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Students use break for good cause Steele Gamble Staff Writer A handful of students dedicated their spring breaks to a week of participating in multiple community service opportunities in Morgantown, W.Va., as part of TeamVOLS’ annual Alternative Spring Break Trip program. Trip participants gained a sense of community within the team and a heightened awareness of local social issues as they helped complete daily tasks at a variety of locations. Mark Moore, program leader and senior in special education, hopes that the experience will continue to benefit students as they return to their everyday lives. “The biggest goal I had was just making sure the team really came together and knew what we were doing and was making an impact on the area we were going and knowing that what we do can actually be brought back to Knoxville,” Moore said. “The same situations, same scenarios and same people are being affected in the city that we actually go to school to, and it’s possible to make a difference wherever you are.” Madelyn Dancy, sophomore in ecology and evolutionary biology, experienced social issues on a personal level while participating in the program. “While another one of the volunteers and I were picking up trash, this car actually drove by and called me the N-word with the ‘E-R’ on the end and then sped by,” Dancy said. “They came by again, and then they yelled at us to ‘get

back to work, juvenile delinquents.’” The hurtful comments did little to decrease Dancy’s will to serve the community. “I felt good because I knew why I was there, and it was of my own accord,” Dancy said. Dancy said that the driver’s racial slur and false assumption actually increased her desire to serve the community. Abby Espy, sophomore in psychology, also witnessed racism during the same service project from a man thanking her for picking up trash across the street from his home. “It really took me off guard because he asked me about my relationship status and then asked if the guy I was dating was white,” Espy said. Espy said that the man continued to state his prejudice against those of races other than white, but like Dancy, it did not decrease her will to serve the community. “It didn’t really hinder my motivation for picking up,” Espy said. “It just kind of broke my heart. It was kind of offensive.” Espy does not believe that racism is characteristic of West Virginia as a whole despite the fact that the team witnessed it multiple times in one day. “There are going to be those extreme people everywhere you go pretty much, so I think it would be unfair to say that that is based on that community,” Espy said. “I wouldn’t want • Photo courtesy of TeamVOLS to judge people based off that one man’s testi- Members of the TeamVOLS 2011 Alternative Spring Break trip to Chicago gather mony. It’s not fair to everyone else.” downtown after a week of service work. This year students with TeamVOLS traveled to Morgantown, W.Va. to help serve the community and gain a higher sense of See TEAMVOLS on Page 3 social issues that affect all communities.

Fraternity draws Speaker encourages dispelling awareness to tensions about sex, intimacy homelessness Victoria Wright

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hosted the event. Jason Campbell, senior in mathematics and secretary of the fraternity, helped coordinate the event this year. “We break away from reality for 12 hours,” Campbell said. “We leave the comfort of our own bed, televisions, cell phone and any electricity to raise awareness (of homelessness) and realize how blessed we are to have clean water and a home for our head.” The brothers of this chapter sleep outside for a full night all the while raising money, clothing, nonperishable goods and awareness for the Knoxville Area Ministries for homeless people.

Come rain, high water or pollen, the brothers of the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity exposed themselves to the elements for an entire night to raise awareness for homelessness. Sleep Out for the Homeless, which took place in the Humanities Amphitheater from Tuesday night to Wednesday morning, is a project that started on a national scale as part of this historical fraternity and has been present annually on The University of Tennessee’s campus for four consecutive years. The Kappa Chi Chapter of the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity See HOMELESS on Page 3

Student Life Editor Equipped with bottles of lubrication, high-tech musical vibrators and strap-ons, students received a crash course in sex ... education, that is. “I’m probably going to make you feel uncomfortable at certain points,” warned speaker Megan Andelloux at the Fornication 101 event, sponsored by the Issues Committee, in the UC Auditorium Tuesday night. But that was all part of her ploy. Andelloux, certified sexologist and sexuality educator of The American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists and The American College of Sexologists, began visiting schools to ease the tension many students feel when discussing sex. “It’s because of a fear of being laughed at or being considered a freak,” Andelloux said. “They just don’t want to disclose, and then they’re not necessarily having

