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Van Gogh painting reproduced in breakfast cereal SMITHFIELD, Utah — High school students in northern Utah have completed a 6,400-square-foot replica of Vincent van Gogh’s “Starry Night” out of breakfast cereal.

Sky View High School teacher Doyle Geddes led more than 150 students on the project, which used two tons of colorful Malt-OMeal spread across the gymnasium floor.

The project took about a week and was completed Saturday. Crews spread a plastic sheet on the floor, then created a grid to outline the painting’s famous design. Each space was assigned a color to correspond with the painting and filled with cereal.

Geddes says he wanted to find a way to better connect students with art.

Amateur and team bowlers can help Big Brothers Big Sisters raise money to match children needing an additional adult role model in their lives with mentors. BBBS of East Tennessee’s Bowl For Kids’ Sake will take place in the UC Down Under on April 14.

Brent Waugh, events and media relations manager of BBBS of East Tennessee, said the event not only helps fund BBBS services but raises community awareness.

“This event is very important to Big Brothers Big Sisters of East Tennessee because it allows us to raise funds to accomplish our mission of helping children reach their full potential through professionally supported, one-to-one relationships,” Waugh said. “It is also important because it provides great awareness to our organization in the community.”

Waugh said last year’s event had more participants than any past event.

“The 2009 event at the University of Tennessee was a huge success,” Waugh said. “We had approximately 200 bowlers, which was more than double the amount in 2008. And at all 2009 events combined, we made history with more than 1,300 partic-

ipants in Knoxville, Maryville and the Tri-Cities. It was amazing to see such support for our organization.”

Waugh hopes this year is even more successful, and he encourages students to take it a step further and become mentors in BBBS.

“Last year’s event helped us provide 180 children with a caring, adult mentor,” Waugh said. “Through funds raised at the 2010 event, we hope to find mentors for 200 East Tennessee children.”

Ashley Bowen, senior in public relations and BBBS intern, said it is simple to get involved, and helping others gives her a great satisfaction.

“It’s such a rewarding experience, and I love to know I’m making a difference in the life of a child,” she said.

Bowen said that having an adult mentor has proven to positively affect many aspects of a child’s life. Children with one parent in prison are five

times more likely to go to prison later in their lives, according to the BBBS of East Tennessee Web site, http://bigbrothersbigsistersetn.org.

Waugh said after registering and raising money, students are invited to participate.

“All students have to do is go to http://www.BowlForKidsTODAY.org to register, then send out a few e-mails asking for donations to Big Brothers Big Sisters of East Tennessee,” he said.

“After they raise $50, they are invited to a Bowl For Kids’ Sake bowling party.”

Bowen said they have tried to make the event into a fun time by offering a variety of awards.

“Prizes will be awarded on an individual fundraising level and will also be given each hour for everything from Best Dressed team to Best Team Name to Most Bowler Enthusiasm,” Bowen said. “Even a gutter ball could land you a prize!”

The locations for Bowl for Kids’ Sake will be different on each night. On April 14, bowlers can participate at UT’s Down Under in the UC from 3 p.m. until 8 p.m.

On April 15 and April 16, corporate bowling teams can participate at Strike & Spare on Hayfield Road from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. both days.

Bowlers can participate at Crest Lanes in Maryville on April 17 from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m.

The last event days will be at Strike & Spare on Western Avenue on Thursday, April 22, and Friday,

World’s tallest tower in Dubai reopens DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The observation deck of the world’s tallest skyscraper reopened Sunday in Dubai, two months after an elevator malfunction left visitors trapped more than 120 stories above the ground and forced it to close.

Dozens of tourists were lining up Sunday for tickets to take an elevator to the 124th floor of the half-milehigh Burj Khalifa, where the tower’s observation deck is located.

The deck was shut in February after an elevator packed with visitors got stuck between floors for 45 minutes before rescuers dropped a ladder into the shaft so those inside could crawl out. Two months later, it’s still unclear what caused the elevator to fail.

Driver faces murder, DUI charges in fatal wreck OAK GROVE, Ky. — A driver has been charged with murder and DUI after a hit-and-run accident on Interstate 24 near the Tennessee state line that left a woman dead.

According to a release from the Kentucky State Police, four women were trapped in their car after it was struck by a pickup truck on Friday night and rolled over.

The women were taken by ambulance to Gateway Medical Center in Clarksville, Tenn. Two were released, one was admitted and is in noncritical condition, but the fourth person died of her injuries.

About 30 minutes after the wreck, Hopkinsville Police Department located a pickup with substantial front-end damage. The driver, Edelbert Eastway, was jailed at the Christian County Detention Center.

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Local elementary school children participate in an Easter egg hunt Wednesday. The event was sponsored by Panhellenic.

Haslam’s latest gets limited play The Associated Press NASHVILLE — Republican Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam’s first television ad of the Tennessee governor’s race made a big splash but also drew some criticism. His second effort is far more modest.

The 30-second spot touting Haslam’s devotion to his family and Bible study is only running on Fox News through the middle of this month, according to public records maintained by Comcast Spotlight.

Haslam is spending about $9,500 in the Nashville market to run the ad 58 times. His total expenditure to run the ad in the state’s four largest cities is about $23,000.

By contrast, Haslam spent about $140,000 to run the previous ad on a variety of cable channels and far more to run it on broadcast television during the Winter Olympics.

The first ad trumpeted Haslam’s professional background with the family-owned

Pilot Corp. But his claim to have created 11,000 jobs has been called an exaggeration by his rivals because about half of those jobs were added to Pilot’s payroll through mergers and acquisitions of other truck stop chains.

Haslam’s rivals for the GOP nomination are U.S. Rep. Zach Wamp of Chattanooga and state Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey of Blountville.

Jackson businessman Mike McWherter is the only Democrat running to succeed term-limited Gov. Phil Bredesen.

The Haslam campaign

wouldn’t go into detail about why the second ad is getting a more limited run.

“We’ve got a very strategic plan, and we are working that plan,” said Haslam spokesman David Smith. “We’re investing our resources in the things that will have (the) biggest return.”

Ramsey campaign adviser Brad Todd said, “Haslam got caught in his last ad wildly overstating the number of Tennessee jobs he created.”

“It’s no surprise he’s buying fewer ads this time,” Todd said. “He must be embarrassed.”

The cost of running the ads don’t include the price of producing the spots.

Haslam has been the dominant fundraiser of the campaign. He had raised $5.7 million through the last reporting period in mid-January and has said he expects to report a “record” amount for the quarter that ended on Wednesday.

The next campaign finance reports are due April 12.

Self-described introvert Jervis to become new SGA president Robby O’Daniel Chief Copy Editor During SGA Campaign Week, the two presidential candidates dressed up in large sumo wrestler costumes at the Tennessee versus USC Upstate baseball game on March 23.

This was something Fuse Party candidate Tommy Jervis, a selfdescribed introvert, would have never done in the past.

