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Campus evangelist passes away Lauren Kittrell News Editor After battling colon cancer for many years, former campus evangelist, Sal Mattson, died at the age of 53 on Good Friday, April 6. A funeral service was held on Monday at First Baptist Church Powell in his honor. As seen on campus day in and day out, Mattson served as a mentor and friend to many students at UT. While his formal title might have been “street preacher” or “campus evangelist,” Mattson became a part of the campus and students’ lives as he shared his Christian faith day in and day out while people walked to and from classes. Brett Lewis, junior in material science and engineering, said that Mattson was not only a mentor, but also a friend. Lewis said Mattson’s life was a life of faith. “(Mattson) loved God and loved people unconditionally,” Lewis said. “As he was terminal with cancer, he told me that he wanted the students to know that he loved God with his whole heart and never lost faith. His faith increased as his death got closer. He finished well. His prayer was that the students at Tennessee would know the love of God and turn from their sin.” Greg Billings, junior in computer science with a minor in business, admired Mattson’s gentle presence and desire to befriend the students on campus rather than offend • Photo courtesy of Katy Campen/The Volunteer Review them. Billings said Mattson’s kind heart and positive Sal Mattson, right, poses with Teddy Strunk on the Pedestrian Mall in this photo on Oct. 1, 2010. Mattson, best outlook was radically different than many street evangelknown for his preaching on the Pedestrian Mall, passed away on Good Friday after years of battling colon cancer. ists and made his views more attractive. “He really brought a positive light to campus, espesaid. “The nice thing about Sal was, that dedication didn’t way. cially when viewed alongside the more radical street show through screaming at people or hassling them like “When I first saw Sal preaching my freshman year I preachers,” Billings said. “He had a kind heart and a love our view of most street preachers. He was polite to the thought to myself, ‘Well, there’s one of the nut jobs I was for God and spreading His word. He’ll be missed by many people that talked to him. He would spend time with each told to watch out for.’ However, I noticed that Sal changed on campus.” person, get to know them, ask them about their life, what each year and this past year I really grew to respect the Along with the many students Mattson met and con- their major was, etc. He was an example of someone who guy. Here he was, battling colon cancer, having five kids at versed with on the street, Mattson had a “text group,” to honestly cared about the people he talked to, enough that home, yet he was on campus almost every day talking to which he frequently sent encouraging texts. In his last he wasn’t trying to ‘convert’ you, he was trying to become people and handing out tracts. He really cared about text to Billings, Mattson said he was at peace with his lot your friend, to be there for you.” everyone on campus and he was dedicated not only to his in life. Billings said that, while he tries to keep an open mind family but to us as well.” “I asked my Father if He was going to heal me,” to idea-sharing, many street preachers tend to overstep Mattson faced opposition from many students on camMattson’s text said. “Today, He said no, through John boundaries. He said that while it’s hard to tell where the pus, but he never failed to come and share with anyone 14:28. I have Peace. Love Sal.” who would listen. Zach Varnell, graduate in environmenline should be drawn, Mattson seemed to understand. Billings said one of the most notable aspects of “I do know there is a polite and appropriate way for tal studies, said that Mattson’s love for the people who Mattson was his desire to share the gospel and his love students and visitors to share their opinions and Sal tried opposed him was unwavering. and care for others. Mattson’s humble personality and his his best to always take that route. He didn’t haggle you, he “One thing that marked Sal was that his love for God care for others affected Billings more than anything. was always respectful, and if you didn’t want to talk to showed itself in his unconditional love for the students, “Not only was Sal one of the most respectable people him he didn’t try to force you to,” Billings said. “He was even the ones who ridiculed him,” Varnell said. “That’s I’ve ever met, but he was dedicated to his cause,” Billings an example of how to share your opinions in a respectful why he was there every day.”
Panel discusses LGBTQ issues with students Victoria Wright Student Life Editor
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iO Tillet Wright photographs UT students during a national photo project on surrounding LGBTQ image March 3. Amnesty International held a discussion panel on Wednesday to discuss the current state of LGBTQ rights and the issues faced in changing viewpoints in the South.
