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UT alum to chair autism awareness run Donesha Aldridge Staff Writer
3 plead not guilty in Mass. school bullying case NORTHAMPTON, Mass.— Three Massachusetts teenagers pleaded not guilty through their lawyers Tuesday in the bullying of a 15-year-old girl who committed suicide after what prosecutors call months of threats and harassment. The teens were not required to appear at the hearing in Hampshire Superior Court. Sean Mulveyhill and Kayla Narey, both 17 and from South Hadley, and 18-yearold Austin Renaud, of Springfield, will remain free on personal recognizance on the condition that they stay away from the family of Phoebe Prince, the girl who died. Mulveyhill and Renaud are charged with statutory rape. Mulveyhill and Narey are also charged with violation of civil rights resulting in bodily injury, criminal harassment and disturbance of a school assembly. They are among nine teens charged in what prosecutors said was the “unrelenting” bullying of Prince, who hanged herself Jan. 14. Prince, who had emigrated from Ireland last summer, was a freshman at South Hadley High School.
UT students and Knoxville locals are planning to participate in the 4th Annual Breakthrough Run for Autism on April 17. UT alumnus Stewart Ellington, an All-American athlete and father to two young children with autism, will serve as the honorary chair for the event. “With a lot of races, I didn’t have a direct connection,” Ellington said in a Breakthrough Corporation press release. “But I certainly had a direct connection with this one.” Ellington was fourth in the 1995 NCAA Indoor 5K and had the fastest time for a domestic collegiate runner at the 10K in Los Angeles. He has also competed in several races and runs in Knoxville since he graduated from UT. “Breakthrough’s mission is to improve the life of adults with autism,” Judi Brookshire, co-director of the 4th Annual Breakthrough Race for Autism, said. The agency was founded 11 years ago by parents of children that suffer with the disorder. Brookshire said she sees the race as a way for the community to get involved.
“We are looking at the event to be a fundraiser and to aid in awareness,” Brookshire said. “The community at large doesn’t recognize the Breakthrough and that it deals with autism. We want them to know what we are all about.” Brookshire said she hopes the race continues to grow in participants this year. “Last year’s race was great,” she said. “Some did walk, and last year was the first time we did a category for Breakthrough Buddies.” Breakthough Buddies is a course where those who want to accompany someone during the race can do so. “Last year, we had about 325 participants in the race,” she said. “We also assigned volunteers to help out. Those with other disabilities can join the walk as well.” Brookshire said planning for the event started in the fall, and Breakthrough receives significant community support from a host of donors. Kelsey Wilson, senior in the Global Leadership Scholars Program, chose Breakthrough as the place to do her service learning project. She is assisting in the efforts to organize the event and said she would like more students to participate. “I hope to have more of the UT students involved in the race this year,” she said. “In the past, the stu-
Newly-funded education program to benefit math, science students Donesha Aldridge Staff Writer
Blasts rip through Baghdad, killing 50 BAGHDAD— At least seven bombs ripped through apartment buildings across Baghdad Tuesday and another struck a market, killing at least 50 people and wounding more than 180, authorities said. The explosions were the latest in a five-day spree of attacks in and around the capital that have killed at least 119 people. Several bombs were planted inside empty apartments, the government said. The violence, which has largely targeted families and homes, is reminiscent of the sectarian bloodshed that tore Iraq apart from 2005 to 2007 and prompted the United States to send tens of thousands more troops to the front lines. Since that time, however, sectarian violence and attacks on civilians have flared in cycles, especially surrounding important events such as last month’s still-disputed election. Iraqi and U.S. officials both blamed the latest spike in attacks on al-Qaida insurgents seizing on gaping security lapses in the wake of political deadlock that has gripped the country since its March 7 parliamentary election failed to produce a clear winner. “This is blamed on the power vacuum of course and on how democracy is being raped in Iraq,” former prime minister Ayad Allawi told The Associated Press in an interview.
dents have not participated very much. It is a great way for students to give back to the wonderful Knoxville community and support a great cause.” Students Clarice Hawkins, junior in audiology, and Andrew Randle, freshman in enterprise management, both said they wanted to participate in the run. “I enjoy running because it is a part of me,” Hawkins said. “Anything that benefits others with disabilities is very important. Anytime you are doing something good for someone else is a great cause.” Randle said autism hits close to home for him. “I know someone with autism, and this seems like a perfect thing (to do),” he said. “I like volunteering, and I would like to run for a good cause.” Both Randle and Hawkins said they were glad that Ellington will be participating as an honorary chair for the event because he serves as a reminder of the reality of the disease. “Ellington is showing how real the disease is and how it can happen to anyone,” Hawkins said. Brookshire said anyone can register online at the Breakthrough Web site at http://www.breakthroughknoxville.com or send the application in by mail. Processing fees are required for an online registration. The last day to register is April 15.
