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Ceramics Club hosts biannual pottery sale Proceeds finance student scholarships, opportunities to accommodate visiting artists ty,” said Short. Another way the club uses the proceeds Brittney Dougherty is to give scholarships. Holloway says Staff Writer these are given to members if they earn a Student artists are raising money for certain amount with their pieces. They the ceramic arts program by selling their can use the money to attend the National pottery today and Thursday in the Art and Council for Education in the Ceramic Arts conferences. Architecture Building. “You have an opportunity to get a perPresident of the Ceramic Arts Club and graduate teaching assistant in art, Hannah centage of the sale and you can put it Short, says this is a biannual sale, which toward room and board at the conferhappens in November and April and is ences,” he said. The Ceramic Arts Club has been a part designed so students have a way to purchase works of art in order to give them as of UT since 1973 and is university-sponsored. The club is gifts. mostly made up cur“We always try to rent ceramics stuhave it right before dents as well as alumChristmas and right ni. However, everyone before Mother’s Day,” is welcome and there Short said. are a few ways to sign The money the up. club earns from the “Usually you can event will benefit the just talk to some of members in multiple the people in the ways. Matthew ceramics studio,” Holloway, senior in Holloway said, “and studio art, is the vice there’s also a president of the Facebook page.” Ceramic Arts Club Short and and says some of the Holloway agree that money goes to host- – Hannah Short, President of the Ceramic the club makes a lot ing visiting artists. Arts Club, on the club’s biannual sale of art from functional Right now, Michal pottery to sculpture. Puszczynski from They also plan the biPoland is staying for a few months. His art will also be part of annual sale and arrangements for visiting artists. Holloway says working with the the sale. “The biggest part of our club is that it visiting artists is very interesting and is brings in visiting artists for the ceramics also fun to show them around town. At the sale, there will be a variety of area,” Holloway said. ceramics from plates and bowls to more The last artist they had in residence complicated pieces. Holloway says there was Walter McConnell and he was only in will most likely be some paintings and town for a small amount of time. Short sculptures as well. says that the club’s last pottery sale The sale will be today and tomorrow enabled them to have McConnell stay for from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Art and an extended week. She says the club mainArchitecture building. Prices for the art ly helped McConnel with work at the will vary but there will also be raffles so Tara Sripunvoraskul • The Daily Beacon Downtown Gallery on Gay Street. “It’s things like that which expose us as that students have a chance to win some of Students observe different kinds of ceramics during the Pot and Print sale last ceramic students to other artists and the more expensive pieces by entering semester. The UT Potters will be holding their bi-annual pottery sale today and other professors in the ceramic communi- their names. tomorrow from 9 a.m.- 6 p.m. in the Art and Architecture building.

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Judge makes statement with high bail Associated Press CHESTER, Pa. — A judge wanting to send a message about violence in a crime-ridden Philadelphia suburb jailed a 16-year-old shooting suspect on $2.5 million bail on Monday, three days after a guard spotted him with a gun outside a social hall where a shooting killed two teens and wounded eight other people. Kanei Daniel Avery was charged with aggravated assault and related charges following Friday’s shooting in Chester, a city outside Philadelphia where violence was so pervasive last year the mayor declared a state of emergency and instituted a 9 p.m. curfew in some high-crime areas. “A situation like this, you have to make a statement,” said District Judge Spencer Seaton, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. “These things have to stop. These families are hurting. The community is hurting as a whole.” Three others from nearby Claymont, Del., are also charged, including the 19year-old woman who rented the hall for a party, authorities said. No one has been charged in the deaths of Robel Laboy, 18, and David Gabi Caballero • The Daily Beacon Johnson, 19. The cause of A performer dances during the Anadasgisi, the Gathering of International Natives Kickoff on April 8 in the HSS the shooting remains under Amphitheater. The event included dancing, food, an Aztec Fire Dance and an open discussion with Principal investigation, but a neighChief Michell Hicks of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.

borhood feud could be to blame, police said. “Preliminarily, we’re getting information that it was two different neighborhood groups within the city that had a history over the past year and a half,” said Major John Gretsky told the Delaware County Daily Times. Ballistics tests are being performed on multiple weapons recovered from the scene, but police have not determined their owners, Chester police said. A hundred or more teens attended the party at the Minaret Temple No. 174 before shooting broke out shortly before 11:30 p.m. Friday. Authorities said Avery was holding a silver handgun at the base of the temple’s steps when he was tackled by a security guard. Police arrested him moments later. Three other people were taken into custody in an office inside the temple. Carlisha Coleman, 19, had rented the hall for a birthday party that was advertised on Facebook. She and Gregory Santana, 23, and Derrick Hamlin, 18, were charged with assault, reckless endangerment and risking a catastrophe. They were held on $300,000 bail. The district judge’s office has no record of any of the four suspects having attorneys. Court records indicate none has requested a public defender.

