 Einstein renounced his German citizenship and left the country.

He later settled in the United States, where he accepted a post at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He would remain there for the rest of his life, working on his unified field theory and relaxing by sailing on a local lake or playing his violin. He became an American citizen in 1940.

In 1939, despite his lifelong pacifist beliefs, he agreed to write to President Franklin D. Roosevelt on behalf of a group of scientists who were concerned with American inaction in the field of atomic-weapons research. Like the other scientists, he feared sole German possession of such a weapon. He played no role, however, in the subsequent Manhattan Project and later deplored the use of atomic bombs against Japan. After the war, he called for the establishment of a world government that would control nuclear technology and prevent future armed conflict.

1887 — Sylvia Beach, bookstore owner and publisher of Ulysses, is born Sylvia Beach, owner of the Paris-based bookstore Shakespeare and Co., is born in Baltimore. Beach moved to Paris at the age of 14, when her father, a Presbyterian minister, was sent to France. She fell in love with the city. In 1919, she opened her bookstore, Shakespeare and Co., which became a gathering place for American writers in Paris in the 1920s, including F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.

Beach was a strong supporter of writer James Joyce, who lived in Paris from 1920 to 1940. The Irish writer had achieved fame with his 1915 novel, “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,” and had started publishing his masterwork “Ulysses” in serial form in an American magazine called the Little Review.

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

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

TRUTHS continued from Page 1 Along with her ability to converse comically with her audience, Wright also conveyed the stories of discrimination of some whom she had encountered on her tour of photographs. These stories have only increased her passion in her pursuit of this project, even admitting that she and her team had in a way “marched before they could walk.”

While this project is directed toward the LGBTQ community on campus, Wright clarifies her ultimate intention in her

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endeavor.

“It’s not a gay project,” Wright said. “It’s a human project.”

Wright and her team have reached 1,415 portraits out of the 4,000 they intend to photograph.

However, while she has capped her goal at 4,000 at this point in time, Wright said that she wants to complete 10,000 portraits to display in museums and exhibitions all over the United States. Her photographs are the beliefs and wishes she has for this community, and she rejects any label except for her self-proclamation as “just a kid with a camera.”

Irish airline ends year-old nationality, language test The Associated Press DUBLIN — An Irish airline apologized Tuesday for forcing a Greek woman living in Ireland to complete a language test in her native tongue to demonstrate that her passport and nationality were genuine.

Aer Lingus announced in response to Associated Press questions it would suspend the year-old language tests — employed at its checkin desks in Spain and in Portugal to try to identify people traveling on fake passports — with immediate effect. Until Tuesday, those traveling on Greek passports but unable to show fluency in Greek could be refused permission to board.

The bizarre episode underscored how, despite longtime European Union agreements to ease the movement of travelers throughout the 27nation bloc, individual nations and companies reserve the right to erect awkward borders in hopes of deterring illegal immigration.

The policy became public after a telecommunications executive in Ireland, Greek-born Chryssa Dislis, complained of degrading treatment when checking in for a Jan. 6 flight from Barcelona, Spain, to her home city of Cork in southwest Ireland.

“The situation was completely insane,” she said in a phone interview. “How, in an age of biometric passports, can an airline stop me from flying unless I speak Greek to them?”

Her husband, traveling on a British passport, and 10-year-old daughter, traveling on an Irish one, were cleared for takeoff. The trio had just completed a six-day vacation in Barcelona.

But Dislis was told she must fill out two tests, one in English and the other in Greek, to demonstrate her story was true. When she refused,

decrying it as both illogical and illegal, the Spanish company that handles Aer Lingus flights in Barcelona, Newco Airport Services, pulled the entire family’s suitcases off the plane.

Both tests asked her, in each language, to read passages aloud; to present all the cash in her possession; to sketch a ladder and a triangle; to identify the spelled-out versions of four numbers correctly; and to describe their travel destination.

The Greek version asked where she was going “in England,” not Ireland.

Dislis, 48, said she had been flying around Europe about 10 times annually in recent years, and never experienced such an unreasonable restriction on her right to travel.

“I had absolutely no way out if I wanted to fly,” she said.

When she asked for copies of the completed tests, this was refused. When her husband then photographed them on the counter, the staff called airport police to have the camera seized.

“The manager went ballistic. He threatened to have the police destroy all our photographs from our holidays,” she said. “Fortunately the policewoman who arrived was extremely sensible, defused the situation, and told the check-in desk to stop messing us about and put us on the plane.”

The couple did agree to delete their photographs of the tests — but later retrieved them from the camera’s electronic garbage bin.

She recalled asking the Spanish staff if any of them even spoke Greek. None did. “So the whole exercise was completely absurd,” she said. “I could have written ‘Three Little Pigs’ on the form and they wouldn’t have known any better.”

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Graduate student Theresa Dunigan performs a solo during the UT Symphony Orchestra recital on Sunday.

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Editor’s Note Analytical mind no longer valued Blair Kuykendall Editor-in-Chief I wish I had time to think.

Rather ironic, no? That’s theoretically why we come to college. But college is not designed to develop your critical thinking skills anymore. According to the current model of American higher education, you’re here to graduate. To keep pace with other universities, UT is focused primarily on making learning efficient.

