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Skydrive backs up students Emily DeLanzo Design Editor War constantly rages on with faculty, students and the Office of Information Technology (OIT) over issues like unreliable Internet and file storage issues.

To shed some light and offer solutions, Microsoft set up a large informational booth from March 27 to March 30 in Presidential Court.

The Technology Services Committee of the Student Government Association invited Microsoft to come to campus to educate students on the finer points of the Windows 7 operating system and the joys of mass storage through Skydrive.

Skydrive can be accessed through non-Microsoft prod-

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ucts, too. Apple users can still use Outlook capabilities and programs.

Skydrive is online cloud storage available to all UT students that can hold up to 25 gigabytes of data. Students and faculty alike have complete access and may share files with fellow students, making it a great, free program available for group projects or other file sharing needs.

Skydrive can solve problems and help avoid students losing work in progress, and it saves previous versions of documents.

“I was really impressed by Microsoft’s Skydrive,” Josh Campbell, junior in mathematics, said. “The ability to share and save your documents online can be really handy as a college student since you won’t have to lug around numerous thumb-drives and worry about losing them.”

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Prices, social norms effect conservation Blair Kuykendall Editor-in-Chief

Michael Price believes economic decisions turn on factors beyond price. As an energy and environmental policy fellow at the Baker Center, he delivered his thoughts on “Promoting Conservation Without Prices: Evidence from Field Experiments” last Thursday.

Price’s study partnered See MICROSOFT on Page 3 with the Cobb County Water System (CCWS) to test his theories on creating incentive systems based on societal norms instead of prices. Since higher pricing schemes are ineffective in reducing water consumption for high-use populations, Price focused on the northern Atlanta community to find a better approach to meet policy goals.

“How you frame a problem can motivate people as to how they respond to situations,” Price said. “The idea today is to create a norm around conservation.

If you think about the objectives of these programs, they are designed to achieve George Richardson • The Daily Beacon long-run outcomes, like Students and staff interact in the Windows Campus Tour tent set up in the Presidential Plaza on Friday. rebuilding depleted water Microsoft representatives were invited to UT to inform students about Skydrive, an online cloud storage system resources.”

Policymakers seeking to that offers all UT students up to 25 gigabytes of data. meet environmental goals sought to move beyond monetary incentive schemes.

“Unfortunately, you find that people are highly Students presented interdisciplinary research on topics ranging inelastic with regards to Joseph Beard from “Shakespeare” to “The Intersection of Science and energy,” Price said. “So Staff Writer Literature.” The event included undergraduate presentations, (we) started thinking about question-and-answer sessions, round table discussions, and was Sex, science, Shakespeare and state security were all topics disother strategies. I randomcapped off by a keynote titled “Medieval Alexanders, Unstable cussed at the Second Annual Marco Undergraduate Conference.

Cities, Unstable Selves” given by Christopher Baswell, professor ized the message so we The conference was held by the Marco Institute for Medieval could get information on of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. and Renaissance Studies. The institute was founded in 2001 as an Presenter Meredith Whitfield, senior in history, gave a presen- subsequent changes in interdisciplinary institute that allows students with different backtation on the monastic revocation of sex, titled “Gold Amongst the behavior.” grounds and interests to engage in research of medieval and Price did a comparison of Stones: Gender and Sexuality in the Desert Fathers’ Canon.”

Renaissance cultures. different incentive techAlthough not a member of Marco, she said Jay Rubenstein in the The conference presented undergraduate students from severDepartment of History and Anthony Welch in the Department of niques by dividing CCWS al universities and across many majors the opportunity to meet at users into four groups. Each English persuaded her to present. the UC on Friday, March 30, to share research on how Roman of the four groups received Classics were received by Middle Age and Renaissance cultures.

See MACRO ARTICLE on Page 3 different forms of corre-

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spondence, containing different messages. One group functioned as a control group and received only the usual billing. Another group received technical advice.

One group received weak social incentives, and one received stronger social incentives.

“We did social comparison, winding up with a conservative approximation of the effectiveness of these measures,” Price said. “If I’m going tell people this is a good idea, I’d rather have a conservative estimate of the effectiveness.”

The messages sent out by CCWS were formatted to achieve this conservative estimate.

“The technical advice letter had a two-sided tip sheet listing effective ways to reduce water use,” Price said. “The weak social norm letter included arguments personally addressed with a norm-based appeal. The strong social comparisons letter included a comparison of households use with others in the county.”

Price needed to gage the comparative utility derived from concrete and abstract sources.

“We get benefit from the water we consume,” Price said. “We also get value from morality, which captures the non-pecuniary effects of consumption decisions. Both of these terms were defined over an action, the consumption of water.

This morality term is influenced by several factors.

These factors are going to affect the saliency of this moral component, like the costs and benefits that action imposes on others, the extent to which actions are scrutinized, and the set of social norms that dictate acceptable actions.”

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TN federal court escapes closure The Associated Press JACKSON, Tenn. — Federal court facilities in Jackson are high on the list of facilities under consideration for closure, but a federal judge says the local offices might be spared.

The Jackson Sun reports the newer federal courthouse in Jackson would not be affected. The only building that has space that might be closed is the Ed Jones Federal Building, but only certain areas.

U.S. District Judge J. Daniel Breen says the potential closures would be restricted to the second-floor courtroom, a judge’s chamber, a jury room, the probation office and pretrial services.

Breen, whose office is not in that building, said the closing of those facilities would affect about 15 people but not cause any job loss.

Jackson is 16th on the list of 60 sites that could close based on categories including

cost, usage and location.

A committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States, a policy-making body for the federal courts, sent the latest list to the 13 circuit judicial councils for review in February, said David Sellers, a federal courts spokesman.

They’re supposed to get back to the committee by midApril.

Breen says the government may not close the local offices after studying the building ’s use because the offices and courtroom don’t meet the requirements.

He said the courtroom is still used for pretrial hearings and also some trials. He also said the courthouse is home to a Memphis judge who conducts work and at times holds court in Jackson. Breen said the local court has submitted a response to the Sixth Circuit Judicial Council to remove the local offices from the list of possible closures.

George Richardson • The Daily Beacon

Fans sitting on The Porch in left field celebrate after a home run by Ethan Bennett during a game against Alabama on Friday. Students sitting on The Porch use the proximity as an opportunity to socialize with the opposing team’s left fielder, often at his expense.