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1997: Tiger Woods wins first major tournament

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Jesse Weber, sophomore in environmental studies, practices slacklining near HSS on April 6. Slacklining is a sport that requires balancing on nylon webbing between two anchor points which, on campus, are commonly trees.

On April 13, 1997, in Augusta, Ga., 21-year-old Tiger Woods wins the prestigious Masters Tournament by a record 12 strokes. It was Woods’ first victory in one of golf’s four major championships — the U.S. Open, the British Open, the PGA Championship, and the Masters — and the greatest performance by a professional golfer in more than a century. Eldrick “Tiger” Woods was born in a suburb of Los Angeles, Calif., on Dec. 30, 1975. The only child of an African-American father and a Thai mother, Woods was encouraged from infancy by his father for a career in golf. At the age of two, he teed off against comedian Bob Hope on television’s Mike Douglas Show. At five years old, he was featured on the television show That’s Incredible. At age eight, Tiger won his first junior world championship, and in 1991, at age 15, he became the youngest player ever to win the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship. He also captured the 1992 and 1993 Junior Amateur titles, and in 1994 accepted a scholarship to attend Stanford University. That year, he came from six holes behind to win the first of his three consecutive U.S. Amateur championships. He was 18 years old and the youngest Amateur champion in history. In 1995, Tiger played the Masters, his first professional major championship. The Augusta National Golf Club, which runs the Masters, had not let an AfricanAmerican join its ranks until 1991. Woods finished 41st in his first Masters appearance. In 1996, he won the collegiate title. By this time, he was already attracting considerable media attention and attracting throngs of new fans to the sport. After claiming his third U.S. Amateur title, Woods left college and turned professional in August 1996. Playing as a pro in eight Professional Golfers’ Association (PGA) events in 1996, he won a title and was named the

PGA Tour’s outstanding rookie. In December 1996, he was celebrated by the magazine Sports Illustrated as its “Sportsman of the Year.” In professional play, most of Woods’ opponents were in their late 30s or early 40s. At six-foot-two and 155 pounds, he was slender and athletic, and had developed a devastating swing that routinely allowed him to hit drives of more than 300 yards. He also had a reputation for mental toughness and was a superb putter and chipper. In April 1997, all these attributes came together for the most decisive victory in the Masters’ 44-year history. His margin of victory — 12 strokes — was the largest in the 20th century, and second only to Old Tom Morris’ 13-shot margin at the 1862 British Open. His score of 18-under-par 270 broke Jack Nicklaus’ 32-year-old Masters record of 17-under-par 271. He was the youngest golfer by two years to win the Masters and the first person of Asian or African heritage to win a major. Never before had so many spectators come to Augusta National, and never before had so many people watched it on television. By June 1997, Tiger was ranked No. 1 in the world. In 1999, he won eight PGA tournaments, earned a record $6 million, and began a winning streak that eventually tied Ben Hogan’s 1948 streak, the second longest in PGA history. In June 2000, he won his first U.S. Open title, shooting a record 12-underpar 272 to finish 15 strokes ahead of his nearest competitors. It was the greatest professional golf performance in history, surpassing even his 1997 Masters’ triumph and Old Tom Morris’ 1862 showing. In July 2000, he captured the British Open, and in August the PGA championship. At the age of 24, he was the youngest player ever to win all four major golf titles and just the second to win three majors in a year. —This Day in History is courtesy of history.com.

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experts who can contribute significantly to research, teaching and innovations in science and engineering. These individuals are crucial to maintaining and advancing the nation's technological infrastructure and national security as well as contributing to the economic wellbeing of society at large. As the oldest graduate fellowship of its kind, the fellowship has a long history of selecting recipients who achieve high levels of success in their future academic and professional careers. Past fellows include numerous Nobel Prize winners, U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, Google founder Sergey Brin, and “Freakonomics” co-author Steven Levitt. 3 UT students win prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Three graduate students at UT are recipients of the 2011 National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship. The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees. Frankie Pack, anthropology graduate student, Kemper Talley, a biophysics graduate student, and Samantha Tracht, a mathematics graduate student, are the 2011 recipients. Each will receive $30,000 over the next year along with a $10,500 cost-of-education allowance for tuition and fees and opportunities for international research and professional development. Four students received honorable mentions: Jacob Lamanna, graduate student in mechanical engineering; Sara Kuebbing, graduate student in ecology and evolutionary biology; Jessica Bryant, graduate student in ecology and evolutionary biology; and Joshua Birkebak, graduate student in plant physiology. Pack came to UT from Baylor University where she spent five years working at Baylor’s university museum, the Mayborn Museum Complex. Currently, she is a member of the Department of Anthropology’s molecular anthropology laboratories where she is part of a team combining information from ancient DNA analyses and skeletal analyses to learn about the connections between genotype and phenotype. Her research, conducted with her mentor, Graciela Cabana, an assistant professor in anthropology, will take her to New Mexico and Argentina to look at the impact of genetic research on societal attitudes. Talley comes to UT from Clemson University. At Clemson, Talley studied protein biophysics, publishing four papers in different peer-reviewed journals. He is a Barry M. Goldwater Scholar; received the Outstanding Senior in Sciences award and the Sigma Pi Sigma Physics award for the best senior in physics at Clemson University; and expects to be graduating summa cum laude from the university. Talley will be part of the inaugural class of the Center for Interdisciplinary and Graduate Research Education (CIRE) at UT. His research for the NSF fellowship will possibly involve interdisciplinary work with biophysics and nuclear physics. The current situation in Japan has elevated Talley’s desires to pursue nuclear energy and physics research which expands the understanding of environmental and biological impacts of nuclear power. Tracht came to UT from Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. She is in the mathematics Ph.D. program and is a Program for Excellence and Equity in Research scholar. She spent the past two summers as a research assistant at Los Alamos National Lab. Tracht specializes in mathematical biology with an interest in infectious disease modeling. Her proposed research for the NSF fellowship is a comprehensive model for raccoon rabies in which she will use optimal control to determine the best placement for oral rabies vaccines. Working with her research mentor, mathematics professor Suzanne Lenhart, her goal is to build a realistic model using USDA data and obtain more accurate economic costs for the bait distribution. The NSF’s fellowship program aims to help ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science and engineering in the U.S. The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees. NSF fellows are anticipated to become knowledge

