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Professor discusses benefits of service learning Volunteering classes offer students real-world experiences, chances to benefit community Kronick said.

He said that it has been shown that to make a change as far as service learning at universities, an anchor institution, especially a major research institution like UT, must be involved.

But this can create problems.

During a discussion with Kronick, many students said they did not feel comfortable voicing their opinion on these subjects, but Kronick said it’s one of the first steps to making a difference.

“Approach a faculty member and say, ‘I

ed,” he said. “But just do it.”

Kronick encouraged students to get involved with issues they are passionate Kristian Smith about.

Student Life Editor “I would love for you to throw a party in Market Square with a theme, like the homeDr. Robert Kronick, professor in educationless or buildings on al psychology and counSutherland Avenue that seling, addressed UT were supposed to be students and faculty knocked down,” he said.

Tuesday about service Some students are learning and its potential already working to impact on the UT commake service learning munity. more prominent on “The best use of intelUT’s campus. ligence is solving social Eric Dixon, junior in problems,” Kronick said. philosophy, is working “Francis Bacon said it, to create a group called but I believe it.”

Community Partners Through his serviceService Corps. This learning classes, Kronick group promotes culture teaches students to of service learning and engage with their comcivic engagement. Some munity and break free of of the main projects the classroom norms of includes a freshman lectures, papers and engagement orientaexams. Students in his tion, where students livservice-learning class ing in Morrill’s learning volunteer as part of the communities would parcourses in low-income ticipate in a two- to schools in Knoxville. three-day service proj“We create structure ect, while learning in these kids’ lives 20 about the Knoxville hours a week,” he said. community, creating He uses three main more service learning tenets — integration, groups. Another project reciprocity and reflection included is Campus — to promote learning Kitchens, where unused in communities. food from UT dining “My students must halls would be sent to hand-write their reflecmeet needs in the tions, so they sit down Tia Patron• The Daily Beacon Knoxville community. and take time to think,” Robert Kronick, who holds a doctorate in sociology, discusses the advantages of service learning in local communities on Kronick said all stuhe said.

Kronick said UT Tuesday. Kronick encouraged students to take an active role in service-learning opportunities and to focus on their passions. dents are also welcome to take one of his two should implement more service-learning classes in the fall. He said the “One professor said that he came to a want to do this,’” he said. service-learning programs. He said when stuKronick said time is one of the major fac- first class will be the original service-learning dents actively engage with their communities, research university (UT) to do research, not they are more likely to stay in those communi- to get involved in the community,” Gavin tors that gets in the way of service learning, class, where students will volunteer in Luter, staff member at the Baker Center, said. even for students who take his class. He said schools, but he is adding a new, more ties.

“UT has an obligation (to provide service “And some people say they wouldn’t have one of his students wrote that, even though advanced class this coming fall.

“The advanced class will be really individulearning),” he said. “I want us to be the best come to UT if they thought UT was all about some people in the class complain about having to volunteer, being forced to volunteer alized,” he said. “Students will work on whatwe can be, and we need white-collar folk to get service learning.” ever projects they want to work on, not just Though some faculty may not be on board, made him find more time. educated and stay (in Knoxville). Service Kronick said students can play a major role in Kronick said he has a defense for students with kids. They can work in nursing homes or learning can help with this.” who complain about being forced to volunteer. with AIDS patients.”

Kronick said there has been a problem get- enhancing service-learning programs.

Even though these service-learning classes “Consumers are rarely consulted, especial“They actually like it,” he said. ting the university to promote and help with ly when it comes to university students,” For those who don’t think they have the are offered through the Chancellor’s Honors service-learning programs.

Program, all students, even those not in the “We talked to a lot of department heads, Kronick said. “Students have to let the admin- time, Kronick said to just go for it.

“You can find lots of ways to get distract- Honors Program, can sign up for the classes. and they did not value service learning,” istration know they want service learning.”

UT to increase minimum wage First pay raise in four years part of five-year plan Christopher Thomas Staff Writer

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Andrew Monaco, senior in finance, lines up the cue ball while playing pool on March 8. Students can play pool at the Down Under for $2 per half hour.

A new pay increase to $8.50 per hour for all UT part-time and full-time employees is to take effect on July 1. The increase will affect all minimum-wage, non-student employees on campus and should address recent concerns with employee payments.

“These UT employees have not had a pay increase since 2007,” Linda Hendricks, chief of human resources, said. “This is the first recommendations from the Compensation Advisory Board and a first step in the group’s longrange work to address compensation at the university.”

The Compensation Advisory Board, which was started by Interim President Jan Simek in March 2010, is a representative body of the UT employees. Its collective 13 representatives serve in the interest of UT’s administration, faculty and staff.

“The compensation board’s recommendation was prompted by UT employees voicing concerns about coworkers,” Hendricks said.

According to its website, since its original launch, the members have introduced a five-year proposal to aid and structure the

system’s compensation plan for all university employees.