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A front-end loader tips over the awning that had previously been the upstairs entrance to the University Center on Wednesday. The construction, which started over Spring Break, continues to expand with major sections of the UC parking garage being demolished daily.

Christopher Plummer in 1967’s “Night of the Generals.” Wavell was portrayed by Patrick Magee in the 1981 TV movie “Churchill and the Generals.”

1941 — “The Desert Fox” recaptures Libya On this day in 1941, German Lieutenant General Erwin Rommel, “the Desert Fox,” resumes his advance into Cyrenaica, modern-day Libya, signaling the beginning of what nine days later will become the recapture of Libya by the Axis forces.

Early Italian successes in East Africa, which included occupying parts of Sudan, Kenya, and British Somaliland, were soon reversed after British offensives, led by British Field Marshall Archibald Wavell, resulted in heavy Italian casualties and forced the Italians to retreat into Libya. But Axis control of the area was salvaged by the appearance of Rommel and the Afrika Korps, sent to East Africa by the German High Command to bail their Italian ally out.

On the verge of capturing Tripoli, the Libyan capital, Britain's forces were suddenly depleted when British Prime Minister Winston Churchill transferred British troops to Greece.

Seizing the opportunity of a weakened British force, Rommel struck quickly, despite orders to remain still for two months. With 50 tanks and two fresh Italian divisions, Rommel forced the British to begin a retreat into Egypt.

Operation Battleaxe, the counteroffensive by British Field Marshall Archibald Wavell, resulted in little more than the loss of large numbers of British tanks to German 88mm antitank guns, as well as Wavell’s ultimately being transferred from North Africa to India.

Rommel, known for his trademark goggles, which he pilfered from a British general’s command vehicle, may have had some help in defeating his British counterpart. He was known to carry with him a book called Generals and Generalship, written by Archibald Wavell.

Rommel was portrayed by James Mason in the 1953 film “The Desert Rats” and by

2005 — Pope John Paul II dies On this day in 2005, John Paul II, history’s most well-traveled pope and the first non-Italian to hold the position since the 16th century, dies at his home in the Vatican. Six days later, two million people packed Vatican City for his funeral, said to be the biggest funeral in history.

John Paul II was born Karol Jozef Wojtyla in Wadowice, Poland, 35 miles southwest of Krakow, in 1920. After high school, the future pope enrolled at Krakow’s Jagiellonian University, where he studied philosophy and literature and performed in a theater group.

During World War II, Nazis occupied Krakow and closed the university, forcing Wojtyla to seek work in a quarry and, later, a chemical factory. By 1941, his mother, father, and only brother had all died, leaving him the sole surviving member of his family.

Although Wojtyla had been involved in the church his whole life, it was not until 1942 that he began seminary training. When the war ended, he returned to school at Jagiellonian to study theology, becoming an ordained priest in 1946. He went on to complete two doctorates and became a professor of moral theology and social ethics. On July 4, 1958, at the age of 38, he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Krakow by Pope Pius XII. He later became the city’s archbishop, where he spoke out for religious freedom while the church began the Second Vatican Council, which would revolutionize Catholicism. He was made a cardinal in 1967, taking on the challenges of living and working as a Catholic priest in communist Eastern Europe.

Once asked if he feared retribution from communist leaders, he replied, “I’m not afraid of them. They are afraid of me.”

Wojtyla was quietly and slowly building a reputation as a powerful preacher and a man of both great intellect and charisma. Still, when Pope John Paul I died in 1978 after only a 34day reign, few suspected Wojtyla would be chosen to replace him. But, after seven rounds of balloting, the Sacred College of Cardinals chose the 58-year-old, and he became the first-ever Slavic pope and the youngest to be chosen in 132 years.

A conservative pontiff, John Paul II’s papacy was marked by his firm and unwavering opposition to communism and war, as well as abortion, contraception, capital punishment, and homosexual sex. He later came out against euthanasia, human cloning, and stem cell research.

He traveled widely as pope, using the eight languages he spoke (Polish, Italian, French, German, English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin) and his well-known personal charm, to connect with the Catholic faithful, as well as many outside the fold.

On May 13, 1981, Pope John Paul II was shot in St. Peter’s Square by a Turkish political extremist, Mehmet Ali Agca. After his release from the hospital, the pope famously visited his would-be assassin in prison, where he had begun serving a life sentence, and personally forgave him for his actions. The next year, another unsuccessful attempt was made on the pope’s life, this time by a fanatical priest who opposed the reforms of Vatican II. Although it was not confirmed by the Vatican until 2003, many believe Pope John Paul II began suffering from Parkinson’s disease in the early 1990s. He began to develop slurred speech and had difficulty walking, though he continued to keep up a physically demanding travel schedule. In his final years, he was forced to delegate many of his official duties, but still found the strength to speak to the faithful from a window at the Vatican. In February 2005, the pope was hospitalized with complications from the flu. He died two months later.

Pope John Paul II is remembered for his successful efforts to end communism, as well as for building bridges with peoples of other faiths, and issuing the Catholic Church’s first apology for its actions during World War II. He was succeeded by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, who became Pope Benedict XVI. Benedict XVI began the process to beatify John Paul II in May 2005.

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

Monday, April 2, 2012

MICROSOFT continued from Page 1 Jonathan Swerkema, an employee of Microsoft present at last week’s event, explained how Skydrive works.

“All of your Skydrive is accessed through Outlook and VolMail,” Swerkema, said. “You do not need to be on a library computer to get access to any files.”

Skydrive can help students get out of sticky situations, too.

“It is also a great backup in the case that something happens to your hard drive,” Campbell said. “If you use Skydrive and save most of your work there and something happens to your computer, you won’t be out of luck like you would have been if you saved everything on your computer.”

Greg Billings, junior in computer science and director of the Technology Services Committee with SGA, helped coordinate the educational event with Microsoft.

“The Microsoft event is just one of many ways the Student Government Association is try-

ENVIRONMENTAL continued from Page 1 Social appeals were effective in changing behaviors.

“The control group had a 7 percent reduction in consumption, the technical advice group had an 8 percent decline, the weak social norm had a 10 percent decrease, and the strong social norms had a 12 percent decrease,” Price said.

“Appeals generate significantly larger reductions.

Non-pecuniary messages provide an effective means to promote short-run conservation.”

Applied social norms could prove useful for groups previously unaffected by financial disincentives.

“There is an asymmetry in effectiveness of programs based on pro-social appeals,” Price said. “They are more salient amongst high-use households. As a policymaker, the heterogeneity is

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ing to get students involved on campus,” Billings said.