healthy sex lives.” Andelloux dissipated audience anxiety through a series of educational demonstrations of various sexual positions and uses of her toys. Though Andelloux used a myriad of sex toys, she reminded audiences members that they were biologically blessed with free instruments: the hands. When picking volunteers for her demonstrations, Andelloux remained impartial to gender, as she wanted to reinforce that social roles should always remain outside the bedroom. It was Andelloux’s unapologetic dialogue that relaxed students’ previous notions on sex. Attendee Jacob Clark believed Andelloux’s approach provided a fresh perspective on sex education and helped to eliminate repressed issues students often hold about sex. “We all have misconceptions about sexuality in general,” Clark, senior in mathematics, said. “We’re so worried about how others are see-

ing us that we tend to limit ourselves, and not just in the sexual capacity, but in all other capacities. When you’re emotionally guarded, you limit yourself.” Issues Committee member Brianna Radar proposed the idea to bring Andelloux to UT. “I feel like sexual pleasure and sexual health is a huge problem with adults in this country,” Radar, sophomore in the College Scholars Program, said. Radar also felt issues with sexuality and femininity were issues among students. “Often, sex is like an offensedefense thing, like the women plays defense and the man plays offense and it’s not very healthy,” she said. “I feel like it’s not very healthy for females a lot of times.” “Politics don’t belong in the bedroom,” Andelloux said. “I know that a lot of people are like ‘I’m this, so I shouldn’t like this,’ but leave that alone. There’s so much baggage we already carry in, we don’t need to bring in our religion or our politics.”

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iO Tillet Wright takes a portrait as part of her “Self Evident Truths” project on Monday, March 12. Wright’s project focuses on bringing a humanizing face to LGBTQ people across America with the notion that people don’t fit into over-simplified boxes when it comes to sexuality.

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Members of the Air Force ROTC program perform a marching drill in the Humanities Plaza on Thursday, March 15.

1973 — U.S. withdraws from Vietnam Two months after the signing of the Vietnam peace agreement, the last U.S. combat troops leave South Vietnam as Hanoi frees the remaining American prisoners of war held in North Vietnam. America’s direct eight-year intervention in the Vietnam War was at an end. In Saigon, some 7,000 U.S. Department of Defense civilian employees remained behind to aid South Vietnam in conducting what looked to be a fierce and ongoing war with communist North Vietnam. In 1961, after two decades of indirect military aid, U.S. President John F. Kennedy sent the first large force of U.S. military personnel to Vietnam to bolster the ineffectual autocratic regime of South Vietnam against the communist North. Three years later, with the South Vietnamese government crumbling, President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered limited bombing

raids on North Vietnam, and Congress authorized the use of U.S. troops. By 1965, North Vietnamese offensives left President Johnson with two choices: escalate U.S. involvement or withdraw. Johnson ordered the former, and troop levels soon jumped to more than 300,000 as U.S. air forces commenced the largest bombing campaign in history. During the next few years, the extended length of the war, the high number of U.S. casualties, and the exposure of U.S. involvement in war crimes, such as the massacre at My Lai, helped turn many in the United States against the Vietnam War. The communists’ Tet Offensive of 1968 crushed U.S. hopes of an imminent end to the conflict and galvanized U.S. opposition to the war. In response, Johnson announced in March 1968 that he would not seek reelection, citing what he perceived to be his responsibility in creating a perilous national division over Vietnam. He also authorized the beginning of peace talks. In the spring of 1969, as protests against the war escalated in the United States, U.S. troop strength in the war-torn country reached its peak at nearly 550,000 men. Richard Nixon, the new U.S. president, began U.S. troop withdrawal and “Vietnamization” of the war effort that year, but he intensified bombing. Large U.S. troop withdrawals continued in the early 1970s as President Nixon expanded air and ground operations into Cambodia and Laos in attempts to block enemy supply routes along Vietnam’s borders. This expansion of the war, which accomplished few positive results, led to new waves of protests in the United States and elsewhere. Finally, in January 1973, representatives of the United States, North and South Vietnam, and the Vietcong signed a peace agreement in Paris, ending the direct U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War. Its key provisions included a cease-fire throughout Vietnam, the withdrawal of U.S. forces, the release of prisoners of war, and the reunification of North and South Vietnam through peaceful means. The South Vietnamese government was to remain in place until new elections were held, and North Vietnamese forces in the South were not to advance further nor be reinforced. The Vietnam War was the longest and most unpopular foreign war in U.S. history and cost 58,000 American lives. As many as two million Vietnamese soldiers and civilians were killed. — This Day in History is courtesy of History.com.

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Terry Nowell, from Fuel, listens as Eric Dixon, from Revolt, speaks during an SGA debate on TVC on Tuesday, March 27. The two Vice Presidential candidates will be focused on the polls until Thursday, March 29 at 5:00 p.m., soon after which the winners of next year’s SGA leadership will be announced.

