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Deadly storms wreak havoc across South Thunderstorms, tornadoes leave seven dead, hundreds of thousands without power Associated Press JACKSON, Ga. — Fast-moving spring storms packing high winds, hail and lightning blew through the South, uprooting trees, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands and killing at least seven people.

The storms were part of a system that cut a wide swath from the Mississippi River across the Southeast to Georgia and the Carolinas on Monday and early Tuesday. Skies were clearing in many areas that were hit, but tornado watches remained in effect in eastern North and South Carolina as the storms appeared to head out to sea.

A father and his young son were killed when a tree fell onto a home in Butts County in central Georgia, Georgia Emergency Management Agency spokeswoman Lisa Janak said. The sheriff ’s office there said the 28year-old man, Alix Bonhomme Jr., and the 4-year-old boy, Alix III, were killed early Tuesday when a tree limb crashed onto a bed where they were sleeping.

The child’s mother, Marcie Moorer, and the couple’s younger son, Isaac, 3, were able to escape.

Moorer’s stepfather, Bennie Battle, said he was down the street from the couple’s home as the storm tore through.

“It was just a lot of wind and lightning,” he said. “It was like being in the middle of a laser show.”

He heard a knock on the door at the height of the storm. It was a neighbor coming to tell him that a tree had crashed onto his stepdaughter’s home.

Bonhomme “was holding his son in his arms when it happened,” Battle said. “He was trying to protect his son.”

Bonhomme worked two jobs to support the family, Battle said. The son “was as sweet as he could be. He was just so lovable,” said Battle.

Jackson Mayor Charlie Brown said the storm’s devastation was the worst the community had seen in 30 or 40 years.

“I would say weeks, a minimum of weeks for us to be able to clean up our community,” Brown said.

Farther south, a 45-year-old man was found dead under debris after a mobile home in Dodge County was ripped from its foundation, according to a news release from the Dodge County Sheriff ’s Office. Janak said there had been a possible tornado in that county.

Tuesday, knocking down trees and causing power outages. Power outages were also reported Tuesday in states farther north, including Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and West Virginia.

In western Kentucky, seven people working at a plant suffered minor injuries Monday when a possible tornado hit.

Christian County Emergency Management Director Randy Graham said about three dozen people who usually work in the area of the Toyoda Gosei Automotive Sealing Kentucky that was struck by the storm were at the other end of the building for their lunch break when it hit.

“We’re fortunate not to have any serious injuries or death,” he said. The county is seeking a disaster declaration based on the damage at the plant. He said about 120 to 130 people were there when a front wall partially collapsed and a side wall and roof torn out.

Strong winds ripped away part of the roof of an elementary school gymnasium in Ashland City, Tenn., but officials said no children were injured.

Most of the storm damage in eastern Tennessee was caused by high winds, according to the National Weather Service.

Winds gusting to about 50 mph blew down trees and power lines across north Alabama before heading to Georgia on Monday. The National Weather Service recorded wind gusts up to 49 mph at the Huntsville, Ala., airport.

In DeKalb County east of Atlanta, meteorologists said 1-inch hail and storms packed high winds of 30 to 50 mph in some places Monday. Hundreds of lightning strikes were reported.

The storms came on the heels of the 37th anniversary of the worst recorded outbreak of tornadoes in U.S. history, in which 148 twisters hit 13 states across the South and Midwest on April 3-4 in 1974.

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of weeks for us to be able to clean up our community.

– Jackson Mayor Charlie Brown, on the storm’s devastation

In northwest Atlanta, police said a man was killed when a tree fell on his car. In south Georgia’s Colquitt County, officials said a county worker was driving his pickup truck to work early Tuesday when he struck a tree that had fallen on the road, killing him.

About 20 possible tornadoes were reported around the region, according to the National Weather Service.

In Memphis, fire officials said an 87-year-old man found dead in his home Monday was electrocuted by a downed power line.

In southern Mississippi, a 21-year-old man was killed when his car struck a tree that had fallen across a road, Copiah County coroner Ellis Stuart said.

The storms were moving across the Carolinas early

Trial set for Italian prime minister Associated Press MILAN — Aspiring Italian starlets and Oscar-winning actor George Clooney are being called to make appearances in Premier Silvio Berlusconi’s trial on charges he paid for sex with an underage prostitute, then tried to use his influence to cover it up.

Unlike Berlusconi’s other trials, the one that opens Wednesday puts the premier’s personal life under scrutiny, and a conviction could end his political career. TV crews from around the world will be on hand for the opening session — even though Berlusconi himself is not attending.

“This time it is not about offshore, secret accounts and tax havens but about sex, money and power,” the Turin-daily La Stampa wrote this week.

Berlusconi is skipping Wednesday’s session, citing earlier commitments to attend ceremonies marking the two-year anniversary of an earthquake in central Italy that killed more than 300 people.

Even without his presence, media interest is feverish, and the Milan court overseeing the trial is holding the opening session — reserved mainly for formalities like setting future trial dates — in an auditorium usually used for ceremonial occasions in order to accommodate media.

Outside, Berlusconi supporters have pledged to maintain a vigil on a traffic island opposite the courthouse where dozens have gathered for recent court hearings in three other pending Berlusconi cases, all involving corruption and fraud allegations. Berlusconi’s critics held a protest in Rome Tuesday, planning an all-night vigil in the Italian capital against what they say is the premier’s attack on democracy.

Prosecutors allege Berlusconi paid a 17year-old Moroccan girl known by her nickname Ruby for sex at his villa, then personally called police to have her released from custody when she was picked up for theft out of concern that she would reveal their relationship.

Both the 74-year-old premier and Ruby, whose real name is Karima el-Mahroug, have each separately denied having sex.

The underage prostitution charge carries a possible prison term of six months to three years. The abuse of power charge is even more dangerous: it carries a sentence of four Tia Patron • The Daily Beacon to 12 years, and if Berlusconi is sentenced to Daniel Nelson, sophomore in nursing, participates in a bowling class in the UC more than five, he would be barred from ever Down Under on March 8. The Down Under hosts Friday Frenzy, an event where stu- again holding public office.

Legal experts and oddsmakers alike agree dents can get unlimited bowling and shoe rental for $4 starting at 5:30 p.m. or $5 that the case will be hard to prove. starting at 9:00 p.m. every Friday.

Bologna law professor Carlo Guarnieri says that convictions will require stronger evidence than what he has seen so far reported in newspapers, consisting mostly of wiretaps that allegedly place Ruby at Berlusconi’s villa outside of Milan, as well as testimony from a bevy of would-be starlets who participated in the raucous parties.

In the abuse of power case, prosecutors must prove that there was an implication of a threat of retaliation, he said.

“This is a case which is difficult to sustain in court. It is very likely that all these people involved will tell very different versions,” Guarnieri said.

Ironclad evidence would be something like a videotape, Guarnieri said. So far, no reports of such has surfaced.

Prosecutors allege that Berlusconi paid for sex 13 times with Ruby, who has since turned 18, during parties that started with dinner, then generated into seminude dancing after which Berlusconi would choose a sex partner.

A new poll out Tuesday, shows Berlusconi’s popularity in steady decline. The premier enjoys just 33 percent approval, compared with 50 percent last May and down from nearly 36 percent in January and 41 percent in September, after the scandal broke.