“I was extremely quiet in high school,” he said. “I was more concerned about getting good grades than anything else. I came here, and I was like, I gotta get out of my safe zone. I gotta get out of my little niche.”

At the baseball game, as “Shout” played in the background, Jervis thought about how the costumes did not look heavy when he saw this done at hockey games before. He soon discovered how wrong he was.

“Actually the guy down there (on the field) had to help us,” Jervis said. “We had to take our shoes off, and we couldn’t even bend over to put our shoes on.”

Later that week, Jervis would become SGA President-elect.

It was a major deviation for Jervis, who didn’t describe himself as the leader type.

“I’ve always been kinda like the behind-the-scenes person,” Jervis said. “I’ve never been in the forefront. I didn’t like being in the forefront. I always like doing my thing, getting it done and that being the end of it.”

For a student who hadn’t been farther west than Oxford, Miss., this was a major change.

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• 7 p.m. — Author, activist and philanthropist Deborah Ellis speaks in the McClung Museum Auditorium. An acclaimed children’s author, Ellis is known for her books on humanitarian and social justice issues.

Sponsored by the Center for Children’s and Young Adult Literature with support from Ready for the World, the talk is free and open to the public.

• 8 p.m. until 9 p.m. — Michael Miller, alto and tenor trombone, Jon Walton, alto and tenor trombone, Joe Christian, tenor trombone, and Brian Jennings, bass trombone, play a quartet recital as part of the Tennessee Trombone Project in performance hall 32 of Alumni Memorial Building.

Tuseday, April 6 — • 4 p.m. until 5 p.m. — As part of the “Women at Work” leadership series, a panel of UT alumnae share their experiences transitioning from UT to their first jobs in the Black Cultural Center multipurpose room. Sponsored by the Office of Student Orientation and Leadership Development, the session is free and open to all students and staff.

• 8 p.m. until 10 p.m. — The Men’s and Women’s Chorales perform during their spring concert in the Cox Auditorium of the Alumni Memorial Building. The concert is free and open to the public.

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A class takes advantage of the recent good weather and enjoys a lecture outside of Humanities Wednesday afternoon.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY • 1614 — Pocahontas, daughter of the chief of the Powhatan Indian confederacy, marries English tobacco planter John Rolfe in Jamestown, Va. The marriage ensured peace between the Jamestown settlers and the Powhatan Indians for several years. In May 1607, about 100 English colonists settled along the James River in Virginia to found Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in America. The settlers fared badly because of famine, disease and Indian attacks but were aided by 27-year-old English adventurer John Smith, who directed survival efforts and mapped the area. While exploring the Chickahominy River in December 1607, Smith and two colonists were captured by Powhatan warriors. At the time, the Powhatan confederacy consisted of around 30 Tidewater-area tribes led by Chief Wahunsonacock, known as Chief Powhatan to the English. Smith’s companions were killed, but he was spared and released, (according to a 1624 account by Smith) because of the dramatic intercession of Pocahontas, Chief Powhatan’s 13-year-old daughter. Her real name was Matoaka, and Pocahontas was a pet name that has been translated variously as “playful one” and “my favorite daughter.”

• 1774 — Benjamin Franklin writes an open letter to Great Britain’s prime minister, Frederick, Lord North, from the Smyrna Coffee House in London. It was published in The Public Advertiser, a British newspaper, on April 15, 1774. Franklin’s tongue-in-cheek letter suggested that the British impose martial law upon the colonies and appoint a “King’s Viceroy of all North America.” Franklin satirically went on to suggest that such centralized power over “Yankee Doodles,” who had “degenerated to such a Degree” from their British ancestors, “that one born in Britain is equal to twenty Americans,” would allow the crown to collect its taxes, then sell their impoverished colonies and colonists to Spain. Smyrna Coffee House on St. James Street in London had been a meeting place of Whigs, or political liberals, since the 17th century. For Franklin to sign a letter drafted at Smyrna’s “A Friend of Military Government” was an obvious use of irony. The details of his purported plan for a military government, including the exclusive use of military courts in colonies known for their commitment to trial by jury, and “One Hundred to a Thousand Lashes in a frosty Morning” for offenders made Franklin’s disdain for Lord North and his heavy-handed tactics clear.

• 2000 — Lee Petty, an early star of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) and the patriarch of a racing dynasty that includes his son, NASCAR legend Richard Petty, dies at the age 86 in Greensboro, N.C. Lee Petty won more than 50 races during his career, including three NASCAR championships, the first driver to rack up that many championship titles. He also won the first-ever Daytona 500, held in 1959. Lee Arnold Petty was born March 14, 1914, in North Carolina. He worked as a mechanic before starting his professional racing career in his 30s. His first NASCAR race was in June 1949 at the Charlotte Speedway in Charlotte, N.C. (the track closed in 1956). Petty won his first NASCAR (then known as the Grand National Series) championship in 1954, and captured the title again in 1958 and 1959. On Feb. 22, 1959, he defeated Johnny Beauchamp in a photo finish at the just-opened Daytona International Speedway in Florida to win the first-ever Daytona 500. The 500-mile race was so close that Beauchamp was initially declared the winner by William France, the owner of the track and head of NASCAR. However, Petty challenged the results and three days later, with the assistance of news photographs, he was officially named the champ.

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Economic adviser for Bush and McCain to speak at UT Douglas Holtz-Eakin, who has served as an economic adviser for Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush and presidential candidate John McCain, will visit UT on April 7 to discuss some of the most critical issues facing the nation, including the budget, health care, education, energy and the environment.

Sponsored by the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy and the Department of Economics, Holtz-Eakin’s talk -- titled “Policy Challenges Facing the U.S.: Navigating the Future” -- begins at 7 p.m. in the Baker Center’s Toyota Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.

Holtz-Eakin was the sixth director of the Congressional Budget Office, the chief analytical arm and impartial arbiter of the costs associated with new legislation. He served for 18 months as chief economist for the President’s Council of Economic Advisers under George W. Bush and for two years as senior staff economist for President George H. W. Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers. Holtz-Eakin also served as director of domestic and economic policy for the McCain presidential campaign.

Holtz-Eakin is now president of the American Action Forum (http://www.americanactionforum.org), a new think tank that “seeks to promote common-sense, innovative and solutionsbased policies that will reform government, challenge outdated assumptions and create a smaller, smarter government that will serve its citizens better.”

Facilities Services adds 24-hour-a-day phone line In an effort to expand availability and increase its level of customer service, the UT Facilities Services department has launched the Facilities One Call program.

Beginning Monday, members of the campus community can call one phone number, 24 hours a day, any day of the year and speak live with a Facilities Services representative. The number is 865-946-7777, or 6-7777 if you are calling from a campus phone.

Facilities Services staff routinely fulfill projects and work orders covering a wide variety of services. Tasks range from simple maintenance like changing out light bulbs to complex renovations and new construction. The department employs roughly 550 staff members and is comprised of a number of divisions, including the steam plant, grounds landscaping and maintenance, carpentry services, electrical services and utilities, architecture and engineering, heating and air conditioning, plumbing, lock and key services and building maintenance. Facilities Services staff members also oversee the university’s environmental programs, including recycling and energy conservation.