The board’s main goal as of late has been the approval of the pay increase to $8.50 per hour across the board for 158 employees at the Knoxville campus alone, which focuses on the lower pay ranges first.

Though many of the UT employees appreciate the increase, some long-term employees still show concern from their colleges.

“It is positive recognition for a job well done,” said Nicole Carney, a seven-year employee in the library’s Serials Management.

“It still doesn’t keep up with the rate of inflation,” though, she said.

Carney said she felt that Tennessee does not suffer from as bad an economy that is often portrayed in the press, but felt proper compensation for the work UT faculty does is a necessity in growing uncertainty.

Carney said that she loves her job and one of the positives of working for UT is the educational benefits she is provided.

More information and additional questions and answers about the new pay increase and the UT Compensation Advisory Board can be found at http://humanresources.tennessee.edu/cab.

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Students bowl in the UC’s Down Under on Tuesday, March 8. The Down Under Bowling League takes place on Monday nights at 5:45 every week through the conclusion of the spring semester.

Crime 1839: OK enters national vernacular On this day in 1839, the initials “O.K.” are first published in The Boston Morning Post. Meant as an abbreviation for “oll correct,” a popular slang misspelling of “all correct” at the time, OK steadily made its way into the everyday speech of Americans.

During the late 1830s, it was a favorite practice among younger, educated circles to misspell words intentionally, then abbreviate them and use them as slang when talking to one another. Just as teenagers today have their own slang based on distortions of common words, such as “kewl” for “cool” or “DZ” for “these,” the “in crowd” of the 1830s had a whole host of slang terms they abbreviated. Popular abbreviations included “KY” for “No use” (“know yuse”), “KG” for “No go” (”Know go”), and “OW” for all right (“oll wright”).

Of all the abbreviations used during that time, OK was propelled into the limelight when it was printed in the Boston Morning Post as part of a joke. Its popularity exploded when it was picked up by contemporary politicians. When the incumbent president Martin Van Buren was

up for reelection, his Democratic supporters organized a band of thugs to influence voters. This group was formally called the “O.K. Club,” which referred both to Van Buren’s nickname “Old Kinderhook” (based on his hometown of Kinderhook, New York), and to the term recently made popular in the papers. At the same time, the opposing Whig Party made use of “OK” to denigrate Van Buren’s political mentor Andrew Jackson. According to the Whigs, Jackson invented the abbreviation “OK” to cover up his own misspelling of “all correct.”

The man responsible for unraveling the mystery behind “OK” was an American linguist named Allen Walker Read.

An English professor at Columbia University, Read dispelled a host of erroneous theories on the origins of “OK,” ranging from the name of a popular Army biscuit (Orrin Kendall) to the name of a Haitian port famed for its rum (Aux Cayes) to the signature of a Choctaw chief named Old Keokuk.

Whatever its origins, “OK” has become one of the most ubiquitous terms in the world, and certainly one of America’s greatest lingual exports.

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

Log

March 21 At approximately 10:45 a.m., a UTPD officer was dispatched to the third level of the G7 parking garage to investigate a note that was left on the windshield of a white 2004 BMW 325, which was found earlier by another officer who was conducting a check of the garage. The report stated that the note was left on the vehicle some time between 8 p.m. on March 20 and 11 a.m. on March 21. The vehicle belongs to a female UT student, and the note was apparently written by another female student.

The report stated the case as an incident of harassment.

— Crime Log is compiled by Robbie Hargett.

Compiled from a media log provided to the Daily Beacon by the Universty of Tennessee Police Department. All persons arrested are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. People with names similar or identical to those listed may not be those identified in reports.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

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Ben Bates, professor in the School of Journalism and Electronic Media, speaks with an audience member after the conclusion of the WikiLeaks forum on Tuesday, March 8. The forum discussed the implications of the actions of WikiLeaks and what government reaction should be to such actions.

Milton Klein lecture to discuss American insurgents T.H. Breen of Northwestern University will be on campus April 14 to discuss why and how thousands of ordinary men and women banded together to fight for liberty and freedom in the American Revolution as part of the 2011 Milton Klein Visiting Scholar Lecture.

The lecture, which is free and open to the public, begins at 4 p.m. in rooms 223-224 of the UC. A reception will follow. Parking is available for a fee in the UC parking garage on Phillip Fulmer Way. Breen’s lecture is titled “A Rumor that Almost Started the Revolution Two Years before the Declaration of Independence.”

During his presentation, Breen will present the argument that ordinary people throughout New England were ahead of their leaders in the Continental Congress. By mobilizing a huge insurgent army early in September 1774, they pressured the members of Congress to reassert their leadership in the resistance to Great Britain and to make more radical decisions on matters of policy than they would have done without a massive demonstration of popular protest.

