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Clubs, organizations team up to fight cancer Justin Joo Staff Writer The seven survivors lapped around Circle Park while the different teams stood on the edge of the road cheering them on. Those holding balloons could walk behind them.

Their run marked the beginning of Relay for Life, the nation-wide event that raises awareness and funding for the American Cancer Society. Beginning in 1985, the event has raised an estimated $3 billion.

Like most Relay events, UT’s officially starts with a Survivor Lap, where various cancer survivors or a survivor representative makes the first lap. The cheers from the sidelines come from the many fund raising teams, each representing different clubs and organizations from UT. Organizations included Pi Beta Phi sorority, whose member, Sara Corkern, was there until the relay’s end at 6 a.m. the following day. Like so many others, Corkern said the unifying reason for everyone helping was because of cancer’s terrible reach.

“We all know someone who’s affected by cancer,” said Corkern, junior in journalism and electronic media. “It affects all of us.”

Once the survivors’ lap was complete, others could join in for the “First Lap.” More than 200 attendees joined in, and as the lap was finished, everyone released their balloons.

Ashley McCloud, executive director of Relay for Life, couldn’t have been more pleased.

“I’m very impressed with the whole event,” McCloud, senior in public relations, said. “You expect problems of all kinds to happen, everything from people bailing to not having enough forks. But so far everything is going just right.”

McCloud has been working with Relay For Life for three years. The motivation comes from the death of her grandmother, who had cancer. McCloud found solace in working on the relay.

McCloud’s friend Andrea Bennett, junior in honors political science, also lost her grandmother to cancer.

Bennett is now director of team development and helps organize more than 40 teams and 1,300 individual participants.

“When I saw how much the American Cancer Society helped with my grandmother, I wanted to do something, I wanted to give back,” Bennett said. “It’s a really rewarding experience.”

Back in August, when planning for Relay for Life began, Bennett and McCloud asked different participants about their experience with the disease.

“You’ll go in a room and ask for the people who’ve had a grandparent pass away because of cancer to stand up,” Bennett said. “Then you ask those who’ve had a parent pass away to stand, and then if they’ve had a friend. …

Eventually, everyone is standing.”

The people participating in Relay, however, are nonetheless still cheery.

The booths were bustling with activity and laughter as dozens of teams and people walked around the Circle.

Some carried poster boards with the name of their team and the goods they were selling, such as pies and Belgium waffles.

The Belgium waffles came from the Morrill Hall booth, which at the time raised more than $350. One of the students operating the booth was Zachary Wallace, an undecided freshman. Both Wallace’s grandfather and aunt had been affected by cancer, and he was enthusiastic about everyone’s eager participation in Relay.

“It gives me hope that people care and are willing to work to help other people,” Wallace said.

Down the aisle that cuts through the middle of Circle Park was the booth for Undergraduate Anthropology Association, whose theme was Germany. Students there sold hot dogs and apple streusels.

Association vice-president Becca George, senior in anthropology, said their group was representing Donna Griffin, the principle secretary for the Department of Anthropology.

“We heard through the grapevine that she was fighting cancer,” George said. “We decided that we wanted to do something about it and show her our support.”

From that night alone, the Undergraduate Association raised more than $130.

Overall, McCloud estimated that more than $61,000 had been raised throughout the year, at least $15,000 of which came from Friday night.

“It turned out way better than any of us expected,” McCloud said.

Relay for Life is still accepting donations. Their fiscal year won’t end until August.

Those interested in being on the executive committee Sarah Houston • The Daily Beacon for next year can send inquiries to McCloud at amc- A bag supporting the efforts lights the pathway during Relay for Life on cloud@utk.edu or to the faculty adviser, Bonnie Hufford, Friday, April 13. The annual event helped to raise funds for the American at bhufford@utk.edu.

Cancer Society, raising an estimated $61,000 this year at UT.

Director addresses honors students Blair Kuykendall Editor-in-Chief Students gathered in the Baker Center on Thursday evening to discuss the development of the Chancellor’s Honors Program with its director, Steve Dandaneau.

Dandaneau opened by taking a S.W.O.T. analysis of the honors program. This technique is commonly employed in strategic business planning to discover an organization’s strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats.

“Our greatest strength is our students,” Dandaneau said. “They are in the top tier across the nation. Not only that, but our program has great diversity ... that makes your education better.”

He was careful to highlight the importance of an honors student’s role on campus.

“Honors students are an asset to the university,” Dandaneau said. “Bright, diverse and engaged. You aren’t just sitting around benefiting individually, you are engaged, you are actors.”

Students were excited to hear more about the

university’s plan to house the honors college in the Baker Center. The honors office is currently in transition from its office in Melrose Hall, which was built in 1946. It was constructed to accommodate a surge in students after the end of World War II. The honors program staff serves nearly 10 percent of the student body from its offices in a portion of the vacated dormitory. Staff members have advised current students and hosted perspective high-achieving students and their parents in the dorm for years.

“This new facility is a strength for us,” Dandaneau said.

Students discussed a lack of resources being the primary weakness in the program.

“We would do better to invest more in your scholarship,” Dandaneau said. “Right now as a program we don’t have the resources to help enough of you study abroad or conduct research.

For some people research costs a lot.”

Dandaneau encouraged honors students to take advantage of any opportunities they have been given.

See HONORS DIRECTOR on Page 3

Tara Sripunvoraskul • The Daily Beacon

Chandler Lennon, senior in public relations, Julia Mathes, junior in psychology, Kourtney Williams, sophomore in anthropology, and Lindsey Lee, senior in food science, dance at the Headphone Disco in Humanities Plaza on Friday.

Outdoor trips spring up Sara Jung Staff Writer May is full of wonderful things in the Southeast.

The spring semester ends, students graduate, summer begins and the weather usually stays in the ’70s, making it hard to be indoors.

After classes end and exams are over, UT Outdoor Program (UTOP) is offering three different trips across the Southeast.