NASHVILLE — A growing number of Tennessee employers are using a federal database to determine whether their employees can legally work in the U.S. The Tennessean reports both word-of-mouth and state law are driving an increase in the number of businesses signing up for the Internet-based E-Verify. Over about four years, the number of Tennessee companies using the program has grown from 380 to 2,717.

In part, that growth is due to a September 2006 executive order from Gov. Phil Bredesen giving the state the authority to audit the personnel files of companies with state contracts.

Employers caught knowingly employing people not authorized to work in the U.S. can temporarily lose

their business licenses. But if they consistently use EVerify, they are protected from the sanctions.

Also, in September the federal government started requiring its contractors and subcontractors to use EVerify.

Even so, only a fraction of the 115,000 private and state government employers in Tennessee currently use the program. But E-Verify’s growth in Tennessee is similar to what’s happening across the county.

On average, 1,000 new U.S. employers sign up for the program each week, said Sharon Scheidhauer, a spokeswoman with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

But E-Verify is not a perfect system. For one thing, it does not alert an employer if a legitimate Social Security number is already in use, so it sometimes clears workers

who are not authorized to work. Also, it sometimes misidentifies legitimate workers as unauthorized to work, including people who have legally changed their names, such as women who have recently married.

Workers who are misidentified have about a week to try to correct the problem before they must be fired.

The National Federation of Independent Business tries to make sure small-business owners understand the program before they sign up, executive director Karen Harned said.

For instance, employers can’t selectively use the program for employees they deem suspicious. Also the names of businesses using EVerify are public record.

Rachel Bragg, who oversees human resources for FreshPoint Tomato in Tennessee, said E-Verify is incredibly easy to use.

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Custodians deserve better pay, working conditions Anyone who works, lives or attends classes on campus relies on the services of custodial workers to keep the campus clean and organized. Not surprisingly, these workers are poorly compensated for the hard work they do. Recently, however, they have been confronted with other problems. Over the past few years, workers in Carrick and other dorms have faced several problems of work conditions related to the advent of new management.

The first problem is that the work assignment for housekeepers in Carrick, formerly 10 bathrooms a day as it is in all the other dorms, has risen to 13 bathrooms with no increase in time or pay. This increased workload is exhausting to the point of affecting the personal wellbeing of workers, and forces them to rush through their work, presumably decreasing the quality of the job done.

The second grievance is that housekeeping workers are no longer allowed to use the one-stall bathrooms at the end of each hallway. These bathrooms, formerly labeled “custodial bathroom,” were originally intended explicitly for use by these workers but are now reserved for student use. Thus, workers must travel all the way to the basement (and, if they’re working in North Carrick, walk over to South) in order to access the only bathroom they’re allowed to use. Exceptions are made only if the worker has a doctor’s note. Even with a note, the workers have been told “not to use the bathrooms too much.”

A third problem is that custodians have been discouraged from talking to or befriending students. When you work alone for a full day at a difficult job, the occasional conversations you have with friendly students (who, after all, are the beneficiaries of custodial work) can be a big deal, but even this basic social opportunity is being denied.

A final problem is the way workers are treated by management. After some workers have spoken out about these conditions, a number of housekeepers have been taken alone into closed door meetings with managers where they were interrogated and intimidated into keeping their mouths shut. Furthermore, workers report being followed and even spied on by supervisers who watch while refusing to help with the work. I and several other students personally witnessed two of the supervisers following and spying on housekeepers who attended the Feb. 19 rally against budget cuts, and photographs were taken to prove it.

Attempts have been made, by the United Campus Workers as well as other concerned students and community members, to get administrators to address these grievances. A letter outlining these problems has been delivered to numerous related administrators several times. The vice mayor of Knoxville has personally tried to contact UT administration about it and received no formal response. So far, nothing has been done to fix the problems.

These housekeepers work hard and are dedicated to their jobs. Some of them have worked at the university for decades. The least we owe them in return for their service is a decent work environment where they can use their own bathrooms and say hello to the students they serve.

Michelle Villeret Undecided freshman

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Anna Parker On March 31, the White House held the Workplace Flexibility Forum, which addressed this administration’s perception that the current workplace in the United States does not accommodate the way people actually live. Yeah, it’s kind of an ironic premise: The workplace does, in fact, literally support the way people live. I would argue that unemployment places a much higher burden on an individual or family, but I’m not aiming to be a smartass this week.

The forum specifically addressed the idea that many working adults do not work for companies that offer workplace flexibility both in terms of location and schedule. This administration views this perceived lack of flexibility as an impediment in allowing these workers to simultaneously better balance caring for families and succeeding professionally.

As I began watching this forum, I was prepared to be beaten over the head with cries of private-sector inadequacy. I was ready for story after story after story (I’m sorry, I mean irrefutable evidence) confirming that women are now forced to cut out their uteri publicly in front of their cubicles or be permanently banished from the workplace never to escape their kitchens/welfare check/abusive boyfriends/husbands/some random guy for all eternity. Surprisingly that didn’t happen — well, not at first anyway.

The forum included a panel of different individuals from the private sector and public sector who discussed current trends and issues in workplace flexibility. Like I already said, surprisingly, private sector representatives Campbell Soup CEO and Elizabeth Jolly, a female employee with the company, were allowed to explain positive innovations already being utilized by the private sector. Jolly needed a short-term special arrangement following her pregnancy to continue working effectively. Jolly’s request was granted WITHOUT any government intervention because the company

believed she was an asset. To put it another way, the company benefitted from Jolly remaining happy and productive.

Other topics included technology’s role in creating an entire segment of the workforce that now works from home and as a result, no longer faces the same issues pertaining to juggling both the work and domestic spheres. Even Michelle Obama, in the middle of a speech delineating the sins of the workplace against families and especially women, actually admitted that she had brought a newborn Sasha Obama to a job interview and still landed the job — but remember ladies, she’s the exception.

I know that imagining the private sector, the workplace, capitalism or society’s evil engine of inequality, can possibly adapt and evolve to meet the needs of human beings is difficult for many of you, but the truth is that our workplaces are changing because women are in them and they are individually demanding more flexibility from their employers and their employers are responding because these women are valuable.

A Jan. 13 Wall Street Journal article, “Handling the Office Baby Boom,” reports on several companies that have created radically alternative maternity leaves. One company mentioned even lets women bring their newborn babies into the workplace with them in exchange for a relatively small pay cut.

Unfortunately, the idea that individuals can force the private sector to adapt to individual needs was evidently lost on Barack Obama as he delivered the forum’s closing speech. Even as he admitted that businesses are choosing to change, we are reminded of his public funds commitment to working families in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Obama clearly remains suspicious that the private sector can do good without his benevolent hand. Deciding if he’s on the side of the worker or the workplace, however, remains a mystery. Public funding directed at child care and working families, after all, relieves the private sector from needing to make any changes at all. And really, isn’t this the message of this administration: Why let the free market solve it when the taxpayer’s dollar can?