In the frenzied blur college has become, it’s relatively easy to forget the reason we promote university attendance. I think that merits some reflection.

We all take classes, some more than others. But at the absolute most you spend 19 hours in a classroom.

Baring a part-time job, the rest of your time is essentially disposable.

I say essentially because we all know that really is laughable. Hours seems to fly by, all dominated by things that should get done. There’s the usual laundry list of homework, seeing friends, meetings, projects, papers, organizations and then actual trips to the dry cleaner. I look around me and I know I’m not alone.

Everyone seems to be in some sort of frenzied bustle all the time. A simple “How are you?” has a 90-percent return rate of, “Tired.”

I honestly believe we’ve lost the purpose of this entire experience. The years of our lives spent as students are supposed to be aimed at discovery. This is the last chance many of us will ever have to devote ourselves to the unadulterated quest for knowledge, devoid of pressures or quotas.

I hope you caught the sarcasm. There’s really nothing about institutional learning anymore that’s pressurefree. We are all statistics, our progress tracked to measure our future earning potential and UT’s effectiveness as a university. There are swarms of young people all over the world, just like ourselves, striving to make their minds marketable. Almost no one here has the luxury of studying what they choose for the sheer joy of it. Even if you find your major engaging, you would likely approach learning very differently if it weren’t the means to achieve a job or graduate admission.

Something can certainly be said for competition as a positive motivator, but somewhere along the way, learning for the sake of personal enrichment has been lost.

There is really no question that as an institution, academia has become far more enamored with GPA and a set of extracurricular activities than the actual development of an independent intellect. A system that promotes only the mere semblance of learning has become embedded in our culture. UT’s focus on the Top 25, though a noble goal for improving the university, turns focus towards efficiency. Increasing the four-year graduation rate has become critical. That incentivizes a quasi-plug and chug: come in, meet your requirements, and get out.

In all fairness, professors are required to cover a staggering amount of material each semester. Few faculty have the time necessary to expound on any one concept. To keep pace, students have learned to cope by memorizing tag-lined excerpts quickly.

Force-fed education isn’t the key to developing independent individuals. In choosing a major, I would venture to say that most students try to prepare for a job they would find least repugnant, with potential for financial stability. That seems so lacking. The selection of a major can determine how an individual spends the rest of his life. Money is nothing if you sit in a place you hate for eight to 10 hours, every single day.

Sometimes, I feel like we’re all moving slowly towards the drop-off point. We’re all on a conveyor belt with a given set of checkpoints, before we are dropped off at our appointed jobs. They may be individualized, but to me they all look the same. Shouldn’t we leave here with more than the narrow skill sets our jobs will require?

I don’t pretend to have the answers, and will freely admit my hypocrisy. I’m sitting on the belt right along with the rest of you.

To cope, I value minor displays of vitality and candor.

Shut your Western Civ book for a second, and pick up Napoleon’s biography. Look into something a little deeper than what a class requires. Find something you can be passionate about, even if you have to stay here a little bit longer to find it.

Let’s try to graduate with some critical thinking skills still intact.

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

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‘Homeless hotspots’ offer hope Ac orns and Other Seeds by

Anna-Lise Burnnette After spending time working with Redeeming Hope ministries and many of my fellow students on the Running With Hope 5K last year, I feel my radar on homelessness issues has been set to “on” like it never was in the past. This newfound sensitivity is why a recent firestorm of online discussion caught my attention this week.

A good number of you are probably familiar with SXSW in Austin, Texas. This week the 2012 festival/conference is going on with slightly more negative publicity than it usually receives, mainly due to a controversial decision to host “homeless hotspots.”

If you’re like me, the phrase might conjure up images of large clusters of homeless persons assembled for any number of political purposes or physical necessities. In fact, you might even call the Fort a homeless “hotspot” if you didn’t know better. But if you’re up on your tech terms, you’ve probably realized by now that their use of the word hotspot is much more on trend than mine — yes, they mean that kind of hotspot.

It seems that this week in sunny Austin an advertising agency called BBH Labs decided to try out a new incarnation of accessibility. A relatively small number of homeless persons have been “hired” to carry MiFi devices and walk around SXSW wearing shirts that say, for instance, “I’m Bertrand, a 4G hotspot.”

Attendees can choose to pay in person or online for access to the network (one online source said that the suggested rate was $2 for every quarter hour).

As BBH Labs describes the venture, these “homeless hotspots” are a modern-day version of street papers.

(The concept should be familiar to most of you; if not, check out The Amplifier here in Knoxville for a reallife example.) They say that equipping homeless people with this almost-guaranteed (if limited) source of income is a step forward, a move which acknowledges society’s shift from being paper-based to pixel-based.

Of course, not everyone agrees with this formulation.

