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Media mentoring program seeks applicants Taylor McElroy Staff Writer The Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT) Southeast Student Mentoring Program is now taking applications for the 2012-13 class, an opportunity open to UT graduate and undergraduate students as well as Pellissippi State Technical Community College students.

The mentoring program is a branch off of the WICT Atlanta program that gives learning opportunities to students in colleges all across Georgia. The Tennessee branch began as a more convenient way to give Tennessee students the same opportunities. To do so, this program allows Knoxville professionals in every telecommunications field to mentor Tennessee students.

“Women in Telecommunications mentoring program is meant to empower women, but it is also important to notice that men play a big part in that too,” Lisa Frisbie, director of operations of affiliate marketing, said.

“Most mentors are women, all of which work in the media industry, but this opportunity is open to men as well. Anyone with an interest in media is eligible to apply for it.”

This program features three events that teach important skills like interviewing, networking and resume-building.

There is also an event called Round Robin, where students meet with women who have jobs in the telecommunication field that may be unfamiliar compared to the typical jobs like public relations or journalism. It gives participants a better idea of what is out there and a better understanding of other job opportunities.

“Participants who take the most out of the

opportunity have the most success,” Leslie Podrasky, director of operations of media logistics, said. “They have more vision and a better plan of what they want to do after they graduate.”

There are a lot of networking opportunities involved. The program brings in professionals from PR, sales, marketing and ad agencies, not just the typical television specific-jobs, and not just jobs in Scripps. WICT strives to be a well-rounded program.

“We are looking for students that are willing to participate and take charge,” Podrasky said. “It is a great opportunity and not something that comes up every day. It is excellent exposure to real-life experience.”

Applications involve listing a student’s key attributes so they can be matched with the best possible mentor for the best experience.

If selected, students are required to attend all four previously mentioned events as well as at least two meetings with their mentor.

“Having real-life working experience is really valuable and gives you a better feel of what you will be doing instead of just an academic view,” operations manager Whitney Tiddvod said. “I would encourage anyone to apply if they feel like they need some career guidance.”

To apply for the WICT Southeast Student Mentoring Program, visit wictmentoringblog.com. Click the mentoring tab. Then click the “WICT Southeast Student Mentoring Program’s 2012-2013 Class” article to apply online. Applications are due June 15.

If students have any questions about the application process, they can contact Liz Needham at eneedham@scrippsnetworks.com.

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People protest during the Million Hoodies March on March 21 in New York City.

Students from UT recently held a rally to bring awareness to the Trayvon Martin case.

Students rally for justice Maddie Atkinson Staff Writer UT students rallied together in front of the Law School on Tuesday, March 27, with the common interest of bringing awareness to the Trayvon Martin case.

From noon to 1 p.m., a group of students held various signs such as, “Awareness for Trayvon Martin,” “Do I Look Suspicious?” and “Honk for Justice.”

On Feb. 26 in Sanford, Fla., Trayvon Martin, a black teen visiting his family, was shot and killed by George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old

Hispanic man carrying a concealed weapon while standing as neighborhood watchman for a gated community. Trayvon was reportedly wearing a hoodie, which allegedly caused Zimmerman to become suspicious of him.

The prior events not agreed upon across the board, an eventual confrontation occurred between the two and ended with Zimmerman killing Martin with a single gunshot. When the police arrived on the scene, Zimmerman claimed he had killed Martin in self-defense, and to this day has not been arrested, though a grand jury is set to review the evidence on April 10.

See TRAYVON MARTIN on Page 3

Environmental scholarship memorializes student Salvagers discover Titanic Staff Reports University of Tennessee senior Ryan Edwards was known by many as a selfless person and a passionate recycler.

Nicknamed “Cardboard Eddy” by friends, the environmental studies major from Memphis wanted to change the world “one cardboard box at a time.”

Unfortunately, his life ended tragically Tuesday, March 27, from injuries sustained on a spring break trip to Florida.

Childhood friend Griffin Lonardo remembered Ryan as “a goofy, meticulous, fun guy, who was friendly to everyone.”

“He tried to make everyone feel comfortable no matter who they were,” said Lonardo. “He was an incredible friend that would go above and beyond for anyone.”

“Ryan is synonymous with UT,” said childhood friend

Preston Battle. “He was a great leader for our fraternity and was a huge advocate for recycling with students. ‘Vol For Life’ sums up his legacy.”

The popular student served as president of UT’s chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and he was very involved with UT’s recycling program, driving a truck full-time for UT Recycling.

“Ryan was a very hard-working, cheerful and willing employee with UT Recycling for nearly two years,” said Jay Price, environmental coordinator for UT. “He really lifted our department after we lost our previous cardboard collection driver, and collected more cardboard from more locations than anyone ever had at UT.” To honor his memory, his family has established the Ryan Edwards Scholarship for students studying Environmental Studies.

Tia Patron • The Daily Beacon

After a surprise afternoon storm on Monday, a tree lies on top of a car outside Hodges Library.

bridge officer’s artifacts The Associated Press ATLANTA — From the pitch-black depths 2.5 miles beneath the North Atlantic, salvagers of the Titanic made a notable discovery when they located the personal effects of William Murdoch, the bridge officer who tried in vain to keep the doomed ship from colliding with an iceberg.

The artifacts — including a shoe brush, straight razor and pipe — are the first to be specifically linked to Murdoch, who gained added notoriety after James Cameron’s polemical portrayal of him in the 1997 blockbuster movie “Titanic.”

In the film, Murdoch accepts bribes, kills two people trying to get on lifeboats and shoots himself in desperation as the ship sinks. Historical accounts, however, say Murdoch gave the order to try to avoid a collision and acted selflessly to get passengers on lifeboats.

“This will bring Murdoch back front and center to the tragedy,” said Bill Sauder, who manages Titanic research for RMS Titanic Inc. The company oversees the artifacts and gave The Associated Press an exclusive look at a new exhibit that opens Friday at Premier Exhibitions in Atlanta. RMST is a subsidiary of Premier Exhibitions.

The movie created a furor when it came out. Murdoch's extended family and people from his hometown of Dalbeattie, Scotland, were angered. They asked that movie credits be amended when the video version of the Oscar-winning film was released.

