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Preachers cause debate at amphitheatre Iran’s top nuclear negotiator heads to China TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s state media says the country’s top nuclear negotiator is heading to China to discuss possible U.N. sanctions against Tehran over its disputed nuclear program. Iranian state television reported Wednesday that Saeed Jalili will travel to China Thursday for talks with senior Chinese officials “concerning the nuclear program.” The U.S. and other Western powers are pushing for a new round of U.N. sanctions on Iran over its defiance to halt its uranium enrichment program. China wields veto power on the Security council and has been a vocal opponent of sanctions on Iran. U.S. officials have said they believe Beijing may be changing its stance. Philly charter school says nightclub will close PHILADELPHIA — A charter school cafeteria will no longer double as a nightclub on nights and weekends, city education officials announced Wednesday after inspecting the facility. Owners of the Harambee Institute of Science and Technology Charter School have removed all banquet supplies and equipment, including alcohol, from their building, which on weekdays educates about 450 students in kindergarten through eighth grade. Philadelphia district officials had demanded an end to the school’s arrangement with Club Damani, which had been operating on the premises during off-hours despite an expired liquor license. Officials toured the school Wednesday to ensure there were no “traces of anything that was unacceptable in a learning environment,” district spokeswoman Evelyn Sample-Oates said.
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Students gather to listen and debate two men street-preaching at the Humanities Amphitheatre Wednesday afternoon.
Robby O’Daniel Chief Copy Editor Students, non-students, Christians and non-Christians all had an impromptu gathering at the Humanities Amphitheatre on Wednesday afternoon in what amounted to several theological arguments. Two street preachers attracted a crowd of roughly 150 to the amphitheatre in a discourse which lasted from the late morning into the late afternoon, as of press time. Tracy Bays wore a suit with a pin that said “porn” with an X over it. An associate carried a large, yellow sign, sending out a warning about judgment to “God haters, fornicators, thieves, liars, drunks,
mockers, adulterers, (and) sodomites.” Bays, who identified himself as a “Bible-believing, Bible-obeying Christian,” said the verse Mark 16:15 was the reason he was outside that day. “Mark 16:15 says go out to all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature,” Bays said. He said he encouraged students to “surrender” and stop sinning, as he said he has. “Any true Christian is a saint,” Bays said. “A saint means holy one of God. Holy means set apart from sin. So if you’re set apart from sin and you’re a holy one of God and you’re a saint, that means you have stopped sinning. I would say, unless you do stop sinning, you’re not really a Christian.” He said he didn’t understand why
some students took exception to him saying he has stopped sinning. “Me saying that I stopped sinning is no big deal,” Bays said. “Any real Christian has stopped sinning.” But students did take exception. Monica Provence, freshman in graphic design, was among them. “He was just talking about how he doesn’t sin anymore,” Provence said. “That’s a blatant lie. So it’s contradicting a statement in general. And he’s talking about needing grace. I think he needs to look up the word ‘grace’ in the dictionary for a minute. Absorb that, and decide whether he actually needs grace or whether he actually is perfect.” She said Bays is making Christians look “horrible” with his street preaching, and she was out there with her friends to
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High school students bike for clean water Ellen Larson Staff Writer
Donors pledge $9.9 billion for Haiti UNITED NATIONS — Secretary-General Ban Kimoon says donors went “far beyond expectations” and pledged $9.9 billion over more than three years to rebuild earthquake-ravaged Haiti. Haiti had appealed for $3.8 billion for the next two years. The U.N. chief said the $9.9 billion includes pledges of $5.3 billion from governments and international partners for the first 24 months of reconstruction, far exceeding Haiti’s request. Ban told a news conference at the end of a daylong donor conference on Wednesday that the international community had come together “dramatically and in solidarity with the Haitian people” to help them recover from the Jan. 12 earthquake.
persuade him to stop. “Obviously we’ve had street preachers, and they’re not causing as big of a ruckus as this guy because this guy is blatantly lying, and he doesn’t seem to get that,” Provence said. “And we’re all trying to say, ‘Hey, dude, don’t be preaching if it’s not true.’” Billy Crawford, sophomore in history, also took up the cause of free speech against what the preachers were saying. “I’m not with him (Bays),” Crawford said. “I’m telling everybody that Jesus loves sinners because that’s all I know.” Crawford, who held a sign saying, “Ask me about Jesus,” disagreed with what Bays said about conversing with nonbelievers.
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Myra Kruger founder of Esler Kruger signs the book she co-authored “The Pursuit of Something Better.” She and US Cellular President John E. “Jack” Rooney spoke at the full-time MBA program Spring Symposium on Tuesday.