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Ready for the World Cafe serves up Central American and South American cuisine The Ready for the World Café at UT will celebrate Central and South America this week. The Day of the Americas, a Honduran holiday, is Thursday. The menu will include roasted chayote and red pepper salad with tangerine dressing, Aztec chicken, grilled tilapia Vera Cruz with lemon and thyme, scented salsa, Yucatan style pork, meatless tamale pie, Ecuadorian potato cakes with peanut sauce, and green beans with coriander and garlic. The café is an international buffet operated by students in the advanced food production and service management class, Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism (HRT) 445, at UT. The café is open from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. each Monday through Thursday in the Hermitage Room on the third floor of the UC. Diners pay $11 for the all-you-can-eat buffet or $9 for a plate of food to carry out. Aramark’s faculty/staff discount card can be used at the café. Students in HRT 445 take turns planning the menus, marketing the café and working in the café. ARAMARK, UT’s provider of dining services, prepares the food. This week’s café manager is Ben Nadeau. Nadeau, of Vienna, Virginia, is a senior in HRT with a minor in business. His concentration is in lodging, and this past summer, he completed an internship at Wintergreen Resort, located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of central Virginia. International festival to include celebration of civility, community This year’s International Festival at UT will feature booths selling food and entertainment ranging from juggling to Chinese acrobatics to Egyptian belly dancing. And, this year, the International Festival also will include a Celebration of Civility and Community, hosted by Chancellor Jimmy G. Cheek. The twenty-sixth annual International Festival, hosted by the International House, will take place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday on the UC Plaza. It is free and open to the public. The civility initiative was launched last semester by the chancellor after several incidents of disrespect and discrimination occurred on campus. Cheek appointed a task force that recommended ways to promote civility on campus. During the Celebration of Civility and Community, Student Success Center Director Anton Reece will introduce Cheek, who will talk about civility efforts on campus. Jessica Session, who performed a moving poem during the kickoff to the 50th anniversary of African American Achievement, will perform another original work.

Opry Mills to start reconstruction Associated Press Nearly a year after severe flooding closed Nashville’s Opry Mills shopping mall, officials said reconstruction is set to begin. After an initial cleanup, progress on the reconstruction had been stalled for months because insurers would provide only $50 million. The Mills company has said the mall suffered more than $200 million in damage, and in September it filed suit against 17 insurance companies claiming they owed another $150 million. On Tuesday, Mills President Gregg Goodman said the company will not have to wait for the outcome of that suit to move forward. While the lawsuit is ongoing, the company has reached an agreement with lenders that will allow for rebuilding to begin immediately. Goodman said the mall is expected to reopen next spring with some anchor tenants planning to open before year's end. Only the Bass Pro Shops is currently open. Gov. Bill Haslam spoke after the announcement, saying the reopening will mean 3,000 more jobs for Tennesseans and about $26 million dollars more in sales tax, about $20 million for the state and the remainder for the city. “This shows confidence in this state and this region, for their willingness to reinvest,” Haslam said. “If you know anything about the retail industry, you’ll know there’s not a whole lot of

building going on right now.” Nashville Mayor Karl Dean said that the construction jobs will help the city and seeing construction start up at the mall again will be a morale boost for residents. Chain link fencing currently blocks off the vacant buildings and parking lots of the mall, which can be seen from the main thoroughfare of Briley Parkway. “Nashville has come a long way in the 11 months since the May floods,” Dean said. “The pace of recovery is well beyond what is typical.” He cited the reopening of the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center and the Grand Old Opry as signs of progress, but said there is still work to do. A record 13.5 inches of rain fell on Nashville May 1-2, causing the Cumberland River and its tributaries to overflow their banks. The resulting flood killed nine people in the Nashville area and caused more than $2 billion in damage. “It is a multi-year process,” Dean said of the recovery efforts. “The city will not be satisfied until we see every person back in their homes.” Dean and Haslam said The Mills company has not asked for any tax breaks or other incentives to aid in the rebuilding. Goodman said most of the previous anchor tenants have committed to staying in the mall and several new retailers are coming as well. After the rebuild, it will have over 200 stores.