The studio, 20th Century Fox, refused. Executives said the movie was never intended to be a reflection of real events, and that Murdoch was portrayed as a hero because he saved many lives before taking his own. Eventually, the studio issued a personal apology and made a contribution to an annual Murdoch memorial prize that Dalbeattie High School had given out since 1912, the year the Titanic sank.

Attempts to find Murdoch’s extended family of Murdoch by contacting community members who had had contact with a now-deceased nephew of Murdoch were unsuccessful.

“There was no controversy about Murdoch shooting himself until the movie came out,” said Lee W. Merideth, a Titanic expert and author of “1912 Facts About Titanic.”

“Cameron took a lot of liberties, and that’s why historians don’t like the movie.”

Controversy aside, Merideth said the artifacts are a significant find and will help viewers make a personal connection to an important historical figure.

“If that is his pipe, that means he smoked it at one time,” said Merideth. “All this stuff belonged to somebody.”

Recovering artifacts from the depths of the North Atlantic is painstaking work.

Teams are only allowed to gather material from what is known as the “debris field,” an area outside the actual ship; by court order, artifacts can’t be taken from inside the vessel, which broke into two pieces when it sank.

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Adam Tindall, freshman in aerospace engineering, participates in inflatable games at Vol Night Long on Friday.

1865 — Lincoln dreams about a presidential assassination According to the recollection of one of his friends, Ward Hill Lamon, President Abraham Lincoln dreams on this night in 1865 of “the subdued sobs of mourners” and a corpse lying on a catafalque in the White House East Room. In the dream, Lincoln asked a soldier standing guard “Who is dead in the White House?” to which the soldier replied, “the President.he was killed by an assassin.” Lincoln woke up at that point. On April 11, he told Lamon that the dream had “strangely annoyed” him ever since. Ten days after having the dream, Lincoln was shot dead by an assassin while attending the theater.

1968 — Dr. King is Assassinated Just after 6 p.m. on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The civil rights leader was in Memphis to support a sanitation workers’ strike and was on his way to dinner when a bullet struck him in the jaw and severed his spinal cord. King was pronounced dead after his arrival at a Memphis hospital. He was 39 years old.

In the months before his assassination, Martin Luther King became increasingly concerned with the problem of economic inequality in America. He organized a Poor People’s Campaign to

focus on the issue, including an interracial poor people’s march on Washington, and in March 1968 traveled to Memphis in support of poorly treated African-American sanitation workers. On March 28, a workers’ protest march led by King ended in violence and the death of an African-American teenager. King left the city but vowed to return in early April to lead another demonstration.

On April 3, back in Memphis, King gave his last sermon, saying, “We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn’t matter with me now, because I’ve been to the mountaintop...And He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we, as a people, will get to the promised land.”

One day after speaking those words, Dr. King was shot and killed by a sniper. As word of the assassination spread, riots broke out in cities all across the United States and National Guard troops were deployed in Memphis and Washington, D.C. On April 9, King was laid to rest in his hometown of Atlanta, Georgia. Tens of thousands of people lined the streets to pay tribute to King’s casket as it passed by in a wooden farm cart drawn by two mules.

The evening of King’s murder, a Remington .30-06 hunting rifle was found on the sidewalk beside a rooming house one block from the Lorraine Motel. During the next several weeks, the rifle, eyewitness reports, and fingerprints on the weapon all implicated a single suspect: escaped convict James Earl Ray. A two-bit criminal, Ray escaped a Missouri prison in April 1967 while serving a sentence for a holdup. In May 1968, a massive manhunt for Ray began. The FBI eventually determined that he had obtained a Canadian passport under a false identity, which at the time was relatively easy.

On June 8, Scotland Yard investigators arrested Ray at a London airport. He was trying to fly to Belgium, with the eventual goal, he later admitted, of reaching Rhodesia. Rhodesia, now called Zimbabwe, was at the time ruled by an oppressive and internationally condemned white minority government. Extradited to the United States, Ray stood before a Memphis judge in March 1969 and pleaded guilty to King’s murder in order to avoid the electric chair. He was sentenced to 99 years in prison.

Three days later, he attempted to withdraw his guilty plea, claiming he was innocent of King’s assassination and had been set up as a patsy in a larger conspiracy. He claimed that in 1967, a mysterious man named “Raoul” had approached him and recruited him into a gunrunning enterprise.

On April 4, 1968, he said, he realized that he was to be the fall guy for the King assassination and fled to Canada. Ray’s motion was denied, as were his dozens of other requests for a trial during the next 29 years.

During the 1990s, the widow and children of Martin Luther King Jr. spoke publicly in support of Ray and his claims, calling him innocent and speculating about an assassination conspiracy involving the U.S. government and military. U.S. authorities were, in conspiracists’ minds, implicated circumstantially. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover obsessed over King, who he thought was under communist influence. For the last six years of his life, King underwent constant wiretapping and harassment by the FBI. Before his death, Dr. King was also monitored by U.S. military intelligence, which may have been asked to watch King after he publicly denounced the Vietnam War in 1967. Furthermore, by calling for radical economic reforms in 1968, including guaranteed annual incomes for all, King was making few new friends in the Cold War-era U.S. government.

Over the years, the assassination has been reexamined by the House Select Committee on Assassinations, the Shelby County, Tennessee, district attorney’s office, and three times by the U.S. Justice Department. The investigations all ended with the same conclusion: James Earl Ray killed Martin Luther King. The House committee acknowledged that a low-level conspiracy might have existed, involving one or more accomplices to Ray, but uncovered no evidence to definitively prove this theory. In addition to the mountain of evidence against him — such as his fingerprints on the murder weapon and his admitted presence at the rooming house on April 4 — Ray had a definite motive in assassinating King: hatred. According to his family and friends, he was an outspoken racist who informed them of his intent to kill Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He died in 1998.

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

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TRAYVON MARTIN continued from Page 1 Laurielle Campbell, a second-year law student, organized the rally, which is the first to hit Knoxville among the national wave of protests and rallies spurred on by the death of the unarmed teen.

While attending Howard University during her undergraduate studies, Campbell had participated in protests before, although this was her first time organizing one.