Amnesty International at UT held an LGBTQ discussion panel Wednesday in the IHouse Great Room as part of their second annual Human Rights Week. Though this year’s theme covered a spectrum of victims who suffered from injustice, Amnesty members said the discussion was held in the advent of recent Tennessee legislation against people on the LGBTQ spectrum, particularly the passing of the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Four panelists sat in front of about 20 students and answered questions about LGBTQ rights in their particular field of work. The panelists also divulged their personal experiences as being LGBTQ both on and off campus. Despite the popular belief of historic Southern sentiment against diversity, the panelists
agreed that general UT attitude towards LGBTQ people is positive. “When I applied to the university, I consciously made the decision that I wasn’t going to hide who I was,” Scott Eldredge, Ph.D. candidate and panelist, said. “I thought at the time I was taking a risk. It’s been very open and accepting.” Panelist Caitlin Miller shared her relief when she arrived at the university from a small school where any expression of LGBTQ affiliation was unorthodox and nearly forbidden. “People at my school did not understand anything diverse,” Miller, junior in philosophy, said. “They didn’t know anything that wasn’t 100 percent straight.” Regardless of the panelists’ warm feelings toward campus acceptance, the state legislation does not share the school’s agreeableness. See LGBTQ on Page 3
Governor likely to sign bill The Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Gov. Bill Haslam said Monday it would probably be close to the signing deadline before he decided whether to sign a bill to protect teachers who allow students to criticize evolution and other scientific theories, such as global warming. The deadline is Tuesday. The Republican governor can also veto the measure or let it become law without his signature. He has said he would probably sign it. Last week, Haslam was handed a petition with more than 3,000 signatures urging him to veto the legislation, which encourages critical thinking by protecting teachers from discipline if they help students critique “scientific weaknesses.” It passed the Senate 24-8 last month and 70-23 in the House last year. Haslam said the petition had an impact, but he also noted the support for the
bill in the Legislature. “It passed 3-to-1 in the House and the Senate, so you take that into account, as well,” he said. Scientists in Tennessee and the American Association for the Advancement of Science say evolution is established science that shouldn’t be taught as a controversy. The petition effort is led by Vanderbilt University Professor Larisa Desantis, who conducts research and educates students on both evolution and climate change. She wrote in a letter to the governor that the legislation would hurt students. “If this bill is signed into law, students in schools throughout Tennessee will receive a very different message, and will suffer the consequences,” she wrote. “Scientific literacy is an increasingly important factor for college acceptance and job prospects.” Critics deride the legislation as the “monkey bill” for once again attacking evolution.
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Brittany Sheffey charges ahead during the women’s 1500-meter event at The Tennessee Challenge on Saturday. Sheffey won the event, adding to a dominant 15-win performance by the men’s and women’s track teams.
1919 — Zapata assassinated in Mexico Emiliano Zapata, a leader of peasants and indigenous people during the Mexican Revolution, is ambushed and shot to death in Morelos by government forces. Born a peasant in 1879, Zapata was forced into the Mexican army in 1908 following his attempt to recover village lands taken over by a rancher. After the revolution began in 1910, he raised an army of peasants in the southern state of Morelos under the slogan “Land and Liberty.” Demanding simple agrarian reforms, Zapata and his guerrilla farmers opposed the central Mexican government under Francisco Madero, later under Victoriano Huerta, and finally under Venustiano Carranza. Zapata and his followers never gained control of the central Mexican government, but they redistributed land and aided poor farmers within the territory under their control. Zapata’s influence has endured long after his death, and his agrarian reform movement, known as zapatismo, remains important to many Mexicans today. In 1994, a guerrilla group calling themselves the Zapata Army of National Liberation launched a peasant uprising in the southern state of Chiapas. 1942 — Bataan Death March begins The day after the surrender of the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese, the 75,000 Filipino and American troops captured on the Bataan Peninsula begin a forced march to a prison camp near Cabanatuan. During this infamous trek, known as the “Bataan Death March,” the prisoners were forced
to march 85 miles in six days, with only one meal of rice during the entire journey. By the end of the march, which was punctuated with atrocities committed by the Japanese guards, hundreds of Americans and many more Filipinos had died. The day after Japan bombed the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, the Japanese invasion of the Philippines began. Within a month, the Japanese had captured Manila, the capital of the Philippines, and the U.S. and Filipino defenders of Luzon were forced to retreat to the Bataan Peninsula. For the next three months, the combined U.S.-Filipino army, under the command of U.S. General Jonathan Wainwright, held out impressively despite a lack of naval and air support. Finally, on April 7, with his army crippled by starvation and disease, Wainwright began withdrawing as many troops as possible to the island fortress of Corregidor in Manila Bay. However, two days later, 75,000 Allied troops were trapped by the Japanese and forced to surrender. The next day, the Bataan Death March began. Of those who survived to reach the Japanese prison camp near Cabanatuan, few lived to celebrate U.S. General Douglas MacArthur’s liberation of Luzon in 1945. In the Philippines, homage is paid to the victims of the Bataan Death March every April on Bataan Day, a national holiday that sees large groups of Filipinos solemnly rewalking parts of the death route. — This Day in History is courtesy of History.com.
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LGBTQ continued from Page 1 Panelist and native New Yorker Joel Kramer theorized that much of the South’s attitudes towards LGBTQ rights are heavily tied to religion. “Any issue that comes out also tends to get contextualized in a religious sense,” Kramer said. “That doesn’t mean anything religious is necessarily bad. There are a lot of Christians who love everyone as they were taught. For some reason when the media goes to find a Christian, they always find the furthest right conservative.” Panelist Dean Griffey, second-year law student, explained some of the legal views on the “Don’t Say Gay” bill as well as the legislative decision to ban same-sex marriage. Griffey said neither law holds any legal justification and compared them to the past ban on interracial marriages. Though Griffey was optimistic that Tennessee legislation will one day accept the argument for LGBTQ rights, he said it
NEWS will be impossible to sway some legislators. “I know a lot of them are repeating what their constituents want them to,” Griffey said. “A lot of them are elected to that position, and regardless of what they think one way or another, they were elected to vote a certain way. So, as a person, they may be more willing to listen to you as, say, a legislator.” The panelists shared some positive advice for audience members wishing to serve as advocates for LGBTQ rights. They advised students to continue to remain vigilant in situations where discriminatory attitudes are being expressed. Jayanni Webster, organization president and senior in the College Scholars Program, said the club will continue to strive for human rights and support student advocates. “As long as we’re on this campus we’re going to bring progressive and enlightening and challenging programing and educational campaigns to this campus to makes this a safer environment to talk about tough issues,” Webster said.