Breen, a William Smith Mason Professor of American History at Northwestern University, is an Early American historian interested in the history of political thought, material culture and cultural anthropology. Also a Guggenheim fellow, he has held appointments at the Institute for Advanced Study, the National Humanities Center and Institutions at Cambridge University, among others, and has won several awards for distinguished teaching, including one from the Northwestern Alumni Society. His publications include five monographs and portions of the highly successful undergraduate text “America: Past and Present.” He is a recent recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Award from the German government and has completed a book entitled “American Insurgents — American Patriots: The Revolution of the People” (2010). He is currently serving as the director of the Chabraja Center for Historical Studies.

The Klein lecture is funded by the Milton M. Klein Studies Endowment, which was established in 1993 to support a visiting scholar series and seminars in the fields of early American history, American legal history and historiography.

Milton Klein served on the faculty of UT as the Alumni Distinguished Service Professor of History until his retirement in 1984. In 1988 he was named UT Knoxville’s first university historian.

For more information, visit http://web.utk.edu/~history or contact Ernest Freeberg, professor of history, at 974-7090.

Ready for the World Café returns from spring break with flavor With spring break now behind us and finals just over a month away, it’s time to buckle down and … eat!

And the Ready for the World Café at the UT, is there to help.

The menu for the week of March 21-24 includes foods from Mexico, Italy, the Middle East and the U.S. The buffet will feature chipotle braised chicken; cioppino-style roasted crab; porchetta-style roast pork; spinach salad with almonds; braised bacon Carolina rice; steamed asparagus with cardamom butter; and couscous with fresh cilantro and lemon juice.

The café is an international buffet operated by students in the advanced food production and service management class.

The café is open from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. each Monday through Thursday in the Hermitage Room on the third floor of the UC. Diners pay $11 for the all-you-can-eat buffet or $9 for a plate of food to carry out. Aramark’s faculty/staff discount card can be used at the café.

Students in HRT 445 take turns planning the menus, marketing the café and working in the café. ARAMARK, UT’s provider of dining services, prepares the food.

This week's café managers are Stuart Chandler and Meagan Cupp.

EURECA highlights undergraduate research week When the ancient Greek scholar Archimedes stepped into a bath and noticed that the water level rose, he discovered how to measure the volume of irregular objects and expressed his joy with the word “Eureka!”

Almost 2,000 years later, UT undergraduate students are making discoveries of their own as they work with faculty members to develop research projects and creative activities for presentation at the 15th annual Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement (EURECA) as part of Research Week, March 26 through April 1.

EURECA will be held March 30 and 31 in the UC Ballroom. On March 30, judging will begin at 5:30 p.m. On March 31, the event is open to the public from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. An awards presentation will be held at 6 p.m. in the University Center Tennessee Auditorium.

Ten minutes prior to the presentation, the winners of the UT School of Music’s Celebration of Excellence Competition will present a musical prelude. Performers will include Travis Jones and Rachael Morey,

bassoonists; Dustin Lin, pianist; and Adara Towler and Jenna Weaver, sopranos.

Last year, EURECA expanded into Research Week to give other undergraduate research opportunities exposure. Research Week gives any group on campus that has an undergraduate research event the opportunity to promote it.

Professor Lou Gross, director of NIMBioS and one of the country's leaders in reforming undergraduate education and interdisciplinary research, will keynote the honors symposium at 1:15 p.m. on March 26 in the Black Cultural Center. He recently co-authored a report, “Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Call to Action” under the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

The Chancellor’s Office funds and UT Office of Research administers the Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement. Top awards are funded by the Office of Research, UT Chapter of Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society and the William Franklin Harris III Undergraduate Research Award.

OPINIONS

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UT fires ‘decent man who made mistake’ When I learned Monday that Bruce Pearl had been fired, it felt like I got punched in the stomach. I’m sure many of my fellow students felt the same way. He was and will always be loved by the students of the University of Tennessee.

Although it’s easy to summarize his tenure by a chart of wins and losses, our connection to Bruce will always mean much more than that.

Sure, we will remember the incredible run to the Elite Eight last year, but we will also remember him bringing boxes of pizza to students who lined up for seats hours before a game.

Sure, pundits on ESPN will bring up his eightgame suspension earlier this season, but I’ll just remember my freshman year when he came to Presidential Courtyard and announced that our football team was going to kick Florida’s butt.

Sure, people will point out his last game as our coach as a disappointing tournament loss, but I’ll just remind them of how invincible we all felt the night we beat Memphis and took over the No. 1 national ranking.

And sure, for the immediate future we will have to deal with the realization that we just lost a great coach, but I plan to tell my grandchildren about the time I got the honor of meeting him after winning a 3-on-3 basketball tournament in 2008. He looked me in the eyes and said “Hi, I’m Bruce,” without a shred of ego or conceit.