A 72-mile hike along the infamous Appalachian Trail, starting at Fontana Dam in North Carolina and ending at Davenport Gap in Tennessee, is offered from May 9-15 and costs $100.

“This section of the Appalachian Trail, or the A.T., traces the border of Tennessee and North Carolina,” Hannah Daniel, UTOP trip leader and senior in architecture, said. “I am really excited about this trip. The Southeast in May is gorgeous.”

The Appalachian Trail extends from Georgia to Maine, crossing through 14 states and covering approximately 2,180 miles of the Appalachian mountain range.

“The goals of this trip are to introduce people to backpacking, specifically the A.T., to gain sufficient knowledge about planning a backpacking trip and to learn the essentials of backpacking, and to explore the area we live in,” Daniel said.

Around 1,800 to 2,000 backpackers attempt to “thru-hike” the A.T. every year, and one out of four successfully completes the whole thing. This trip can be a precursor to those looking to hike the entire length of the A.T., or just sections at a time.

“We’ll average 10 miles hiking a day on the trip,” Daniel said. “Along the way, we’ll get to talk about the ecology of the Southeast, see some amazing views and maybe even run into some thru-hikers. Not to mention all the contemplative time each person will get. You get to learn a lot about yourself.”

Daniel said that she looks forward to the backpacking trip as a great way to unwind from just getting out of school and a great way to start the summer.

“Anyone is welcome to come on this trip,” Daniel said. “From those who have never backpacked before to those who backpack all the time. This section will be physically difficult, but not unachievable.”

The $100 cost of the trip includes all transportation, food and gear. Participants only

need to bring personal items.

From May 16-22, UTOP is traveling to the Outer Banks of North Carolina on a road biking tour. The tour will go along the 200-milelong string of barrier islands on North Carolina’s coast.

“The Outer Banks are filled with amazing sights,” Andreas Bastias, UTOP trip leader and staff instructor, said. “We’ll bike 250 miles total throughout the week and average 40 to 50 miles a day.”

The Outer Banks is where the Wright brothers first flew a control powered airplane at Kill Devil Hills, near the small seafront town of Kitty Hawk. Along with historical sites, some of the beaches are national seashores and state parks.

“People can expect this to be a physically challenging trip and to learn new skills,” Bastias said. “What most people don’t expect from these trips are the friendships made. That always ends up being the best part. And the stuff you learn about yourself. It’s rewarding.”

Bastias said people of all skill levels are encouraged to come on the trip. Every UTOP trip caters to the participants and what they prefer to do as a group.

The trip costs $250 and, as with all UTOP trips, the cost includes food, transportation and gear, but not personal items.

From May 23-29, UTOP is heading north to West Virginia to rock climb at the New River Gorge, also known as “The New.” With 2,400 rock climbing routes to climb in the area, this trip is open to any skill level.

Benjamin Darnell, UTOP director, said “The New” offers some of the best climbing in the Southeast with routes that range from 30120 feet in height, featuring sandstone rock faces and beautiful sights at the top.

Students can go on each trip separately, or, if they choose, can go on all three for only $500. Each trip can have eight participants total and the spots are filling up quickly.

Sign up at the Outdoor Center on the first level of the TRECS. To reserve a spot on your desired trip, you must pay a small deposit either with cash, check or VolCard. If you have any questions, call 865-974-9749. The Outdoor Center is open Monday through Friday, 1-6 p.m.

Visit their website for more information about upcoming trips and events at http://recsports.utk.edu/Programs/Outdoor%20Rec/in dex.php.

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Tara Sripunvoraskul • The Daily Beacon

Caroline Hatfield, junior in studio art, pours hot iron into molds made by UT students during an event hosted by the UT sculpture club and the Dogwood Arts Festival on Saturday.

1917 — Lenin returns to Russia from exile On April 16, 1917, Vladimir Lenin, leader of the revolutionary Bolshevik Party, returns to Petrograd after a decade of exile to take the reins of the Russian Revolution.

Born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov in 1870, Lenin was drawn to the revolutionary cause after his brother was executed in 1887 for plotting to assassinate Czar Alexander II. He studied law and took up practice in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg), where he moved in revolutionary Marxist circles. In 1895, he helped organize Marxist groups in the capital into the “Union for the Struggle for the Liberation of the Working Class,” which attempted to enlist workers to the Marxist cause. In December 1895, Lenin and the other leaders of the Union were arrested.

Lenin was jailed for a year and then exiled to Siberia for a term of three years.

After his exile ended in 1900, Lenin went to Western Europe, where he continued his revolutionary activity. It was during this time that he adopted the pseudonym Lenin. In 1902, he published a pamphlet entitled “What Is to Be Done?,” which argued that only a disciplined party of professional revolutionaries could bring socialism to Russia. In 1903, he met with other Russian Marxists in London and established the Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party (RSDWP).

However, from the start, there was a split between Lenin’s Bolsheviks (Majoritarians), who advocated militarism, and the Mensheviks (Minoritarians), who advocated a democratic movement toward socialism. These two groups increasingly opposed each other within the framework of the RSDWP, and Lenin made the split official at a 1912 conference of the Bolshevik Party.

After the outbreak of the Russian Revolution of 1905, Lenin returned to Russia. The revolution, which consisted mainly of strikes throughout the Russian empire, came to an end when

Nicholas II promised reforms, including the adoption of a Russian constitution and the establishment of an elected legislature. However, once order was restored, the czar nullified most of these reforms, and in 1907 Lenin was again forced into exile.