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Students take a dip in the pool around the Europa and the Bull statue after a speech by attorney William Kunstler on May 14, 1970. Kunstler spoke of the dangers of big government and the threat of fascism, which frenzied students already knee-deep in protest on campus.
Hemlocks under insect threat The Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Many of the state’s old growth hemlocks have already died or are dying in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park due to a scourge of tiny insects that is advancing more quickly than experts calculated toward the Cumberland Plateau. Only a small portion of the state’s hemlocks are expected to survive the onslaught of woolly adelgids, a pest from the Northeast that was first spotted in Tennessee in 2002, The Tennessean reports. The insects had been spreading on average 10-20 miles a year, but showed up this year farther to the southwest on a tree in Sewanee. Chemical treatments have to be applied one tree at a time, but attempts to save the trees are running up against money and time constraints. “We won’t have enough funding to save them all,” said Trish Johnson, a conservation coordinator with The Nature Conservancy, who added that the Tennessee Hemlock Conservancy Partnership group hopes to save 10 percent of
the best. The mapping of existing hemlock stands is being paid for by a Nature Conservancy grant with donations from support groups of Fall Creek Falls and South Cumberland state parks. About 24,000 acres in Tennessee could have hemlocks and treatment can cost up to $8,000 per 500 acres. That could amount to about $4 million. Although Tennessee has no nature predator to the woolly adelgid, a beetle that does eat the insects are being grown at the University of Tennessee’s Lindsay Young Beneficial Insects Laboratory and released in locations around the region. About 800,000 beetles from the lab have been released including the North Cumberland and Catoosa wildlife management areas and Roane Mountain and Cumberland Mountain state parks. The Great Smoky Mountains began aggressive treatments in 2002 to avoid “ecological extinction” of the park’s hemlocks, so at least some pockets remain and new hemlocks will grow.
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GuestColumn Still possible to live ‘American Dream’ The American Dream is a belief that we citizens have, stating all people are capable of living prosperous lives if they remain dedicated and in good spirits. Ironically, the concept of the American Dream is much older than America itself, dating back to the 17th century when inhabitants of other nations sought after unexplored land and new territory to make a fresh start for themselves and live long and happy lives. The concept of the American Dream is even embedded in our Declaration of Independence which articulates all men have “certain unalienable Rights,” including, “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” But just like everything else, the concept of this dream has transformed gradually over time. The burning desire we once had to do anything and everything in order to achieve our goals has started to fizzle out, although our yearning desire to remain ahead of our competition still lingers; we wish to skyrocket to the top but have no means of transportation or fuel. Not only has our work ethic altered, but our opinion of success has as well. Professions which used to be viewed as honorable such as being a teacher, doctor, or firefighter have been faded out by careers in the entertainment industry which sometimes entail people being famous simply because they are rich, or people being rich simply because their family is well-known in the media. The American Dream isn’t about who can make the most money or following the career path your parents wish they stuck with when they were your age, even though sadly this is what it has turned into. However, just because our perception of the American Dream has gotten lost in the shuffle doesn’t mean it has vanished forever. One individual who has managed to pursue this dream successfully even when no one else had his back is my older brother, Faiz Ally. After realizing college wasn’t for him after two and a half years of taking
classes, Faiz explained to our parents that he wished to go to culinary school and become a chef. Their response was understanding and fair: “No.” The only thing any of us had ever seen him cook was cereal, and even then he would spill milk on the counter or drop his spoon inside the bowl. After weeks of arguing, our mom and dad put him to the test and told him to stay in the kitchen until he had something prepared for dinner. Surprisingly enough, that was one of the best meals I have ever eaten in my life. Just like most other concerned parents, mine were not too keen on allowing him to attend culinary school, so Faiz got a job and started earning money so he could send himself. He got promoted, and soon after he left work to become a dishwasher at Baker Peter’s Jazz Club in Knoxville. After only two weeks Faiz went from dishwasher to cook, and now he is the sous chef at Baker Peter’s and the head chef at home. Pretty soon he will be moving to Washington, D.C. to work for some of the utmost respected chefs, and in case you all don’t know much about the food industry, this is a colossal achievement. It’s the equivalent of going from student to professor in no time at all, or from making mix tapes in your basement to selling multiplatinum albums. In terms of cooking, Faiz is definitely not the best and probably not even one of the best new, young chefs out there. However, because he was passionate and driven to accomplish his goals he was able to climb to the top and now that he has seen the view he doesn’t want to come back down. He is the prime example of what the American Dream is all about — overcoming obstacles and doubt in order to gain happiness and respect. Nadya Ally Junior Psychology nally@utk.edu