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Dancy believes that racism is an issue that cannot be confined to a single area. “I feel like that could even happen anywhere because there are still those kinds of people who have such small minds that it doesn’t matter where you are,” Dancy said. “If they feel that way, they’re going to feel like they need to express it to you,

which is pure ignorance.” Dancy said that providing community service in a group with a variety of backgrounds, such as that on Alternative Spring Break, can possibly help weaken opinions of prejudice. “I just think that by me not trying to be racist or anything and trying to promote positivity and diversity that it rubs off on one person who I have affected,” Dancy said. “They give it to someone else, and in turn, it’s like a ripple effect, and

it just keeps spreading out until eventually no one is racist or biased against a race, culture, religion, etc.” Moore encourages students at UT to become more involved in community service opportunities. “The moment that they give it a try, I feel like they learn something about themselves,” Moore said. “It may not be an ongoing occurrence, but the fact that they did it one time they realize there’s something positive to gain from the experience.”

Panel warns of deadly weather The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Global warming is leading to such severe storms, droughts and heat waves that nations should prepare for an unprecedented onslaught of deadly and costly weather disasters, an international panel of climate scientists says in a report issued Wednesday. The greatest danger from extreme

weather is in highly populated, poor regions of the world, the report warns, but no corner of the globe — from Mumbai to Miami — is immune. The document by a Nobel Prize-winning panel of climate scientists forecasts stronger tropical cyclones and more frequent heat waves, deluges and droughts. The 594-page report blames the scale of recent and future disasters on a combination of man-made climate

change, population shifts and poverty. In the past, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, founded in 1988 by the United Nations, has focused on the slow inexorable rise of temperatures and oceans as part of global warming. This report by the panel is the first to look at the less common but far more noticeable extreme weather changes, which recently have been costing on average about $80 billion a year in damage.

“I want people to understand that homelessness is not something to be taken lightly,” Campbell s aid. “We normally have a larger turnout because we have a cookout and games, but we didn’t want to make a mockery out of homelessness or use those things as a distraction from the real issue which is homelessness. “Some people don’t have the same luxuries as we do and to break outside of our own reality for one night is eye opening and for a good cause.” The annual awareness event is not for the faint of heart and happens regardless of weather conditions to truly attempt to understand homelessness. “The most rewarding part of this event is definitely the completion of it ,” Campbell said. “When morning rolls around,

we’ll be tired and probably feel dirty, but we accomplish a goal and raise awareness towards a very important issue.” All of the brothers participating in the event were grateful for the good weather but were even more excited about raising so many goods to give to the Knoxville Area Ministries. “The highlight of this event is the way you feel when we give the donations collected throughout the night to Knoxville Area Ministries,” said Phi Beta Sigma member Xavier Andrews, junior in logistics. “Something as simple as canned goods can make people happy.” To continue this fraternity ’s efforts, students can still donate non-perishable items either directly to Knoxville Area Ministries or to the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity. The fraternity can be cont acted at kappachi@utk.edu.

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Somewhere... Hopefully Politicians raise freebies above issues Preston Peeden Managing Editor As I walk down the Pedestrian Mall, my senses are immediately battered as I get closer and closer to the intersection with Volunteer Avenue. From the top of the hill, I can’t really make out exactly what’s happening. There are several tents set up, and from over 100 yards away I can make out the smell of grilled food, the sound of loud music and what looks like people giving out Tshirts and assorted items. At first I couldn’t help but think this was another promotional giveaway by some gigantic corporation that was desperately seeking to improve its client base among college-aged people, but then I remembered the date was Monday, March 26, and that could only mean one thing. These weren’t companies trying to lure unsuspecting students in as new consumers, but rather these were the parties running to lead our Student Government Association. And for me, the only tangible contribution I could see them making were the two hot dogs in my hands that I had snagged from the Fuel campaign. And this, in my eyes, represents the issue of politics today; everyone wants to be elected and stay elected in a position in the government, but no one really governs when they get there. By saying this, I don’t mean to harp on those running for SGA unfairly in any way. They aren’t doing anything wrong or vindictive by trying to sell their campaign through catchy slogans, glossy websites and free shirts; that’s just the nature of politics today. They, just as much as we as voters, are victims of today’s warped political system. Ever since the position of politician became a career path, as opposed to a civic duty, the landscape of the political world has changed. When someone is a career politician in the highest levels of our government, then his or her main concern becomes doing anything and everything to get elected. For instance, in the case of members elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, once they get in office, they have to go out and immediately start raising funds for the next election cycle. This short turnover and new mindset leads politicians to compromise whatever (if any) values and plans they