The poll by the ISPO agency for Corriere della Sera of 1,868 Italians from March 30-31 has a margin of error of 3.5 percent. Pollster Renato Mannheimer wrote that the erosion of public opinion can’t be pinned on any one event, but on various factors.

Berlusconi’s leadership is under challenge from his unruly coalition partners, the Northern League. Italy has also failed to garner concrete support from its European partners to combat the influx of migrants fleeing political instability in northern Africa.

In the face of sliding popularity, Berlusconi has said he intends to attend this and the other court cases against him in Milan. The premier showed up last week at a closed-door preliminary hearing in a tax fraud case, his first court appearance in more than eight years. The only images broadcast from the event showed a smiling premier greeting a hundred supporters who have set up camp outside of the courthouse.

Ruby herself is being called as a witness for both the defense and the prosecution.

Clooney was named on the list of defense witnesses because Ruby once said she had seen the Hollywood star at one of Berlusconi’s parties; the actor says he met with Berlusconi only once to get aid for Darfur. It will be up to the panel of three judges, all women, to decide if the testimony would be pertinent.

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UT Choral group VOLume performs on March 31 for the Men and Women’s Chorale Spring Concert. VOLume was formed in 2009 and is an all-male a capella group.

1896: First modern Olympic Games On April 6, 1896, the Olympic Games, a long-lost tradition of ancient Greece, are reborn in Athens 1,500 years after being banned

by Roman Emperor Theodosius I. At the opening of the Athens Games, King Georgios I of Greece and a crowd of 60,000 spectators welcomed athletes from 13 nations to the international competition.

The first recorded Olympic Games were held at Olympia in the Greek city-state of Elis in 776 B.C., but it is generally accepted that the Olympics were at least 500 years old at that time. The ancient Olympics, held every four years, occurred during a religious festival honoring the Greek god Zeus. In the eighth century B.C., contestants came from a dozen or more Greek cities, and by the fifth century B.C. from as many as 100 cities from throughout the Greek empire.

Initially, Olympic competition was limited to foot races, but later a number of other events were added, including wrestling, boxing, horse and chariot racing, and military competitions. The pentathlon, introduced in 708 B.C., consisted of a foot race, the long jump, discus and javelin throws, and wrestling. With the rise of Rome, the Olympics declined, and in 393 A.D. the Roman Emperor Theodosius I, a Christian, abolished the Games as part of his efforts to suppress paganism in the Roman Empire.

With the Renaissance, Europe began a long fascination with ancient Greek culture, and in the 18th and 19th centuries some nations staged informal sporting and folkloric festivals bearing the name “Olympic Games.” However, it was not until 1892 that a young French baron, Pierre de Coubertin, seriously proposed reviving the Olympics as a major international competition that would occur every four years. At a conference on international sport in Paris in June 1894, Coubertin again raised the idea, and the 79 delegates from

nine countries unanimously approved his proposal. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) was formed, and the first Games were planned for 1896 in Athens, the capital of Greece.

In Athens, 280 participants from 13 nations competed in 43 events, covering track-and-field, swimming, gymnastics, cycling, wrestling, weightlifting, fencing, shooting, and tennis. All the competitors were men, and a few of the entrants were tourists who stumbled upon the Games and were allowed to sign up. The track-and-field events were held at the Panathenaic Stadium, which was originally built in 330 B.C. and restored for the 1896 Games. Americans won nine out of 12 of these events. The 1896 Olympics also featured the first marathon competition, which followed the 25-mile route run by a Greek soldier who brought news of a victory over the Persians from Marathon to Athens in 490 B.C. In 1924, the marathon was standardized at 26 miles and 385 yards. Appropriately, a Greek, Spyridon Louis, won the first marathon at the 1896 Athens Games.

Pierre de Coubertin became IOC president in 1896 and guided the Olympic Games through its difficult early years, when it lacked much popular support and was overshadowed by world’s fairs. In 1924, the first truly successful Olympic Games were held in Paris, involving more than 3,000 athletes, including more than 100 women, from 44 nations. The first Winter Olympic Games were also held that year. In 1925, Coubertin retired. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the foremost international sports competition. At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, more than 10,000 athletes from 200 countries competed, including nearly 4,000 women. In 2004, the Summer Olympics returned to Athens, with more than 11,000 athletes competing from 202 countries. In a proud moment for Greeks and an exciting one for spectators, the shotput competition was held at the site of the classical Games in Olympia.

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

Crime Log

April 4

A UT student reported that some items had been stolen from his vehicle while it was parked in the non-commuter lot behind Reese Hall between 10 p.m. on April 2 and 8 p.m. on April 4. The estimated value of the stolen items was $1,705.

At approximately 7:30 p.m., a UTPD officer responded to an active fight call on 11th Street near Cumberland Avenue, across from UTPD. The unaffiliated, black male subjects were involved in the fight. The officer arrested two of the subjects for public intoxication, one for disorderly conduct and public intoxication and one for cocaine possession.

A student reported that his white 2005 Jeep had been burglarized while it was parked on the fourth level of the G11 parking garage between 4 a.m. on April 2 and 11:45 a.m. on April 4. The estimated value of the stolen items was $250.

—Crime Log is compiled by Robbie Hargett.

Compiled from a media log provided to the Daily Beacon by the Universty of Tennessee Police Department. All persons arrested are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. People with names similar or identical to those listed may not be those identified in reports.

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UT students named Barry Goldwater Scholars Three UT undergraduates have been named 2011 Barry M. Goldwater Scholars.

Juniors Britta Johnson and Mark Walker will receive scholarships from the Goldwater Foundation for their final year at UT, and sophomore Madelyn Crawford will receive a scholarship for her remaining two years. The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships are awarded yearly to sophomores and juniors pursuing careers in research in mathematics, the natural sciences or engineering.

This year, the Goldwater Foundation has awarded 275 scholarships from a pool of almost 1,100 nominees. In order to compete for a Goldwater Scholarship, students must be nominated by their college or university. As a four-year institution, UT is allowed to nominate up to four students each year.

Madelyn Crawford, a biochemistry and cellular and molecular biology major from Farragut, has been doing research in Jeff Becker’s microbiology lab since spring of her freshman year. After completing her bachelor's degree in biochemistry and cellular and molecular biology, she plans to pursue a doctorate in microbiology and molecular genetics. A member of the Chancellor’s Honors and Haslam Scholars programs, Crawford competed in this year’s EURECA competition and serves on the editorial board of UT’s Pursuit: The Journal of Undergraduate Research.

Britta Johnson, of Knoxville, is a college scholars major which has allowed her to take courses in a variety of disciplines. As an undergraduate, she has been involved in both chemistry and mathematics research. She has worked in R.J. Hinde’s chemistry lab since the summer of 2009 and last summer conducted undergraduate research in mathematics under Conrad Plaut. Johnson is a member of the Chancellor’s Honors and Honors Mathematics programs and recently had an article accepted for publication by the Journal of Physical Chemistry.

Mark Walker, a nuclear engineering major from Oak Ridge, is a member of the Chancellor’s Honors and Haslam Scholars programs. He has been actively researching at the Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) since the summer after his freshman year. He also had an internship with the Department of Energy in Washington, D.C., last summer.