“We want to show Knoxville that as future attorneys we promise to seek justice and to differentiate between right and wrong,” Campbell said. “There are stereotypes about lawyers, that it’s all about the money. We’re not the stereotype.”

Campbell said that the rally was not in support of a certain side or calling for Zimmerman’s arrest, but rather a means to promote awareness of the event in Knoxville.

Helen Richmond, a first-year law student and participant in last Tuesday’s rally, said she felt it

was important to lend her support to the cause.

“I think it’s the right thing to do as a law student,” Richmond said. “I’m going to be dealing with those types of issues, so regardless of which race it is, it’s not right for an unarmed person to be killed. Injustice is being done and I want to show my support for justice.”

Campbell was pleased that the rally sparked interest in the case in the community.

“I’m glad I could get Knoxville to talk about the issue,” Campbell said. “It created a lot of discussion and debate, and got people seeing different viewpoints.”

Richmond advocated the importance of discussion.

“We need to participate in the conversation, because maybe something needs to be done about this,” Richmond said. “I think closure needs to come. We have so many people speaking out about it, maybe we need to rethink these laws.”

Richmond said participating in the rally was fulfilling.

“I want to be representing justice for all, and I’ll start by showing it right now,” she said.

Untrained civilian lands airplane The Associated Press STURGEON BAY, Wis. — An elderly woman with no recent piloting experience landed a small plane that was running dangerously low on fuel after her husband fell unconscious at the controls, the director of a northeastern Wisconsin airport said Tuesday.

Helen Collins, 80, had some flight training years ago but was not familiar with the controls of the Cessna twin-engine plane on Monday evening when her husband passed out, said Keith Kasbohm, director of Cherryland Airport where she landed, near Sturgeon Bay. Another pilot took to the skies to guide Collins to the ground, but she had to land the aircraft herself.

“She was on her last attempt to get lined up with the runway,” Kasbohm said. “She reported

one engine was sputtering on that last attempt to land. We were all watching and knew she had to do it.”

Collins’ 81-year-old husband, John, was later pronounced dead at a hospital.

Helen Collins had called 911 from the Cessna prompting air traffic controllers in Green Bay to alert Kasbohm.

“The first thing I thought of is, ‘We have to find someone to help talk this woman down,’” he said.

Kasbohm called Robert Vuksanovic, a pilot who lived just a mile from the airport.

Vuksanovic jumped in another plane owned by the Collins and flew up to meet the Cessna while instructing the novice on the radio.

“He felt it would be easier,” Kasbohm said.

“With him alongside of her he could control her speed and altitude” before she attempted a landing.

Seven dead in college shooting The Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. — A nursing student expelled from a small Christian university and upset about being teased over his poor English skills opened fire at the school, going from room to room in a rampage that left six students and a secretary dead, police said Tuesday.

One L. Goh, 43, forced the secretary into a classroom at Oikos University in Oakland on Monday, told people to line up and, when some didn’t cooperate, began his shooting spree, police Chief Howard Jordan said.

“It’s very, very sad,” Jordan said. “We have seven people who didn’t deserve to die and three others wounded because someone who couldn’t deal with the pressures of life.”

Goh, a South Korea native who became a U.S. citizen, was expelled in January from the school for behavioral problems from the small private school of fewer than 100 students, Jordan said. The chief said Goh had anger management issues with other students.

Jordan said Goh appeared to have been planning the attack for several weeks.

Goh was upset with administrators and several students at the college, which an official said offered classes in Korean and English and was founded to help Korean immigrants adjust to a new country and find careers in nursing and ministry.

“They disrespected him, laughed at him,” Jordan said.

“They made fun of his lack of English speaking skills. It made him feel isolated compared to the other students.”

Jordan said Goh tried to find a female administrator Monday and began shooting when he learned she wasn’t there. The victims, who range in age from 21 to 40, were from various countries, including Nigeria, Nepal and the Philippines.

“It is very disturbing, especially given the magnitude of this incident,” he said. “While he’s being very cooperative with us, you expect some level of remorse for someone who just killed seven people that he really didn’t even know.”

Goh was being held without bail Tuesday after being booked on suspicion of murder, attempted murder, kidnapping and carjacking, according to sheriff’s Sgt. J.D. Nelson, who said the suspect likely would make his first court appearance Wednesday.

Police were still looking for the gun used, which Jordan described as a semiautomatic handgun that was purchased legally.

Goh has no criminal history, but he has debts and minor traffic citations in his former home state of Virginia and was evicted from one apartment complex.

His brother, a soldier on active duty, was killed in a car crash last year in Virginia, according to Stars and Stripes newspaper.

Soon after the shooting began Monday, heavily armed officers swarmed the school in a large industrial park near the Oakland airport. For a time, police believed the gunman could still be inside. But he wasn’t.

Instead, officers said he apparently drove about three miles from campus before surrendering to officers inside a supermarket.

Police first received a 911 call at 10:33 a.m. reporting a woman on the ground bleeding. As more calls came in from the school, the first arriving officer found a victim suffering from a life-threatening gunshot wound, he said.

More officers then arrived and formed a perimeter around the school on the belief that the suspect was still inside, he said.

Jordan said there were about 35 people in or near the building when gunfire broke out. Of the seven fatalities, five died at the scene and another two at the hospital.

The three surviving shooting victims were all released from Highland Hospital by Monday night, according to hospital officials, who would not release details on the nature of the injuries treated.

Rebecca Vaughan • The Daily Beacon

A student performs in a Turkish folk dance during the International Dance Competition on March 28. The group won first place in the traditional dance category.

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Editor’s Note Statement on SGA election Blair Kuykendall Editor-in-Chief With the close of this year’s SGA election season, The Daily Beacon would like to submit commentary on the election outcome and tie up some loose ends for our readership. In particular, an election claim made by one of our columnist’s merits further disclosure.

The staff would first like to congratulate both FUEL and REVOLT for their well-orchestrated campaigns last week. Both teams delivered an enthusiastic effort, and seemed genuinely interested in advancing student interests on campus. As the primary vehicle for the projection of student opinion to campus at large, we stand with their efforts.

Special congratulations of course go to the FUEL campaign, and their newly-elected executive members. Adam Roddy, president-elect, received just over 8 percent of student support. Also noteworthy, REVOLT’s referendum received the votes of around 20 percent of the student population.