“Microsoft is showing students how to use many things, one of which includes the Skydrive that every student has through VolMail.”

The OIT is constantly working to incorporate some really interesting ideas in improving available technology on campus.

“The Technology Services Committee’s job is to get student input on technology on campus,” Billings said.

“Through the Microsoft event as well as other events, we have done just that. Because of student input, OIT is dedicated to renovating the WiFi over the summer as well as producing mobile applications to make student life that much easier and tech savvy.”

OIT is available online to help users learn more about Skydrive and other Microsoft programs. To learn about more events sponsored by the Technology Services Committee, visit their UTKTechServices Facebook page.

notable because high-use groups are the least sensitive to prices, but more sensitive to these treatments. Thus, we can have a complementary strategy to pecuniary measures. Because high user groups are the least sensitive (to monetary measures), that’s great. We have a complementary set of policy now.”

With this much of a correlation, there will be more research to follow on normbased appeals.

“When I look at this, I think, why aren’t we doing more?”

Price said.

“Economists have only recently started to explore effects of non-pecuniary strategies to promote behavior.”

Amanda Hill, junior in political science, believes that water conservation is extremely important, but questioned its importance in the Knoxville community.

“It seems to rain enough here already,” Hill said.

Tara Sripunvoraskul • The Daily Beacon

Anna Zetterberg, sophomore in chemical engineering, stretches to sink a basket during a game at Vol Night Long on Friday. This year’s annual event featured a ’90s theme, complimented by N64, dodge ball and shrinky dinks.

MACRO ARTICLE continued from Page 1 “I had written this research paper for Dr. Rubenstein already, so cutting it to an appropriate length and reviewing my literature was a convenient and an interesting opportunity to share my research with others,” Whitfield said.

The interdisciplinary nature of the conference, which was co-sponsored by the departments of Classics, English, History, Modern Foreign Languages & Literatures, Philosophy, and Religious Studies, the College of Architecture and Design, the School of Art, the Chancellor’s Honors Program, the Office of Research, and the Ready for the World Initiative, provided a great learning opportunity for students.

Marco lecturer and steering committee member Samantha Murphy gave extra credit to students from her classes who attended the conference and wrote a summary of the discussion at one of the conference’s sessions.

“Undergraduate education stresses interdisciplinary

learning,” Murphy said.

Students also benefited from the interactivity of the question-and-answer sessions. The conference offered attendees the opportunity to engage with new ideas by interacting with the presenters.

Presenters also benefited from well-thought-out questions that caused presenters to think about their research in new ways. This interaction allowed students to learn about medieval and Renaissance cultures while practicing critical analysis.

Whitfield said she found the question-and-answer sessions both “engaging and helpful.”

The conference successfully brought students together from different fields to discuss common interest in medieval and Renaissance subjects, and many more opportunities will follow with future conferences and the introduction of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Interdisciplinary Program major and minor.

“Experimenting like this not only helps to develop a wellrounded person; it also opens up different possibilities of exploration, can spur life-long passions both related to and separate from working life,” Murphy said.

Farming communities receive grants, loans The Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Dozens of farms and small businesses in Tennessee have received Agriculture Department grants to develop solar power systems that can contribute to local energy grids.

According to a department report, the Rural Energy for America Program has paid $6.5 million in grants and loans to Tennessee farms, ranches and rural small businesses in the past three years.

The Tennessean reports that 69 of Tennessee’s 98 grants and loans have gone to solar projects. Recipients include a custom saddler in Lebanon, a native species nursery in Fairview and a recreational team-building center in Kingston Springs.

Mike and Sharon Weesner received a grant for $19,073 for the solar panels installed on the roof of their horse barn at their 180acre Hardscuffle Farm, near the border between Hickman and Williamson counties.

They also have received $7,000 from the local power company for contributing energy into the area’s power grid.

“It’s always fun to open that and see (they) owe me money,” Mike Weesner said of his monthly electric bill.

The farm has 120 rooftop solar panels, and the Weesners might add more. The couple is applying for more money to add panels to another barn, with help from the local USDA office.

The couple used three government grants that paid for about

60 percent of their $161,000 installation. The farm is expected to recover the couple’s out-of-pocket costs in about five years.

Workers at the farm are also digging wells for geothermal heating for the Weesners’ home, with high-efficiency LED lighting and insulation on the inside.

Without government funding, few small renewable-energy projects would be affordable, Mike Weesner said.

USDA officials who toured the farm call it an exemplary rural project.

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OPINIONS

Tops

Rocky

&Bottoms

The April Fool’s Edition Rising — UT’s ability to reach top research university goal According to a university press release, the University of Tennessee has reached its multi-year goal of becoming a top-46 public research university in the nation, according to rankings by U.S. News and World Report.

“Yes, it’s true,” said one anonymous UT official. “We responded to the governor’s mandate for us to become one of the truly elite — the top 46 in the nation.”

Students were puzzled on Sunday. They thought they remembered hearing something about going after a more traditional ranking — say, top 25 — rather than being in the top 46.

“I really could have sworn that we were going for top 25,” said an anonymous SGA candidate. “But then the university released that press release about going for the top 46. So I guess it was top 46 after all.”

Numerologists were concerned when hearing that UT had reached the top 46, knowing that 46 is a multiple of 23, which happens to be the most evil number in existence, according to the Jim Carrey film “The Number 23.”

One numerologist, speaking on the side of the street where he holds forums with befuddled on-lookers by yelling out his prophecies about the future, possibly Mayan apocalypse, said any association with the number 23 would be bad for the future of the university.

“Yes, the end is truly nigh,” the numerologist said. “They had best go for top 45.”

Falling — The Sorority Village This weekend, deconstruction began on the once-promising Sorority Village project.

Construction began last year after the Tennessee State Legislature’s repeal of a law that prohibited the existence of buildings housing eight or more women, which would have classified those buildings as brothels.

However, the legislature recently repealed this decision and reinstated the law on Friday. With this change, all possible sorority houses would be considered brothels and would therefore be illegal.

“I just don’t understand why they would do this now,” said an unidentified college-aged male. “Seems like they’re just splitting hairs.”

Rising — Chances of seeing Nickelback on campus To the surprise of literally dozens of Nickelback fans, the team has finally agreed to play at one of the most classic musical venues in the history of the art form, the Rocky Top Cafe in the University Center.