Lenin opposed World War I, which began in 1914, as an imperialistic conflict and called on proletariat soldiers to turn their guns on the capitalist leaders who sent them down into the murderous trenches. For Russia, World War I was an unprecedented disaster: Russian casualties were greater than those sustained by any nation in any previous war. Meanwhile, the economy was hopelessly disrupted by the costly war effort, and in March 1917, riots and strikes broke out in Petrograd over the scarcity of food. Demoralized army troops joined the strikers, and on March 15, 1917, Nicholas II was forced to abdicate, ending centuries of czarist rule. In the aftermath of the February Revolution (known as such because of Russia's use of the Julian calendar), power was shared between the ineffectual provisional government, led by Minister of War Alexander Kerensky, and the soviets, or “councils,” of soldiers’ and workers’ committees.

After the outbreak of the February Revolution, German authorities allowed Lenin and his lieutenants to cross Germany en route from Switzerland to Sweden in a sealed railway car. Berlin hoped, correctly, that the return of the anti-war socialists to Russia would undermine the Russian war effort, which was continuing under the provisional government. Lenin called for the overthrow of the provisional government by the soviets; he was subsequently condemned as a “German agent” by the government’s leaders. In July, he was forced to flee to Finland, but his call for “peace, land, and bread” met with increasing popular support, and the Bolsheviks won a majority in the Petrograd soviet. In October, Lenin secretly returned to Petrograd, and on November 7, the Bolshevik-led Red Guards deposed the Provisional Government and proclaimed soviet rule.

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

Monday, April 16, 2012

HONORS DIRECTOR continued from Page 1 “Opportunities usually involve thinking strategically,” Dandaneau said. “I think we should use the Baker Center to the fullest.

We need to get educational benefit out of it.”

The audience was interested in discussing the move.

“We would like to hear about what the new facilities will look like,” Daniel Aycock, senior in accounting, said.

“We are going to have couches, desktops, tables, whiteboards, a charging station for laptops, and free printing,” Dandaneau said. “The former museum will be removed, where our new offices will be.

NEWS There will also be a brand new seminar room, and a Baker Scholars student lounge.”

Students in the program are excited to share part of the Baker Center for studying and social activities. A large closet within the building is being converted to the new student lounge.

The director wrapped up by evaluating some threats to the success of honors students.

“Threats to the program involve unmet expectations,” Dandaneau said. “That brings on disillusionment. All the talk on campus about really high achievement as a university could, if we don’t see improvement, lead to a downward spiral, or decline.”

Students were curious about more staff

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members being added to the program.

“I thought maybe you could talk a little bit about the search for a new assistant director,” Margaret Ross, senior in economics, said.

“We are hiring a new full-time assistant director,” Dandaneau said. “Candidates have come to campus to meet with students. We are still evaluating their applications. As soon as the news is appropriate, I will announce it.”

Other attendants wanted to hear more about the director’s opinion on growing the program in the future.

“I want to see more resources being invested in the students we have,” Dandaneau said. “We can grow in the future, if we have resources to do it. It takes investment.”

Steve Dandaneau

Camp offers fulfillment Evan Winburne Staff Writer More than 150 UT students will volunteer a week of their time this spring, helping children with multiple disabilities to serve as counselors at Camp Koinonia.

The camp has been put on by Gene Hayes and students in his Recreation and Sport Management class since 1977. Camp Koinonia is the culmination of a semester’s worth of instruction in the field of therapeutic recreation; during classroom instruction, UT students learn about the various disabilities campers exhibit. Students are paired up with a camper and these counselors accompany the camper to the various activities offered at the camp, such as canoeing, archery and horseback riding.

For many of the students involved in the program, “Camp K” is a life-altering experience.

“Honestly it’s the most important thing I’ve done in college,” Zachary Farmer, senior in kinesiology, said. “Participating in Camp Koinonia has changed my life. Camp is one of my top three experiences I will remember from my time in college. The people you meet at camp form a family bond that goes beyond the week of camp; we grow extremely close through the shared experience that is Camp Koinonia.”

For other students, the experiences at Camp K help them put everyday difficulties in perspective.

“Camp Koinonia showed me how blessed I truly am despite what ‘problems’ I think I may have in my life,” Mark Jackson, junior in political science, said. “Camp K puts these non-important things into perspective.”

“Everything is special here at camp, especially the end-of-the-week dance,” Jackson said. “My week at camp is something completely different from the ‘normal’ college experience. Humbling yourself to give all that you have to brighten some kid’s week is a truly awesome experience. These campers circle this week on their calendars every year and we do our best to make it a special week for them, because in the end it’s all about the kids.”

Jackson, who will serve as head counselor of one cabin, said last year’s experience made him

want to give back even more. His new role brings with it more responsibility.

“Last year I only had to keep up with one camper — mine,” Jackson said. “This year I have to keep up with 22 (people), 11 counselors and 11 campers. It’s a huge responsibility, but it’s something I am looking forward to.”

As with any new experience, there is bound to be some nervousness for first-year counselors.

One such counselor, Adam West, undecided junior, said while he is nervous about the week, he feels that his past experience as a sleep-away camp counselor has prepared him for his first Camp K. “I have been a counselor at sleep-away camp many summers, so this is something I feel I have a lot of experience in dealing with,” West said. “I have dealt with campers that have disabilities in the past, but this is a different animal.

“I have full confidence in my head counselor (Mark Jackson) and other camp veterans if I need help.”

Helen Porter, graduate student in kinesiology and co-director of this year’s camp, said that while every year is different and proposes new challenges, changes as to how the camp is being run will allow this year’s camp to be the most successful one yet.

Porter, who was a co-director last year, said a lot of this year’s important day-to-day activities, such as program evaluations, big events like the end-of-the-week dance and medical protocols, are being administered by the camp’s grant staff of graduate students. Porter said those three activities are extremely time-consuming and this shift in responsibilities will allow for a better camp experience for counselors and campers.

“I definitely feel a lot more calm and confident than I was last year,” Porter said. “(Co-director) Phillip (Pomeroy) and I have a great relationship, and we have done a lot of things together behind the scenes to make sure this year goes on without a hitch.”

“This is my fifth year participating,” Porter said.

“Every year is different; every year brings about new challenges. Camp means so many wonderfully different things to many people. That to me makes it the experience of a lifetime.”