Walker’s most current research at ORNL involves nuclear safeguards, and he hopes to continue his research and pursue policy development in nuclear security after earning his Ph.D. in nuclear engineering.

The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship provides up to $7,500 per year for tuition, books, and room and board.

Since it began the scholarship program in 1989, the foundation has awarded more than 6,600 scholarships worth approximately $50 million. In 2012, the Goldwater Foundation plans to award about 300 scholarships.

TextOre license puts ORNL’s Piranha in tank TextOre’s licensing of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Piranha is enabling the Virginia-based company to introduce a powerful search and mining tool capable of processing large amounts of text data from the Internet.

Piranha, an award-winning knowledge discovery engine that won an R&D 100 Award in 2007, is an intelligent agentbased technology that will allow TextOre to analyze text data with unprecedented speed and accuracy. The software sorts huge numbers of text documents into groups that are easily processed.

CEO Robert Stewart envisions the acquisition of Piranha helping TextOre to add jobs in software development, sales and marketing for the new suite of products to be developed.

With these new products, the company expects to compete on a global scale.

The technology, developed by a team led by Tom Potok of ORNL’s Computational Sciences & Engineering Division, has already been vetted in the scientific community and been used in real-world applications by governmental agencies.

Because of the scalability of the agent architecture and

NEWS better algorithms, Piranha runs 100 times faster than other search engines and can work with continuously changing data sets. Piranha has been used by the U.S. military and Department of Homeland Security to analyze large sets of streaming data.

TextOre and ORNL are also working to commercialize key ORNL technologies in the forensic computing areas, according to Stewart.

TextOre plans to expand its offices in Fairfax, Va., to support the anticipated growth from the licensing of Piranha.

Piranha also received an award from the Southeast Federal Laboratory Consortium. The R&D 100 Awards are presented annually by R&D Magazine in recognition of the year's top 100 technological innovations. Piranha was developed by Potok, Jim Treadwell, Mark Elmore, Brian Klump, Robert Patton and Joel Reed.

In addition to its Virginia headquarters, TextOre (http://www.textore.net/) has offices in Bergen, Norway, and Brisbane, Australia.

ORNL is managed by UT-Battelle for the Department of Energy’s Office of Science.

Ready for the World Café celebrates healthy eating around the globe The Ready for the World Café celebrates Wellness Week at UT, the week of April 4-7, with healthy fare from around the world.

The good-for-you menu includes all-American summer salad, Cuban pork, Asian grilled tilapia with a plum glaze, Moroccan carrot-and-chickpea tagine, Italian roasted asparagus with balsamic reduction, Israeli couscous pilaf, and grilled Jamaican jerk chicken with mango chutney.

The café is open from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. each Monday through Thursday in the Hermitage Room on the third floor of the University Center.

Diners pay $11 for the all-you-can-eat buffet or $9 for a plate of food to carry out. Aramark’s faculty/staff discount card can be used at the café.

ORNL, industry collaboration puts spotlight on solar energy Four manufacturers of solar energy components are working with the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to address some of their biggest challenges.

Through individual cooperative research and development agreements, or CRADAs, the companies hope to advance solar cell materials and processing technologies.

The $880,000 effort is funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act through DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

Solar cell manufacturing encompasses a broad range of disciplines, including crystal growth, continuous thin-film deposition, thermal annealing, barrier coating, joining and scribing techniques and on-line quality control measures.

For these CRADAs, Mossey Creek Solar is producing lowcost, high-quality silicon wafers with significant reductions in waste material and energy consumption. Global Solar Energy is developing scalable non-vacuum deposition techniques for thin-film copper indium gallium diselenide, a direct-bandgap material for solar cells. Ferro Corp. is developing inks and pastes to be used for highly conductive layers in thin-film solar cell applications. Ampulse is developing an efficient roll-to-roll manufacturing process to deposit thinfilm silicon. For the projects, the industry cost share exceeds 50 percent of the total cost.

Through DOE’s Industrial Technologies Program, ORNL issued a competitive solicitation to industry for proposals addressing key problems related to solar cell manufacturing. These projects were selected following a technical and programmatic review process. ORNL expects to complete the projects within six months.

Mossey Creek Solar is located in Jefferson City; Global Solar Energy, Tucson, Ariz.; Ferro Corp., Independence, Ohio; and Ampulse, Golden, Colo.

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Attempted Apple robbery ends fatally Associated Press SAN DIEGO— A private security guard fatally shot a gunman at an Apple store early Monday in what police said was the latest attempt to steal prized electronic gear from the high-end retailer.

Two other suspects were arrested after the driver of the getaway car died from his head wound and the car crashed. The driver’s name was not immediately released.

The two passengers ran into a neighborhood, where police locked down schools for about an hour before the man and woman were found in the courtyard of a condominium complex in Chula Vista.

They were identified as Johnny Chenda, 25, and Melissa Ortiz, 21, and both had prior criminal records, police said.

Chenda is a suspected gang member and convicted felon. He and Ortiz were arrested on suspicion of robbery and other crimes and remained jailed Tuesday, according to the San Diego County sheriff’s jail website.

Thieves using everything from sledgehammers to rocks have smashed the glass doors and windows of Apple stores across the country, stealing tens of thousands of dollars in high-tech gear in seconds.

Many of the stores have been hit more than once in only a few months. Some have turned to armed guards such as the one in Chula Vista, after unarmed security failed to intervene when thieves flashed guns.

Chula Vista police investigator Capt. Gary Ficacci said

he believes Monday’s breakin was the first time someone was killed during an Apple store burglary.

Amy Barney, an Apple spokeswoman, declined to comment, saying local police would be the best source of information.

In Monday’s theft, an armed guard was inside the store with the manager when two men forced open the door just before 7 a.m., Ficacci said.

They apparently planned to smash store cases but they spotted the guard and “one of the guys began shooting almost immediately,” Ficacci said.

The guard — a former San Diego County sheriff’s deputy — returned fire and the gunfight continued out in front of the store, Ficacci said.

The store manager took cover during the shooting.

The guard was not wounded.

The suspected thieves fled in the car but quickly crashed into a nearby light pole, where the driver died from a gunshot wound to the head. The two others ran away.

A gun was recovered at the store and Chenda was carrying another gun when he was arrested, Ficacci said.

Footage from surveillance cameras that captured several Apple burglaries have been posted on YouTube.com and show thieves sprinting into stores and scooping up MacBook Pros that cost as much as $2,500 each.

In Chula Vista, authorities said they were trying to determine if the break-in was connected to any other Apple store burglaries.

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Letter Editor to the

Reader ignores firearm safety statistics I would like to respond to Mr. Robert Spirko’s March 31 “Letter to the Editor.”

These are objections to the practice of concealed carry that, unlike the rather poor statistical evidence cited in the original article, could carry some weight. However, there are important distinctions to consider.

One is that Spirko mentions seeing people carrying guns, as if a concealed carry statute would make this a commonplace sight. But the name gives it away — the concealed carry statutes do not allow for visible handguns to be carried on one’s person. They must remain concealed. In fact, drawing or revealing your handgun when you are not reasonably in fear of bodily harm can constitute felony assault and is a very serious crime.