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Junior Tyler Deiterich, majoring in Music Education stands by his creation of flash pages for a Music Theory 100 online course. Deitherich, participating in EURECA, won in the Humanities division for his project.
Equal custody bill dies in House The Associated Press NASHVILLE — A proposal to grant equal custody to divorced parents in Tennessee is likely dead this session after the sponsor withdrew it from a House panel on Tuesday. Lawmakers hotly debated the measure sponsored by Rep. Mike Bell for weeks. But the Riceville Republican decided to withdraw the proposal from the House Children and Family Affairs Committee after an amendment was added that sought to give divorcees the “maximum time” possible with a child, instead of dividing the time equally. “This amendment ... doesn’t do anything to change the current law,” Bell said. “And in fact, it might even give some people false hope that we’ve done something productive with this amendment.” The amendment’s sponsor, Republican Rep. Donna Rowland of Murfreesboro, said she was hoping to bring some closure to an issue she said has been discussed for 10 years. “We’re trying to come up with the best solution to fix these problems,” she said.
Parent William Fain said the legislation is needed to take discretion away from judges who are dealing with such a sensitive issue. He said he didn’t see his little girl for the first eight months of her life, and he considers he and his ex-wife to be responsible parents. “We’re talking about fit parents here,” he said. “We’re not talking about domestic violence. Why does a judge have the right to say you don’t have any visitation rights? It should be 50/50.” As has been the case in recent weeks, the legislation again drew passionate comments from lawmakers. Following the withdrawal, Rep. John Deberry, the chairman of the committee and a minister in Memphis, said he’s done four weddings in recent weeks and that they all “made vows ... that they were going to stay together.” “But it’s not a perfect world, and folks are unable to keep those vows,” Deberry, who supported the amended legislation, said. “Either one or the other does something that destroys that union.”
VolsTeach, a new program at UT, will aid students in becoming future teachers of math and science in Tennessee. “This will be a very student-friendly program,” Susan Riechert, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, said. The greatest benefit for students in the program is a secondary education teaching certificate for the state of Tennessee, Riechert said. “Usually students had to go an additional year and receive their master’s degree to become certified, but this new program changes that,” she said. “Students that are enrolled can receive this certificate in the initial four years of undergraduate school.” Riechert said this program will be designed to mimic the program UTeach at the University of Texas at Austin. According to the UTeach Web site, “UTeach started at The University of Texas at Austin in 1997 as a new way to prepare secondary science, math and computer science teachers.” “This was something that Obama listed as in a real need for,” Riechert said. “He listed UTeach at Texas as the model program for accomplishing this program. It was very successful.” Riechert said there are now 13 programs like this one nationwide, including a similar program at Middle Tennessee State University and three other Tennessee locations. VolsTeach has already been outlined to make this a smooth process for the students and instructors. The program will accommodate incoming freshmen, sophomores or juniors. The students will be supplied with advisers to help them, and internships will be available for the summer and during the school year for students in need of funds. Funds will also be given
by the state to aid the program. “We receive a 1.8 million grant from the state of Tennessee to replicate the program at Texas,” Riechert said. She said the money was distributed after a specific need was noticed. “They saw the need for a program like that in this area,” she said. “One year we had only five physics teachers statewide to graduate. Tennessee recognized this problem, and the state came up with the money for the initial grant.” Although the program will be an added incentive to produce more teachers, some current students in the education program hope that the new program will not take away from what the current teacher’s master program has to offer. Cassandra Reed, junior in mathematics, wants to be a math teacher. “I think it is important for young people to have good teachers,” she said. “I want to make a difference and to influence them in a positive way.” Reed thinks it is especially important to have qualified math teachers. “Math is one of those subjects that is hard to sometimes grasp,” she said. “I want to be a good math teacher so I can help students get the most out of their math classes. Reed said she is worried about the new curriculum that the program will offer. She said students who want to be teachers must major in a subject first and then minor in education. Reed said she hopes that those involved in this program do not take it lightly but see it as a chance to gain further experience in teaching rather than a faster route to graduating with a teacher’s certification. “An incentive is not always the right way to make changes,” she said. “It requires so much, and there is a high need of teachers. The whole point is to produce quality teachers.”