U.S. Cellular CEO presents at Spring Symposium Staff Reports John E. “Jack” Rooney, president and CEO of U.S. Cellular, and Myra Kruger, founder of Esler Kruger and co-author of the book “The Pursuit of Something Better,” served as guest lecturers at the University of Tennessee fulltime MBA program Spring Symposium on Tuesday. University of Tennessee MBA students and faculty, local U.S. Cellular leaders and other guests gathered in the beautiful West Wing boardroom of the Haslam Business Building for Jack and Myra’s presentation regarding ethics, leadership and business transformation as well as the book “The Pursuit of Something Better.” “It’s a wonderful and enriching opportunity
for our MBA students and for the university to have Mr. Rooney and Ms. Kruger visit as speakers for the MBA Spring Symposium,” Amy Cathey, director of the UT full-time MBA program, said. “For our students to interact with and learn from individuals who have implemented successful business principles and achieved outstanding business results is invaluable to their education and advancement in the field. U.S. Cellular is a fantastic case study that fits well in our curriculum regarding ethics and business transformation.” After the lecture, Myra offered a book signing for the students’ copies of “The Pursuit of Something Better,” which chronicles the success of U.S. Cellular under Rooney’s 10-year term as CEO. See CELLULAR on Page 3
Two high school seniors from Memphis have not forgotten about the earthquake in Haiti. An incoming UT student and his friend are cycling across the U.S. to give clean water to people in Haiti in a project named “The Water Cycle.” Cort Gatliff, who will attend UT in the fall, and Christian Kauffman, are seniors at Memphis University School. They started cycling in Santa Monica, Calif., on March 4 and will finish in Savannah, Ga., on April 4. Gatliff said they think it was unfair that these people have to drink contaminated water that is ultimately killing them. “Water is the source of life for all human beings, but for these people who are forced to drink contaminated water, it is becoming a source of death,” Gatliff said. Gatliff said that water is something everyone needs to live, and it’s something people take for granted in America where access to water is never something people have to worry about. There is hope, however, because people are willing to help, Gatliff said. “Most people don’t know about the water crisis, so when they hear about it, they are usually really generous when it comes to donating,” Gatliff said.
Before this cycling adventure, Gatliff and Kauffman raised awareness of the water crisis issue in their hometown of Memphis. They spoke at schools and other venues around Memphis, telling them about the clean water shortage. Gatliff has had a passion for cycling since a young age. He said his dad introduced him to the sport when he was younger. “It’s just something that has always been a part of my life and that I have loved doing,” he said. The high school students hope other people will also use their passions to help the people of Haiti. “We are using our passion of cycling to bring clean water to Haitians with the hope that others will follow our example and serve in creative ways,” Kauffman said. Gatliff said he will continue to use his passion of cycling at UT. “I’m all about adventures and doing exciting things,” he said. “I’m really looking forward to going to UT next year.” So far, Gatliff and Kauffman have raised more than $35,000 to build water wells in Haiti. The proceeds go through Living Water International, a non-profit organization which provides clean water to people around the world. Gatliff and Kauffman record their journey on their blog at http://www.thewatercycle.org. They also post to Twitter and Facebook.
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• 9:40 a.m. until 10:50 a.m.— Kevin Ott of Los Alamos National Laboratory speaks on “Hydrogen Storage in Covalent Chemical Compounds: Current State and Future Challenges” in room M311 of Walters Life Science Building. This STAIR seminar is free and open to the public. • 3:40 p.m. — Shannon Stahl of the University of Wisconsin speaks on “Aerobic Oxidation Reactions Catalyzed by Palladium and Copper” in room 415 of Buehler Hall. This chemistry seminar is free and open to the public.
• 5:05 p.m. until 6:20 p.m. — Ron Bialek of the Public Health Foundation in Washington, D.C., speaks on “Quality Improvement in Public Health: Turning Hard Work into Healthier Communities” in room 235 of the HPER Building. This public health seminar is sponsored by the UT Center for Public Health and Programs in Public Health. • 6:30 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. — The International House screens the African film “Things Fall Apart,” which is based on the best-selling novel by Chinua Achebe, in the I-House Great Room as part of the I-House’s film series. The movie is free and open to the public.
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Local elementary students took part in the Easter Egg hunt that greek sororities hosted in Circle Park on Tuesday afternoon. Some students competed in the sack race and part of other events going on in the Easter celebration.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY • 1700 — English pranksters begin popularizing the annual tradition of April Fools’ Day by playing practical jokes on each other. Although the day, also called All Fools’ Day, has been celebrated for several centuries by different cultures, its exact origins remain a mystery. Some historians speculate that April Fools’ Day dates back to 1582, when France switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, as called for by the Council of Trent in 1563. People who were slow to get the news or failed to recognize that the start of the new year had moved to January 1 and continued to celebrate it during the last week of March through April 1 became the butt of jokes and hoaxes. These included having paper fish placed on their backs and being referred to as “poisson d’avril” (April fish), said to symbolize a young, easily caught fish and a gullible person. Historians have also linked April Fools’ Day to ancient festivals such as Hilaria, which was celebrated in Rome at the end of March and involved people dressing up in disguises. There’s also speculation that April Fools’ Day was tied to the vernal equinox, or first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, when Mother Nature fooled people with changing, unpredictable weather.
• 1789 — The first U.S. House of Representatives, meeting in New York City, reaches quorum and elects Pennsylvania Rep, Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg as its first speaker. Muhlenberg, a Lutheran minister and the former president of the Pennsylvania convention to ratify the U.S. Constitution, was the son of Henry Augustus Muhlenberg and grandson of Johann Conrad Weiser, two of the leading Germans in colonial Pennsylvania. His brother, Major Gen. John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg, also served in the first House of Representatives. Like his father, Frederick Muhlenberg studied theology at Germany’s University of Halle. He returned to Pennsylvania to be ordained in 1770 at the age of 20 and preached in Stouchsburg and Lebanon until 1774. Muhlenberg began preaching in New York City later that year, but returned to Pennsylvania upon the British invasion of New York in 1776. For three years, he served as pastor to congregations in New Hanover, Oley and New Goshenhoppen before embarking on a political career.