That statistic is extremely encouraging in light of historically dismal voter participation.

The support received by this referendum makes a powerful statement. Student supporters have called attention to their perceived inability to influence the decisions of UT’s administrators. Student voters voiced concern over their inability to impact budget priorities.

To remedy this issue, students supported increasing the number of student representatives on task forces. The referendum called Chancellor Jimmy Cheek to address SGA members regularly, and proposed the creation of a student task force to deliver a report to the Board of Trustees prior to their budget meetings.

These aims seem reasonable, and student support for these initiatives is insightful. Higher participation means that students are starting to care about the direction of this institution, seeking expanded

representation. The affirmative response to this measure was extremely consistent with student contributions received by the Beacon this semester.

Participation, at least on the referendum, took a definite upswing. Also, the SGA victors conducted themselves much better than last year, without the employ of any obscene language or hand gestures.

All in all, we can probably mark this one down as a step in the right direction.

One question remains.

Last Monday in his column “SGA elections entertain as always,” Derek Mullins stated that “there have been reports that (Adam Roddy) has accepted a student employee position inside Chancellor Cheek’s office.” While Mullins was certainly truthful in stating that he had received information validating that claim at the time he submitted that column, contradictory information was called to his attention after his column was published.

Adam Roddy submitted a letter that was published in The Daily Beacon last Wednesday, stating that he had “never been employed” nor had “ever accepted any position within the Chancellor’s Office.” He agreed in the letter that holding such a position would be detrimental to the office of SGA president.

To give our readers a conclusive statement, I have personally spoken with the SGA president-elect.

Roddy further explained this week that one employment discussion did in fact occur between himself and the chancellor. In the Neyland skybox, the two discussed the duties involved in a Chancellor’s Office position. Roddy stressed that an offer was never formally extended, and that he has never accepted or held any official employment with the Chancellor’s Office.

Ensuing accounts of that conversation among Roddy and other students were passed along until they eventually evolved into the report received by Mullins and featured in his column.

Our staff felt compelled to close the issue, and we look forward to providing you with continued coverage on the progression of SGA and its initiatives.

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

SCRAMBLED EGGS • Alex Cline

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Channel ‘Dear Abby’ to help others Ac orns and Other Seeds by

Anna-Lise Burnnette After many years spent honing my Internet browsing skills, in the past few months I have discovered my new online passion: Yahoo! Answers. There, I’ve been able to anonymously unleash my inner Dear Abby by answering questions ranging from history and politics to relationships and social science. While I don’t claim to be an expert in any of those fields, I’ve found that there are quite a few questions that I have enough knowledge about to warrant my contributions. I’m careful never to weigh in on anything that isn’t pretty subjective or that I’m not absolutely sure about. If only I could say the same for every Yahoo! Answers user.

But it’s an open site, of course, and so anyone out there can, just like me, get their fix of being useful to others. In fact, you even tell who those “useful” people are — they are the ones who rank high in terms of number of questions answered and number of “best” answers given, a ranking that everyone can see below their username. Still, the number of users who are out to become answer-masters is relatively small. Most of the people who log into Yahoo! Answers actually are trying to find the answers, not exclusively dole them out.

Excluding the users who are out for answering glory, there are mainly three kinds of people who use the site, and all of them have their reasons. The first are the noxious trolls, who post anything and everything just to have a (private, out loud, in front of their computer screen) laugh. The second are the people who clearly don’t know how to use Google (though how they managed to get to Yahoo I’ve no idea). And the third are 12- to 15-year-olds looking for advice on any topic they can think of.

You can guess which group is my favorite; because though I certainly sympathize with the poor men and women who can’t seem to figure out how to make creamed spinach (and yes, I have actually answered questions just like that, with a link to a recipe included

free of charge), and while I’ve got a soft spot for a few of the funnier spammers, you really can’t beat the sincerity of a 14-year-old girl looking for ways to make more friends at her new school.

It isn’t all peaches and roses though, which is just another reason I feel drawn to this particular online community. Often enough — too often — I see that young girls (and boys, too — more than you might think) are asking about serious topics. It is common to find questions about dating, sexuality, and dieting — many of which sound like the kinds of questions someone my own age would be asking of their roommates.

It’s worrisome that young teenagers already seem to have such complexes about their image, their appeal to the opposite sex, and their weight. Young vloggers have recently gotten some bad press about the proliferation of videos that are created in order to “fish for compliments” and the exceedingly heartless responses they receive. But the questions I’ve read (and even a handful of videos I’ve seen) aren’t really like that at all. Indeed, I think that the non-visual, anonymous nature of the Yahoo! Answers site opens up the forum to every eighth grader’s insecurities, no matter how beautiful or ugly they think they are.

And I remember what it was like to be in middle school, with kind of a weirdly shaped body and a completely mixed up idea of who I was supposed to be, which is why it gives me a lot of pleasure to be able to sit down and give these younger guys and gals a little bit of friendly advice. In the cases where I think the question perhaps isn’t quite age-appropriate (or when I think the answer might not really be what they are looking for), I try to give them a positive evaluation and as much context as I can before saying yes, no or maybe. It’s definitely an intuitive process, but the quickly fired off “thank you” responses I’ve received tell me that I’m at least doing something right.

And after all, isn’t sharing your experience what being a member of a community is all about? It isn’t about being an answer-generating automaton, but about being there to help someone in the detached and “objective” way that they crave. And if I can boost some teenager in Oklahoma’s self esteem in the process, well, I’d say it’s certainly worth it.

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

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Last Friday, HBO aired a two-minute TV spot for its newest upcoming drama, a behind-the-scenes, show-within-a-show about the inner-workings of a fictional cable news network. With Jeff Daniels starring in the lead role of news anchor Will McAvoy, “The Newsroom” is slated to premiere June 24.

Be sure to check out the trailer — it looks pretty interesting. The first minute of the clip features McAvoy at a university lecture hall, with a class full of students and their one professor, whose commentary is not-so-subtly geared toward defining McAvoy’s political neutrality and position as a wellknown, well-liked, notoriously non-partisan news anchor. Meanwhile, the students, each brimming with that obnoxious idealism you only see in liberal arts majors (see below), eagerly ask question after question regarding the United States’ position as the “greatest country in the world.” But as the music builds, the supposedly objective McAvoy grows visibly more frustrated with each question until finally, something … fissures: “It’s not the greatest country in the world, that’s my answer.”