had going in so as to gain the appropriate amount of constituents and funds to keep their jobs. The focus is now not about what you’re doing in office, but instead what you do and who you make deals with to keep your office. This phenomenon rears its head at every level of politics, from the national level — with our current presidential and soon to be congressional rounds of elections — where both sides forsake the people they have been elected to serve so that they can keep their cushy position, all the way down to the local and university level. This is not to say that there are no more politicians out there who go out to try to actually govern, but they are no longer the norm like they once were. While Madeline Rogero may want to truly try to do what is best for the people of Knoxville as its mayor, that does not mean that everyone surrounding her or even the person who occupies her seat next will feel the same. Being an elected official used to mean that you were elected to serve the people in a government that is of the people, by the people and for the people, but now it means that you get elected to get a job and subsequently do whatever you must to keep it. This is the state of politics today, and it is sad. Our system has twisted and corrupted itself into a self-serving, self-replication farce of what it was once thought to be. No one governs anymore; they just get elected, and (worst of all) we keep electing them. I personally have nothing against the people running in the Fuel and Revolt campaigns, nor the tricks they’re using to try to get elected. They’re just doing what every other politician they’ve ever seen does. They’re trying to win the crowd to get to where they want, and that’s not inherently a bad system, or at least it’s not anymore. In an election, the issues rarely matter, partly because both parties are closer on the issues than most people believe, but also in today’s political atmosphere, what matters is how you draw in the voters like moths to a bright light. Our system isn’t what it used to be. We now elect people whose main focus is staying in office, and this mentality trickles down to all levels of politics. While T-shirts and hot dogs are great, they don’t do anything to inform voters about what’s going on and what the party will do about it. I want an election based on issues, not freebies. — Preston Peeden is a junior in history. He can be reached at ppeeden@utk.edu.

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Lindsay Lee The Nobel Peace Prize has been a little symbol of hope ever since it was first awarded in 1901. The people who are given this prize are supposed to be the ultimate human representatives of good in the world. But, as recent developments with a recent laureate have shown, even these incredible people are not flawless. Last year, three women were all awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for “their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work.” The women included a Yemeni revolutionary, a Liberian women’s rights activist, and current Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Sirleaf has been active in Liberian politics basically since the 1970s. She was born in Liberia and educated at Harvard, and then returned to her birthplace in 1972 to work in high-level government positions. In 1980 Sirleaf publicly declared that the nation was being “run by idiots,” which the tyrannical president Samuel Doe did not appreciate. Sirleaf fled to the United States where she began working for the United Nations. In 1997 Sirleaf resigned from her post at the UN to run for president of Liberia. She did not succeed until 2005 after the preceding harsh regimes were disposed of. Since then she has made some really significant improvements to Liberia. She has helped rebuild schools and clinics, and has helped provide the nation with clean water and lights in the streets. Overall she has been a real asset to Liberia and the rest of the international community. But recently a debate has been sparked in Liberia that has left Sirleaf in a very awkward situation. In December, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that the U.S. foreign aid budget would promote the protection of gay rights. This sparked an incredible and surprising amount of attention brought to homosexuality in Liberia, where gays and lesbians generally don’t dare express their sexual preferences publicly. Newspapers across Liberia have described homosexuality as “desecrating,” “abusive” and an “abomination.” The number of attacks against homosexuals has escalated.