— Anna Parker is a senior in English literature. She can be reached at aparke23@utk.edu.

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Since my biggest political wish of universal health care has recently been fulfilled, I’ve decided to take this week to write about something a bit more soft and non-controversial: What does it mean to be an American citizen or a patriot?

We seem to live in a world where factions within political culture are often overglamorized, and where personal differences are highlighted to make for an interesting story.

Often times if you watch television, you might think that there are simply two groups of Americans: weed-smoking, nerdy lefties who hate religion and the private sector and sexually frustrated, gun-toting religious people who worship Ronald Reagan. But from those who fit into these extremes and everything in between, one of the things that I think is true is that most of us are always happy to do whatever is needed to help our country, even if we don’t agree on what that might mean and even if we don’t really have enough time.

That said, for us patriots, there are two ways that we as young people can be better citizens both for our country and our greater global community, regardless of our politics. The first is to fill out the census. As young people, we often don’t have the time to volunteer in a soup kitchen, clean up litter in a park or do any of the other many things that might improve our community. This is understandable. But considering this, we have an even more significant responsibility, a once-in-a-decade obligation to answer 10 simple questions about ourselves that will make our community better for the next 10 years.

It is unfortunate that people, particularly young people, are often apathetic about this kind of thing or that some even feel that it’s an intrusion from the government. Funding for

infrastructure, centers for our senior citizens, schools, hospitals and emergency response teams and resources for natural disasters will be better allocated if we take less than five minutes from our day to fill out a form and send it back to our government. And for those of us on tight ramen noodle/Natty Light budgets, remember that the postage is free.

The other way, a bit more sophisticated, deals with our place on earth, further than our own hemisphere. I’m not talking about environmentalism (although Earth Day is coming up this month, so avoid littering), but rather, the importance of learning a foreign language. As someone struggling to learn two languages, one of the most important goals of my life, and as a person with a lot of close friends from different countries, I’m always very impressed at young people my own age who are fluent in two or sometimes three or four languages.

As Americans, we are quite fortunate to speak the language that has dominated the international, political, business and entertainment worlds for the past two centuries, but we must realize that this will not always be the case. The influence of other countries on the global stage is increasing like never before, and we cannot continue to relegate the ability to speak multiple languages to people on other continents.

Whether it’s Portuguese, French, Spanish, Mandarin, Hindi, Arabic or any other language, being able to communicate with so many others on our ever-shrinking planet will be vital moving forward. The ability to do so betters perceptions of Americans in different corners of the globe, while at the same time further prepares us for careers which will undoubtedly involve a more diverse environment in which these skills will become essential. This will be true for many of us, regardless of our majors or career paths.

This has been a public service announcement for the future of our country and our world. Now let’s go out and be better citizens.

— Sam Smith IV is a junior in journalism and electronic media. He can be reached at ssmit162@utk.edu.

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JERVIS continued from Page 1 “I grew up in Franklin (Tenn.) all my life, and that’s all I knew,” he said.

Jervis got involved in Freshman Council during his freshman year and immediately fell in love with SGA. “When you join a fraternity or something, those guys, all guys, are kinda like, ‘We’re all here for the same reason,’” he said. “But when you join SGA, you have all different types of personalities. You have all different kinds of backgrounds. You have all different kinds of stories.”

But it still was a surprise when he was asked to run for president. He had to think about it, but a talk with his mom helped him commit to the nomination.

“It took about two weeks for me to actually decide,” he said.

“I was talking to my mom, and I was like, this is not my personality. My mom was like, ‘Give it a shot. You’ve never taken a chance in your life. Make this your big chance.’”

Jervis said he’s immediately benefited.

“I took that chance, and I think I’ve grown exponentially as a person,” he said.

Student Services Director-elect Avery Howard said he could not imagine anyone else leading the Fuse campaign.

“I’ve known Tommy for awhile, but I really got to know him over the course of this campaign,” Howard said. “... It’s long, long weeks and long, long hours (during the campaign), but he is the right person for the job. And he has worked so hard, and he will work so hard for the students.”

Jervis encouraged anyone who is even remotely interested in student government to get involved with SGA. “They have nothing to lose,” he said. “I think that’s what my biggest fear was. I was like, if I lose, I’ll have to go to Spain or something.”

New ideas from new candidates With the Fuse Party candidates assuming their new positions in SGA comes also plenty of new ideas the party hopes to implement over the next year.

One new project on tap is Smokey’s List, a Craigslist-esque network that would help students find services they are looking for like books to buyback or apartments to sublease.

Students wishing to sell books or advertise subleases could connect with these students, with Smokey’s List serving as the third party for the negotiations.

Jervis said the service hypothetically would be completely secure, with people logging in with their UT ID and password.

The service could possibly include staff and faculty as well, and

it would involve no money exchange.

Jervis said the service, which will have its webmaster appointed this week, fits in with a changing technological world.

The Fuse Party is targeting Christmas for Smokey’s List to be available for students, Jervis said.

Another new idea that Fuse hopes to institute is VolValues, which would make UT IDs effective at participating retailers on the Strip and possibly Market Square.

Jervis said the service would help students who were out-ofstate that had banks not in the area or students who do not have bank accounts. They could add money to their card and use it at the participating retailers.

Howard said it would make monetary situations more convenient for students.

“It would make your student life much more easier and better in general because your parents won’t have to worry about putting money in your checking account and your All-Star account,” Howard said.

Jervis said the only possible hang-up with the new service would be implementing the new equipment to swipe UT IDs at the retailers.

Fuse’s new online syllabus database would inform students about classes more than the simple paragraph provided in course descriptions.

In addition, specific class section syllabi would show what each class plans to go over and which books the classes use.

Jervis said the database would result in students dropping classes less. Now, he said, students read minimalistic course descriptions and then drop when classes don’t match up with their expectations.

“Diversity Week, we had a couple of weeks ago,” he said.

“And we went, and literally there was no SGA representation there. And it stinks that your own organization can put on such great events, and nobody shows up.”

He said if SGA officials do not perform their duties, regardless of friendships or any extenuating circumstances, they will be dismissed, and SGA will seek new representation. Through semester evaluations, SGA will assess senator performance.

SGA becoming transparent, accountable

Just a passing glance at the Fuse Party’s platform shows its attention to recycling as a major issue.

Jervis’ commitment to recycle was instilled in him at an early age.

“Growing up, my mom was a huge recycler,” he said. “I grew up, if you had a soda drink or if you had something in plastic, you’d always wash it out and put it in this little bag that we had, and they came by every week. So I grew up being very green.”

And Jervis said that recycling on campus now is too difficult, due to lack of receptacles. The campaign hopes to add five new recycling dispensers.

“We’re kind of hitting up the heart of campus,” he said.