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• 7 p.m. A panel of scholars and activists discuss coal extraction, the Kingston coal ash spill and the impact on local communities in a panel discussion in the Hodges Library Auditorium. Titled “Energy, Coal and Communities: Poverty and Environmental Justice Panel,” the discussion is hosted by Ready for the World, the Global Studies Interdisciplinary Program, UT Libraries and the departments of philosophy, anthropology and agricultural economics. The panel discussion is free and open to the public. • 7:30 p.m. The CPC Cultural Attractions Committee hosts “Tao: The Martial Art of Drumming,” which features a performance in contemporary costumes with synchronized choreography and a modern twist, in the Bijou Theatre. Tickets are $5 for students, $20 for faculty and staff and $25 for community members. Tickets can be purchased at UT’s Central Ticket Office.
Thursday, April 8 — • 9:40 a.m. until 10:50 a.m. David Allen, director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Resources at the University of Texas, Austin, speaks on “Designing Sustainable Engineered Systems” in room M311 of Walters Life Sciences Building. The STAIR Seminar is free and open to the public.
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Juniors Michael Jungwirth and Nathan Stebbins will receive scholarships from the Goldwater Foundation for their Senior year at UT. The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships are awarded yearly to sophomores and juniors who are pursuing careers in research in mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering. UT Junior Lauren Johnson was also recognized by the Goldwater Foundation and received an honorable mention.
THE CRIME Saturday, March 27 • 2:34 a.m. — Officer observed a gold BMW driving westbound down White Avenue, an eastbound-only street, which caused the officer to swerve the patrol vehicle to avoid a collision. After initiating emergency lights, the officer pulled the BMW over, at which time the driver reversed the car and almost struck the cruiser. After stopping, the car began to roll again. The officer advised the driver to put the vehicle in park. She noticed a strong alcoholic odor on the driver’s breath and asked the driver if she had consumed any alcohol. She admitted to having consumed “only five beers” earlier in the evening. The officer asked the woman to put the vehicle in park and turn off the ignition. As she attempted to exit the vehicle, the car began to roll again. She put the vehicle in park and engaged the parking brake. The officer and driver relocated to Exxon gas station parking lot where a field sobriety test was performed. The woman, whose speech was slurred and
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eyes were bloodshot, was also unsteady on her feet and could not complete the series of tests. She was detained for a first offense driving under the influence charge and placed in the cruiser. An initial search of her vehicle prior to towing turned up a cold, open can of Miller Lite, four more cans of the same brand unopened and a six pack of Bud Light. The driver voluntarily submitted for a blood test and was driven to a nearby hospital to conduct the blood work. When they arrived at the hospital, the officer noticed the woman slipped her hand halfway out of the cuff, at which time she advised the woman to not attempt to unbind herself. On the way to the county jail, the suspect was able to reposition her hands in front of her person and repeatedly attempted to rip away the barrier between herself and the officer, succeeding only in removing the plastic shielding. This continued until they reached the jail, where employees witnessed the scene. The woman was booked and processed without further incident.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY • 1954 — President Dwight D. Eisenhower coins one of the most famous Cold War phrases when he suggests the fall of French Indochina to the communists could create a “domino” effect in Southeast Asia. By early 1954, it was clear to many U.S. policymakers that the French were failing in their attempt to re-establish colonial control in Indochina (Vietnam), which they lost during World War II when the Japanese took control of the area. In just a few weeks, representatives from the world’s powers were scheduled to meet in Geneva to discuss a political settlement of the Vietnamese conflict. In an attempt to rally congressional and public support for increased U.S. aid to the French, President Eisenhower gave an historic press conference on April 7, 1954. • 1961 — President John F. Kennedy sends a letter to Congress in which he recommends the U.S. participate in an international campaign to preserve ancient temples and historic monuments in the Nile Valley of Egypt. Kennedy possessed a personal interest in the sciences and history and, from the beginning of his presidency, set out to promote American scholarship in these areas. His administration also wanted to develop diplomatic ties with the Arab nations in the Middle East and North Africa. — Courtesy of History.com