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OPINIONS

LettersEditor to the

HB 368 harms Tennessee’s schools Dear editor: I always thought I’d move back to Tennessee. I was born and raised there, and I’m proud of my chemistry degree from UT (class of ’99). And even though I left Tennessee to get my Ph.D., I always assumed I’d return. To maybe be a professor at UT. To share my passion for science with the next generation of scientists. To collaborate with some of the world’s brightest minds at Oak Ridge. To start companies and create jobs for Tennesseans. To try to give something back to a state that’s done so much for me.

But on April 10, Gov. Bill Haslam made it clear that folks like me aren’t welcome in Tennessee anymore.

By letting House Bill 368 become law, Haslam sent a clear message: science education has no value in Tennessee.

Science education is so worthless that the state is now encouraging teachers to intentionally confuse their students, to spread controversy and uncertainty about topics that have no such controversy or uncertainty.

For students, this is far worse than merely being ignorant of science. This is actually turning back the clock, willfully undoing centuries of scientific progress. And while the rest of America is racing to keep ahead of countries like China in science and

technology, Tennessee is not merely standing still, it’s actually running backwards.

So I can’t return to Tennessee.

How can I be a scientist in a state where the validity of my research could be defended by my fellow scientists but cast into doubt by politicians? How can I send my son to a school where teachers are free to say “the Earth is flat” because the state thinks that all theories are worth teaching, even ones with no evidence supporting them?

I know that Tennesseans really do value science. I’m sure that my teachers at Science Hill High School in Johnson City and my professors at UT are shaking their heads in disbelief at the legislature’s actions.

But the rest of the world doesn’t know this.

They’ll assume all Tennesseans are waging war on science, and they’ll think twice about moving to our communities, attending our universities, supporting our industries, or hiring our people. And like me, they’ll settle down in states that actually value science education instead.

But I’ll still miss my home.

William Grover Massachusetts Institute of Technology (617) 253-2482

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Speak out instead of finding excuses Off the Deep End by

Derek Mullins You’re almost there. You have almost reached the point where you will never again have to read any of my off-beat rants. In two weeks, my tenure with this publication will come to an end just shortly before my tenure at this university as an undergraduate student does the same.

That realization logically leads to the question of just what I should do with the 1,500 words I have been allotted over these next two weeks.

International relations? Done it. Anger the administration? Child’s play. Irk the SGA with “unnecessarily malicious” material? Already traversed that course of action … twice. Heck, I’ve even inspired the wrath of many other student organizations on this campus over my two years with this paper.

With nothing else left to do before I don my proverbial hat and ride off into the sunset, I thought it might be appropriate to pen a high school senior-style bequeathing/message to the underclassmen I will leave behind.

Last week, Blair Kuykendall, the woman who has had to catch more flak for me than any scholastic newspaper editor should, authored a great piece in which she attempted to refute the claim that our generation is apathetic when it comes to political discourse. She quite rightly pointed out that our academic careers and the odd jobs many of us have to do to subsidize those academic careers often consume the vast majority of our time and energy. We are, according to Kuykendall, taking on more than our fair share of work now so that we will be rewarded further on down the line.

While this was certainly a poignant message, I cannot help but feel that such reasoning fails to excuse us from collectively voicing our opinion when issues arise that disgust us, and it is with that in mind that I will utilize the remainder of this column to leave this “senior message”: Stop sitting there and taking it and stand up for yourselves.

Whether or not you realize it, UT actually has a certain pedigree of student protest and civil disobedience. Ted Brown — a lecturer in the Department of Political Science in constitutional law and undoubtedly my favorite instructor from my time at this university — is such a case. On more than one occasion I have sat and listened with a certain measure of awe as he has told the story of being so displeased and angered by the policies of the administration that sat in power during his time as an undergrad that he and others organized and filed a suit in order to make sure that their free speech rights were protected. They stuck with their cause and ended up carrying the day in a court of law.

Similar to that are the stories of various members in the Department of History I have heard tell stories about how they actively demonstrated in large numbers against causes of both local and global concern during their time as undergraduates. From participating in anti-war protests to actively expressing their displeasure with certain policies, they were never too busy or too scared to stand up for themselves.

It is with that background in mind that I look at myself and you, my fellow members of the student body, and find myself to be woefully disappointed at our quite apparent inability to live up to the precedent that was set by the generations that came before us.

Look, I realize that we live in a highly politicized world and that many of us have vastly different political views. Still, there are things around which we can all rally, such as a disdain for higher tuition, cuts to useful and educational programs, and questionable decisions in terms of construction, renovation and placement of certain disgustingly grotesque pieces of “art” that do little but sour one’s outlook on one’s day and sit in the way of foot traffic. Are some of these administrative actions defensible? Sure. Still, a certain level of protest and contention needs to be raised to let the powers that be know that the decisions which they are making will not be accepted by an overly acquiescent student body. It can be done on locale, online or even in the pages of this paper. All that matters in the end is that you speak out.

— Derek Mullins is a senior in political science.

He can be reached at dmullin5@utk.edu.

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The uproar that rose from the actions of Nashville Predators defenseman Shea Weber on Wednesday night at the Bridgestone Arena signaled one thing bright and clear: The days of hockey boorishness are drawing to an end.

For those who were unable to catch what happened, Weber smashed Detroit Red Wings center Henrik Zetterberg’s face into the glass as time expired in the third and final period of a 3-2 Nashville victory in game one of the Western Conference quarterfinals.

This was in response to Zetterberg checking Weber from behind, coupled with Detroit winger Todd Bertuzzi throwing haymakers at other Predators players.

For those familiar with the sport, that sounds like playoff hockey. When you factor in that Detroit and Nashville are the two most evenly matched clubs in the playoffs and hold one of the most intense rivalries in the NHL between them, such actions should warrant little surprise.

However, in the current age of recognizing the longterm effects of head injuries, such a play is unacceptable.