In the midst of all this, there have been two bills presented in the legislation by anti-gay activists. One calls for making homosexuality a second-degree felony and the other wants this “un-African,” “criminal,” “deviant” behavior punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Currently in Liberia, “voluntary sodomy” is a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in jail. This law is obviously targeted at homosexuals, but according to the 2010 U.S. State Department Human Rights Report, there haven’t been any recent convictions under the law. President Sirleaf, known among the international community for being progressive and a fighter for equality and peace, has received a lot of backlash for doing nothing. She has declared that she will not sign any laws relating to homosexuality, whether for or against. She is not looking to repeal the current sodomy law, saying, “We’ve got certain traditional values in our society that we would like to preserve.” That statement has really shocked and hurt a lot of people who viewed Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as a revolutionary advocate for the downtrodden of Liberia and an invaluable diplomat for Africa. But what a lot of people are not attempting to understand is how hard it is to make every little change to the way Liberia operates. Sirleaf is trying to rebuild a nation from the ground up in an impoverished area with deep-seeded prejudices. She has to prioritize certain things over others and pick the battles that she has the slightest chance of winning. Tiawan S. Gongloe, Liberia’s former solicitor general, has stated that, “If she tried to decriminalize the (current anti-gay) law, it would be political suicide.” And he’s right. There is no way Sirleaf would be able to make any changes to her population’s health, safety and education by antagonizing all the government officials she has to work with. They may be so homophobic and so wrong and so immoral, but Sirleaf has chosen her priorities and must stick with them. Once people are healthier, safer and more educated, they can begin to see reason when it comes to gay rights. This isn’t the first time people have been disappointed by a great leader, and it definitely won’t be the last. We can’t expect everyone who does something incredible to be a savior in every aspect in life. Nobel Prize laureates are just normal people who had awesome ideas and stuck to their guns. But that’s all; they’re only human just like the rest of us. — Lindsay Lee is a sophomore in mathematics. She can be reached at llee26@utk.edu.

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Soon, after the Republicans have finally rid themselves of Newt Gingrich and have chosen their candidate (my money is on Romney … as is just about everyone else’s at this point) and his running mate we will finally have the playbill for the fight of the century. The smart money is on President Barack Obama barring a major gaffe or the situations described below. There are, presented with a mixed metaphor, three wild cards that can really do damage to Obama’s re-election hopes. Honestly, it might take some combination of two of the three factors to really make it a solid win for the Republican. The first is probably obvious: the economy. Plainly, the unemployment rate has to drop precipitously over the next eight months — maybe as much as two percent — for Obama to reach a safe zone; any significant drop and Obama will probably shift blame onto something else (which he should since he doesn’t really have control over the job market) since a candidate with any brains will look competent. Which means Obama is really hoping for Santorum to be the pick. Another issue is gas prices. Expect to hear Obama rail against “corporate greed” or some similar topic about every week for the rest of his term in office, since he actually doesn’t have control over oil prices and the next best thing (for his election) to having direct control over prices is to act really angry that they are so high. Actually, scrap that; the next best thing is a random drop in gas prices that he would most likely take some type of credit for. Nine people will probably decide the other issue this week — or, rather, two since the other seven are ideologically spoken for — in Washington. The Supreme Court case over whether or not the government can constitutionally issue a “mandate” which will require companies to offer affordable health care and for many currently uninsured

people to buy it. It seems that the two people who will really be deciding on this issue are Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy, who seem the most likely to split off from the conservative cohort and vote with the liberals; it is yet to be seen if they will do so. The court seems set on making a quick decision. Of course, there are many things in the bill that just about everyone likes. For us college students, the ability to stay on our parents’ insurance for a couple of extra years was a serious boon. Many with chronic health problems like that they don’t have to pay higher premiums. In fact, Obama will probably tout these and more even if the “mandate” portion of the bill evaporates in the coming week. However, people won’t pay much mind to that. People tend to summarize broad time periods into glib memorable statements. Around November, many of those who actually vote will probably think of three things when they go to vote: Obamacare, gas prices and the jobless rate. Compared to the end of the Bush era, if the latter isn’t any better the second is much worse, Obama better hope that the first still exists, or at least be prepared to hear about how little he actually accomplished. Of course, this would also bolster the claims by Romney that his insurance plan was OK because it wasn’t a federal action. Of course, Democrats will complain that making any other drastic changes was blocked by bullheaded Republicans dead set on seeing him out of office; they would be right. They would also argue that other accomplishments should be counted in his favor, like the bailout plan for the automakers. They would be right. They would argue that Obama has surprisingly little power to change the economy on the macro scale. They would be right. What should scare everyone is that elections are never intellectual affairs. They are not even really emotive so much as they are psychological. Hearing Mitt Romney call Obama a “do-nothing” president at every campaign stop will carry a whole lot of weight on election night. Even if you like Romney, getting him elected in that way has to feel dirty. Right? — Gregory Bearringer is a graduate student in medieval studies. He can be reached at gbearrin@utk.edu.

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Friday, March 30 What: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “South Pacific” When: 8 p.m. Where: Tennessee Theatre How much: $37 - $77 Our take: The Broadway duo’s famous World War II musical is the latest installment of Broadway at the Tennessee.