I also take exception to the assertion that guns cannot be called “protection.” Yes, guns are weapons. So are pepper sprays, stun guns and anti-ballistic missile systems. Yet all of these weapons are utilized in a defensive manner, so it is entirely appropriate to call them “protection.”

It is also important to note the deterrent effect of merely possessing such weapons. A snake wrangler will be quick to tell you that most snakes never bite unless they are cornered.

In the same way, most people do not fire weapons unless they have no other choice. When weapons are drawn, the standard reaction of most people (even criminals, barring deranged madmen) is just to flee. In such a situation, the concealed carrier is not likely to chase. The idea that we could have police bewildered at the sight of a gunman being chased by citizencops in a Benny Hill-style comedy of errors is pure fantasy.

While it may seem problematic that guns can only complicate the situation if there were a shooting, one must realize that getting into a shooting situation is problematic no matter what. I concede that a civilian having to draw his or her weapon in self-defense is not a perfect solution; in fact, I don’t think anyone with common sense thinks that it is a great idea. But the alternatives are infinitely worse. When left to choose between an unarmed public that is utterly defenseless to one insane gunman and an armed public that can at least try to defend itself, it doesn’t take much consideration to decide which is better.

As for the issue of police confusion: Unlike what you see in the movies, most gunfights do not last very long. The average gunfight takes place at short range and is over in a matter of seconds, because at short range you do not have to be a trained marksman to hit something.

Given that the response time of a police force, even a well-trained one, is a matter of minutes, our hypothetical confrontation would be over by the time they arrive, for better or worse.

But we are simply arguing over hypotheticals and anecdotes. What should really be guiding this debate is not thought experiments but evidence. According to a study published in a criminology journal, there are nearly 1 million incidents every year where U.S. civilians use guns to defend themselves from crime. Yet the number of intentional firearm deaths every year is on the order of thousands, even if we don’t subtract suicides, which make up more than half of those deaths, or homicides. From this, it is clear that the vast majority of defensive gun uses do not result in an actual death. In 2007, there were 613 fatal firearm accidents in the U.S. and 5,045 hospitalizations because of non-fatal firearm injuries. In a context where there are nearly 1 million defensive gun uses every year, these numbers are nearly negligible, even if we make a massive overestimate by assuming that every single one resulted from a defensive gun use. And to put that in further context, there were many times more hospitalizations resulting from being struck by an errant bicyclist that year than there from gun accidents. While selected anecdotes may show that guns only worsen the problem, the evidence and real-world considerations on how firearm confrontations work shows quite the opposite.

Fred Byrd junior in mathematics fbyrd@utk.edu

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Media often paint others in unfair light T he Pen Is Mightier by

Sean Mahoney As a student of history, one of my favorite reasons for why we study the subject is so we learn from our past mistakes in order not to repeat them. In today’s society, this is an important lesson for us to keep in mind while our troops are in combat overseas. Popular media surrounds the occupation forces in the Middle East and much of what is reported creates a negative image of the Muslim population.

While media portrayal of the Muslim population has improved slightly since the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, many Americans still rely too much on it to be the sole basis for how they themselves perceive followers of Islam. Too many still consider American Muslim citizens to be a threat to true American society. This is where the concept of learning from history comes in. Americans, at several points in history, have been led to draw specific conclusions by popular media about a population that most often has little or no truth behind it.

One of my favorite cases of Americans being pinned against one another because of the efforts of propaganda is the treatment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. When war broke out with the Japanese and combat shifted to the Pacific theater, many Americans were fearful of the Japanese-American reception. How would they behave if Japan invaded? Were they truly loyal to the U.S., or were they secretly only loyal to the emperor of Japan? All these questions concerning their true loyalties and/or intentions eventually led to the internment of many Japanese-Americans.

That’s right, Germany was not the only nation that created internment camps during the ’30s and ’40s. The U.S. government seized the property of thousands of American citizens and shipped them farther inland because they were of Japanese descent. JapaneseAmericans who lived in California in areas that were deemed too close to military bases or military industries were taken from their homes and moved to live in internment camps in the desert. Propaganda films portrayed this atrocity as patriotic and argued that these individuals were more than happy to make such

sacrifices for the war effort. How many of you would be willing to sell everything you owned and move to the desert during wartime just because the government was suspicious of your loyalties?

Not too long after the close of World War II, Americans would quickly be turned against each other once again thanks to the brilliant efforts of the propaganda machine. The Cold War period between the U.S. and the Soviet Union brought about a period of distrust among neighbors for decades. Presentations and programs illustrated Communism and the Soviet Union as the evil opponent of democracy and a free world. Americans were instructed that communists were evil, dirty, mischievous people that were not to be trusted because their sole purpose was the overthrow of the American way of life.

This siege mentality that the “enemy” is out to get us allowed individuals like Sen. Joseph McCarthy to make false accusations that anyone was a communist and they would immediately be investigated by organizations like the FBI. Americans were pinned against each other because popular media told them to be and the witch hunt for anyone suspected of being of communist endured for years. They allowed themselves to be manipulated by the government and the media to a point that they seemed to lose the ability to make appropriate, calculated judgments for themselves.

These events are important to historians, because they show us what can really happen when we allow ourselves to become so easily manipulated. In today’s society where Islam is the new “enemy,” we must remain vigilant against any form of propaganda that attempts to portray anyone in a negative, untrue manner. We cannot allow our world views to be shaped solely by the information presented to us by Fox News or any other station.

While I truly believe that it is becoming more difficult to pull a fast one on American audiences, I urge you not to become complacent and always make your own judgments based on the facts. It is important to remember that media coverage and propaganda have frequently attempted to manipulate Americans over the past, and we must keep such history in mind in order to prevent such manipulation in the future. After all, those who do not learn from the mistakes of the past are themselves doomed to repeat them.

— Sean Mahoney is a senior in history. He can be reached at smahone1@utk.edu.

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It’s officially springtime in Tennessee, which means the weather is gorgeous, the men are hotter than they are in the winter and it’s bathing-suit season … unless you’re me, in which case you celebrate seasonal brews, flip-flop weather and bemoan the weather at the same time, because finals are coming up and I have no inclination to study when I could be napping in a hammock outside the library. As the semester draws to an end rapidly, my entire body shuts down slowly as I struggle to take in concepts in class. I just want to graduate already.

I don’t know that I’m necessarily alone in my view that I really need to just pack everything I own up and move to a random city in a random state just so I can get away — my ever-present wanderlust combined with a desire to start a new chapter of my life. But then, I’ve been here for five years (that’s what I get for being clever and walking on the UT seal within a month of becoming a freshman), and I feel like I’m walking away with next to no sense of accomplishment.

I have not set out to do any of the things that the 17-year-old me would have, a fact that I recently figured out after finding an ancient diary in which I listed all the things I wanted to do with my life — a bucket list if you will. I did not single-handedly get America out of debt, cure AIDS and fall dramatically in love as if I were in a John Hughes film.

Clearly, I was overly ambitious.

And as the last vestiges of my career as an undergraduate student at UT are passing in front of me in strange and whirlwind visions, I wonder if I was really as naive as I once was, wanting to change the world, wanting to be amazing and loved and appreciated and seemingly doing it with ease.