Reactions have ranged from pure outrage to blithe

optimism. In the negative camp are the people who see the hotspot venture as just another case of systemic exploitation. As one op-ed writer put it, “When the infrastructure fails us … we turn human beings into infrastructure?” And it’s true — when you look at the shirts these people are wearing, the rhetoric is clear: My name is so-and-so, and I’m a piece of the machine. It worries me to think that, if you didn’t know and didn’t care to ask, you could use this service without ever hearing about its ostensible “bigger” purpose. Add to the fact that this service leaves out a crucial aspect of street papers (the creative content as directed by homeless and invested advocates) and, well…

But not everybody has such a jaded view of the project. Some see it as an important trial run for largerscale ventures in other major cities where homelessness is a serious issue. Others see it for what it’s (literally) worth to the group of homeless people who got the opportunity to ply their technological wares for a few days, seeing the money earned as a positive thing no matter what the context.

And lest we overly privilege the voice of the consumer, what do the homeless have to say about being marketed as hotspots? The one interview I found online was telling. Clarence, speaking earnestly for the camera, explained what he was doing at SXSW. “They’ve come to the homeless community, and joined with us … to see if this invention will work out, to help the homeless, the ones that are out here participating…”

While he made no secret of BBH’s ambitions, it was clear to me that Clarence seemed to think the partnership was a good one.

For most homeless people, it’s a struggle even to be acknowledged on the street as a human being. How much more of a struggle it is to make any money off of a small capital venture like a street paper? I’d like to think, optimist that I am, that the other men and women working SXSW as human hotspots were as talkative and friendly as Clarence seemed to be. That being the case, maybe a whole host of people got to meet the humans behind the hotspots, got to engage in meaningful dialogue with an often-ignored segment of our population, and got to see people as just people.

Maybe some of them only saw a quick connectivity fix, but let’s hope they were in the minority.

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

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This past weekend, the Kappa chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon held its annual fraternity boxing tournament. As you might already know firsthand, the tournament is one of the most popular college party weekends in the country, but it’s also an extraordinarily successful charity and each year, raises enough money to underwrite Golden Gloves of Knoxville’s annual operational costs. This includes ALL the local charity’s expenses for the entire year.

Which is a pretty remarkable thing.

But this column isn’t really about the tournament itself. It’s about what, intrinsically, makes for a successful student-run philanthropy.

A lot of student-run philanthropies, like Dance Marathon and Relay for Life, have the advantage of national name recognition. The aforementioned two in particular both have an institution-like quality that makes people a lot more eager to play an active role in them; i.e., the more certain you are of an event’s success, the more likely you are to participate or contribute. Granted, both Dance Marathon and Relay for Life are extraordinarily well-staffed with hard-working and civic-minded volunteers and chairpersons, but the fact remains they each have a recognizable label to help them in their efforts.

So how best to create and run a student philanthropy if you don’t have this advantage? The boxing tournament arguably has this recognition to considerable extent NOW, but lack of notoriety was an obstacle it obviously overcame at some point.

So again I must ask — how?

Certainly the E’s put in the work. Having personally known the tournament directors for boxing weekends 2009-2012, I can tell you firsthand the affair is no cakewalk. The directors spend countless hours orchestrating the event and negotiating the myriad moving parts, and still plan the whole thing to an absolute tee. Was this always the case? I dunno. When SAE first kicked the tournament off back in 1980, I was still just a glint

in my adoptive parents’ eye. What I do know is the tournament itself is structured very fortuitously toward the purpose of making a lot of money.

Let me explain. Philanthropies raise money like any business generates a profit. There are costs, and there is revenue, and when one is subtracted from the other, you’re hopefully left with a dollar amount greater than zero. But one surefire way to guarantee a profitable outcome is to keep costs low. Far too many philanthropies both on and off UT campus spend boatloads of money on big shiny events and hope in vain they’ll still be able to generate enough cash flow to not only cover their exorbitant costs, but also eke out a worthwhile return when all’s said and done. SAE (very smartly) doesn’t do this.

Instead, they rely on the competitive nature of the tournament to bring in revenue without their ever really having to spend that much. Participants pay their own entry fees, trainers and incentives, and Golden Gloves voluntarily staffs the entire event. I’m sure there are outright costs involved — perhaps more so than I’m assuming — but the idea itself is fixed on a low cost/high revenue model that all but guarantees security of their projected profit each year.

I am by no means suggesting there exists only one recipe for a successful student-run philanthropy, but I think it worth noting that this competitive, low-cost formula works exceptionally well in places other than Golden Gloves Arena. For example, Chi Omega supports Dream Connection with their flag football tournament while Delta Delta Delta similarly supports East Tennessee Children’s hospital with April’s Trideltathon. Yes, I know all my examples are of Greek organizations, but I’m an ignorant frat guy. Gimme a break.

Look, any successful, large-scale philanthropy takes years to develop and SAE’s tournament was no exception. But no amount of time or hard work can substitute the tried-and-true low-cost competition-based business model that has worked so well for not only SAE, but countless other local and national charities. So if you’re looking to support your favorite charity with something more than a personal contribution anytime soon, heed the wise words of T. Bert Lance: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

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

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

NATIONALITY continued from Page 3 Dislis went public with her complaints this week after receiving a letter of partial apology from the office of Aer Lingus chief executive Christoph Mueller. It gave her a euro200 ($260) discount card for future Aer Lingus travel but offered no indication that the airline would restrict or stop the language quizzes.