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Pokémon endures with consistent formula Wiley Robinson Staff Writer It has been said that no matter how many forms Mexican food comes in, it amounts to nothing more than meat and cheese on a tortilla, deceptively cooked in a variety of shapes to trick Americans into paying for the same thing over and over again. While Mexican food is obviously not an international conspiracy, the premise of this statement remains firmly analogous to the reality of marketing, and Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, being the two most recent versions of Nintendo’s Pokémon RPGs for its handheld consoles, have predictably incurred the wrath of savvy consumers aware of the deceptive nature of marking. To be fair, HG and SS are the fifteenth and sixteenth handheld Pokémon RPGs to be released since 1996, making the series positively ancient in game years, but let’s face it: The marketing decision to release two game “flavors,” being identical to each other in almost every way, side by side for a decade and a half seems overtly deceptive. And when you add the general perception of how little the gameplay itself has evolved (no pun intended) over the years, when Nintendo churns out a hundred more critters here and slaps together a new landmass to explore there, they’re just tricking people into buying the exact same product over and over again with minimal effort involved. The truth, however, remains one of the biggest ironies in the game industry. The Pokémon games have some obstacles to contend with that can unfairly skew objective analyzation. The most historically domineering, the belief that Pokémon is a kiddy fad that gives Nintendo the license to print money and therefore the obligation to crank out as much merchandise as possible until the spending bubble implodes, is invalidated by the fact that kiddy fads don’t tend to last 15 years or endure after the kids themselves reach their early twenties.
GameFAQs.com, the top game help and discussion site in terms of traffic, sports a mainly late teens/early twenties demographic, and Pokémon endures in the “top 10 games” position long after huge console releases like Modern Warfare 2 fade away. The valid argument against Pokémon, however, is that Nintendo really does simply release the same game over again for each subsequent generation of handheld technology with naught but the proverbial new coat of paint. The foundational formula of the games has not changed since Red and Blue, it’s true: dynamic training pace, turnbased battling, random encounter dungeon/town exploration, trading with friends and “catching em’ all.” And what’s to stop anyone from saying that they’re selling the same, overly simplistic, static product? But the formula that keeps the games fresh is not simple. Rather, it’s quite the balancing act, and HeartGold/SoulSilver epitomize this. Pokémon has indeed built upon itself over the generations, but the subsequent gameplay refinements, no matter the scale, incorporate themselves seamlessly into the newest version, because rather than being gimmicky or arbitrary, they all come back to that fundamental part of the games that keeps growing more in-depth and strategic with every release: team building. Refining old Pokémon and adding new Pokémon, moves, types and battle dynamics (like making physical and special damage independent of type, and passive abilities) mesh perfectly with features like more customizable trading regimens and the ability to breed Pokémon together to get unique movesets. All of this done with the idea of competition between human players in mind produces the rarities of Pokémon and items that have much more meaning. The (way less annoying) Tamagotchi-like Pokewalker pedometer that comes packaged with the game adds a huge new dynamic, but it only works because, again, it ties into team building and training. Unique Pokémon and items can be caught and found, then neatly trans-
Shelton hits it big with ‘six pak’ CD The Associated Press NASHVILLE — Blake Shelton’s knocked out a lot of six packs in his life, but nothing quite like this. The country heartthrob’s latest album, “Hillbilly Bone,” is being marketed by Warner Music Nashville as a “six pak.” It contains just six tracks and will be followed in the next few months by a second short album with a third possible by the end of the year. Call it a test balloon for the digital age, the latest stab at preserving physical album sales at a time when listeners are turning their backs on the oh so old-fashioned CD. “Just to be honest with you, I was to the point where I just realized, ‘What have we got to lose?’” Shelton said recently. Nothing it turns out, and there’s been plenty of gain. “Hillbilly Bone” opened with more than 71,000 physical copies sold and vaulted Shelton to No. 3 on the Billboard 200 — his highest posting on the all-genre chart.