Reports from the band said that they were more than excited to play at Rocky Top, based solely on the condition that the money was worth their time.

And the money certainly was right. Each band member will get paid $1 million in dining dollars for playing the show.

As of press time, The Daily Beacon could not find a student excited to see the show, but the paper was able to find several dissenters.

In the greatest groundroots assembly of angry students since the announcement that they would have to pay for UT football tickets, people have taken to Facebook and Twitter to discuss their dismay over the news.

“I go to Rocky Top for lunch every day,” read one Facebook post. “I don’t want Nickelback to play that place. It will ruin the entire lunchroom experience for me.”

Another student seemed saddened, almost to the point of tears, by the news.

“Yeah, it certainly won’t be the same in the post-Nickelback era,” he said. “Rocky Top was so convenient to eat at between classes too. It’s a shame.”

SCRAMBLED EGGS • Alex Cline

THE Great Mash Up• Liz Newnam

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Outlook good for Predators’ season A shton’s A n a lys i s by

Ashton Smith Since their occupation of then-named Gaylord Entertainment Center in 1998, the Nashville Predators have never had a better and more realistic shot at bringing home the historic and highly coveted Lord Stanley’s Cup. After a so-so start to the year that saw the Predators slide to the underbelly of the Western Conference standings, the Preds really kicked into a higher gear.

This change in our fortunes resulted from a higher level of intensity on the ice coupled with goalie Pekka Rinne returning to his usual world-class caliber play started around the time of winter break.

An impressive streak began Dec. 8, at the end of finals time. Facing a second-straight loss to divisionrival Columbus Blue Jackets, winger Patric Hornqvist and Co. decided that this season would be different.

Down 3-1, Hornqvist netted a goal with 1:36 left in regulation. Three minutes and two more goals later, the Preds had earned an overtime victory.

A week later, captain Shea Weber single-handedly overcame a 3-2 deficit to another division rival, the Detroit Red Wings, with two goals in the last five minutes.

Since then, the never-say-die Preds have overcome more dire situations, including three-goal deficits to the Minnesota Wild and Blue Jackets again, to become second in the league in wins when trailing at the second intermission.

Furthermore, the Predators have added five key pieces through waivers, trades and the return from Russia of a prodigal son.

Picking up Brandon Yip from waivers on Jan. 19 gave the team a scrappy grinder who can also put the puck in the net. Yip has five points in 22 games.

The acquisition of Hal Gill from the Montreal Canadiens on Feb. 17 began a series of moves by Predators General Manager David Poile that really upped the ante in the Western Conference.

Already solidly positioned to make the playoffs for the seventh time in the past eight years, Poile’s series of deadline trades really added the depth, experience and skill that Nashville needed to reach an even higher level.

Gill adds more grit to the penalty kill, which has moved from the middle of the league to the top 10 in the NHL since his acquisition. Gill also added size to a comparatively diminutive group of Predators blueliners. At 6-foot-7 and 247 pounds, Gill is capable of moving any opposing forward from the front of the net.

On the day of the trade deadline 10 days later, Poile added center Paul “Goose” Gaustad from the Buffalo Sabres and Andrei “AK46” Kostitsyn from Montreal.

Gaustad has won nearly 60 percent of his face-offs this year, making him one of the top 10 face-off winners in the NHL this season. That crucial domination of the face-off circle, along with Gaustad’s intimidating 6-foot5, 212-pound frame, has no doubt been instrumental in the improved penalty kill.

Andrei Kostitsyn, on the other hand, brought more offensive firepower to a team that has been characterized in the past for its lack of offensive production. In 14 games since joining brother Sergei in the lineup, Andrei has reeled off eight points on four goals and four assists.

Which brings us to the most important roster change of the season. Following four seasons in Russia’s Kontinental Hockey League (KHL), Alexander Radulov has returned to the Preds, earning three points in his first four games back. Drafted by the Predators in 2006, Radulov played two seasons in Nashville, scoring 26 goals in his sophomore season. With one year remaining on his contract in Nashville, he defected to Russia, where he has played the last four seasons.

Widely regarded as the best hockey player in the world not playing in the NHL, Radulov’s return has made this team a serious cup contender. The two-time MVP of the KHL, he brings an even greater scoring threat than any of the trade deadline acquisitions.

Radulov also improves a power play that is already ranked first in the NHL, scoring on 21.8 percent of their power plays.

Which all adds up to a scary Predators squad that will make a deep playoff run this season. The players have to be licking their chops after the franchise’s first series win over Anaheim and heartbreaking loss to Vancouver in the second round in last season’s playoffs.

The Preds will most likely be matched against the Red Wings, who eliminated Nashville from playoff contention in 2008, which also featured Radulov’s last NHL game before leaving for Russia.

I predict the Predators will make the finals, where they will lose to the Pittsburgh Penguins in seven games.

— Ashton Smith is a sophomore in communications.

He can be reached at ssmit192@utk.edu.

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Once upon a time, in a not so recent edition of this very column, I attacked the Occupy Wall Street movement as being frivolous and for lacking a discernible sense of direction. That particular column — like so many of the columns I have had printed in the pages of this particular newspaper over the past two years — was not nearly as interesting as the e-mails that were sent to the Beacon and to my own personal inbox.

Among other things, one of the miffed responders declared me to be the “resident liberal columnist” of The Daily Beacon.

Now, if I have earned that title it is probably due to tenure and not because of any actual analysis of my blatherings. After all, several op-ed writers currently working for the Beacon are certainly further to the left than I am.

When Americans label a person as a liberal, they generally believe the individual in question has leftleaning stances on a litany of common issues. “Tax and Spend,” “Pro-Choice,” “Socialized Medicine” and “Environmentalism” are all traits that most believe are standard issue when it comes to American liberals.

Hmm … Let’s see … Check, check, check, aaaaaand … nope.

Whenever I get in a political discussion or debate with someone and the fact that I allow myself to be labeled as a liberal comes up, I invariably get to hear about how it’s supposed to mean that I enjoy “hugging trees” or that I recently renewed my membership to PETA. That idea actually could not be further from the truth.

While I won’t say that I am a villain straight out of “Captain Planet” who is intent on destroying the environment for my own personal gain, I cannot realistically and honestly claim to be one of the “Planeteers,” either. The fact is the environment and environmental causes are pretty far down on my own personal pegging order when it comes to political activism. Furthermore, I often feel as though most diehard environmentalists have their priorities out of whack.