Sadly, I don’t know that I have changed that much in the past five years. I am still an idealist at heart, with an all-too-realistic mind. I still want to

see the world in a fresh light, and I feel as alive as I once did by my intense love of learning. I still want to learn about people as I once did, to absorb their experiences and learn whatever I can from them. However, I am haunted by this nagging doubt that I was probably a better person at 17 and had more admirable qualities than I do at 22, and I’m not sure I’ve done much to allay them.

I have three majors. Big whoop. And I am fiscally responsible. I’ve been in and out of relationships and, unlike all my high school and most of my college friends, have yet to marry (although that might be a blessing in disguise for the world).

But do you ever miss who you used to be? Back when life was simpler, no one expected anything out of you and your parents paid for everything?

It’s frustrating to know that you can’t go back to that way of life, because your experiences have eroded and shaped you in a way that you could have never imagined. It’s frustrating to know that you have somehow not surpassed your expectations, the ones that your old self set for you, especially when you try to be someone that you’re not anymore.

Five years ago, I might have been far more successful if I had the same mindset, but I would not be as open to new experiences. Sure, I was way more responsible five years ago, but I gave up being constantly serious for the chance to get to know people and the ability to be humorous. (Yes, it is an ability; I’m actually not a naturally funny person, but God knows I try.)

I am convinced that the point of college is to not just teach you a whole lot about stuff (and bore you to tears with gen-eds, because those professors think that those classes are instrumental to our lives when they’re not) but to open you up to new experiences and people that you normally would not have talked to. These days, I spend more time listening and experiencing life on a level that I would not have been capable of doing when I was younger, absorbing it one day at a time. After all, I’ve learned throughout my college experience that “he who prizes little things is worthy of great ones” (German Proverb).

— Yasha Sadagopan is a senior in economics.

She can be reached at ysadagop@utk.edu.

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Report shows British weaponry sold to Libya Export of combat arms to Middle East, North Africa aid in political unrest, violence Associated Press LONDON — British lawmakers issued a critical report Tuesday showing that Britain approved sales of shotguns and tear gas to Libya, machine guns and sniper rifles to Bahrain and military technology to Yemen over the last three years.

Parliament’s foreign affairs, defense, international development and business committees said in a joint report that ministers failed to consider the implications of weapons sales to the Middle East and elsewhere.

“Both the present government and its predecessor misjudged the risk that arms approved for export to certain authoritarian countries in North Africa and the Middle East might be used for internal repression,” the report said.

Following protests that have swept the Middle East and the violent suppression of demonstrations in some countries, Britain has revoked dozens of licenses approving weapons sales to Libya, Bahrain, Tunisia and Egypt.

Ministers also have ordered a review of all arms exports

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to Bahrain and Yemen, and the U.K. has supported a U.N. arms embargo on Libya.

John Stanley, a governing Conservative Party lawmaker responsible for overseeing the report, said Britain has since been backpedalling on previously approved arms exports.

He said there had been 156 export approvals when the committee was reviewing the material.

He said the report had published for the first time a country-by-country breakdown of the type of weapons approved for export from Britain in 2009 and 2010.

In 2009, licenses were approved to sell combat shotguns, military cargo vehicles and communications equipment to Libya. A year later, ministers sanctioned the sale of infrared and thermal imaging cameras, tear gas and crowd control ammunition.

Licenses to sell assault rifles and aircraft cannons to Bahrain were approved in 2009, and clearance for the sale of smoke grenades, submachine guns and sniper rifles granted the following year.

Defense firms also were given the go-ahead to sell electronic warfare equipment and machine guns to Egypt, ammunition to Tunisia and body armor, night-vision gog-

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gles and military camera components to Yemen.

The report disclosed that Britain also approved the sale of cryptography equipment to Syria, helicopter components to Algeria and shotguns to Morocco.

Kaye Stearman, of the lobby group Campaign Against Arms Trade, said the uprisings in the Middle East had acted as a wake-up call to Britain over its arms sales.

She said ministers must decide whether exporting weapons or promoting human rights was its priority. “We have long argued that they can’t be reconciled,” Stearman said.

Britain’s business ministry said it would consider the report’s recommendations and report its response to Parliament.

The foreign ministry said work was under way to review its approach to arms sales — not only in the Middle East and North Africa, but across the world.

“In light of grave concerns about the use of crowd control equipment in recent weeks, we will review how our export controls work for the sale of goods that could be used for internal repression,” a Foreign Office spokesman said on customary condition of anonymity in line with policy.

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Lawmakers debate teachers’ bargaining rights Newly elected education commissioner remains neutral on highly contested proposal Associated Press

attention this session would curb teachers’ collective bargaining rights. While it is not an administration bill, Haslam has endorsed a version that would shield areas like merit pay and evaluations from negotiations, but

NASHVILLE — Newly sworn Education Commissioner Kevin Huffman is staying on the sidelines of a contentious proposal to curb teachers’ collective bargaining rights in Tennessee.

Gov. Bill Haslam swore in Huffman on Tuesday.

He joins the Republican governor’s administration after serving as vice president of Washington-based Teach for America. He will be responsible for supervising Haslam’s education agenda that includes making it tougher for teachers to obtain and keep tenure, and lifting a cap on charter schools.

Lawmakers have already passed the tenure meas– Education Commissioner Kevin Huffman. ure and are still considering the charter schools on the new proposal to curb teachers’ collective bargaining rights proposal.

Huffman said he’s excited about putting the state's wealth of teacher evaluation data to work.

“We’re going to be able to identify teachers across the state who are at the very top of performance, would stop short of the Senate bill that would do away and were going to be able to go to them, learn from with union bargaining altogether.

“I think the House and Senate are going to get togeththem,” he said. “And also talk to some of them about the possibility about becoming principals, about starting er and try to figure things out with the help of the governor’s office,” Huffman said. “And I’m going to continue to charter schools and about spreading their impact.”

A separate education proposal that has drawn much stay out of it unless the governor pulls me in to offer thoughts and opinions.”

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I think the House and Senate are going to get together and try to

figure things out with the help of the governor’s office.

A hearing on the House version of the collective bargaining bill was delayed for two weeks on Tuesday to await details of expected change to the Senate bill.

House Republican Caucus Chairwoman Debra Maggart of Hendersonville, the sponsor of that chamber’s version, said she didn’t know specifics about the Senate proposal, other than that it would direct school boards to communicate with teachers, but not with their unions.

Tennessee Education Association lobbyist Jerry Winters said such an amendment is “just an attempt to repeal the law and say that you didn’t.”

“That’s not going to fly with teachers,” said Winters, adding that he’d like to see the entire collective bargaining proposal defeated.

“Now that said, if it’s a choice between the House amendment and repeal, then certainly the House amendment is preferable,” he said. “But it’s certainly not a good thing.”

Winters and other officials with the state's largest teachers’ union on Tuesday delivered a petition signed by 9,000 members to lawmaker, protesting legislation that they said unfairly targets teachers.

The tenure measure requires a teacher to be on the job five years instead of three to be eligible for tenure and creates a way for the job security to be revoked based on consecutive poor evaluations.

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Sewage tank bursts, pollutes river Associated Press GATLINBURG — A holding tank at a sewage treatment plant in a Smoky Mountains tourist town gave way early Tuesday, leaving two workers missing and sewage flowing into a small river.