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Editor’sNote SGA victors lack integrity in celebration Zac Ellis Editor-in-Chief I’ve always been a firm believer in the transparency of public officials; that is, making sure the general population is aware of the goings-on within the office of elected individuals. After all, people who hold such positions are just that: elected, meaning they are to serve the population of voters which elected them. Ideally, an elected official is nothing more than an extension of the people whom he or she represents. Therefore, one might expect such individuals to behave in a respectable manner. But things don’t always work out that way. On April 6, the Reach campaign celebrated its victorious run in the 2011 SGA election on UT’s campus. All three winning candidates defeated their opponents of the SPARK campaign to obtain the presidential, vice presidential and Student Services director positions within SGA. The candidates announced the party’s victory while standing atop a picnic table on a crowded deck of supporters at the Roaming Gnome on The Strip. Amid celebratory remarks and thank-yous to friends, the candidates basked in the glory of a campaign well-run. After all, there’s nothing wrong with a pat on the back for a job well-done. But the manner in which the candidates did so left a bad taste in the mouth of this onlooker. First, there were no consolation remarks in the Reach public address towards the losing campaign, SPARK, which was simultaneously learning of its loss at Tin Roof just down The Strip. Meanwhile, the term “blowout” was used on at least one occasion in the Reach public address to describe its own victory. But those examples pale in comparison to what came next. As one winning Reach candidate stood high atop the picnic table, smiling amid cheers from the crowd, he extended his arms to point his middle fingers in the general direction of Tin Roof and the SPARK campaign from the top deck of The Roaming Gnome, an awe-inspiring act of disrespect. And this is who we elected to represent the student body? Full disclosure: I did not vote in this year’s SGA

election. This came neither as a result of apathy nor hatred; admittedly, I simply forgot to vote. I have friends who worked with both campaigns, but I held no personal vendetta nor support for either of the SGA parties or their campaign platforms. I also hold no grudge against SGA as a whole. The effectiveness (or lack thereof) of student government on this campus has been a hot-button debate throughout the entirety of my tenure at UT. Though both the successes and failures of SGA have been well-documented, I’d never claim to know the interworkings of an organization with which I’ve never been involved. The work of student government is understandably timeconsuming. But I do know this: there’s an unwritten level of professionalism that should be expected from anyone representing the masses. Perhaps forgetting to acknowledge an opposing party or boasting about one’s margin of victory are not examples of reprehensible behavior, but flipping the bird in an opponent’s face has no place in the realm of public service, let alone this campus. In truth, our newest student government leaders should be wholeheartedly embarrassed with this type of behavior. Let’s take a moment to look at the facts: according to its campaign, the Reach candidate who tallied the most total votes brought in 2,524 votes in the election. UT features an enrollment of roughly 27,000 total undergraduate and graduate students, so based on my math, only about 9.3 percent of UT students voted for that candidate. That means that less than one in every 10 students at this university voted for the SGA candidate with the largest vote total. So I ask, why exhibit an arrogant sense of entitlement when nearly 90 percent of campus opted not to vote for you? SGA leaders are big on offering challenges, so let me offer a few: To the new student leaders of our campus, take a lesson in humility. Realize that you now represent the entire UT campus, not just the students who voted for you (and yes, this includes those students within SPARK whom you so blatantly disrespected last week). Represent with dedication and respect. Do what is right. You want SGA to be taken seriously? Try acting seriously. — Zac Ellis is a senior in journalism and electronic media. He can be reached at rellis13@utk.edu. Follow him on Twitter @ZacEllis.

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Similarities found in social movements T he Pen is Mightier by