I have been a student at UT for five of Pearl’s six seasons here and have never heard a single person speak negatively of a personal encounter with him. Bruce Pearl is a decent man who made a mistake. There is no point of assigning blame or making knee-jerk accusations. Let’s preserve the memory of the greatest men’s basketball coach in our school’s history and count ourselves lucky that we had the chance to share so many great memories together.

Will McCarville graduate student in public administration wmccarvi@utk.edu Pearl serves as scapegoat for Hamilton’s failures Dear Mike Hamilton, I hope that somehow you stumble upon this editorial; however, chances are, seeing as how you are seemingly far removed from your student body, I doubt this will ever catch your eye.

Despite this, in the possibility you do, I hope to express to you my severe disappointment for

your actions on Monday, this day of infamy.

Sir, you have met your goal of being engraved in the hearts and minds of the Volunteer faithful, but your name shall be cursed for generations to come.

On March 21, 2011, you used the man who changed the fabric of the University of Tennessee as a scapegoat for your futility as athletics director. Since 2003, under your tenure, the Volunteer nation hired Bruce Pearl, unceremoniously cut ties with Phillip Fulmer (for whom a street is named), created a nationally contending men’s basketball program, hired Lane Kiffin, lost Lane Kiffin, became a country-wide laughingstock because of player and coach misconduct in football, baseball and basketball, reached an Elite Eight, hired Derek Dooley (a good man, but the verdict is out on his successes), and, finally, fired Bruce Pearl.

I ask you, how much within the past eight years are you culpable for and how much is Pearl’s doing? Now, there is no doubt that Pearl was in the wrong for lying to NCAA investigators and trying to cover it up, but do not the recent string of problems and mediocrity fall upon you, as head of this athletics department?

Tennessee basketball consisted solely of its female counterpart before 2005, when Pearl was hired. Then came wins, ticket sales, renovations, more wins and more money for your department.

Yet Bruce Pearl was not simply a coach to the students and fans; he was and always will be one of us. From the moment he painted his chest to donning the orange blazer to creating sellout crowds in Thompson-Boling Arena to reaching the pinnacle of the polls to “rapping” for the student body to his triumphs in the NCAA Tournament, he has been a source of pride for the university. His accomplishments, his failures are in no credit to you.

So I ask, did you fire Pearl because his sins were so egregious that no amount of reconciliation could atone for them? Or was it because you had to pin the numerous faults and errors of your administration on a fallen man (because your decision clearly does not reflect the feelings of the university or its alumni and supporters)? I tend to think, because of your shattered ego, it is the latter.

If you take nothing else from your inadequacies to run your department, I hope, for your (hopefully) near future, you at least learn from Pearl in how to take failure with some dignity.

Aaron Brink freshman in logistics dbrink@utk.edu

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Cheap, healthy eating possible for students T he Pen is Mightier by

Sean Mahoney Over the years at UT, a frequent topic of conversation among students living off-campus has been how to properly eat on a budget. For many, the concept of cooking on a budget translates to value packs of Ramen noodles, but there are reasonably healthy options that do not cost much and are easy to prepare instead.

Now I do not really consider myself a health nut. I have a tremendous sweet tooth and have made a number of runs to a particular fast-food restaurant with a certain dollar menu that shall remain nameless. But on most occasions, I really try to eat as healthy as I can with little to spend. On my quest to eat a decent diet on a small income, I have relied on a few dishes that have really gotten me through the past two years of living off campus.

First off, we have the popular college student meal: spaghetti. There is a reason this meal is so common. It is really cheap to prepare, and it is easy to reheat for leftovers. It is cheap because there are really just three ingredients.

The beef is around $3, a good sauce can be around $5 and enriched noodles with protein and vitamins are only like $2. In all, you end up spending $8 to $10 on a dish that will feed you about as many times, and all you have to do is brown the beef in a skillet, boil the water, heat the sauce and combine them.

The next item on my list requires a slow cooker but will make you feel like an accomplished chef. If you do not own one, I would advise you to grab one. They aren’t too expensive and mine has saved me more money than I can imagine. One of my favorite meals with the slow cooker is roast chicken. I buy a pack of chicken breasts for about $5 or $6,

cream of chicken or mushroom for a buck, pour it over the chicken in the roaster and let it slow cook for about five hours. You don’t have to tend to it or even watch it at all, really.

Combine that with a can of corn and green beans for about a dollar each and you have a meal like Grandma used to make.

Next is the all-American hamburger. While not the healthiest of meals, it is certainly easy and rather inexpensive to put together. But, what if you don’t own a grill? Not a problem; I don’t either. My favorite way to prepare burgers is to use a griddle like many of my favorite restaurants do. I just put it over the eyes on the stovetop and cook the beef that way. I buy a pack of ground chuck beef, buns, cheese, bacon, lettuce and a pack of fries. In all, it can cost about $10 to $15 depending on the quality of items you buy, and it will make about five or six burgers. It only takes about 15 to 20 minutes and reheating the beef patties will give you a few meals during the week.