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What: UT Cultural Attractions Committee presents: Royal Winnipeg Ballet (Moulin Rogue — The Ballet) When: 7:30 p.m. Where: Tennessee Theatre How much: $5 with student ID, $30 public Our take: The longest running ballet company in North America presents the classic story of Toulouse-Lautrec’s journey through the cabarets of Paris and the inspiration he found which fueled the Post-Impressionist movement. Add in the Moorish appeal of the Tennessee and you have a classy night for a fivespot. Not too shabby. What: “Dead Man’s Cell Phone” — Preview Performance When: 7:30 p.m. Where: Clarence Brown Lab Theatre How much: students free, $12 non-UT student, $15 public — SOLD OUT Our take: A mysterious cell phone call leads to a soul-searching journey and challenges the growing gulf between people in the technocratic now. What: Moon Taxi with Grandpa’s Stash When: 9 p.m. Where: The Ciderhouse How much: $8 advance / $10 door Our take: The former’s biography drops so many names it’s hard to tell if they are trying to be pretentious or they actually have no originality at all. The latter sports a name which tries so hard to blend Appalachia folk culture and the drug culture, that they get points for trying but are dismissed for failing miserably.

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Mellow Mushrooms on Cumberland Ave is now taking applications for all positions. Daytime availability a must. Fill out application at www.mellowmushroom.com or at our Cumberland Ave. location.

Starting Points Childcare is interviewing for a full-time lead two-year-old teacher. Position starts on April 9th. Degree in Early Childhood or related field or TECTA training. Experience with young children in a group setting required. Knowledge of developmentally appropriate practices required. Hours are 7:00a-3:00p M-F. (865)966-2613.

PT/ FT retail clerk needed for liquor store. 2040hrs/wk. For more information call Jim at (865)573-1320.

Worker needed for heavy yard work. Weeding, planting, digging, and mowing etc. 4 hours/wk. $10/hr. Prefer UT students. 588-8371

Jimmy John’s now hiring in-store help for all shifts. Call (865)637-1414.

EMPLOYMENT Staying in Knoxville This Summer? Need a Fun Summer Job? Camp Webb day camp, in West Knoxville, is now accepting applications for full-time summer camp counselor jobs! Positions: general camp counselors, lifeguards, and instructors for Archery, Arts & Crafts, Drama, Swimming, Ropes Course, Nature, Sports, & some leadership positions. Part-time available. www.campwebb.comto apply. THE TOMATO HEAD KNOXVILLE Now hiring dish and food running positions. Full and part-time available, no experience necessary. Apply in person at 12 Market Square or apply online at thetomatohead.com.

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What: “Dead Man’s Cell Phone” — Opening Night When: 7:30 p.m. Where: Clarence Brown Lab Theatre How much: $5 student, $12 non-UT student, $15 public Our take: A mysterious cell phone call leads to a soul-searching journey and challenges the growing gulf between people in the technocratic now.

Saturday, March 31 What: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “South Pacific” When: 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Where: Tennessee Theatre How much: $37 - $77 Our take: The Broadway duo’s famous World War II musical is the latest installment of Broadway at the Tennessee. What: “Dead Man’s Cell Phone” When: 7:30 p.m. Where: Clarence Brown Lab Theatre How much: $5 student, $12 non-UT student, $15 public Our take: A mysterious cell phone call leads to a soul-searching journey and challenges the growing gulf between people in the technocratic now. What: Taboo When: 9 p.m. Where: The Valarium Our take: The orgiastic dance party continues. This is what passes for high brow, nowadays. Truly the end is nigh.

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SPORTS

Thursday, March 29, 2012

George Richardson • The Daily Beacon

Mike Pickelsimer, graduate student in electrical engineering, chats with Dr. Min H. Kao after a ceremony dedicating the new building in Kao’s name on Wednesday, March 14. Pickelsimer spoke at the ceremony about his experience as an undergrad and graduate student and the impact Dr. Kao’s scholarships and gifts had on students at UT.