Take, for instance, the People for the Ethical Treatment

of Animals or, as this gaggle of lunatics is more popularly known, PETA. PETA and their less-fanatical ilk stand against the mistreatment of animals, namely the utilization of animals for scientific testing, laborious tasks and public amusement. While those stances seem sensible enough, they also argue against the utilization of animals as seeing-eye assistants, teaching tools and in law enforcement roles. Yeah, that’s right. They are against dogs giving assistance to blind people. What’s more is that they often resort to violent means to try to get their message across.

I would, of course, be remiss, if I didn’t mention their stance on the utilization of animals for food. To me, this is incredibly stupid on two levels. First, there are nearly seven billion people on the planet. We lack the food to feed a significant proportion of them. PETA would have us stop eating meat and turn to a purely vegan diet despite the fact that the world’s collective agricultural efforts would come up even shorter of feeding all of the world’s people. The second?

Hamburgers taste good. Enough said.

That inability to feed the world’s current population also comes into play with those who whine and cry about the use of genetically modified organisms, specifically plants that are bioengineered to yield more fruits and vegetables. Despite the fact that these GMO’s are our best hope to solving the world’s famine issues, many tree huggers continuously protest their use.

And then, of course, there are the recycling and conservation fanatics. They roam around, peering at us from behind bushes to make sure we’re tossing our plastic bottles and fully read Daily Beacons in appropriate recycling bins and ensuring that we turn lights off and unplug electronics when we leave rooms. Now, I have less of a problem with the energy conservation people.

After all, most of the electricity produced in the United States comes from fossil fuels, which are all finite resources. The recycling peeps? Yeah, I’m not so much of a fan.

See, if you look past the self-important notions some of us have when we recycle, it becomes clear that recycling is arguably not helping the planet all that much.

Paper, plastic and cardboard all cost just as much if not more to recycle as they do to make when you factor in the energy necessary to transport and break these items down. Only aluminum, metals and glass are cost beneficial.

Liberal equals environmentalist? Not so much.

— Derek Mullins is a senior in political science. He can be reached at dmullin5@utk.edu.

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Fiction: The Trust Fund Baby Olivia Cooper I wanted to hit Kevin Peffer in the back of his stupid square head. I wanted to take my keyboard and slam it on the back of his skull then point to him and cry, “Everyone, look! I have defeated him! I have taken down the beast! Go forth and spread the word!” and everyone would cheer. They would celebrate the end of his reign of being an over privileged trust fund baby, his constant interjections of, “well, this one time…” and the fact that he was a favorite since he was the richest person in the private college. I wanted to hit him so badly, that I did.

I sat in a greasy chair in the student counseling center. I kept telling myself that it was greasy because it had just been cleaned, not that it was covered in the fingerprints of everyone else who has touched this plastic seat to get comfortable. I didn’t want to cover my hands in the oils of everyone else.

“Janet?” the receptionist asked, “you can go in now.” She went back to her work. She was probably working on the nutcase next to me who wouldn’t stop clearing her throat. I walked down the little hallway past other offices, some doors open or closed, a break room and then finally Dr. Boles’ office. She smiled, I think therapists have to do that even if they hate you, and offered a seat. This chair felt warm, as if someone had recently inhabited it, I quickly switched to the cold chair next to it not wishing to make post-butt-chair-contact with a stranger.

“You know why you are here, and why you need to attend these meetings,” Dr. Boles recalled as she went through folders, trying to locate mine. She was nice. I liked her. She talked to me. I just hated the name tag on her lanyard. It was like being assigned a friend at a retail outlet.

“I get kicked out of La-Di-Da private college if I don’t go to these things because Peffer can’t handle a joke,” I recited. She nodded and laughed under her breath.

“Care to tell me the reason why this transpired?” she inquired still going through

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papers after locating my folder.

Oh, there was a reason alright, a good one at that. As I mentioned before, Kevin Peffer was a know it all with annoying tendencies. It was in the computer lab though that I finally got the opportunity to let him have it. I was working on an essay I wish was in silence, but Peffer walks in with some redheaded girl with glasses and he’s just going on and on about his fifth trip to Paris or New York or one of those usual rich kid vacation spots.

“So we’re stuck in this cab and I have no clue what language the driver is speaking,” he guffaws, and I’m pretty sure he even sounds like a donkey braying at one point.

“Peffer! Shut up!” I yelled. His redhead frowns and gives me that look of “whats-yourproblem?” He looks shocked, but apologizes nicely to me in that super sweet voice I use at work to assure customers I don’t actually hate them. Admittedly, he was better at it. They took a seat two tables away, but they were whispering so loudly that I could still hear the faint hum of his voice and her nasally giggles.

I could tell him right then and there about his dad, about our dad. How in love Mr. Peffer was with my mother while he and his wife struggled in their marriage. How once little Kevin was born, me and my mom were left in an efficiency apartment with only two lights and I slept in a kitchen for years. How I had to earn scholarships for this and his, I mean our, dad just wrote a check.

“So I tip the waiter a little extra to tell us a better Japanese place, mind you this is Prague…” I heard him try to whisper, but it was too late. It rang in my ears like a call to arms. I ripped the cord out of the keyboard itself and smashed it on the back of his head.

It felt perfect. The redhead screamed and backed away, Kevin just whimpered and cradled his head.

Dr. Boles was done with her paperwork and stared at me across the desk, waiting for an answer.

“He was being too loud,” I told her.

— Olivia Cooper is a senior in creative writing. She can be reached at ocooper@utk.edu.

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The four officers charged in Novokuznetsk were accused of causing a detainee’s death by asphyxiation by putting a gas mask on him and cutting off the access to air — a torture technique popular among Russian police, according to rights groups.

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Cult murders shock Mexico The Associated Press NACOZARI, Mexico — It was a family people took pity on, one the government and church helped with free food, used clothes, and farm animals. The men were known as trash pickers. Some of the women were suspected of prostitution.

Mexican prosecutors are investigating the poor family living in shacks outside a small town near the U.S. border as alleged members of a cult that sacrificed two 10-year-old boys and a 55-year-old woman to Santa Muerte, or Saint Death, a figure adored mostly by outlaws but whose popularity is growing across Mexico and among Hispanics in the United States.

The killings have shocked the copper mining village of Nacozari, on the edge of the Sierra Madre, and may be the first ritual sacrifices linked to the popular saint condemned by the Roman Catholic Church. Known as “flaquita,” or “the skinny one,” the figure known as Saint Death is portrayed as a skeleton wearing a hooded robe and holding a scythe, much like the Grim Reaper.