Cue dramatic fast-paced build music, then McAvoy: “Just in case you accidentally wander into a voting booth one day, there’s some things you should know: We’re seventh in literacy, 22nd in science, 49th in life expectancy, 78th in infant mortality, third in median household income, No. 4 in labor force and No. 4 in exports.” McAvoy punctuates his tirade with a snarl just before dropping a cruelly-appointed f-bomb on the naïve young girl whose ardent patriotism he just puréed. “So when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world, I don’t know WHAT you’re talking about!”

Forty-ninth in life expectancy? I had to doublecheck his stats. And by God, though they weren’t completely accurate, they actually ended up being more or less ballpark. Granted, I don’t necessarily believe Norway and the Netherlands have anything the United States doesn’t have just because the Human Development Index says so, but the numbers

still made me a little uneasy. So I checked four other reliable development and prosperity indices and found similar overall rankings of fourth, 12th, 13th, and … 23rd. Wait, what? No No. 1? Hmm. Then what the hell are my fraternity bros carrying on about all the time?

The rhetorical questions and internal conflict flooded in. How is the U.S. so esteemed and powerful when these indices are registering such low numbers?

Or is it not, and I’ve just let Bill Maher and the Noble Lie textbooks delude me into thinking otherwise this whole time? Surely there must be a missing piece here. Otherwise, wouldn’t we have gotten conquered or shot or something a long time ago?

Ahhhh, right — there it is! Guns. We’re good at guns. And atomic guns. And wars. I knew I was missing something. According to the Pentagon, the United States spends more on defense than any other country in the world, and by a significant margin. We have the second highest enlistment internationally in terms of active duty military personnel, and even though we haven’t necessarily had outright wins in every war we’ve fought since 1776, I don’t think anyone would disagree it’s a very winning series. We also have strong, friendly relations with just about every world superpower, three of whom we sit next to (permanently) on the U.N. Security Council, and most of the various intergovernmental organizations as well, e.g, U.N., IMF, Interpol, NAFTA, WTO, etc.

So we’ve got those things. And we’ve got a big economy. But we do have a lot of debt. And we’re sort of mediocre in a lot of other areas, too, apparently.

So defense, plus good diplomacy and international relations, minus some other things and a debt we’re never going to pay back anyway, equals America?

Look, I know 78th in infant mortality is not awesome. But we have to keep in mind the general maxim of economics at work here — there are only certain amounts of certain resources and an increase in good/service A will almost always result in a decrease in good/service B. So, if we can’t top the charts in child welfare gender income equality, why not just stick to what we’re good at? I feel safe. And as long as we continue to speak softly and carry a big stick, we can keep hanging comfortably at No. 4 or No. 12 or wherever and it won’t really be that big a deal. Besides, that’s how dad did it, that’s how America does it, and it’s worked out pretty well so far.

— Sam Ellis is a senior in English and political science. He can be reached at seelis11@utk.edu.

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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

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Work gives perspective, fulfillment Jake Lane Arts & Culture Editor Remember the old meme about dual shifting for maximum efficiency?

As of late, that old phrase has taken on renewed meaning after taking a job as a line cook to supplement my income and failing to find a position with my lovely decorative liberal arts degree. Days of racing from Karns to campus to Turkey Creek in a rough two hours span have become an anxious cycle of switching from professional personality to caffeine-driven taskmaster as I barrel down I-40 west to the beat of Titus Andronicus or the Atomic Platters box set.

This isn’t the first time the Beacon and a restaurant kitchen have become my mutual benefactors, but as a recent graduate my lack of classes has made the transition somewhat less chaotic, if still frazzling. The ability to juggle two or more jobs while carrying a full class load was daunting but doable, but as a young and able person of limited means, there is no reason why working two jobs should be an imposition.

I’m no corporate apologist or upwardly mobile class warrior on the side of affluence, so to say that young people riding the poverty line should work as much as possible is by no means an endorsement of the idea of prolats as cogs in the big machine. However, I do believe that if you want to get anywhere in life work is the only respectable, and to me acceptable, means of achievement.

The benefits and drawbacks of working multiple jobs are manifold, the biggest of each being the experience and perspective working in two vastly different environments can provide. At the Beacon, we show up at different times during the day to load in stories and edit them, then pass off the assignments for the day to designers to build the paper. Banter and goodnatured ribbing goes on through the day, but the atmosphere is nonetheless respectful and professional (well, most of the time anyway). A kitchen, however, can be a frantic mess of unilateral stimuli, requests and orders coming from every angle, and time being of the utmost of importance.

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On the positive side, the two salaries help with bills and rent, even leaving a little extra money for those few spare hours when you aren’t plying a trade. The simple acquisition of capital, especially more than you need, isn’t a wonderful focus of monomania, but hard work while you are physically able makes reasonable goals like buying a house or settling down at some point much easier, as opposed to living at stretched means and accruing debt that impedes any further progress you hope to make professionally or personally. Working to put money back, even if it’s just in a slush fund for emergencies, makes sense if you hope to step outside the comfortable bounds of menial jobbing, fast food consuming and trash TV watching.

Even the negatives of working two jobs are negligible in view of the benefits. Having little time for chilling out and getting things done in your personal life can be maddening, but also the scarcity of free time makes you value it and prioritize and eliminate those activities in your life which aren’t necessary. Really the only undeniable downfall of working around the clock is the inevitable energy drain. In my case, sleep comes in fits and starts and a day that starts around 10 in the morning goes until 4 the following, regardless of whether or not I want it to, so nocturnalism has become an unwilling lifestyle.

For those of you already working and balancing your pursuit of a degree, you know the key to keeping it together is positive motivation, keeping your eye on the prize. If you just keep a cool head and figure out what you want and how to get it, the rewards are virtually limitless.

With a little work ethic and the various forms of ingesting the coffee bean, you can become an expert in your field of choice and start building the foundation for your post-collegiate life if you want it. I don’t just work out of necessity — the thrill of a news room on the verge of a huge breaking story is a rush, as is dishing out an interminable list of orders on a busy night without screwing anything up. Working not only towards goals, but to remind your body what it was built for, is key to a fulfilling life.