The last quick meal that I enjoy that can really save some money is quesadillas. They are extremely easy to make and can be as healthy as you want them to be. I prefer to use chicken, but pork and beef are also really good.

The large tortilla pack is about $3, shredded cheese is about $2, chicken strips are about $4 and beans are around $3. Naturally, you can add lettuce and tomatoes, etc., if you feel the need. Brown the chicken on a skillet, combine your ingredients on a tortilla, then bake it for a few minutes in the oven at about 400 degrees, and you have a meal in no time.

Hopefully, these cheap, easy meals will serve you as well as they have me for the past few years. Cooking at home has saved me more money than I can possibly imagine and, for the most part, it is much healthier. I know for a fact that my wallet and my waistline are better off because of it.

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

Disasters highlight life’s ‘ephemeral quality’ Lol... wUT? by

Yasha Sadagopan

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If you’re reading this, I expect you’re grudgingly back at school, half-heartedly attempting to stamp out memories of a (hopefully) wonderful spring break with a rude awakening called education.

Supposedly, the latter will serve its purpose for a longer time than the former, although I highly doubt it. I spent mine in Knoxville, working and sleeping for about 14 hours a day, when I was supposed to be doing chores and errands — and they were the most glorious 126 hours of my life.

However, in between naps and attempting a farce at servility to corporate America, I spent a lot of time in thought — not just about sleeping and working, but about the earthquake and tsunami in Japan and their aftereffects, both domestic and global. It is sad yet interesting to me that the thirdlargest economy in the world came crashing down within a matter of hours. The country that sold the most cars in the world, that contributed the most to foreign aid and that is far ahead of the rest of the world in terms of technology has been brought to its knees, with its mind still spinning, by what seems like a volley of natural disasters. After dealing with all this mess, they then have to worry about nuclear radiation and how it affects their food and water supplies and their standard of living. Talk about a bad week.

For many of us, what the Japanese are going through currently reflect our worst fears — dealing with natural disasters, nuclear radiation and its effects, the inability to eat and drink good food and clean water, death, lack of power, etc. It seems so distant to most who are used to growing up in a culture where fast-food places are plentiful, cars can be bought and electricity can be used at the flick of a switch, that someone, somewhere might be struggling for food and water and may not be able to watch their favorite shows.

It seems unfair and surreal that so many lives were taken and so many livelihoods torn apart in what appears to be an instant, leading to some

fundamental questions about the test of human resilience and survival in the face of the unexpected.

It goes against our nature, forcing us to question our dependence on other countries, on the things we so often take for granted and leaves us to wonder about the future and how Japan’s landscape might change — whether socially, economically or politically.

It remains to be seen, then, how this could affect Japan’s dealings with foreign aid and the rest of the world and how it could rethink the role of government within the community, in order to get back on its feet post-disaster.

Now, not only are we faced with the current handicap of a technologically advanced empire that has produced goods and services that have elevated our standard of living for so long, but also we are confronted with a frightening truth about the ephemeral quality of life — it does not wait for us. The unexpected happens every day — people die, companies crash, jobs are lost and all we can do is to recollect, rebuild and move on from the rubble, the detritus of our former lives.

In the present situation, it seems all we can do for Japan is send food, water, clothes and the goods that are necessary for human survival. However, not enough money replaces the loss of human life there; not enough words to express sadness at loss and not enough true comfort can be given to those who have lost everything.

I feel of late that we have had too many natural disasters and man-made complications. If it’s not a hurricane, it’s an earthquake. If it’s not an earthquake, it’s an all-out war for something that most of the public does not even know about and does not really care until it starts to affect their lives adversely. In fact, after dealing with this time after time, it seems to be that humanity’s only purpose is to pick up and survive, at least on a grand scale.

If you do care, I urge you to donate something, anything to the relief efforts. I believe worthy organizations such as The Red Cross, Mercy Corps and the Salvation Army are on site. And perhaps, if you believe in karma, someone someday somewhere might pay it back for you, too.

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

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I-House to focus on Persian culture, lifestyle Brittney Dougherty Staff Writer The I-House will hold Persian culture night, the second event in a series of Persian nights this week.

The I-House celebrates a different country’s culture every week. Misagh Mansouri, Persian graduate student in mechanical engineering, said this week is Persian week partly because it falls right after the Persian New Year, which was March 20 this year.

He said students can expect to learn about different types of Persian culture, especially Iranian.

“The main goal of these events is to share knowledge of the Iranian culture with UT students and the community and provide a forum for discussion and learning,” he said.

Wednesday’s event starts with a Persian meal, prepared by a local Persian family as well as students.

Later, live music, dancing, presentations and a calligraphy demonstration will follow.

Mansouri said culture nights provide UT students with a chance to learn about different countries from individuals without outside influence.

“We try to represent our culture the way it should be, despite the negative thoughts that might come to some American minds when they hear about Iran,” he said.