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SCOTUS faces tensions on health care C ampbel l’s Co r n e r by
Seth Campbell If you’ve watched any bit of news lately, you have probably heard about the Supreme Court and their dealings with the Affordable Health Care for America Act. Whether or not you or I endorse this specific piece of legislation is null and void. The nine Supreme Court justices didn’t hear arguments to determine whether they agreed with the law, which is cynically dubbed “Obamacare.” These justices are only charged with deciding whether the legislation is constitutional — and this is where a problem arises. Each of the nine justices was appointed by either a Democratic or Republican president. With a lifetime position on the nation’s highest court, each justice has the best job security one can imagine. While partisanship clearly plays a role in the appointment process, this lifetime appointment also leads to another problem, which is a lack of accountability. Basically, the highest court in our land has a harsh partisan divide and never has to worry about accountability. Do these issues happen to worry anyone? For conservatives, imagine President Jimmy Carter continuing his presidency with no end in sight. He would have no accountability and could put as many solar panels on top of the White House as he deemed necessary. For liberals, envision a George W. Bush presidency that didn’t hold him accountable. He could kickback huge profits for all of his oil buddies and attempt to build as many democracies as he pleased. How has the Supreme Court developed into such a partisan body of ideologues? Well, to conservatives’ credit, they’ve been crying wolf at the practice of judicial activism for years. With the tables now turned, President Obama is weary of judicial activism in regards to his signature legislation, the Affordable Health Care Act. Finally, it appears that Democrats and Republicans have found common ground. Most people agree that it is not the role of the judicial branch to participate in the partisan bickering. We have plenty of that going on in the legislative branch.
Sadly, there’s no doubt that the Supreme Court has a harsh political divide. Of the nine justices, a Republican president appointed five and a president of the Democrat persuasion appointed four. While we would all hope that these justices would overcome a mere partisan label, this just isn’t the case. For the most part, the Democrat justices stick together and the Republican justices are equally as close. When the arguments regarding the Affordable Health Care Act began, the justices must have known the spotlight was shining directly on them, yet the partisan divide was still evident. Justice Antonin Scalia clearly had already made up his mind concerning President Obama’s legislation. In his attempt to showcase the law as unconstitutional, Justice Scalia equated the health care law to forcing Americans to eat broccoli. Scalia’s partisan politics must have blinded him from the clear difference between health care and broccoli. We all know that broccoli consumption is optional, while the usage of health care is unpredictable and not optional. Justice Scalia knows the U.S. Constitution better than me, but with comparisons such as these, one sure wouldn’t know it. Justice Stephen Breyer presented a thoughtprovoking circumstance for many who doubt the constitutional prowess of the Affordable Health Care Act. By presenting a hypothetical situation that places America in a plague-related disaster, Breyer seemed to point towards the government having the power to inoculate citizens. While challengers to the legislation continued to moan over the government mandate, Justice Breyer routinely returned to this hypothetical situation to foil their argument. There were decent points made by certain justices, and there were others that were more ridiculous. When the decision is announced in late June, the entire country will be watching. Those who claim the law is a vast overreach by our government will be tuned in and the millions who are in grave need of insurance will also be interested in the high court’s outcome. Though I want to have faith in the judicial system, I fear a 5-4 partisan decision striking down this legislation. The last thing our country needs is a furthering of the partisan divide. While both the executive and legislative branches are polarized enough, it would be a mistake for the judicial branch to digress into nothing more than a political body. — Seth Campbell is a senior in history. He can be reached at scampb42@utk.edu.