Former Vol releases biography The Associated Press PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — New York Mets knuckleballer R.A. Dickey opens up in a revealing new biography, and he's ready for whatever comes next. In “Wherever I May Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity and the Perfect Knuckleball,” Dickey writes about being sexually abused by a female babysitter multiple times when he was 8 years old, and also by a 17-year-old male on another occasion. He talks about contemplat-

ing suicide six years ago, and finding a syringe in a clubhouse bathroom when he was the Texas Rangers in 2001. “Anytime you put yourself out there and you are transparent with what happened to you, you run a risk,” Dickey said Tuesday. “I knew that when I wrote the book. . I had to get to the place where I was OK with whatever reaction was going to come.” Dickey wrote the book with New York Daily News reporter Wayne Coffey. It’s scheduled to be released this week, but an excerpt is included in this week’s Sports Illustrated. Dickey put together the best two years of his career after the Mets gave the journeyman right-hander a minor league deal in December 2009. He became one of New York’s most dependable starters after he

was promoted in May 2010, going 11-9 with a 2.84 ERA in 27 games, and was rewarded with a $7.8 million, two-year contract. Dickey’s biography focuses on redemption, not only in his baseball career but also in his personal life. He writes about his troubled Tennessee childhood memories, which include multiple accounts of abuse. “I started writing the book in 2005, and it was too painful then to write it, so I put it down for a few years until I felt like I had the equipment to hold it well and talk about it in an effort not only for my own catharsis, but also as a possibility to help other people,” Dickey said. “Sure, it’s been difficult, but I feel like I’m OK.” Dickey said he had shared the personal details of his past with only about a dozen people prior to open-

ing it up for the public to read about in the book. He doesn’t plan to address it with his teammates unless they ask him about it. “It’s nothing I am going to force on anybody,” Dickey said. “I feel like I feel much more comfortable and I feel like the right thing to do is if people have questions about the story or about my life or about things that are talked about in the book, then I certainly am available to talk about those things, but being proactive and seeking people out, I think it's a waitand-see kind of thing.” Dickey hopes others who have shared similar experiences will learn and benefit from the book. He said his life might have turned out differently had he talked about the sexual abuse earlier. Not even his family knew until he wrote the book.

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No. 9 softball sweeps Furman Anthony Elias Staff Writer Tennessee co-head coach Ralph Weekly said the Lady Vols were “a pitching team first and a defensive team second.” The Lady Vols backed up that message by holding the Furman Paladins to only one hit in 13 innings as UT swept Tuesday’s doubleheader at Lee Softball Stadium. Tennessee has held its opponents scoreless in its last 23 innings. Game One Ivy Renfroe pitched a complete game one-hitter in the Lady Vols’ 1-0 thriller with the Lady Paladins in the first game. The lone hit came in the top of the sixth inning when Lauren Collier’s blooper dropped into a gap in shallow left field. Renfroe was only an out away from her fifth no-hitter, but it didn’t bother her one bit. “It all happens for a reason,” Renfroe said. “It’s nothing to worry about.” The junior pitcher didn’t worry about being careful either. Being aggressive helped her strike out seven batters and hold the 21 batters she faced to a .047 average at the plate. The Lady Vols batting unit struggled just as much, but produced two of its three total hits in the first inning that mattered most. Raven Chavanne led off bunting and beating the tag at first. The junior third baseman didn’t stay on first very long, stealing second base. Lauren Gibson walked during the next at-bat, but Melissa Brown drilled a pitch to center field which brought Chavanne home from second. The RBI single was part of Brown’s 2for-3 performance at the

plate. The junior’s second hit of the game was a line drive that bounced off of Hannah Bradley’s glove and into the gap between first and second base. It did little to phase Bradley or the Lady Paladins, who held the SEC’s third-best batting average (.304) to 3-for-19 (.158) in the first game. Game Two Ellen Renfroe’s first career no-hitter completed UT’s six-inning, 8-0 blowout and sweep of Furman. The sophomore pitcher may have shown early signs of trouble, like losing control of the ball during her wind-up, sending it behind her toward the shortstop for an odd ball one. Two throws after the wild pitch, Renfroe had her first of eight strikeouts during what Weekly called “a tough no-hitter.” “I’ve never seen Ellen struggle like she did,” he said. “You could see it on her face. A couple of her pitches weren’t working.” Despite Renfroe’s “struggles,” Weekly only had one thing to say about her pitching Tuesday. “I couldn’t be more proud of her,” he said. After their struggles in the first game, the Lady Vols had better luck at the plate, going 10-for-27 (.370). After two quiet innings, UT scored at least two runs in three of the next four innings. “We challenged them in between games,” Weekly said, “and they came out and did fairly well.” UT met the challenge with a relentless offense that caused three different Furman pitching changes, including a switch-back to starting pitcher Lauren Collier, who, in three and 2/3 innings, allowed five runs on five hits.