• 1946 — An undersea earthquake off the Alaskan coast triggers a massive tsunami that kills 159 people in Hawaii. In the middle of the night, 13,000 feet beneath the ocean surface, a 7.4-magnitude tremor was recorded in the North Pacific. (The nearest land was Unimak Island, part of the Aleutian chain.) The quake triggered devastating tidal waves throughout the Pacific, particularly in Hawaii. Unimak Island was hit by the tsunami shortly after the quake. An enormous wave estimated at nearly 100 feet high crashed onto the shore. A lighthouse located 30 feet above sea level, where five people lived, was smashed to pieces by the wave; all five were killed instantly. Meanwhile, the wave was heading toward the southern Pacific at 500 miles per hour. — Courtesy of History.com
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Former lawyer for Bush speaks at UT Lawyer Fred Bartlit Jr., who represented former President George W. Bush during the 2000 Florida ballot dispute, will speak at noon on Monday at the UT College of Law room 132. His lecture is free and open to the public. Bartlit’s speech is part of the Wyc and Lyn Orr Distinguished Lecture Series. Bartlit, who was named by the American Bar Association Journal as one of the “Seven Over 70 Lions of the Trial Bar,” is a founding partner of Bartlit, Beck, Herman, Palenchar & Scott, with offices in Chicago and Denver. He has been involved in more than 50 major trials since 1970 and has handled a wide variety of cases, dealing with fraud, antitrust, products liability and intellectual property. Bartlit’s trial techniques have been described in several books about the nation’s top litigators, including “The Trial Lawyers,” published in 1988 by St. Martin’s Press, and “America’s Top Trial Lawyers — Who They Are & Why They Win,” published in 1994 by Prentice Hall. In 1997, The National Law Journal listed him in “The 100 Most Influential Lawyers” and included Bartlit in its “Winning Hall of Fame” in 2009 for his significant bench or jury trial verdicts and his records of success over many years. Music school raises funds through cocktails, jazz The School of Music is hosting a spring fundraiser, “Classical Meets Jazz,” on April 10 at 6 p.m., at Fox Den Country Club. A cocktail reception — with complimentary wine and a cash bar — and silent auction will start the evening, followed by a gourmet dinner and a live auction. The highlight will be an unprecedented performance by the entire School of Music jazz faculty, including three-time Grammy Award nominee Donald Brown. The program also will feature music from opera theater students, a student string quartet and student pianist William Crowe, recipient of the prestigious Kline Scholarship, awarded to an outstanding freshman artist/scholar. After dinner and entertainment, the dance floor will open to the sound of the Boling, Brown & Holloway Trio, featuring faculty members Mark Boling, Keith Brown and Rusty Holloway. Tickets for this special black tie-optional event are now on sale. Single tickets are $150 per person, Impresario Patron tickets are $200 per person and tables of eight are $1,600. A portion of each ticket price is tax deductible. For more information or to make reservations, call 865-974-8935 or visit http://www.music.utk.edu/cmj/.
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“He said he’s not a sinner, which is not true,” Crawford said. “He said that he will not invite sinners to his church, and you shouldn’t associate with them. But Jesus Christ himself ate with sinners and invited them to church. He came to heal the sick. ... I believe that we need to present the gospel with love and not with condemnation.” Crawford said he also would not have street preached the way Bays does. “I think God can work through any presentation of the gospel, but I think this (asking Crawford about Jesus) is a way that people may respond to a little better in a campus situation,” Crawford said. Bays said street preaching was justified because Jesus was a street preacher. “He (Jesus) preached on the mountainside,” Bays said. “He preached in the streets. He preached out in the open. He preached where the people were. He didn’t say, ‘Build me a building and tell his disciplines, go out and bring people to me. Jesus didn’t do that. Jesus went out to the people, where the people were. That’s what we’re doing.” Other students raised signs that ran contradictory to what the preacher was saying. Made out of cardboard and written in spray paint, signs like “I love scotch,” “Get laid” and “God loves fags” were raised by students around Bays, who moved from place
to place when he said the crowd “got too close.” Dustin Moore, freshman in music education, held a sign that said “sinner” in all capital letters with an arrow pointing toward Bays. Moore, who had been at the amphitheatre for at least three hours, said he disagreed with the preachers’ presentations. “I think they’re just going about it wrong,” Moore said. “It’s one thing to preach the word of God and state their beliefs and what they believe, but it is wrong, morally, to come out here and call us names and judge us and tell us what we are, whether we believe it or not. Because who can say that any religion is wrong? There’s no real basis of proof on any of it.” Bays said he came to the amphitheatre to simply preach the Bible’s message. “(I came to) give glory to God, preach the truth of the Bible, preach the gospel, exhort people to stop sinning and trust in the Lord,” he said. As to how the situation became so large with so many people, Crawford blamed the heat. “Well it was a nice day already, and there were people here before the preacher showed up, which had a lot to do with it I think,” Crawford said. “And then things escalated. ... You get a bunch of people around in hot weather, and things are always going to escalate.”