Authorities say the throats and the wrists of the victims were cut with knives and axes, and their blood was spread on a Santa Muerte altar.

Their bodies were then buried near the shacks where the alleged cult members lived.

“We never knew they were part of a Santa Muerte cult,” said Jorge Sanchez Castillo, a 54year-old hotel owner who has a corn field next to the house of the woman believed to lead the group. “This has been a tragic thing for all of us.”

Jose Larrinaga, spokesman for the Sonora Attorney General’s Office, said 44-year-old Silvia Meraz was the cult leader, and seven people related to her, were detained: her boyfriend Eduardo Sanchez, father, son, three daughters and a daughter-in-law. No formal charges have been filed pending further investigation.

“They thought that by offering the blood, they would be protected for some time,” Larrinaga said. “According to them, Santa Muerte was going to tell them where the money was. They all identify themselves as fanatic followers of Santa Muerte.”

Nacozari has been spared the grisly violence of drug cartels fighting for lucrative corridors along the U.S.-Mexico border, said police chief Jose Miguel Espinoza.

“It was a peaceful town. We’d never seen such violence,” he said.

When a 10-year-old boy went missing in July 2010, his mother and her boyfriend told police that acquaintances had seen him begging in the streets of nearby Agua Prieta across the border from Douglas, Arizona, and that they would go find him, said Espinoza.

“We had no reason to suspect it was a homicide,” he said.

A second 10-year-old boy went missing in early March, prompting Sonora state’s missing persons unit to send agents to Nacozari, said the police chief. That boy’s mother and her boyfriend reported it to state authorities, who discovered weeks later that the two boys knew people in common.

The missing boy Martin Rios was the son of the ex-girlfriend of the suspect Eduardo Sanchez. The second boy, Jesus Martinez, was the step-grandson of alleged cult leader Meraz.

The police chief said both boys would often visit Meraz’s home in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of the town of 11,500.

Espinoza said his officers suspected the house was being used for prostitution after seeing different men from out of town visiting, but never gathered enough evidence to arrest anyone.

Agents on Wednesday unearthed the body of the boy Jesus Martinez buried in the dirt floor in the bedroom of one of the Meraz daughters.

They then began arresting the family members, who led them to what agents believe are the remains of the other boy, as well as the grave of 55-year-old Cleotilde Romero, a close friend of Meraz who disappeared in 2009.

Before last week, there have only been unconfirmed reports of human sacrifices related to the figure in Mexico in recent years, said R. Andrew Chesnut, chairman of Catholic studies at Virginia Commonwealth University and author of the book “Devoted to Death: Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint.”

Chesnut said the 2007 shooting deaths of three men appeared to be related to Santa Muerte because the bodies were abandoned at a shrine to the figure outside the border city of Nuevo Laredo. But they showed no signs of being sacrificial killings.

He said that although most Santa Muerte devotees consider killing a “Satanic aberration of devotion,” and that books about the Santa Muerte don't mention human sacrifice, some followers are extreme.

“With no clerical authority to stop them, some practitioners engage in aberrant and even abhorrent rituals,” Chesnut said.

Police paraded the eight people arrested in the case of the cult killings into the prosecutor’s offices in the state capital of Hermosillo on Friday to allow journalists to view and question them, a typical practice in Mexico.

Meraz told reporters she has believed in Santa Muerte for more than two years.

“Santa Muerte was going to offer us money,” Meraz said.

Asked if she thought she had received anything, she answered with a profanity, her voice breaking: “What can she give you? Nothing.”

RUSSIAN POLICE continued from Page 5 Police regulations still require officers to report a certain quota of solved crimes, a practice that encourages police to make arbitrary arrests and extract false confessions to make their numbers. Police from across Russia also learned cruel interrogation practices during tours of duty in Chechnya and other restive provinces in Russia’s Caucasus, contributing to the culture of brutality.

In the Kazan case, officers rounded up the 52-year-old Nazarov on charges of stealing a cellphone. He died at a local hospital two days later of a ruptured rectum.

His death sparked street protests in Kazan that attracted nationwide attention and led to a federal probe. The investigators arrested five police officers accused of torturing Nazarov, and the entire precinct was disbanded.

Local residents then began lining up to tell federal investigators their stories of torture by police officers.

The Investigative Committee said Thursday that Almaz Vasilov, one of the suspected torturers of Nazarov, has been charged in a separate case when he and other officers tried to force a 20-year-old man to confess in a crime by beating him and then pulling down his pants and trying to sodomize him with a pencil. The committee said the victim managed to avoid the torture by running out into a corridor.

Many others couldn't run away, according to Russian media, which reported the stories of several other victims. In one case, a 22-yearold computer programmer said officers from

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the same precinct tried to force him to confess to a theft and then sodomized him, first with a pencil, then with a champagne bottle.

“Where is the bottle? You always must have a bottle!” Oskar Krylov recalled a police chief yelling to his subordinates, according to the Gazeta.ru news website.

The Investigative Committee said it had detained that officer and his colleague on charges of torturing Krylov.

The scandal over police torture in Kazan followed other cases of police brutality, some publicized and others previously hushed up or unreported. They include: — A local journalist in the Siberian city of Tomsk died of injuries in 2010 after a police officer sodomized him with a broomstick.

— A teenager in St. Petersburg was beaten to death in police custody in January.

— In another case in the same region of Siberia as Novokuznetsk, two officers were accused of torturing a detainee to death in a garage and then throwing his body out on a road.

Activists have urged the Kremlin to change regulations that encourage police brutality, oust Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev, conduct a thorough cleansing of the police force and set up a separate independent body to would investigate police crimes.

Alexei Navalny, a popular anti-corruption blogger and a key organizer of massive opposition protests in Moscow, said the government should dismiss all Kazan policemen and recruit new ones as a model of how to conduct a future nationwide reform of the police.

“It can’t get any worse,” he wrote on his blog. “And they need to throw Nurgaliyev out.

How long can it go?”

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Kentucky to meet Kansas for title The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS — Well, this matchup is going to look familiar.

John Calipari and his Kentucky juggernaut will face Kansas for the national championship on Monday night. That would be the same school that beat Memphis in overtime for the NCAA title in 2008, back when Calipari was coaching the Tigers.

It also would be the same Kansas team that the Wildcats beat back in November.