A month later it has sold more than 138,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan, and remains No. 4 on the country charts. There are plans at Warner for not only another Shelton six pak in the late summer, but possibly entries from other artists as well. Short albums, usually called EPs — a term rejected by Warner as out of date and misleading — are nothing new, though they’re not particularly widespread. They’re often put out as stopgap offerings between albums or to promote emerging acts who might not have a full album yet. Shelton and Warner, though, see larger possibilities, and the experiment is being watched closely in Nashville. “It’s way more instant,” Hillary Scott of the chart-topping group Lady Antebellum said. “You don’t have to wait as long anymore for new music. ... He’s definitely pushing the envelope, and I think a lot of artists, including us, are kind of watching to see how it
does because it could end up really changing the model.” Carrie Underwood added: “I think it’s impossible not to think about it. Everybody’s trying to find new ways to stay afloat, pretty much. I think it’s kind of sad. When you put together an album, it’s like you’re writing a book. You can’t sell individual chapters, you won’t go buy Chapter 13. It might not make sense by itself. You need to read the whole book from front to back to kind of get it.” The six-pak idea is a way to forestall the death of the album in the digital age. Warner executives came up with the plan about eight months before “Hillbilly Bone” came out. Peter Strickland, senior vice president for sales and marketing, said the label was looking at several options. Adding content and jacking up the price didn’t seem like the way to go. After talking with retailers looking for more affordable prices at a time when not only the shelf space but the inter-
est in physical albums is shrinking, the Warner team decided to go small. A handful of artists have recently put out nontraditional albums. Lady Gaga’s “The Fame Monster” had just eight songs, for instance. And Justin Bieber, Drake and Miley Cyrus released seven-song sets last year, with Cyrus’ selling 1.3 million copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan, and spawning the hit “Party in the USA.”
ferred back to the game itself via infrared, and the more steps you take in real life with whatever critter you decide to take with you unlocks rarer possibilities. Depending on how much you’re into it, however, having Pokémon constantly with you in one form or another can kind of skew reality a bit. Though the handhelds have come from an 8 to 64 bit CPU, 90 percent of the graphics for Pokémon on the Nintendo DS are still sprites. HeartGold and SoulSilver are prime examples of this: They’re both remakes of the old Gameboy Color Pokémon Gold and Silver versions and the same basic map layouts and camera angles from the old versions are still used, with a normal engine rehaul and some 3D rendering thrown in. But the experience couldn’t feel more different. To its credit, the changes throughout the generations of Pokémon have been subtle gameplay additions and refinements, not graphical ones, and HeartGold/SoulSilver are the most comprehensive and balanced offerings to date. Gameplay quality is so easily overshadowed or ignored in the pumped-up visuals and pyrotechnics of today’s consoles; the industry of today would do well to emulate the development philosophy of this enduring little game.
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Columnist ignores logic when attacking left “Somehow I feel like this was the ultimate goal of the leftists in Congress. They do not love America like conservatives do. Instead they seek her destruction and eventually want her to be erased from history.” This is of course a quote from Treston Wheat’s March 25 column in The Beacon. He is referring to the inevitable doomsday scenario created when President Obama placed his signature on the health care reform bill passed by Congress. As any rational observer can clearly see, this law will lead directly to the collapse of the United States’ status as global hegemon, if not the end of human civilization as we know it. And who shall be the harbingers of this American apocalypse? According to Wheat’s column, the four horsemen of taxation, spending, debt and unemployment. Health care reform will certainly result in national bankruptcy and, thus, an end to our global empire. In addition, it would seem that Democrats in the House and Senate are actively and intentionally working to bring about our ruin. Because they so desperately despise America, freedom, truth and love, the liberals will not stop until they have unraveled the very fabric of our Republic. But in all seriousness, these statements, and the article in which they are found, are patently absurd. Putting aside the unfounded and unreasonable claim that liberals do not “love” America, whatever that may mean, one is left to wonder why Democrats, the party currently in power, would work to destroy the source of their authority. Wheat simply ignores the fact that by bringing about the end of American hegemony, the Democratic Party would be weakening the very government that it controls. Need I say any more about the inherent foolishness in accusing a group of both diabolically plotting our ruin and, at the same time, being utterly incompetent? Similar to Wheat’s sneaking suspicions regarding the liberal agenda, I have a feeling that the author of this column is not being completely serious with these statements. I doubt that any person capable of using words such as “deleterious” and “abrogation” at least somewhat correctly would make such a logical error (though I would question his inconsistency in writing style). However, if Wheat is not being completely serious with us, his crimes are all the greater. In that case, he is guilty of pointless political grandstanding: empty words with little meaning, designed merely to confuse, irritate and provoke. Perhaps I have