Since these culture nights are a weekly occurrence, Mansouri said, the majority of students can learn something interesting and new by attending.

“It is a great opportunity for students to get involved and learn and teach each other,” Mansouri said.

The I-House is part of the Center for International Education and has been on campus since 1969. The services it offers are numerous, ranging from culture nights to movie nights to trips into the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

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It is to educate and to bring

students into a casual setting where they can interact with the students from that week’s country.

She encouraged students to attend to experience good food and entertainment from around 20 different international student groups. Student groups can fill out an application to have a booth at the festival at the I-House.

“It’s to foster intercultural knowledge between all groups at UT — faculty, staff, American students and international students,” O’Brien said.

O’Brien said the culture nights are an important part of the I-House and that students enjoy them immensely.

“It is to educate and to bring students into a casual setting where they can interact with the students from that week’s country,” she said. “They can ask the international students anything they want to about their country.”

Mansouri said he is looking forward to these culture nights especially because of the relaxed environment, which allows students to learn about and understand different cultures.

“I am really happy to be able to attend such events and share my thoughts with my friends and other students,” Mansouri said. “I hope that political hurdles do not keep the nations from sharing thoughts, culture and even emotion with each other.”

The event is two hours long, starting at 6:30 p.m. in the I-House great room and student tickets are $5. Students can find more information about Persian culture night as well as other events by joining the IHouse Facebook group.

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– Carol O’Brien, program resource specialist at the Ihouse, on culture nights

These activities are not for just international students, and anyone can attend.

Carol O’Brien, program resource specialist at the IHouse, said it is holding an international festival on the UC plaza on April 15.

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ENTERTAINMENT

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Stars predict successful royal marriage

Associated Press

Joy Hill • The Daily Beacon

Grace Betancourt, freshman in pre-business, boxes up keys to send to her mom. Betancourt said she accidentally took the keys with her to Knoxville after spring break.

LONDON — Kate Middleton and Prince William are a match made in heaven.

Just check their horoscopes.

The couple will be delighted to know their star signs, Capricorn and Cancer, indicate they are highly compatible and have a good chance of having a successful marriage, according to leading British astrologers.

“They probably feel like soulmates,” said Wendy Stacey, chair of the Astrological Association of Great Britain.

Take it as a bunch of hooey or a celestial peek into the future. Just keep in mind that The Associated Press reported in 1981 that an astrologer warned that Prince Charles, who was born under the complex sign of Scorpio, would have a “stormy marriage” in his union with Princess Diana, born under the sensitive, intuitive Cancer star sign.

Everyone knows how that ended up.

Jay Lucan, who works with the British Astrological and Psychic Society said the new royal couple have “75 percent relationship compatibility” based on their star charts — giving them “definitely a good chance” of outlasting William’s parents in matrimony.

Both Stacey and Lucan acknowledge they cannot confirm the accuracy of their predictions for many reasons. The biggest drawback is not knowing Middleton’s exact time of birth; Prince William’s was publicly announced as a matter of national interest.

So what do the couple’s birth dates tell us?

For starters, Middleton, born on Jan. 9, 1982, is a Capricorn (an earth sign) while William, born June 21, 1982, is a Cancer (a water sign). Each star sign is designated an element: air, water, fire and earth.

“Cancers and Capricorns are opposites as water and earth,” Stacey explains. “As a result, they can read each other very clearly and they have a deep emotional understanding.

It’s quite a lovely thing.”

Middleton and Prince William, the astrologers claim, both exhibit characteristic traits of their star signs.

“William is emotionally very private — a typical Cancer. He doesn’t share a lot and likes to retreat,” Stacey said. Case in point: the couple plan to settle post-wedding in a backwater town in Wales as Prince William works as a search and rescue pilot with the Royal Air Force.

Think of the crusty crab that represents the Cancer sign, Lucan said — crabs have a thick shell on the outside, protecting a very vulnerable soft body. “William’s not that wellequipped to deal with criticism. He shares that same trait with his mother (also a Cancer),” Lucan said.

As a Capricorn, Middleton, apparently, is much tougher.

“She definitely wears the pants in the relationship,” Stacey said.

Typical of her sign, Middleton is ambitious: she’s a commoner marrying into the world’s most famous royal family. And extremely patient — she did, after all, spend eight years waiting for her prince to pop the question.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

ENTERTAINMENT

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‘Big Love’ finale exposes series’ problems Robby O’Daniel Recruitment Editor It should come as no surprise that the ending of “Big Love” was much different from its beginning.

It’s the nature of television shows. They evolve.

Plots develop. Characters change.

But to compare and contrast the first episode of the HBO drama with its series finale and season five conclusion that aired Sunday would prove a bit jarring.

The opening of the show is different, as “Big Love” traded The Beach Boys’ “God Only Knows” for Engineers’ “Home,” a move that proved symbolic of the very mood of the show.