“The Pursuit of Something Better: How An Underdog Company Defied the Odds, Won Customers’ Hearts, and Grew its Employees Into Better People” by consultants Dave Esler and Myra Kruger presents a rare and inspiring case study for CEOs, executives, consultants and entrepreneurs. It tells the story behind the leadership of U.S. Cellular, a regional wireless service provider whose nearly 9,000 associates specialize in delighting six million customers and giving their giant competitors heartburn. While most companies are scrambling to apply traditional recessionera tactics, battling poor press and earnings reports, this organization is giving millions to its communities and revamping its infrastructure and planning for the future. Its associates are proud and delighted to work there. 95 percent of them have confidence in the leaders, and associates report they have become better spouses, parents and citizens because they work in this company. Knoxville serves as the East Region headquarters for U.S. Cellular and the location of one of the company’s five Customer Care Centers. Regional vice president and local leader Tom Catani, as well as the Knoxville Customer Care Center, are highlighted in “The Pursuit of Something Better” as early champions of the new business model and corporate culture transformation. U.S. Cellular employs more than 700 associates in East Tennessee and has contributed more than $1.2 million to Tennessee nonprofit organizations and schools over the past five years. Local associates have volunteered more than 2,900 hours over the past three years. U.S. Cellular was named “Best Wireless Phone Service” and “Best Place to Work” in the 2009 News Sentinel’s East Tennessee’s Best Readers Poll.
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Swift should take sabbatical from music Ladies and gentlemen of the University of Tennessee, I, Brandi Panter, would take this column space to dedicate it to one of my favorite hobbies: hating. This weekend, as I drove back to Knoxville from staffing a Catholic retreat in Nashville, absent of iPod adapter, I found myself scanning radio station after station, searching for something decent upon which to feast my and my passengers’ ears. As I flipped to a familar country station, I heard the familiar warbling of one Taylor Swift flood my speakers. “I can’t deal with this,” I groaned to my friend. “I can’t stand Taylor Swift.” My friend and fellow passenger, confused about my declaration, immediately responded with, “What, why not? Why don’t you like Taylor Swift? What isn’t to like?” As a general lover of music and good things, Swift and I are already doomed to oppose each other. Swift’s lyrics lack any discernible growth, depth or maturity beyond her first album, which she released at the tender age of 16. Swift’s lyrics tell a tale of a passive young woman who sits around idealizing a relationship as a fairy-tale fantasy and being incredibly furious when it does not fulfill her expectations. Her lyrics promote dependence on a male and making a relationship the center of a universe, two things that, as a feminist, I absolutely hate. And, so, I am taking this time out to offer some unsolicited and (obviously) unneeded career advice to Miss Swift: if you know what is good for you, go away. You already won an Album of the Year Grammy, you already have millions of dollars and fame beyond measure, what is there left to prove? Take your money, put it in savings, and stop writing the same song over again over again, which you do. You have been writing the same song since you were 16. You’re 20 now; it’s time to start writing like it. Go to college; expand your mind. Take a real chance on love, beyond the stretch of infatuation and utter disappointment. Learn a little; live a lot. Swift’s career genuinely reminds me of one of my favorite artists, Maxwell (though I shudder to say their names together, for fear of committing a mortal sin). Maxwell released his first album “Maxwell’s Urban Hang Suite” in 1996, when he was at the tender age of 23. His start continued to rise to astronomical (and very seductive-sounding) proportions until 2001, when, seeing that he had failed to live at all and was essentially living for the sake of producing music, he decided to take time off to find himself. In 2009, he returned, grown up and sans afro, with an album that quickly became my new favorite. “BLACKsummers’night” is Maxwell’s grown-up venture, eight years in the making, with true tales of heartbreak and woe that stink to high heaven of agony. For instance, “Pretty Wings,” my immediate favorite, chronicles the ache of being in love yet knowing the relationship is not going to last. I’ll take Maxwell’s heartbreakingly realistic crooning over Taylor’s whining and fawning any day of the year. But Maxwell would be in Taylor’s exact same position had he not gone away. So if you have taken nothing else from this column, please turn down your “Love Story” and “Picture to Burn” right now and go take a preview of “Fistful of Tears.” It’s the only way we can win the war against the radio. COFFEY & INK • Kelsey Roy
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Religious debate shows closing of minds Immut abl y Right by
Treston Wheat “God is intolerant of your sins.” “That’s fascist speak.” This was the dialogue on the Pedestrian Mall on March 31. I almost wished it had happened the next day so we could all consider it an April Fool’s Day joke. But, alas, this is the common discourse with which we are plagued. How sad is it that these Protestant fundamentalists and radical leftists were reduced to this kind of discourse? After an hour or so of the ranting on both sides, a group of 10 or so students got together to pray. Pray for what, I wonder. Were they asking their Protestant God to smite the heathen leftists yelling “Get laid” and “Smoke weed, tonight?” Or were they asking Christ to show His love and stop the “preachers” from acting the way they did? Alan Bloom described a phenomenon he said was the “closing of the American mind.” I am afraid he was not far off about what is happening today; it is shown by the scene so many of us witnessed. Both sides’ minds were closed to the possibility of what the other was saying. The preacher kept yelling about sin and the need for repentance rather than discussing proper morals or the love of Christ. He chose to abandon reason for madness by refusing to create a proper conversation in which he used facts and logic to support his position. However, the leftist, rather than being rational, just yelled how the preacher was fascist and encouraged his fellow students to indulge in “sins.” This is a gross misrepresentation of fascism because the preacher was neither advocating for that type of government nor the implementation of his views on a political level. The preacher was merely expounding on his spiritual views, though in a rather vitriolic manner. None of this even addresses how the leftists tried to prevent the preachers from speaking, which is more fascist than anything the latter did. Neither side chose to act or think in a rational manner, which shows that there is a
closing of the American mind, both on the right and on the left. The preacher was so focused on his faith and what it meant for the afterlife that he could not utilize reason or have a real discussion with the opposition. On the other hand, the leftist were so “open-minded their brains fell out.” Could you imagine anything more anti-intellectual than trying to prevent free speech and simply yelling “fascist” to try to stop the other side from speaking? It is a sad day when people cannot try to have an open, honest discussion on issues on college campuses. There are various reasons this has happened, including the inculcation of liberalism in the classroom and intolerance in the church, but that is no excuse. No civilized person should act like either side did on Wednesday. There is a proper solution for the problem: Rational people need to have these discussions in public but in a calm, reasonable manner. We should not shy away from controversial topics; however, simply yelling at each other is unproductive and counterintuitive. Just because we disagree does not mean we cannot talk about our difference of opinions in an appropriate way. The other piece of the solution has two parts. We should first ignore both sides as much as possible. If we do not want to hear the dribble of both sides, then we ought to simply ignore them all. If no one listens, they are less likely to continue with their ridiculous behavior. Second, we should marginalize these people’s beliefs by being the louder voice on the issues. This does not mean the right and left will agree, but we can work together to try to prevent extremist voices from controlling the discourse. Faith and reason do not have to be two impenetrable spheres in a person’s life. They can coexist side by side but not if radicals lead the debate. I implore my fellow students to not allow the American mind to be closed. Our greatest gift is that intellectualism is fostered and encouraged in our system. It is what has made America industrious and strong from the inside out. However, if the American mind does close, we are no better than tyrants and terrorists in the rest of the world. — Treston Wheat is a junior in political science and history. He can be reached at twheat@utk.edu.