The spill into the Little Pigeon River is a mix of storm and sewage water without solid waste, said Tisha Calabrese-Benton, a spokeswoman for the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation.

She said the failure occurred in an equalization basin, a large tank that is used during times of heavy rain to regulate the amount of water going into the treatment plant.

“Right now, the plant is bypassing, which means sewage is being discharged directly into the river,” Calabrese-Benton said Tuesday.

The size of the spill had not been determined but officials with the Tennessee Tara Sripunvoraskul • The Daily Beacon Emergency Management Agency estimated it was between 1.5 and 3.2 million gallons.

Chris Ruppett, sophomore in graphic design, fills out a ballot for a mock trial by the The Mountain Press newspaper reported Progressive Student Alliance on the Pedestrian Mall on March 30. PSA holds meetthat the basin is 70 feet wide, 40 feet tall ings every Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in the UC. and has reinforced concrete walls that are 12 inches thick. Photos show a blown-out wall of the structure.

A statement from the city of Gatlinburg said there was a mudslide about a mile from the facility around 1 a.m., several hours before the collapse at the plant. Officials said the exact cause of the collapse was not yet determined.

“No one knows what happened, really.

It’s all guesswork right now,” said Jim Davis, spokesman for the city of Gatlinburg.

A search-and-rescue mission is under

way for the two missing workers, according to a statement from Chicago-based Veolia Water, the plant operator. City officials declined to identify the workers, but their families were on the scene.

The cause of the plant breakdown was still under investigation, and CalabreseBenton said she didn’t know if it was related to heavy rain. Greg Cole, a National Weather Service spokesman in Morristown, Tenn., said the nearby Great Smoky Mountains National Park headquarters recorded more than 2.62 inches fell in the 24 hours before the failure Tuesday morning.

The river is normally small and shallow enough to wade across but rises rapidly and moves swiftly after a heavy rain. It originates in the park and flows north from Gatlinburg, the main park entrance, to Pigeon Forge. Both cities are top destinations for tourists visiting the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

“It’s usually a pretty little mountain stream,” park spokesman Bob Miller told the Associated Press by phone. He said the water looked the same above and below the spill site, “the color of coffee with cream.”

The National Park Service has personnel on the scene because the sewage flowed into the river, which is on park land and runs between the lanes of U.S. 441, known as The Spur.

“The sewage flowed under (the road) and straight into the Little Pigeon,” Miller said.

Greg Nichols, 47, routinely parks at the Smokies welcome center and walks to his job near the site of the spill. He said he had parked his car around 9 a.m. and was walking when he heard a crashing sound.

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

ENTERTAINMENT

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Hall of Fame to honor Ky. natives Inductees to include classic, contemporary country musicians Associated Press LOUISVILLE — The Kentucky Music Hall of Fame and Museum will induct a fresh class of homegrown stars this week.

Country stars Keith Whitley, Patty Loveless and John Michael Montgomery are among this year’s seven artists who will be celebrated at a ceremony in Lexington on Thursday.

Montgomery said when he was getting his start in country music, he drew inspiration from all the famous Kentucky-born artists who came before him.

“It always kept that little inkling of hope that you can be a small town country boy that loves singing country music, and be able to make it on a big stage like those folks before me did,” Montgomery said in an interview with The Associated Press.

The singer, who has had seven No. 1 country music singles including “I Swear,” said he considers the Hall of Fame induction one of the top achievements of his career.

“It’s all I’ve been thinking about,” he said.

This year’s class has a mix of contemporary stars and legends from years past, said Richard Lawson, executive director of the Hall of Fame, located near the edge of the Daniel Boone National Forest in Rockcastle County.

“We’re kind of getting back to our modern-day artists but also not forgetting our pioneers,” Lawson said.

The class includes singer/songwriter Steve Wariner, who has charted more than 50 country music singles; Molly O’Day, a country singer whose career took off in the 1940s; Larnelle Harris, a Grammy-winning gospel singer from Danville; and bluegrass legends the Goins Brothers.

Loveless, from Pike County, has had five No. 1 country singles and four platinum albums over a career

that began in the late 1960s when she began singing in a group with her brother.

Montgomery, Loveless and the other living artists will be performing at the ceremony. Montgomery said he plans to play his most-recognized song, “I Swear.” Lawson said there will also be a tribute to Whitley, who died in 1989.

“Unfortunately, we lost him way too early,” Lawson said. “But the significance he has had on country music is just huge.”

The Sandy Hook native recorded a string of country hits in the 1980s, including “Don’t Close Your Eyes,” and “I Wonder Do You Think of Me.” He sold more than three million albums before and after his death at age 33.

“I definitely think (Whitley) and George Jones are still the two best, when it comes to singing songs about heartache or just pure old country songs. Nobody can touch them,” Montgomery said.

Whitley also had a bluegrass music career, getting his start in Ralph Stanley’s bluegrass outfit and later becoming lead singer for J.D. Crowe and the New South. Crowe was inducted in 2004.

“He never got the recognition during his career that he deserved,” said Bonnie Hill, a Keith Whitley fan who has organized concert tributes to Whitley in recent years.

Hill, who lives in Floyd County, said the singer is being honored now by contemporary artists who perform his songs or cite him as an influence, like Kenny Chesney, Alison Krauss and Kellie Pickler.

The Hall of Fame has held induction ceremonies every other year since its opening in 2002, but organizers had to delay a class last year because the slow economy hurt sponsorship.

The ceremony Thursday will be held in the Bluegrass Ballroom at the Lexington Center, and will include a silent auction.

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Alicia Keener, junior in music, plays the viola on April 2 as part of a joint junior recital with Stephanie Mann, senior in music. The School of Music has several concerts and events going on throughout the semester.

For a complete schedule, go to http://www.music.utk.edu/events/.

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UT’s Cain decides to opt out of senior season Lady Vols center ends playing career after battling through numerous recurring injuries Staff Reports University of Tennessee Lady Vol basketball redshirt junior Kelley Cain will forego her final year of eligibility, marking the end of her collegiate career, head coach Pat Summitt announced on Tuesday. Cain is scheduled to graduate from UT with a degree in marketing (logistics concentration) this semester.

“We appreciate all that Kelley brought to our Lady Vol basketball program,” said Summitt. “It’s truly unfortunate that her career was cut short, but her health and well-being must come first. Kelley was a great teammate and oftentimes had to push through a great deal of pain to play. She is a winner who concludes her UT career with a degree in hand, and we wish her continued success in life.”

A 6-foot-6 center from Atlanta, Ga., Cain will go down in the record books as one of the best shot blockers in Southeastern Conference history. She totaled 228 swats — third-most in Lady Vol history — in just 92 games over three seasons, a 2.5 bpg average, and led the SEC in blocks in 2009-10 and 2010-11.

“It has been my pleasure and privilege to be a part of the Lady Vols for the past four years,” said Cain. “After numerous months of prayer, doctors’ visits and treatments, I have accepted the fact that I am currently unable to meet the demands of playing collegiate basketball. My family and I must now focus on my quality of life. I will miss everyone involved in the Lady Vol program from my teammates and coaches to the managers, trainers and strength coaches. I am so blessed and very thankful for the opportunities I have had while at

Tennessee.”