taken the bait by responding to his article. I suspect that the majority of Wheat’s columns are written specifically to infuriate liberals like myself, and yet, I strongly believe that such drivel is detrimental to the quality of our university’s community of debate. In this column, he makes no attempt whatsoever to show how health care reform will lead to, say, unemployment. He merely states this as fact, assuming that we will all go along with his senseless rant. He makes no attempt to criticize specific aspects of the new law, nor does he offer any substance for the baseless insults he levels at Democrats. If he does indeed have something intelligent to say about health care reform, he certainly does not present it here. By characterizing the legitimately-elected Democratic majorities in Congress as a “reign of terror,” he fails to give due respect to the democratic system he claims to love so dearly. All in all, this column, so full of hyperbole, grandstanding and ad hominen insults, has no place in a respectable student publication. Also, the “V for Vendetta” reference (“not just words … they are perspectives”) at the end of the editorial is entirely out of place. The titular character of that work is, after all, a political leftist. Spenser F. Powell Sophomore in political science and philosophy THE DAILY BACON • Blake Tredway
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Classrooms should ban use of laptops No tes fr om t h e U n d e rg ra d by
Amien Essif Professors should not allow students to bring laptops into the classroom. The argument for this policy is painfully obvious and is known and supported by a great number of professors, yet nothing is done about it because professors are afraid to stand in the path of the crushing future as it carves out its valley, paving its trail with the flesh of Luddites. Yes, I am a Luddite and enjoy flying kites on the future’s freeway, but this is not an argument against technology. It is an argument for common sense and a second glance at the shape of history. In a sentence: Innovations do not hold any special place in society unless they make it better. When a professor watches five out of 20 students open their laptops as she opens her mouth, she understandably feels disrespected. The unwritten code in a classroom is that every student is in a conversation with the professor, and almost every student with a laptop is breaking that code. My sister’s boyfriend swears he saw a student take notes in Microsoft Word and never once open another window, but I know I’ve never seen it. The best I’ve seen is a student with the professor’s slideshow open on her computer so that she could read it better, but that’s very rare. The worst is the average, the common use of a laptop in the classroom: notes, Facebook, notes, ESPN.com, notes, YouTube. The bad side of the average follows the same pattern as the average, only without the note-taking. Sitting in on a lecture next to someone with a laptop is like watching an opera next to someone who likes to whistle along with the arias. Only it’s worse because usually what you see on his or her screen has nothing to do with the lecture. Straightforwardly, here’s my list of grievances as a neighbor: the screen is the brightest object in the class, it flashes and moves, it is colorful and it is entirely visible to everyone sitting behind the user. It has no redeeming qualities for the user, either. The sheer amount and accessibility of information in a computer makes it the nuclear weapon of distraction. Mass distraction, if you will. There is no window that doesn’t beg you to move on in a dozen different directions. And
every porthole to sports, Facebook, news, games and videos is bright blue or flashing. We are animals; we like shiny things, and it takes something real (banning the laptop from the class, for instance) to overcome that. Some say they can take notes faster on the laptop than by hand. What does this have to do with learning? Good notes are half-digested information, not a complete recording of the lecture. They don’t print pre-highlighted textbooks, after all. And half the time I see students fooling around with formatting rather than listening, and this is not an issue with arms that move in three dimensions and don’t require short-cut keys. Notebooks, in every way, are superior for note-taking. Also, until I see some convincing research on the subject, multi-tasking to me means you have no interest in learning. Oh, you get A’s? That doesn’t mean much to me. Good crammers are poor conversationalists. Multi-taskers don’t ask good questions. Split attention is frayed attention and is ego-centric. It adds nothing to society. Our professors, like the laptop users and their neighbors, get the third short end of the stick. What they don’t get is respect. I’ve seen professors bust arteries screaming at Beaconreaders, while someone two seats over is playing strip-poker with someone in Russia. Call me old-fashioned, but I can’t imagine this is a good learning environment. Actually, don’t call me old-fashioned, because my point is this: Forget history, or at least the simplistic conception of its linearity. Not all that glitters is gold, and not all that’s new has to be accepted as inevitable. Remember those Smart Boards? Well, turned out they sucked, so we’re back to dry-erase boards. No one smokes in classrooms anymore. Distractions ruin lectures, and laptops are the culprit. Given that the classroom is a private setting with an absolute authority who is superseded only by the laws of the institution, the solution to this problem is obvious and easy: Change UT policy to ban laptops in lectures except in extenuating circumstances that should be discussed with the professors (like if the student has poor eyesight and a phobia of frontrow seats). The only hard part is (cross yourself!) finding the courage to take responsibility for the course of history. — Amien Essif is a junior in English literature. He can be reached at aessif@utk.edu.