She also has filed a complaint against Aer Lingus with the Equality Authority of Ireland, which could choose to prosecute and fine the airline for discriminatory practices.

Dislis noted that it’s not uncommon for people to hold passports from a relative’s home country yet not be fluent in its language.

She noted that her two daughters, including a 20year-old at university in Dublin, spoke little Greek.

“My older daughter also has a Greek passport and she’d have flunked that test,” she said.

Aer Lingus spokeswoman Gillian Culhane, contacted by the AP, said the airline was sorry for the upset that Dislis and her family had suffered.

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Later, Culhane said the airline had suspended use of the tests effective Tuesday.

Culhane said Aer Lingus received the tests from the United Kingdom Border Agency in early 2011 as part of a British warning that illegal immigrants were increasingly using fake Greek passports, particularly through Spain and Portugal, to gain entry to Britain and Ireland. The British and Irish maintain border controls with the rest of Europe but do not require passports to travel between their own two countries.

The UK Border Agency did not respond to AP questions seeking clarification on its tests, how widely they have been used, by which airlines, and any statistics to show how many people had been refused permission to fly because they could not write, read or speak the language of their passport origin.

Officials at the Spanish airline handling agency Newco, Spain’s National Airport Authority and the Spanish National Police said they could shed no light on the extent of use of such language-proficiency tests at airline check-in desks.

Newco said it had no official available to speak on the subject because the company is in turmoil following a February bankruptcy order and massive staff layoffs. The other two agencies said they were unaware that companies operating in Spain were using British language tests at check-in desks.

However, Dislis supplied the AP with an emailed Jan. 20 letter from Newco apologizing for how she was treated. The letter, identified as coming from claims department official Esther Gonzalez, contained broad, unsubstantiated claims about the threat posed by fake Greek passports.

“One of the most effective tools to determine if the passenger is carrying a valid document ... is a language test,” the letter said.

“One of the most forged documents is the Greek passport together with the Portuguese and the Italian.

Forged Greek passports are often used due to the difficulty Spanish people have to determine if the passenger speaks accurately,” it said. “In fact, most of the Greek passports we have dealt with have turned out to be fraudulent documents.”

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Warlords, webcomics occupy mind Jake Lane Arts & Culture Editor Okay, this week’s edition of my rants is going to be a couple of shorts rather than a unified front. Apologies for bad segues and references to equine children’s shows.

Liberate Kony Island, or why we aren’t paying attention to Syria Unless you have been using your interwebs for entirely academic pursuits over the last week, you undoubtedly watched or read about “Kony 2012,” the “informational” minidoc by advocacy group/accused shell company Invisible Children about a warlord’s misadventures in Uganda. For those of you who actually can locate that war-torn African nation on a map, Kony’s action are probably unforgivable, but the inefficacy of simply throwing money at a group whose fiscal transparency is questionable seems obvious, right?

Which leads me to the night last week when a friend asked me to hop on Facebook and help inform a group of new-blue “activists” who mean to protest Kony’s abduction and indoctrination scheme on April 20 (insert stoner activist joke here), yet fail

to even research the facts behind Invisible Children. After a few hours and some well-placed pictures of Carl Weathers, we were booted from the events page for the group, and I was lambasted for correcting one of the leaders’ grammar. Sorry I got a degree in English from this fine university and cannot use it for more utilitarian means than making a misinformed 20 year old on a social networking site look silly (insert job market joke here).

Various memes about Kony have now taken the place of rational discourse, for as the wise Anonymous philosopher once said, “If you can’t beat them, troll them into the ground.” A personal favorite is “My Little Kony,” with the general’s head pasted on a neon purple giraffe horse. Then there are the viral hashtags on Twitter and the endless walls of text on Facebook walls. Which drives home the point: have we, the young adult generation, become so crass and unrightfully cynical as to accept this as a means of protest, or are we really so unintelligent that our only options are to jump

on the official band wagon or make funny pictures and say “LOL wut?!”

Better late than never: Descent into webcomix fandom I began a second job a few weeks ago at Marlin and Ray’s, a new concept from Ruby Tuesday whose first store opened in Maryville

eleven months ago, and our store on Lovell Road is already the eighth in the franchise. This has lead to working seven days a week and odd sleep

schedules, but also offered the opportunity to pursue meaningless hours of web trawling until I wind down and descend into idfantasy mode (read: sleep).

For a few months various friends have been posting strips from various webcomics on Facebook, but my brief foray into anime and manga a decade ago I have kept a safe distance from most animation and a taser in my back pocket. I’ve previously discussed my love of Pendleton Ward’s “Adventure Time,” but comics still felt too fringe for me.

Enter “Questionable Content,” Jeph Jacques’s long-running strip about indie rock snobs in north Massachusetts, with all of the sexual tension, psychic hangups and inevitable “Band A is a watered-down derivative of Band B” banter indicative of hipster culture.

run, which Jacques publishes from Monday through Friday without fail. If you start at 2003 with the comic’s inception, a lot of the future speculations and commentary about former indie bands may seem a bit dated, but the start date of the comic coincides with my own immersion in left-of-the-dial music culture, so it’s nostalgic, if anything.