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I cannot even count the number of friends on Facebook who are jokingly “married” to their best friend or “in an open relationship” with their platonic friend of the opposite sex. Many of my other friends are also “in a relationship” with their legitimate significant other. However, just because they are officially in a relationship does not mean they are monogamous. We all joke about our relationship statuses on Facebook, but I think that the way we view relationships today is somewhat of a problem. Monogamous relationships are something that many people claim to be in, or think that are in, but often times both partners are not on the same page. So many of my friends have been cheated on by their boyfriends or girlfriends and have been completely shocked upon discovering their significant other’s indiscretion. Disturbingly, some of my friends know their boyfriend or girlfriend cheats on them and do little, if anything, to stop it. While infidelity is something that has been going on since we have been a species, it is not something that is usually condoned or without consequences. However, recently many people claim to be in real “open relationships.” These relationships have different terms and conditions, but in short, they mean partners can be intimate with someone other than each other. At first, this idea seems like a perfect solution to the problem of cheating, but these types of “agreements” don’t come without a price. When I googled the term “open relationship,” the first result was “How to manage jealousy in an open relationship.” People willingly participating in open relationships may claim that they are alright
knowing their partners are with other people, but the feeling of jealousy is human nature. Clearly, by my Google search, this human instinct does not go away, even with both partners’ consent to be intimate outside of the relationship. So obviously jealousy is still going to be a factor in most open relationships, but do they at least eliminate feelings of mistrust? For example, many people say that, when they are cheated on, they are more upset about the lying than the actual act of cheating. This is not true in all cases, but from talking with many people, and from personal experience, this is definitely the case. With an open relationship, lying would not necessarily have to be involved if your partner knows about the “infidelity.” Lying seems to be omitted in these relationships, but I do not think this is absolutely true. By giving your partner the ability and outright permission to cheat, you are opening up an entirely different set of problems. Do partners have to tell each other every time they are intimate outside of the relationship? Do they have to tell the other partner if they felt more than just a physical connection? These are all questions I know I would ask if I were involved in such a relationship. An open relationship may seem like a good remedy for mistrust in a cheating relationship, but this lack of trust will always be an issue if both partners can’t be honest. This new idea of open relationships points to a greater problem going on today in regards to monogomy. We have all heard that “relationships aren’t easy” or “marriage is tough,” but nowadays it seems like people just don’t want to work as hard or be responsible for their mistakes. This may seem pretty harsh, but the “open relationships” remedy just that. Jealousy and mistrust are still present regardless of whether or not the other partner knows about the infidelity. — Ali Griffin is a junior in journalism and electronic media. She can be reached at sgriff10@utk.edu.
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Lecture to begin health week Staff Reports One of the nation’s top authorities in public health will kick off National Public Health Week on the UT campus on Thursday. Ron Bialek, executive director and president of the Public Health Foundation, a national nonprofit organization, will speak about improving public health at 5 p.m. in HPER room 235. The event is free and open to the public. Paul Erwin, professor and director of UT Knoxville’s Center for Public Health, and June Gorski, professor of public health and health education, worked to bring Bialek to campus. Bialek has nearly 30 years of experience in public health practice and academia. Bialek has directed efforts that help to train more than 10,000 public health professionals annually through distance education. He currently is developing a distance learning course on community health assessment training for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He also serves on a variety of government advisory groups. Before joining PHF, Bialek was on the faculty of The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and served as director of the Johns Hopkins Health Program Alliance. Bialek developed a reputation for efforts to link academic institutions and public health agencies. Bialek received his Bachelor of Arts in political science and a Master of Public Policy from The Johns Hopkins University. Held since 1995, NPHW is the first full week of April each year. Communities across the country have celebrated NPHW to recognize the contributions of public health and highlight issues that are important to improving the public’s health. This year’s theme is “A Healthier America: One Community at a Time.” The American Public Health Association serves as the organizer of NPHW and develops a national campaign to educate the public, policymakers and practitioners about issues related to that year’s theme. APHA creates comprehensive planning, organizing and outreach materials that can be used during and after the week to raise awareness.