“We’re worried about us playing at our best,” Calipari said after Kentucky held off pesky Louisville 69-61 in the first semifinal Saturday. “We did not play at our best tonight. We played good, but that wasn't our best. You know what? So maybe Monday is our best. We're just worried about us."

Top-seeded Kentucky (37-2) is back in the title game for the first time since 1998, when it won its seventh NCAA championship.

Down 13 in the first half, resilient Kansas (32-6) needed a furious comeback against Ohio State to reach the championship game, where it will play for its fourth NCAA title.

"It's a dream to play the best team in the country, who is up until now, hands down, the most consistent," Kansas coach Bill Self said.

"It's a thrill. And I think it's even more of a thrill for us, because I don't think anybody thought we could get here."

That 2008 squad Calipari had in Memphis

was stocked with talent, led by future NBA MVP Derrick Rose. But the Tigers missed four free throws down the stretch and blew a late nine-point lead in an overtime loss to Mario Chalmers and the Jayhawks.

These Wildcats, however, are in a totally different class. Anthony Davis has won just about every player of the year award there is, and Louisville coach Rick Pitino likened him to Bill Russell after Saturday night's game.

No wonder. The 19-year-old doesn't look like a freshman, and he certainly doesn't play like one, recording his 20th double-double against Louisville with 18 points and 14 rebounds. He missed just one of his eight shots, and also had five blocks and a steal.

"Anthony Davis is as fine a basketball player as there is," Pitino said.

Then there are the rest of the Wildcats.

They shot a blistering 57 percent Saturday night and had two other players besides Davis in double figures. Darius Miller scored 13 points and Doron Lamb added 10. Michael Kidd-Gilchrist had nine despite playing just 23 minutes because of foul trouble.

"Kentucky is a great basketball team, with great effort," Pitino said.

He doesn't need to tell the Jayhawks; they experienced it firsthand in the State Farm Champions Classic at Madison Square Garden in New York, a rare regular-season game between college basketball's two winningest programs.

Johnson named All-American Staff Reports University of Tennessee Lady Vol basketball graduate Glory Johnson was named to the 10-player Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) 2012 All-America team on Saturday at the Pepsi Center in Denver, Colo., site of the NCAA Women’s Final Four.

Johnson, a native of Knoxville, Tenn., and a graduate of The Webb School, becomes the 21st Lady Vol all-time to earn a spot on the prestigious WBCA (formerly State Farm/Kodak) Coaches AllAmerica Team. She joins senior teammate Shekinna Stricklen who was selected to the WBCA All-America Team in 2011.

Lady Vol coach Pat Summitt and members of her staff were on hand in Denver for the AllAmerica team announcement. “I am so excited for Glory,” Summitt said. “I can’t tell you the amount of hard work she has invested in her game throughout her career and particularly this season.

“Glory was an unbelievable player and a tireless worker for us this year. She showed me many of

the attributes of the dedication of a Tamika Catchings. Whatever Glory had to do to improve or help this team, she did each and every day,” Summitt said.

“It was special for us to be in Denver with her and share in this moment today.”

In her final campaign at UT, Johnson turned in a career high stat line including 14.2 ppg, 9.9 rpg, 1.2 bpg and 1.4 spg while starting all 36 games and logging 29.9 minutes per contest. She reached double-figure scoring in 29 games in 2011-12 and 87 for her career. The powerful post had 13 double-double efforts in points and rebounds in her final season and totaled 37 for her career — third all-time in Lady Vol history behind Olympians and All-Americans Chamique Holdsclaw and Candace Parker.

“I am humbled by this selection,” Johnson said.

“It was just an honor from the beginning to be selected to be a Lady Vol, and now to be named an All-America, it’s just even better. Being able to represent Tennessee and the program means so much to me.

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Hunter Reese lets out a celebratory yell after winning a long rally during a match against Vanderbilt on Friday. Reese and the rest of the Volunteer tennis team were able to knock off their in-state rivals, 5-2, in a six-hour contest that included multiple rain delays.

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Diamond Vols sweep Tide came off a walk, groundout and two wild pitches.

Junior pitcher Carter Watson picked up his secStaff Writer ond win of the season with a scoreless eighth, and The Tennessee baseball team took care of busi- fellow junior Nick Blount picked up his fourth ness at home this weekend, as they swept save of the season, closing out the 10-8 victory for UT. Alabama for only the second time in UT history.

“We fought and clawed and did a lot of good The SEC series win was the Vols’ (18-10, 5-4) things, and then in the end they kind of gave it to first since sweeping Georgia in 2010.

“I’m very proud of our guys — it wasn’t an easy us with the pass balls, but we’ll take it any way we week by any stretch of the imagination,” Serrano can get it,” Serrano said.

The Vols carried their momentum into said. “We came out 5-0 ... more importantly we were 3-0 in the SEC this weekend, and to get Saturday’s game, which was picked up in the bottom of the sixth on Sunday at noon after being above .500 puts us in the hunt.” postponed due to bad weather.

Despite being out-hit After trailing early 2-0, in the series 31-27, the they scored four runs in Vols used big innings at the fourth inning to take the plate and buckled the lead for good. down on the mound UT’s bullpen shut when they needed to down the Tide the rest of against the Tide (9-19, 1the way without giving up 8). a run in six innings.

The first game of the Junior Drew series set the tone for UT. Steckenrider earned the After struggling from victory pitching 3.2 scorethe mound and making a less innings, in which he couple careless plays in threw 44 of his 67 pitches the field, the Vols trailed for strikes.

6-0 heading into the botBlount pitched a scoretom of the third inning, less ninth for his fourth but didn’t hesitate to cut save this week and fifth on into the lead. the season.

UT led off the third Senior first baseman with four consecutive Davis Morgan led UT’s extra-base hits, highlightoffensive attack with a 3ed by a two-run home for-3 showing and an RBI run that hit off the right double in the 4-2 win. field foul pole by sophoGeorge Richardson • The Daily Beacon With the series already more second baseman Will Maddox. The offen- Nick Blount strides forward during a clinched, the Vols headed sive surge trimmed the pitch against an Alabama batter on into the final game of the Friday. Blount recorded his fifth series looking for the Tide lead to 6-4.

“It couldn’t have come save in as many games Sunday, as sweep.

They did just that as at any better of a the Vols went on to sweep their moment,” Maddox said three-game home series against Osborne’s two-run single in the sixth with the bases of his first career home the Crimson Tide, 5-3. loaded led UT to a 5-3 vicrun. “It was a situation to tory to end the series. help us come back and UT starting pitcher Nick Williams’ scoreless get some momentum.”