The NHL should be praised for its forward-thinking regarding blows to the head.

Brendan Shanahan, who took over as the NHL’s Director of Player Safety before the regular season, did a great job in his first season as the league’s disciplinarian.

Not only did he hand out 44 suspensions in 135 games, Shanahan released video detailing the reason behind each and every suspension he dealt over the course of the season.

Nonetheless, Shanahan, who played in 1,524 NHL games over 21 seasons, dating back to 1987 and as recently as 2009, might still have a bit of the old-school hockey spirit within him.

Many expected him to dole out at least a game suspension for Weber’s hit on Zetterberg, but instead he handed out a $2,500 fine. That’s chump change for Weber, whose $7.5 million contract awarded in arbitration in the off-season tops the list for NHL defensemen.

The lack of a suspension allowed Detroit to take disciplinary matters into their own hands. Bertuzzi and

Weber dropped the gloves not even two minutes into game two on Friday night, culminating in a stalemate between two of the strongest players in the league.

The actual fight and suspension notwithstanding, it is clear that the goon is a dying breed in the NHL. When such brutish actions are disallowed from a rivalry game in the playoffs, such truth becomes abundantly obvious.

Just take a look at Nashville winger Brian McGrattan.

His duties on the ice are pretty simple: knock opposing players out of their skates. However, he has been out of the lineup for the majority of the second half of the season. He hasn’t seen the ice once during the playoffs.

While some of the time missed during the regular season may be attributed to an injury McGrattan sustained, it nonetheless exemplifies the direction the NHL is heading.

No longer can you go on the ice in an NHL game without a certain level of skill. An example of this transition is Predators center Paul “Goose” Gaustad.

Gaustad has essentially taken over the role of big-bodied player in the bottom-six of the Preds forward group.

However, rather than playing like a Bash Brother from the 1977 movie “Slap Shot,” Goose plays a role as an effective face-off winner and penalty killer. He also opened the scoring in the playoff series against Detroit.

All of these changes indicate that player safety is on the rise in the NHL. The cornucopia of concussions this season shows that players are now sitting down after sustaining a concussion. Perhaps in earlier days, such head injuries would go untreated and unnoticed.

With stars such as the Philadelphia Flyers’ center Claude Giroux, Weber, Flyers defenseman Chris Pronger and Penguins center Sidney Crosby watching from the stands while recovering from a concussion at one point or another this season, the issue can no longer be ignored.

These shifts all point toward a greater emphasis on putting the puck in the net (who would have thought of that?) and a lesser emphasis on putting your opponent on a stretcher.

Although this journalist was admittedly a rather unskillful enforcer during his hockey playing days, I applaud the changes taking place on hockey’s grandest stage. The skill level and speed of the game have only increased as goons have been weaned from lineups around the league.

Whether bone-crunching hits or tantalizing dangles are the modus operandi of the day, the product being put on the ice is superlative entertainment.

— Ashton Smith is a sophomore in communications.

He can be reached at ssmit192@utk.edu.

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Fiction: The Autograph

by Olivia Cooper The black ink was as vivid as it was the night he got it. It was a few drinks after the show as he hung around backstage outside her door. The bodyguards kept an eye on him and the rest of the fans lined up behind him. The door flung open as an entourage of the band spilled into the hallway, shaking hands and pulling people out of line.

Kenny held out a permanent marker and threw out his arm. He watched her write her name. She was old, but had earned her success. Kenny was unable to speak. From wrist to elbow, a black series of squiggles represented her name and the group went down the hall.

“He hasn’t washed it in a month,” Susan whispered in class as Kenny took his usual spot up front.

“Ugh, does he wash himself though?” Rebecca asked and tried to discern if he had brought an unpleasant odor with him.

“No. Carole is dating somebody in the house, said he wraps it in Saran wrap when he showers.”

The girls stared at the scrawl on his arm and noticed the area around it was slightly darker than the rest of his arm. Kenny proudly raised the autographed hand in class as much as he could, even if he didn’t know the answer.

The boys of the fraternity talked about Kenny’s arm when it had disappeared down the hall and into Kenny’s room. Nathan listened for the door to close, then threw a pillow at Butch who slung a few insults for disrupting his video game.

“How long is it going to be?” Nathan asked.

“I’ll be done in a bit,” Butch replied, “then you can watch whatever.”

“No, Kenny’s arm, that singer who signed it, who was it?”

“Deborah something,” Butch answered, “she’s some folk singer that was big in the ’80s.”

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“They had folk music in the ’80s?”

“They’ve had folk music since folk music began.”

Nathan had short hair that bristled whenever he rubbed his skull. He sat for a moment and jostled his foot in thought.

“When does rush start?” he asked Butch.

“Two weeks.”

“So he’s still new, right?”

“I guess. He’s been accepted and everything though.”

“I know, but what’s the harm in having a little fun?”

Butch paused his game and looked over, intrigued.

Kenny sat in his room with oversized headphones over his ears and the chair leaned back. A thick cord ran from the old headset to the record player where an album with a yellow tulip in the middle spun around. He nodded his head along to the music, sang along to select words, and studied the album’s cover art. It was a yellowed sleeve with the edges bent and a crease running along the top left corner. There was a woman on the front who held a mandolin and had a dandelion behind her ear. Her name was spelled out in the corner in purple letters made to look like lightning bolts. He ran his hand over the photo and then looked at his arm. Underneath the lightning bolt font was a scribbled name in black ink that matched his arm. The chair tilted back too far. Kenny tried to save himself. He fell.

The record player dragged off the table and the headphones were around his neck. He opened his eyes to see Butch and Nathan staring down at him with smiles. Butch held down Kenny’s arms as Nathan doused his arm in water and began scrubbing the signature with a dish sponge.

See THE AUTOGRAPH on Page 6

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Palestinians detained in Israel The Associated Press JERUSALEM — Israel detained dozens of international activists as they landed at its main airport on Sunday, preventing them from entering the country to participate in a planned solidarity mission with Palestinians in the West Bank.