Sean Mahoney Over the past couple of weeks, a number of my history classes have examined the evolution of the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. One class in particular ended with a question that seemed to stimulate much thought among my classmates. The class was simply asked if there are any movements in today’s society that parallel the Civil Rights Movement in any way. After a few seconds of rather awkward silence, a few students fell on the issue of gay rights in the U.S. This inevitably led to the question of whether or not the debate surrounding gay rights in today’s society is anything like the Civil Rights Movement decades ago, or if some are merely seeking to romanticize current issues. With the goal of only examining the facts at hand and not arguing for or against either side, perhaps something can be learned by comparing and contrasting the two movements. Like the best historians, it is important to me to remain as impartial as possible and allow you to draw your own conclusions. Now, with all arguments aside, examination of the debate surrounding gay rights does reveal some rather interesting parallels to the Civil Rights Movement decades ago. For example, the argument for granting the homosexual community equal rights is not much of a leap from the same arguments made during segregation. This appeal to the founding principles of our nation is simple enough to be understood by nearly everyone and shows the universal appeal both movements have in common. This argument for the right of every man to be free is fundamental to nearly every American and both movements obviously recognized the potential of such claims. Another common similarity many may argue is that both movements argue for a fight against oppression and discrimination. Like the black population during segregation, gays feel specifically targeted for being different. Even their push for the legalization of gay marriage can be partly interpreted as an attempt to belong to the group as a whole. Instead of their relationships or “unions” being labeled such to signify their differences, gays push for their

right to belong. So, in a sense, they are fighting for a society where individuals are not singled out, or segregated. The third similarity of some significance is the opposition. Many of the arguments against gay rights are, in themselves, very similar to arguments made against interracial marriages during the Civil Rights Era. Opposition to both movements use Christian theology to support their argument that marriage is meant to be between a man and a woman of the same race and anything else poses a threat to society. Arguments that gay marriage is unnatural and sinful are reminiscent of the very same rhetoric of the segregationists of the ’50s and ’60s. However, despite such similarities, there is no denying that the two movements reserve very different aspects as well. One major difference that many may argue is that the Civil Rights Movement rested on the issue of race, which is not a choice. According to the argument, homosexuality is not genetic in any way and rests on the choices of the individual to pursue “unnatural” practices. While research is still inconclusive on whether or not homosexuality is a “choice,” the argument does reveal a fundamental difference between the movements in that Civil Rights advocates were been born different and some believe gays chose to be different. The second, and perhaps most significant, difference between the two movements is that the push for desegregation fought against state-sponsored oppression on a much larger scale. While, as stated above, some could maybe interpret a ban on gay marriage as a form of segregation, it fails to compare the blatant policies regarding rights of blacks. During the first half of the 20th century, it was legal to discriminate against blacks. Restaurants could legally refuse to serve black customers based solely on their race. Such conditions are basically nonexistent in today’s society. Taking these aspects of the movements into account, the question still remains of whether or not they are truly alike. It certainly appears that much of the same issues the gay community is in conflict with mirror those of the Civil Rights Movement. But, at the same time, they are centered on the most basic and fundamental differences. In the end, it is up to the individual, as always, to decide whether or not the debate surrounding gay rights is this generation’s Civil Rights Movement in its push for freedom and acceptance. — Sean Mahoney is a senior in history. He can be reached at smahone1@utk.edu.

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I know every week I mention how much I’m not interested in college and how I’m ready to leave — but it’s not that I hate college and education, I just like learning more. We don’t stop learning when we leave college, since life is a learning experience all the time, especially if you’re like me and forget to learn anything the first time around. But sometimes I wonder if we emphasize the importance of education and learning in college as much as we should. Sometimes I feel like we give people too many opportunities for growth and too many side streets for them to take when they make mistakes, and are too soft on them. For example, I graduated high school in a class of 86 people. I always knew I was going to college, because my parents made it very clear that if I did not, I was not going to spend the rest of my adolescence in their basement and mooching off them. I also had too much hubris to work and not enough muscle definition to be useful for any job. Other people with whom I attended high school were going to college — however, a few of them got free rides, got there, smoked a lot of things they should not have and drank like Irishmen. As a result, they either dropped out/got kicked out or pursued other professions — one of them is on her way to being certified as a nurse anesthetist, which means about $150,000 per-annum, and way more than I will see in my life. Considering the fact that I have been here for five years, will earn three degrees and will make less than that really gets my gears grinding (although, admittedly, I chose my majors, and now I can choose how to use them). Still, others in my class sold drugs for fast cash, which seems to be all that people can see or understand that they need in order to live a very comfortable life. To me, this just reinforced the fact that no one else that I knew cared as much as I did about going out and seeing the world, and learning about it.

They only seemed to look at the short-term gains, not the long-term achievements in the big picture of where their life was going. Being born in a country where education was everything and you did not get second choices of what you wanted to do if you failed, I’m always conflicted when I realize other people’s priorities when it comes to their educational choices are different. Having parents who are natural perfectionists and expect you to do well for the intrinsic value of learning and to reap the rewards of good grades and a better life, it’s hard for me to reconcile that with the fact that other parents are not the same way, that some gave their kids incentives to do well or are more relaxed than mine are when it comes to how much they cared — or, you know, how much they asserted themselves into their kids academic lives (sorry, Dad, but I remember when you came to my high school and tried to argue over that B I received). In America, we are taught to go through college so that we MAY have a chance of getting that fantastic job we dream of (I say “may,” because in this economy, I’m not sure anymore). Most of us are not motivated by the love of learning as we should be, really the original reason for starting universities in the first place, as much as we are by a paycheck. But perhaps it is not just a failure on the part of our society but also the general apathy combined with uninteresting subject matter taught in schools and colleges today. While I understand that not many people are like me and do not put as much emphasis on education, I feel that it is deplorable that even in these harsh economic times, money is the first and last thing on everyone’s minds. If I, or anyone else, ever felt that way, there would be far fewer people teaching and not very many academics left at universities, period. It would be better if those that were going back to school were not just attending to secure a better life, but also at learn for purposes of personal enrichment and edification, considering the fact that learning and a love of it remains with us throughout our lives, though wealth may not. — Yasha Sadagopan is a senior in economics. She can be reached at ysadagop@utk.edu.