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The hit movie “Titanic” was released once again to theaters last Wednesday to celebrate and honor the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the actual Titanic. This time, viewers had the opportunity to watch the movie in 3D. The experience and the intensity only heightened as the 3D format brought the night to life once again. Like the release of the movie in 1997, “Titanic” did well in the box office. On opening night, the movie made $4.3 million, close behind the popular and currently leading movie, “The Hunger Games,” which made $4.6 million. As a kid who grew up in the 1990s, I feel that “Titanic” has made a large impact on my generation. Much like the shows and toys we all remember with nostalgia, “Titanic” holds a special place in the hearts of many. For me, this movie was the first PG-13 I was allowed to see in theaters. Many of my friends had mentioned the car scene or the drawing scene was the first time they experienced anything so graphic. It was also the first time they saw something so distressing, like watching passengers jump off the ship to their death or the floating bodies in the water. Because of our great appreciation for the film, my friends and I went to see “Titanic” last Thursday night. Although the movie was just as amazing as it once was, I noticed my change of perspective towards the plot and characters as I have aged. Things I once did not understand seemed to be made clear and humorous on the big screen. First, as a child I did not understand the importance of the Titanic. Now that I have learned the history behind this ship, my sympathy for the passengers was incredibly intensified. Maybe because the movie was in 3D, or because I now can imagine how terribly cold and frightening that experience must have been, the sinking of the ship was very uncomfortable for me. I found myself very tense and wishing we could go back to when
Jack and Rose were happy together instead of in distress and swimming around breaking handcuffs with axes in below freezing water. I also noticed that I understood much of the humor and relevance of the conversation of the passengers. I chuckled when Rose said the woman is “in a delicate condition,” as I had never caught what that meant before. The movie also showed how women’s rights were slowly emerging; yet the ideals were still ingrained within the people of the time. I noticed Rose’s mother telling other women that there was no point in Rose going to a university when she had already found a suitable husband. Or when Cal screams and throws the table at Rose because she was misbehaving was not seen as anything out of the ordinary. Although the plot line of the movie was absolutely amazing and completely allows you to forget where you are, I realized how so much of the love story seemed unrealistic. It is amazing how willing Rose is to risk her life for a man she has only known for 24 hours. Rose also tells Jack she loves him when they are floating in the water. Jack does not reply that he loves her back, but instead tells her that she will continuing living and implies that he will not. I had always been sad that Jack had died before because I assumed the two would have gotten married and lived happily ever after if he survived. Now it seems that Jack and Rose would have gotten bored with each other and found partners that seemed more suitable to their social classes. I now realize that for the plot to develop effectively, Jack needed to die in order for Rose to continue on her life and pursue her own dreams. Although my perspective of the movie has changed, it still continued to amaze me. It is no wonder that “Titanic” is considered a classic. It successfully creates a heart-wrenching love story in an action and terror that is hard to believe was once a reality for thousands of innocent people. I strongly encourage everyone to see the movie for the first time or once again. If not for the story, at least you can pine over the young Leonardo DiCaprio like I did. — Samantha Trueheart is a sophomore in communications. She can be reached at struehea@utk.edu.
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New ‘Thrones’ to establish characters the salt-crusted boots of her source. In terms of established characters, Tyrion Lannister will own this season without a doubt. Not to say that he simply wins everything a man could hope for and retires to Casterly Rock, but the Imp’s newfound seat of power this season allows him to scheme and manipulate beyond even the means of Lord Varys, the king’s chief of secrets and propaganda. Peter Dinklage, fresh off of Emmy and Golden Globe wins for his portrayal of Tyrion, carves away layers of the youngest son of Tywin Lannister (played by the irascibly cynical Charles Dance to a T), balancing debauchery and whoremongering with the weight of a divided kingdom with the aplomb of a tightrope walker. Another character to look out for this season is Arya Stark (Maisie Williams), the begrudging lady daughter of Eddard and Catelyn Stark whose proclivities for the sword both save her from formidable foes and lead her down some unexpected paths. For a child character, Arya in both print and celluloid carries herself with a brand of gravitas rare to young people in literature, or at least rarely believable. If you haven’t seen or read “Game of Thrones” or its literary precedents, do so with all haste. As an unrepentant naysayer where fantasy is involved, the series’ blend of a dark ages world where science has yet to pull back the curtain on nature’s great mysteries combined with a genuine vein of fire only present in the human spirit obliterates the stereotypes of verdant fields, wizened wizards and binding rings. The proof is in the pudding: take a bite and see for yourself.
Jake Lane Arts & Culture Editor A hand clutches a bloody crown, both illuminated in a goldish crimson hue against a stark black backdrop, with the motto, “The North Remembers.” For those of us eagerly awaiting last Sunday’s season premiere of “Game of Thrones” (or “Clash of Kings,” if you’re keeping up with the canon chronology), this simple yet striking tease made the wait more unbearable, if ultimately returning that queue time with massive entertaining dividends. Even for those who haven’t followed HBO’s grim fantasy epic, developed by D.B. Weiss and David Benioff from George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” series, the ad campaign’s worldwide ubiquity has made the second season’s arrival almost unavoidable. Where to begin, then? Without giving too much away to those of you who haven’t caught up, season two involves a full-scale war for the Iron Throne of Westeros, left vacant upon the death of Robert Baratheon in a mystery-shrouded boar hunting incident. Claimants to the throne amass armies from all corners of the main continent of Martin’s world, waiting to bear down on King’s Landing and bring down Robert’s son Joffrey, a vicious boy king more focused on cementing his rule through brutality than bracing for the war and winter which, as season one’s ad campaign and the House Stark motto make clear, always threatens to storm down around the next corner. With some of the fan favorite characters gone, season two is a place for establishing a new cast of equally, if not even more magnetic characters, whose own motives toward the
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Iron Throne and the fate of Westeros are cloudy at best. Robert’s brother Stannis (Stephen Dillane), often alluded to in “A Game of Thrones,” and the first season of the show, finally appears at his keep Dragonstone, a former compound of the vanquished Targaryen dynasty. At his sides are Davos Seaworth (Liam Cunningham), the Onion Knight, a former smuggler raised to lord after aiding Stannis during the war which established the Baratheon claim to the throne; and Melisandre (Carice van Houten), a priestess of the fire god R’hllor who promises to bring Stannis the crown should he pledge allegiance to her master.