Israel said the activists, part of an umbrella group called “Welcome to Palestine,” were provocateurs who posed a security threat. But organizers said the event, meant to draw attention to Israeli travel restrictions on Palestinians, was nonviolent, and they accused Israel of using heavy-handed tactics to stamp out legitimate protest.

Israel is jittery about the prospect of a large influx of foreign protesters arriving because of deadly confrontations with pro-Palestinian activists in the past. In the worst instance, Israeli naval commandos clashed with activists on board a flotilla trying to break Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip in May 2010, killing nine activists.

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who wants to provoke is returned home and the rest will be allowed to enter Israel.”

By early evening, the Interior Ministry said a total of 49 people had been stopped at the airport, most on flights from France, but also from Spain, Switzerland, Canada, Italy and Portugal. At least 12 were placed on flights back home, while arrangements were being made to expel the others.

Hundreds of police were deployed in and around the airport. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said nine Israeli sympathizers were questioned at the airport after causing “public disturbances,” such as unfurling proPalestinian banners. No other unrest was reported.

Asked why Israeli authorities consider this particular group of activists a threat, Rosenfeld replied that they have “security backgrounds” or were “involved previously in different activities,” including “security issues concerning Israel.”

He would not elaborate.

Hundreds of additional activists were expected to arrive on flights later Sunday.

THE AUTOGRAPH continued from Page 5 “About time you get clean newbie!” Nathan laughed as Kenny yelled for help and tried desperately to get up. He struggled against the two but realized he had lost. His arm was red and already sore but Nathan kept scrubbing.

He watched the black ink disappear into the sponge. She was gone.

Kenny closed his eyes and thought back to when he was eight. He remembered the night he sat outside the club’s back door. His foster parents had tucked him in hours ago. The social worker had visited earlier in the day, left

her papers on the table. He went through them and found her name listed under “Biological.”

He sat outside the club and yawned. She came out.

He couldn’t do it. He couldn’t ask. He was helpless and silent as he just handed her the album and a marker.

Susan and Rebecca whispered about the prank the next day and noticed Kenny wore a long sleeve shirt. They didn’t notice his tired eyes, his slumped posture or his slow walk into the room. Kenny didn’t even raise his hand.

— Olivia Cooper is a senior in creative writing. She can be reached at ocooper@utk.edu.

Syrian president fails to comply with cease-fire The Associated Press BEIRUT — Syria’s 4-day-old cease-fire appeared to be quickly eroding Sunday, with regime forces firing dozens of tank shells and mortar rounds at neighborhoods in the opposition stronghold of Homs, hours before the arrival of a first team of U.N. truce monitors.

Even though the overall level of violence has dropped, escalating regime attacks over the weekend raised new doubts about President Bashar Assad’s commitment to a plan by special envoy Kofi Annan to end 13 months of violence and launch talks on Syria’s political future.

Assad accepted the truce deal at the prodding of his main ally, Russia, but his compliance has been limited. He has halted shelling of rebel-held neighborhoods, with the exception of Homs, but ignored calls to pull troops out of urban centers, apparently for fear of losing control over a country his family has ruled for four decades. Rebel fighters have also kept up attacks, including shooting ambushes.

The international community hopes U.N. observers will be able to stabilize the ceasefire, which formally took effect Thursday. A six-member advance team of U.N. observers headed to Damascus on Sunday, a day after an unanimous U.N. Security Council approved such a mission. A larger team of 250 observers requires more negotiations between the U.N. and the Syrian government next week.

With Assad seen as a reluctant participant in Annan’s plan, the observers’ success will

depend on how much access they can negotiate in Syria and how quickly the team can grow to a full contingent, analysts said.

The Security Council demanded freedom of movement for the U.N. team, but the regime could try to create obstacles; the failure of an Arab League observer mission earlier this year was blamed in part on regime restrictions imposed on the visitors.

“This will be a serious cat-and-mouse game between the government and the U.N. for weeks to come,” George Lopez, a professor of peace studies at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana said of the new observer mission. Buying time is in Assad’s interest, he said.

However, a reassuring presence of monitors could also enable Syria’s opposition to return to staging mass marches, common in the early days of the anti-Assad uprising that erupted in March 2011. In response to a violent regime crackdown on such protests, the turnout for weekly anti-regime marches has decreased. The opposition resorted more and more to armed attacks in recent months. By returning to peaceful protests, it would be able to regain some of the moral high ground it lost as the conflict became increasingly violent.

Since the cease-fire began, each side has accused the other of violations.

Syria’s state-run news agency SANA has reported rebel attacks targeting checkpoints and army officers, while opposition activists said regime troops and their allied Shabiha militiamen continued arrest raids and mistreatment of those in detention.

For more information, contact Kathy Baughman at (865) 545-5340 or by email at kathy.baughman@lmunet.edu.

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Burchell, Shipman power No. 10 Lady Vols to sweep over LSU Riley Blevins Staff Writer With the eyes of a national television audience on No. 10 Tennessee (35-9, 16-6 SEC) and No. 21 LSU (29-13, 11-6 SEC) as ESPN provided coverage of Saturday and Sunday’s contests, the highly touted Lady Vols did not disappoint, sweeping the Tigers in the three-game series over the weekend.

“It’s awesome,” said cohead coach Karen Weekly of the national exposure. “I mean, the best thing to happen to the sport of softball in the last eight to 10 years is TV. To be on main ESPN, we are very proud to show off this great facility and this fan base. It was a great showing in front of a national TV audience.”

Fronted by the stellar pitching duo of sisters Ellen and Ivy Renfroe, who combined for 15 strikeouts, the Lady Vols’ weekend series was a tale of two offenses.

Stranding an uncharacteristic 11 base runners Friday, Tennessee utilized yet another long-ball from sophomore Madison Shipman to etch a series-opening 2-0 win.