— Jake Lane is a graduate in creative writing.

He can be reached at jlane23@utk.edu.

EMPLOYMENT Staying in Knoxville This Summer? Need a Fun Summer Job? Camp Webb day camp, in West Knoxville, is now accepting applications for full-time summer camp counselor jobs! Positions: general camp counselors, lifeguards, and instructors for Archery, Arts & Crafts, Drama, Swimming, Ropes Course, Nature, Sports, & some leadership positions. Part-time available. www.campwebb.comto apply.

THE TOMATO HEAD KNOXVILLE Now hiring dish and food running positions. Full and part-time available, no experience necessary. Apply in person at 12 Market Square or apply online at thetomatohead.com.

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ARTS&CULTURE

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Planners explore aqua-architecture The Associated Press BANGKOK — A floating mosque and golf course for the submerging Maldives islands.

Amphibious homes in the Netherlands lifted to safety as waters surge beneath them. A hospital perched on 400 stilts to protect patients from Thailand’s devastating floods and the encroaching sea.

Around the world, architects and city planners are exploring ways mankind and water may be able to coexist as oceans rise and other phenomenon induced by climate change, including extreme, erratic floods, threaten land-rooted living.

With the Dutch at the helm, projects in the cutting-edge field of aqua-architecture are already in place, including a maritime housing estate, floating prison and greenhouses in the Netherlands. An increasing number are coming on stream, and while earlier blueprints appeared to be the stuff of science fiction, advocates say leaps of imagination are still needed given the magnitude of the danger.

“Climate change will require a radical shift within design practice from the solid-state view of landscape urbanism to the more dynamic, liquid-state view of waterscape urbanism,” says Danai, who is involved in several projects based on this principle.

“Instead of embodying permanence, solidity and longevity, liquid perception will emphasize change, adaptation.”

In a study for low-lying New York, Olthuis says he envisioned Manhattan ringed by a sea wall with outlying boroughs allowing water to enter and adapting. The world’s Londons and Bangkoks, he says, may become “hydro-cities,” their historic hearts and concentrated core development waterproofed and other areas “going with the flow.”

The Netherlands, a third of which lies below sea level, has been managing water since the Middle Ages and is thus a pioneer in the field. It has exported its expertise to Indonesia, China, Thailand, Dubai and the Republic of the Maldives, an Indian Ocean archipelago that with a maximum elevation of about 2 meters (8 feet) is the world’s lowest country. The sea-battered city of New Orleans has also sought advice from Olthuis’ Waterstudio.

In the Maldives, Waterstudio has designed a network of floating islands, the first to be put in place next year, to accommodate hotels, a convention center, yacht club and villas. The “islands,” secured by steel cables, are made up of pontoons with a foam core encased in concrete that can be joined

together like Lego blocks. An 18-hole golf course will also be set on such platforms, each with two to three holes, connected by underwater tunnels. The $500 million project, paid for by the Maldivian government and private investors, is slated for completion in 2015.

A floating mosque, originally destined for Dubai before an economic downturn hit, is also part of the master plan, Olthuis said in an interview.

One pioneering effort was the placement of amphibious and floating homes on the River Maas in 2005. All survived major 2011 floods that forced the evacuation of villages along rain-swollen rivers.

Construction recently began on the Olthuisdesigned New Water estate, 600 homes and a luxury apartment complex on land purposely inundated. Interest in water-based living and work space has accelerated over the past decade, he says, and Waterstudio's drawing boards are stacked with plans for local and international projects.

Typical amphibious houses, like the two-story ones on the Maas, consist of a structure that slides into a steel framework over a hollow foundation which, like the hull of a ship, buoys up the building when water enters.

The Maas houses sell from $310,000, about 25 percent more than equivalent homes, in part due to the cost of connecting them to utilities and drainage.

Along similar lines will be Britain’s first amphibious house, recently granted planning permission along the banks of the Thames River in Buckinghamshire. The 225-square-meter (2,421square-foot) home will be able to rise to 2.5 meters (8.2 feet) in the event of flooding.

Thai architect Chutayaves Sinthuphan, who will be unveiling a pilot amphibious house for the Thai government in September, says interest in such projects has grown since last year’s floods, which killed more than 600 people and affected more than a fifth of the country’s 64 million people.

His Site-Specific Company has already built such houses for private clients, using modern techniques and materials but like other architects in Asia looking to a past when communities adapted well to annual monsoon season inundations.

Architect Prisdha Jumsai has borrowed from traditional methods to design Thailand's first hospital for the aged. Work has begun on the 300-bed hospital over a permanently flooded area near Bangkok that is also subject to tides from the nearby Gulf of Thailand. Concrete stilts will raise its first floor about 4 meters (13 feet) above average water levels.

Tia Patron • The Daily Beacon

UT awaits the storm during the afternoon on Monday. The storm created a dark background to Neyland Stadium.

Murdoch resigns as BSkyB chairman The Associated Press LONDON — Media executive James Murdoch, under pressure over his role in Britain’s tabloid phone hacking scandal, has stepped down as chairman of British Sky Broadcasting PLC, the company announced Tuesday.

BSkyB said he would be replaced as chairman by Nicholas Ferguson, the previous deputy chairman.

Murdoch remains a member of the BSkyB board.

It was the latest setback for Murdoch, 39, a top executive in his father Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. global media empire. Murdoch — the former head of his father’s British newspaper division — has been facing severe criticism as a result of the phone hacking scandal that brought down the company’s News of the World tabloid in Britain and led to the arrests of scores of its journalists.

Murdoch said in a letter to

the BSkyB board that he was “determined that the interests of BSkyB should not be undermined by matters outside the scope of this company.”

“I am aware that my role as chairman could become a lightning rod for BSkyB and I believe that my resignation will help to ensure that there is no false conflation with events at a separate organization,” he said.