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Seniors lead tennis Vols in final home match Staff Reports Seniors Boris Conkic, Matteo Fago and John-Patrick Smith wrapped up their final match at home like so many other afternoons before in Knoxville. They ended with their 33rd consecutive team victory on their home courts. Conkic and Smith clinched a close doubles point at the top of the lineup, and all three seniors held steady in their singles matches to lead the fourth-ranked Vols to a 7-0 shutout over 16thranked Florida at Barksdale Stadium. Sophomore Edward Jones clinched the team win by beating Andrew Butz 6-4, 6-2 on court 6, and Fago provided the exclamation point to the afternoon by rallying for a three-set victory on court 4 to preserve the shutout in front of a season-best crowd of 781 in attendance. While the shutout on Senior Day makes for a good story, it is more important to note this: with the win, Tennessee still has the opportunity to win back-to-back SEC titles for the first time in program history. The Vols (19-3, 9-1 SEC) now travel to Georgia on Saturday with a chance to split the SEC regular-season title with the Bulldogs in the conference finale. Seventh-ranked Georgia defeated South Carolina 7-0 on Sunday to improve to 10-0 in SEC play. Tennessee has now won three in a row since dropping a match to Mississippi State on the road 6-1, which snapped a 17-match SEC winning streak. Smith said the loss was a galvanizing experience that should help the Vols as they enter the final stretch of the season. “I think that Mississippi State match was a real turnaround point for us,” Smith said. “That really help us come together

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“Playing against him, you have to stay calm,” Williams said. “You know he’s going to bring the energy. Staying calm out there is key. It’s hot out here and you don’t want to waste any energy getting fired up. I tried to stay composed and it really helped me today.” Smith followed with a 6-0, 6-3 victory over Bangoura on court 2 to improve to 8-1 in SEC play this spring, putting the Vols up 3-0. Jones improved to 12-0 in his career in Knoxville to give Tennessee its fourth point of the afternoon. After the match was clinched, Conkic defeated Billy Federhofer 6-4, 6-2 on court 5, and Sandgren extended his winning streak to 18 matches with a 7-5, 6-3 victory over Nassim Slilam. Fago was the last on the court against Bob Van Overbeek. After losing the first set 3-6, he rallied to win the next two 6-4, 62 to complete the Vols’ seventh shutout of the season. It was the first time Florida (13-8, 6-4) had been shut out 7-0 since 2005. “I was really pleased with the crowd that we had,” Fago said. “I wanted to give them my full effort, all I had today because I wanted my career to end the best way. My career has been amazing, and I wanted to end with a win.” The Vols’ season-ending match at Georgia begins at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday. A live blog will be available at UTSports.com. To Note: During the careers of the Vols’ three seniors, Tennessee is 53-2 at home in dual matches and has won 33 consecutive ... Senior John-Patrick Smith has won 32 straight matches in Knoxville. He improved to a team-leading 36-10 this season, including 8-1 in SEC play ... Sophomore Tennys Sandgren recorded his first 30-win season. He is 30-4 this year, and with his 10-0 SEC record, he is now 20-0 in his career in regular-season SEC matches ... Smith and senior Boris Conkic are now 21-1 this season, including 8-0 in the SEC.

more as a team and work on some of the things we needed to work on. It opened our eyes to a lot of weaknesses that we had, so I think it’s going to help us down the road. “Today was definitely an example of how much work we’ve done and how when we go from here, we need to play our best.” The doubles point required some late heroics from Conkic and Smith on court 1. After sophomores Rhyne Williams and Tennys Sandgren won 8-4 on court 2 and Fago and Jones lost 8-3 on court 3, everything came down to the top-ranked seniors. Conkic and Smith trailed Alexandre Lacroix and Sekou Bangoura Jr. 6-5 but broke Bangoura to even the score. With the home crowd backing them, the Vols duo broke Bangoura again to win the match 9-7 to clinch the doubles point and improve to 211 this spring. “The way the crowd was cheering for us in that match, it’s something I’m going to remember for the rest of my life,” Smith said. Smith has often mentioned one of his favorite matches was helping Kaden Hensel win his final home match as a freshman in 2008. On Sunday, the Tennessee sophomores helped make the current seniors’ last day memorable. Playing No. 1 this weekend for the first time in nearly a month, Williams kept his composure and produced one of his best performances of the spring against 10th-ranked Lacroix, an opponent he had faced twice during the fall. Lacroix won in three sets at the ITA All-American Championships, and Williams repaid the favor with a straight-set victory on his way to the singles title at the USTA/ITA National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships. The match was tilted in Williams’ favor from the start Sunday. He got breaks early in both sets and was first off the court for the Vols with a decisive 6-2, 6-2 victory over Lacroix.