Seeing as it’s neither porn nor on-sided news media, I feel like the time investment is at least non-toxic. For a few minutes of snark and Zen each day, visit http://questionablecontent.net/.

Also check out their merch page and buy a few shirts so you can outhip your nearest and dearest.

Naturally, I’m o o k e d .

In the few days leading to this piece I’ve read almost seven hundred of the comic’s 2100 strip

— Jake Lane is a graduate in creative writing. He can be reached at jlane23@utk.edu.

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Enjoy your spring break and remember: drunk is okay, acts of random vandalism can be cathartic, but a jail cell in Panama City is no place to wake up. Seriously, the reek of Axe and ubiquity of boat shoes is a ring of Hell unto itself. Be careful, and when in doubt, don’t panic. Someone has surely screwed up worse than you. “Chappaquiddick” ring any bells?

Journalist recounts fleeing The Associated Press ANTAKYA, Turkey — Explosions illuminated the night as we ran, hoping to escape Syria after nearly three weeks of covering a conflict that the government seems determined to keep the world from seeing. Tank shells slammed into the city streets behind us, snipers’ bullets whizzed by our heads and the rebels escorting us were nearly out of ammunition.

It seemed like a good time to get out of Syria.

With regime forces closing in on the rebel-held northern city of Idlib, Associated Press cameraman Ahmed Bahaddou and I set out Sunday for neighboring Turkey on a journey that would take us through a pitch-black passage and miles of muddy olive groves in the freezing cold.

We ran into delays and dangers with every step — from fighting between rebel and government forces to a missed connection with our guide.

We coordinated our escape with the Free Syrian Army, the rebel force fighting to hold onto Idlib, but the situation was deteriorating quickly. The snipers, shelling and explosions were growing ever closer.

“We are all going to be killed!” a terrified Syrian activist told me, collapsing into tears. An FSA fighter said the government troops were sure to take the city back, because the rebels were running out of ammunition.

A rebel commander said he understood if his fighters wanted to run away and save themselves.

“Whoever wants to leave and not fight, lay your Kalashnikovs here,” he said.

Nobody did.

Last week, troops had encircled Idlib, and tank shells starting pounding the city from dawn until evening. Rebels dashed through the streets, taking cover behind the corners of buildings as they clashed with the troops. Wounded fighters were piled into trucks bound for places where they could be treated. I saw a man carrying a young boy, the child's jacket soaked in blood. I later learned the boy was dead.

On Tuesday, just one day after we made it out, Syrian military forces managed to recapture Idlib, dealing a blow to the rebel force.

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Members of the UT gymnastics team wrm up before the Orange and White Invite on Saturday. This was the team’s first chance to host a meet, which included teams from as far away as Columbus, Ohio.

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SYRIA continued from Page 6 The regime says it is fighting foreign terrorists and armed gangs, denying that the yearlong uprising is a popular revolt. But what we saw in Idlib was nothing like what the government is describing. The townspeople support the uprising; every family seemed to have a fighter in the streets, or knew somebody who was fighting.

The opposition’s rallying cry in recent days has been an appeal for weapons. An influx of anti-tank missiles and other heavy arms could be a turning point in the conflict.

But as government forces moved in last week, all we could think of was Baba Amr — the neighborhood in the Syrian city of Homs that endured nearly four weeks of government shelling.

Hundreds of people were killed in the siege, and the humanitarian situation was catastrophic. Among the dead were two journalists, Marie Colvin, a veteran American-born war correspondent for Britain’s Sunday Times, and Remi Ochlik, 28, a French photojournalist. Both were cut down when a shell struck nearby.

Idlib was believed to be the next target now that the government had recaptured Baba Amr. As the rebels gathered on street corners, families packed a few possessions and rushed to leave the city.

By Saturday, many people fled Idlib to reach surrounding villages. Electricity was switched off most of the day, lasting only about three hours, in what was likely an attempt by the government to clear out the population.

Everybody was preparing for a siege, making our escape all the more compli-

cated. We decided to spend the night among the wounded in Idlib, delaying our departure, because we were too scared to move. As we drove through the dark streets, the driver turned off the headlights so nobody would detect us — even though that meant we could not see anything either.

The thundering “BOOM! BOOM!” from tank shells was relentless.

When we woke up the next morning, the toll of the violence we had somehow escaped was apparent: Wounded people, including children and women, were crowded around in bloodstained clothes. Many had clearly been hit by snipers in the legs and arms. Many had gaping wounds from shrapnel and died .in their beds.

When evening fell, we decided to leave the city.

The idea was to run over an open area overlooked by snipers and tanks, but our guides suggested we go underneath it, through a passage. We had to walk to it, led by an FSA fighter who kept us waiting for a half-hour while battles raged in the streets. We moved carefully through a city devoid of any normal sounds of life — no cars honking, no one on the streets — just silence broken by gunfire and explosions.

The corridor was cramped and so dark that we could not see our hands in front of our faces.

Crouching to fit inside it, we moved for about 40 meters (130 feet) until we reached the other end, which was mercifully outside the regime’s cordon. It was only after we emerged that we realized our escort was carrying homemade grenades on his vest, unstable explosives that easily could have blown us to bits while we were inside.