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As Theon Greyjoy (Alfie Allen), former ward of House Stark, returns home to the Iron Islands on a diplomatic mission to rally a Navy for the King in the North, a new web of political intrigues is spun around him as the Iron Lords of Pike decide their place in the imminent struggle. One disappointment in the transfer from novel to screen is the treatment of Theon’s sister Asha (Gemma Whelan), renamed “Yara” in the show to disambiguate her from Osha, the wildling turned Stark bondwoman. Asha’s introduction in the book is a stroke of genius, toying with Theon and finally dropping the proverbial ACME anvil on his head. Here “Yara” is more a smirking nuisance who has yet to fill
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Prominent Chinese dissident dies at 76 The Associated Press BEIJING — Fang Lizhi, one of China’s best-known dissidents whose speeches inspired student protesters throughout the 1980s, has died in the United States, where he fled after China’s 1989 military crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in Beijing. He was 76. Once China’s leading astrophysicist, Fang and his wife hid in the U.S. Embassy for 13 months after the crackdown. In exile, he was a physics professor at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Fang’s wife, Li Shuxian, confirmed to The Associated Press in Beijing that Fang died Friday morning in Tucson. Fang inspired a generation, said his friend and fellow U.S.-based exiled dissident Wang Dan, who announced the death on
Facebook and Twitter. “I hope the Chinese people will never forget that there was once a thinker like Fang Lizhi. He inspired the '89 generation, and awoke in the people their yearning for human rights and democracy,” Wang wrote. “One day, China will be proud to once have had Fang Lizhi.” “Fang is my spiritual teacher, his death is a major blow to me. At this moment, my grief is beyond words,” Wang wrote. The son of a postal clerk in Hangzhou, Fang was admitted to Beijing University in 1952, at age 16, to study theoretical physics and nuclear physics. He became one of China’s pioneer researchers in laser theory. He burst into political prominence during prodemocracy student demonstrations of 1986-8 when he became China’s most outspoken and eloquent proponent of democratic reform.
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Retiring UT President Andy Holt speaks at the Presidential Honors Banquet on May 20, 1970. Holt, the 16th president of the university, was a master educator whose wit, charm and people skills helped him to become one of the most well loved and known members of UT history.
Syrian conflict crosses borders The Associated Press KILIS, Turkey — The bloody conflict in Syria spilled across two borders Monday, killing a cameraman in Lebanon and wounding at least five people in a refugee camp in Turkey as gunfire flew across the tense frontiers, authorities said. The violence came as a U.N.-brokered peace plan all but collapsed and bolstered fears that the uprising could spark a broader conflagration by sucking in neighboring countries. Ali Shaaban, a cameraman for the Al Jadeed television station, was filming in Lebanon’s northern Wadi Khaled area when a bullet pierced his chest, Lebanese security officials said. The gunfire came from the nearby Syrian village of Armouta, the officials said. Shaaban, who was born in 1980, died on the way to the hospital, the officials said on condition of anonymity in line
with regulations. His colleague, reporter Hussein Khreis, said the team heard heavy gunfire around them from all sides, “falling like rain.” Shaaban was inside a car when he was struck, Khreis said. “If you see the car you would think it was in a war zone,” Khreis said on Al Jadeed TV. “It is completely destroyed from the bullets.” He said they waited for more than two hours for the army and some residents to come and pull them out to safety. “I ask forgiveness from Ali’s family because I couldn’t do anything for him,” he said, breaking into tears. Earlier Monday, Syrian forces fired across the border into a refugee camp in Turkey, wounding at least five people, authorities said. The Syrian soldiers were believed to be firing at rebels who tried to escape to the
refugee camp after ambushing a military checkpoint, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, citing a network of sources on the ground. Turkey shelters thousands of refugees who have fled Syria as President Bashar Assad tries to crush a revolt against his regime. The U.N. estimates some 9,000 people have been killed in Syria since March 2011, when the uprising began. The Syrian revolt began with mostly peaceful protests against Assad’s regime, a family dynasty that has ruled the country for four decades. But in the face of a relentless military assault on protests, the opposition has become increasingly militarized. Now, the uprising resembles an armed insurgency, and there are fears the country is spiraling toward civil war. International envoy Kofi Annan brokered a cease-fire that was supposed to begin Tuesday, but the plan is in tatters.