The early seasons had the carefree nature of “God Only Knows.” Oh, look how quirky this is.

Bill has three wives. He’s a polygamist in modernday America. He has three quaint homes with his three families, and they have lots and lots of sex.

Sure, there was the undercurrent of Barb’s silent yearning for a return to monogamy, but overall it was good versus evil — Bill versus the more antiquated polygamists of the prophet Roman Grant and those on the compound in Juniper Creek.

The show did not become more complex — and more interesting overall — until around its third season, when Barb’s eldest daughter, Sarah, confronted the family about turmoil with her choices. All of a sudden, everyone’s pasts were opening up, from Alby Grant and his homosexuality to Nicki Grant and her past marriage.

But by this time, ironically, as the show got more complex, its season orders were getting shorter. The show went from 12-episode seasons in one and two to counts of 10 episodes in season three, nine in season four and 10 in season five.

The major prevailing criticism about season four is that it tried to pack way too much plot — Bill’s soiree into politics, the introduction of Nicki’s estranged daughter Cara Lynn to the household and Alby’s first attempt at a gay relationship — into only nine episodes. It ended up being a heck of a season, but it was still just nine episodes.

Ultimately there is one thing that leaves this “Big Love” lover nagging after watching the series finale. There is simply too much evidence of the creators’ lack of long-term vision.

It’s OK if, back in season one, the creators did not think Bill would end up running for Senate by season four, but there is something cheap about the fact that it took a whole season for Bill to end up in politics, and then it never really felt like it went anywhere. Surely there must have been an easier plot device to use instead of a campaign,

especially from a man who showed no political ambition before this.

As a stand-alone episode, the series finale also lacked that oomph, that special-ness, that best material that writers should hold for the series finale. Only one scene where all the wives share a silent moment in Barb’s new car does it feel bigger than a normal episode.

Meanwhile, Alby, who had played such an important role as the new prophet over the last two seasons, was not even in the finale, and the season-long plot with Nicki and Cara Lynn ended abruptly, with no resolution whatsoever. The shock ending felt forced, because it comes out of nowhere.

Despite the obvious touches of gray, this is a show where its characters so often see morality as unambiguous. It made so much sense for the show to begin as it ended — good versus evil, Bill versus Alby. Alby served as the perfect foil, too, much more than his father. Instead it ends on a randomly ironic note, which just feels empty on a supposedly epic moment.

Most of all, there was simply no finality to this series finale. It had that “life goes on” feel when these are supposed to serve as the viewers’ last impressions of the characters. Whenever viewers think back on “Big Love,” they will think back on the characters in the settings they end on in the finale.

Where was the emotional catharsis? Barb sort of had one when she compromised her wishes once again for her family, but who else? Nicki and Margene seemed just as bottled up and depressed as ever. Bill’s vision at the end felt more like the ravings of the selfish lunatic he was throughout the show.

Yes, the finale had shortcomings, and the show certainly was not perfect. But regardless of all that, season five was still overall a very strong season with compelling episodes until the finale. The show’s run from season three onward is one of the most excellent runs of any television show ever, and it remains one of the best and perhaps most underappreciated television series to air, often overshadowed by its premium channel brethren.

In the end, “Big Love” morphed from a show where it seemed polygamy was the source of all the characters’ problems to a show where polygamy was the source of the characters’ happiness in life.

Perhaps feelings about the show’s finish are as hard to describe and unresolved as many of the relationships the series depicted throughout.

As the headline of an Entertainment Weekly blog this week put it, “Goodbye, ‘Big Love.’ You almost made the idea of polygamy attractive.”

Not quite, but amen.

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THESPORTSPAGE

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Emotions mixed on Pearl’s departure Three Lady Vols named to US team Gentry Smith Staff Writer Tumultuous might be the most appropriate adjective to describe the state of the men’s athletic department since the current undergraduate students began their respective tenures at Tennessee.

The Class of 2011 saw a glimpse of Tennessee prominence in the fall of 2007.

Coach Phillip Fulmer led the Vols to their last SEC Championship Game appearance, powered by a 7-0 record at home in Neyland Stadium. After a disastrous 2008 follow-up campaign, Fulmer’s 5-7 record that year ultimately resulted in his termination.

Following Fulmer, the roller coaster that was Lane Kiffin’s era at Tennessee and the subsequent hiring of thenunproven Derek Dooley heightened the disorder and embarrassment, both personally and publicly for the Big Orange faithful.

As a symbol of athletic refuge, Bruce Pearl’s basketball team seemed to be the one safe Tennessee men’s sport during the football program’s uncharacteristic turmoil.

Pearl gave the Volunteer community something to cheer about with his 145-61 record (70.4 percent), a 30-win season, a No. 1 ranking in the AP Poll, three Sweet 16 appearances, and an Elite Eight appearance.