“We’re going to see if people notice it in that area and how effective those are.”

Overall Jervis was optimistic about the future.

“I feel like next year’s going to be a great year,” he said. “I know next year’s going to be a great year. I’m going to make it a great year.”

One of the main platforms of the Fuse Party campaign was making more and more information about SGA available to students.

The SGA Web site, which had been limited due to lack of space previously, recently added more space to its capabilities.

A suggestion box was created to allow students to voice their comments and criticism anonymously. The box received 30 responses in its first three hours of functionality, Jervis said. “(The suggestion box) allows students to hold nothing back,” he said. “I think right now they’re afraid to tell SGA, ‘I think this sucks’ because they’re afraid their name’s going to be on it, and they don’t want their name plastered all over this stuff with this negative feedback.”

Jervis said he wanted to improve SGA transparency by making more information public like how many meetings senators attend, how they vote on bills and which events they attend.

Meal plan modifications The Fuse Party hates that you pay for so much for an unlimited meal plan without more swipes.

Jervis said the new administration will push for changes to meal plan, which would increase the capabilities of unlimited meal plan, allowing for more than one swipe per meal period — breakfast, lunch and dinner.

He said the plan would provide “better bang for your dollar” and “would entice more people to get unlimited.”

Jervis himself struggled with the restrictions.

“You have a noon o’clock class, and you wake up to have breakfast,” he said. “Why should that one breakfast meal that you had that morning get wasted? You lost that forever. Why should that be lost forever?”

While Jervis said their ideal would provide more swipes, it would still not be technically “unlimited,” with a cap placed at probably three swipes per meal period. Even with the increased functionality, Jervis hoped the price for unlimited meal plan could stay the same if the changes were instituted.

R-E-C-Y-C-L-E recycle, C-O-N-S-E-R-V-E conserve

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NATION&WORLD

Three back-to-back suicide bombs kill at least 31 BAGHDAD — Police say the death toll from three car bombs in Baghdad has reached 31.

Suicide attackers detonated the bombs within minutes of each other Sunday. One exploded near the Iranian embassy, and the two others went off in an area that houses several foreign embassies, including those from Egypt and Germany.

Two police officers said 31 people were killed and 185 were wounded in the attacks.

They spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to release information.

White supremacist blames controversial song for slaying VENTERSDORP, South Africa — A South African white supremacist leader was bludgeoned to death by two of his farm workers in an apparent wage dispute, police said, and his followers on Sunday blamed a fiery youth leader for spreading hate speech that led to his killing.

Eugene Terreblanche’s violent death on Saturday came amid growing racial tensions in the once white-led country and underscores an ongoing controversy over African National Congress Youth Leader Julius Malema’s performance last month of an apartheid-era song that advocates the killing of white farmers.

Terreblanche, 69, was leader of the white supremacist Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging movement, better known as the AWB, that wanted to create three all-white republics within South Africa in which blacks would be allowed only as guest workers.

Andre Nienaber, a member of the group and a relative of Terreblanche, said he believed his death was “as a result of Julius Malema’s hate speech and direct orders in the media to ‘shoot

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the Boers dead.’”

Boer means white farmers in Afrikaans, the language of descendants of early Dutch settlers, or Afrikaners.

Nienaber also called for calm.

Malema is often in the news for his fiery rhetoric. Last month, he led college students in belting out a song that includes the lyrics “shoot the Boer.” Malema did not mention Terreblanche or any other person in his performance.

Justice Stevens to decide on retirement soon WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens says he “will surely” retire while President Barack Obama is still in office, giving the president the opportunity to maintain the high court’s ideological balance.

Stevens said in newspaper interviews on the Web Saturday that he will decide soon on the timing of his retirement, whether it will be this year or next. Stevens, the leader of the court’s liberals, turns 90 this month and is the oldest justice.

His departure would give Obama his second nomination to the court, enabling him to ensure there would continue to be at least four liberal-leaning justices. The high court is often split 5 to 4 on major cases, with the vote of moderate Justice Anthony Kennedy often deciding which side prevails.

“I will surely do it while he’s still president,” Stevens told The Washington Post.

But Stevens, who was named to the court by Republican President Gerald R. Ford in 1975, says he still loves the job, and says he continues to write the first draft of his own opinions.

Afghan president meets top U.S. commander KABUL — Afghan President Hamid Karzai joined the commander of U.S. forces in a meeting with tribal leaders Sunday in the volatile south, amid tensions over Karzai’s recent scathing accusations of foreign interference in last year’s elections.

Karzai and Gen. Stanley McChrystal flew together to the southern city of Kandahar, deep in the heartland of the Taliban insurgency, to meet with scores of tribal elders as part of efforts to build political support ahead of an expected U.S. and NATO push into the area.

Most of the 30,000 new troops promised by President Barack Obama will be headed to Kandahar city and the surrounding province.

Speaking to the gathering, known as a shura, held under tight security at the governor’s compound, Karzai said he knew people in the area were fearful of the coming offensive.

He pledged to discuss tribal leaders’ concerns with them and said the military action would be “an operation to bring security.”

Also present at the meetings was the president’s younger brother, a key source of support in the south, despite having been publicly accused of being a major drug lord — part of the corruption and cronyism that undermines support for the government and drives Afghans to the Taliban. He denies any involvement in drugs.

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ENTERTAINMENT

‘Tara’ reboots with new season Robby O’Daniel Chief Copy Editor While watching the show’s season two premiere, fans of the quirky Showtime comedy-drama “United States of Tara” might have been wondering if they were watching a different program.

In the Diablo Cody-created series, Tara (Toni Collette), who suffers from dissociative identity disorder, spent all of season one in emotional shambles, alternating between weeping about her condition and investigating how she became this way.

When she wasn’t depressed, melancholy Tara, she became alternate personalities like the sexually promiscuous T, the ‘50s housewife Alice and the male country hick Buck.

Yet Tara spends most of the season two premiere being normal — laughing and smiling carefree with her family. She says she hasn’t transitioned (went from her normal self to one of her alternate personalities) in three months.

It’s strangely unsettling to see Tara so bubbly and giggling, uncharacteristically talking about her condition more often and in a joking manner. It makes the viewer wait for the other shoe to drop.

And it does drop. When a suicide happens on her street, she talks with neighbors about the grisly details. She ponders on them a bit too long, wondering about the dizzying

heights of depression that one must feel in order to commit suicide.

And just like that, Tara (as the male Buck personality) is sleeping with a female bartender. As odd as it was to see Tara so cheerful earlier, it’s heartbreaking when she realizes in the second episode of the season that she has started transitioning again. She goes into a closet, sits down and weeps. She shrieks, “I thought I was better.” “I wanted to be better so badly,” she adds. And at least as far as Tara is concerned, we’ve returned to the status quo.

But Tara’s son Marshall (Keir Gilchrist) is not acting the same as his season one self. After spending so much time in the closet last season, perpetually timid about his sexuality, he’s starting to become brash about it this year — sitting at the “gay table” with other gay students and handing out purple flowers to symbolize gay love.