Jumping on the first pitch she saw in the bottom of the second, Shipman snuck her career-best ninth home run of the year over the left field wall. Giving the team its first lead, the blast marked the shortstop’s fifth home run in Lady Vols’ last five contests.

“LSU is a great team and we came out here trying to do the little things right,” Shipman said. “We just came out here ready to play. I’m just glad I could help.”

However, a lackluster six base knocks would prove non-fatal for the Lady Vols with sophomore pitcher Ellen Renfroe in the circle.

Ellen Renfroe threw a three-hit, complete game en route to throwing her NCAA leading 14th shutout and 19th complete game on the season.

“Ellen Renfroe is a fantastic pitcher,” said co-head coach Ralph Weekly. “What you saw there was a great, great pitching performance. I just told ’em that I was proud of ’em, but RBIs are the most important stats in softball and very seldom do you win when you leave 11 runners in scoring position.”

The Lady Vols seemed to take Ralph Weekly’s message to heart.

Offensive woes would be corrected come Saturday as the Lady Vols, behind junior

second baseman Lauren Gibson, bested the Lady Tigers 4-2.

Leading the offensive charge, Gibson was 3-for-3 at the plate with a run and an RBI. “We just came out and had a plan today,” Gibson said.

“We had a plan yesterday and all, it just seemed to work better today. We had a long chain of good at bats. It was good.”

Masked by the offensive barrage, junior pitcher Ivy Renfore silently brought a nohitter into the seventh inning before surrendering a oneout hit to LSU pinch-hitter Kailey McCasland.

“It’s not that big of a deal to me,” Ivy Renfroe said of her near no-hitter. “I know that my defense deserved a no-hitter; they played awesome. If anything, I feel sorry for them. I guess you always are (heartbroken) but really it’s not what matters. I’m just blessed that we won the game.”

The Lady Vols continued their impressive offensive showing on Sunday, using the big-inning late to best the Lady Tigers.

“Once we got going, we all just pulled together and got it done,” said senior Shelby Burchell. “I think any coach would be happy to see us improve on a stat. I think he’s happy with the win.”

Junior speedster Raven Chavanne was caught stealing for the first time this season. Before Sunday, the third baseman was 21-for-21 in steal attempts.

But the two-time AllAmerican would utilize her speed in other ways in the fifth.

Center fielder Tory Lewis reached on a double to shallow left field. Chavanne rolled a bunt down the first-base line. The charging LSU pitcher airmailed the throw with the former all-state track star racing down first, scoring Lewis and giving life to a fiverun fifth.

Later that same inning, with the bases loaded for Burchell, the right-hander slapped a bases-clearing double to left-center, capping consecutive five-run innings for the Lady Vols.

“We’ve really been stressing keeping bats alive in this last couple games,” Burchell said. “I just jumped on it and there it went.”

Coming off the bench, freshman Hannah Akamine punched a game-ending, twoRBI single to top the Lady Tigers 10-2 by mercy rule in the sixth.

Lance CPL. Joe Howell • The Daily Beacon

A tank from the 2nd Marine Division spearheads an attack in Kuwait in this photo in 1991. While working as a photographer in college, Howell had the opportunity to cover a wide range of events, including the invasion of Kuwait during the Gulf War. He went on to work for 13 years with the Knoxville News Sentinel, most notably through his weekly photo column “Picture This.”

Preds take game three, series lead The Associated Press DETROIT — Shea Weber turned boos into silence with a goal early in the first period and the Nashville Predators held on to beat the Detroit Red Wings 3-2 Sunday to take a 2-1 lead in the first-round series.

Henrik Zetterberg scored with just under a minute left to pull the Red Wings within one, but they couldn’t tie the game to force overtime.

Weber, jeered for smashing Zetterberg’s face into glass at the end of Game 1, snapped Nashville’s 0-for-12 streak on the power play against the Red Wings and helped the franchise win its first playoff game against them on the road.

Detroit will need to win Tuesday night at home to avoid facing elimination in Game 5 at Nashville.

Kevin Klein gave the Predators a 2-0 lead early in the second and Pavel Datsyuk pulled the Red Wings within one midway

through the period.

The Red Wings thought Johan Franzen made it 2-all, but video review showed his shot was sailing through the crease and short of the goal line when time expired in the second period.

They had another chance to tie it early in the third period, but Klein’s stick prevented Cory Emmerton’s shot from going into an open net.

Sergei Kostitsyn sealed the victory with a wrist shot from the inside of the right circle with 3:30 left on a sequence that started with Klein getting to a rebound on the other end of the ice and passing the puck along to Mike Fisher.

Nashville’s Pekka Rinne made 41 saves. Jimmy Howard stopped 20 shots for the Red Wings.

Detroit's team and its fans Joe Louis Arena, where the storied franchise won an NHL-high 31 games this season, were fired up before the puck dropped.

Weber was booed each time he touched the puck and the star defenseman didn’t seem fazed.

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Monday, April 16, 2012

Offense better in second scrimmage Patrick MacCoon Staff Writer Entering their final week of spring practice, the Volunteers made strides on Saturday in their second scrimmage of the spring in Neyland Stadium.

After struggling in more than just the passing game in its first spring scrimmage, Tennessee was more consistent on Saturday and had another strong showing from the running game and junior wide receiver Justin Hunter.

Five running backs combined for 158 yards on 41 carries, highlighted by sophomore Marlin Lane’s 12 carries for 71 yards and a touchdown.

Rajion Neal had 75 total yards and a touchdown.

But Hunter stole the show.

In the first drive, Hunter caught a 50-yard touchdown pass from junior quarterback Tyler Bray. The 6-foot-4 receiver, who is wearing a red, non-contact jersey while recovering from a torn left ACL he suffered last September, finished with three catches for 70 yards.