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The National, rain concludes Big Ears Jake Lane Entertainment Editor Visions of saints in the pouring rain
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The final day of Big Ears 2010 began in an anti-climactic manner, coming to work instead of heading directly to the epicenter of the concert action. After hurriedly preparing the week’s stories and getting the section together for Monday’s issues, it was a matter of burning rubber to get to the Bijou Theatre as soon as possible. One small gripe about the complimentary pass which opened doors all weekend was that its journalist swag folder didn’t come with a schedule, likely a simple oversight. With over 30 individual shows, it can be a bit difficult to employ immediate total recall of the location and time of a specific show. Thus instead of parking near the Bijou as the rain began, it was Market Square garage. With no umbrella. If you have never walked from Market Square to the Bijou, know this: while it is by no means a long haul, in a torrential pour, the trek is not pleasant. After making the walk and wringing the mane, finding a seat at the Bijou was cake. After a few minutes of set up, self-styled “homoerotic piano duo” Nico Muhly and Doveman took the stage for what proved to be a mixture of classical cacophany, balladry befitting a no-fi record and a healthy amount of NPR hero worship. Their repertoire consisted of individual solo numbers by Muhly and Doveman leader Thomas Bartlett, selections from Bartlett’s cover of the “Footloose” soundtrack and transcriptions for two pianos of Indonesian ethnographic pieces by musicologist Colin McPhee. Annie Clark, a former Polyphonic Spree robe-wearer who has toured as St. Vincent for the last four years, was the show’s main attraction. For those who have never seen Clark in person, she is the picture definition of a pixie powerhouse: physically unimposing, but a terrifying force when given her wonderfully distorted Harmony Bobcat. Clark emulated other instruments present, such as saxophone and violin, and sometimes abandoned melody for aural power. In “Your Lips Are Red” she dropped to her knees and pulled noise hither and dither from her effects pedals as the stage lights climaxed overhead. After St. Vincent, a much needed break seemed in order. Unfortunately, no such luck prevailed. The rain subsides; Big Ears bows out The walk back was hellacious. Certainly not the worst rain ever experienced in Knoxville, but the timing could not have been worse. Refuge sought under eaves and storefronts gave a view of fellow concertgoers who were not so industrious, ducking into shops and fueling the tourist revenue which has lent a hand in “revitalizing” downtown in the last decade. With no concrete plans for the next few hours, it was resolved to hit the Pilot Light and keep the noise mojo going. KnoEars, which has since been recognized by out-of-town media as an anti-festival, stood on its own right and gave locals a chance do their own thing and expose their work to those outside the Knoxville scene. In between bands, new-old boutique Hot Horse provided a fun place to hang during soundchecks. Their consignments of rad, weird music gear and hipster-approved record selection warmed the soul after the rain. By 9 p.m. it was time to go and spend the obligatory few songs with The National, whose set was much talked about in the vague sort of way that new initiates to a clandestine society speculate what their hazing ritual will be. See BIG EARS on Page 7
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BIG EARS continued from Page 6 “Have you heard the National?” “No, man. I’ve heard I should, but I never know how to get into them.” “Then you’ve got to see them live. They’ll completely change how you see them, and you’ll want to listen to them all the time.” Such a promise was heartening but ultimately a bit unfounded. Shara Worden’s My Brightest Diamond was winding down, which is not to say the band lost any of its fervor. In other words, anyone who shares a stage with Worden has a tough act to follow. In 2007 she outshone The Decemberists on their “Crane Wife” tour, prompting Colin Meloy to bring her in as the Queen on last year’s rock opera “The Hazards of Love.” As she took a stab at the standard “Tainted Love,” Worden danced about and wrung her own wails from her ES-335, before
ceding the stage to Ashley Capps for closing remarks. Capps is a charismatic and gracious host. He thanked everyone who could have feasibly put a hand into making the festival possible before promising that they were dreaming ahead for the next year. Taking Clogs’ logistical level, the National took to the stage with no less than seven people in various auxiliary roles, taking adult alternative music to a more orchestral level than most in recent years. They played well but left a bit to be desired. Though theirs was the last set, it seemed alright to adjourn the festival at a high point instead of fighting to stay through a marginally enjoyable show. Big Ears was over. All the incredible sights and sounds of the weekend are still sinking in, but this much is certain. For the righteous objections of some and the exaltations of others, Big Ears is the little festival that could, and did, utilize Knoxville’s classic movie palace showrooms and echo the past and foretell the future of the mighty Marble City.
LEBANON, Tenn. — Gretchen Wilson the country singer has a lot riding on her new record, “I Got Your Country Right Here.” Gretchen Wilson the CEO has so much more on the line. “I feel like pretty much everything is at stake,” Wilson said in a recent interview at her sprawling farm about 30 miles east of Nashville. Wilson has taken the ultimate gamble as she prepares to launch her fourth album and tries to plant a rebel flag at the top of the charts again. The 36-year-old Grammy winner split with Sony and started her own record label, the aptly named Redneck Records. It’s been a long journey since the release of her last album, “One of the Boys,” in 2007, with plenty of highs (Wilson earned her GED and testified before Congress on the importance of education) and lows (she had to lay off employees and right a career that teetered off-kilter after a blazing start with her signature hit, “Redneck Woman”). The decision to split with Sony has given the single mother of an 8-year-old daughter a new sense of empowerment, though. She’s in complete control. Wilson been singing the songs, lining up the musicians, designing the album
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cover, picking the singles, brainstorming the T-shirt ideas, planning the tour and, most importantly, signing the checks for a venture aimed at making a two-fisted return to the top. “When I parted ways with my record label, it was the first thing on my mind,” Wilson said. “The agenda that I had was to work as quickly as I could and get this music out. It’s taken a lot of energy and a lot of time, but it feels wonderful to work for myself and to be in control of everything.” Wilson’s bartenderturned-queen of the trailer park success story remains a beacon to country music aspirants everywhere. But hidden behind the hit records and the full houses of adoring fans was a little tidbit that might surprise a lot of people. “I’ve not seen any money on royalties from anything I’ve done yet,” she said. Wilson has sold more than 6.2 million albums, Nielsen SoundScan says. But she says she split costs with Sony for everything required to send all three of her albums to the top. “Kind of makes you wonder what that number that we spent is, doesn’t it?” Wilson asks with a wry smile. A Sony rep said officials were unavailable for comment on Wilson’s claims this week.