Lionel, a blonde-haired radical in the school, leads the group of students at the “gay table.” He yells at administrators for equal treatment and wears his sexuality on his sleeve in conversations with Marshall. Lionel argues that Marshall should stand up and be proud of himself more often, while Marshall thinks Lionel is simply flaunting himself and taking the spotlight. “You ruin it,” Marshall says to Lionel.

“You make being gay something no one would ever

want to be.”

It’s intriguing to see easily the most passive, mildmannered character in the show — Marshall — being confronted by an aggressive character like Lionel. It forces Marshall to choose and in a strange way, speeds up his adolescent self-exploration, which he’s already pursuing in his free time anyway.

Ironically enough, just as he’s becoming more assertive about his sexuality, he’s beginning to question it, making out with school friend Courtney in his room. One hopes this does not mean Marshall is attempting to be heterosexual with Courtney so that he’d be perceived as “normal” at school. Because as a character, despite his confusions, Marshall has accepted himself and is way past that point. If the writers go in that direction, it would be short-sighted and cliché.

It’s kind of a pity that, while all this interesting drama is going on with Marshall, his feisty sister Kate (Brie Larson) has nothing better to do than latch onto a debt-collection job and wear cute, business-casual outfits in the first two episodes.

Hopefully she gets something more interesting for her character as the season progresses.

And as much as Rosemarie DeWitt (”Rachel Getting Married,” “Mad Men”) is delightful and hilarious in everything she does, her character in

“Tara” still seems onedimensional, simply living to get married off. After her beau proposes, she jabbers on in jubilation about the type of her wedding ring much more so than her impending marriage. This jabbering is funny but still, one would hope for a bit more depth coming from this series.

“United States of Tara” airs Mondays at 10:30 p.m. on Showtime.

To view the season two premiere, visit Showtime’s official Web site at http://www.sho.com.

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‘Dragon’ excels with stellar score, animation

Will Abrams Staff Writer For the longest time, Disney ruled the world of animated film.

That is until Pixar came out with the first film to feature computer animation, “Toy Story,” and the company never looked back.

The newest player at the computer animation table has been DreamWorks, but the company has only seen moderate success through its “Shrek” series. With their newest addition, “How to Train Your Dragon,” the playing field may soon become more even.

The story follows a young viking named Hiccup (Jay Baruchel) who lives in a land plagued with the appearance of dragons. The creatures continually attack, forcing his father, Stoick (Gerard Butler), to protect his village. The ruler cannot take pride in his

son because the boy has never killed a dragon and is basically the village idiot.

Hiccup is finally given the chance to kill one of the beasts when he finds it injured in the woods but instead decides to nurse it back to health. After a while, the two become friends, and Hiccup worries about what will happen once people realize his secret.

In family films, there are only about five main plots that are recycled in every film. In this effort, the audience sees a boy who cannot win the approval of his father. One of the latest animated films to employ such a plot was “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs,” another 3-D adventure. While the story may be a little generic, it is more important where the film takes such a simple idea.

Unfortunately there is a current craze in American filmmaking concerning the use of 3-D in every single movie. While this gimmick has grown stale over time, the film takes the idea to a whole

new level. It would be hard to find any animated film that has used all three dimensions in such a fantastic way.

The flying sequences really are breathtaking on the screen, but the film also features a musical score by composer John Powell (the “Ice Age” sequels) that makes each scene feel more magical than the last.

One of the most important things in a family film is to make the experience fun through storytelling and humor.

While the 3-D projection takes care of the first part, the cast does a good job of keeping up with the light-hearted comedy. After all, the film’s supporting cast features “Late Late Show” host Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera of “Ugly Betty,” and “Superbad” alumni Jonah Hill and Christopher Mintz-Plasse.

The film culminates in an ending that is rather surprising considering its target audience, but it is just another way for its creators to be bold with their filmmaking.

Although “Avatar” seems to be getting all of the visual effects praise these days, it would be arguable to say that “How to Train Your Dragon” paints a similar 3-D masterpiece.

This film just goes to show that family films don’t have to be just for kids.

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ENTERTAINMENT

Gorillaz return with ‘Plastic Beach’ Drew Lambert

Staff Writer Drifting in on waves of hip-hop sensibilities, resonant guitars and quirky electronic sounds, comes Gorillaz’s newest release, “Plastic Beach.”

Damon Albarn, lead vocalist of British rock group Blur, is the mastermind behind the group which is fronted by the fictional characters 2D, Noodle, Russel and Murdoc; blending together several music genres including alternative rock, hip-hop and electronica.

Albarn collaborated with his friend and well-known comic book artist Jamie Hewlett to help illustrate the members of the group back in 1998.

Being one of the few bands made up of virtual characters, the wide popularity of Gorillaz can start some interesting conversations in existentialism. Suffice to say that anyone doubting the vitality of these imaginary band members should take a glance at their past success on album sales charts.

Their self-titled 2001 debut album sold nearly two million copies in the U.S. alone. The band’s 2005 follow-up, “Demon Days,” which featured the Grammywinning song “Feel Good, Inc.” for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocal, sold in excess of two million copies in America.

Those still left in doubt need only read the colorful and meticulous Wikipedia entries describing the back-

stories for each of these bizarre characters to get an idea of the rabid devotion found in the Gorillaz fanbase.

Part soundtrack to a movie that never was, part environmentalist satire, “Plastic Beach” is laden with bright synth-pop tones and jammed chock full of upbeat summertime grooves — a perfect prelude to the onset of warmer weather.

This is a concept album of sorts, finding the Gorillaz crew washed up on the synthetic shores of an island made entirely of the hodgepodge of junk that’s been dumped in the ocean. Albarn and Hewlett spared no expense trying to build a detailed subplot behind their picture of the not-too-distant future, “The whole thing with Plastic Beach is that we are perilously close to overload, generally, in the world,” said Albarn, the voice behind the animated Gorillaz vocalist 2D, during the album’s “Making of” documentary.

“So, you know, I always like to get sort of, not politics, but a social realism parallel with love.”

“The Making of Plastic Beach” documentary comes as part of the new album’s “Experience Edition,” which also gives any Gorillaz fans willing to shell out the extra cash access to additional content on the official Web site.

Although this release takes a more deliberate tone than any of the group’s previous efforts, it doesn’t mean Albarn let the band wander into the common pitfalls of

high-mindedness that tends to follow creative works with such purpose. Instead, the creative vision takes a side seat to the quality of the music itself, serving to enhance the listening experience of the songs, instead of stifling it.

Much like the fictional shores of the plastic beach itself, the album is an eclectic blend of a wide variety of ingredients, incorporating the talents of various artists including Snoop Dogg, Bobby Womack, Mos Def, The Clash’s Mick Jones and Paul Simonon and many more.

“Everything is kind of elemental, and it’s kind of in praise, but it’s also quite dark,” Albarn said.