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French, North Koreans prepare for concert The Associated Press PARIS — A North Korean and a French orchestra held a daylong rehearsal on Tuesday ahead of a landmark concert in Paris, a sign of warming ties between Pyongyang and the West following years of tensions.

Pyongyang’s Unhasu Orchestra and Radio France Philharmonic make their debut together on Wednesday — under the baton of renowned South Korean conductor Chung MyungWhun, who organized the event.

Most of the 90 North Koreans — many of them under 30 — will be performing with a Western ensemble for the first time. The lead violinist Mun Kyong Jin spoke of his excitement at being in the French capital, where the group is spending a week.

“Paris is well preserved. The scenery and the streets are very pretty even if they are narrow,” he said through a translator.

The event is also an opportunity for French musicians to learn about their Korean counterparts.

“We were quite ignorant about their musical background,” said Radio France violinist Mirelle Jardon.

“We don’t know their learning methods, who their teachers are, but I think their level is very high. They are young, they can improve even more,” Jardon said. “And with this collaboration, (North Korea is) opening itself to the world.”

The concert comes as relations between Pyongyang and the West thaw after years of antagonism over the North’s nuclear program. Last week, the United States and North Korea announced a deal that calls for Pyongyang to freeze its nuclear activities in exchange for food aid, and a senior North Korean nuclear envoy was in the U.S. to attend a university forum.

Paris and Pyongyang do not have

formal diplomatic relations, but France opened an office in Pyongyang last year to foster cultural exchanges.

“This joint concert is a historical event for the bilateral relations of our two countries,” Kwon Hyok Bong, the head of the North Korean delegation, said during a rehearsal break.

The Seoul-born Chung hopes the concert will also lead to improvements in ties between the two Koreas through musical diplomacy. North and South Korea have been rival states since civil war forced them apart in 1953.

Chung said that a pan-Korean folk song called “Arirang” will open the performance in the famed Salle Pleyel concert hall.

“There is not one single Korean who would not know this song,” he told The Associated Press during rehearsals. “And I mean in the whole of the north and south.”

Hannah Cather • The Daily Beacon

The Perks perform during open-mic night on Tuesday. The duo includes Marta Lee, sophomore in studio art, and Nicky Miller, sophomore in art education.

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Blount embraces eccentricities Riley Blevins Staff Writer A daunting 6-foot-6, 220-pound redhead, whose shadow and stature alike dishearten batters as he glares down home plate, steps back towards the rubber. A broad leg kick tucked tightly to his body is followed by a throwing motion trademarked by the unveiling of a blooming wingspan that finishes with a near side-arm throwing motion.

Inarguably, it is an unorthodox delivery. But then again, Nick Blount, the Vols’ most experienced pitcher on roster, is no ordinary guy.

“You can just look at him and tell he’s got a heck of a different pitching style,” said teammate and fellow pitcher Zack Goodly. “Just the way he throws is unorthodox — maybe that’s why he gets so many outs. It’s one-of-a-kind and so is he — just him, Nick, in general is different. Just the way he is, he’s a real off-the-wall guy, a great guy, a real good guy, but unique.”

Blount understands his uniqueness.

“Always got to throw the red hair in there. I love it, that’s cool and different, not many out there” said Blount with a smirk on being deemed “different” by his teammate Goodly. “I like to joke around with the best of them, that’s for sure.”

Blount, the right-handed junior who wears the same pair of socks every time he pitches, says he embraces what some people call different. According to Blount, it makes him an individual and separates him from the crowd.

With this said, Blount’s baseball start was as ordinary as it gets. Starting as little kid paying toss in his back yard with his dad to signing up for tee ball with the similar dream that every other baseball-playing youngster has in mind: the big leagues. “(My dad) introduced me to baseball,” Blount said. “He always taught me baseball came first before friends and stuff. He knew I had ability and just wanted to see me do the best I could.

“My dad, he has always supported me and pushed me to be my best, from when I started playing at four years old. I think that wore off on me and now I have that mentality because of him, to be the best.”

Blount said he has always been tall and been able to throw hard, but he finally started figuring things out in summer league baseball after his sophomore year of high school.

“Now that I’ve been able to figure it out and play college ball, personally, I want to get an opportunity at the next level,” Blount said.

The Loganville, Ga. native, boasted a 0.58 ERA in his senior season at South Gwinnett High School, was named the 2009 Gwinnett County Player of the Year and earned first-team All-

Gwinnett County honors. The No. 16 overall prospects and No. 9 pitching prospect in the state of Georgia , Blount was highly recruited out of high school.

“Well, back in the day, such a long time ago when I started getting recruited, I think the first school I ever visited was Georgia Tech,” Blount said. “I guess it would have been cool to stay at home but I also kind of wanted to get away, and then I talked to some of the coaches that were here, and I came up on a visit and I fell in love with it. I came up for a basketball game — they played Ohio State. It was a good game; I liked the atmosphere and love the coaches.”

Upon signing with UT, Blount made an immediate impact.