Kat Dotson’s thirdinning single to left field was just the beginning. The first baseman scored from second on Lauren Gibson’s RBI blast to the center field wall, ending a seven-inning run drought. Brown was just as effective in the second game as she was in the first. The left fielder brought in Dotson by drilling an 0-1 pitch to the center field wall to give the Lady Vols a 2-0 lead. Brown wasn’t finished. Her next hit was a single between first and second base, which allowed Gibson to score her second run during a 1-for-3 day at the plate. Furman only committed one error, but it came off a missed throw to Paladin first baseman Jessie Homesley. The error scored Dotson and Madison Shipman, giving UT a 7-0 lead. the game ended when Brown scored UT’s eighth run on a wild pitch. With a home series against Kentucky beginning Friday, the Lady Vols will be looking to rest up. “I think our kids are tired,” Weekly said. “We’ve been on a nine-day road trip. Not taking anything away from Furman. Furman played a really good game in that first game.”

Wade Rackley • The Daily Beacon

Ivy Renfroe winds up to deliver a pitch to an ETSU batter during a game on Tuesday, Feb. 15. Ivy and sister Ellen Renfroe combined on the mound during the Lady Vol’s doubleheader against Furman on Tuesday, March 27, pitching two complete shutout games as the Volunteers swept the Lady Paladins 1-0 and 80.

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Thursday, March 29, 2012

Vols take advantage of MVSU pitching woes Robby O’Daniel Recruitment Editor

Zero hits after the fifth inning does not sound like a winning formula in a tight game, but the UT baseball team still won over Mississippi Valley State on Tuesday, thanks to plentiful walks and hit batsmen. UT third baseman Parker Wormsley and designated hitter Davis Morgan provided RBI singles to the outfield to give the Vols a 2-1 lead in the fifth. From there, the Vols (14-10) had eight baserunners off four walks and four hit batsmen, generating three additional runs and ensuring the Vols’ victory. UT coach Dave Serrano said taking advantage of mistakes is what successful teams have to do. “We were able to take advantage of some of their miscues,” Serrano said. “That’s what you have to do sometimes. We’re not swinging the bats particularly well right now, so we have to take advantage of every opportunity our opponents are giving us.” Vols fans might have experienced déjà vu during the game. In the bottom of the sixth, the Vols garnered a five-pitch walk and two hit batsmen before UT shortstop Zach Osborne drove a ball to the outfield for a sac fly to give the Vols a run. In the eighth inning, the exact same scenario happened — five-pitch walk, two hit batsmen, Osborne sac fly — to give the Vols another run. Serrano called it a part of the maturation of Osborne at the plate. “Zach is doing a good job,” Serrano said. “He’s starting to come in on his own and take long at-bats, using his experience and what he’s had in this program. The game’s slowing down for him offensively a little bit. Defensively, he’s been there all year for us, but I think early on he put a little bit of pressure on himself to

help carry this team, and now I think he’s fitting in his role of what we need him to do.” After the Osborne sacrifice fly in the eighth, Mississippi Valley State right-handed pitcher Cody Parker gave up back-to-back walks to bring the Vols’ final run home. The Vols ended up with three runs in two different innings without a hit in a bizarre latter half of the game. Morgan said the team needs to get more run-scoring hits after a game where the Vols left 11 runners on base. “You got to have small ball, but you also got to have hits,” Morgan said. “Small ball works. When we do that, it’s shown to work, but still, when you get guys on, you got to get hits. You got to find a way to get them in, just a sac fly or a groundball. If we can get them on, it’ll work, but we’ve just got to execute a bit better.” Still, Morgan said the Vols are glad to take advantage of chances like they got Tuesday. “Any time you get runs like that, it just builds on confidence for the hitters,” Morgan said. “If they’re walking guys, they’re eventually going to leave one out over the plate for you to hit. Absolutely, you got to take runs anyway you can. If they were going to walk us all night, we were going to keep going.” In a game where the Vols struggled with the bats, the pitching held the game tight. UT starter Robbie Kidd gave up one earned run on two hits in four innings pitched, while reliever Carter Watson followed up with two and twothirds scoreless innings of his own. Serrano commended the pitching for keeping the Vols in the game during the team’s offensive struggles. “We just got to keep battling,” Serrano said. “We knew it was going to be hard, and it wasn’t going to be easy. We got to continue to accept those challenges.”

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