As a redshirt sophomore in 2009-10, Cain set a UT single-season record with 113 blocks, including a Tennessee single-game record of 12 blocks against 20thranked LSU on Feb. 22, 2010 at Thompson-Boling Arena.

Over her career, Cain averaged 8.6 ppg and 6.2 rpg and shot 60.6 percent from the field, while making 59 starts. Her career field goal percentage is the third-best in Tennessee history behind only Cindy Noble's 62.5 mark, set from 1978-81, and Trish Roberts’ 1976-77 percentage of 64.7.

Cain came to Tennessee in 2007 as a McDonald’s AllAmerican after winning three state titles at St. Pius X High School in Atlanta. She underwent surgery to correct a patella subluxation of her right knee in December 2007 and redshirted the 2007-08 season.

In April 2009, Cain had an additional surgery to remove the screws placed in her knee when she had the Fulkerson procedure in 2007.

Throughout her time at UT, Cain was hampered by nagging injuries to her hip, back and knees, limiting her to just 19.9 mpg for her career. Despite not always being 100 percent physically, Cain gave it her all each time she stepped on the court.

“The UT medical staff supports Kelley’s decision to discontinue playing,” said UT Team Physician Dr. Rebecca Morgan. “She has been experiencing ongoing arthritic changes incurred after years of playing compet-

itive basketball and it has taken a toll on her body.”

A key member of the 2008-09 team, Cain emerged as a force in the pivot and worked her way into the starting line-up in the final month of the season and earned nine starts. Overall, she played in 27 games and averaged 8.2 ppg, 5.3 rpg, 1.8 bpg and shot 61.8 percent from the field. As a starter, her numbers jumped to 11.3 ppg, 6.6 rpg, 2.0 bpg and a 71.8 percent accuracy from the field.

She helped the Lady Vols nab back-to-back SEC regular season and tournament sweeps in her final two campaigns in 2010 and 2011. Her most complete season came in 2009-10, when she started 32 of 33 games and averaged 10.5 ppg, 7.7 rpg and 3.4 bpg. She captured First Team All-SEC, SEC All-Defensive Team honors and SEC Academic Honor Roll that season. Cain was also recognized as a 2010 State Farm Coaches' All-America NCAA Division I Honorable Mention.

In 2010-11, Cain averaged 7.0 ppg, 5.4 rpg and 2.1 bpg, starting in 18 of 32 games. Her best performances came at LSU on Jan.2 and versus Ohio State in the Dayton Regional Semifinal on March 26. She scored a season-best 19 points on 9-of-13 shooting and recorded eight boards and four blocks versus the Tigers in the SEC opener. Against the Buckeyes, she scored 16 points on 8-of-10 shooting to lead the Lady Vols to the Elite Eight.

In the upcoming 2011-12 season, Tennessee now returns 10 players and adds three signees to the roster.

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Redshirt junior Kelly Cain shoots over Notre Dame defenders during the Lady Vols’ Elite Eight matchup on March 28. Cain elected to end her collegiate career following the conclusion of this season, with one year of eligibility remaining. She finished her career with 228 blocks, third most in Lady Vols history.

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SPORTS

Masters annual highlight of golf year Geoffrion focusing on future, not past Matt Dixon Sports Editor CBS’ Jim Nantz refers to it as “a tradition unlike any other.”

And he’s right.

The 2011 Masters Tournament tees off today in Augusta, Ga., with golf legends and honorary starters Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer taking the first swings. The two have won 10 total green jackets, a prize given to the winner each year.

The tournament is the first of four majors on the PGA Tour annually, and the only one always held at the same location: the famed Augusta National Golf Club.

It’s rumored HDTV was first invented solely for the fans to watch the Masters. I like to believe that anyway.

The storylines are aplenty, much like they are every year. The biggest this year centers around Tiger Woods.

Woods has not been the same golfer since his off-the-course problems became national news in November 2009. He hasn’t won a tournament since September of that year and is currently in the longest drought of his career.

Woods currently sits seventh in the world golf rankings, the lowest since the week before the Masters in 1997. It was then when Woods blew away the field and won the tournament by 12 stokes, shooting a record 18-under-par 270.

It was the first of Woods’ four green jackets, tied with Palmer for second all-time. His most recent Masters victory came in 2005, defeating

Chris DiMarco in a playoff. His chip-in for birdie on the 16th hole will go down as one of the greatest golf shots in history. Check it out on YouTube.

This weekend would be a good time for Woods to come out of his slump. He doesn’t even have to win, he — in his Sunday red — just needs to be in contention in the final round.

Much like how women’s basketball needs Tennessee and Connecticut to renew their rivalry, golf needs Woods to post top-5 and top-10 finishes.

And this weekend he could do it on golf’s grandest stage.

But if he is to do so, he must navigate through a field full of potential winners.

Defending Masters champion Phil Mickelson is looking to win his fourth green jacket in eight years.

Europeans Martin Kaymer, Lee Westwood, Luke Donald and Graeme McDowell are all ranked in the top five in the world, and any of the four could be celebrating late Sunday afternoon.

Long hitters, like former Georgia standout Bubba Watson, always have an advantage at Augusta, given the course’s short par 5s.

And veterans like Ernie Els, Jim Furyk and Padraig Harrington tend to be in contention in major tournaments.

In the end though, it doesn’t matter who wins.

It’s just time to sit back and relax for four days and watch golf in its finest form: the Masters at Augusta National.

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Blake Geoffrion is best known as a Hobey Baker Award winner at Wisconsin and the NHL’s first fourth-generation player — he’s the grandson of the late Bernie “Boom Boom” Geoffrion. The forward also is the first player from Tennessee to make it to the NHL. Geoffrion is very proud of his family’s heritage. He even wears the same No. 5 as his grandfather.

But the only history he’s interested in right now is what he does on the ice with the Nashville Predators, the team he grew up cheering.

“Absolutely, I’m just happy to be here,” Geoffrion said Monday after practice. “Now that I’m here I’ve got to make the best of my opportunity and take advantage of it and try to show I’m ready to play in the NHL full-time.”

The forward nicknamed “Boomer” is off to an impressive start.

Geoffrion has six goals and two assists in his first 17 games in helping the Predators sprint toward a sixth playoff berth in seven seasons, and had three goals in a natural hat trick March 20 to help Nashville rally for a 4-3 overtime victory in Buffalo.

It’s the kind of play expected from someone whose great-grandfather is Howie Morenz, known as “The Mitchell Meteor,” and one of the original inductees into the — Matt Dixon is a senior in journalism and Hockey Hall of Fame in 1945. His grandfaelectronic media. He can be reached at ther is credited with inventing the slap shot mdixon3@utk.edu. Follow him on Twitter and was just the second player to score 50 NHL goals, with both men helping @MattDixon3.

Montreal win a combined nine Stanley

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Senior third baseman Matt Duffy takes a swing at a Morehead State pitch on March 6. Duffy and the Vols will play host to South Carolina on Thursday at 7:30 p.m.

Cups.

Geoffrion’s father, Danny, played a season in the WHA with Quebec and three seasons in the NHL with Montreal and Winnipeg.

It’s also the kind of legacy that can create too much pressure.