In his freshman campaign, he made 21 appearances, compiling a 2-2 record, adding 17 strikeouts in 31 innings of work. In Blount’s first two appearances of his rookie season, he logged five consecutive scoreless frames.

This season, Blount has appeared in five games, four of which were starts, second only to Goodly. He has a team-high 22 innings of work, a 2-1 record with only four walks.

“I want to help the team get to Hoover (site of the SEC Tournament) and see where that takes us, and hopefully get us into the (NCAA) tournament,” Blount said. “I think this team is capable of big things. We’re off to a good start and I’m excited to see how far we can take this.”

Research h Weekk 2012

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is pleased to sponsor the third annual Research Week from March 26 through 31. This event shines the spotlight on undergraduate research and creative activities that take place across campus. Inevitably, some of the activities fall outside the seven days designated as Research Week, but we include them here so students can become aware of the many related activities underway this semester. This collection of events highlights the wide variety of research and creative opportunities that exist at UT. For additional information, visit http://www.utk.edu/go/o2.

Schedule of Events March 9–18

Schooll off Artt 65th h Annuall Studentt Artt Competition n and d Show UT’s School of Art will be opening the 65th Annual Student Art Competition and Show at 6:00 p.m. Friday, March 9, in the Ewing Gallery. This year’s jurors are Karen Shaw for fine arts and Amy Koch for architectural and art history essays. Kenneth White, a UT alumnus, will juror the graphic design entries.

March 13

20th h Alfred d & Juliaa Hilll Lecturee on n Scii ence,, Societyy and d the Masss Media “Alternative Universes: Different Ways of Thinking about Science and Science Journalism” will be presented by Stephen S. Hall, award-winning science writer. 8:00 p.m. in the University Center’s Shiloh Room.

March 16

Schooll off Musicc Celebration n off Excellencee Competition Time: 4:00 p.m.

Location: James R. Cox Auditorium

March 26

n 101 Graduatee S chooll Admission UT’s Career Services will present an informative overview of the graduate school admission process, covering a range of topics including types of degrees, timelines, finding programs, and much more, from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. in the University Center Auditorium.

March 27

Findingg Fundingg forr Graduatee School UTK’s Graduate School will explain the various opportunities for financial assistance to attend graduate school, including graduate research assistantships, graduate teaching assistants, and various fellowships and scholarships, from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. in the University Center, Shiloh Room.

Bakerr Scholarss Exhibition Baker Scholars will share their research with posters and presentations that are scheduled from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. in the Baker Center’s Toyota Auditorium and Rotunda. d uates,, Nationall Science Research h Experiencess forr Undergrad Foundation Diana Anderson from the National Science Foundation in Washington, DC, will offer insights into the NSF’s REU program, which offers thousands of opportunities for undergraduates primarily during summer research projects, from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. in the University Center, Room 223-224.

March 28

Brown n Bagg Lunch h with h Dianee Anderson,, Nationall Science Foundation Dr. Anderson invites students to join her for a casual discussion about undergraduate research over lunch at noon in the University Center, Crest Room.

Thee PHD D Movie The Department of Biochemistry & Cellular & Molecular Biology, PEER D Movie at 7:00 p.m. in the Program will host a screening of Thee PHD Alumni Memorial Building Auditorium.

March 28 & March 29

EUReCA A – Thee Exhibition n off Undergraduatee Research h & Creativee Achievement Location: University Center Ballroom The exhibition, in its 16th year, will feature poster displays of research projects and creative activities done by UT undergraduates who are working with faculty mentors. Setup of exhibits is scheduled for noon to 4:00 p.m. on March 28, with judging to begin at 5:30 p.m. All participants must be present until completion of the judging. The exhibit is open to public viewing on March 29 from 9:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m.

EUReCA A Awardss Ceremony Time: Thursday, March 29 at 6:00 p.m.

Location: University Center's Tennessee Auditorium In addition to various departmental awards, UT’s Office of Sustainability will award a $200 UT Bookstore gift certificate at the 2012 EURïCA event to a project involving environmental sustainability.

March 29

PEER R Springg Symposium “Networking for Success in the STEM Professions” is scheduled from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

March 31

Honorss Symposium Time: 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. Location: Baker Center

April 3

Sigmaa Thetaa Tau u – Gammaa Chii Chapterr Research h Day Keynote speaker Kathleen Stevens from the University of Texas Health Science Center will discuss “The Science of Improvement,” and will be joined by a Tennessee Practice Panel that will relate her comments situations in this state.

Time: 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Location: The Foundry

April 27

Collegee off Architecturee & Design n Finall Reviewss off 5th h Yearr Projects Fifth-year architecture students present their final projects, a prelude to the annual Tau Sigma Delta architecture competition on April 30.

Location: Art & Architecture Building

For more information on this week’s activities, please visit http://research.utk.edu/rw

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Students eat at the Soul Cafe at Baptist Collegiate Ministry on Monday. The cafe opens every Monday at noon. It is free for the first meal and $3 for every meal afterwards.

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Campus Sports Calendar Thursday, March 15 •Women’s Swimming and Diving NCAA Championship @ Auburn, AL All Day

Friday, March 16 •Baseball vs.Georgia @ Athens, GA 7 p.m.