Dark is an apt way to describe songs like “Rhinestone Eyes” where a suitably melancholic Albarn sings of Nature’s corruption in “factories far away” to serve our love for cheaply processed goods.

However, some of the most powerful tracks on the album are those that are darker and those that are slow to build to their full, resounding strength. The building “Empire Ants,” featuring the intimate singing style of Yukimi Nagano, frontwoman of Swedish synthpop band Little Dragon, is an example.

Vocal virtuosity abounds on the record’s single “Stylo,” as venerated soul singer Bobby Womack brings fiery vocals to the booth, interspersed with lines delivered by rapper Mos Def.

That’s not to say that the lighter, more upbeat tracks don’t contain their fair share of strength.

The listener is helplessly spirited off to the far reaches of the rich musical landscape painted by The National Orchestra for Arabic Music featured on “White Flag,” a deceptively low-key orchestral intro that evolves into a breakneck rap tag-team courtesy of rappers Bashy and Kano.

Super Furry Animals

vocalist Gruff Rhys teams up with rap group De La Soul on the cheerfully sardonic track “Superfast Jellyfish,” which plays like a dance-inspired advertisement jingle for a new microwaveable frozen delicacy of the future.

Like all good satire, “Plastic Beach” pokes fun at the oft-sore subject of our planet’s environmental state of affairs but without taking itself too seriously. Listeners can take the album at face value and enjoy the catchy

rhythms and the mixture of collaborating artists. On the other hand, the music can also be enjoyed for the deeper discussion it opens up about the world’s pressing environmental concerns.

Either way, this new effort

by Gorillaz is a refreshing mix of collaborating artists from electronica, hip-hop and pop music that should definitely not be missed.

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SPORTS

Monday, April 5, 2010

Softball sweeps road series with Gamecocks Kevin Huebschman Staff Writer The UT softball team continued its dominating run through the SEC this weekend, invoking the mercy rule twice in a threegame sweep of the South Carolina Gamecocks in Columbia, S.C. Friday The No. 16 Lady Vols (29-7, 10-3 SEC) started the series slowly against the Gamecocks, going hitless in their first inning before taking control en route to a 9-1 (five-inning) victory.

After a slow first, UT took control in the second, as three consecutive singles brought in the game’s first two runs.

UT expanded its lead in the third, as catcher Tiffany Huff drove in the first of her two runs for the game, followed soon after by a two-run double from second baseman Lauren Gibson for a 5-0 lead.

South Carolina would counter with a run of its own in the bottom of the third, but the Lady Vols quieted any thought of a comeback with a three-run fourth that included Raven

Chavanne stealing home.

The Lady Vols expanded their lead to 9-1 in the fifth, with the Gamecocks unable to find an answer, bringing the NCAA’s 8-run mercy rule into play, UT’s second such game in a row and sixth win in a row.

“We kind of got our sense of urgency,” Huff said. “… I think it’s actually perfect. Nobody wants to peak at the beginning.”

Freshman pitcher Ivy Renfroe allowed one run on three hits in a complete game to improve to 16-2 on the season.

Saturday In the series’ second game, the Lady Vols faced a more defensive South Carolina team but were still able to come away with the 3-1 victory.

Sophomore pitcher Cat Hosfield was perfect through two innings, and third baseman Jessica Spigner took advantage in Andy Westbrook • The Daily Beacon the second, driving in the opening run for a 1-0 lead. UT’s Erin Webb swings at a pitch against Austin Peay earlier this season. The UT softball team domIn the top of the third, inated South Carolina over the weekend, sweeping the three-game series in Columbia.

Huff added an RBI single to expand the lead to 2-0. two innings as relief, shut year, you’re going to see UT lead to 6-0 after two.

The Gamecocks were score.

It was the closest the South Carolina out and them evolve into some Spigner was hit by a unable to cut into the Gamecocks would come, Gibson would drive in the pretty special young kids.” pitch in the third to force deficit until the fourth, though, as Hosfield and game’s final run in the top Tennessee picked up in UT’s seventh run, and where a UT error allowed a South Carolina run to Renfroe, who entered for of the seventh to seal the where it left off in the day’s Huff would close the rout Tennessee victory. second game, scoring early by driving in a run in the UT co-head coach Ralph and often to earn an 8-0 fifth to earn her sixth RBI Weekly was proud of the (five-inning) victory, its of the weekend, a performyoung pitchers and of the 18th straight over the ance that brought a feeling coaching staff for the Gamecocks. of relief to UT’s catcher. pitchers’ performances.

Huff opened the scoring “I feel like I haven’t met “I really appreciate in the first, with a two-run my potential this season,” (assistant coach) Marty single, and Spigner fol- Huff said. “… But I’m not McDaniel and (co-head lowed with an RBI single. satisfied by any means.” coach) Karen Weekly,” Right fielder Kat Renfroe allowed just Weekly said. “(Renfroe and Dotson and Gibson each three hits in another comHosfield) have been work- drove in a run in the sec- plete game to help UT ing full-time in the bullpen. ond, and Chavanne stole bring the mercy rule into … I think within the next home again, expanding the play again.

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C-N coach wins Neyland Trophy UT track wraps up Pepsi Relays Staff Reports Carson-Newman legendary coach Ken Sparks has been named recipient of the 2010 Gen. Robert R. Neyland Trophy, presented each year by the Knoxville Quarterback Club.

First awarded in 1967, the trophy is named in honor of Hall of Fame and legendary head coach Gen. Robert R. Neyland, who led the Vols from 1926-52. The presentation will be made at The East Tennessee Chapter of the National Football Foundation Hall of Fame banquet, set for April 17 at 10 a.m. at The Foundry in Knoxville. Sparks also will be honored on the field in pregame ceremonies before the annual Dish Network Orange and White Game.

Sparks, who is beginning his 31st season as the Eagles head coach, has built a national football powerhouse first at the NAIA level and now at the NCAA Division II level. The numbers speak for themselves when examining the success Sparks has brought to the Eagle football program — five national championships, four national runner-up finishes, 20 South Atlantic Conference championships and 21 NAIA or NCAA playoff appearances. A respected and well-known coach at any level, Sparks has accumulated the best won-lost record and highest winning percentage of any coach in C-N football history.

In 30 seasons at the wheel of the Eagle machine, the 1968 C-N graduate has guided his squads to a 287-70-2 record. Sparks is the all-time winningest coach in NCAA Division II and is third in total wins among active coaches in all divisions of the NCAA behind St. John's (Minn.) John Gagliardi and Penn State's Joe Paterno.

The run of success began in 1982, when Sparks guided the Eagles to a 10-2 record and an NAIA playoff berth during his third season on the job. Carson-Newman lost in the first round that year, but things in Jefferson City would never be the same again. The following year, Sparks led C-N to its second-straight SAC-8 title and back to the playoffs. The Eagles breezed through the first two rounds and upset heavily favored Mesa State in the NAIA Champion Bowl, 36-28, to capture the first national football title in school history.