Amid NCAA investigations about violations committed by Pearl, the university abruptly quelled the Bruce Pearl era on Monday night.

Despite Pearl’s transgressions in accordance with NCAA rules, his fans have adamantly stood behind him. Laura

Geller, junior in linguistics, spoke to her loyalty to Pearl after his firing.

“My class year has been here through the firing of Fulmer, the sudden departure of Kiffin and now the firing of Pearl,” Geller said. “Bruce hits home the worst for me. He did amazing things, such as starting the ‘Outlive’ program and painting his chest to cheer on the Lady Vols.”

Men’s athletics director Mike Hamilton initially addressed Pearl’s job status, saying the “jury is out” two days before Michigan handed the Vols their worst loss in the Pearl era. The poor timing of Hamilton’s statement raised questions of his motives and loyalty to Pearl.

Justin Wallace, senior in political science, shared a puzzled outlook with many students on the sequence of events.

“I don’t know whether firing Pearl was in the best interest of the program or not,” Wallace said. “But I think Mike Hamilton’s job needs to be on the hot seat as well.”

In Hamilton’s statement regarding the decision to relieve Pearl of his duties, he noted “the unprecedented success and many victories” of Pearl’s era and further explains why Bruce was let go.

Patrick Dingess, senior in logistics and management, spoke to the grand scheme of the situation.

“Coach Pearl did an amazing job here at the university, but as tough as it is to admit, he backed himself and the administration into a situation where there was no other option,” Dingess said. “There was no popular decision here, and I understand Dr. Cheek’s and Mike Hamilton’s decision to let Bruce go.

Nonetheless, he was an amazing coach while here.”

Hamilton is perhaps under more pressure now than ever to hire a coach that will suitably fill the vast hole left by Pearl.

Denney Sandwith, freshman in recreation and leisure, echoed Dingess’ statements, while also pointing out the possibilities of the future.

“I feel as though firing Pearl was the only option, after admitting to lying to the NCAA,” Sandwith said.

“Unfortunately it will likely set back UT men’s basketball into the Buzz Peterson days, where mediocrity was accepted and expected.”

George Richardson • The Daily Beacon

Students rally for Bruce Pearl on Monday outside of Neyland Stadium. Pearl was fired Monday afternoon as coach of UT’s men’s basketball team. His firing was the result of an ongoing NCAA investigation, as well as a number of non-NCAA-related incidents, according to a statement released by men’s athletics director Mike Hamilton.

ers the event as the national championship for the sport of volleyball in the Staff Reports United States.

During the training sessions in Following a tryout session in Colorado Springs, Colo., last month, Dallas, the coaching staff will divide the three members of the Tennessee volley- 36 players into three teams of 12 players ball team have been named to the 2011 to compete in the USA Volleyball Open U.S. Women’s National A2 Program ros- National Championships. Last year, two A2 teams competed in the Open ter, USA Volleyball has announced.

With Kayla Jeter, Leslie Cikra and Division, producing a gold and bronze Kelsey Robinson each making the squad, medal. Former Lady Vol Nikki Fowler was a member of the Lady Vols the gold-medal tie with Texas, winning Blue Florida and squad.

Illinois for the A 5-11 outmost represenside hitter, Jeter tatives from a was an All-SEC single college First Team and team. A total of A m e r i c a n 36 players from Vo l l e y b a l l 22 different colC o a c h e s leges were Association selected from a H o n o ra b l e record-setting Mention All204 tryout parAmerican selecticipants. tion in 2010. “ To have The rising senthree players ior from Solon, represent our Ohio, was secprogram with ond on the team USA Volleyball with 340 total is tremendous,” kills, an average UT Head Coach of 2.98 putaway Rob Patrick per set and a said. “It is really .304 hitting pera testament to Sheila Hannus • The Daily Beacon the incredibly Leslie Cikra, Kelsey Robinson, Kayla Jeter and centage during talented stu- other members of the UT volleyball team her junior camd e n t - a t h l e t e s huddle during a match against Arkansas on paign.

Cikra will that have com- Nov. 14, 2010. The three Lady Vols have each join the A2 mitted to be a earned spots on the 2011 U.S. Women’s team as an part of National A2 Program roster. opposite hitter.

Tennessee volleyball ... This is a fantastic opportunity Standing at 6-4, the rising junior came for each of them and will only help to on strong at the end of 2010 as she increase their skill level and confi- begun to play up to her massive potential. In the second round of the NCAA dence.”

The U.S. Women’s National A2 Tournament, the Chagrin Falls, Ohio, Program will take place in Dallas from native had a breakout performance, postMay 23 through June 1. The program ing a career-high 20 kills and hitting at a includes training and competition in the .459 clip with just three errors in 37 2011 USA Volleyball Open National swings. For the season, Cikra tallied 215 Championships in the Open Division putaways and a .298 attack average, in from May 28-31. USA Volleyball consid- addition to 72 blocks.