•Softball vs.Arkansas @ Fayetteville, AR 7 p.m.

Saturday, March 17 •Lady Vols - UT Martin NCAA Tournament (First Round) @ Chicago, IL 4:10 p.m.

•Women’s Swimming and Diving NCAA Championship @ Auburn, AL All Day

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Diamond Vols fall to TTU Vandenventer stands out as ‘lone bright spot’ Anthony Elias

Staff Writer

Daniel Hiergesell Staff Writer Following a Sunday performance riddled with windy conditions and lackluster play, junior Jay Vandeventer birdied his first four holes at the General Hackler Championship in South Carolina Monday to finish the day with a 2-under-par 70.

Vandeventer’s efforts proved to be the lone bright spot for a Tennessee men’s golf team that finished 12th.

“From the first round, which wasn’t really good at all, I kind of just regrouped and went back to the positives things I’ve been doing from previous tournaments,” Vandeventer said. “I went into it knowing I wasn’t going to win the tournament, but I told myself, what happens happens. No matter what the score was, I was going to stay positive and end on a good note.”

Vandeventer regrouped from an 86 on Sunday afternoon — the second worst round by a Tennessee player in the tournament — by challenging himself mentally.

“With me it’s more mental,” Vandeventer said. “I don’t really try to tinker with my mechanics while I’m on the golf course. It’s mainly trying to keep my emotions down and having a positive attitude. Just really try to focus on the next shot and next hole.”

Sunday’s sub-par performance may have been mechanically or mentally problematic, but for Vandeventer, as well as many other golfers, the weather played a major role in disrupting solid play.

“We were expecting about 10 mph winds, and then it kicked up a lot more,” he said. “The wind definitely did play a factor in the first round and it was a little bit trickier than most weather we’ve been playing in. Off the tee and approach shots to the green, it kind of turned the ball left and right.”

During that first round, Vandeventer wasn’t the only UT player to struggle.

Junior Rick Lamb finished with an 85 and sophomore Danny Keddie turned in an 82.

For the Vols as a whole, finishing 12th out of 15 teams isn’t exactly an accomplishment.

But like Vandeventer, Tennessee will need to work hard, keep its emotions in check and ride the momentum into this weekend’s 2012 Callaway Collegiate Match Play Championship in Bradenton, Fla. “You can’t over-think things,” Vandeventer said.

“My first couple of years here I put a lot pressure on myself, high expectations and just kind of over-thought everything. You just really have to focus on emotions and let it be whatever it’s going to be.”

Golden Eagles starting pitcher Seth Lucio pitched 8.1 scoreless innings and struck out 11 batters as Tennessee Tech dominated Tennessee Tuesday night, 5-1. The Diamond Vols have lost 6-of-9 — including three straight — since their 7-0 start.

“The frustration is mounting,” UT coach Dave Serrano said. “Definitely within the coaching staff, I’m sure it is on the players’ faces.”

Conner Stevens kept Tennessee within striking distance in his first start on the mound, only allowing one run and three hits in three innings. The lone run came off a solo home run

by Zach Stephens in the second inning.

Serrano pulled his starter from the mound to start the fourth inning to bring in T.J. Thornton, but the decision would hurt the Diamond Vols.

UT ended up making five pitching changes after benching Stevens, but the next five relievers allowed four runs, putting the game away.

In the sixth inning, shortly after fouling the ball off his knee, Golden Eagles third baseman Michael Morris belted a line drive up the middle, bringing in teammate Zephan Guyear and extending the TTU lead to 2-0. The inning wasn’t over as Evan Frazier blasted another Golden Eagle single into left field, bringing Morris home and giving Tennessee Tech a 3-0 lead.

Despite only a three-run deficit, Serrano noticed the players looked defeated, especially when he pulled Saberhagen in the top of the seventh.

“In a midweek game, if we won’t have the mentality to recover from 3-0, then we don’t deserve to win,” Serrano said. “I’ll take full responsibility; we’ve got to find another gear.

We knew it wasn’t going to be easy; it’s never going to be easy.”

Will Maddox tried to keep the Vols alive with a 3-for-3 performance with two singles, a double and a walk. The second baseman’s first hit of the game kept his eight-game hitting streak alive.

“I’m going to throw in Jared Allen, too,” Serrano said of the Vols’ hitting performance.

“The at-bats that Jared and Will gave us were indicative of experienced players. They fought, they clawed, and that’s really all that we’re asking of our guys. We never ask them to get hits, we just ask them to get quality at-bats.”

Still, with conference play beginning this weekend with a three-game series at Georgia, the left-handed batter believes the coaches have prepared them, but it’s up to the players to step up.

“The coaches have done everything in their power,” Maddox said. “They’ve gotten us ready to play, so if we go out and play the game we’ve been playing, we can beat anybody. But right now, we’re just not doing that. I think as a team, we just need to come together, trust each other and play harder than the other team.”

George Richardson • The Daily Beacon

David Morgan walks back to the dugout during a game against the University of Louisiana-Monroe on Sunday. The Vols lost two of the three games in the series, the last series before SEC play starts.

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