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Inconsistent play continues for Vols Ben Daniel Staff Writer In the final two away matches of the regular season, the Tennessee men’s tennis team showed more signs of an up-and-down season with a dominating win over Auburn followed by an embarrassing loss to Alabama. The Vols (13-11, 5-5 SEC) have found themselves at points this season where it has seemed as if they were going to turn things around and start dominating their way through the schedule. On a five-game win streak, UT dominated No. 16 Auburn 5-2 to start the weekend, but then made the trip to Tuscaloosa only to be destroyed by a sub-par Alabama squad, 6-1 on Sunday. “I think maybe our problem was our guys thought they had a good one on Friday so at least we got something out of the weekend, which obviously is completely the wrong mentality,” UT head coach Sam Winterbotham said. “You have to give Alabama credit. We gave them an opportunity and they took it.” Winterbotham knows he has a team better than the one that has shown up each week, and Friday, when the Vols were able to deliver Auburn its first home loss, the coach and Vols fans felt sure that the team was hitting its peak. After winning the doubles point for the first time in several weeks, wins from Brandon Fickey, Edward Jones and Hunter Reese helped clinch the match for the Vols. Jarryd Chaplin and Jones were able to win a sixth-consecutive doubles match while freshman duo Mikelis Libietis and Reese also grabbed a
victory, avoiding a fourth-straight loss. “You have to stay focused,” Chaplin said. “I played to win and that’s what the coaches asked of us. I think our team as a whole did a very good job of playing to win tonight.” The match had UT pumped and ready with high expectations as they headed into Tuscaloosa, only to be completely deflated. Prior to the match, Winterbotham admitted that Alabama was looking better than the team’s record showed, and that he knew it would be a challenge not to be overlooked. Overlooking seemed to be what many Vols were doing on Sunday. Unable to win another doubles point in consecutive matches, Tennessee fell behind quickly. Reese won in quick fashion 6-3, 6-1, but then, only losing four of the first six sets, UT was demolished one-by-one in each remaining match. The only bright spots of the match were Reese’s win and doubles duo Chaplin and Jones grabbing a seventh-consecutive victory. With recent troubles in winning doubles matches consistently and freshman star Libietis losing seven of his last nine singles matches, the Vols will need to make adjustments and find a way to win in the only match left before the SEC Tournament, at home against Georgia Saturday. “The best teammates are the ones that give, and they care more about giving to the program and giving to each other,” Winterbotham said. “Right now, we need more of those guys. Too many guys are just coming along for the ride and riding the coattails of the few who are giving the effort needed. It’s time they gave the same effort.”
Watson wins Masters The Associated Press AUGUSTA, Ga. — Sometimes, winning a golf tournament or putting on a green jacket can change a guy’s life. Bubba Watson insists he’s not that guy. Maybe that explains his ability to pull off the impossible when the pressure was boiling over at the Masters on Sunday. Perched atop pine needles far right of the fairway with a better view of a TV tower than the green, the left-hander hooked his way out of trouble and into history. His 155-yard curveball landed on the green and beat South Africa’s Louis Oosthuizen on the second hole of a playoff and turned Oosthuizen’s double eagle earlier in the round into the second-best shot on a day filled with magic at Augusta National. While Oosthuizen failed to get up and down from in front of the green, Watson wrapped it up with a no-stress two-putt on the 10th green to clinch his first major, then sobbed hard on his mother's shoulder. A bittersweet celebration. His father, Gerry, died 18 months ago after a long bout with cancer. But waiting at home for him is his wife, Angie, and their adopted newborn son, Caleb. “The thing is, golf is not my everything,” Watson said. “But for me to come out here and
win, it’s awesome for a week and then we get back to real life. I haven’t changed a diaper yet, so I’m probably going to have to change a diaper soon.” Watson insists the shot that earned him the green jacket wasn't as ridiculously hard as it looked. Mostly because of his attitude. He hasn't taken formal lessons and insists he has never hit a ball perfectly straight. His motto, as he explained to caddie Ted Scott on the day they met six years ago: “If I have a swing, I have a shot.” So when he blocked the tee shot on No. 10 into the woods, behind the gallery, onto the pine straw, way back in jail, he felt no sense of panic. “I get down there, saw it was a perfect draw,” Watson said. “Even though the tower was in my way, I didn’t want to ask if I could get relief or anything, because it just set up for a perfect draw — well, hook. That’s what we did. We just kept talking about you never know what’s going to happen out here. Anything can happen.” Can and pretty much did on this day. The excitement started with a pair of holesin-1 on No. 16 by Adam Scott and Bo Van Pelt, each of whom was playing for position, not the championship. The fireworks really started when the leaders got on the course.
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Jarryd Chaplin stretches for a shot during a match against Vanderbilt on March 30. The Vols dropped a match on the road in Tuscaloosa, Ala., to the Crimson Tide, 6-1.
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Personal goals unimportant for Brown Riley Blevins Staff Writer Most people have heard the saying the apple does not fall far from the tree. When it comes to UT softball junior Melissa Brown’s family, it happens to be apples. “My dad was the athletic one; he played basketball, football and baseball and all that,” Brown said. “He went to a junior college and played there. My mom is more pageantry, so definitely, I think I get it from my dad’s side.” However, Brown was not the only one to follow in the footsteps of her father, Douglas. Brown’s twin brother, Trevor, is a junior catcher on No. 8 UCLA’s baseball team. Brown said growing up with Trevor did more than just provide friendly competition. “It was great,” she said. “It was great playing with (Trevor) and it was competitive all the time. It definitely made us both better. We used to, at first, tease each other and say, ‘Come on you could do better,’ but as we got older it’s fun to just see each other play. But it’s been more than just fun. Sure we tease each other, but he definitely pushed me to be the best I could be and taught me to never stop working.” With help from her brother, the Valencia, Calif. native has been striving to earn a starting role in the Lady Vols’ lineup since she arrived on campus. Playing in 31 games with 29 starts this season, Brown has reached her goal and then some. “The past two years my goal has been to earn a starting spot,” Brown said. “At this point, now that I’ve done this, I’m not sure, I guess I’d want to hit for a career .300 or something above that, I guess, if were talking numbers. For now, I just want to hit the ball hard. If I hit the ball hard each at-bat, I’d be more than happy.”