Wilson did all right on concert ticket sales and other sources of revenue, but as album sales declined, the venues got smaller and the recession took hold, she was forced to lay off about 12 employees in her business and touring group. “Twice in January I’ve had to do it in a couple of different chunks,” Wilson said. “It’s the hardest thing ever to do. (They were) people that really believe in you and have been working on a project with you and trying to get you back where you truly believe you belong. I think it’s harder for me to see in my crew’s faces and my band’s faces sometimes, you know the stage we used to be standing on compared to now.” Wilson has played a string of recent dates at smaller clubs that might hold 800 compared to the 8,000 she used to play for. While she has found a way to enjoy a much smaller ruckus on the road, she says her story isn’t unusual. “Most of the time an artist faces bankruptcy when they’re at the top of their career,” she said. “That goes back to, again, how much money did you spend to get this song out there and the video and the promotion and everything else it costs to actually get your song to the No. 1 position.” See WILSON on Page 8
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WILSON continued from Page 7 Wilson’s first album, 2004’s “Here for the Party,” shot to the top of the charts on the strength of her No. 1 country smash, “Redneck Woman.” She sold 4.6 million copies and was the toast of Nashville and pop music in general. She even topped Kanye West for best new artist at the 2005 American Music Awards, prompting one of his early awards-show meltdowns. Her next album, 2005’s “All Jacked Up,” sold 1.3 million copies. Like her first two releases, “One of the Boys” opened on top of the charts in ‘07 but immediately struggled and topped out at 256,000 albums sold. Wilson blames some of that
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when she first came on the scene and was really heating it up and laying it on them hard.” Work on “I Got Your Country ... “ started about a year before the split with Sony. Wilson said she had to buy some of the songs back from Sony when she split with the label and has financed everything else since. She’s been making crucial decisions — how many CDs to press and ship for the release, for instance — with a small team of advisers who she considers friends and like-minded souls. Her single, “Work Hard, Play Harder,” is at No. 30 on the Billboard country singles chart after 21 weeks. Wilson believes with all her heart she’s got another establishment-rattling, chart-topping effort for her fans.
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Thursday, April 1, 2010
The Daily Beacon • 9
SPORTS
Dooley not pleased with practice physicality Matt Dixon Staff Writer Saturday’s practice was a physical one for the Tennessee football team but one that Derek Dooley thought got too physical with what he called “extracurricular talk and activity after the play.” UT’s head coach wasn’t pleased with how some of his players let their emotions get the best of them during the intense practice. Quarterback Nick Stephens said this kind of stuff has been a part of the football program since he arrived, but that coaches handle the situations differently and that Dooley has a much different philosophy regarding those situations than the previous coaching staff. Linebacker coach Lance Thompson seems to echo Dooley’s view. “Good players always play between the snap,” Thompson said after Tuesday’s practice. “The stuff that happens after the whistle is for those rah-rah guys.” Johnson impressing at new position Austin Johnson has made the switch from “being hit to delivering the hit.” Hayley DeBusk • The Daily Beacon The converted fullback has been playing at middle linebacker this spring in large part due to UT football players get ready for the upcoming season at practice this week. The injuries the Vols have accumulated at the position. Johnson played linebacker in high school and Orange and White game will be taking place on April 17. has caught the eye of Thompson as a player who can contribute this fall. “At the mike position, Austin Johnson has really stepped it up,” Thompson said. “(I’m) really pleased with Austin for a guy that hadn’t played linebacker in a couple of years.” He’s not Monte Kiffin; he’s Justin Wilcox In his first year at Tennessee, Justin Wilcox quickly made it a point not to compare himself to the Vols’ former defensive coordinator. Wilcox came from Boise State, the mid-major power that has won two BCS bowl games in the last four years. Wilcox said the decision to leave a national championship contender to come to Tennessee was an easy one because the UT program is among the elite programs in the country. “The tradition here at Tennessee and in the SEC is unmatched,” Wilcox said. Smith reunited with Tennessee, Dooley Former Vol great Chuck Smith rejoined the program this spring, becoming the defensive line coach. Smith has made it a priority to remind the current players about the history and tradition that Tennessee football once had. Smith said he constantly brings up former players that he admired and great teams such as the 1985 “Sugar Vols” that won the SEC Championship. “(The coaches) are just trying to let the guys know that the expectations are to play hard, fast and smart and represent the University of Tennessee on and off the field like they should,” Smith said. Growing up, Smith was a high school teammate of Dooley’s. Smith said Dooley was one of the leaders of the team and has the same drive now as he did then. “He’s about his business,” Smith said. “He’s serious about winning football games and doing it the right way.” First scrimmage The Vols will hold their first scrimmage of the spring Thursday afternoon. Some emphasized aspects of the scrimmage will be the newly installed goal line and short yardage situations, as well as field goal techniques and schemes.