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Kel Thompson Though I will not mention it by name, I want to express why my particular apartment complex sucks and why no one should live here unless monetarily obliged to do so (this is a pretty cheap place). So anyway, my roommate and I are currently in the process of renewing our lease agreement and are thinking about upgrading to a larger apartment (costing us each about $150 more over 12 months). After inquiring to my landlady about this prospect, I found out that we would need to come up with about $400 in the next 10 days in order to upgrade. Take a second to note that the down payment on this new place would be more than we would be paying between the both of us for another year. My roommate and I, being on the bottom rung of the financial ladder, cannot afford this on such short notice. The worst part is that this down payment is mostly made up of refundable costs that we would get back upon exiting our current apartment. So basically, since we cannot use the money we would be refunded later, we will be unable to move into a better place. Crushed with this information, I left the landlady’s office and let out a few choice words (along the lines of “I can’t believe I have to live in this craphole one more year”) before breaking into almost hysterical tears. Soon afterward, I received a letter from her under my door that brushed me off as misinformed, dishonest or both and even claimed that I was a sub-leaser of the current
apartment and never had any right to the refundable security deposit (that I paid) at all. After talking to her again, she only confirmed what the note said and denied me the right to see any of the paperwork on the apartment (although she assured me that she’d “just checked it”). Although it will be a couple days before I talk to her further, it is gratifying to know that I have a current copy of the lease agreement that proves my story the more truthful of the two. This is a long story, but that’s the gist of it. Hopefully that’s enough with which to make my point. I don’t believe that I’m dumb. I’m not unresearched. I try really flippin’ hard to be completely honest in all situations. I’m a relatively nice guy, and I always pay my debts promptly. However, when people like me (and there are a lot of them) are being bullied, we don’t have much protection. If I were to pursue legal action, it would cost me more than the $125 deposit for which I was fighting. In order to pursue legal action, I would have to afford a lawyer. If I pursued legal action, I would have to pay for the apartment complex’s lawyer as well. It’s so disheartening to know that when it all comes down to it, money really is everything. In the legal system — the world, really — it doesn’t matter what the truth is. It doesn’t matter who got screwed for how much money. All that matters is who can afford the best lawyer or who can even afford one at all. I usually like to close my columns with some sort of good moral or uplifting message, but there really isn’t one when it comes to this. Money is power, and if you don’t have it, you’re going to be bowled over. — Kel Thompson is a junior in creative writing. He can be reached at kthomp28@utk.edu.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
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UT rowers snag two victories over Wisconsin Ryan Howard Staff Writer The Tennessee women’s rowing team competed against a visiting Wisconsin team last Saturday in Oak Ridge on a windy Melton Lake Hill. UT placed first in two of the five races. The Lady Vols won the varsity 8+ and the second varsity 8+, and they also gained experience with wind on a course where they will host the Aramark South/Central Region Championships on May 15 and16. “I thought it was a really good racing experience for us,” Lady Vol head coach Lisa Glenn said. “From a weather condition standpoint, it was kind of a quiet first round for us, and in the second round, there was a pretty strong-crossed tailwind. It is pretty nice to race in those kinds of good weather conditions and Tia Patron • The Daily Beacon against a team we will see in The UT Lady Vol rowing team earned two victories in this weekend’s match-up with Wisconsin at Oak Ridge’s Melton Hill Lake. UT Crew will the regionals.” split up next weekend to take on No. 4 California and take part in the Southeast Intercollegiate Rowing Association Regatta in Oak Ridge. UT started the day off posting a time of 6:40.8 in “Overall, I thought it went Vols entered three boats into the 4V8+ stopped short at race, a big gust came in, and an equal playing field.” the V8+, winning by almost The Lady Vols will have eight seconds, and they also really well,” senior Sydney the 3V4+, but they all fin- 1,500 meters due to rain, I thought it was a great learnwon the second flight of the Newman said. “The rowers ished in third, fourth and with Wisconsin already hold- ing experience on how we the current week off before splitting up. The novices will handle it.” V8+ with a time of 6:35.0 by handled doing two races in a fifth place. Wisconsin’s best ing a significant lead. Ross admitted that despite return back to Oak Ridge on Tennessee was privileged row extremely well. We get time was 4:00.2. almost six seconds. The Lady Badgers were to race in the good weather the windy weather, there was April 17 to participate in the The Lady Vols also won pretty spoiled with the Southeast Intercollegiate still a race to be won. both flights of the 2V8+ with weather, but we did a good also triumphant in the third and water conditions. “It is still a race,” Ross Rowing Association Regatta. “We are pretty spoiled on times of 6:49.2 and 7:00.7, job in handling the condi- varsity 8+ and fourth varsity 8+. They finished the first our river,” senior Katie Ross said. “You have to just keep The varsity rowers will travel respectively, but they also fin- tions.” Wisconsin was victorious flight of the 4V8+ with a time said. “It was a lot different fighting through the condi- west to Sacramento, Calif. to ished both races by an average margin of 30 seconds in the third varsity 4+, a of 7:00.8, compared to UT’s weather than we are accus- tions. Every boat has the face No. 4 California on April faster than the Lady Badgers. 1,000 meter race. The Lady 7:16.8. The second flight of tomed to… In the second same conditions, so there is 17 and 18.