After winning that first title in 1983,

Carson-Newman went on to win four more NAIA national crowns. The Eagles brought home championships by tying Central Arkansas (19-19) in 1984 and by beating Cameron (17-0) in 1986, Adams State (56-21) in 1988 and Emporia State (34-20) in 1989.

As would be expected for someone with his long list of accomplishments, Sparks has become one of the most-decorated coaches in college football. He was named NAIA Coach of the Year in 1984 and has been voted SAC Coach of the Year by his peers 11 times. He was named Fellowship of Christian Athletes National Coach of the Year, American Football Coach Magazine Division II Coach of the Year and Tennessee Sports Writers Association Coach of the Year in 1999. He also was named Tennessee Sports Writers Association College Coach of the Year again in 2002. A native of Knoxville, Sparks began his coaching career in his hometown by restarting the football team at Gibbs High School.

The former C-N wide receiver posted a winning record in his first full season there before moving on to Tennessee Tech to coach the quarterbacks and receivers. After earning his master's degree at TTU, Sparks made a oneyear stop as head coach at Morristown East High School before returning to C-N. His new job was to direct the track and field program and coordinate the offense for head coach Dal Shealy, now executive director of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. After Sparks' return, the Carson-Newman football team advanced to its first-ever Champion Bowl in 1972, where the Eagles lost to East Texas State.

Sparks also gained personal distinction in 1977 when he was named Southern Collegiate Track Coach of the Year. In the fall of 1977, Sparks returned to Knoxville and the high school ranks to become head coach at Farragut. In three seasons, Sparks guided the Admirals to a 29-5 record and twice was voted KIL and KFA Coach of the Year for his performances. Among the pupils he tutored was Bill Bates, who went on to a distinguished playing career at Tennessee and with the Dallas Cowboys. Then, in 1980, he got the call from Carson-Newman to return the football program to its success of the early 1970s.

Staff Reports The Tennessee track and field teams wrapped up action at the Pepsi Florida Relays on Saturday by winning one event and checking in with top-five finishes in five others at James G. Pressley Stadium at Percy Beard Track.

The Lady Vols, who have made a name for themselves by sweeping NCAA and SEC Indoor titles in the distance medley relay the past three seasons, came out on top in that event once again outdoors. Sophomores Brittany Sheffey and Ellen Wortham, and seniors Phoebe Wright and Jackie Areson left no doubt as to the outcome, winning by a little more than 24 seconds over runner-up Florida in a time of 11 minutes, 10.48 seconds. That mark ranks the quartet as the ninth-fastest in school history.

The UT men’s 4x800m relay unit just missed cracking the program’s top 12 in that event, placing third in 7:25.50. Carrying the stick for the Big Orange were sophomore Emerson Peacock, junior Peter Sigilai, freshman Breon Dixon and sophomore Joe Franklin.

Penn State (7:18.72) and Alabama State (7:21.46) finished ahead of the Vols.

The Vols’ 4x100m relay unit produced the nation’s sixth-fastest mark this season, checking in at 39.93 to place fourth. Carrying the stick were seniors Kyle Stevenson, Evander Wells and Samdi Fraser, and sophomore Desmond Brown.

Florida, anchored by Jeff Demps, finished a second ahead of UT to claim victory.

The UT men also got a pair of fourth-place individual outcomes and took fifth in the distance medley relay.

Seniors Matt Maloney (217-

9) and Brad Holtz (17-2 3/4) took fourth in the javelin throw and pole vault, respectively, while the DMR quartet of senior Mike Brodsky, sophomore Deaundra Dailey, redshirt freshman Spenser Tipton and junior Chris Rapp wound up fifth in 10:02.83.

Other noteworthy efforts for the Lady Vols included junior Holly Kane’s personalbest throw of 142-10 to place sixth in the javelin and the seventh-place effort of the 4x200m relay combination of sophomore Ashley Harris and freshmen Nyosha Bryant, Martinique Octave and Kia Jackson in 1:35.99.

The Vols and Lady Vols will return home and prepare to play host to the 44thannual Sea Ray Relays, which will take place Wednesday through Saturday at UT’s newly refurbished Tom Black Track at LaPorte Stadium.

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Vols outgun Presbyterian College, 25-6

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UT’s Bryan Morgado delivers a pitch earlier this season. The Diamond Vols offense exploded in a 25-6 victory over Presbyterian College last Wednesday.

Lauren Kittrell Staff Writer Tallying at least two runs in each inning, the UT baseball team beat Presbyterian College 25-6 on Wednesday evening.

Five separate players hit home runs and UT marked its eighth-highest single-game run total in school history.

“We swung the bats good tonight, and I think we’re in a good place offensively right now,” said head coach Todd Raleigh. “These are big games, and I don’t think there’s any question about it.

If we keep putting ourselves in positions to win, we will.

From the physical point of view, our bullpen has to pitch better … and we need to score a few more runs.”

As the team prepares to go against one of the nation’s best pitchers, junior Bryan Morgado said the team must work together.

“If we can continue sticking together and playing as a team and things will turn around for us,” Morgado said.

“I think with a couple weekends under their (the bullpen’s) belts, they’ll get a taste for what the SEC is like, and I think we’ll just go out

confident, knowing what they’re capable of.”

At the end of the game, the Vols enjoyed a team batting average rise of 11 points, going from .269 to .280.

Juniors Khayyan Norfork and Matt Duffy helped the offense with three hits each, while juniors P.J. Polk, Blake Forsythe, and Josh Liles, sophomore Matt Ramsey and freshman Cody Stubbs each contributed a pair of hits.

Polk discussed his thoughts on upcoming games.

“I’m just trying not to do too much,” Polk said.

“Hopefully we can take these two wins and take what we

did good from it and go to Ole Miss and get it done there.”

A slugfest of a game, Forsythe, Ramsey, Polk, Hamaker, and Norfork all hit home runs, whilst Polk and Duffy finished with four RBIs each and Norfork and Ramsey both brought in three runs.

Junior Cody Hawn recorded a career-high four walks, and freshman Andy Yates hit a single in his first collegiate atbat.

With 25 runs scored, this marked the most runs during Raleigh’s tenure in Knoxville, beating the previous record of 19 during a game against Binghamton previously in the season. This is the first time since 2005 that the team has scored 25 runs.

At 11-0 in the third inning, the Presbyterians were able

to get a few runs in during the top of the fourth. The victory gave some members of the UT team momentum before a road series with Ole Miss, which wrapped up on Sunday.

“My job is to go out, focusing and keep the ball down and the game close,” Morgado said. “It’s just a matter of getting the key hit when we need it and shutting the door and giving confidence to our hitters. When the game is close, our hitters tend to get more confident and more excited, and it gives us a better opportunity to win the game. If we do that, I’m sure these guys will come through.

We can hit the ball and score.

We have the talent, so it’s just a matter of executing in SEC ball.”