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THESPORTSPAGE
Diamond Vols take out Tech 9-3 Jason Hall Staff Writer The UT Baseball team bounced back from a disappointing weekend series that saw their record drop to 11-13. The Diamond Vols answered by defeating the Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles 9-3. The Vols started out the game with hot bats on Tuesday night as they scored all 9 runs in the first three innings. However, Coach Todd Raleigh wasn't said they can still improve. “We got out to a good start offensively but I was a little disappointed,” Raleigh said. “I thought we got out of our game plan after P.J. [Polk] hit that home run. Our hitters tried to do too much and made some outs. I wasn't happy about all those zeros.”
The standout player for the Vols was P.J. Polk, who went 3-5 with 4 RBIs including a 3-Run homer in the Bottom of the 3rd. Polk leads the Vols in several statistical categories this season. He currently leads the team in Batting Average (.347), Hits (33), At Bats (95), Walks (19), On Base Percentage (.462), S t o l e n Bases (13), and has a perfect fielding percentage. “I'm just trying to understand my role as a leadoff hitter,” Polk said when asked
about his season. “I'm just trying to get on base, whether it means getting a hit, a walk, or whatever. I think it's helping me stay calm and stay with my approach. As long as I stay with my role of getting on base I'll be fine.” Polk's night was nearly ruined in the 8th inning, when it seemed as though he suffered an injury in his final AtBat of the game. “I'm fine,” Polk said. “I just kind of rolled my ankle but I'm ok.” Pitching was also a key factor to the Vols victory on Tuesday. Aaron Tullo started for UT and earned his first victory of the season. Tullo threw 4 Strikeouts in 5 full innings, while allowing just 5 hits, 2 Earned Runs, and 2 walks. He also threw a season high 81 pitches, 51 for strikes. Coach Raleigh said he was pleased with the effort he got out of his starter. “It was the best I've seen from him all year,” Coach Raleigh said. “He had more command of his pitches
tonight. He may have had some better games in SEC play last year, but this was probably the best this year.” Tullo said he agreed with his coach. “Overall this was probably my best performance,” Tullo said. “I felt really good warming up in the bullpen. I wanted to focus on getting ahead of batters and it seemed like it worked out pretty well for me. I'm just going to build off of this performance.” The Vols also received a strong effort from their bullpen. Relievers Dylan Hochevar and D.J. Leffler pitched through the final 10 outs of the game without allowing a run and combined to surrender just two hits. Coach Raleigh praised his bullpen following the game. “That was probably the best I've seen Dylan [Hochevar] pitch over the last two years,” Raleigh said. “Dylan had three pitches tonight and that's pretty good. It's hard for a hitter when you can go through different pitches like that. He got his breaking ball over and his fastball had good command.” UT will continue SEC play of Friday as they travel to Oxford for a weekend series against the Ole Miss Rebels. The Vols will be looking for their first SEC win of the season.
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Swim team ends season on high note Terrence Boone Staff Writer After reports confirming illness of 18 athletes and one coach, the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships got underway in Columbus, Ohio, this past weekend. The seven athletes from the Tennessee swimming and diving team improved as the meet went on and wound up with 56 points, landing a 17th place finish in the three-day competition. The relays opened up the scoring for the Big Orange as the quartet of junior Michael DeRocco, sophomore Ricky Henahan, and freshman Ed Walsh and sophomore Ryan Harrison guided the 200-yard freestyle relay to a 13th place finish. Henahan, Harrison, and DeRocco teamed up with junior Brad Craig to finish 10th in the 400-yard medley relay. Head coach John Trembley noted the importance of the quick start for his team. “After day one, we are about where we expected to be,” he said after the first day of competition. “We had great swims by our guys today, and all six swimmers have reached All-America status after one day.” The Vols took the pool on day two at Ohio State’s McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion and moved up two places in the standings. The team was paced by the performance of Craig who finished 9th in the 100-yard breaststroke and took part in the 200-yard medley relay, which finished ninth. Trembley was pleased at the effort of Craig in his consolation heat victory in the breaststroke. “Brad’s consol win tonight was a swim of tactical beauty,” he said. “When we recruited him, we expected him to be one of the best — and he is.” Not to be outdone was Henahan, who also stepped up for the Vols as his time of 46.68 seconds in the 100-yard backstroke put him in 11th place. He teamed up with Craig, DeRocco and Walsh in the 200-yard medley relay and added on another All-America honor in the 800-yard freestyle relay with Harrison, Walsh, and freshman Giles Smith to finish 16th. Trembley pointed to the day two performance that united his team. “Before tonight, I didn’t feel like our team clicked,” he said. “It was so good to witness the excitement coming from our guys.” In their first NCAA championship meet of their young careers, Harrison, Walsh and Smith each put together a solid outing. While all three received their first All-America awards, Smith noted how the trio of freshman performed on the big stage, and what it takes to be successful at this level. “Everything as a group went pretty well,” Smith said. “You really need to be consistent with everything with your training, with your diet, with everything.” Despite not scoring on the final day of competition, the Vols still put together a solid effort. Craig nearly garnered another All-America award before finishing two spots out of the running in the 200-yard breaststroke. Even without a large group of athletes, the Big Orange still came away with impressive performances and look to return next year after losing only two seniors.