Nashville defenseman Ryan Suter’s father, Bob, won a gold medal with the 1980 U.S. Olympic team while an uncle won his own silver medal. Suter said Geoffrion knows what he wants for himself and needs no advice on handling any pressures of playing with a famous family name.

“You try to compare yourself to them and try to be like them, then you’re probably not going to have as much success because you’re always trying to do that. You can never get confidence,” Suter said. “So I think for us, it’s trying to build your own name and do special things for yourself.”

Nashville coach Barry Trotz hasn’t talked with Geoffrion about his family tree.

“The only thing I’ve talked to him about is playing games in the National Hockey League doesn’t make a career,” Trotz said.

“What you’re here to do is make yourself a career, and that’s really up to you. It’s not up to me. It’s up to him. His play, his preparation, his focus, his willingness to sacrifice in all those areas will determine if he has a career or if he has games.”

The Predators drafted Geoffrion in the second round in 2006 with the 56th pick.

He went to Wisconsin and won the Hobey Baker Award as college hockey’s best player a year ago. The Predators signed him in June, announcing the deal in the library of the elementary school Geoffrion attended in a Nashville suburb.

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Gibson embracing college experience

Mansson captures third career win first two holes, Mansson, an All-American, pulled away for the victory on the third playoff Preston Peeden hole. While many players might have viewed Staff Writer going head-to-head with a teammate as a negative, to Mansson, this way of finishing was an Swedish imports have long been revered in obvious positive.

America. The Scandinavian nation has given “We both came to the tournament to win,” the United States many objects like IKEA, she said. “It just was really good to have someABBA and the Nobel Prize. This weekend, one to compete next to on the same team to another Swedish import was added to the list, help us get better. It was good for both of us.” junior Lady Vols golfer Nathalie Mansson, a “I don’t know how friendly the rivalry was native of Stockholm, Sweden. there, but they both are competitive and both During this weekend’s Rebel Intercollegiate wanted to win,” Pavon said. “They were really Tournament in Oxford, Miss., Mansson literalfocused on playing well. And it was tough as a ly came out coach to have swinging. She both of them in was able to not there, because all only guide the you can do is Lady Vols to a hope they both commanding play well. And 30-stroke team they did, but victory but also Nathalie came captured her out on top.” third career For the tourindividual title. n a m e n t , “It was aweMansson shot some for me to rounds of 72, 67 win and even and 74, for a better for the total score of team,” Mansson 213(-3). While said. “We have for many a weekbeen working so end like this hard, and every might serve as a one of us got c r o w n i n g together and achievement, played well at Mansson still the same time.” sees room for Mansson improvement. opened up the “I have to be first round in an better at everyunassuming thing still,” she manner by hitsaid. “Especially ting par for the my driver, I’ve course, which been struggling was good with that a lot. I Matthew DeMaria • The Daily Beacon enough to tie have to get more for seventh. By Junior golfer Nathalie Mansson finishes a hole solid and keep it the second day, during the Mercedes-Benz Classic while oppostraight. There’s t h o u g h , nents watch on Oct 10. Mansson won the Rebel just some M a n s s o n ’ s Intercollegiate Tournament in Oxford, Miss., over changes I got to name was visi- the weekend, winning a three-hole playoff make to be betbile at the top against fellow Lady Vol Erica Popson. ter.” of the leaderFor her coach, board. She finished by tying a career-best 5though, Pavon viewed Mansson’s progress under par 67. optimistically.

“Everything came together,” UT women’s “With as great of a player she is, she has yet coach Judi Pavon said. “She was hitting the to have a great SEC tournament or NCAA ball well, and she started to make some putts. tournament,” Pavon said. “But I think that It just boosted her confidence.” after this performance and getting a win under Mansson’s woes on the green were an her belt will aspect of her game she felt held her back on really boost the first day. her confi“(The difference was) just the putting,” she dence. And said. “I played really well on the first day and hopefully gave myself a lot of birdie chances. I just couldthat’ll allow n’t connect. I made my putts on the second her to really day, though.” perform Going into the third and final day, well this Mansson’s lead dwindled, as she shot two-over postseapar. By the end of the last hole, she found herson.” self in a playoff with teammate Erica Popson for the title.

While both players were tied through the

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Lauren Kittrell Staff Writer Sophomore infielder Lauren Gibson is in the middle of her second season as a Lady Vol, and she continues to support her team through her optimism and effort.

After coming to UT in the fall of 2009, Gibson enjoyed the Southern hospitality of the people around her and the chemistry of the teammates she worked with. Her decision to come to UT was based on a visit that managed to show her all the possibilities of being a Lady Vol. “I really enjoyed the girls on the team and the people in general,” Gibson said. “It seems like in Tennessee, everybody’s really nice, down-toearth people, and I really enjoy that.”

During her time at UT, the Lady Vols have continued that team spirit and chemistry, which binds the team together and reminds Gibson of why she came to UT. In both her freshman and sophomore years at the university, Gibson discovered the likenesses and differences that hold the team together so strongly and determine the team’s capabilities on the field.

“It’s actually really shocking how you can get 20 girls together but have this chemistry,” Gibson said. “If a team doesn’t have good chemistry, you’re probably not going to be very successful, because if you don’t get along with your team or your team doesn’t get along, you’re not going to have a good year. Because we have so much chemistry, we can have a successful team.”

Gibson’s experience on the team has been anything but uneventful, and she said the leadership of the team has had a profound impact on the team and its success.

Senior center fielder Kelly Grieve said that the team’s performance against Auburn last week showed the Lady Vols’ ability to overcome obsta-

cles and work together, whatever the task may be.

“We are a very resilient team,” Grieve said.

“We never quit. It doesn’t matter what inning or how down we are. I kind of like games like this, because it gives me confidence that if we are behind in the seventh inning, my team will definitely pull through.”

Though Gibson plans to work as a veterinarian after graduating, her life now consists of school, sports and her team. As she enters her junior year as a Lady Vol, Gibson wants to step up and serve the team as a leader and contribute as much as she can.

“I feel like everyone on the team is a leader and I feel like everyone brings something different to the team,” Gibson said. “I hope that I can contribute to the team as a leader.”

Gibson said that though it’s difficult to have personal goals as a player and be on such a chemistry-oriented team, she hopes to help the team reach the College Softball World Series.

Her personal goals are team goals, and her team goals are her personal goals.

“Personally, I just want us as a team to win the World Series and win the SEC tournament,” Gibson said. “You honestly can’t have personal goals. I just hope I can help my team go to the World Series and win it.”

Gibson’s time at UT as a Lady Vol has not been wasted, and she does not regret her decision to come. Gibson said she is glad she came and she is excited for the future.

“Every second that I’ve spent here at UT, I’ve really enjoyed,” Gibson said. “I tell people when they ask if I’m glad I went to UT my answer is for sure yes. I’ve enjoyed the team, and I’ve enjoyed the school itself. I’ve enjoyed the sports, going to the football games and all that kind of stuff. It’s a lot of fun.”

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Sophomore infielder Lauren Gibson takes a swing in a game against Alabama on March 22. Gibson has been one of the Lady Vols’ most consistent starters on the season, earning 35 RBIs and starting all 35 games for the Lady Vols.