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Wednesday, April 7, 2010
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Track squads to host Sea Ray Relays Terrence Boone Staff Writer
• Photo courtesy of Beth Hall
UT’s Phoebe Wright dashes past an LSU runner at this year’s SEC Championships. Wright’s Lady Vols will join the Vols at this years Sea Ray Relays starting Wednesday at UT’s Tom Black Track.
On the newly surfaced Tom Black Track, the Tennessee men’s and women’s track teams will host the Sea Ray Relays from April 7 through 10. The 44th annual event will take place at LaPorte Stadium where many UT athletes will continue to blaze the stage after a successful weekend at the Pepsi Florida Relays at the University of Florida. UT director of track and field J.J. Clark noted in October the importance of students attending the meet and supporting the Big Orange. “I would like to get more people out to watch our home meets,” Clark said. “It’s always important for us to do well in front of our home crowd.” On the men’s side, the team will be led by the 4x100-meter relay team that managed a fourth place finish and the sixth fastest time in the nation thus far of 39.93 seconds. The relay team consists of seniors Samdi Fraser, Kyle Stevenson and Evander Wells, along with sophomore anchor leg Desmond Brown. Wells, who last week recorded the fastest time in the world at the 200-
meter event with 20.47 seconds, looks to continue his stellar performance on the track as part of the relay. Another relay team looking to score for the Vols in the men’s 4x800-meter relay is the team of junior Peter Sigilai, sophomores Joe Franklin and Emerson Peacock and freshman Breon Dixon. The team finished third at the Florida Relays behind Alabama State and Penn State, respectively. Sigilai posted a solid time in the 800, running 1:49.52, and looks to be a key contributor on the relay. In the field events, senior Brad Holtz leads the men in the pole vault after a 17-2.75 score, good enough for fourth this past weekend. Senior Matt Maloney heads the throws, with his fourth-place finish in the javelin last weekend in Gainesville, Fla. Coming off their runner-up finish at the NCAA Indoor championships, the Lady Vols come into the home meet looking for big performances from their big three performers. Senior Phoebe Wright was victorious in the 1,500-meter run at the Florida Relays and took part in the Distance Medley Relay with fellow senior Jackie Areson and sophomores Ellen Wortham and Brittany Sheffey to
win by nearly 25 seconds over secondplace finisher Florida. Wright noted the importance of this meet. “Like always you want to progress as you go towards the championship part of the season,” Wright said. “But my biggest thing is to get good training because they don’t count for a whole lot, but it is nice to win in front of the home crowd.” Wortham posted a ninth-place finish in the 400-meter hurdles, while Sheffey finished third in the 1,500. Sheffey’s time of 4:19.49 was good enough for seventh in the nation this season. Other notable Lady Vols who are set to take center stage in the field of events this week are junior Holly Kane and freshman Jessie Harrison. Kane recorded a personal best throw in the javelin of 142-10 to earn sixth place, while Harrison unleashed a hammer throw of 174-10 to post a seventh place finish. Harrison’s throw placed her fifth all-time on the Tennessee performance list. The Sea Ray Relays will be the first of four meets UT hosts, along with the Volunteer Track Classic, the Tennessee Invitational and the SEC Championships.
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