Rupert Murdoch and News Corp. president Chase Carey said in a brief statement they were “grateful for James Murdoch’s successful leadership of BSkyB.” “He has played a major role in propelling the company into the market-leading position it enjoys today and in the process has been instrumental in creating substantial value for News Corp. shareholders,” they said. News Corp. owns 39 percent of BSkyB. James Murdoch quit as chairman of News International, News Corp.’s

British newspaper division in February. At the time, he indicated he was going to concentrate on managing parts of his father's extensive television businesses.

He has also stepped down from the boards of auctioneer Sotheby’s and prominent pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline PLC but remains deputy chief operating officer of News Corp. and chairman and CEO, International, at the company.

News Corp. has been struggling for months to shake off the damage from the hacking furor, which derailed its plans to take charge of the remaining 61 percent of BSkyB last summer.

James Murdoch had been widely thought to be the heir to his father’s media empire, and the proposed takeover of BSkyB would have boosted his profile as well as giving News Corp. full control of a lucrative broadcaster with an extensive sports and news franchise.

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

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UT athletes nominated for post-grad scholarships Staff Reports BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Diver Ryan Helms and basketball player Glory Johnson have been nominated for the H. Boyd McWhorter Scholar-Athlete Post-Graduate Scholarship, and track and field athletes Kevin Carney and Chelsea Knotts have been nominated for the Brad Davis Community Service Post-Graduate Scholarship by the University of Tennessee, the Southeastern Conference announced Tuesday afternoon.

The H. Boyd McWhorter Scholar-Athlete Post-Graduate Scholarship has been presented by the Southeastern Conference since 1986 to

the league’s top male and female scholar-athletes.

The SEC Community Service Post-Graduate Scholarship was named for former Associate Commissioner Brad Davis. Davis succumbed to cancer on March 2, 2006. He had been a member of the SEC staff since 1988, first serving as an assistant commissioner until 1994 when he was promoted to associate commissioner. The Southeastern Conference will name the 2012 recipients of the H. Boyd McWhorter Scholar-Athlete Post-Graduate Scholarship on April 6 in conjunction with National StudentAthlete Day. The Davis Community Service Post-Graduate Scholarship winners will be announced on April 5.

Glory Johnson, Basketball (Female McWhorter Scholar-Athlete Nominee) • Earned B.A. degree (cum laude) in Interdisciplinary Studies in May 2011, graduating in just three years, and currently in Master’s program • Named to Vol Scholar Honor Roll, Dean’s List and SEC Academic Honor Roll • Is just the fourth player in UT Lady Vol history to post 1,000 points and 1,000 rebounds in career • Has been named SEC Player of the Week six times in her career • Played on the gold-medal winning USA team at the 2011 World University Games in Shenzhen, China • Two-time first-team All-SEC, SEC All-Defensive Team and Women’s Basketball Coaches Association All-Region 3 Team performer • Member of 2012 Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) All-America Team • 2011-12 SEC Defensive Player of the Year • Two-time member of the SEC Women’s Basketball Community Service Team • Two-time member of the SEC All-Tournament Team and named MVP of the 2012 SEC Tournament • Volunteered with Habitat for Humanity, Hoops for Hope and UT Athletics Donor Thank-a-Thon • Visited with cancer patients at East Tennessee Children’s Hospital and read to children at various Knox County Schools • The Knoxville, Tenn. native is the daughter of Mercy Bassey Johnson and Bassey Johnson Udofot

Ryan Helms, Swimming & Diving (Male McWhorter Scholar-Athlete Nominee) • Will earn a B.S. degree in Education in August 2012 • Four-time UT Thornton Center Honor Roll and named to Fall 2011 Thornton Center Highest GPA List • Earned College Swimming Coaches Association of America Academic All-America status • Named twice to SEC Academic Honor Roll • 2012 Olympic Trials and Canada Cup Grand Prix qualifier • Earned honorable mention All-America honors at 2011 NCAA Championships in the 1-meter and platform dives • Placed second at the 2011 SEC Championships in the 1-meter and 3-meter dives after finishing third in same events at 2010 SEC Championships • Named SEC Freshman Diver of the Year, 2008-09 • Active in Fellowship of Christian Athletes, serving as a mentor, leading Bible Studies and planning meetings • Participated in the SEC’s “Together We Can” food drive and worked at food bank in his hometown • The Jefferson, Ga. native is the son of Michael and Tina Helms Kevin Carney, Track and Field (Male Davis Community Service Nominee) • Will earn a B.S. degree in Logistics in May 2012 • Three-time member of the SEC Academic Honor Roll and VolScholar Honor Roll • Recipient of the 2011 Team Vol Spirit Award • Served as volunteer coach for Precision Track Club, coaching children in multiple events • Volunteered for “Race for the Cure,” assisting meet organizers • Helped to build homes as part of Habitat for Humanity • Participated in Red Cross disaster relief in April 2011, helping people who were displaced by storms in Tennessee, Alabama and Missouri • Has visited local children's schools and sports teams to talk about sports and the transition from high school to college • Assisted in the planning and execution of “Soles4Shoes,” a campus-wide shoe drive • Member of UT’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and UT Athletics Board • The Brentwood, Tenn. native is the son of Dave and Pam Carney

Chelsea Knotts, Track & Field (Female Davis Community Service Nominee) • Will earn a B.S. degree in Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology in May 2012 • Came to UT in the inaugural 15-member class of Haslam Scholars, a premier honors program aimed at attracting the nation’s top students to campus • Member of SEC Academic Honor Roll and VolScholar Honor Roll • Two-time recipient of Lady Volunteer Academic Achievement Award • National Merit Scholar and recipient of Chancellor’s Honors Scholarship • Active in Fellowship of Christian Athletes, projects including collecting toys for children • Participated in SEC’s “Together We Can” food drive • Active in West Virginia’s Special Olympics • Directed and organized “Running with Hope 5K” to raise funds for Redeeming Hope Ministries • Created a homeless running group through Redeeming Hope Ministries to foster community, commitment and goal setting • Member of UT's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, and organized a Thanksgiving dinner for the homeless • Has also volunteered with Habitat for Humanity • The Ripley, W.Va. native is the daughter of Steve and Melinda Knotts

8 • The Daily Beacon

THESPORTSPAGE

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Robinson adjusts to lead Lady Vols Likely one-and-dones help Marissa Steinberg Staff Writer Bartlett, Ill.-native Kelsey Robinson continues to display true talent on the court and help instill a positive and winning attitude throughout the Tennessee volleyball team. Although Robinson is only a sophomore, she plays a key role on the court and brings skill, leadership and competitiveness to the Lady Vols.