The game-changing play came in the sixth, innings streak as a starter came to an end at 13.2 when senior left fielder Chris Pierce stole home in the fourth, as the Tide got to him for three runs to tie the game. Serrano was ejected in the inning safely.

It was the first straight-steal of home since as well for arguing missed calls and delaying the Khayyan Norfork did it in the 2010 season for the game on a mound visit. It marked his first ejection during his tenure at Tennessee.

Vols.

The Vols broke the tie in the bottom of the sixth “I think that was the momentum-changer that allowed us to win this game,” Serrano said. off a two-out bases loaded single by Osborne that “When things like that happen it’s demoralizing plated two to take a 5-3 lead.

Blount closed out the game in the seventh for and I think that really got our team to the level the save, his fifth in the team’s last five games. The that it felt like this could be ours tonight.”

UT ace Zack Godley settled down after giving bullpen didn’t allow a single run in 11.1 innings.

Watson got his second win of the series by up five runs in the third, as the junior went seven innings and gave up 11 hits, eight runs (seven pitching 2.1 scoreless innings.

“Our pitching staff has been great and it was earned), and struck out five while laboring the reason why we swept,” Osborne said. “They through 103 pitches.

“You got to tip your hat to Zack,” Serrano said. kept us in all three games and Blount was huge for “It wasn’t his best night but he gave us a chance us and hopefully he can keep that going.”

UT hit .325 as a team in the series. Osborne to win, and he held them where we needed to be paced the offense going 6-for-9 with three RBIs. able to catch up.”

The next game for the Vols will be at home The Vols finished off the comeback in the eighth inning by plating four more runs, which against the Memphis Tigers on Wednesday. First pitch is set for 7 p.m.

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Monday, April 2, 2012

Softball takes 2-of-3 against UK Riley Blevins Staff Writer Prior to the first pitch between the No. 10 Lady Vols (26-8, 8-5 SEC) and Kentucky (1618, 3-5 SEC) on Friday, UT co-head coach Ralph Weekly, entering his 11th season at Tennessee, was greeted with a standing ovation after being recently inducted into the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) Hall of Fame.

Weekly, with 1,015 career wins and counting, added two wins for the orange over the weekend, taking two-of-three games from the Wildcats in a series that started and ended with a sold-out crowd on their feet.

Knotted at two on Sunday in the bottom of the seventh, Shelby Burchell delivered for the Lady Vols in clutch fashion.

With just one out remaining in the last stanza of regulation and rain beginning to fall, Burchell drove a 2-2 fastball over the right-center wall, winning the game and series on a walk-off.

“I was just hoping that (the ball) wouldn’t go straight to somebody and find a gap to let someone else have an opportunity to drive me in,” said Burchell. “It’s an awesome feeling — there is no better feeling — but knowing I could deliver for my team is what makes the feeling special for me.”

However, just like the weekend, it was not all blue skies and sunshine for the Lady Vols.

An uncharacteristic three errors plagued the Vols en route to an opening game 5-3 upset loss to the Wildcats on Friday.

Despite sophomore standout Ellen Renfroe tallying her eighth game with at least 10 strikeouts, Tennessee batters would leave a total of 10 runners stranded.

First striking in the top half of the third, the Wildcats were able to bang out nine hits that manufactured five early runs to best the Vols on Friday. The loss would be Ellen Renfroe’s first defeat since March 11.

“Kentucky played a fantastic game tonight and was most deserving of this win,” said Weekly. “I take full responsibility for our performance. I changed the lineup tonight in three spots, which I normally don’t do.”

Lack of offensive production hindered the Lady Vols on Friday. Come Saturday, they would find a solution to their silent bats, emerging relentless at the plate in game two.

“Any loss is disappointing,” said junior second basemen Lauren Gibson. “In the next two games we really proved to ourselves that we could get back into the groove and go win.

Kentucky’s record doesn’t show it but they are a tough team.”

The Lady Vols are 24-4 this season when scoring an opening inning run; the trend would continue Saturday on the strength of a 2-for-3, three RBI effort from sophomore shortstop Madison Shipman.

Led by Shipman’s first inning RBI double, the Vols gouged Kentucky for eight runs in the opening two frames of play.

“I went out there (Saturday) with the same approach as I always do and luckily the ball got through,” said Shipman. “It helped, too, because the bases were loaded. It’s always good to produce when you’re in that basesloaded situation. The earlier we get runs, it seems, the better.”

On the other side, a three-hour and threeminute rain delay in the top of the fourth would not phase UT junior pitcher Ivy Renfroe who hurled her third consecutive shutout.

“Ivy (Renfroe) did really well,” said Weekly.

“I was really impressed with her work on the mound (on Saturday). I mean it has to be hard to come off a three-hour delay and finish off an SEC team, and she didn’t just finish them off — she buried them.”

Ivy Renfroe scattered five Wildcat hits through five innings of work, securing a commanding 8-0 victory that took the Vols just five innings to earn, as the NCAA’s mercy rule ended the game midway through the fifth.

Sunday’s rubber-match would prove to be much closer with sisters Ivy Renfroe and Ellen Renfroe splitting time in the circle for the Vols.

Ivy Renfroe and Ellen Renfroe combined for seven innings of work that allowed just two runs off of five hits.

“Coming off a loss, I really wanted to get it done for my team today,” said Ellen Renfroe.

“The game was close, no easy win, but our hitters picked us up when we needed it. I think we have a lot of momentum going forward.”

Kentucky leading by one with two outs in the Vols’ half of the third, Gibson blasted her team-leading 10th home run of the year, breaking the Wildcats’ lead.

The solo blast gave way to the first of two unanswered UT runs, including a four-hit fifth, but late inning drama made thinks interesting.

Wildcats first baseman Ellen Weaver roped a first pitch, lead-off single to open the seventh.

A fielder’s choice and sac-bunt later advanced the UK runner to third with two down. Ellen Renfroe’s next pitch got past catcher Ashley Andrews and would allow the Wildcats’ tie-breaking run to cross heading into the bottom of the seventh.

Then came Burchell’s series-surviving walkoff home run.

“I was scared, to be honest,” said Ellen Renfroe. “The weather looking the way it was and being tied up, you never want to feel responsible for something like that. But (Burchell) came out and locked it up for us. I am just so happy for her.”

The Lady Vols will next see action in a midweek Wednesday double-header against the Georgia Bulldogs.