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Players watch from the dugout as a ball is hit against South Carolina on April 7. The Volunteers were able to score just one run in a three-game home series against the reigning national champion Gamecocks.

UT’s Waggner named to watch list Staff Reports Tennessee defensive back Prentiss Waggner is one of 42 preseason candidates for the 2011 Lott IMPACT Trophy Award, which honors the top collegiate defensive player in the nation. The Lott IMPACT Trophy Award Watch List was announced at a recent luncheon hosted by Ronnie Lott and the Pacific Club IMPACT Foundation. Waggner, who earned Associated Press second team All-SEC and Scout.com second team All-America honors in 2010, broke the UT season record for interceptions returned for touchdowns, taking an NCAA FBS-leading three to the end zone. The Clinton, La., native tied for seventh in the FBS and first in the SEC with three recovered fumbles last season, while also tying for the team lead with five INTs. His eight total takeaways were the most by a Vol since Deon Grant picked off nine passes in 1999. Additionally, Waggner recorded 57 tackles, to rank fifth on the squad, along with nine passes defended, which was second among the Vols.

Waggner is one of 19 defensive backs and eight SEC studentathletes that are eligible to win the eighth annual Lott Trophy. In 2009, former UT defensive back Eric Berry became the Vols’ first finalist for the prestigious award. Previous recipients of the Lott Trophy are: 2004, David Pollack (Georgia); 2005, DeMeco Ryans (Alabama); 2006, Dante Hughes (California); 2007, Glenn Dorsey (LSU); 2008, James Laurinaitis (Ohio State); 2009, Jerry Hughes (TCU); and 2010, J.J. Watt (Wisconsin). Sponsored by The Pacific Club IMPACT Foundation in Newport Beach, the award is given to the player who exhibits the same characteristics Lott embodied during his distinguished career: Integrity, Maturity, Performance, Academics, Community and Tenacity. A national voter panel, made up of more than 200 former collegiate stars, former college coaches, members of the media and both the Lott IMPACT Board of Directors and Board of Advisors, will select the four finalists who will be honored at the annual Lott IMPACT Trophy banquet Dec. 11 in Newport Beach. For more information on the Lott Trophy, visit www.LottImpactTrophy.com.

Assistant committed March violation Associated Press Former Tennessee director of basketball operations Ken Johnson provided two free tickets to the mother of an athlete in March, a secondary violation that ultimately played a role in his firing and the firing of coach Bruce Pearl and his staff. Tennessee detailed the secondary violation in a March 25 letter to the Southeastern Conference released to The Associated Press on M o n d a y. The name of the athlete was blacked out. The athlete had already given away the four complimentary tickets he was allowed when the two additional tickets w e r e requested. The athlete repaid the $60 value of

the two tickets, and the payment was donated to charity. “This was an isolated error,” Tennessee associate athletics director for compliance Brad Bertani wrote in the letter. “Ken Johnson has never had an issue with NCAA rules infractions at Tennessee. Ken confirmed that he was not directed to provide the tickets by anyone and that this was the only time he has ever provided hard tickets to the family member of a studentathlete.” The letter says Johnson provided the tickets after receiving a call a few hours before the Volunteers’ March 6 game with Kentucky from someone “desperately trying to find two tickets” to the event, which included the team’s Senior Day honors and retirement of former Vol Allan Houston’s number. The tickets Johnson provided were tickets assigned to Lady Volunteers basketball staff members. Lady Vols director of basketball operations Kathy Harston allowed Johnson to use the tickets because the women’s basketball team was in Nashville for the SEC championship at the time of the game, but Johnson said he did not tell Harston or assistant athletics director for tickets Joe Arnone whom they were for. Tennessee became aware of the violation when compliance officials working at the player guest pass gate at Thompson-Boling Arena on March 6 noticed two men who entered using the Lady Vols tickets. Bertani questioned Johnson on March 8, and Johnson acknowledged providing the tickets.