“Robinson is a great player and a strong competitor and she brings that edge into our practices and competitions every day,” assistant coach Rachel Cooper. “She will do whatever it takes to win. Kelsey competes at the highest level and is the best all-around player and athlete that I’ve had the opportunity to coach.”

Kelsey’s skills on the court help the team come together and perform at a higher level.

“I touch the ball more than any one else on the court and I’m also captain,” she said.

“Leadership is one of my main goals and I try to be as vocal and positive as possible.”

As a freshman, Robinson was named to the SEC All-Freshman team, honored as SEC Freshman of the Week twice and was on the Freshman Academic Honor Roll. She also led the Lady Vols in digs her freshman year.

In her sophomore year, Robinson was named SEC Player of the Week, Comcast Lady Vol Classic MVP, Virginia Tech Invitational MVP, and was selected for the U.S. National A2 Training Team.

The transition from high school to college carried numerous challenges on and off the court for Robinson.

“At first it was definitely overwhelming adjust-

ing to everything and learning the game at a collegiate level,” she said. “Through the years I improved my time management, balancing homework, school, meetings, practice and games. It has been a learning process but my overall experience at UT has improved me as a person and as a player.”

The Lady Vols are looking ahead to next season where they will fight for a national championship and back-to-back SEC titles.

“As a team, we want to get to the final four and win the SEC again,” Robinson said. “We also want to remain in the top 10 the entire year.”

Robinson also said her personal goals are to achieve All-American status and just continue to get better every day.

“The best feeling in the world was beating Florida at home for the second time in a year,” she said. “We had never beaten them two times in a season so when we beat them at home, it clinched us the SEC. That moment was so amazing and we celebrated in the locker room after the match.”

In high school, Robinson also played basketball until she decided to focus on volleyball. Until then, Robinson expressed how she wasn’t the “standout” on the volleyball court, and was always on the second or third team in her club.

“I started working harder than anyone else and continued to improve my skills on the court and it defiantly showed,” she said.

Off the court, Robinson enjoys watching movies. Her two favorites are “Step Brothers” and “Remember the Titans.” She is majoring in broadcast journalism.

Brett Farve is a big influence for her, as she admires his all-round passion for the game.

Matthew DeMaria • The Daily Beacon

Kelsey Robinson prepares to hit the ball in a win against Kentucky that would give the Lady Vols their first regular-season SEC Championship on Nov. 23, 2011.

Kentucky to eighth national title The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS — The running joke all season was that Kentucky was good enough to beat some NBA teams. Say, maybe the Toronto Raptors.

Farfetched? Probably. But with that stable of pros-in-waiting, one thing seemed certain: The Wildcats were the team to beat in college basketball.

Capping a season that had a feeling of inevitability, Kentucky finished with a flourish, beating Kansas 67-59 in the NCAA championship game Monday night.

OK, so maybe it was the last time we’ll see many of those future millionaires in blue and white. At least they’ll go out as heroes after bringing home an eighth national championship to Big Blue and giving John Calipari the one missing piece to his resume.

“We were the best team,” Calipari said. “I wanted this to be one for the ages.”

Calipari has had a knack for luring the nation’s best recruits to Lexington, never worrying about whether they’d stick around.

This year’s bouncy-legged bunch was impressive even by his standards.

Led by everybody’s player of the year Anthony Davis, these fast-tracked Wildcats raced past nearly everyone who got in their way.

Davis, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, Doron Lamb, Darius Miller, Terrence Jones, Marquis Teague — Coach Cal had a team of ringers and he, along with everyone else, knew it. Who’s No. 2 seemed to be the only question left.

Kentucky lost just twice during the season: on a buzzer-beater by Indiana and to Vanderbilt in the SEC tournament in New Orleans, where Commodores big man Festus Ezeli pushed the Wildcats around.

The Vandy loss seemed to serve the Wildcats well, giving them a not-so-subtle reminder they still have to play, that this was no divine-right coronation.

The message clearly came through.

Kentucky attacked its first four NCAA tournament opponents like a swarm of bees; swat one and the rest are coming after you.

The Wildcats earned a return trip to the Big Easy by turning a highly hyped regional final against Baylor into a rout.

Waiting for them was in-state rival, Louisville in the national semifinals.

The scrappy Cardinals made a game of it, thanks to some master manipulation by coach Rick Pitino, the former leader in Lexington who’d gone to the enemy, but Kentucky was just too deep, too talented.

That set up a blue blood matchup with Kansas in Monday’s championship game. Save for a slight stumble near the finish—Kansas closed to within five after trailing by 18—the Wildcats rolled to the title everyone said was theirs to lose.

“They’re playing with pros,” Kansas coach Bill Self.

Davis rose up as the best of them all.

The 6-foot-10 freshman with the pterodactyl wingspan and Lexington’s favorite eyebrows dominated in what may be his only season in college basketball.

Shot-swatter, rim-rattler, jump-shooter, gamechanger—Davis was the consensus player of the year, everyone’s pick to be the No. 1 overall choice in the NBA draft when he comes out.

He took over the title game without making a shot until the last 5 minutes, a 1-for-10 performance that was nearly a perfect 10 on the rest of the stat line: 16 rebounds, six blocked shots to tie a title game record, three steals, enough intimidation to get the Jayhawks to chuck shots at the backboard so the ball wouldn’t get sent into the student section.

“He is an unbelievable factor on both ends,” Self said.

And he may be gone. So could several other players in just a couple of weeks. With five potential first-round picks, the NBA may be too enticing for this team to stay together.

That’s OK with Calipari. He’s hung his hat on chasing after the best players, regardless of whether they’ll stick around or go to the NBA. Teach them as much as he can, win with them as much as he can, let them go when they’re ready is Calipari’s philosophy.

It works. Calipari got to the title game in 2008 — a crushing loss to Self and the Jayhawks — with future NBA star Derrick Rose and Memphis. John Wall and the four other first-round draft picks reached the regional final in 2010. Brandon Knight led last year’s team to the Final Four.