Since nabbing a starting spot, Brown has never looked back, coming up clutch for the Lady Vols early on this season, most notably against then-No. 1 Alabama. In March, Brown and the Lady Vols faced the daunting task of traveling to Tuscaloosa to take on the Crimson Tide and its nation-best 26game winning streak. Still scoreless in the second inning, Brown trotted towards the batter’s box in an at-bat that would change the tone of the entire game. Brown fell behind early in the count, taking two straight strikes. After battling off the next 12 pitches, Brown turned on a rising fastball, blasting a three-run home run that rattled off the left field fair pole to give Tennessee a lead it would never surrender. “It was a great moment for (Brown) and the team and really everyone,” said UT co-head coach Ralph Weekly. “It’s always great to see a great girl like Melissa do well and have hard work pay off.” With that said, Brown’s personal memories like her Alabama homer take a back seat to the bigger picture. “You see, it’s really not about personal stuff,” she said. “We obviously we want to get to the (Women’s College) World Series and be a national championship team and win the SEC.” Brown, who is currently hitting .303 with five doubles, five home runs and 18 RBIs, is helping the team do just that. “I mean, I have my goals and the team has their goals,” Brown said. “Yeah, we have goals to beat certain teams, and do certain things in certain games, but we just come out here and try to win every game. “At the end of the day, that’s all that matters, winning and doing our best to go to the World Series. I think we have the team and heart to do it.”
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Melissa Brown applauds after reaching second base during a game against Georgia on Wednesday. Brown comes from a long lineage of baseball players, noting that the support and common bond helped her mature as both a player and a person.
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Zack Godley winds up to deliver a pitch to an Alabama batter during a game on March 30. Godley helped the Vols to their only win in a three-game road series against the defending national champion South Carolina.
Godley, Vols take one of three from Gamecocks David Cobb Staff Writer Junior pitcher Zack Godley leads UT in both starts and wins, so the fact that he was Tennessee’s starting pitcher in Friday night’s series-opening game against South Carolina was not a surprise. His performance, which earned the Vols (2012, 6-6 SEC) their only win of this weekend’s three-game set in a 5-4 decision, was also on par with his earlier performances this season. For Godley, however, the stakes were higher than usual. The Bamberg, S.C. native attended high school 60 miles away from Carolina Stadium, a venue that, on Friday, was filled with 8,242 fans, hoping to see their No. 12 Gamecocks (23-9, 5-7 SEC) sweep UT for a third consecutive year. “I noticed a little anxiety out of him (Godley) early on, after he warmed up,” UT head coach Dave Serrano said. “He was a little anxious and I told him, ‘Just relax, there’s a lot of people here to see you and just make them proud of what you do,’ and he did.” Godley held the Gamecocks at bay for nearly six innings, allowing just two earned runs while the Vols’ offense sputtered against the 2011 College Baseball Insider player of the year, South Carolina senior pitcher Michael Roth. Senior shortstop Zach Osborne scored the winning run for UT in the top of the ninth inning after reliever Matt Price’s double-play attempt resulted in a throwing error.
“We kind of overcame ourselves and that’s kind of what we’ve been doing lately,” Serrano said. “But I’m very proud of how we overcame Roth and Price, two guys who I think are very good pitchers in college baseball.” Though it was junior Drew Steckenrider who earned the win on the mound for UT, Serrano was pleased with how Godley handled the heightened circumstances surrounding Friday’s start. “He gave us an opportunity to win on Friday night against one of the best college pitchers, and one of the better programs in the country,” Serrano said. “So all I can do is tip my hat and be very proud of what he did.” Junior Nick Blount kept the Gamecocks off the board in the final frame, recording his seventh save in a row to go with UT’s seven-game winning streak, which came to an end with a 21 Saturday loss that was followed by a 6-1 Sunday defeat. Though Godley was disappointed that the Vols ultimately dropped the series, he enjoyed the spotlight that Friday provided him. “Getting to come back to South Carolina, getting to start against them on a Friday night was a great feeling and I’m glad I got that opportunity,” Godley said. “But we just couldn’t come away with it on Saturday and Sunday. “It’s big, we were right in there on both games and we should’ve had both of them, we just didn’t want to take it away and I wish we could have.” UT travels to Johnson City to take on ETSU Wednesday before returning home on Friday to face No. 1 Florida in a three-game series.