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Departing Bjorklund drafted by Chicago Sky Staff Reports Tennessee Lady Vol senior basketball player Angie Bjorklund was selected with the 17th overall pick in the 2011 WNBA Draft (fifth pick, second round) by the Chicago Sky on Monday at the ESPN Headquarters. The 6-0 guard/forward becomes the 29th Lady Vol ever selected in the WNBA draft. “It’s definitely exciting,” Bjorklund said. “The waiting and suspense was tough, but Chicago is a great city and that is a great team. It doesn’t end here either. I’ve been working out really hard and hopefully I will be able to make the team. I now know where I’m going, and I have a goal to work toward.” Bjorklund leaves Tennessee as one of the most prolific three-point shooters in SEC history, tallying Lady Vol records

for treys made (305) and attempted in 31 games, starting 24, for the SEC (738). She scored 1,469 points — 20th- regular season and tournament champimost in Lady ons who advanced to the NCAA To u r n a m e n t Vol histoElite Eight . ry, and Over her four started year career, 113 of the the Lady Vols 132 games won three SEC she played To u r n a m e n t — ninthc h a m p i most in the onships, two UT record SEC regular book. season champiAs a onships and senior in the 2008 2010-11, N C A A Bjorklund Championship. averaged – Angie Bjorklund, Bjorklund 10.3 ppg, on being drafted by Chicago Sky was named to w h i l e the Lowe’s shooting a career-best and conference-leading 45.1 Senior CLASS Award All-America First percent from behind the arc. She played Team in 2011, as well as to the

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Angie Bjorklund guards an Ohio State player during the Dayton Regional Semifinal game on March 26. Bjorklund became the most recent Lady Vol drafted into the WNBA when she was picked 17th overall by the Chicago Sky on Monday.

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Question marks still remain in UT secondary Seniors Art Evans and Anthony Anderson will be competing along with redshirt sophomore Eric Gordon, and early Staff Writer enrollee freshman Justin Coleman all for the same spot on the corner this spring, a Going into spring practice a year ago, spot that will continue to get crowded once the Tennessee secondary was one of the junior college transfers most talked about units Byron Moore and Izauea on the team. Lanier, just two of possibly Then it was, “How are eight incoming defensive you going to replace Eric backs, report to Knoxville Berry, and who is coming for summer workouts. back?” Melvin Goins, the former Now it is, “How are Vols’ point guard, has startyou going to replace ed a trial run on a road less Janzen Jackson, or is he traveled, strapping the pads coming back?” back on and returning to the This winter saw Allgridiron for the first time SEC free safety Janzen since eighth grade. Jackson, who many “I always wanted to play regard as Tennessee’s football again,” said Goins. best player, withdraw “I figured it would be a good from school for personal deal for me to go out and reasons with an option to just give it a try and see if I return in the fall. Less still have the ability to do than a week later, startit.” ing strong safety Brent Dooley wasn’t quite ready Brewer was suspended to give him all the praise for a run-in with the law. after last Saturday’s scrimSince then, Brewer mage, but he did keep the has returned to the team tone light regarding the trial after resolving his legal period. issues, and the story has “(Goins) still does (look now shifted from controlike a point guard),” said versy to the transition of Dooley. “I’d still pick him a young secondary, to an first if we were — we do our experienced one. three-on-three in the offsea“Everybody has to son, so I hope we don’t mess become more consisthat up.” Tia Patron • The Daily Beacon tent,” said defensive Though the depth is backs coach Terry Defensive backs Marsalis Teague and Prentiss Waggner tackle a Florida player in last season’s matchup. Teague worlds better than last seaJoseph. “I think that was had seven pass deflections last season and Waggner was recently added to the 2011 Lott IMPACT Trophy Award son, Dooley, the hopeless the most disappointing watch list. romantic, isn’t ready to sit thing last year, where back and relax. we would have lulls “I’m (still) worried about the defense. ing the team in passes broken up with where we couldn’t There are young guys on defense. But a lot eight. make a play.” of those guys played last year in the sec“(Teague)’s doing better. He’s our best Tennessee returns ondary. I mean our whole secondary is corner,” said coach Derek Dooley. “But he’s All-SEC corner (or been pretty dependable. I think the more back. We need improvement.” safety, depending on Depth is one of the best problems you reps he gets, the more confidence he’ll get, the day) Prentiss the more aggressive he’ll play and the bet- can have in football, and now the only quesWaggner, who has tion is “Who is going to step up?” ter he’ll play.” been playing with a voids for us,” said Joseph. “He’s valuable, when (the freshman and transfers) get here, we’ll figure it out. But until then, he’s our “catch-all” to where I can fill him in wherever we need be. So that’s a tremendous value for us to have right now.”

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club on his injured left hand for the past two weeks. Though no fans want Waggner to have to replace Jackson, the junior could do it capably as he tied Jackson for a team-leading five interceptions last season, taking three of them back to the house for touchdowns. “He can fill a lot of

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Everybody has to become

more consistent. I think that

was the most disappointing

thing last year, where we would have lulls where we couldn’t make a play.

– Terry Joseph, defensive backs coach, on consistency throughout the season

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Just as traveled of a player is junior Marsalis Teague, who played in his first game as a cornerback against UT-Martin, after making the switch from wide receiver during fall camp. Despite missing time to a toe injury, Teague finished the season lead-