“It was good to see him go out there on the first drive and catch two passes and a long touchdown,” UT coach Derek Dooley said. “It just shows you the kind of impact a guy can have out there. He’s a good football player and we need him to be healthy all 12 games.”

The performance also gave Hunter confidence, as he is still working his way back to full health.

“I feel good about how today went,” Hunter said. “I didn’t think about it a lot. I just went out there and played and was excited to be out there.”

Senior tight end Mychal Rivera and sophomore wide out Jacob Carter also impacted the receiving game. Rivera, who was second in receiving yards last season, caught five passes for 43 yards, while Carter finished with four catches and a team-high 103 yards.

Bray showed more consistency through the air this scrimmage and, despite throwing an interception, finished 13-of-23 for 180 yards and a touchdown. It was an improvement from the team’s first scrimmage, in which he completed only 13-of-32 passes for 142 yards with a touchdown and an interception.

“He had a little better day but didn’t execute well in the situations I didn’t think,” Dooley said.

“Tyler needs to get better at the end-of-the-game

situations and the urgency when a play’s incomplete to move to the next play and get it going.”

Second string sophomore quarterback Justin Worley completed 10-of-22 for 138 yards but was sacked three times and threw an interception as well. Redshirt sophomore Tyler Page impressed teammates and coaches with a strong showing by completing 4-for-5 for 29 yards and one touchdown.

The Vols offense totaled 496 yards on 96 plays from scrimmage and scored four touchdowns and kicked three field goals. However, the defense held their own out on the gridiron as they came up with two interceptions and got to the quarterback three times.

Sophomore defensive back Brian Randolph was a playmaker in the secondary for the Vols, as he intercepted a pass in the second straight scrimmage and recorded five tackles. Three players tied for the team lead with six tackles, while seniors Steven Fowlkes, Willie Bohannon and freshman Jordan Williams all recorded one sack apiece.

“Everybody loves it,” junior defensive lineman Maurice Couch said of the Vols new 3-4 defensive scheme. “I think going into the fall we are going to scare a lot of teams with our defense.

Everybody has a role and we just are going out there and having fun.”

Although there were improvements, there are still many things for the Vols to work on.

“The biggest thing that is holding us back right now is, number one, our discipline on the simple things,” Dooley said. “We had a lot of penalties and made too many mistakes that are really simple things. The second one is our attitude when the flow of the game begins to happen and how we get affected by things that shouldn’t affect us. Those are the things we really need anchoring us that we need to work on, but I’m pleased with the effort and toughness right now and how we are running the ball better.”

The Vols will get back to practice on Tuesday and finish the spring on Saturday with the Orange and White game. The game, held at Neyland Stadium, will have free admission, and kick-off is at 2:30 p.m. EST. “It’s a new year so we are going to be excited to show the fans what we have been working on,” Hunter said.

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Justin Hunter yells in celebration after a reception during a game against Montana on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2011. Hunter hauled in a 50-yard touchdown catch in Saturday’s scrimmage, hopefully showing signs of what is to come next season for the Vols’ receiving corps.

Vols lose two to No. 4 UF David Cobb Staff Writer Halfway through the SEC season, first-year coach Dave Serrano’s Tennessee baseball squad has equaled its conference-win total from a year ago.

The Vols (21-15, 7-8 SEC) dropped two of three games to visiting No. 4 Florida (28-8, 9-6 SEC) this weekend, but Saturday’s 5-4 win gave UT its seventh SEC victory, a mark the 2011 squad did not reach until its final game.

Saturday’s win was UT’s fifth on the season against a ranked opponent.

Despite the improvement, Serrano’s focus remains on what lies ahead.

“I don’t look back to last year,” Serrano said.

“I’m only looking forward and I’m proud of these guys, of what we’ve been able to overcome.”

Coming off a 3-1 series-opening loss on Friday, the Vols had plenty to work through on Saturday alone.

Due to disciplinary reasons, Serrano was forced to retool his pitching plan, giving freshman Robbie Kidd his first career SEC start.

Florida touched him for four runs in the first four innings, but thanks to UT junior center fielder Chris Fritts, that would be all the offense the Gators would produce.

With runners on first and third and two outs in the fifth, Florida left fielder Justin Shafer lined a pitch from junior reliever Drew Steckenrider to left-center field. Two Gators were poised to cross the plate until Fritts went airborne to catch the ball and end the inning.

The effort earned Fritts the top spot on ESPN SportsCenter’s Top 10 Plays.

“I was able to time it, leave my feet, and didn’t

drop it,” Fritts said. “I actually thought I was going to drop that one whenever I hit the ground, but I held on.”

The Vols rode the momentum into the bottom half of the inning where freshman Richard Carter’s squeeze bunt scored senior Davis Morgan and put Tennessee ahead for good at 5-4.

It was Carter’s third RBI of the day and his second by virtue of a bunt.

“It’s always been something I’ve tried to take pride in, my bunting,” Carter said. “A lot of people will just throw it to the side.”

After three straight scoreless innings, Florida appeared poised to extend the game in the ninth when it loaded the bases with one out.

A grounder off the bat of Gators first baseman Vickash Ramjit straddled the third base line and required a diving stop from UT senior third baseman Zach Luther, who proceeded to turn a gameending double play, stepping on third then firing to first to beat Ramjit.

“I’m very proud of Zach Luther,” Serrano said.

“First of all for the play he made, second for playing the ball out, not trying to umpire and assume whether it was fair or foul. He just played the play out like it was a fair ball.”

The win allowed the Vols an opportunity to clinch the series against the Gators, something UT has not done since 2008.

But Florida jumped on UT sophomore Nick Williams early, pounding out four first-inning runs en route to an 8-1 victory.

The series was the highest attended at UT since the Vols and Gators played in 1994, as 9,561 fans passed through the gates at Lindsey Nelson Stadium during the weekend’s three games.

The Vols host East Tennessee State on Tuesday before traveling to face Mississippi State (21-15, 510 SEC) next weekend.